Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
PARS0NSCOMESBACK
Elimination Removed Burr But Now
He Has a Bundle bee.
SARCASM HIS MODE OF DEFENSE
Leaves First Arguments to
Bump Historical Facts,
Newsome, September 2, 1907

NeWSOme, september 4, lSUf,<
Editor Mining News,
Elk City, Idaho.
My Dear Sir:-I have read your reply
to the article wrote in Free Press of
Grangeville addressed to you. And
found it very interesting and entertain
ing, from some points amusing, and
others instructive That eliminating"
process of yours is simply great I've
learned something from that. Sherlock
Holmes made great success of his
profession by using methodical rule of
Deduction" Celebrated law cases
have been successfully contested by
shrewd lawyers eliminating the con-
demning EVIDENCE from the testimony
of witnesses. And here / am, an ordi-
nary, illogical" did you say? fellow
butting in on lease of Examinations, -
pardon me, but was not aware it was
contagious, nor that editors took it.
And it now looks to me as though l am
beginning to show symptoms of the
same disease.
Your elimination" gave you splen-
did show of stating your beliefs as well
as mine, which does not count for but
little to the leaders, and you proceed to
strip my article down to the nakedness
of an unhappy "cayuse" in order to find
1.-THE Burr under the Saddle"
1t was not large, aggressive burr,
only little, insignificant one, pulled be-
fore it was fully matured. And it
never did a great deal of harm But
you found it, Now, by your process of
elimination" if some mining man per-
sonally unknown to you had made a
handsome donation of money to you as
secretary of the Road League, Fat the
same time stating that no person had
been to request the same from him,
would not your impression of him been
some such as the editor of ''Stites
Herald" termed him? "a Prominent
Mining Man" and not as you termed
him-"A Would-be Mining MAN.
Could you not, by this process of elimi-
nation have eliminated the article writ
ten by him in order~to find ''the burr
which irritated the editorial cayuse into
the bucking exhibition you gave? Is it
not an eliminated fact that had this
''Would-be Mining Man" handed the
subscribed money to you in Elk City
and thereby have increased the amount
of funds collected there, that you would
not have touched up the commercial or
other clubs of whom you were not fully
aware of the actions they had or later
on did take regarding the collection or
donating of money to the road fund? l
think you could have found 1.-The burr
in that case also by elimination, as you
found the one under my saddle.
You state you gave Grangeville credit
for her effort and the result. | admit
it. You did SO after you had learned
that / had sent them through ''The
Free Press" my letter to you as you
stated in your reply" You knew of
it before that issue of Free Press
reached Elk City, yet you even then
take credit by stating that she had to
have Pilot to conduct her safely across
the difficult places The pilot was well
coined in the interest of Elk City-Good
Roads combined interests and personal
ly, and Grangeville gave him all she
felt called upon to do. She would have
done so had he not have been there.
Your article may have been commend
able one, and it is reasonable certainty
that "Cayuse" of most any breed
will buck if burr is under the saddle
Yet the real mischief maker is the hand
which places that burr under the sad
die. That's more of the eliminating
methods and logic.
The Herald Editor unconsciously put
burr under your saddle. You slip one