Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-04-16

IN writing about Sam McCarth
in my last article l am reminded
OF another lawyer, q contem porary
OF Macs, who ilourishcd for a year
or two In Mountain Home in the
early 90's, and left for the good OF
the county, it was hoped. Do you
emcmber Will H. Dial? OF course
on old residents do, and some If
you have good reason to remember
him, as you'll always have some
thing due you through acquaintance
with him. Dial was truly a coun-
terpart of Mccarthy in ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain.
He was brilliant, well-educated
and able young man and had he used
his natural ability and talents in
he right way he would have
worked to the front socially as we'll
as professionally. Instead, he was
VIGOROUSLY cratic and unscrup-
ulous, and being a young man of
good address and fluent conversa-
ton, he became an accomplished
'con-speilcr. -
In 1890 Dial appeared before the
Elmore county democratic convcn-
ton at Rocky Bar as candidate for
nomination for state senator, but
was defeated by one vote his oppon-
cnt being Greene White.
A noddiug acquaintance with
Blackstone the old Territorial
statutes, and Misunderstanding ac-
quaintance with couple of judges
and half score lawyers, procured
his admission to the bar, when
he came to Mountain Home and
hung out his single. With an
insinuating manner and a smile
like All Sins that was childlikc
and bland, his clientele became
large, to their sorrow. Dial was
an invet crate gambler. l thinkNt that
it was his passion for the green
10th that lured him from the path
of rcctitude, for he was we'll bred
and respectfully connected. He was,
however, a very unsuccessful gam
blcr--ouc who in a crowd of work
ing men could rake i'll big pot,
but among regular knights OF the
chips he was royal sucker, who
left the game without a bean to call
his own.
In the spring of 1892, Tom
Foagrtzy, tin-horn gambler at
Glcnn's Ferry, in a fit of jealousy,
took shot at and seriously wound
ed Goldie Hayes, a demi monde
belle of the riverside town. The
constable, Sid Roberts, fearing to
arrest him, Fog arty got on the
w est-bound train, came to Noun
tain Home, gave himself up, and
was committed for examination
He retained Dial to defend him and
after being bound over, was tried
in the district court the ensuing
winter and acquitted, the woman,
through Disl's manipulation,
Swearing that the act was acct
dental.
Fogarty was unable to pay Dial
his fee in full, so he paid him a
portion of it and gave him fine
gold watch, chain and charm, a
pair of diamond sleeve buttons and
solid silver faro pox as collateral
for the balance.
Dial had number of cases at
the term of the district court and
seyerAl good fees, and court being
over, he settled down to the routine
work of draw-poker.
In his wandering over the
poker field he ran up against a
game with Matt Powell, a sheep
hcrder in the summer and a card
sharp in the winter time and in his
game with Powell he soon relieved
him self of his own as we'll as some
of his clients coin.
With a hope of still doing Powell
up he put Fogarty's watch and
chain up to Powell for a hundred
dollars, and the deals went on. But
Powell, getting all the pairs, three
of a kind, full hands and flushcs,
pockctcd the entire sum. Still UNI
dauntcd and bent on bursting the
sheep hcrdcr. the disciple of Black