Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-04-30

All the old-timcrs of Glcnns
Ferry, wherever they may be on
this mundane sphere today, remem-
Der shoemak IT who once hung up
in that town, by the name of Tom
Mcdowell, but better known as
Cobbler Mac. Mcdowell came to
Glepns Ferry ia the early part of
'S7 and opene shoemaker's shop
in the rear of Hardic Dial's saloon.
Being first class workman, he
found plenty to do In his line, and
no competition. Had he followed
the adage, 'Cobbler, stick to your
last" he could have done well
and made all XII DIS Of money, but
unfortunately, ere many moons had
passed over him in the riverside
town he began to look upon the
flowing bowl and to put himself on
the outside of full and frequent
horns of liquid rye and deep pc
tions of corn juice. As soon as
Mac tell into the drinking habit,
he neglected his hrsines. ami one
by one his customers cropped him
and sent their work elsewhere and
Mac stepped down and out of his
work bench and by a process Of
downward evolution developed into
spittoon wrestler for the saloons
in the town.
When under the Influence of
boose, Mac would try to convey the
idea and put people under the i'm
preston that he was a man OF high
grade education, and would sling
big words out of him at rapid
rate, but when he spoke big words
he did not know where to use
them, and misfits in his language
were frequent. Indeed, he not on
ly uttered all the big words found
in an unabridged dictionary, but he
had vocabulalry of his own coin
age OF many syllabieJ expressions
that no living being could define,
himself included. He ieeled out
wotds that were more thep jaw
breakers or tongue-twistcrs-i
would shake the teeth loose in any
ordinary mortal who would at.
tempt to pronounce them.
In the early days Of the fall Of
1887, Will Dial, afterward of lcga
no oriety in Mountain Home, lef'
pair of fine shoes with Mac fol
some light repairs. Next day hs
saw Mac on the streets, drunk ane
dressed up and standing in tn,
identical shoes he left with him tn,
day before to be repaired.
Dial went to him and demanded
his shoes, but Mac refused to give
them up. Dial then laid hold O
the Knight of the Last and started
to take the shoes from his feet
He got the left foot shoe off whcr
Mac broke away and made his es
cape with the right foot shoe OF
him, but minus the lett foot sho,
Which Dial had in his possession.
Mac went to Justice of the Peace
-''Kid" Lovelacc and swore out ;
complaint against Dial charging
|, hi n with the highway robbery of {
left foot shoe and warrant fol-
Dial's arrest was issued and giver
to deputy sheriff for service. Dia
was promptly arrested and brough
into court. AS he had opposed
Lovelacc's elevation to c judicia
bench, it was generally conce1cc
that Lovelace would give him tn,
worst of it.
There was another Justice:
court in the town, presided over ty
A. M. Sinuott, afterward probate
, judge and county attorney of Ell.
! more county, and to this officia
, Dial went and sworc out com
: plant against himself for ASSAULT
upon Mac. On hearing the evil
dence Judge Sinnott discharged hin
for the reason that he committed
the assault in order to recover hi.
own property.
, Dial was arranged for examina-
ton before Judge Lovelace, whs
heard all the evidence for the prose.
. cution and adjourned til next day
when Dial came into court with hi.
witnesses. However, all of Dial.
witnesses were chokcd off shor
and Lovclace pulled a commitment
, out of his pocket, holding Dial t.
answer in the district court to tn,
charge of robbery and delivered i
: to the deputy sheriff. He offered
, however, to discharge Dial if h
would plead guilty to an assault
but Dial told him he had alread
been tried for that and acquitted.
Then Dial bro Ight a rcpleviI
suit before Sinnott against Ma,
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