The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-16

cents = drink or 80 cents a gallon
during The caIloE youth OF our sub .
Iect and Ii his own home town, and !
yet he has the hardihoOd 10 say that 1
even then he saw far less drunken !
less than he has since seen in high |
licensed and local option towns.
Jonn Locke, OF mirLhful memory, |
~As his personal trIend-the author Of |
ne celebrated Nasty Letters.
tUTsy-one years ago Mr.. Wheeler
armed MS lace westward. Aurora ,
All, Vas MS urst stopping place,
= here he first began the practice OF
AS profession. After something less
nan Two years residence there he re-
4Iose4 10 Bedford, Iowa, which was
Is home Tor the next IL years. Some
- months were spent in health seek
.us Oh the Pacific coast
MS next abode was Paradise, Ne
aud, the flower of humboldt county.
= mere he pracuced law for 8 years.
inenCe he removed 10 Vale. Arrived
ueIe he found about l0U actual resi-
tents, d court house, SO called by
courtesy, but i'll size and looks Sug-
sesuye OF a small sheep shed, black
snIItn shop, a store, hotel, and a
saloon made up the towns business
.osler. There was another attorney
mere, too, but he could not tolerate a
Ilvlsion OF the slim pickings from the
| practice and vanished.
For the next half decade Mr.. Whee-
eel vas, from local lawyers stand
puInt, monarch of all he surveyed.
Inc coming of Mr.. Wheeler to Vale
was an advantage 10 him, but . far
greater advantage TO the town. to
Malheur county and the stale. His
success has been constant and marked
from the day of his arrival TO the pres
ent time And he is now, by common
consent, awarded very high place in
MS profession. not only in Malheur
county put in all Oregon.
No praucuuoner in the state Is bet
ter grounded in the law than he, es-
peeially IN irrigation contentious. In
tact he mas made a special study OF
, irrigation litigation for 80 years, and
a mas written many opinions on the sub.
ject thar are regarded as nothing les:
than classics in these parts. And nc
of Oregon's leading legal lights con,
e cede him the best all-round lawyer il
s the Pacific Northwest in untangline
= knutIy irrigation problems.
Many are the battles he has en-,
gagged in With giants in his profession
7 On water contentious, and victory ha.
d invariably crowned his efforts. 81
s much SO indeed that il has become .
proyerb hereabouts that if you hay,
d Wheeler you will win"
If Mr.. Wheeler has always been al
h orthodox Republican. His first yott
n was cast for L. S Grant
II Another stirring incident in hi If
was when Lee invaded his home state
Pennsylvania Although a boy OF bu
\ Il he went to the front in the Homt
1
:, his old professor, a man % years oil
!. who was serving as private As on
of the reserves he witnessed the bat
tie of Gettysburg. and helped TO bur,
the dead on that CORY and gloriou
field
Mr. Wheeler has never been an as
pirant for political fayors. but not
. withstanding this fact he has bee
pushed into the mayoralty of Vale TO
seven terms. serving the last thre
i, terms eonsecutively All his admins
. tIations were marked for the creates
progress and purity In the civic III
OF the town.
Over thirty years ago Mr. wheele
found hearth-mate whom Natur
seems TO have created more out c
> sunbeams than OF clay. lady who's
manner Is the kind 4 man inyarIabl