The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-05-20
EDITORS AGITATED

taht Notwithstanding the fact that
twenty or more of the Mackay people
had spent a week in Blackfoot on a
lawsuit in which property near Mac
kay was involved, neither of the
Blackfoot papers thought enough OF
the case to give it more than dozen
lines. ""''-o
We suppose, Editor Brown of the
Optimist will sit up and take notice
hereafter, when a case is on from
Nackay, but as for ourself we had q
column or so about the witnesses and
what they were doing here, and we
thought that was of more interest
than details of the trial which would
have filled the paper II carried at all.
The people of Lost River are expect
ing considerable of the Optimist any
how, since their afriliation with it in
the Lost River Times (defunct), and
they will probably persue it with
great interest during the Pence-Wat-
sky trial booked for the present term
of court.
Editor Dillingham; remarks that
more money was involved $1,000
in the Davidson case than was ever
involved in lawsuit in Bingham
County-he probably meant any 9th
er law suit-for we do not think he
meant to bar the one referred to
from being listed as law suit at all.
We suggest that Mr.. Dillingham; re-
view his figures on the sums involved
in other cases tried here, and not
overlook that case of greater mag
nitudes was tried here one morning
before breakfast by Judge Stevens.
A good clue to the facts in the case
would be to start with Soren Han
sens $6500.00 supper, and of course
breakfast might come late in the
morning, since the supper started the
larger transactions that followed.
Optimist Convicts the Republican
The Blackfoot Optimist copies an
article from the Idaho Register in
which it is stated that there is an err
ror in statement we made two
weeks ago about the location of Ft.
Henry. Editor Brown says it was a
bad error too, and calls Trego a
feather" for doing it that way.
That was bright indeed, but it was
mt much credit to the Optimst to call
the statement into question after
somebody else had raised a storm
about it. Ft. Henry might have been
located in Patagonia for anything The
Optimist writer has shown that he
knew about it. We say it was locat-
ed about fourteen miles from the sta
ton now called Island Park, in
northwesterly direction. The wise
Optimist man copies from the Regis
ter and says it was five miles below
st. Anthony, and also admits that it
is the generally accepted understand
ing that 1t is where we stated there
fore our error is terrible. We think it
is up to The Optimist to get The Reg
lister to get their informant, Mr..
Henry, to give them further informa-
ton so people may know they are
right.
Editor Metcalf Defends
Editor Metcalf of The Fremont
County Examiner, disclaims having
received $3.50 or any other sum from
a candidate for Office, and in his char
acteristically straight forward man
ner, defiies anyone to prove it.
No Response From Mackay Miner
A couple of years ago, Editor Dill
bingham of The Mackay Miner, de-
voted great deal of space to mining
news of his section, and expressed
surprise that none of the other papers
reprinted any of it to direct peoples
attention to that locality.
Some time ago The Blackfoot Com
mercial club espoused the idea of get
ting up big midsummer excursion
from Snake river to Lost river, and
two weeks ago The Republican out
lined the plan by which a thousand
people might be taken out to see their
valley and have a big days sport, and
in the following issue of the Miner, s
the only response was complaint ,
that the Blackfoot papers had not
advertised their law suit involving
certain lands and water rights.
Western Papers Not So Bad
People frequently criticise their To-
cal papers for printing in their coun- t
try correspondence such items as MRS. t
Doe and daughter Edna attended the c
musical entertainment at Swallow t
fork Monday evening, and drove home |
to Tindale by moonlight" Prof. I
was out for drive Sun S
day and upset his vehicle in the Run G
where the bridge had washed out and f
had not been replaced by Supervisor G
Tooslowto." {
If anyone thinks the above items are /
Of too little Importance to have space, a
Dr. are too uat for publication, he c
should read the following items TAX S
IN from the Freeman, an old and sue t
,essful paper that is much read and e
at Kingston, N. Y, and (
las enough business to keep whole
battery of linotypes busy. This is |
air sample of their country cores t
for which the good people i
# that country cheerfully pay in ad- t
ance |
SamsOnville :
Miss Nellie e. Whine is spending a
ONE time with relatives in Kingston t
nd Rondout Il
Mrs. Virgil Satterlee was in Kings v
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