Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-03-04
AN OPEN LETTER TO KARL n s
HOUGEN.

Northwestern Lands Company pur-
chasing my interest In a large num-
Der of lots was a mistake, but your
column and half reply shows con-
clusively that it was wilful and
preme ditated misstatement of the
facts, and in your attempt to prove
the truth of your falSehood, you pub
lish quit claim deed that l had given
to some 500 lots Why were you not
man enough to publish the rest Of the
records with reference to the same
property? A man who withholds
PART of the TRUTH is just as dis
honest as he who tells an UNTRUTH.
will tell you why you did not pub
hsh them. They would have shown
your perfidy. Those self same county
records of which you boast as being
the best evidence, show that the prop
erty described In the quit claim deed,
was not my property but was the
property of the Northwestern Lands
Company, they having purchased it
from Charles T. Barringer, over a
month prior to my quit claim deed
to them, and that Barringer had
bought it week prior to his sale for
$40, 900. from VIM. M. Stockton Yet
you, with your boosted idea Of journ.
alism, would withhold that part of the
records in am attempt to deceive your
readers into believing that there was a
big lot deal between the N. w. L. Co.
and myself at Glenns Ferry.
As a matter of fact had been con-
nected with the land described years
ago, through the taking of a mortgage,
and a month or SO after their pur-
chase, at their request, GAVE them
a quit claim deed (TO THEIR OWN
PROPERTY for the purpose of Gu
ring any discrepancies in the record
title, or removing amy cloud on their
title that might be found to exist
through any error.
The deed recited the consideration
of one dollar. which lis the legal and
usual consideration in such deeds,
where the grantor has no interest.
Where records show warranty
deed from one party, consideration
$40, 900 and quit claim from another
party, consideration $100, you are
pretty hard up when you claim the
$1.00 deed was transferring an inter
est i'm 100000 worth of property.
You say you do not cherish a per-
sonal controversy and will do much
to avoid It," that you know some
thing of the attitude of the public
toward swill barrel methods of joum-
alism," etc.
You may dignity your attack on me
as swill barrel journalism, but
think 1T would be more nearly describ-
ed as being SHOP jar journalism, and
right here will tell you how to avoid
any personal controversy with me.
Just let MY PRIVATE business alone.
If decided valuable lots to the North
Western Land Company or gave them
quit claim deed to perfect the rec
ord, that is strictly MY LEGITIMATE
business and ii you don't want con-
troversy, don't you mix up with amy
reports OF mass meeting, for any
of your Interior purposes
You close your Journalistic CD ar
ticle by advertising the fact that
discontinued taking your paper some
10 days since. Now that is something
more that is strictly my business |
found that had overrm my subscrip-
ton about one dollar and sent you a
check for the amount, with a note
asking you to please discontinue the
paper. had no earthly use for your
paper and l took as polite a way OF
stopping 1t as ! knew how. The very
next issue you published your griev-
ance of my having sold lots to the
North Western Land Company. l am
sorry you took 1t so hard. Moreover
don't think 1t fair to publish the fact
that had been taking your paper,
as 1T puts me to the painful necessity
of telling how l came to be sub
scriber, until the time you mention,
July 26, 1909.
Miss Helen Griffith of Glenns Fer
ry asked me to renew my subscrip-
ton to the Maverick. tod her that
it had expired some little time before.
and that was going to discontinue it
on my next "trip to Mountain Home.