The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-10-03
As In a Looking Glass

vulged: he started out to be a doctor
but the starting was not good at the
time and so he drifted into newspaper
work which naturally breeds interes
but seldom bears fruit in politics. We
believe that serious mistake was
made. He has that sympathetic dis
position so necessary to successfully
administer to the body diseased. But
he changed the course o fhis career
and what boots it what it might have
been? AS warning to others we will
say that his partner in Ohio in the
practice of medicine was DR.. Earl
Sloane, now head of the famous
Sloane Liniment Co., whose product
is known the world over as sure
cure for pip, heaves, ringbone, collie,
scab, rheumatism, chilblains, tooch-
ache, burns, sores, sunburn, freckles,
falling hair and housemaid's knee. He,
DR.. Sloane, is millionaire and the
virtues OF his cure are known from
coast to coast and even beyond the
seas, to quote from DR.. Leonard when
he tells about his dead mule.
Jake Horn was born in Ohio in l84o
where he reached manhood's estate,
as a college professor would say.
From Ohio MIR. Horn went to Michi-
gan, thence to Broken Bow, Nebras-
ka, where he first broke into the news
paper game. From Broken Bow he
emigrated to Nampa, which would
have finished a man of less vitality
From Nampa 20 years ago to the
present date is the subject of this
sketch.
We do not know why Jake Horn
stopped in Nampa, when Caldwell
was only nine miles down the line.
Probably few real estate boosters
held him up He became editor and
publisher of the Nampa Progress,
which before and after Jake's time,
had meteoric career. About the
time that Canyon county was organ
lied Mr.. Horn thought that the po-
sition OF assessor of the new county
would about fit him and SO he pro-
ceeded to gather the job. After the
term expired he drifted into the news
paper game again becoming editor
Of the Caldwell Record, which had
been the Caldwell Argus, and which
now is the Caldwell News Few
men of any pretensions,
and quite few of no such preten-
sions, have at one time or another
been connected with the Caldwell
News. 1t has had more editors and
more policies and princi-
oles, than there are hairs on Charley |
Picard's head After conducting the
Record as long as his conscience
would permit, he engaged in the mer-
,antile business as a vendor of sta
ionary, cigars, tobaccos, news, etc,
etc., land etc. again. But he cared
more for merchandising ct ceteras
han he had for merchandising
world famous liniment. The call OF
he press was still upon him or per-
1aps he had Indigestion. At any rate
lie engaged in the business at Boise,
md afterwards at Silver City. He has
been connected with the Statesman,
he Capital News and the The Cald-
we'll Tribune, the which which is last
washes away all sin. A few years ago
ne decided that he would complete
MS reformation by becoming post
master at Caldwell and this he pro-
,eeded to do and is still doing with
eminent satisfaction to Uncle Sam,
he people of Caldwell and himself.
Jake Horn has had considerable
influence on the politics of this state.
ederal officers are not supposed to
be active in politics, and we are now
talking of years gone by. He was
prominent in the Silver Republican
ranks and was frequently mentioned
for high Offices in the state. He was
never an office seeker and spent time
and money in promoting the ambi-
tons of friends, which probably could
have been more probably employed
in promoting his own ambitions. Not
a man in public life in Idaho today
who has not been helped at some time
or other by Jake Horn. 1t is also
true that not a few of them have felt
his little digs" as he would call them
He has been thorn in the side of
many politician but always with the
kindliest good humor and in the full
belief that he was working for the
best interests Of the people generally
He knows the ms and outs of the pol
itics of the state; the strength and
failngs of its leading men; and the
why's and wherefors things were done
To "tip it off about right" we would
say that he likes to know things and
has faculty of learning them.