The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1914-10-09
JENNESS BRANDS BULL
MOOSERS LIARS AND
PROVES It
Considers Security Ample.

Nampa, october l, l9l4.-Mr. J. F.
Barnes, Nampa. Idaho Ny Dear Mr..
barnes: My attention has been called
70 an article appearing in the CAPITAL
News on Tuesday the 18th. in refer
ence to loan which you and Mr.
JehneSs have from the state upon tbe
following described property: Lots ,.
): =, }, 3, J, and 8, in section 4 town.
ship IS north of range 4 east. If the
state land board feels that the pro-
perty is not worth the amount of the
loan, and they desire you to paw il. ]
shall be glad to advance YOU the
money and have the loan assigned to
Inc. l consider the property worth a
good deal more than the amount of
the loan.
lcurs truly,
f. H. DEWEY.
before giving the record as to this
loan desire to call the attention of
the public to this clause of the last
Bull Moose platform: 1T has been
the custom for over 20 years for state
ofhclals, particularly the members Of
the land board, to make a grab bag
OF the public treasury to fraudulently
and illegally divert the funds that
should have gone TO the state treasury
by making loans to themselves
through dummies and selling state
lands to favorites for nominal sums
without expectation of repayment.
l at once challenged the truthful
ness OF that statement and invited the
Bull MooSerS to make good on the
charge. This seems to have peeved
our Progressive friends considerably,
but let it be noted they never accept
ed the challenge nor have they made
good on the charge. / repeat that it
was a stab in the back and cowardly
lie. There is nothing in the law to
prevent the land board from making
loans to its members if proper Sc
curity be offered. but undoubtedly il
would not be in good taste nor meet
with public approval for men to make
loans to themselves of public funds
and | defy the Bull Moose party to
name the member of the land board
who has loan directly or indirectly
through any dummy. 1t has been
charged, but not proven, that 0. v.
Allen has such loan, but he is not a
member of the land board
l had never any thought of denying
that several state employees, including
myself, have loans from the state We
who hold such loans had nothing
whatever to do with granting them or
passing upon values and have exact
ly the same rights to secure such
loans with proper security as any
other citizen of Idaho. We do not
lose our civic rights because we accept
public employment.
Calls it a WilfVl Lie.
Turning now to the loan made by
Mr.. Barnes and myself, the Capital
News first charge is that we secured
the money for paying the purchase
price" of the property on which the
loan was made. This is a direct and
willful falsehood made by Mr.. Sheri-
dan of the Capital News, who could
have found, had be chosen, on the
public records of Boise county that
this land was purchased of Fred S.
Logue of Thunder City and the deed
dated March 6, 1912, and price paid
was $500. The purchase price was
paid at the time with the exception of
two outstanding mortgages which
were assumed, one held by Scott Neal
for $3.50 and one by F. w. Galbraith
for $1,000. The loan from the state
was negotiated for the purpose of
taking up these two mortgages with
accumulated interest; one of which
was due and had to be paid and no
new loan could be negotiated without
taking up the other also.
The next false charge, which is
coupled with few sarcastic and sup
posedly funny remarks, is that no
notices were sent to Mr.. Barnes and
JenneSs as to other borrowers. The
second complete and wilful falsehood.
The bookkeeper sends out the notices
and in this particular case they were
sent to Bannes and JennesS as to
others. Proper notation was made on
the register the same as in all cases
and carbon copies are in the files
which Mr.. Sheridan could have seen
along with the notations on the regis
ter had he been looking for the facts.
Mr.. Sheridan then states that the
assessed value of the property was
$28O5 and that the constitution pro-
can be loaned, therefore, that | re-
as | am entitled to. This is a mislead-
ably Mr.. Sheridan thought that some
of his readers at least would overlook
the words assessed value" in place of
apr dSCu NdiuC' A<OahS diC n.y.
based upon assessed value, as Mr..
Sheridan we'll knows, but on the ap-
praised value as fixed by the appraiser
praiser for the state, and it is probably
quite we'll known that assessed values
are not usually up to the market value
of the lands. However. the statement
that the assessed value was $28O5 is
not true. The receipt which Mr..
Barnes and have for the taxes paid
the same year the loan was negotiated
places the value at $506S. The fol-
lowing year the value was reduced to