Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-07-10

SHeIlH HARPER Deetl d SiieNl pdIIueI
to this damnable scheme? Has he
not retained in Office two deputies af
ter they have threatened us with vio-
lence?
Sheriff Harper knew that no bond
the court could impose would for a
moment detain US, if the people. were
given an opportunity to provide bond
of any size, even ten times the one
imposed. Why then the sudden haste,
and why was this thing staged in
the way it was, and at the time it
was? Why, if Sheriff Harper could
wait from a. m. till noon, and carry
the warrant in his pocket unserved,
could he not have waited till night,
or till Monday morning and have ar
rested us here in Orofino without
making lot of unnecessary costs for
the people to pay?
Does it not look like Leeper was
brought, at county expense, all the
way from Elk River, and sent to
Weippe for the specific purpose of
gratifying the Blake gang in fiendish
desire to heap upon the editor Of the
Republican whatever indignities their
booze-soaked brains can conjure2 And
they thought it would ruin us to be
compelled to accompany Deputy
Sheriff Leeper to Orofno, where this
officer would probably have the salts
faction of throwing us in the old
Jail, bought for the county by Pat
Blake and Sheriff Harper, while these
fellows were county commissioners,
and at cost of $500 without compe-
tition, with about $3.50 of extrava-
gance tackled on.
Had they really wanted to disgrace
us, they should have compelled US to
ride with Sheriff Harper.
We reached Orofino about o'clock,
and was dined at Horace Mobiles hotel
at county expense. Attorney Becker
had phoned the word ahead, and
Messrs. Kinne, Hinckley and Soder-
berg, and two or three others, were
waiting to sign the bond. In thirty
minutes we were free, but we had
missed the ball game, had been de-
MED the pleasure Of seeing any of
Weippe's Fourth of July program,
and Sheriff Harper had "done his
official duty.
Jim and Pat were waiting. They
were about the only men of conse-
quence who didn't leave town on the
Fourth. They turned out in force,
to welcomed us to the city, and gave
the first indication they have ever
shown in our behalf. They saw Roy
Leeper ''deliver the goods," and
while Judge Tame was fixing the bone
the complaining witnesses waited on
Jim's front veranda, near the spo1
where somebody burned to the grount
the cabin of that old Indian who cam
, get it out of his head that he was
! skinned out of his home. A few
minutes after we left the court house
Pat walked over to town, me-
and the two went bacl
, up the court house stairs together.
Evidently cog had slipped some
. where. Orcutt was still at liberty
, and Pat was disappointed. Jim set
tied back in his easy chair on ths
3 edge of Gorman's addition, valuabl,
3 land which old man Holt insists wa
Y taken from him through the dishones
/ ty of J. D. Blake, who, with his phi
E eyes puckered, gazed away into spac
0 in -mouthed amazement at tn
t miscarriage of dirty plot.
s And the taxpayers will pay tn
8 bill. The editor of the Republican i
charged with criminal libel. Bot
the Blakes have sworn out warrants
: Both rely on the same article whic
4 appeared in the Clearwater Republica
K June 10, the entire article bein
r made part of the complaint. Her
{ is the article:
STAND UP, HON. PAT BLAKE.
> According to your official bulleti
. board you want to know il the cruise {
Q the county does not pay. Pay who?
= You say it has cost the county onl
II $50. or II 1-2c an acre to discover
3 $4,000 worth of property. Does
: make the discovery worth any more
: the taxpayers where it costs 500 pc
o quarter, than it would were the disco,
: cry to cost only $l2 per quarter, {
= 1-2c per acre? II SO, why?
J. Who gets this extra IS? And if yor
IL friend Nease gets it, we'll admit it pa,
u Nease. II Slippery Jim gets it, we
II admit this Blake gang cruise pays tn
'e Fidelity State Bank; if you get the
:; we will not argue the case; it pays yo,
'e And you'll have to admit that the ia,
'e payers lose the 48 because a Blal
10 gang county board put over damnab
u deal that PAYS somebody an extra
'e per quarter. or course it pays, ar
~ the undue interest you have displaye
et in behalf Of Nease in a rotten outral
against the people inclines one to Il