The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-01-14
wHo IS eIoHr ABOUT IT?

The petitions asking for the annexa
ton OF the Woodland, Caribel, and Other
sections Of Idaho county bordering
Kamiah to Lewis county were forward
ed TO Boise Wednesday by j. |. Cox
and r. Fl. Rehberg. The petitions were
signed by $50 people showing that
three fourths OF the people in the af-
fected section favor the measure We
understand that the bridge petition was
also sent down about the same time.
These are two measures that are
vital to the interests of the whole Sec
ton and we believe that, on investiga-
ton of the matter, the legislature will
grant some rellef.-Kamiah Progress.
Jan. 8.
The effervescing young man from
Kooskia who passed through Lewiston
last week on his way to Spokane on
another OF his trips" gave out an in
terview while there which appeared in
the Tribune of the Sth, about the same
date the Progress issued the above,
in which he said among other things
that the Commercial club of Grange
Vile secured the aid of the ladies In
this city to defeat county division by
soaring them into IL through misrep-
reservations, implying that the Grange
vile ladies would have voted for coun-
ty division If they had known the
facts; and he also stated plainly that
the petitions for annexation had been
repudiated by the people in the dis
trict affected, while the Progress states
exactly the contrary. To be absolutely
correct about II we will give the exact
language of his interview in reference
to this feature of the annexation prop
osition, which Is as follows
1.-THE truth OF the proposition is
that the relief they offer the peo-
pie OF this section does not re-
lseve, from standpoint OF isola-
tion from the county seat. 1t sim
ply sets them out of Idaho county
into Lewis county with the identi-
cal disadvantages attendant To
bear out the truth of my statement
will tell you that the petition
which the Grangeville Commercial
club has made so much ado about,
circulated by James Cox, has been
repudiated by the people by their
refusal to sign 1t. Instead they
have willingly signed a petition in
remonstrance, which shows that
they stand by the handsome vote
they gave Selway county"
Can there be any question about
who Is right about this matter?'
Grangeville has been advised that the
petitions were being freely signed by
the citizens in the strip which asked
for annexation to Lewis county, and
the Progress says the petitions have
been forwarded to Boise, and that they
were "signed by $50 people. showing
that three-fourths OF the people in
the affected district favor the meas
ure." Yet the volatile young man says
he offers this statement as the evil
dence Of the truthfulness of his other
contentious; and we guess he is right
about II, 1t is probably as good evidence
as he can offer. II Is undoubtedly full
1y as truthful as his statement that the
Grangeville ladies were fooled by the
Commercial club into working against
county division, and a number OF his
other made-up-to to- the-minute tales He
should come up and interview the
Grangeville ladies on the subject and
get his information first handed 1t
would be an interesting episode, and
he can be assured the time OF his life.