The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-02-16
WILD THOUGHTS In
"BUGHOUSE" TOWN
EFFECTIVE MEANS or SALMON
MEN IN PREVENTING a LYNCH
mo STRONGLY CONDEMNED BY
RLAckFooT EoIToR.

UGAGNFOGi EGtt 1Ns
In Byrd Trego's Rlaekroos paper Of
a recent date we find severe crit
cism OF those Salmon citizens who
etIectually prevented iynohing by
inviting TO so away the notorious
character who was likely 10 swing
for a crime committed but never AIDE
auately punished Trego pronounceH
the man legally free because the
eourt had said he was free. There
! may perhaps be some doubt about
| the wisdom in granting him this free
dom aside from the evidence addueed
| al his last trial, for NO sooner had
I he landed over in Montana from Sal
mon whence he was sent forth. than
he seems 10 have embarked again IN
the nrat form OF lawlessneas that Of
| fered. that OF sending whisky by mail
i into dry territory For this oHense
he was arrested and held for the
United Statea marshal. but TreEo
!. contends that IL was altogether
wrong for salmon citizens 10 request
him to go elsewhere 10 live and says
that the wronged man should have
II provided himself with "aomething on
his hips" TO look the men in the eye
, who asked him To 81 away ana tiSh
nol go at all.
In the twists and turns of the Law
| IN tha celebrated Thaw ease the ne
euaed was finally turned out upon
society again yet We have never seen
lny community advertising fhaw az
I desirable citizen Ia bid for as TreEo
: now bids for this eNpatriated ctu-
= ken of salmon. III Blackfoot were not
! hnghouse town we should think
= rrego would not champion hia cause
with such Nahemence as he does,
such people have wild gmaEtnations-
{ Perhaps one of them n now the pre-
Z siding genius OF the Blarkfoot paper
2 in the absence OF the regular editor.
= Il may be that the former salmon
y citizen WAS not desired here for the
= reason that the notion might @osaeaa
y him to KIN somebody else to add 10
> his Iaurals in that line, some other
= nnm old man entirely helpless VA
y a Young mans hands and who might
: be shot 60 death, Such assaahlns are
= undesirable eitiEens, just as Ihaw
: showed himself so bs after being
u given the liberty Of "A free man to ~
~ to killing again and just AS ia The
latest maieVptent case under discus
aa sion, where crime tH a pantims ans
~ wickednasa fascination. There ar'
IN scores of such vicious and eeeanlrt'
u people IN llackfoot in the auarter'
OF for them set apart aud provides
r. there We had thought them tos
ds closely guarded. however. for one 9
w them 10 be allowed TO climb the edi
ie toriAl tripod over on the opposit
g side OF the town
ne Here are some OF TreKo'B choic
au thoughts on the subject Ia hand
ad Granting that the young fellow
vs. was guilty. which he may or may
ng not have been. the men in the
ng meeting, morally forfeited their
an rAghta OF citizenship, and should
an be denied 1he right 10 vote for
long period. II the young fellow
en-, knows himself guilty OF the
eiT crime he waA charged with. he
It's will probably tone down bis feel
ar lngs and live elsewhere. II he
&c was not guilty he knows II, and
ta' ii he has the right kind of stun
or in him he will so back TO Salmon
be with something on his hips and
ND stay there tn he has met every
no one of the rs men and looked
him in the eye and dehed him.
ire Then he viii go about ais bust
var ness and be at all times prepared
my TO provide for himself That pro
ght lection which the men OF the
the mob dacreed he should forfeit u
70 he came home To live. The -
oai men In the meeting were pack
ria Of towards from top 70 bottom,
s66 and the Loss of a dozen or more
nee OF them al once could not bc said
ed To be premature. for what ac-
and count could such characters be
ier. anyway