The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-07-02

side door of The Republican office
at the hour of midnight, Sunday
night, furnished proof Of the evil in
tentions of the fool-friends of g
young banker of Blackfoot who is
just now in trouble and under sus.
picion. That the match was not ap.
piled is accounted for by the fact
that the leading miscreant was being
watched, and he discovered that fact
at the instant he finished pouring the
oil. Other acts of molesting the
building during the night were OBJ
served, and the actors identified. The
banker was not party to the plan.
The last few days of June were
marked by ugly rumors concerning
the loss of city, county and school
moneys at Blackfoot, and the facts
were distorted and exaggerated till
it cast unjust replections upon banks,
bankers and officials, and at IL
o'clock Saturday, the following bull
letin was placed on the blackboard
in front of The Republican office:
"BLACKFOOT HAS A DEFAULTER
Bingham county oses.....$17,0 900
School Dist. No. (Bft)..-.- 1000
City of Blackfoot.......... 1000
Total .-.----.---.---.$2O,OOO
Official audit indicates the crime
was committed at the change of ad-
ministration in January, 1915. Sus-
picion rests upon c. V. Fisher,
deputy county treasurer retiring"
A request had already been made
to Editor Trego to suppress all men,
tion of the matter in The Idaho Re-
publican, and he had declined. Fol-
lowing the announcement on the
blackboard, he was asked to erase
it, and he declined. The man bear
ing the request said Mr.. Fisher was
such a fine business man and such
a good fellow that the whole thing
ought to be hushed up, the money
paid back and the incident forgotten
as soon as possible He stated fur
ther that If things went on 1t might
implicate others and make a bad
mess, and he asked as a personal
favor to suppress it. This request
did not purport to come from Mr..
Fisher or to be made with his knowf-
edge. Editor Trego firmly refused
to erase or to modify what he had
written.
Several persons whose business
operations have been financed by or
thru Mr.. Fisher, commented on ting
matter during the afternoon and
evening and bitterly denounced
Trego, saying that he owed Mr..
Fisher a favor, and when Fishers
friends asked it of him he withheld
it and thereby proved himself an
migrate.
Mr.. Trego and Mr.. Fisher are
close personal friends and have had
q short conference every day since
the trouble started last week, and
no such matter has been mentioned
between them. If the fool-friends
Of Mr.. Fisher precipitate full state
ment of the past "favors" referred
to, they will learn a bunch of note
worthy facts which they have here
tofore overlooked. The agitation
against Trego continued Sunday,
and on Sunday night at near 12
o'clock a man and woman who
were in sympathy with the agitation,
halted their jitney in. front of The
office and tried to erase
what was written, and then with
pink crayon wrote over it:
"A CLEAN SLATE FOR FISHER"
Somebody was approaching on the
street and they jumped into their
car and rode away, but returned
Later and fumbled about the black
board and the window under it.
Again an approaching traveller di-
verted their attention and they left.
A short time afterwards the man
returned with two bottles, one trans
parent and the other of colored glass,
and again he engaged in some indefi-
mite activity about and under the
and about the window,
until an approaching car sent him
into the post office next
door across the alley. He held on to
his bottles and peeped thru the
windows until the coast seemed clear
and walked out and turned up the
alley to the side door Of the printing
house. After moments delay a
man stepped in sight at the front
corner of the printing house and the
man at the side door hurried up the
alley with only one bottle visible. A
sheet of fluid covered the steel
of the side doors and an
emplty bottle was found just over
he fence a few feet from the fluid.
The bottle smelled decidedly Of coal
oil, and the fluid on the door, the
,asing, the steel plate and on the
loor inside was coal oil.
Within the hour he returned
again, fumbled about the blackboard
md the window beneath 1t, and again /
Jumped up and walked away as a
car sped by. In all Of these trips
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