Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-03-25
ACCUSATIONS
ARE UNFOUNDED
,,xpy ALLEGES HERALD WILL"
yr1Ly DELAYED HIS Paw
ING PLANS
yMlD CHANGE OFFICIAL PAPER
x.,ority Of Councilmen Refuse To Ac-
cept Henry's Views

-auenf Tuesday ngnt at the regular
p"asting of the town council, it having
soon we'll advertised about town that
.omething special was on. The show
'seS,,,roenced Immediately after the US
W reading and allowing of bills when
rsairman Henry called attention to
,he fact that the official paper of the
o;tv the Bonners Ferry Herald, had
unblisbed the paving improvement
district resolutions but one week and
mode the assertion that he was assured
hat the Herald had been instructed by
Acting Clerk Monks to publish them
two times consecutively
The chairman went out of his way
n villifv the Herald and its proprietor
and urged that some member OF the
council make a motion that the con-
tract of the city with the Herald be
untitled and that the city printing be
given TO the Kootenai Valley Times.
NJ McNichols also had it doped out
that the Herald management was
not longer deserving of the business
Of the town and made the motion asked
for Mayor" Henry waited in vain
for second and failing to secure one
turned the chair over to his colleague
and spent considerable time in TRADE
against the Herald, its proprietor and
incidentally took a few shots" at peo-
ple who have opposed present paving
plans.
The harangue of the mayor" showed
+ on the face of it that he was actuated
+ by the deepest malice and every other
| word was a libelous insinuation and
| fabricated by person who is capable
I only of Judging others according to
Ibis own standard of principles.
| The mayor" insinuated that the
proprietor of the Herald had been
|ings by Messrs. Alexander and Gray
| upon their arrival here recently. He
also claimed that the Herald was OPP
posed to paving. Both allegations
were preposterous. In the first place
the edition of the Herald in which the
second publication would have been
made was in the mail two days be-
fore Mr. Alexander came. here to look
after his interests in the paving mat
ter In the second instance there is
not a person in Bonners Ferry that
can say that the Herald or its pro-
prietor ever talked against paving and
that as far as Main street is concerned
the proprietor of the Herald has talked
to nearly every man on this street
and urged them to get-to-gether son
the much needed Improvement.
The mayor" asserted that Acting
Clerk Monks had told him that he
had ordered two publications of the
paving resolutions and that c. w.
Gunther also told him that he heard
Mr.. Monks give these instructions.
The speaker said that both gentlemen
were positive in this matter. When
the proprietor of the Herald talked
with Mr.. Monks he did not say he
was positive.
In the course of his remarks the
mayor attempted to hand himself
a number Of boquets; he asserted that
he had saved the town $1,000 mas
much as the claim of the sewer con-
tractors in this sum against the city
is to be dropped for the time being
The assertion made in this regard is
iar-fetched and cannot be substani-
ated as the Clifton, Apologize & Toolt
company have as much of a claim
against the city now as they have ev-
er had and the matter stands now just
Where it did when the mayor" tool
once; it is also matter of common
knowledge that the town administra-
uon OF the past two years has beer
sorely handicapped at all times by the
present chairman who has not shown
consideration or respect for the opin
IONS OF other members of the board
or OF citizens of the town if their opin
IONS differed from his and he has at
tempted to usurp powers to which he
is not entitled and tried to. "be the
whole show and run things" gener
any utterly disregarding the best in
terests OF the majority of the citizen:
ana taxpayers. Only of recent day:
mas ne been interested in trying Il
10 anything towards paving and nov
Dut lew have faith in his sincerity.
Wnen the proprietor of the Herald
was graciously permitted by the may
vi 10 say few words he ignored t
q large extent the nasty characters
ues OF the previous speaker and tolt
mat ne had no recollection of any in
s,ructons being given when the res
buttons were handed him to be pub
nshed and that it had never occurred
~ nm that they should be published
TWO times as all of the town printin,
ior tne past seven years, except on tw'
occasions, has been published blu
ohce' attention was called to the fac
mat although the motion ordering tn
printing of the resolutions was state'
~ include two publications, the min
" u1es OF this meeting, over which tn
mayor presided, did not so read an
..ontained no mention of how man
ZINES the resolutions were to be pub
isned and these minutes still stan
Aoe corrected: it was further brough
ous mat the resolutions given TO tn
puohsher contained no notation what
EVER OF the number OF times they wer
~ De printed: it was also called t
sne attention of the council and thos
-, ~ 'ne chamber that the proprietor c
sne herald could have nothing to gal
neglect to publish the resolution
~, Two weeks inasmuch as PRACTICAL
ah us business nafrons and friend