The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-06-02
CHAPTER III.


| The board of county commission.
ers received bids on June %, 1885
for the erection of the county court
house and Jail and awarded the con.
tract to R. H. Hopkins for $4,000
w. H. Danilson was made superin-
tendent of construction.
The ianitor was dispensed with
and each officer was allowed S. a
month for taking care of his own
/ office.
A petition from Cedar Butte
asked the board to appoint B. H
Ellison justice of the peace, but on
the statement OF John Donaldson
that there was nobody in the pre-
cinct who could take the test oath,
the petition was laid on the table
A petition was read from citizens
of Blackfoot asking for county
road to be, made into the Caribou
gold mines.
Insane persons from Idaho had to
be taken to the asylum at Salem,
Ore, and Sam Taylor, sheriff, pre-
sented bill for 1928 for taking one
Brockhardt to Salem, The sheriff
took two guards along, and the
board cut the bill to $640.75 on the
theory that one guard was enough.
At the August meeting on the
board the following named persons
and firms were raised on the tax
list: c. w. Brooks, H. NJ. Ben
nett, Cohn and Freedman, A. NJ.
Carter, w. H. Crow, c. J.. Cannon,
John Gordon & Son, Willard Craw-
ford, Joseph Davenport, William
Damme, A. M. Elton & Sons, Chas.
R. Evans, Eccles Spencer & Co.,
w. F. Fisher, w. G. Fisher, Edward
Goslin, Frank Haskins, William
Hyde, Samuel Hammer, bingham &
Sons, Thomas Jenkins, Nels Just,
Heath & Kiefer, J. H. Kiefer, N. R.
Lewis, Wing Lee, Albert Lyons, John
Muckley, Misslin Bros, George
Payne, P. F. Scott, ]. H. Storer,
M. c.. Center, Shilling & White,
Isaiah Smith, William N. Thomas,
Thomas Thomas, James Thomas,
Robert Tarter, Ed F. VIM, Gee Yen,
the 2. C. M. l., the Oregon Short
Line and the Utah Northern rail-
roads on something like 800 miles
of road from $4,000 a mile to 49,
500 a mile at 20 cents on each 500
made an increase of about 100000 |
for them. All of them were given |
a chance to protest on Monday the
! 9th of October.
AS stated in chapter of this
series, the tax man for the railroad |
came up from Salt Lake |
on the afternoon train and at Nc |
Cannon he got information as to
the large amount of property owned
by Chairman Hardness, exceeding
100000, and on arriving at Black
foot he found Mr.. Hardness was
assessed at only $1,000. He held
hat fact as whip over Mr.. Hark-
ness and relied on it to get the
assessment kept down to what it
lad been.
The district attorney called the
ak man aside and took him outside
If the house and around to the side
lear out of the way of everybody
Use, and talked to him. The tax
nan said afterwards that the attor-
ley, representing the people, told
lin that he thought he could "fix''
he tax matter if the tax man would
promise him an annual pass. The
AK man did not respond to his Of
er and went on depending on his
against Hardness to {
old the board level The story of
Ow he brought him across" was s
old in chapter |. The county lost s
bout $4,000 of the 100000 in
uestion, and the board heard pro-
ests from a good many private citi- t
ems and took off the raise or a part
f it on about half of them, thereby
utting the public on about the same l
)oting as the railroads. But the
ssessment of Chairman Hardness
unchanged.
In a future chapter | will show 6
ow local men took advantage of L
leir home people to get some of the C
TX money for themselves, but at C
lie same run the public treasury in z