Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-05-18
0PEN SEASON
" ON EDITORS
,,ev NAVE WARNS NEWSPAPERS
NOT TO PUBLISH NEWS of
HIS ARREST
STRUCK CLAPP PAYS $40 FINE
.rrested Tuesday On Charge OF
n,ooal Possession of Liquor

Nave and c. S. Hamblin, the
J. = cnokane. were arrested last
S.0sdav lsse, evening by Deputy SherlH
I,asTv lasTvNFF Fry, on the charge OF possession
na'I, ~ 'In,toxicating liquor. Ihey were
O O.aiSned tened before Probate Judge Hend-
".aro an wednesday and waived prellm-
eisOn axamination and were bound
lna.' % the district court under bonds
oses so0o each. which were furnished.
u un"nutv Sheriff Fry made the arrests
nIace a short distance from town
tbo K. v. railway right-of-way
nes' a states that he found the defend
aua .. With suitcase full of liquor and
.sst sDt when he pullel his gun on the two
sna ordered them to put up their
sands Nave had bottle in each hand.
npr Tnosday morning Sheriff Dunning
.oooived tip that large cache of Ii
No. had been hidden near town on
,so V right-of-way and had, with
ss M IDENTITIES. searched all day for it..
Tho officials did not know of the
mall cache in the suitcase and prob
shly would not have known of it If
Nave s.y and Hamblin had not come along
when they ulu. Deputy ,ohSi ~
was alone at the time as Sheriff Dun
ming had returned to town to get re-
Nef having planned to watch the dis
,rict unfil the owners of the big cache
showed up.
The officers state that they do not
think the liquor belonged to Nave but
that he was with Hamblin, either to
ref a drink as he states, or to assist
IN moving the goods.
Marshall Worley and Arthur Policy
the latter of the state constabulary
we're sent to the place after Fry and
Dunning left and about midnight
man attempted to get away with one
sack Of liauor. There were three anc
half gunny sacks full of liquor II
the cache. The officers heard the
man and called to him to halt. H'
ran, however, and although severa
shots we're fired in the direction hi
ran, he got away. The sack of booz'
was dropped and the bottles scattered
IN every direction.
In connection with the charge pend
ing against him, Nave was again ar
raigned in probate court Saturda.
morning to answer to battery charg
made by A. W. Clapp, the editor o
The Kootenai Valley Times. Nav
plead guilty and was fined $40 an
costs.
1t seems that after his arrest Nav
asked Clapp not to publish the fac
IN his paper. When the Times wa
printed only bare mention was mad
nj tho of - 90 ofalnOly tho
evening Nave called Clapp out of tn
Office Of the International hotel an
struck him. Clapp is no physica
match for Nave and so he acted on tn
theory that discretion is better tina
'alor and took to his heels, Nave TO
loving AS footracer Nave was ouf
cassed
Today, unless the editor of tn
Herald has good luck and can run g
well as Editor Clapp, there will prol
ably be another story to publish of a
editor being beat up, for Nave he
voiced his threats of what he will
% the editor of the Herald if he pul
hshes the story of his arrest. NAY
Won't be going out of his class as
pnysi1ue in battle with the editor
lae Herald so there is little doubt bl
nat ne will take chance and contil
ue his efforts to muzzle the press
viii be some time, however, befo
any man will be able to dictate to q
herald what shall or shall not be pu
asned in its columns. This pap
Ss refrained from publishing what
ssumate news but it was becau
v publishing such news innocent on
mlsnt suffer more than the guilt
.ne past policy of the Herald in tn
aspect will not be changed if the et
W mas to take licking" every wee