The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-17

car last June, paying $685. in cash
! and turned in another car on 1t, the
original cost of the car being $3.50.
They operated 1t for ten months and
the cost Of repairs and operation was
$2216, including the cost of the car.
Then there rose discussion as to
whether the tabulated accounts in
cluded the entire cost Of a new car
or merely the amount of cash they
had turned in at the time of the
trade and that point was not settled
in the discussion.
That Booze Car Again
Sheriff Simmons came in and Of
fered some information on the hist
ory of the Booze" car. He said it
was purchased from L..O. Naylor &
Co. of Idaho Falls about four years
ago, by Ben Muir of Wapello; Ben
Muir loaned it to one Sullivan to
haul some booze into Blackfoot,
transferring it at Wapello from some
other mode Of transportation to this
Studebaker car in question. The car
was captured by the sheriff and the
goods and car held as contraband
goods. When Muir found that the
car was captured he laid no claim to
1t, but l.. O. Naylor had not received
all of their pay for 1t and they
claimed the property and showed
title note to justify their claim to the
right of possession Of it. The mat
ter went into the courts and in the
meantime the car was being stored
at the Andren garage. It was ex-
pected that there would soon be
decision on the matter and when one
court decided it, an appeal was taken
and 1t finally went thru all the
courts up to the supreme court at
Boise with the result that Naylor was
given an order to receive the car
back again. Everybody knows that
battery has to be taken care of or
something will happen to it. Nobody
came arouLd to keep il in condition
by putting distilled water into it
and the Chemicals destroyed the bat
terry. When the Blackfoot Potato
Growers association built its new
warehouse and advertised that it was
prepared to store cars, the county
decided to save 81 month on stor-
age by sending it to Pendlebury's to
be stored. When they went to move
it the battery was defective and Mr..
Andren was instructed to take it
out and see if it could be charged
again. The chemicals had already
eaten it up so that it was of no value
and 1t was supposedly left in the
Junk room. The car was stored over
at the potato warehouse and after
being there long time it was lowed
to the county warehouse for storage
to save the SO month that Pendle-
bury was receiving. During this |
period, Gordon Bills had occasion to
use Studebaker coil and there was
none in town. He asked permission |
of Sheriff Simmons to take coil off |
of the "booze" car to put on this
other car so that he could get it
into commission again quickly and !
promised to order another coil and
put it on as soon as it arrived. Sheriff
Simmons stated, that he, like :
chump, consented at first thought .
and that coil was taken off. When
the other coil came, some one who
did not understand that it belonged
to the booze" car, sold it and put
il onto some other car. Then Gordon
Bills met with his fatal accident
and nothing further was done about
it. When Simmons took the matter
up with Gordon's successor in man
agement, the successor did not
know about it. Studying the mat
Ter further they found that Joe
Richards was the mechanic, who took
he coil off of the car and Mr.. Rich
ards was spending the holidays at
Logan When he came back he con-
irmed the sheriff's statement of the
situation, the coil was ordered and
hey are now awaiting it's arrival. I
The question came up then as to
whether the county should replace
he battery that was eaten up by the
lelaV in the litigation and whether
hey should repair the tires that had '
otted in the meantime. The COM s
nissioners decided that they would s
'rovide second hand battery and {
'ut on second hand tires and turn
over to the Naylor company.