The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23

whitaker Is not running SO very
WE'LL"
She-"Oh indeed. l am sorry. ]
was quite in hopes that Mr.
Whitaker would be elected. I have
met him and I became interested in
his success"
| He-"Yes, certainly. Well-per-
haps il you had met Mr.. Smith
you might possibly have become in
terested in his success"
ooh yes, Of course, but Mr..
Whitaker seemed to be such fine
| man."
''Oh he is undoubtedly. Perhaps
you will yet meet Mr.. Smith"
''Is this the editor speaking
suppose of course you know Mr..
SMITH"
well, er-this is Mr.. Smith
speaking-I just happened to be at
the phone when you rang"
ooh indeed. Well, we'll. Why
Mr.. Smith, how unusual. I feel
quite embarrassed. I hope you will
remember the funny side of this in
cident and forget the rest"
"Oh certainly"
Good bye"
Good bye"
Another Smith
Case
Mr.. Whitaker addressed an audi
ence at Blackfoot and while in the
town he is said to have called
on Mr.. Peter G. Johnston, at
the land office and talked politics to
him. Mr.. Johnston, by the way, is
Mormon, and an ardent supporter of
Addison T. Smith, who is Gentle.
Mr.. Whitaker is Mormon bishop,
and apparently, one of those who
still welcomes political support thru
church affiliations. eve got this
story by accident, nobody gave it to
us to publish, but we like to share
all good things with our readers)
Mr.. Whitaker is said to have ven
tured the remark to Mr.. Johnston
something like this:
II understand that you are sup
porting Mr.. Smith for congress"
I Eyes, I am Mr.. whitaker"
well, / had hoped that I might
receive your support
''Mr. Smith is the nominee of my
party, and he is well qualified for
filling that position"
True enough, but he is not a !
member of the church,
'sNo, but he is eligible. He. is a |
fine gentleman; man Of good
habits, He does not smoke, he does
not drink nor gamble; he keeps the
commandments in many ways that
some of the rest of us might well
emulate"
well, even tho he is all of those
things, he has not been baptised."
We'll, that is true, but he has
done so much for reclamation, when
we get the water on some of these
projects that he has under way we
can probably lay off day and
baptize him"
That was such cold comfort for
Mr. Whitaker he is said to have
dropped the subject till he could
find voter who was not such a hard
nut to crack.
Diplomatic
Dog
A long time ago when the people
Of lower Lost river were in Blaine
county and HALEY was their county
seat, they found it such long
journey around by Arco and the
avabeds and the Valley of the
Moon and over the hills to Picabo
peek a boo) they sent Tom Lemon
If Antelope and somebody else, Tom
Ferguson we guess, to Haley to
abor with the commissioners to see
f they could be induced to appro-
some money to improve
he wagon road over the mountains
rom the head of Lost river and
make short cut to HALEY.
AS we remember the story, Mr.. ;
Ferguson addressed the honorable
BOARD at some length and laid great
stress on the steepness of the hill '
ind urged building some SWITCH
packs. The hill was very steep. {
Awfully steep. He couldn't tell
hem just how steep, and it was
ong hill besides being sleeper than
almost sleeper than hi. {
having Reached natural climax
md paused, the chairman, seeing a t
nance to get rid of him, turned to i
Ir. Lemon and said, "Well, Mr.. t
lemon, we will hear you now" {
Mr.. Lemon rose slowly and said, |
Well, gentlemen you can judge !
or yourselves how steep the hill is
When l tell you that when we were
oming down over it on horseback,
had to go back and rpugh-lock my I
log to get him down. u
That speech made such a hit with |
he board that they made some !
ostly improvements on the road r
nd J. S. Lewis, the man who had r
barge of the team freighting via c
letchum into the Salmon river t
ountry, bid lower after that and p
Or several years took the freighting c
usiness away from Blackfoot and b
ave the employment and the bust t
ess to the people of the Wood river F
alley. Charles Bunting had been f
it at Blackfoot and it made p
lot Of business here when he had tt
:. While Lewis had it, Bunting r
went to the WALL" and Lewis made G
fortune. "
Mr.. Lewis died since and his
idow owns the big wagons that d
arried the freight in those days. l.
he keeps them stored in big it
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