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TJC1.& Herald Subscription, $100 per Annum PIONEEE PAPEE OF KOOTENAI 00 8. D. TAYL0E, Editor and Proprietor May all the Herald readers enjoy a happy and a prosperous New Year. Frank R. Gooding will be in augurated Governor next Monday, together with the other state of ficers. Elaborate preparations have been made to celebrate the event, and the inaugural ball promises to be a most brilliant affair, occasion has no great significance in a political sense, the same polit ical {tarty continuing in power— the closing of one model Repub lican administration under Gov. John T. Morrison, and the opening of another, which may safely Vie predicted to be a coining model ad ministration, under Gov. Frank R. Gooding. County officers do not assume office until one week later than state officers. The County Division. As intimated in these columns hertofore, county division will be come a very live issue this winter. The following from the Cœur d'Al ene Journal serves to show what steps are being taken in order to accomplish division: "A meeting of the committee on county division was held at the office of McCTear & Burgan Monday evening to listen to the report of the committee of attorneys, Messrs. Goode, Burgan and Whitla who had been appointed to look up the law and report upon the legality of the proposed measure. Mr. Burgan, of the committee reported that he had gone into the matter thouroughly and had con sulted with his colleagues on the committee who concurred with him in the opinion that there was no question but what a bill abrogat ing the county of Kootenai and creating two new counties out of the territory comprising what is now Kootenai county would be perfectly legal and would stand the test of the courts. He also stated that it would be perfectly legal for the legislature to divide the present county of Kootenai creating a new county in either end. He reported that in either case the legislature had the power to designate the county seat in each of the counties. It was thought by the committee that the moet feasible plan was to abrogate Kootenai County and create two new counties and it was suggested that they be named Lewis and Clark respectively. It was also decided to send Mr. Burgan to »Sandpoint to consult with the peo ple there and he was instructed to inform them that the people here would insist upon a measure embracing one or the other of the two plans outlined above or else they would drop the whole matter. It was decided by the committee to cull a public meeting of the bus iness men and properly owners of the city for next Tuesday evening at McClear & Burgan's office at half past seven at which time Mr. Burgan is to report the outcome of his meeting with the people of Sandpoint. This question of county division and whether Cœur d'Alene should have a county seat is of the utmost importance to every business man and property owner in the city and every one of them should turn out to the meeting and, if it is decided to push the matter at this session, lie prepared to give it the necessary support." Father Purcell's Vindication, The Supreme court of Idaho has been called upon during the past year to pass upon a number of questions of sensational interest to Kootenai county. Not the least of these was the appeal of Father T. J. Purcell, the well-known Catholic priest, to collect for money expend ed in prosecuting his case in rela tion to the guardianship of the Brady children. The supreme court recently handed down a decision reversing the district court and allowing him the fees for which he invoked the aid of the courts. This decision recalls a tragedy which occurred in l'JUl and sensa tional events which followed. It was one evening in July of the year 1901. John C. Brady was probate judge of Kootenai County, lie was sitting in his otlice at Kathdrum writing when there en tered the room one Wilhumbussy who drew a gun and tired at Brady, indicting a wound from which he j died about a week later. Wilhum bussy had been adjudged insane by the judge a year previous, but had taken French leave at the asylum and returned to his home, and having acted rational to a safe degree had been allowed to remain at his ranch, humbussy was taken to Blackfoot, it was claimed that there was on j the ranch work horses and cattle | and farm machinery and grain to | the value of no small sum, these had disappeared. At the time of his incarceration, Wilhumbussy also claimed to have several hun dred dollars in cash secreted on the premises. This also was missing, according to his story. These cir cumstances preyed upon his un - 1 sound mind and he craved revenge. He sought it against the man who committed him to the asylum. He ,was afterwards captured, tried, con victed and sentenced to a long term in the penitentiary. But the scene shifts to no less sensational circumstances. Judge Brady, upon his death bed, made j a will in which he made Father T. | J. Purcell the guardian of his two I small children, who were to inherit [ his life insurance amounting to | $(>000. This guardianship was con-1 tested by Frank Pine, of Iowa, an uncle of the children. Brady's cof fin was hardly covered with the clay before there was one of the worst mix-ups ever witnessed in K ootenai county, politics and reli gion superceding law. surreptitious manner Pine was able to take the children out of the state I and remove them to Iowa. It has been claimed that the officials of Kootenai county aided in this sur- 1 reptitious removal. There was also ii clash between Protestants and Catholics. Father Purcell took the) matter into the courts. The machin- 1 ery of government was decidedly I against him. He lost in the Pro- j bate, District, and finally in the Supreme court. The case rested I for a while and then he brought suit for expenses incurred, includ ing attorney fees, court expenses and personal expenses. He again met with defeat in the Probate court and D istrict court. He ap pealed once more to the supreme tribunal and his perseverance and determination was finally reward ed. 1 he opinion of the court not only gives Father Purcell his ex pense money but virtually vin dicates his contention throughout, To say that Brady was not of sound mind when he made his last will is too thin. Father Purcell is to be honored for the strenuous fight he made to carry out the dy ing wishes of his friend. I When Wil All In some —Fresh Fish every Friday at the G. & H. market. _ — vws/wvwwwvaw-^wv LIVER TROUBLES "I find Thedford'i Bl»ck-Dr»n*ht • rood medicine for li er diseaae. It cm rod my on after he had np -nt f 100 with doctor«. It ii all the med icine I take. M —MRS. 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