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Show DR. filVENS HAS BEEN RETIRED Removed Prom Idaho Insane Asylum. Long Fight Over the Super-intendency Super-intendency Has Been Settled at Last. Dr. C. A. Hoover of Moutpelier Is Selected to Succeed Glvens. i Special to Th Tribune. BLACK POOT, Ida-. June 1 After a fight extending through the last four Stnto administrations, engendering much bad blood In both political parties and wrecking moro political ambitions than all other causes combined, the Board of Insane Asylum Commissioners met today In special session and removed Dr. Glvens Glv-ens an superintendent Long Drawn Out. Broken pledges regarding this position successively elltched tho Steunenberg, Hunt nnd Morrison administrations. V'ith each reriirrlng two years the light was on. but not until now sue..--: il Charges of alleged Irregularities have been made by both parlies from time to time The specific grounds foi tht action ac-tion todav is not definitely known, but a varletj of reasons can be assigned That It Is to a great extent political Is the generally accepted version. Hoover Succeeds. Dr C A Hoover of Montpeller who UO Beds to the place. Is an affable anel able gentleman lie is a resident of Bear 1 alt.- coiintv. and while not a Mormon, Is In -!oso touch with President Pudge, ex-IVttorney-Oeneral Bagley and other leading lead-ing lights of the church, who are undoubted un-doubted factors In the present Goodlng-Heyburn Goodlng-Heyburn regime. it is a factional ticiu. however, a numbed num-bed of Republicans persistently supporting support-ing Glvens, Although he posed as a Democrat, Dem-ocrat, his politics was never i-;iiiy know ii. Pecullai Coincidence. A peculiar coincidence is recalled by the action Of today. A few years sine-e A B MOSS, the loading merchant of Payette, was the Republican candidate for Qpvernor A controversy arose over some remarks made after a meeting of Mr Moss at this place. It resolved t:i.-lf Into 8 OjuestlOn Of veracity between Moss and Glvens. The affair was exploited In the newspapers. Moss is chairmen ..f tio- board that met today. Morris. a, lelectcd Hoover for this place two y curs ujp.,, but at the last minute weakened under pre- sure. Hoover remained at home and Morrison retired from the political arena. Hoover Active In Politics. Dr Hoover has always been active In polities. Judge SlandroJ, who was formerly for-merly supposed to be allied with the present regime, ws strenuously for Given Giv-en It lnis been hinted that friction ex-IsU-d, and the work of today seems to bear oul tht assertion. Chairman Brady, vvhoni it Is v.ilil has Senatorial ambitions, lii preaunied i.j to with un Standxod crowd. i |
