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Show BARNEY B. QUIXN'S dog, Tip, who rendered valuable valu-able services to Edmund A. Bock, candidate for auditor, on election day. , ' ; t r-X i i v - - a. v ' ;? Y" ' t r UrWlrVtjW' Dog Proves to Be Electioneer in City Contest Barney B. Quinn Says "Tip" Was Great Factor in Bock's Success. SOME credit for the huge majority amassed by Edmund A. Bock, city auditor-elect, must be given to Barney B. Quinn 's Idaho sheep dog, Tip, who was an active and enthusiastic enthu-siastic Bock worker on election dav. From morning until night on election day the. dog was electioneering for Bock in district No. 111. The animal's zeal for its candidate evon went so far as to insist that Fred C. Bassett, Bock 's opponent in the race for city auditor, vote for Bock. Mr. Quinn and Tip were distributing shp3 bearing the message, "Vote tor Bock for City Auditor," to all the citizens citi-zens who approached the polling place m district No. 111. The dog would spy a voter in the offing and awnv he would go, with Bock hand-bills in" his mouth, and present the literature to the citizen before human workers for the other candidates were within speaking distance. Finally Mr. Bassett drove up in an automobile to the curbing in front of the polling place. Mr. Quinn stepped oyer the curb to swap gossip with the rival candidate. MrT Quinn did not embarrass Mr. Bassett by shoving Bock handbills in his face, but Tip would not be stayed by the conventions. The dog was tor Bock first last and all the time and was quite willing to enlist even the rival candidate in his support. So Tip .jumped into the automobile beside Mr. Bassett and gently insisted upon his acceptance of the printed advice, "Vote for Bock." "Seems to me your dog is rubbing it in, Barney," commented Mr. Bassett. "He's a mighty smart dog," responded respond-ed Mr. Quinn, proudly. The animal is a very important and useful member of Mr. QuinD 's household. house-hold. Tip posts letters, delivers papers and parcels and otherwise makes himself him-self useful. He comes of a very good dog family, says Mr. Quinn. Tip's mother had an honorable and heroic career on the Idaho sheep ranges. "His mother," relates Mr. Quinn, "once guarded over and nursed a wounded sheepherder for three days, when the herder had been shot and lay near death in the lonely brush. There was a blizzard on, but this dog's mother remained right on the ;job, licking the snow off the man's wounds imtil help came. When the herder was sent to the hospital in Boise, the dog insisted on going along, too, and would not budge from the hospital steps' until the man was out and well again." |