Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-06-02
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j It is 90 cut up with mountain
&nqes as to render it impossible to
travel comparatively short distances
without great expense as well to the
county as to suitors in court. Thus,
We are told, it is but about eighty
miles from Atlanta to the county
seat in a straight line, but for
Juror to answer to the summons OF
the court he must cross q mountain
to Rocky Bar, thence to Mountain
Home. then over the Short Line to
Shoshone, after which he takes the
spur to Hailey-traveling a distance
Of over 200 miles at heavy expense
This is not only true Of jurors but
witnesses in both civil and criminal
eases; in the former infiicting great
hardship upon the private suitor' IN
the latter upon the taxpayer. And
it. is just such Inconvenience and
necessary costs in criminal cases
that has tended to enhance the debt
Of Alturas until she now more nearly
stands upon the verge Of bankruptcy
than any county Of which we have
any knowledge on the Pacific slope
A murder or riot case COMMITTED
in either Atlanta, Rocky Bar o
Pine Grove could not cost less thar
from $4,000 to rs, OOO-and that i
the very lowest Of estimates, evel
under the new fee bill.
The principle object OF govern
ment is. if we understand it rightly
to afford redress for public and pr
yate wrongs by means Of courts II
stituted for that purpose. II Grim
can not be punished so as to atfor
protection to the person and II pro-
erty can not be preserved to tho'
who have toiled to accumulate
the object for which government
were instituted fails. For yea
crime has gone comparatively u
needed upon the outskirts OF Ait
ras. Without any disparageme
to our present officers, whom we
lieye to be efficient and true so
as circumstances will admit,
nevertheless assert, what every
telligent man in the communl
knows, that public order could a.
would have been better preserv
we're the county seat within a n
sonable distance. When a thp
HALEY from Rocky. Bar or Era a
q stay there Of half a term-say 7
weeks-costs more than the rou
trim from New York to Liverpool
il time to think, and think strons
too, of the means that witnesses '
take to avoid being summoned
such-of the discountenance t
PAYERS will give and the fear OF
public prosecutor and other pull
officers Of making costs that
render worthless their county v
rants. Nor is this all. These sa
county officers are public men
fear tie comments Of the press
opposing public speakers as to
thew have squandered public fui
But there are private wrongs
suffer no less from the magazine
distances of our towns from
county seat. If it were proper h
instance after instance OF cases I
before Justices Of the Peace
judgments recovered could be n
toned Of debts ranging from
to three hundred dollars, which
remained uncollected because Q
appeal from the inferior court
sucE judgment rendered. Son
these have been for board du
poor widow women-others for '
and labor performed by the no
sons Of toll. Being weakened
the withholding of their just
they were unable to afford the IN
to advance pay to their witne
fee q lawyer or attend court u
selves, and the result has been
being unable 10 follow their ca
to:such higher court, on accoul
distanrp and e<pcnsc as stated,
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