Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-09-08
ROCKY BAR NEWS.


Out---The Forty Thieves.
The proceedings of the inn
promptu meeting at Mountain
Home, published in the BULLETIN,
astounded the people of this vicin-
ity for the absurdity Of proposing to
hold division convention at Belle
vue and other indiscreet action.
Here our correspondent unbot-
ties his wrath, using such vigorous
language that we deem it injudi-
cious to publish it.-ED.
Turning our attention from this
to considerations Of more conse-
quence, we understand that the
Haley ring, in their desperation,
have undertook to bargain away the
east side of this county. The con-
sideration is that a strip shall be
cut off, as proposed by w. H. Smith
two years ago, and the Bingham
county members are to be counted
on to preserve the unholy and UNI
loving alliance between the forty
thieves of Haley and the people
west Of the Sawtooth range. Mr..
Bennett, of Bingham, be careful;
Fred Dubois, do not mix in this
matter; Jim Hawley, if you want
14OO solid votes against you, assim-
ilate yourself with the Haley clique
and they will drag you into the per-
dition whence they are sinking
Any alliance with the foul co,nbin-
alton is like syphilitic poison. It
will run through veins like the poi
son upon the garment of Heracles
designed by the Centaur Nesis.
Hands off, gentlemen. The fight
in hand is righteousness against
larceny; it is of the good and in
dustrious against political robbers
whose moral turpitude is scarcely
less than he who calls upon you to
stand and deliver There is a
limit to human endurance-that
point has been reached.
1t would be folly for any person
living in Western Alturas to take a
nomination upon the county tickets
unless willing to sacrifice his char
acter and make Haley his home.
Great as the pilferings the forty
thieves are represented to have en-
joyed, it should be no inducement
for any of our people to descend to
a social or political level with those
who have 90 Systematically robbed
and opposed US. We shall inherit
from the forty thieves terrible
county debt. With economy we
may wade through, and. in the Ian
guage of the Immortal Grant, "Let
US have peacer'
The feeling on this subject Of seq.
regation overshadows all others
here. Wool, lead, whisky, tobacco,
can take their course in the natural
order Of things. We want the teeth
of the Sawtooth mountains to cut
us off from those whom we dislike
for their selfishness and corruption.
Let Eastern Alturas take all the
county officers. We modestly ask
the legislative ticket. We may vote,
as is our right, for some persons
who may be upon the two tickets
for county positions.
To-day the Wide West mill will
be christened. 1t will be made the
occasion of speech-making and a
festival. Geo. w. Brizee, ESQ.,, will
deliver an Grafton. An account will
be forwarded to you for publication
possibly in time to be published
with the enclosed.
Mountain fires are doing much
damage with us. They are raging
on Red Warrior and Five Mile
gulches. Our town is smoky. It
Is anything but pleasing
Julius Steinmeyer, the actor,
drummer, clerk, ETC., of Falk Bros,
Boise and Nampa, is here. Every
one likes julius.
Judge Waldron is succeeding
very we'll in the practice of the law.
He is well liked by the people.
Fletcher Il Simpson are doing an
excellent business. They have un-
dermined mountain and filled the
cavity with goods.
Joe Fitzgerald has stopped work
on his tunnel for the present.
Only 100 voters have 80 far been
registered. The registration will not
probably go over $50 in this camp.
There are lis school children in
this district.
Nearly every man in the district
is a voter A few are kicking like
sin about crossing the Alps to be
The Alturas mine is getting along
splendidly, and Mr.. Patterson, the
superintendent, is displaying mark
ed ability as miner.
We have plenty of vegetables and
are generally happy.
Rocky Bar, Sept. 5, 1888.