Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-11-17

w. f. Snodgras has opened fine
barber shop at Glenn's Ferry. Sue
TO you, "Snoddy."
The President has designated
Thursday, November 10Th, as day
Of thanksgiving and prayer. Get
turkey ready.
Sheriff Kinney was here Thurs
day and appointed d. b. Hill dep
uty sheriff for Mountain Home pre-
cinct. A good selection.
Lawyer l. N. Sullivan of Haley
visited Mountain Home one day
the past week, as also did Lawyer
Gray Of Boise.
The wire for the Rocky Bar tele-
graph line has at last arrived but
the brackets and insulators have
not. The line will be pushed to
completion as fast as possible.
Charlie Oliver came in Thursday.
smiling. He is satisfied with the
result of the division fight, and
says he thinks Elmore has accom-
plished much good by her vote of
over 900 for division.
The BULLETIN office will to-day
be removed to Hagar's old store on
Main street, where, for the first
time, it will occupy decent APP
pearing and roomy building. All
friends are requested To call, par
: ticularly those faom the country.
The smooth bore" who runs the
6 HALEY Times thinks the BULLETIN
should be prosecuted for SANDER
ing Bellevue, and is attempting to
:, lick the slime from old Wilton s
: tricky carcas-all because Wilton
is elected Commissioner and the
Times hopes to gain little county
. printing by such dirty work.
We had the pleasure the other
. day of again meeting Geo. p
9 Wheeler, editor of the Pocatellt
9 Reporter and member-elcct to tn,
n legislature. He was on his return
$ from the jolliication at Boise, and
4 only had time at the depot to cor
a daily shake and say Pm with you
n christians for division" Good fol
q Geo. P.
e Before the result was known, ant
s the vote for Assessor being yer,
J. close, Thad Bellinger and Ike Gar
n rett agreed to pool issues" ant
!, run the Office jointly. Being boil
d poor men and thoroughly capable
le we look upon this decision as EN-
is inently proper. The successful
g. party will qualify and the other &C
ic as deputy-the emoluments of tn
lie Office to be divided equally.
N Charlie Kiefer discounted the
lie "parasol trick" on our mixologist
n a few days ago. He brought dow
Of from Pine Grove a half nickel, wen
re into saloon, asked if they still
4 sold truck at five for half,
d called up five friends, got the drink
Or and threw down the half of nicke
10 which had been cut in two. TIL
lie barkeep, of course, smiled an
e. returned the coin. This trick wa
n repeated at every saloon in town
c. but Kincaid has loaded his Wiz
N chester and is prepared for all Pin
re Grove swindlers hereafter.
A better system of counting vote
-, is sadly needed in all cities. W
81 like the progressive count that Ne
y York now has. There as soon q
az 100 ballots have been put in I'll
~ box, they are taken out, sealed an
;, sent to the City Hall. BY tn
IL means stutfing is prevented, and 5
~ are many other classes of fraud, til
- chances of error are reduced to
~ ~ minimum, the progress Of the car
a o didates can be watched, and I'll
- result is known soon after the clio
~ ing of the polls. Let this systel
~ be adopted throughout the countr
no before another presidential electio
81 at least.
A. George w. Cassidy, the able
RI representative Nevada ever had
I'd Congress, was again showed und'
be at recent election-being defeate
m by Mr.. Bartine.