Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-01-05

HOW HE LOOKS AT DIVISION.
The Mountain Home Bulletin. with
the flippancy and irrslevancy charsc-
teristic of most Of the alleged news.
papers of Alturas county, states that
the statement published in the Times,
TO the effect that the Hon. John Van
Setback, the Rocky BAR member of
the House Of Representatives, was not
very strongly in favor OF county di-
vision himself. sis libel" The Times
correspondent got his information
from Mr.. Van Schaick himself. His
words were substantially as follows:
II know that tho proposed new
county will not BIO Of much beneiit TO
us; that, "a far ~ l am concerned, It
will not only not benefit me particle,
hut will hurt me. Our taxes are bound
to be higher than at present, and
am going to be bothered by officials TO
60 ON their bonds. know this. l
also know that there il some rivalry in
Western Alturas ~ t0 the county seat
but we Of Rocky Bar think that We
can get away with 1t. We like the
people OF HALEY and We like that
town. When we 60 there the people
treat us cordially, politely, and like old
friends. We find there hotels that are
superior 70 almost anything in that
line in the West. Freight from Hair
ley is IA to l IL cents, against 2
cents from Mountain Home. II the
railway which will undoubtedly be
built across Camas Prairie some time
we're in operation now. 20 that We
could get to and from HALEY at all
seasons without having TO travel at
great expense, would not counter
ance the proposition for new county.
But as the case stands it costs 90 much
TO 20 TO HALEY to attend court that it
amounts to denial Of justice to many
of US. And / have known Of many
cases wherein the amount involved,
which was much higher, was reduced
to $500 in order to get it into our jus.
tees courts. For the sake Of these
people will support division, and en-
deavor to secure it,"
These words do not indicate q very
enthusiastic support Of the division
scheme. II they do we are greatly
mistaken as to the value Of words
But we do not expect the Bulletin Il
! recall it's charge Of libel, a. that would
{ be admitting error; and We have vel
= to see euch an admission in the Bulle
= tin.-Hailey Times.
Y It is needless to says that thu
above is clipped from one Of thu
) greatest and most noted journals o
n the earth and its editor is univer
e sally conceded to be man Of deel
Q and immense brain, but whose un
0 fortunately actions sometimes ''g
}. down" to a greater depth Of deprav
: ity than the brains could reach. 0
: course it makes the BULLETIN fee
Is very bad indeed to be classed as al
y alleged newspaper" by this grea
l. luminary HALEY land HALEY i
n the whole world in a bubble), bu
8 we hope to survive the terrible &C
g cusation.
n But to return to our meat: The CO,
respondent mentioned above is non
r other than the great editor of tn
d "best paper on earth" himself.
e. Hon. John Van did or did not max
1t the statement quoted he should tel
his constituents SO. No living ma
e. ever accomplished any good for hi
N people in legislative halls by pre-
le claiming himself astraddle fenc
d on any question. 1t is the positiv
man that accomplishes what h
:. goes for. It is to be hoped the Hor
~ John Van will silence this grea
II man at Haley or acknowledge tina
d the aforesaid God Of HALEY is col
81 rect.
= Every man in this part Of tn
! county knows that freight wa
d hauled from Mountain Home Las
l. summer for from l to II cents pc
Is pound. And every man ofcommo
: sense knows that with new county
- with officers at low salaries an
fees, the taxes of Gilmore would b
much less than they ever will b
]. with the high salaries and dishones
II groove in which Alturas county j
,e run.
,e Gentlemen of the Legislature, b.
g. all means give US a new county.
10 The boundary Of the proposes