Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-04-19

the third time this building has
been on fire this winter, and some
time when these gentlemen are
viewing a pile of ashes they will
wish they had fixed that stove
pipe. SOONER.
Pine Grove, April 16, 1890.
o. Corder, mining recorder of
Neal district, came in yesterday ac-
companied by his two daughters.
The road into the mines is yet too
soft to reach with loaded teams, but
many people are going in afoot and
on horseback. Corder's sluce
lumber is on the summit. Twenty
or more locations have been made
this spring. Two or three compan-
les are working placers with hy-
draulics. Coarse gold is found and
many nuggets. The sides Of the
gulch three hundred feet above the
bed prospect well. Commodore Jack
son is one Of the lucky owners OF a
good placer which he is working
with a profit. A daily line of stages
run between Neal and Mountain
Home, which latter place is furn-
ishing much Of the population in
the new town. Two or three weeks
will elapse before mining and pros.
pecting will be under full Roadway
Boise Dem. 9th.
There are persons in every com.
munity, truthfully observes an ex-
change, who like to see newspaper
attack public abuses, denounce
monopoly, expose corruption, at
tack their enemies and praise their
friends-all at its own expense
These same people often borrow the
paper to see what it has 10 say on
such topics. When it comes to
backing up an independent and
outspoken journal with liberal pat.
ronage these gentlemen are gener-
ally "non-come-atibus in swampo,
or words to that effect.
The San Francisco Alta SAYS
that Tom Fitch has been telling in
the east that unless the Republicans
enact free coinage of silver they will,
in 1892, lose every State west Of
the Mississippi. OF course the east
knows better. The east has seer
the Pacific Coast cling TO the Re
publican party in spite of its pro
Chinese principles. The east saw
California, Oregon and Colorado
vote for Harrison and at the same
time howl against Chinese; and tn,
east has made up its mind that thu
west never means what it says, and
who shall say that the east is not
right?
The man who takes a newspaper
from the postohice with no intention
of ever paying his subscription
would be highly indignant and
grossly insulted if he were called .
thief. Yet court in Ohio recently
convicted forty men of that calibrt
and allowed the publisher VIII,
brought the suits. judgment to tn,
full extent of the bill in every case
The crime charged was larceny. A
few more cases may boom the col
lection business and cause legioni
of poor editors to rise to suddef
aliiuence.
That old conundrum, why should
not the people vote directly fol
President and Vice President, ii
again up for discussion. And VIII,
shouldn't they, truly2 Can any
body tell? The present method o
voting by States has many and
obvious disadvantages. Close States
breed enormous corruption fund.-
and not infrequently a minority o
the votes elect the President. i
would be better always to have d
majority back of the chief executiv,
and this would be secured by choos
ing the President by popular vote
The expressions used by som'
boys and girls If written out as pro
nounced would look like foreigi
language Specimens of boys con
versation like the following may b
called shorthand talking: WARE
iego lasnight2" "Hadder skate.
"Jertind the ice hard 'ngood?" "Yes
hard 'nough." ''Jer goerlone?n "No
Bilrn Joe wenterlong." "How late
jerstay?" "Pastate." "Lemmeknov
wenyergoin, voucher? / wanter
go'n shower howtoskate." "H-m
ficoodn' skate better'nyou I'd sell