Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-09-06

There are but two weeks more in
which to register.
County Surveyor Townc returned
from Boise last Tuesday.
Arthur Golden returned Tuesday
from pleasure trip to the Reddish
lakes.
The Rocky Bar Brass Band is
progressing nicely under the leader
ship of Mr.. Prouse.
Jim Gray and Warren Layne
have secured the mail contract be-
tween here and Atlanta.
The BULLETIN is under oblign-
tions to Hon. John ii. Mitchell, of
oregon, for valuable public docu-
Inent.
Judge Clinton threatens TO i'm
pose fine for contempt of duty"
on every citizen who neglccts TO
register.
w. c. Wickersham departed last
Monday ON the hurricane deck of
broncho, to interview the voters of
fillmore county.
Mrs. L. A. Underwood and Miss
Moore of Mt. Home, and Miss Dial
Of Glenn's Ferry arrived in town ON
last Thursdays stage.
The County Commissioners of
Alturas county, have appointed G.
III. Braase, sheriff of that county,
vice p. IL. Kinney resigned.
j. ii. Tregonning completed his
contract in cutting the chamber for
the hoisting and pumping machin-
cry in the Mountain Goat tunnel
last Sunday.
j. NJ. Goodwin, the genial repre-
sentative of the Salt Lake Tribune,
made Rocky Bar a visit few days
the past week in the interests of
that paper.
That was a difficult question
propounded at the end of Dubois
speech last Saturday evening by
Phil Thomas, IF brevity is the
soul of wit, what is prolixity?"
The mighty hunter, Seth Williams,
is again charming select audiences
in Rocky Bar, with his blood curdl-
ing Legendary" bear.killing ex-
PLOTS. Every one believes him ex-
cept few captious lawyers, who
says his testimony is "ex parti."
Mrs. George Tins returned from
New York last Saturday where she
had been visiting relatives. Mrs.
Tins father accompanied her home
Mr.. Tins came over from Atlanta
TO meet his wife, and on Monday !
they all departed for Atlanta TO
make il their home for the coming
winter.
Captain Baxter, with his old
time energy, has commenced opera
fions on the Dividend and Starter
mines, known as the Shake creek
property A contract has been let |
for wood and mining timbers, and a
mill-site selected. There are al |
ready so men employed on the !
premises. and the Captain expects
to be dropping stamps before a
great while.
BY all means, read the letter, full /
of good, honest common sense, from
J. w. Bailey in another column.
II il rairly, indeed, we find such a
fair and square showing as he has
made. The arguments stand out
plain and clear; and his final con-
clusion to vote for your market hits
the nail on the head. The BULLE-
TIN is surprised any one would have
been 40 foolish az to think the
ranchers of Eimore would be so
silly as to vote for high taxes, and
try 20 destroy thsir best market.
Major Csvanah, superintendent
of'the Bear Creek Gold Mining
Company. is u rustler He has got
the huisting engine in place in the
Mountain Goat mine. The hoist is
situated internally $40 feet from the
mouth of the tunnel. The boiler
will soon be in place and ready for
use, when contracts will be let
for 300 cords of wood, several thou
sand feet of mining timber and
other supplies. At present there
are only few men working in the
mine but the force will soon be in
creased TO so or go miners and
timber men.