Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-09-09
A Monumental Liar.

slip cut from the Boston Journal
of Sept. LIST. It is the greatest cal.
umny against our territory or rather
state have read. See what means
they take to deiame us because we
are trying to establish the true prin-
ciples of Americanism. You should
copy 1t in full. for it may 60 long
way in turning some of the poor de-
iuded fools in Idaho who are adyo-
eating the election of Mckinley.
The silver cause is gaining rap
idly here. Yours truly,
TRUE W. ROLLINS.
The following is the article refer
red to.
KEEP OUT OF IDAHO.
Traveller Through this Western State
Gives Graphs Picture of the Misery
young who is on his way across the conti
nent, making a eisurely trip from Aberdeen Wash
TO Boston, writes thus to friends after considerable
time spent in Idaho:
sure and stop there-don't 20 any further II is the
most godiossaken place | ever saw I would moi
give fGaiter-secton Of the fertile valley lands o.
Chehallis county, Wash for the whole State OF Idaho
No wonder the most Of the inhabitants OF this akal
bed bowling for free silver With them it is any
thing to change their condition The only thing they
have got Is few silver mines and they are living un
der the uelusre hope that if government would pa,
81 for so cents worth OF silver bullion they would ali
be happy. Poor fools! II they would stop bowling
about the initiative and referendum and dollars Of
our daddes and lot of other cap-trap long enough
TO allow sensible thought to enter their alkali en-
crused brains they would realize that the only
raN gttInr hA ha uNt
the silver mines. most OF whom BY the way,
dents OF Wall street
Idaho is good State to stay away FROM 1t has
not one redeeming feature-io scenery, no timber
no water no farming lands TO speak Of nothing but
coyotes sasebrush thin cattle, akali DUST starving
sheep aud wild eyed sverites. heard Of a boy who,
on being asked III what State he horn, replied.
Please, sir, was born IN state of sin and misery
think he must have been born native Of Idaho
Our friend True Rollins, who re-
sided in Idaho for many years, and
who knows the untruthfulness of the
above, should have fred note to
the Boston Journal and made its
editor ashamed for publishing such
an infamous libel upon the fair and
growing State of Idaho-an editor
who, by that act, acknowledges his
ignorance of the late worlds fair
and ldaho's magnificent exhibit of
fruits, vegetables, grain, etc.
The bilious goldbug from Chehal-
lis was doubtless beating his way
east on cars and got put off in some
lava-bed section, where he had to
foot it, and adopted this means of
getting ''even" with the railroad
mo scenery" in Idaho, he says,
when we have the grandest and
highest of mountains, and water
falls on Snake river whose grand
eur has been heralded from one end
Of the globe to the other.
mo timber he SAYS, when we
have celts ranging hundreds of miles
N length, containing the finest pine
trees on the continent and which !
IS practically inexaustible.
No water" he says, when we
have the picturesque Snake river
its way through Idaho's
entire length, with innumerable
streams and thousands of
axes, some of them navigated by
mo farming lands" he says, not
outstanding our Snake river valley
S $40 miles in length and contains
such an acreage of good lands that
we're the whole State of Massachu-
'etts placed in the center it would
appear as small melon patch.
Ii is true our range cattle do not
present as sleek appearance as of
1ore, but that is caused by the great
sheep industry destroy
ng the stock ranges that used to
atten thousands upon thousands Of
,attle that were assessed at from
10 to $50 per head.
But, thank God, we have no Dem
'cratic cattle in Idaho who will fol-
ow Palmer and Buckner, and only
few thousand Republican cattle
Who are drinking from the McKin-
ey and Hanna trough. The rest of
Is are Americans and for Bryan
md free silver and Tor the anchor
ltion of the laboring men and wo-
men throughout the United States.
-
Geo. F. Mahoney visited Boise
Thursday.
Judge Wolfe is now occupying his
lew law office opposite the BuLLE-
IN office.
Gen. Petit of Atlanta, passed
through this place en- route to Boise,
asst Saturday.
S. A. Pattlson, editor of the EN-
nett Index, and wife have our sin
ere sympathy in theSloss of their
'nly child, months old son,
hort time ago. We trust the griev-
ng parents may console themselves
With the thought: Happy infant
'arly blest."
Last Wednesday while on his
way from Boise to Camas prairie,
'ohn Noble was thrown from his
buggy and for time rendered sense.
ess. He was discovered by an In
liam creek man, several miles from
dayfeld and taken to Boise. Dir.
smith of this place, Mr.. Mobiles
amily physician, was telegraphed
or and took the first train for
Boise. No homes were hraka, hnt