Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-09-17
o. s. L. TIMETABLE.
EAST BOUND
Reply to Gob1e.
Smiths Prairie, Sept.

written by G. w. Goble, which we
will answer briefly and say here
that this is the last answer he will
get, no matter what he may come
back with, for we will consider the
source and be contented with our
neighbors' opinion as expressed at
the election last fall, when we got
something like 80 votes for consta-
BILE and Goble got 3. That's what
10 eating the angel now. We will
retract one word, and that lie, instead
Of being guardian angel, he is known
as the destroying angel since he
killed the bull.
We will still say, as before, that
it is no error when we say that G.
w. Goble said he was going to con-
test the election, for he told more
than one; but we know that he was
only talking to hear his head roar.
Mr.. Goble says we were elected
because the majority of voters were
women. Well, he wouldn't be Gcble
IL he couldn't blame some one.
1t sounds as though he didn't think
the women just as sensible as men.
The number was about equal, as
we remember it.
Russell is gentleman and good
citizen, and we are glad that he
has enough property to cause his
name to appear on the tax list, and
we hope that he will continue to
pay taxes on still more property,
Although we don't pay texes, we are
half white and wholly human and as
reasonable-minded as the mass of
mankind, and expect to be able to
get our name on the tax list in the
near future. But we were surprised
when we learned that Mr.. Russell
went with the angel to scare Tor try
to scare) Mr.. Pierce into making a
night ride over to Mountain Home
to swear out a warrant for the late
L. B. Baker. The angel makes
himself out quite hero on the run.
ming down Of crime. Now the fac,
is, he didn't know any thing about
that forgery, nor would he if il
hadn't been for other people. Mr.
Pierce is the man that unearthed
the fact; but it was something FOL
the angel to do, 80 he would hav,
had hot time las he says) if Judg,
Norton had been at home if he hac
talked to him as he did to Mrs
Norton. Now the men that were
elected to attend to the school af
fairs had no intention of droppin,
that affair but were fair mined men
and intended to go about it in a ra
tional and fair way, by asking tn
late Mr.. Baker to come up and ex
plain the matter and if they ha,
been let alone it is our opinion tina
the matter would have been al
Strengthened up and the late L.
Baker would still be among the liz
ing and respected.
The angel is in error himself, as a
will admit who were at the plac
when he says he called for a state
ment. He called for the minutes {
the last annual election after he hat
been told that they couldn't be hac
as the late clerk had taken ther
away. But still be called for ther
the second time, or stop the election
The angel says he is opposed t
lawlessness, and then goes an
shoots his neighbours bull to pro,
the same.
The angel says he can't get IL
support of the better class of citizen
That is about the only time he h.
told the whole truth. We que
he can't. We wish to say her
that as a people, the citizens
this part will average with any pa
Of the country.
Well, enough of this. All of Il
mud that was thrown or is throw
here, hits the only person that nee
it and that is the Destroying Ang,
". w. NEWELL.