Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-04-02

people of Mountain Home Remember
the anxious days and the sleenless
nights you had to undergo when
the boon you fought for and earned.
the establishment of the county
seat here, became a matter of delsv
and doubt How anxiouslv voI,
looked for the returns of the cleo
tion of October l.. 1890. and how
free you brcathed when the returns
showed that Mountain Home was
in the lead.
And then how anxiously YOU
awaited the order of the board of
commissioners, in accordance with
the result of the election, to re-
move the books, archives and re-
cords OF the county to this town
and how you felt just like saying
dam the commissioners'' when the
board refused to make the order.
On that memorable election day
the voting strength of Rocky Bar
and Mountain Home we're about
equal. Rocky Bar was backed by
Atlanta, Pine, Junction Bar and
Little Camas. Mountain Home had
the support of Cold Springs, Big
Camas and Mayficld, while Glenns
Ferry and King Hill held the bal
ance of power
Glenns Ferry in consequence be-
came the battle ground. Noun
tain Home was represented by CIR.
Shaw, DR.. w. F. Smith, Uncle
{ RfllX Ran1CdaH
and Chas. P. Oliver at the River
side town, and Greene White, l..
A. Nicholson, Fred H. Davis and
w. H. Mackay were on the ground
at the same time pulling hard for
Rocky Bar.
LAS goes Glenns Ferry so goes
Gilmore county," was the say ing,
and both sides contested every move
and every inch of ground, but
Mountain Home won the fight.
On the official canvas of the votes
of that election by the board of
commissioners, it became the duty
of that body to order the county
documents to be removed here
from Rocky Bar to establish the
county seat here. The m after of
removal came up before the county
board but it was voted downtown
missioner Ethel voting yes, and
Commissioners Cavanah and Stock
ton no. Cavanah and Stockton ex-
planned their position by referring tc
the clause in the state constitu-
ton requiring a residence of 90
- 1.
removal of county seat and that
at the general election this provi =
sion had not been complied with.
Commissioner Ethel took the stand
that it y as not an election to move
but TO establish a county seat.
So bitter was the feeling In Il c
south part of the county agsinsi
the board of county commissio toner's
that an Indignation meeting was
held in Mountain Home, where a
scaffold and gallows were erected
in the public square, on which Ma
jor Cavanah, the chairman of the
board was hung in effigy, with the
name Cavanah painted overhead.
DR.. Smith brought suit in the
district court against the board tc
compel the removal of the county
seat to Mountain Home.
A mapdamus in this case was de-
MED on the ground that DIR. Smith
not being county officer, had not
the legal capacity to sue so the
county seat still remained al Rocky
Bar.
On the 18th of June 1901, Nelse
Davis of Atlanta, w. II. Manion
of Little Camas and Sam Blackwell
of Cold Springs the newly elected
commissioners, arrived at Noun
tain Home with the district court
clerk elect, Wiokersharn who a few
} days previous had been decapitated
as deputy recorder so as to prevent
him from swearing in the new
board at Moutain Home.
, Davis, Blackwell and Manion SEM
for lawyers Tom Callahan and S. b
Kingsbury of Boise, who arrived
and by their advice the new com.
missioners were sworn in by Jus.
tice of the Peace Joseph T. SpragX
and organized as board by elect.
ing Sam Blackwell chairman.
The first act of the board was tc
qualify the newly elected county of.
ficers except the surveyor E. c.
To ~ne, who refused to come tC
Mountain Home to qualify.
The board then sent the new ly
qualified officers. Sheriff Hill,