The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1908-05-13
Alturas and Logan counties off tn

map OF maps, and creating two
new counties, Alta and Lincoln
HALEY to be the county seat Of
Alta, and Shoshone to be that OF
Lincoln. The bill gave to Alta
county the city Of Bellevue and a
large territory formerly part OF Lo.
gan county. The governor APP.
pointed a set of officers for each OF
the new counties.
The Bellevue people took the
matter into court and won the suit
the supreme court deciding tina,
the act creating these new counties
was unconstitutional, still refused
| to "go away back and sit down.
the supreme court itself being un
able to hold them down.
The general election of '92 in Ell.
more county gave the following re
suit: Senator, Greene White,
Democrat; Representative, jeff
Bogard, Democrat; Sheriff, James
D. Gray, Democrat; Assessor, Char.
les P. Oliver, Republican; Probate
Judge, Barton Clifton, Democrat.
Treasurer, W. A, Reynolds, Demo.
crat; Surveyor. s. G.. Rhoades,
Democrat; Coroner, L. NJ. May,
Populist; Commissioners, J. H.
Van Setback, Republican; w. H.
Manion, Democrat; Thomas R.
Stevenson, Democrat.
The old board, sitting as a board
of canvassers, had counted the vote
of the commissioner districts only,
for commissioners, and by this
count Lawrence Leadley, Populist,
was elected commissioner from the
first district, and G. E. Corker,
Republican, as commissioner from
the third district. Before the board
of canvassers had adjourned, how
ever, the matter was submitted to
the attorney general, who decided
that the entire vote oil the county
cast for each candidate should be
counted. On this count John Van
H. VanShaick was declared cleo.
ted from the first district, and the
vote between Corker and Stephen.
son being a tie it was decided by
lot in favor of Stephenson.
Geo. F. Money was appointed
under sheriff, but after a few
months was succeeded by Ben.
R. Gray of HALEY, afterwsrd sher.
if of Alturas county. J. A. Pur.
till, deputy clerk of the district
court, was appointed postmaster at
Mountain Home, vice L. A. Under
wood, and Mrs. Mary Wickersham
was appointed to fll the vacancy.
W. G. HOWE was appointed coun.
sci for the board Of commissioners.
The memorable financial panic
Of 1898 struck Gilmore county, re-
ducing the forces as we'll as the
hours of labor on the railroad at
Glenns Ferry, as we'll as closing
the mines in the upper levels Of
the county on account of the
heavy fall in the value OF silver,
the price falling to 45 cents an
ounce. Wool went down to nine
cents pound, thereby crippling
the sheep industry, and values in
beef cattle were go low that it
would not pay to ship them.
Range horses fell almost to the
value of house cats or sagsbrush
rabbits, but still the people Of FL.
more weathered the storm without
any great suffering.
The fret and the last vigilance
committee was organized in the
summer of '93. and did good
piece of work. All Moon, an in.
dustrious, harmless Chinese gar
dener, was held up by two "tin.
HORNS" worthless characters, who
consorted with "soiled doves" The
Chinaman after being robbed OF a
large sum of money, went to his
house, got his gun and meeting his
hold.ups, marched them to Jail
ahead of him at the muzzle OF his