Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-11-11

! agee". John T. Gilman, the county
recorder being at Rocky Bar, called
j Wickersham to the telephone and In
v formed him that he was no longer
his deputy, and forbade him to swear
\ the new commissioners in, as deputy
recorder.
! Justice OF the Peace Joe Spnague
was called to the meeting, and swore
the new commissioners into office.
They organized the board, by electing
1 Blackwell as Chairman, Chairman
Blackwell then swore the newly elect
cd county officers in and the Board
declared the county seat established
y at Mountain Home.
/ The road to Rocky Bar being still
open to- travel on the ice crust, Clerk
Wickersham, Sheriff Hin, Judge Sin
mott, Assessor Mahoney and Treas
urer Waller left for Rocky Bar and
next day appeared before their pre-
/ decessors in office, and demanded
recognition ais their successors, and
/ the flles, records and archives; the
/ new treasurer also demanded of ex-
treasurer Golden, all moneys belong
Ing to the county The ex-officers
refused, holding the new Board to- be
rllrnp body, not lawfully sworn I'm,
and the new officers having mo legal
existence ais such
Attorney General Roberts decided
that the new Board and officers were
| lawfully qualified, and that although
the swearing lin the new commission
eTs by a Justice OF the Peace, was
irregular, the same was not fatally
detective, quoting court decisions i'm
several parallel cases. The clerk,
sheriff, Judge, assessor and treasurer
then went back to Rocky Bar. The
ex-officers turned their offices oyer to
them as their Successors, but inform-
I'd them that Surveyor Towne and
his attorney, S. H. McCarty, had
left for HaLley to commence proceed
ings to restrain them from taking the
records to Mountain Home, and that
amy attempt to do so would be met
with every available opposition.
Anticipating this turn OF affairs, the
new officers had made a bargain with
Jim Loveland, who then lived at Lime
Creek, and was superintendent of the
stage hne to be at hand with team
and sled, the second night, at the
court house in Rocky Bar, load UP
with the records and pun out.
The officers Immediately assumed
their official duties at Rocky Bar, but
that night with Windows heavily cur
tanned, nolselessly packed the record
books and files into boxes and BAR
rels.
Everything worked beautifully. The
night was dark as s1L Jim Loveland
was on hand little past the mid
might hour, the goods We're noiselessly
loaded onto the slsd, and officers, re-
cords, driver, team and sled, about
the hour of 2 a. m glided noIselessly
out OF the town enroute for Mountain
Home, no SOUND above a whisper
coming from the bunch and not even
q whlnny from the horses until out
OF the canyon running from the south
end of Rocky Bar.
Sheriff Hdll, having provided the
the evening before, then
luoted the speech of the governor of
North Carolina to the Governor of
South Carolina, which was received
With more than perfunctlonasy applats g.
ind all partook of the liquid refresh
nents, the air being below zero.
The boys were met the ensuing af-
ernoon at Hills ranch by George Bell.
he ellison Of the District Court, who {
eryed each OF them with a tempor-
pry injunction, restraining them from
moving the records from Rocky Bar
nut the officer came too late, as the
ecords were no longer there. !
"Just as the sun went down. all
nrived in good condition at Noun
ain Home and next day opened up In !,
heir new quarters.
The injunction was vacated, and
ater the case was decided In favor
I Mountain Home, and she still re-
lasns the shiretown.
PIONEER.