Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-08-10
JOTTINGs.

The Greeley comedy company is in
town.
Col. E. a. Wall drove in town to-
day with his family.
A notorious citizen of Silver City,
Owyhee, arrived this morning.
E. T. Caruthers, of Bellevue, drove
up to-day with his $1,000 span of
black diamond mules.
Earnest Fisher came in from Deer
creek to-day, and gives encouraging
reports of mines in that section.
Stephen Graham, one of the con.
tractors in the Montana mine, is down
after supplies.
60 to HALEY Theater tomorrow
night, one and all, and bring your
partners.
The superintendent of the HALEY
Brick Works has skipped. The job
was too "soft" to last.
The question now agitating the
community is, "Whar am that 4th of
July money gone, and bills unpaid"
A Boise City fruit wagon pulled in
to-day, and was Immediately raided.
The proprietor sold out at his first
hating place.
Coffin Brothers are stacking up coal
stoves on Main street ready for win
ter. Wood stoves are to be super
coded by base burners.
Felicitous Megia, a famous bull
fighter of the City of Mexico, was
killed by bull in the arena on the
9th inst.
The Butte Miner of the .th instant
repeats the "Old, Old Story" that
Katie Shannon has gone to her long
home by the short route.
w. c. Tatro is ahead of the masons
with his deliveries OF stone, lime, etc.,
and two weeks ahead Of contract
time on the stone work.
New strikes are becoming too num-
erous to mention, but it is evident
that the only hope for miners who can
not develop their claims is to let them
out on leases.
J. Taylor, discoverer of the Davitt,
Snowny and Montana mines, on Deer
creek, and Of the Albion, near Belle
vuc, is in town to-day on mining bust
ness.
Wood River is pretty we'll overrun
Of late with would be mine investors
and bonders, whose only capital is a
grip sack, dire necessity and uu-
daunted cheek.
Last evening was the opening ofthe
season for summer evening promen-
AIDES. Oscar Wilde, Freddie Geb-
hardt and Mulberry Sellers were in
the procession.
The United States mail arrived this
morning at the postoffice in just 7
minutes after the train arrived at the
depot This is because the i. S.
mail service is established on the rail-
road in stead of by stage, as until re-
Gently.
A grand ball is being arranged for
next week, at Haley Theater, to take
place under the auspices of Garfield
Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
Extensive preparations will be made,
and it will be the opening ball Of the
season.
A. P. Minear, superintendent of the
Smoky Bullion mines, is having a very
large amount of mine and milling na-
chinery sent over from the railroad.
Six cattle teams left this morning all
loaded with machinery for the mines.
The miners of Smoky know Mr.. Min
ear as the great American rustler.
Doctor Murray came back from
Atlanta to-day after pleasant trip.
He performed the amputation of
foot above the ankle, and three
fingers, for Mr.. A. Lowell, at Atlanta,
who was badly injured recently, and
had his foot and hand crushed in the
battery Of the stamp mill.
The Leadville papers are parading
the fact that one of the mines there
pays dividends on $25 ore. We have
several mines, the ore of which does
not mill half of that amount per ton,
yet they pay large dividends, and
have done so for years. 1t all depends
upon the management Black Hills
Times.
A celebrated sporting man on the
back lots, practices with shot gun at
the little swallows every evening, and
twice has made stray shots, one
of which took neighbor in the coat
sleeve, and another nearly winged
Chinaman at work in the neighbours
kitchen. A vigilance committee is
threatened II his practice continues