Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-08-06

uty Assessor Hyndman or Deputy
Recorder Garrett will attend to any
business of the assessors requiring
immediate attention.
The law firm of Brearlev & Mon.
tlndon is dissolved. Judge Brearley
is back in his old quarters, over tho
Eclipse Saloon.
A Philadelphia woman has had her
husband arrested because he aban.
donea her so that he could afford to
dress more like dude. This reduces
the vote of the Independent boilers
by one.
This is the time that the Republi.
cans will carry the Irish vote from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Ask any
well-posted, intelligent Irishman who
has no ak to grind and sec if this is
not the gospel truth.
This was the second hottest day of
the season. At 10 o'clock this morn.
ing the mercury stood at Sc degrees,
and at 2 o'clock at "a degrees. But
for the slight breeze, to-day would
have been as hot as yesterday.
Mr.. Fitzglbbon, local manager of
the telephone, says the people Of this
city pay their bills as promptly and
cheerfully as those of any place he
has ever been in. During the month
of July his cole ctions exceeded $500.
Mr.. Cooley, who has been on va
cation for the past 80 days, returned
to Shoshone yesterday, and has taken
his place on the Haley train. He re-.
ports having had good time, fishing
and hunting. His genial countenance
has taken on good coat of tan.
G. F. Annett, General Manager of
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company, is expected here in a week
or two, to decide upon the question of
opening branch exchange at Ketch.
UNI, and, possibly, upon the continue.
ton of the line to Vienna and At
lanta.
Stud:orse poker is doomed in San
Francisco. The Supervisors of that
city have passed an ordinance making
it mlsdemeanor punishable by fine
or imprisonment, or both. The stud
horse dealers will find themselves Gin
the hole, SO to speak, if they continue
their games.
/ have some good centrally located
business and residence lots, which
will exchange for brick, bricklaying,
stone, mason work, lumber, carpenter
work, plastering or painting. Lots at
cash prices, and the material or work
wanted on the same basis in Haley.
Apply to Robert K. Strahorn.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
has been the leading Baking Powder
for years. 1t has gained its popular
ity from it's being the most perfect
Baking Powder made. Its prepared
from pure, refined materials. For
purity, strength and healthfulness, it
stands alone. Its perfect excellence
will ever be fully maintained.
The Ketchum peace officers who
killed Clary, the highwayman, on the
East Fork of Wood River, week
ago last Saturday, while he was re-
sisting arrest, will have a hearing on
the 9th instant at ketchum. The
local authorities consider tho step un-
necessary, but the officers very prop
erly insist upon it, as a charge might
be trumped up against them any day.
Asa L. Waugaman was fined $17,
to-day, by Justice Lennon, for using
indecent language to woman. Prob
ably the old gentleman was "off his
chunk" from drink or he would not
have done SO, but a few such examples
would teach many who ought to know
better that it is not quite the thing for
any man to do, to use insulting Ian
guage to woman.
James H. Hawley, of this city, has
located some promising gravel dig
gings near the head of Warm Springs
Creek, about % miles west of ketch-
uln, on tributary of the creek named.
J. ?. Scarf, Sam Huston and others,
tested the dirt and found one to 20
colors to the pan on the rim rock.
But the ground will have to be worked
by the hydraulic process, as it will not
pay to work with rockers.