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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-10-16

direct TINT the foregoing notice of aprlica.
ton for patent be published for the period Of
sixty days item consecutive weeks,> i'll the WooD
RIVER DAILY TIMES. n newspaper published at
HALEY. Alt,,ras county Idaho Territory.
ole HOMER l.. POUND, Register.
". II. WATT. Attorney for Applicant
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-10-16

{ Il. o. WHEELER,
of Ketchum.
For Sheriff;
CHAS. II. FUREY,
Of Bellevue.
FOR Auditor and Recorder:
@. B. FOX,
r,5,4 Of HALEY.
For Assessor and Tax Collector:
ROBERT CAMPBELL,
of ketchum,
For District Attorney:
J. H. HARRIS,
OF Bellevue,
For Probate Judge:
GEO. NJ. PARSONS,
of HALEY.
80 For Treasurer:
JOHN H. VAN SCHAlCK,
Of Rocky Bar.
For Coroner.
DIR. N. !. BROWN,
Of HALEY.
For County Commissioners:
I. w. GILLETTE,
of Ketchum;
A. b. BRUNER,
OF Shoshone;
GEORGE FERRIS,
OF Arco.
Couoty Central Committee:
e. c. BREARLEY,
Chairman;
L. P. ANDERSON.
Secretary;
P. P. CANAvAN,
Treasurey.
Exscutive COMMITTEES:
H. S. McCALLUN, Chm'n
o. L. SCOTT,
'of Bellevue
L. P. ANDERSON.
OF Bradford:
4. H. TERRY.
Of Ketchum;
GEO. A. BLACK,
Of Bullion;
LYTTLEroN PRICE,
Of HALEY.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
! War Correspondents Engageme,.

It was arranged that nv NEXT
tribution should concern itself VIII ee .Hh
narrative of what l knew abont ,l ne
lurid episode of the Battle of So mat
that occurred in the village Of 'I RA
%zeilles. Other topics had been adn na'
brated, and l rejoiced to think thu.
| had found q crutch to supple,s saas
the somewhat feeble and precarion'
staff of the London Scotsman. I lool.euss
in at the Office to bespeak the s.ma
arrangement in regard to sendinee
round for copy as had been in fornss
the previous day. l was shown IN t IT,
Mr.. Robinson. you've come for !" vow" 10
check, Il suppose" said he, as 9I =
seemed to me a little shortly. "No%%
1 explained, 81 have arranged with tho
acting editor to furnish some furtb
contributions. and by his directions !
have called to ask you to have a how
call round for copy in the same wa,
as yesterday" II think not,n ssia
Robinson, with what struck me as an
Intentionally aggravating drawl. IL
don't think we will trouble Won 70
write those contributions you speak Of
/ will explain the matter to Mr.. Pigo,tn
] don't quite know what l did say, I
know l lost my temper vehemently
and l believe l used strong language
l think l said something ab9ut
having believed in editorial ON.
Impotence, and my inability n
understand this business of one man
blowing hot and another blowing cold
Anyhow, l was not going to stand being
made a fool of in this otf-hand, .casp
style, and I'd take good care.I didn't
darken the doors of the Daily Meas apy
more. And with that, the perjcrvi0qm.
imgenium of my northern NATIONALITY
being all ablaze, / removed myself al
ruptly from the presence and swore nv
way downstairs into the street. ..Herea
come back!!" Robinson had Shouted
after me. "I want to speak to your I
fear that if he had acted on the strict
letter of the brief retort l threw over
my shoulder he would have had no oc.
..casion to give any subsequent orders to
his coal merchant. l was stridine I'M
'Bouverie street, tiercely tuning behind
my beard, when | felt a hand on nv
shoulder and simultaneously l heard a
voice: "Don't be a fool! l was GOING
to say that L want you to start for Metz
tonight l turned and stared al
Robinson-for it was he who had
! spoken-in the blankest amazcmept
Then he had meant no insult, after all,
but something, indeed, Of quite a con.
trary tenor. And here was the real
chance come at last, then, with all the
prestige of a great paper-whose war
correspondence was already the talk of
the toWn-at the back of the offer; all
the scope for making a name, if indeed
the power to do anything in this direc-
ton did abide within me. 1t was a
wonderful chance; but again. what q
risk! With my recent experiences
should l dare to take that risk? The
struggle of conflicting emotions made
me dizzy.-Arch bald Forbes, IN the Enq.
lsh illustrated Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
A Stepdaughter's Love for a Farm
Hand Ends in a Tragedy.

WHEELING, W. Va, May 12.-An elope-
,ment ending in a bloody double murder oc-
Cured at Petersburgh, Grant County, yester-
day morning early. The murderer, Law
renee Spiller, is now in Jail, and when the
courier who brought the news left the town
the excitement was such as to threaten an.
other appeal to Judge Lynch. Spiller is a
second-time widower and had a handsome
,sstepdaughter, Mamie, whom he wished to
become his third wife. Her eye and fancy
had alighted upon Edward Taylor, one OF
tSpiller's farm hands, and Spille- had dis.
covered it and forbidden him the house on
pain of death. Love was stronger than fear,
and on Friday night the young couple
ieloped and went to Petersburg. Spillel
took his revolver and started i'll pursuit, but
arrived to learn that the fleeing pair had be.
come man and wife. Ascertaining that they
had engaged a room with a man named
Williams, Spiller went there and forced his
way into their room. The bridegroom
!awoke at his entrance and sat up in bed
only to fall back the next minute with a
bullet in the heart from Spiller's revolver.
The shrieks Of the bride were soon changed
to means as Spiller attacked her with the
butt of the revolver and left her for dead.
Ihen mounting his horse he left the town.
An alarm was given and about daylight
Sunday Spiller was arrested at his home by
an armed posse and lodged in Jail.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
Hewitt's Tariff Bill.

WASHINGTON, May 13.-The following
are the principal features of the bill etc
modify the existing laws relative to duties
on imports and internal revenue taxes" in.
troduced in the House yesterday by Mr..
Hewitt:
The bill exempts from taxation salt, coal
ana eoke except that from Canada until
Canada shall nave exempted from duty all
boards. and lumber;- all blocks and sticks
rough-hewn or sawed only, stave of wood,
pickets, laths, shingles and pine clapboards;
iron, copper, lead and nickel ores; jute and
flax bristles, beeswax, lime, crude glycerine,
barks used in tanning, all sorts of dye stnffs
iron and steel sheets and plates, tin plates,
foreign languages. all building stones except
marble, paintings and s~tatuary not other.
wise provided for, anu>a number OF minor ar.
ticles. Several notifications to simplify tho
administration of the customs laws are intro
duced. 1t is also provided that after June 80
1884, the internal-revenue tax on brandy dis
t tn lea from apples, peaches and grapes s laa!
no cotton goods shall pay more than forty pei
cent. duties; no wool and wooden goodl
more than seventy per cent; no carpets OF
ea~rthenware, glassware or metals more thar
fifty per cent. On all articles not specifically
excepted a e ra mentioned in the chemical
sundry schedules, the duties shall
be ninety, per cent. Of those now imposed
The bill also repeats that clause of the pres
ent law which imposes q tax OF .006 per cent
on iron or steel rivet, screw, nail and fence
wire rods valued at three and one-half cent?
or less per pound, and authorizes the refund
lngHo manufacturers of fence-Wire or wire
balfng ties the amount of duties paid on iron
Or steel wire rods actually used in making
fence.WiEe or baling.ties. The President is
places not ports OF entry, when not required
for the protection of the revenue
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
A LAWLEss GANG.
Creating a Reign of Terror in West vir-
ginia.

Creating a Reign of Terror in West vir-
ginia.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, May 12.-This
end of the State and this immediate vicin-
ity is fired with the accounts of the
numerous desperate deeds that have
lately been committed within ten days.
Five murders have been enacted
and three lynchings, and while all of
the crimes has been committed by the
flames gang" and though three of its
members have been lynched, and one
shot dead while resisting arrest, the law
less deeds of the band are still
carried on, and horrible tragedies
are becoming every day occurrences.
The latest has just came in from Roane, an
adjoining county, and will ever remain a
mystery. Thomas Duskin, a w%ell-known
farmer, has figured prominently before the
Federal Court as a witness in various cases.
and has incurred the hatred of the gang,
which caused several threatening letters to
be sent him. He gave them no heed and
went to work as usual, with a man named
was heard, and he threw up his arms and ex-
claimed, Pm killed" Gilmore could see
noperson, and taking hold of Duskin started
for the house a mile distant. On the way
Duskin became weak from loss of blood,
and resting on the fence sent Ell
more on for help. Elmore had not
gone five hundred yards before
five masked men emerged from
the woods and attacked Duskin, killing
him by pounding his head to a jelly with
stones. So far as could be learned nothing
is known of the murderers, and no steps are
taken for their apprehension.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
Gray Hair at Washington.

A jaded, WORKOUT, anxious look aF
pears on nine out of every ten counte'
nances you meet. Why it is l do not
know. Perhaps the life here has some
thing to do with it. Many OF the won'
en-the majority of them-are away
from home and family. Many of them
have no homes. For living in a board
ing-house or hotel is not living at home
and it may be this lack of home LIE
that shows itself in their face. People
here get old before their time. and no
tably SO those people connected WIN
the Government employ. DanocIea
although dying with hunger, lost d.
appetite when, with a most bounteol..
table before him, he saw just over III
head, hanging by a hair, a sbslRi
~two-edged sword. Young women DIV Nv
ladies, dependent on their situations ~
their bread. a not live peaceful! n .%s
sleep soundly when they know that tn'
next movement of the Government "a
price may turr~them from its emPlv!.
1t is this uncertainty of office tenur.
winch makes young ladies OF tWeh.ah
tive have the wrinkles of forty, wOss
pats the anxious look into their e.s
and silvers the black hair twenty YEA,
before its time, There are more your
men and women in Washington w" Wv.
gray hair than any city 1 have ever w H.
'ted. Ibis is a fact always noted oy .nd
servant strangers. Faces fresh d.
blooming are crowned by locks o. a ii
yer, and the gray-haired peop'e; n
washington are the finest looking
population. Cor. West Shore.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
Beaver. s'kittenS."

One dwelling haraors from four tol
twelve individuals, rarely more, though
eighteen to twenty have been noted, all
of the same family, Tut of two genera
tons, representing filters of kittens of
two success We years. The young make
their appearance usually in May, aud
are from four to eight in number, five
being the average. Queer-looking lit
tie fellows they are, with their 6eavy.
heads, big cutting teeth, flat tails, and
fine, mouse-]ike fur, not yet disfigurpd
by the long. coars hair, so noticeable
with adults. When taken at an early
age they are easily domesticated, and
are so esteemed as pets in the far West
and fur countries that almost every
trading-po t or camp can exhibit three
our four. 1t is no uncommon oc ur.
renee to see one running about an In
dian lodge, submitting patiently to the
wiles and caprices of the little savagcs,
or joining in their sports, and fire.
quently receiving with the papooe|
the nouri hment from the ma.
ternal breast. The cry of the
''kitten," too, is so exactly like that Of
an unweaned child that one is readily
mistaken for the other by even the III.
itiated. On one occasion [ visited
wigwam at Little Traverse, Mich, for
the purpose Of viewing real, live,
baby beaver" "He cry all the same as
papoose, remarked the seuaw, as she
brought the little fellow forward, at the
same time giving him an unmcrciul
pinch that caused him to set up a dole.
full little wall that, had 1 not been fore.
warned, II should certainly have be-
lieved to proceed from a minute, black
eyed specimen of an aboriginal infant
that, swathed in cloth, beads and bark,
and bound fast, mummy-like, to 5
board, stood leaning up against the
wall. By the way, do Indian babies
ever CRY or laugh? I suppose they do,
occasionally, though l do not remember
ever hearing one.-Dr. q. Il. StockNss,
IN Popular Scaence Monthly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
Arab Pasha's Greed.

1 found Arab an inflexible Puritan.
'Allah is the mcrciful he will forgive
all crimes and all wrong doings, ex-
cepting only worship Of other gods than
himself" ''What Of Buddha and all
of his millions of worshipers in the
past, many of whom heard of
Allah?" ''He is in hell and his wor-
shippers also, and all these Budhists will
goto hell "Will it be to an eternal
hell?" "Yes." '.What of little chill
dren brought up in a false worship for
which they are in nowise responsible?"
''Such children and the idiotic or
lunatic will not 60 to hell; they will go
to Al Araf, a quarter provided for them
near paradise, when they will be in
structed in the true belief, They will
ultimately enter paradise, but will have
no definite place there-they will be
like people in a foreign land" This
similitude struck me much. and l think
it's peculiar appropriateness occurred
to him, for he glanced around with a
sad eye at the waving palms and lux
uriant scenery of what might have,been
a paradise could his heart have sung its
happy song in a strange land. The
calm dedication of egotism by q power
full man, his unquestioning. unqualify-
ing worship of a deity who can forgive
all crimes against mankind sooner than
a ceremonial slip about himself, was to
me depressing enough.
Possibly if l could have conversed
with Arab in his own language the
hard steel point of his logic might not
have been so remorseless. AS it was, I
could not help feeling a Joy in the belief
that the Moslem power is broken in the
world and ahope that whatever religion
Christianity may combine with, in the
time OF the coming man, it will not be
with this impenetrable, stony mass of
brainless beliefs, which deties all efforts
OF the finer spirits born on it to cover
it even with a o OF humanity, much
less secure its meramorphosis into anv
stately growths. That hard Mussulman
Puritanism has nearly crushed out the
poetic Sutism-the spiritual race of Fin
dausi, saadi, Hafiz-and one can now
rarely meet a Moslem who has the least
doubt that every one not of his faith
will be damned, and who apparently
does not look forward with pleasure to
his prospect of witnessing that damna-
ton. "Mussulmans and Calvinists
would kiss if they only knew each
others religion" says Edmond About.
The age of Moslem science has followed
that of Moslem poetry into extinction.
1t now has 500, 0O0, 900 believers and not
one great thinker. But is not Arab a
thinker? Not just that. He is we'll
informed, vigorous in mental action
and sagacious in political matters, but
above the plane of particulars he is ar
IDENTITY conventional. I have no doubt,
however, that q book by Arab about
his W life and Egypt-and he init
mates a probability that he might write
such q book 'after he had seen what
the English will do in Egypt''-would
be both readable and instructive. He
impressed me as a man Of ~veracity. a
man convinced of the genuineness and
justice OF the course for which heis now
suffering an exile that many would
envy HMM. D. Conway, IN San
Chronicle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06

into spray and fails on the building
lilo rain. There was not a stream there
that would knock . man down IN
front of it: and zone OF them couid
break a window at scventy-hve 1eet,
actually. -
About every five minutes the horns
at the water-supply send up q despair
ing sound; has engine broken Gown!
No-only the supply stops while inc
next barrel of water is being tapped;
The real post of danger at q IRE Is nela
by the brave man who pulls the pug
as every time he looscns it he gets q
bath which puts him in great danger OF
contracting a cold or putting out his
ewes. The same thing happens when
he cuts it off, which is necessary three
or four times before the supply is ex-
hausted in the hogsheads, as, according
to the German system, the water-tub
from which the engine gets water is
made very small. This naturally keeps
the plug man busy. as the water runs in
faster that it is taken out by the
engine; no waste of the water is allowed
at this end III the stream. Perhaps they
measure the water in large casks with
the small one. There were a great many
theories as to the reason why the small
one was used at all. principally by
strangers. A fool looking on suggested
that they put the receiving hose directly
into the tub, but he did notlast long. [
heard the next day that the Govern
ment had banished him to America as
a dangerous character. They have
nothing like a hook-and-1adder truck;
but each water-wagon carries an X or
two, and a short ladder to mount the
cask and see if the water has all run
out or not.
The steamers are supplied with coal
as the hand engines are with water.
|sThe steamers only throw one stream,
and no stronger than the hand-engines.
The last heard Of the department was,
that the chief had just invented a
double-condensing reservoir back
actioned horn. It is claimed that the
same amount of noise as with the old
one can be gotten out of it with one
tenth the lung pressure. This will be
a great saving to the city, because the
men will live longer to work for poor
wages. / believe the city purchased a
chemical engine, but the printed di-
rections were lost at the first fire; it
therefore, has never been in active use,
butt it is taken to every fire in hopesthat
some dav it may go of accidentally
ST. Paul Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

M. Clemenceau, of France. tersely
describes a snob as zone absolutely in
capable of valuing mental or moral
greatness unless it is first admitted by
big people"
London has seventy-six guilds, en-
dowed by wealthy b%enefactors for the
benefit of the different trades. and their
trust property alone yields an income
of 100000 annually.
1t has been decided by the British
courts that when q person insured has
not been seen or heard of for seven
years, according to evidence by rela-
tons or others, the presumption is death,
and the company must pay up.
The Parisians have a system OF card
kilograms. The cards are dropped in
boxes and shot through air tubes to diff
ferent parts of the city. Fifty words or
more can be written on q card that costs
six cents to convey.
"A most unfortunate title has the
Dukedom of Albany been. 1t has been
adopted five times in Scotland and four
times in England. In six cases the title
became extinct with the life of the first
recipient, and four Dukes Of Albany
have died violent deaths. 1t has never
passed the second generation.
The Indian papers state that King
Thebaw, Of Burmah, whose acts of des-
potic cruelty were at one time so notori-
Gus, continues to exhibit himself in the
character of q reformed monarch"
In addition to the recent improvements
introduced by him into the administra-
ton and laws, he has just issued a
proclamation announcing important re-
forms in the financial system of his
kingdom.
Herr Goethe. the tenor, had to travel
from Cologne to Frankfort and appear
the same evening in "Lohengrin." He
arrived at the wings just in time to Ego
on" After vanquishing the villain
who aspersed the sElsa" Of the occa-
sion, he embraced her. AS he did not
know her, he whispered, while holding
her fondly in his arms: "Allow me tc
have the honor of introducing myself tc
you. My name is Goethe, of Cologne
"A curious insurance company has
been started at Brussels which pro.
poses to insure the recovery and restor
alton of lost OF stolen goods. 1t is ap.
propriately named the "Eureka," and
starts with a capital of 200, 900 francs
The mode of operation is as follows
Each subscriber pays a premium of two
and a half francs s. year, and is regis
tered under a certain number, together
with the articles he wishes to insure
Upon losing any of the latter, he a
once gives notice to the company, who
set about recovering it, under penalt.
of being mulcted in its value.
The fruits of General WolNe's gal
liant victory in Canada one hundred
years ago have been lost, according t.
Goodwin Smith. Instead of being alb
sorbed, New France is absorbing. He
population instead of receding is ad
svancing beyond its boundaries, ane
either thrusting out or swallowing VI
such Embellishments as had found place
within it's confines. The British popu
lation of the city of Quebec is reduced
to less than 1000, and even the eastern
townships + becoming more French
AT the same time the feeling of Frencl
nationality is apparently GROWN!
stronger than rel