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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-13
SWINDLING THE HOSPITAL.
men Obtaining Medical Treat lnent an
Forged Certificates Of Subscrintio,,. 4

WI 'Ac"'oS VI SUBSCRIPTION.
For mouths past DR.. Brown has
suspected that persons not subscribers
to the Miners Hospital Fund obtained
treatment at that institution under
false pretenses. BY comparing his
register with the mine pay -rolls at
Bullion his suspicious were con-
f'rmed, and he determined to watch
on the quiet. About six weeks ago
man giving his name as John Con.
nors came to the hospital from Bull.
hon, presenting the usual certificate
OF membership signed by Supcrintend.
ent Havens. DR.. Brown felt satisfied
that the man was not subscriber to
the fund, but as he was very sick h.
concluded to admit him. He after
ward looked over the Mayflower paw.
roll, and did not find the mans nam.
thereon for at least three months last
past. MIR. Ravens, o" being shown
ms signature to the hospital certiti.
cate, pronounced it a forgery. DR..
Brown faithfully attended the man
until ycsterday-374 days--when he
discharged him cured.
To-day he had him arrested and
taken before Justice Lennon, when
ms case was set for hearing to- morrow
iherc Is another man at the Hospi.
tai under the same circumstances
whom DIR. Brown will also have ar.
rested.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-13

"A mob in New York, last week,
sang SWELL hang Jay Gould to sour
apple tree!" to the tune of ".John
Browns knapsack." But they only
sang that. lfthey had put the thought
INTO execution, Vanderbilt and Others
OF that 'Ik would be apt to become
more cautious.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-13
Meeting to KrOrg amize the Hose emma,

'"ee''ns 70 K"OrganlZe the Hose CO,nnanv
"A number of citizens having re-
quesfed Don Mckay to act AS foreman
OF the HALEY Hose Company.
meeting Of the company
vii be held in tn, Probate cour,ro ~.
next Monday evening to consider the
matter. All well wish-rs are invited
to attend.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-13
To all Whom it Nav coro.~x


Acsate OF william 8. Cross. deceased.
Notice IL hereby given by the under.,o,.s .,
minstrator o. the estate Of VIM a. Crn., t a.
!. .ne c.sditors o. aud all persons having cI.ir,:
tSs Tue said dscesssd - exhibit them. VIII
she nrss publication II this notice IN ~. ~.
"'o'''rssor 1t Soldier. in the county Of Alturss
Aar,,,,... GEO. H. ABBOTT.
Dated at Soldier. Nov. =, INA. o''''' "eeo.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-13
WOOD RIVERS RECORD.

In 1873. WH2 Indians.
In $780,. Settled by tie Whites.
In 1881 Yield Of the Mines 81 $50 900
~ IOOI-Iteid Of the Mines So 500 O(O
IN iSS3--Yield of the Mincx-S3.5t(, .OOO
L.1SOi vi Id Of the Mines
q" Aoof- ESTIMATED, 80 DOC. 900
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-13
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Receipts,
Programs,
Pamphlets,
Bill Heads,
Statements,
Note Heads.
Letter Heads,
Visiting Cards.
Funeral Notices.
Wedding Invitations.
aud everything else commonl,
done !" printing office. Call anc
see samples and learn prices.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1884-11-13

Notice.
The office Of ]. Morris & Co. h.s
been removed to the northwest conner
OF Galena and Main streets, HALEY.
All persons having claims against
the hrn are requested to prese ut them
at once for settlement.
All parties indebted to the firm are
expected to balance their accou,,s
without delay. l. MORRIS & Co.
HALEY, idaho, Nov. 4, 1854.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03

1t Numbered the other day, aud a num-
Der Of old dodgers, who had been living
about the weather of other year,, at once
gave their attention to thunder showers
and electrical phenomena. Several large
stories were told, when old Bob Bull.
whacker succeeded in getting the floor.
'rhe dingedest storm ever see war
in 1S49, the 18th day of June They
want much wind, but Je.wizz! How it
did thunder an lightnin' an rainl / was
Twin on the old Billposter Place them
days, an bout o'clock in the mornin
there come clap o. thunder that blamed
near busted my ear. Afore l could git
my mind workin' the rain agin to come
down by the bar'l an the spout on the
side o. the barn shot stream onto the
ground so hard that she went right in,
an l reckon streak O. lghtnin' must "a
run down thar, too, for in the mornin'
they was hole thar twenty-seven feet
deep an four feet across, an it was half
full o. water. tell yer that war right
smart shower"
81 should think So" said one of the
bystanders. "That's leetle too big to
b'lieve."
"Well gents, if yer don't b'lieve I'm
a-tellin' the truth, jes' come with me one
o. these nice days, an I'll show yer the
hole. It's been the best well on the place
ever since"
"And you mean to say that the water
and lightning dug the hole9 Why, you
old fraud, the barn was not built until
1860, and the spout was only put up last
fall"
"That's all so, gentlemen; but the hole
is there to prove what l say, an if you
don't believe me, yer can look at it with
yer own eyes,"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
ALMOST A HOLOCAUST.
A Mother and Her Imbecile Child Badly
Burned in Their Bed.

Shrieks of ''IIelp! FIRE. rang out on the air
early ON recent morning from a Boston two
story wooden house, occupied by Mrs. Hannah
Norton and her deformed daughter. A patrol
man, who was in the vicinity, heard the cry,
and seeing smoke issuing from the building,
while the cries were repeated more agonizing-
ly than before, he pulled an alarm. 1t
was then 90 o'clock and everybody was in
bed in the neighborhood but in very few mo-
ments the apparatus began to arrive and was
on the scene almost as soon as the pa
trolman had returned to the scene of contlugra-
ton. By this time the flames had made con-
siderable Roadway, and while the department
was drawing up and before the fremen were
really aware OF the danger that threatened the
inmates, the woman, leading the detolmed
and imbecile girl, rushed madly cut of the
building with wild and frightened looks. The
woman is terribly burned about the head face
and breast, and it is feared that she inhaled
the flame, which would make her condition all
the more critical. The imbecie girl is badly
burned upon the neck and left arm, but not
nearly as bad as the mother The injured wo-
men were taken in o neighbours house and an
ambulance summoned, in which they were re-
moved to the hospital, The origin Of the fire
Is q mystery
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
ri. Fa,her,, Nomenclature.

At the beginning of school term all
pupils in the public schools are required
to give their fathers full name. The
teacher asked Michael Murphy what his
fathers name was, and Michael said:
"Mr. Murphy"
"What is his first name2"
He never had bnt one name"
"Well, what would you call him if
you wanted a new rocking horses"
81 don't want one"
"When you speak to him what do you
saya"
"Oh, I can't remember all say when
But, supposing he was out chopping
wood and you went to the door and
called to him, what would you say9"
Gle never cut up wood, but if should
call him | would call him dad"
ooh, dearl | wish l could make you
understand what mean. Now can't you
tell me what your mother calls him."
Eyes, 'um; she calls him 'old red
head. '"-Syrdcuse Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
HALF NAKED WOMEN
The Conneiisviile Miners RcGu
work with the uungaI iuus.

Ex-Alayor Powderly OF Scranton, Pa, gen
who had just returned from a trip 10 the Con-
ncllsvile coke region, says that @ never be-
leved such degradation possible as he has wit
NO sed among the Hung ri0ns in that portion
Of Pennsy wanna. The condition of tho women
who worked at and around the q wing fur
naces doing tasks I'm would try the stoutest
men, he described as being most lamena le
and surprising in grim realism anything he had
ever heard or read ON the subject lie says;
81 had often heard OF the employment Of
women at the coke ovens, but never had an
opportunity OF seeing il before. The women
are not employed by the corporations, MS
some persons suppose, but they accompany
their husbands and fathers to the ovens
early in the morning and assist in
drawing and forkng coke AT 6 o'clock in
the morning | went to the coke works, and
there l saw that the stories | had heard about
this matter We're not exaggerated, At one Of
the ovens / saw woman hali-naked drawing
the hot coke from the chamber, She hal no
covering on her head, and very little ON her
person. Her appearance was that of one
whose spirit had been broken by hardship
and hard work. Her attire consisted of u
coarse chemse and a pair Of cowhide boots,
In freight Cur close by stood another
woman forking the coke as it came to the
car. Forking is the term used to indicate the
disposition of the COX when it is thrown into
The car The person who does the iorking
throws the coal to either end of the car, as it is
wheeled in. The woman stood in tho door
way and was dressed in rough, loose-titting
outer garment and an apron. Her person from
the waist up was exposed When she stopped
over to handle the coke, she ca ght her lair
between her teeth In ord T. to keen II ont of
her way. Her feet were incased in pair OF
heavy shoes, and her legs We're exposed from
the knees down. Her babe which she
brought to the works with her, lay in front
of the car, with scarcely any covering eXcep,
the shadow of wheelbarrow, which was
turned up in order TO protect the child fir m
hsrays of the sun. Many more such scenes
met my Wow, and some of them We're even
worse than his, The opposition to the Hun
garans amounts to II hatred which is liable al
any time to burst forth into a blaze that may
fbpp, m a1r mt If t,ot -
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

M. Pasteur, the eminent chemist,
proposes to extend his experiments in
vabies to cattle.
Metallic chrome Is found to be, of
all metals, the worst conductor of
heat.
The texture of sponges is said to be-
come denser and finer the higher the
latitude of their place of growth.
Some persons walking by the shore
of Loeb Etine, in Scotland, found that
they cast double shadow. Upon ex-
animation they ascertained that one
was produced by the direct, and the
other by the reflected rays of the sun;
the latter coming from the surface of
the lake.
In the Northeastern island of Terra
del Fuego the Ia people, who inter
marry frequently with the more South
ern Yahgans Gas they are called by the
English missionaries), are the fallen
race on the globe, according to the
French Mission to Cape Horn report,
presented to the Academy of Science,
Paris, by DR.. Hahn. in stock and
speech this tall people appear closely
related to the Patagonians of the
Continent.
The power developed by the explo-
sion of a ton of dynamite is equal to
1866 foot-tons. One ton of nitro
glycerine similarly exploded will exert
a power of 65,452 tons, and one pound
of blasting gelatine similarly exploded
1850 tons.
-Four steps are regarded by Dr. B.
W. Richardson as all-important for
the advancement of national health,
viz: The physical publication of the
general public, the radical suppression
of diseases which arise by communica,
ton of the affected with. the unaffected
the promotion of knowledge and thrift
and adequate provision for food and
drink among the masses, and lastly
the encouragement of unity and or
ganization in sanitary administration
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
A Veteran of Five Wars Dead.

General Ward B. Burnett, Of New York,
after lingering illness of several years, died
in Washington recently. He was veteran Of
five wars and the oldest living graduate of West
Point who became general in the Mexican
war. He was awarded, by vote OF his com
rades-in-arms in that war, the gold box pre-
scented by the city of New York to General
jackson for di tingushed military services, and
bequeathed by HIM ITO that patriot of New
York city who should be adjudged by his coun-
trymen to have been the most distinguished in
defence Of his country and our country's rights "
In 1913 he made plans and estimates for the
Croton water works in New York city, and in
1855 he made the plans of the Brooklyn water
works. The remains will be taken to West
Pn. nf for interment
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
Seaweed aud Its Uses.

In the tropical climates the little air
bladGers which support the seawracks
are Of great service; for the masses of
seaweed are several hundred feet long
and of considerable height, having
stems the thickness of a mans thigh
and branches and dropping stems
which support innumerable forms of
animal life, such as corals, crabs,
worms of different kinds, together
with moses and weeds of the sea, and
being beside a place of deposit for in
Vulnerable eggs of various creatures.
In Scotland the tender parts of the sea-
wracks, known as tangles, are used as
food, and when cooked are considered
choice diet for cattle. The stems of
very hard, horny variety Of the sea-
wracks are used as knife-handles.
They are cut in short pieces, and while
still moist or green the bla il forced
in at one end When the tenn lries it
clings firmly to the knife-b!aIe Be
ing gnarled and horny it resembles
bucks horn, and when tipped with
metal and fully finished, forms an in
expensive knife-handle. The rose
tangles are higher up in the scale of
vegetable life, and their delicate tints
render them very beautiful. OF these
pulse is an important variety to the
Scotch and Irish. who, beside using it as
food, both in its raw state and cooked
in milk, find in it a substitute for to-
bacco. Carrageen moss is another
kind of rose-tangle from which a
nourishing jelly is made. The Chinese
use one variety of rose-tangle as a chief
ingredient in other CLOSING prepare
tions; twenty-seven thousand pounds
are brought annually to Canton and
sold at from six to eighteen pice per
pound.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
The Last Words of Great Men.

The physicians narrative of Mr.
O'Conor's death is of singular inter-
est to scientific spectators concerning
the mystery of a future existence. Miss
Frances Power Cobbe, in one of the
English reviews few years ago, sug-
gested that, if 1.-THE of the attention
bestowed upon the vagaries of spiritu-
alism were to be devoted to careful
systematic observation of symptoms
attending death, it might be possible
to draw some scientific deduction On
that subject from the mass of well at.
tested facts which would be collected.
Mr.. O'Conor's physician, DR.. Roth,
testifies to fact of the nature of those
which Miss Cobbe evidently had in
mind. He says that, after long
period, during which Mr.. O'Conor
"made no answer to questioning" he
opened his eyes, and, with extended
arms, as though seeing something or
some one plainly said, MY God! and
fell back and died without struggle
in few moments"
Some famous mems last words are
too plain to be mistaken; for example,
those Of President Garfield, "Oh, that
paint or those of Alexander H. Ste
phens, doctor, you hurt me-" But
there are many who have gone into
history perverted by omission OF a
part of the phrase or by suppression of
the circumstances. Daniel Webster
and Emmanuel Rants are cases in
point. 1t is well known that Mr..
Webster's 81 still live was accompan-
led with request to the physician for
a stimulant which had been promised
to him that he might retain conscious
ness so long as possible. And Rants
at is enough" on which pages of Ger
man rhapsody have been written, re-
ceives very practical construction by
knowledge that at the moment it wa
spoken the nurse was giving him wine
and water from spoon. Yet WASH
anski, in his memorials of Kant, y
calls these mighty and symbolic
words" and Thomas DeQuincey inter
prets them as meaning that "the cup
OF life, the cup of suffering,is drained. u
-Ne1O York Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
THE WEEK
In the United States and the
Old World.
A RAILROADS. RESPONSIBILITY.
The Company Is Responsible for the
Acts OF Its Employees.

The Company Is Responsible Tor the
Acts OF its Employees.
A decision of considerable mtere I to the
tavellingpu has just been rendered by the
Mass. Supreme Court, May q, 1880, Albert
l. Murlock went to the ticket office Of the
Boston & Albany road at North Adams and
asked for a ticket from that place to Spring
field The ticket seller gave him two tickets,
one from North Adams to Chester, and the
other, which was punched twice, that he said
was good for the remainder of the journey,
Mr., Murdoch asked particularly about the tick
cts and was assured by the ticket seller that he
would find them good for the journey. The
seller said that the punched ticket was returned
TO him by man the day b fore who had used
it for only Part of the way for which 1t was
good.
avery WE'LL" replied Mr.. Murdoch, cali
that want is good ticket"
lie thereupon boarded his tr,in and g we the
conductor fins, the ticket from North Adams TO
Chester which was accepted. When, however,
he rendered the punched ticket for the remain
der of the journey the conductor declined to
accent it, saving il was no good, Mr. Murdoch
protested that he had bought it in good faith,
and asked the conductor to telegraph to the
ticket agent at North Adams and ascertain the
facts This the conductor refused to do, and
nSlS'e0 lllat tne iafe, ~ cents, slouiu w Ihu'
Upon Mr. Murlock's peisisting in his refusal,
the conductor elected him from the cur at
Pttsfied and handed him over to police
man, who put HIM in the lookup and detained
him over night In the morning he was re-
leased, no charge being preferred against him
by the company. The North Adams ticket
seller subsequently, sent an apology to Mr..
Murdoch for his blunder This gentleman,
however, thought that he was entitled to some
thing more substantial than an apology and
brought suit sgains the company for damages.
The Jury gave him verdict for $500. Judge
Soule, counsel for the road asked the court to
rule that the conductor had right to act as
he did since the ticket prolered by Mr.. Nlur-
dock was not good. The mistake OF the
ticket seller he claimed was something
that the conductor was not responsible for,
The court declined so to rule, but instructed
the jury that if Mr.. Murdoch exercised reason
able care in tho purchase Of his ticket and
b ught it in good faith, he was entitled to re-
cover. The defendant appealed to the supreme
court, and this tribunal has oveTuled the OK
ceptions sus aiming the ruling Of tho lower
court. Ibis settles the fact that a railroad
company must be responsible for the negligence
of its employees, whether they be ticket sellers
or others,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
BALLOON WARFARE.
Explosives TO he Dropped on England
from the skies.

The Paris correspondent OF the London
Times SAYS: James st phens, the ex-Fenian
head centre, has forwarded to an active men,
Der of the Brotherhood at Chicago manu-
script circular summoning an early meeting at
c ieago OF prominent Ir sh-Amercans who are
willing to i, in a new movement in favor OF q
military organization on the lines proposed by
the late John OiAIahoney. Mr.. Stephens de-
clares that the services of several distinguished
Euro can officers have already been placed at
his disposal. He is sanguine that he can secure
others No definite plan of action will be.pro-
posed until the convention of Irish patriots,
which il is proposed 10 hold soon in Paris.
To this convention the Chicago conference is
invited to elect delegates. After the eonven
ton an adore will be issued TO the Irish Mt
home and abroad cxpounding the aims of the
new movement. Among the plans OF opera
ton moote is the scheme to despatch bal
looms, manned with desperadoes, over England
to drop explosives upon the cities and towns
below. Captain NcCaiferty has been COM
mssioned t. examine and report upon plans
and apparatus. Several Fenians in Paris have
volunteered to take part in an serial expedition.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
A LIGHTNING ARRESTOR.
New Invention to Protect telegraph
Lines from Extraordinary Currents.

In Philadelphia a successful trial has been
made of new lightning arrestor invented by
Mr.. John Griffin, employed by the Baltimore
& Ohio Telegraph Company. The new in
strument consists of two discs, one at each
end of a steel axis, and a number of fine steel
wires extending between them. One Of the
wires rests against small steel posts, in which
the cable and land wires end, and forms the
connecting Ink between them. When the
lightning strikes the land wire it makes its
way toward the cable and is conducted through
the steel posts to the fine wire on the arrestor.
The wire is too small to bear anything but
normal amount and mclts ut once, breaking the
connection and allowing the heavy current to
be diflused. A sp,ing immediately brings into
position another small wire, so that messages
viii not be interrupted 1t is intended to At
tach them TO telephones and telegr in-tru-
ments to prevent danger from any extaordin-
airy currents, and in few days the telegraph
company will place the instrument on Sc eral
important cable crossings.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
Seven Millions Involved.

The U. s. circuit court at st. Paul, Mimi. is
considering a case in which 200 acres of land in
the heart of Duluth, and worth 81 600 900,
are involved The basis of the suit is a reser-
walton granted in an Indian treaty made IN
1854 between the Laponte band OF Chippewas
and the United States government, wher' by the
lands in dispute were conveyed to one Arm,
s,rono He sod an undivided half to Fred
Prenfiss, and afterwsrd sold all to the North
ern Pacific railroad and other parties, but Prem
tiss never conveyed his interest in the lands,
and now sues to recover.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
About Jay Eye-See,

In reference to reports that the owner of
Jay-Eye-See was afraid to match HIM against
Clngstone or Maud 5, it is said MIR. Case is
willing to match Jay-Eye-See for a race or an
exhibition heat against any horse, for $40 900
a side, halftorfeit, to be trotted either at Hart
ford, Providence or Chicago, as may be mutu
ally agreed upon, each party to choose one
judge, and they n third. The exhibition heat
clause is put in to meet any objection Mr.. Van
derbilt may raise to trotting n three 'in-fve
raise, according TO rule. Ii neither of the
tracks named is satisfactory to Mr.. Vanderbilt
or Mr.. Gordon, MIR. Case will allow the choice
to be determined by lot.
Mr. Vanderbilt says it will be time enough
for such a contest when Jay Eye See has
equalled or beaten the mares record
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-03
STATE OF FLORIDA INQUIRY.
The Chief officer of the Steamship to
Blame for the Calamity.

AT the Glasgow inquiry the court has found
that the State of Florida arrangements Or low
ering boats were satisfactory; that the order to
lower boats was promptly given; that only
three boats were capable Of being lowered be-
cause the Florida was going at the rate of eight
knots an hour; that the passengers and even
some of the crew, hesitated to enter the boats
owing to the great speed at which the steamer
was going, and hence the great loss of life. 1t
was found by the court that Capt. Sadlicr did
his duty TO the last; that tina second third
mates also performed their duty; that the Po-
nema was navigated with proper seamanlike
care, but that the Florida was not, and that
Thomson, the chief officer of the State of Flori-
da, was to blame for the calamity. The court
advised the suspension of Thomsons certificate
as master for six months, he meanwhile to be
allowed mates certificate.