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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
The Condemned Chiuaman.

"kuok Wah Choy, known As All
Sam" as the court records have it, is
spending his last remaining days on
this mundane sphere in the jolliest
manner possible. The Sheriff does
not feel like being very strict with n
man who is to be hung the 18th of
September, so he allows him many
little privileges that would otherwise
be denied him. The condemned man
still expects that his counsel will Oh.
tain him new trial, and he does not
expect to hang. But he does not
worry much. During the day he gen.
orally sings, smokes and plays cards;
when he wins he laughs as heartily as
anybody; he does not exhibit any
signs Of insanity.
The Sheriff keeps him under con.
slant surveillance, however, but espe.
cially at night there is Especial watch.
man-George Prior-on guard, whose
special and only business is to watch
the Chinaman's cell-the door of
which is left open--to see that its in.
mate does not attempt suicide.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
THE SHOsHONE TOURNAMENT.
The Wood Rivers to Play Two Crack
Mines the Same Day.

The Wood Rivers to Play Two Crack
Mines the Same Day.
The members Of the w God River Base
Ball Club will 20 to Shoshone, next
Sunday, with the intention of defeat.
ing both the Pocatello and Shoshone
mines. The Shoshones they do not
fear much, as they have already de-
feated them badly; but the Pocatellos
they have not measured with, aud as
they have two railways to draw men,
bers from for their nine the Wood
Rivers fear that lot of semi. profess.
ionals may be ''rung in" on then that
may prove hard to down. However,
that may be, they don't propose to
take water, and are ready to play for
anything the Pocatellos have a mind
to stake. With the Shoshones the
stakes is 500 aside, and the Wood
Rivers are confident that they can get
away with them.
The Wood kiver nine will be CON-
posed as follows: Gray, p; Tibbetts,
c.; Merritt, s. s.; Harry Morse, LIST b.. !;
John Griffith, I'd b.; E. G. Coffin, Sd
b.; Henry Swift, r. f.; Rabens, G. f.;
10. Riley, |. f. Jos. Swift, who has a
couple OF mines under lease, and Will.
Griffith, who is out at the Martin
mine, have been sent for. If they
can be got. they will serve as relief
catcher and pitcher, respectively. II
not the nine will 60 unsupported and
alone-as far as players are con.
cerned.
The nine will have q hard days
work Of it. In the forenoon they will
play the Pocatellos, and may have a
hard game of it. If they best them,
they will be in good spirits to play the
Shoshones in the afternoon; but if
they are "bested" in the forenoon
they will hardly be able to do them
selves justice in their encounter with
the Shoshones.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
Prominent Visitors from a Distau

M. H. Lipman, of Salt Lake, and
l.. Pepper, a broker of New York
city and brother of Charley Pepper,
the principal owner in the Queen OF
the Hills and King of the FILLS Min.
ing Companies, arrived to-day, and
left for Bullion this afternoon, to look
that camp and vicinity over, in order
to judge for themselves of its present
and prospective outlook. They will
remain three or four days, as they
know that vicinity like tina! Of Bull.
ion cannot be very exclusively exa.
mined in one or two days.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
Sent Up for Disturbing the Peace.

Rosie Rogers, woman about "a
years Of. ago, was sent to the County
Jail from Bellevue yesterday, to serve
out sentence Of SO days for disturb
ing the peace. A young man accom-.
panied her, who exhibited a marriage
certificate issued at Eagle Rock, and
he claimed her as his wife. As, how.
ever, he failed to pay her fine of $1OO
the woman was locked up.
To day Sheriff Furey received q
telegram from a woman signing her
self as Belle Rogers. 1t was from
Mountain Home, and the sender said
that the prisoner was her daughter.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
the GINLET BRIDGE.
II IL In . Most Dlsgraceful and Danger.
Gus Condition.

~ u IN = most DlS8faceIul ANA UAo&ers
Gus Condition.
Parties who have recently driven
from Ketchum to HALEY complain
that the approaches to the Gimlet
bridge are in a dangerous condition.
On tho west end Of the bridge, the
earth and rocks have crumbled down,
leaving an opening large enough for
horse to fall through. When teams
cross the bridge and come to that
place, the horses suddenly see the
water under their feet,an take fright
Ito the imminent danger of those in
the vehicles.
A couple of poles and few shovels.
full of earth would cover this hole, and
thus be the means of saving the county
possible expense. Since the pres
ent Board has already paid some &c.
900 or $4,000 on account Of road.
and bridges, it might pay IS or $l(
for the repair of this bridge without
rendering itself liable to criticism.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
A Gathering of the "TOnghs."

A letter from Era, in Lava District,
states that toughs are gathering fast
there, and the law-abiding citizens
want protection. Sheriff Furey will
therefore be compelled 70 appoint one
or more deputies fer that region.
The influx of the slough" element,
undesirable though it be, has come to
be accepted as an evidence OF wealth
in new mining camp Where toughs
and the accomplishments are, there
money will be found in plenty. If
this be true, then Era must be on the
high road to prosperity.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12

by experience. The place to prove
Dr. Prices Baking Powder is BY the
true test-the test Of the oven.
Ayers Sarsaparilla is designed for
those who need medicine to purify
their blood. build them up, increase
their appetite, and rejuvenate their
whole system. No other preparation
so well meets this want. It touches
the exact spot. Its record of forty
years is one Of constant triumph over
disease.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
A Card.

To all who are suffering from errors
and indiscretions OF youth, nervous
weakness, early decay, loss of man.
hood, &C.: will send a receipt tina,
will cure you FREE OF CHARGE.
This great remedy was discovered by
a missionary in South America. Send
self-addressed envelop to REV. 10.
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York. a23y1dw
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12

Brother Allen, Of the Shoshone
Journal, was in town to-day between
trains, and called at this Office. Re.
ferring to the TIMEs's attack on the
Board OF County Commissioners, Mr..
Allen said: "Wcll, it is good fight,
and the taxpayers are beginning to
see it, and talk about it. Keep it up!
keepit up! and you will see that the
people will stand by you. County
business should be run just like any
other business especially when a
county is heavily in debt"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
A Splendid Line Of Sportsmeu's Articles.

Fishing tackle, split bamboo rods,
flies, hooks, cheap rods, Spalding's
famous League base balls and bats,
fixed ammunition, powder shot, and
Winchester and Marlin rifles, etc.,
etc, at Coffin Bros. hardware store.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
Closing Out I

A $4,000 stock of diamonds,
watches and jewelry must be closed
out at once !! Great bargains for
cash! +. H. HENDRICK,
The Haley Jeweler.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-08-12
Mining Leases.

An excellent form OF blank mining
lease (such as is used by mining COM
panies here) is for sale at this Office.
Price, two for 25 cents; five for so
cents; II for sl-spot cash.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
Why They Fail.

The other day a number of students
were refreshing themselves in a res
taurant after several hours exhausting
mental labor in calculating the chances
of one able-bodied man batting ball
and another agile fellow catching it
and putting out another one less agile.
They had spent the afternoon at
game of base ball, and of course were
greatly in need of refreshments after
their exhaustive occupation. During
the evening the conversation turned
on college life and the application to
their studies demanded by the faculty
of those who would graduate with
honor. The poor fellows who spent
the afternoon in their rooms pursuing
their studies, preparatory to next days
recitations and lectures, were commits
serated by these more easy-going stu
dents, while the general sentiment of
the party was voiced by one of their
number, who said: 81 did not come to
college to study came to be taught"
The measure this young man takes of
college life and the opportunities which
it offers to those who rightly improves
them is the key which -unlocks the
secret of many young mans failure
in life. -LaVcaSter (Pa.) NeW Era,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
EASTERN PuNIsHMENrs.
How the Authorities ofPersia Punish Their
CriminaIS.

How the Authorities oFPersia Punish Their
Criminals.
The Zil-i-Sultan at Ispahan and the
late Hissam-us-Sultan at Meshed have
been distinguished for the severity of
their punishments. The most COM
mon of the various punishments in
Persia is that of ''the sticks" Per-
slams frequently menace disobedient
slaves with 1.-The sticks" The offender
is thrown oD his back upon the
ground, his bare feet are passed
through leathern loops attached TO 3
siX-feet beam of wood, which is twisted
until the loops are painfully tight
about his ankles, and is held in the
strong grasp of two men, so that by
no writings nor efforts can he rise or
remove his feet. The sticks are gene
rally light quarter-inch green rods four
or five feet in length, and if sentenced
to fifty sticks" twenty-five are laid
on each side of him upon the ground.
Two eXecutioners then break stick
after stick by beating them upon the
sOles of his feet, with horrible result,
of which months lameness is likely
to be the painful consequence. Both
these Governors are said to have
adopted the same punishment for the
suppression of highway robbery-they
built the captured robbers into pillars
of masonry. The Koran recommends
the cutting off hand as the punish
ment for theft, and there are men in
Persia who carry about evidence that
this cruel punishment is sometimes
practiced. A Persian Governor is
alleged to have been successful in
enforcing taxation by a practice of
filling the wide trousers of recalcitrapt
subjects with freezing snow. Crimes
Of robbery and violence are more fire.
quent in the south than in the north of
Persia. Some ascribe this to the large
nomad population which, according to
the season, moves from the shores of
the Gulf toward or from Ispahan.
Everywhere in Persia it is the habit of
wayfarers to gather together for mu-
tual protection. Peasants passing
from town to town with, perhaps, q
bag of silver in their pockets, feel
happy if they can join some caravan
which includes armed men, and es-
pecially safe if they are in the caravan
of a European. The most common
form of execution is to cut the throats
of criminals, and to leave their bodies
lying in the public square. The bow
string is occasionally used by skillful
''ferashes." two of whom twist the
rope round the neck of the criminal
and kill him by strangulation with
awful rapidity. If European is in
jured, one difficulty attending COM
plant is that the Persian Government
is so easily reused to indiscriminate
and wholesome vengeance upon its
subjects. There will certainly be some
victims for the knife or the string or
the living death at the hands of the
executioners; the main evidence may
be that the prisoners were taken near
the spot. In Persia there is but the
feeblest and the faintest security for
the administration of justice. London
Graphic.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
me Waters Of Utah.


There is in the extreme north of Utah
a magnificent subterranean reservoir of
first class soda water, bubbling and eff
fervescing out of the ground in such
quantities that all America might be
supplied. In the extreme south, ON the
road to Orderville, is an exquisite cir
cular lakelet that is always Just full to
the brim with water as clear and as
green as beryl. And wherever the water
OverhOws the lakes edge it incrusts the
ground and the grass and the fallen
leaves upon it with a fine coating of
limestone, so that the brim is perpetu-
ally growing higher and higher with
the imperceptible but certain growth of
a coral reef, and in course of genera
tions the lake will become a concreted
basin.
Between these two points are scat
tered all over the country springs and
pools of the strangest waters. There is
one pool only foot deep, and situated
at a high altitude, that refuses to free e
even in the severest winters. There is
another that mysteriously replenishes
itself with half-grown trout. One
stream that | saw, though clear as crys-
tai to the eye and tasteless, stains all
the vegetation it flows over a deep
brown. a warm spring near Salt Lake
City is the strongest sulphur in the
world. A hot spring a few miles off,
with waters so hot that you can hardly
put your hand into them, and as bright
as diamonds, is one of the most remark
able combinations of chemicals ever an
alyZed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
HOLLAND.
A Country Which Owes Its Existence to the
Industry of Its People.

A Country Which Owes Its Existence to the
Industry of Its People.
Living in a country which owes its
existence almost to the industry and
labor of man, it is not surprising to
find that scrupulous economy and
great foresight are the characteristic
virtues of Dutch workmen. Few coun-
tries possess a population that fulfills
with more exactitude the domestic and
social duties. What they have acquired
with trouble they keep with care. He
cares little about politics, and wastes
no time, as his neighbor across the Bel
9ian frontier does, in political agita-
tons. His ambition in life is to better
his condition. The questions of the
moment, the topics of the day, have for
him but little interest. He prefers his
Bible to his newspaper, the health of
his family to the tavern, to the reading
room, or political meetings. Jealous
to the last degree of that liberty which
he possesses, he wishes for no more and
likes better to enjoy in peace those
immunities which he has. Holland is
not manufacturing country. Scat
tered here and there in different parts
of the kingdom may be found cotton.
flax, silk and wooden mills. The man.
uIacture OF spirits at Scheldam, ana
the cutting and polishing of diamonds
at Amsterdam are both important in
duStres. In spite of his cOntentment
and economic habits. the Dutch work
man is poorly paid. The nominal sal
airy of good mechanic, of a carpenter,
joiner, a plumber, or a smith, for
example. may be estimated in the
largest towns of Holland at about four
dollars per week. The working mans
wife adds, perhaps, for washing, eighty
cents TO a dollar, and the man himself,
by working additional hours, some
times earns thirty to fifty cents more.
1t is possible, therefore, for a hard
working family to thus manage to earn
from five to five dollars and sixty cents
per week. The average Dutchman
lives in the most frugal fashion,
Hague Cor. Philadelphia Press.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
SHIPPING NOTES.

Captain C. Crane, who has been master of the
schooner HaIeakaIa for the past five years, re-
signed his position October 9th. Captain HOpu
formerly Of the schooner Panahi, succeeds him.
steamers expected to-day the Kinau. Like
like Lehua and James l. Dowsett.
The following foreign vessels arrived in this
port during the week; Steamships Mariposa and
city OF sydney and barkeniue Eureka, from
san Francisco. The departures were; steamship
City of sydney for the Colonies and the tern
Maggie e. Russ, for Port Townsend, w. I.
The brigantine Consuelo expects receive
sugar from the coasting schooner to-day. She
will leave about next Tuesday or "Wednesday for
san Francisco She has been repainted.
The schooner Haleakala was hauled the
Marine Railway October 9Th to be cleaned.
The bark CaIbarien expects leave next
Tuesday with sugar and rice for San Francisco.
The steamer w. G.. Hall arrived October 9th
from windward ports, and reports hne weather.
She brought / ,495 bags sugar for the steamship
0dariposa, and 1873 bags ava, % bags Coffee l25
Hides ~ pieces zoa boards, donkey, II pigs, aud
147 packages suDdries.
The PanaIa> Sugar Plantation, Kau, Hawaii,
recommended grinding last Monday.
The bark Hope finishes discharging her lumber
to-day, and sails in ballast tomorrow morning
for Port Townsend, W. T,
Fhe steamer James Makee arrives this evening
from Koolau. oahu.
ar. G. AIichiels' sloop Lark, which went ashore
at Pearl river, oahu, was foated, October 9th'
with the loss of her keel, and returned to Homo
lulu the same day.
The schooner caterina brought Is tons lime
stone, from BARRIERS Point, October 9th.
The schooner Waimalu viii receive a new
main topmast to-day. She Will be hove down
near the Fish Market to be cleaned.
The steamer MokolH brought 264 bags sugar and
II horses from MoIOkoi, october 9Th.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10

The Monterey California; " Argus has
a paragraph in & late Issue TO the effect that
Mr.. ]. D. Strong and Mrs. Strong sent a
box of seeds, bulbs and roots from Honolulu
Ia Mrs. Adolph Sanchez. Several OF these
were plan ted and among them q banana
bulb which has made wonderful growth. IN
less than two years it has grown over twelve
feet with dianaetar st the base of about
seyen inches. Tie Leaves are between six
I'D saven feet long and two feet wide, but
there is no appearance Of fFuit.
The Oceanic steamship Marip0sa will sail
for San Francisco on Thursday next, the
18th instant.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
' e.sels Expected from Foreign Ports.

Brit bark Lizzie freddie, from Glasgow. due
October 80
An bark Martha Davis, f Benson. from New
york via Boston, due October $50
Am schr Courtney Ford, Watson, from Port
Townsend, W T, dne Aug Both
Norwegian bark LOvespring, Thompson, from
New York, due Nov 20-25
Brit blk Chuena, Davies, from Liverpool, due
Jan LILO
Am blk Alden Bessie, from Portland, Oregon,
en- Poute TO Hongkong, due Nov 10
German ok c y Bishop, from Bremen, due
Nov 5-I5
Am bktne Amelia, w Newhall, from Port
Townsend w r. due sept 800
Hawaiian schr Jennie Walker, b Anderson,
from Jaluit, = ) 4, due Nov 10
Am schr Anna, McCUllOch, from San Francisco,
due Mt Kahulu Sept 5--l5
Am bktne Eureka, Lee, from San Francisco,
due October 1-3
British bark Lady Harwood from Hongkong due
october 10-15
Am tern Eva, ] wfkman. from Humboldt
Bay, Cal, due Oct Ills
Am bktne w II Dimond, Il. G. Houdlette,
from San Francisco, due October 20-25
Am bktne Discovery, w r Perriman, from San
Francisco, due October 1925
o Alameda (Am), Morse, from san Fran
cisco, due October %
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
Sacrificing to the Shark.

Some of the coast negroes of Africa
still worship the shark and regard its
stomach as the road to paradise. They
offer it poultry and goats two or three
time year, and at least once year
try to propitiate it by offering 10-year
old child. The little victim is bound to
a post in the sands at low water, and,
screams with that of its mother until
the raYenous fishes drag it out of sight.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
A Hard Bays Ride.

Sir Peter Lumsden, when ordered
home from Afghanistan, had to ride all
the way from Herat to Astrabad on the
''vilest horses" along tracts almost i'm
passable, and without change Of clothing
for days. In one daysthe general, who
is over 5S, rode over eighty-elght miles.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
FOREIGN yEssEI.s PORT.

o Mariposa CAm) Hayward from San
Francisco
Am bktne Eureka, ] Lee, from San Francisco
Am bark Caibarien. Hubbard, from san Fran
cisco
II NJ Satellite, Arlington, from Esqui-
mauIt i G
Brit bark Jupiter, Jones, from Liverpool
Am blk Hope, B Penhallow, from Port
Townsend, w T
Am brgtne Consuelo Cousins, from San
Francisco
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
A Consumptive Owl.
New York Sun.

When hunting deer in Michigan one
winter l shot a barred owl which was
nearly dead with consumption. His lungs
were in a partial state of decomposition.
His craw showed an entire absence of
food, and further dissection exhibited
signs of indigestion. Here were two
possible conclusions; either birds are sub
iect to diseases which Ritlict man, or else
the climate of Michigan is bad for barred
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
Rnssin,s Overflow.

I have found Russia a stream. Peter
the Great wrote: Il leave it river; my sue
cessors will make it great sea which IS
destined to fertiliZe impoverished Europe,
and its surges will overflow despite all
dams which feeble hands can make to op-
nose them
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
Cremation on Wheels.

Chicago Tr1oune.I
The cremation movement is gaining
ground in Milan and the neighbOrhOOd,
which is accommodated by travelling
iron crematorium on wheels. Even two
priests have been recently cremated.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVALS.

From windward ports, per steamer W Hall,
October 9Th: Captain l. MarchaDt Mrs Antoine
Rosa, Miss Laid, Miss Ellen Coney, Miss Lizzie
Napoleon Miss y Kapoli, Miss NJ Mcclure, ii
Eldredge, Peter Lee. Miss NJ Holck, a Wall w
Shng, and q deck passengers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-10

The Board of Immigration pro-
poses to make arrangements for
the further importation Of
japanese immigrants into this
Kingdom and would request that
all parties DESTROYS of procuring
the service of such contract labor
will forward their applications to
VIM. q. Irwin & Co. the duly
appointed Agents of the Board
for japanese Immigration.
1t is requested that these appli-
cations be sent in without delay
and that the parties ordering
state as definate as possible what
their requirements will be for the
next six months, so that the nee
essary arrangements can be made
for the introduction of these
people.
CHAS. r. GULICK.
Minister of Interior and President
Bureau of Immigration.
Interior Office, Aug. 81, 1885.