Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-09-02

LOCAL JOTTINGS.

Choice cuts Ol OcCl, NOdis nuo ihuo Y,
Of Warren & Co.'S Eagle Market.
Chicken dinner, every day, at
Merchants Hotel. Fifty cents.
Some exceedingly elegant work is
turned out by Lund & Anderson. a7tf
Fall styles in clothing and hats,
Catalogues free. Red House, Sacra-
mento, Cal. aoldwlm
The persons in charge of the races
at Bellevue will prepare reporters
stand on the track. Good sense.
Ladies' Newmarkets and walking
;ackets-Eastern styles for fall. Red
House, Sacramento, Gal. a3ldw1m
The Figuring" has begun in Belle
yue. Those who "get a pointer" ex-
pect to fill their purses at the races.
Purdum g. Ward have resumed the
delivery of ice to customers. Orders
nav be left at Whitman & Walkers.
The beautiful gift to Mrs. Governor
Murray was expressed to her to-day,
with an appropriate letter from the
committee.
A Gold Hill Colorado man gave
his twins morphine to put them to
sleep. The twins went to sleep, and
the man went to Jail for murder.
Samson, Coles big elephant, is to
other menageries what Mt Blanca is
to Colorado, Mt. Whitney to the United
States, and Mt. Everest to the world
the tallest.
A steamboat capable of carrying
500 people is being built to navigate
the Niagara whirlpool. The Portland
Telegram begins to be alarmed for
the whirlpool.
DR.. Burkhart's dental rooms, over
Tracy's, are the best furnished and
best equipped for comfort and thor
oughness in dental operations, of any
on Wood River. a30tfd&w
All Toy, the melancholy Chinaman
who was ordered to the Insane Asylum
by Judge Street yesterday, was taken
away this afternoon by County Com
missioner Kohlepp.
Cocoaine is rapidly coming to the
front as a rival of opium. "Hitting
the pipe" is falling to the rear of this
later passion. So also is the fearful
habit-of taking morphine.
Multitudes of negroes in the South
are joining the Knights of Labor. 1t
is thought this organization will pro-
tect them against intimidation and
outrage, and will greatly affect the
politics of the South.
"One of General Phil. Sheridan's
old scouts has just sent him, from
Utah, gift of a particularly lively
wildcat, in fighting ORDER" says an
Eastern exchange. Probably one of
the polygamous "wives" of Utah.
During last night Haley was Wis
tied by an immense swarm of black
birds. They swooped down upon it
like an army of grasshoppers.
Just before dawn the greater portion
left with roar like that of distant
windstorm.
Rabb, a Portland horseman, lost
5000, lately, by a sneak thief in
Helena. The money was left under
his pillow while he went out a few
moments. His wife was asleep in the
bed, but the light fingered gentleman
took the Doodle without disturbing
the fair slumberer.
George Krieg expects to move
down into his new brick block in
few days. He has, in fact, already
begun moving some of the goods that
ne does not need to lave at his old
store. The new store is as good as
two stories, the cellar being the full
dimensions of the store.
From the signs of the times, it is
not yet impossible that Colonel
sSohoup's name will be presented to the
Territorial Convention in Haley next
wednesday. A Boise City paper
says letter wherein he agreed to ac-
cept the nomination, if rendered, was
posted in that city the day of the Re-
publican primary. Was it bogus
John Y. Smith was tried before a
United States Commissioners in Utah
recently, and, when asked the name
o. OF one of his illegitimate children mot
petty accidents" as Slender Sarah
puts it), was puzzled. 1t afterward
turned out that he could not or would
not recall the names of a number of
Others of like kind. Polygamous
'aoles are getting to be like pigs.
Many of our readers who have lived
~ Arizona will be interested in know
ing that since Barney Martins burned
p'ay was found, Maricopa and Nava
PAL officers have put out detectives
WIN $1,000 reward for the murderers,
S Saa arrested a Mexican, and also
canton, one of the prominent men of
"eaVer, much to the surprise of the