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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01
THE BLACK SPAR GROUP.
The Original Locator, who Is A Reli'
able PrOspector aud Miner, Says II
is a Big Property-WhyH He Sold II
for Over $4,000 Cash.

able PrOspect0r aud Miner, Says 1t
Is a Big Property-Why He Sold 1t
for Over $50, 900 Cash.
S. S. Wilson, the we'll known old
prospector and miner, ca me in from the
Hub mine, near Era, to-day, to secure
hosting machinery. He reports the
old Blackfoot wagon-road through
the lava practicable, and says that he
will not fear to haul lis hosting en-
CINE, ,ecl, ETC., if he can get them.
Mr.. Wilson having discovered the
Bear Gulch district, pear Muldoon,
and located the Black Spar group of
mines, which he sold to a St. Louis
company, last fall, for 100000 cash
and 10000 shares Of stock, the TIMES
man asked him if the property was
as valuable as it was represented, and
why he sold at all
Mr.. Wilson replied that he would
stake his life on the existence of a
bonanza there. 1t is only question
of time, he said, and 200 or 800 feet
of depth. If he had been able to
open it he would never have sold it.
But for over year he was sick with
rheumatism and could not work and
really thought he would die if he had
to remain at that elevation, which is
greater than that of Muldoon. This
made his partner growl and find fault
continually land not unreasonably,
Mr.. Wilson says), SO they agreed it
was hest to sell out to somebody that
could and would spend the few thous-
ands of dollars necessary to open up
the mine.
The company took possession last
December; but owing to the delay in
tie arrival of tools and supplies from
the East, did not begin work until the
23rd day of January. Since then IL
men have been steadily employed,
who have done considerable work
They have over 800 tons Of milling
ore on the dump, besides about two
carloads of shipping ore resdy te
ship as soon as teams can get over
the soft mountain roads. This ore
is high grade, but how high Mr.. Will
son cannot say. During the last few
days, from the upraise in the north
east drift Superintendent Smyth has
had assays made, and found the ore
to carry Ills and 1899 ounces, re-
spectively. While at the mine, foul
days ago, MIR. Wilson saw considera
BILE ore being taken from the north
east drift; and a!tl oueh "only a pros
pector," he would not take 81 share
for his stock. Some time ago be wal
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01
Why HE IS A REPUBLICAN.
hooert lngersoll's Famous Speech that
Is Timely Now,

~ am opposed to the Democratic
party, and want to tell you WHY.
Every ordinance of secession ever
drawn was done by a Democrat.
Every man that tried to tear the old
nag down was democrat. Every
enemy this republic has had for
twenty-five years was a democrat.
Every man that starved Union sol.
diers, refusing them a crust in the
extremity of death was a democrat.
The man that assassinated Abraham
Lincoln was a democrat. Every man
that sympathixed with the assassin
every man that was glad that the
noblest Preside mt ever elected was
dead was democrat. Every man
that wanted the privilege of whipping
another man to make him work for
nothing and pay him with lashes on
his naked back was a democrat.
Every man that raised blood hounds
to pursue human beings was a demo.
crat. Every man that clutched babies
from the breasts of shrieking, shud.
dering, crouching mothers and sold
them into slavery was democrat.
Every man that swore he would never
pay the bonds, every man that swore
he never would redeem the green.
backs, every maligner of his country g
credit, ca!umniator of his countrv's
honor was democrat. Every man
that hid in the bushes and shot at
Union men simply because they were
trying to enforce the laws of their
country, was democrat. Every man
that cursed Lincoln because he issued
the emancipation proclamation, was a
democrat. Every man WHO believed a
State could get out of the Union al
pleasure, every man who believed that
the grand fabric of American govern
nent could be made to crumble in
stantly into dust at the touch o.
treason, was democrat. Every mar
who tried to burn asylums in the cit,
Of New York was a democrat. Ever,
man who tried to fire New York wa.
democrat although he knew thou
sands would perish, and that the grea
serperts of flames, leaping from one
building to another, would clutcl
children from their mothers arms
every wretch that did it was a demo
crat. Recollect it! Every man tina
tried to spread the small pox ant
yellow fever in the North was demo
crat. Soldiers, every scar you have
on your heroic bodies was given 20,
by democrat. l am a republican.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01
SnOw-Warnied Land.

Mr.. w. NJ. Williams finds the
benefcence of snow fully manifested
in such climate as that of Siberia,
where a temperature Of seventy to
eighty degrees below zero-or thirty
to forty degrees below the freezing
point Of mercury-was recorded last
October. The snow, coming early in
the season and being an almost
absolute non. conductor Of heat, serves
as an effective clothing for the soil,
which is thus protected from so low a
minimum temperature as it occa-
sionally reaches in England with the
air at fifteen or twenty degrees over
naked ground. Hence the paradox
Of Siberian vegetation, which is SO
luxuriant in the summer, when the
heat Of the long days is very intense
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01
The Latest Map or Atlas.

Parties wishing the latest map or
atlas Of the world, should address S
Is. Dixon, 11l9 Larimer street, Den.
yer. Col. School maps q speciality.
Agents wanted in every county
State and Territory.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Flaw and Grain, at Coffin & Co.'s.

Hay and Grain, at Coffin 4 Co.'s.
Warren s. Shepherd have reopened
the old Dan. Harrington saloon.
Electric slaughteriug Of cattle has
nr,ven suco, sfll in St. Petersburg,
dssth being instantaneous.
Don't fail to drop in at Coffin &
Co.'S and inspect the new Perfection
vapor Stoves just received.
Professor Miner, Hal. Steward,
and George w. Taylor went to Belle.
yue, to-day, to help out tho band boys
At the funeral of John Pedlar.
Give Warren & Shepherd call, at
their Comstock saloon. They have
s.cosy place, and their liquors and
cigars are first class.
For a good glass of cool beer and a
6rst class lunch with music every
evening, 20 to the Music Hall, at
Ruperts old corner.
HAUPr & KIRBY.
The ladies Of Bellevue wish to an
nounce that the May Day dance has
been postponed until Thursday even
ing, Nay 3, on account of the death
Of Mr.. Pedlar.
+ The Perfection Vapor stoves now
on sale at Coffin s. Co.'S. not only save
the wood but do away with tine heat
of ordinary cook stoves. They are
cheap aud to investigate is to purchase.
Every family should have one.
The Social Union of the NJ. E.
church will give their first festival
for the seas IN, Friday next, May 4,h,
% Main street, next door to the post
Office. Sandwiches, coffee, cake and
ice cream will be served.
Spring and Summer 1888. Our
Mammoth Illustrated Catalogue of
General Merchandise mailed free.
Address G. H. GILMAN,
RED House TRADE UNION,
Sacramento. Cal.
Since the organization Of the
Security Mutual Benefit Society the
expense to a member of middle age
has been LESS THAN TWELVE DOLLARS
YEAR for each thousand dollars OF
insurance. J. a. RUPERT,
Agent for Alturas County.
The latest artificial rubies Of Mes
srs. Frenzy and Verneuil, the French
chemists, appear to be identical with
the natural stone III composition and
properties. They consist solely OF
alumina colored with little chromi
um, have a beautiful! tint, are very
hard, and are found to agree with the
native ruby in crystalline form and
optical characteristics.
Basil Constantine, the restaurateur
has returned from Butte and dis
charged all his liabilities here, which
exceeded $500. Finding himself in
volved without any prospect of earn
ing enough to pay up Mr.. Constan
tine left last Fall aud walked all the
way to Butte, Mon where he remained
until last week when, having earned
enough to pay up his debts, he re
turned to HALEY. Such honest
certainly deserves mention.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01
LETTER LIST.

List Of Letters remaining In the HALEY t1dsho)
POatodAce for the week ending April %. loSS
Persons calling for any of these Letters will please
Say adv ertised."
Auson, Mrs Hunter, JR
DepeRbaugh, Joseph Matthews, James
Henderson. Sam Newlsnd, Mrs Emma
Peterson, John
GUY HAMMER. Postmaster.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01
Died.

PEDLAR,-In Bellevue. Monday. April 50. 1893.
John Pedlar. native Of Cornwall. England
aged 81 years.
Deceased was . member of the Broad ord band
last summer, and one OF the finest cornet players
on the Pacific slope and coast. He had just re-
turned from Butte, Mon, where he spent the
winter, and came here for the purpose Of reorgan-
izing the Brosdford Band. Brain fever was the
cause of death. His funeral took place to-dsy.l
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01

JUDGE CoFFINBERRY, of Cleveland
ssys that DR.. Williams Indian Pile
ontment cured him. It never fails.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-05-01

A. Wolters has removed his assay
Office to the old Cramer building, on
the northwest corner Of River and
Bullion streets. a1Ot3O.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06

The returns from special saloon tai
under the Dow law indicate that the
State of Ohio will get about $45O,O ,OOC
per annum out of it, which is nice
lump of money for the State and a relief
to the tax payers at large. The whole
amount paid under the Dow law during
the first six months was $1,116,304 80.
The number of saloons in the State is
1891, which, if we take Governor Eos
ter's estimate given a few years ago as
accurate, would indicate the extinction
of something over 10000 saloons in Ohio
The Dow law not only yields money ano
suppresses the smaller and irresponsible
saloons, but it puts wholesome restraint
upon the retail traffic in liquors that In
toxicate, and. honestly makes large pro
vision for dealing with the evils of the
traffic. This is the law toward which the
third party Prohibitionists direct the
constant fire of their implacable -hostili-
ty.3We do not wonder that those politi
clans who thought they saw their way
clear to greatness through the organiza-
ton of a third party based upon an as
sumed speciality of opposition to the
politics subordinate to the saloon, are
dissatisfied with the Dow law, for we no
tice the third party vote was five thous
and less in Ohio at the late Presidential
election than four years ago, though tht
candidate of the third party was thi!
time much stronger and more popular
man than then. 1t is fair to estimate
that this decline in the alleged Prohibi
ton vote is to be attributed to the con
viction growing among intelligent men
that the better practical results in hand
ling the liquor traffic are to be obtained
by the application of system of taxa
tion, and the restraints incidental to
it-PHtsbWrgh Commercial Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06

A "CLEAN SWEEP" in the Federal Of
fees after the Harrison Administration
comes into power is neither probable or
desirable. 1t is entirely safe to say that
comparatively few Democratic office
holders of the purely subordinate class
will be removed simply because they are
Democrats Under no other Presidency
since Jackson's has so many shiftless,
ignorant and incompetent creatures been
given positions in the Government civil
service as have been appointed to office
during the Cleveland regime. There is
an exceedingly cheerful prospect that
most of these rascals will be turned out
promptly and summarily when the Re-
publicans resume controlof the Govern
ment on March 4, 1889.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06

A Democratic negrO-hating, Southern
newspaper attributes the election of Gen.
Harrison to the colored vote, on the
ground that $4,000 at least of the 25,0O0
Afro-American votes in New York
State were for the Republican party. On
the same ground his election might be
attributed to any nationality that had
polled any requisite number of Repub-
lican voters. The motive of this South
ern Journal in singing out the negro
vote is in keeping with the policy of
Southern newspapers that constantly at
tempt to provoke rare prejudice. But,
granting that the negro vote did elect
General Harrison, what harm is there
in that? Is it not far better to have ma
tional questions decided by $4,000 edu
Gated negro voters of New York State,
than by $4,000 illiterate, ignorant and
depraved voters from the slums of New
York city? Are not the $4,000 votes of
intelligent colored American freemen
more desirable in shaping government
than an equal number from the ranks of
the foreign born Democrats who have
just escaped from virtual slavery in Eu-
rope, who cannot speak our language,
and who have little more knowledge OF
our institutions than the intelligent
chimpanzee whose recent decease il
New York has been the subject of much
regretful comment.
You give it upl So we thought
CLeceIdnd Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06
IN AN APPLE CELLAR.

Red, and russet, and yellow,
Lying here in heap
Pippins, rounded and mOllOw;
Greetings for winter keep;
Seek-nO-furthers, whose blushing
The soul of saint would try,
Till his face showed the crimson, flushing
The cheek of Northern Spy.
Hid from the winter weather,
Safe from the wind and sleet,
Here, in pile together,
Russet and pippin meet.
And in this dim and dusty
Old cellar they fondly hold
A breath, like the grapes made musty
By the summers radient gold.
Zach seems to hold vagrant
Sunbeam, lost from the sky,
When lily blooms were fragrant
Wells for the butterfly;
And when the snow is flying
What feasts in the boarded store
OF crimson and yellow, lying
Heaped high on the sandy floor.
Fruitage of bright spring splendOr,
OF leaf and blossom time,
That no tropic land can mend, or
Take from this frosty cline
Fruit for the hearth-stOne meeting,
Whose flavor naught can destroy,
How you make my hearts swift beating
Throb with the pulse of boy!
Apples scarlet and golden,
Apples juicy and tart,
Bringing again the Olden
Joy TO the weary heart.
You send the swift thoughts sweeping,
Through wreckage of time and tears,
To that hidden chamber, keeping
The gladness of youths bright years.
Thomas s. Collier
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06
SELFISHNESS.
New York Ledger.

New York Ledger.
There are people who have no law
but the inclination of the moment.
With them the most solemn promises
are but cobwebs, to be swept away by
the cunning whisper of malice, or the
breath of circumstance. Principle, hon
or, duty, are but reeds, to be snapped or
twisted or warped to meet present
emergency. The annoyance or diseom-
fort of to-day, though self-ineurred, is
to be avoided at cost of criminal wrong
toward others. How should it be else
with those whose life has no governing
principle but that of personal ease? Who
can find reasons and excuses for every
thing that tends to this? Who have no
memory for the sacred obligations on
which it tramples to promote it? But
alas for the day when conscience shall
remove this self-sealing film from the
ewes. and show that to be a lie which
has been delusiyely hugged as truth;
those self-seekers to be foes who claim
the holy title of friends. Alas for the
day when the graves come between such
mistaken ones and the reparatlon they
fain would make.
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New Series, Vol. %, No. 49.

/ exports and impOTtS-SO that fortunes
are made or lost in a day without any re-
! gard to the principles of moral equity
| which require value for value. Another
abuse of general prosperity is the conflict
that is waged by labor US. capital. Were
! there no capital, that is to say, were there
no thrift and economy and general pros
perity, such conflict could have no place.
The evil and danger here lies in the at
tempt to Overturn the natural law of
supply and demand and set up fictitious
standard by which the compensation of
labor shall be regulated. Trades Unions
and labor associations have their origin
largely in atheistical views of divine
providence, and consequently of the
divine goodness, in false views of the
rights of property and consequently of
the right of man to control his own prop
erty. This evil, growing as it does out
of Gods prOvidential goodness, strikes at
the very existence of prosperity, domestic,
social and national.
Another evil that is the outgrowth of
general prosperity IS that cOmmunistic
and agrarian spirit that is abroad in our
civil society, by which is sought the re-
organization of society by regulating
property, industry, the source of lveli-
hood. and also the domestic relations and
social morals of society, and thereby
secure community of property or the reg
ulation of individual rights in property.
These alarming evils which are abuses
of Gods prOvidential goodness to us sug-
gest with emphatic prOpriety that We
should rejoice with trembling" In our
rejoicing, then, let us record the goodness
and loving kindness of the Lord. Let
US endeavOr to realize the debt of graft
tude we owe to him, and make some re-
turn in due acknowledgment of his
blessings to us as a nation and as indi-
viduals; and at the same time let us, in
the spirit of humility and cOntTitiOn, en-
deavOr to see how his mercies are abused,
his goodness perverted and made instru-
ments of unrighteousness, and in COM
pliance with the injunction of the
Psalmist rejoice with trembling"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06
CHEAP PLEASURES.

Our cheapest pleasures are those which
can be grasped on all sides. We can
have them in exchange for smile, a
kind word, and a uniform cheerfulness-
There are people on this earth who re-
ligiously expect pleasures and happiness
will come to them in the same way that
old-time rigor used to try and bring or
der to the household and education in
the school-room by stern, un1inching
discipline, and corporal punishment
that has been modified from beating
with the rod to lashing with the tongue.
Pleasures apd happiness are some
thing which cannot be forced BY any
such vixenish desire for their possession.
If people would have pleasures they
must themselves be pleasant.
If they would have sunshine they
must themselves come out from their
clouds of fault-fnding and peevishness
and scolding
If things don't go just right, it makes
them no nearer so to. give them Kan
tipean blessing, and make all the finer
and sensitive feelings quake with ap-
prehensiOn.
On the contrary, We can only coax
pleasures by gentler wands of ineanta-
ton. If we want its cheerful presence,
we must remember that like attracts
like
If there are smiles, sunshine, and
flowers about us, let US not grasp them
with miser's fist and lock them up in
our hearts. No; rather let US take them
and scatter them about US, in the cot of
the widow, among the groups of chill
dren, in the crowded mart, where men
of business congregate, in our families,
and everywhere.
We can make the wretched happy, the
discontented cheerful, the afflicted re-
signed, at an exceedingly cheap rate.
Who will refuse to do it?
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06

THE first bill introduced in Congress
embodying the principle of giving pen
sions to dependent soldiers was framed
and presented by General Harrison. II
is easy to understand, therefore, that
with his Inauguration as President the
vetoing of such bills will ceasH, and the
veterans will no longer be insulted by
the highest officer of the Government
when they ask for a few dollars pei
month to keep themselves out of the
door houses.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06

THE Governor of Maryland has given
the certificate of election in the Fourth
district to Mr.. Stockbridge, the Republi-
can nominee. In the Fifth district the
certifcatei is given to Compton (Dem).
This is the district claimed by Mr.. Mudd
The putting of Stockbridge's name and
that of Evans, of Tennessee, on the roll
of the House virtually kills whatever
hope the Democrats had of stealing the
the Fifty-first Congress.
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Established in 1913 3.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

PRESBTTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. X. AleN S
snder. pastor. Public worship every Saooatl
morning and evening: Sabbath school $50 a IN.
Young peoples society Of Christian endeaSeI, Mon
day evenings; general prayer meeting. WEDNESDAY
eysning. Strangers welcome TO all services.
UrTuODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Rev
n HoIlingshead, pastor. sabbath preaching; u
4 m; p m; young peoples meeting, Monday lc,:t
Evenings; general prayer meeting, lhurs9att e ele
1incs. men 1is meeting Friday evenings; SaDDatL
tch5oi pm Strangers cordially invited to al
services
rhomaS Ralnh n2stOr Sabbath school, 10 a. m.
public worship, ii a. m. weekly prayer meeting
Friday D. m monthly prayer meeting, lasI oatuL
aay OF each month, 2 p. m; womans ihlsslohaIy ,
+ciety, last Saturday of each month, p N. dls
trict PRAYER meetings, first Tuesdays, Wednesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays each month, p m
Young Women's prayer meeting, second SatufdaS
each month at the parsonage, p m
LFRICANM E. .CHURCH-Rev.J J. M. wilkes
naStor Sunday service, 1880 a. m; p. m; SAD
kafh school go D. m; weekly prayer meeting
Thursday evenings. Strangers welcome.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-06

The Democratic veterans who retire
from the ranks of the Grand Army
of the Republic, and 'flock all alone
by themselves" will find out, when it is
too late, that they have made a great
mistake Comrades ought to be able to
dwell together in unity, and the organi-
zation of an avowedly partisan Demo-
cratic Army of veterans will not tend to
brOtherlv love.
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1889.
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