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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
Keep Your Blood Pure.

Impure blood, however generated,
is always present in the body when
pain is felt; it spreads and ferments
wherever weak spot exists.
Take BRANDRETH's PILLS to make
the blood pure and expel all that is
hurtful to the system. They are the
one great and unfailing remedy.
They cleanse the bowels and restore
equal circulation throughout the body.
They preserve the vigor of youth and
often save life.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
More Polls Needed.

1t is evident that there will have to
be two or more polls in each OF the
larger precincts, in future, as it is al.
most impossible for Judges and clerks
of election TO canvass more than $50
ballots, on an average, and get
through by daylight the morning after
the polls are closed. The number
stated will probably have to be adopt
ed as basis, and POLL opened for
each $50 votes in precinct.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
Try Werthheimer's 80 shoes.
Not 50 Bad as Suspected.

George Kreig. who bought the
Sloan ranch and cattle on Jackson
Creek, Humboldt county, says the
Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle, is finding
more cattle on the range than he ex.
pected to see alive. The loss it
severe, in fact unprecedented, but it
is pleasant surprise to find several
hundred head of cattle where none
we're supposed to have survived the
Winter.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
The Scattering Vote.

"A few scattering" votes we're cas-,
in HALEY, but none of the m have any
significance besides being, perhaps
an expression Of individual preference
In each and every case the vote wa.
OF course, lost; but the tellers were. in
the discharge of their duty, compel.
led to make q note OF them, and the
following thus appear on the tally
sheets:
For Governor-Dubois, /.
For Justice of the Supreme Court
Price, l.
For Commissioner-Frank Peed. T.
For Justice-Wm. Stien, /; James
Lee, Charles Fox, and Pat. Duffy. |
each.
For Constable-T. S. Foulks,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
What Cooked the Republican Goose 10
Ketchunl.

Ketchum has proved a disappoint.
ment to the Republicans, and sur
prise to the Democrats. The town
was beIived to be Republican by a
large majority.
show did you happen to let the
Democrats get away with your" was
asked of prominent Ketchumite
Yesterday.
well, you see," he replied, "the
workers were not here; they had been
called elsewhere to save some other
precinct. So the Republicans here
practically lost the town by default.
Inere seemed to be- no one here to
organize or conduct the fight, no one
TO look after the floating votes, and so
forth.''
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
LOCAL-JOTTINaS.

Toilet soaps at Steward Bros.
You can save time and money by
getting your loans through
LENNON & BOONE.
Plug and smoking tobacco At
Ste ward Bros.
We carry the largest stock OF
crockery and glassware in town, and
sell it at bedrock prices. Bar glass.
ware and fittings q speciality.
STEWARD Bros.
The celebrated Stonewall Whisky,
in quart and pint TASKS, at w. I.
Kennedy's Famous Sample Rooms.
Competent judges say that the
cigars manufactured in HALEY are the
best they ever purchased for the
money.
Insure your property in reliable
companies. None others are repre-.
sented BY LENNON & BOONE.
People who enjoy smoking a pipe
should stop at the cigar factory, and
try sone Cigar clippings.
have large and fresh stock Of
imported and domestic suitings which
will make up at sacrifice.
ELoF ANDERSON.
rs per cent. off on pocket cutlery
and Meerschaum pipes during Septem.
Der. STEWARD Bros.
If you want a 6rst.class shave, hair
cut, or shampoo, 20 to Phil. Weber's
barber shop, two doors south of the
express Office, Haley.
John O'Brien, of the Wood River
Meat Market, keeps nothing but the
choicest meats on hand. Try him.
Do not fail to order your clothes
from Elof Anderson. Of HALEY, a
now is the time for fall and winter.
Memorial services in memory of the
wife of the Rev. Mr.. Pratt, who died
April 2, 1890, were held at Soldier,
last Sunday. They were conducted
BY the Rev. Mr.. Richie, OF Ketchum.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04

y mere will be hop a. the HALEY
,.p Springs, Tuesday evening. the
, .'ekets' including supper, ~ per
-. Everybody is invited, and especially
unsuccessful candidates in the
last campaign.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04

county ticket. with the exception of
the candidates for Assessor, reasurer,
and one County Commissioner (Dsake).
The latter was "lost in the shuttle"
in the fight made against the Repub-
licsn legislative ticket or, At least. the
nominees for Representative on the
same. Mr.. Drake would have made
FIRST class commissioner. and his ex.
perience in similar Office elsewhere
would have stood us in good stead.
The hostility to the Representatives.
elect in Alturas degeneratei into .
fight against Fred T. Dubois, and
Geo. L. Shoup for the United States
Senate. This was confessedly the
case, and many Democrats we're, on
that account, induced to vote for the
Republican nominees for the Leeis.
lature. The result therefore indicates
the preference of the people Of Al
turas county in the selection of United
States Senators for Idaho.
P. NJ. Bruner is undoubtedly elected
District Attorney, as his majority
seems too large to be overcome By
the few precincts yet to hear from.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
Total


Idaho .........
The election of Sam. Weller in
Idaho is surprising as he was the joint
candidate in two Democratic counties.
Mr.. Weller must stand very well, up
there.
IN ALTURAS.
The returns so far in at this writ
ing g o'clock, p. IN. indicate the
ell, ction Of the entire Republican
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
Trv Werthheimer's 50 shoes.
Wall PAPER at Cost.

We wish t, reduce our stock and
offer wall paper at from 10 to SOC. per
double roll. 4 large portion Of this
stock is new.
STEWARD Bios.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
STEWARD BROS.
Wanted.

A good plain cook. Wages from
s25 TO $50 per month.
,.o,e% Mrs, L. Hunt.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-10-04
Every County But Two
Gives a Republican
Majority.
A Magnificent Victory With
Which to Begin Making a
State History.
THE RESULT IN ALTURAS.
Every Republican Candidate Elected.
with the Exception OF Assessor,
Treasurer, aud One Commissioners.

WIN suo exception OF Assessor,
Treasurer, aud One Commissioner.
Reliable returns Of the State cleo.
ton are at last received. Every
county but two has gone Republican.
The entire State ticket is elected by
about 1000 ma ority, and the Repub.
licans have elected four-fifth of the
Legislature, besides the Congressman
for the short and long term. The
election secures the r. turn of two Re-
publicans land then probably Shoup
and Dubois) to the United States
Senate.
The victory is most magnificent
one, and comes as near being ga
clean sweep" as is possible nova
days. As the Republicans have
carried lG out Of Is counties it is evi.
dent that they have a foothold in the
new State which nothing but the
grossest mismanagement of National,
State and county affairs and wide
spread discussions in their own ranks,
can wrest from them.
The State will therefore begin bu.
siness under the auspices of the party
of progress.
AS above stated the Republicans
elected abou. four-f iftbs OF the Legis>
lature. Following is the summary Of
leg,slators.elect by counties:
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
Superstitions of Marriage.

The Romans deemed it an ill omen to
meet certain animals while on the way
to have the wedding ceremony pro-
nounced. A hare, dog, cat, lizard or
serpent were extremely unlucky animals
to meet upon such occasions. A wolf,
toad, OK or horse were lucky. In Greece
the groom is sprinkled with water on
leaving home to meet his future bride.
The bride must visit the oven In COM
pany with her father and mother if she
would have a happy married life.
In France, during the Middle Ages, a
ring woven from straw, or one made
of horseshoe nails, was placed on the
brides finger at the conclusion of the
marriage rite. The couple also stood in
a ring five or six feet in diameter, made
of mistletoe or straw.
In China girl who is partaking of
the last meal she is to eat in her fathers
house previous to her marriage, sits at
the table with her father and brothers
only; but she must not eat over one half
of the bowl of rice set before her, other
wise her departure will be followed by
continued scarcity in the domicile she is
eaving.
In Scotland it was formerly particu-
larly ominous to meet funeral while on
the way to be joined in wedlock. The
bride or groom was certain to die soon,
as the sex of the person being taken to
the graveyard was male or female. The
Swedish bride seeks to catch glimpse
of the groom before he sees her, hoping
thereby to gain the future mastery. She
also places her foot before his while the
ceremony is being performed and sits
down first While the words are being
said she stands near the groom, so that
in the future no one will come between
them.
In Brittany if the wife hopes to rule
she must take care that the ring, when
placed upon her finger, shall slip at once
to its place without stopping at the large
second joint.
In Russia the bride must not eat of the
wedding cake unless she wishes to lose
her husbands love. If a dog belonging
to the family of the bride should howl
on the day of the wedding or the day
previous to the event, he must be shot by
the father of the bride and no one else,
and, beside that, with bullet made
from silver rupee.-[St. Louis Repub-
! lie,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
An Ancient Mine.

An old copper mine, which was
worked by the Dutch colonists about
two centuries ago, was rediscovered at
Bloomfield, N. Y, few days ago. The
mine is divided into three parts, or
caves, the largest of which is 100 feet
long and thirty feet wide. An iron
shovel, a number of wedges, drills, ham
mers and other tools used by miners
were found in the caves. A quaint pipe,
which probably belonged to one of the
early miners, was picked up. There
were also found drinking horns and o
number of bones. 1t is not known
whether the bones are those of man or
beast.
A vein of copper was uncovered, and
mining expert pronounces it valu-
able find. The ore has been assayed,
and according to the report of the as.
sayer it contains $3.50 worth of gold,
So. 10 worth of silver and sixty-two per
cent. of copper, worth $120 ton. The
vein has not been traced for any great
distance, but an expert who has ex-
amined it says that it will develop
richly.
1t is said that the Dutch while work.
ing the mines were required by the Eng
lish to pay royalty of forty cents on
the dollar, which was so exorbitant that
the work had to be abandoned. The
property was owned 200 years ago by the
Cadmus family. 1t afterward passed
into the possession of the Weld family,
who held it through several generations
until seven years ago, when the Glen
Ridge Quarry Company bought it,
San Francisco Chronicle.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11

Now this immense tract is divided into
convenient pasture stations, or ranches,
existing every six miles. The fencing
alone cost in the neighborhood of $780,,
00O The land is best adapted for rice,
sugar, corn and cotton. All cultivating,
ditching, etc, is done by steam power.
A tract, say half a mile wide, is taken,
and an engine is placed on each side.
The engines are portable, and operate
a cable attached to four ploughs, and
under this arrangement thirty acres a
day are gone over with only the labor of
three men. Narrowing, planting and
other cultivation is done in a like man
ner. There is not a single draught horse
on the entire place.
OF course, horses are used for the
herders of cattle, of which there are 1 g.
600 head. The Southern Pacific Rail
way runs for thirty-six miles through the
farm. The company have three steam
boats operating on the waters of their
estates, OF which there are 800 miles
navigable. They have also an icehouse,
bank, shipyard and rice mill.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11

matte piers. The pivoted pier, or draw
pier, will support a draw which will
give an opening of 200 feet space on
either side for vessels to pass, and the
span Immediately south OF the draw span
will be 37J feet. The whole structure
is to be of STEEL built ten feet above the
high water of 1876 and forty feet above
low water.
On account of the sandy formation it
will be necessary to go down eighty feet
below low water to get firm founda
tion. There it rests on foundation of
coarse gravel similar to that upon which
the great bridges across the Missouri
river are built. This gigantic structure
will cost over 81, 900, 900 and employ
hundreds of men In its erection. 1t will
be January /, 1892, before the cars can
pass over it. The company is pushing
its bridge and also its road as fast as
money and its present perfected plans
will permit. They have now between
there and Kalama over two thousand
men and one thousand five hundred
teams at work. The Columbian.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
Crocodile Nests and Eggs.

Some habits of crocodiles have been
lately described by Mr.. Voeltzknow.
Travelling in Wituland, he obtained in
January last seventy nine new laid eggs
of the animal, from a nest which was
five or six PAGES from the bank of Wago-
gona, a tributary of the Ooi. The spot
had been cleared of plants in circle of
about six PAGES diameter apparently by
by the crocodile having wheeled around
several times Here and there few
branches had been laid, but there was no
nest-building proper. The so-called
nest lay quite open to the sun (only a
couple of poor bushes at one part. The
eggs lay in four pits dug in the hard.
dry ground, about two feet obliquely
down. Including eggs broken in dig
sing out, the total seems to have been
eighty-five to ninety. According to the
natives the crocodile, having selected
and prepared a spot, makes pit in 1T
that day and lays about twenty to TWEEN
ty-fvc eggs in it, which it covers with
dirt. Next day it makes second pit,
and so on. From the commencement it
remains in the nest, and it sleeps there
till the Matching of the young, which APP
pear in about two months, when the
heavy rain period sets in. The egg.
laying occurs only once in the year, about
the end of January or beginning of Feb
ruary. The animal which NJ. Voeltzkow
disturbed, and saw drop into the water,
seemed to be the crocodilus vulgaris SC
common in cast Africa. ~ Christian Ad
vocate.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
Smallest Baby in the World.

Mr.. and Mrs. Theobold M. Donaldson
of Sandy Hook, Md, claims the small
est baby in the country. At its birth it
weighed scarcely pound and now, at
the age of four months, its weight is
only four pounds. An ordinary cigar
box is sufficiently large for the baby to
take nap in. 1t is perfectly formed in
every particular and the physicians
state, will live, with proper care. Mr..
and Mrs. Donaldson arc both healthy
and robust and have four other stout
and healthy children. They feel very
proud of their little baby, which has
been the talk of the neighborhood for
miles around. Hundreds of persons
have visited their homo and admired
the little one. Some curiosity seekers
have been among the callers, and an
agent Of Baltimore museum is trying to
make arrangements with Mr.. and Mrs.
Donaldson to place the little one on ex-
hlbition.-[ Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
Big Trees Found.

Special Agent Mozier writes to the
general land office from Tacoma, Wash
ington, that grove of giant red wood
trees, like those in the Yosemite Nation
al Park, CAL. has been discovered in
Pierce county, Washington. The Sec.
retary of the Interior has ordered an in
vestigation of the subject through the
agricultural division of the census bu-
reau and Congress may be asked to set
aside the land on which the trees are
standing as a national park Mr.. Mozi
er says that the people of Tacoma will
probably have a flag pole made of the
tallest trees to be sent to the worlds
fair. Some of the trees are 400 feet long
and thirteen feet in diameter. WASH
ington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
Portraits of the Great.

1t is said that there are altogether about
twelve hundred engraved portraits of
Shakspere. Dickens must follow, for it
is known that during his lifetime alone
more than four hundred portraits Chiefly
unofficial) were done. OF Richelieu
three hundred portraits are known to ex-
ist-difierent pictures, | mean-and
about the same number of portraits of
Marie Antoinette have been gathered to-
gcther. How many must there be of
Queen Victoria, she who has been at
the head of the British empire for more
than fifty yearsl Why, the thought is
simply overwhelming. In the ROYAL
Academy there have been exhibited six
ty-two oil portraits of her majesty
these constitute but small fraction of
the pictures made of her for magazines,
newspapers, books of beauty, gift books,
albums, plates, etc. have about one
hundred different prints of the queen.
covering every period in her life from
infancy down to her tiftieth year; many
of them are valuable only as curious
freaks, particularly the woodenish groups
made OF the royal family while the prince
consort was living and just before the
birth OF Beatrice. As a girl, Victorio
must have been very pretty; the portraits
made of her at that period represent he
as little short of beautiful. On the whole
Landseer's group must be regarded a
the best of the pictures in which he
majesty appears. Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
ANCHOR DRAGGING.
Something of How the Business is
Done off Cape Cod,

There are ocean mines that abound in
riches. The waters for q mile or two
out in Vineyard Sound and so around
the Cape, are being constantly worked
as are the ineXhaustible mines of the in
terror. Not since the Pirate Bellamy
emptied his ship load of gold coins upon
the bars of Wellheet, in the fatal storm
which caused the shipwreck of his entire
fleet, has the:e been as much wealth
fished up from the waters as in the past
few seasons. The proftably and infre-
quently mentioned industry is termed
anchor dragging by the seamen of Cape
Cod who engage in the business.
was down on the Union wharf the
other day and saw among the mall craft
at the wharf the little schooner Mary
Emma, of Yarmouth, Capt w. II. Hurst.
The schooner had load of iron and
learned that Capt. Hurst frequently en-
gagged in the anchor dragging business.
He told me that anchor dragging was a
regular class of business with certain
class of Cape seaman and that it had to
be learned as much US any other occupa-
tion. Hundreds of other vessels of all
kinds are coming and going in the sound
all the time and in the course of year
many anchors are lost. The Cape seamen
keep sharp lookout to hear of a vessel
that has lost her anchor and some chain,
and learning the locality as near as pos
sible, start out to secure it.
1t requires deal of study and knowl-
edge of the coast, and close observa-
ton of the rules of navigation to be sue
cessful in the business. Generally two
vessels go together on a cruise. They
will sail close together, having graphing
hooks dragging on the bottom. When
they feel the hook "snub up they re-
pass the spot and determine whether the
object struck is ledge or an anchor and
their experience quickly enables them tc
tell. In this way they cruise in pairs
and when an anchor is found the crews
of the two vessels raise it to the deck o.
one of them by means of tackles.
1t is no easy task, and the job requires
considerable skill. Capt. Hurst informed
me that this part of the work had beer
made easier by him, and last season h
had steam hoisting engine place aboar,
his other schooner, the Willfred w. Ful.
Ter.
In the course of season a number O.
anchors are found, many ranging in siz
from small two -masted schooner's an
chor to huge affair weighing 5000 o
5000 pounds. Sometimes the anchor
are sold to vessel shippers who have lost
their own anchors, but generally the
are brought to this city or taken to Bos
ton and sold to junk dealers by tn
pound. If vessel succeeds in hooking
three or four good-sized anchors in
season it pays.-LNew Bedford (Mass
Mercury,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-11
Babylon and Its Walls.

The city of Babylon was built in the
foEm of square; it was surrounded by
a wall fifty-five miles long, and this wall
was throughout its entire extent $50 feet
in height, or two.thirds as high as the
Washington monument, and 81 feet
thick. 1t was constructed of burnt
bricks, and half dozen four-horse char
lots could be driven abreast along its top
the entire circuit of the city. Outside
of this mighty wall was an encircling
ditch of corresponding width and depth,
the clay dug from which was used to
build the wall. Also there was an inner
wall, not so thick as the outer one
though in itself an impossible barrier
against any foe. Through the midst of
the town the river Euphrates flowed, its
banks ON either side strengthened against
floods or the invasion of hostile troops
by similar gigantic walls of brick. On
the west bank of the stream was the
palace of the king, the terrace on which
it stood measuring eight miles in circum-
ference. The palace of the old kings of
Babylon was on the opposite side of the
river, its own terrace only four miles
round about, and the two were connected
by superb ornamental bridge Wash
inptOn Star,