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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
KILLED a asss,tain Zion With His Knife.

81. Woods went out to Bullocks ranch
recently, and from there took hunting
trip into the mountains the next day
with his shotgun to bring down some
small game. He had not been out long
when he heard a peculiar noise in the
underbrush, and, after some scouting
around, a large-sized mountain lioness
showed up. He had only small shot in
his shells, but as soon as she came in
reach he let loose, and she took the con-
tents in her body and dashed up the
mountain
Woods, thinking that she had mate
located himself on a rock where he could
see into the canyon, and, true enough,
in few moments the lion appeared
and monster at that, as large apparent
ly as John Robinson's biggest circus
lion, and he came directly to the spot
where Woods was secreted, and when
within few feet he got the contents of
the gun in the region of the heart The
lion rolled down the side of the canyon a
short distance, regained his feet. and
made up an arroyo.
Woods followed him up and soon came
within hearing of the honess, which was
bowling frightfully, and all of sudden
it emerged from thicket and dashed at
him, with eyes glazing and mouth wide
open. He emptied the contents of his
shotgun into its mouth, which dazed it
for moment. Instantly he jerked out
his sheath knife and as he did so the
ioness sprang for him, but only to re-
ceive the blade of the knife into it's heart.
and the fierce animal lay dead at Mr..
Woods feet as the trophy of his hunt
He did not want any more ioness, but
made his way back to Bullock's ranch,
but not until he had taken the hide of
his lion, which is now on exhibition
Tucson Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Waiting Twenty-Five Years for a Trial

Sometimes the law is strangely forget
full. For instance, John Blyer, So years
of age, has been a prisoner in the Vance
burg, KY, county jail for twenty-five
years, on charge of murder. By some
strange chance the law has forgotten his
existence, and all these years he has been
patiently waiting for a trial that has
never come. In the mean while the wit
nesses against linn are all dead, and his
identity has so completely sunk out of
recollection that he is referred to simply
rs 1.-THE dead man in cell two. New
York Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Electricity in the French Navy.

The French minister of marine has de-
cided that every military port shall send
to Paris two foremen and two working
electricians to study the various systems
of electric lighting. A further evidence
of the extent to which the government
of France is recognizing the Importance
of providing its navy with the fullest
possible instruction in electrical matters
is afforded by the fact that lectures on
the theory and use of electricity and it's
employment for naval purposes are being
given at the Brest observatory, and they
will be continued for four months. New
York Commercial Advertiser
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
It's a Way Politicians Have.

A lady of this city who has been read
ing about politics good deal lately said
to her husband the other day: II sup
pose it is all right for a prominent public
man to be referred to by nickname.
though think it is rather undignifed
But what puzzles Inc is why everybody
should refer to Mr.. Mckinley as McKin-
ley Bill, instead of Bill Mckinley. |
suppose, though, it must be in imitation
of the cowboy style. New York Tri-
huna
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Women Lasso n yicious Deer

r. G.. Lanham, farmer, was attacked
on his farm near Sherman by a large
buck deer, which escaped from the Bat
sell park, and gored very badly. Ian
hams wife and daughter came to the
rescue, lariated the animal and tied it
to tree This is the second man this
pet has nearly killed with his immense
antlers.-Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
An American Theory.
Very Likely.

Father-A list of your debts would
make very interesting reading.
Son-Possibly. But little heavy, l
fancy.-Munsey' Weekly.
An officer Of the Sizty-ninth regiment,
of New York, says that when the regi-
ment turns out On parade it has band
of sixty-fve pieces, of which every man
gets SO excepting the leader, who gets
e12 The drum major gets 50 dav.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
A Queer Duck at Great Duck Island.

Queer Tfeat DUCK ts1dnu:
On Sept. 10 a colored individual, who
gave his name as 'Joe" Hopkins, came
ashore IN fourteen foot dory on Little
Duck island. Members of the lighthouse
department offered to take him to the
mainland, but he declined, and since
that time has lived on the island. Little
Duck is entirely devoid of vegetable
growth, and Hopkins has subsisted en-
tirely ON mussels. To procure these he
has been obliged to wade up to his waist
in water. He still refuses to go to the
mainland, but desires new boat. He
claims that he is en- route for Africa,
having started from Nova Scotia.-Cor
Boston Globe,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Hnrsa Sense vs. Fashion.

McAllister-I noticed you kept your
front blinds open all the summer.
Going out of society?
Smith-No; but we concluded that all
the people we really cared to have think
us out of town were out of town them
! selves Prick
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
The Growth OF London.

We are too frequently disposed to
think of the rapid growth Of our Ameri-
can cities as merely incidental to the
settlement of a new country, and to re-
gard the European cities as old and sta
tionary. It is true that their nuclei are
ancient, but so far as the greater part of
their built up area is concerned they are
almost or quite as new as the American
cities. They, like our own population
centers, have grown unprecedentedly in
recent decades as the result of modern
transportation and industrial systems.
Thus London today is five times as large
as it was at the opening Of the present
century. From 100000 at that time the
population of London grew to 100000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Daily Consumption of Water IN London.
London is said to require daily sup
ply of more than 150,000,000 gallons of
water. Of this 100000 gallons come
from deep wells in the chalk, the rest
from other sources, principally from the
rivers Thames and Lea. The water from
the chalk, though very free from organic
impurities, is exceedingly hard, and, if
not softened, costs the householder end
less expense for cleaning boilers and OBJ
structed pipes.-London Tit-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

twenty-five thousand salmon about
six months old will be put into the Hud-
son river about FIVE miles below Fort
Edward. Heretofore the salmon have
been planted in Adirondack streams
and it is believed that better results will
be reached by placing the young fish
further south,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

When Jean Coquelin, the only son of
the great actor, made his recent debut
on the classic boards of the Coincide
Franchise the father is said to have been
much more overcome by stage fright
than the son was. The house was crowd
ed, and the young actor was enthusiast
ically applauded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Induction,

Two Detroiters were closing a large
land deal the other day by telephone
when there came "zip!" and female
voice inquired:
lis Mrs. Jones homer"
NO" answered another.
$50 sorry! Well, just the minute she
comes do you tell her TO come right up
here"
"Sickness?'
'No. All my canned peaches have
begun to work and must be scalded over
againr'-Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
A Question Settled.

When a citizen has come to believe
he owns the earth it is well that he
should either receive his deed for the
same or discover that he was mistaken.
The supreme court of Michigan has de-
cided that no Detroit alderman even
owns the state. This is an awful bitter
dose to take, but will result in good
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

The Swiss railways intend to intro
duce the zone tariff for passengers, now
that the system proves so successful in
Austro-Hungary. During the first year
Of the zone tariff in Hungary the various
lines carried over thirteen million pas
sengers, against some five million during
the previous twelvemonth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

One Of the minor and yet pleasing evil
dences of the spread of civilization is
the increasing use Of the portable coal
chute in city and country. In the city
the pedestrian encounters fewer and
fewer coal hills. and in the country the
old custom of dumping the coal on the
ground is gradually falling into disuse
wherever chutes can be made available.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Gen. Merritt and all others who know
old Sitting Bull say that he is the biggest
coward ever known in his tribe He is
good at conspiracy. but when it comes
to actual fighting he can't stand up and
shoot and be shot at
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

the avalIaDlIlJy or the island Tor STOCK
raising has been amply proven, and
there is now no doubt that prosperous
future is before it.-Chicago Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Bow mother, when she learned that tune which
father whistled so,
Would say: There's something wrong today with
Ephraim, know
He never tries to make believe he's happy that
ere way
But that I'm certain as can be some trouble is to
pay!"
And so, betimes, quite natural like, TO us observant
youth
There seemed suggestion in that tune of deep pa
thetic truth
When Brother William joined the war lot of US
went down
To the gallant soldier boys right gayly out Of
town;
A-comin' home, poor mother cried as if her heart
would break
And all US children, too-for hers, and not for
Williams sakel
But father, trudgn on ahead, his hands behind
him So
Kept whistlin to himself, sort Of solemn like
and low
And when my eldest sister Sue was married and
went west,
Seemed like it took the tuck right out of mother
and the rest;
Ehe was the sunlight In our home-why, father
used to say
b wouldn't seem like home at all if Sue should 20
awayl
Yet when she went a-leaVin' us all sorrow and
all tears.
Poor father whistled lonesome like, and went to
feed the steers,
When crops were bad, and other Ills befeu our
homely lot,
He'd set around and try to act as if he minded
not;
And when came death and bore away the one he
worshiped SO,
How vainly did his lips belle the heart benumbed
with woel
You see the telltale whistle told mood he'd not
ad nit
He'd alovays quit his whistlin' when he thought
noticed it'll
I'd like to see that STOPPING form and hoary head
again
TO see the honest, hearty smile that cheered his
fellow men;
Oh. could l kiss the kindly lips that spake no
creature wrong,
and share the rapture Of that heart that over
flowed with song;
Oh, could hear the little tune he whistled long
ago,
When he did battle with the griefs he would not
have us know.
london, Oct %, 1890 Eugene Field
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

The German postoffice officials have
been experimenting with the North sea
cable, seventy-fve kilometers long, be-
tween Heligoland and Cuxhaven, to test
the possibility of using submarine cables
of considerable length for telephone
purposes The results have been very
favorable, distinct communication haV-
ing been obtained at both ends.
Machine for Turning Book Leaves.
A company is being promoted for the
purpose Of introducing a novel machine
for automatically turning over the leaves
of books, which is especially adaptable
for libraries hotels, railway stations,
shop windows, etc. 1.-The Herald Exhib-
itor," as it has been named, is the patent
of Mr. T. W. Tetley, Of Bradford, who
claims that the machine will work for
week or longer period, according to ad-
iustment, without attention, and win
turn over any size or weight Of leaves,
within reasonable limits, allowing suffi-
cient interval for perusal between each
operation. When leaf has been turned
over in either direction the machine au-
tomatically reverses, and SO arranges it
self as to be ready to raise the following
leaf, thus giving a continuous motion.
If the appliance fullfils all that is claimed
for it by the inventor, it seems highly
probable that an extensive use may be
found for it in public museums, libraries,
etc.-Industries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
NIurphy's Long Lean for Life,

Murphy's Long Leap for Life.
John Murphy. harness maker of
Cleveland, sat up with a sick friend at
Rocky river and started to walk home
next morning on the Nickel Plate tracl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Fathers Way. .
ITO Wilson Barrett.1

Ny father pessimist; he loved the things
of earth
Its cheerfulness and sunshine, it's music and its
mirth;
He never sighed or moped around whenever
things went wrong
warrant me he'd Knocked at fate with some de
faint song.
But being he warn't much on tune, whenever
times were blue,
He'd whistle softly to himself this only tune he
knew:
F@t1-afss s7e.735FE.@s4s7s PA
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
Coal Thieves Run a Coal Yard

Seven persons have been arrested at
Reading for Systematically robbing the
coal cars of the Reading railroad. 1t was
developed at the hearing that they
scraped the coal from the cars on the
sidings at Port Clinton, and virtually
supplied and operated large coal yard
from their Observation-Disclosures Rec
ord.
An American Theory.
ST hate to tell Smothers joke; he al
ways wants it explained-is it because
he's Scotch?
mo; it's because you are English
Life.
, 1891-06-19

Boone ard Carlotta, the world fame
lion tanners, who exhibit their lions
liberated and unmuzzled IN the circus
ring, are assisted IN their performance by
a magnificent German hunting hound,
which answers to the name Of Saxon. -
The dog was presented to Col. Boone by
Count Bismarck. These dogs are known
in Germany AZ the boar hound, " and
arc used in hunting the wild boar, and it
is only dogs of this breed that will not
run from a lion. Saxon accompanies the
lions throughout their entire performance,
lie Is to the lions what the shepherd : dog
is to the ilock-hc urges them on, stands
guard over them and is ever ready to do
his masters bidding. He is utterly fear
less, and to see this intelligent dog
running after the lions. barking at them,
nipping at their heels and assisting them
in their different acts, is delightful Said
Col. Boone, 81 would not take a thousand
times his weight in gold for this noble
dog. Boone aud his lions will be here
with Adam Forepaugh' show, on Friday,
Aug. n.
, 1891-06-19

ATcHIsoN, Kan, June 1.-THE
Burlington 4 Missouri River Railroad
company. which has extensive mileage IN
Western Kansas, will invest 800, 600 in
a system of irrigation in Cheyenne. the
extreme northwestern county in Kansas.
1t is only by developing the country as a
regular e~rop-prOduciug region that the
compaDy's lines in that section can be
made 10 lay, aud 1t has been determined
TO unite with the people I'D give IrTi-
gatIod a thorough test t. that end the
South Fork Irrigation K improvement
company has been organized. with a paid
up capital of 800. 600. The president OF
this company is G.. W. Holdredge,
general manager Of the Burlington &
Missouri, and the vice president, Il. o..
Phillips, who is secretary OF the Lincoln
Land company. a Burlington 4 Missouri
corporation that has extensive land and
townsite interests in that part Of the state.
The South Fork company has surveyed
100 miles OF bitches besides ~laterals IN
Cheyenne county. The main ditch
sommeuces near the Colorado line. twenty
two miles from the town of st. Francis.
An army ofmen aud teams are at work,
and it IS expected that much of the work
will be completed in time to turn water
on the wheat in the TALL should 1t be
Necessary. The system surveyed will
irrigate over 100000 acres of land that Is
now non-prOductive except IN most
favorable seasons.
, 1891-06-19

IHutialo ECnu.l
There are about $50 men at the Bald
Mountain gold'camp.
Deputy United States Marshal Canton
returned this morning from the southern
part Of the state. whittier he vent on a
successful chase alter a pair of criminals
who are wanted for murder 10 Idaho.
The men, Tom TAYLOR and his partner,
Moore. committed murder tear Silver
City. Idaho, about five years ago. and
they were recently located in Wyoming by
Canton, who went after them. The pair
started out of the state by rail, but lett
the cars and took flight on horse back.
Canton gave chase TO Taylor and caught
him near the Colorado line, subsequently
turning hitn over to an Idaho officer at
Rock Creek. Moore took an opposite di-
r%cctiOu, and as Canton was unable to di-
vide himself up int two parties, he got
away.
B. Amsden, Sr OF the Tongue river
country. aud Mrs. W. b. Wrighter, ST.,
of Sheridan. were married on LAST Satur-
day morning The groom is II years old
aud the bride well along in the sixties.
The latter has a gIandchild residing at
Sheridan
, 1891-06-19

When you feel a kind of goneness
about the stomach it is a sign that YOU
food does not sit well aud that you are
about TO have a fl of indigestion.
When you begin to feel nervous and
are unable to SIT still comfortably; when
your clothes suddenly seem to lose their
ft and become too tight in places the fit
Of indigestion is surely upon you.
When this fit Of Indigestion is repeated
from day to day it finely resolves itself
into dyspepsia.
Chronic dyspepsia will surely make the
happiest lite a hell upon earth.
Remember that three to ten of Bran.
dreth's Pills will cure the worst case Of
Indigestion or dyspepsia. or both, and
that a regular course of them, say two
every night for a week or ten days will act
as a preventive OF either complaint.
, 1891-06-19
sheepshend hny Races.

SHEEpsHEAD BAY, June Is.-Track
fast.
Foam stakes. 2-Year-oids-Merry Mon
arch won, Airplant second, Fremont third.
Time, i:Ol : 3.
Miie-Ciyil Service Won, Tcrrifer sec
ond, Richal third. Time, l:43 80.
Guarantee hadicap, mile and a quarter
-Uno Grand won. Hoollum second.
John Cavanagh third, Time, 2:lO35.
Mile and a half-Riloy won, Banquet
second, Demuth third. Time. 2:35 8.
Mile and one-eighth-Longford won.
Lepanto second, Gettysburg third. Time,
1853.
Lewis second, Tammauy third. Time.
200 %.
, 1891-06-19
BE rs
Nature Made You

.z9-sS Turn up your sleeve or
S turn down the neck of your
kfA<4r1S dress. Observe how white
and clear the skin Is, Nature
- - made the skin as white and
~ u clear on your face as that on
your arm or neck Neglect.
A. exposure, alkaline water
and perhaps llEhealth,
49, h-avecaused the skin on
~ % NO your face TO become
Ji-FI trough and dlscolored
~ LZ<Lrtt and otherwise blem.
ZJ.> <o-f ished. If you would
$@'H~ - have as clear and pure
and white a Skin on your face as on the unex-
posed parts Of your person, first use Mrs. Ora
hams FACE BLEACH until you nave re-
moved all blemlshes and discoloratlons from
the skin; then after that is done. use her
CUCUMBER AND ELDER FLOWER
CREAM to protect II from wind and sun,
and To cleanse 1t and keep Its pores in active
and healthy condition., and you may always
have a skin and complexiona as pure and clear
then be las regards complexionl "as nature
made you" Face Bleach is sI.50 per bottle.
G. & e. f. cream, 81 90 per bottle. For sale by
all druggists. MRS. GERNAISE GRAHAM,
Beauty Doctor" 1903 Post street, San Fran
cisco, treats ladies for every blemish or defect
Of face or figure. Send stamp for her little
book, "How to BE Beautiful.
For sale in Cheyenne by Mrs Il. r. Bode,
Maple Terrace, corner Eighteenth and Fergu-
son streets, and by the following druggists:
r.. f.. Roedel, seventeenth street; b. b. David.
Sixteenth and Eddy streets; Rhodes Il Trox-
ell, seventeenth and Ferguson streets.
Wholesale agents-A. W. Hover q Co, Dem
yer; Myer Bros. Drug company, ST. Louis;
Morrison, Plumme & Co., Chicago.
, 1891-06-19

NV NoRK, June lS.-The settlement
between the city Of Chicago and the gas
trust aud the reduction Of the minimum
rate OF discount by the Bank OF England,
excited a favorable influence on the stock
market this morning, but tree offerings
o o n~eutralized the gains and the market
became dull. Final changes are goner-
ally in the direction OF higher prices.
Governments dull.
Petroleum-July closed at Ga.
Money on call. easy: closed offered at ,
Bar Silver, gSt.
C0pper-Steady Lake, June, $I2s5
LNad-Steady. Domestic, 81 40.
Wn-Quiet.
Following are closing prices OF stock.
q. s. As. registered. lT4 L. 5. Is,
D Isl. Pacific Gs, @. Atchison.
32I. American Express. -. Canada Pa
cite. Tgl, Canada Southern, 49l. Central
Pacific. 81, Burlington, Sg4, Delaware,
lackawanna X Western. 3Gs: Denver \
RIO Grande. 4st: Erie, l94 Kansas 4
Texas. l4l, Lake Shore, lOl; Louisville
4 Nashville. T3A. Michigan Central. SO,
Missouri Pacific. oct Northern Pacific
24t. preferred, 67l Northwestern. loot,
preferred. 1924, New York Central.
1904. Oregon Navigation. II Oregon
Improvement, p; North American. IA,
Pacific Mail, 36I; Reading, 3ll Rock
Island. ~ Milwaukee Il st. Paul.
G4g; st Paul & Omaha. PSI. Texas Pa
cifc, 49,. Union Pacific. a., Fargo tx
press. -, Western Union. 81; Oregon
Short Line. % American cotton oil 25,
Rio Grande Western, SO; preferred, n;
firsts. 100.
$1,000 Market slow and lower. Extra
steers So. OO(dG 30; good to choice, g. 7O(d
$50, others, SA75la5 50; Texans, 81 60
(a3.4O.
Sheep-Receipts 1000. Market weak
irregular aud lower. Stock ewes. 90 5O(G
40. others. 81 5OG64S 50: wethers and
yearlIEe.. S5.OOln5. 30. Mesterns. SI.s5.
, 1891-06-19

will be more or less bowel complaint IN
this vicinity. Every person. and espe-
cially families, ought to have some reliable
medicine at hand for instant use in case
1t Is needed. A twenty five or fifty cent
bottle OF Chamberlain collie, cholera and
dirrrhea remedy is Just what you ought
to have and all hat you would need, even
Tor the most severe and dangerous cases.
IL is the best, the most reliable and most
successful treatment known and is pleas.
ant to take. For sale by A. Il. Roedel.
, 1891-06-19

CHICAGO, June ls.-Mile aud one
sixteenth-Carus won, Ida Bridge second,
st. Adams third. Time, 1858.
Time. l:O43.
Mile and MISUNDERSTANDING
won. Aticus second. Fakir third Time.
1884.
Th~rec-quatters Of a milc--Red Light
won. Creole second, Kenounce third.
Time. l:lS.
Fifth race declared off.
Three quarters OF a mile-Lizzie Lynn
won. Armiel second, Hcaly John third.
Time. l.lSA.
, 1891-06-19

To ranchmen and Iarmers-For sale at
much less than cost: Champion moving
machines. Holllngsworth improved sulky,
hay rakes, two hay sweeps or go devils,
one tiger self dump hay rake, boss sickle
grinders. plows and cultivators, lard oil
for machines, iron and wagon material
aud blacksmith tools and other articles too
numerous to mention. All will be sold
for less than cost as | want to close out
this line of business. Also one new large
safe, weight, 300 pounds.
III. HAAS.