Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-16
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.

Queer Facts and Thrilling Adven.
lures Which Show That Truth ID
Stranger Than Fiction.
BOB VoRus hates an alligator. Al
least this statement is made by the Lump
kin (Ga.) Independent. The uncanny
appearance of the big ugly saurian il
sufficiently forbidding to most people to
make them despise him; but Bob has
better reason than that: they destroy his
fish and pigs and would destroy his
geese and ducks if he had any. six or
eight years ago Bob started goose farm
on his mill pond. He knew the value of
feathers, and thought the people would
appreciate the opportunity of obtaining
them near home for making pillows and
beds. His big mill pond was such fine
place for them to swim and live and raise
in. SO he got up five or six hundred
pairs of geese and put them on his pond
They were in their glory, and the water
was dotted with the white and blue of
their plumagc from morring till night as
they gracefully gliled over the placid
expanse Of the pond. Their nests were
built in the rushes along its sides, and
their melodious voices reverberated along
its banks from end to end. But they did
not increase according to Bob's notion
their numbers were diminishing peicept-
IDLY. A dead one could be seen occa-
sionally drifting along the edge of the
bordering rushes. At first Bob thought
it might be minks, offers, skunks, pos
sums, or what not, that were destroying
them, but soon found out that it was
alligators, for he actually saw one day
ono of the ugly creatures catch goose
and pull it under the water. Partly eaten
geese would sometimes be found. In
the course of few months Bob had the
same big pond of water. but not a single
goose-and, rs aforesaid, Bob hates an
alligator. and he and his ten boys have
been occupying the dull summer months
in killing them.
MIR. CAMPBELL, the big rancher of
Texas, whose scheme for discriminating
coyotes by inoculating them with the
mango was mentioned not long ago, re-
ports that the plan promises success. His
plan Is to catch wolves or COYOTES in a
trap and put them in a corral with dog
badly affected with the mango, and after
they have become infected to turn them
loose to spread the disease. 1t is said the
disease is incurable. Mr.. Campbell has
infected and turned loose about twenty
coyotes and wolves in this way in three
or four months. He has not vet found
any dead wolves, but he has trapped sew
eral that had the disease in an advanced
stage, from which he concludes it is
spreading. He says nothing but a cur
uivorouo lfxv;ll A.
consequently there is no danger to stock
in spreading it. Wolves and coyotes
haze greatly increased in recent years in
spite of all attention to clean them out,
and stockmen are watching Mr.. Camp
bells scheme with interest.
A CURIOUS accident recently befell the
four-year- old child of Frank Larsen. a
Swede farmer near Skowhegan, Me-, in
which the little fellow swallowed
newly Matched turtle. The creature,
which was about the size of half dollar,
had been sent the mother from the South,
and the boy was playing with it, put
ting it in his mouth, after the pe-
culiar fashion of children to clap
everything there that comes in their way.
The mother heard the boy gasping for
breath, and running to it saw that some
hard object had become lodged in the
upper throat. A doctor was hurriedly
summoned, and after some difficulty
succeeded in getting hold of the obstruc-
ton, and drew it forth to his own and
Mrs. Larsen's establishment. The turtle
had drawn in its limbs on finding itself
in close quarters, and was little the worse
for its singular experience, but the boy
was almost suffocated.
FREEMAN BIeGs, of Hutton township
eight miles from Charleston, Ill.,, carries
the scalps of 81 900 squirrels at his belt,
so to speak. As his reputation for truth
and veracity is good, his neighbors do
not dispute his claim that he has slaugh-
tered 500 deer, 300 wild turkeys, and
more prairie chickens than he had time
to count. The mighty Nimrod is II
years old, and his sight is just as good
as ever, SO good, in fact, that if the bullet
from the rifle he has carried for many
years fails to strike Mr.. Squirrel between
the eyes he will hardly throw the animal
in his game bag-and squirrels are worth
from 12i to Is cents. For thirty-tive
years "Freem" Biggs has hunted ''bush
tails" and the proceeds of his accurate
aim have bought fine farm on which he
reared family of ten children.
The natives of the San Bias coast, part
OF the western coast of South America.
have many peculiar customs. The Indian
boy, after his marriage, becomes the
slave OF his father in-law, and must sub
NIT in all things to his will until eman-
cipated by his own daughters marriage,
when he sets up his own home and be-
comes thenceforth master of his son-in-
law. The men are very jealous of their
women. and, in case Of war or other
grave danger, their first step is to kill
their wives and children. They believe
dreams and insanity to be the work of
evil spirits, and the dreamer. upon tell
ing HIS dream, is killed. The insane are |
burned alive. They allow no foreigner
to sleep in one of their villages. The
total population of San Bias 10 supposed !
to be about 10000.
WOLF. Chief OF the Palouse Indians.
ID rich and happy. According to A