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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19
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"A short time age a. CIDER We
operation upon the Loston etttt.
ways requiring conductors T. %
feminine passengers as do.
The always cheerful Chatter.
Boston Herald tells us that, in l.u -
ance of the order. the conductor ies1
ing very hard to cure himself Of
habit of calling his feminine passeu.
gers "lady" and "Mrs. Lady" but Ii
has not as yet hit upon a uniform metA.
Cd of addressing them, and, in his il.
decision, has resort to 'hi," say
'missis" and "ma'am;" but he viii
doubtless settle upon the right thin9
eventually. The other day, on a Hunt
ington emu car, a conductor, whf
had evidently given much attention
TO the subject, won special distinction
for himself by the use of the wore
madame i'm this regard. But Their
IL no rose without a thorn. Among Ii
passengers was q, colored girl, who car
ried q large bundle, doubtless tn
weeks wash of some patron. Sh'
asked him to stop at n certain street
and when the car arrived there he SAT-
to the gentle Afro-American; "This /
your street, madame" She at ono
gave him an angry look, and said witt
marked asperity: who's yer calm
madame? Watcher mean by insultin
me? I'd have you know Tn a lady,
am" With which she hustled indig
nantly to the street. The conducto
looked perplexed and as he rang TIL
bell with a vicious jerk he contentious
ly observed: "She amt no lady, any
how, even If she amt a madame" l
is hard to please everybody.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

The wheat king Of the world belongs
to Argentina. He is an Italian emf
grant named Guazone, and his broad
acres are situated in the south of the
province of Buenos Ayres. His crop oc.
cupies an area of 6s. 270 acres. He mum,
bers his workmen by the thousand, and
each one receives a certain share of tbs
profits. When his seasons crop is har
vested he fills yer 1900 railway trucks
with grain.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19
Ka1oe- go ns...Avn~a.

Inc ,rtnightly Review, discussing
hase williams reign. sums up the
reS' Its OF his activity in foreign politics
81 ace his dismissal of Prince Bismarck
as follows: IA Germany has lost her
/ position as the leading power ! Eu-
rope; (2) Russia has taken her place;
(3) the triple alliance has almost ceases
to exist; "a France has become the
ally of Russia; (s) England has been
alienated from Germany; TO- the Don
between Russia and Germany mas peer
snapped and not renewed.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19
Deafness Cannot be Cured


by local applications, as they canpo,
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness 10 caused by an infamed coudi'
ton of the mucous lining Of b Eases-
chian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have q rumbling sound o.
imperfect hearing, and when it IL estise
ly closed deafness 10 the result, and an
less the inflammation a be taken GU
and this tube restored to its normal CON
dition, hearing will be destroyed for.
ever: nine cases out Of ten are caused b.
catarrh which 10 nothing blu. an inasni
ed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Handred Dollars fol-
any cass. of Deafness (csused ty catarrh
that cannot be cured Nv Halls Catsrrl
Cure. Send for circulsrs. free.
FL. CHENEY & co. Toledo, Q
Sold by Drugg ssts, 7Sc.
Halls Family Pills are the hest.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19
,,o,nan Suffrage In n..,.na.

Women in England have the local
government franchise in counties and
boroughs on the same conditions as
men, and a recent return shows how rel
the counties and boroughs of England
and Wales there are altogether 5,326,ST
local government electors; of these
only 729,75s are women-that is to say,
women form less than one-seventh OF
the electorate.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19
FISH WITH NO TAIL.
Queer Discovery In . Muddy Pool In
DevOnnhirc, England.

A few weeks ago one of the most ex-
traordinary fish ever known came to
light in Devonshire, says the London
Rambler. 1t was a club, found in a
muddy pool, and certainly it was as
hideous a thing rs one could well i'm
agine. 1t was imprisoned in n sort OF
cage formed of the roots of an elm
tree that projected under the water,
and it had evidently wormed it's way
into this prison when quite small. Be-
ing unable to find its way out, it had
been forced to grow in the shape OF it's
cage instead of the natural form that
all club should take. With no room to
develop, the fish's tail had disappeared
altogether, save for a little deformed
stump that had wedged its way be-
tween the roots of the tree. The bach
fin had also vanished, for there was nc
room for it to grow in. The whole
body Of the luckless club was dis.
torted and had grown into the gnarled
and twisted form of the root cage. The
scales were incrusted with mud ana
arranged in layers, like roof states.
1t rs . puzzle to imagine how the fish
fed and lived during it's growing years
in that watery prison, and what it die
when times were hard and NO foot
came by. 1t seemed contented enough
and was certainly healthy and strong
in spite Of its distorted shape.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19
En.li.A Idea of Justice.

An English woman who was injured
in her garden by q falling telephone
wire recovered $1,25O damages. An Ed
monitor woman who suffered after
drinking a part of u bottle OF ale SAT-
to have contained a dead mouse sued
the retailer and was awarded $3.50 dan
ages. A Bromley grocer was ordered .
pay sos damages for injuries sustsans
by a customer by the spontaneous igni-
ton Of a box OF "safety" matches.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

Wny Cnta Hs%ii etk .ASfr Feets
Why does a getaway s fall on its feet?
This is q question that has recently
absorbed the earnest attention of the
French Academy of Sciences. The
problem is clearly a difficult one, for
that learned body of savants has so far
failed to offer "a final solution. M.
Marcy, a distinguished professor who
has made a special study of animal
movements, claims that the body of a
cat is composed of two parts, n of
which acts as a pivot for the other.
Upon dropping, the cat, it appears,
paws upward, and then by a series Of
%conyulsive movements, it gradually
rights itself and reaches the ground in
an upright position. The W.
process of turning is accomp'' .ioi
fore the animal has fa'' -1shed be
Without a fulcrum. len a yart
to lean against without somethin
not accom- the cat certainly coul
declare. rlish the feat, Nj. Mare
an that the animals limbs az
IN q fulcrum which its W BODY pr
vides.-Detroit Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

teal result, and that has enabled W
Yankee Doodles to go home cheerful
and c~learJheaded many an evening
when our foreign cousins were speech,
lasn0
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19
IDAHO COUNTY
Election Precincts, Registrars
and Polling Places.

Mt. Idaho Precinct-M II Truscott.
registrar; F Cowan, Geo R Odle, Will
liam Hood, Judges; Joseph K Vincent.
distributing clerk. Polling place: Court
house.
Commencing at the northwes, corner
OF section a, Twp so, N of X 3, E B NJ,
Fl ON thence running due south TO White
Bird creek, thence due east to the south
fork fthe Clearwater river; thence up
said river to Meadow creek; thence from
the mouth of said creek northerly
to Green creek where the section line
between secs % and "a in twp so N of X
a, T. B M, crosses said creek, thence
down said creek to the south fork of the
Clearwater river; thence up said river 10
a point due east of the S E corner of the
said section IS, in twp 80, N OF K 8, E B
Nj; thence due west to the S E corner OF
the said section "a twp 80 N Of K g. B
NJ; thence due north to Butcher creek
thence up said creek to the twp line be-
tween twps 80 and 81, N of R 8, Il B Nj;
thence west along said line to the place
of beginning.
Glangeville precinct--H { Johnson,
registrar; A Turner, w Henderson,
Gil Schmadeka, judges; distributing
clerk, Walter Hickerson. Polling place
Odd Fellows hall.
Commencing at the N w corner Of
section q, in twp 80, N OF K 8. M
from thence running west to the north
west eorncr of section 2, i'll twp 80, N o
r 2, + B NJ; thence south nine miles
| thence east a miles, hence north mini
miles TO place of beginning.
r.. n Kar1o, ~..tc
trar; James Sloan, R c Day, William
Coranl, judges; Robert Walker, distribu
ting clerk. Polling pace: Sunnysid'
school house.
Commencing at the S w corner of Sc
IS, in twp 81, n OF r 2, + M; iron
thence running north 10 twp line be
tween twps 81 and 80, n of 2, E B NJ
thence east along said twp line to Cot
tonwood creek thence down said creel
to the south fork Of the Clearwater river
thence up said river to the mouth .
Butcher creek: thence up said creek t
the twp line between twps 80 and 81,
OF r ) Il B NJ; thence west along said tw
line to place Of beginning.
Harpster precinct-H c Oliver, regis
trar; Thomas Surridge, w M Clark
Thomas Goodwin, judges; George |
Hansen, distributing clerk. Pollin
place; School house.
Commencing at the $ e corner of Sc
IS. in twp 80. n of g. + b M; froi
thence running due north TO Bu,chs
creek: thence down said creek to til
south fork of the Clearwater rive ;thenc
down said river TO the mouth OF Sail
Ann gulch; thence up said gnlch 10 Wa
creek; thence up Wall creek to the sc
line between the secs as and 26, in tw
81, II Of r 4, Y u MI thence south
Green creek, thence down Green cree
to the south fork of Clearwater rive
thence up said river to a point due ca
of the s e corner of sec IS, twp 80, II
r 3. Il u NJ; thence due west to said $
corner of sec IS. twp 20, n OF r ;, e b n
the place of beginning.
Clearwater precinct-Allen ID Stepl
-. ~on,cto~. u q Copv1inu GaoFUa
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

Miners and p~rospectors headed for
Elk City, Newsonie and Dixie will do
we'll TO call on O'Bannon & Clark for
mining supplies.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

For accommodations, fair trcntinen
and goods At bedrock prices. such q
groceries, hardware, dry goods and min
Ing supplies, try O'Kannon & elesk
Clearwater bridge. Harpster, Idaho.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

The soda fountain l. again started at
the Bon Bon, where you can row get .
healthful r~efreshing drink for only e .
glass.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

Clearwater precinct-Allen d Steph-
ems, registrar; B c Cowling. George W
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19

county line; from thence running south
to the southwest corner of twp 81. n off
!, vi III; thence due east along the
south line Of said twp to the place of be-
ginning.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-08-19


Ferdinand precinct-Frank NJ. Biekd
registrar; Benz Steele, H { Quiglet'
Francis Bieker, judges: Otto Refs. ds,
tributing clerk. Polling place: Sch0e
house.
Commencing at the sc corner 9
sec IS, twp 81, N off /. EB M; %runnins
thence north about SIX miles to Law
yer's Canyon; thence west up Lawyer
Canyon to q point where said Canyo,,
i~ntersects sec line between secs al %.
"a in twp 50, N of r I, W; thence souu
on said G line to old reservation hns
thence along reservation line in soul
easterly direction TO sec line betwee
secs IS and ~. twp az, N of Il I. " |.
thence east to place Of beginning, grsss
ed; and It is hereby ordered that =
territory be designated and known !
Ferdinand precinct.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01

How. long has 1t taken you from Damascus to
 we have done the journey in three days; 1t might aoeonPished 6ut there being no necessity for Then the general remaining silent said to himself
 He cast cast his eyes over the ambassador had with him and ha they 5 9desd Prince Isnael himself received Haziddin ambassador and the pomp spendor of that reception worthy %sPr h o in e ear of put the hs found " but o s od e o%r have been month on the road. wandering among the r5s the 9nP b ns he derng the mountains It might well be that the which warriors from Damascus might 5 fall all % Baabek return directly @ to Daascus rather than venture & within thin this would have been the crafty method to fr % M unless had to the whole party practically prisoners within the walls of anbassad9r bass a to ] his chief in in Dam Danascgs
 what was passing through his mind but the last reception of the anbassador PTeparaon had been made thropghout the East not only as dpiomast but also The prince now gave orders that his officers were to entertain the etnue of the ambassador at the public exeePtona honor of asking him o to his table thus with his followers after they had entered of It impossible for Haziddin to demur he could but bow low and accept the hospitality which might at princes manner was so genial and friendly that the
 
 with and he suspected sinister motive beneath the cordiaity of the prince.
 The red wine of Lebanon is strong and his highness Ismae pressed it his urging that his days journey had been fatiguing The had asked that his servant might wait upon him. the prince would hear of 1t, and that him not themselves the first nobies in BaalDek.
 You represent Omar, Governor of Damascus of King Ayoub, and as such receive you terms of equality with myself
 The ambassador at first nonplused with lavishness that most unusual, gradually his diidence and became with the wine and failed O that prince himself remained sparingly At the head HaZiddin sank breast he recined full length the couch he occupied falling into drunken stupor for indeed he
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01
osED CAGE CONTAINING FOUR PIGEONS.

and had spent the night before sleepless.
 s M eoah ea fe fo his or enough to hold them and here the prince saw the am t %a of dt aaek ad living the would in few hours be in the hands of the o also possessed carrier pigeons and used them as and at Antioch, he not ignorant of their con- seqgsnce ., u,,ossoaor ,,r,ss,, carried tb,s
 m oRaf a @ ht to Rese otherwise Hazddn would have entrusted Sa his general t9S5 the girdle the but @ take Ike thu the @ a Psssaf2s eep PssSas 1 prae M sfa 9 shs t9 ae eag ff no h af 1s thus transfer made without the knowledgs of the him that the cage to the sd gre de Rs eondsd hes 1sna n,se,t m smn+n the palace But he had hszy remem6Tapss nee first % the h5assF Ren @ r f c ne S 9d 5 which had been UT under his e0a finding E. % th an f0p @ but h h0Ds a M e m he ha na in S h prince eeved m with endshp being % ad % the of the W oanq na % @ strength The prince waved all reference to the same occasion and had but slight recoeotion
 assigned to the ambassador of the palaces ths d ga m % ton He speedily learned that of the armies of Baal bek the north Antioch the other to the Trpo leaving the practically unprotected and this unprecedented of affairs jumping coin cident with the designs his that he hasened to communicate the intelligence He wrote:
 ''If Baalbek is immediately attacked, 1t cannot
 be protected. Half of the army Is at the shore of
 the Mediterranean Tripoli, the other half is
 north at Antioch The prince has suspicion. If
 you conceal the main body of your army behind the
 hills to the south of Baalbel and yourself
 with small retinue, sending notice to the prince
 of your arrival he will likely himself come out to
 the gates to to meet you, and having secured his
 gates, march into Baabek unmolested
 Once with force inside the walls of Baalbek the
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01


 s his and gazed down upon the famous city of F BaaIbek, seeing it for the first time The \ night*before he had encauped on the heights to \ \ the south of Baalbek. and had sent forward to
 that city messengers the prince. carrying
 greetings and acquanting him with the @ fac5 taat @ an embassy from governor awaited per enter gates The had not yet risen but the spendor in the East lighting the sky with wondrop coiorngs of gold and crimson and green announceu @ t speedy coming of that god which many of the inhabitants Baalbek still worshiped"
 from the flaming sky and Haziddin, the ambassador, e9nng ne h had eogy 'p' The great city lay in silence but the the of the sun appeared above the n3zon the ehce 4s broken 6 faint sound or Gn@nng b6 from had % besto9ed the Sun lowered oyer all other budgS in the Pafe & ans h first rays upon this ediee striking iron it nffaay ] g a they were fashioned from the pure snows Of distant The sun. seemed handspring of activity as well as an object of adoraton for before 1t hd oee9 many % @ from the newly opened gate convoy that qc afe as edmmnd s whR speedily eTeed the tents and @ ooe s en m 4 the e Prince @ to the gito W hat deerenta so beloved of the Eastern people and together they & doWn the naly with the followers of the other As if the detes to show the futility mans foresight thoughtess renue made of the followed Boal. bek general. wrought ruin to empire and saved
 A mule driSeT Baalbek said to one his lowly er city seemed superior breed those southern the ehtng ea reped na he nues @ Damascus journeyfng month without through Ra Rog m y par e To9 in no we e a As sf sa6e m yosr5 @ b oge a north of the mueteer of the former place his fellow why they had among knew s ao OsE o m but aa h @ s e n had to content himself tale went from 'a1 mouth of the BaaI6ek @ until m it M reached & the turning to the ambassador said having nofhng ese 3se
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01

ness of the key and the succession of clicks. He talks to his machine as he would talk to a friend, never think ing how he forms his words or letters. some of these wonders can even seno upon one key and receive from another simultaneously. It is the same in the matter of receiving. In reading a page of print the reader never stops to sep arate the sentences into words and the words into letters. He does not spell. The shape of the word is enough. It is so with the expert operator. The gen eral sound of the clicks is all that is necessary.
 The writer remembers once talking with a telegrapher at a time when his whole attention was absorbed by what l was saying. For over ten minutes an instrument had been clicking away near at hand. Suddenly my friend wheeled sharply about and went to the key. He had heard his name in the clicks of the instrument. To him it could not have been plainer than 1T some one had shouted 1t in his ear.
 Another curious fact is style in tele- graphing. The manner of the clicks themselves varies enough to enable an operator to detect at once variations in the sendings. The writer has seen cases of this in the Western Union of- fees. Philadelphia calls up New York and the receiver In New York at once responds with: Hello. Tom, is that you?" or Dick or Harry recogniz- ing the different men by the style and manner of their Morse" as friends would recognize one another over the telephone by the sound of the voice. There were two operatorss once in Sal amanca, N. T., great chums, who used to telegraph to each other by the hour from different ends of the town during slack business.
 One of these men-his name was Sturgis-went West finally, got mixed up in an Indian row and. according to report, was killed Five years later his friend was in the Western Union
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01

office of New York on a Sunday after noon, when business was dull. He was sitting upon a receiving desk, when Chicago called up, asking who was there. Instantly the man on the desk jumped to the key and sent back, "Sturgis. is this you? We heard that you had been killed" And Sturgis it was, sure enough Just what it is that gives this style to operators, and precisely what the styleiitself may be. cannot be very clearly explained, but telegraphers have their styles for all that, just as writers do, and they can be detected thereby.
 But the expert, or even the average operator, is not confined to his key in the matter of sending messages. Two operators can talk to each other by the mere touch of their fingers in the dark. or, if needs be, can communicate to each other in crowd, unnoticed, by the same method.
 There is a story of Edison-the wiz ard-that is well worth repeating here. Edison was marvellous operator in his younger days and at one time managed to transmit his messages even when his wires had been broken. He was the agent in a railway station located upon one side of the Ohio; the next sta- tion was on the other bank of the river and also in a railway office. On the day that the wires parted all communica- ton was cut off until Edison got aboard q switch engine that was stand ing at the depot and began calling up the other side by means of the engines whistle The other operator understood at length, and during almost the entire day the two engines were hoarSely whistling messages at each other.
 Homer sometimes mods, and even the expert operatorscan make mistakes. C.. s. Lawton, sometime employe in the Western Union offices, tells the follow ing amusing anecdote on himself. He was receiving a dispatch from Albany, in which the sender was not over care
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01
BIGGEST MOOSE HEAD IN THE WORLD,

1.-THE monarch of all the has been slain
 sive head, adorned by the magnificent anters of \ which record, office of
 c. F. Periolat, the Masonic Temple, Chicago. = valued at
 idea of obtained by comparing the spread of the aners the distance across from tip with the distance between the finger tips of man with outstrechd arms The average stretching fingers the reach from 6 to 69 inches The aners of this monster "A inches inches The antlers of the
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01


 NE 1nent of telegrap phers to be held
 in New York at the Madison
 Square Garden during the month of May underethe auspices of the New York Electrical Society.
 Roughly, the tournament Is divided into two big classes, the sending events and the receiving events, the former being much the more important. Competitors in the sending events send off as many words as they possibly can during a period of five minutes. Those in the receiving events take" as many words as possible sent to them during a period of thirty minutes. In the tournament of 1898 some surprising records were made.
 F. J. Kihm of the Brooklyn Eagle staff, c. D. White of the Associated Press and Frank Catlin tied at PAS words, though White had few errors against him at the finish. Gibson made a record of 246 words, Frank English 239 and Hinnant 236.
 All these men are expected to com pete again this year, and 1t Is quite possible that last years best record may be bettered by one of them. The prize in each class will be S100 for first and $75 for second place. Special events will be a sending contest, limited to female operators, and code contest for senders and receivers, unknown matter in the Phillips code to be ham, died.
 The expert telegrapher is as far re- moved from the ordinary operator as is the orator from the stammering school boy. In sending his dispatches all the mechanical side of his craft seems to