Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-05-22

knew l was in there. So went home
Smith said l may go. He never told
me the county was paying for me
instead of the lodge. neither did
know 1t until | was home about three
weeks, when one day as ! was going
to pay my lodge payment and told
one of my neighbors | WAS going to
pay the Woodcraft. She knew | did
not know ! was put on the county
She said TO me, Mrs Beames, do
you know who paid for you in the
hospital" | told her my lodge did
and she said mo. your lodge didn't,
the county did" then went to Dr.
Smith and asked him why he had
made me believe my lodge was putting
me there, when he knew he had put
me on the county. He lied to me and
defrauded me out of my right and
honor. He said he knew if he told
my husband and | that | was going
on the county that would not go.
told him. no indeed, ! would have went
for | had husband that was plenty
able-bodied and willing to work for
me. And that if wanted to put my
self up as pauper | would have
called the county physicians. My hus-
band had work at the National saw
mill and was working every day They
would not let me find out their dirty
work, but hired the ambulance from
McTaggart Undertaking parlors and
hauled me to the Sisters hospital and
at the same time, DR.. Smith begged
of me to place confidence in him,
and after they placed me on the pau
per list at MontesanO, he still eX-
pected me to pay him, but wasn't man
enough to write statement and send
me but would ask me every time he
would get chance paid him before
went to the hospital for his services
and would have paid him every cent
| owed him, but he put me on the poor
list and defrauded the county, 50 if
he didn't get it it wasn't my fault. |
told him now as they We're so wise
if he didn't get his pay he could 20
to the county and get it, that | would
not pay him a red cent. During my
trial at MontesanO DR.. Smith had i'm
portant business away from home for
when the subpoena was to be served
he could not be found in Centralia.
| still suffered constantly with
ovarian trouble for one year follow
ing this operation. DR.. Smith has
injected morphine in my arms as high
as six times TO relieve the pain, then
turned in and chloroformed me- After
this poisonous drug would die in my
system | would be writhng in pain
again. suffered so much pain that
my spine would contract, causing my
knees and head to touch DR.. Smith
injected so much morphine in my body
at that time as to cause me to loose
my speech, and for several days |
could not speak. | cannot understand
what Kept me from becoming a NOR
phine tiend. for | was kept alive on the
poisonous drug for over one year. |
still continued suffering until January
1910, when | was advised by two more
we'll known hospital doctors of Ho-
GUAM to undergo an abdominal oper-
alton for the removal of my right
ovary. 1t should have been removed
Oh the second operation. | had suffer
ed so much and so long from being
slashed to pieces by inches, that | !
was willing to try almost anything
to ge relief The doctors said | would
be well woman if | would give my
consent to an operation, which ! did. |
was taken to the Hoquiam General
hospital on Jan. is. 1910. at 10 O'Clock, |
a. m, and was operated on at one in |
the afternoon by Doctors Hurley and !
Watkins. Just before was taken to |
the operating room. DIR. Hurley asked |
me If ! was insured and | told him /
was. Then he asked me for how /
much | carried. and In what order.
told him was insured for one thou
sand dollars in the Women Of the
Woodcraft. While in this operation
very low and near death
for several days and vomited con.