The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-10-29
VIM Elder is out from Yellow

Jacket.
VIM. Slime has returned from
his visit to Bellvue. He intends
to remain in Challis this winter.
Gentlemen, what is your YER
dict ?" asked his honor in
western court room. Wall"
responded the foreman of the
jury, Eleven of us wants to hang
the prisoner, but twelfth man
sticks to it he amt guilty, spite
of all we can say-so bein' as the
twelfth man is no account fell
Ter. anyway, in order to make
the verdict unanimous we've con-
cluded to hang 'em both"
Now that G. P. Huntington,
the mogul of the Southern Pac-
ific railroad robbers, has been
interviewed concerning the Butte
Boise & SanFrancisco railroad
enterprise and declares that
money never can be raised to
build it, we begin to believe
more than ever in the undertak-
ing. SanFrancisco has felt the
weight of Mr.. Huntington's
monopoly for many years. She
has lost the trade of the inter
mountain country through rail
road building from the eastward
She has let the Southern Pacific
Company rule and ruin her trade.
If she now don't bend all her en-
ergies to secure this road she
will remain in the sump.-De
Lamar Nugget.
The following is a modern rem
dition of the ancient document,
taken from an exchange
l. I am the Lord and nobody
else.
2. Thou shalt have no other
gods before me, nor behind me,
nor make any carved figures like
unto me either celestial, terres-
trial or aquatic.
3. Thou shalt not curse nor
gossip about thy neighbor.
4. Remember the Sabbath
day. Six days shalt thou cheat
the gentle; but on the seventh
day thou shalt be doleful and
rest.
5. Honor thy pa and thy ma,
that thy days may be fourteen
hours long on the ranch.
6. Thou shalt not kill, except
peradventure it be a hereto.
z. Thou shalt not do as the
preachers are wont to do.
8. Thou shalt not steal or
borrow thy neighbor's newspaper
9. Thou shalt not lie, except
it be for the benefit of the church.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor's mansion, his cottage
at Newport, nor his peanut stand
at Coney Island, etc.
VIM. Slater and Jas. II. Ander-
son who returned from Middle
Boise Tuesday. made discovery
which will be of interest to all
old timers of Idaho. About II
miles northwest of Rocky Bar
while prospecting the country,
they came upon an old dirt cabin
which had tumbled in with age.
About fifty feet to the west they
found the remains of an old tun-
mel in the hill which had also
caved in. Night coming on they
decided to camp at the cabin as
there was a nice spring of water
adjacent. In the morning they
decided to explore the old works.
A few hours work opened up the
old tunnel. 1t had been driven
about 45 feet. In it they found
rusty pick and two old shovels.
one with the handle broken off
The shovels were almost eaten
up with rust and the handles de-
cayed. This discovery excited
their curiosity and they dug down
the old cabin. They found an
old mortar and pestle and a much
used axe branded Il x. l. Pit
tsburg." The handle was en-
tirely rotten. A little further
on they came upon what seemed
to be human bones. After ex-
cavating the entire floor of the
old cabin they found skull neal
the fireplace. This S. S. Tay'
lor, who was one of the party,
brought back to Nampa. On an
, old pine tree about twenty five
yards north of the tunnel, was 8
blaze. and on this were cut the
initials IT. P. D." Tom Dono
van, an old California miner, is
known to have gone into that
section about 1864, but all trace
of him has since been lost. The
records of old Boise county viii
be examined to learn If Ton
Donovan ever recorded any claim
in that county. 1t is a very wild