The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-02-12
Mrs. Gould is dangerously i'll

oAccIc dEc uFy anu UuSty III many
places. Challis against the
world for beautiful climate.
The following petition was cir
sulated in Challis last week, and
universally signed, and forward
ed to Representative Mccarthy:
To the Honorable Members of
the Legislature of the State of
Idaho IL Session Assembled:
Gentlemen:-We, your petition
ers, the Trustees Of School Dis
rrict No. 1, of Custer county, and
resident taxpayers of said dis
ret, believing it TO be for the
BEST interests of the public
schools of the state that all
moneys derived from licenses for
,le sic Vi liquors ue used for
( Ie maintenance of the public
) ;hoo-s, hereby petition the
Legislature to pass an act where
by all moneys received for liquor
licenses, and all fines and penal
ties be paid into the school fund,
one-half TO the district in the
lily, town or village where such
licenses, fines or penalties are
collected. and one-half to the
General school fusld of the cOun-
~ to be apportione1 as other
school funds are app0rtioned-
The Boise Statesman of Feb 7th
says: Yesterdays joint ballot
alIed to break the senatorial
IeadIock, but the vote was more
interesting than any of its pred
cessors. The Populists con-
tributed some spirit TO the pro-
;Aedings. Some of them were
in a decidedly convivial frame of
lind, and they gave Republican
factions several severe shocks
by speaking the first name of
either Sweet or Shoup and then,
after painful pause. calling out
In loud voice, '-Clagett ~
But it was Representative Ben
nett, of Owyhee, who created a
genuine commotion- Bennett
has voted for Sweet from the
first. When it came his turn to
vote yesterday he arose in his
place and solemnly asked the
presiding officer if he would be
permitted to explain his vote
Being answered affirmatively, he
proceeded, in eloquent terms, to
eulogize the man for whom he
intended TO vote Praise was
heaped upon praise. The Shoup
men, believing Bennett was
about to vote with them nodded
their approval at the end of each
we'll rounded sentence. On the
other hand, the Sweet men,
thinking the speaker surely in
tended to leave their favorite,
experienced most peculiar sen
sation in the vicinity of their
vest pockets. Their counte1an-
ices gave indisputable evidence
of that feeling so much talked Of
Bennett brought his speech to
an abrupt termination by an un-
ostentatious remark that he in
tended to vote for Willis Sweet
Like a flash the conditions
were reversed. The Sweet men
smiled family and leaned back
in their chairs as though over
come by the severe mental strain
The faces of the Shoup men
dropped to 10 below zero.
Il The vote was Shoup, 19;
Sweet, Is; CIagett. Is; paired,
Brown and Hunt
In the House, Mccarthy, of
Custer, called upon the educa
tional committee for report on
his Challis school of mines bill.
He stated the reason for the de-
lay was that two of the members
of that committee Gamble and
Randolph We're from Latah
county, and they were opposed
to any measure tending to inter
fere with any branch of the state
university. He asked the speak
; er to remove one of the Latah
members from the committee
The speaker held he had no
! authority to remove any member
/ of standing committee without
: being instructed by the house to
do so.
; Mcmillan, of the committee.
said when Mccarthy learned an
/ adverse report was about to be
: made he requested that the re-
port be deferred.
Mccarthy explained that there
5 was an unconstitutional provis-
: ion in the bill and he had asked
that the report be deferred in or
der to make the necessary cor
rections-
} On motion of Mccarthy the
( bill was taken from the hands of
) the educational committee and