The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-10-08

the democratic party is not dem
ocratic in any sense of the word.
1t has prostituted nearly every
time-honored principle upon
which the party was founded.
There is not a spark of manhood
in a voter who will cast his bal
lot for batch of dirty traitors
simply because they cling to the
name of party that once en-
bodied the principles he adhered
to. We're democrat yet, and
for silver too; for that reason we
accept no straddle, no quibbling
or equvocation-a free silver
platform and free silver presi-
Dental candidate Zone that we
know to be such) or no democrat
ic ballot goes from our hand.
No, we, for one, will not do as
many alleged free silver repub-
licaps will do"
Denver Neacs Prof. Workman
has brought to light "the orig
inal man" The bones of this
much wanted individual are now
enroute to New York. They are
wrapped in cotton and never,
perhaps, was package more
carefully prepared for long
journey by rail. When it was
remembered that the precious
bones were the framework of q
being that lived and moved L.
500, 900 years ago and the skele-
ton is the only one of the period
that has ever been found the i'm
portance of the discovery may
be estimated. In the opinion of
the lucky finder of the ancient
relic, these dry bones establish
beyond peradventure the truth
, fulness of the Darwinian theory.
, From the time the long neglect
, ed skeleton is mounted in the
fire. proof museum in New York,
, the world of science and letters
, must bow in acknowledgment to
, the doctrine that the claims of
! the evolutionists are based on
facts. Man has ascended from
, a monkey and the religious
teachers of civilization must re-
< vamp their theology.
l Such were the conclusions of
! those who heard the story of the
''find" as related by the New
5 York savant recently.
S Prof. Workman says the price
7 less skeleton was found near the
e head of Bitter creek i'll South
: Wyoming, about ten miles from
!, the Colorado line. The region
. was once the bed of a fresh
!. water lake. The sediment of the
: lake gradually accumulated
/ through unknown centuries until
r it formed deposit 1000 to 1900
feet thick. The sage inhabitant
whose remains are now disclosed
I to the eye of man was apparent
u ly drowned in the lake. His
e body was preserved as in an
l Egyptian mummy cave. By and
q by the water receded, new fore
e es began to operate, mountain
u streams rippled across the dry
. lake bottom, great chasms were
3 cut through the soft earth and
u the skeleton was exposed on ths
y surface of vast cliff. The bones
. were broken into peices and por
! tions fell to the base of the cliff
y Prof. Workman came along il
the nick of time. His practica
y eye detected the presence of al
t. unusual specimen, but who car
f. describe his joy as he stopped
. . and picked up the tooth of 1
- = monkey =?
= "The fragments of bones" SAID
: the professor, ''were many o.
- them almost as small as piI
: head and it required many hours
= of time and great patience tt
: gather the pieces together unit
, we could make one perfectly
= whole. We gathered all the sur
p face dirt over an area of twenty
. five or thirty feet square an'
- washed it out as the miner wash
= es out the gravel for gold. Thel
= we located the original resting
~ place of the skeleton in the sid
20 of the cliff and dug out the re
- naming bones"
The professor arose and walk
ed rapidly back and forth in hi
er room at the hotel, as he recalle
a the exciting experience. H
e. said he did not attempt to TAX
re complete measurements, but b
estimated the skeleton to be tw
De and a half feet long, forming a
v animal about the size and wit
" the general makeup of specie
te of monkey known in parlanc
or as the white-faced capuchiT
il The professor says some of tn
7e bones are missing, but the skul
ic is complete and it would be
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