The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1895-03-05
G. FL. Poppy and Dave Tewalt
were in Challis last week.

Congress adjourned Sunday.
1t is thought that Cleveland will
call an extra session.
The mineral production of Ida
no for the year 1894 amounted to
SO, 793, ,O8O.
why are good mines for sale?"
is question often asked. The
answer may be found in a simple
statement of fact. In a great
many instances the owners are
men whose lives have been spent
in poverty and daily struggle
for existence. They know they
have fortune; they have had
enough of battle and strife. They
want to enjoy life. They have
dreamed of a "good time," /"
and they want to realize their
dreams. The man, no matter
whether young or old, who never
before had a dollar, who sudden
ly finds himself the owner of
property worth many thousands,
has an uncomfortable desire to
see his fortune in shining gold
or crisp bank notes. He wants
to take life easy. He wants to
move out of a miners cabin into
a home provided with the luxur-
les of life and he doesn't want to
wait. He has not been wealthy
long enough to want more, but
what he has in the way of prop
erty he wants to convert at once
in cash. 1t may be added that
there are now many prospectors
climbing the mountain sides,
searching for gold, who have
owned great mines, sold them
and wasted their fortunes having
a good time.
The Blaine county bill being
taken up in the Idaho senate on
Saturday last Senator Watt in
reply to Senator Bierbower said:
II regret exceedingly that the
distinguished senator and at
torney representing Logan
county has seen fit, in his en-
deavor to bolster up his argu-
ment against one of the most
just and important measures
that has come before this most
honorable body, to endeavor to
cast foul aspersions and heap un-
just and uncalled for calumny
upon myself and the citizens of
Alturas county, whom | have the
honor to represent in this cham
Der.
Il was aware he would have
no sense of justice in this mat
ter, but [ had hoped he would
have the sense of common dec
ency. l am now convinced he is
devoid of either.
I'm answer to the statements
of the distinguished senator
from Logan, I desire to state a
few facts. During the years
that he asserts that this was a
community of free hooters, loot
ers, and thieves, this same sena-
tor from Logan county was the
deputy district attorney of AL
turas county and the legal ad-
wiser of the county board upon
all public questions.
MY remarks may, in meas
ure, be personal, but after the
outrageous, cowardly attack up
on the people of my county, I
claim it as question of privil-
ege, to reply to the base, con-
temptible slander uttered by the
senator from Logan. He has
openly delared that the admins
tration, in the days when Alturas
contracted the larger portion of
the debt that he referred to in
his argument, was the reign of
thieves. The distinguished sena-
tor, as I have stated, during
those days advised the board of
county commissioners and slept
in the court house until he was
ordered out, and whether, at this
late day, he desired to turn
states evidence, or else to be re-
venged upon the people of Al
turas for depriving him of free
lodging, | leave you to deter
mine.
HE calls the people of Alturas
thieves, and then, with unpara-
lleled effrontery, asks that moth
ing he says be taken as personal.
'1There comes a time in every
mans history, however much he
may endeavor to conceal it, when
his true nature stands forth for
public inspection. To this man
the time came yesterday. Men
are rated as successes or failures
very much by evidence furnish
ed by themselves. The line that
marks the pettifogger is not at