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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-08

Prior to the recent election
the voters of the country were
assured that Mckinley was the
advance agent of prosperity and
good times would surely come if
he were chosen president. Well,
Mckinley was elected, and for a
few days after the eventful Nov
ember Bird, there was aspurt and
the newspapers published lists
of factories which had started TO
work after months of idleness.
The squirt, which ended as sud
denly as it began, resulted 1T APP
pears in an investigation as to
the cause of the unexpected
check, and it is now charged that
the reports of great industrial
activity brought about by the
election of Mckinley were only
fakes invented for political effect.
These reports. SO encouraging to
the people of the country, who
are willing to accept and enjoy
good times and applaud the poll
teal party that gives them, were
soon followed by announcements
of business failures, and the re-
duction of wages and The curtail-
ment of working forces employ
ed in various lines of industry.
At the beginning of last week
the ST. Paul railroad one of its
largest shops and discharged a
large number of men for the
reason, as given by the manage
ment of the road. that there was
nothing to haul" and on Friday
last the Panhandle road laid off
400 men. The following day the
Chicago Tribune printed the fol-
lowing dispatch dated at Bloom
ington, Illinois 1.-The Chicgao
& Alton managers announced a
reduction of hours of labor in
their general shops in Blooming
ton from eight to seven each
day, going into effect yesterday
morning. 1t was also announced
that the shops would be closed
from the 25th inst, to December
LIST. and that during the month of
| December the 1 200 men employ
ed will be given 30 hours work
per week. General Superintend
ent Gray said tonight that the
action of the company is caused
by the decrease of freight and
passenger traffic, and also result:
from the fact that the Alton EN-
ployed the shopmen ten hours q
day all through last summer
while the Wabash and other
roads were running short tim'
or had closed their shops. Th'
men are paid by the hour" This
looks as though a very distress
ing reaction had followed the
alleged industrial squirt, the frui
of McKinley's victory.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-08
Now compare five leading Nc
States in the East

Now, the States of Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Illinois were car
ried for Mckinley by the Ger
man and Scandinavian vote,
which was controlled by the
German and Scandinavian press,
which Mr.. Hanna secured, and
by the influence of Carl Schurz
and a dozen other leading Ger
man literary men and bankers of
New York City. And there is
no fact more clear than that if
from the vote this year had been
eliminated the illiterate and the
foreign-born, and it had been left
entirely to the intelligent Ameri-
can people, Mr.. Bryan would
have showed Mr.. Mckinley
under.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-08
Hon. Thomas B. Reed had bet

Hon. Thomas B. Reed had bet
ter analyze this subject a little
before he writes another article
for publication. In the hide
pendent is an article from his
pen, in which occurs the follow
ing paragraph
''The doctrines of the plat
form at Chicago were not those
which met the approval of the
founders of this Republic, and
are not those which commend
themselves to the judicious
among the living. The vote
would rather seem to indicate
that we have tried to assimilate
those from abroad too rapidly,
and that in offering them SO
generous an asylum against OPP
preston by alien ideas ourselves.
Salt Lake Tribune.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-08
The Question of Intelligence.

Ohio. West Virginia, Maryland
and Kentucky were carried for
Mckinley because of the litter
ate vote of those States. Not
withstanding that, the Eastern
press has been pointing with
pride" to the intelligence which
was the primary factor in the
Mckinley States. The Cleveland
Plain Dealer gives a table of five
Bryan States and five Mckinley
States, which supplies an inter
esting study, as follows -:
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-08
The Farmer.

Who is the farmer ? We get
varied answers. The city man,
behind his desk or gilded bank
railing will tell you that the
farmer is the man who tills the
soil: A rather plain, rough
looking fellow, seldom a very
rich man, and hence of but little
importance to this well dressed,
well groomed, soft-handed city
man.
Ask the idle rich, just back
from abroad and he will tell you
that the farmer is an "uncouth
fellow, ignorant of transatlantic
manners, Indifferent to Partisan
or London 'good-form;'" a per-
son of but little moment to this
national founding.
Ask the political boss-"A
troublesome fellow" he will say.
Too much thinking for himself,
not easily handled, hard to cor
rupt.
But ask the wise man. He
will say, 1.-The farmer is the
foundation of our republic. the
man who has always responded
with a calm and fearless front,
who has looked along a rife bar
rel with an eye undimmed by
city smoke, with a steady hand
on the trigger. His feet carried
him into the battle ranks as
bravely and as uncomplainingly
as they followed in the corn row
or walked behind the reaper. In
times of peace he is the man who
abides at home, the one man in
this hurrying. moneyget
world who has time to think, to
reason things out for himself.
He talks to his boys and bye and
bye when father is asleep, over
in the little old church-yard, the
world will call for a good and
great man and the farm-boy
grown a man now will go and
serve, by being faithful in a high
place, those who have been un
mindful of him; who did no
know that under the blue sky OF
toiling in the rain was the mar
on whom they must one day de
pend.
The farmer is the only MAJ
who has God for apartner. Will
! honest work he puts the handful
of seed into the ground and Coo
gives it back to him multiplied ;
thousand fold.
Let no man jest at the farmer
he keeps the world as good as
is. His grain enriches all an
his poverty-makes every ma
the poorer.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-08
n application For a Patent.
NOTICE No. AS.
SURVEY No. 1854.
IRB-PUBLIcATIoS.l


United Sates land Office
HALEY, Idaho. Nay IS, 1895
Notice is hereby given that o. ]. Salisbury,
by w: 81. Watt, his attorney in fact whose
postoface address is HALEY. Blaine county
State of Idaho. has made application for q
United States Patent for the
BEARDSLEY MILL SITE
claim. situate on unsurveyed land in Bayhorse
Mining District. Custer county. State of Idaho.
consisting OF 4.eq7 acres surface ground. being
Survey No. llo4, and described in the HELD
notes and plat of the official survey on tile in
this ONCE. with magnetic variation at is deg
rees and 45 minutes east. as follows
Beginning at Corner No. J. from whence Q. 5.
NJ. NJ. No. ,. bears north g. degrees . minutes
east, 1897 feet; thence south Is degrees s.
minutes west $50 feet to Corner No. ,; thence
north - degrees % minutes west $50 feet 10
corner No. ,: thence north 50 feet to Corner
No. 4: thence south 81 degrees IL minutes east
1879 feet 10 Corner No 3; thence south % de-
greeS - minutes west 26s.T feet TO Corner No.
6: thence north IS degrees 81 minutes west 81 10
feet to Corner No /. the place of beginning sur
vey OF exterior boundaries Of this Mill Site;
including an area Of 4esT acres applied for. No
conflicts.
The said Mil Site being OF record in the office
OF the County Recorder of said Mining District,
at ChalliS, in Custer county. State of Idaho.
The nearest known locations being the Bay horse
Mill Site, Survey No. $50. and the Riveryiew
Mil Site, Survey No. 5ssB.
|. Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion OF the said Beardsley Mill Site claim OF
surface ground are required to file their ad-
verse claims, thereto with the Register Of the
United States Land ofice. 1T HALEY. state of
Idaho, within the sixty days publication there
Of, or they viii be barred by virtue of the pro-
visioas OF the statute in such cases made and
provided. w. II. BRopHEAD. Register.
Publication d-Commissioners letter
IN" May 4, 1865.
direct that the foregoing Notice of Applica-
tion for Patent be published for the period of
sixty days (ten consecutive weeksl in THE
SILVER MESSENGER, a weekly newspaper pub
llshed at Challis. Custer county State of Idaho,
being the newspaper published nearest said
claim. W. H. BRoDHEAD, Register.
First publication May % a. D., 1896.
w. II. Watt. Attorney for Applicant.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-08

Notice is hereby given. that o. ]. Salisbury
by W. n. Watt. his sttorney-in-fact, who's
poStofhce address is HALEY. Blaine county
State of Idaho. has made application for
United States Patent for the
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18

ing. am as sure OF IL as that 1 am
alive-some day he will turn up again.
"Well, replied John, 'if he is here,
find him, went upon the hypothesis
that he must either be in the directory
or have relatives-other McCaffreys-
who were and through whom he might
be reached. 1t was very soon established
that neither Of the Michael McCafreys
in the directory was the man we want.
Then went to work upon the most
promising hundred Cf the McCaffreys
that could pick out from the list, old
and young, male and female, Of all
classes.
''The most pronounced result as yet is
q profound conviction that the McCaf-
frey mind, for occult reasons best known
to itself, has deeply rooted antipathy
to the police, and l have also vehe-
mont suspicion that the police will be
justified in looking very sharply after
doings instigated by the Mccartney
mind. All my inquiries after the van
ished Michael elected only demands OF
what I wanted with him. did not feel
myself authorized to give any definite
information on that head, and the Nc
Caffrey mind of course leaped to the con-
clusion that l was q minion Of the law
seeking to abridge the liberty of one Of
the clan, as consequence of his highly
creditable disregard for some statutory
enlistment. One amiable old lady Nc
Caffrey pathetically regretted that she
had no water handy that was hot
enough to scald me, and combative
gentleman Mccartney, strangely gifted
in ornate establishment of his parts of
speech, proposed to do me up just for
luck, and would have assaulted me be-
yond doubt if 1 had not been armed.
II have made up my mind that what
ever talent may have as sportsman
does not lie in the direction of Mccall
frey hunting. But the game shall be
pursued all the same and more effect
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18
Real Estate Transfers.

Owosso-J. j. Davis to Il. B. Willough-
by, lot blk IL, 5. X. Barnes add, $3.50.
Alfred G. Williams to Addie J. Hub
bard, lot 10 blk i, A. L. & B. o. Williams
add, except east 10 it for alley, 1926.
j. Lyle to Addie j. Hubbard, west
rods and 10 feet of lot blk l, A. l.. & B.
o. w. Williams add, except WHO it for al
ley, $140O.
VIM. Wilcox to NJ. w. Corey, lots 7 &
s blk 6, A. L. Williams add, $1,000.
I. d Dewey to j. F. Wildermuth, lots
l, 2, 3, IA, 10, Is, blk ], Dewey & Stew
arts add, $1,000.
Owosso Twp-Wm. A. Hubbard ct al
to John Lytle-n4 of sci sec IL, 5000.
l.. Fuller to Chas. SPECIAL, nw4 of
sci sec 4, $500.
F. j. Stiff to Jos. Vincent, land on sec
IS, $4,000.
Laingsburg-W. L. Smith to VIM. A..
Smith, IS it off and 81 of lots Is and 16,
blk 81, $4,000.
Perry-E. E. Austin to G. M. Austin,
lot 8, blk l, M. HI. Green's add, $500.
Perry Twp c. M. austin to f. f Aus
tin WI of eli of sNl sec 10, $1,000
5. A. Hart to j. III. Clark, land OH sec
l6, $1,000.
Middlebury-J. q. Mabbett to A. H.
Whitaker, lot blk /, Mabbett's add,
$50.
Caledonia-Alice M. and F. E. Kings
bury to Chas. F. Rigoulet, Asa on sec 8,
$1,000.
Bennington-M. B. Mckenzie to A. R.
Pierow, WI of WI of mel sec 20, 5000.
E. Rey to J. G. Whitney, / Ia on sec 80,
$3.50.
B. B. Hardy ct al to A. Hyman, swl of
mel sec 30, $500.
Corunna-E. w. Harding to H. FL
bridge, lot blk Is, $50.
Lothrop-W. E. Jacobs and w. Snyder
to N. A. Prouty, lot blk 5, $75.
Henderson,. S. Goodale to L. r..
Lumby, lots 1, 2, blk 8, $66.67.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18

His mind, conscience, soul, life-all be-
long to his party. Until he rises to be
the head, there is always somebody
above him, leader whom he must i'm
plicitly obey like an abject slave or be
disciplined. And when he rises to the
head he becomes the slave of all below
him, paradoxical as that statement may
appear, or they will turn upon him and
rend him If he ventures to call his soul
his own"
Irma laughed.
"What a morbid view you take of the
politiciani I have known only one, and
him not very well, but I must say he
did not seem to me such q revolving
creature.
ooh, WE'LL He may be one of the
amateurs who have a mission to purify
politics and who furnish responsibility
and amusement for the real politicians. F"
''No I think he will have to be
classed as a professional 1t is Mr.. Cyrus
Pratt. -
"Cyrus Pratt! Well, yes. should
say he would be classed as profession
al I have heard of him, even in Bos-
ton. Why, he is 'bossp How do you
come to know him?'
"He comes frequently to see-papa.
II imagine from what have heard
of him that he must be q very shrewd
fellow. That is shown by the skill with
which, himself keeping out of Office, he
disposes of 80 many offices, yields their
Il al, tI,ei, .,
sob, Chester, he is the very man for
you! Why did not think of it before?
He might take notion to give you
good office and so put you in the way of
some day becoming boss yourself. F"
"Humph! Hardly likely"
ooh, you can't tell. You don't know
how nice he is. am sure he would do
almost anything asked him.
The man who, situated as Chester
Sswall was, could hear the lady of his
love express such confidence in COM
manding the favcrs of another man
and yet feel no twinge of jealous suspi-
cion would be a much more perfect
character than he. Yet he would have
been ashamed to give expression to such
feeling upon so small provocation.
He could simply relapse into gloomy ST.
lence. But Lma did not even notice
that. She had much to say just then.
The idea Of becoming the architect Of
her lovers fortunes had suddenly seized
and fascinated her. She amplified and
elaborated her primary suggestion.
Yes, she was sure Of having suffi-
cient influence with Mr.. Pratt to make
him find for her protege some promi-
nent and lucrative office. Whatever it
might be, she knew that Chester would
grace it, and, his foot once upon the
steep and slippery stairway of fame, he
would surely climb to the top, would be
known of men and envied, and even
heard of as far away as Boston. Next
year perhaps it might be polite for him
to go to the Legislature, and the year
after, or perhaps the second year, to
congress. Then, she did not doubt, her
father would welcome him as a son-in-
law.
cts long time to wait" sighed
Chester dolefully.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18
CHAPTER VIII.


When his destiny had thus been nice
ly nodded and polished and labeled for
him. he went home. A feeble instinct
for self preservation had restrained him
from positive pledge to resign his flu
ture wholly to the direction Of the po-
litical .''boss." But he had agreed to
"think it over seriously" by which he
meant that he would take John La
tham's advice before venturing upon a
political career. Chester Sewall found
not little comfort for his self love in
the cherished misconception that his col
lege education made him superior to his
almost self taught friend. He would
have been much puzzled to define in
what the superiority consisted. Never
theless he chung to the idea, as men
most obstinately do to those things
which are purely matters Of faith con-
sciously unsupported by reason. or
course, he said to himself, a man who
knew little Latin and less Greek could
not really be his equal. He could not
deny that Johns purposeful and resolute
character and his ever ready knowledge
of life were attributes in which he him
self might perhaps be slightly deficient,
but they were on lower plane than he
had attained. He could afford to ac-
knowledge them without envying their
possessor, and it would be but natural
and proper for him to avail himself Of
them as upon occasion he might conde-
scend to employ the muscular forces Of
builder or q blacksmith. In Johns prop
er though undeniably inferior field any
Judgment he formed would probably be
correct, any advice he gave likely to be
good and anything he undertook most
likely to succeed.
John just at that time was not in the
humor to claim so much for himself.
His self confidence had been rudely
shaken. Mrs. Hall had delegated to him
the duty of finding the missing witness.
and he at the outset had made no ques-
ton Of laying hands upon any given Nc
Caffrey required within a week or two.
But after three weeks Of nonsuccess,
both by himself and his agents, he began
to question If the lost man was in New
York.
CdLnOb bcll, odio OhC WluOW WHICH,
he raised this doubt to her, that he is,
but have always since he disappeared
had premonition that he would be dis
covered here. Ny husband, when he was
on his deathbed, said something about
McCaffrey having gone west, but his
mind was probably wandering at the
time. 1t does not stand to reason that q
man would flee across the world to es-
cape the prayers Of poor woman or fear
her when he had a powerful hacker in
terested in protecting him. He might
have staid right here safely and prob
ably, in my opinion, did so. One great
trouble has been that had never seen
him. may have run against him in the
streets score of times. He must be
quito an old man now"
elias it never occurred to you as a
possibility that he may be dead?" John
asked her.
mo. 1t has not. God would not let
him die without making some repara-
ton for the great wrong he aided in do
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18
PROBATE court.

In the matter of David X. Nicholson
incompetent. Mrs. Jennie Nicholson ap.
pointed guardian; j. Lawcock and j. Sax
ton, appraisers. ~
Albert @. Huntley appointed admins
traitor of the estate of Mary Myers, de-
ceased. O. Foster and j. Hoenshell APP
prasers. F. f. Welch, Chas. Holman
and J. G. King commissioners.
Amenzo Wright appointed administra-
tor of the estate of Norman ]. Bentley,
deceased ID. B. Holmes and @. H. Sayre
appraisers. III. S. Myers, +. A. Smith
and F. Karrer commissioners.
In the matter of Lpe Bailey, an insane
person. Order made admitting said in
sane person to Eastern Michigan asylum.
In the matter of VIM. Henry Johns, an
alleged incompetent person. Guardian
for said VIM. Henry Johns applied for by
Chas. Holman. one of the superintend-
ents of the poor. Hearing Dec. 2Sth.
Horace @. Main, executor, to render
final account in the estate of Leonard F.
Kingsley, deceased. Hearing Monday,
Jan. 4th.
Application made by Geo. M. Fergu-
son for appointment of Lawrence Van
Dusen as administrator de bonis non in
matter of the estate of VIM. Moore de-
ceased. Hearing Jan. 18th.
KATHERINE +. KELSEY,
Probate Register
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18
Chancery Sale.

In pursuance and by virtue of decree OF the
circuit court for the county OF Shlawassee, In
the state of Michigan, In chancery, made and
entered on the 9th day OF March, A. ID. 1896, In q
certain cause therein pending wherein the Shi-
awassee Savings Society is complainant, and
Alva M. Bailey and Charles f. Henderson are
defendants.
Notice is hereby given that shall sell at pub
lie auction or vendue TO the highest bidder at
the front door of the court house In the city OF
Corunna in Shiawassee county, In the state OF
Michigan Chat being the place where the cir
cult court for the county OF Shlawassee Is hold
en) on Monday, the 4th day of January. 1897,
at ten O'Clock In the forenoon OF said day. the
land and promises situated In the city OF owes.
so, in the county of Shiawassee and state Of
Michigan known and described as follows viz. !:
Lots thirty.nine (3q and forty t4o) In block five
(5) OF William II. Lingle and Frank j. McDan
nel's Maple Ridge Park Resubdivision OF
Keyte's addition 20 the city OF Owosso, accord
ing TO the recorded plat OF said addition and
resubdlvision.s
Dated this 5th day OF November, A. d. 1896.
FRANK II. BUMPS,
Circuit Court Commissioner for Shiawassee
County Michigan.
w. M FITZPATRICK,
Solicitor for Complainant.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18

LOOKING AHEAD. Golden Medical
Discovery. It doesn't work miracles !;
but 1t does what other medicine can't do
and what doctors say can't be done-un-
til they see it done right under their noses
lit cures consumption.-Not always to
say that would be an exaggeration, but
in large majority of cases (; in advanced
cases which have been given up as hope
less.
The Discovery " is not called con-
sumption-cure it is blood-maker. 1t
gives energy to the blood-making organs
to create new blood, full of healthy red
corpuscles. This rapid supply of pure,
rich, red blood drives out all diseases that
have their roots in the blood: Consurnp-
ton is one of these; scrofula, malaria,
eczema, erysipelas, catarrh-are others.
It is absurd to doctor them separately as
lung, or skin, or head diseases. They
must be driven out of the blood. You
can rely on the "Golden Medical Dis
covery" to do this every time.
It is not a patent medicine. 1t is the
perfected result of 80 years, practical ex-
perience by one of the most skillfM ply
sicians and eminent medical authorities
in this country:-Dr. r. V. Pierce, Chief
Consulting Physician to the Invalids' Ho-
tel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
DIR. Pierce's 1908 page book, THE Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser" reached the
enormous sale of 100000 copies at 81. so each.
This enormous sale having paid him fair profit
on the great amount of labor and money ex-
pended in producing it, he is now giOfng away
absolutely free 100000 copies the recipient only
being required to mail to him, at the above insti-
tuition, ri one-cent stamps to cover cost Of mail
ing only, and the book will be sent postpaid
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18
Did not Appoint.

The county superintendent of the
poor met yesterday to appoint resident
physicians for the poor in Owosso and Co
runna in accordance with the instruc-
tions from the Board of Supervisors. No
appointments were made.
circumstances against such appoint
ments were filed with the superintend-
ents by the Owosso physicians and also
bya number of the supervisors. The
power of the Board of Supervisors to
make the appointment is questioned and
the superintendent of the poor decided
to take legal advice on the subject.
Another meeting will be held Friday
for further action in the matter.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-12-18

she huu much 10 say just tnen.
probably rather unlucky chap, which
did not enhance his attractiveness in her
eyes. She inherited from her father q
prejudice against "unlucky" persons.
ooh, I dare say it will all come right
directly" she said lightly. Papa, I
know, makes great deal Of money in
Wall street, and have heard him say
that he also lost it sometimes. Nobody,
suppose, either wins or loses continual
ly. You will have to wait for change
of fortune, that is all. f"
"Waiting would be bad enough SIM
ply as delay in winning fortune, but
its worst aspect is that it postpones my
winning you, my darling" he replied.
perhaps you might do better some
where else than in Wall street. Specu-
lation may not be your meter. You
might do better in politics"
ST think should like politics in the
abstract-that is, the pure science Of
craftsmanship, for which believe I
have some natural qualifications-but
the thought of being politician makes
me shudder.
"Why so?''
"The associations and requirements Of
the politicians existence have in them
80 much that is positively revolving to q
person of refinement. The influence Of
q politician in our form of government
is entirely dependent upon the number
of votes he can control To win votes he
must pander to the prejudices and even
the vices of the ignorant and vulgar
masses, affect q community of interest
with the herd, and even cultivate init
macies among them. Independent
thought or conscientious adherence to
nrinciple would be fatal to his career