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these two republics. With free sill
yer in Mexico the ,laboring classes
Of that country are rapidly striding
upward TO the happiness and COM
forts of life and the hum of indus
try is increasing throughout the land.
In the United States, where gold is
king, the laboring classes are rapid
ly descending to poverty and mis-
cry, while depression and inactivity
hovers about every business and in
dustry in the land, and New Mex
leo is no exception to the reign of
increasing poverty in this country.
These are plain, cold facts which
cannot be obliterated-the dilapidat-
ed condition that surrounds every
branch of business In New Mexico
di0 lufluClUlO WlbuOobuCp.
AS to the rapid advancement Of
prosperity in Mexico, the land of
free silver, we recite two Of the
many daily evidences received from
that country attesting the growing
ing prosperity OF Mexico, facts
which the gold-bug office.seekers and
gold-bug statehood boomers ignore.
The following items are taken from
the Chicago Daily News:
"Clty of Mexico Fifteen hundred
pilgrims arrived here to-day from Pen
jamo OH the Mexican Central railway
to the shrine Of Our Lady of Gauda-
lupe.
Cotton mill dividends Of DO and 30
per ceet are reported, indicating not
witbstandiDg the largely increased i'm
portation of cotton textiles the native
mills are prospecting. Manufacturing
industries were meyer SO prosperous.
Coffee lands on the west coast are
rapidly rising in price, some of the
best lands commanding 800 per acre
in silver against from 81 TO $12 on the
West coast. Large investments are
being made in country lands by Amer
leans"
If Mexico is so miserably poor
degraded and unprOgressive, as re.
presented by the gold-bugs, why
does American capital seek invest
ment in Mexico, a free silver coun.
tryp Why do not American CAPT
~talists invest their money in this
country where single gold standard
is paramount, a country that the
gold-bugs tell US is OVERLOOKING with
progression and prosperity?
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NOTICE.

To e. d. DAVIDSON and Jas. Dalglish, their
executors, administrators, guardians
heirs and assigns:
VOU and each of you are hereby notified
that the undersigned has expended
One Hundred Dollars in labor improve.
ments upon the EXCELSIOR mining claim
situated III the Palomas Mining District,
Sierra County, Territory of New Mexico, in
order to hold said mining claim under the
provisions OF Section 1924 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States, being the
amounto labor and improvements requir-
ed to be made, to hold said claim for the
year ending December 3lst, 1895 and if with
in ninety days after the publication of this
notice you fail or refuse to contribute your
proportionate share of such expenditure as
co-owners, your interest in said mining
claim will become the property of theun.
dersigned co-Owner as provided in said sec
ton 1924 Of said statutes.
G. w. WOLFORD.
Bisbee, Arizona, March 10th, 1896
First publication, March 27th, 1896.
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A Gold Bug Heard From.

= fNf -
al live In the mining district of New
Mexico, and have been considerably en-
gagged III mining, but / do not favor the
free coinage of silver, said Numa Rey-
mond, Of Las Cruces, at the Metrop0li-
tan. 1.-The cheap processes of production
that have come into use of late years
have caused an over production of the
metal, and that is why the price has
gone down. A free coinage act might
produce a temporary imitation, but the
reaction would come inevitably. and
no laws that congress could pass
would hold silver On a parity with gold,
the standard money of the world.
: We are often told of the prosperity
of Mexico, a country on a silver basis.
All that l have to say is that I trust
we may never have that sort of pros
perity in the United States. l know
Mexico and its people thoroughly. hav-
ing Travelled through the republic very
recently. About forty-nine out of
every fifty of the inhabitants go bare
footed and the same proportion wear
gunny-sack garments to hide their
nudity. That is a condition that the
silver champions ignore completely
when they are engaged in eulogizing
the silver standard system of Mexico.
New Mexico needs statehood very
badly. Our territorial form of Coy
eminent keeps out men of means, who
would speedily develop the country !;
and 1t is an actual barrier against the
Investment Of foreign capital BECAUSE
of the United States statutes prevent
ing non-resldents from owing landed
~property."-Washington Cd. C.) Post.
The above is a sample of the idi-
otto rawlings Of the pie-hunting, gold
bug statehood boomers of the Nc
Kinley stripe Of office-huntlng poll
ticians Of New Mexico. To say that
over-production, or that cheap pro-
cesses of production are the
causes of the low price Of silver, is
a brazen falsehood, and none but a
fool or a knaye would attempt to
make an intelligent people swallow
such rot. Since the government has
closed its minis to silver, New Mex
leo has lost her life and vitality,
We do not believe any sound-mind-
ed, honest person, Of careful thought
and intelligence, will dispute our
assertion that 80 per cent. of the
people of New Mexico are to-day
standing on the ragged edge of po'
fertyl That 90 per cent. Of the
people to-day are living squarely VI
to their incomes, while many bread
winners are struggling to maintain
a scanty existence, while a great
many people of the supposed well-to'
do class are living on borrowed money
which they have obtained from east.
esrn money lenders and mortgage
holders. While many Of the people
Of Mexico may 60 barefoot and
wear Runny-sacks to cover theil
nakedness, the conditions Of Mexico
and the United States, SO far as the
poor claazhs OF people are concern
ID, are rs Changing conditions un.
der The extreme financial policies OF
~ .H fF.HN 81
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Letters
From
JimtoWn-
By William Dana Wilcox.


This book purports to be a series of letters
from a Chicago journalist who is taking q
vacation at his old home, Unknown. These
EFT ers tell how the people of Jimtown were
converted to silver by a series of curbstone
arguments. all of which are faithfully re.
ported. The book is illustrated with a dozer
or more outline cuts. after the order Of
"Coin," and closes with what is called "The
Bimetallist Creed" 1t will probably be.
come very popular as a free silver text book
Little Rock Press.
Hon. r. p. Bland. of Missouri. writes
Letters from Jimtown is very interesting
and valuable contribution to this all -impor-
tant subject. Would like to see it in the
hands of all the voters of this country"
Paper, 256 pages, illustrated, Price, % cts.
postpaid. Address Office of this paper.
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to which they are directed, they are re-
syonsible until they are directed, they
are responsible until they have settled
their bills and ordered them Giscon-
tinued.
a. If subscribers move to other
places without informing the publisher
and the papers sent to the former adj
doess, they are held responsible.
5. The courts have decided that re-
fusing to take periodicals from the of
fee or removing and leaving them un-
called for, is prima facie evidence OF
evidence of intentional fraud.
6. If subscribers pay in advace they
are bound to give notice at the end of
the time, if they do not wish to con.
tinue taking it; otherwise the publish
er is authorized to send it. and the sub
scriber will be responsible until an ex
press notice, with payment of all ar
rearages, is sent to the publisher.
The latest postal laws are such that
newspaper publishers can arrest any
one for fraud who takes a. paper and
refuses to pay for it. Under this law
the man who allows his subscription to
ruL along for some time unpaid and
then orders it discontinued, or orders
the postmaster to'mark it refused
and have a postal card sent notifying
tbepublisher, leaves himself, liable to
arrest and fine. the same as for theft.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

A church organ made of bamboo
has been made in Shanghai. The
notes are said to be sweeter than
those of metallic pipes. With the
orients using silver as stable money
and turning out superior bicycles
and organs the American manu-
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Notice For Publication.
Land Office at Las Cruces, N. NJ,
Jure 2nd, 1896.

Notice is hereby given that the following,
named settler has filed notice of his intfn
ton to make hnal proof in support OF his
claim, and that said proof will be made be
fore Probate Judge or Probate Clerk 1T Hills.
boro. N. NJ, onJuly goth, 1896, viz:
SELSO CUELLOR who made Homestead
Entry No. 2all for the Nw1 Mex, NEA
NW1 and Lot /, Sec. 80 Up. IL S. r. 3 W. and
the NEA NEK. Sec. 25. TIP. IL y. R. W.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva.
ton of, said land, viz:
j. Robert Robinson, Jose Perfecto Con.
zales, Nefetali Sanchez and j. W. Mitchell,
all of Paraje, New Mexico.
JOHN d. BRYAN. Register,
June5 .95.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

Chairman Mott. Of the national
committee Of the silver party says
the republican party is committed
to the gold standard through the
platforms of eighty per cent of the
state conventions" Chairman Mott
is correct.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05
LEGAL NOTICES.
Notice for Publicatlon.
Land Office at Las Cruces, N. NJ,
Nov 1Skh lQ0Q

Land Ufice at Las Crnces, N. NJ,
May 18th, 1896.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his inten.
ton to make final proof in support of his
claim. and that said proof will be made be-
Socorro, New Mexico, on July 9Th, 1886, viz:
THOMAS w. HENDERSON, who made
Homestead Entry No. 252l for Lots 8. 9 & I
Sec. 6, and Lot l Sec. Z Twp. 10 S. r. 10 w,
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva-
ton OF, said land, viz:
William Keene, of Grafton, N. M, Nelson
Straw. of Grafton N. M, John b. Petrie, Of
Grafton, \. NJ, Charles LIE 'Bawn, of Graf
ton. N. NJ. ="
JOHN d. BRYAN. Register.
First publication May22- SO. "
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

facurers will soon be compelled TO
take the part Of the dancing mon.
key to the tune Of foreign manu-.
facturers' competition.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

Free silver is the motto of the
people of New Mexico, notwitstand-
ing the yelping of the tripe hound
goldite politicians and gold-bug
statehood Boomers.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

The president has appointed W.
B. Childers U. s. district attorney for
New Mexico, to fiji the Office made
vacant by death Of Attorney Hem
mingway.
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that the financial condition Of the
country would not Justify such ex-
penditure. What's the matter with
the prosperity" of the country that
Mr.. Cleveland and his gOld-buC
henchmen told US would follow the
repeal of Sherman silver law?
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

"New Mexico republicans will make
the campaign next fall on the tariff
observation-disclosures Citizen.
If they do, their name will be
pants.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

The democrats of New Mexico
will make free silver the leading
issue of the campaign. The republi'
cans will try to win the battle by
shouting the virtues of Catron, tar
iff and gold-bug statehood.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05
Highest Of an in Leavenins POya-Iaist rs Govt Report
@MA! Esq.,
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Two Mexican miners we're SUMO;
Gated by foul air IN ths Copper Fiat
mines near Silver City.
The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1896-06-05

President Cleveland has vetoed
the river and barbor bill. One Of
his Excuses for vetoing the bill was
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01

any other party is there SO large
an element that spends all of its
energies knitting their own men.
This has cost the Peoples party
enough. Let it stop. If all the
energy that has been expended
fighting our leading men had
gone to oppose rather than to
build up and aid republicanism
we would not today be again the
third party. The man who has
fought against one reform no
matter what personal or party
loss its espousal would have cost
him is not to be trusted in the
future. The man who has spent
all of this campaign fighting the
men in the ranks where all should
have been friends, even though
differing in matters of party
policy, has earned the contempt
of the party. Those self-consti-
tuted guardians of the Peoples
party who have gone around the
country on Hanna's money, and
bowling out threats against men
that were working with might
and main to preserve the liber-
ties of the people, need to be
called down in no uncertain
tones. They should have the
livery of their master, Mark
Hanna, whom they have so well
served, put upon them. Who
has not worked for silver must
not be trusted in the future. Let
him not be given another oppor-
tunity to betray his party. Put
his plutocratic collar about his
neck and let him be led away by
his moneyed masters.
If this campaign has taught
us to fight ignorance, to estimate
the power of, and to learn to
combat corporate wealth; if it
has marked the traitor-the
Hannacrat-and led to his being
kicked out, it will not have been
in vain.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01

is hereby given that sealed bids will be receiv-
ed by the Board of County Commissioners of
Custer county, Idaho at their regular meeting
in January 1897 for the care and maintenance
of the INDECENT sick and otherwise dependent
poor OF Custer county, Idaho, for one year from
and after January 18th, 1897. All bids must be
sealed and filed with the Auditor on or before
the second Monday in January, 1897, and mark
ed Proposals for the care of the county
poor.n
The bidder whose bid may be accepted by the
Board will be required to enter into contract
with the Board to take charge of all persons
who may be lawfully committed to their care
and provide them with all proper food, cloth
ing. beds, bedding, medicine, medical attend
ance, medical and surgical appliances and in
fact. everything necessary for their care, main
tenance and comfort, including u suitable hos
pital, in which to care for all such persons all
of which services, materials. etc. shall be fur
ntShed at the contractors own cost and ex-
penSe, and without any expense to Custer
county, other than the contract price as stated
in the contract.
The contractor will be required to enter into
good and sufficient bond to be approved by
the Board in twice the amount OF the contract
price, conditioned that the extractor will well
and faithfully fulfill all the covenants and con-
dit1onS expressed in the contract
The Board reserves the right to reject any,
and all bids.
BY order OF the Board of County Commits
Sioners. GEO. f. KEYES Clerk
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01
NOTICE

Is hereby given that sealed bids will be receiv-
ed by the Board of Commissioners of Custer
county, Idaho, for the necessary newspaper
printing to be done for Custer county, for the
term OF one year from and after January 18th.
1877. such printing to consist Of all the legal
notices and publications of whatsoever kind
required TO be published, for which Custer
county would be legally liable and also all pub
LEGATIONS made by order of the Board of County
Commissioners, including all election tickets
required for any general or special election
held during said year, and all cards OF instruc-
ttonS required under the election laws of the
state of Idaho. The contractor will be requir-
ed TO enter into o good and sufficient bond, to
be approved by The Board. in twice the amount
of the contract price. conditioned that the con
tractor viii well and faithfully fulfill all the
covenants and conditions expressed in the con-
tract. All bids must be sealed and filed with
the Audito or on or before the 18th day OF Jan
nary 1897. and marked Proposals for county
Priliing.' The Board reserves the right to
reject any ana all bids.
BY order of the Board of County Commits
Sioners. GEO. Il. KEYES, Clerk.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01

Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland
and Kentucky wera .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, 1896-12-01
Lsssons OF IN. r@s. Campaign.

The lessons from the past
campaign should guard us next
time to unite solidly. The friends
of silver in Custer county stood
shoulder to shoulder to elect w.
j. Bryan, but in the East and
South there was bitter party
strife which resulted in silver's
defeat. The evils of all past
campaigns seem to have com
pressed into the last four months.
Shall we, after having suffered
SO much under these abuses and
having seen such iniauities tri,
umph, learn no lesson for use in
future similar political upheav.
ais The knave who gets no
lesson, learns nothing from his
stripes, has earned also the title
of fool.
If good did not come out of all
evil we might indeed despair,
but the ever present divine alch-
envy can bring forth some good
even out of the polluted and
purifying mass of political in
trigue through which we have
just passed, and which has plac-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01
Wit IN Y II Y IN1.Ve'I III ,
Kinley 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,
Hon, Thomas B. Reed had bet
ter analyze this subject a little
before he writes another article
for publication, In the indie
pendent is an article from his
pen, in which occurs the follow
ing paragraph
The doctrines of tho 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, 1896-12-01

Who is the farmer 7? 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 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 10 an "uncouth
fellow, ignorant of trans Atlantic
manners, Indifferent to Partisan
or London 'goodform;'" 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 q calm and fearless front,
who has looked along a rifle 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, money-getting
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 q good and
great man and the farm boy,
grown man now will go and
serve, by being faithful in high
place, those who have been un-
mindful of him; who did not
know that under the blue sky or
toiling in the rain was the man
on whom they must one day de-
pend.
The farmer is the only man
who has God for a partner. With
honest work he puts the handful
of seed into the ground and God
gives it back to him multiplied
thousand fold.
Let no man jest at the farmer,
he keeps the world as good as it
Is. His grain enriches all and
his poverty makes every man
the poorer,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01
NOTICE

is hereby given that sealed bids will be receiv-
ed by the Board OF County Commissioners Of
ing 1897 for the repair Of the North abutment of
the county bridge, spanning Salmon river, be-
low Watson's ranch. The work to be done is
render it secure from washing out Bidders
are invited to submit with their bids plans for
the repair of said abutment
All bids must be sealed addressed to the
Board of County Commissioners, marked
Proposals for the repair of Watsons bridge"
and flied on or before January 11th 1897
and all bids
BY Order of the Board of County Commits
sioaers- GEO. f. KEYES. Clerk
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01
NOTICE.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of County Commissioners OF Custer
county Idaho. at their regular January meet
ing In 1897 for the replacing of the bridge across
the East Fork OF Salmon river above the Lei
singer ranch. Also for raising the pier ana
abutments feet higher than they are at pres
ent for filling the same with rock and grading
the approaches
The contractor will be required to enter into
o good and sufficient bond. 10 be approved by
the Board, in twice the amount of the contract
price conditioned that the contractor will well
and faithfully fulfill all the conditions OF the
contract.
All bids must be sealed. filed with the Clerk
on or before January 1lth 1897, and marked
proposals for Repairing East Fork bridge"
The Board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
BY order OF the Board of County Commits
sioners. GEO. T.. KEYES, Clerk.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01
Notice TO Creditors.
Estate OF FRAN, smith. deceased

Estate OF Frank Smith, deceased
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned,
John p. Spalding, administrator of the estate
OF Frank Smith. deceased, to the creditors OF,
and all persons having claims against said de-
ceased, to exhibit them, with the Necessary
vouchers. within four months after the first
publication of this notice to said administrator
at his store on Main street Challs, Idaho. the
same being the place for the transaction of the
business OF said estate in the county of Custer,
Idaho. JOHN p. SPALDING
Administrator.
Dated September 2ist, 1896 WI
First publication Oct. b. 1895.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-12-01
Notice to Creditors.
Estate of Charles Michaclson. deceased !.

Notice Is hereby given by the undersigned.
John p. Spalding, administrator OF the estate
OF Charles Michaelson, deceased, to the credit
ors OF, and all persons having claims against
said deceased, to exhibit them with the neces-
sary vouchers, within four months after the
first publication OF this notice 10 said admins
traitor at his store on Main street. Challis,
Idaho, the same being the place for the tran
saction OF the business OF said estate in the
county of Custer, Idaho.
JOHN r. SPALDING,
Administrator
Dated September 2ist, 1896. va
First publication Oct 10, 1893.