The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-03-03


]. P. Spalding returned from
Salt Lake last Saturday morning.
Miss Powell, of Lost River, is
visiting in Challis this week
March came In like a lion.
From straw hats and linen dus-
ters last week, our people are
hugging a hot stove with the
weather below zero this week.
Next Saturday our citizens will
decide the school house ques-
tion.
Durrant was to have been
hanged on Feb. 81. for the muir
der of Blanche Lamont The
execution was postponed for
twenty days.
Drummers Scott, Coffin and
Hill are doing" Custer county
this week.
Bob Fitzsimmons defeated
Peter Maher for the pugilistic
championship of the world near
FL Paso, Texas, last Friday. The
fight lasted only one minute and
thirty -five seconds.
To ache or not to ache. That
is the question, and it generally
aches.
Man wants but little here be
low nor wants that little long
especially if it is the tooth
ache.
DR.. Pyle viii write an article
on tarter next week.
Twenty teeth for the children
and 80 for the adult person.
Bill Nye, the humorist, died al
his home In Ashyille, y. G. last
week.
The Chicago Tribune pays the
following modest tribute to Ida
no: Lift all New England and
New York bodily above the level
of the sea. Add 5000 feet to the
height of Mount Washington and
1000 to that of Mount Mitchell.
Throw in dozen other of peaks
fully as high, all punching holes
in the sky with their snowy
crowns. Pile up, everywhere,
hundreds on hundreds of noun
tains from 10000 to 1900 feet
high. Exaggergate fifty fold all
the notches and gorges and glens
of Eastern America and multiply
them by scores. Send cataracts
and cascades leaping and foam
ing down a thousand dizzy prec-
ipice channels. Toss in, prom
Eiscuously. parks larger thar
whole states in the tame, small
notioned east, and gardens OF
! giant statuary-statutes of god:
. and genii and gnomes. Titan:
centaurs. and unnamed monsters
thousands of feet high-hewn by
ages on ages Of wind and wave:
and whirling waters. Cap al
the mountain tops with everlast
ing ice and snow. and clothe
their shaggy sides with waving
forests of valuable timber. Fill
all the valleys TO the mountain
feet with orchards and gardens
! vineyards and grain fields. bend
ing beneath the burden of thei
own magnificent fruitage; anC
dot the horizon bounded paStur
lands with fiocks and herds, wais
deep in the very wantonness o
plenty. Underlay the Who'll
vast area, with gold and silver
zinc, copper, lead and iron ores
marble of a hundred hues; an
thracite. bituminous and channe
coal; salt. sulphur, soda, lin
and gypsum; and nearly ever,
other metal and mineral in hu
man use. Thro' countless wond
{ rous canyons. pour mighty riy
: ers with water power enough t
2 run all the worlds machinery
: Smite the rock-ribbed laboratol
5 les of Omnipotence, and let ur
; numbered healing floods gus
: forth, rich in miracle-workin'
5 virtues for the alleviation G
4 many of the soreSt ILLS tina
flesh is heir to-" And over a
throw the glory of a climate III
5 surpassed under Heaven sine
sin and death climbed into Eder
E and the translucent splendor c
: skies more radiently sapphirea
/ than ever bent their crystal al
ches above the far-famed begga
: hemmed and fiea-girt Bay of Ns
e piles, or the Lake of Como, o
e whose enchanted shores lay tn
E bogus ranch of that glib-tongu
e bunco steerer, Claude Melnotte-
t and you have a poor faint, pun