The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-07-14
LOCHL GLEENINGS.

Fine rain Sunday, but bad
weather for haying.
George Easley was over from
Custer last Friday on his ''bike.
The Odd Fellows of Challis
received new organ for their
hall last week.
Fine watch repairing. Mail or
express your watches to E. H.
Hendrick, HALEY, Idaho.
Mrs. W. H. Sinclair, of Vic
toria, B. c., is visiting her sister,
Mrs. A. K. Zeigler, of Challis.
A glove contest between kid"
Riley. champion lightweight of
the q. S. Navy, and Venetia, the
champion lightweight female
pugilist of America, is advertis-
ed to take place in Challis.
The Yellow Jacket mill and
mines started up on the 8th-
This property has been idle for
some time owing to strike. 1t
is good news to learn that all
difficulties have been settled, and
that camp is again fast gaining
its former activity.
Following items from Stanley
Basin were received this week
Charles Michaelson, better
known as Charles Franklin, died
at this place on June %, and was
about go years old. He has a
brother living near Pioneer or
Centerville.
1.-The mining season is almost
over owing to the scarcity of
water.
s'The State Wagon Road has
washed out in several places,
making it impossible to wagon
and horseback.
The Board of Pardons has
pardoned John J. Hurst of Oneida
county. Hurst was sent up for
20 years for killing Morgan p.
Morgan, who, it was alleged,
entered the Hurst home, alienat-
ed the f; ffections of the wife and
created strife in the household.
Hurst came home one day and
found his wife in a compromising
position witq Morgan. He got
his gun and shot Morgan as he
was escaping from the house.
A Denver druggist tells how
to freeze ice cream without ice !:
Anybody can freeze his own
ice cream in five minutes, at a
cost of two or three cents. If the
preparation designed to be frozen
is placed in a tin bucket or other
receptacle it can be readily con-
gealed by putting it in a pail
containing a weak dilution of
sulphuric acid and water. Into
this throw a handful of common
Glauber salts, and the resulting
cold is so great that a bottle of
wine immersed in the mixture
will be frozen solid in a few min
utes, and ice cream and ices may
be quickly and easily prepared. F"
1t was Pat Collins who was
addressing a Boston audience on
the virtues of the gold standard.
He rose in pompous way and
began MY hearers, | hold in
my right hand a silver dollar,
and in my left a gold dollar, and
the one represents SO cents
worth of silver and is good only
in our own country. The other
is tiny thing, but it is worth
81 anywhere in the world. Now,
which, my fellow citizens, will
you take ~ An old Irishman
got up and said: "Well, sor. as
1 have nayther, I'll take ayther. .
The Milesiah had voiced the
sentiment of the vast majority of
workers in the United States.
We, the citizens of Bayhorse,
extend to those who patronized
our Fourth of July celebration,
our kindest regards.
In the races, Frank Mllvaney
took first money and Wells Nc
Gowan second. Their compet-
iors done well, but not we'll
enough.
In the drilling match, Tommy
Hines won by a scratch-Ed.
Wallace second. Ed. would have
won but thought his time was up.
So far as the dance was con-
cerned everything was grand
success. Much is due to the
Challis people who helped to
make up all the pleasures of the
day. Everybody was pleased
over the days doings and fer
vently hope we may have more
of the same fun in the near
future.