The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-05-04
LoCHL GLEHHINGS.
Chas. Smith is quite sick. and
is mild touch of pneumonia.

40 GO hAA4A SOANh OA PhONA101AA~s
Billy Figely, a charter memb-
er of the Forney band was a
Challis visitor last week.
Only very few Salmon trout
are being captured this season
near this section. The Salmon
crop is growing less each year.
A. P. Challis departed for his
Stanley Basin placer mines on
Wednesday of last week to COM
mence active operations. Sam.
Tennell accompanied him.
Geo. E. Keyes and wife have
moved into the Chris. Morler
residence.
T. J. Paul is in charge and
has bought the VIM. Stine saloon
building in Challis.
The following buildings In
Challis are receiving and have
received fresh coats of paint are
the ]. G. Fox residence; Mrs. A.
Buffers residence; the post-office
building and the store building
occupied by Rich & Pierce.
J. D. Woods, of Beaver Can
yon, and well known in this
vicinity as one of the largest
sheep owners of the West, was
in the city last Friday. He has
been feeding Sl6-per-ton hay
this spring and says it has been
the hardest winter for sheep in
his part of the country, that he
has experienced for years. Mr..
Woods has contracted his clip of
wool for the following season at
&c per pound.-Dillon Tribune.
J. P. Spalding and Mrs. f.
Nickerson visited friends in Clay
ton last week.
The B. Fl. & G. stages are now
running on summer time.
Sid Larkins was hanged in
Blackfoot last Friday for the
murder of Josie Hill at Idaho
Falls, December 1895.
A new law of Idaho provides
that none but citizens or those
who have declared their inten-
tion to become citizens may be
employees in the mines. Manag-
er Huntley last week notified all
the aliens at the DeLamar mine
to quit or take out their first
papers. Most of them declared
their inteution to become citizens.
Idaho's anti gambling law goes
into effect next, Saturday.
Now children" said the
teacher of an eastern school, Il
am going to ask you a difficult
question. Can any one in the
class tell me how many mills
make one cent p After a long
silence, little urchin at the foot
of the class stuck up his little
digitS, and on being asked tC
give his answer. replied My
pa said if Mckinley was elected
not a d-m mill would make a
cent?" and the teacher who voted
for Mckinley hid his head.
According to Darwin and 9th
ers, it takes a monkey thousands
of years to make a man out ot
himself; but a man can make a
monkey of himself in less thar
three minutes.
Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee, in
pointing out the beauties of the
Dingley tariff bill, said They
have left ashes and assafetids
free; they have left beeswax anc
stuffed birds free; they have lef
bones and dried blood free; they
have left bristles and broom corr
\ free; they have left diamond.
and dragons blood free; and ou
of the spirit of fellow-feeling
they have left fossils free; they
have left guano and gutta perch;
free; old junk and lava are lef
free, moss and musk are lef
free, and turtles, glory be t.
their wisdom, are not taxed.
But to spoil it all, they have
placed a duty of cent per poun'
on dried fish bladders.
The Haley Times after copy
ing the article which appeared
in the MESSENGER on April 20
| in reference to the post-morten
examination held by DIR. l.. P
Jacobsen, in Challis. upon the
body of the late Nels. Johnson
who died from the effect of tn
Custer mill, says: "All miner
and employees in reduction work
are liable to mineral poisoning