The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-08-31

Ill. 1t is a valuable document.
1t is announced that Larry R.
Thomas of Rexburg will be ap-
pointed registrar and Geo. B.
Rogers of Blackfoot, receiver, of
the United States land Office at
A letter from o. E. Penwell at
Seattle last week stated that he
had engaged passage on steam
er for Dawson City. The was
billed to depart on the 22nd. He
is taking 1900 pounds of supplies
with him, and from Dawson ex-
poets to pack it into the Klon-
dyke himself.
Let no farmer be deceived by
goldbug claptrap concerning the
rise of wheat. Any man who
can read must know that it comes
from a veritable bread famine in
other countries. Prosperity
which is haunted by the ghosts
of starved millions in other lands
is not the kind of prosperity that
the American people desire.
Moreover, such prosperity is
bound to be temporary, for even
a gold champion, great though
he be in promising, can scarcely
give us the assurance that there
will always be general crop fail
ures in India and Argentine and
short crops in Europe.-National
Bimetallist.
Gold is the only deity before
which universal man has ever
bowed. Religion has never
reared an altar that has not been
shaken by heresy. Political
wisdom has never devised a code
or constitution that did not in
vite revolt. No moral system
has ever won general approval.
Only behind the banner gold
does there trail the hungry. en-
thusiastic, unframed hosts of the
human race. 1t matters not what
land bore them, what fate guides
them, what altar hears their
prayers, what color tints their
skins. every heart pulsates with
the same love for gold; no chasm
of creed or race that will not be
bridged by lives and swords il
the pursuit.
The experience of T. ]. Sutton
the past two weeks shows the
difficulties sometimes met by the
prospector in trying to get intc
the hills. 1t took him several
days to rustic a horse and a.
many more to get together the
rest of his outfit. The day before
he was to hit the trail some NEAR
person stole his horse from the
pasture not far from his resi-
dence. The animal was finally
found in somebody's field five
miles above town. This tool
two or three more days. He a
last got en- route and reached
Quirk's place thirty miles up tn
river, where he camped- TIL
spot happened to be on the lin
of travel selected by two escape,
convicts, and that night Will
Tom lay snug in his blanket
sleeping the sleep of the just
with not a wave of prosperit
, rolling over his peaceful breast
those worthless sneaked in on hin
and stole away his grub and hi
: gun and everything else tina
they thought might be useful il
their efforts to get out of tn
country. This left Tom withou
a mouthful to eat and back h
: had to come to town. gettin
! home Friday night. Yesterda
, he rustled another supply {
grub and will make another stal
f. for the Boise river gold field
this morning and not the leas
bit out of humor. Bet he make
a rich discovery.-Boise Dem'
crat.
The printing press has mad
7 presidents. killed poets, fur
t ished bustles for beauties, po
+ ished genius with criticism
: says an exchange. Yes, it h;
: made worlds get up at roll-ca
: every morning, given the pulp
: lungs of iron and a voice {
: steam. 1t has set the price on
+ bushel of wheat and made tt
y country post-office the gimme
: ing goal of the rustic scribe.
d has curtailed the power of king
S graced the pantry shelves al
n bursted. 1t has converted ban
e ers into paupers, and made LAY
d yers of college presidents.
s has educated the homeless, al