The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-04-13


menced on his assessment tour of
the county.
Robt. Morrison is treating his
residence in Challis to a new and
neat coat of paint e. c. Head
rick is welding the brush.
Levi A. Gheen was arrested on
Friday on a charge of selling
whiskey to Indians. He was
tried before Judge Major, found
guilty and fined 800. In default
of payment, he was committed to
the county jail for so days
Salmon Recorder.
A colored member of church
down South one wrote to a bishop
to send his congregation
preacher for certain Sunday,
and this is what he said ssSend
US a bishop TO preach here Sun
day. If you can't send a bishop
send a sliding elder, if you can't
spar him, send a stationary prea-
cher. and if you can't spar him
send US a circus rider, If you
can't spar him, send US a locus
preacher. and if you can't do no
better, why send US exhauster. "
The public school commission
er of one of the upper counties.
in Tennessee, recently received
the following application for a
teachers's place
snake Hole, tenn.
deer saR-i am a wantin NV a
skule ter teach in yore Kounty
fur kneed hit nifty bad az amt
bin a DOOM nv nuthin fur 6 munts
have teeched skule in this hear
strait Is yeer and niver he'd no
truble yit. / teech Spellyn and
anglysh Gramur and some times
| i teech Rythmtyck and lattain
gramur and gografeto tn wood
waunt hit all kash az i wish tn
pa mi bourd a cuttin nv kord
wood Nv saturday pleze ansir
at wunst- 5 j. potts
The Populists carried more
States for Bryan than the Demo
Gratis did. They gave Bryan the
electoral vote of Kansas, Neb-
raska. Colorado, Montana, Ida
no, Washington, Nevada. Wvo-
ming. North Carolina and prob
ably South Dakota, and were
only beaten in Oregon by a
scratch on account of the large
large number of gold-bug Demo
Gratis who voted with the Repub-
licans. Had it not been for the
so, 600 Populists who fused with
the Democrats in Missouri to aid
Bryan. Mckinley would have
carried the State. The only
States the Democrats gave to
Bryan were Virginia, South Car
lolina, Georgia, Tennessee. Ala
bama, Mississippi. Louisiana.
Arkansas and Texas.
A queer marriage obligation
by Justice of the Peace. in
Missouri, reads thus ''Wilt
thou take her for thy pard, for
better or for worse; to have, TO
hold, to fondly guard till hauled
off in a hearse ? Wilt thou let
her have her way. consult her
many wishes; make the fire on
every day. and help her wash
the dishes ? Wilt thou give hel
all the stuff her little purse
viii pack; buy a monkey boa and
muff, little sealskin sacque :
Wilt thou comfort and support
her father and her mother. Aunt
Jenima. Uncle John. thirteer
sisters and a brother ? And his
face grew pale and blank; it was
too late to jilt; as through ths
chapel floor ne sank, he sadly
said | wilt"
Does Modern College Educa-
ton Educate. in the Broades
and Most Libersl Sense of tbs
, Term ?" is one of the most i'm
portant inquiries that could b
set on foot. This discussion
: which is to be taken part in by
President Gilman of the John:
: Hopkins. President Dwight o1
Yale. President Schurman o
Cornell. President Morton of th'
i. IStevens Institute. Henry Thurs
ton Peck of Columbia. Bishop
! Potter and others of the mos
r distinguished men of both th'
D United States and Europe. is be
gun in the April Cosmopolitan
E by a radical inquiry into th'
< educational problem along tn,
: lines of Herbert Spencer. PreSi
: dent Gilman viii follow in
/ direction almost equally search
ing. Altogether there is promis
, ad the frankpSt nOSSihle EXPIRES