The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-01-19

louisville last Thursday after
noon.
The county hospital contract
for Custer county was awarded
on Friday last to DIR. Cutter for
the sum of 81, 900 per annum.
Leroy Huffman. of Custer, was
in Challis several days last week.
Leroy Hillman, of Bayhorse,
was Challis visitor last week.
Geo. Perry, of Custer, was
taken to the Insane Asylum at
Blackfoot, last week.
We are under obligations to
Senator Coryell for copies of
bills introduced in the Idaho
| Senate.
Col. Jas. McFadden, of Custer,
spent several days of last week
in this city. He reports that
work on his new quartz mill is
progressing in good shape, and
hopes soon to have the mill in
running order. The Yankee
Fork mine, on Mt. Estes, which
will supply the ore for this mill,
is looking fine.
The county bridge contracts
have been awarded to A. M.
Wilson of this place.
Our friend, the Lemhi Repub-
lie, has in a bid to do the county
printing of Custer county. A
goldbug paper of the Republic
stripe, ought to have tapped
Mark Hanna's sack" instead
Of expecting contracts in a silv-
er county like Custer. What S
the matter with the county print
ing in Lemhi county -? Has the
Recorder shut you out ?"
The second dance OF the Club
series was held in Challis last
Friday night. The attendance
was not overly large.
The New York Herald does
not think much OF Senator VOL
colts mission to Europe as the
accredited agent of President
elect Mckinley for the purpose
of arranging an international
monetary conference. 1t charg-
es that it is a shrewd political
play conceived by Mckinley to
quiet the silverites of Congress
until q tariff bill is passed.
The pay roll Of Butte City,
Montana, is so, ,000,0 900 per year.
Mr.. Short and family, recent
arrivals from Illinois, are con-
templating locating on Pah-
simari.
The following case may be of
interest in Custer county. We
give it to settle the question of
the ''high license" in Idaho
The, case of M. G. Nornoyle,
respondent, VS.. Latah county,
appellant, was an action brought
by Nornoyle to recover the sum
of $50 claimed to have been un-
lawfully exacted from him by
the sheriff of Latah county, as
collector of licenses, and paid by
the plaintiff under protest.
The decision of the district
court in rendering a verdict for
Nornoyle was reversed by the
supreme court.
The syllabus says ''The
statutes of 1895 provides that in
any city, town, village or hamlet
where at the last general cleo
ton next preceding the date of
the application for license the
total vote for governor exceeded
$50 votes the sum to be paid for
license shall be $500 per annum.
In a precinct where the vote was
in excess of $50 although there
was included in said precinct an
incorporated town, village or
city. but only one polling place
for the entire precinct, the
number of votes cast at such pre-
cinct is the criterion by which
the amount of license must be
governed"
The court finds that the city
of Kendrick is within the pre-
cinct of Keudrick, and there is
but one polling place in said pre-
cinct, and the number of votes
cast there for governor in 1894
exceeded $50. The polling list
is the only evidence available or
permissible to establish the facts
required by the statute upon
which TO fix or base the amount
of license to be collected. And
it is conceded that by that evil
dence the amount demanded and
received by the sheriff was the