The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-08-24

On our pants, once new and glossy,
Now are stripes OF different hue,
All because subscribers hnger
And don't pay up what is due.
Then let us be up and doing.
Send In your mite. however small.
Or when the snow OF winter strikes us
We shall have no pants at all.
A sister of K. D. Williams of
the Robinson Bar Hot Springs,
arrived in Challis on last Satur-
days Blackfoot coach.
SO, 89, 90 and 81 in the shade !
Chas. Wilkinson arrived last
Friday evening from Blackfoot
with his teams loaded with
freight for Challis and Yellow
Jacket. Among other freight
there are 40 patent automatic
folding school desks for this dis
trict, and with the patent desks
on hand we will have seating
capacity for 110 scholars. 1t is
the intention to commence school
on October 4th.
The Challis Public School now
has a beautiful 8ft. American
flag, presented by the Sidney
School Furniture Co., of Sidney,
Ohio.
Mrs. M. Sullivan's sister and
children from Park City, Utah,
are visiting in Challis.
The Lucky Boy mine, in Gus
ter county, has been bonded for
$500, 900 and it is believed will
soon be sold.-World.
District Court convenes in
Challis Oct. 18th.
Speaking of the fruits of the
prosperity" of the Mckinley,
Hanna gold administration, g
minister of the gospel writes
Having heard the walls ot
hunger as long as my patience
could endure, my mind naturally
drifted into the consideration o
a remedy. With few friends
visited the office of the Goa
company, and there attempted
to convince the superintendent
that the miners did not deserve
to be locked out because the,
protested against a further re
duction of 10 per cent. cut il
wages at a time when they were
receiving an average of only s.
cents a day, as shown by The
; statistics of Illinois. / begged
him, in the name Of starvin.
women and children, to submi
the matter to arbitration. Hi
brow wrinkled and his fist clinch
ed as he angrily replied: ''StaTU
and be Damned r When l lool
,, back on the revolving scenes o
! my visit it occurred to me that
had seen or read or heard tina
awful command every minute
had spent in Braidwood. / reaC
it in the relief store; 1 heard i
6 in the pitiful story of the Italian
it came to my ear in the moan
of the barefooted women and tn
e sobs and signs of little children
= l read it in the scalding tears o
: the little English girl; I saw i
' in the anxious look of the weep
S ing mother as she stood over he
e dying children. read it on tn
? altar of every destitute home.
heard it in the prayer of th
colored woman asking God t
D give her back TO slavery; l sa'
: it defied when the miners cut tn
meat from the dead horse an
fed it to their starving children
l saw it executed when the twi
: boy of the miner Moran died {
. starvation. / looked down tn
shaft of the coal company and
: am sure that away down in tn
= murky hooks and subterranea
= cavens, among the poisonou
= gases where human life is chea
= and the sun never shines, l hear
: the demons of the corporation
: kissing to labor: "StarUe and
= = Damned r' / heard it all the wa
home. I can hear ityet. The1
: will never be a night so dark nc
: . sleep so deep that / will ne
= hear that command coming u
= from the eruptions of hell
- - "Starve and be Damned p
" We have very little sympath
for these people who are droy
n to the polls and voted like shee
st for the corporations, as the
S were last fall in that section
l. They are now reaping the frui
is of their labor. That is righ
W vote for the gold standard ar
If starve. viii you ever get yo,
n eyes open
Is DIR. Cue was up from Houstc