The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-12-21
Silver, SIC; Lead, $3.50.


Cliff Womacks, of Salmon, is
spending a few days in Challis.
We are informed that the sale
of the Black mine, at Custer, has
finally been made.
Mrs. Leaton and children left
on Saturday morning last for a
visit at Kansas City, Mo.
John Finnegan came down
from Slate creek one day last
week where he has been repre-
senting some mining claims.
On and after the goth inst. the
through mail will be taken to
Singiser instead of Yellow Jack
ct, says the Salmon Recorder.
Rev. Guy Foster delivered his
first sermons in Challis last Sab
bath morning and evening, to
large and apprecative audiences.
Secretary Gage estimates that
it will cost just 1852, ,647, ,885 to
run the government during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1895.
Sections 6 and IA of the sheep
inspection law of 1895, amended
by the last Idaho legislature have
been declared unconstitutional
by the Supreme court.
A Washington telegram of
Thursday says: Senator Heitfeld
is preparing a bill to change the
place of holding the federal court
from Blackfoot to Pocatello.
The school entertainment to be
held at this place next Thursday
evening, from the program ar
ranged, promises to be a great
success. Tickets, 80 and 25cts.
DIR. F. Pyle, dentist, writes US
from Salmon. on the 18th, that
on account of a great rush of
business, that he will be detained
at that place couple days long
er than he had expected.
William Henry Theodore Dur
rant, the condemned murderer
of Blanche Lamont has been SEN
fenced to hang on January 9TH,
1898. This makes the fourth
time that he has been sentenced.
We are in receipt of a very
beautiful program invitation to
attend the Seventh Annual Ses-
sion of the Idaho State Teachers
Association to be held at HALEY,
Dec. 9th to 30th. 1897. The
progam is we'll selected and this
promises to be the best meeting
ever held by the Association.
"a country girl" gives credit
to a celebrated doctor" for the
following advice to the young
ladies': 1.-The buxom, bright
eyed. resey- checked lass who
can darn a stocking, make her
own frocks, command regiment
of pots and kettles, and be a
lady withal in company" is just
the sort of girl for me or any
other worthy man to marry. But
you, ye pining, hopping, lolling,
wasp-waisted, consumption-mor-
tagged, music-murdered and
novel-devouring daughters of
fashion and idleness, you are no
more fit for matrimony than
pullet is to look after a family of
fourteen chickens. The truth is,
my dear girls you want more
liberty and less fashionable re-
straint, more kitchen and less
parlor, more exercise and less
mock modesty, more food and
less fashion. Loose yourself a
little, enjoy more more liberty
and less restraint, and become
something as lovely and beauti-
full as the God of nature design
ed. "-Ex.
A special to the Statesman
from Lewiston, Dec. 4tb, says
Dan Paul, prominent stockman
of Idaho county, sent a courier
to Cottonwood Tuesday morning
for DIR. Turner TO call and see his
son, who was critically ill. The
courier returned to Paul's farm
and stated that Turner refused
to come, giving as his reason
that his business relations with
Paul were unsatisfactory. Paul
was enraged and hastened to
Cottonwood and direct to the
doctors Office. After few
words Paul drew a revolver and
assaulted Turner, the latter
avoiding a bullet in the head by
the revolver with his
left hand. Two of his fingers
were severely shattered by the