The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-10-26

Gillian, proprietors of the Arc
ada saloon, and the scene was
their place of business and the
time near midnight of Monday
last. While Gibson was on duty
behind the bar, Gillian stepped
to the door and began shooting,
but without effect. Gibson
snatched a gun and in vain tried
to make it work. He then ran
out of the back way and two
more shots followed him. He
disarmed a man near the rear
entrance, and ran around to the
front way to resume the business
from which he had been driven.
Trying again to mollify his part
ner, only to be met with more
shots, he returned the fire and
Gillian fell mortally wounded.
These are the main features in
rough outline of the tragic event.
Public opinion is almost entirely
with Gibson. Gillian was look
ed upon as man who was seek
ing to establish reputation as a
bad man, and that Gibson had
either to leave the country to
avoid trouble or stay with the
knowledge that he might lose
his life at any time. Twice he
had fed to save being shot down.
1t may be said that he should
have sought justice and had Gil
lilan arrested. What a man
should do and what a man does
under such circumstances are
two different things. He prob
ably did what nine out of ten
would have done under similar
situation and expressed their
feelings when he said How
could | help it p as the curtain
fell on the final act.-Sylvanite
Miner, Oct. 16.
Mrs. Salix and daughter de-
parted for their home in Stock
ton, Cal. T. j. Paul took them
as far as Ketchum with a private
conveyance.
John Finnegan and numb
er of the boys are down from
the Skylark.
An exchange says : mo
man who lives on meat was ever
known TO lick his wife or ask for
a divorce. Adam got into a row,
right off, because he had no hog
meat, butter or black bass.
Napoleon lost Waterloo because
the allied forces had bacon for
breakfast the morning of the
fight. The French had vegetable
soup, The South had to give in
at Appomattox because they
were out of meat No war can
be successfully waged without
hog meat. Americans are the
most frisky people on earth, be-
cause they eat the most hog
meat. Ingalls, would have back
to the senate had he not lived on
oatmeal, baked apples and blind
robins. A vegetable diet woman
is as cold and clammy and I'M
lovable as a turnip. If you wish
to put roses in the cheeks of
your girls, vitality in their every
motion and brains in their heads
feed them meat. If you want
your boy to get a job and hold it,
go to the front and amount to
something, give him bacon
grease, ham fat or talloW three
times day. The world is full
cranks who are always getting
up some new fad about hay soup
and corn-fodder tea"
"A story is told of a Roman
Catholic priest in Victoria, B. G.
whose sermons are usually of a
practical kind. On entering the
pulpit one Sunday he took with
him walnut to illustrate char
acter of the various Christian
churches. He told the people
the shell was tasteless and value
less-that was the Methodist
church. The skin was nauseous,
disagreeable and worthless
that was the Presbyterian church.
He then said he would show them
the holy Roman Apostolic church.
He cracked the nut for the kerr
mel and found it rotten His
reverence coughed violently and
pronounced the benediction. -
Exchange.
Mrs. Reese arrived on last
Sundays stage from Salt Lake
City, on o visit to her many
friends in Challis.
! j. G. Fox returned last Sum
day from Springfield, ILL.,, where
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