The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-06-29

Mr.. Turner, of Haley, was in
Challis last Saturday.
w. w. West who has been very
low with rheumatism at Gibbons
vile, is reported improved.
The Challis Cemetery is being
enlarged and otherwise improved
this week by contractors Wilson
and McKendrick.
Fishing is reported good in
Salmon river.
VIM. Flenniken and VIM. Hal
laran were up from Pahsimari
last week.
Mrs. A. J. Pierce and Enos
Watson have been on the sick
list for several days past. Both,
we are pleased to state, are on
the improve.
Col. Sharp returned to his
copper mines on Lost river last
week. The Col. is figuring on
sale of this property.
DIED:-In Challis, Idaho. on
Su. d W, June 81, 1897, at IL a.
m, Daniel McAllister. Aged,
about 38 years. The deceased
has been a resident of Custer
county for a number of years,
and followed n ining. He has
many friends in this county who
will be panied to learn of his
d ,ath. He has no relatives here
bat we learn that he has sister
in N. Y. City. The deceased is
a native of Ireland. The funeral
sarvices where held at the hall
yesterday. and we conducted
oy Custer Lodge No. 81. I. o.
o. F.. which Order Mr.. McAilis-
ter was member. TIE funeral
was largely attended.
The New York World, one of
the largest and most influential
newspapers in the country, made
the following remarks in recent
issue, regarding the silver senti-
ment 1.-THE Republicans are
in supreme control of the nat
lonal government. They have
had ample time to try their
hand, but prosperity has not
come, nor do we see any sign of
its coming, and we cannot even
see the shadow of it under the
far horizon. Meanwhile the sill
yer sentiment is steadily grow
ing and the figure of Bryan as
the man of 1900 looms larger and
larger"
While Congressman Payne of
New York was making a speech
tn other day, Jerry Simps on,
tue Kansas statesman, asked a
question that Payne was unable
to answer. So he resorted to
ridicule in order to avoid it. II
would if | desired to be unparlia-
mentary, reply by asking the
gentleman from Kansas If his
ancestors were monkeys"
Simpson quickly retorted
"And if you did | would answer
you as the elder Dumas did when
a French fool put a similar ques-
ton to him. ] would tell you
Yes, my ancestors began where
yours LEFT off. :"
When Mr.. Bryan spoke in
Lincoln last fall said Mr.. IT.
G. Marsden, of the Nebraska
capital, to a Washington Post
reporter ''he lost piece of his
coat, and don't believe he knows
now how it occurred. At any
rate, | have never seen the story
in print, and but few people saw
the incident. As Mr. Bryan left
the platform a great crowd press,
ed forward TO congratulate him
on his magnificent speech. In
the throng there was a demure
little woman who was as eager
to reach the candidates side as
any of us. She was right in
front me, and | saw a small pair
of scissors in her hand. Visions
of an attempted assassination
tloated through my mind, and 1
was preparing todistinguish my
self by saving Mr.. Bryan's life.
When the little woman was with
in foot of Mr.. Bryan. whose
back was turned, she reached
, forward like q flash, and seizing
the skirt of his cost. cut off a bit
of the cloth before you could
wink your eye. / was so aston
ished [ could not speak. She did
not pause to shake Mr.. Bryan's
hand. but pushed her way out of
the crowd and disappeared. l
have always entertained a high
opinion Of that little woman On
account of her nerve. She doubt