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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09
CUSTER EYcANPMEYT NO. 10.

Regular meetings first and third Wednesday
nights Of each month at the L o. o. f. hall, in
Challis, at O'Clock. Brothers in good stand
ing are requested to attend.
L. P. JACOBSEN. C. P.
W. ID. PIERCE. Scribe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09

Though life become weary waste,
We know It's fairest. sweetest flowers.
Trznsplanted into Paradise,
Adorn immortal bowers
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09

A complete written examina-
ton in all branches of the B and
G grades has been given in Miss
Barton's room the past week.
The pupil receiving the highest
per cent. in each grade viii be
announced next week.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09

Parents and friends are re-
quested and urged to visit the
schools at any time. Children
and teachers will both be en-
couraged by any interest mani
tested.
ChaUis, Idaho, Feb. 5, 1897.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09

The exercises of the Lyceum
Society Friday afternoon We're
very entertaining. Those who
listened to them were Mesdames
Bradbury, Thompson, Gayle,
Tennell and Hosford. Misses
Womacks and Fox, Rev. G. E.
Mason, Messrs. Riley, Allison,
Hosford, Womacks and Bowman.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09

In the District CcuH OF the Fourth Judicial
District Of the State Of Idaho. in aud for the
County Of Custer
Earl J. Michael and
August D. Sargent.
Partners doing busi-
ness under the rrm
nzmc of Michael and
Sargent
Plaintiffs.
VS.
Charles Smith
Defendant
Notice is hereby given that in the above en-
titled action commenced in the Fourth Judicial
District Court of Idaho. in and for the County
Of Custer. an attachment has been issued
against the property Of the above mentioned
Defendant
Witness my hand and seal Of said Court. this
[S<aI.l SOth dag Of January 1897
GEO. Z. KEYES
sw Clerk OF said Court
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09
SoCIETIEe-

90
CUSTER LODGE NO. sf. L. o. o. F
Regular meetings every Saturday night at :
e'rlock at their hall. in Challis. Brothers in
soOd standing are requested 10 be present.
H G. XeKENDRICK. N. G.
n. L. RICH. Secretary.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-02-09

Ownship No. 10 North. Range No. 10 East
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
HOT TAR FOR WOMEN.
Moral Reformerl Garry Correction to
the Border OF FIendlshness.

Moral Roformeru Garry Correction to
the Border OF FIendlshneSs.
WESTON, w. Va, May 3.--This city
was the scene last night of the most
fiendish outrage that ever disgraced
the history of West Virginia, and
which will probably result in murder.
Some weeks ago two young women
came here from Clarlsburg and took
up their abode in tie outskirts.
Their names are Ida Duncan and
Bertha Merriman. In few days it
became noised about that they were
not of good character The rumors
took on more Objectionable features,
and late last night party of men got
together, secured bucket of tar and
proceeded to the women's home to
drive them out of the city. They
broke open the doors, heated the tar,
stripped the women and applied it
with brushes to the bare bodies Ply
sicians are doing all in their power for
the women, but there is little hope of
saving Bertha Merrimans life, her
condition being terrible. Miss Dun
can may survive, but she is suffering
awful agony from the burns and the
shock she sustained. There is no defin-
lite clue to the perpetrators of the out
rage, and no arrests have been made.
Officers are at work.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
DEADLY EARTHQUAKES.

Hundreds OF People In tho Leeward
islands Kllled-VnSt Damage Done.
NEW YORK, May "A dispatch to
the Herald from Jamaica says: News
has just been received here of series
OF earthquakes throughout the chain
of Leeward islands that caused the loss
of hundreds of lives. All the islands
in the group are said to have been af-
fected. The loss of life has been very
large, but at this time, owing to the
imperfect means of communication
between the islands, it is impossible to
estimate it definitely. Many buildings
collapsed during the most serious
shock, which occurred yesterday
morning and lasted for forty seconds.
The damage to property will probably
prove to be very large.
''Montser"nt, one of the smaller ISL
ands of the group, has been the
worst sufferer In common with the
other islands, it expected a severe
shock yesterday, but the trembling of
the earth began last Friday and con-
tinued throughout the week. The in
habitants of the islands, according to
reports received, are in state of
widest panic and many of the towns
have been practically deserted, the in
habitants having taken to boats in
large numbers.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
A 100000 BLAZE.
PittsburE vISIlted BY a Memorable
ConAAEratIon.

GOuHhBFhNlons
PIrTsBURe. Pa, May 3. The great
est fire that has visited this city since
the memorable one of ls45 started
shortly after midnight in the immense
wholesale grocery establishment OF
Thomas C. Jenkins, on Penn avenue
and Liberty street. and at 2:3O o'clock
was still burning fercely. Three large
blocks, extending from Liberty to
Penn avenue, and from Fifth street to
Sixth street, have been reduced to
smOldering ruins The loss will be
over 80, 5000, 900, and is well covered by
insurance. Among the buildings de-
stroyed are jenkins wholesale grocery
establishment, Horne's six story dry
goods establishment, Horne's Office
building, the Duquesne theater and
the Methodist Book Concern.
A number of firemen were injured
by falling walls and live wires, but
none of them arc seriously hurt. Fire
man George Acheson, who was one of
three men in Cecil alley when the
Jenkins wall fell is missing, and is
supposed to be under the debris. The
names of the firemen hurt are Mike
DAILY, Elmer Crocow, George Meekin,
William Erwin and Robert Badger.
All were taken to hospitals.
Horne & Co.'S loss, dry goods and
Office building, with stock, is 81, 800, 900.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
Valiant Survivors May Die.

ST.. JOINS, N. f., May 3.-Surgeons
performed amputations last night on
the four Valiant survivors. Two lost
their hands and lower portions of their
legs, and are not expected to recover
The other two who underwent similar
operations are somewhat better
The remaining four are still very
weak. None of the eight can be said
to be out of danger. The story told
by the party last rescued that dog
food was all they had to eat is discred-
tied here by many. 1t is feared and
believed that they were also compelled
to resort to human flesh.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
cUTHRlE's FLOOD.
only Two Bodies Have Been Recovered
Relieving Destitute.

holAeVlnB DeBglgnt0.
GUTHRIE, Okla, May MANY of
the people reported missing after the
great flood which laid waste West
Guthrie Wednesday morning have
been found alive and it is now believed
that the number of the victims will
net exceed dozen in all.
In all parts of the flooded section
men and women are busy repairing
the damage done by the inundation
and there is to-day little or nothing Of
the Oft-pictured scenes of despair
The body Of George Owens, the
butcher who was drowned during the
food of Wednesday morning, was
found this morning on sand bar on
the west side of the Cottonwood river,
not more than ten feet from where
he sank when his boat capsized.
Shortly afterwards the body of Mrs.
Charles Ruftins, colored, was found at
not great distance below where
Owens body was discovered. Mrs.
Ruftins left four little children. These
two bodies are the only ones that
have been found, but searching parties
arc constantly exploring the river in
boats.
A trip through every section of the
flooded district shows over 100 houses
entirely gone, three times as many
wrecked or damaged, dozen business
houses wrecked, and twice as many
stocks of goods mixed. The loss is
fully 100000 Five hundred people
are homeless, and twice as many have
lost their clothing, household goods
and personal effects.
The food is supposed to have been
caused by a cloudburst, supplemented
by heavy rains. The Cottonwood river
ordinarily small stream that winds
between steep banks in West Guthrie,
was bank foil from heavy rains, nut
no alarm had been felt, as the river
had been rising gradually during the
night.
In twenty-five minutes after the first
deluge West Guthrie was covered from
two to twenty feet by an angry, surg
ing flood.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
Or. zertucha Arrested.

New York, May "A dispatch to
the journal from Havana says: "Dr
Maxine Zertucha, Antonio Maceo's
physician, who is alleged to have be-
trayed the Cuban general to the Span
iards, was arrested at his home near
Guines yesterday and brought to Ha-
vana und, : close guard. He is now in
the military prison in the fortress of
La Cabana, opposite this city. He is
held in communicate. 1t is understood
Mt the palace that Weyler ordered his
department to Chafarinas islands, the
Spanish penal station off the African
coast"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
For Assembly Moderator.

CHICAGO. May 3.-The declination Of
ex-President Harrison to be candi'
date for moderator of the next Pres
byterian general assembly, though he
would hav' been chosen with little or
no OPPOSITE Il, has brought out three
candidates for the moderatorshIp-the
Rev Shsldou Jackson of Alaska, eX-
Postmaster General Wauamaker of
Philadelphia and the Rev. DIR. Minton
of San Francisco.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
SIX NEGROES HANGED.
LYNCHED TO ONE TREE BY
A TEXAS MOB.
LynOhers Also Wore NosrOes-sevsnth
Man MIssIng and May Have shared
the Fate Of the Others-Knled an Old
Man and Two GIrls-Burned the Bodies

HoUsToN, Texas, May 2.-For the
murder of an old man in his cottage,
child and woman in the first flush
of young womanhood; the assault Of
two girls; the burning of the home of
the victims, two of the bodies being
consumed in the flames, six young ne
groes were last night sent to their
doom by the hands of an infuriated
mob of negroes, the victims also being
negroes, at Sunnyside, Walter county.
Last fall gentleman from Bren-
ham was robbed of SOS. Suspicion
pointed to the four Thomas boys, and
they confessed to having committed
the theft, saying they had given $40 Of
the money TO Henry Daniels. Daniels
spent the money and ON Sunday even
ing last the four Thomas boys, accord
ing to their confession, decided to
either collect their $50 or kill Daniels.
They carried out the latter part Of the
programme.
Henry Daniels, an old negro, lived
in little hut with his step-daughter,
Marie. and 7-year-old child.
Wednesday night the house was
broken open, Marie Daniels and the
7-year-old child were assaulted and
old man Daniels dubbed to death
while trying to protect those in his
charge. Then old man Daniels and
his stepdaughter were thrown into
the house and the child was thrown
into the well. The house was set on
fire and the devils capable of such a
crime left, thinking that they had COW
cred their inhuman deed from the
sight of the world.
The local officers went to work with
will and were ably assisted by the
best citizens of the neighborhood.
Before night they went straight into
the place where the Thomas boys re-
sided, and one by one they were Sc
cured. Fayette Rhone, 81 years old;
viii Gates, 35 years old; Louis Thomas,
20 years old; Aaron Thomas, 10 years
old; Jim Thomas, IA years old; and
Benny Thomas IS years old, were
placed under arrest The last four
are brothers. Later on Win Williams
was captured.
When taken they were smeared with
blood, and bloody shirt was found
hidden in Richmond's house. After
the boys were confronted with the
evidence they acknowledged the crime,
and laid the killing on Lewis, the old
est All the seven prisoners were
under guard last night
About 19 o'clock the guards were
overpowered by strong body of men
and the prisoners taken toward the
Brazos bottom north of here. A little
later forty or fifty shots were fired
and all was quiet.
This morning, dangling from the
limbs of large oak tree, were found
the bodies of six negroes, limp and
lifeless.
Hundreds of people from all over the
country are surging back and forth,
but always with them one tree is the
center of attraction. All of them are
there except Williams and he is not to
be found, but the shots probably ex-
planned his absence.
At a late hour the bodies were still
hanging from the tree. As far as can
be learned, the mob was composed of
white and black men, with the colored
element largely predominating.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
A big Indiana smIndte.

HUNTINGTON, Ind, May 3.-The al
legged defalcations of Thomas l. Lucas
and his son, Fred l. Lucas, have grown
until they have already r. chez S35, 900
and new victims are being head of
every hour. Both were members of
the real estate, abstract and 'Nan firm
of I. l. Lucas & Son, and both have
left the city.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
FOUR CHILDREN sLAsHED.
A North Dakota Brute Uses = Razor on
LIttle Ones to Verify TheIr Mother.

A North Dakota Brute Uses Razor on
Little Ones to Terribly Their Mother.
LARIMoRE, N. D., May august
Norman, who had been living at the
home of Knute Hillstead, eight miles
from here, about o'clock this morn
ing went to Mrs. Hillstead's room, her
husband being absent She blocked
the door and he went upstairs
and cut the throat of Peter X. Hill
stead, aged Is. Then he used the
razor ON the 13-months-old son Thorn
as, and on Adolph and Oscar, aged IL
and 3. He then forced his way into
Mrs Hillstead's bedroom and brutally
assaulted her. The two oldest boys
are still alive with but little hopes of
recovery.
After time the murderer stole one
of the horses and is still at large. Be-
fore leaving he took all the lights,
leaving the family in total darkness.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
DRY Land Onpo.Ito MsmnhI,.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 3.-For the
first time in nearly fifteen days dry
land is visible looking west from the
Chickasav bluffs into Arkansas. A
fall of seven-tenths of an inch is re-
corded by the guage here this morn
ing. This is the heaviest reported
since the decline set in. Several hun
dred refugees were sent to-day on
steamers TO plantations.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
Nomination Offensive to Vest.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-senator Vest
has requested the postoffice depart
ment to withdraw the nomination of
George W. Smith, nominated by the
President for the postmastership at
Sweet Springs, Mo. Senator Vest has
his summer residence at Sweet Springs
and he has informed the department
that Smith is personally Objectionable
to him. 1t has been the custom here
tofore not to appoint postmaster at
the home of any Senator who is often
sive to the Senator.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06

WASHINGTON, Nay 3.-The report of
the director of the mint shows that
during the month of April the total
coinage of the United States minis
was SlO, 4IO, $50. OF this amount S., $780,
400 was in gold. sl,535,OOO in silver
and S74, $50 in minor coins. of the sill
yer coinage 81, 100000 was in standard
dollars
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
Nnrlh pole nalloon E1pedItIon.

PARIS, May 3.-The balloon expo
dition of NJ. Andree will leave Gotheu-
burg May Is for Spitzbergen, whence
he will try to make his proposed air
voyage to the pole. The gas bag and
the netting Of the balloon, which is
named the "Pole Nord," have been
ALREADY shipped to Gothenburg. An
dree will use the same car he had last
wear.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
ALABAMA MoRMoNs.
Governor johnson Promises Two Elders
Immunity From Persecution.

Immunity From Persecution.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, May 3.--One
night last week some religious parti-
sans in Jackson county carried into
the woods, stripped and severely
whipped two Mormon elders The ell
ders subsequently appealed to Govern
or Johnson for protection, represent
ing that they had been threatened
with death if they remained in the
state. The Governor has promised to
protect them and has instructed the
sheriff of the county to make them his
special charge. The Governor says the
constitution of the state guarantees
religious liberty, and that the Nor
mons are entitled to it; moreover, that
the elders in this state teach the Sible
and refrain from preaching or prac-
ticing polygamy, and the fact that
they believe Mormon to have been an
inspired writer should not lay them
liable to persecution.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
DEATH FOR ANARCHISTS.

Twenty-six More Spanish Reds Con-
demned for Bomb Throwing.
BARCELONA, May 8. -Twenty-six An
archists, in addition to those already
sentenced, have been condemned to
death for completely in the outrage of
June Z last, when a bomb was thrown
into the midst of a procession which
was on its way to the church of Santa
Maria del Mar, killing dozen persons
outright and wounding about fifty
others, some of whom have since died
of their injuries.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
Four Days for Ed..or Dunlop,

WASHINGTON, May s.-The President
to-day ordered the suspension for four
DAYS of the mandate sentencing Joseph
Dunlop, proprietor Of the Chicago Dis
patch, to two years in the penitentiary
for sending improper matter through
the mails.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
Five Victims OF = Cloudbur,t.

MONTICELLO, KY, May a.-On White
Oak creek, in Tennessee, a waterspout
struck the house of farmer named
Bran ders, demolishing it, killing the
farmer, his wife and one child and in
iuring two farm hands, who were
sleeping up stairs, so badly that they
died in a few hours.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
InhInn M.d, a MI..ourI aIrI.

SHAWNEE, Ok, May 3.-Alfred, a
young Shawnee, the leader of the pro-
gressive element of the tribe, and
graduate of Carlisle, was married a
few days ago to Miss Eta Messner, a
handsome white girl of ALBANY. Mo
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06

BERLIN, May 3.-The French Ian
guage is now forbidden to be used in
Alsace- Lorraine in public speeches,
and several speeches have been dis
solved upon that account The matter
will be raised in the Reichstsg, it
being claimed that the prohibition is
illegal.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
ror CIrn ssrrIee commI,,Ioner.

WASHINGTON, May Colonel Clark
A. Tonuer, the present confidential
secretary to the Secretary of the lnte-
rior, will, 1t is understood, be appoint
ed a civil service commissioner in place
of one Of the Democratic members of
the commission.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
Albert @. Porter Dying.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May S.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Albert G. Porter is fatally i'll at
his residence in this city. Governor
Porter was minister to Italy under
President Harrison, and at the zenith
of his career was big factor in the
Republican politics of Indiana.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06
SNOW In southern ohio.

CIScINNATr, Ohio, May 3. -Consider-
able snow fell here yesterday, and
throughout Southern Ohio. At several
points the boys were reported MS en-
Toying the unusual sport Of playing
SNOWFALL in May.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06

Colonel Horace Jewett, o. s. A., Dead
WASHINGTON, May 3.-The war de-
partment was notified by telegraph
yesterday of the death at Plattsburg
barracks, N. Y, Of Colonel Horace
Jewett, colonel OF the Twenty-frst
United States infantry.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-06

Marquette, Mich, May 3.-Harry
n. Mason, a mail clerk running be-
tween Mackinaw City and Houghton,
was arrested last night charged with
robbing the mails He is a nephew Of
Ex-Governor Rich Of Michigan
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-09-26
DENY THE PEPORT.
The Glendale Coal Company Says Il Is Pay
ing the Scale Price.

The Glendale Coal Company Says Il Is Pay.
ing the Scale Price.
The report. has been current for a
week or so past that the Glendale coal
company, at Glendale, were not paying
the IS cent rate as agreed upon at the
Columbus convention. The company
denies this statement, and says that
they are paying the scale price. To a
reporter who called upon the company
and some CT the miners, the following
statements were made:
The company claims that the full
price is being paid on screen coal and
on the run of the mines, the rate being
33 and three -fifths cents. They allege
that this is as much as any mine in the
district is paying.
Daniel Turner was the first miner
who was asked about the above mat
ter and he declared that the company
always lived up to the price and he
stated that he could produce envelopes
for quite period back to substantiate
what he said. The men were paid 60
cents straight while the strike was on,
but they went out through sympathy.
He also declared that during the strike
the outside miners and hardly one pro-
mise which was made to the men was
kept VIM. Anderson, secretary of the
Mine Workers for this disctrict, he
stated, promised to inform him after
his return from Columbus, O., when to
go to work, and also the price. This
he did not do until one week later,
when he was to be at Glendale the
next day, as 1t was given out that the
men were hard to handle. At the
Moundsville mine they pay for screen
coal only, and the run of the mine is
averaged. Some people are of the
opinion that the men lose by this and
1t is likely true to small extent The
Glendale company offered to do the
same way with their men, but they de-
clined, saying that they would lose by
the operation. In regard to the run of
mine coal, the men get actually the
best of the bargain. Every bit of it is
weighed and the men themselves pre-
ferred it this way, as when the coal
was estimated they lost in the transac-
ton. Some time ago 100 cars were
sent out in this manner and when the
thing was figured up the men lost two
cents on the ton where it was not
we, @hed. The miners had a committee
OF three present at the time and the
test was perfectly satisfactory.
Since the report about the miners has
been in circulation few men have left
the Glendale company saying they
were not used right by men following
the same occupation in the district.
Following is the scale as paid by the
mines in this district, as given the re-
porter: Moundsville coal company. Sc
cents for screen and run of mine aver
aged with that screen.
Glendale, Sc cents screen, run of
mine, actual weight paid for at three
fifths of screen price.
Boggs' Run, Sc cents for screen. RIM
OF mine, by car.
Elm Grove, Sc cents for screen and
run of mine by car.
Gilchrist's, Sc cents screen and rim of
mine by car.