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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-04
Christnas at Bayhorse.

The Xmas tree in Bayhorse
was very pleasant affair. The
program rendered by the school
children was exceptionally good
in every number. The musical
part was indeed well appreciated.
Mrs. Folger favoring us with a
beautiful solo, and the Bayhorse
comedian, Grant Mccoy, taking
the part of a 'colored gentle
man." was enthusiastically encor-
ed. After the entertainment a
dance was given by the school,
which was a success in every
detail.
The following is a copy of the
program given
Song:........."x-m Bells" School.
Recitation, Money Musk" Clara Folger
Solo.-.................... Mrs Folger.
Tableau: :........ Liberty" ...... Ruth Baker
Recitation, 49,. THE Duel" . Minnie Hurst.
Bully song" "..............-......G Grant Mccoy.
Gone Somewhere" -. BY Nora Folger. Rich
ard Weighall, Fred Mavity, Martin and
Johnnie Germer
Tableau u:......................... "Sunfower. :"
Recitation. Matte Mott.
Good Night Drill, ..........By Six Little Girls.
Coming Of Santa Claus ,''........... By School.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-04

|A.ND 0FExCE-HAlLEY DISTRICT.
Dtor. H. Brodhead.
l1vor. or......s................ w H. Horne.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-04
oocInrIEs.

cUyTkR LOD0E NO. Fl, !. o. o. F
gular meetings every Saturday night at z
Sck q their hall. IN Challis. Brothers in
standing are requested to be present
J. T. EBBERTS. n. C.
I FINNRLL. Secretary.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-04
Treasursr'@ Notice.

Treasur<r'@ Notice.
Thefollowing warrants against
Custer county, will be paid on
presentation with interest to
date, if presented within sixty
days from date of this notice
CURRENT EXPENSE.
(July Issue 1879
Nos. 163-164-165-166-167-
168-169-170-171-172-173 =
174-175-176-177-178-179-
180-181-and-182.
lOct. Issue 1897
Nos. 183--l84-185-186-187-
9-190-191-192-193-
194-195-1 -196-197-199-199-
2O0-2O1-2O2-2O3 -205-206-
2O7-2O8-2 -2O9-21O-211-212-
213-213A -213B -214- 215-
216A-216B -217 -218- 22O-
221-222-223-224-225-226-
227-22S-229-23O-231-232-
-234-235-23 -236-237-238-
239-240-242-243 -244-245-
and 246.
REDEMPTION FUND.
General Fund July Issue 1894.
Nos. 74-75-76-77-78-79-
and-80.
(Road Fund July Issue 1894.
Nos. 62-and-64.
ROAD FUND.
October Issue 1879
Nos. 63-64-65-66-67-and-6S.
Interest at z per cent. Inter
est commences from date of reg
istry to 10 days after date of ad-
vertisement.
]. p. SPALDING,
County Treasurer.
Dated at Challis, Jan. 4, 1898.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-04
The following is a full and cor

The following is a full and cor
rect statement of the receipts
and disbursements of the School
Entertainment held in Challis
for the benefit of the Public
School at the hall on Thursday
evening, Dec. 23rd, 1897; and
also for the ball on Friday night,
Dec. 31st, 1897, held for the
same purpose
Enfsrtafnmznt.
Receipts
From sale of tickets. -. IS 71.7O
Disbursements
Printing. s. 2 90
Incidentials s............ 3 so
To+o, o. ro
School Ball
Receipts
From sale of tickets. .S83 so
Donation by r. Morrison. 2 90
Total 1856 so
Disbursements
Ed. Nickerson, violinist. 81 90
j. l.. Ebberts, organist. -. 5 90
IOIdi. SlZ w
-
Total Receipts /:
From Entertainment .S71. 20
From Ball .$85. 30
Total ............. S157. 20
Total Disbursements
Entertainment ..S5 so
Ball l.............. .S12 90
Total. .s17 so
RecapitaJation
Total receipts. .$157 20
Total disbursements. S17 so
Total net receipts. $139 70
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-04

4 Model market of Challis. Deal
/ IN choice Beef. Pork, Veal and
uttol1. Also dealer Fresh Oys-
rs, Vegetables, etc.
The herald., 1898-02-15
A SUBSTANTIAL VICTORY

The Zola trial, it is thought, will be
brought to termination this week. 1t
seems to be conceded that the conviction
of the distinguished defendant Is q
foregone conclusion, and yet it is inti-
mated that when the excitement has
abated somewhat the Dreyfus case will
be submitted to the supreme court of
cessation, the Jurisdiction of which, pre-
vously denied but now admitted ex-
tends to courts martial when martial
law has not been proclaimed.
This Is a remarkable concession. and
really embodies the essence of Zola's de-
mand. He has insisted upon a new trial
for Dreyfus, by the civil courts and not
by another military tribunal, organized
to convict, and if this is granted he will
have substantially won all that he has
contended for.
All intelligent people knew that he
must fail in his endeavor to open up the
case in his own trial, nor is his failure
much of disappointment to himself.
1t will be a paradoxical ending of the
whole spectacular proceeding if the
great novelist shall succeed in forcing
the government to give Dreyfus an
other chance for his freedom, and at the
same time be subjected to plenary pun
tshment for his own efforts in that be-
half.
The herald., 1898-02-15
A SHALLOW TECHNICALLY

The school board ring dies hard. En-
Secretary Johnson. who is mischievous
relict of it, and who was displaced d
week ago by the election of Mr.. N. s..
Averill to take his place, sprang a point
of law on the board last evening, to the
effect that his place had not been de-
clared vacant by formal act. Such for
NAL declaration is not necessary, and
The secretary is a mere employe, hold
ing office for one year or during the
pleasure of the board. The rules re-
quire reorganization of the board at the
first meeting in January each year, but
this reorganization was postponed for a
week or two this year by special vote.
Dr. Mathis, the former president Of the
board, went out of office without his po-
sition being formally declared vacant,
when his successor was elected.
johnson and his friends acknowledged
that the term of the secretary had ex-
pired. Johnson himself was placed in
nomination for reelection, and by this
act he specifically acknowledged the
close of his former tenure.
The claim set up now that there was
no vacancy is the merest subterfuge.
But any sort of a claim is good enough
for the desperate ring that is trying to
renew it's hold on school affairs.
The herald., 1898-02-15

orators. diametrically opposed as they
were in statement of fact and conclu-
sions, were cheered to the echo by the
large and intelligent audience. COM
posed of the leading lights of the party
in this city, we are safe in assuming
that, whereas the corrupt methods of
Hanna are disapproved by the God-and-
morality organization here, a repetition
of them will be welcomed in future con-
tests at the polls.
Is not the conclusion irresistible? Is
there any escape from it, except upon
the hypothesis that the 500 gentlemen
who were plated at this function do not
represent the Republican party of Los
Angeles?
In passing, however, we cannot re-
frain from felicitating both of the ora
tors named upon the success of their
efforts. In his denunciation of every
thing that is execrable in politics, Mr..
Fitch awakened something of the DOR
mant sense of decency in the hearts of
his auditors; while Mr.. Davis, in his
hero worship of the big boss, complete
ly captured the push and the pull ele-
ments and thoroughly established him
self in their confidence We must also
the party upon its success
in straddling an important anticipated
issue with neatness and dispatch.
The herald., 1898-02-15
AN IMPOSSIBLE INCIDENT

The London Statist takes a peculiar
view of the De LONE incident, asserting
that. If Mckinley had been wise he
would have publicly called upon the
minister and told him he did not need an
assurance that the letter was a forgery
the bad taste and vulgarity of the lam
guage employed stamping it as SUCH
and that he should pay no attention to it,
But what il the president had followed
the course marked out for him
by the Statist, and NJ. de LONE
had. after listening to his as
surances, confessed to the presi-
dent that the letter was genuine! What
situation that would have created!
The Spanish minister. were he less fiery
and chivalrous than the average Span
ish blue blood is credited with being,
could hardly have stood there in the
embassy and permitted such Goals of
fire to be heaped upon his devoted head
without protest. 1t is obvious that he
would have made no attempt to conceal
the identity of the letter. AS matter of
fact he had, prior to the publication of
the epistle, communicated to his govern
ment all the facts connected with it's
inception, dispatch and interception, a
which the Statist seems
to have overlooked.
The herald., 1898-02-15
A GREAT SCARE

Tom Reeds whip was cracked sharp
ly over the heads of the Republican
members of the house yesterday, and
the political vassals were rallied to the
last man to the support of the admins
tration in it's wobby Cuban policy
Just why the Republican managers
should have been so alarmed, unless it
was a case of conscience, does not ap-
pear. A resolution was reported from
the foreign affairs committee, asking
the secretary of state to inform the
house of the progress of affairs in
Cuba. The resolution, as Mr.. Dinsmore
of Arkansas, Democrat, senior member
of the foreign affairs committee, ex-
planned, had been unanimously adopted
by that committee. After more or less
back talk by suspicious members. the
resolution was adopted without a dis
senting vote. and a great burden was
lifted from the minds of Car Reed and
his lieutenants.
If the administration had adopted a
clean-cut, firm, yet just Cuban policy.
the Republicans in the house would not
have been thrown into a panic by an
ordinary, legitimate request for infor-
The herald., 1898-02-15
LITTLE MISS GROWN UP

She was sitting straight in straight
backed chair;
There wasn't snarl in her shining hair
There wasn't a speck on her dainty dress,
But her rosy face was full of distress.
When I drew near to this maiden fair,
She suddenly rumpled her shining hair,
And dropping down in heap on the floor,
Uplifted her voice in a wall most sore.
Now, what is the matter. my pretty
maid?"
I'm all grown up.' she dolefully said,
And I'm linesome, as lonesome as lone
some as can be,
For Humpty Dumpty and Riddle-Me-Ree
There's Little Boy Blue, who used to
creep
Under our haystack and fall asleep;
He isn't my friend since mother dear
Did up my hair in this twist so queer!
"And The Dog and the Fiddle, they left me,
too.
When the baby into the woman grew;
The Dish has hidden away with the Spoon.
And the Cow has stayed at hte back OF the
Moon.
1.-The Little Old Woman who swept the
Sky
Is caught in her cobwebs high and dry:
And Jack and his Beanstalk / cannot find,
Since began to improve my mind.
81 wouldn't be scared-not single mite
If the Bugaboo I should meet tonight
The Bogie Man I'd be glad to see
But they'll never, no never. come back to
me.
81 watched in he garden last night at dark,
A fairy favor to find, but-hark!
My mother is calling-don't you hear?
Young ladies don't sit on the floor. my
dear" "
e. E. NJ. in The School Paper.
The herald., 1898-02-15

he should be kept in strict restraint for a
number of years. But It was a matter of
surprise to all that the necessary restraint
is not provided at lone. 1t is as important
to society as 1t Is to the boy, II he is ever
to go at large again, that he be fitted. II
possible, to be at large-treated physically
and trained, mentally, morally and manu-
ally. Is Folsom planned for the reception,
care and treatment of boys. as Is lone
1t is the prevailing impression that Fol-
som and San Quentin are adapted for
adults In crime. At least. the sending of
mere children thither is most repugnant
to the feelings and ideas of the humane
If it is the intention of the court to send
a boy to his eternal doom, then one of the
penitentiaries is the proper selection for
his reception. Otherwise, II such is not
the intention. and a gleam of hope is to be
left for him. the reform school is the proper
place for his commitment. If the restraints
of such school are not adequate, they
should be made so.
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The herald., 1898-02-15
THE HARBoR CONTRACT

The San Francisco Chronicle thinks
that some of the bids for the construc-
ton of the San Pedro breakwater are
too low, and that, If the lowest bid is ac-
cepted, the government will have to
come to the relief of the contractors be-
fore they are through, let a new con-
tract, or abandon the breakwater
scheme altogether. There is one thing
certain, and that is, the harbor project
will not be abandoned. Possibly the
other alternatives are open to discus
sion.
The Chronicle bases it's ideas regard
ing the cost of the work upon the follow
ing citations:
The Delaware breakwater, which was
begun in 1929 when materials and
wages were 80 per cent cheaper than
they are now, has length of 255S feet
The first estimates OF its cost were
$1.314,000. but the work used up $2121.-
403. The breakwater at Cherbourg,
France, is in about 20 feet of high
water depth and has linear measure
ment of 1900 feet. Though built by
cheap labor--it was begun in 17S4-the
structure cost sS.5O0000 A similar
work at Plymouth. England, required
s5,065,000 for 800 feet, with wages OF
about so cents per day. Considering
the cost of labor and material here and
the way government work is done, it
Is very credulous citizen indeed who
thinks that a breakwater at San Pedro
t,a boA CO.. lace bot
marked down by the government board.
There is no real occasion for alarm.
Eighteen bids were submitted, and only
one was in excess of the estimate of the
government engineers. Most of the bids
were greatly below that estimate, but
that does not necessarily argue that the
harbor will not be built, or that the
successful contractor will be unable to
fulfill his contract. The question of re-
sponsibility will, of course, be very care
fully looked into by the government be-
fore the contract is let A very large
margin of protection is given in the cash
guaranty required, and it is incredible
that any contractor, taking so much
IlSh, Siiouiu piu III Il HdpiidZdru manner
or without full knowledge of what he
would be required to do.
1t is a pleasure to note that even the
conservative Chronicle does not fall in
with the absurd assertion of Secretary
Alger, that $5O00,OOO would be required
to build the breakwater. If it had done
SO, the Chronicles criticisms might we'll
be regarded with deep suspicion.
The herald., 1898-02-15
In Defense of Mr.. Bliss

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald:
The unwarranted attacks upon the Rev.
w. ID. p. Bliss that have lately appeared
In the Evening Express are too mislead-
ing to be allowed to go uncontradicued
If that paper has correctly quoted the
Reverends Tayler and Gray 1t has put them
in very peculiar light, in view of the
fact of their recent pulpit endorsements:
but. as most persons know these two men
to be men of their word, the false position
is but the product of the Evening Prevar-
icator in an attempt to create an opposi-
tion to this noble man.
AS for w. c. Patterson, IL he had been
so horribly inveigled as he has tried to
make out. we who listened attentively to ,
the speakers, regret exceedingly that Mr.
Patterson should have been forced in "a
so trying a position. and would hal
thought much better of him If. when bx h
coming aware of his awful predicamer} a
he had resigned, and not. after Rev. BisA
departure, concocted such lame stor
to avoid the odium of having presided aS
chairman at a gathering of anarchists,
prominent among whom were Mrs. Caro-
line Severance, Mrs Kate Tupper Galpin.
Bishop Montgomery. Rabbi Solomon.
Judge Booth, Prof. Hardy and Rev. John
Gray. Again, those who heard the words
of Bishop Montgomery on the same day
know that he agreed with Rev. Bliss in
the fundamental ideas as set forth by
him during his stay in the city. The bishop
did in one respect say that he did not en-
tertain Mr.. Bliss idea in regard to the
ownership of land. This was the only diff
ference that the audience was able to dis
Germ. OF course the bishop did say there
were some things he did not quite under
stand, but such statements could not be
construed to mean that he held an oppo-
site opinion about question he confessed
he did not fully comprehend
S. ARION LEWIS.
The herald., 1898-02-15
Some Observations on Man

The men never carry pocketbooks. They
don't need to; they carry the money.
Money spent by young men on visiting
girls in ninety mine. cases out of every hum
dred is money burned.
A man always knows how good his work
is. but seldom realizes how bad 1t is.
After all. the most admirable thing in the
world is man who has good sense and
uses it,
After man gets old and cold and tired,
there is a spot in him that nothing but a
drop of liquor can touch. Even love falls
short in reaching ii.
Investigate lucky" man and you will
find a lot of sense and industry behind him.
An Atchison man claims to have eaten so
much health food that he has dyspe psia.
A young man needn't be SO proud of the
square, delicately perfumed envelopes he
receives in the mail; there is no money in
them.-Atchison Globe.
The herald., 1898-02-15
PLATFORM

The Herald believes that the city OF
Los Angeles should own and control
complete system of waterworks.
The Herald believes that tho city
should acquire such system at tho
earliest date possible and on the most
advanta gcous terms possible. consistent
with contract obligations and fair deal
ing.
The Herald believes that the con-
...ct with the Los Angeles City Water
company should be enforced to the let
ter. and that, at the conclusion OF tho
pending lease, the plant should be taken
over in accordance with the provisions
Of that contract.
The herald., 1898-02-15

mation-a thing that is likely to occur
at any time about score of different
subjects.
The horrible suspicion arises that poor
has started a line of thought that must
be squelched, if respect for the admin
istration is to be maintained. De LONE
has been properly punished, but what
he said remains said. 1t is even possible
that Gear Reed. as he cracks his whip
over the heads of his trembling cohorts
and protects his ancient political rival.
mutters grimly to himself: How diff
ferently would have done 1t If they had
made me PRESIDENT"
The herald., 1898-02-15
A GOOD GENERAL AVERAGE

We are quite willing to concede that
in Saturday nights oratorical contest
Fitch, eloquently apostrophizing Mark
Hanna, heroically repudiating his ar
raignment of the Ohio boss, and declar-
ing that if the Republican party is to sue
ceed in future campaigns it will need
something of the genius of the presi-
dents fat friend TO compass it, the
aforesaid genius being credited with the
triumph in 1896, and the fact that we
have Mckinley instead of Bryan for
chief executive.
Inasmuch as the sentiments of both
The herald., 1898-02-15
Street Cars Supplying Cigarettes

An experiment for the convenience of
passengers is in preparation by the North
Metropolitan Tramway company of Lon
don. Their cars are to be fitted with au-
tomato machines for the supply of Gig
arettes-two ordinary ones for a penny.
or one of superior quality for the same
coin. This, of course. is for the conven-
ience of outside passengers only. for. as
heretofore, the interior of the vehicle is
strictly reserved for non-smokers. One of
the cars has been fitted with it's automatic
machine at the companys works. Leyton-
shire, and should the experiment prove
successful others will be similarly sup
Nil
The herald., 1898-02-15
Reflections of a Bachelor

Every rose has a few thorns and every
woman has a lot of pins stuck in her.
1t is what we don't think that makes US
innocent. and what we don't do that keeps
us so
Nothing spoils a woman SO for the men as
to get the reputation of being well in
formed"
The reason why very tall girls don't get
married easily is because whenever they
try to act like little, helpless, nesting
things that want to be taken care of they
get ridiculous.
The average woman begins to hint
around TO her husband that ne ought TO
have his life insured long before she can
say she only wants it for the sake of the
children.-New York Press.
The herald., 1898-02-15
A CoWARDLY ATTACK

The San Francisco Call, which
achieved unenviable notoriety by it's de-
fense of Webb, the ex-boss of the "Solid
Six" in the board of education of this
city, has since maintained its malodor-
GUS reputation by attacking and ma
igning those who were prominent in ex-
posing the corruption in the school
board and in the work of reforming
that body. Last Saturday the Call de-
voted two columns to an unwarranted
attack upon Mr. T. Z. Gibbon, who, as
the legal representative of the League
for Better City Government, prosecuted
the charges against Webb, Adams and
Axtell. Mr.. Gibbons business relations
failed in 1898, are made the basis of the
attack. 1t appears that Mr.. Gibbon gave
the bank his note for $4,000 for value re-
ceived, and the Call attempts to make
set"
But, mark this: After a column and
three-quarters of abuse, innuendo and
Misrepresentation rejecting upon Mr..
Gibbon, the Call proceeds to say:
When the City bank failed. the Glib
bon note for $1,000, with a number Of
other securities. was turned over to
George II. Stewart, in trust for the
sureties on the bonds of the city
treasurer and of the county
treasurer. The proceeds of these
securities were to be applied to
the payment of the special deposits
that had been made with the City bank
by the two officials mentioned Three
days after the bank went into the
hands of the receiver, A. d. Childress
made trust deed to Otto Brodtbeck
of lot in this city. The trust deed
provided that The $1,000 note should be
paid out of the proceeds of this lot.
Major Bonebrake. as president of the
Los Angeles National bank, was inter-
ested in the payment of the Gibbon note
for 5000. He states that the note has
either been fully paid. or would be so,
in accordance with the agreement that
Gibbon had made.
The mountain labored and brought
forth a mouse! How, in the name of
$4,000, which has either been fully paid
or is amply secured, to be paid without
the discount of cent, be regarded as a
fraudulent asset?" Are fraudulent as
sets usually paid in full? The Call says
further:
Gibbon was down on the books of the
City bank as debtor for various other
amounts, but these were all settled
or compromised after the bank failed.
Mr.. Gibbon does not owe the bank a
dollar. All it's claims against him, in
dicated in the foregoing paragraphs,
have been paid in full. If all the banks
debtors We're as sound financially as Is
Mr.. Gibbon and had paid their debts to
it as fully, it would have paid 100 cents
on the dollar.
The Call printed long story against
Mr.. Gibbon, filled with lying innuendoes,
and then admitted at the end of it that
it's charges were unfounded, in the hope
and belief that it's readers would see the
charges, but not read the tardy and re-
luctant explanation of them. What a
cowardly way for an alleged great paper
to attack a man.
Forewarned is forearmed. The Gail
has shown it's hand, and in doing so has
lost its power to injure. 1t is discred
tied factor in Los Angeles, and no de-
cent, honest citizen can take any stock
in what Ii SaNS or does
The herald., 1898-02-15
The Origin Of the Opal

A dew-drop came, with spark OF flame
He had caught from the suns last ray,
To a violet's breast, where he lay at rest
Till the hours brought back the day.
The rose looked down, with a blush and
frown;
Rut she smiled all at once. to view
Her own bright form, with its coloring
warm,
Reflected back by the dew.
Then the stranger took a stolen look
AT ihe shs. ~ .oit ai4u Lay.
And leafiet green. with its silver sheen,
Was seen by the idler. too.
A cold north wind, as he thus reclined,
or sudden ragged around;
And a maiden fair who was walking there
Next morning an opal found.
Anonymous.
The herald., 1898-02-15

In the event of the abandonment of Sc
cret sessions for the discussion of ex-
ecutive business by the senate, the pub
lie will not be likely to be kept so well
informed of it's doings as under the pres
ent closed door system. When the
American people are told that some
thing of grave Importance to them is be-
ing done in star chamber, they are pref
ty apt to find ways for ascertaining the
nature of it.