The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-25
China New Year .


The County Dads" adjourned
last Saturday night.
Clyde Wilkinson will depart
this week for a months visit at
Salt Lake City.
Eight degrees below zero at
this place last Sunday morning.
We would like to secure a cor
respondent at Singiser or Form
ey, Houston, Clayton and Custer.
The new Black mill, at Custer.
commenced dropping stamps on
the 18th This property is now
operating with a good force of
men, under the management of
Prof. Schemerhorn, Supt.
Next week we expect to pub
lish the Commissioners pro-
ceedings.
Senator Wo1cott's explained in
the Senate the other day, why
International BimetalIic Com
mission failed to accomplish any
thing. Wolcott wanted to please
both sides on the money ques-
ton, and he pleased neither.
General Winters, an old timer
in Blaine county, died at HALEY
last week. He was a much-res-
Dected citizen.
Here is another puzzle problem
that is going the rounds: A poor
man but rs cents and wanted to
make dollar purchase. He puz-
zled long and earnestly over his
financial woes and finally solved
the difficulty as follows He
took his rs cents to a pawnshop
and pawned it for so cents Going
out on the street he told friend
what he had done and offered
the pawn ticket for so cents
The friend bought it and the
poor man went on his way re-
joicing. Who lost the 25 cents !?
Bart Clinton, says the Elmore
Bulletin, last Saturday handed
in to the County Commissioners
his resignation as Probate Judge
and County School Superinten-
dent and has since refused to
perform any duties pertaining to
those Offices. His reason for re-
signing is that the compensation
$500 per annum-is too small
to justify him in devoting his
time to the services of the
county.
As soon as he was elected
Hanna wired President Mckinley
as follows God reigns and
the Republican party still lives. "
The first word is probably an
error of the operator who left
out the letter Il. With this
slight correction, the message
makes ense.-Recorder.
The following is from the Poe
atello Tribune Alderman w.
S. Hopson on Wednesday eve
ming received the following tele-
gram which is self-explanatory
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. 12,
1S9S.-Shake. We have won
again. Hanna is Senator from
Ohio and the Silverites are once
more defeated. The good work
goes on. We are are the people.
God reigns and the Republican
party still lives GEO. L. SHoUP.
While we do not agree with
Senator Shoup politically, we
believe the above telegram to be
a fake. We credit the Senator
with better sense.
LATER:-The telegram was
sure enough a fake. The Poca-
tello Tribune of the 18th inst.
says it was only a grapevine
telegram.
The woman who fears a mouse,
and every daughter of Mother
Eve is supposed to, met with a
sad fate in a Scoville Avenue
grocery not long, says the
Cleveland Plaindealer. She is
a young woman of corpulent di-
mensions, and when the mouse
darted across the floor anything
like violent exercise was far
from her Mind as Saturn from
Mars. But when she caught
sight of the little whiskered ter
ror she let forth a shrek that
iaf.rsnd dOwn tho StOup,,ino and
then, catching up her draperies
in both hands, she leaped upon a
soap box, thence with the nimb
leness of q mountain goat she
sprang to the head of a half
filed molasses barrel. But. alas
for her too solid flesh The
head of the barrel gave way, and