The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-08-23

A 10d pound daughter arrived
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. FL.
G. McKendrick in this city last
Sunday morning, the 21st. All
doing well. This is the ninth
child now living.
Latest dispatches from Manila
says that in the surrender of that
city to General Merritt eight
Americans were killed and so
wounded. The Spanish loss in
killed is placed at 300. Seven
thousand Dons. were taken pris-
oners. The Idaho troops were
in the engagement.
E. G. Dodge departed for
Ketchum last Saturday to meet
his wife. Miss Mabel and DON
ME Rowles accompanied him.
We learn from reliable source
that the Dye Bros. mines, W hich
are situated on Jordan creek, a
few mile from Bonanza, have
been sold to a stock company for
consideration of S53, 600. These
mines are gold and free milling,
and test run of the ore recent
ly show them to be quite rich.
The new company are making
arrangements to push work on
these claims as rapidly as pos
sible, and will put in a new mill
this summer, besides building
wagon road to the mines.
Well bet there are 5 men for
each county Office in Custer
county this year, except it be
for the Office of Treasurer. The
ladies do not appear to want
Office this year, although Miss
Margaret Keenan,, we are reliab-
ly informed, is candidate for
the Office of County Supt. of
Public instruction. She and
Miss Sill we believe are the only
two in the county eligible to the
office.
An Irishman in Illinois by the
name of O'Clock is the father of
13 children. After finding names
for eight of the offspring, as
they made their appearance with
a regularity that was all but
phenomenal, the parents began
to designate them according to
their consecutive numbers, as
Nine, Ten, etc. One of the sons
recently has been appointed post
master for his town, and now
signs his official papers "Ten
O'Clock, p. M"
The goldbug Republican State
ticket nominated down at Boise
the other day, is as follows
For Congress-W b. Hepburn.
For Supreme Judged. w. Standrod.
For Governor-A b. Moss
For Lieutsnant GOVERNOR. f. Hunt.
For Secretary of State-Robert S Bragaw.
For Auditor-Jas- H. VanCamp.
For Treasurer-George w. Fletcher
For Attorney General-E'rank Il. Wyman.
For Supt. Pub. Iust-Miss Lucy K. Deane.
For Mine INSPECTOR. W. Stoddard
The platform is for gold, in
accordance with Mark Hanna's
instructions, and the whole ticket
will be showed under next Nov
ember so deep that they will inn
agine that an Alaska slide
had struck the gold camp.
Following is a simple and cor
rect rule for measuring hay in a
conical stack to arrive at the
tonnage it contains. Throw a
tape line over the stack from the
side; measure from the ground
across the stack to the ground on
the other side. This will give
the overcast. Then measure the
width. Deduct the width from
the overcast and divide the re-
mainder by two; this will give
the square of the stack. Multi.
ply the width by the square of
the stack; this will give the
number of cubic feet in each
foot in length in stack. For ex-
ample: Stack 30 feet long;over-
cast 80 feet; width 16 feet; 80
minus 16 equals IA; IA divided by
2 equals z feet; 16 multiplied by
z equals 112 feet; 112 multiplied
by 80 equals $500 cubic feet.
This stack would contain $500
cubic feet. There are all the
way from $50 to 512 cubic feet in
a ton of hay. This varies on ac-
count of the fineness. age and
solidity of the hay.