The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-06-28

titled action commenced in said Court, an at.
tachment has been issued against the property
of the Defendants.
GEO. e. KEYEs,
GSeal] Clerk
Dated June 81, 1893
Ole Mead was in Challis the
fore part of last week with freight
from Blackfoot.
Geo. E. Keyes and VIM. J.
Treloar departed for Stanley
Basin last Saturday morning.
-Thos. Grove expects to de-
part from this place tomorrow
morning for the Copper River
country, Alaska. Good luck go
with him.
-Shoup of Idaho, Carter of
Montana, and Wilson of Wash
ington voted against the income
tax amendment to the war rev.
enue bill. The vote stood 90 for
to 81 against, SO that if either
two of these traitors to the
peoples interests and the wishes
of their western constituents had
voted for the income tax it would
have passed the Senate. Each
one of those fellows should be
marked for future reference by
the votes of these states. Sena-
tor Shoup has many things to
answer for when his time comes.
Idaho State Tribune.
There are many absurd stor-
les sent out respecting the oper-
ations of our forces in Cuba. If
the Vesuvius fires shot and a
great echo is heard, the cores
pondents are sure a magazine
has been destroyed. Now, mag
azines are not scattered about
over the face of the country. and
there is little likelihood of
chance shot striking one. If a
shell explodes in the fortifica-
tions, the report is sent out that
a great many Spaniards were
killed. Our fellows are getting
nearly as bad as Weyler was.
The latter was always killing
hordes of the enemy without loss
to his own forces, but we should
not strive to rival his achieve
ments of imagination. 1t is to
be assumed that our fire is very
effective. but the positiveness
with which it is constantly stat
ed that the enemy's losses were
enormous grows tiresome. Boise
Statesman.
Readers of war news have
probably been puzzled to under
stand why so manp Morros are
mentioned in the dispatches. says
an exchange. There is Moro
Castle at the entrance of the har-
Dor of Havana, another at the
outer point of San Juan Baptiste,
Puerto Rico; another MORO
Castle at the mouth of Santiago
de Cuba. and so on. The word
MORO" really means a high
point of land or promontory.
Many harbors of the West Ind
les are land locked with narrow
entrrnces and expanding waters
inland, sometimes like a mans
hand, the wrist representing the
mouth of the harbor. In nearly
all these cases one side of the
entrance is high land, often a
rocky lofty cliff, and on these
high lands, Notifications have
been erected, and the more pre-
tentious are called castles, hence
we have MORO CASTLE" which
really means the castle of the
promontory.
Even Joaquin Miller's sens
ational announcement of a fabul-
ously rich island in the Yukon
falls upon comparatively heed
less ears in such time as this.
Time was when the Klondike
promised to play the leading role
in American interest during
1893. but now it has apparently
been almost crowded off the
stage. Glory is greater thing
than gold, and national honor
than opulence. 1t is not that the
people have lost all interest in
the gold fields, any more than
they have forgotten their home
industries. If it is really true
that miners have discovered q
Yukon island that goes $6 to
every pan of dirt, and that the
bed of the great river promises
to reveal the richest placer de-
posits ever known, there will be
no lack of interest in the news.
But for the present even such
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