The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-05-24

Lee Triplett came up from
Salmon last Friday.
Henry Duffy was in towr
last week from Houston.
Philip Branca came down
from Clayton Friday last.
Len. Peck arrived in Challis
last Friday evening with freight
from Blackfoot.
Up to the present time 372
boy babies have been named
George Dewey" in the United
States, in honor of the hero of
Manila.
Paul & Bowman are putting
new iron roof on their saloon
building. and will treat the inside
of the building to a thorough
overhauling, re-papering, etc.
About thirty men are en-
ployed by the Copper Company
about Houston, and it is com
mencing to show indications of
life. The mines will be prospect
ed thoroughly, and ore taken out.
The smelter will perhaps not
start before Fall.
Mrs. Robley D. Evans, the
wife of Fighting Bob," probab-
ly has a larger personal interest
In the fortunes of the navy than
any other individual in the Unit
ed States. Her husband com
mands the battleship Iowa
her brother, Capt. G. Fl. Taylor,
commands the Indiana; her
son, Frank t. Evans, is a mid
shipman upon the "Massachu-
setts, and her son-in- law, G. G.
March, is an Ensign on the New
York." her two daughters, Mrs.
March and Miss Virginia Evans,
and her niece, Hattie Taylor,
have volunteered for trained
nurses and are now taking a
course of instruction at the hos
pital at Hampton.
In Monroe, this county, an
ambitious hen has produced a
war egg which lays every one so
far reported in the shade. The
old lady who owns the hen went
out one day TO gather eggs and
found one bearing the cabalistic
letters &c. S. H." The find Gre
ated much excitement among the
women of Monroe and they
quickly gathered. They all
agreed it was prophetic of some
thing, but of what, puzzled them.
One lady suggested that it
''Give Sinners Help" An
other suggested that it meant
God Sends Help" Still anoth-
er said it meant that .'God Sends
Harmony" Another declared it
mean that "God Saves Heath
ems"
Finally one old lady, noted for
her religious devotion, who had
been saying little, sprang to her
feet and vehemently declared
that the letters stood for "Give
Spain He'll" All present agreed
that her Interpretation was cor
rect.-Salina Press.
"A story illustrating Admiral
Dewey's loyalty to his men and
his reverence to the flag is told
by Richard Walsh of Harveo.
who was bandmaster of the u. S.
gunboat Pensacola when it was
of the European squad
ron in 1887. The hero of Manila
was then captain of the Pensa-
cloa.
While the boat was at Manila
a number of the sailors went on
shore and engaged in a street
brawl. An alarm was turned in,
but the navies succeeded in es-
to their ships. The next
the captain of the port
came out to the Pensacola to
complain to Captain Dewey of
the action of his sailors.
What can | do ?" asked Dew
ey.
why, your men raised a riot
on shore, and you can assist me
in arresting and Furnishing them,
was the reply.
The American captain was very
courteous in the expression of re
gret that sailors of the Pensacola
should be lawlesS while on shore
leave, but could see no way in
which he might assist his visitor
IN searching out the guilty ones.
The reply of the naval officer
angered the redcoat. who said,
somewhat peremptority you
can parade your crew
before me in order that the riot
srS may be identified.
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