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

| ue OOmullSSlO0erS meet QCXt
Monday.
School commenced again yes
terday.
Mr.. Curtis was over from Gold
burg last week.
"a Happy New Year, 1898, it
read on a card that we received
last Saturday.
We are enjoying a "spell' of
weather that is almost Summer
like in mildness.
The New Years ball given in
Challis last Friday night for the
benefit of the public school at
this place, was grand success.
1t was the largest ball of the
season, and all that were in at
tendance report good.
Following are some of the new
mail contracts awarded: Salmon
to Yellow Jacket, to f. r. Means
of Windsor, Mo, at 81, $50 per
year; Salmon to Challis, same
to same party, at $765; Redrock
to Salmon, F. w. Vogler, 81, ,716.
AS we go to press we learn
that A. J. Macnab just fell off
the platform of the furniture
warehouse at at Shoup's store
and is badly hurt. DIR. Whitwell
is with him, but at this writing
it is impossible to learn the full
extent of his injuries, although
it is certain that one arm is
broken, and he is badly bruised
all over. er.-Salmon Recorder.
An exchange tells the follow
ing A lady died and while the
pail bearers were conveying her
to her last resting place by some
mishap they stumbled and drop
ped the corpse. The concussion
brought the corpse back to life
and she lived six or seven years
and died again. On the way to
the grave they passed over the
same ground, and when the pail
bearers reached the identical
spot where the stumble was
made at the recent sad service,
the grief stricken husband STEP
ped in front of those bearing the
remains of his lamented wife and
said, Steady, boys, steady"
All newspapers or other peri
odicals containing advertise
ments of missing word" or
missing letter" contests have
been excluded from the mails.
These puzzles are so simple that
child can guess them. We are
sure that a number of people in
Custer county have been ''taken
in" by them, we know that we
did-not to any great amount,
however, but we did not win the
$500 prize is certain. All of
theses contests are bilks. We
know of a certain young lady in
Challis who answered an adver-
tisement, different from these
contests, however. They offered
to send 10 yards of genuine silk
for 81. 90. She sent the 81 00, and
in due time received a spool of
silk thread. Barnum was right
when he said that the more the
American people were humbug-
ged, the better they liked it.
According to the Alaska Min
er, gentleman who has just es-
capped from the Klondike region,
gives the following account of
some things that happened
there "A man told me, who
had wintered up there seven
years ago, that it was so cold in
January that they froze the
flames of their candles and sold
them for strawberries. He said
they kept their fires over night
by putting them out in the air
and letting them freeze, and
then thawed them out in the
morning. He said that he had
seen four men die of collie from
eating whiskey that was froze to
death. He said he knew a clerk
in hotel on the Yukon that got
rich selling the diamonds he
wore, said diamonds being moth
ing on earth but ice crystals that
didn't thaw until the clerk got
out of the country. He said he
had seen a man fall off the roof
of barn and freeze so stiff be-
fore he lit that he broke in two
when he hit the ground. He
said he had seen smoke freeze in
a chimney till the fire wouldn't
draw. and he knew of one case
where the smoke froze after it
got 100 feet up and fell back on
the house. knocking a hole in
the roof big enough to drive a
woke of StaarS thrOuUh He said