The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-12-20
A man who has no enemies
has but few friends.


has but few friends.
Another slight fall of the
beautiful last Sunday.
The wasp-like girl never per-
mits much of her dress material
to go to waist.
VIM. J. Bryan is now a private
citizen, having resigned from the
position as colonel.
Frank Rapp came out from the
Yankee Fork country last Satur-
day evening. He is not in the
best of health.
Al. Anderson, one of the pro-
prietors of the Montana & Idaho
Stage Line, spent several days
in Challis last week.
We received Prof. Hicks AL
manac last Saturday night for
1899, SO we are prepared for all
kinds of weather, but we would
not mind having a few loads of
wood on subscription.
Low prices in staging and on
railroads-fare from Challis by
Salmon and via. Red Rock is now
reduced to the small sum of S14.
Who are so poor they cannot
ride ? Fare can be paid at
Challis.
Miss Martha keenan,, sister of
Miss Margaret keenan,, of Chal-
lis, arrived in this city on last
Saturday evenings coach, and
we believe she is from Ohio. She
is school teacher of experience,
and goes to Clayton this week
where she will commence term
of school in that district.
The young ladies of Challis
have organized a sewing club or
talking society, and they hold
regular meetings on each Satur-
day evening. The boys-why
bless them-they are like the
fellow who went up in balloon
and fell out-they are not in it. /"
This is rather unique" club.
A parody on sliding Down
Your Cellar Door . We don't
want to buy at your place, we
don't want to trade there any
more; you'll be sorry when you
see US going in some other store.
You can't sell us any stale goods,
we have opened wide our eyes;
we don't want to trade at your
store, because you do not adj
vertise.
The young and good looking
bachelor editor of one of our
most valued exchanges vouch-
safes the following information
when young lady pins a
boquet on the lapel of a young
mans coat she usually turns her
head to one side and tits up her
chin to look at it. The young
man who doesn't tumble is so
slow that he would be run over
by hearse."
You should remember that all
newspapers treasure up in its
memory the names of its friends
and likewise of its enemies. 1t
seldom, if ever. overlooks an OPP
portunity to assist the former.
but never goes out of its way to
boost the latter. Human nature
is pretty much the same every
where. People who show the
newspaper men kindness never
make a better investment, or one
that more surely pays them
hundred fold sooner or later.
The festive dog poisoner got
in his deadly work in Challis one
day last week, and thirteen dogs
of all kinds, sizes and colors
turned up their toes to the.
daisies in one day, and now a
dog is quite a novelty in this
burg. While it might have been
a good job and well executed, we
do not approve of this method of
doing away" with the ours. In
this army of animals that fell so
suddenly, there was one that we
regretted to see depart this life,
was the famous bird-dog, "Jip."
1t is just possible that some of
the many proposed railroads to
the Seven Devils will go no fur
ther than to one of them.-Boise
Statesman.
They will find it devil of a
job to get to lone of them" be-
fore they reach it. They will
have to bridge Hell Canyon,
tunnel the "Devil's Pulpit,
climb "Hade's Hill,' fill "Hell's
Half Acre" skirt Paradise Pra-
irie, (" and loop back over ''Sat-