The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-01-04
How about organizing a dane
ing club in Challis this winter ?

How about organizing a dane
ing club in Challis this winter ?
Billy Peck had his face filed
with powder from the explosion
of gun shell one day last week.
1T was thought at first he would
lose the sight of one of his eyes,
but he is getting along all right
now.
! The wealth of John D. Rookie
feller has now reached the sum
of S244, 600, 900, and furthermore.
is increasing at the rate of ST.
800, 900 month, or $4,000 a
day, or S2083 an hour, or $34. so
a minute, or 81 cents every Sec
ond of time, day and night, Sun
days and holidays.
E. S. Holden writes from Daw-
son City to friend in Santa
Rosa, Cal, that he is paying
$500 month for board in a pri-
vate family, in the Klondike
metropolis. This seemingly in
dicates that when man up that
way says that his wages are SO
day he is merely expressing in
a polite way the fact that he is
working for his board.
1t is believed that Colorado's
gold output will go ahead of Cal
ifornia. The books of the Unit
ed States branch mint for the
year of 1897 are closed. The
deposits of gold are the largest
ever received. The total will
Slightly exceed S12, 200, 900, and
a conservative estimate made by
the mint officials places the en-
tire output of Colorado at S22,-
900, 600. The great increase in
the Colorado output this year
will send the total for the United
States up to $40, 900, 900.
Prof. J. Bossert, a piano tuner,
who has made his headquarters
in Pocatello for the last few
months was up in Judge Hop
sons court yesterday charged
with making away with violin
belonging to j. G. Sanders. the
cigar manufacturer. He was
unprecedented at Downey and was
brought back. He had borrowed
the violin from Mr.. Sanders and
claimed when arranged in court
to have simply taken the instru-
ment with him to Downey to fill
an engagement and that he in
tended to return it. The court
gave him a reprimand and let
him go. He returned the violin.
-Pocatello Tribune.
Here is prosperity with
vengence- In a single issue of
the Boise Statesman we note
among the telegraphic news that
Notices of a 10 per cent. re-
duction in wages Jan. 1st have
been posted in the Amory, Stark
and Jefferson cotton mills at
Manchester, N. H., employing
11,000 operatives. That the
Amoskeag mills, at the city, had
previously posted similar MOTTO
es. This latter mill employed
9000." At Pawtucket, r. L,
250 weavers are on a strike on
account of a reduction in wages.
The Millbury mills at Worches-
ter, Mass, gave notice, of 10 per
cent reduction in wages. AT an
othe Massachusetts town re-
duction notice is posted in car
pet mandatory, effecting 200
operators. This is the Mckinley
prosperity you read about.5Sil-
yer City Avalanche.
A contract for 1000 feet of
lumber has been let for the erec-
ton of a cyanide mill on the Gold
King mine at Dixie, and the
machinery for the mill has al
ready arrived. This plant will
have a capacity, when worked to
its full extent, of treating about
40 tons of ore daily. Dan. Reber,
the manager of the mine, says
the ore body in this property is
practically inexhaustible. In
this he is substantiated by every
mining man who has ever exam
ined the property and knows
about the formation of the ore
bodies in that district. The main
tunnel on this property is 260
feet deep. sunk alongside of the
ledge which shows to have a
width of from four to five feet
all the way down and assaying
from $40 to S400 per ton. Every
body is loud in their praise of the
Gold King mine; some are even
SO extravagant in their express
sions of opinion as to predict
that it will become one of the
best mines in the west. and all
fool that with fbic nina h0,x~n