The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-02-22

Salmon last Friday with thre,
"drummers."
The latest "Say Juneau
Yukon dig gold in Alaska wher,
it is cold enough to Chill(a)cat
Dyea see =?
K. Mckenzie came out from
Custer last Friday evening anc
the next day departed for visit
to his old home in Michigan.
G. H. Benjamin, of Los Ang
les, California, the only survivor
of Gen. Clusters last fight, has
been granted a pension of S65 6
month, and $780, back pay.
Texas Angel, of HALEY, who
was a candidate for the senator
ship before the last legislature,
is prominently mentioned as a
Populist candidate for position
on the supreme bench in the cleo
ton this fall. .-Pocatello Tribune.
The discharge of 300 Union
Pacific shopmen reduced expen-
ses about 5000 a day. The Omaha
WorldHerald calls attention to
the fact that the same saving
could have been made by reduc-
ing the salaries of few top
notchers about 1 per cent.
Horace Lewis may soon leave
for Skaguay and Taiia, with go
mules that have been trained to
pack 300 pounds each, over any
kind of trail or road, or even
where there is not as much as a
trail. He has man there now,
noting the outlook for business
in that line HALEY Times.
Through rates from Pocatello
to Alaska points are as follows !:
To Skaguay or Taiia, 1st class,
via. Portland, S82. 40.
End class to Portland and 1st
class on steamer, SIS.
End class through, $50.
The above rates apply to tick
cts sold for steamers leaving
Portland only. Rates for steam
ers leaving Seattle 81 higher.
A large number of our citizens
gathered at the hall last Friday
evening to listen to a program
given by the Crescent Society of
the Challis High School. The
large hall was pretty well filled.
The Star Society, another litera-
ry society of the same depart
ment of this school, took no part
whatever in the program, they
being in the audience as specta-
tors. The Crescent gave this
entertainment, we are told, with
out any great training for the
occasion, thereby not to detract
from their regular school work.
This accounts for mistakes, if
any were made. Some of the
did remarkably well.
Fred Burt met with painful
accident while at work in the
Custer mill, at Custer, one day
last week. He is an engineer at
the mill, and was oiling the en-
gine, and had handful of waste
in one hand; the waste in some
manner caught and became en-
tangled with a crank pin on the
engine and at the same time
horseshoe ring that
Mr.. Burt wore upon the third
finger of his left hand. The
ring was pulled off in hurry
by the force of the engine and
stripping the flesh of the finger
to the bone. thereby causing a
very painful wound. Mr.. Burt
arrived in Challis last Friday
evening, and on the following
morning departed for Salt Lake
City.
The addresses on behalf of the
Democratic, Populistic and Sill
yer Republican parties. which
are the result of the conferences
which have been in progress
among the leaders of these par
lies at the capitol for the past
few weeks, has have been issued. !
They seek to unite the members
Of the three parties in future
elections upon the financial issue
rs the question of paramount |
and are on the APP
peal of each party to consolidate
Ill along the lines for this pur-
pose. The address to Democrats
S signed by Senator James K.
Jones of Arkansas. chairman of
5he Democratic National com
nittee, and is indorsed by the
Democratic Congressional com