The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-02-22
Our summer weather has now
a wlntery appearance.

a wintery appearance.
Clay Vance, of Battle Ground,
was Challis visitor last week.
E. G. Headrick has returned
from Pahsimari and is suffering
from an attack of la grippe.
Remember that the grand
march at the masquerade tonight
will commence at $50 o'clock
sharp.
st. Valentines Day was OBJ.
served quite largely in Challis-
and the comic kind of love mes.
sages (?) appeared to predomin
ate, and very few of our people
were overlooked.
Clark Anderson, of Blackfoot.
Gen. Mgr. and Sec. of the Mon
tana & Idaho Stage Co., was in
Challis last week on stage bust
ness. He kindly remembered
this Office with a annual pass.
Charles F. Nelson, of HALEY.
and who is known by some in
Challis, was shot dead at Haley
on the 18th inst. by Bert Bower
sock. The trouble was a woman,
Nelson's wife. Nelson was about
60 years of age.
Felix Paul met with a quite
serious accident in Challis on
Thursday of last week. He was
sliding down the balustrade on
the stairs at the school house,
and In some manner fell to the
landing below. a distance of
about s feet, breaking both bones
in his left arm at or near the
wrist. DIR. Cutter was called and
reduced the fracture and the lit
tie fellow is getting along nicely.
H. H. Boyce, of Wall street,
Hanna's agent in Ohio during
the senatorial contest, who offer
ed $4,000 for Representative
OTIS vote, and who paid 81, $50
on account, has skipped to Can
ada in order to get out of reach
of committee processes and ex-
tradition treaties. Boyce, whose
presence is very much desired
by the investigating committee
of the Ohio legislature, has been
interviewed in Canada and he
declares that he is protecting
higher game than Hanna in his
refusal to testify. Who is the
higher game ?
A case has just been decided
by the Supreme Court that is in
teresting for two reasons, says
the Boise Statesman. One is that
it has been in the Supreme Court
ever since the admission of the
State, the other being that one
of the parties is Paul P. Lawson,
the notorious Custer county MUIR
derer who saved his neck by es-
Gaping from the HALEY jail. The
case is entitled Willis S. Dun
niway ct AL, VS.. Paul P. Lawson
ct al. The lower court found
that the plaintiffs were entitled
to all the water of Alder creek
in Custer county, but apportion-
ed a certain amount of it to the
defendants. The defendants ap-
pealed. The Supreme Court
finds that the lower court had no
authority to apportion any of the
water to the defendants, but
could go no farther than to give
them any water that the plain
tiffs might not need. The case
is remanded with instructions to
reform the judgment.
"Syringa," a tale of the Pay
cite, written by T. Shelley Sut-
ton, of Boise City, for the Mes
sENGER, and published in the
issue of Jan. 25th, is a beautiful
poem, and Idaho's boy poet is
receiving much deserved praise
for his productions. After copy
ing this poem, the Lemhi Repub-
lie and Emmett Index says
The beautiful poem published
in another column is from the
pen of T. Shelley Sutton, OF
Boise City, the hoy poet" of
Idaho. Young Sutton has a
bright future as g, poet, all of his
productions thus far showing the
mark of true genius. ."-Lemhi
1--WE publish poem this week
from the hands of its author,
Second -handed) as it might be
of interest to the "old timers"
around here who may be ac-
quainsed with the circumstance,
as we have a few with us yet who |
have not forgotten the seductive
ness of love, and still live. -