The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-09-26


school-50 in the High School
Department, and AZ in the Prim-
ary Department.
The contributions-ssOur Gov
ernment and the Philippine Is
lands'-by County Attorney
Calhoun, being too partisan and
sarcastic, and as a business pro-
positition we thought best to
discontinue them.
Robert Morrison, of Salmon, is
spending a few days with his
family in Challis.
III. M. Branin, formerly Court
stenographer, and Mr.. Goddard,
arrived in ChalIis last Saturday.
They are on an outing and will
make trip up to Bear Valley,
Sheep Mountain and Red Fish
lake.
The Clayton smelter was clos
ed down few days last week on
account of the lack of charcoal.
Miss Louise Botkin, of Challis,
went down to Ellis last week
where she has been engaged to
teach a term of school.
Supt. Greene, of Clayton, and
Surveyor Frank Mandel, of
HALEY, were in Challis last week.
Tom. Cassidy was up from
Pahsamaroi one day last week.
The "miner finds it with his
pick and shovel" and science
tells us why it should be there.
The corset makers are forming
a trust to enable them to give
women a tighter squeeze.
Mrs. Con. Sullivan and son and
Mrs. Chas. Kopp, of Clayton,
were in Challis last week, re-
turning home on Sunday.
Avoid all foreign entangle-
ments.-George Washington
Our reliance is in our love of
liberty. Jefferson.
No man is good enough to gov
ern another without that others
sent.-Abraham Lincoln.
To subdue the Filipinoes by
force of arms would be criminal
aggression.-Wm. Mckinley.
The latest news concerning
the races at the fair in Boise is
the statement that two carloads
of Colorado horses will be in at
tendance.
George Wiggins was over from
Pahsamaroi on Sunday of tLis
week.
District Court convenes in
Challis on Monday, October,
End, 1899.
A man in a little town in Kan
sas was the father of two sons,
and widow in the same town
was the mother of two daughters.
The father married the WIDOWS
oldest daughter. his Oldest son
married the widow, and the
youngest son married the wild
ow's youngest daughter. If you
can figure out their kin, the cake
is yours.
Elmer Halford, of Houston,
formerly deputy sheriff in this
county, was arrested for horse
stealing at Idaho Falls on Mon
day, the 18th inst. by Marshal
Ellis. Halford was given over
to Jas. Demerius, special con-
stable from Houston, who had
followed him to Idaho Falls.
When found Halford and two
other men had band of 60 or 20
horses, six of these horses being
identified by the constable as
belonging to different parties on
Lost river. A bill of sale had
been given by Halford to B. j.
Briggs for the balance of the
horses. Halford was taken to
Houston, but waived examina-
ton, and was brought to Challis
last Friday night by Constable
Demerius, and placed In charge
of Sheriff Rowles, who confined
the prisoner to Jail to await the
action of the District Court,
which convenes in this city on
the 2nd of next month. For
year past horse stealing in this
county has been carried on to an
extensive scale, and from the re-
ports of horse -raisers they have
lost heavily from their bands by
this method. In some instances
nearly whole bands have been
stolen and driven away, and the
sooner this business is stopped
the better. Similar reports of
horse stealing also comes from
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