The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-03-07

day last.
Henry Dorsey, of Mountain
home, shot and killed himself
instantly on the 23rd of Febru-
ary. The cause of the act said
to be temporary insanity-seem-
ed to think his friends had all
gone back on him.
A Challis young lady stepped
into the MESSENGER the other
day, and remarked Anyone
can set type--it is such easy
work % We suggested that she
set up the first few lines in the
Declaration of Independence, and
the following is the way it looks
when in print
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He criticised her pudding and
he didn't like her cake, he wish
ed she'd make the biscuits like
Ibis mother used to make" She
did not wash the dishes and she
did not make the stew, and she
did not mend the stockings as
"his mother used to do" Oh,
well. she wasn't perfect and she
tried to do her best, until at
length her time had come to
have a little rest. So one day
he growled and whined the whole
day through, she turned him up
and famed his pants, ''as his
mother used to do"
1T may be all right for the
merchants to plaster all the
bridges, fences and barn doors
in the country with flaming ad-
vert;sements," remarked a farm
er the other day, ''but 1 think
the newspaper is the proper
place to put advertisements. 1t
is quite a chore to hitch up and
haul your wife all over the
country so she can read the ads.
every time she wants to goshop-
ping"
Grangeville, Feb. 13.-The
body of young Jay Coston. mail
carrier between this place ard
Florence. was brought here to-
day for burial from his parents
home on Slate creek. the young
man having frozen to death Fri
day when within four miles of
the end of his journey. The par
ticulars of the death are as fol-
lows
Coston left Mt. Idaho as usual
on Friday morning. though all
day Thursday and that night
severe storm with a heavy snow
fall had occurred. He reached
the halfway station all right, ate
his dinner and started off again
in good spirits. The station be-
fore Florence he also reached all
right and left with ten miles yet
to go. He made half of this.
walking most of the time, and
when within five miles of Flor
ence he mounted his horse. At
this point the intense cold be-
gan to overcome him and ne,
soon lost consciousness, falling
forward on his horse but retain
ing his place in the saddle. The!
horse proceeded on for a mile
when it stuck in a snow drift aad
there the two remained until:
morning.
Saturday morning Hugh Cos.
ton, his brother, left florence on
a sled with the mail. When four
miles out he found his brother,
still ON the horse. stuck fast in
the drift The body was stretch
ed out on the horse and still held
a little life that had doubtless
been preserved by coming in
contact with heat from the
horse. Mr.. Coston put his bro
ther on the sled and hurried back
to Florence, but on the road the
feeble life-spark expired, de-
prived of the animal heat that
had sustained it through the
night. At Florence every effort
was made to restore life but
without effect. A party of men
returned to the drift and dug out
the poor horse.-Lewiston Trio
une.
A newly married editor in Ida
no. gets off the following min
strel Joke What is the differ
ence between honeycomb,
honeymoon and pretty girl +?
A honeycomb is a small cell, a