The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-10-17

The Commissioners adjourned
last Friday evening.
George MCGOWAN was out
from Bonanza several days last
week.
Lawrence Fielding was over
from Riverside last Friday and
took in the dance.
The Custer, Bingham and Ere
mont county cases against the
Bunting bank will be argued at
Pocatello next Friday.
Chas. Small was down from
Clayton last week making ar
rangements to bring their band
of cattle down for the winter.
Lars Larsen, sheepherder of
John Rogers, recently stole 300
of said Rodgers sheep. Lars is
now boarding at the Blackfoot
jail.
Ed. Powers and Lon Meyers
passed through Challis last week
on their bicycles. They came
from Boise and were enroute for
Salmon.
Fishing with hook and line is
prohibited from November 1st
to May 1st. Now isn't this
brilliant law ? After May 1st
fish commence to spawn, then
you can fish all you desire.
War has commenced in Natal
by the Beers against the British
government. The Beers are a
powerful little nation, but will
have to yield unless Russia and
Germany come to their aid, which
there IS some talk of.
At a performance of Faust"
once, the man who enacted the
part of Mephistopeles was SO
stout that the trap-door was too
small to permit his descent to
the Internal regions. and all of
his person above his waist was
still visible over the stage. One
of the gallery gods, noticing his
dilemma. exclaimed: "Begorra,
the place is full"
The little Mormon sheet down
in Preston, Idaho-the Preston
Republican-informs its readers
that William ]. Bryan has flop
ped" on the silver question. We
defy the Republican to show one
: instance or one utterance of
: VIM. J. Bryan where he has
. topped on the silver question.
! This Topping" business all
! originated in the brain of the
r Republican editor.
VIM. Gibbs of this place, and
Ed. Williams of Denver, return
! ed last Friday from Sheep Noun
! tain, SeaFoam, Vanity creek and
Stanley Basin. Mr. Gibbs in
: forms the Idaho City World that
/ very few prospectors and Sheep
Mountain and surrounding dis
I tricts. That is a rich country in
, lead, gold and silver, but is slow
in coming to the front because
! of the long distance to rail
? road.
The County Commissioners at
: their session last week made a
= special levy of % cents on each
: S100 of taxable property in this
, county to liquidate the indebted
: ness claimed by Lemhi against
). Custer county. A great number
= of people in this place say that
: Custer county is not indebted to
7 Lemhi in any amount, so this
matter may not be settled per
manently. This levy was made
on an order of the District Court
, of this district, and Commission
ers had to make this special levy
or else disobey the mandate and
be held for contempt of Court
n From what we can learn some
|. of our taxpayers will refuse to
If pay this special levy. The mat
# ter dates back to the time wher
e Custer county was cut off from
Ir Lemhi county. At that tim,
o Mr.. Whitsett, Auditor of Custer
Ie county. issued warrants in th'
It sum of $1,000 to pay Lemhi
e These warrants have run for /
y years with interest at 10 pc
a cent. until the warrant now fig
IL ure up to over $4,000 with in
< terest. That is what Lemh
e claims. This case was tried il
n the District Court here in 189
ie and we find in an item of th