The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-10-31
Halloween tonight !
Beautiful Fall weather.

Congregational church in Chal-
lis tomorrow night, (Nov. 1st).
A cordial invitation is extended.
DR.. Cue was up from Houston
last Saturday on professional
business.
W. J. Fear, representing the
Chamberlain patent medicine
firm of DesMoines, Iowa, was in
Challis last Tuesday. He inform
ed us that his firm advertised in
5000 different newspapers.
A literary club was organized
in Challis last Friday night, we
are informed, with thirty-five
charter members. They pro-
pose to hold their meetings each
Friday night.
A number of the business
houses of Challis are now lighted
by the new gas light, formed by
gasoline. 1t makes a most beau
tiful white light, resemb bling the
arc light, but it does not flicker
like the electric light. One Of
these new gas lights produces as
much light as two large Roches-
ter lamps. Two Rochester lamps
in 10 hours will consume two gal
Ions of coal oil. Two of the new
gas lights in 16 hours will con-
sumo, (by actual test here), one
quart of gasoline.
The Challis MESSENGER has
enlisted in the army Of prosper
ity and wears the uniform of
good times. Editor Sweet sweet
ly enjoys the sweets of journal
istic life and proposes to give
his readers some of them by en-
larging his paper.-Blackfoot
News.
DIR. Rooker-No, we have no
use for the Filipinoes nor their
country. They raise three crops
a year there-hell, hemp and
umbrellas. / would not give one
foot of Bannock county for all
the Philippine Islands you can
acquire. 1t will cost the life of
one American soldier for every
acre of land in the Philippines.
l-Pocatello Advance.
Following is one way to find
the weight of live cattle
Measure the girth around the
breast, just behind the shoulder
blade. Multiply the girt by the
length, and if the girt is less
than feet, multiply the product
by IL, and the result will be the
number of pounds. If between
8 and 5 feet, multiply by 16; if
between 5 and z feet, multiply
by %; if between z and 9 feet,
multiply by 81; if between 9 and
II feet, multiply by 40.
81 fail to see how Governor
Steunenberg can assume the re-
sponsibility of relieving General
Merriam of the charges made
against him by loading repres-
entatives of the Miners union,
such as the endorsement of the
proclamation issued by Acting
Governor Bartlett Sinclair, de-
nying union men the right OF
securing work in the district un-
less they repudiate all allegiance
to miners unions and obligatine
themselves never to join such
unions in the future.
"Does he mean also to stand
responsible for the involuntary
servitude interposed without
warrant of law on Thomas Heney
and others by Capt. Edwards ?
1.-The federal authorities are
and must be responsible for this
outrage, and cannot be relieved
of it, even if Idaho's governor is
willing to saddle it. Senator
Heitfeld, of Idaho.
i; Senator Shoup has launched
his tender senatorial boomlet for
1900. While in this city recently
overatures were made to prom
inent silver republicans promis.
ing them the earth if they will
only come back into the fold. .
The walking delegates and fed
eral Office holders comprising
the Markhanna contingent OF
benevolent assimilators" and
broken down political prosely-
ters are said to have fixed the
evil eye on certain susceptible
silver republicans and hope tc
induce them to betray theil
principles and cooperate with
} them next year. They say the
, republicans can cut no ice IL
Idaho next year without the aiC
/ of silver republicans, and hav'
) promised them over half th'
: state Offices if they will fal