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

Mr.. and Mrs. L. Falls were
over from Pahsamaroi several
days last week.
| Jas. Christian, Chas. Stultz
and others were over from Pah-
samaroi last week.
Born:-In Challis, Idaho, on
Monday. Feb. 81, 1899, to the
wife of ]. P. Spalding. a 9 pound
son. Mother and child doing
well.
Mr.. Davis, right fresh from
Missouri. arrived in ChalIis last
Thursday evening. He contem-
plates purchasing a ranch in
this region, and go into the
stock-growing business.
The two members from Custer
county in the Idaho legislature
Hooper and Osborn-we believe
have voiced the sentiments of a
majority of the people on all oc-
cassions, and this being so our
people can well afford to feel
proud of them.
A troupe comprising of Nor
nous from the new settlement
near Houston. are contemplate
ing playing the Lady of Lyons"
in Challis in the near future.
They presented this play at
Houston. and we hear it spoken
in quite fiattering terms.
Wallace in Shoshone county
seems to be threatened with
social revolution. The grand
jury at its recent sitting brought
in a finding directing the officers
of the law to see that all parties
who are living together as man
and wife. but who were not mar
ried, either have a marriage
ceremony performed forthwith
or at once cease living together.
-Pocatello Tribune.
Judge Hiles entered an order
yesterday, says the Salt Lake
Tribune, reopening the estate of
William A. Norton, deceased,
and appointing William 7. Bar
rette the Utah administrator.
The order was made upon the
petition of J. G. Fox, the admin
istrator of the estate in Idaho,
who charges J. E. Dooly, a for
mer administrator, with having
failed to account for about $50,
600 of the estates funds, derived
from sale of two-thirds inter
est in the Charles Dickens mine
in Idaho.
The senate proposes to intro
duce a new feature into the
school work of the State by pass
ing bill requiring the teaching
"of human treatment of domes-
tic animals" The subject is al
right-there is a place for such
work-we believe in the kindly
treatment of domestic animals,
but we do not believe that any
such subject should be introduc-
ed into, and made a part of the
work in the schools of the State.
Already there is enough work to
do in our schools; already are the
few short days of the child's
school life burdened with the
''fads" useless ''skimmingS" of
every subject under the sun.
Our schools are trying to teach
too much now and as a result the
child goes forth from his school
work deficient in the solid work
of the common branches which
would have fitted him for active,
intelligent aud independent life
work.-Avalanche.
I With the bachelors outnumb-
ering the maids in every State
in the Union it ought to be easy
for the unmarried woman to Sc
cure a partner anywhere, but
the region where bachelors are
most in excess is, of course, the
most favorable to the spinster.
since the abundance of unmar-
ried men gives her q wider range
of choice. From a matrimonial
point of view Idaho is the best
State of the Union, for there the
number of the bachelors is 10
that of the maids as is, 5S4 to
1, 426, each unmarried woman in
Idaho, therefore, having ten or
eleven bachelors, not exactly at
her beck, but available as hus-
band. From most points of view
the West is the Mecca of the
young unmarried woman, for not
only are there more unmarried
men in the Western States, but
living is more easily made in
the West than in the East, and
therefore the Western men are
more addicted to matrimony.-