The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-10-17
Ake0Ak NEWS.s

ldSJ InurSOdy evening from
Stanley Basin.
News comes from Washington
that the imprisoned miners in
the C0ur d'Alenes are to have a
speedy and fair trial.
Mrs. r. Macbeth, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Huffman and Mrs. Mabel
Steen departed for Custer last
Tuesday morning.
Samuel H. Leigh, Commission
er of the Second District, who
elected to that Office last Novem-
ber on the Independent ticket of
this county, last week sent in
his resignation to the Board of
Commissioners, asking that he
relieved from further duties IN
that Office. 1t was came very
Unexpectedly, and the reason
assigned is to the effect that 9th
er business demanded his atten-
ton. 1t now rests with the citi-
zens of that district to fill the
vacancy by petitioning the Gov
ernor, who appoints.
AS the snow gathers together,
so our habits are formed. No
single fake that is added to the
pile produces a sensible change;
no single action creates, however
it may exhibit a man S character;
but as the tempest hurls the ava
| ltnche down the mountain, and
overwhelIns the inhabitant and
his habitation, so passion, acting
upon the elements of mischief
which pernicious habits have
brought together by impercepti-
: BILE accumulation, may overthrow
. the edifice of truth and virtue
! Bentham.
James R. Sovereign has sever
ed his connection with the Wal
lace Tribune. In his farewell
editorial he said
Since coming to the Ceur
d'Alenes history has been made
history which all good people
lament. Through the influence
of a few indiscreet persons q
riot was organized and a crime
was committed in the name OF
labor which the lapse of years
will not efface from the memory
of the people, and which revert
ed against the good character
and honor of labor organizations.
The Salt Lake Tribune says
Hon. Charles Crane has return
ed to the city after an absence o.
six months in Idaho, where hG
} has been prosecuting develop
ments on a number of big under
takings and prospecting a numb
er of new localities. On the Bull
! Dog group in Custer county
! Idaho, he has been pushing work
with unprecented energy, anc
with most gratifying results
Some of the ores encountered by
him in a vein that is forty fee
, between walls shows as much a.
| 500 ounces silver and from 6 t.
| 10 per cent. lead with an average
5 of about 81 in gold. He is yer,
\ enthusiastic over the property
and expects to see it develop int
one of the most productive prop
q critics in the west. Mr.. Gram
returns in excellent health, an,
will give his attention to loca
4 interests, while work continue
on the Bull Dog group"
( Adam Aulbach's Ceur d'Alen
t Sun contains this pointed para
graph Last winters legisla
ture passed new school boo
law, and now some districts i
the State are compelling schoC
children to pay for the ney
books. This is about the onl,
r way the work of the legislator
e will be brought home to- then
: for every parent will begin
I realize that it is not wise I
pass" numbsculls and barterer
s to the legislature. The objeC
r of the former school law was t
{ make school books free to pupils
but the changing of the book
entails such a heavy expens
= that scholars must bear a pa
of the burden or there can be q
'' full term of school. 1t will /
interesting to know if the ne
y books change the fundamenti
q principles of mathematics, gees
$ raphy, grammar, spelling {
e writing. Perhaps the legisl'
d tors found a new way to measul
e a yard, or to add up a column {
II figures. or to compute interes
Y or to spell dog and cat. or to d
e fine the boundaries of a countr,
a- or to extract metaphysical know