The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-05-30
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Mrs. Belle Draper, wife of Thad-
deus Draper, left my bed and
board and three little children
on Feb. 18th, 1899, and went
away with Will Baker, of East
Fork, and that |, Thaddeus Dra-
per, will not be responsible for
any debts contracted by her in
the future. THADDEUS DRAPER.
Clyde Wilkinson and Billy
Peck have opened a lodging and
chop-house in Custer. We wish
the boys abundant success.
Memorial Day today
j. O. Swift was in town last
Friday en- route to his Blackbird
mines.
J. d. Wepley, who recently
went to Jerome, says that the
United Verde alone brings Clark
81, 000,000 a year. This $780,
900 day, 81, $50 an hour or 500
minute. Clark, he says, will
soon make his mine yield 5000,
900 pounds of copper a month,
SO, 900, 900 pounds year. This
will represent an income of S17,-
280, 900 a year, or $46, 900 day.
At this rate Clark's Verde mine
is worth $3.50, 900. 1t is con-
servatively estimated that this
mine has enough ore in sight to
last twenty years-some experts
fifty years.
As soon as the gambling law
went into effect all the saloons
in Challis suspended gambling,
and most of the saloons will not
allow social games played for
drinks, as they construe the law
to prohibit it. We have been
told that gambling goes on in
some places in the county same
as ever.
The total mineral production
of Idaho for 1898 was, according
to the report of the q. S. Assay
Office, at Boise, as follows
Gold 81. .895, 566
Silver ....... Sc, 796, 541
Lead. 81, 899,171
Total ............. $13, 591.2
Out of the above amount Gus
ter county produced in gold, sill
yer and lead
Gold. S54, ,S42
Silver and Lead. ...... S202, 949
Total. ............. S257, 791
Why do men swear There is
no occasion for it outside of
printing Office, where it is useful
when the paper is behind time.
1t is also handy in proof reading,
and is indispensable when the
ink works bad and the press be-
gins to buck. 1t is sometimes
put into use when the foreman
gets mad, and it has been known
to entirely relieve that tired
feeling of the editor when he
looks over the paper after it is
finished. Outside of the print
ing Office it is a bad habit.
The constutionality of the anti
gambling law will be tested, says
the Statesman. An action was
started on the 18th inst. in the
Probate court of Idaho county
for the purpose. A man named
Mulkey was arrested on acharge
of playing at Grangeville, tried
and found guilty. The defend
ant was represented by Attorney
j. W. Reid, who is employed by
the gamblers of Grangeville,
Lewiston and Boise. The case
will be appealed to the district
court and then to the supreme
court. The contention of the
defendant and the grounds on
which the law is being attacked
is shown in the motion made by
Reid before the Probate court
asking that the action be dismis-
sed. The motion alleges the law
to be unconstitutional and void
for the following reasons
First-That the title of the act
is unconstitutional.
Second-That the maximum
punishment provided il the law
is unlimited.
Third-That the printed bill
does not correspond with the en-
crossed bill. Further, that the
law contravenes the constitution
al right that PERSONS property
shall be taken without due pro-
cess of law.
Fourth-That the law requires
the defendant to testify and
thereby incriminate himself.
Fifth1That the act was not
passed as the constitution of the