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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-27
ed strikingly shows that, although the

ed strikingly shows that, although the
British victory was complete, it was
bought at heavy price. In addition to
Sir William Penn Symons, who is NOR
tally wounded, two colonies, three cap
tains and five lieutenants were killed
and a colonel, three majors, SIX cap
tains and ten lieutenants were wound
ed.
This heavy loss among the officers
was due, as the latest dispatches from
the front show, to their valiant but in
sensate conduct in sticking to the ira
ditions of the British army, and refus-
ing to use the cover of which the men
availed themselves, in the storming of
the Boer position on the summit of the
kopje.
Beers Utterly Demoralized.
The Outlook publishes dispatch
from Cape Town, dated Friday, alleg-
ing that the Beers are not likely to
make any further considerable often
sive movement. The correspondent
says:
"They are utterly demoralized and the
men refuse to take risks. They are grow
ing to distrust the aged Joubert. The
mixed mercenaries are proving trouble
some. The artillery is badly handled and
the administrative department is revealing
NAKED defects.
''Mr. Schreiner the Cape premier, is each
day being brought more into line with the
policy of Sir Alfred Miner. British high
commissioner in South Africa and COVER
nor of Cape Colony: and his resigna ton is
attitude is considered a safeguard against
Dutch disaffection."
Was a Long Battle.
The earliest dispatches regarding
Fridays battle conveyed theimpression
that the whole affair was over in
couple of hours. the British artillery 81
lencing the Boer guns and infantry and
then simply charging right over the
hill According to the latest advices,
however, the battle lasted eight hours
and nearly seven hours elapsed before
the last Boer gun was put out of ac-
ton.
The Irish fusileers and the Kings
rifles, meanwhile, had advanced to the
assault and were shooting their way
up the hill, driving the Beers back
from shelter to shelter, until the final
rush of the British carried them to the
summit.
1t was bright, clear morning, which
enabled the operations to be followed
by the staff officers without difficulty.
A curious fact was that several times
a lull occurred in the firing on both
sides, the British infantry apparently
taking breathing space in the stiff
climb, and the Beers also holding back
their fire.
The magnificent practice of the Brit
ish guns was an immense help, and the
success of the assault was greatly due
thereto. An enormous quantity of am
munition was expended.
Once the British bayonets showed on
top of the kopje, the Beers retreated, and
when on descending the other side
they found a British battery and Brit
ish cavalry outflanking them, the re-
treat became rout. The British guns
followed and, Numbering from time
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-27
Appointed surveyor General.

Washington, Oct. 23.-The president
appointed Edward P. Kingsbury, of
Centralia, WASH, to be surveyor gen.
eral at Olympia, vice MacMicken, dead.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-27
Beers Fear the BasutOs.

The paramount chief of the Basutos.
according to dispatch from Cape
Town, has asked permission to assem-
BILE the other Basuto chiefs, with view
of inviting them to pledge loyalty to
the queen.
This is assumed to be forerunner of
Basuto movement, and the Orange
Free State burghers near the Basuto
border are said to be in state of con-
sternation, fearing that at any mo-
ment the Basutos, despite imperial in
structions to the contrary, will take the
field and invade the Free State.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-27
Noted RnsSn Dead.

London, Oct. 23.-The death is an
nounced of Signor Foil, the well-known
basso.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-10-27
ern frontier of the Orange Free State,
where the Beers are assembling.
News from RhOdesia.


The first news for long time from
Rhodesia comes in telegram from
Tuli, dated October 16. The dispatch
says:
Maj. Prison, from Rhodes Drift, with 50
Beers, passed Pont Drift this morning,
shouting that they would make the
British sit up. Another body of Beers has
crossed the river at Bains Drift and is
marching on Mac Loutsie, where the post
master declares that he thinks he can hold
the Beers at bay. The garrison is throwing
up entertainments"
This shows that the Beers have thus
far achieved nothing in the direction of
Rhodesia.
Special Squadron Ordered.
London, Oct. 2. The dock yard au-
thorities at Davenport have been or
dered to promptly prepare the second
class cruiser Hyacinth, the second
class cruiser Highfyer, the second
class cruiser Juno and the second class
cruiser Charybis to join special serv-
ice squadron which was about to be
commissioned.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07

Masquerade ball on Friday
night, Feb. "a, 1899. Masks and
costumes can be had at D. l..
Rich's. Following prices of ad-
mission All male maskers. 81,
adults as spectators, Scots. chill
dren, over IL years of age, as
spectators, 25cts.
There will be no more dances
given by the Bomar series till
after the mask ball.
The second party of the Bomar
series was held in Challis on
Friday night last. 1t was pleas
ant event in every respect.
20 below zero in Challis last
Thursday night.
J. d. Wood, of Morse, who at
tended the Stock Growers Con-
vention at Denver, Colorado, re-
Gently as a delegate from Idaho,
and who, himself, is one of the
largest sheep growers in the
West, reported as follows: Ida
ho has 914,0 900 sheep. valued at
81, 800, 600; cattle, 1, 800, 900, val
ued at 50, 800, 900; horses, $780,
600 and hogs, $31, 900. Our state
is a great grass country. We
got good prices last year and
feel satisfied. We raise a great
deal of hay and grain"
w. A Clark, of Butte, Mon
tana, who is a millionaire many
times, was elected U. S. Senator
from Montana last week. Mr..
Clark is Democrat-he is firm
free silver man of the IS to /
school, besides he believes in a
sufficient tariff on raw materials.
Marcus DAILY, of Anaconda, has
waged bitter war against him
for years, but Mr.. Clark has
come out victorious, and we are
glad oft. rs
Senator Mcdonald has intro
duced an anti-cigarette bill in the
Idaho Senate. 1t prohibits the
manufacture, sale and use of
cigarettes under heavy penalty.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
Boarding HOQyG.

Mrs. Hollie Elder is now locat-
ed on Pleasant Avenue, Challis,
where she will be pleased to
meet all her old customers that
patronized her when She was
keeping the Boyd hotel on Main
Street.
Board at
Reasonable Rates 7
Strangers, old customers, call
and see how well you will be
treated.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
~ Salary Bill.

Senator Bulge introduced a
bill in the Idaho senate the other
day to place all county officers
on salaries under the recently
adopted constitutional amend
ment. 1t divides counties into
three classes First, those hav-
ing assessed valuation over two
millions; second, more than one
million and less than two; third,
less than one million. Salaries
are fixed as follows
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
The OscuIatIoniat.

Oh, I'm Lieutenant Hobson, and I sunk the
But now I'm cruising on the land to seek the
merry smack;
lecture forty minutes to the multitude and
then
Kiss everyone in sight except the children and
Grave girls brave girls. girls who seem afraid
made:
Hired girls. tired girls, short girls and tall,
Ionsue- tied and cross-eyed, kiss 'em one and
The editors are bowling mad because I've got
snap,
'Tis envy stirs 'em up and SO never care a ran.
And II the ones who howl the most and ran,
and rave and scoff
HAD half a show, why. don't you know, YOU
couldn't choke 'em on
Sly girls, shy girls, hasty girls and slow,
some VINO CHING like everything, and some who
Giggling girls, wigghng girls, large girls and
small;
Thick or thin. 1 wade right In and kiss ,em one
and ALL
I'm likely to be Aired" from the navy, so
'they say"
But what care !. since may kiss five hundred
So long as may press their lips, think I'd be
Ounce
TO long TO face the cannon's mouth the way 1
did 1t once
Eat girls, nat girls, sour girls and sweet;
GIFTS witn oeaux and pigeon toes and No. II
1.-the girls, blithe girls, and girls whose looks
appal,
But having faced cannon's mouth face ,em
one and all.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07

We hope this bill will not pass
as it is now, for it would be a
great injustice to what is termed
3rd class counties. On Assessor
the salary is too low, and also
on Commissioners, while on
County Attorney the salary is
fixed at least $1,000 too high.
The author of this bill appears
to think that the salary of At
torney in a 3rd class county
should be as high as in 1st
class county, but be is mistaken.
The bill is an unjust one in other
particulars, and deserves defeat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07

VIM. II. Felkner and sister expected to de-
part yesterday morning for visit to relatives
and friends at Milford, Indiana. We wish them
pleasant trip.
30 degrees below zero Sunday morning last.
John Anderson arrived in Challis last Satur-
day evening from British Columbia.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
AI2OGALS NEWS

DIR. ]. S. Meyer has opened a
neat and comfortable private
hospital at the Chris. Morler
property, in Challis, for the bene-
fit of the public.
In the case tried in the Pro-
bate Court at this place last
Tuesday, before Judge Finnell,
wherein Fred Albez, by his
agent, J. G. Fox, plaintiff VS.. j.
S. Meyer, defendant. Mr.. Fox
claimed damages to the brewery
building occupied by said defen-
dant as a hospital, the defendant
having removed therefrom par
titions, ETC., from said building,
which he claimed that he pnr-
chased from his successor, DR.. J.
B. Cutter. The trial was by jury.
Attorney Brown appearing for
plaintiff and Attorney Johnston
for defendant. The jury was
out till 4 o'clock the following
morning before coming to an
agreement, and rendered a sealed
verdict to the Court. The YER
dict of the jury was that there
was no damages, and that the
plaintiff and defendant each share
alike in the costs of the trial.
Mr.. Fox will carry the case to
the District Court.
Mrs. W. ]. Treloar has just re-.
ceived information that her sis
ter. Mrs. Burnett, who lives at
DeLamar, Idaho, is very low, and
is not expected to live.
We are under obligations this
week to Senator Heitfeld for
large 1898 U. S. map.
Miss French, State Superin-
tendent, has completed the JAN
uary apportionment of school
money. The amount apportion-
ed is S900S. 43, divided as follows.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
Rules For a KxoreI.

Board $50 a week. Meals EXTRA
Breakfast at five, iinner at six, supper at
seven.
Guests are requested not TO speak to the
dumb waiter
Guests wishing to get up without being called
can have seif-rising -four for supper
Guests wishing TO do q little driving will find
a hammer and nails in the closet.
III your room gets too warm. open the window
and see the fire escape.
III you're fond OF athletics and like good Jump
ing. lift up the mattress and see the bed spring.
III your lamp goes out, take feather out OF
the pillow; that's light enough for any room
Any one troubled with nightmare will finA O
halter on the bed post.
Don't worry about paying your bill the house
Is supported by the foundation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
Buster Meats XII.

Come all We who are hungry,
And want something nice to eat,
To Busters CITY Market
And buy his fancy meat.
Fine cuts of beef he offers you,
And cuts OF pork as well,
And sausage and bolognas,
And cold meats too, he'll sell;
And all kinds fruits without number
He has nobby line.
Fresh oysters too. in season,
At margins very fine.
He guarantees TO please you
In roast or steak or chop,
II when for meats you're searching
You'll at his market stop.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
lHOMESTEAD.1

lHOMESTEAD.1
LAND OFFICE AT HALEY, IDAHO,
january 80. 1879 (
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intentiou
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before L. III. John
ston. u. =. Commissioner for District of Idaho,
ut Challis, Idaho, on March 10, 1879 viz: George
A. Ellis-H. e. No. 1eS3-for the SWk, SEE,
SEA: SMA, Sec q, NWA, NE14, NE54. Nw14,
Sec. 80, TIP. 16N.. X. ZOE. B. M.
He names the following witnesses TO prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
said land. viz
Chas. H. Mstley. OF Ellis, Idaho.
Don. Rowles, of Challis, Idaho.
Frank A. Reed
Charles Colyin,"
N. SHARP, Register.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
Baked Bean Social.

A Baked Bean Social will be held at the Con-
gregational Church, in Challis, next Friday
night, Feb. 10th, 1899. The menu will consist OF
Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread; Coffee
and noughnuts, and many other things nice 10
eat. All are most cordially invited to attend.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
Notice To Teachers.

special examination FOR teachers will be
held in the Probate Court room, Challis, Idaho
Feb 24th and 25lh, 1899.
All teachers VINO now hold permits or who
desire to teach Summer schools should take
this examination.
MARGARET KEENAN,,
County supt. of Public Instruction.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-02-07
COUNTY BOARD.
CONTINUED from 4th page. J

IUOn'hued from 4th page)
Treasurer to pay said warrant
out of any money in the Redemp-
ton fund not otherwise appro.
priated.
In the matter of accounts al
lowed in part, the Auditor is di-
rected that before any warrants
are drawn for such accounts so
allowed in part he shall have de-
posted with him a receipt in full
for the claim, as per Sec. 1775,
II. s.
Following is n list of accounts
allowed on Current Exp. fund:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01

for making smokeless powder and
other explosives; fourth, as packing
material; fifth, for paper pulp and the
various forms of paper made there
from, both alone and mixed with
other grades of paper stock; sixth,
as stock food made from the fine
outer shells or shives of the corn
stalks and also from the nodes, or
joints The leaves or tassels also
furnish a shredded or bale fodder;
seventh, mixed feeds for stock con-
tanning fine ground shell or shives as
a base and in addition thereto var
ious heterogeneous materials and con-
centraled food substances, or blood
molasses, distillery and glucose re-
fuse, sugar beet pulp, apple pomace
and other by-products; and eighth,
poultry foods.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01

Chrysanthemums and foot ball hair
will be the idols OF the people for the
next week.
be Steinberger has sold his
Girard paper to socialist and will
move to Mississippi.
There will probably be an epidemic
of new feathers in the women's hats
after Thanksgiving.
Miss Florence Snow, of NeoshO
Falls, Is now contributing excellent
literary notes to the Chanute Tribune.
Wichita Eagle: Mr.. Eckert, of
Arkansas City, begging not to be too
premature, asks Funston TO give that
Topeka Capital sword to his son.
A bilene's claim that she has a man
In the Transvaal worth $4,000, 900
will probably stand for fact until
more peaceful times permit the skep.
tics going to investigate.
Another trust has been formed, and
in Kansas, too. All the plants which
have been turning out kicks on Uncle
Cyrus Leland have been bought up
and united with 10000 capital,
The State Bank of Clearwater, in
Sedgwick county, was robbed Satur-
day night of 5000 in cash and several
notes. This is the sixth bank which
has been robbed during the past two
months.
Up at Topeka there is a society
called the Funston Assembly and
when AguinaldO comes to this country
he will probable want to join as he
has been trying to get himself to-
gether ever since he met Funston.
OF Dewey, VIII White of Emporia
says: "In the meantime IL may be
we'll for all heros TO recall the advice
of the elder Weller: Beware of
vidders.' That ls the sum OF human
wisdom along the path George is
walking"
Ed Hoch, OF the Marion Record,
tries to prejudice the Kansas public
against the Beers by printing the fol-
| lowing which he declares to be a
verse of their poetry:
| WAL hOOg non in Ons helde lug
| TransvaAlsche withdrawing
| OnS' viiande nOu sim weggeoiug
NOu blinktn bliier dag.
| A Topeka man who married col
| OItu WOulhu uSO uOfn oNNi
thing darkly now. He returned home
last week to find that che had pawned
all his clothes and got drunk on the
proceeds. and when he pointed the
finger of scorn at her she nearly bit the
! finger off
Topeka Capital al believe 1t Ia the
intention OF Gen. Otis to put that man
Funston at the head Of brigade i'm
mediately on his return to the islands
Belladonna,n observed Aguinaldo. 81
understand that is his intention
SIRE" responded the chief of stsff
making n profound obeisance. "WelP
continued the rulers Of the yellow
bellies, after a moment's reflection
~ guess you had better have a couple
OF water buffalo put in training fol
long distance heats without any de
lay"
1 Charlie Finch, of the Lawrence
journal, thinks that Chester Ions
will queer himself in the Seventh dis
trict II he persists in his determine
ton to work for the Nicaragua cana
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01

Wichita Eagle; The crop over
which Kansas is so wont to glory Is
not wholly and only good hog feed.
There is something more dangerous
in the succulent and ripening roast
| ing ear than whisky and Johnny
cake, than mush ana spare-ribs.
Smokeless powder, wars new fad and
fancy, is manufactured in part from
a distillation of Indian corn, and the
New York Sun predicts that such is
the demand that the price will be en-
HANGED. An extensive war among
the greater European nations would
have a marked effect upon the market
for these spirits and for corn. The
British government closed o contract
last fall with the Standard Distllling
company of Chicago for the immediate
delivery OF l24, 600 gallons of distilled
spirits at Montreal, with an intima-
ton that they would want 450, 900
more in short time. The spirits
ordered were for use in the manu-
facture of smOkeless powder. The
Japanese government has recently
ordered 5000 barrels of spirits for the
same purpose, and has given notice of
large future requirements. Our own
government has recently ordered
10000 barrels, and further orders will
follow. Henceforth smokeless powder
Will be exclusively used in civilized
warfare, and in the manufacture of
this powder, distilled spirits play u
prominent part, thus opening up q
new and quite extensive market for
American corn.
The people OF Kansas and of Ne
braska are quite right in regarding
their corn crop as their chief source
of wealth. Half a dozen years ago
the farmer considered the value OF
his corn crop to be practically termi-
mated with the husking of the corn.
What was left was worth very small
sum an acre as fodder. Many ex.
perlmenters, however, working along
different lines have established the
value OF the by-products of the corn
crop, and there lie now home
market, where farmer can get from
$3 to So ton for corn stalks, so their
} value is now from So to Sl2 an acre
The american Agricuhurist recently
gave the following list OF what can ht
made from corn stalks: First, cell
lulose for packing Golfer dams on oul
: ships; second, pyroxyline varnish
third, cellulose for nltrating purposes
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-01
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

1t is comforting to remember that
to the chicken pox.
The automobile isn't the whole
thing yet. At q Wellsville sale horses
brought $50 apiece.
The lumbermen over the State are
preparing to fight an advance OF
freight rates on lumber.
A FIT Scott man is shipping hick-
DRY nuts and walnuts to Idaho and
says he has inquiries for half car
, load.
The wife OF Topeka man il re-
ported to be tied with red tape in New
York harhor so that che cannot come
TO her husband.
The Mccormack Harvester people
will erect SOS 900 building at Wich-
ita. This prosperity business is be
coming binding.
A Salina youth perfers to go to the
pen rather than marry n girl of that
place. He'sught to be sent up for ex-
pressing such view.
A southern Kansas paper says that
during this muddy weather a woman
in crossing street should raise her
skirt just little over two feet.
Chas. Brintzinghoffer, of Howard,
wants corn, he says, and people who
have to pronounce his name often
must have corns on their tongues
That returned soldier is yet to be
found VINO was not present when the
alleged shooting In the Philippines
was done and who could not tel
volumes were he 30 inclined.
While the papers are noting that
DDewey is SOre' and "Funston IL
are Tired of this everlasting sensa
tional lying about prominent men
The men who own Bridalveil parl
at FIT. Scott will erect $4,000 ladies
natatorium. The bridal veil business
comes in on the swimming costumes
doubtless.
Among the "Current Eventsn notei
in the Independence Reporter lie this
"Phe work of killing some of thu
numerous worthless cars of this tow
goes merrily on"
Twenty-years-ago item in the How
ard Courant: Messrs. Fuller a. Lam
bert are now "organized" and will
buy corn, loan money or speculate
in almost any way.
At Highland, near Severance,
woman took first prize with loaf o
bread at a chTysanthemum show, tn,
management evidently having failed
to distinguish between flower ant
-four exhibits.
The Secretary of State recently
called for a statement of the standing
of the rain making companies of tn
State which disclosed the fact tina
the three corporations of that char
acter were but misty memories.
The unlucky thirteen theory re
ceived a severe blow at Arkansa
CITY recently when thirteen grand
mothers, who ate dinner together las
year. again assembled around tn
table.