The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-03-21
Silver, 59B.

{ Silver, 59s.
Col. Bryan refused to be Hob.
sonized by pretty Texas girls the
other day.
Some of our citizens are be-
coming afflicted with the Buffalo
Hump fever.
AT a recent concert, the con-
clusion of which was the song
There's Good Time Coming. /"
farmer rose in the audience
and said 4: Mister, you couldn't
FIX the date, could you ?"
Il. ID. Jaquish, who was the
leading business man of Challis
few years ago, is now presi-
dent of the Southern Gold Min
ers' Association. He is mining
on large scale on the Chestatee
river In Georgia.-Hailey Times.
In April Miss Mary E. Wilk-
ms latest story, 1.-The Jamesons
IN the Country" which is now
running serially in The Ladies'
Home Journal, will be published
in book form by the Doubleday
& Mcclure Company, of New
York.
Governor Steunenberg has ap-
proved the bill which provides
for two sets of election Judges
and clerks. This is rather ex-
pensive luxury. Custer county
had one precinct last year that
could not have complied with
this law as they only cast z votes.
A cablegram from Manila on
March 18th, says "Gen. LLOYD
Wheaton, commanding the Unit
ed States flying column, attack
ed and defeated a force of 1000
Filippinos at Pasig this after
noon, intiicting a heavy loss
upon them. The American loss
was slight. The Americans cap
tured $50 Filippinos. Many |
bodies of rebels killed in the en- |
gagement are floating down the |
river"
Senator McMurrin of Oneida |
county is the father of the bill |
to prevent the adulteration of
vinegar. If the Senator's fame |
must rest on the works he has
wrought during the session, he
will go down into history as the
sour statesman from Clifton
the champion of pure vinegar.
Some men are born famous. some
acquire fame, while others snatch
it bodily from a pickle keg.-
Republican.
Gold is now extracted by mix
ing the ore with common salt
and sulphuric acid, then adding
a solution of permanganate of
potash. Hydrochloric acid is
formed and chlorine is liberated
to combine with the gold, form
ing chloride of gold. This new
method as employed at Mount
Morgan, Queensland. is said to
have advantages over the ANAL
gamation and cyanide processes.
1t is more searching than mer-
curry, and can be applied to ores
containing copper.
The st. Patrick dance here on {
Friday night last, we are inform S
ed. proved to be a sad affair to a ;
number of the boys and girls II
just a falling OUT between j
quite a number of the boys and '
their ''onee best girls" We are l
of the opinion that some of the I
boys will not subscribe to the old S
saying : "'That st. Patrick is a
bigger man than the 4th of July S
ever dare to be-" The next day {
. large group of our young men {
could be seen on the street con- {
SOllng with each other. Such is
life in the far West {
The astronomical event sched- !
lled for the 18th of November, !
his year, win be a display that {
occurs every thirty three years. !
The heavens will rain stars on Z
he 14th of that month, and the :
world is to come TO an end. so I
says the Australian astronomer
Falb. He says that Z
he world will be destroyed by r
contact with Biela's comet. This 7
comet is the one which was to n
lave destroyed the world in a
So. All that happened was in e
1853, a grand shooting star n
shower rained down upon the o
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