The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-04-10
Sheriff Rowles is able to be out

kouOIlu ISOWlcS 10 dDlo w DS Oub
again.
A dance was held in this place
on the End.
w. Trego, of Blackfoot, was in
town last week.
Robt. Morrison came up from
Salmon last Friday evening.
Charles South, of Salmon, spent
a few days in town last week.
We are in receipt an article
from Andrew Marker which will
appear next week.
Admiral Dewey has concluded
to make a race for the Presidency
but is silent as to his politics
Axel Olson sold his ranch just
west of town last week to Carl
Malm for consideration of $1,000.
Mr.. Barnhart, representing the
Idaho Forwarding Company, of
Blackfoot, was in Challis last
week.
Mrs. J. P. Spalding's father,
Mr.. Decater, is visiting in this
place. He was one of our early
residents.
r. A. Smith returned from his
visit in Pennsylvania last We'd
nesday evening where he has
been for year past.
Mrs. Mary Boyd, of Helena,
Montana, returned to Challis one
day last week, and expects to
make this her future home.
Chas. Jordan received letter
from Mr.. Enos Watson Saturday
night last who is at Salt Lake
City for medical treatment Mr..
Watson says that he feeling all
right again.
G.. B. Hamilton the Salmon
cigar manufacturer, was in this
city last week in the interest of
his house. He is the maker of
the celebrated Victor Dewey"
and other choice brand of cigars.
At a meeting of the Democratic
Central Committee of Custer
county held in Challis on the 7th
inst. it was ordered that the 18th
of May be the time fixed for
holding a county convention at
Clayton. At this convention
delegates are to be elected to at
tend the Pocatello and Lewiston
conventions. Primaries are to
be held in the different precincts
of the county on April 25th. The
regular county nominating con-
vention to nominate county Off
GERS will undoubtedly be held in
September.
Ex-senator Ingalls, hits the
Sheldon newspaper fad a hard
blow in the following
Ecclesiastical mountebanks
who are directly responsible for
the blasphemous buffonery of
asking how Jesus would shave
were he barber; what he would
do if he had a headache; how he
would run a daily newspaper;
how he would act if he were in
Gen. Buffers place in South
Africa, are inficting irreparable
injury upon the cause of religion.
They make joke of the passion
in the Garden of Gethsemane and
cast contempt upon the agony of
Calvary. 1t would be no greater
sacrilege to ask what God would
do. 1t is desecrating the great
est name in the worlds registra-
ton. 1t is trifiing with the most
awful mystery of the universe.
Family life bores the modern
American girl" writes IAN
American Mother" in the April
Ladies' Home Journal. "She
boasts that she has climbed to
higher levels. She has done with
needles, pots and pans, and
cradles. The world is her field
of action; it is waiting for her;its
crops are white unto the harvest.
If she has money she usually be-
gins to reap by going to Europe.
She is there today by thousands
and tens of thousands. If the
modern girl marries. her life is
, but little altered. She drifts
here and there like rags of sea-
weed on the heaving waves. She
|, does not want home unless she
has money enough to have two
, or three, in which, with corps
of servants and an English house
, keeper in command, she can have
} house parties the year round. If
she has money she lives in a
huge hotel; if poor, in cheap
boarding. house. Her children