The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-11-06
What will be the result ?

What will be the result ?
John T. Evans, Republican
nominee for State Senator, of
Houston, and Geo. Easley, were
in Challis last Wednesday and
Thursday looking after political
matters.
The Census Bureau has given
out the population of the United
States as rs, 295, ,220, a growth of
81 per cent. Idaho has nearly
doubled in population. increasing
from "a, 3S5 to 161, III, an in
crease of 1886, or 91.7 per
cent. Nevada has fallen from
45, 761 in 1890 to AZ, 334 in 1900,
drop of 5, ,427 or per cent
<. G. Headrick is treating the
public school building in ChaIlis
to new coat of paint.
| Attorney Calhoun and wife de-
lparted for BIackfoot last We'd
Inesday, where Mr.. Calhoun ex-
poets to locate in the law bust
ness.
For fine New Jersey prepared
mince meat, call on Buster.
Registration closed last Satur-
day night. In Challis precinct
lit shows as follows
Total number registered. d..-- 209
From which deduct 8 trans
fers issued, which makes
actual number registered 200
Out of the 2O9 registered,
Utah born leads with ...... 2
Iowa, comes next. .-..... III
Idaho only has. 3
Native born -.. 100
Foreign born. n..-....-...- A
Men registered ed....---.. 134
. Women registered d.--..... 20
Two years ago 1873 registered
in this precinct. This year all
but 6 persons in the precinct who
are entitled to vote have regis
l tered.
Frank Tolman was over from
l Morse last Saturday Mr.. Toll
{ man and his partner have recent
ly made wonderfully rich strike
in their Vanity" mine in Wash
ington Basin, The ledge in this
mine now shows from go to 100
feet of free milling gold ore. A
! sample of ore taken from the
whole ledge averages S32 in gold,
, and some samples taken run as
. high as $50 in gold. The tunnel
is now in 200 feet. This is d
great strike and the owners are
highly elated. Dan. Oxford, who
has claim in that vicinity, has
y also made a good strike recently
We hope the pay y-streak will con-
y tinue to grow richer.
u Vote for your own interests to-
day and vote the Democratic
ticket.
8 AS if Roosevelt was not handi-
9 cap enough for Mckinley, his
Burchard has developed almost
3 at the eleventh hour in the per-
4 son of Seuator Scott, of West
3 Virginia, who spoke freely at
8 the Roosevelt dinner in New
5 York in praise Of the Standard
% Oil Trust. Later he found that
3 reporters were present and
s threatened to make trouble for
s them if they repeated his state
9 ment, claiming that it was not
3 intended for publication. OF
Il course it was not !
,e Why doesn't Roosevelt tell the
4 country how he came to condone
. the canal thievery in New York,
d which his own commissioners
8 declared was fragrant and which
< he himself declared should be
2 punished ? Was it possibly be-
% cause he found that the canal
4 thieves bore too close relation
& to certain prominent politician
in that state
81 The rights of the F'ilipinos and
Porto Ricans are to be consider
6 ed by the Supreme Court six
I3 days after election. 1t seems a
s pity that the Department of JUS
Is tice couldn't have hurried these
4 cases up bit But probably it
3 didn't want to.
a NOTICE.-The next Teachers
% Examination will be held in Chal-
4 lis Nov. %, 23 and "a, 1900.
"A Questions in History. and in
4 Theory and Art will be general;
- the use of Hart's Formation and
70 DeGarmo's Essentials has been
discontinued.
"a Questions iu State Constitu-
4 A g.. III l.. 4n l-or, from rfiolo