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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

Oscar Gardner, the Omaha Kid"
has a brother, Eddie, who has done
good work with his fins. He was
whipped by Dave Sullivan in nineteen
rounds in Brooklyn not long ago, but
made good stand, at one time hav-
ing Sullivan almost out. He is an
ambitious fighter, and is willing to
tackle any of them in his class.
Joe Cans, the Baltimore negro, who
has been denounced in some quarters
as a gutter for his action in refusing
to go farther after the twelfth round
with Frank Earne, the lightweight
champion, has been matched for go
with Dial Hawkins, the clever San
Francisco lightweight. Cans has
scored over Spike" Sullivan, who
knocked Hawkins out in twenty-five
rounds in New York in 1898.
Sharkey has made the announce
ment that after Sept. he will break
with his manager, Tom O'Rourke, and
paddle his own canoe. The sailor gave
out this statement after the articles
for a match with Gus Rubin, on July
16, had been signed. If either man is
whipped before that date the match
is on. Sharkey is to fit up a gymna-
stun on his Sheepshead Bay place, and
in time expects to learn how to play
the piano, so it's said.
Rubin shows considerable nerve in
making matches with both Fitzsim-
mons and Sharkey, but then Gus work
of late entities him to recognition
from the big ones. He has been de-
feating me just below the top notch
class, and also has boxed with some
of the best. The only case in which
he really made a bad showing was
against Sharkey, when he was put out
in one round. If Rubin defeats Fitz-
simmons he will challenge Jeffries for
the championship.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Ths small Bor,s PlaInt.

Ivy
When the blizzard is blowing outside
in the street, l have to stay here
in the house.
have to sit quiet the whole of the
time, as still as little brown
mouse.
They won't let me tease my small
brother at all, or play with my
small sisters things.
And mammals not pleased if I stop III
her room and set up a store with
rings.
And papa gets mad as crazy March
hare when 1 cut pictures out Of
his books.
1 cannot go down to the kitchen to
stay, because we've the crossest
of cooks.
The waitress don't like it if by some
mischance 1 upset the cranberry
pie.
On blizzardy days there isn't boy SO
unhappy and tired as |.
The dog snaps at me if pull his tail.
and pussy she scratches my
hand,
If put her aboard the piano and play
she's the head of a musical band.
The baby he cries if poke at his eyes
and his nurse drives me out of
the place,
And tells me that all through the rest
of the day she don't want a
sight of my face,
| wish it would clear off, for want I'd
go out; 1 can't stay quiet and
STILL
I'm so full of moyiness all of the time
that sitting down makes me feel
i'll.
l cannot do anything-no, not a thing
4 can't say viii or I won't;
! cannot go out and I cannot stay in,
when there's nothing to do but
to don't.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
HATE LED TO A DUEL.
BEAUTIFUL SENORITAs FIGHT
WITH SWORDS.
One of the Principals Fatally Cut
senOrita JuAna's Savage LunEe at Sem
orita Martas Breast Causes a Terrible
Injury.

AS a result of desperate duel with
swords between two young women
prominent in Mexican society one lies
in a hospital at the City of Mexico
seriously wounded and the victor and
seconds are in prison, cut off from all
communication with their friends. AL
though all those who had any actual
connection with the duel are women, it
was conducted with punctilious regard
for the code. 1t became known only
through a provision of the Mexican
law that no physician is permitted to
treat person who has been wounded
without an order from the authorities
The duel grew out of the love of the
young women for the same man-Ra-
fael Riquelme. Rafael went to the Vir-
gin de Dolores feast of flowers, accom-
panied by Senorita Marta Duran
Juana Luna, another senorita to whom
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Jim Jeneries' .Brother.

Jack Jefferies. in the estimation of
Tommy Ryan, will some day fill the
championship shoes now worn by his
brother Jim. Brother Jack is a
strong, husky young fellow who knows
considerable of the fighting game. Be
fore making play for the highest hon
ors in pugilism Ryan says he will
steer Jack against some of the third
and fourth raters just to take off the
rough edges. Should it ever come to
pass that Jack" becomes the cham
pion it will be the first instance on
record where two brothers held the
title.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

Never before in the history of the
prize ring were the leading pugilists
more active in arranging matches than
OF present, and never before were so
many big fights on the tapis at one
time. Bouts already arranged will
bring together Jeffries and Corbett
Sharkey and Mccoy, Fitzsimmnns
and Rubin, Mccoy and Creedon, Shar-
key and Rubin, Fitzsimmons and
Choynski, Walcott and Smith, and
Tommy Ryan and Jack Root of Chi
cago, Walcott and West, FitzsiIsmons
and Dunkhorst, this list including
nearly every pugilist of note now be-
fore the public. Quite a number Of
other bouts, which promise to bring
together the big fellows in other COM
binations, such as Fitzsimmons and
Mccoy, Fitzsimmons and Sharkey
Mccoy and Jeffries, Jeffries and Fitz-
simmons, Rubin and any one who will
meet him, are talked Of The fact
that the repeal of the New York box
ing law goes into effect on Sept. l is
responsible for this seeming undue
AnSNO vi tAV PcAb VI NAS 0NHSANAA~%@ ~
the prize ring, for they are all in the
business for what there is in it, rather
than glory
The first of the battles between the
big men is that between Corbett and
Jeffries, at Coney Island on May IL.
Then comes the McCoy-Sharkey af-
fair, at the same club, early in June.
Fitzsimmons and Rubin have agreed
to battle at the Westchester A. c.
about June 2, and will fight in the day
time, so as to take pictures of the
contest. Rubin and Sharkey will
meet in twenty five-round fight at
the Coney Island Sporting club on
July 16, to fight for 60 per cent of the
gate gross receipts. OF this the winner
is to take rs per cent and the loser %
per cent. Dan Creedon, the Austria
liam middleweight, and Kid Mccoy will
box twenty-five rounds at Broadway
A. c., New York, at catchweights, May
IS, for so per cent of the receipts.
Creedon has also been matched to
meet Joe Walcott at Milwaukee during
the first week in June.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Held Up sherln and E.oap.d.

While the guards of the Jail at
Tombstone, Ariz., were at lunch, Will
liam Stiles, who recently turned states
evidence and gave information that
led to the arrest of Bert Alvord and
a man named Dowing for the robbery
of the Southern Pacific train last Sep
TENDER, held up Deputy Bravin,
secured the keys and liberated Alvord
and Bravo Juan. The latter is one of
the robbers who held up the train at
Fairbanks less than two months ago.
All three started west on foot, headed
for the Dragon mountains.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Bors and Clean cities.

New York city always will revere
the memory of Colonel George E. Wa
ring as the first and. only street clean
ing commissioner who thoroughly
cleaned that great metropolis. About
the time he assumed the duties of that
Office a club of children was formed in
connection with one of the college set
Elements in the worst part of the city,
the object of this club being to inter-
est children to clean streets. Colonel
Warning always welcomed aid offered
his department, and he saw in this
club the nucleus of movement
among the children that would greatly
benefit the city. He thought the ex-
pertinent worth trying and detailed an
employee of the department to form
and supervise clubs of this kind. For
a considerable period two men were
thus detailed. These clubs, which
were called Juvenile Street Cleaning
leagues, differed wildly in character.
The members of one club were older
than those of another in the same dis
triet, and their meetings therefore
like and dignified manner. Some of
the clubs were composed of young
children. In other clubs we bad to
deal with boys and girls of inferior in
tellectual grade, or with children who,
although naturally bright, were living
in the most degenerating surroundings
and were veritable "Chimmie Fad
dens." But in all cases the meetings
were conducted in as formal a manner
as conditions would allow. and each
club had its constitution and its regu-
larly elected officers. The average East
Side New York boy, and especially the
Jewish boy, is well up on parliament
airy rules. and 1 remember well one
club of Jewish girls connected with the
Jewish institute who could put to
shame many a pompous gentleman
who fancies himself fully capable of
presiding at a meeting. A majority of
both boys and girls belong to two or
more clubs of various kinds, and take
as naturally to them as a duck to
water. Each club chose a name. gen.
orally connected with the name of its
school or settlement, though some of
the names were original, as, for ex-
ample, Warnings Willing Workers"
The department supplied the members
with badges. which were highly priced,
but which at times proved somewhat
of a nuisance, owing to the urchins'
propensity for trading them away and
then reporting them as lost Meetings
were held weekly. After the routine
of necessary business came reports
of members as to what they had done
since the last meeting. As an example,
a little girl reports that she had picked
up several banana skins and fed them
to horses, which, by the way, are fond
of them. Another had spoken to
careless grocer or landlady about lit
tering the sidewalk. There were sew
eral cases in which men were arrested
and find for disobeying the city ordi-
nances. the arrests being due solely to
the children.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

A boys code of etiquette does not
conform with the manual most APP
proved and adopted in so-called polite
society, but it serves his purpose all
right. Two chubby little fellows were
strolling along the sidewalk the other
afternoon, when they were joined by a
third, who was a stranger 10 one OF
the two chums, so the other proceeded
to introduce them. Ned Bright, do
you know Tom Brown" Nope" re-
piled Ned. We'll, Tom Brown, do you
know Ned Bright?'' Nope" return
ed Tom. We'll, now you know each
other" So Ned and Tom proceeded to
throw" each other in the most ap-
proved manner and roll over in the
dust in the friendly way boys have
Memphis Scimitar.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Words to Be Avoided.

A teacher in a well known college
for women in the United States has
prepared for the benefit of her students
the following list of words, phrases
and expressions to be avoided. Set a
watch on your lips. and if you are
accustomed to making these slips"
try to substitute the correct express
sion. But don't be content with that
alone. Learn why the preferred ex-
preston is correct. and this of itself
viii sofix it in your mind that you viii
soon use it unconseiously: Guess"
for Suppose" or think" Fix" for
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
More Teams for parl, g. m..

Georgetown university has decided
to join the ranks of the other Ameri-
can colleges which will send athletic
teams to Paris next summer to COM
pete at the games to be held at the
exposition. Georgetown boasts of some
fine athletes, one in particular being
the fastest man up to $50 yards in the
country. Georgetown, ever since the
days OF the great Wefers, has enjoyed
foremost position in the college ath-
letic world. This year It has won
more prizes than any other university
at the various winter indoor meets. The
mainstay of the team which will 60
abroad is A. F. Duffey, who is a sec
'ond Wefers as Splinter. He won
the A. A. U. championship sprints last
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

very i'll. Several members of the I'm
perial College of Physicians were hast
lily called to the palace recently, his
majesty being i'll again It is the com
mon belief that he is continually I'M
der the influence of drugs, admins
tered by the dowager empress, which
will before long take him out OF the
disturbed arena of his country's poll
tics. AdTaSes from China state that by
order of the empress dowager two of
sthe most prominent Chinese reformers
have already been seized and probably
executed. They are Weng Tungho,
formerly tutor to the emperor, and
Shen Peng, who last winter memorial
lied the empress to execute Jung Lu
and Kang vi for treason.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
A Wonderful RillIardl.t.

Willie Hoppe, who is but II years
of age, is believed to be the coming
Ives of the billiard world. The young
ster is a marvel with the cue, and has
created great sensation wherever he
has appeared. He has beaten some of
the best players in the country, men
who have followed the game for years.
He is equally good at all style of bill
lizards, playing IA and IS inch balk-
line, cushion carom and straight-rail
with wonderful steadiness and accura-
cy. Maurice DAILY, who instructed the
lad, is confident that he will be the
worlds champion in the course of a
few years. Willie comes from Corn
wall-on-the-Hudson. When 6 years
old he could play pool like an expert.
Later he took up billiards, and after
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

kid" Parker of Denver is looked
upon as a conner by western sporting
men. George Siler, who refereed his
fight with Jack DAILY of Wilmington,
whom he finished in two rounds, says:
IF there is any fight manager with a
man in his stable capable of doing 1873
pounds who can defeat the Kid he
can clean up at least $4,000, provided
the fight takes place in that city. The
sports in Colorado consider the Kid a
world beater, and will back their
opinion with all kinds of money"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

wealthy man was once ex15fr<
proudly to a younger acquaintaneeose
table which he had bought He said
it was 500 years old. THAT is moth
ing" remarked his young visitor 81
have in my possession a table which
is more than 5000 years old" Three
thousand years old" said the host.
That is impossible. Where was it
nader" Probably in India" "In In
dia! What kind of a table is it?''
The multiplication table,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
CHARLES M,KEEVER.

round go in Philadelphia recently. Nc
Keever has faced many of the best
men of his weight in this country and
has made a most creditable record. He
fought Mysterious Billy" Smith a
twenty-round draw in New York last
year, but later on lost to him in TWEEN
ty rounds. McKeever has twice met
that wonderful but erratic boxer,
Young Critic, defeating him once, and
also fighting him to a draw. He has
boxed kid" Lavigne on two different
occasions, but no decision was rem
dered either time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
MARKED FOR DEATH.
Three Hundred Chinese Reformers I'm
der Ban of Empress.


der Ban of Empress.
The dowager empress of China, in
pursuance of her plans of reform
against the Chinese reformers, has
prepared list of more than 300 pro-
gressive Chinese who, she says, must
be disposed of before the end of April.
Disposed Of, in this case, maans as
sassination. Nor does the imperial
lady of China seek to sweep from her
path only those Cinnamon who OBJ
struct her path in the Flow
cry Kingdom. for an this
list appear the names Of promi-
nent reform agitators in Victoria, Van
couyer and San Francisco. A longer
limit of time to live" is graciously
allowed other reformers; but in the
cases of about 300 the order is peremp-
tory that they die before the coming
of May. There are several other new
phases of the Chinese puzzle at Pekin.
The emperor is again reported to be
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

a physician was called in, and he, OF
course. had to report the affair to the
police. Senorita Marta was taken to
the Juarez hospital, while Senorita Ju-
ana and the four seconds were arrest
ed and placed in solitary confinement
in the Belim City prison.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

A teacher in civil government had
told his pupils that once in ten years
the state Of Massachusetts, takes
census. Little James, who is an at
tentive scholar. upon being called up
to recite said: once in every ten
years Massachusetts comes to its
senses"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

Children's questions are not al
ways answered One little boy said to
his father: There is a lot in this
book about Othello. Who was Othello.
papa?" Why. bless me. my boy. Do
you mean to say that you go to Sun
day school and don't know who Othel-
10 was?"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

AS the result of a family feud of two
years duration, G. w. Roberts, a
farmer living near Mount Vernon, H.,
was shot and instantly killed by his
stepson, Harry Hughey. The trouble
grew out of the belief of the Hughey
children that Roberts was seeking to
take advantage of them by appeopriat-
ing their mothers farm and other
property to his own use.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

Charles McKeever, one of the clever
est boxers around the 150-pound mark
in this country, signalized his return
to the ring after a long absence bv
out-pointing Matty Matthews in a six
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28

Aunt Rodgers, colored, who was 100
years old. and who had been married
six times, fell dead at Perry. Okla.
She married four negroes, enc Indian
and one white man.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
Johnny.s soiiloquy.

Il shall be so glad when I get big
enough to wash my own face, mutter-
ed little Johnny, after his mamma got
through with him, then won't wash
it."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.

Boys and Clean CIties-words to BE
Avoided-Ths Small Boys PIsint-A
Visit to Grandma's-Father's Evasive
Answer--Introduced.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
WILLIE HOPPE.

but short period of practice he ran
410 at the straight-rail game. Willie
certainly has great future before
him. He is at present giving exhibit
tons in New Orleans.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-28
GENERAL SPORTING.
CURRENT EVENTS IN VARIOUS
FIELDS.

The International Athletic Exhibitions
at Paris Have Begun to Attract At
tentlon of American University Teams
Georgetown to BE Represented.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-14
The Cry Of The Oppressed.


The Journal has frequently explain
ed to its readers that the interest it has
taken in the temperance cause is chiefly
because of its sympathy for the women
and children who are defrauded and
afflicted by it. The following letter
published recently in the Rock Island
Union is pathetic illustration:
"Head Police, Gentlemen Kind sir,
please do accept these few lines which
l write to yon which is from O poor,
heart-broken woman-if / can possibly
write without tears binding me.
would call at the station and talk, to
You, but I am barefooted, haven't any
clothes to wear and myself and children
have been starving for four weeks.
ITO get along in some way 1 have
sold most every thing in the house. My
husband has been working down where
they are tearing down the old Heater
mill on First avenue. Tuesday night
he drew $500 for his weeks work and
he didn't come home, and don't know
when he is coming. Myself and chill
dren didn't have anything to eat all
day yesterday and today, and I had to
put my children to bed last night cry
ing for bread.
II have five children, the youngest
one is one year old and the oldest
eleven years. / have no fuel in my
house or anything to eat, no fire nor
nothing. Now l kindly ask you to call
aud help me. For Gods sake don't
let me put my children to bed tonight
hungry. We are freezing to death end
starving.
"Now if you or someone don't call tc
our assistance it will kill us all, for we
can't live this way. 1t is easier to take
life than to starve to death. Please
call to our assistance, beg of you
very kindly; if not the town will have
to bury us. / live in East Moline.
| MRS. WILLIAM GoEBEL."
When the letter was received, the
husband of the woman who wrote it
was, for the second time that week
locked up in the station house fol
drunkenness, and part of the $500 O.
which his wife wrote had been paid fol
fines.
There is nothing new about this; i
happens every day and good many
times a day. The American peopl.
could stop it if they wanted to; they
don't stop it, so it is fair to conclude
that they approve it.
1t is time for the Christian people o.
this country 70 waken up on this sub
iect and to consider what it meant by
these solemn and weighty words Of
Holy Writ:
"The fast that I have chosen is to
loose the bands of wickedness, to undo
the heavy burdens, and to let the op.
pressed go free, and that ye break
every yoke"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-14

Some of the democrats are comfort
ing themselves with the thought that
judging of this fall by the past history
of the republic, Bryan will defeat Me.
Kinley. They claim that where two
men have run against each other fol-
the presidency twice that the one who
succeeded first never succeeds the
second time. In confirmation of this
they point to how Cleveland defeated
Harrison in 1892, the second time they
ran, to how Andrew Jackson defeated
John Quincy Adams the second time
they ran against each other, and to
how VIM. H. Harrison defeated Van
Buren, the second time they ran. They
were other and better reasons that the
winner the first time has been the
loser the second time than that il was
the second time they were running.
This time we think the American PEG.
pie will see plenty of good reasons ia
keep Mckinley in four years more.
Precedents in these particulars do moi
have to be followed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-14

We observe tendency among som.
young ladies to act as though the side
walks were built exclusively for theil
use. Now no one holds the ladies in
higher regard than does the writer
They deserve all the honors, privileges
and love that is showered upon them
by the men, but it does not follow that
they ought to forget to always be
ladies. The other day we saw three
sweet young women walking along the
sidewalk with their arms interlocked.
As they passed along they swept the
entire width of the side walk. A luck
less young gentleman CHANGED to meet
them. He courteausly withdrew to
the edge Of the walk, but seeing that
the ladies were requiring the entire
walk for their promenade, he stepped
off the walk into the grass. Here was
his mistake. The ground was uneaven
here and he slipped and fell fiat on his
side. He quickly arose covered with
confusion and bushes. The girls only
giggled at his discomfort. There is no
reason in the world why lady should
not be considerate of the rights of a
gentleman as we'll as vice versa.