The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-03-13
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Smoke "Victor Dewey" cigar.

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dress, NO MONEY, and we will
mail you free of charge, 10pack-
ages of our new variety flower
seeds; sell these seeds to your
friends at 10 cents a package and
send us the $1.0O and we will
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bracelet and locket, guaranteed
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design. This is a great chance
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The Postal News & Supply Ag-
ency, p. o. Box 238, Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
Custer Encampment No. 10
had business in the Pat, G. r.
and R. p. degrees last Wednes-
day night, the victim being Mr..
Wells MCGOWAN, of Bonanza.
An elegant banquet was spread
in the Lodge banquet room. 1t
consisted of delicacies of many
varieties.
G. V. Hansen, the stage man,
was in Challis last week.
st. Patrick's Day next Satur-
day, the 18th.
Sam Sims was up from Salmon
last week.
Jas. F. Wilkinson spent sever
al days in Challis last week.
Rebekahs of this place have
just added a new set of robes for
degree work.
A rich strike is reported in the
Singiser miEe, the lead having
been cut at the 40 foot level.
Some 18 or 20 men are now
employed at Copper Basin, Big
Lost river. The property, under
the direct management of Hon.
A. J. Crook, will be thoroughly
tested, and work is now being
pushed getting out lumber for
the smelter which will be erect
ed as soon as the weather will
permit. A small force are en-
ployed on the mines doing de-
velopment work.
Mr.. Ira McNeill, Superintend-
ent of the Sawtooth Placer Min
ing Co. Oimited), writes US that
he will be in Idaho after April
1st, to commence operations on
the ground formerly owned by
the Stanley Basin Dredge Co.
Assessor Lane expects to start
this week on his 1900 assessment
tour of the county.
w. E. Hanna and Sam Brad
bury were up from Pahsamaroi
during the week.
Senator Shoup of Idaho tells
the people of his State that the
only way to secure bimetallism
is to enact legislation perpetual
ing the single gold standard.
What a colossal old fraud is this
man Shoup A senator of any
political honesty would resign
his post rather than betray his
constituents. But then a man
of any political honesty would
never have made such a shame
full surrender to the Hanna gang
in the first instance. If the
people of Idaho do not return
this man to the political obscur-
ity from which he so recently
emerged, at the first opportunity
presented, then we have over
estimated the manhood and
womanhood of the State. Salt
Lake Herald.
1t cost the United States S170, :
900, 900 for one years war in the
Philippines to deprive the native
Filipinos of their freedom, and
the war is far from being ended.
The small boy has been heard
from again, and in an essay on
school ma ans he writes 1.-The
school ma'am is verb because
it denotes action when you throw
paper wads at girls. Switch is
a conjunction and is used to con
meet the verb school ma am and
the noun boy. This is a com
pound sentence of which boy is
the subject and switch is the OBJ.
Iject. First person plural numb.
er and awful case. A school
ma am is different from boy.
A boy wears pants and school
ma'am wears her hair all banged
up on her forehead. She puts
paint on her face and some big
fellow comes and takes hel
home; ma says school ma am
never gets older than before she
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