The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-04-03

BASIN last week.
The B. Fl. & G. Stage line from
Blackfoot to Challis, is doing a
good freight and express bust
ness in this county.
Mr.. Bryan has not made many
speeches of late. There is really
no reason why he should. The
enemy is fighting his cause.
General Pietrus Jacobus Joub-
ert, the gallant Boer commander,
died at Pretoria on the 2Sth inst.
from peritonitis, aged 68 years
Mat Womacks is down from
Stanley Basin. aud is making ar
rangements to have the dredge
resume operations as early as
convenient
Ex-Speaker Reed says that the
attempt to make three quarter
citizens out of Porto Ricans is
certainly interesting. But then,
Mr.. Reed is only traitor.
A.C.Bomar received diploma
one day last week as optician,
from the celebrated Baltimore,
Nd, college, he having passed a
very high examination
| The Loud postal bill relating
to second-class mail has been de-
feated Now let Mr. Loud devise
some plan to reform railway
rates for carrying the mails and
he viii be surprised to find how
enthusiastically it IS received
We are in receipt of the First
Annual Report of the Idaho
Bureau of Irrigation, Labor and
and Statistics, by G. J. Bassett,
Commissioner. If the whole
book is in error as much the page
therein relating to Custer county,
it is very poor and unreliable in
formation. The description of
Custer county, its resources,
.etc-, must have been guess work,
and pretty poor guessing at that
Bishop Potter has returned
from the Philippines and states
that a study of conditions there
has convinced him that expan-
sion is all right. But it turns
out that the Bishop was in the
Philippines for only a week He
reminds one of a newspaper man
who went to Honolulu some years
ago to study the new Dole gov
ernment there, and wrote and
mailed three column letter to
his paper before he landed from
the steamer, declaring that the
United States was totally ignor-
ant of the true situation in the
} islands.
In the Idaho Midland offices in
I the Soma block there is one of
|, the finest displays of ore ever
) seen in Boise. The ore was
gathered along the line of survey
of the proposed road by D. T.
/ Miller, who made a report on
a that entire section. Samples
: were secured from over 200
mines, many of which are open
4 ed up and only await the con-
4 struction of the railroad TO com
mence heavy shipments Mr..
. Miller rode on horseback 22OC
:. miles in securing data for his re
= port. covering an area of more
than 10000 square miles tribu-
, tary TO the railroad as projected
l Mr.. Miller says the entire coun-
: try is heavily miueralized, the
ores being gold, silver, copper
and lead. He speaks of Custer
county as being a miners store
: house and of Lemhi county as an
J, empire of mineral wealth
/. Boise Capital.
) Henry Loomis Nelson gives in
) the New York World the first
: exhaustive statment of the cost
< of cur recent war with Spain
and of the Presidents war in tbs
Philippines His figures ara
Z, drawn from official reports and
/. estimates to which he gave /
n careful and conscientious exam
r ination.
, Mr.. Nelson finds the cost o
: the war with Spain 10 have beer
Y S259. 341, 299; of the war in th'
l. Philippines S64. .617. .267 in 169.
g and a prospective cost OF 500,
o SS5. 934 for the current year;
: total of 1924. Sl4. 500.
The increased cost of the arm,
e and navy for the present fisca
T. year over 1897, due 20 our polio,
2 of military expansion. " will bs
e StOO, SS5, ,934. And with the pen
is sions on account of these war
}, still to come, the total expendi
d lures of the government have in