The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-15
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"A useless life is but a living
death.
The County Dads" met in
regular session yesterday.
Senator Hooper was over
from Pahsamaroi last week.
The busy hum of the threash-
ing machine can now be heard in
this valley.
We are under obligations
this week to Senator Dubois for
valuable public documents.
Geo. S. Corser, the Wood
man organizer, is with US. He
hopes to re-organize the defunct
lodge at this place.
About the only time that
factions speak louder than
words" is when a man sneaks up
stairs at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Bomar
and J. c. Fox departed for Boise
City last Friday morning as dele
gates to the Grand Lodge l. o.
O. F. sessions, which convened
yesterday. They took the train
at Mackay.
While anarchy should be
ruthlessly stamped out, the nee
essity of eradicating it should
not be made an excuse for limit
ing free speech-a thing absolut-
ely essential to the existence of
a Republic.
The chances are that Tam
many will win in New York this
year as it so often has in the
past. New York is admittedly
the best managed city i'll the
United States, and for the rest,
it is just the sort of city that
four-fifths of its people want.
Now that Roosevelt is Presi-
dent. the army board which
General Corbin prevented from
giving him a medal, has discov-
cred. it is announced, that his
conduct as Colonel of the Rough
Riders was in the highest degree
commendable. You don't need
to shoot Corbin; he always comes
down.
The Minstrel show held in
Challis night on the 8th inst.
was largely attended. They
, gave good concert. The voca
, and instrumental music was ex
! ceptionally good. The troupe
, consists of nine people (colored)
They hope to give another en-
! tertainment here on their return
, from Custer. 1t is under the
/ management of Lewis & Fields.
Custer and Lemhi county
papers have much to say about
the boom following the advent o
the construction of a railroad
into their territory. Undoubted
ly that section of Idaho is pro
life in mineral resources which
have long waited for transporta
ton facilities to insure their de
7 velopment and the road nov
completed into Custer county
will work a transformation. Blu
this is so everywhere when rail
t roads are built. Still there ar
' mossbacks who lament the pass
: ing of the big freight teams ant
r pack trains-Silver City Nugget
Within very short time
, new coin will be in circulation
= 1t is a three cent piece. Man
= of our readers will remembe
= what a nuisance the old thre
! cent pieces were. They wer
: nearly the size of a dime an
J looked much like dimes. 1t ha
4 in consequence almost disappear
. . ed from circulation. But tn
. need of a three cent piece ha
= continued and so the governmer
. will coin a new one. The col
:. will, like the Chinese coins, hav
= = hole in the center. 1t has a
- ready been nicknamed 9TH
= doughnut."
o The J. Stevens Arms & Too
Ie Co., of Chicopee Falls, Mass
g who have offered to distribut
Is $4,000 in cash prizes among tt
If go young people sending the
g the 90 best targets made wit
a. Stevens rifles, have decided
IN extend their contest until DC
g 31st, as October is one of th
ID best months in the year fl
fe shooting. Great enthusiasm
ut manifested among the youn