The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-12


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st. Patrick's day Sunday next.
The Idaho legislature did not
adjourn until the 9th.
MARRIED:-In Salmon, Ida
ho, on Feb. 28th. 1901, David
Sandilands, of Gibbonsville. to
Miss Alice Dore, of Salmon. The
MESSENGER extends its congrat-
ulations and best wishes.
Senator Macbeth's bill to ap-
propriate $4,000 to repair the
state wagon road in Custer coun-
ty-from the mouth of the Yam
kee Fork to the Boise county
line-has passed both houses,
and is now up to the Governor.
Great Britain has already in
creased her debt some S400, ,000,-
900 on account of the Boer war
and is adding to it at the rate of
about $6, 900, 900 week; this in
addition to the increased taxa
tion that she has imposed. Truly
the way of the despoiler is hard.
Schley showed his generosity,
SO marked on former occasions,
by his letter asking his friends
to make no further opposition to
Simpsons elevation to Vice
Admiral and consenting to take
rank behind him. Between the
two men, the historian can hard
ly fail to properly award the
palm for consistent magnanimity.
Mr.. Knox. of Pittsburg. chief
counsel for Carnegie and creator
of the big steel trust. has been
offered the post of Attorney Gen
eral to succeed Criggs. After
all, why shouldn't he accept ? If
he did, we could simply dismiss
all hopes of antitrust work by
the Department of Justice and
cease to worry ourselves over
vain hopes as we have done with
Griggs.
1t is significant that practical
ly all the men of high standing
in the community, the writer's
and college presidents, the law
yers and judges, the men of
prominence in all lines of mental
activity-if not directly involved
in the political game-are oppos-
ed TO the United States holding
the Philippines, foreseeing the
great dangers that must result to
this country from it.
A bill to create the Sixth Judi
cial district has passed both
branches of the Idaho legislature
and will. we believe. become a
law. The Sixth district-com-
prising the counties of Blaine,
Custer and Lemhi-all mining
and adjoining counties, will not
make bad district. There are
candidates that desire to preside
over the Sixth as judge-Texas
Angel, of Haley, and II. G. Red
wine, of Salmon.
School will close in Challis on
the 21st or 22nd of this month,
making term of seven months.
1t is we'll as far as the upper de-
partment is concerned. There
has been little or no discipline in
that department since the com
mencement of term. The Prim-
ary Department, to the credit of
Miss Barkely, the teacher and
disciplinarian. has been just the
reverse, and the able manner in
which she has conducted this de-
partment has been satisfactory
to the parents, taxpayers and all
concerned.
The Lemhi Herald, published
at Salmon, in its first issue, about
two months ago, claimed that it
would always tell the truth. We
thought at the time it was a new
departure in the newspaper line.
and something that we never
heard of before from a newspap-
per. The profession itself makes
the editors stretch the truth in
many instances. Suppose a
newspaper would tell the whole
truth on all occasions, how long
would it survive ? We told the
truth once and came near getting
horse whipped for it. Since that
time we have been very cautious.
Let's see if the Herald always
tells the whole truth. In its last
issue in speaking of the propos-
ed Burlington route, it says: ITO
reach Challis via. Houston, would
involve the passage of a very
lofty and rugged mountain
range" Our Salmon neighbor
has wandered far from that