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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-08-14

In the District Court within and Cor the Coun-
ty of Barber in the State of Kansas.
James N. Davis Plaintiff,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-08-14

In the District Court within and for the Conn
ty of Barber in the State of Kansas.
j. 3. Warnstaf, Plaintiff
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-08-14

Treasurer OF Barber County, Kan.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23

and huge drifts are rflirg up alons
the fences Streams are rising and
several places report threatening
foods. In Syracuse sieighs are run
aing even in the Downtown streets
Trolley service Is asmoralize6- Anout
ten inches Of STOW has fallen Tks
mercury is about AZ the freezing
point
ROCHESTER On. ". Nov. a.
-Four inches OF Snow covers the
streets here tonight All street ~
traffic was blocked for several hours
this evening
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23
a violent Attack of croup Cured.

Last winter an infant child Of mine
had Group in violent FORM saws Elder
John W. Rogers. Christian Evangelist.
of FiIley, Mo-. U. s. \. Il gave her a
few doses of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy and in short time all danger was
mast and the child recovered" This
remedy not only cures Group. but when
given as soon as the first symptoms APP
pear, win nrevent the attack. II con-
taiIis no opium or other harmful sub
stances and may be given as confidently
to baby as to an adult. For sale by
all druggists and dealers. Benson. Smith
& Co.. agents for Hawaii.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23
RUIN FOLLOWS THE VISIT.
Chinese Forced to Pay Big Sums FOL
Entertainment.

PEKING. Nov. 15.-The Chinese
court has arrived at kai Fong Flu. cap
ital of HO-Nan, having left the people
along its route of march half ruined
by the contributions levied for enter
tainment. repairing of roads and dec
orstions.
The Ministers of the foreign powers
are considering a suggestion from the
Chinese officials to the effect that the
Ministers meet and formally welcome
the Emperor when he arrives at Pc
king.
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23
WOULD CLOSE SALOONS.
Temperance Women Meet in csnsen
ton a Fort Worth.

FORT WORTH fTex-). Nov. Ia
The tventy-eighth annual convention
OF the women's Christian Temperance
Union began its sessions in the First
Baptist Church today. The roilcall
disclosed the presence of delegates
from all states and territories and
from Cuba. Great Britain. Switzerland.
Mexico and Hawaii
President Lillian VI. ". Stevens Of
Maine. in her annual address said:
"One of the chief sources of anarchy
in our country is without doubt the
un-American liquor business. for the
SALOONS are the schools of lawlessness
Because we are patriots. II for no 9th
er reason. we should work for the
overthrow of the saloon and the
loon power and for the determination
OF the liquor traffic"
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23
Monkeys Held in Quarantine.

PORT TOWNSEND (Wash). Nov.
15.-As a protection against the in
PRODUCTION of bubonic plague into this
country DR.. H. NJ. Foster, I'm ted
States Quarantine Officer here. has
placed two monkeys in quarantine and
they viii be held for fifteen days. The
animals were brought from Hongkong
as pets The plague exists at that
port, and monkeys carry the germs OF
the plague the same as rats. hence
their detention
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23
scHLErs SAVINGS SPENT.
Twenty Thousand Dollars He Saved
Expended.

NEW YORK, Nov. ia special TO
the Times frcm Washington says;
The savings OF forty-five years OF &C
tive service in the United States Navy
have been eaten up by the expenses
OF inquiry by which Admiral Sehley
hopes to clear his record as naval
officer. Financially the Admiral is
worse of than he was almost half a
century ago. when he entered the
Naval Academy as cadet
Mrs. Schlev insists that the money
has been well spent Her children
agree With her. They say that the
clearing away of the cloud placed on
the Admirars naval record win be of
more lasting satisfaction than any
thing money could buy
The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-23
BLIZZARD IN NEW YORK.
snowstorn Blockades Reads and De
lays Trelley-car Trsfie-

Fafs IFNtI-J ~aI Fa'7E1E
SYRACUSE On. ", Nov. 14.--There
has been heavy fall Of snow ali
through Northern New York At Ma
lone there is q blizzard. aud snow
drifts Eve to six feet high are block
aiding the railroad tracks AT Casano
via the snowfall is twelve inches In
this cits, street railroad trafae is i'm
peded bv the snow.
The snowstorm Is general through
out Central New York tonight Coan
try roads are in many cases blocked
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
SYMPTOM TUNNEL.
WORK Must BE Finished by May 10
1904

Wcrk Must BE Finished by May I3
1904.
A correspondent who has recently
visited the Simplon tunnel sends the
following interesting particulars with
regard to the works now in progress
there. The number of workmen en-
ployed is 5000 on the Swiss and 2.5Oc
on the Italian side. Nearly all Of
them are Italians. Two tunnels are
being bored instead of one, in order
to avoid the possibility of collisions,
the distance between the tunnels be-
ing seventeen metres Ga metre is about
thirty-eight inches) The work must
be finished according to the contract.
on May 10, 1904. For every day re-
quired beyond that date the contract
ors would have to pay e20O. The
Gothard tunnel, which is fifteen kiIo-
metres long, took twelve years to bore.
The Slmplon, which will be twenty
kilometres long (the longest in Eu-
rope), is to be completed in five years
and a half. Nearly 5000 metres have
been completed on the Italian and
nearly 1000 on the Swiss side. The
engineers guarantee that the junction
OF the two borings will be mathemati-
cally exact. The work is carried on by
drilling and blasting two aperatures,
one at the top and the other at the
bottom of the tunnel. A squadron of
workmen clear the upper aperature,
standing in the diaphragm, which
separates them from the lower apera-
ture, in which another squadron of
workmen is similarly employed.
When these two aperatures have been
completed for thirty or forty yards
the intervening diaphragm is blown
up with dynamite, and the tunnel at
tains its full dimensions. 1t is then
lined with masonry made Of square
blocks of stone cut from the rock ex-
cavated. About 1000 pounds of dyna-
mite is used every day. The fragments
Of rock which. are not needed for ma
sorry are carried away by train and
used to prepare the embankment on
which the trains will mount up to the
mouth of the tunnel.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05

among the exhibits at the Paris ex-
position was phonograph, invented
by Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish en-
gineer, which uses a wire-wound in
stead OF wax-covered cylinder. The
wire is OF steel and over it, in place of
the usual stylus, passes a small cleo
tromagnet connected with telephone
transmitter and battery. The sound
waves cause variation in the inten
slty OF the electromagnetic, and the mag
net, acting upon the writ passing be-
meath 1t, leaves a permanent impress
sion upon the latter. Upon reversing
the action, the wire reacts on the mag
net and corresponding sounds are
transmitted by the telephone. In or
DER to obliterate the magnetic trace
on the cylinder, it is only necessary
to revolve it under the magnet while
this is subjected to a continuous cur
rent.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05

Max Schoenfeld. former Philadel.
phian, but now resident of Rorsch-
ach, Switzerland, has given $4,000 to
national farm school at Doylestown,
Pa The money is to be rSas in the
purchase of farms, which .r< to be
rented to graduates of the schoei. They
will thus have an opportunity of dem
onstrating the value of whatever in
struction they have received and the
capability of Jewish youth to support
himself by means of agriculture.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
REMARKABLE STEAMSHIP
The Powerful Ice Breaker @EaIsal,' Carr
ries Three Trims.

The Powerful Ice Breaker "RaIxar' Carr
ries Three Trains.
The great English firm of Sir WILL
lam Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. has
built upon Lake Baikal one OF the
most remarkable steamships in tina
world to ferry the Siberian trains
across the lake. and in winter to break
the ice at the same time This was
brought out in pieces from Newcastle
on-Tyne, and put together by English
engineers, who have been living in this
remote and lonely spot for over two
years. The ''Baikal," as the steamer is
called, is magnificent vessel of 4.OOc
tons, with twin engines amidships OF
Lou horsepower each, and a similar
engine forward, to drive the screw in
the bow; for the principle of the new
type of ice-breaker is to draw out the
water from under the ice ahead by thu
suction of bow screw, when the lea
coliapses by it's own weight and a pas-
sage is forced through the broken mas1
by the impact of the vessel. AS will
be seen from my illustrations. the first
that have been published, the "BaikaI~
mas extensive upper works, and these
contain luxurious saloons and cabins.
Upon her deck she will carry three
tralns-a passenger train in the mid
die and freight train on each side.
Her speed is thirteen knots, and on
her trial trips she has shown herself
capable of breaking through solid ice
thlrty-eight inches thick, with five
inches Of hard snow on the top-such
snow Is much more difficult to pierce
than ice-and has forced her wav
through two tickneses of ice frozen to-
gether, aggregating from fifty-six to
sixty-fve inches In summer her how
propeller should be removed, and
large propellers substituted for her
smaller winter ones; but so far the
railway authorities have taken no
steps to build a dock upon the lake.
without which neither of these i'm
portant changes can be effected. nor
the steamer herself repaired if any
mlshap should damage her hull. Lake
Baikal is frozen from the middle of
December to the end of April and there
Is also talk of laying a railway across
upon the ice, as is done each year from
st. Petersburg to Kronstadt; but prob
ably all depends upon the success of
the Ice breaker next winter.-From
Russia Of Today" by Henry Nor
man.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05

American can enjoy life mere 10 his
hearts content. Looking away to the
southwark is a wide stretch of valley
under an advanced state Of cultivation.
One Of the cities we passed was Dol
ores Hidalgo, named in honor of the
patriot Hidalgo, the Washington Of
Mexico, who here sounded the watch
wors-cf liberty which fired the Mexican
heart and reused the whole country to
arms 20 repel the power Of Spain. That
was the beginning of the end of Span
lsh rule in Mexico and then the foun-
dation of the republic was laid. There
are interesting cities all along and
enough could be written about them
to make volume, but l cannot forego
making mention of one more -Morelis
the Magnificent. 1t is the capital
OF the state of Michoacan, and called
by the Spanish founders Valladolid.
but when the Mexicans were victorious
in the revolution of 1910, they re-
named it in honor of the patriot More
los, who had given his life In the
great struggle against Spanish power
EXTREMES Of temperature are unknown
here and the sun shines every day in
the year from a perpetually cloudlesi
sky, as the rainfall occurs in the night
1t is city of rest for the weary and
with its parks and springs and flowers
and sunshine and revivifying air and
beautiful houses and fine hotels it has
been rightly named Morelia the Mag
nificenr. 1t was early on Sunday
morning when 1 reached the City OF
Mexico. There was the quietude Of
the Sabbath everywhere, the odor of
flowers filled the air, the matin bells
tolled in the great cathedral and my
mind was filed with a multitude of
historic memories as 1 passed up the
Paseo de la Reforma, to the hotel
Iturbide, once the palace of an en-
peror.
w. B. ROBERTS.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
IMPROVED COAT HANGER.

The numerous coat-hangers already
on the market would lead one to thinE
tnat no room for improvement was
lett, but the contrary is true, as we
SNOW IN our Illustration. The great
majority of hangers are made of wire
FORMS which fit the garments only ir
outline, tending to stretch the coat
and crease it along the line of the
wire. This fault is remedied in the
hanger here shown, which has recent
ly been patented. It is formed of me-
tallie sheets, preferably of aluminium.
although any light sheet metal will
answer the purpose. 1t is intended tc
manufacture the hangers in sunicient
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
SIGHTS IN MEXICO
INTERESTING DESCR rpT7oNS
OF IMPORTANT PLACES

guard over ingress from the north
Inc climate here is superb, and to the
man tired Of every effort there is an
exnilaration in the balmy breezes here
tnat VIII tone up the nerves with new
lie again and Topo Chico hot springs.
Just north Of the city are famous
throughout the country. There is
me mountain scenery about the city
and old Saddle mountain to the east
Is one OF the most noted peaks.
monterey has three enormous smelt-
ing and reducing works; one with a
daily capacity of $4,000 tons. There
are also cotton mills, furniture. soap,
nat, match and brick factories, and
numerous parks, and all kinds of
churches and schools. Just on the
outside CT the city on the north the
Americans and Mexlcans met in bat
Tile In the autumn of 1916. To the
southwark Of Monterey we find the
mexican National takes us into a most
beautiful vista of mountain scenery.
and this continues until Saltillo a
city OF 10000 inhabitants is reached.
Near by Is the battlefield Of Buena
vista and the train passes directly
over the spot where Captain Washing
ton planted his guns on the 22d Of
February, 1S49, and opened the bat
Tie. The American forces in this
engagement were commanded by
General Zachary Taylor and the Mexi-
cans by General Santa Ana. After q
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05

but the thick walls of these houses
make them cool during the hot days
and warm in cool weather. It is
doubtful whether anywhere else in the
world in so short a distance of travel
one can find q display of more strik-
ing diversity of sight seeing.
In historic associations and relics Of
the past l found the same diversity;
there are reminders of Juarez and
Macmillan, of General Scott and
santa Ana, of Spanish viceroys and
hldalgoes, of Cortez and Montezuma,
and OF the unknown builders of pyra-
mlds and palaces that anted,te the be-
ginning of recorded history in Ameri-
ca. And this diversity continues
among the men of Mexico today to a
very great extent. Mexico is more
foreign in appearance today than nine
tenths of Europe "and possesses"
says noted correspondent, "the sweet
resemblance to the Holy Land, the
antiquity Of Greece and Rome, the
martial glory of England, Germany
and Russia, and the charm of France
and Spian." In all, Mexico has a
population Of about fourteen millions
made up OF either pure Indians, direct
descendants of the Aztecs and other
lnulan tribes, or Of mixed Indian and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
Cheap Home-Built Ice Houses.

A good ice house may be made by
using poles in connection with boards,
or by themselves, as one pleases. II
poles alone are used they are placed
about an inch apart and form the side
walls. 1t is generally best to use boards
to go across better to hold the saw
dust. In building an ice house the
main essentials are ventilation, drain
age and abundant use of sawdust.
Where stones are plentiful the ques-
ton of drainage is easily settled by
putting bottom in the house foot
thick of broken stones. In filing the
house have the pieces of ice as large
as can be conveniently handled, and
pack them closely together, filing in
any spaces with sawdust and leaving a
space two or three inches wide all
around the edges to be filled with saw
dust that must be packed down firmly.
When ice is removed during the sum-
mer any cracks left should be filled in
with sawdust. The roof of the house
should be spreading and project a foot
or more at the gable ends. Leave out
board or even two ct the gable ends
for ventilation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
[snecial Correspondence.)


shall not soon forget my first ex-
periences in Mexico, they were so in
teresting and altogether pleasant. At
Laredo. Texas, l took the train over
the Mexican National railway and
and crossing the Rio Grande river
stopped at the station on the Mexican
side to receive visit from the custom
officer. This official is the personifi-
caticn of politeness and he and his
assistants perform their duty with the
utmost consideration for the comfort
OF the traveller.
The Mexicans looked picturesque in
their peculiar dress. The men for the
most part wear a high cone-shaped hat
gaily decorated with silver or gold
lace, and the man of wealth Is known
by the way he has his hat trimmed.
The women seen about the station
were of the laboring class and selling
lunches, pottery and drawn lace hand
kerchiefs All Mexicans are polite
and of quiet manners, and in their
greetings of each other there is no
handshaking but slight embrace in
stead.
The houses are of adobe made OF
sun-dried bricks, which are sufficient
ly durable in the dry climate. Some
of the houses are decorated with con-
siderable taste, being colored with
bright colors OF red, blue and green
calcimine. Others are less attractive.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
Antiquity OF Anatom,ca1 stnav.

Sir Norman Lockyer points ont that
the statues and plaques carved in stone
and wood to be seen in the Gizeh mu-
scum prove that the priest-mummifiers
OF Memphis, 5000 years ago, had a
profound knowledge of anatomy
Science, he therefore thinks. is as old
as art, and they have advanced To-
gether. Another remarkable fact is
that the excavations in Italy have
brought to light scores of finely fin
ished surgical instruments for certain
operations. which are, in almost every
particular of form. precisely like those
reinvented in modern times and used
by the most advanced surgeons ct to-
day.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
The Right OF a c-e,t N.nu,..

One of the most striking spectacles
revealed by telescopes is that of the
Great Nebula in Orion. In the com
plexity of its glowing streams, spirals
and strangely shaped masses, inter-
cepted by yawning black gaps and
sprinkled over WIN stars arranged in
suggestive groups and lines, it has
few rivals in the heavens. The i'm
preston of astonishment made by the
sight of this nebula is heightened by
knowledge of its enormous size. The
entire solar system would appear as a
tiny speck beside it. Yet this trs-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05

ANN oCENE, MORELIA.
spanish or of much the smaller class,
pure Spanish.
IL was glorious day as I left the
oorder town for Monterey. the most
important city in Northern Mexico.
win me as travelling companion was
Harry futile, son of Bisbon Tu+tle
OF the Episcopal church at St I,ouis
ana VINO had gone to Monterey some
years Detore. Having struck it rich
IN tne mining business there he has
settled down as one of tho srhstan-
tial citizens of Monterey and was en-
thuslastie about his new home and all
the possibilities which ;; afforded
sald ne, I am greatly p.eased with
monterey both as a residence place
and a business point 1t has grown
rapidly since the Mexican National
railway was built and now we have
population Of 10000. Our CITY is the
capitoi OF the state of Nuevo Leon
anu Is such rushing business place
tnat IL is sometimes called "the Chi
Saso vi mexico" / could well I'M
oerstand now this could be so after
making visit to Monterey where
found many Americans established IN
business. The city rests at the foot
OF the Slerre Madre mountains and ar
an elevation of 1900 feet above the
sSa sue seems a mighty sentinel to
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
WRITING ATRADE.
Reflections for the benefit of would-Be
Authors

Authors.
All the men and women that have
risen to distinction in the field of LET
tiers have served apprenticeship in the
technics of the art before they reached
the ear OF the public. The poets alone
seem to have a gift of speech at the
outset and even they learn much in
the course of years and practice. But
the young aspirant should not model
MS line of procedure on that followed
Dy the acknowledged geniuses. Only
genius can hope to initiate genius. For
ordinary talent there is no royal road
TO literary mastership. The art of
writing must be studied diligently
painfully, humbly. The use and
abuse of words and phrases must be
considered, not for a day, but for
many years The formation of sent
ences must be the thought of ones
waking hours. The manufacture of a
style is the labor of years. The old
saying that style is the man" is per-
fectly true. but it has deIuded manv
youngster into the belief that all
&c A1u " 10 was 10 express himself
according to the impulse of the mo-
ment, Just as he would in talking. and
that thus he would be a writer. ..Style
is the man." 1t is not the boy. It
is the reflex of the mature mind. the
embodiment of thought, which no
longer stumbles, but walks with sure
feet, and makes for itself broad and
beautiful path of words. Let those
that are wondering why their illusions
40 not burst into print at once stop
and consider whether they really have
anything particular to say, and then
whether they have any particular way
OF saying it. There are more persons
with something to say (perhaps not
something immortal, but still worth
saying) than there are with a genu-
inc master of literary expression. The
latter does not come by nature; nor
does it come with experience. II
comes only by practice, and not an
easy practice at that 1t was that
most literary of all recent writer's
Robert Louis Stevenson, who said that
the man not willing to spend a whole
afternoon in search of the right word
to express an idea is unfit for the bust
ness of literature.-New York Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05
BaII-Bearinr Watch.

One of the most ingenious devices
at the Paris fair is to be seen in the
Swiss watch factory exhibit and con-
sists of a ball-bearing pocket time
piece. The principle has already been
applied to the driving wheel of the
clcckmaker's throw and also for the
winding arbor of clocks. Its applica-
ton to watch, however. with salts
factory results requires exceedingly
fine mechanism and minute balls. The
watch was made by Leon Gruet, a
foreman Of Partisan watch concern.
In it the arbors roll on steel balls Of
two sizes. 1t is spoken of by COM
petent authorities as one of the most
interesting Theological exhibits.