The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-02-05


it will be remembered, spoke in
Challis last October in the inter
est of the Republican party, died
in Washington, ID. c., few days
ago from consumption.
| George Mohn, of Pittsburg,
Pa, guessed within two of the
number of inhabitants of the
United States. He guessed it at
76, ,061, 126, and was awarded a
S15. 900 prize in the Detroit prize
contest.
We learn that the Big Vein
Mining Company at Custer have
closed down their property. The
cause is not known.
About twenty five miners were
laid off at the Lucky Boy mine in
Custer recently.
Hugh G. Baker. ]. A. Bangs.
Spencer Helm, E. l.. Thomas
and Messrs. Lane and McAlIister
arrived in Challis by private con-
veyance from Custer last Satur-
day evening.
The Jesse James group of gold
mines on Jordan creek, near
Bonanza, owned by Messrs. Le-
Roy and Ayers were sold to J.
A. Bangs and Hugh G. Baker, of
Republic, Washington, one day
last week. We are unable to
learn the price paid but under
stand it was a snug little sum of
money. The new company ex-
pect to do considerable develop
ment work next summer on the
property also to erect a quartz
mill to treat the ores.
Senator Macbeth's bill to amend
the the act of 1891 relative to the
issuance of liquor licenses should
become a law. The amendment
is as follows
1.-The amount to be paid by
each applicant for such license
shall be the sum of $500 a year,
or proportionate amount for
each fraction of year, in any
city, town, village or hamlet,
where at the last general cleo
tion next preceding the date of
the application for license, the
average of the total vote for
county commissioners exceeded
$50 votes, and $500 per year in
all other cities, towns, villages
or hamlets, etc. =
Representative Davis, of Owy-
hee county, has called down the
malediction of quite following
in Idaho, by introducing an
amendment to the anti gam bling
law, prohibiting some games and
licensing others. The anti
gambling law, passed by the
Legislature two years ago, has
acted just as it was predicted it
would at the time the bill was
passed. 1t does not prohibit,
and the state loses the revenue
which formerly resulted from
the license received from this
source. During the past two
years of anti-gambling, games of
all kinds have fourished in every
portion of the state. Boise, the
capitol, has been no exception.
In view of this fact-the utter
failure of the intent of the law
we believe that it would be bet
ter to adopt a license sys-
TEN, with necessary restrictions,
so that the pernicious practice
could be kept under surveillance
and properly regulated. Prohi-
bition does not prohibit-neither
does the anti-gambling law
Silver City Avalanche.
A school teacher received the
following from a complaining
parent a few days ago
"Sir viii you please for the
future give my boy sum eesier
Esomes to do at nights. This is
what he brought hoam two or
three mites back: If fore gallins
of bere will fill thirty-two pint
bottles, how many pint and d
half bottles will nine gallins FLIP
Well. we tried, and could make
nothing of it at all; and my boy
cried, and sed he didn't dare go
back in the mornin' without
6oin' it.
$50 l had to go and buy nine
gallin cask of bere, which I could
i'll afford to do, and then we went
and borrowed a lot of wine and
brandy bottles. Well, we emptied
the cask into the bottles, and
then counted them, and there
were ninteen. and my boy put
the number down for an answer.
| don't know whether it is rite or
not, as we split sum while we
were dOin' it.