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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

breathed forth in this little newspaper
community. and there is usually
scurrying to the department lt..J to o get
such portions as are to be given OUT.
At first sight, these code cablegrams
are not different from any other coae
messages. They are a tumble Of worus
from all languages, LIMOGES ana dia-
lects. with sprinkling of common
strong slang. They suggest history
prize lighting. art criticisms, mathe-
NAUTICAL problems, politics, circus au-
yertising, and, in fact, almost every
thing except something about SHIPS.
italian words are joined to Bowery
brevities to form word and strange
surprises come in the shape OF a col
lection of letters with rs on both ends
and two or three ks in the middle
Detroit Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

ed when Oklahoma was thrown open
to settlement shall be repeated. A
plan has been devised whereby each
claimant will have an equal chance
with every other claimant, although
only small percentage of those filing
claims will secure homesteads. Already
the applications on file exceed by
many thousands the number of tracts
of 100 acres each which are to be dis
posed of to claimants.
The town of Duncan, Okla, has made
a protest against the location of TO-
900 acres of grazing land directly OPP
posite and adjoining the military for
est reserve, because it raises wall
against the town in communicating
with the new reservation when settled.
1t is claimed that the land is too valu-
able for pasturage and could be easily
settled with prosperous population,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
The Naval cipher.

The naval cipher would make good
textbook for the puzzle editor and the
queer people who solve their freakish
maneuverings. Words and sentences
are as involved in these mysterious
writings as it is well nigh possible for
human thoughts to be concealed. All
the great departments OF the govern
ment have their own way of transmit
ting secret messages. but the naval
code is the most intricate and vexa-
tious of all. This naval code has been
doing business for a good many years.
but J one ever thought much about it
unit the Washington newspaper men
sud My discovered that it was a very
gre nuisance In their business. Not
that these enterprising chaps are I'M
patriotic and want to pry into govern
ment secrets but the transmission of
= code message takes such long time
that the waiting becomes tiresome. In
some mysterious manner the recent of
an important message is always
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

really revolving spiral, which quickly
takes the carrier back to its original
position. The instrument is now ready
to reproduce all that the wire has re-
ceived. Connect the magnetic-carrier
to an ordinary telephone receiver, and,
travelling over the same ground as be-
fore, the poles will be actuated this
time by the magnetized wire, and will
retransmit to the receiver what they
had previously impaired to the wire.
The result is that the telephone re-
ceiver now speaks everything that had
been spoken into the microphone
transmitter. In the distributor a num-
Der OF electromagnetic take the place
of the second (re-transmitting) mag
net.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
ARMY omeer., Intrlo.,. n.,,...

At the present time an American
army officers duties are often hewil-
deringly intricate.It is said of Lieut.
N. G. Bishop of the artillery that
while administering his duties in the
Philippines his labors in addition to
his regular tasks as officer, have en-
braced the licensing of business not
provided for elsewhere in the govern
ment; the management of markets and
the collection of market taxes. the
management of the matadero and the
collection of the meat tax; weights
and measures, carriage taxes and taxes
for carts and horses; building permits
registration of live stock, public land
rentals and the collection of various
other small imposts and taxes. All of
these with few exceptions. we're
farmed out for collection and supervis-
ion to individuals under the Spanish
regime, but Lieut. Bishop has broken
up this corrupt system.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
American Soldier, Generosity.

A writer in "Ainslee's Magazine"
tells this story: Our government al
lowed several transports with return
ing volunteers to stop at Yokohama,
and so hundreds of American soldiers
visited that city and Toxic. One of
them hired bicycle, and was taking
ride about the streets of Yokohama
when he ran down an elderly Japanese
man. The soldier rang his bell several
times, but the Japanese apparently
paid no attention to it, and the Ameri-
can found himself promptly arrested
and taken to court, where he was fined
10 yen $50. He protested that he had
done everything possible to avert the
accident, and asked why the man made
no attempt to get out of the way. The
policeman then told him that the man
was blind. The soldier looked dazed
for a minute, then felt in his pocket
and brought out $40 bill. Here he
said, it's the last I've got, but he can
have it, and he turned it over to the
blind man. The Japanese were deeply
touched, and that same day a delega-
ton of policemen hunted up the SOL
der and gave him back his fine"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

duced in the coils of the magnet. A
steel wire is wound in spiral grooves,
ON revolving non-magnetic drum.
upon this wire rests two poles of an
electromagnetic connected with a mic
rophone transmitter. Any sounds such
as vocal speech, or instrumental music,
actuating the diaphram of the trans
mitter, are transferred as magnet i'm
pulses to the electromagnetic, which,
when the drum is set in motion. at
once communicates them to the re-
volving wire. The two poles of the
magnet gripping the sides of the wire
are carried along sliding rod later
ally, until the end of the coiled wire
is reached. Thereupon device shunts
the carrier. e., the travelling elec-
tro-magnet- on to another mechan-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
For. Hayes Land Question.

The state of Kansas and other off,
Gers representing it presented a petit
ton recently to Acting Secretary of
the Interior Ryan, praying an inter-
view and reversal of a departmental
decision relative to the Fort Hayes
military reservation. They want the
land vacated and turned over to the
state. The Kansas officers claimed to
have discovered that certain survey
maps and plats shown by the general
land Office in Washington and neces-
sary to the former departmental de-
cision are not on file in the local
United States land Office at Wakeeney
and never have been on file there, says
a Washington correspondent of the
obe-Democrat. For that reason they
claim that Cox and his associates, who
filed homestead applications for the
land, could not have obtained original
right by the mere filing of these papers
Of application, not being long-estab-
lished rule of the land department,
founded upon the statute, that local
land offices can not allow applications
or entries until after the filing in the
local land office of the requisite maps
and plats, showing the surveys and
subdivisions of sections and quarter
sections of the lands. An investigation
into the matters presented by this pc
tition and information elected by the
department through correspondence
with the local land office at Wakeeney
corroDorated the statements of the
Kansas officers representing the state.
Acting Secretary Ryan has directed
the commissioner of the general land
office, Mr.. Hermann, to call upon Cox
and other individual applicants for
these lands to show cause why these
applications should not be rejected and
the lands made over to the state under
the recent act of congress granting the
unappointed lands in the reservation
to the state for agricultural college
purposes. 1t Is a settled rule in the
department that a former decision for
an entry of land will never be vacated
upon an ex parte showing and hence
Cox and his associates are accorded
an opportunity in this instance, to
fully set forth their claims and views.
The papers presented recently strongly
indicate that the department can not
lawfully do otherwise than award the
land to the state of Kansas. Senator
Harris and the assistant attorney gem
eral of Kansas, and a number of other
prominent Kansans were in Washing
ton recently interesting themselves in
the case. In the petition which they
presented at the interior department
they include some interesting exhibits,
such as a photograph of the map of
Fort Hayes military reservation now
in the land Office at Wakeeney, show
ing that the divisions and subdivisions
are not indicated on it, and also a
photograph of the map in the General
Land office here, in which such sub
divisions are shown In rendering
the original decision favorable to Cox
the department was not aware of the
difference between the two maps, and
1t could not but presume that they
we're alike Why the difference exists
Is not apparent as yet, but will prob
ably be brought out in the further
hearing of the case.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
CARNEGIE'S CASTLE.

by the family of Doul. Misfortune
overlook the latter, and since that
time the curse has been fulfilled in this
that no family has possessed Skibo
for more than one generation.
1t has passed through many hands,
including the Mackays, the Gordons,
the Dempsters and the Chirnsides, ILL
luck pursuing them all, until the place
was acquired by Andrew Carnegie, who
apparently is not superstitious, as he
assured his tenants and neighbors the
other day that he intended Skibo to
be the home of his family "for many
generations"
He Is very popular in the district by
reason of the money he has brought
into the country, and is known there
as "Skibo." in the same way as most
other territorial magnates are known
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
south Dakota Farms

Is the title OF an illustrated booklet
just issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway. descriptive Of the
country between Aberdeen and the
Missouri River, a section heretofore
unproyided with railway facilities, but
which is now reached by a new line OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway. Everyone contemplating a
change of location will be interested
in the information contained in 1t. and
a copy may be had by sending a two
cent stamp to F. A. Miller, General
Passenger Agent, Chicago. Ill.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Andrew Carnegie Is continuing in
Scotland The munificent generosity to
the aid of education as he began in the
United States. We were told recently
of his donation Of 100000 to establish
branch Libraries in Glasgow upon the
same plan for which he gave $4,000
BOO to Greater New York. Last week
came the news of his gift of 100000
600 to establish free scholarships in
the historic Scotch universities for
poor young Scotchmen.
Or course, this is a materialistic age,
and no one. on this side of the At
iantic at least, pays any attention to
superstititions. But there are folks in
Scotland tno insinuation is meant
against the Scotch, but their old le-
gends have greater influence than in
this new country, especially among the
folk on the country side)-who believe
that by these donations, Andrew Car
negie will lift the curse from Skibo
Castle, the old estate which he has
purchased as his home in the High
lands.
Every one north of the Tweed is
cognlzant OF the fact that q blood
curdling curse rests upon Skibo Castle,
and the Scots are asking whether this
curse will work against the American
owner in the same way that the curse
pronounced against the third Lord
Byron (who made drinking cup of
the skull of one of the old Abbots of
Newstead Abbey. continued to blight
not only all the subsequent owners and
occupants of Newstead Abbey, includ-
ing the poet Lord Byron, until the late
Colonel Webb a few years ago found
the long lost drinking cup in an old
curiosity shop in. London. and by re
storing 1t to the Abbots tomb at New
stead put an end to the curse that
rested on the place.
The ban resting upon Skibo Castle
dates from the early part OF the eight
zenith century, when by some foul
wrong the Grays. who had owned the
castle for several hundred years. were
deprived of their ancestral possessions
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
Rally Timed Compliment.

Rrieadier General James f. Smith
of San Francisco became colonel OF the
First Regiment, California Natlohal
Guard, in 1897, went to the Phlllp-
pines in 1898, became the first Amer
lean governor of the Island OF Ne
gros in 1899, and is now a brigadier
general of volunteers. His rapid du-
yancement recalls an incident that
marked the time when he was elected
colonel. The election was held in the
evening. During the day Mr. smith,
who is a lawyer, was engaged IN de-
Tending fifty Cinnamon charged with
gambling. During the hearing the
Judge suddenly asked the prosecutor
to point out certain ones OF the IN
dicted Cinnamon who were supposed
to be standing among the horde OF
orientals in the back of the room.
The prosecutor could not and asked
Mr.. Smith to do so. Mr.. Smith de-
clined, the prosecutor persisted, the
Judge insisted, and the future general,
QCudul, Wdo oOhb W JeeAA 49,
contempt of court He went to jail
late in the afternoon and that very
evening was elected colonel. The next
morning the newspapers throughout
the state published brief Associated
Press dispatch from San Francisco re-
lating the fact that James F. Smith
had been elected colonel of the First
Regiment. The fact that he was also
in Jail was omitted. A friend of Mr..
Smith, who had gone to Napa the day
before, saw the dispatch and imme-
diately sent the following congratu-
latory telegram: "The right man in
the right place." When the message
was delivered to the new-made colonel
in Jail he couldn't see the humor of it
at first. Then he realized that his ad-
miring friend did not know the place"
where the message found him.-Phila-
delphia Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10


No port lamps CLEAN along our sides,
No banners float on high;
No human lookout raises glass
To scan our seas or sky.
No Admirals above our decks
Mid guns and gunners stand;
In hidden sheath to send the sound
or warlike, stern command.
Yet all the navies of the world
Our bows in vain assail;
We fear no smoking battle tower
That thunders through the gale.
BY captains gray our path Is marked,
By sailors white and old;
For us the phantom rockets glare
And phantom bells are tolled.
In misty, unremembered ports
Our beacon lights we set
BY hands long gone from mortal view,
BY forms that men forget.
And we may wander on our course
Till time at end shall be,
For In our breasts are locked the hulls
OF ships once lost at sea.
John James Meehan in the Criterion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Lieut.. D. w. Blamer, of the United
States navy, opened a recruiting sta
ton at Indianapolis recently. and for
ten or twelve days enlisted large
number of men for the navy. T5s
building of new battleships for tho
navy opens opportunity to many land
lubbers" to begin sailors life Mo-
from eighteen to twenty-five wears
were enlisted with pay of SIS month
and youths from fifteen to seventeen
years were taken as apprentices. Each
man received a bonus of four months
pay and an allowance of s45 worth =.
clothing as soon as the recruiting o@
Ger accepts him. In addition 10 sailors
the recruiting officer enlists sailma,,
ers, machinists, electricians. musicians
boilermakers. hospital stewards na,nt
ers. carpenters, coal passers and me,
from other trades.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
has requested Secretary of War Root
to send into the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache reservations, in the Indian
Territory, a body of United States
troops to clear these reservations,
which are soon to be thrown open for
settlement of squatters, or "sooners,"
as they are known on the frontier.
More than 1000 of these ''sooners"
have entered the Wichita mountains
and taken up mineral claims. The dis
trict, which is to be divided into
homesteads of 100 acres each. Is In the
Oklahoma country, and is regarded as
the most desirable farming land in the
southwest
The department is determined that
there shall be no injustice done to the
settlers of this new reservation, and 1t
does not propose that the scenes enact
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Mrs. Hanna Omeger of New York
city, according to Law Notes, recently
recovered $3.50 damages for injuries
sustained by an icicle falling from a
tank on top of the defendants build
ing through the skylight of her house
and striking the good dame on the
crown of her head. She was not only
knocked senseless, but was interrupted
in the midst of her dinner, which,
when she recovered, had grown cold.
For all of these things she asked s15.-
900 damages.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
anY-Ton6ued telephone.

One of the most striking inventions
recently made is the telegraphone,
which may be described as a combin-
alton of telephone and photograph.
II was devised by Mr.. Poulsen OF Co
penhagen, Denmark. The telegraphon-
ic distributor. as the instrument is
called. enables any one to send a mes
sage 10 a number of destinations by
speaking once. The instrument de-
ponds for its action upon the fact that
the variations of the magnetic field
of an eiectro-magnet are so accurately
represented by the magnetization of a
steel wire which is drawn through 1t.
that Ii the wire be again passed
through the field. currents exactly
similar TO those which reproduced the
magnetization of the wire are repro
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Many seem to think that there Is
but a single side to the question of
electing senators by direct vote OF the
people. The National Civic Fedora
ton recently undertook to get an ex-
preston of the popular sense on this
subject. They held kind of refer.
endum and, in reply to their inquiries,
received great many replies. There
are two sides to every question and
they ascertained that there were two
also to this.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO
~. M,s.ourl Pacific Railway.

The Missouri Pacific Railway is now
operating double daily service from st.
Louis and Kansas City to points in
Colorado Utah and the Pacific coast.
Trains leave st. Louis 9 a. M. and
1910 D. M, Kansas City p. m. and 10
a. M, carrying through sleeping care
between st. Louis and San Francisco
without change. Excursion tickets
now on sale. For further information
address Company's agents.
II. C. TOWNSEND,
G. P. G T. Agent, St. Louis, Mo.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

If the international tribunal estab-
lished by the conference at The Hague
has any practical usefulness the dis
pute among the powers at Pekin af-
fords an opportunity to pu. it to the
test. The suggestion of the United
States to refer the question of in
demnity to this tribunal is worthy OF
a civilized nation. It's adoption is
scarcely probable unless the powers
should find it impossible to reach an
agreement in any other way.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
Passing of Great Astronomer

The death was recently announced
of DR.. Adolphe Hirsch, director OF the
observatory at Neuchatel since its
foundation in 1858, and the first pro-
lessor of astronomy at the academy oil
that town. He was born at Halber-
stadt in 1880, and for some time was
assistant at the Paris Observatory IN
der lie Verrier.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
SUMNER EXCURSIONS
Via santa Fe Route"

A series OF Summer Excursions are being
run by the Santa Fe Railway Tickets from
salt Lake or Ogden are as follows
c,nrlnnati and return. SIS. 50. July 30.
Sli,,.. iii,'', nd return. al co. July 81.
aSJiwaukee d return. 80, July 1920.
chicaeo and return. f4l So July 20. q. y.
Huntsville and return, sii 30. august 2s-2J.
Nijeeofri river points and return. 400, daily
June CIV w and return $50 80 daily, June 20 to
septenoD%siss ana return s5l So daily. June 20 to
September II
For further information apply TO @. F. War
ren General Agent a. T. & S. F. II. r. All
noolv Block, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Washington has been asked for an
appropriation of $4,000 to defray the
EXPENSES of fifty Filipino teachers who
are to study for a year in normal
schools of America, these schools hav-
;ng offered them free tuition.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10
BOOK or YELLOWSTONE PARK SCENERY.

Many of the beautiful scenes in Yell
iowstone National Park have been
photographed and for the first time
are presented to the public in beauti-
full folder published by the Oregon
Short Line Railway. In addition to
the views, which would adorn any
home, there is a great deal of informa-
tion concerning the best way to visit
the park that should be in the hands
of all who contemplate visiting this
storehouse of wonders. Send cents
in stamps to d. Il. Burley General
Pass uger and Ticket Agent Oregon
Short Line Railway. Salt Lake City,
Utah, for a COPY of this work of art
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

The result of the winters work prove
emphatically that Nome is a winter
camp. Within a radius of eight miles
a bout the city dumps have been piled
up which on conservative estimates
will Weld $4,000
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Private Mailing Card with colored
views Of scenery on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railway sent on
receipt of ten (10) cents in stamps
Address f. A. Miller. General Passen-
ger Agent. Chicago, Ill.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

The sugar crop figures from MAINTAIN
zss for this season are encouraging
enough. In round numbers the pro-
duction is fixed at 10000 tons, and
this has brought not far from $50, Ooo,-
non
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Professors George F. Jewett of
Youngstown, o.. who recently resigned
as principal of the Raven High school,
has accepted the presidency of La Sale
Seminary for Young Women in Boston.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Visitors to Salt Lake will find no
better place to combine pleasure and
health than at the Sanitarium Baths
one of the finest bathing resorts in the
country. Whether for washing away
the dust of travel or simply to spend
pleasant hour, you will find what you
want in either the private baths or the
large swimming pools. Open day and
night and within five minutes W Tx OF
all the hotels-anyone will tell You
where.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

Many frauds in the recent municipal
elections in Cuba has been brought to
light as a result of a military investi-
cation made at the request of citizens
in districts where the elections have
been contested
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

The island of Chios, in the Aegean
sea, has an oak the age of which is
believed to be twenty-five centuries.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

The Cuban planter is going through
an industrial and social revolution.
The old baronial estates are passing
away. The individual planter is be-
coming less an less factor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-10

by the name of their land. rather than
by their patronymic.