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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
woNDEoTFF YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Region In tho world Abounas in
No Other variety Of Attractions.

.u,oo In tho World Abounds In
No O'nsr I variety Of Attractions
rhe most wonderful scenery IN the
Ia isi Yellowstone National Iark,
wori rreat natural curiosity shop OF the
the gIea' Nowhere else, within equal
uni'e are found so many natural
ooun grouped almost as IL by de-
WONDERS The special convenience of
sign, y The wonders OF h Alps
s,gnti Use eHpiimalayas, could they be gath
II tne a~ md compressed into an
ereu sace could not hope to rival in
eqdapr in variety nor IN number,
of the Yellowstone.
sne NV III ,he attractions except the
gevsers removed, the reglon would
stiIl be famed world wiue, drawing
nature lovers from all countries to
witness the exhibitions Oh unequalled
noyer of these matchless giants,
pphich with a roar that may be heard
lonr distances. spout huge columns OF
soathing water high into the air, sus-
setuina them there for varying lengths
SStne old Faithful, with a regular
itv hat begot its name, at intervals OF
81 TX minutes. sends up a huge col
- - wafer $50 feet into the air, re-
maining active four minutes. Giant,
18th a deafening roar, spouts $50 feet
arerv third day for 90 minutes, while
Giantess, at longer intervals ana with
slightly less power, maintains actlvlty
for twelve hours al a stretcn' many
others. at intervals ranging from FIVE
minutes to several days, spout water
TO VARYING heights, remaing active
Tor neriods ranging from one second to
IN bour or more. In all, there are
thirtv-three members of this inter-
estino Gevser family OF sufficient
imnoptance to deserve special mention.
Twenty-eight Of these are in Upper
basin. and when several Of them, with
their rainbow tints, spouting at
once. the scene is ind~escribable. Other
scenes of grandeur that abound in IA
vored mountainous regions pass in end
less review before the enchanted tour
lat. all sense Of feeting time being
lost in their admiration.
Travel to the park, following inn
proved Transportation facilities, has
greatly increased in recent years.
Leaving the Oregon Short Line at
Monida, Montana, after a pleasant
ride through changing scenes from
Salt Lake City, comfortable stage
coaches run to and through the park,
making the trip at easy stages in tive
DAYS, four of which are spent among
natures wonders, and the other among
delightful scenery. Good hotels are
conveniently located in the park foi
sight-seers, where one may stay indef
nitely, at very reasonable cost.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
Loyal Legion in Wisconsin.

The annual election and Gen. Chas.
Kings paper on THE Battle of Gaines
Vile" contributed to make a recent
meeting of the Wisconsin command
cry, Loyal Legion, one of the best at
tended of the year.. About rs mem
bers were present at the meeting place
in Milwaukee. The election resulted
as follows: Commander, Surgeon Walt
er Kempsler, Milwaukee; senior vice
commander, Capt. Harry A. Valentine,
National Home; Junior vice command
er, Lieut.. John P. Dousman, De Pere;
recorder, Capt. A. Ross Houston, Mil
waukee; treasurer, Andrew A. Hatha-
way, Milwaukee; chancellor, Lieut..
Jerome B. Johnson, Milwaukee; chap
lain, Capt. Joseph w. Saunderson, Mil
waukee; council, Harry S. Fuller,
Lieut.. Arthur Holbrook, Capt. A. P.
Foster, Col. B. F. Parker, Lieut.. Will
lam E. Trowbridge. Gen. Kings pa
per, the Battle of Gainesville" was a
mastery account of the engagement in
which Gen. Rufus Kings division bore
the brunt of the fighting and in which
lllG lIOn DllSdQG COullllduNCu W OOhh
Gibbon, lost 40 per cent of its men in
killed and wounded. The speaker re-
ferred to letters left by Gen. Rufus
King and to official reports to prove
that he was unjustly criticised for
abandoning the field on the night after
the battle and retreating towards Nam
assas. "The orders to hold the line
which Gen. Pope said he sent to my
father said Gen. King, "were never
received, and the retreat was ordered
after a consultation of officers, at
which all except one agreed that it was
a necessary military move" Gen. King
paid an eloquent tribute to the Iron
Brigade. "They lost 40 per cent of
their strength" said he, "and more
than stood the breaking strain Of 33
per cent, which most eminent authori-
ties agree to be the utmost limit of en-
durance in battle" At the business
meeting. Gen. F. G. Winkler read an
obituary on Gen. Augustus Gaylord;
Capt. A. e. Smith, one on Lieut..
Charles Palmetier, and Lieut.. F. H.
Putney one Capt. w. V. Tichenor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
war and Geography.

A new. although possibly doubtful,
blessing of war has been discovered
by a Philadelphia school teacher, who
asserts that since the spanish-Amer-
lean conflict and the Transvaal and
Chinese troubles her pupils have made
wonderful progress in geography. She
has under her charge children ranging
from nine to eleven years of age, and
declares that she expects them to
graduate with one hundred per cent to
their credit in geography. The boys
in particular are so eager to see where
the troops landed, the route they fol-
lowed and the battles they fought, that
they spend much time porting over
their aliases and studying the maps.
80 you can see," she says, that their
knowledge of geography is much
greater that it otherwise would have
been, as it was made interesting by a
study of coming events in those par
ticular countries. Thus the geography
of these conflicts and the history Of
them are pretty well fixed in the pu-
pills minds"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

Because he considered ne owed MS
sweetheart a greater duty than he did
his country, under the circumstances,
James F~innegan, the 19-year-old son
of Arthur F%innegan, of 927 Rutger
street, superintendent of Station A, of
the Laclede Gaslight Company, DESERT
ed from the United States naval train
ing ship Hartford, at the Brooklyn
navy yard, last Friday, and returned
to st. Louis, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. AS a result he is now a
prisoner at the Four Courts, where he
is being held awaiting the action of
the federal authorities. Finnegan was
arrested by the police of the Fourth
district, while at the home of his aunt
in-law, Mrs. Annie Ward, at 1407 Me-
nard street, yesterday morning. He
was taken to the Soulard street station
and locked up, but was later trans
ferred to the -Four Courts. However,
he had succeeded in accomplishing the
object which caused him to leave the
training ship before he was taken into
custody, as he and Miss Daisy Glenn
ms the girl of his choice, were mar
ried by Justice Haughton last Tuesday
morning. The arrest brought to light
q romance which has been growing for
years and finally, after much opposl-
ton, eliminated in the marriage by
Justice Haughton on Tuesday. Finne-
gan and his bride were children to-
gether, and later they were school
mates. They evinced an affection for
each other early in life, and were con-
stantly in each others company. This
condition of affairs, they claim, did not
suit Finnegan's parents, and they en-
1eavored to break up the attachment.
Young Finnegan was sent to the st.
Mary's Seminary at P~erryville, Mo-, to
separate him from his sweetheart. He
wrote often and made frequent quiet
trips to st. Louis to see her. His par
ents learned of this and he was sum-
moned home. Upon arrival here, he
said yesterday, his parents tried to i'm
press upon him the beauties of joining
the navy. He could not see it the way
they did. Matters drifted along for
several months, until finally last Oc-
taber Finnegan and Miss Clemens
eloped to Belleville and attempted to
get married. They were refused a Ii
cense, because the clerk thought they
had not reached the legal age, and the
attempt failed. The boys father heard
of the affair and shortly after, accord
ing to young Finnegan's story told him
he was going to place him in a school
where he would obtain a higher edu-
cation. He was taken to Chicago by
his father, and, he says before he knew
what was going on he had been taken
into a naval recruiting station, put
through the examination, rushed East
to the Brooklyn navy yard and placed
on the receiving ship Vermont. Later
he was transferred to the school ship
Hartford, and was to have sailed for
Manila soon on the Dixie. Last Fri
day he struggled in with the liberty
gang" which had been given permits
sion to go ashore. He went to the sta
ton and at once took a train for this
city. The marriage followed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
SAYINGS and DOINGS
Princesr ~ a ProdidaL

Because she could not resist the
temptation of every little fancy that
crossed her mind and was given al
most to inconceivable extravaganza,
Clara de Riquet, formerly Princess de
Chimay, and now the wife of the ia
nous h%unchback gypsy musician,
Jancsi Rigo, was last week declared a
spendthrift by a jury in Judge Cut
ting's court at Chicago and deprived
of the right to manage her own estate.
In consequence of this ruling her
uncle and trustee, Thomas r. Lyon,
was appointed her legal vator,
and in the future will only give the
prodigal princess such money as is abb
solutely required for her living ex-
penses.
This action was taken as a resGlt of
a petition filed in the Probate Court by
Mr.. Lyon, in which he set forth that
his niece was a spendthrift and utterly
incapable of managing her own finan-
cial affairs. The petition further sets
forth that the Princess Chimay in adj
dition to ler annual income of $3.50
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
rOoman.s NoveI PIea.

The Warehouses of Anglesey, who
has ~astonished English courts by ask
ing that the decree of divorce granted
her on Nov. Z last be r~escinded, is a
daughter of Sir George C~hetwynd, and
was married to her cousin, the fifth
Marquis of Anglesey, in 1898. 1t was
said at the time that by the marriage
property was inherited which other
wise could not have been touched by
either of them. Within a month after
the marriage they separated, and the
marquis agreed to give his wife $25 900
the first year, 100000 the second, and
so on until her allowance reached $780,
600 a year The Pagets, of which fam
lily the Marquis of Anglesey is the
head, are connected by marriage with
several American families. The mar
quis is a cousin of Mr.. Almeric Hugh
Paget, son-in-law of Mr.. William c..
Whitney. He is rs years old, and sue
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
Used In Place of Horses.

The horse and the OK are not the
only draft animals mar has impressed
unto his service. When Lord Cur
xon, the viceroy of India, went to visit
one of the native princes recently he
was surprised to see in the gorgeous
procession which met him two rhinoc-
crosses ridden by positions. A team
almost as strange as that of the In
dian nabob is the team of four re
bras owned by Walter Rothschild.
THE banker drives the beasts himself
and they never fail to attract atten-
ton.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
HIS SECRET DIED WITH HIM.
The Peculiar Industry OF a Maryland
Yankee.

The Peculiar Industry OF a Maryland
Yankee.
Last week James McMenamin of
Hampton, Va, the only successful
packer of crab meat in the country,
died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at
Baltimore, and it is understood that
the secret of preserving the delicate
flavor of crabs died with him. Mr..
McMenamin was a Yankee, born and
raised in Massachusetts, and wandered
down to Norfolk in search of employ
ment. He got a job with a Mr.. White
head, a nan of wealth and enterprise,
who finally loaned him his money to
establish a small crab cannery at
Hampton. During the grabbing sea-
son he employed a force of colored
women to pick the meat from the
shells and deliver it to him in tho
cooking room, where he did all the
rest of the work himself behind
locked doors. Not even his sons, who
survive him, were admitted to the
secret. After an hour or two the doors
of the kitchen would be opened and
the contents of the kettles would be
delivered to the colored women, who
filled the cans and passed them on
to the timers, by whom they were
Dramatically sealed. From a small
start the business grew until Nc
Menamin employed several hundred
fishermen and packers, and although
his plant was of insignificant appear
ance 1t covered a large area, and was
never big enough to enable him to
supply the demand. Nor has anyone
ever been able to compete with him.
Plenty of people have tried 1t, but
every one has failed. There is some
thing peculiar about crab meat which
makes 1t difficult to preserve. and
thousands of dollars have been wasted
by imitators of this enterprising Yam
kee. 1t is possible that his sons may
know the process he used. He left
them a large fortune, made in the
business, but his secret was Of greater
value than his money.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

Passengers contemplating going east
TINS season should avail themselves of
the very low excursion rates that are
being made by the Denver 81 Rio
Grande Railroad. Tikets will be sold
June llth and 18th and are good for
return until Sept. 9th.
by using this favorate route, n
sees the finest scenery in the world.
Inc train service is the very best.
For all information apply TO nearest
Ticket Agent or to,
b. f. NEVINS, II. M CUSHING.
zen. Agt. Il. p. A.
10Y West Second South Street,
Salt Lake, Utah.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

1t has been discovered that no re-
turns have been received at the n
Office from Dawson county, Texas.
which is situated in the Staked Plain
in the northwestern part of the state,
near the New Mexican border, and in
the postal guide is credited with one
town by the name of Chicago. 1t is
possible that this town has been
blown away and that the entire pop
ulation IF the county had left the
range before the enumerator got there.
At the last census several counties
disappeared; two. Mankanta and Wa
huata in Minnesota; Cedar county,
Utah, and Lyons county, Nebraska.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
BOOK OF YELLOWSTONE PARK SCENERY.

Many of the beautiful scenes in Yell
wseone National Park have been
Photographed and for the first time
tn1 presented to the public in a beauti-
IoIeer published by the Oregon
s ~ Line Railway. In addition to
sne views, which would adorn any
none, there is "a great deal OF informa-
thn concerning the best way to Visit
ose PARK that should be in the hands
al VINO contemplate visiting this
s1orehouse of wonders. Send 4 cents
stamps to d. f. Burley General
Sssassenger and Ticket Agent Oregon
Tnort Line Railway. Salt Lake City,
oSan' Tor a copy of this work Of art
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

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
u%nprovided 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 it, 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, 1901-10-29
millionaire Yerke., rir.t rraae.

~ ASAAoS AlENL AFHIes
Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago street
railway magnate, who is now building
electric lines in London, showed early
appreciation of the theory of buying
and selling to advantage. He tells how
as a boy he frequented a salesroom
near his home. "One day." said Mr..
Yerkes, Il noticed several boxes Of
soap of a certain brand which / had
often been sent to buy at the corner
grocery. I thought to myself That
will go cheap so l ~straightway ran to
the corner grocery and after drawing
from the grocer a promise to pay a
certain price for as many boxes Of
soap as l could furnish Che, Of course.
never dreaming | would supply them),
l returned to the salesroom. A box
Of the soap was about to be knocked
down to the highest bidder when 1
called out from my corner another
bid. The box was declared sold to me
and my name demanded. Charles T..
lerkes, Junior, / piped out in a shrill
yoice-I was only II years old. The
bystanders were amused, but their
laughter gave place to amazement
when bid in the entire lot of % boxes,
| promptly delivered them to the COR
ner grocery and received the price
agreed upon"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

The first negro to pass a regul, +
army examination open to enlisted
men for appointment as second lieu
tenant is Benjamin o. Davis of the
District Of Columbia. He took his ex-
animation at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Out of eighteen candidates twelve
passed, Davis being third in the or
der of merit, with an average Of 81
per cent. He is a sergeant major in
the Ninth cavalry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
oil supplants steam In Russia.

In Russia oil holds absolute sway.
And from Baku to Nishni Novgorod
petroleum finds favor on railways and
steamships alike. For 1000 miles long
the Volga boats ply from north to
south propelled by means of oil, Of
which 5000, 900 tons is used in Russia
alone. A fleet of nearly 40 steamers,
burning nothing but liquid fuel, is run
between London and Borneo, with tho
most satisfactory results. This line,
called the "Snell Transport & Trading
Company brings petroleum direct
from the oil fields of Borneo to Lon
don.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

visitors to Salt Lake will find no
better place to combine pleasure and
health than at the S~anitarinm Baths-
one of the finest bathing resorts in the
country. Whether for washing away
nIe uust OF travel or simply to spend a
paeasant nour, You will find what you
1aan III either the private baths or the
49, swimming pools. Open day and
ana within five minutes walk OF
atL sne hotels-anyone will tell you
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
NEW FAST TRAIN TO COLORADO


"T9UuII EHVIHc hdIIWHyF
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 p. M, Kansas City 6 p. m. and 10
a. m, carrying through sleeping cars
between st. Louis and San Francisco
without change. Excursion tickets
now on sale. For further information
address Company's agents.
H. G. TOWNSEND,
g. 2. & 7. Agent, st. Louis. Nc.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
Presented the ChaIIenge.

Thereupon the colonel remounted
and rode away. In less than an hour
Major Belo (for that was his rank)
rode up and presented a challenge
from Colonel Connolly to each of the
captains. They were accepted. Major
Belo then informed Cussons that he
would take him off Of Colonel Connel-
AVS hands. 1t was then arranged for
two duels to come off at the same
time In an old field considerably in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
Noffce 70 he PosOers.

The opening of the Pan-American
Exposition furnished an appropriate
opportunity to emphasize the position
of the Monroe Doctrine as part of the
public law of the western world, and
it was well improved by Vice President
Roosevelt and Senator Lodge. Mr..
Roosevelt was especially happy. Speak
ing to the visitors from Latin America,
he said:
To you of the republics south of us I
wish to say a special word. I believe
with all my heart in the Monroe Doc
trine. This doctrine is not to be invoked
for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of any one of us
here on this continent. 1t should be re-
garded simply as a great international
Pan-American policy, vital to the inter-
ests of all of us. The United States has,
and must ever have, only the desire to
see her sister republics in the Western
Hemisphere continue to flourish and the
determination that no old world power
shall acquire new territory here on this
western continent. We of the two Amer
icas must be left to work out our own
salvation along our own lines, and If we
are wise we will make it understood as a
cardinal feature of our joint foreign pol
lev that on the one hand we will not sub
nit to territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT on this
continent by any old world power, and
that on the other hand among ourselves
each nation must scrupulously regard the
rights and interests of the other.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
v.nhoe Corporars Great Nerve.


Not long ago the American minister
japan and some members of his party,
visiting a Shinto temple, initiated the
priests OF the temple by walking bare
foot over what was apparently a bed
of live Goals. 1t was explained at the
time that the surface of the bed of
Goals were covered by a thin layer of
some substance which was a bad con-
ductor of heat. but through which the
light of the fire below would show at
night, the time when such perform
ances take place. Now, Corporal Muir
ray of the Sixth artillery, stationed in
Honolulu, has proved again that Amer
leans can pass unscathed through the
ordeal of fire. There came to Honolu-
lu lately a magician who calls himself
Papa TIA, the Great Tahitan Fire
Walker" Papa Ita's great feat consists
in walking barefooted over lava stones
under which fires have burned for
hours. He impressed the native Ha-
waiians with the fact that he was a
wonder among magicians, and their
contributions flowed in to him so pro-
fusely that one night suppose he need
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

had, during the last seven years
through useless extravaganza, spent
more than $3.50, 900 of her principal and
that unless some immediate step was
taken she would soon be reduced to
want. The evidence adduced showed
that instead of paying her legitimate
expenses with her income she had
wasted it on harmful extravaganza and
had left her debts to be paid out of
her estate. In view of these facts MI.
Lyon asked the court that he be APP
pointed c%onservator of his niece's in
come and person. AS the petitioner re-
lated the remarkable story of the prin-
cess prodigality and riotous life since
she left her mothers care some ten
years ago, the six jurors sat and gazed
at one another in amazement and when
he had finished they hesitated a few
seconds before they ventured to speak.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

There are hints from Paris of the
return of the once fashionable fervon-
aere-a jewel to be worn on the fore
mead and held in place either by a veil
vet band or a fllet of gold.
Love is responsible for a lot Of earth
Nv misery by being elsewhere when
xvanted.-Chicago News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

There is talk about an organized
effort to raise money for an American
memorial to Queen Victoria along the
roadway of the Mall, London.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29
moro Moner IN ron1try oman nset.

1t is said that 1000 pounds of poultry
will cost less to raise than 1000
pounds of beef, and will sell for almost
twice rs much
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

swift & Co., are contemplating the
ereceion OF a big packing house nea
fort worth, Texas, that will lost in
the neighborhood of 81. 400. ooO.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

From present Indications America
will soon be outdoing Franc n the
consumption OF frog flesh 'ty Of
New York alone consulles 10000
hams of frogs during the year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-29

The United States will supply electric
engines for the Mountain railway be
tween zianal and zarmatt, Austria.