The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-02

And to your little crib l crept.
And watched a space thereby;
And then l stopped and kissed
your brow
For, oh, love you So
You are too young to know il
now,
But some time you shall know.
Some time when, in a darkened
place
| Where others come to weep,
Your eyes shall look upon face
Calm in eternal sleep;
The voiceless lips, the wrinkled
brow,
The patient smile shall show
You are too young to know it
now,
But some time you may know.
Look backward, then. into the
years,
And see me here tonight;
See, o my darling, how my tears
Are falling as I write;
And feel once more upon your
brow
The kiss of long ago
You are too young to know it
now,
But some time you shall know.
Eugene Field.
John A. Nelson of Lost river
was taken to the Blackfoot In
sane Asylum, last Tuesday, by
j. ID. Martin and Nicholas Swan
son, two of his neighbors.
Nelson has been seized with a
religious mania, and for over a
year he has done nothing but
read the Bible and discussed rel
igion with everybody who would
listen to him. 1t did not matter
what the subject of conversation
he would connect it with the
Bible. For instance, if one in
his presence mentioned a horse
Nelson would take ont his CLOS
sary, find every passage in the
Bible where the word horse is
used, and read and discuss it.
He lived in a board shanty
about 7x9 feet. where he had a
rude bed, and a furnace rugged
up In the center of the floor after
the manner of the Scandinavian
peasants. This little box stove
could only hold small pieces of
wood about six inches long
mere twigs-and these were all
that he had to keep himself
warm. He had a little flour, a
small piece of bacon, and a can
Of baking powder, and he did his
cooking at all seasons at a small
campfire outside of his shack.
In the early '80s Nelson lived
in HALEY and, being a first-class
carpenter, did we'll. He owned
an elegant dwelling house here,
and had few thousand dollars.
born in the United
States he was of Scandinavian
extraction, and married a Swed-
Ish woman. Shortly after they
removed to near Martin, where
he owned several good mining
at which he worked for
years.
In the spring of 1898 his wife
went to Klondike and he follow
ed her in the fall, but returned
n 1899, leaving her there, where
she still is.
Since returning Nelson has
lived alone, far from neighbors.
n sparsely settled region, and
The isolation is supposed to have
caused his mania.
Somehow or another he has
always had money on hand or at
lis order. Now, he has a few
iollars in his trunk, some on de-
oosit in the First National Bank
If HALEY, a few head of cattle,
Ind a ranch.-Haile Times.
George w. Speake and Ralph |
W. Beane, two owners of Loon
creek property, came down from
hat camp last week via. Custer.
They report all kinds of activity
n the new camp, the season of
he year considered, and predict
most lively times next season. 1t
ook them about three days to
each Custer from Loon creek,
he divide between the two plac-
IS being about 5000 feet above
iea level and covered at present
With about six feet of snow. The
'isitors hove been locating some
to the north of the Lostt
Packer company's claims and
hey report having broken into
,ood gold ore in doing the work
to record their loca-
ions. Of the Lost Packer they
eport the vein opened in the
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