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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25

Custer county mining the world
but at present needs better transportation capital develop
its rich mining districts In territories mining
and agriculture though progressing hand hand yet nearly
independent of each other The wdened by
the miner to be but relying home consumption
clusivey he exist and prosper county miner
and farmer depend upon each other great extent Let for
call the attention capitalist OF the most
important mining districts and mines county Macay
with its great copper mne Morgan creek Garden
silver mlnes Bayhorse district with its famous Ramson Skyar
and dozens of rich lead silver gold bearing mnes Poverty
Flat Centennial Fla East Fork Clayton; Slate creek; Thompson
creek Robinson Bar Stanley Basin with placer quartz
er gold mnes Sheep Mountain and Safoam with
of rich eadsive mines; Loon creek placer gold quartz
Washington Basin gold mne and the celebrated Yankee Fork
district which godslver and embraces within confines
hundred OF mines the most prominent producers being
the Lucky Boy and Yankee Fork Custer county has several
Quartz mills and smeltersfve quartz mills CUSTER dredge
boat and mill at Saney smelter at Clayton at Bay
horse and 8OOton smeer at Macay county
nearly 5000 located mining claims and the region has not
been half
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25
a LITTLE oPTlMlsr.

The skies are gray. the keen winds blow
The air Is chill with gathering snow,
We mortals draw together
Around the hearth-iire lowering near
To catch the glowing, radiant cheer,
Though often grumbling, too, fear.
With hearts that match the weather.
i peer through frosty window pane,
For hopeful signs / search in vain,
And sigh for spring a~weary.
When, harkl a voice falls on my ear
I start, surprised, It rings SO near,
This merry whistle loud and clear,
or Cheer up! cheer upl che-eryT
On yonder dogwood's slender frame
A vivid dash Of scarlet flame
Lights up the landscape dreary.
A tiny knight in gala suit.
Whose voice tunes up his mellow lutte
With Cheer up. cheer up! che-ery!~
Now. like a CLEAN OF sunlight, see,
He fits about from tree to tree,
Now gayly silhouetting
Against the clouds his flashing form.
All! what cares he for wind and stormY
His loving heart is ever warm.
He sees no cause for fretting.
A blessing on his scarlet coat
And merry, Hitting, tuneful motel \
Ali who could now be dreary7
Come, let us from this cheerful sprite
A lesson learn; when cold winds blight,
To whistle till our hearts grow light,
'Oh, cheer up cheer up cheery!"
Marian Phelps, in Chicago Advance.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25
Climate. Timber, School. Etc.

Inc climate OF Custer county is very deghulight snowfall
IN ne aleyS snort winters and most charming winters At
onas win an elevation of 5400 feet sleighe are we'll nigh
Credabe county our plethorc school fund
acn district has Its school building wepad teacher At
Challls the high school studies are taught
Probably one-fourh the mountainous torri+ou e 49,.
IS heavily tmbered with spruce fir and pine
large tracts OF farming and grazing land uncultvated with
m 81 aoe property annually frightening with giant strides;
increasing revenue and decreasing taxation: with railroad
building; with good schools churches and Iitt ] Nth
ranges Oh luxurious vegetation; with an admirable climate
70 heah' with fertile SOIL in fruitful products;
and tbe wealth. IN gold silver "copper" lead iron
ift ~ 'a.S-Custer county is blessed with natural
] - h ayes mat will prove its brief though vigorous
70 nave been but puny part its progressive career
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25
Agriculture and Stock-Raising.

Agriculture ably supplements mining industry in enrcbn
this county The Salmon river rising the Sawtooh mountains
north of Wood river border and pur
suing zgag in general north eastery direction recey
the waters of ten large creeks Fork These
streams together with Lost river and it's tributaries flow through
thousand of acres of arabic land still Since the hand
OF man is forced to supply what wthhod irrigation takes
the place of RAIN and the annually goes to waste would
make verdan fruitful valleys of DESERTS would convert the
the silence OF desoaon into the sounds many homes
culture like all other industries of the county, in its infancy
The time is not distant when large irrgang canals will no e
out OF salmon river which has endless supply and many
thousands OF acres of rich agbrsh along the river will be
hay oats wheat potatoes etc. per acre and large arc
harvested each year.
Sockgrowng one of leading industries of the county and
ranges has become very remunerative industry and tho county
year derives Its largest amount of the way of
taxes each year from the stock growers
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

Notice is hereby given that I,
the undersigned, will make APP
plication to the Honorable Board
of Pardons of the State of Idaho,
at their regular meeting in Jan
uary, 1903, for pardon from the
sentence rendered against me to
a term of twenty coy years in the
Idaho State penitentiary, by the
District Court Of the Fourth Jud-
icial District, sitting within and
for Custer county, at the Octob-
er, 1895, session, for the crime of
a Crime Against Nature, com
mitted in said Custer county.
ALBERT RANDALL.
Boise, Ida. Oct. %, 1902. wa.
First publication Nov. 4, 1902.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25
Mines, Mills and Mining.

gricultural and grazing lands.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25

The Mcmillan Fur & Wool Co.
have placed their circular of Oct.
LIST on file at our office for refer
ence. This house was establish.
ed quarter of a century ago, and
on account of their extensive
business, they are in a position
to pay high prices.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25

"We must part!" faltered Gabrielle.
"Nol No! mol" cried Hermann, look
ing at his watch. Il have but ten min
utes!"
She regarded him wonderingly.
Mere child that she was, she had yet
to learn that fond hearts may not part
and do it right in less than TWO hours,
AT the least. Puck.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25

The undersigned will give a
free sample of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets to
any one wanting a reliable rem
edy for disorders of the stom-
ach, biliousness or constipation.
This is new remedy and a good
one. J. p. Spalding.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25

Cut this out and take it to j.
p. Spalding's drug store and get
free sample of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets, the
best physic. They cleanse and
invigorate the stomach, improve
the appetite and regulate the
bowles. Regular size, 25c per box.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25
TREAsURERis NOTICE.

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from the fall OF POmpeIi TO the Des-
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Pompeii. Tells how Martinique one Of the
most beautiful Islands in the world was sud
denly transformed into a veritable hell. About
800 pages, profusely illustrated with photo
graphs taken before and after disaster Prae-
tically only Martinique Book in the field, for
everyone now insists on having Prof. Morris
book and no other. Best author, largest book
best Illustrated scientifically accurate. Price
Sl.50. Agents Wanted. Enormous profit
for those who act quickly. Most liberal terms
Outfit 10 cents Don't lose minute. Send for
outfit Immediately, and be at work. The chance
OF q time for making money.
Clark ~ Co., 222 =. 4th ST., PhtIadeI-
ph1as Pa. Mention this paper.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25
6uSt6r 0Ountu

Custer county, Idaho offers vast inducements to settlers and
capitalists It's beautiful scenery its enterprsng people, its
and its brilliant prospects not napty commemorate
the General Custer whose dashng romantic yet produc
become part of national history Thryfve
when placer mining its prime and quartz mining
infancy territory embraced in its confines
occasional party Of prospecors
travelling To them wilderness, the
maps unexpoed" In 1862 placers actively
worked Stanley Basin what western border and
found rich ground Loon creek
other pacers discovered and yielded handsomely but
until quartz claimed attention. five years later the region
forming county practically unknown From 1875
1879 the its rich mines spread attracting capital
increasing population the following year. by
time today population 5000 people,
and has the following towns
Chals-Coupty farming stock raising fruit and mining.
Mackay-Mining and farming.
Houston-Farmng and stock raising
MISUNDERSTANDING
Clayton--Mining farming and ock-raising
Bonanza--Mning
CuSter-Minng.
Staney-Placer and quartz mining, and grazing land
and stockrasng pursued great viz Big Rv
telope and Stanley
Custer county embraces irregular outline about 5000
miles and it large the State of Connecticut and larger
than Delaware and Rhode Island together situated in central Ida
no. it is reached by the Oregon Short Line railroad
and this road will probably be Chas year
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone have line Black
foot TO Cha The of Custer county
mines and its agricultural and grazing lands.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-11-25

Repartee either makes mans rep
utation or causes him to lose his job.
Chicago Daily News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15
WHAT WE IMPORT.

Manufacturers materials form, in
1907, nearly orie-half of the. total i'm
portations and show a remarkable in
CT ease over preceding years, while other
classes of imports show but a very
slight increase. A table, showing the
importations by great classes in each
year from 1880 to 1902, is printed in the
annual report Of the chief of the treas
Jury bureau of statistics
Combining the two classes of articles
for use in manufacturing. those lin a
crude condition" and those wholly or
partially manufactured for use as ma
terials in the manufactures and me-
chanic arts" it is found that the total
value of importations for use in manu-
Featuring, which amounted in 1881 to
f$217, 81 ISL were, in 1902. s$418,776,681 or
practically double those of 1881. This
growth becomes striking when it is
compared with the growth in importa-
ton of all other articles than those for
use in manufacturing. The table in the
report Of the chief of the bureau of sta
tistics which sets forth the imports, by
years, of the great groups above re-
ferred to, shows that the total value of
imports other than manufacturers
materials amounted. in 1881, to s43S.-
047,448 and In 1902 to a$4s4, $50, 320. and
formed, in 1881, 1856 per cent of the to-
tai imports and in 1902 but 1884 per
cent of the total imports. Thus, while
'importations of manufacturers mater
ials have practically doubled from 1881
to 1902. importations of articles other
than manufacturers materials have in
creased but about IL per cent
arin in h
those of 1892, there is an increase of
about so per cent in manufacturers
materials and an actual decrease of
about 10 per cent in other imports. In
1892 the importations of manufacturers
ma terials were $27S. 81, 9e6 against s41S,-
776,6S1 in 1902 and the imports of artic-
les other than manufacturers materials
were, in 1892, $685., 2S1, 379 and in 1902,
$4S4. $50, $3.50. These figures seem espec-
tally interesting in view of the fact that
the total imports of 1902 were larger
than in any year in the history of our
foreign commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15

last night, It turned out to be a pole
cat, and Seitzs dog has lost his happy
home
When woman wears glasses she
should not also wear dotted face veil
1t makes her look frealish.
When a real mean woman goes to a
party, she finds something in clothes
to laugh at for a month to come.
The stocks which the men tried to
wear are failure. We are glad of it.
Every she fashion adopted by the men
should be.
You have better luck than most men
if the financial reverse of your life
comes to you when you are under fifty,
and have time left to recover.
Considering that women are longer
lived than men, it is about time for the
crusade against corsets to join other
dust covered reforms in the attic.
The children read of strikes and
strikes. but their eyes are never glad
dened by the announcement that school
teachers are going on one.
When boy who has been away a
long time comes home, his mother has
a better time than she eyer had when
girl, in cooking up things for him.
When sheep killing dog appears in
a yard, there is no protest: but let a
harmless rabbit appear, and everyone
will throw rock at it. Why is it?
The. best man in the world is I'M
satisfactory to a woman. but when a
woman gets a tough one, her looks of
d1StruSt and diSdain are awful to see.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15
TO HEAR MANY CASES.
Supreme Court Makes New Rule
Regarding Sessions.

The supreme court will sit in banc
beginning Monday. October 6, for the
hearing of IS cases. This is a new rule,
as the sessions of the court have usu-
ally commenced on Tuesday.
When the court sat in divisions 20
cases were heard. but the entire court
will wade through an unusually large
docket of So cases for all the justices to
hear One of the n ost important cases
will be the hearing of an appeal in the
coram nobis case of John Henry Col
Inns, appealed from the district court CT
Shawnee county, where Judge Hazen
overruled the motion and denied a new
10. O. w. Coffe1t, charged with the muir
pealed bis application for a change of
venue. and it will be heard October TO-
The case of William Reynolds against
the board of education will be heard
October TO- and the question of the right
of the board to separate white and coll
ored pupils will be decided The joint
case Of the state versus Gates Chesnev
and Fritz Durein will be argued by
Judge Redden. The case of Sheriff Dan
iels of Cowley county, charged with
malfeaSance in office, will be heard DC.
tober TO- The case of Webb McNail
against the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company will be heard October 9. The
company got judgment against McNall
for over s. 900 collected from them a.
fees while he was insurance commits
sioner. A. F. Poole, who was convicted
in the Shawnee court of stealing chick
ems, has appealed his case. 1t will be
heard October g.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15


The Chicago Tribune pays its respects
to the beet sugar men in the following
manner: This year 259,513 acres in
eleven states have been sown in beet
roots. The beet sugar industry does not
cover an imposing area. There were
given up to the cultivation of corn IN
1900 49, 300, 900 acres, of wheat 42,f9O, 600
acres, and of oats 27,300,000 acres. Here
is acreage that amounts to something.
But the men interested in an Industry
which affects only 259,513 acres of land
made more airs in the last congress
than the men interested in the cultiva-
tion of three cereals to which 163, OOO,-
900 acres of land are devoted. The beet
sugar industry as measured by acres
or in any other way is little industry,
and yet it occupied more time at the
last session than all the other industries
of the country. The men who grow
breadstuffs and the men who work IN
numerous manufacturing industries
would have been directly benefited by
reciprocity with Cuba. for Cubans
would have become larger consumers
of their products But an interest
which uses only 259,513 acres out of the
boundless area of this country stood in
the way"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15

the Central tried 2-hour trains, but soon
withdrew them for the reason that the
resisting powers of the rails, road beds
these has been wholly rebuilt and with
much heavier rails and bridges and bridge
buttresses reconstructed high-speed trains
would be the limit An excess of that
speed. in the opinion OF the engineers,
fact, eight hours to Chicago Is not i'm
possible, but at 125 miles an hour the
problem of centrifugal force would enter
apart, with. heavier sub structures and
much heavier engines would be necessitat-
ed. No such mighty revolution in steam
propulsion is likely to take place, when
electricity is beckoning to cheaper and
safer revolution Sixteen hours is the
frequent rise to a rate exceeding 80
miles an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

Parsons now has free reading room.
A Harper county tooth extractor
styles his Office a drawing parlor.
Up to date Mr.. Slaughter's Usage
county automobile has clear record.
A Wilson county man was fined So
for killing measly, hea-bitten, six cent
cur.
"A late departed Atchison man left
$4,000 life insurance in reliable COM
panies.
A second cousin to the late President
Mckinley has received license to marry
at Ottawa.
Two green goods men worked Will
son county under the guise of postoffice
inspectors.
Florence dancers are so graceful that
spectators are charged Is cents gallery
admission.
Beloit is growing in grace. Mani
folds military band is giving sacred
concerts these days.
Wellington druggists will fight the oc-
cupation tax 1t means a difference
of 500 per year to them.
Lyons won't stand for a sinful bowl
ing alley. That town, be it remem-
bered, is built on the square.
At Chapman when you say Zu Zu
you get a girl instead of a cracker
which is almost as good snap.
Another daily paper is to start at Bur-
1fngton and the Jeffersonian thinks Edi-
u
It was Pastor Blinker'S hen of Mound
Valley that laid an egg inches one way
and the other. He says so and there
can be no mistake.
We hear a great deal of the sinful
newspapers but nevertheless an En-
poria rector has resigned his pastorate
to become an editor.
A Horton citizen advertises for a lost,
blind pony. 1t would seem like even
Horton progressiveness could catch up
with that sort of a layout.
Emporia will celebrate Emancipation
day, August %. Topeka colored citi-
zens were under the impression that
August 1 was the real thing"
Beloit papers contain a rush advertise
ment for a missing set of gold filled
teeth A reward will be paid for their
return and no questions asked.
Newton drug stores will close here
after each evening, save Saturdays, at
7:30 o'clock. What an inconvenience
this will be to the boys" who are out
late.
An Usage county man is playing in
luck. He gets a free rural mail delivery
daily from Lyndon at his front door
and one from Burlingame at the back
door.
A few innocent persons who are un-
acquainted with Lawrence are wonder
ing why two K. U. professors should
make a trip away from town to study
fossils.
It's easy to tell that Editor Loofbour-
row of the Atwood Citizen is not the
reigning postmaster. His paper says:
The editor will take no part in select.
ing the county candidates
"A Fort Scott girl who had been bea ten
more or less all day by drunken lover
showed only a pair of blackened eyes.
They were probably love taps.
A Hutchinson hotel man planted an
acre of ,cantaloupes on his out of town
ranch this spring. He was out to the
farm this week and found that he had
splendid crop of cucumbers.
Editor Pipp of the Burlingame Chron-
icle has been taking in something be-
sides vegetables on subscription With
his family he is making an August visit
at a Michigan watering place.
An Oskaloosa man figured that his
patch Of onions would bring enough OH
the market to buy his seasons coal but
that night his cows broke in and now
he is praying for warm winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15
METCALF VICE PRESIDENT.
Army of Philippines Reunion Will Be
at St.:.Paul Next Year.

Council Bluffs, Aug. 15.-The report of
the nominating committee, which
named General Irving Hale of Denver
for president of the society of the army
of the Philippines, was adopted unan-
imously. Among the vice presidents are
Colonel J. w. Pope, Colorado, and Brig
adler General Wilder S. Metcalf of Kan
sas. c. B. Lewis, Colorado, was elected
treasurer and Rev. Charles Mailley,
chaplain.
ST. Paul was chosen as the place for
next years meeting and the executive
committee was given authority to
change the date of the reunion if deem
ed advisable. to the first Tuesday. Wed
nesday and Thursday in September.
Among the other cities competing was
Portland, Ore.
Several delegates expressed the con-
viction that for the next few years the
reunion should be in states from which
the regiments came which formed the
original Eighth army corps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15
FACTS ABOUT FARMS

The first volume of the census bureau
report on agriculture has recently been
published. Among the facts CLEANED
therefroffl are the following:
There are 5, 739,657 farms in the United
States.
The number of acres comprised in
them is Sal, POI, $40. In 1850 the number
of acres in farms was less than 300, 000,-
900. The improved farm acreage or crop
producing area has increased SO much
faster than the national population that
42915 S91 acres of improved land are now
available for surplus production. At the
same time the yield per acre, owing to
improved methods, has greatly in
creased.
The farms and farm property of the
United States are worth at a low valu-
alton $40. 900 900. 900.
The annual value of the farm prod
ucts is s.. 000. 100000.
The size of the average Am erica1 farm
is 1866 acres.
The average value of a farm is 1854.
The average value per acre is s24.39
The value of farms increased 25.6 per
cent. in the last decade.
In the north central division of the
country the increase was 35.3 per cent.
The center of the number of farms of
the United States is 11G miles east By
south of ST. Louis. in Wayne county.
Illinois.
The population center is six miles
southeast of Columbus, Ind.
The center of value of farm property
is 80 miles west-northwest of Spring
field. I'll.
The center of investment in manufac-
lures is 50 miles south-southwest OF
Cleveland. Ohio.
The center of corn production is 81
miles southwest OF Springfield, Ill.
The center of wheat production Is "a
miles west of Des Moines. Iowa
The center of production of cotton is
"a miles north by west of Jackson
Miss.
The center of the number of farms
has moved westward faster than the
center of population.
The greatest westward movement has
been that of wheat, whose center OF
production has in fifty years moved
thirteen degrees-from northeastern
Ohio to western Iowa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-15
HIGH RAILROAD SPEED.



Practical railroad men are satisfied that
the run between Chicago and New York
can be made in sixteen hours. That
means an average speed of nearly sixty
three miles hour. And it really means
that there must be racing stretches
against time, when the speed will rise
to 20. so and 80 miles an hour. Whether
that will be undertaken is a question
Railroad operators have ever been Ioath
to increase speed and have only done so
in obedience to public demand almost
irresistible 1t is fact which puzzles the
railroad operator that every train of in
creased speed develops its own traffic
The empire State express. the first no
table high-speedtrain, was not put on
in a spirit of energetic enterprise Travel
ers on the Chicago limited <24-hour train)
complained that their comfort was inter-
fered with by travellers within New York
State boundaries and the best part of
west-bound trains were usurped by AL
bany. Utica. Syracuse, Rochester and
Buffalo, traffic So New York train was
determined on and to make it more at
tractiye its speed was made greater than
the limited From the day of it's inaugur-
alton it has been highly renumerative,
always full and. here is the strange
thing. the travel on the limited has not
been less
High speed is almost wholly matter of
road beds. rails and bridges The Iocomo-
tives nave been ready for years for any
speed required of them Some years ago