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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07

A local contractor had a faithful
Milesian working for him for several
years. A few weeks ago the employe
announced his intention to pay a visit
to a brother in the west. He was to be
gone a month, and the contractor, be-
ing a good-natured fellow, purchased
a valise for Tim" The night Tim"
was to quit the valise was presented to
him with a few kind words. Tim"
looked rather surprised for a moment
and then asked:
And what am I to do with thot?"
why, put your clothes in it when
you go away" answered the boss.
Put me clothes in, is it ?" said Tim"
And what the divil'll Oh wear if 1 put
me clothes in thot?"
Explanations were considered I'M
necesSary.-Albany Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
An Interesting Autograph.

Among the interesting things on
view with the collection of books by
negro authors at Buffalo is an auto
graph of Webster, dated March 10,
1s47: 81 have paid $l20 for the free
dom of Paul Jennings. He agrees to
work out the same at eight dollars
a month. to be found with board,
clothes and washing, to begin when
we return south. His freedom papers
l give him. They are recorded in this
district" This Jennings was the son of
one of President Madis6n's slaves, his
father being sn E%nglishman of fam
lily. He became a body servant of Mad
ison, and afterward wrote "a Colored
Mans "Reminiscences of President
Madison"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
An EnterprisinR Jan.

A Yokohama correspondent sends
the following bridesmaids card as
showing how the modern Jap assimi-
lates American methods: "Jewelry-
maker. A finest in town. Whisky-boy.
No. II Aioicho Itchome. Show this
card to jinrikshaman. Our shop is
best and obliging worker that has
everybody known and having articles
genuine japanese Crystals and all
kinds of Curios. Gold or silver plate
in eleetroplate or plain mending.
Carving in Laid, work own name or
m~or'ograms or any design according
to orders we can work how much diff
ficult job with lowest prices insure,
pleace try, once try. Don't forget
name Whisky!"-Chicago Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
same sxmptoma.

while in the Indian country" said
the traveller, II witnessed the famous
Seminole green-corn dance. The wild,
grotesque leaps and contortions, ac-
companied by weird, dirgelike music,
are something to be long emem-
bered."
According to your description" re-
marked the village physician, "a SINH
lar effect, minus the music, isproduced
in this part of the country by an over
indulgence in green corn."-Chicago
Daily News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07


We believe that the raw sugar
tax should be repealed because
it is direct tax on the work
ingman's wages. 1t is an iniqui-
tous tax if not needed for rev.
enue, and because that which it
seeks to protect needs no pro-
lection other than that essential
to counterfeit the bounty.fed
sugars of Europe. Hawaiian
and Porto Rican cane-sugar and
domestic beet-sugar sold at a no.
duty price would return a hand
some margin of profit, insuring
a constantly increasing output of
such sugar.
Raw sugar should be free be.
c1use the present tariff is unjust,
in that it encourages and pre-
duces inordinaUe profits, all taken
from the pockets of the people,
and adding to the cost of living.
1t encourages class legislation.
1t is a monstrous wrong, because
the $36, 600, 900 contributed by
the people of the country to this
privileged class, together with
$4S, 900, 900 paid the Government
in duty, could be transferred to
the savings banks to the credit
of thousands, or used to increase
the home comforts of eighty mil
lions instead of being unfairly
and unjustly diverted through
Government protection to still
further fatten the already pleth-
oIic purses of a few.
Raw sugar should be free be-
cause sugar is an absolute neces-
sity of life and essential to the
health of the people. Because
free sugar would greatly encour-
age and increase the jam, pre-
serve and jelly industries of the
country. Under cheap fruit and
cheap sugar the markets of tn
world for these industries would
be ours. Great Britain employs
$50, 900 working people in this
branch of trade alone, ana pr
duces merchandise to the value
of $50, 900, 900 or $50, 900, 600
yearly. Every farmer, there
fore, is interested in this phase
of the question.
Raw sugar should be free be-
cause the present is a most pro-
pitious time to enact beneficial
Legislation of this kind. The
Government does not need the
revenue, and the beet and colon
ial cane producers do not need
the protection. Cuba knocks at
our door, asking for help. Why
should it be denied +? Have we
not assumed a protectorate over
the island ? Do we not practic-
ally direct its government ?
Cuban interests are ours, and we
should deal with Cuba on a basis
of broad liberality commensurate
with the power and known gen
crosby of this 6 eat Republic.
1t is for the United States to
make or unmake Cuba. Perpetu-
alton of the present raw-sugar
tariff on 81 gar imported from
that island means its ruination.
Should we accept such a respon-
sibility ? 1t is on record and
beyond question that the domes-
tic beet-sugar industry is self
supporting and profitable enter
prise without the aid of Govern
ment protection.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
Senator Hoar,s idea of giving

Senator Hoar's idea of giving
Federal courts jurisdiction over
lynching is the newest of the
many fool-schemes to try to
change human nature. The
average nan with good red blood
in his veins would participate in
the average lynching if he be-
longed where it occurred.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07
It's Probable Meaning.

II awsked her." said Fweddy, ito
dawnce the next set with me, and she
handed me this card. 1 cawn't make
anything out of it,"
Fweddy showed him the card. It
was inscribed with the single and some
what mysterious word:
"GABASD."
That's perfectly plain" said Cholly.
go Away Back And Sit Down."-Chi-
.ago Tribupe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07

The people of this country re-
gard that reprimand as a new
honor for General Miles and an
other demerit for the admins
tration.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-01-07

If Mr. Roosevelt keeps on
driving nails in his political cot.
fin it will soon be all nails.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
PEKIN g IN GALA ATTIRE.
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS FOR THE
RECEPTION OF CHINESE RULERS.

Peking JAM 5.-The Chinese capital, the
eve of the courts return, presents an animated
and gaudy scene not before equalled in its his
tory. All the palaces, pagodas and temples
| have been repaired and painted to form a gilt
| tering spectacle. The roofs of these buildings
viewed from the city walls, patches of shin
ing yellow tiles and brick. The walls about the
Imperial City are a vivid crimson and the gates
| leading to the Imperial City have been repaired
and gilded. On the towers above the Chen-Men
Gate stands a gorgeous structure Of wood, cloth
and paper, with yellow painted dragon en-
twined about the massive cloth pillars.
Hundreds of Chinese officials clad in furs and
embroidered silks ride about the streets of
Peking, and parties of foreign soldiers, bent
upon sightseeing, roam everywhere. Thousands
of new soldiers from the province of Shan-Tung.
who are finely uniformed and equipped with
modern weapons, entered Peking this morning
and marched through Legation-st
The ministers of the foreign powers have
ceived notice from the Chinese Foreign Office
that all the streets upon which the Chinese
Court will pass will be closed Monday and
Tuesday. Two buildings in the principal street
on the line of procession have been provided,
from which the members of the legations will
be permitted TO witness the re-entry of the Court.
This is unprecedented concession. The for
eign ministers have decided. in consideration of
recent events not to witness the re-entry Of the
Court. This decision is strengthened by the fact
that the majority Of the ministers have not yet
presented their credentials.
Chinese officials have strongly protested to Sir
Ernest Satow, the British Minister against
British officers being in charge all the way from
Pao-Ting-Fu TO Peking of the trains upon which
the Chinese Court will travel They said that if
foreign officials were conspicuous at Teng-Ti
Junction the Court would prefer to leave the
railroad and take another route. Acting upon
this protest the British Minister has requested
the officers TO refrain from making the military
conspicuous. and this request viii be complied
with.
Negotiations concerning the ManChurian treaty
await the arrival of the court. Paul Lessar. the
Russian Minister to China, when discussing the
question of the railroads with the Chinese pleni-
potentiarieS. insisted that under no circum-
stances would Russia consent that other powers
have a hand in the construction and operation
of railroads in Manchuria without first obtai lining
Russian permission.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
SENATOR FORAKER's REELECTION,
NEXT WEEK-ALREADY CANDIDATE
BY STATE CONVENTION

Columbus. Ohio Jan 5-The Republican caucus
last night nominated the Foraker ticket for the
Senate and the Hanna ticket for the House. The
contest was continued to-day the same lines
over the makeup of the standing committees and
II is evident that the chairmanships and preferred
places will go the way the offices. Price.
who defeated for Speaker by McKinnon will
have consideration chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, and the craftsmanship of of the
committees municipal affairs, in Difference to
George B. Cox, will go TO some member from Gin
cnnat. but the courtesy will not be extended fur
ther.
The Senate committees being apportioned by
a special committee the lines of the Republican
caucus, with the d tmocrats cooperating AS the
liquor associations threw their influence 10 Price
that intrest is attempting fusion Of the Dem
local bills
Senator Foraker is not expected here until next
week, when all the committees will be made up.
II is proposed, therefore, to have demonstration
In the interest of harmony. On Tuesday OF next
week the two houses viii vote separately for
United States Senator. and the next day in joint
session they will declare the result Then Foraker
he was indorsed by resolution at the last State
convention for reelection the Republican joint SEN
atorial caucus this week will be merely formal
affair.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson who came here yester-
day with the CuyahOga delegation 10 attend the
opening of the legislature, has returned to Cleve-
land to meet William j. Bryan there.
Charles W. Baker, of Cincinnati, has been NOM
mated BY the Democratic caucus for Senator and
VIII receive complimentary vote.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
4 BOLD STATION ROBBER CAUGHT.
MAN WHO GOT SOS BY IMPERsoNATING ELE
WAITED RAILROAD AGENT CONFESSES.

MAN WHO GOT sos BY IMPERSONATING ELE-
WAITED RAILROAD AGENT CONFEssEs
Through the work of Detectives McKenna and
Birmingham, of the Leonard-st station, the
thief who so skilfully robbed the Sixth-ave. Il"
station at West Broadway and Grand-st. on the
night of December II of S23S was arrested
yesterday and locked up. The prisoner. a for
mer employe of the Manhattan Railway Com
pany broke down when arraigned before Cap
tain O'Brien and confessed the theft. saying he
had been out of work at the time and had had
TO take a desperate chance to raise money.
The confessed thief is Barger Farnham, twen-
ty-four years old. a good looking. intelligent
man who came to this city three years ago from
Detroit, Mich.
1t was p. m. December IL when James
Newton. the day agent at the Grand-st. station.
turned his receipts tickets and cash over to
William Fischer. the night agent and boarded
an uptown train. Fischer had been in the ticket
Office only a few minutes when young man in
the uniform of a station agent handed him
telegram which ordered him to report to the
station at Eighty-sixth-st and Columbus ave.
forthwith As agents are often relieved in that
manner Fischer was not suspicious, and turned
the $23S in cash and the tickets over TO the
bearer of the telegram. The stranger had crossed
over on the tracks from the downtown station.
which further convinced Fischer that he had
come from the Fighty-sixth-st. station.
Farnham took charge of the office after he
signed a receipt IOI the lllOASS anu tiChSlS'
After he had been in the office a short time
Farnham called Edward Duffy, the ticket chop
per- and told him TO attend TO the office for a
few minutes, he wanted TO go to the wash
room He locked the cash drawer and left some
change on the desk and the tickets. He then
walked out of the station. After half an hour
II was learned that clever robbery had been
committed.
Fischer and Duffy have identified Farnham
as the man who posed as an agent.
The prisoner said that man who was for
merly in the employ of the road had put him up
to commit the robbery. and had stolen uniform
fOrh m
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
.SA EAGE WORK OF FOOTPADS.
MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS-HE WAS

Mlchael j. Sweeney, thirty-two years old, of
NO. ia Forty-second-st.. Brooklyn. is in a
critical condition in Long Island Hospital as
the result of being attacked by footpads at an
early hour yesterday morning. He was found
lying unconscious at Bush and Clinton SITS. by a
patrolman of the Hamilton-ave. station. His
face and arms were beaten almost into pulp
and his clothing torn to shreds. He had
been robbed of his watch and chain. several
other small pieces of jewelry and S15 in money.
and had been left lying insensible in pool Of
blood.
Sweeney was at once removed to the hospital
where II was many hours before he regained
consciousness. He said that he did not recog
nize his assailants. but he thought that there
must have been three or four of them. Captain
Miles O'Reily, of the Hamilton-ave- station
took charge Of the case himself, but there
seemed to be few clews upon which to work
The locality in which the assault took place has
always been considered a dangerous one. Nu-
merous cases of highway robbery have been re-
ported to the police from that section, but under
the old dark lantern regime of Deputy Police
Commissioner York they were never made
public.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
HOMER SELBY HELD FOR TRIAL

Homer Selby-, the brother of Norman Selby bet
ter known kid Mccoy" prisoner at the
Harlem court yesterday morning charged with a
violation of the Excise law Seby said to be the
proprietor of a saloon No. I6l East hundred
and-twenty-hfth-st.. and was arrested yesterday
morning by Detect. Boyle and Mooney of the
East Observation-Disclosures ty-sxth-st. station. The
waiter in the saloon, Everett Bernat, was also
arrested
selby in his own defence said that he was con-
Quoting respectable place but that he was being
prosecuted by the police. He also said that he was
selling nothing but soft drinks the time of his
arrest. This brought vigorous protest from De-
tective Mooney, who said that the saloon was one
of the worst in the neighborhood; that it
closed. When the arrest made, he declared
there were at least fifty people In the place
The prisoners each held in $500 bail for trial
at Special Sessions.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
ATTEMPT TO KILL A MINISTER.
BOMB EXPLODED UNDER SENIOR MEN
DOZA'S HOUSE.

WiIemstad CURACAO. Jan. "a report has
reached here that last evening bomb was ex-
ploded at the residence in Caracas Of the Ven
ezuelan Minister of Finance Tello Mendoza
The explosion wrecked a considerable portion or
the house. but no one was injured. The deed
has caused considerable excitement in Caracas
General Juan Pietri. who has been active In
the present revolution against President Castro.
and who arrested on Friday at Antimano'
was yesterday paraded as a prisoner on the
Plaza Bolivar, at Caracas. General Pietri Is
still hostile TO General Castro, and he is also
opposed to General Matos
Almost all the Venezuelan reVolutionists who
have lately been here have left this island TO
join insurgent bodies in Venezuela. General
Riera, who left here last Thursday to join in
surgent forces on the Venezuelan coast near
Vela de Coro. and who Unexpectedly returned
two days later. is still here
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
FoRAKER's VIEWS OF CONTEST.
THE PARTY WILL NOW PRESENT A soLIl
FRONT IN LEGISLATIVE ACTION.

Cincinnati, Jan. 5.-Senator j. B. Foraker, when
seen at his home here last night. spoke freely on
the outcome of the legislative contests in the Re
publican -caucuses at Columbus to-day. He said
did all could to support Mr.. Price, but with
out unkind word or thought of Mr.. Mcktnnon.
In fact. the only regret l have in connection with
the matter that the situation compelled me to
oppose $ good a McKinnon has won a vic
tory for himself. both personally and politically.
| predict that he will make of the most efi-
cient Speakers the Ohio House of Representatives
has had and that he has before him brill
liant career in the public service, national as well
State. His ability, Independence and character
mark him exceptional man.
Mr.. Price is young man OF staying quail
ties He has made good fight and good i'm
preston He will not grieve over defeat. but con-
graduating himself having many Stanch
friends win address himself 10 the future and find
there his full share of rewards.
The excitement over the contest in the House has
oVershadowed what done in the Senate. The
whole trouble began there and in the Senate was
fought out ii more decisive contest than had
in the House, Mr.. ScO5ey being elected Mr..
Uhl by a vote of IA to I, to l. Taken all in
all. there is cause for anybody except the i'm
mediate participants 10 be disappointed
The Republican party in the legislature will now
present solid front and go forward without fur
ther friction TO the faithful and successful dis
charge of its duties of legislation.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
THE LIBERTADOR'S MISSION.
REPORT THAT REINFORCEMENTs FOR IN
sURGENTs HAVE BEEN LANDED.

wilemstad. Curacao. Jan. 5-The armed
revolutionary steamer Libertador formerly
called the Ban Righ. which left Fort de France.
Island of Martinique, December 81 for the
Venezuelan coast with General Matos, three
hundred volunteers and a cargo of munitions
of war;, is now reported to have anchored early
yesterday morning off Uchire. on the Nenezue-
Ian coast near Rio Chico, and to have sailed
from Uchire that same afternoon. 1t is believed
here that the Libertador has been successful
in executing the first part of her programme OF
landing men and war material in Venezuela
Three Venezuelan war vessels are to-day
cruising off the coast of Uchire.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
HURLED FIFTY FEET BY TRAIN
MAN is STRUCK BY ONE AND THROWN IN
FRONT OF ANOTHER. WHICH ALSO
RUNS HIM DOWN

Planfeld, N J., Jan. 5-An elderly man was
struck here by two Royal Blue Line trains this
afternoon and killed. He walking the
westbound track when down by westbound
flyer He appeared not to hear the whistles of
the engine and the train could not be stopped in
time to save his life. When hit he was hurled
about fifty feet. and onto the eastbound tracks
directly in front of a train bound for New-York
He cut to pieces.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
THE TOTAL BRITISH LOSSES

London, Jan. 6.-The total reduction of Great
Dntain's military forces in South Africa, from
as beginning Of the war TO the end of Decem-
VI including deaths from disease, men report
= missing, etc, amounts to 4299 men OF
.1s number 19,430 We're actually killed or died.
. 'otal OF 34,339 men were invalided home. the
majority Of whom recovered and rejoined their
Commands
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
THREE SKATED INTO AIR HOLE.

TWO WERE DROWNED UNDER THE ICE: ONE
ESCAPED. NEARLY FROZEN
Poughkeepsie N V, Jan. 5-Bert Cooper, twenty
two years old and Arthur Snyder. thirty years old
both unmarried who were engaged the new
Zabriske mansion, at Annandale, skated on the
river from Barrytown 10 Tivoli this afternoon in
company with Daniel Leary of Barrytown. On their
return and while near Crugers Island going very
fast so as reach home before nightfall all three
skated into an air hole.
Cooper and Snyder came up under the solid Ice
and thus imprisoned We're drowned. Leary came mn
in open water and after terrible struggle man
aged 10 pull himself unaided the ice no helm
being at hand. He reached shore almost frozen and
was cared for at farmhouse.
Cooper and Snyder lived in Mount Vernon Va
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06

SPECIAL LIMITED TRAIN SERVICE To TT or
IDA VIA PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
The New York and Florida Special The South
erns Palm Limited" and the "FlOrida and Metro
politan Limited. via the Pennsylvania Railroad
between New York I'D ST Augustine will be placed
in service on January 18th For tickets space and
other information. apply to Ticket Agents-Advt
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
ANOTHER BRITISH LOSS.
BoERS AMBUSH TROOPS-sIX KILLED,
THIRTEEN WOUNDED.

Pretoria, Jan. 5.-The Beers ambushed a party
q tne Scots Grays last Saturday near Bronx
horst spruit about forty miles east OF Pretoria
Oh the railroad). The British casualties were
SIX Killed and thirteen wounded
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
DELEGATE HAS GROCERs ARRESTED.

John J. Barry. OF No 100 West Fifty -third-st.,
delegate for association of grocers' clerks.
the warpath yesterday for grocers who were
violating the law by keeping their stores open He
found two who, he alleges. violating the law.
and caused their AS evidence against the
prisoners he will exhibit in the West Side police
court this morning box of polish which
he purchased for four cents. and can of peas for
which he paid 10 cents. Barry SAYS he bought the
articles from Frederick Buschhorn of No 435 West
Forty -fifth-st.. and Theodore Burke OF No 4O4
West Fiftieth-st. Both grocers furnished bail
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
ANDRADE COMING HERE.

Colon, Jan. 5.-General Andrade, a former
President of Venezuela, who arrived here from
Wiemstad. Curacao. on the Italian steamer
Piemonte, expects to sail for New-York next
Tuesday. The Colombian gunboat General
Pinzon at Savanila last Friday.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
VIRCHOW BADLY INJURED.

fAI7oLoGIsT HURT BY FALLING FROM STREET.
CAR IN BERLIN
0erhn' JAN 5.-Professor Rudolph virchow.
e pathologist, slipped while alighting from a
rAeetcsr and has seriously injured his thigh.
--Oiessor Virchow's injury is not dangerous. ex-
0ept In consideration of his age
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
TO DISCUSS ExCIsE AT REFORM CLUB

a committee Of representative citizens will meet
at the Reform Club this afternoon TO discuss the
excise question. II is understood that a large
number of invitations have been sent out, and it
is expected that some definite legislative action
will be recommended. Among those to be present
Bishop Potter, the Rev. DR.. William S Rains
ford, William F. King. District Attorney Jerome
Colonel Willis l.. Ogden and Adoph Openhym
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
GERMAN HORIZONS CONFERENCE.

hsS nm Jan. 5.-The German Mormon Conference
/ assembled here under the leadership of Hugh
Wall mol son OF the late George Q. Cannon, the
tEen,t ISMh AVN Mormon apostle. One hundred and
IN c-r-. snse mormon missionaries are now working
thouss15s ~ ~, and have secured. il is said two
tended h, 4ohowers The present conference Is at
Essiopasz,ssn az more than one hundred of the German
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06

ROUND TRIP TICKETS TO CALIFORNIA
on sale at all ticket offices. Offering diversity of
routes going and returning. via Chicago & North
Western Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Rail-
ways. Offices. i6l 2s7 and $40 Broadway.-Advt
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
STANDARD GAUGE FOR INDIA

The ras,.' Jan s-The Calcutta correspondent OF
was .y 10y Mall" says that at recent conference
Indian rsiiea 70 adopt the standard gauge on the
70 The perr..a,ss- This proposed change will apply
'ahent way and 10 bridges '''
New-York tribune., 1902-01-06
THE WAY OF THE WORLD

Is TO get the best for the money The Pennsylvania
Railroad the West offers speedy service, secured
by ample safety devices. leaving New York at con-
yenient interyals.-Advt.