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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-02-11
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Mask ball at Custer Feb. 81.
Mask ball at Challis Feb. 81.
st. Valentines Day next Fri
day.
Literary entertainment next
Friday evening.
Fresh bread baked every day
at Mrs. Dorgan's. *1w
The telegraph line is now com
pleted to Mackay.
China New Years was observ-
ed in Challis at Chinatown.
Fresh rye bread baked every
Saturday at Mrs. Dorgan's. Il.
Six criminal cases on the Court
docket in Custer county at this
time.
People who say just what they
think are more numerous than
popular.
Robert Parsons was up from
Dickey last Tuesday and bought
in the Joe Shelton ranch at
sheriff's sale.
The Vesper song service at the
church last Sunday evening con-
sisted of an excellent and very
interesting program.
Emmett Hosford and Riley
Call returned from a visit to Salt
Lake City last Tuesday. They
departed for Clayton on Satur-
day morning last.
Railroad fare on the Oregon
Short Line in Idaho has been cut
to 4 cents a mile on all its lines
except the Mackay and Wood
River branches.
Don. Rowles has given up his
| lease on the Challis Hot Springs,
and will move from there very
soon, consequently will not ac-
commodate any more boarders.
Julian Bodard came out from
Custer last Friday evening, and
expects to depart in a few days
Salt Lake City to procure medi
| cal aid if possible. He is affiict-
ed with dropsy.
The smallpox quarantine ha'
been raised and the yellow flag:
taken down in Challis. Only on,
new case reported since last issue
f and that of Mr.. Willis, an oil,
gentleman who helped to care
f for the sick at Mrs. Baxter's. Al
; the other smallpox victims here
are convalescent.
In the new mail letting con
tracts G. V. Hanson was award
, ed the contract from Challis t
l Custer; E. A. Readicker the Sal
r mon and Challis mail contract
and F. w. Vogler the Redrock
Salmon and Gibbonsville lines
These new contracts go into fore
on July 1st, next, and hold fo
a four years, unless otherwise OF
dered by the Department.
n w. A. Morgan was brought t
e Challis Friday last and lodged i
), Jail, charged with assault with
ID deadly weapon. 1t appears tina
ID Morgan and his partner were en-
ID gagged in the hotel business
e e Mackay. The partners becam
le involved in a quarrel. One wor
brought on another, and finall
D Morgan slashed his partner i
! the arm with knife, cutting
r. cash about two inches in length
is Morgan was arrested, a prelin
in mary examination held at Ma,
"a "a kay, and he was bound over unde
S400 bonds to the District Cour
r. Failing to secure the require
a. bond Morgan was brought
Challis by Deputy Sheriff Boon
and lodged in Jail.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-02-11

good will it do you You can't
prospect; there is nothing to see.
There is no doubt-or at pres
ent I entertain no doubt-that
the big Dewey mine at Thunder
mountain is far greater than any
thing discovered at Cripple
Creek so early in the game. Il
am keeping closely informed by
correspondence, and have good
reason to think the Dewey prop
erty could not be bought today
for $4,000, 900.
But you must bear in mind
that though the Dewey property
has been well known for two or
three years to a few people, it
was by all regarded as only a
big low grade proposition of
free milling ore. 1t was not
until late in the summer that de-
velopment proved it very rich
a great bonanza.
People interested in the state
and the new field are getting up
some literature on the subject
for the information of the public,
just as we do in Colorado on such
momentous occasions, and any
one desiring more information
than 1 possess should write to
the Chamber of Commerce, Boise.
Idaho,-or perhaps just as well
to D. E. Burley, Salt Lake City,
Utah, or Robert Bell of Black
foot, Idaho. The latter is a well
known mining expert, who has
been familiar with the region
for many years, though perhaps
not with the immediate Thunder
mountain camp. I know him to
be man of good mining knowl-
edge and responsible character.
Remember, you can get within
80 miles of Thunder mountain
today with as little hardship as
you would encounter in going
from Colorado Springs to Denver
team-provided you go in via.
Salt Lake, Blackfoot, Mackay,
Challis and Yellow Jacket, or
from Challis up the Salmon riv-
er to Custer. Remember that
Mackay is Houston on the map
and that the railroad from Black
foot to Houston was built only
last summer and will not be
shown on the map.
If you want to figure on going
up there with the rush. you can
not do better than invest Is cts.
in one of Rand & McNally's little
vest pocket maps. They are not
very good, but are the best
much better than the U. S. land
. Office map.
OF course, you will not be idiot
/ enough to rely on any free, new
} map. You know why the free
| new maps are made on such oc
! casions, of course, if you have
lived in the west. But you might
z not reflect till after you had beer
} bothered good deal that there
3 is no material for a new map o.
: that region-it is unsurveyed.
Now, the way shat l advise
| going in is, beyond doubt, thu
l best way to go quickly and econ
, omically, if you are going il
from the south. But if economy
} be no special object go in any
r way you like. You would find i
/ no bad thing to go to Boise an,
h spend month picking up in
7 formation and talking with tn
: people who know the state-th'
p very incest people on top of thi
# sphere, outside OF Denver; ant
e you may tell 'em said so, too.
il But the very sweetest way O
o all to go to Thunder mountai
r after May will be by way G
u HALEY, Ketchum and north b,
t team 90 miles through the Star
n ley basin valley to Cape Horn
g Seafoam and Sheep mountain
l. road like the roads of paradise
l. and scenery that your soul wi
If remember a thousand years afte
is you are dead.
+ NOTICE ON EFOFZEEXTURE,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-02-11
THE DEVIL ouTpoNE.

(Contributed).
The devil went down
To Mackay town.
OF which he had heard tell
That never a sin
Could dwell therein,
BY all Of the arts Of hell.
This thing said he
Must never be
Tmust have my share of the tin
will go down
To Mackay town
And let the "tinhorns" in.
But when he came
II put him to shame,
And he quickly bid farewell.
With rapid pace
He left the place
And "hoofed it" back to hell.
MACKAY, IDAHO, Feb. 7th, 1902.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
The Fighting Ninth
siastic admiration of every European

siastic admiration of every European
officer.
On July 10, 1900, the Ninth distin-
guished itself at the battle of Tein-
Tsin. At one stage of the attack on
the city it became necessary to land
troops inside % a mud wall To reach
this wall the men were obliged to pass
through a gateway, on which was con-
centrated the fire of 5000 rifles. Brave
Col. Liscum gave the order to advance
and the allied forces were dazed at the
manuevers of the men of the Ninth.
Across the field flashed the long line
Of blue on a double-quick, the officers
laconically repeating the march order
of step, step, as though the men were
on dress parade. The regiment made
the gate, passed through and deployed
along the walls about the city. They
were subjected, besides the fire from
the loopholes in the walls of the city,
to a fierce fire from a line of fortified
houses on their flank. The Ninth,
supported by detachment of Ameri-
can marines, charged into the flank
fire. with rushes. Col. Liscum meant
to capture the houses and then flank
the fire from the city walls. Coolly
the men of the Ninth wormed along
over the marshy ground, until but 80
yards separated them from the mud
houses. The men were smiling grimly
now as they worked their Krags like
gatling guns and the almond-eyed war
riors in the mud huts marveled as did
the Spaniards as that line Of blue
closed about them. And then came a
disastrous occurrence. The color bear
er had fallen and Col, Liscum, snatch
ing up the colors, walked up and down
the line, guiding his men.
Lie down, colonel" repeatedly
begged his officers, but the veteran
smiled and shook his head. Just before
the next advance the brave officer
pitched forward, MORALLY wounded.
Don't retreat, keep on firing" was
his last injunction. 1t was at noon that |
their colonel fell and until nightfall |
the men Of the Ninth lay under a !
searching sun and the deadly fire of |
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

Spry, $4,000; A. A. Sprague, $116,-
600; David Stettauer, 100000; Jerome
G. Steever, $4,000: Leo Strauss, $685.
600; ]. Fred Wallach, 100000; R. A.
Waller, 100000; J. R. Walsh, $780,
900; E. ]. Warner, $4,000; William ].
Watson, s125,000; David S. Wegg,
100000; F. H. Winston, 100000.
Prominent men in the state, outside
the city Of Chicago, who are heavily
insured, are listed as follows:
Alton.-Charles H. Hapgood, $685.
900; John E. Haynor, s51, 500; Henry
Watson, $4,000.
Chester.-Dr. VIM. R. Mackenzie
$67,5o0; H. c. Cole, s63,5OO; c. B. Cole
$4,000.
Danville.-Valentine Peyton, $780,
600.
De Kalb.-William L. Elwood, $780,
900.
Evanston.-Daniel H. Burnham, $780,
900; Robert E. Shepherd, $4,000.
Lincoln-S. A. Foley, $4,000.
Moline-Charles H. Deere, $4,000;
]. S. Keator. $4,000.
Peoria.-J. w. Diefendorf, $4,000;
Edward s. Easton. $4,000; B. J..
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

hundred years, ago. the career Of the
Ninth has been full of vicissitudes.
The regiment has engaged in many
notable conflicts, the first of which
were the battles of Lundys Lane and
Niagara Falls in the war of 1872 Then
came a long rest until the Mexican
War, then the Ninth again resumed
activities and played an important
part in the assault on Chapultepec,
and, after that, for years it tried to
subdue the Indians on the frontier.
In March, 1856, the Ninth started a
long campaign against the Indians
During the campaign the regiment
made prisoners of 500 braves and sent
many more bad Indians to join their
friends in the happy hunting grounds.
After five years hard service in Ore
gon and Washington the regiment was
ordered to San Francisco in the fall of
1861, to be sent from there east to do
its share in the Civil War.
Following the Civil War the regi-
ment was again engaged in frontier
warfare.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

In these uncertain times it may be
comforting to know that If anything
should happen" to some of the Eromi-
nent citizens of Illinois their families
will be provided for. The revised edi-
ton of Prominent Patrons of Life In
surance contains a cheering list. 1t
shows those who have their lives in
sured for sums of 10000 each and
more. Anything less than $4,000 does
not get a mention.
According to this list the most in
sured man in Illinois is H. H. Kohl
saat. He is carrying life insurance in
the rather extraordinary sum of $685.,
0OO-almost three-quarters of a mil
lion.
Next in the list according to the
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

the enemy, without one round OF am
munition. but still scorning to retreat.
At night they retreated, taking their
wounded. Their casualties were 81
men and officers out Of 426 men en-
gagged.
In the subsequent stirring events in
China, which embraced the memorable
march on Pekin, the Ninth had its full
share. It was among the first regi-
ments to rush the wall of the Chinese
capital and one company-B-is still
on duty at Pekin.
Massscres Which Shocked tho World
When the Ninth returned from
China, covered with glory, 1t looked as
though it would enjoy well earned
rest at its station in the Island of
Samar, in the Philippines. OF course
the natives of that island were unruly
and treacherous, but they met the
Americans with smiles and good wish
es and the soldiers believed them.
Then came the massacre of Company
c, under command of Captain Connell
at Balangiga. Out of a force Of 70
men, 40 were slain by the 400 bolo-
men, who were in the conspiracy. That
the men remained true to the tradi-
tons Of their regiment was shown by
the fact that, though entirely unarmed,
they left 100 dead Filipinos on the
field. With Capt. Cornell persisted
Lieut.. Bumpus and Maj Griswald. the
| regimental surgeon.
Hardly had the feeling of horror
over the treachery and atrocity of the
Filipinos died away when our citizens
were again shocked by the attack on
Company e Of the Ninth. at Gandara
There 46 men were attacked by SOC
bolomen. In spite of its numerical in
feriority, however, the company gave
a good account of itself. Ten Of its
men were killed and six wounded
while over 100 Filipinos were slain
So dramatic, therefore, has been the
history of the Ninth for the past three
years that the public is wondering JUS
what its next experience will be.
A Hundred Years of Fighting.
Since 1t was organized, more than &
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

magnate, values his life at s115,000 in
insurance policies, but the premium
even on such a mediocre insurance as
that is considerable item.
L. 2. Letter has insurance in the
same sum as his old time partner, Mr..
Field being content with $4,000.
Altogether in the state of Illinois 1853
men have their lives insured for an ag-
gregate of s1601S,00O.
Chicago .-George A. Armour, $780,
900; Eugene Arnstein, 100000; Edward
E. Aver, SIS, 900; w. T. Baker, $50, 900;
Charles J. Barnes, $4,000; A. C. Bart
lett, $4,000; Moses Bensinger. $685.
900; Charles S. Besly, $4,000; William
Best, 100000; c. X. G. Billings, $780,
900; George NJ. Bogue, $4,000; A.
Booth, $4,000; E. w. Brewster, $780,
200; 8. A. Brown, 100000; E. Buck
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

There never was q more superficial
view taken of any important field OF
labor, or falser deductions drawn, than
to say that because new methods con-
troll in journalism the influence of the
press has been weakened, declares Mar
cellus Foster, in the Houston Post. Wei
might as well say that the influence on
trade and commerce upon the masses
has waned because the universal indi-
vidualism of some years ago has given
way to the great cooperative move
ments and processes of the present.
Journalism has, indeed, changed in
the past two decades, especially in the
past decade-changed as rapidly as
any other great force or agent of prog
ress has changed. The facilities for
making papers have been so multiplied
and improved that we see now more
elaborate establishments, larger use Of
capital back of the papec, a greater
subdivision of labor, more system con-
sequent upon this very expansion, and
last but not least, the substitution Of
corporate for individual proprietorship,
Of collective force for individual opin-
ion.
The great paper of to-day no longer
depends on the individuality or repu-
tation or personal influence of any one
man. The development of modern life
and progress has introduced new forces
in the newspaper offices just as in the
industrial and commercial world.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
Novel Employment Agency.

A novel and certainly effective device
was utilized by an unemployed Liver
pool clerk for the purpose of obtaining
a situation. 1t was to engage a sand
wichman to parade the neighborhood
of the Liverpool exchange with plac-
ards setting forth the clerks require
ments The announcements, neatly in
scribed in text hand and written with
pen and ink, stated that the advertiser
was an experienced bookkeeper,
shorthand writer and a linguist; also
that he was a married man with two
children. 1t gave, of course, an ad-
dress to which inquirers were referred.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
WORKED FOR SO CENTS A WEEK.
James oliver of Chilled Plow Fame Is
Now Worth &15OOO,OOO,

NOW worth Sl5,OOO,OOO.
James Oliver, the largest pillow man
ufacturer in the world and reputed to
be worth S15,000,000, was once a farm
er's chore boy working for so cents a
week. He is a Scotchman. His faith
er was shepherd and had no faculty
for accommodating money. The boy had
practically no schooling. Mr.. Oliver
gives his mother and Sunday school
the credit for the education he re-
ceived when boy. At the age Of II
he came to this country with one or
two other members of the family. On
en- work as a chore boy by farmer,
his pay to be board and lodging and 80
cents week. At the end Of II weeks
he had saved SIS, every cent Of which
he had to send to his mother, who was
in need. At the age of 10 we find him
in LIE Grande county, Ind, and little
later at Mishawaka, in the same state,
working on his fathers farm. Shortly
afterwards his father died, and he
again found employment as chore boy
at Sc month. For four years he
worked at anything he could find pick
ing up what little book knowledge he
could. At the age of II he was work
ing in a gristmill at Mishawaka, and
at about this time invested all he had
($75) in house and lot, agreeing to
pay for it $775. He says of this in
vestment: when l look back upon
it feel that to it owe, in a good
measure, what success have met with
during my life, for to liquidate the debt
l was forced to work hard and econ
omize continually" At the age of q
he married and went to live in little
slab house for which he paid s18, add
ing 81 for improvements. His wife
gathered together a number Of rags,
borrowed loom and wove rag car
pet, which he thought was the prettiest
thing he had ever seen. He lived three
months in this little slab house-the
happiest months of his life, he says
Then he learned the holders trade
and accumulated a little money. At
the ago of 20 we find him operating a
little foundry of his own at South
Bend, Ind, where he made plows.
After a great deal of Ill luck and close
study Of the plow business-for he was
trying all the time to perfect an i'm
plement that could be made cheaper
and work better than any pillow then
made-he finally hit upon a chilling
process, and the Oliver chilled pillow,
now known the world over, went into
the market.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Right living returns to us in health.
in vigor, in happiness. Kindness brings
more kindness.
Your meanness and stinginess Will
come back in broken fri ,Edships, in
loss of the respect Of yourself and
others.
Tricks in trade are boomerangs that
react unfavorably upon future busi'
ness. Questionable methods come back
and destroy credit.
The world is SO constituted that
whatever we do comes back to us In
kind, just as a boomerang will circle
back to the point from which it is
thrown.
Flabby muscles a lackluster eye,
dragging step, and nerveless, energy.
less constitution are the backlash OF
acts once dissipation, self
ishness, neglect of hygiene, or discor'
dant, sickly thinking.
INDUCED passions come back to tor
ment us. The boomerang appears here
in dyspepsia, there IN nervous prostra'
ton and insomnia, and everywhere ID
depleted physical strength, weakened
energy, or a ruined disposition. x
If you fling out good IT, Aces con.
tinually-if you radiatJ helpfulness,
good cheer, and harmony-in your old
age you will not be lodging the blows
of cruel boomerangs, but listening to
the sweet echoes of noble deeds.
Fortunately, the law Of reaction, the
boomerang principle, does not hold
alone with evil acts. The good deeds
are Just as sure to cone back, and they
bring with them all the blessed good
intentions with which they were
thrown out.
A cold, sordid, grasping life deadens
the faculties to the harm of music, the
beauties of nature, the delights OF
travel, the refinement Of art, or the
appreciation of literature. Greed is e.
boomerang that strikes deadly blow
on the return, destroying all enjoyment
of the pleasures sought through wealth,
and killing aspiration as we'll Envy
and hatred are boomerangs, which
never fail to "Reminiscences.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10
WIRELESS SAFEGUARDS.
The Most Practical Use of the New sys@
tenn of TeIegra ply.

tenn of TeleEraphE'
lust as the horse survived the adNens
Of the locomotive, and as the sallns
ship has not been driven off the seas ny
the steamer, so it is possible that there
will he work for the submarine cableSS
even when Mr.. Marconi has perfecteo
his wireless system of telegraphy. FRO
ressor Pupin. himself an electrician
of first rate rank, and a thorough De-
lever in Marconi's work, said recently
that if he owned cable stock he Wouldf
not sell it.
Wireless biography may find It's
most useful application in other heids-
than that of trans-oceanic signaling.
For our own part" says the Specta'
tor, 1--WE could wish that Mr.. Marcom
would devote himself to more urgent
practical problems than that of com.
munication across the Atlantic-thougn
the latter is without doubt the more
spectacular and imposing attempt. IL
is still a serious problem to insure q
safe landcall for the seaman in fog and
storm. Even the most powerful siren,
or the fog horn that bellows with
thousand-bull power, may be totally
imperative at the very moment when
it's warning is most urgently required
The best possible use of one of the
new systems of wireless telegraphy
would be to replace the fog horn in our
lighthouses.
"No state of weather, so far as we
yet know, seriously impairs the eff.
ficiency of the electrical radiations, and
1t ought to be possible to attach ra-
dating instrument to every lighthouse.
and to furnish every ship with what
Lord Kelvin has called an electric keh,
that could discover the approach of the
dangerous coast or rocky headland
long before a light was visible or any
siren audible. 1t seems to us that this
achievement would be infinitely more
valuable to mankind, which still pays
It's annual toll Of lives and treasure to
the gods Of shipweck, than the wire.
less transmission Of messages across
the Atlantic"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

s735,000; Adolph Kraus, 100000; R.
8. Lake, 100000; L. 2. Letter, $4,000;
J. B. Lyon, 100000; Henry c. Lytton,
100000; George H. Lytton, $685.
900; Hugh Mckinney, $4,000; j..
R. Mckay, 100000; A. McNeal, $780,
900; Lafayette McWilliams, 100000; j.
F. Meagher, 100000; A. B. Meeker,
$4,000; William H. Moore, $4,000;
Max Morgenthau, $4,000; Edward
Morris, 500, 900; Nelson Morris $780,
900; George NJ. Moulton, $4,000; Fer
dinand w. Peck, 100000; l. N. Perry,
$4,000; s. w. Rawson, 100000; Nor
man B. Ream, 100000; D. G. Reid,
SIT 600; John K. Robinson, 100000;
Andrew McNally, SsB 900; H. A. Rust,
100000; Morris Schwabacher, $780,
900; Joseph Sears. $4,000; Morris
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-04-10

n steady advance until the Stars and
Stripes swept over Ell Caney and San
tiago.
At Ell Caney the Ninth was in the
Third Brigade, under General Wikoff.
When the fighting commenced the
regiment was held back to clear the
Spaniards from the heights Of FL Pozo.
This accomplished, the order to ad-
vance was given, and the Ninth, in
column Of tours. swung along mar
row road to the scene OF battle. This
was one of the most trying moments
In the history OF the command. From
both sides Of the road came CALLING
Ore from Spanish sharpshooters. But
the steady tramp, tramp never wav-
sred, save when the low order of an
officer caused rank to open to pass
over the stalwart form OF man in
blue who lay face forward in the dust
Of the Cuban roadway Not till the
order to charge came did those stern,
bronZed men seem to awaken to life
to sweep like an avalanche over Ell
Aducys OuIlu6 lho GREATER part VI eAlS
engagement, Lieut.. Col. E. P. Ewers
was in command.
When Santiago had surrendered the
men of the Ninth were obtaining a
breathing spell. They were placed in
charge OF that city. Then came the
yellow fever, which decimated Its
ranks and eventually caused the War
Department to order the regiment tc
It's home station in order that the mer
might recuperate from the facilitating
sffects Of tropical campaign. The
rest was brief one, however, as the
regiment was soon ordered to the Phil.
lppines, where 1t participated in the
campaigns against the rebellious Fill
pinos. Then came the trouble in China
and, of course, the Ninth was called
upon to proceed against the Boxers
It was in China that the Ninth
Won Worldwide Fame.
II was the first chance that foreign
ers had OF seeing American troops il
action, and the GOODNESS. discipline ant
bravery OF the latter, while under ;
vithering fire, commanded the enthu