The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-04-14

IL ~. Il. OOhCo olIlfSO III tulS
city last Wednesday from Custer.
Commissioners Uhren, Curtis
and Hosford arrived in town last
Sunday.
Olee Mead and family leave
this week for Colorado where
they go to reside.
There may be some advantages
about being a king. The boy
King of Spain can marry a grown
up woman if he wants to. What
more could any boy desire =?
Colonel w. H. Dewey, founder
of Nampa, is very low and has
probably taken to his bed for the
last time. The doctors say it is
only question of a few days at
least before he will pass away.
He is now over so years of age.
AS Kansas objects to having
the battleship named for her
christened with wine, why not
attach a bottle of the obnoxious
fluid to the prov of the vessel
and permit Mrs. Nation to smash
it with her hatchet? !?
What's the reason the new fish
licenses have not been sent to
Challis SO our fishermen can fish
without violating the law OF
all fool laws ever enacted Idaho's
game and fish law caps the
climax. Does anyone suppose
for an instance that the prospec-
tor out in the hills will confine
himself to killing two deer in
year if he is out of meat
Some of our stockmen are los
ing cattle this spring from a new
disease and no one appears to
know what the epidemic is. The
animals tongue tuns black, and
the animal dies in apparently
great agony. 1t turns around in
a circle for hours, as though
crazy, then falls down and dies.
1t seemingly has no control of
its head and neck. Thos. Jose
lost two head of cattle last week
from the new epidemic.
DIR. Lyman Abbott of Brook
lyn, New York, is probably the
best quoted divine in the world.
His exalted standing is undisput-
ed. He must therefore have
startled the learned Methodist
ministers at their meeting in New
York the other day when he de-
MED the divine origin of the
Bible, and said that it is merely
a record of human experiences.
/ II have a respect for the old
theology" said he, land today l
cannot doubt that the change
! from the old to the new method
: of thinking in religion is impor-
tant, radical and revolutionary.
Those who wrote the Bible were
human, imperfect men; they
stumbled, as we stumble"
"Uncle" John Croslin died last
: Sunday at the ranch of John
Freeman, his son-in- law, on Sill
yer creek, and was buried yes
terday by the side of his wife.
When she died, about five
weeks ago, Mr.. Croslif said that
he did not care to live any long
err. He therefore refused to eat.
For % days not morsel of food
would he eat, and during the
past six days he would not even
I drink water. Occasionally he
took a mouthful, rinsed his
mouth, then spat out the water.
: He had become as helpless as a
babe. Even when moving slow
ly across the floor, he had to be
supported as child learning to
walk, and could not sit on chair
f unless tied in. He was 85 years
, of age, and had lived on Wood
! River since 1881.-Hailey Times.
Frank Johnesse has been ap-
pointed by the Governor super
intendent of construction of the
f wagon road from Long valley to
! Thunder Mountain. The last
! Legislature appropriated $4,000
! for the building of this road and
! this sum will be augmented by
! private subscription. Work will
: commence on the road during
the present month, by contract.
+ The road will begin near Wer-
! ner's ranch in Long valley, thence
up Big creek in a northerly direc-
ton to the boundary line between
Boise and Idaho counties follow
/ ing down Trail creek in a north
t easterly direction to the South
] Fork of the Salmon river to Cabin
creek and the summit, thence
? down Trout creek to Johnson's S