The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16

home today from Salt Lake. 1t
is learned that he has cancer of
the stomach, and his case is in
durable. This is sad news, in
deed, for he is one of Custer
county's very best men
Lou Tracht and Thos. Whit
comb were down from Clayton
last Thursday. An air-pipe in
the Redbird mine exploded and
Tommy had his hand injured and
Lou had small piece of steel
strike him in the eye. Both of
the boys returned home the
same day.
Last Saturday Thos. Crocker,
a freighter of Mackay, met with
an accident near Squaw creek
that will cause his death. He
lying down on the ground fixing
the stay-chains on his wagons,
when the team started and both
wagons run squarely over his
body loaded with $4,000 pounds
of freight. DR.. Huston was call
ed, but it is feared the unfortun-
ate man will be dead before the
Doctors arrival. LATER-We
learn that his injuries are not
serious. No bones broken.
We have little space this week
l-over two columns of matter set
in type is omitted, hence we do
not deem the childish article in
the Telegraph worthy of an ex-
tended reply, but will say as
briefly as possible, that we sup
posed that we were in controver-
sy with some one of ordinary in
telligence, but from the writings
in the Telegraph relative to this
paper, we are frank to admit that
we have been deceived. The
true author of these articles, we
are informed, is no other than
fellow by the name of Potter who
sweeps out the Telegraph Office
for Trego, and consequently is in
no way responsible, for he is too
cowardly to sign his name to his
own writings, but probably he
thinks they are too weak to sign.
The truth hurts, and Trego or
his office-sweeper dare not refute
one line in the MESSENGER reply
on June 9th, but IN answer in the
place of argument resorts to pub
fishing a lot indecent and obscene
trash not fit to be read in any
family or transmitted through
the mails. AS we have said be-
fore the Telegraph leaser is but
a hireling of the lowest type, and
dares not say one independent
word. 1t is far better to be your
own master and have nothing,
than to be cowardly cur like
the Telegraph leaser that covers
at the crack of his masters whip.
Talk about cheap persons, why
we are told that Trego got the
Telegraph plant to run for year
without putting up cent, pro-
vided that the paper be run as
dictated. Look how Trego drove
his former partner, Mr.. Haley,
out of the newspaper business
becsuse of his (Trego's) petty
way of doing business. Again
note how ''Bird"-probabiy of
the magpie specie-or, Byrd,
as he spells it, publishes abroad
that he is a member of the M. E.
Church of Mackay. 1t is a lie on
the face of it, and rank imposi-
ton on the church. From his
method of doing business, his
unlimited ''cheek'' and junk shop
nature, we have no reason to
doubt the following told on him
One day a rancher hitched his
team to a post in front of the
Telegraph office, Trego came out
and collected 5 cents from the
rancher for hitching his team to
the post Another time he over
took a miner with his buggy on
the road, he asked the miner to
get in and ride, which he did for
a distance of two miles, when
Trego had the audacity to ask
the miner 10 cents for the ride.
Byrd has glowing idea of his
/ greatness. Last summer he used
to go down to the arrival of each
train in Mackay with a big sign
on his hat, with these words
printed on the hat-band in big
wood type letters Byrd Ire
CO." That was to let the travel
ing public of this great uninform-
ed world know that he was the
only Byrd Trego"-all others
were counterfeits-and the pub
lie stood amazed (!
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