The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-17


napolIs and the cadets have found it
necessary to employ counsel.
Senator Hanna can now go back
Washington and take up his ex-slave
pension bill and ship subsidy.
Navy reports show that, owing to
the force of the recoiI, our big guns
produce sort of boomerang effect
upon the ships.
The President succeeded in keeping
back the Bristow report on the postal
frauds until after the elections, but
the voters will remember it next fall.
The first snow storm of the season
at Challis was Monday night the eth.
when six inches of snow fell, but owing
to rain later it has nearly disappeared.
IF it took Mr.. Bristow 1,00o, 900
words to tell of the postal scandals, 1t
will take a whole library to describe
the land frauds in the Interior Depart
ment
Ambassador Choate forgot his posi-
tion to the extent of interfering in the
tariff debate ia England, and the
English did not hesitate to show their
disapproval.
1t is said that Governor Morrison
contemplates calling an extra session
of the legislature to amend certain
land law. The Commissioner of the
General Land Office has made ruling
that no more segregatIons of public
land will be made or patents issued
under the Carey act in Idaho until the
State amend the law accepting this
act. At presents number of large
irrigation projects are in progress
under the Carey act, and all will be at
standstill until the reparation is
made, which can only be done by the
legislature.
Attorney General Bagley, in re-
sponse to an inquiry by State Game
Warden Irons, has decided that the
sale of game birds is not prohibited by
the statute. There seems to have been
carelessness in drawing the section
prohibiting sale of game, as it refers
only to animals. The opinion says
''The broadest conception of the term
animal is distinguished from the min
eral kingdom and the vegetable king
dom, includes birds, but it is evident
that the legislature has used the term
animal in this section in limited
sense, intending it should embrace only
elk, deer, buffalo, moose, caribou aud
other animals as distinguished from
birds and fish. All the way through
the act the legislature has expressly
referred to birds as distinguished
from animals, and in no other place
in the act is bird referred to as an
animal, unless in this one section.
II therefore hold that the present
fish and game law does not prevent or
prohibit the selling or offering for sale
any game bird that is protected by
provisions of the law, that is taken
in violation of the game laws of the
State"
"A dispatch from Wallace, Idaho,
Nov. 9th, says : Two dead and two
wounded is the result of a shooting
affray at the entrance of the Wallace
opera house tonight. The shooting
took place just as the theater-goers
were leaving the theater, following
performance by the James Neill COM
pany. The dead are DIR. w. L. Fins,
shot through the head; William Cuff,
minutes. Wounded Chief of Police
McGovern, shot through the right
hand; Opera house policeman Rose shot
in the leg. The trouble arose over
Cuff insisting on smoking cigar in
the gallery. House Policeman Rose
ordered him to desist, but he refused.
The policeman took the cigar away
from Cuff after struggle. Cuff left
the theater vowing vengenee. He re-
turned shortly with a revolver and
waited until the performance was over.
Rose was the irst man out of the opera
house. AS he stepped outside Cuff be-
gan firing. The first shots missed and
Rose returned the fire. DIR. Fins, who
was escorting a lady, followed Rose
out, and as he did SO bullet, presum-
ably from Cuffs revolver, struck him
in the head, killing him instantly.
Other policemen appeared at this
moment and general fusillade fol-
lowed. The panic-stricken theater-
goers stampeded back into the foyer,
men and women being trampled on in
the mad rush to get away. Cuff con-
tinued firing, wounding Chief of Police
McGovern and Special officer Rose.
Cuff then started to escape, running
around The corner of the theater. He
was intercepted at a side exit by
Policeman Quinn, who kept up run
ming fire, three bullets taking effect.
Cuff fell unconscious and died in fifteen