The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-24


Malad one day last week.
"A postoffice has been established
at Morse with Mr.. Ross as postmaster.
Mrs. FL. ]. Bascom, a highly re-
spected lady of Dickey died last Thurs
day.
Arizona, New Mexico and Okla
homa are going to make another fight
to join the Union"
-Four degrees below zero is the
coldest weather experienced thus far
this winter in Challis.
IS. D. and J. H. Baker. arrived in
town Saturday evening from Iowa.
They are relatives of Lee Wiggins of
Pahsamaroi.
Hugh C. Wood came up from Salt
Lake last Saturday evening and has
gone over to Goldburg to look after
his vast ranching and stock interests.
The jury in the case of John Watts
for cattle stealing brought in verdict
of acquittal at HALEY last week. n.
a. Clark of Mackay was attorney for
Watts
"A telephone message gave the in
formation that Morrison was shot at
Salt Lake last Friday at 1890 o'clock.
and Horn was hanged in Wyoming on
the same date.
Country residents near Princeton,
New Jersey, have objected to colored
mail carrier and threaten to give up
their boxes il he is not removed. This
is likely to cause some comment in the
South.
Prof. Pace gave an acrobatic ex-
hibition in Jones saloon last Saturday
night, and is quite clever in many of
: his acts. His high kicking was good
( making foot high kick with rum
: ming start.
1t looks as if the Dreyfus affair
would be re-opened. The French Min
lister of War, Andre, declared in the
q cabinet that the Rennes court martial
SHOULD be revised and Dreyfus exoner-
ated. The ministers were unable to
come to an agreement.
: Now that the campaign is over
Secretary Shaw may find time to stay
in Washington and attend to the af-
/ fairs of the Treasury Department
!, Owing to the decline in the Treasury
surplus he will not have as much loose
cash as formerly, nor will he be able
to distribute it so loosely.
" In recent sermon DR.. Parkhurst
e declared that after January 1st, when
Mayor Lows term expires, New York
Twill be hell with the lid off" and
the democratic voters were members
! of the devils kingdom of greed and
. villany." Dowie's visit seems to have
: enriched the Doctors abusive vocabu-
!. larry.
e Delegate Rodney enjoys the dis
5 tinctiou of having introduced the first
,e bill in the new House of Represents
re tives. 1t was bill to provide for the
n admission of New Mexico as a State
Bill No was for the repeal of the
anti-canteen clause of the army ap-
!, preparation bill, passed at the last
session.
President Roosevelt found time to
hold a half-hour conference with John
Alexander Dowie, the religious noun
tebank. He assured the President of
Zion City's support next fall. Dowie
was accompanied to the White House
e, by several members of his cabinet and
body guard He is the first crank
}. who has been allowed to pass the
White House guards for some time;
but Dowie controls votes
m in the case of the State vs. w. w.
e Adamson, application for a writ of
: habeas corpus on behalf of the defen-
e dant was made in the District court on
n Saturday evening, Nov. 14th, and the
,r application was denied by the court.
S, Adamson then furnished the $1,000
: bond required by the Probate court.
% Trial of the case was then continued
Ie until the next term of the Dis trict
, court which will probably not meet
lie until June of next year. 1t is said
that C. C. Chapman was held as wit
ness in the case under $500 bonds
which he furnished-but was released
in the case as to the charge of perjury
IS The Massachusetts, Society for the
r n e A l. -
i gathering evidence to prosecute the
?, studen is of the Massachusetts Institute
l. of Technology, who beat to death a
1t little pig at the interstate games last
a. week The little animal was the
II mascot of the Freshman team and was
Al turned loose in the field. A crowd of
lie Sophomores chased it and with heavy
r. clubs beat it to death in front of the
is grand stand. The public will surely
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