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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
LAND OFFICE DECISION.

Dist. of Idaho, Boise, Mar. 2, '04.
To U. S. Commissioners
While the primary object of your APP
pointment is as committing magistra-
tes, the law limits you to perform GER
tain duties pertaining to land entries.
Concerning the latter, once suggest
ed the impropriety of performing them
at any other place than in your Office,
but no order in the matter was made.
All the Registers and Receivers in the
State have recently been consulted on
this subject, and also on that of your
receiving in that business any other
money than for the payment of your
fees. While there is not a unanimity
of opinion from those officers, such
suggestions and information are re-
ceived from them as to the practice of
Commissioners, as in my opinion, to
justify the following rules for your OBJ
servation:
l. In view of the order of the Com
missioner of the General Land Office,
dated Jan. 13, 1904, which permits final
proofs to be taken elsewhere than at
your office, it is directed that when
any such proofs are to be taken or any
other business is to be transacted in
which contestants or others may have
an interest, due notice of the time and
place must be particularly designated,
and such place must be some public
office, building or place where the pub
lie will feel free to go, and in no event,
must it be at a private house of the
entryman, or other party directly in
terested in the proceedings. In your
Office you may transact business for
any person residing within your land
district, but outside of your office you
cannot transact business for person
residing in another county in which
there is U. S. Commissioner.
2. That you shall receive money
only in payment of your fees as allow
ed by law; and shall not receive money
except, when directly authorized by
law or by the orders of the General
Land Office.
3. For all moneys received by you
an itemized receipt must be given.
4. You are prohibited from acting
as attorney for any entryman or other
person for whom you perform duties
as Commissioner.
5. That in the performance of any
of your duties, the rules of the Depart
ment of the Interior applicable there
to, must be strictly followed.
JAS. II, BEATTY, Judge
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
OUR NEW PRESS.
Care General Delivery.

We have just ordered from Omaha a
6-column quarto cylinder printing
press, and owing to the conditions of
the roads cannot we'll install it before
May 1st, but will have it shipped on
or about the 1st of next month. The
machine weighs 5000 pounds and oc-
cupies floor space overall of 9 feet 6
inches by feet 9 inches, and will print
ZOO copies a pages at once) of 6-col.
quarto newspaper per hour. Both the
new cylinder press and our job press
will be propelled by small gasoline
engine. With the new press we can
do the work in an hour that now re-
quires over day to do. With this new
addition we will have the best equip
ped office in this part of Idaho-outside
of the Salmon Recorder-who have a
Simplex typesetting machine.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

see and learn must of of,necessity be an
expression of a greater power than
himself, then his close knowledge of
Nature can lift him into realms of
poetry and of reverence where every
vital and visible form becomes to him
an emblem of the eternal and invisible,
and when science does this, it has its
perfect work in man, making all that
he gains tend to his own greater
growth.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
NOTICE.

The first Annual meeting of the
Custer County Stock Growers Associa-
tion was ordered to be held at Challis
on Saturday, April 9th, 1904, for the
purpose of the election of officers of
the Association including the election
of the Executive Committee.
The election of new members of the
Association, and for the transaction of
general business of the Association.
JOSEPH RODGERS, President.
L. Fl. JOHNSTON, Secretary.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Arrivals at the New Challis House
for the week ending March 18th
W. II. Horne, Salt Lake, Utah, 7.
w. Butler, Salt LaSe, Utah, Otis
Brown, St. Paul, Mimi, VIM. johnson,
Custer, Ioa., 5. Schurette, Custer, Ida,
George. Hewitson, Custer, Idaho.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.

We are in receipt of the following
letter, which is in itself self-explana-
tory. This is rare opportunity for
some of our young men. Although we
are not running a matrimonial paper,
we give this letter space
Mr.. EDITOR,
Challis, Idaho.
DEAR SIR IL will be greatly obliged
to you if you will print this letter in
your paper. l am tired of city life and
would like to live in the country, aud
through this letter it is possible that
some nice farmer may give me an OPP
portunity to find home in the coun-
try. l am 90 years old, and my friends
say, very nice looking. have a fair
education, and play the piano nicely,
have studied music three years. | also
learned stenography and have worked
at it the past two years. understand
that there are lots of nice men in the
West who would like to marry If they
could find girl they thought suitable.
If this happens to come to the notice
of such a man, would be pleased To
correspond with him.
Sincerely,
EDITH MALCOLM,
Care General Delivery.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
Notice of Attachment.
STATE OF IDAHO, Office OF the Clerk OF
COUNTY OF CUSTER. the District Court

Earl J. Michael, Plaintiff,
VS..
II. d. Baker, Defendant.
Notice is hereby given, that, in the
above entitled action an attachment has been
issued against the property of the above named
defendant, out of the District Court of the
Sixth Judicial District of Idaho, in and for the
County of Custer.
NCOw Witness my hand and the Seal of said
SeILL5Court this 7th day of March, 1904.
~ GEO. E. kEYES, Clerk.
First publication March 18th, 1904. w3
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

-Chas. B. Jensen returned home
from Mineral, Idaho, last week on a
a visit
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

Accusation is sometimes laid at the
door of scientists that they lose all
reverence. Let us think for a moment
what confronts one who gives his
whole time to research in the realms
of Nature. He takes his microscope
and finds in the infinitely small things
Just as careful mechanical arrange
ments for the maintenance of life, just
as adroit means to certain end as he
can find within himself or in the
things of large measure; or he can take
his telescope and other instruments
and bring the farthest stars into sub
lection, so that he knows of what they
consist and how often they revolve
and how much they weigh, and he
finds them performing their duty with
even more mechanical precision than
mans most perfect machine; or he can
look out upon the world and see law
and order everywhere,-that human
beings that live according to Natures
law do we'll while human beings that
run counter to any of Natures laws do
ill,-and he sees this rule of law ex-
tending through daily life both in
trivial matters and in the matters of
frightful accident. Now what is apt
to be the trend OF such a mind after
years of concentration along one line
1t is to think of the world as a beauti-
full mechanism aud perhaps to be lost
in admiration for the mechanism with
out taking the one step further,-rev-
erence for the Master Mechanic. But
II this student mind once learns the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
e"NEW@S
6hdIIiS HOUSE !
@ % %
ROBERT MORRISON, Prop.

The New Challis House is strict
ly First-Class hotel, and the
meals and accommodations can
not be surpassed in the county.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
BaScOm House
@ O @
AT WILLOW CREEK RANCH,
DIekey, Idaho.

The last stopping place before
crossing the mountain passes on
the way from Mackay to the Sal
mon River Valleys.
We are sparing no pains to
make our house the best travel
ers home in Central Idaho. Our
terms are reasonable.
E. w. BASCOM, Prop.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
RANDOM THOUGHTS.
TBY THE EDITOR. ]

AS for truth, let no man be disturbed
if his preaching of truth gains no list
ners- If he be not preaching truth it.
self, but only something that he calls
truth, then he ought to lack listners;
but If what he says is true, then the
present absence of hearers means moth
ing of encouragement. The preacher
may lie silent where the speech of man
no more can be heard, but that does
not make truth perish. Every man,
therefore, with heart on fire in him
to learn of truth and then to give it
out to others, is helping, even though
it may seem to him invisibly, to bring
to pass better day when the things
are true shall prevail and errors OF
Thought and of conduct shall flee away.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

Parties going out on the stages
will find this a convenient hotel
to stop at, as the drivers board
here. Meals always promptly
on time. Located one door
west of the telephone Office.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

Board and Lodging at reasonable
rates. The tables are always
supplied with the best the
market affords. Good acom-
modations for travelling men
and the public.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

Good Sample Rooms for
Commercial Men. x X x
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
INTERESTING, IF TRUE.
You Can Try 1t for Yourself and
Drove If

One grain of the active principle in
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets will digest
wholesome food. and this claim has
been proven by actual experiment
which anyone can perform for himself
in the following manner: Cut hard-boil-
ed eggs into very small pieces, as it
would be if masticated, place the egg
and two or three of the tablets in
bottle or jar containing warm water,
heated to SO degrees (the temperature
of the body, and keep it at this tenn
perature for three and one-half hours.
at the end of which time the egg will be
as completely digested as it would have
been in the healthy stomach of a hung
ry boy
The point of this experiment is that
what Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will
do to the egg in the bottle it will do to
the egg or meat in the stomach. and
stomach so safely and effectually. Even
a little child can take Stuart's Tablets
with safety and benefit If its digestion
is weak and the thousands of cures ac-
complished by their regular daily use
are easily explained when it is under
stood that they are composed of vege-
table essences, aSepuc pepsin, diaStase
and Golden Seal, which mingles with
the food and digest it thoroughly, CIV
ing the overworked stomach a chance to
recuperate.
Dieting never cures dyspepsia, neith-
er do pills and cathartic medicines,
which simply irritate and inf1ame the
intestineS.
When enough food is eaten and
promptly digested there will be no con-
stipation, nor in fact will there be dis
ease of any kind, because good diges-
tion means good health in every or
gan.
The merit and success of Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets are worldwide and
they are sold at the moderate price of
so cents for full-sized package in every
drug store in the United States and
Canada, as well as In Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
BLAMEs THE COURT.
Committee of Inquiry Reports ON Case
of Adolph Beck.

London, Nov. 25.-The report of the
committee of inquiry in the case of
Adolph Beck, who for the crimes of
William Thomas. alias John Smith,
served a term of five years iniprison-
ment in England on the charge of
obtaining money and jewels from wo-
men under false pretenses, places
practically the entire blame for the
miscarriage of justice upon the judge,
Sir Forest Fulton. who excluded from
Beck's trial in 1896, all evidence fav-
orabIe to the accused and who refused
to state a case for the consideration of
a higher court.
The report exonerates the police
and other officials from all charges of
conspiracy but finds that the action of
the home office in dealing with the
case was defective owing to lack of
legal training on the part of subor-
dinates.
The committee remarks that it is
an extraordinary fact that in the trial
of 1904, the innocent man Beck was
convicted through the ignorance of the
police and public prosecutor of the
material fact known to the home Of
flee and the prison authorities that
Beck and Smith were not the same
persons as alleged by the prosecution
and points out the necessity for bring
ing the different public authorities
concerned into such coordination as
to make the information acquired by
one available to ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
A PLEASANT DIVERSION.
Going Into a Football Game Much
Like Storming Port Arthur.

New York, Nov. 25.-Harry Sheridan,
fullback of the Seaton college football
team, was injured during a game with
the Forest Hill team near Newark. N.
J., yesterday. He was carried down
under a number of opposing players
in mass play and when the others had
risen it was found that he was lying
senseless He had several ribs broken
and one came within an inch of pene-
trating his heart.
Two other accidents occurred near
here in Thanksgiving day football
games.
At Tarrytown, in a game between the
Calumet Athletic club and the larry
town Field club, George Miles, son of a
rich resident, had his right ear torn
off.
At Long Island City, Thomas Keppe-
dy had several ribs fractured and was
internally injured. He is in a critical
condition.
At Newark, Del, yesterday, in a game
between Delaware college and Mary
land Agricultural college, Captain Gill
of the latter team had his skull frac-
tured in a scrimmage. He was taken
condition is Serious
Chicago, Nov. 25.-The Record Herald
says:
Thirteen deaths have resulted from
football this season. The casualty list
is the same as last year, but the num-
Der of seriously injuries during the sea-
son just closed will exceed that of any
year since the Introduction of the mod
ern college sport. The players injured
number 296.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
T. T. KELLY'S VOTE.
His Plurality Is a Few Over Thirty
Thousand

A compilation of the pluralities on
election tables in the county papers,
shows that T. T. Kellys plurality over
II. NJ. Dolan is 30.067. When the official
count is made by the state canvassing
board next Monday it will probably be
found that these figures are just about
correct.
Dolan carried twenty-one counties, as
follows: Atchison, Clark, Edwards,
Ellis, Finney, Hamilton, Jackson,
Jewell, Johnson, Kearny, Kingman,
Marshall, Miami. Morton, Nemaha,
Pawnee, Pratt, Sedgwick, Seward,
Sheridan and Washington.
Atchison county gave Dolan his larg
est plurality, 1875. NKelly's home coun-
ty. Miami, gave Dolan his next highest
plurality, 1 IA. Dolan carried his own
home county, Washington, by 337, al
though 1t gave Roosevelt a plurality of
1881 and Hoch $50. Nemaha county
gave Dolan $50. Jackson 6s1 and Mar
shall 55S.
Kelly got 2,93s plurality in wyandotte
county, 1881 in Crawford, 1852 in Mont
gomery. 1852 in Leavenworth, 1.679 in
Douglas. 1889 in Allen, 1,506 in Chero-
kee. 1,036 in Chautauqua, 1,029 in Cow
ley and 1,122 in Harvey. His heaviest
comparative vote came from the Third
district.
Kellys plurality is nearly 100000 be-
hind Roosevelt's, and 10000 behind
HochS.
The pluralities by counties on state
treasurer. as given by the country pa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
SUCH A DINNER.
Newsboys Enjoy Turkey and Other
Good Things.
1t was a great dinnerl

1t was a great dinner!
If you don't believe it you can ask
any one of the so newsboys who helped
to stow it away
There was plenty of the finest roast
turkey that ever found its way into a
hungry boys stomach, and bright red
cranberry sauce to go with 1t. There were
sweet potatoes and plain murphle5.
There was stewed corn and pickles and
pumpkin pie and cake, and plenty of
buttermilk That was the bill of fare
which tempted so hungry boys to stuff
themselves full at the annual newsboys'
dinner given by Mr.. J. E. Nissley at
Fourth and Jackson, Thanksgiving day.
The dinner was prepared and served
by the Sigma Delta Psi girls of Wash
burn. The girls entered heartily into
the spirit of the affair and that in
creased the hungry urchins' enjoyment
of it.
There was no doubt but what the
boys were hungry. They worked hard
all the morning. For a week they had
peen selling tickets to the Opie Read
lecture, but Thanksgiving morning they
redoubled their efforts. They swarmed
the streets leading to the Auditorium
and if anybody appeared on those
streets and failed to be steered into the
Auditorium with a little green ticket in
his hand, it wasn't the fault of the
newsboys And when the lecture was
ready to commence they all filed in and
filled the front row. where they sat and
laughed at Opie Reads jokes, 1Or MS
was just as pleasing to
the newsboys as to the older people.
And anybody knows that laughing at
jokes makes people hungry.
AS soon as the lecture was over every
boy made a dash for the door and out
side they marched in a body, so strong,
to Fourth and Jackson, where the din
ner was waiting them.
Rev. ]. T. Sawyer, pastor of the Park
dale Methodist church, asked the bless
ing, and afterwards, at Mr.. Nissley's
request made a short talk to the boys.
Then when the eating commenced there
was not much ceremony, but every boy
put on the best company manners he
had. 1t was a well dressed crowd, too,
for the boys had just received their
new Thanksgiving suits from Mr.. Mss
ley.
Mr.. Nissley distributed the prizes in
the ticket selling contest just before
Mr. Reads lecture at the Auditorium.
Harry Ray won the first prize,
scholarship in the Dougherty Shorthand
school, which was given by Mr.. Dough-
erty The second prize, a ten dollar
gold piece. was won by Rob MacColh-
ugh. The third prize, an overcoat, went
TO Earl DeFrance, a little colored news
boy who was a page in the last legis-
lature The fourth prize, a pair Of
shoes. went to Willie Sutton, and the
fifth prize to Orville Frost. Governor
Bailey made a short talk to the news
hovs before introducing Mr.. Read.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25

days. He told McGraw a pitiful-and
perfectly truthful-story of his pow
erty and illness and asked Muggsy to
buy the bat. He asked no charity
thought McGraw might prize the his
toric hickory and would give him
something for the club.
Did McGraw buy the bat? Yes
and for 500. When the veteran pro-
tested to such kindness Muggsy stuffed
the money in the old mans pocket
and threatened to throw him out of
the club house if he made any fur
Their kicks. And, Furthermore, Nc
Graw, knowing how the old fellow
loved the bat he had just sold, insisted
that he should act as it's custodian
till the stick might be called for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
1T WAS so FUNNY.
Young Woman's Jaw DisIOcated by
Laughter.

st. Paul, Nov. 25.-Miss Nellie Sto-
yer, daughter of Mrs Kate e. Slower,
laughed so heartily at a story told by
one of a party of friends at her home
that she dislocated her jaw While the
merriment was at its height Miss Sto-
yer suddenly ceased laughing and sat
with her mouth wide open and a
panied expression on her face. She
could not close her mouth until a sur
geon was called who reset the jaw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25

From now till after New Years is the
season of turkey hash.
Was it turkey, goose, duck or chicken
which gave you that full feeling yester-
day?
VIM. Stewart, son of DR.. S. G. Stew
art, is seriously sick with congestion of
the lungs
Tom Boyd and Schuyler Nichols are
going to start a large chicken ranch
east of town.
The Elks will meet at the lodge room
at 6:45 this evening to go to the asylum
in a special car.
Director Jennings does not have to be
so careful of the weather now that the
football season is over.
The Elks will give the first perform
ance of the Minstrel show tonight at
the insane asylum for the benefit of the
patients.
The Washburn football team again
had the pleasure of ringing the death
knell over the departed glory of the
Ottawa football team.
This is the day the hunters take their
firearms to the gunsmith to have them
repaired after the terrible lombard
ment on the rabbits and squirrels
Thanksgiving day.
The weather bureau officials say that
to,fully appreciate this weather a per-
son\should take a brisk walk of three
to five miles every morning before
weather?
Now that the football season is over
the chicken show. Midwinter exposition,
Elks' minStrels, legislature, inaugural
ton, whist players, chess players, bas-
ket ball teams, ct al, will receive the
undivided attention of the public.
1.-The Sign of the Four played in St
Joe at Is 25 35 and so cents at night
and for the matinee 10 and 20 cents.
The prices in Topeka yesterday We're at
night %, 35, so and rs cents and for
the matinee 25 to so cents. It's the same
old story.
The Rebekahs of the city will enter
tain informally at the grand secretarys
rooms corner of Fifth and Quincy
streets, this evening. for their president.
Mrs Katie b. Squires Of Galena, ana
other past officers. All Rebekahs are
cordially invited.
From an exchange: A Kansas news
paper says whisky is being Sid in that
town and asks: why is this, does the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
Mumnlies Found in New Mexico.

Ell Paso, Tex. Nov. 25.-Miners
have broken into cavern containing
two dozens mummies near Silver City,
n. M. Buried with the mummies were
stone weapons and instruments, show
ing that they belong to a prehistoric
race. The mummies were apparently
about five feet tall in life. Their
heads were small and their arms long.
The cave was about one hundred feet
below the surface of the earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
Colorado and Return. So.

Colorado and return every day to
April 80, 1905, inclusive, with final re-
cific, $3.50 from Topeka Be sure
your ticket reads over the Union Pa
cific. Inquire of J. G. Fulton, Depot
Agent; F. A. Lewis. 'City Agent, 525
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
McGRAW's GENEROSITY.
Bought Il Prize Bat, Then Returned 1t
to Its Old Owner.

Giants young twirler who pitched
such good ball for McGraw's cham
pions this year, tells the following
story of the little managers gener-
osity:
"One day a certain broken down
ball player came to see McGraw.
With him he brought a bat-a bat
famous in fandom, which had cracked
out hits by the hundred in bygone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25

churches sell whisky? Does the black
smith sell it? Does the lumber yard
sell it? Does the dry goods stores sell
it?" We can't say positively, but we
would think they certainly does not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
He Is Not ..Dove.n

Joliet Ill, Nov. 25.-J. w. Wicks,
the Pontiac liveryman who was ar
rested as a suspect in the Bate MUIR
der case, will be released as it has
been clearly demonstrated he is not
Dove" The officials here held him
in the belief that he might be wanted
on other charges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-25
Boilers Exploded.

Vicksburg, Miss, Nov. 25.-By the
explosion of the boilers in D. r. Mid
dleton's cotton gin in the town of
Walters, a suburb of this city, two
lives were lost and five persons in
jured, two of them seriously. Financial
loss 100000.