The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-10-04

tuSs anu forever IL True
fl, man who feels is a dear Gods gift
a sorrowful. Travelling world:
lot yehe. hands that the burdens Of life
usthe Gag Of our peace unfurled.
Il cuS9eed not the souls that are callous
spsll selfish and welded to greed,
On 8the plying tear for our fallen es-
xactl, tate
EasP need-and we ever shall need.
lass after It all, when all is past,
| Oh the deed of love that alone may
Pere che rest IS chan in the wInnowing
ls the garden of life, a weed.
owl Alfred Waterhouse in Success
erosl
hy saeI Built Up to Escape Raiders.
owl fcavations for a sewer in Macon,
ngt recently led to a curious discov-
m a A gang of laborers was at work
z Eo1e rear of the Hotel Miller. When
be at five feet down one of them
rsonf his shovel in the earth and it
Ike II out of sight The laborer would
|, bus followed his implement had a
as irade not caught him.
hi' d investigation showed they had
Cssed seven-foot tunnel, extending
Pg Invest and southeast, Going north
|ne u few hundred feet the under
ind passage terminated in a large
IN, rooted with heavy timbers. This
be. evidently been the entrance from
!, I've. for there was a manhole cut
" Eugh the timbers. Boards had been
SIR across this and covered with
y4h to secrete the entrance.
SINE tunnel extended 10 the limits
21he city In the southwest. It was
n kfully Boarded on the sides and
Fed with railroad ties. A tall man
Id pass through without STOPPING.
entire distance was about mile.
IL tunnel was finished from end to
In q substantial and workman
/ 4 manned and the wooden roof was
III fair state of preservation.
81 Ilthough no one was aware Of the
fTtence of this queer subterranean
.nue. II is known that the entrance
Z Skbout the center of the old Harris
2Skon stockade, and it is conjectured
%mk II owes it's existence to military
E@Eediency The Harris house prison
considerable fame of a GER
/ u sort during the war. 1t was the
lersonville of northern Missouri. 1t
cess been hotel. and was large
be ugh to hold several hundred pris-
tTrs by little crowding
facon was The department head
sprters for northern Missouri. Gen.
wis Merrill was commander. EIer-
|ull's Horse was constantly rounding
bushwhsckers, oath vioiaters and
uTr4uders generally. Sometimes they
sraled men who came under neither
ID. In September. 1862. there were
y ong the prisoners lawyer and a
To'' lker Of unquestioned character. but
h sympathies for the South. They
? re charged with acts for which the
Nitary law provided death penalty
asEsir guilt had been pronounced, but
pea vas decided to execute only ten OF
prisoners, the unfortunates to be
|ic' wn by lot.
4 The lawyer and the banker had
|eEh friends on the outside. At 3
hock ON the afternoon of the twenty
erth day they were released and
I 'urned home AT tee provost mar
y entered the room where the con-
EN- ted ware and superintendent the
p wing. The ten drawing the death
Ps ids were shot the next day. The
Qyfyer and banker, yet following their
" 'pective vocations, are both promi-
1t In Missouri to-day.
living TO the rigor with which the
shwhackers were chased by Mer.
|'s's Horse retaliation by the enemy
Is constantly expected. Day by day
| ,orts came in of massing columns
y gnerrillas under the black flag.
Y Ter Quantrell's merciless work at
\ wTeuce 1t was expected that he
Fv,ald visit Macon, where the first
~ nfederate flag of the war had been
Y down and where there was a mill
~ organization for the express OBJ
~ OF running down predatory bands.
derrnIs Horse was in no position
ask Qnarters1 from Che guerriifas:
i n%4hought that the ancient tun-
4 jury 4bund was Constructed as
a escape if the stockade failed
j. held the enemy. Only one man at
Nipne could get through the entrance
vi rear guard in the room below
lklld have held back regiment until
defenders escapedss The floor was
q and smooth and The width great |
hugh fpr three men to walk abreast.
re and there the tunnel was widen
ont. probably for the storage OF |
an And provisions.
lE4r Bill Anderson had shot down
1xN8ld soldiers on the North mis-. |
fs&ln in September, 1864 and
ahimted Major Johnston,s com
nd oR 300 men at Centralia he
/'ok hts fist to the north and de-
red there was one more town |
are the souls of slaughtered men