The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-04-19
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j. C. Dougherty is improving his
building with fresh coat of paint
The recent snow and rain has been
of untold benefit to all kinds of vege-
tation.
The NJ. & C. 1. stage is now run
ming on wheels over the Lone Pine and
Willow Creek SUBMITS.
Roy Huffman has been appointed
master mechanic for the White Knob
Copper company at Mackay.
Henry Sturkey left Sunday morn
ing for Stanley Basin to be in readi-
ness to commence placer mining as
soon as the snow commences to melt.
John D. Rockefeller says IL is a re-
ligious duty to get all the money you
can and keep all you can. Senator
Burton of Kansas has pasted this in
his hat
In the United States district court
at Pocatello on the 18th inst, E. +.
Schroeder and Thomas Wilson pleaded
guilty to the charge of robbing the
postofice in connection with Thum 81
Co.'S. store at Ross Fork on the night of
April 6. Judge Beatty sentenced each
to eight years imprisonment in the
San Quentin prison.
The proposition to suspend State
from the Union on account of its re-
ligion is about as rank as anything
ever heard of But it can be done. If
Congress refuses to make martyr of
( Senator Smoot because President Smith
has six wives, President Roosevelt can
get in his patent by simply issuing an
executive order that Utah is no longer
one of the United States.
"A st. Petersburg dispatch of April
18th, says: (: "While going out to meet
the japanese feet at Port Arthur, the
Petropavlovsk struck a mine in the
outer roadstead, heeled over, turned
d turtle and sank. Practically the whole
. of her crew were lost. Only four Off
e GERS were saved, among them being
OuhC OJEAts 4hC ACSiOPofAONcA
s was flying the flag of vice-Admiral
Makaroff The loss of men is said to
be over 70O."
Miss Susan B. Anthony at "a, as
clipper as a black bird and merry as
: cricket, says II may not be here
when the campaign opens but If any
!. where, shall be somewhere" Thisis
lucid, diplomatic, little mysterious,
and delightfully."- non-commital. She
? would make an excellent Secretary of
State if anything should happen to
John Hay.
The Idaho City World says: "The
MESSENGER reports the arrival in Chal-
y lis recently of the superintendent of
q the Lost Packer mine, j. A. Czizek,
z whom quite good many people, who
e experience difficulty in getting firm
e hold on the correct pronunciation of
g his name, for the sake of ease and
grace call him Skeezicks. The MES
sENGER ventures to predict that
through the efforts and influence of
!, Mr.. Czizek million or more dollars
will be invested in Custer county this
year, and the most of it will naturally
go to Loon creek. He will go before
the Custer county Board of County
Commissioners with proposition for
n- the building of wagon road from the
d head of Jordan creek to Loon creek.
is the cost of which is estimated at SlO,
I'd OO0 The Lost Packer company agrees
b. to contribute 81, 500 if the Commission
It ers will donate the balance. Mr..
20 Czizek informed the MESSENGER that
he had ''Aattering offers" from Boise
~ to put a road in from the state road,
"a but he considers the Jordan creek
st route the best. "Flattering offers"
70 from Boise don't count for much. The
r. capital city is prolific in such offers.
6 They seldom materalize and usually
$. fall fiat. They are positive, compara-
IS tive and superlative, preceded by a
present participle. Flat, tiatter, fiat
tering would be a nice grammatical
10 fiattering, then fiat, fiatter, tiattest.
q The Boise fellows are always boasting
that most all roads do, and earnestly
arguing that all the rest should, con-
h' verge at Boise and diverge from there
y to everywhere and all the little places
between. Those capital fellows want
all the routes changed that don't have
rs one end firmly fastened in Boise the
" Beautiful, but persistently refuse to
" put up the change" with which to
Iy make the change--in other words the
1T small coins or shelsels to make Boise
y the Butte the radiating point for all
IS Idaho roads While the beautiful"
r is making ''fattering offers" hard
e coin of the realm that builds roads as
s. well as talks, will build one to Loon
" creek via. Jordan creek, shutting out
IS the capital city completely. A good