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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-07
ALMOST EVERYBODY

is coughing. It is the time of
year when people are most sus-
ceptible to colds. SCOTS Emu-
sion viii not only cure the cold.
which otherwise might hang on
all winter, but will give strength
and flesh to the body to resist
more colds, pneumonia, etc.
SCOTT s. DowtE. <o7 Pearl Street, New York.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
GOLD BRICK FOR DRUMMER
Promised Pretty Girl for Wife, Older
Sister Observation-Disclosures
Defaults.

Olivet, S. D.-Coerced into working in
the harvest field and finally offered a
wife as a reward for his doing more
work than any of the other hands,
James Stacey has upset remarkable
romance.
Stacey is a travelling man, who was
trying to get the farmers of South Da-
kota to appreciate the merits of a self
closing gate. While going around the
country in harvest time, being husky
individual, he received good many Of
fers of work. The gate proposition
wasn't paying one, but Stacey decided
to stick to it,
Just about the time grain was turning
to rich yellow in the wheat country
west of here Stacey stopped at the big
farm of George Blodgin.
Blodgin no sooner saw him than he Of
fered him liberal wages to help harvest
his big crop of small grain, in addition
to his eldest daughter in marriage and
farm II he proved the best harvester.
At that moment a neat, pretty girl
came out on the porch. Stacey looked
her over carefully
."I'll stay" said Stacey.
Stacey did stay and went to work like
thrashing machine, outdoing all the
other men, and when the work was done
the farmer told Stacey he had won the
girl.
She's not hum just now" said the
farmer, "but'll be back soon"
Here they come" shouted the farm
er, directly, and Stacey, looking down
the trail, saw a buggy coming toward
the farmhouse. There were two figures
in the buggy, one of them being the girl
of his acquaintance.
1--we won," said Stacey, as he helped
her to alight, and started to walk off
with her.
Here" shouted the farmer, that's
not the girl. She is already engaged.
She is the youngest daughter. This is
my eldest" and he pointed at the young
woman in the buggy.
Stacey took one look at her face and
then wiped his forehead.
Il default" he said, YEARLY.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
MAKING FIREcRAcKERs.
Laborious Methods Employed by
the Chinese and Low
Price. .am

when | was In China used to see
them made" said G. M Vest of Mime
apolis. "The firecracker has been in use
there few thousand years. Few peo-
pie outside of China know the method OF
manufacture. The straw paper is first
rolled by hand around an iron rod, which
varies In size according to the size OF the
cracker to be made To complete the
rolling rude machine is used. This
consists of two uprig'hts supporting an
axis. from which is suspended by two
arms heavy piece of wood, slightly
convex on the lower side.
There is just room between this
swinging block and the top of the table
TO place the cracker. AS each layer of
paper is put on by hand, the cracker is
placed upon the table, and the suspend
ed weight is drawn over the roll, thus
Tightening 1t until no more can be
passed under the weight For the SMALL
er whip cracker the workman uses for
compression, instead of this machine, a
heavy piece of wood fitted with handle
like that Of carpenters plane. In I'LL
ing crackers 200 or 800 are tied together
in bunch.
Red clay is spread over end of each
cracker with a punch While the clay
is being tamped in, little water Is
sprayed on it, which makes it pack
closer The powder is poured in the
other end Of the cracker. With the aid
OF an awl the edge of the paper is
turned in at the upper end of the crack.
er, and the fuse is inserted through this
That is the way the Chinese make them
In China they can be purchased at q
cost OF So cents for 10000, although the
best quality commands twice tnai
price"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Nick Dorsey, your heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that J.,
Charles Plummer, your co-owner in the
Lode Stone Fraction" quartz mining
claim, situate in Loon Creek Mining
District, Custer county, Idaho. have
expended one hundred dollars ($100.00)
in labor and improvements on the
above mentioned lode mining claim for
the year ending December 31st, 1904.
The above sum being the annual
assessment for the year 1904. You are
hereby notified to contribute your
share of the above amount which is
Thirty-Three dollars and thirty-three
cents ($33.33).
Unless you, your beirs or assigns pay
the above amount, and cost of this ad-
vertisement within ninety days after
the full publication of this notice, you
will forfeit all your right to the above
named claim aud it will become the
property of the subscriber according
to Section 1924 of the Revised Statutes
OF United States and the Amendments
thereto. CHARLES PLUMBER,
Loon Creek, Idaho.
Loon Creek, Idaho, March 4th, 1905
First publication March 14th, 1905.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
A NOVEL ENGLISH SPORT.
Linnet Singing Engages the Atten-
ton and Betting Proclivities
of Many People

In the little, swarming streets off
Whitechapel road, down through Shore
ditch and Bethnal Green, linnet singing
is the pastime of thousands and the bust
ness of scores of men, who will bet
themselves to a standstill over the
sweet voiced rivalries of two wee brown
birds Gagged on the wall OF some public
house whose reputation makes respec-
liability timorous of intrusion, says Out
ing. The hard faced East Ender,"
whose chiefest JOY is bloody limited
round CO. in the prize ring of Harry ia
cobs Wonderland, in Whitechapel, may
be seen next night in the back room of
tom" Symonds pub" sitting in
breathless silence and behind locked
doors, with hundred of his kind, while
his linnet sings match for pleasant
song" and stake of ten shillings a
side.
There was never more homogeneous
sport than this, yet despite its gambling
interest, inseparable from all kinds of
popular English sport, it is to rejoice
that so sentimental and whimsical a
pastime makes many a bright spot in
the clouded life of the East End. To
those who do not know it may be we'll to
explain that the vocal school of the lin
net in the world of sport is as thorough
ly systematized and as fast bound by
tradition as the preparatory training
for grand opera. This is no haphazard
issue of betting which of two birds will
sing longest or loudest or sweetest.
Every detail of a match is fixed by un-
written law, nodded through many gem
erations of referees. timekeepers, scor-
ers and owners.
From time beyond reckoning the lin
nets singing vocabulary has been fixed
as pleasant song and rough song"
The first consists of a list of refrains,
each OF which contains more than four
notes or syllables. If a match is made
for pleasant song" then the contesting
birds must stick to their more compli-
Gated strains, else they are scored
against. In such a match, If the linnet
interjects one or more of the shorter
or trough songs" each fault is chalked
against him by the scorekeeper and APP
pears in the final totals. If the stipula-
ton is for rough song" then the bird
may use these contracted or easier
sequences of notes, and receive perfect
marks. The birds which can be backed
to sing only pleasant song" are the
grand opera stars of the bird stage in
East London.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
TOOK KELLEY CURE MUCH
Man Escapes from That Institution,
Who Had Been Treated Nine
teen Times.

New Haven, Conn.-The police of
this city arrested man who gave his
name as Charles B. Fleming for being
under the influence of drink. He said
that his home was in New York.
Two men who said they were doc
tors from the Kelley institute at West
Haven. called at police headquarters
and asked Sergeant Cook to release
Fleming, and they would see that he
was cared for all right. They said
they would take him to his home ia
New York. The sergeant turned Elem
ing over to the strangers.
Later a man, who said he was a
private physician, called at police
headquarters and asked for Fleming,
The man who was with him, he SAID,
was Fleming's valet. The doctor SAID
that Fleming was a very wealthy New
Yorker. and that he had been 10 times
III Kelley Institutes part of the time in
Europe. He was very much chagrined
to find that Fleming had been re-
leased.
Upon inquiry at the Keeley institute
in West Haven he learned that the
two men who had called for Flemin g
were only keepers in the place, and
not doctors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
GIRL BEHIND THE GOODS.
Gets In Good One on the Old Lady
Who Wears the Naughty
AIR


"Some women make me dead tired"
said a sales-duchess, with the 12-inch
pompadour, as she stood behind the pat
tern counter, relates the Washington
Star.
Say, wish you'd write little piece
I'm going to speak to you and put it
in your paper. It's about the fool things
these women trot in here and gurgle
for. It'd make cat cross-eyed to get
next to them when they go paving over
the stuff and then toss their heads and
trot along in sort of Im-the-only-thing
in-the-business style. I've got cinch
over some of the other sales ladies,
though, cause they have to ask here for
what they want, and they can't make me
open the package, either. The picture
Of the garment is printed on every pat
tern, and If they don't like 1t they can
scoot along. But some OF 'em GER
tainly make me tired.
There was one OF EN- in here to-day
She had two others with her, but they
we're all right, cause they didn't open
their mouths until she had made her
break, and then they laughed at her and
she made naughty turn toward the
door, an III bet bunch of vi'lets she
don't speak to either of 'em for whole
day at least. Well, as was sayin', the
bunch sashayed in here and up she
waltzes to my counter. She gave me
the frozen face stare and put on all the
English she had ever read in those
were-a-dollar- fifty-now-18-cents' novels
over on the book counter.
Have you any tails?' she gurgled.
Il looked up real sassy-like and
stepped up onto box so as to show her
that her French heels didn't make a bit
of difference in our heights, and pre-
tended to not know what she was talk
ing about
Sure I says. I've got six
Let me see EN-, she says to me, real
naughty again.
They're at home with their mother
says l, giving her the real innocent
stare.
What do you mean?' says she, with
a real you-may-kiss-the-r oyal-mitt tone.
Kittens says |. They're at home
with their mother. You just ought to see
'em. They're the cutest things ever.
We'll you'd ought to seen her grab
her skirt and dart along. The other
girls laughed and followed her. while /
just looked astonished and watched her
till she got out. Do you know what she
wanted? You don't? Well I'm not sur
prised. She wanted shirtwaist pattern
with tails hanging down behind You
know the kind. Say, put that little piece
in your paper, won't you?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION.

Notice is hereby given that on the 23rd day
OF December 1905, at Mackay, County OF Gus
ter, State OF Idaho proof will be submitted of
the completion OF works for the diversion OF
3-5 cubic feet per second OF the waters OF
Navarro Creek, in accordance with the terms
and conditions of a certain permit heretofore
issued by the State Engineer OF the State OF
Idaho:
I. The name OF the person holding said per.
init is Eliza e, Davidson.
2. The postofice address OF such person is
Mackay, County of Custer, State of Idaho
3. The number of such permit is 1914, and
the date set for the completion Of such work
is December 49, 1905.
4. Said water is to be used for irrigation
purposes.
8. Said works of diversion will be fully com
pleted on the date set for such completion and
the amount of water which said works are
capable of conducting TO the place intended
use, in accordance with the plans accompany
ing the application for such permit, is 3-g
cubic feet per second.
8. The amount OF lands fer which said water
is available is SO acres. particularly described
as follows; NE54 Of SWI, NwA Of sen, sec
5, T. 7 N, r. 90 E. b. NJ.
First publication Nov. 2Sth, 1905.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
YIELD OF GOLD is GREATER
Increase in Output of United States
Amounts to $7131 500, with
California Leading.

Washington, ID. C.-Director Rob.
erts, of the mint, in his estimate of
The production of gold and silver In
the United States for 1904 declared the
increased production over the calen-
Gar year 1903 of $7,131,5OO gold and
S,4S6.OOO fine ounces of silver.
The largest gold gain was by Cal
ifornia, which yielded about SO. OOO, 900
more than in 1903, and larger
amount than in any year since the
COS.
This gain" the director says
"camc chiefly from dredge operations
and further gain is expected during
the current year and for some years
to come. The California state mining
bureau estimates the possible output
Of the dredges at 100000 year for
so years.
Colorado shows an increase Of near
ly 100000 gold and 100000 ounces
of silver; Alaska gain of $500, 900
gold; Montana a gain of 2,O00.0 900
ounces Of silver; Utah a gain of 1900
600 ounces of silver; Idaho a gain of
100000 ounces of silver"
The amount of gold mined was .904,-
9S6 ounces, and the commercial value
of the silver produced was $50, 515,-
1913, making the total value of the two
metals $114,239,13S.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Washington. Rich at 81.

Recent examination of the records
of Fairfax county, Virginia, show that
George Washington owned $4,000 acres
of land when q years old, and at the
fall slaughtering in 1880 the Washing
ton family killed $50 hogs for their
use. The examination also brought
out the fact that in 1887 the father
of his country sowed $50 acres in
grass, 400 acres in oats, 700 acres in
wheat and 700 acres in other grains.
He owned 140 horses. liz cows, 500
sheep. and had ESQ negroes on the
plantation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Emanuel Bell,

To Emanuel Bell,
George b. Baldwin, and
the heirs of James Danskin, deceased.
You and each of you are hereby noti-
fed that have expended in each of
the years 93-1S94-lS05-1S9
-1599-1S99-10 00-1901--19O2- 1903
1904 one hundred dollars in labor and
improvements upon the "Birdie RI
lode, situate in the Sheep Mountain
Mining District, Custer county, State
of Idaho. the location certificate of
which is found of record In Book C'
of Quartz Mining Claims page 32' in
the Office of the Recorder of said county
at Challis, Idaho, in order to hold said
claim under the provisions of Seclion
1924 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, and the Amendments
thereto approved January 22nd, 1880,
concerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required to
hold said lode claim for each of the
periods ending on the 3lst day of Dec.
ember, in each of the years hereinbe.
fore mentioned. And if within ninety
days from the personal service of this
notice, or within ninety days after the
publication thereof, you fa'l or refuse
to contribute your proportion of such
expenditure as such co-owner, your
interest in the claim will become the
property of the subscriber, your co
owner who has made the the required
expenditure by the terms of said Sec
ton. ALICE G. MORLER,
Seattle, Wash,
p. o. Box ATT
Dated Challis, Ida, March 9th, 1905.
First publication March 14th, 1905.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
SCENES IN RURAL FRANCE.
Ideal Spot for the Home of Love, But
Young Folks Have De-
parted.

1t would be difficult to find more
suitable background for love making
than the rural landscape Of central
France affords Earth and sky combine
their beauties to form a rustic paradise.
In June nature wanders down the fer
tile river valleys like lovely princess
who is crowned with flowers and goes
her way carelessly, yet nobly, yelled
softly in a rosy mist
Whether you follow the high road or
the meadow path, presently you find
yourself lost in veritable tanglewood
of sound and sense. Above the other
bird notes which thrill the air, the
cuckoo's call sounds clear, the cricket
chirps a home song at your feet, and in
the neighboring clump Of trees wood
pecker whistles for rain.
To the right the river, at this point In
Its course no more than a creek, winds
gracefully between sweet meadows, or
under willow branches; further down,
where II widens out, just beyond the
small arched bridge, there is an old mill
and a washhouse standing in the
stream. To the right, at distance, the
hilltops are outlined against summer
sky, and ahead are uplands which seem
TO touch the lightly floating clouds.
Yet youth is absent from every corner
of the scene, and without youth you can
not have romance. In the wide fields
where peoples flame in the waving
grass, and where bullets nod lightly mid
the ripening grain. you see only odd peo-
pie working bending their backs wear
lily beneath a double weight of toll and
years. For all the young men are serv-
ing in the army.
And the girls have gone to Paris, OF
to some other lesser city nearer by, not
to earn living merely, but also, If pos
sible, to earn dot
You cannot help feeling that II is n
pity that strangers only who are rarely
in a picturesquely sentimental mood,
have a chance to enjoy the attractive
lovers hooks that in this neighborhood
abound, the while the rightful owners
are far away, plodding through the
prose of life.
In the village customs hereabout,
however, trace of the poetry of the
country life of former days remains In
the browning Of the Rosiere. which
takes place in early June. This is the
occasion when the most virtuous
maiden Of the parish receives rose in
acknowledgment of her goodness, and
receives likewise dowry, which has
been provided either by the cure or by
some kind-hearted aristocrat of the
countryside.
The browning Of the Rosiere is always
a charming festival, even though the
rustic queen of virtue who has been
chosen is homely, and utterly without
grace Of manner-which is usually true,
of course, else she would not be so sur
passingly good Dressed all in white,
she goes through the streets on the
mayors arm, followed by procession
of white-robed maidens bearing gar
lands Of flowers
With appropriate ceremony the
mayor presents to her the crown of
roses, the dowry which has been pro
vided, and possibly little gift Of his
own, Us souvenir of the occasion.
Sometimes the festival ends in we'd
ding, and the Rosiere becomes the happy
bride Of some rustic suitor, who appre-
ciated her virtues even before they won
her dot.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Gypsies on the Sea.

In the archipelago off Mergui, OF the
coast of Lower Burma, Asia, live the
fsea gypsies." Instead of carts they
own covered boats, in which with their
families, dogs, cats, chickens and pets,
they float about on the sea and wander
from island TO island. BY day they fish
or harpoon turtle or dive for oysters.
But every night they put back to the
shore II the weather is bad at sea
they land with their dogs and Their
goaoh, catching porcupines. squirrels
armadilioes, hog, deer and the like, Of
which they make savory stews, a.
American gypsles dos-Chicago Jour
pal
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Not Musicallv Inclined.

MAY we hope for the pleasure Of your
tomorrow? We shall have in
strumental and vocal music My daugh-
ter Alice will sing, and afterwards Beat
rice will recite her new poem. At nine
o'clock we shall have supper"
Many thanks-you are very kind,
will be with you at nine. "-Tit-Bits.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12

First publication Nov. alst, 1905.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Sweet. Indeedl

Mrs. Bacon-Mrs. Styles new house
is just as sweet as it can be.
Mr.. Bacon-Colonial, is it not?
Yes, it smells like cologne. -
Yonkers Statesman.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Land ONCE at Haley, Idaho, 1
November I1th, 1906. (
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice Of intention tC
make final proof in support Of his claim, ant
that said proof will be made before L. II. John
ston United States Commissioner for the Dis
trict Of Idaho, at Challis. Custer county, Ida
no, on December 9th, 1906 viz Ellen Muir
ply, H. E. 20l2, for the Sh SEX, Eh SWA o
Sec. 81, TIP. 10 NJ, r. 81 e. B. NJ.
She names the following witnesses to Prov
her continuous residence upon and cultvatisi
Of said land, VIZ;
Frank A. Reed of Challis, Custer Co., Idaho
Benjamin Borjeson, OF Ellis,
John F, Short, of May, Lemhi
Michael McGovern
in. j. SHARP, Register
First publication Nov. 2lst 1905.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-12
Kuropatkin Not the pictator.

The Russians did not dictate the
terms of peace at Toxic" as Gen. Kuro-
patlSin boasted they would do, but they
were dictated there all the same.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-12-02
MAINTAIN FREE BED FOR CATS.
Bequests to Animals Are More and More
Frequent.

\ free bed for cats is maintained in
an animal hospital in Philadelphia.
1t is large cage of polished nickel,
with Il porcelain floor that slides out
for cleaning, and with an outfit of por-
celan feeding utensile. a pneumatic bed
and an abundance of soft, clean blank
cts.
Standing beside this bed the hospitals
superintendent said:
1T was bequeathed to us seven years
ago by rich woman. The income of
$1,000 is set apart for its maintenance.
1t does a deal of good
Requests TO ANNALS ne went on,
become more and more common as the
various =. L. &. Al increase in mum
Der.
"A San Francisco woman left the III
come of $4,000 to be expended in keeping
the streets free of broken glass, tin cans
and all such rubbish as might cut the
feet of horses.
There is hospital for birds in New
\ ork. and | know Il woman whose will
when she dies will make it richer by
$3.50 a year.
"A st. Louis millionaire left Il good
sum to be devoted to making easier the
lives of aged and hroken-down horses
and mules.
Animal requests of this kind are
wise. There is another kind of amman
bequest. though. that is foolish. This is
the setting aside of eXtravagant sums
for the luxurious maintenance. after the
masters or mistress death, of pet ami
mails. Such requests cause swinding.
The person who has 5000 or $500 year
To keep eat or dog on is protiting large
~. and when the cat or dog dies sub
stitutes another for it in order that the
income may not cease.
Il know of requests of this foolish
sort To cats dogs birds and even void
fish. In each case there was cheating.
As the real pet died another that re-
sembled it was substituted. phEdcl-
phia Bulletin