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Williams news., 1905-03-18
BUYING FOR A RAILROAD
Astounding Information About
 the Cost of Little Things

A pin would appear to be of lit tie use on a railroad, but the Santa Fe finds it necessary to buy one and a half tons of pins every year. Where they all go to nobody knows.
 The lead pencils used in twelve months by employees of the Santa Fe, would, if laid in a straight line, reach a distance of more than twenty five miles.
 The Santa Fe used 26,OOO brooms in 19O4-the new kind that sweeps clean. All old broom handles are returned to headquarters and sold for snug sum of money.
 It takes more than 1000 pen points a day (365.OOO annually to satisfy Santa Fe employees who take a pen in hand to write these few lines, etc. This army of pens consumes fifty barrels of ink, and the resultant documents are bound together with 13,OOO pounds of rub Der bands. The printed forms used by the wielders of the pens would fill fifteen carloads during the period mentioned.
 Railroads do not hold public rummage sales, but they manage to quietly get rid of a lot of second hand stuff in way that brings many dollars into their coffers. The Santa Fe, for example, receives about one and quarter million dollars each year as revenue from the sale of scrap material. Even the junk heap is not to be de- spised. This is quite a respectable contribution toward the amount spent for supplies, which totals $21 100000 annually.
 The locomotives on the Santa Fe system burn 100000 tons of coal in one year and 3,5OO,OOO bar rels of oil. The problem of mak- ing the wheels go round is big one, when reduced to terms of fuel. The oil-burning engines are in Ari- zona and California, and in that section the tracks are oilsprinkled.
Williams news., 1905-03-18

education and a little money to start with, others much less favored by fortune are annihilating these obstacles and forging ahead. Many of these poor boys and girls are not only starting without friends, money, influence or any assistance what ever, but are. beside, heavily handi- capped by others depending upon them, or by some physical deformi- ty; yet they are defying the fates which you say are keeping you back.-Phoenix Republican.
Williams news., 1905-03-18
TEMPERANCE IN INDIANA
Those Who Drink Cannot Hold
 Office Under Gov. HanIey

Gov. Hanley of Indiana has es- tablished the rule that no man who drinks whisky or intoxicating liquor of any kind can hold any office in that state. The governor in lay ing down this rule calls attention to the fact that large employing companies, particularly railroads, have adopted the rule that a man who uses intoxicants cannot hold a position with them. The compa- nies which refuse to employ man in responsible position are right and so is the governor of Indiana in laying down his anti-drink qual- ifications as necessary in every man who applies to him for an office.
 Whenever the rule becomes uni versal, and such condition will be reached in the not distant future. present generation, that the man who drinks whisky can only secure employment to carry the hod, ham dle pick and shovel, or push a wheelbarrow, whisky drinking will dwindle to the minimum.
 Another habit which is fast be- coming a bar to any man who seeks a responsible position is that of gambling. No business man will employ man who gambles if he knows it; good many who gam ble hold responsible positions, but it is only matter of time until they are dropped-when the em- ployer is informed of the fact he begins to look for successor.
 The stricter are the business rules today against whisky drinking and gambling the better it will be for the coming generation.
 The governor of Indiana has adopted the correct policy, and it would be we'll if such a rule could be applied to the filling of every public office in the land.-Bisbee Review.
Williams news., 1905-03-18

Because of the delay in sheep shearing owing to the wet weather, a number of the best shearers have quit in order to go north in time for the shearing there. Ordinarily the work is completed here suffici- ently early to permit of this. The same wet weather makes it imprac ticable for the dozen competing wool buyers tocompete in their bid ding as keenly as they otherwise would, the condition of the wool when shorn being such that the buyers with least experience seem to be timid in venturing much Stockman.
Williams news., 1905-03-18
School Apportionment

Hon. N. G. Layton, superintend- .ent of public instruction, has made the following apportionment of school funds, the same being made at the rate of 65 cents for each per son between 6 and II years of age The amount apportioned was $17,- 76O6O. The number of census chil- dren and the amount due each county follows:
Williams news., 1905-03-18

Mrs. J. F. Hesse left yesterday for the Grand Canyon where she expects to remain during the sum- mer. MT. Hesse has gone to Tomb stone where he has surveying con- tract which will take him five or six months to complete. During his absence there his wife will re- main at the Grand Canyon.
Williams news., 1905-03-18
GOLDFlELDS A-WONDER
Editor Banta Writes Letter to a
 Douglas Paper

I want to give you few brief sketches of the Goldfeld country, as 1 have been here now two months prospecting. I find Goldfields to be the greatest camp 1 have ever visited, and I believe it is the great est camp of its age on earth. Some four or five mines are producing high grade gold ore from the grass roots to the bottom of their works. The water supply is limited and wood scarce. Wood is SIS per cord and going higher.
 The town is located twenty-eight miles south of Tonopah, in a low, hilly country, at the foot of flat top mountain that seems to be bad ly burnt, although the mines are in porphyry dykes in the foothills.
 It is common to hear of strikes in the camp, and strikes that mean thousands of dollars; the gold shines through the rock like diamonds.
 I would judge there are about 5000 people in Goldfields. They are coming and going like bees. Late in the afternoon it is safe to say you can see a thousand men on the street at one time. In the forenoon most of them go out of town prospecting. The town is mostly tents, but houses are being built as fast as material can be. brought in. There are now about two hundred houses of all kinds.
 A brickyard is in operation, but it can't half supply the demand.
 The entire business of the town seems to 5e overdone, but they are making money. As to manual labor or mining work, a man can get all he wants at top wages.
 Miners get $4 a day. Everybody has money and spends it freely. The saloons are crowded until it is hard to get in or out of them. There are forty saloons, seven or eight stores and about twenty restaurants and lodgings.
 Goldfelds IS not the only good camp in the country Twenty five miles south of here is little camp called Lida. located in the Lida Bell mountains, which is we'll tim bered, watered and mineralized. It has mostly low grade ore and car ries more silver than gold, but there are some late strikes that carry good values. There are four mines working in the Lida camp and several others are being shaped up getting ready for work
 "Thirty miles southeast of Gold fields is the Gold Crater. a small camp, but very rich. Seventy miles south from Gold6elds is the noted Bull Frog camp that is now attract ing wide attention, and is the mak- ing of a big camp. O. w. BANTA."
Williams news., 1905-03-18
WOOL HIGHEST
 IN TWENTY YEARS

The price for wool this season is the highest it has been in twenty years. The top price paid so far is 19a cents. The lowest paid so far is little more than 16 cents. The clip of Campbell, Francis & Pollock from 45,0O0 sheep, amounting to about quarter of a million pounds, has been sold at 19S
 But the great source of profit is not the higher price of wool but the great advance in the price of sheep themselves. Campbell and Francis, for instance, not long ago sold to P. T. Hurley, of Phoenix, 200 head of sheep taken out of the corral after they had been shorn for $4 head.
 There had been clipped from them on an average of a dollars worth of wool These were New Mexican sheep which had been bought year ago for from $1 to $50 head.
 This is not regarded as an ex- travagant price, and it is believed from the present outlook that the price of sheep will be higher.
 The demand in the east, espe- cially in Kansas City, is becoming stronger and stronger. Kansas City buyers are already in Arizona mak- ing arrangements for April de- livery.
 New Mexican lambs bought a year ago for 85 cents promise to bring in Kansas City unheard of prices. In fact the outlook is such now that sheep man believes that sheep will soon be worth as much as COW, and none of them would think of trading their flocks for an equal number of range horses.
 The confidence of the sheep men is based partly on the fact that in the whole country there are 1O,OOO,- GOO less sheep than there were ten years ago and that the daily de- mands are twice as great as they were then.
 Then, also, the demand for wool was never before so great and the stock so short. The supply in Bos- ton, the great wool market of the country, is practically nil. These are conditions that cannot be over come in year.
 The shearing will end late this season. Usually it is closed before the lambing season begins, about March 20, but on account of the rains there has been a great deal of delay and many focks have not been able to cross the Verde to the shearing camps on account of the swollen condition of the river as the result of recent heavy rains.- Prescott Herald.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
A coNeREssMAN's SHOES.

An apt illustration of distinction
without difference occurred recently
in a Washington shoe shop, according
to the story Congressman Sulzer tells
on one of his colleagues.
Mr.. Suffers friend, it SENS, has been
a great sufferer from rheumatism. so
that one foot has been affected by it
and has become trihe smaller than
the other. He ordered his shoes made
accordingly. His directions were
obeyed but when he visited the shop
to try them on, he picked up the small
shoe first and attempted to get it on
the larger foot.
Look here" he exclaimed in
burst of petulance, Il told you to make
one shoe larger than the other; in
stead of that you have made one
smaller than the other!"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
Dame Eortune,s Er.aks

OF all the freaks OF Dame Fortune
few probably are so strange as those
which she literally slows away in her
lottery wheel. One might suppose
that people who paid their money for
lottery ticket, with high money
prizes in prospect, would at least take
the trouble to look out for the result.
The opposite is the fact. OF such sums
as $4,000, $1,000 and e4OO lying in
the Credit Foncier and other establish.
ments, unclaimed by the winners, the
number is considerable. There are
are many as six sums of $4,000. Some
OF these lots" have been unclaimed
for twenty years, and in ten years
more will revert to the state. But
all is not yet past hope. 1t is record.
ed that Panama lottery prize of
10000 once lay ten years before the
winner heard of his luck. He had
strayed to South America before the
draw" and had not troubled himself
about his number.-Paris Correspond.
ence London Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10

minister came across the, following
notice, which he read: Mr.. Libbius
Porter desires the prayers of the con.
gregation, that his loss may be sane
titled for his good"
Signs of repressed merriment ap-
peared through the congregation, but
the cause was complete mystery to
the young minister, who upon arriv-
ing at the home of Mr.. Fisk for lunch
inquired of Mrs. Fisk the cause of the
unseemly hilarity.
She informed him he had read an
old notice, used by her husband as a
book-mark 1t had been presented
by Mr.. Porter year or two before.
upon the death of his third wife. Mr..
Porter, with his fourth bride, sat in
the congregation while it was being
read.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
MADE PETS OF RArTLERs.
Tennessee Farmers Odd Liking for
Venomous Snakes.


Joshua Fleener, aged so years, keeps
a den of rattlesnakes at his home near
Richards postoffice, this county. He
has made pets of snakes ever since
he was a boy.
He has eleven rattlesnakes in his
den. and experienced some difficulty
In caring for the serpents during the
cold weather. Fleener lives in an old
fashioned house with the back wall of
the fireplace on the outside of the
building. The den, built Of stones, was
made with the chimney place as one
of the walls. The reptiles were placed
in this den during the cold weather.
and only one died this winter as a re-
suit of the cold.
Sometimes, when the chimney made
the den too warm, the serpents would
become angry and fight one another
The snakes were all captured by Flee
ner in the woods near his home, and
they are all timber rattlers, a species
which is becoming rare in this state.
Nashville Correspondence Indianap-
oils News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10

When Colonel Jack" Haverly was
In the heyday Of his career the min
strel show at his Fourteenth street
theater was an institution OF national
prominence. The Wednesday matinee
there was the trying out" perform
ance, when applicants for engage
ments were given an opportunity to
appear and show what they could do.
Some one had enlisted Mrs. Haverly's
interest in team of young clog dane
ers, and she induced the Colonel to let
them go on. When they did their
turn" they proved to be, in the theat-
rical parlance of to-day, "the worst
ever" They could scarcely dance at
all and there was not the slightest
hint of applause. The audience was
as still as church congregation. Nat
urally the Colonel was indignant and
Mrs. Haverly was deeply mortified.
At the end of the performance the
young dancers went to the Colonel's
office.
We'll, boys" said he, trying not
to be harsh, you did your turn. You
had your dance-but / can't engage
you"
why not?"
Because you didn't get hand"
ooh, | know that spoke up the
smallest one; I'VE just paralyzed
them"
On the strength of that answer, ac-
corddng to Mr.. ALI Hayman, who was
present, the Colonel then and there en-
gagged them as members of his famous
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
Animals That netv col.a

A learned professor of the Acade.
mic des Sciences has been making
experiments which have resulted in
convincing him that the rabbit is Of
all living things the most capable of
withstanding a very low Temperature
Enclosed all night in a block of ice q
rabbit was found next day getting ON
very comfortably, and evidently NOT
aware Of anything very peculiar in
its circumstances. In this regard the
rabbit leaves far behind our faithful
friend the dog, and, according to the
learned professor sheep, goats and
pigs take good second, third and
fourth places
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
THE SEX OF AN ECHO.

The painting which attracted the
most attention in certain art exhi-
hilton in Philadelphia, was entitled
Echo" 1t showed a mountain gorge
with female figure typifying echo
swinging out mistily and gracefully
from the rocky sleeps 1t was very
pretty, and the local critics heaped
praises upon the artist Former Gov
ernor Billy" Burns studied it seri-
ously for ten minutes and then turned
to his companion and said:
Its queer how they have all gone
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
In Arkansas.

Senator Berry of Arkansas is re.
sponsible for this story:
A man living in one of the small
towns of Arkansas was recognized as
a wag, and he seemed to take special
delight in feathering on ministers.
One day the fellow was sitting in his
buggy, to which was hooked a mule,
when the village minister came up
and suggested that he be loaned the
team n take his wife out for an air
ing.
Il don't think, parson, your wife
would ride behind jackass; but IL
she can ride beside one, why she can
have the team" was the answer.
you misunderstood me-" said the
minister. my dear brother, do not
wish you to go, for intend to drive
myself.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
CAT PART OF FURNITURE.
Oversight Cause Of Sieepess Night
for Occupant of Parlor 3.

Oversight Cause of SleepIess Night
for Occupant of ParIor 3.
Dan O'Connell relates that while
stamping Massachusetts for Bryan in
'96 he put up one night at hotel in
one of the western cities of the state.
The house was crowded with guests,
and he was assigned sleeping quarters
in "parlor B."
Despite the fine sounding name,
O'Connell found "parlor B" anything
but comfortable, but made shift to
doze off at last. Then something
woke him very suddenly. He sprang
out of bed, and mouse fell from his
head to the floor. 1t had just com
pleted nest in his thick brown hair
After throwing all the available
bric-a-brac at the intruder he sue
ceeded in driving it to hole in the
wall, but as sleep had now become inn
possible, the silver-tongued orator
arose at dawn and sought the office,
where he found porter polishing
shoes.
You're up early" remarked the
boy.
yes. don't care to be eaten
alive" growled the spellbinder.
"Gee!" exclaimed the youth. "IIl
bet they put you in 'parlor b. If had
known that you could have had my
cat. Humph. That new clerk is dead
slow, anyway He ought to know by
this time that cat always goes with
'parlor B."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
DREAMS OF THE BLIND.

A new line of investigation in the
phenomena of dreams has been occu-
plying the leisure moments of DR..
Carleton Simon for the last few
months. He is endeavoring to dis
cover on what cause people who have
been blind all their lives base their
dreams.
1t is a well known scientific fact that
the dreams of the normal person are
invariably founded on some event or
condition that they have experienced,
condition that involves sight; that
they are retrospective and not pros
pective, despite the highly colored
tales OF our grandfathers concerning
prophetic dreams.
What are the prevalent dreams of
persons born blind?' queried DR.. ST.
mon in discussing the matter with
some Of his professional friends. "The
subject, so far as | know, has not ex-
cited inquiry, but it seems of nature
to deserve 1t. as II might lead to some
very curious results. Are forms or
figures presented to them, either ami
mate, or inanimate, and IL so do they
bear any resemblance to their origi-
nails? Everything thus fitting before
the minds eye must be a creation,
not recollection to. him who can
only have gathered vague notions of
form from the touch and who can
have no idea of color.
Anyway, it's worth looking into, IL
seems to me-"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10

selected site for their place of wor-
ship in a forest of Douglas fir trees
that skirted the shore of Puget sound,
and stretched inward for many miles.
Out of these immense. shaggy-barked
trees that lowered upward for 200
feet without branch below the up
per half, they chose one eight feet in
diameter to serve as the steeple.
When the branch bearing portion of
the tree had been cut away to pre-
vent the falling of limbs in case of a
storm, there was left bare trunk
nearly 100 feet high. Beside it there
was built a plain little structure. The
bell was fastened to the tree and the
little church, with it's enduring steeple,
was complete.
Although st. Peters was at one time
in the heart of the village of Tacoma,
unfriendly 'Siwash Indians manifested
such strong disapproval of church-go-
ing pioneers that trusty shotgun
came to be regarded as necessary to
the church service as the Bible and
hymn book.
To-day the hostile Indians have dis
appeared, and even the city of Taco
ma itself seems to have abandoned the
church with its ancient tower. 1t is
surrounded by few little dwellings,
occupying the section of Tacoma
known as Old Town. The business
part of Tacoma is three miles away,
but one of the buildings to which Ia
comans point with pride when ex-
planning the superiority of their city
over Seattle is st. Peters church.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
Odd Nloknamss for Vessels.

British sailors have odd nicknames
for their vessels Some of them are
Majestic, Jews Stick; Magnificent,
Maggie; Prince George, P. G.; Sans
Parel Sampan; Amphitrite, Ham an
Tripe; Hermione, My Own; Prince Of
Wales, Itching Dean; Narcissus, Little
Ciss; Jupiter Jupes; Queen. Alex;
Hermes, Wallfower; Bacchante, Back
Shant; Sutlej Subtle ]; Niobe, Mob
bier; Hogue, Hog; Warspite, War
BASH Royal Oak, Acorn; Undaunted,
Imprinted; Empress of India, Hea-
ven's Light; Pomone, Pom One; Nile,
The Jew; Victorious, v, c.; Bellero-
phon, Billy Ruffian; Foudroyant, Food
and Drink.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10

daft over that picture when there is
vital defect in it,"
How so? can't see anything but
beauty"
How so? Plain as can be. How
can an echo be woman? Why, an
echo never speaks until 1t is spoken
to, and every time it repeats what it
has heard continues to make it less.
Now, how could woman typify any
thing like that? No, sir; that picture
is libel on womankind and that ar
fist don't know human nature. The
things a fraud"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
COMPARATIVE CONDITIONS.

Philosophers claim that distress,
even when positive or superlative, is
still only comparative, which bears
out the answer that Mr.. George Ed
wardes, who recently returned to
England, made to Birmingham manu-
facturer who was complaining of
hard times.
The pressure of the times is such
in our city" said the Birmingham
man, that we have good workmen
who will get up the inside of watch
for eighteen shillings."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
Cremation In ENGLAND.

Cremation makes remarkably slow
progress in England, partly because of
the decision of the courts in 1894, that,
unless express instructions bad been
left by the deceased, an executor
could not cremate the remains. The
ground OF the decision was that every
one Is entitled to Christian burial
and that crssastion is not Christian
burial.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
Wedding Ring Found on Harrow.

wedding Ring Found on Harrow.
A blacksmith of Aswarby, near s;ea.
1ord' England, has made most curl.
GUS discovery.
lie received from a neighboring
Iarmstead harrow for repairs, and
while these were being executed a %.
carat gold wedding ring was found
sticking on to one of the teeth of the
implement. 1t is supposed that the
ring was lost on the land and that it
was picked up by the harrow in the
course of its work.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10

OF the counsel on both sides. One
OF the lawyers engaged was Fred A.
Appleton, whose fame as a wit was
widespread.
Opposing him was lawyer of POM
pous mien and much ayoirdupois, who
kept making blunder after blunder
until even the judge became irritated
After making particularly aggravat-
ing error he said:
I beg you honors pardon; that was
another mistake. | seem to be inocu-
lated with dullness to-day
"lnoculated, brother" said Mr.. Ap-
pleton, Il thought you had it in the
natural way"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10
a eeIated PRAYER.

A good aneedote is related of a
young minister who was supplying the
pulpit Of the Wrentham (Mass.) Con-
gregational church. during the alb
sence of its pastor, the Rev. Elisha
Fisk, better known as Priest Fisk"
whose pastorate in this church COW
cred period of fifty-six years.
Upon opening the Bible the young
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-10-10

tohao mew Jersey man has invented a
sooacco pipe, the stem and howl 81
ashe en are made Of asbestos. Strips Of
a aso OF which the pipe is built
go s coated with paste composed Of
IN osa milk and plaster Of paris
- oruer to burn out the paste the
p.pe Is baked. The inventor saws that
any color from light brown TO ehonS
0"n De obtained by varying the heat