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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
MARITIME SHEEP RANCHES.
Rocky Islands on the Coast of Maine
That Are Used for This


When an island off the Maine coast
is good for nothing else 1t is turned
into a maritirce sheep ranch, and much
money is made in that way, men from
other states having invested large
sums in the purchase of islands and
stock. The sheep are turned loose,
and left 10 get a living as best they
can. The islands appear barren, but
the sheep get along very well, and are
invariably fat when their owners come
with boats TO take them off for siaugh-
ter in the fall. On some of the islands
there Is no water whatever, but the
sheep get what moisture they need
from the heavy dews, and where grass
IS scrubby and scarce the npimals cul-
tivate a fondness for various kinds Of
seaweeds, which diet is said to give an
excellent flavor TO the mutton.
A few years ago much complaint was
made by well meaning but poorly in
formed persons Of the supposed cruelty
of leaving sheep TO take care of them
selves, without shelter, on these bar
rem, windswept isles, but it has been
demonstrated that the sheep suffer no
hardship whatever, or they would not
thrive as they do. IL is related by
one man who had several hundreds of
sheep on Metinic island hat he built,
at considerable expense, a warm shell
ter for them, because his wife was con
stantly expressing the fear that the
poor sheep would freeze TO death on
cold nights. The kindly sheep breeder
found that not a single one OF the ami
mails had taken advantage Of the shell
ter provided, in one of the coolest
winters that ever blew on the coast
OF Maine. Sheep will huddle together
where they like, and cannot be induced
to go into the sheds built for them on
several of the islands.
I'm the fall the island ranchers go
OF in dories and bring some Of the fat
test Of the sheep ashore TO market,
tying their legs together and tossing
them into the boats like so many bum
dies, and at the same time new stock
is carried to the islands. In the spring
a trip is made to get lambs, and the
stock is again replenished. The eX-
pense Of sheep raising on the islands
is small, and the profits are cores
pondingly large.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
COST OF PANAMA CANAL.
Many Millions Already Spent and
Many More Necessary for
It's Completion.

1t is estimated That It will cos the
United States $184, 233 1858 to acquire and
complete the Panama canal, besides the
amount to be paid to the government in
control Of the isthmus for the conces-
sion.
Already there has been an immense
amount of money and energy expended
on the canal. 1t is safe to say, asserts
the New York Tribune, that a sum
more than sufficient to dig a waterway
from ocean to ocean at sea level has
been collected from investors at differ
ent times in its history.
When De Lesseps organized the first
company in 1880 for the construction
Of the canal, it started work at a paid up
capital OF $50, 000, 900. For eight years
the company toiled, employing at times
as many as $4,000 men. Then came a
necessity for changing the plans and
the company failed, after having col
lected in round figures from the sale of
stock and bonds $3.50. 10000 OF this
II vas shown that the expenditures
actually made on the isthmus amounted
to S15G,400 900, and that the cost of ex-
cavation and embanl1ment proper was
sSS, SOC, 900. The ultimate cost was then
estimated at STA. GOO, 200. For several
years an eHort was made t. capitalize
a new company to complete the work,
and at last, in 1894, the present Panama
Canal company was organized with a
paid up capital Of s13, O00, 900. Since that
time work has advanced at the rate OF
about 1000, 900 cubic yards of excava-
tion each year.
The total amount OF excavation up to
the present time has been about 81, 000.-
600 cubic yards. Unfortunately only
about 40, 00.0 900 cubic yards Of this is
available for the waterway proposed
In 1S99-19o0 by the canal commission,
of which Rear Admiral Walker was
president. The Walker commissions
recommendations included this avail
able excavation in the $40. 000, 900 to be
paid the canal company for its work,
maps, records, drawings and the prop
erty of the Panama Railroad company.
The commission estimated that the
total amount of excavation which would
be required for the canal to be built
from its plans. exclusive of that for the
Bohio dam and the Giganti spillway,
would be 94,S63,7 FOB cubic yards. The
work remaining to be done, therefore,
represents the difference between the
amount Of available excavation which
1t will acquire by purchase from the
Panama Canal company or nearly
a $40
three-ffths Of the entire work. 1t is
estimated that the cost Of this work will
be $144, 233. 1858, in addition 10 the sum
to be paid to the present owner of the
property. ~ the time 1t is completed
more than $3.50, 0O0, 900 will have been
obtained in one way or another for use
In building the canal, while nearly S312.-
100000 will have actually been spent in
connection with its construction and
administration.
1t was the intention of the Panama
Canal company to make the canal 29.5
feet deep. The increased dimensions of
steamers now being built has made it
necessary to plan for a much deeper
canal, and the Walker commissions
plans are for a waterway sc feet deep.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
Climate, Timber, School, Etc.

= climate OF Custer county is very delightful-light SNOWY
IN the valleys; short winters and most cbarmino/ winters n
onaIns, with an elevation of {, 400 feet, sleigh rides are well HS
= umppSs!ole. Credltable" to our county is our plethoric school ~J
NC I"cm district has its school building and we'll paid teacher 4
Chalis the high school studies are tanobt
Probably one-fourth of the mountainous orritorv Of this count
> m numbered with spruce, fir and pine.
a4n l"rse tracts OF farming and grazing land unculhvatedi VI
As u taxable property annually lengthening with giant suV1
hnisil cas- revenue and decreasing taxation; with raHa
ouildlngi with good schools and churches and lttlo crime; WI
sooA ranges OF luxurious vegetation; with an admirable clp,
- 70 health; with a fertile soil, rich in fruitful prodr1
a~s @in d vast mineral wealth in gold. silver, copper, lead \
offs ~ leo'ous metal Custer county is blessed with na~
sns and advantages that viii prove its brief though Y gorous Z
"''p'e 70 have been but a puny part of its progressive career
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
MORE THAN A MILE A MINUTE.
Union Pacific Fast Mail lakes a Rec
ord Run In Nebraska Between
Grand Island and Omaha.

A record run through Nebraska was
made by the Union Pacific fast mail,
which covered the 1873 miles between
Grand Island and Omaha in $50 minu-
utes. The time was ten minutes under
the best previous score. The speed
was made possibly by perfect weather
and the faultless operation of the huge
locomotive. The train left Grand Is
land behind time and took a 6O-mile
leap at the outset. West of North
Bend the train was covering 20 miles
of prairie an hour, and this side of that
town reached the S0-mile mark for
some distance. The mail drew into
Omaha on time at $40 O'clock, having
made as rapid a long-distauce u as
any train ever accomplished in the
west.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
Custer County
~%wGHMR Tewnw~

Cnster county. Idaho, offers vast inducements to settlers
canitalists. It's beautiful scenery, its enterprising people. its NV NV
led resources. and its brilliant prospects not inaptly commences.
the name of General Custer, whose dashing, romantic, yet proan
tive career has become a part of our national history. Thirtvs"
wears ago. when placer mining was in its prime and quartz mini
in its infancy. the territory now embraced in its confines n s
known only TO Indians and an occasional party of prosneoA,
travelling to or from Montana. To them a wilderness, to the nal
ers Of maps it was "unexplored." In 1862 placers were actvo.
worked in Stanley Basin, on what is now our western border. as
in 1869 a few venturesome men found rich ground on Loon crooI
Tn 1870 other placers were discovered and yielded Handsomely hm
until Quartz claimed attention, five years later, the region r~
Custer county was practically unknown. From 1875 T.
1879. the fame of its rich mines spread misunderstanding caph,I
lists and increasing its population-until the following year h.
since that time, until today it has a population of 5000 peon.
and has the following towns :
Challis-County seat, farming, stock raising, fruit and mining
Mackay-Minng and farming.
misunderstanding and stock-raislng
MISUNDERSTANDING
C~layton-Mining, farming and stock. raising.
Bonanza-Mlnlng
~CuSter-Mlnlng.
Stanley-Placer and quartz mining, and grazing land.
and stock-raising is pursued to a great extent, viz Big LostRF
.er valley; Thousand Spring; Round; Pahsamaroi; East Fork; an
telope and Stanley.
Custer county embraces in irregular outline about 5000 SQUARE
miles, ard it is as large as the State of Connecticut, and larcp
than Delaware and Rhode Island together; situated in central Ida
no, it is reached by the Oregon Short Line railroad on the east
and this road will probably be extended to Challis next year. The
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company have a line from Black
foot TO Challis. The resources of Custer county are found in il
mines and it's agricultural and grazing lands.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10

The number of brutal murders that
have occurred in the neighborhood OF
New York city in the last year is an
palling. According TO a statement is
sued az the coroner's office in the
borough of Manhattan, the number
investigated by that Office from Jan
uary to October, 1901, was So; for the
same period of the present wear the
number was so. From July 1 to DE-
tober / the number this year was 40
as against p for the same time last
year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
SHERIFF'S SALE.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
UNDER EXECUTION.


In the District Court of the Sixth
Judicial District of the State
of Idaho, in and for the County
of Custer.
Carlo Gossi, Plaintiff,
VS..
Frank H. Olson, and
j. Fl. Olson, Defendants
BY virtue OF an execution is
sued out of the District Court of
the Sixth Judicial District of the
State of Idaho, in and for the
County of Custer, wherein Carlo
Gossi, plaintiff, and Frank H.
Olson aud j. H. Olson, defend
ants, upon "a judgment rendered
the tenth day Of April, A. D.,
1907, for the sum of Seven Hun
dred and $500 dollars, with in
terest at the rate of seven per
cent per annum till paid, togeth-
err VITA Fifteen and 05.100 Dol
lars, costs and disbursements at
the date of said judgment and
accruing costs, | have this day
levied upon all the right, title,
claim and interest of said defen-
dants, Frank H. Olson and j. H.
Olson, Of, in and 10 the following
described real estate, to-wit: A
certain square lot, peice or par
eel of unsurveyed land situate on
the west side of the East Fork
OF Salmon River at the East Fork
Bridge,so called about four mile
above the junction of East For
and Salmon River proper, il
Custer county, State of Idaho,
containing one hundred and six
ty acres of land under fence and
irrigated from said East Fork of
Salmon River, commencing at
the East Fork Bridge, thence
North one-half mile. thence West
one-half mile, thence South one
half mile. thence East one hall
mile to the East Fork Bridge.
Also that desert claim No. 317
filed on by Chas. Draper at Hail
ey, Idaho, on October LIST, 1902.
lying south Of James r. Pap
worth's ranch on the East Fork
of Salmon River in Custer coun-
ty, Idaho, and north of the ranch
known as the Tom. Beach ranch,
on u~nsurveyed land.
PUBLIC NOTICE Is HERE
BY GIVEN, That [ will. on
Wednesday, the 18th, day of Dec,
ember, A. D.. 1907, at 2 O'Clock
p. M, of said day, in front of
the Court House door of. the
County of Custer, State of Idaho.
sell at public auction, for lawful
money Of the United States. all
the right, title, claim and inter
est of said defendants, Frank H.
Olson and j. H. Olson, of in and
TO the above described property.
or so much thereof as NAV be
necessary to raise sufficient mon
ey to satisfy said Judgment, with
interest and costs, to the highest
bidder.
Dated Nov. 18th, 1907.
ROBT. MORRISON,
CL1..c
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
~. PITTII IT
First pub. Nov. 10Th, 1907.
NOTICE TO GRAzERS

Sawtooth an Payette National
Forests.
Applications for permits for
grazing privilege in the Saw.
tooth and Payette National For.
ests must be filed with the SIM.
ervisor on or before Decembe,
0th. 1907.
The rate for sheep will be :
cents per head; horses IS cents
and cattle 20 cents for the sum.
mer season. For further irfor.
nation address the SUPERVISE
at Boise, Idaho.
b. GRANDJEAN.
-. Forest Supervisor.
Boise, Ida, Nov, 18th, 1907. ISL
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
That Minstrel JOKE.

A man who went to a minstrel show
IN New York Saturday night fell in a fit
after hearing one of the jokes and was
taken in an unconscious condition to a
hospital. Isn't it about time, asks the
Chicago Record-Herald, to have the
minstrel show joke made a criminal of
Tense?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
Agile.

You had a surprising nerve to jump
over that fence, said the farmers wife,
angrily.
"Ah!" replied Weary Willie, politely
lifting his tattered hat; "but my agility.
madam; was that not sven more sur
prisingT-Catholic Standard and
Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10

California ranks sixth as an onion
producing state, according to the
censu reports, having 2,2o7 acres
that yield 514,s59 bushels. worth
$296,67i. New York takes first place,
with an acreage Of 6,O33, producing
2.177,271 bushels.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
Raising Cane.

at was the most sensible cane rush
/ ever saw"
but o told me that no cane rushes
were sensible
This one was The dean of the old
college rushed out with a cane and
scattered the whole bunch.-Chicago
Daily News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1907-12-10
French Submarine Boat.

France has IA submarine boats built
or completing, and eight more pro-
jected.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
LOCAL RECEIPTS.
his Week
COTTON STALKS FOR NEWSPA-
PER MAKING.

Cotton farmers will be pleased to learn
that an invention has recently beer
made that will make cotton stalks quite
valUable. A machine has be@, construct
ed to separate the bark from the wood
pulp of the cotton stalk and this. wood
pulp will make a good quality of news
paper. This invention will make valuable
a farm product that heretofore has had
no commercial value-Mansfeld Jour
nal
This invention may make valuable the
cotton stalk, but no advantage will be
derived by users of newspaper when its
manufacture and sale is controlled bv a
rapacious trust, an infant industry pro-
tected by Republican legislation. In the
past few months the price of newspaper
has been advanced more than sixty per
cent. Relief will come only when the
protective tariff. so-called, which permits
the trusts to skin the consumers. shall
be modified or repealed If competition
were possible, the price of newspaper
ana other commodities would be held
within fair and legitimate quotations.
However, if news paper can be manu-
featured from cotton stalks, the South
will be enriched to the amount con-
sumed, and from this source of revenue
will be experienced many advantages
and benefits from a product which has
now little if any value.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
CONDENSED NEWS.

snyder, lex, mas an opera mouse.
Hail badly injured cotton in the
Ryan, /. T., section,
San Angelo, Tex, continues to re
ceive considerable wool.
Cost of funerals at San Antonio has
been advanced over % per cent.
At Tiago, Tex, Robert Cbernessy, a
brakeman. was killed by a train, which
passed over him.
d. M. Holland of near Palestine,
Tex, was bitten by a rattlesnake and
came near dying.
Near Deport, Lamar county, Texas,
young man had both legs badly man
gled by stalk cutter.
Sam McIlwen. negro, fell from a
train near Mexia, Tex, breaking his
right leg and left arm.
A special session of the Louisiana
legislature, will be held beginning
Nov. II and continuing thirty days.
While loading cattle at Duncan, l.
T.. Garrett Mays, stockman. was
hooked by ste er and probably fatally
hurt
Leonard Cupr fell off bridge rail
ing at Knoxville, Tenn. twenty feet.
His skull was fractured and death
ansued.
Frank Driver, a prominent farmer,
was killed near Lufkin. Tex. John
Gates, another leading farmer, was
arrested
In a dispute With an Indian Walter
Whiteman, a wealthy resident of Sa-
pulpa, l. T.. was killed On the latter's
ranch, near that town.
At San Antonio James Driver. a
aegro, fell with a steel beam from the
sixth story of the Conroy building,
sustaining fatal injuries. His body
was horribly crushed.
A paymaster for the Crescent Coal
company of Pittsburs fooled four IneD
waiting at Pierce Station, Pa, TO rob
him of the $4,000 he had to pay of
employees by getting off the train at
another stations
President Roosevelt was forty-nine
years old Sunday.
Fall tomato crop in jacksonville,
Tex, section has been one of the best.
w. l.. Fox was shot to death near
Ardmore. An arrest was made.
Fire destroyed eight business houses
at Dale, Tex, eight miles from Lock
hart
While fishing on Goose creek, neal
Houston, Ben Gwyre fell in and was
drowned
The hardware store at Waurika,
Okla, of J. H. Johnson burned The
loss is $4,000.
Grass is growing nicely in the Con
cho (Texas) country, assuring good
winter pasturage.
Ardmore Traction company. capita
stock 100000, to operate street cars.
has been chartered.
The plant of the Duran q. To Steam
Laundry company, valued at $4,000,
was destroyed by fire.
The baby of Doc Posey, residing five
miles from Workman, Tex, was chok-
ed to death by a potato peeling.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
CHARTER
Of The Consumers Fertilizer Company
Domiciled at Shreveport, La.

| State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo
Before ME, the undersigned authority
a notary public in and for Cadio Par
| lsh, Louisiana, at my office in the City of
Shreveport, Louisiana, came and ap-
peared on the date hereinafter written,
the following: J. J. Green, c. c. Hern-
don, J. F. Cox, ]. R. Herndon and
Marks Meyer, all of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, Louisiana, who declared to me
IN the presence of the attesting wit
nesses that they desire to form and con-
stitute corporation under the laws Of
Louisiana, and that they do hereby form
themselves and successors into a cor
poration and constitute same in compli-
ance with the provisions and subject to
the restrictions of the laws of the State
of Louisiana governing corporations and
under the provisions of the articles of
Incorporation hereinafter set forth.
ARTICLE 1.
The name of this corporation shall be
oOllSuinerS Fertl1Zer Company. by Its
name it shall have power AMI authority
TO have and enjoy succession for the pc
rod of ninety-nine years; to contract,
sue and be sued; to make and use a cor
porate seal and the same to break alter
or amend at pleasure; and under this
name to hold, receive. purchase and 9TH
erwise dispose of, to lease, pledge, mort
gage or otherwise hypothecate property,
real, personal and mixed.
ARTICLE II.
The domicile of this corporation is the
-ity of Shreveport, Louisiana.
ARTICLE III.
The nature of the business to be car
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
ESTRAY MOTTO.

Taken up by n. c. 8aeley, r. niles
east OF Spring Ridge III Sixth N.-.. and
estrayed before me, the under,i2a-. au-
thority, one bay mare about - 1-.--
high and g OF 9 years old. war III -
ear and old scar on lett side Of neck ua-
der name. Owner will come forward.
prove property and pay charge, 81 the
same will be sold at Spring Ridge, Ii.
on November 80, 1907, as the law dl-
reefs /. T. SILNESI Err,
Justice OF the Peace, Sixth Ward Cad
do Parish. Louisiana.
Oct. p, 1907.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29

Prompted by laudable ambition and
desire to be of service to the people of
Caddo Parish and my native State, I
submit my announcement as candidate
for the Legislature, and if elected
promise to serve you faithfully, honestly
and to the best of my ability.
L. T. THOMAS.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
FOR CITY IuDGE

The Caucasian has been authorized to
announce S. c. FULLILOVE as a cam
didate for the office Of Judge of the
City Court, subject to the action Of the
majority votes at the Democratic voters
at the primary election.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
FOR SHERIFF.

The Caucasian is authorized to an
.nounce J. P. FLOURNO4 a candidate
for reelection to the office of Sheriff of
Caddo Parish, subject to the decision of
the Democratic voters at the forthcom-
ing primary to be held January 2S, 1908.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29

FOR CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT.
We have been authorized to announce
F. A. LEONARD as a candidate for the
office of Clerk of the District Court of
Caddo Parish at the Democratic primary
on January %, 1908.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
HUMPHREYS

Specifies cure by acting directly on the
sick parts without disturbing the rest OF
:he system.
No. for Fevers.
No. 2 9 Worms.
No. 3 g Teething.
No. - Dlarrhea.
No. Z q CouSLs.
No. {" Neuralgia.
No. < Headaches.
No 10 & Dyspepsia.
NJ. IL - Suppressed Periods.
No II & Whites.
No Is - Group.
No Ii = The Skin.
No i = Rheumatism.
No Ii - Malaria.
No. 10 :. Catarrh.
No. 90 g Whooping Cough.
No. q g The Kidneys.
No 80 g The Bladder.
No. II g In Grippe.
In small bottles of pellets that fit the vest
pocket At Druggists or mailed, 25c. each
re- Medical Guide mailed free.
Humphreys Med. Co, Cor. William s. John Street,
New York.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.

The Caucasian has been authorized to
announce HON. HENRY HUNSlCk-
Err as a candidate for Representative III
the General Assembly from Caddo Par
ish, subject to the action Of the majority
of voters at the Democratic primary
election
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
FOR ASSESSOR.

The Caucasian has been authorized to
announce S. Q. HOLLINGSWORTH a
candida, for the office of Assessor of
Caddo P,srish, subject to the action Of
the MAID ity voters at the Democratic
primary Election.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
FOR CORONER.

The Caucasian is authorized to an
nounce DIR. w. L. EGAN as a candi-
date for the office OF Coroner of Caddo
Parish. subject to the action of the ma
jority of the Democratic voters at the
primary election
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
FOR CITY .MARSHAL.

The Caucasian is authorized to an
nounce H. M. RUTHERFORD as a
candidate for City Marshal. subject to
the action Of the Democratic voters in
the primary election.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

The Syndcated Syndicate seems to
have suddenly discovered that it is bet
ter perhaps to use the talk OF reform Of
debt-payins for election purposes only
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,

The Caucasian has been authorized to
announce HON. H. H. HUCKABAY
as candi date for Representative in the
General Assembly, for reelection, from
Caddo Parish. subject to the action Of
the Democratic voters at the primary
election.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29

The Caucasian has been authorized. to
announce HON. w. H. B. GROOM
as a candi date for Representative in the
General Assembly, for reelection, from
Caddo Parish, subject to the action of
the Democratic voters at the primary
election.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-29

Down in South Louisiana the drift of
politics is shown in the nomination for
State Senators i'll the Tenth District,
composed of the parishes of Terrebonne
and Assumption. Hons. John Marks
and John D. Shafee are the nominees
One is Wilkinson and the other is a
Jastremski supporter