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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17
Notice Of Ap IiestiOn for Patent
Mineral Application No. $685.
United States Land Office at
HALEY, Idaho. January
13fh 1903

18th, 1908
Notice is hereby given that
Kinney D. Williams. whose post
Office address is Robinson. Gus
ter county, State of Idaho. has
made or is about to make appli
cation for United States patent
| for the Pit,sburg Placer Mining
Claim. Mineral Survey No. 225s.
situated in Yankee Fork Minins
District. County of Custer, Stat
of Idaho. and more particular
described as follows. to-wit:
Beginning at corner No. 1,
whence United States Mineral
Monument No. ), Yankee Fork
Mining District, bears South IL
degrees 50 minutes East 1896 8
feet; thence West 74.70 feet to
corner No. .: thence South 81
| 30 degrees Is minutes West
1903. 20 feet to corner No. 3.
thence South 80 degrees o. min
utes West 500 feet to corner No
1: thence South 3771. 20.Gfeet t.
corner No. 3; thence East 60
feet to corner No. 6;thence Nortl
1920 feet to corner No. 4; theme
East eco feet to corner No. 8
thence North 1920 feet to corne
No. 9; thence East $50 feet I
corner No. 10; thence North 264
feet to corner No. IL; theme
West $50 feet to corner No.
: the place of beginning; contain
l ing an area of 156. los acres.
Variation at all corners, 20 d.
greeS 90 minutes East.
The notice of location is +
: corded in Volume Z of Quar-
r Locations. at page 81. RecorC
+ of Custer county. Idaho.
e There are no known adioiniI
5 claims.
: A. 1. MCMAHON,
: Registe
r. First pub. Jan. 18th. 1908.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17

JUDGE OF 9Th DISTRICT.
James NJ. Stevens.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17

In spite of Emperor Williams DIS
yike of America he has taken great
liking to the naval attache OF the
T-nited States embassy at Berlin, Lieut..
Niblack. He frequently invites him 10
the palace. and they discuss naval mat
tiers with great iufOrma'itv,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17
MRS. E. F. KIRK, Prop.

This Popular and Health Restoring Resort is situated
miles east of Challls on Salmon River. These wat
ers are of good temperament for bathing and pos,
sess strong medicinal properties.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17

OFFICERS of the village OF ChAiIis-
TRUSTEES.
Joseph Rodgers-Chairman.
charles Waddleton-Treasurer.
william Buster, L. J. Kerr, D. B. Drake.
Clerk-w. W. Adamson.
Narshal-W L Flenniken.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-03-17
TERMS OF COURT.

Following are the terms of Court of
the 9Th judicial District for 1908
Bingham County
Feb May 49, Oct. 90
Custer County.
Anril q -- september Il
Fremont County.
March June S------ NOV. %
Lemhi County.
Anril % -Septem Der %
JAMES NJ. STEVENS, Judge.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
THE. TAT + RECORD .

did not scruple to bring the tally to
measure up to their notions of what
they thought it should be, either by
force of arms or taking liberties with
the ballot box.
A blacksmith, as big as Mr.. Taft,
was complained against during a GER
tain election for his bullying tactics in
behalf of the gangsterS. Mr.. Taft had
the man pointed out to him. He
strobe to meet the fellow, who will
ingly enough advanced half way.
Taft's right fist was abruptly removed
from where it was hanging by his
side to point directly under the
blacksmith's left ear. The black
smith Immediately sought a reclin-
ing posture on the ground, and as his
friends dragged him away, Mr.. Taft
busted off his hands and remarked:
Nov, let's see what the trouble is
here!" Two or three little instances
of this sort of militant good citizen
ship brought a measure of prestige
to him and aided in intoxicating the
lesson in good government which the
young law student was zealously try
ing to teach.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23

tinguished dodger. He is daring
advcnturer. He is political fakir.
Bryan is only Tillman in better
English. He is nothing but a Popu-
list in doctrine and practice.
1t is Bryan and POpulism, Bryan
and Reputation, Bryan and Riot,
Bryan and Ruin. The three RS of
Bryan's campaign seem to be Repu-
diation, Riot and Ruin.
The flag that floats over the name
of Bryan is the flag of pirates. 1t is
the flag of Socialists and Anarchists
rather than the flag of Democrats.
There is nothing equivocal about
that testimony. 1t is as plain as a
pink wart on a pale face. There is
more of it, lots more, in the editorial
columns of Colonel Watterson's great
newspaper, but this is one of those
cases in which quite enough is en-
tirely sufficient.
Colonel Watterson is supporting
Mr.. Bryan this year more or less fer
vidly. But in spirit of selfishness
most unusual with him he refuses to
explain whether he is doing so be-
cause of his estimate of Mr.. Bryan or
in spite of it.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
Mr.. TAFTS ENTRY INTO POLITICS

1t inhered in Mr.. Taft that he
should not shrink even the less at
tractive, to him, duties of citizenship.
He was in politics in Cincinnati be-
fore he had finished his law course
The Mount Auburn districts were the
lists in which he first broke a lance
for clean politics and good govern
ment, for the preservation of the in
tegrity of the ballot and for the en-
forcement of the election laws. He
went into it heart and soul, and he
bruised knuckles and lost his temper
in fighting for the cause. He went
about it in this way, to quote from a
lecture he delivered at Yale: The
graduate will spend as Ii ich time as
he can in learning the local situation,
in becoming acquainted with the pre-
cinct and ward leaders. in consulting
them as far as he can, in making him
self acquainted, not only with the
we'll to do and we'll educated persons
in his precinct and ward, but also
with the laborers, the artisans, the
storekeepers, the saloonkeepers, in
order that he may understand the
controlling influences in the primaries
and elections of that precinct and
ward"
Mr.. Taft's bulk and strength made
him an impressive and a useful figure
as a watcher at the polling places
overseen by certain gentlemen who
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
Mr.. BRYAN'S UNUSED PEN.

e Addressing a political meeting in
st. Paul October 10, 1896, William
Jennings Bryan said:
81 desire to express to the organ
izcd labor of this city my grateful ap-
probation of the gift which they have
presented. IL is gold pen with n
silver holder, and if I shall he elected
to bc Chief Executive Of this Nation
that pcn and holder shall be used to
sign n, free coinage bill at the earliest
possible moment"
When Mr.. Bryan made that remark
whether it was a promise or a
threat does not matter-the country
was suffering from the greatest in
dustrial depression it has ever known.
Hundreds of mills and factories were
idle, a still larger number were run
ming on half or quarter time, hun
dreds of thousands of employees were
idle, and those still employed were
working for starvation wages.
The picture is not overdrawn. Mr..
Bryan himself will admit its general
accuracy, and his friend, Mr.. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, stated at the
time that there were then more than
100000 idle workmen in the Uni
ted States.
To these suffering toilers and their
less unfortunate brethren still en-
ployed, but at niggardly wages, Mr.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
HELPS THE WAGE EtRNER.

The Republican party has created
labor bureaus in twenty-SiX Republi-
can States; has created factory in
spection services in twenty-three Re-
publican States; has provided free
employment bureaus in thirteen Re-
publican States; has provided boards
of Cancellation and arbitration in
eighteen Republican States; has pro-
hibited the employment of children
under fourteen years in twenty-three
Republican States; has limited hours
of work for children in twenty-four
Republican States; has restricted en-
ployment of children of school age in
twenty-siX Republican States; has
prohibited night work for children in
eighteen Republican States; has pro-
hibited dangerous employment for
children in twelve Republican States
1t has also limited the laboring
hours of women in fifteen States; reg
ulated sweatshops in ten States; re-
quired wages to be paid weekly, fort.
nightly or monthly in seventeen
States; protected members of labor
organizations in fourteen States, and
protected the union label in twenty
eight States.
Any party that has done as much
as that deserves the workingmen's
votes and we therefore urge orr coun
trymen to vote for Taft and Sherman
the Republican candidates for Presi
dent and Vice-President, who are
pledged to continue the work of the
party which has been so we'll main
tained.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
WOMEN VOTERS FOR TAFT.

The women in the States where
women vote do not have a party of
their own, with a Joseph's coat plat
form of everything all the nice wom-
en- think ought to go in it-not at
all. They line up on the Republican
and the Democratic sides and fight
fair in the regular way. The third
parties do not appeal much to wom-
en- somehow. Even the Prohibition
party is not strong in the woman suf-
frage States as compared to others
and considering the fact that women
do vote. The State committees of
both great parties have their women
chairmen and committees and all
work together with great ease. The
Republicans will get the major part
of the woman vote this year. One
woman gave a reason the other day
perhaps it wasn't a good reason,
but it may have some weight, too.
She said: Bryan is too great an
usurper of woman's great privilege
to talk all the time-we don't like
it."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
WATTERSoNS TRIBUTETOBRYAN

Colonel Henry Watterson's speech
in Louisville on the night of October
s, which he announces will be his
only public utterance during the cam
paign, is interesting for two particu-
lar reasons. The first is its scant ref
erence to William jennings Bryan.
and the second its abundant assur-
ance that Colonel Wattersons heart
still beats warmly for his native land.
Try sample of his rhetoric:
"My f..lh is yet strong i'm the free
born spirit of American manhood.
believe that the American voters will
rise in defense of American principles
and prccedents, that they will admin
lister overwhelming rcbuISe to these
prrvcrsionS of their institutional syS-
tenn"
After that inspiring utterance there
can lie no doubt as to where the griz-
Zled Demosthenes of the Blue Grass
stands. He is solid for the old flag
and an appropriation, if ieeded.
Moreover, in spite of his omission
of any extensive mention of William
Jennings Bryan, his estimate of that
gentleman is known of all men and
is on record in plain black and white.
The general character of Colonel Wat
terson's estimate CT the Nebraska
polite IN may be sufficiently indi-
Gated by few selected phrases:
Bryan is a boy orator. He is dis
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
BRYAN WAS TOO MODEST.

In the course of his address before
the Lakes-to-Gulf Waterway Associa-
tion in Chicago, October s, Mr..
Bryan, while heartily approving the
project under consideration, stated
that he had no plan to offer by which
to raise the money required for the
construction of the proposed canal.
On this occasion as on so many 9th
ers Mr.. Bryan again displayed the
extreme modeSty and lack of self
confidence which have characterized
his public utterances.
1t would be a ridiculous and mex
cusable blunder to assume that, be-
cause he offered no plan for financing
the canal project, therefore Mr..
Bryan had no plan or that he could
devise none. AS matter OF fact
plans are MI. Bryan's specially. He
can supply them in bulk on an hours
notice, and if there is anything, from
eXterminating potato bugs to amend
ing the Federal Constitution, for
which he hasn't neat handmade
plan ready in stock, it is simply be-
cause the matter has never been
brought to his attention.
Mr.. Bryan proposed no canal plan
solely for the reason that he was not
asked to do so. II he had been he
could have pulled a plan out of his
coattail pocket in full view of the au-
dience and without the aid of con-
federate.
Mr.. Bryan holds that money is
created by law. Therefore, accord.
ing to his philosophy, if $500,000,.
600 is needed to construct a canal
between the great lakes and the
Gulf all that is required is merely an
act of Congress creating that amount
of additional money and turning il
over to the canal builders. The
thing is as easy as rolling off log.
Mr.. Bryan in 1896 wanted the
Government to go into the business
of creating money by fiat. He ear
| nestly assured the people that Con
gress, by a single brief enactment
could make silver bullion worth
$1.29 an ounce everywhere in the
world and maintain the price at tha
| level forever He has never quite
understood why the people rejected
his plan to make them and the Gov
| ernment rich merely by an exercise
| of legislative authority.
If Mr.. Bryan were President and
the canal builders needed money ht
could show them how to get it. HI
might, however, take short cut anC
propose to build the canal itself b!
fiat instead of building it with fiat
made money. Mr.. Bryan's plans are
marvelously flexible, and he controls
more than fifty per cent. of the entir'
output.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23

Bryan appeared with what he de-
Scribed as a sure cure for their dis
tress. But he made an entirely erro-
neouS diagnosis of the case. He
asked the people to believe that their
hardships were all due to our none
tary system, and that If they would
allow him to tinker it after his own
notions the mills would resume, there
would be plenty of work and high
pay and the country would fairly
wallow in prosperity. Some of the
people-but fortunately only few,
comparatively speaking - believed
him, and it was that belief which
prompted the presentation to him of
the bimetallic pen in St. Paul. Thanks
to the saving common sense of the
people, that pen remains unusued to
this day.
Had Mr.. Bryan been entirely frank
in 1896 he would have explained to
the workingmen that the grinding
hardship which then beset them was
due, not to anything whatever in our
monetary system, but entirely and
directly to the iniquitous Wilson,
German tariff act which he himself
had helped to place on the statute
books two years before. His pre-
tense that the industrial distress
which overspread the country at that
time was due to the gold standard
was the shifty attempt of political
trickster to dodge the responsibility
for the effects of law which he
helped to enact. The people saw
through it, and the trickster was in
gloriously defeated.
The principle of free trade which
Mr.. Bryan was instrumental in plac-
ing in operation by means of the
Wilson-Gorman act of 1894 is one of
the bases of the Bryan campaign of
1908. He misrepresents conditions
and their causes now just as he did
twelve years ago, and brazenly pro-
poses as a cure for existing ills the
very nostrum which produced them
in aggravated form when his party
was last in power. That his campaign
of false pretense should succeed is
possible only on the insolent assump-
ton that public intelligence has
moved backward, not forward, since
his last attempt to fool the people.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
WHY Mr.. TAFT FOUGHT.

Old-time friends of Mr.. Taft sly
that as boy he was a boy all over.
Zestful for play, he was no less faith
full to work when it had to be done.
de worked hard and played hard.
Blessed with brain as big and ca
pable as the huge, but not clumsy,
body that serves him so well, he took
to books with the same quality of en-
thusiasm as that with which he de-
pioyed his forces in a stone or apple
fight with the Taylortown gang
boys who lived in section adjoining
Mount Auburn in Cincinnati - or
bent his footsteps toward the SWIM
ming hole when school was out and
tasks were done.
Those fights with the Taylortown
gang were pretty strenuous Tor anna
teur affairs, too. They were a leglti-
mate heritage handed down to VIII
and his contemporaries from the boys
who had preceded them. Judge Taft
called Will in one day and began a
cross-examination into the reasons
why the Mount Auburn boys and the
Taylortown gang periodically
rocked" each other.
"What is all this fighting about?"
he asked.
"Oh," replied Will, "I don't know
exactly, only we've always fought
those fellows."
but why?" persisted the Judge.
What reason have you for fighting
them?"
II don't know" was the response,
"only we've got to, that's all. Char
ley and Peter This half brothers) al
ways did, and somehow it seems nat
ural."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
Mr.. TAFT AS A NEWSPAPER MAN

When he left Yale there were still
steps to be taken to complete the
mental equipment of Mr.. Taft with
that education which, as he has said
of student, should be ''as thorough
and as useful as he himself wishes to
make it, Judge Taft, his father,
notwithstanding his commanding So
cial and professional position, was
not man of large means. William
had to go to work. 1t was rather
necessary that he should in order to
foot the cost of his legal training,
which he began Immediately in the
Cincinnati Law School. To quote
him again there was that spur of
necessity to enter upon life of work
without the temptation to lack of eff
fort and idleness which a competency
always creates"
With his disposition there was no
risk that however amply endowed
with wealth Mr.. Taft would ever have
been a dawdler, a waster of time and
opportunity. But he had to go to
work, he needed the money. So he
got a job as reporter on the Times
Star, of Cincinnati. The courts
was his assignment. He went the
rounds for the Times-Star for nearly
year. He was good reporter, too;
so good, in fact, that his work at
tracted the attention of Murat Hal
stead, then editor of the Commercial
Gazette, who dangled a lure before
his eyes in the shape of an offer of
$25 a week. William took it.
The chance this experience gave
him to study and understand the
psychology of a newspaper mans
mind and the fundamentals of the
profession of collecting, writing and
printing news accounts in good part
for the excellent terms upon which
Mr.. Taft, the public officer, and news
paper men always have stood. He
understands them. He tells them no
lies, deals out no evasions. He trusts
them and they know they can trust
him implicitly.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
A Labor Leader Writes
a Remarkable Letter to
His Brother Workers, Stat
ingWith Convincing Frank
ness How lnjudici0us 1t
is For the Head of a Union
to Give Advice Along Poll
tical Lines.
TOhicial Circular.1

lOnCIni NlFCular.
X Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. Z, 1908.
X To the Officers and Members
4 United Mine Workers of
4 America:
4 Grepting-We are in the midst
X of II political campaign. Every
X method known to political man
X ayers will be used to secure
X votes for their respective candi-
X dates. This is especially true in
X the attempt to obtain express
X sions from those holding official
X positions i'm labor unions.
X i am in receipt of hundreds of
X letters from men of all shades
X of political beliefs and from all
K parts of the United States ask
X ing for my opinion of the differ
4 cnt candidates or my views upon
4 the issues involved in the pO-
X litical campaign.
X The United Mine Workers did
X not elect me international prcsi-
r dent to influence your political
X preferences or how you should
X cast your vote OH election day.
r. You. have elected me to direct
X the affairs of the United Mine
\ WorI,.rr Tho succees NJ tba
! i-nitcd Mine VyorLcrs and the
r weJfare of ito n,emIers have and
r win receive NV tirst and only
- co-s;da,.ot;on aS Iona &c hav.
y ttn honn,. 30 ,.an,.asnSt;n, vn''
\ IN, NOT resnons;bia s9r in.
: te,.yiaws annear;pg i'm the news.
r. naners alleged to he from n,e
r that favor any narticuIar can.
= didata + bavc Gncl;ned to ex.
= n,ass ~. to o;ya aov statement
y roIit;coIly for orr Sga;ust anv
\ Candidate or Issue. nor do in.
r tend to do so. This letter will
r he INV answer to all Who ash
+ me for anv advice along M.
= iiticoI lines
y hava tho honor IN renreso,t
r. an orDanizotion of nearIv 400.
= OOO n'embers ne every l,noyn
= nationaI;ty and d;fyerept noi;t-
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r Ponulists Indenendents So,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
FROM SECRETARY ROOTS SAR-
ATOGA SPEECH.

The proposition of the Democratic
platform to require all national banks
to guarantee the payment of deposits
by all other national banks is another
patent financial nostrum, advertised
to catch the fancy of the multitude
and it should be suppressed under
the pure food law until it is correctly
labeled "a measure to compel legiti-
mate business to bear the risks OF
speculation"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
Let the good work of home making
continue under Taft and Sherman.
The Future Growing Brighter.


continue under Taft and Sherman.
The Future Growing Brighter.
We are entering upon a new and
momentous era that c-.lls for the
highest qualities of constructive
statesmanship-such as Taft has SO
impressively demonstrated he pos
sesses. This revelation to our people
of the wealth at their very doors is
characteristic of the watchfulness of
the Republican party, and the work
must be firmly and intelligently di-
rected to reach its highest possibili-
ties to the citizen. We are planning
not only for ourselves but for future
generations. We are the forefathers
of a mighty future in a mighty land.
If We are equal to our duties and op-
portunities we will make homes west
of the Mississippi River for a hun
dred million of the freest men and
women who ever walked the earth.
We are living in an age of mighty
achievements, The great projects
and constructive work for irrigation
in the arid region. the Panama Canal,
the New York subway and the other
mammoth projects will soon stand
as completed monuments to the con-
structive genius of our people and
this age. The future is potent with
still grander undertakings, which
will in a few brief years, under Re
publican direction, stand as accom-
plished facts.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
OLD BILL TAFT.
by REV. HY. j. BOATMAN.

by REV. HY. j. BOATMAN.
TUNE: America.)
For leader strong and great
TO man the ship of State
Both fore and aft;
To guide where breakers roar,
To safely land our store,
10 quiet all uproar,
There's Old Bill Taft.
To White House there to stay
And Bryan send away
Upon a raft:
To do as Teddy did,
What all our people bid,
For man upon the lid.
There's Old Bill Taft.
To do what's good and just,
Strike down the evil trust,
And all of graft;
To keep our money pure
And plenty, too, and sure,
The hard times only cure,
There's Old Bill Taft.
Reform his flag unfurls,
Against all evil hurls
Unerring shaft;
Then let our trumpets blare-
Hes always on tue square
At home and everywhere,
Is Old Bill Taft"
Fullerton. Cal. September, 1905.
Copyright applied for.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23

Not many men have a chance to
decline a seat on the Supreme Court
bench. Mr.. Taft did it twice. 1t was
when he was Governor of the Philip
pines. President Roosevelt insisted.
Mr.. Taft pleaded that the Filipinos
needed him more than he did the
have his way.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23

1t was not necessary for the Presi-
dent to go on the stump to put ginger
into the campaign.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23

There is so much music in the air
that you cant hear the Democratic
harmony.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-23
REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
Present Administration Origin
ated Policy Destined to Be
Productive of Great Good
to Country's Home :
Builders.
Mr.. TAFT In FULL SYMPATHY

He is the Great American Who Typi-
fcs the Independence and the
Constructive Genius of American
Homo Owners - Future Potent
With Still Grandcr Undertakings
if Republicans Can Continue
Their Constructive Regime.