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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

BOISE, IDAHO, AUG. 9th, 1909
To the Thunder Mountain Gold and
Silver Mining and Milling Company,
a Corporation
You are hereby notified that l have
expended during the year 1908 in la Dor
and improvements the sum OF one hun
dred $1,000 dollars upon each of the
following described claims, to-wit
The Quadren No. /, the Quadren No.
and the Quadren No. lode mining
claims, situated in Thunder Mountain
Mining District, Idaho county, Idaho
the location certificate of said Quadren
No. lode claim being duly recorded in
Book II Of mining claims at page 1874
Of the records of said County OF Idaho,
the said Quadren No. lode claim be.
ing duly recorded in said Book II OF
mining claims at page 332 and said
Quadren No. lode claim being duly
recorded in said Book II of mining
claims at page 336 OF the records Of
said County Of Idaho.
That said expenditures of 500 or
each OF said claims, or total Of $500
was made by me in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Section
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, and the amendments
thereto, concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re-
quired to hold claims and each of then
for the period ending on the 31st day
of DeceD Der, A. d.. 1908.
And II, within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you fail OF
refuse to contribute your proportion
OF such expenditures as co-owner
which amounts to fifty $50 dollars for
each Of said claims, or II total OF $3.50
for the three claims, your interest in
such claim or claims will become the
property OF the subscriber. your CO.
owner, who has made the required ex
penditures, by the terms Of said Sec
ton.
DANIEL G. CASWELL.
First publication Aug. II, 1909. wi.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24
TWENTY YEARS AGO.


News isems taken from the flee of
The oliver Messenger Twenty Ysars
Ago, and pubIished now by requsst of
= number of ~ bscribers.
august 10, 1882
James Sanderson is over from
Orc Elmo.
Joe Shelton was in town dur
ing the week from Lost river.
Died-In Challis, on Monday
morning, August 18th, 1889, the
infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
DR.. Roney, of cholera infantum,
Aged 3 months and 2 days.
The machinery for a ten stamp
quartz mill has been shipped and
will be erected this fall at Gus
ter, in connection with the 4th
of July mine.
The lower portion of Garden
creek has gone completely dry,
and it has caused the death of
many fish.
august 20, 1882
Jas. w. Turnbull's family ar
rived from Great Falls, Mont.
few days ago.
r. Y. Street and wife, Miss
Kate Colvin and Miss Anna
Chisholm, are visiting on Pah-
samaroi.
D. l.. Bailey of Caldwell, last
week instituted q lodge of Ode
Fellows at Clayton.
Clayton now has a daily mail
service from Ketchum.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24
Sealed Bids.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the Trustees
OF Independent School District No. /,
Challis, Idaho. for the delivery of 20
cords of dry 4-foot fir wood at the
school house in Challis.
All bids must be sealed and address,
ed TO the clerk OF the School Board on
or before Sept. LIST, 1909, and marked I:
Proposals for Wood" The Board re-
serves the right to reject any and all
bids. Nj. A. BROWN, Clerk.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24

The Salt Lake Heard has flop
ped over to the Republican, or
church party of Utah. In MAX
ing this flop the Inter Mountain
Republican and Hearld consoli-
dated, and it now goes under the
name Herald Republican.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24

The steel trust is pleased with
the new tariff bill. The other
trusts have not been heard from,
but there is a reason to believe
they are equally gratified. They
wrote it all right.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24

A New Jersey man claims to
have seen two ghosts engaged in
q vicious combat recently. Com.
petition in New Jersey is confin-
ed almost exclusively to ghosts,
as the trusts have crushed out
all other.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24

An Indiana girl jolted mil
lionaire for a soda dispenser.
The influence of soda water on
the summer girl is q little short
of the marvellous.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24

Great is the Dalai Lama of
Rhode Island, who presides over
the Senate, and Cannon is the
prophet of the House.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-24

Oh, what atangleweb we weave
when first we Ald-ich to deceive,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-10-29

havoc, walked about the house and
saw It all undismayed. When he
passed the telephone, which reposed
on a small shelf, the phone toppled,
and as he walked by two chairs a
foot apart they crashed together
with a resounding thud. To keep
the phone in place a chair was
| braced against It. Soon thereafter
the boy coursed through the hall
and both phone and chair fell to the
floor.
Don't pick things up, grandma"
he said TO Mrs. Sanders, "they will
only fall down again.
Thus from 1880 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, when the first rain OF the
day fell. until $3.50 o'clock last night
every inanimate thing in the Mar
shall street domicile moved, up
turned, crashed or fell Nothing was
exempt from the touch Of the most
odd power, and many pieces OF fur
nlture were subjected to continual
moves by the unseen hand.
Same Thing Happened Before.
Great as was the havoc. Il was not
new to the Sanders family or the
11-year-old, who Is said TO have the
peculiar power within him. Only
around the corner from their pres
ent home the Sanders experienced n
similar plight, and we're forced to
seek new quarters, their former land
lord, II is said, paying them a half
months rent to remove. At 223I
Seventeenth street, where they lived
until two weeks ago, plaster Jumped
from one wall 90 another and shot
through the windows, wreclIlng four
rooms OF the house, as we'll as de.
molIshing every breakable dish. In
strange action the plas-
ter Of the Marshall street home re-
mained intact throughout.
For every pot and kettle in the ,
sanders household there Is strange !
story, every knife and fork had its
own experience; every piece OF fur
niture, no matter how big, figured |
In the days mystery. And the boy
blamed for II all is not n yard high.
lie Is subject to spasms. suffering
The last attack last Sunday. That Is
NIL that hispeopl know about the
AFFAIR and they express
ignorance OF the cause of the oddly.
rhe dovil's IN him." said his uncle
Ernest has always boen strange"
said his grandmother. 1T was an
electric storm" said the boys moth
pr
Mrs. Anne Harps. mother OF the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-10-29

mystery-filled lad, bases her theory
of an electric storm on battery
that was left in the house her father
and mother occupy. Then. too, she
points to the unsued electric wires
in the house, which, she intimates,
might have been filled with storm
currents and distributed wreck in
every room of the house. But the
furniture moved and chairs and uten-
sils ratified at points far from the
battery and in hooks where there
we're no wires.
Six People i'm House.
Six people occupy the house OF
mystery. These are Mr.. and Mrs.
j. p. Sanders, grandparents of little
Ernest Harps, their two sons, Harry
and Frank, a nephew, Scott Perry
and Ernest Hoops. Harry Sanders
is employed in the Southern Pacific
railway freight sheds, Frank Sanders
is a janitor OF the Merchants Ma
tional Bank and Scott Perry is
clerk with the Allen Drug Company
at Sixteenth and Marshall streets,
directly across from the mysterious
domicile. Mrs. Annie Harper. moth
er Of the alleged boy medium, is
nousekeeper of the Valley Hotel, at
232h n Main street, and George II.
rerry, a brother of Mrs. Sanders, is
an elevator man in the Fenton build
ing.
Shortly after 1880 o'clock yester-
day the first disturbance in the
Sanders house was noticed. A sugar
bowl turned over on the table and
little Ernest Harpes called his grand
mothers attention to it. Only Mr..
and Mrs. Sanders and the little boy
were I'm the house at the time. Mrs.
Sanders righted the sugar bowl and
in an instant things about the house
began to move fast and furiously,
the big table in the dining room be-
Ing first to stand on edge. The boy
followed his grandmother through !
out the house during the turmoil
Mrs. Sanders telephoned to her /
nephew, Scott Perry in the drug |
store across the street, and he with /
Jerry Husley, also drug store em-
)loye, rushed 70 the house.
81 saw a chair" said Perry, "rise
light up in the air aud fall to the
loor after staying in mid-alr for a
iecond. The teapot ran OF the stove
md knives and forks from all over
lropped and made an awful racket.
Nobody was near any OF the things
hat moved, but the boy was around
III the time"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-10-29
A QUEER STORY
tcOntinued from page II

chairs that danced jigs, pictures that
dropped from the walls mysteriously
and knives and forks that scaled the
edges OF big table as If they we're
things of life.
Franks of Invisible Power.
- -s-srted by no visible power a
six-foot extension table raised itself
on two legs and fell on IT'S side. An
old-fashioned sofa, snug against the
wall, moved from the place and ca
reened on its side. The cuckoo
clock on the wall shook like a spasm
and turned almost completely
around, stopping at $3.50 O'Clock.
Dishes on even surfaces stood up on
edge, and rolled TO the floor in
thousand pieces. Heavy platters on
edge on the sideboard crashed TO the
floor, every piece OF china in the
house, upstairs and down, impelled
by the uncanny, unexplained thing,
rolled or jumped TO the floor. In half
an hour everything in the house was
out of kilter.
When the wreck downstairs was
most in evidence the rooms upstairs
did not escape. A table on which
rested a big lamp upturned in a jlffy,
n Morris chair keeled over, table
chairs bounced up and down or
leaned back against the walls as IL
occupied by spooks
Vessels ON stove Dance Can-Can.
Most peculiar Of all the antics
brought about by the invisible force
was the spasmodlc jumps of tea
kettel and n coffee pot on the stove.
Both these utlnsls, half full of
water, insisted on rising on edge and
skating across the stove and falling
In the floor They would not stay
put, and forced the Sanders family |
TO forego supper last night, both ket-
tic and pot scurrying across the stove
TO the floor as often as they we're |
placed over the FIRE.
on the drainboard I'm the kitchen |
was basket of dry onions. Not
only once but a dozen times this
basket gathered mysterious feet,
travelled across the dralnboard and
dropped TO the floor Put back in
place II tumblod again and again
until $3.50 o'clock, when, after sew
oral hours OF tumult the mystery OF
the house became quiet.
BOY Medium Undismayed.
Little Ernest Hope. the lad termed
a medium, and blamed for all the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-10-29

THE chair I saw move" said
Hurley, Jumped into the air, stayed
there and tumbled on its side"
In less than half an hour the
house was full of curious people,
and a crowd outside jostled for en-
trance, but was restrained by the
owner of the house, r. Sutherland,
an aged man, who lives next door.
He was one of the first on the scene
and saw a chair jump up and down
three times, and, hearing a noise
behind him, turned to see the sew
ing machine topple. Mr.. Suther-
lands daughter saw chair rise in
the air and culver. She dashed out
of the house pell-mell.
Carpet Man Frightened.
Injecting humor into the strange
affair, a man from n local depart
ment store called to measure the
parlor for carpet and seeing chairs
gyTate, he rushed from the house.
Then a Salvation Army soldier called
for old clothes, saw a table topple
unaided, and he dashed away.
After an hour quiet reigned for
time and in another hour the mys-
terious antics of the furniture was
resumed, continuing until $3.50
o'clock. when the clock on the wall
swayed, turned its face to the wall
and stopped.
An oregonian reporter on the
scene within an hour after the mys-
terry was reported saw a chair lean
back by itself and as he turned in
surprise several knives and a tin
plate scurried off the drainboard to
the floor
Dan Williams, one of the curious
on-lookers saw the teapot rush of
the stove TO the floor and Jess
Churchley, of the Churchley Wood
& Coal Company, at Thirteenth and
streets, saw a sofa rise up
on end and fall. This was the same
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-10-29

sofa that turned on its side earlier in
the day.
All who witnessed the unique
twists and turns of the furniture
and filings of the house were unan-
imous in saying that little Ernest
Harps was present during the phe-
nomena. Stranger still, the boy
walked out to the porch after the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-10-29

first shakeup, and as he gazed across
the street a pile of slatwood in the
rear of the Allen Company's drug
store collapsed. The wood was even
" piled and in two stacks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders are not spir-
ituallsts and condemn rather than
lead to belief in the occult.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-10-29

d a few
this reason people did not value the land around here the they should would
which had improved Strangers and picking the
stranger hundred dollars Psw
Ian
farm pncew something
is wrOngw the
farm excellent
25tO$75
Ogend
haSan hew
tits nOsIhby hal i'm wi be o he
Now dor put
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
RESIDENCES BRING
EXCELLENT PRICES
MessrS. Barndollar and Nc
chimney Buy Handsome
Homes for S13, 100.

Two residences, one located at 1852
Oak street, and selling for $780, and
the other at lila Lamont street, for
ST, $50, have been bought as homes by
Burton II. BarndoIIar and Charles A
McElhinney, jr., respectively. The deals
were made through the firm = Shan
non & Luchs.
The Barndollar house is one of row
of sixteen. all of which were sold be-
fore completion. It contains eight
rooms and a tiled bath and occupies a
lot with a frontage of "a feet by
depth of 100.
The property purchased by MeEIhin-
ney is three-story brick dwelling,
containing ten rooms and tiled bath
Four thousand one hundred and
for a lot in the southwest section,
located on Maine avenue, near Four
and-a half street. The sale was made
at auction through the firm OF Thomas
J. owen & Son. Samuel Gassenheimer
being the purchaser. The lot contains
$3.50 square feet of land, and was val
ued in the transaction at 70 cents a
Thomas ]. owen & Son have also
sold a two-story brick house, at los
Fourteenth street, to the Washington
Loan and Trust Company for $l,575, and
a lot in lexington to n. 3. Hunt for
8. or The latter propertv is located on
Second street, near T.
Announcement has been made that
a contract will be awarded shortly for
the erection Of a handsome residence
near Massachusetts avenue and Deca-
tur street for Gibson Fahnestock. Bids
have already been made on the plans
prepared by Nathan G. Wyeth, archi-
tect, and building will be commenced
as soon as a contract has been let
The Fahnestock house VIII be four
stories high and of Italian architecture.
It's front will be faced with limestone
and roman brick. with the side walls
also Of limestone and brick. the former
building will have a 42-foOt frontage
with a depth of IS feet. 1t will ha
equipped with an electric elevator and
a number of novel as well as all mod
ern conveniences.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
RESIDENTS ENLIST
LAW IN CAR FIGHT
Columbia Heights Citizens
Believe They See Way to
Stop Pay-EnterS.

Technicaiities of law may be employees
to prevent the opsration Of pay-as-you-
enter cars. At least 1t is the belief or
the Columbia Heights Citizens Associa-
ton that there are such technicalities
which may be used to that end, and 1t
has accordingly addressed a communi-
cation on the subject to the District
electric railway commission.
According to the complaint Of the
association the act allowing the railway
companies to install ca7s to run to
Union Station contains the words com
Portable and convenient" as applied to
the cars, and gives the commission the
power to see that the act is enforced
The pay-as-you-enter car. the complaint
states, on account of it's longitudinal
seats, is neither comfortable nor con-
venient- The draft. caused by the open
ing of the front door of the car every
time 10 stops, as well as the arrange
ment of straps and other features were
also scored in the complaint.
A copy of the report on the pay-enter
car, recently made to the commission
by Secretary Eddy, win be sent TO the
Columbia Heights Association.
The only other complaint received at
yesterdays meeting of the commission
was one dealing with the manner IN
which motormen pass street corners
when the cars are neither crowded nOI
closely followed by others.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
FRATERNAL ORDER
HELPS UNIVERSITY
Knights OF Columbus Begin
a Campaign TO Raise
$50O,0O0.

A plan OF unusual proportions is that
set on foot today TO raise 100000 for
the establishment of fifty scholarships
at the Catholic University Of America.
In this mornings mail 21s.000 members
of the Knights Of Columbus in the
United States and Canada received an
appeal for subscriptions to this fund.
The project is one OF the greatest mag
nitude ever undertaken by a fraternal
organization 1t is anticipated that the
fund VIII be raised in less than five
years. BY this step It is thought the
permanence OF the university. the
largest Cathollc institution OF It's kind
IN America. viii be insured.
The appeal Is being sent out by a
special committee which has undertaken
the project o. this committee are Ed
ward Il Doyle. OF Detroit, chairman;
Philip A. Hart. of Philadelphia. secre-
tary; Joseph NJ Brine, OF New York.
and Edward l. Hearn, supreme knight.
This will be the second gift made to the
university by the Knights OF Columbus.
The organization established a chair
there IN 1904 by a gift of $4,000.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
GONZAGA DEBATE
BEST EVER HELD
Affirmative Wins on Question of
Governments Subsidy for Mer-
chant Marine.

Members of the Gonzaga College fac
ulty this morning declared that the
annual prize debate was one Of the best
in subject and argument ever held at
the school.
The debate was held last evening at
Gonzaga Hall between members Of the
Phocion Society. The question was:
Resolved, That a me reliant marine
should be subsid Eed by the Govern
ment"
SO evenly matched were the teams
that il required some time for the
judges to reach a decision. They finally
brought IN a verdict for the affirmative,
supported by Francis Igoe and Joseph
bert A. Andrew were lined up for the
negative.
The judges were the Rt. Rev. James
r. Mackin, James A. O'Shea, and Will
lam L. Soleau. NJ sic was furnished by
an orchestra of 9upils from Notre Dame
Convent and Pro-. Anabile Samuels-
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
DELIVERS LECTURE
UPON AERONAUTICS
Lahm Tells OF History
of Air Flights-Tribute
to WrightS.

Those who attended Lieutenant
Lahm's lecture at Holy Cross Academy
are enthusiastic for the cause of aero
nautics. and IL there are not more bal
loon ascenSions In Washington than ever
before 1t will be because of the cost Of
the sport.
Lieutenant Lahm, whose work with
the signal corps ranks him with the
experts, began at the beginning OF at
tempted flights, coming from the hot air
inflated balloon Of several centuries ago
down to the dirigible and heavier-than-
air type of today. He illustrated his
talk with stereopticon views last night,
and told his hearers all about the SEN
sations during a fight. He estimated
the cost of the average spherical bal
loon AT $500, and the cost Of a fight
for three persons at SIS each.
He had high praise for the work of
DR.. Langley. DR.. Bell. Santos Dumont.
and Farman, but paid especial tribute
TO the experiments and Developments OF
the Wright brothers, whose excellence
in the field of aeronautics has so re-
bounded TO the credit of the United
States.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
ACCUSED OF THEFT
OF A DIAMOND PIN
Former Yale Man Arrested,
Charged With Working"
College Men.

BOSTON, April 2s.-Charged with
stealing a $50 diamond pin, Edmund c.
Prouty. aged twenty-five. Of New York,
formerly a special student at Yale, has
been locked up
1t Is alleged he called at the lodgings
OF Russell Hastings. told a hard luck
story and exhibited a fraternity pin
Hastings, who Is affiliated with the
same fraternity, gave Prouty a tenn
poTary home Later his rooms were
rsnsacked and the pin was found to
be missing.
The New Haven police asked for the
custody Of Prouty and took him to that
city. It IS alleged there that Prouty
stole from Keith Msnville, of New York
city, another student, a fur-iined over
coat worth 500, and a valuable gold
watch from i. r Douglass.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
GOVERNOR CROTHERS
REDUCES SALARIES

ANNAPOLIS, Nd. April 29.-In Addi-
ton to dispensing with the services
of five employees about the State build
ings and laying off four other men en-
pIoyed about the State heating plant,
Governor Crothers' action also carries
with It a reduction Of the salary OF
Samuel Brooks. messenger in the execu-
tive offices, from 81 .0c0 TO 500. Mr..
Brooks has been IN the service of the
State continuously for over 50 years,
having been first appointed during the
adnninisfratfon OF Governor Hicks
The Governor yesterday appointed and
commissioned Ephraim Bacon, OF Balti-
more county, a member OF the state
years
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
c. P. 0. IDLE LIST
NOW TOTALS 400
Two Hundred Compositors
Given FurloughS, as
Work Is Slack.

Because Of lack OF work at the Gov
ernment Printing Office, Public Printer
Donnelly today laid of 200 printers Oh
a three-day furlouEh- The action was
taken because the Federal departments
big printery.
The Printing Office depends largely
upon copy furnished oy the depart
ments, as well as by Congress. Only
employees of the composing room are
affeEted by the Public Printers order
Although there are likely to be further
furloughs. the laying off OF these men
today is not a precursor of any big
dismissal There are now upwards of
400 employees Of the biz plant on fur
Tough. About 200 were subject to the
first order issued on March 6. after the
adjournment of Congress, and there has
been no opportunity to employ them
since that time.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
SCIENTISTS TALK
OF COAL AND OIL

The processes of slow devolatiza-
uon or coal. which have been given
close study by DR.. David White at the
National Museum during the last year
or more, were described by him to the
members of the Geological Society at
the Cosmos Club last evening.
DR.. c. Willard Hayes told of recent
ly discovered oil fields in Mexico.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
NO PAUPER'S GRAVE
FOR KELLY WOMAN
Michael Lyden Will Bury Suicide
Whose Relatives Re
fused.

Michael Lyden, an engineer, will see
that the body OF Mrs. Maud Kelly, who
shot and killed herself on Pennsylvania
avenue. Monday morning, is not laid
In a pauper's grave.
Funeral services for Mrs. Kelly are
TO be held this afternoon from an un-
dertaking establishment in southeast.
Relatives in Richmond refused TO take
care OF the remains.
Lyden. who after the shooting ad-
mitted he was a friend of the woman,
but said he was not engaged to her as
reported, stepped to the front when the
relatives failed TO respond.
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
MARRIED IN IAIL.

EVANSVILLE. Ind, April 2a.-Mar-
riage or Jail was the choice offered TO
T. NJ. Beard. of Owensboro, KY, who
I'm this city last night chose marriage.
The bride was Mrs. Sarah Hoffman, of
ITcnton, Ohio. Beard. an insurance
agent, was charged with having taken
1900 Of Mrs. Hoffman's money.
When he was found in Nashville he
gave her a check for $1,000, and this so
Modified her that she obtained for him
from the police permission to choose
The Washington times., 1909-04-29
STUART RECEIVERS
FROM HIS ILLNESS

After being absent from HIS desk for
more than a week because Of an illness
which threatened to be very serious, A.
T. Stuart. Superintendent of Schools.
has improved 50 rapidly that he Is ex-
pected to return to work tomorrow.
Mr.. Stuart has been III with an at
tack OF grip In his absence, p. NJ
HugheSi assistant superintendent, has
been acting In his place.