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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1898
Page
4
Official notice from the Custer County paper dated April 12, 1898. Local publication appears to identify the paper as an official county record and notes Tuesday afternoon release. No additional event details are discernible in the readable text.
In a historical note from April New Time, G R Gordon argues that government ownership of railroads would enable travelers to go from New York to San Francisco for one dollar, highlighting the public benefits of state control over transit.
The Payette Independent reports a heated clash between Senator Shoup and the Lemhi Republic editor over postmaster appointments at Salmon. The editor, once a strong Shoup ally, rails against McKinleyism and Shoupism, predicting political fallout when the old man leaves office.
A historic note outlines a bicameral legislature with a Senate partly hereditary, partly life, and partly elective, with elective senators chosen by the most highly taxed subjects for five year terms. The description also mentions a Chamber of Deputies as part of the system.
The Idaho World notes a legal question in Wallace about whether a foreign born wife of a qualified voter may vote without naturalization. A leading view asserts the wife shares the husband’s domicile and thus qualifies after six months in Idaho, without separate naturalization.
It is confidently asserted that in trouble with Spain Charles Beresford will sail to join the American legions for independence. He is a member of the House of Commons and junior Lord of the Admiralty. He fought in India and at Alexandria and commanded the gunboat Condor during the campaign.
The proposal requires every man who drinks to obtain a five dollar annual license and prohibits sale to unlicensed patrons. Licensees must be shown at hotels or saloons, and selling to an unlicensed person becomes a penal offense. Names of license applicants are published every six months in the local paper.
Population figures place Spain at 17,550,216 with Cuba 1,607,911 higher and the Philippines around 9.5 million. The king’s civil list totals 1.4 million plus 600,000 for the royal family. Alfonso XIII, born May 17, 1836, sits amid Bourbons with Maria Christina as queen mother. Spain’s navy lists 11 armored ships and 68 unarmored ships among others. land forces total about 1.04 million. Revenue stands near 12.95 million, debt about 492,860,000, and Madrid’s population around 579,602. The Cortes forms Spain’s two-house representative body.
The article argues that Jonah, long mocked as unlucky and cursed, was in fact zealous and conscientious. It portrays him as a prudent navigator, a stern moralist, and a powerful orator whose Nineveh sermon sparked broad reform.
A critic argues that designating an anchorage over a sunken mine endangers ships and lives. The American public is urged to question civilized nations and weigh the cost of sacrificing American lives for perceived order amid wartime or peacetime tensions. The piece reflects concern over strategic cruelty and potential future casualties.
Fragmentary text notes a country delivering a blow to Spain that would force Old World nations to reckon with the Republic’s majesty and power, reflecting a bold, era-spanning perspective on international status.
A historical survey describes an old mining region near Spring Mountain Lemhi County Idaho. It notes a lava belt with a 25 to 85 mile extent, past Spring Mountain and Birch Creek toward Dubois, producing silver from surface deposits and copper with limited deep mining.
The passage describes east to west cross cutting iron ore with a north abutting porphyrytic granite and white lime rock stretching thirty miles, while southward black jagged limestone peaks mark ancient lava activity. It argues against convulsions displacing mineral bodies and suggests mountains erode slowly, valleys once high ranges, and future metal creation from surrounding elements.
The New Time notes seven year old Willie Rodney once famed as a boy orator helped elect McKinley now starved. Willie and his mother in San Rafael face ruin as Willie endures hunger while McKinley dines at 135 dollars a plate.
The passage argues that President McKinley’s Maine message shows a weak tone fitting a kindergarten class. It says the message is largely inert and could be reduced to the brief act of transmitting the Naval Board report on the sinking of the battleship Maine.
Senator Chandler warns that labor gains from a new tariff are illusory as large wage cuts follow an 8 percent protection increase. About 125000 cotton workers in New England see their average weekly pay fall to around six dollars, illustrating the policy's impact on American labor.
The State central committee of the Populist party met in Boise and set the State convention for Moscow on Aug 8, 1898. They fixed the apportioned delegates with Ada as the leading district early in the distribution.
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