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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1900
Page
6
A miscellaneous Silver Messenger column surveys varied topics from political ethics and women’s clubs to the Census 1900 preparations and Japan’s Christian recognition. It notes American scholar digressions and German fossils, and ends with a quip on electricity and signaling in a deaf couple’s home.
A reflective line praises a man who relentlessly pursues truth and remains steadfast in his beliefs, suggesting such integrity earns honorable recognition in historical records.
Sun correspondent describes slow progress and sudden intensification south of Manila after Las Pinas and Paranaque. General Lawton leads a reconnaissance with small forces, safeguards a field hospital, and endures rough cover as Insurgents fire from bamboo and scrub along the river. Major battle details include casualties, improvised armor, and ordnance from Cavite.
In the aftermath the men become visibly angered, muttering about who was hit and who was blamed. They refer to individuals by name such as Jones, Smith, and Brown as the tension escalates following the defeat.
Lawton observed a chaotic scene as surgeons worked frantically to tend wounded soldiers along the road. Dead and dying lay beside the path while coolies and assistants hurried to bandage and move the injured toward the hospital. He pondered the Filipinos' belief in supernatural charms protecting large men from harm.
The Rebels faced an insurgent cannon fire that disrupted a quiet day, with occasional shots from the opposing force adding danger to the encounter.
The narrative describes a tense encounter near the marrow river as Lawton and Capt. Sewell move along the road. Firelight from Filipino attackers tests the defenders, with Lawton staying calm amid shellfire and shrapnel sounds. The scene notes the rebels' shell bursts behind Kenly's battery and the raw, disruptive impact of the bombardment.
A chaotic scene described as the iron bulls failing to scatter. The force was insufficient to separate them, resulting in them all piling together rather than dispersing across the area. No additional context or entities are provided.
Colorado Springs excels as an exclusive market for Cripple Creek gold stocks with 149,804,297 shares sold in the fiscal year ending June. The cash value reached $23,566,897.64, up from the prior year by 111,620,376 shares and $16,979,135.22 in cash. Clearing-house loan settlements totaled $8,979,631.69, vs $2,744,327.49 last year. Cripple Creek’s exchange did not include board of trade sales, revived during the year. On a single day Cripple Creek sold 16,000 shares, Denver 9,000, while Colorado Springs sold 380,215. The listed stocks span twenty four producing mines, twenty one developing, and eighty five unlisted, with about 400 public companies active in Cripple Creek.
The era’s first imperial stamps will be oblong like the American Columbus issue and illustrate the Hohenzollern history. One design shows a union of North and South Germany with two warriors and Germania above a Fatherland landscape. Stamps honor William II’s era and the first Reichstag opening. an English designer, paid 10,000 marks, was hired after local artists failed to be found.
A pretty silver bowl with a perforated cover is described for arranging long stemmed pansies. Place stems on a bed of feathery greenery so the blossom does not touch the water.
A quirky note warns that too many wives threaten plans while William Arm, currently visiting Seattle Jail Citeago, stands as a pointed example. The terse item captures a humorous take on marriage and social order from a local paper.
An area observer quips that before marriage is about billing and wooing while after marriage it becomes billing and using, reflecting a humorous take on married life and financial dynamics.
Report from the North Land district near Deadwood describes a striking high grade gold ore discovery by Otto Grant, a 65 year old German miner. He has extracted about $50,000 in ore with potential near $100,000 more, and plans a stamp mill with cyanide to process both free milling and refractory ores while Colorado capitalists tour the claim.
Judge Stavens in the District Court at Giinson Upen terminated a major mining forfeiture dispute that had troubled the region for years. The case centered on a claim sold to 8. T. Hallett for $500,000 by William Haynes and others under bond and lease, with Haynes paying down a portion. The dispute focused on who bore the cost of labor expenditures and the publication of the forfeiture notice. The question reduced to the validity of the “air line” route and whether publication was properly made in the local Minor.
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