The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-12-14

Supreme Court-the medical law
which was passed last winter.
The school children, seventeen
in number, under the careful
training of their teacher, Miss
Rachael Harnett, are making
rapid progress in their various
studies.-Centerville Cor. Idaho
World.
Watch the old year out; usher
the new year in /! There will be
a ball given in the hall at Chal-
lis, on Friday night, Dec. 81,
1897. for the benefit of the Chal-
lis public school, party to be
given under the direction of the
scholars. Full particulars in
next issue.
The MESSENGER is under obli-
cations to the management of
the Blackfoot, Houston & Chal-
lis Stage Company for passes
over this excellent line for 1898.
Mark Twain's new humorous,
story, which he is now writing
in Vienna, is to go to The Lad
les Home Journal.
Silver, sol; Lead, $3.50.
President McKinley's mother
is at the point of death at her
home In Ohio, and the end is ex-
pected at any moment.
Rich & Pierce have just re-
ceived fine line of Xmas goods.
Hugh Wood came over from
Pahsimari last Saturday. Hugh
is just recovering from a severe
case of sickness under the skill
full treatment of DIR. ]. B. Cutter.
Jas. Golfer was down from
Bayhorse last week.
Small birds on bonnets are
are positively out OF style. and
to wear them is a mark of vul-
garity. The correct thing now
| is stuffed hen or turkey worn
on top of the head and dropping
over the ears.
Look out for severe cold wealth
er on the 29th of this month, SC
sayeth Prof. Hicks.
| This was about the most polite
way of telling man to go some
place we ever heard
1T was while sitting in a rail
road train that Wendell Phillip:
is said to have been accosted BY
a Methodist minister, who sale
to him You have come t.
Cincinnati to fight for the mig
gers, 1 believe ?" .sYes, sir,
was the reply. Then" said th'
preacher, why don't you g
down South where the niger
Iare ?" The great Bostonian re
piled II judge, sir, from YOU
appearance, that you are ;
clergyman ~ Yes, sir" ''Yo
are trying to save lost souls =?
Il am" Then permit me t
ask why you don't go to hel
where the lost souls are p
s. J. Roberts is in from Star
ley Basin, says the Boise States
man. He has been at work /
that vicinity for several month
and is interested in bond on
very valuable tract of place
land. He and Carl Lane of Cha
: lis and Joe Montgomery of Hal
ey have 365 acres bonded frol
) Tim. Cooper, n. Fl. Marshal
: the Charles Franklin estate an
Carl Lane, the latter being il
terested both in the propert
, and in the bond. In additio
: they have secured a number {
4 very valuable water rights th'
: can be utilized in placing wat'
3 upon some of the higher bars ]
E the basin. The land they hay
a bonded is all fat, suitable Il
a dredging. Mr.. Roberts states
? is probably the finest dredgin
!. proposition in the Northwes
3 He knew of the ground mar
t years ago. When recently
2 Bannock, Montana, he had a
Y opportunity to observe the su
:, cess of the dredging operation
a there and determined to get no
g of this property. The grour
i pays from the grass roots to I'll
E bedrock, some 13 feet. The be
r rock is a soft granite. Mr.. Ro
It erts' test of the ground gave
i return of AZ cents to the var
o but tests made by others ri
K much higher. One estima
& gave value of over $1,000, OK
S for 365 acres. This proper