The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-08-10


]. o. Swifsything that is use.
Challis one day + stock in the Stat
BIackbird district
B. F. Brown, OF II.
per mines, was in CT
week ON business
DR.. Jacobsen and family depae n
ted for Montpelier, Idaho, yes
terday. where they viii make
their future home.
Mrs. FL. Bradbury and two
daughters left for Salt Lake City
one day last week, where they
will reside this winter.
The flow of water that has
been coming down Pleasant ave
nue. for week past from the ir
rigating ditch above, is not only
public nuisance, but it is des-
troying the road on this street
Assessor Wilkinson returned
from Clayton where he has
been for few days on business
in connection with his Office He
informs us that the smelter is
running in fine shape and turn
ing out bullion at rapid rate
The Salt Lake Tribune's .'Fif-
ty-Y Year Ago" sketches has been
compiled and republished in
handsome book form, with, illum-
mated cover. Twenty cents by
mail, 10 cents at the Tribune of
fee, Salt Lake
The wonderful development of
the gold diggins in Alaska shows
that President Mckinley has
brought prosperity TO the land
Buffalo News
Such goldbug rot as the above
must eminate from fool The
credit is due to those hardy
american miners who braved
the rigors OF the Artic region and
uncovered the beds of yellow
metal far upon the Klondyke
and its tributaries
Few people know that we have
an Alaska pioneer in cur midst
/, but such is the fact. Uncle
Bill Scott mined in the frozen
! north 90 years ago and packed a
ton, more or less. OF grub ON his
back from Fort Wrangle a couple
of hundred miles up the Stikine
: river and packed back with him
/, $1,000 or 5000 in dust That was
/ in the days before he had acquir-
! ed his present ayoirdupois and
he doesn't want any more of it.
The Klondyke has no hypnotism
: for m.-Pocalello Tribune
II A. NJ. Wilson came In from
: Seafoam on Thursday last on
business and returned Saturday
) Chris. Morler and Mr.. Wilson
I are erecting a smelter on Float
! creek. in that district. to treat
the ores from their mines 1t IS
a small plant merely 10 ascertain
whether whether the ore can be
: worked by this process. and ID
4 this proves a success a large
2 plant viii be put in. They are
e employing twelve men. and work
J, is being pushed a rapidly as pos
q lsible in order to make thorough
/ test this fall. The pack-train is
t packing ore 10 the smelter from
: the Mt. King and other mines
:. There is plenty iron TO fiux with
d but they have not as yet dlscov
g cred any great amount of linn
II convenient. The mines in thi
L district are showing well, ant
5, there are plenty of them. Their
q are in the neignborhood of on
IS hundred men in the district
. many from Boise City. Will
some are there for the purpos
= of hunting and fishing. many ar
~ doing development work on thei
= claims.
le About two weeks ago AttOrne
lie General Mcfarland filed in th
y. supreme court petition for
le rehearing in the fee law cas-
lie Since then the attorney genera
ne has made further investigatio
s. of the subject and last Saturda
u he filed a supplemental petition
III which covers a number of ne
TO poiuts and cites great man
ve additional authorities on th
i'll question of the right of coul
Id to go behind the enrolled bill
in the attorney general calls th
lg courts attention TO the fact ths
n the United States supreme cou
ed has decided that the enrolled bill
.e, signed by the presiding officel
if of both branches of a Legislature
N is an official attestation that sa'