The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-09-07
LOCEL GLEENINGs.
We are having a little Klon-
dixie weather.

Ihe big Labor Day celebration
that was advertised to take place
at Custer yesterday, was declar-
ed off for some unknown reason,
at the last moment, so to speak.
A large number of people from
Challis had made arrangements
to attend, besides our band had
gone to considerable trouble to
prepare for this occasion.
A rich gold strike is reported
sixteen miles west of Custer the
other day. Excitement is run
ming high on Yankee Fork. 1t
is impossible to get any particu-
lars, only that prospector had
brought in quartz from a big
ledge near Custer that was liter
ally filed with gold.
DR.. J. B. Cutter returned from
st. Paul and other eastern cities
one day last week.
Nal Branca was down from
Bayhorse last week.
Judge Bomar went to Bonanza
last week on business.
Bud Sterling was doing" Gus
ter county last week.
Bill of fare at Klondyke
Horse sandwiches, SO.
Broiled dog, with gold dust, so.
Barbecued bootlegs, with
straps, So.
Stewed felt hat, with trim
mings, S4.
Fried mackintoshes, rain-soak-
ed. 81.
Boiled wagon covers, with
axle grease, g.
Picked wagon tongue, sliced, 81
The articles of Incorporation
of the Fisher & Boorn Gold Min
ing Company. limited, have been
filed with the secretary of state.
The company will work the
Fisher & Boorn claims in the
Bayhorse district. its principal
Office being at Ketchum. The
directors are A. L. Coleman, of
Centralia, Kansas; Frank Fish
er, of Ketchum; John G. Millick,
George Bumgarner and Joseph
Lacour, of Blackfoot, and Frank
Mills and E. S. Sargent, of On
ago, Kansas. The capital stock
of the company is $4,000.
A little item in newspaper
will make an enemy to the paper
for years, but it won't stop him
from reading the paper-it mere
ly changes him from subscriber
to sponger. -Ex.
Mrs. Susan F. Lee died sud
denly at the home of her son,
Councilman J. B. Hicks. Friday
morning from a stroke of para
lysis. She was quite an aged
lady, having been born on Feb.
1lth, 1884. She had been in her
usual health, which was, how
ever, delicate, but had gotten up
and helped get breakfast when
she was suddenly taken i'll and
died in couple of hours. Poe
atello Tribune.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Davis of
Huntington, w. Va, are the
proud possessors of twelve hun
dred pounds of daughters, and
they are the cause of much won
der in the neighborhood.
Joe Davis who was then rec
ognized as a substantial young
farmer, married Is years ago
Lenora Fuller. A boy was born
but lived only two months. A
year later, a little girl came.
The infant developed into a
bouncing child. In two months
it tipped the scales at so 0pounds.
AT the end of two years its
weight was 108 pounds. At the
end of four years a sister came
to Mary Eliza, and, not to be out
done, the second daughter, jamie
Belle, started in the race as a
competitor of Mary Eliza.
Two years later Cleora was
added, and the trio was complete,
Today Mary Eliza is 13 years old
and weighs 584 pounds; jamie
Belle, aged 9, tips the beam at
$50, while Cleora, whose years
are seven, is dainty little thing
of 246 pounds. Mary Eliza is
the pride of the household. Her
neck is foot in diameter, her
wrist measures 124 inches in cir
conference, while he ankles are
three times that size.
Mr.. Davis is a man rather be-
low the ordinary size, not weigh
ing more than ITO pounds, while