The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-09-14

Boise City.
Dwight Peck and family
were over from Dickey last
Thursday and Friday.
If any one wishes to pay the
MESSENGER in wood, there could
be no more acceptable time than
now.
Take the Rio Grande route.
1t carries you through the finest
scenery, the quickest and the
cheapest.
Florence is expecting to get
a telephone from Camas Prairie.
This camp must be moving on in
good shape.
Ira Tingley, aged 85 years
died in Salmon Sept. 3rd. He
has been a resident of Lemhi
county since 1867.
w. j. Scott and Ike Hill, two
popular and well-known drum
mers" arrived in Challis on last
Saturdays Blackfoot stage.
Pennsylvania has just had
great democratic convention and
has done the fair thing-stood
by silver and endorsed it's great
est champion for our next Presi-
dent.
There has been one death at
New Orleans. probably from yell
low fever, that is causing great
fear in the South. We trust
they may escape from this ter
rible malady.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred. Phillips
of Los Angles, Cal, arrived in
Challis last Saturday from Sal
mon, where they have been for a
few weeks. They will remain in
this place for a few days visiting
their many friends.
One of the arithmetic prob
lens in the recent county exam
ination papers was
"A cone whose altitude is 10
inches high, weighs "a pounds.
At what distance from the vortex
must it be cut by a plane parallel
TO the base so that the frustum
cut off may weigh II pounds ?''
The source of the gold. in
the Stanley Basin placers, for
which prospectors have vainly
looked for years, has been dis
covered at last. 1t is a porphyry
vein that cuts across the granite
formation on the upper side OF
the basin. 1t was discovered by
a Frank Montgomery.
-Pocatello, Sept. IA young
fellow giving the name of Bud
Ray was arrested at Inkom last
night on charge of stealing q
horse from E. w. James, a Lost
river rancher, at Blackfoot. He
was riding the stolen animal
when captured. He was taken
to jail at Blackfoot this after
noon. Statesman.
The New Time, published
by Chas. Kerr & Co., Chicago,
ILL.,, and edited by B. o. Flower
and Frederick Upham Adams
We sit down and read this review
or magazine with a constan
pleasure, and find in it more
philosophy and greater variety
to the square inch than in any
other book. Published monthly
for 81 year and worth SO.
We see by the Salubria Citi
,, zen, of Sept. 3, that our ole
, friend, Cal. White, has rented
! his ranch, saloon, blacksmith
! shop and other business and il
; going to Europe. The pape.
speaks well of the high merits o
Mr.. White. We trust he is no
/ going over the waters for a per
< manent stay. When we last me
| him, at Pocatello, at the Bryal
, meeting, he invited and l pledg
( ed a meeting at his home in tn
5 Meadows in the Fall of 1898, an,
: intend to keep my promised
!, there Cal.or there will be trouble
Dan Fitzwater and William
Cooper returned here a few day
: ago from an extended prospect
t ing trip in the Sheep Mountain
| country, about 225 miles north
2 east of this point. They wen
5 with a wagon by way of Idaho
t City and the State road and ex
1 perienced no difficulty in making
: the trip with team. Mr.. Fitz
water, who has had considerabl,
, experience as a miner in tn
/ mountains of Idaho, consider
. the Sheen Mountain and Sea