The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-11-16
LOCzL oLEENINGS.
Silver, 57A; Lead, So. rs.

The defunct Bunting bank of
Blackfoot last week paid another
10 cent. payment. This makes
a total of 20 cents it has paid.
Rowdy O'Ray, John Sullivan
and Martin Joyce were down
from the mines last week.
Mr.. Wilson, and two other
gentlemen from Butte, Montana,
spent last week viewing Custer
county in reference to the feast
bility of railroad.
Ola Mead was up from Pah-
simari last week. He is walking
lame on account of a horse fall
ing on him.
A very pleasant hop was given
in Challis last Friday night.
Mr.. Lyon, an attendant from
the Asylum came up on last
Friday evenings stage, and on
the following morning departed
for Blackfoot with his patient.
Mrs. Paul received a telegram
last Thursday evening bringing
the sad intelligence of her moth
er's death in Nevada.
Miss Ida Hanna returned home
Thursday evening last from
Baker City, Oregon, where she
has been for the past year at
tending school.
F. W. Vogler was a Challis
visitor a couple of days last
week.
Bert Fox left for his home in
the East last Saturday.
Sam. Tennell came down from
Stanley Basin last Friday eve
ming. He has been mining for
the past six months for Challis &
Sturkey. We are informed that
Messrs. Challis & Sturkey made
a good "clean up" from their
placer claim this season. They
only piped % days and took out
nearly $4,000. That's a pretty
good Klondike itself.
VIM. Bowen was down from
from his Stanley Basin placer
mines a portion of last week.
Pat. Bonner was in this place
last Friday from Houston, on
business. Pat is strictly in the
hay business this season, and is
selling a good quality.
VIM. Sawyer, Doc. Adair and
VIM. Lutz made our town visit
this week. Doc. Adair and VIM.
Lutz own the newly discovered
claim called the Mountain Girl,
q quartz claim that bids fair to
be a great property. Doc. Adair,
VIM. Lutz, J. H Pitzer and Sam.
Holman own the Valley mine,
Both are on the southeast of
Stanley creek. Doc is always
on the quartz; and if he don't let
a lot of Williams get hold of him
again, he may come out in his
old age.
Recently a small boy ate butter
cups and as result died. Since
then there has been published a
list of poisonous wild flowers,
popularity considered harmless,
but certain to be fatal if eaten by
a careless person or ignorant
child. These flowers are butter.
cups, celandine, wood anemone,
daffodils, narcissus. lily, snow
drop, jonquil, wild hyacinth,
monkshood, foxglove, night
shade, briony, mezerone and
henbane.
"Out here in Idaho they have
introduced hugging societies tc
swell the church treasury, and
following is the scale of prices
Girls under 1912 cents for q
hug of two minutes or 10 cents
for short squeeze; from 16 to
! 800 cents; schoolmarms, 4C
cents; another mans wife, 81
widows, according to looks, from
l9 cents to So: old maids 3 cents
apiece or two for 5 cents and no
limit of time. Preachers are not
charged. Editors pay in adver
tisements, but are not allowed to
participate until everybody else
is through. And even then they
are not allowed to squeeze any
thing but old maids and school
marms."
The above was handed i'm
not necessarily for publication,
but we reprint it anyhow. In
hugging, as in everything else,
it will be noticed editors oet the