The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-09-26
Ake0Hk NEWS.e
Dreyfus has been pardoned.

j. Y. Fox left last Saturday
morning for Boise to be present
at the reception to be given the
Idaho volunteers, also to visit
the Idaho Inter Mountain Fair.
Miss Minnie Finnegan of Boise
has been elected queen of the
Idaho Inter Mountain Fair, hav-
ing received 1870 votes. The
next highest candidate was Miss
Anna Verde Long, of Boise, with
288 votes.
A telephone message was re-
ceived Monday evening announc-
ing the death of Mrs. Leacock,
who was found dead in her house
near Leesburg a short time be-
fore. Mrs. Wayant went over at
once and the remains were
brought here for burial, arriving
this morning. The funeral will
be held at the church tomorrow
at IL o'clock.-Salmon Recorder.
September Goth.
Fine September weather.
N. ]. Wallace, of Ada county.
and Chas. LaMoyne, of Boston,
Mass, agents for the Souther
Dredging Co., of Boston, have
obtained option on all of the
placer claims on Yankee Fork
from couple miles below Pou-
quette's Meadows up to the
mouth of Jordan creek-between
four and five miles-and will
have the boring and pumping
machinery on the ground by the
26th of this month. The object
is to bore in different places along
the flats and test the value of
the ground. If the ground pros
poets sufficiently to justify dredg-
ing, there will be several of the
machines put in the coming sum
mer. Mr.. Souther has dredges
at work in Boise Basin with
good results. The prospecting
machinery weighs 5000 pounds
and has been operated in Stanley
Basin and vicinity for several
months past. q
Wells MCGOWAN was out from
Bonanza couple days last week.
The Salmon Recorder says
that Lemhi county may be heard
from later on in regard what
they claim Custer county owes
Lemhi. Now Custer county says
she does not owe Lemhi cent
that she has more than paid that
old debt. There appears to be
a difference of opinion in this
matter, and perhaps the only
way to settle it is through law.
Valentine Maelzer, represent
ing the Chicago Portrait Com
pany, arrived in Challis one day
last week.
r. N. Hull, County Treasurer,
went down to Blackfoot on Mon
day. the 18th, and returned on
Thursday of the same week. The
case of Custer county VS.. G. E.
Thum, Receiver, will not be
argued for a few days yet-ten
days was the time set for the
argument when Mr.. Hull left.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows was in session at
Detroit, Mich, last week, its 75th
annual meeting. The next ses-
sion will be held at Richmond,
Va. According to the report of
the Grand Secretary OddFellow-
ship now numbers over a million
members-the largest secret Or
der in the world. Following is a
summary of the condition of the
Order December 81. 1898: Sow,
ereign grand lodges, 1;independ-
ent grand lodges, 5 (Australia,
Denmark, Germany, Sweden and
Switzerland); subordinate grand
lodges, IS; subordinate grand
encampments, So; subordinate
lodges, 11,796; subordinate en-
campments, 2641; lodge memb-
ers, $50, 929; encampment memb-
ers, 1913, 267; Rebekah lodges,
5071; members of Rebekah lodg,
es, 313, 1853. The whole increase
in all branches of the Order for
the year was 80, 225. The report
showed the relief expenditures
by lodges to be SO, 1876. $50; relief
by encampments, $299, 786, anc
, by Rebekah lodges. S47, 149, max
ing a total of So, 442, 936. The
total expenses of subordinate
lodges figures S4, 159, 726. Tht
revenue of subordinate lodges
amounted to S7,752, ,282; subord
mate encampments, $50, ,762
Rebekah lodges, S443, 348; total
50, 766, 393. The total invested