The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-09-05

Mrs. T. J. Paul and children
made short visit on Lost river
last week.
Yost & Dunham's Comedy Co.,
will give an entertainment in
Challis next Saturday night, in
Producing the latest comic coon
songs, etc. A free dance will be
given after the show.
Representatives elected from
Custer Lodge No. q, l. O. o. F.,
to attend the Grand Lodge which
meets in Weiser next month are:
j. G. Fox, A p Challis and ].
@. Adams.
S. H. Wilcox came down from
Clayton Saturday. Steve is not
feeling his best, and is down for
medical treatment.
Con. Hurst was down from Bay
Horse last Saturday and Sunday.
o. J. Salisbury and family
have returned to their home in
Salt Lake City after spending
their summer vacation in Custer
county.
| The Democrats Of Ohio at their
recent State convention nomin-
ated ]. r. Mclean for governor.
They endorsed Bryan and the
Chicago platform.
The heaviest rainstorm of the
season occurred in this place last
Saturday night.
Chas. Funkhouser, while en-
, route for Custer last week with
a load of hay, upset on the steep
grade above Marshall's. 1t was
a narrow escape, but as it turned
{ out he was but slightly injured.
Senator Hooper was over from
Morse the first of the week.
John W. Mackey, the world
famous bonanza king, and Col.
Matthews, of Philadelphia, visit
: ed Big Lost river mines last
a week. They were accompanied
g by Mr.. Darlington, Supt. of the
Big Copper group at Cliff. We
understand that Mr. Mackey is
l now interested in these mines.
IS Hon. Chas. Cranes son met
a with a severe accident out at
k Seafoam recently. He slipped
e and fell on an ak cut a cash three
and one half inches long In the
- instep of his right foot.
A most remarkable incident
6 happened at the home of Geo.
= = Hill on Little Bear ridge Friday
- of last week, when his little two
u year-old son fell 16 feet into a
well. His parents were busy
er with their work and had not
J. noticed the child, and after he
o had been missed about half an
t. hour a search was made of the
Ie premises with the result that he
X was found at the bottom of the
we'll playing with the tools which
had been used in digging the
re we'll. The child was fished ouf
lg and not bruise could be found
in How he could have fallen tina
ig distance and alighted among the
1e tools at the bottom of the wei
ne without receiving any injuries is
be most wonderful.-C d'Alen'
an Press.
ut
as Four mammoth spools of wir'
3 cable were unloaded here Thurs
-. day and Friday for the Luck,
: Boy mine at Custer. They ar
ar so big that a large freight wago
wv will hold but one. The ney
nv crble will operate between tn
n mine and mill. -Blackfoot Mail.
mp Before leaving Manila the off
ck GERS and men of the First Idah
de Volunteer Infantry presente'
70 Major Higgins, a handsome badg
en- of the Eight Army Corps, set i
Ity rubies, diamonds and sapphire:
Does this look as though Majc
nm Higgins was a coward, as chars
He ed by number of Idaho paper
he and schemers ? An army of SOLE
-ba iers do not reward cowardice-
IN There was filed in the supren
OF court Wednesday the writ
Aet error issued by the suprem
court of the United States in til
do case of William Boyle, ex-con
cl- missioner of Shoshone count,
He applied for writ of habe'
corpus before the state supren
ave court, being held under ARE
n. by the martial authorities, b
100. the writ was refused. This WI