The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-05-02
Silver, 634c.

The volunteers wish to come
home by organizations, the
same as they went
Mrs VIM Bowen of Custer,
visited relatives and friends In
this valley last week
The Statesman announces that
the Fifth session laws viii be
ready for distribution soon after
May 1st.
Just little sunshine, and then
just little rain or snow, was
weather program in Challis dur
ing the past week
JAS Marker came up from
Salmon last Tuesday where he
has been employed during the
past winter, and went on to Gus
ter yesterday
A big strike is on at the Bun
ker Hill & Sullivan mine, War
dner, Idaho, the company refus-
ing to recognize the union Some
400 miners are out
Fifteen men are now employed
in the copper mines at Cliff, and
this force will be increased to
thirty men in a short time, just
as soon as the company's mining
pump arrives
CARD OF THANKS--I desire to
take this means to publicly ex-
press my most sincere thanks to
those who so kindly assisted at
the time of the death and burial
of my beloved wife. WILSON
ELLIS, Ellis, Idaho
]. A Andrews, ex-Indian agent
of the Lemhi agency, has been
convicted in the United States
court of embezzlement of gov
ernment funds. He was senten-
ced to two years Imprisonment
in the Idaho penitentiary or pay
a fine of $500.
J. II. Pitzer, Mr.. and Mrs c.
H Poppy, of Clayton; Mr. and
Mrs Chas- Baker. Mrs JAS
Golfer, Miss Clara Golfer, Earl
]. Michael, Geo. W. Emery, John
| Sullivan and NJ E. Foley, of
Bayhorse, attended the L o. o.
f. exercises and ball IN Chalhs
last Wednesday
Mrs Aitchinson and Mrs Stark
arrived in ChaIlis last Tuesday
evening from St Paul, Mimi.
and returned Saturday morning
They are heirs In the estate of
VIM. Dunn, deceased. who died
in this place in November. 1895,
they being nieces, and came TO
look after the estate
4 The beef court viii report in
favor of the administration, but
we don't believe the soldiers who
had to eat this rotten stuff viii
report in favor of Hanna, Alger.
Egan and Mckinley. This was
purely a Mckinley court, and
this kind of report was expect
ed. regardless of all the damag-
ing testimony against the beef
Mat and Cliff Womacks, and
others, passed through town last
Friday with large teams They
! were loaded with two large boil
, ers for the Stanley Basin dredge
J boat. which viii be built at the
Basin and operated this summer.
They will go as far up the river
as possible on wagons and then
transfer to sleighs. ]. H. Green
of Houston. has a contract to de-
) liver rs. 900 pounds of freight
5 which will come via Blackfoot,
? for this company.
Mr.. E Watson. did good job
! last week cleaning out the rub
/. bish in Garden creek. back OF
I. his stable, and made big haul.
: and by so doing hoped others
would follow suite. The waters
; of this creek are used by two
thirds of the people of Challis
: for drinking and domestic pur'
], poses. Each year the stream Is
/. becoming filed with rubbish and
refuse matter of all kinds. u por-
ton of it being hauled and either
n dumped into the creek or upos
d It's banks Dead dogs, cats. ane
q other animals. often find q wat
:. cry grave in Garden creek. anC
9 our people have to use thi:
S water for drinking purposes L
e is a wonder to us that more O
e our people are not sick or dead
S from using this polluted water
Il The Board of Health shouls
|. look into this matter. Let ;
e person take a walk along thu
e streams banks and behold ths
; filth these waters pass through
q and over. and then tell us it Il
l. pure water. Garden creek i
i | = .,,rr-.>x for q number pf nut