The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-03-21

b LOU w iuS Was over IrOU
Pahsamori one day last week.
Geo. A. Ellis was up from
Salmon on Wednesday last t,
make final proof on his Pahasm
ori ranch.
Robt. Morrison came up from
Salmon last Wednesday for few
days visit at home and with
friends. He had his ears badly
frozen last winter, and in al
probability will lose a portion Of
each one.
j. G. Fox, of Challis, now Wis
iting in this city, received let
ter Thursday from SanFrancisco
containing the information that
his son, Bert, who has been with
the Idaho volunteers at Manila,
would start home on the 9Th of
this month. He has been in the
hospital for long time, and in
tended to start a month before
when some others of the boys
came over, but it was deemed
advisable that he await another
steamer.-Capital.
On the 4th of July, a pole was
erected, composed of six pieces
and nicely connected; two feet
and six inches it measures
around on the place where it
stood, at the top of the ground;
the form was a cone in surface
complete; the height of same
was 12O feet; what length of inch
ribbon will wind around the pole
from bottom to top, and have it
lay smooth and plain to be seen,
by leaving a space of five inches
between ?
Hon. Ralph W. Osborn, who
represented Custer county in the
lower house of the Idaho legisla-
ture, returned to Challis from
Boise last Tuesday evening.
Both of Custer county's repre-
sentatives, be believe, voiced the
sentiments of the majority of the
people in this county on nearly
all measures, but we notice they
generally were on the minority
side in the legislature, but they
are to be congratulated for stand
ing by their convictions, and
they return to their people with
no bribery suspicious hanging
over them, and with the satisfac-
ton of knowing that the people
appreciate their labors. Wise
introduced a bill for the state to
purchase the Ketchum- Challis
toll road, and he made a gallant
fight for it and got it through
the House, but in the Senate
that body laid it away to sleep
in peace forever.
The Boise Capital in speaking
of Mr.. Osborn, says
"Ralph w. Osborn, member of
the house from Custer county,
was born in Ohio in 1912. In
1859 he came to Colorado and |
served four years in the First |
Colorado cavalry with Colonel |
Shoup, now U. S. Senator. In
1871 he went to New Mexico and |
remained there until 1875 when
he came to Idaho, and he has re-
mained in this state and Montana
ever since. Mr.. Osborn has been
in Custer county for Is years en-
gagged in the stage business and
mining. In one of the hottest
political contests Custer county
ever witnessed, he was elected
last fall as a member of the
house, and with one exception
was the only man elected in that
on his ticket. Mr.. Os-
born has been a useful member
of the house and is one of the
level headed men of the south
east" M
Senator James Hooper return
ed to Challis on Wednesday eve-
ming last from Boise, where he
has been representing Custer
county in the Idaho legislature.
Mr.. Hooper returns with the
satisfaction of knowing that he
represented the majority of his
on nearly all mat
ters. He introduced two good
but both were defeat
ed, but had they been ridiculous
measures they surely would have
passed with a whoop. One was
to amend the Constitution rela-
tive to the election of County
Commissioners. This was a
good bill and should have passed
but it met its doom in the
House. Another good measure
by him, which was also killed,
was for the state to appropriate
s.. 900 for the repair of the state
wagon road in Custer county at
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