The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-23
Mike Donnelly returned from
Indiana last Friday evening.

BOISE pen. Inc 'uOcJOr Is
lucky that he was not hanged.
In the apportionment of State
school money Custer county re-
ceives the smallest dividend
$117.75 on 500 children.
1t is claimed at last that the
British have won victory over
the Beers, Buffers forces having
crossed the Tugela river.
1t is the Navy Department
against the entire country in the
Sampson-Schley matter. Pity
it cannot let the thing rest.
Geo. w. Lamoreau, Auditor
and Recorder of Ada county, has
been arrested for embezzlement
of $4,000. Although he has
wife living in Boise, his downfall
is said to have been caused by
women and wine.
Has the President changed his
mind regarding deposits in nat
ional banks as completely as he
changed it on the silver ques-
ton? In 1888 he denounced Mr..
Cleveland for depositing less
than half the amount that Secre-
tary Gage has deposited.
Hon. A. J. Crook has succeed
ed in getting installed at his
claims in Copper Basin, and has
begun work. He is now in
Ketchum anxiously awaiting his
assay outfit, which is coming
from the west by his own teams.
This outfit is expected soon. On
its arrival it will be hauled over
to Copper Basin, and Mr.. Crook
will then start in to assay every
part of the workings, so that he
will know just what the ore is
worth. IL the meantime contracts
will be made for a years coke
and other supplies, and by the
coming of spring work will be-
gin on the smelter and be pushed
vigorously.-Hailey Times.
Each day the prospects for the
early commencement and COM
pletion of the Idaho Midland
railroad through Custer county
grows brighter. The promoters
are going at the project in way
that means business. We have
heard of proposed railroads be-
5 ing built through Custer county
for the past fifteen years, but
2 none Of them materalized, but
| from good authority we actually
2 believe that the Midland will be
, built, and that soon. The money
for the building of this road has
been secured, the survey started,
: and Mr.. Bates, the president, has
: authorized the statement that he
was meeting with the greatest
! success in his Idaho Midland
4 project, and that he expected to
! commence throwing dirt on the
{ Boise end of the line by Febru-
ary 1st next. All these things
, begins to look like business.
I The litigation over the estate
. of William A Norton, deceased,
: was renewed in Salt Lake City
: on the 10Th, says the Tribune, by
: the filing of a suit in the Third
District court by William HI.
Fellzner, James Dougherty, Jas.
n O'Brien, John G. Fox and Curtis
i Estes, who claim to be creditors
o of the Norton estate, against
d John E. Dooly and the unknown
q heirs of the deceased. The for
e mer allegations that Norton made
Ie an assignment to Dooly for th'
J. benefit of his creditors; that Nor
ton soon thereafter died, anC
that Dooly became executor o
g the estate are made. Part of thu
~ property assigned was the Charl
'r es Dickens mine in Idaho. and il
i, le winding up the affairs of the es
II tate, it is alleged that Dool.
~ caused Norton's two-thirds in
eo terest in the mine to be sold ant
a. that Dooly became the purchaser
'e through r. G. Chambers, a
ut trustee, for $50, 1000. and tina
"a Dooly Immediately thereafte
ne sold the two-thirds interest to
u London syndicate for not les
10 than $3.50, 900. 1t is then claimed
es that under a former decision Q
u the Supreme court in the case
Dooly being trustee and execu
IS tor, had no right to become
le purchaser directly or indirectly
sG and that the amount received fo
Id the property from the Londo
he syndicate should go to the Nol
he tou estate. 1t is then praye'
of that Deoly be required to ae
d. count for the amount, and that
ce be applied to payment of tn