The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-05
LOCAL NEWS.
Smoke "victor Dewey" cigar.

w AIN IEO."lOO men WouOCo
to chop wood for the Lucky Boy
Gold Mining Co.-E. J. HILTS,
Custer City, Idaho.
DIR. F. S. Pyle departed last
Saturday morning for his home
at Blackfoot. He informed us
that he expected to return in
or September.
Henry Horton left last Satur-
day morning to work at the Sky
lark mine.
George MCGOWAN, Jr., and
Miss Margaret keenan, were mar
ried in Challis on the Both inst.
Capitalists and mining men
are arriving in Custer county al
most daily looking for invest
ments. 1t is mainly through the
advertising the great resources
of the county has received by
the Idaho Midland Railway.
1t begins to appear like sum-
mer had come.
Mrs. Boyd has again resumed
charge of her hotel in Challis.
Election in Oregon today. Ore
gon is strictly a Republican state
and we can hope for no other re-
suits at this election.
Census enumerators for Custer
county, Mrs. Borjeson, Jas. Fl.
VanCamp, ]. H. Bascom, Emmett
Hosford and Geo. Baldwin, COM
menced their labors of enumer-
ating last Friday, the 1st.
J. G. Fox and M. E. Foley de-
parted for Blackbird last Satur-
day.
A horse, with a saddle and
bride on, was seen floating down
Salmon river recently. Whether
the horse had rider and was
drowned is not known.
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Following are the Democratic
delegates from Lemhi county to
the Lewiston convention: w. @.
Whitwell, A. J. Macnab, F. w.
Hunt, F. B. Pattee, Geo. Steel
A. H. Ford, w. H. Mulkey, ]
+. Allan, Evan J. Reese.
Contractor Wilkerson announc
ed yesterday that he would hav'
5000 men at work on the MIDLAND
in short time if he could ge
them. He thought he would
have some trouble in securing al
the men he wanted. He said h
might have to import some Ital
ians and negroes to fill out with
Statesman.
VIM. Branca and Geo. Coffrar
were down from Clayton one da
last week.
Assessor Lane went to th
Yankee Fork and Stanley Basi
districts the fore part of tn
on an assessing tour.
E. G. Headrick departed fo
Bonanza last Wednesday whel
he has considerable work in b
line. After which he expects
return to Challis and paint tt
school house.
Frank Cook was down to Hou
ton several days last week pro-
ing up on his ranch.
Arthur McGown was in tow
last week. He was en- route f,
Houston where he expects to s
, into business.
The New Challis House b
y been greatly improved durir
y tne past with a new floor in ii
y dining room and kitchen.
The partial eclipse of the 81
l. was observed here on the 28th.
MI. ". u. OdChSOn VI DOlS
speaking of the Idaho Midlal
4 railroad, the other day, said:
N say great railroad for the reas'
that there is not another road
IN the Union that has the prospet
that are assured by five year &C
tracts that the Idaho Midlal
as has. The road will pay from t
st time it r aches Moore's creek,
we will handle all the BaS
le freight from that point, and wi
10 30 miles more we reach an
1t mense body of timber on t
ne South Boise. We have had es
We mates made that reach over fo
re billion feet. The road will p;
ek this timber belt before sn'
flies. in fact we expect to get
the Sawtooth range before w
~ ~ ter, as that is the point where
NJ will drive a tunnel about {
[c- mile in length. and this work {