The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-08-14

EOIS bohA1u - Ho Ill hdppd
mill building and other improve
ments on the Phi Kappa millsite,
near head of Lost river, for $500,
cash. G. w. Stickney, Haley, Id.
Chas. Baker was up from Cop
per Basin last week, where he
has been at work at the smelter
at that place.
Miss Pearl MCGOWAN came out
from Bonanza last Thursday eve
ming to visit friends.
Miss Ida Hanna came out from
Custer last Thursday evening
and on the following morning de-
parted for visit to Baker City,
Oregon.
Frank Tolman was over from
Pahsamaroi last week, also Jim
Quinn was in this place several
days.
J. G. Fox and M. E. Foley
went out to Blackbird last week.
The Salt Lake Tribune is now
preaching daily sermonsto Idaho
Democrats to support Mckinley.
The Tribune's pleas will not cut
much figure with the Democrats.
for they have little confidence in
a paper that is bought by Hanna
and changes its politics every
campaign.
An Associated Press dispatch
from Santa Cruz, Cal, Aug. 9TH,
says "a. II. Zeigler, formerly
a justice of the peace in Idaho,
killed his wife last night by cut
ting her throat, and attempted
suicide by hacking his own
throat, but inflicted only a super
fetal wound. The couple resid-
ed near Soquelo and have had
frequent quarrels. The murder
was premeditated. Zeigler is in
Jail"
This is evidently Amos K.
Zeigler, formerly Probate Judge
of Custer county. The initial
"H'' in the above dispatch should
be *, and with that exception
there can be but little question
but that it is our A. K. Zeigler,
as he and his wife moved to that
place about four years ago. He
held the Office of Probate Judge
two terms in this county. He
drank to excess and was not con
sidered strictly honest in his Off
cial duties.
E. A. Readicker operating the
stage line between Challis and
Salmon and Dubois and Ellis,
arrived one day last week from
New York with an automobile
which he intends to use in car
rying mail and passengers. He
made a trial run with it from
Dubois to Ellis and it averaged
10 miles an hour. 1t went through
the heavy sand and dust on the
road without any trouble. 1t is
the first machine of the kind
ever brought to this county, and
its operations are watched with
much interest. The vehicle is a
single seated one, fitted up be-
low with a frame for carrying
the mail. Its driving power is
made with gasoline, and with
little expense. If it proves sue
cessful Mr.. Readicker will place
on order for another automobile
with capacity for carrying six
passengers. This is the first
proposal in the country to put
the automobile in practical op-
GRAFTON on a stage route. We
believe that the machine should
be built for this kind of work in
this country. In the first place
it ought to have been standard
width for the wagon roads, and
instead of rubber tires should be
steel, and the machine should be
built higher from the ground. Il
the machine were built for this
kind of service we can see nc
reason why it would not be 6
success. The distance from Du
bois to Challis is 100 and it is
claimed that it can be made in l.
or IA hours.
The directors of the Blackbir6
Copper-Gold company met yes
terday afternoon and formulated
plans for the future operation oi
their properties in the Blackbird
district, and will open up a cam.
paign at once. with Manager
Gilbert at the mead of the forces
Jim Swift, who takes down g
nice piece of money from the
sale of the Uncle Sam, is con
graduating himself that he has
nearly forty more locations in
the same camp, from which he
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