The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-15
LOCAL NEWS.

Smoke "Victor Dewey" cigar.
WANTED.-1O0 men wanted
to chop wood for the Lucky Boy
Gold Mining Co.-E. ]. HILTs,
Custer City, Idaho.
Mrs. AL. Barselow and daugh-
ter, Mrs. M. S. Hicks, were over
from Pahsamaroi last week.
We learn that p. j. Cirkel,
superintendent of the Yellow
Jacket property, is expected here
the first of the month, when &C
tive operations will be 1commenc-
ed on the property.-Salmon
Recorder.
Mrs. AL. Jinegar has leased the
, Nasholds house at Salmon.
Hurrah for the Idaho Midland
railroad
: At the Republican State con-
vention held at Lewiston, Idaho,
on the 9Th, the following dele
gates we're elected to attend the
National convention at Phila-
delphia Senator Shoup, w. b.
Hepburn, (of Spokane, Wash.,)
j. F. Ailshie, L. l.. Ormsby, F.
t r. Gooding and George A. Rob
ethan. The platform adopted is
: a daisy. 1t favors silver and de-
: nounces trusts. Consistency
thou art jewel
f The Populists in National con-
f vention last week at Sioux Falls,
e Dakota, got the start of the Dem
! ocrats in the nomination of VIM.
f J. Bryan for President.
! District Court convenes in
: Challis next Monday.
W. H. Felkner and Enos Wat
son returned from their Salt
. Lake City trip one day last week
\ much benefited from their few
| weeks outing.
Il DIR. F. S. Pyle arrived from
- Blackfoot last week, and is now
busily engaged in dental work.
The Democratic county conven-
ton to elect delegates to the
- Lewiston and Pocatello conven-
II tions, convenes in Clayton today.
10 Joseph Blase, an old time resi-
dent of Custer county, we are
he informed died at Cliff recently oi
r. pneumonia.
n Lou Nesslein arrived in Chal
lis the fore part of last weel
ps from Blackfoot. He is out from
. the asylum on a six weeks vaca
ton.
10 Henry Treon died at the county
be hospital in Challis on the I'll
inst. and his remains were inter
red on the 9th. The deceased
was a resident of Custer count,
for many years, and has man,
friends that will be panied t
a learn of his demise. He wa
the about so years of age
-. Mr.. and Mrs. K. d. Williams
of the Robinson Bar Springs
sin spent couple days of last week i
Challis.
sts The dispatch published in Saf
on urday mornings Statesman t
.,s the effect that company callin
the itself the Idaho Southern Raj
way company had been organize
under the laws of New Jerse
0Se he for the purpose of building raj
roads into Idaho caused a gre;
% deal of speculative comment
y the city. Some thought til
for company had been organized
NJ build the proposed road fro
Blackfoot to the Custer count
tue copper mines. A business ma
of Boise who was in SanFral
! an an cisco last summer and who had
New talk at the time with one of I'll
leading officials of the Southel
the Pacific gave it as his opinion th
ks's Is. the new company was the ere
ture of that road, basing th
view on what the Southern Pax
fc official had told him. He sa
men he believed it was the intentis
n in of the Southern Pacific to bui
from Winnemucca into Idaho
nere Boise Statesman.
s6 short IT Mrs. T. w. Bates, of Bois
wife of T. w. Bates, the prom
PIP = ter Of the Idaho Midland railwa
down threw the first shovel of dirt
aped ped the construction of the Midla1
9e is in Boise river canyon last Tue
D r day. A large crowd of peol
were present to witness the co
mencement of this great railro
project, and numerous speech
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