The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-05

J. p. Spalding has been on the
sick list for the past week
The Club will hold dances each
Friday night from now on until
the funds are exhausted.
VIM. Mcqueen, at one time a
mining superintendent at Custer.
has been committed to the Utah
insane asylum.
Leon Calhoun has unearthed
mammoth on the other side Snake
river. He found about four feet
of tusk. Independent.
BORN:-On Feb. 10th, 1901,
to the wife Olee A. Mead, of Pah-
samaroi, son. Mother and
child doing well.
Miss Tiny Senorita, the small
est known person in the world,
is visiting the United States. She
is 81 years of age,2 feet in height
and weighs 27 pounds. She is a
Cuban by birth.
Information has been received
that Amos Franklin had an OPP
GRAFTON at Salt Lake City one day
last week for appendicitis, and
that he is getting along nicely
since the operation
Messrs. Waters and Guinan
left for Boise last Thursday.
They had been up to Stanley in
specting their placer property.
1t is understood that their com
pany will put in a dredge this
summer.
THE people up in Blackfoot
are elated over the prospects of
the Short Line being extended
to ChaIlis, a distance of about $50
miles, said James Houston of
Blackfoot, at the Cullen This
extension has been talked about
for some time, but one cannot
say when it will be made. though
I think it will be a reality some
time. 1t is bound to come, for
the region up along Salmon riv-
er is one of the finest mining dis
tricts in the state, aud besides
the road would run into a coun-
. try that is fast filing up with
settlers. That portion of the
state is growing fast, but rail
road up there would mean a
whole lot to the country. You
see there are lots of things in a
new country that would never be
opened up if it were not for a
. railroad. and that district in the
same way. Salt Lake Herald.
The Salt Lake Herald of last
week contains the following ac
count of a railroad collision in
California, whereby Mr.. and Mrs
: Fred Philips and Mr.. and Mrs.
J. D. Wood, formerly residents
of Challis, were more or less in
jured I:
Word reached Salt Lake yes
terday of a collision on the Santa
Fe railroad near Los Angeles, in
which number of prominent
Salt Lakers were involved. j.
ID. Wood, David Keith. George
A. Lowe and others were in the
party.
The collision occurred on the
18th. On that day a number OF
!. people in Los Angeles made up a
pleasure party. There being Is
e in all, and the plans were to rur
down to Riverside. distance o1
S about 90 miles from Los Angeles
! where the party would spend th'
day and return in the evening
: The run was made all right til
r the train reached Redlands, ;
d little place near the end of tn
t journey. There, just as the trail
n was slowing up for the station
# collision occurred. As the pleas
c ure party pulled into the station
" d 1ISi2llI lIdll1 lhONC0 OQts AACCt
Ie ing each other while going at. th'
le rate of probably twenty miles al
,r hour.
5 There were no serious casual
20 ties, but the party was prett,
If well shaken up. and nearly al
If were bruised and cut. One er
it CINE was entirely demolished an
r a car reduced to splinters. ]. I
fl Wood received deep cut in tn
er temple that had to be sewed u
a by a physician. George A. Low
" had his face badly bruised, Will
Of his wife had one hand hurt. Mrs
III Fred Philips arm was wrencheo
Id and others were bruised.
to The story of the wreck is tol
sn in letter written by Mrs. j. |
I'd Wood to FL Hagenbarth. Som
of of the people in the wreck were