The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
Swear off tomorrow !

Christmas was a very quiet
day in Challis.
Mr.. E. B. Curtis is over from
Goldburg for few days.
Mrs. M. S. Hicks of Goldburg,
visited friends in Challis last
week.
Nal Branca, of Bayhorse, made
a business trip to Challis the fore
part of last week.
Mr.. Emmett Hosford and Miss
Fitzgerald, of Clayton, spent the
Holidays at the county hub.
Mr.. E. J. Michael and sister
and Miss Gerish, and Mr.. Jas.
Marker and Miss Clara Coulter.
of Bayhorse, spent Christmas at
Challis.
The Christmas ball in Challis
was largely attended. and those
present report a good time. Not
being satisfied, however, another
dance was held on the following
night.
Chauncey Depew's last words
before sailing away to his bride.
were pun. We trust he won't
make puns to Mrs. Depe&. She
will find listening to his "chest-
nuts a sufficient burden to bear.
Ten million dollars was big
bait, but Mr.. Carnegie and the
other capitalists of the steel trust
would consider it cheap for fifty
years protection from the United
States Government.
We pay at the rate of about
S85, 900, 900 a year for the little
more than s., 100000 a year of
Philippine trade we get. while
European nations pay nothing
for the more than S48, 900, 900 a
year they get. These figures do
their own talking.
At the regular quarterly meet
ing of the directors of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany held in Salt Lake City on
the 23rd inst. the sum of 1858,
$50 was appropriated for the
purpose of building extensions
and making importent improve
ments in the intermountain sys-
TEN during the coming year.
Among the extensions proposed
is a new line from Blackfoot to
Haley, and an extension of the
central Idaho system to Thunder
Mountain. There are now TO-,
900 miles in the entire system
and the contemplated additions
for the next year aggregate fully
1000 miles.
Mr.. Plaisted. of Salt Lake City
arrived in Challis last Tuesday
night from the Patterson creeL
mines where he has been a.
work developing some of thos,
properties. On the claim tina
he has been developing the ore
assays S25 in gold, silver anC
copper, with a II inch vein o
ore. Mr.. Plaisted met with {
painful accident on the night o
his arrival here. He got mixeC
up in a melee and had the ankle
of his right leg broken. DIR
Huston was called and reduced
the fracture. Mr.. Plaisted de
parted last Friday morning TO
Salt Lake City.
| Geo. w. Walsen, formerly con
nected with the Salt Lake Herald
has purchased half interest il
the Salmon Recorder. The Re
corder is the pioneer newspape
of Lemhi county, and has bee
published by Sister Merritt TO
many years, and she has got ou
a good paper during all thi
time. But under the new fir
| the Recorder will be issued semi
weekly, and greatly improve,
otherwise. Mr.. Walsen will b
the editor, and as he is a youni
and capable man full of enter
prise, and a Democrat of th
old jackson kind, we may Loo
for some red-hot Democrat
editorials from the Recorder i
the future. The MESSENGER eS
tends to Sister Merritt and Bro
WalseE its right Is of fellow
ship.
VIM. Hicks, brother of M. S
Hicks of Goldburg, Idaho. al
rived in Challis last Tuesda
night. Mr.. Hicks was a residen
, of Custer county 10 years ago il
its palmy days. For the pas
three years he has been mininI
in South America. He think
that is the best country In tn
, would apI hoe ha+far ,0r1cci h,1itio q