The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
Attorney Brown went to Gus
ter Saturday on legal business.

ter Saturday on legal business.
Custer county's apportionment
of state school money last week
amounted to $11431.
The county division remonst-
rance petition received 100 sigma
lures in Challis.
Governor Hunt has appointed
1T. w. BARLEY, of Moscow, a
Populist, State Game Warden.
1t is said that Capt. Gum will
be appointed Superintendent of
the Soldiers Home.
1t is stated that Challis will be
connected by telephone with
Houston and Blackfoot next
summer.
| w. 2. Bascom, of Dickey. was
a Challis visitor last week.
The Rebekah Lodge of this
place gave an excellent banquet
at the hall last Tuesday evening.
Twenty seven members were
present. Four candidates receiv-
ed the Rebekah degree ON that
evening.
i G. l. Lane departed for Hous-
ton last Thursday morning where
! he is engaged in business.
John F. Christian, of May, has
been appointed agent for Custer
and Lemhi counties for the
Perfected" Oxygenor King. 1t
is simple little instrument. and
it is claimed will cure all diseas-
es that are cureable.
Claude Cochran was over from
Pahsamaroi last Friday and at
,, tended the party.
Thomas Kearns has been elect
ed to the United States Senate
from Uath. His qualifications
for the high position are that he
is wealthy.
4 Information was received by
E us last Friday that Jack Finne-
gan was landed in the State pen
e litentiary as soon as he arrived in
Boise, not as an inmate, how
ever, but as guard.
DR.. O. J. Allen, of Boulder,
. Colorado, arrived in Challis last
Friday evening. He is undecid-
ed whether he will locate in this
place or in Custer.
+ The HALEY Times denies that
Blaine county wants any portion
of Custer county annexed to
their county-that they have all
Z the land and debts that they
want at present.
Estimates places Custer coun-
!. ty's mineral output for 1900 at
$3.50, 900; Blaine county, $3.50, 900;
Idaho county, S260,00 Lemhi
county, 100000; Owyhee county,
81, 500, 900; Shoshone county,
$4,000, 900.
DIR. P. A. H. Franklin, whose
: syndicate has been one of the
: most active in the West during
the past year, came in from the
2 East, where he has been confer
ring with his associates, on Sat
3 urday night and was at his desk
t again yesterday. With the be-
havior of the mines acquired by
!. them in Lemhi county. Idaho,
I and that include the big Black
| bird and Redbird groups. the
doctor, as we'll as his associates,
( are very much pleased. and their
t equipment with mills and smell
d ters will be carried out as design
1 ed, now appears conclusive. The
4 new strike on the St. Joe group,
Y in which copper ores of marvel
e Gus richness have been encoun
g tered and the steady increase in
? the ore bodies at the Redbird
4 promise to hasten these improve
ments, and it is not unlikely that
1 contracts for structural material
I, will be placed in a short time.
y The samples brought down by
Manager Gilbert from the st.
Joe strike sustain all that was
said of them in the Tribune's re-
cent special from the camp, and
. the doctor is very exultant. The
/, annual meeting of Blackbird
: shareholders is scheduled for the
present week.-Salt Lake Trib-
: une.
:. Hugh G. Wood is the happy
a father of days-old girl, and
n they say that he has had to get a
e new hat of increasing size every
/ day Papa Wood in sheer excess
n of exuberance blew in $500 on
|, two rams for the Wood Live
q Stock cornOanv The DurchaSe