The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-01

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1901 .
Write it 1901!
New Century
Swear off for the Century
Dance tonight :
The new county officers take
the oath of Office on Jan. 14th.
E. G. Chamberlain has been
appointed deputy sheriff.
E. J. Michael intends paying a
few months visit to his old Ind
lana home. He will depart in a
few days
Sid. Roberts arrived in Chal-
lis one day last week from Boise
He is of the opinion that a great
amount of development work
will be done in Stanley Basin
next summer.
A dispatch from Cheyenne,
Wyoming, SAYS strange disease
has appeared among the cattle
in that state and that stockmen
all over the state are consider
ably agitated over the disease,
r which in almost every case prov
es fatal. The maiady is new in
that section, and is what in the
case of human being would be
diphtheria. The symptoms and
effects are almost identical, fat
| alties being caused by an accum-
ulation of mucous in the throat,
: causing death by strangulation.
} In the opinion of the state vet
erinarian the disease is caused
t by the prevailing warm days
/ and cold nights.
British Museum Newon, the
archaologist, was capital story
teller. and Mr.. Aare has pre-
! served two or three of his tales
One is of a spirtualistic seance
: where an cid Cockney was in
formed that the spirit manifested
was his deceased wife, where
: upon the following dialogue tool
: place
rs that you, 'Arriet ?
> " Yes, it's me-
: Are you 'appy, 'Arriet ?
= " Yes very 'appy.'
'Appier than you was Will
me. .Arriet ?
4" Yes much 'appier.
. E" Where are you, 'Arriet =
{" In ELL "-Ex.
A great deal of talk has bee
floating recently relative to tn
.n construction of north and sout
b. railway lines in Idaho, and rum
lie ors of surveys have been yer
at numerous. This because ther
7e is a great field here for trans
portation lines, with large tor
4. mage in any direction the rail
d, ways may run.
n. information of the most reli;
q, BILE nature has come to the Bois
Do Statesman regarding an entel
"a prise of this nature which WI
B. build up east-central Idaho whic
bounds and strides. Survey
IS, have been completed and oper;
d, tions are to begin within the ne1
d. four months. This is line
C. run from Kelton, Utah, to Hou
ton, Idaho, thus penetrating tn
IS. very heart of one of the mo
N. richly mineralized sections of II
|. state, but yet a section of whic
little or nothing is known b
nd cause of no adequate transport
ton facilities. Custer county,
nd the eastern portion of whit
Houston is located, is one of Il
nd best of the state, with extensiv
ly-developed properties and ca
mis- ital to make great mines, whi'
on may be done, and is being don
ear because of the large bodies
pay ore.
ras Something more than a ye
F. ago company was organic
he for the purpose of constructiI
Ter a railway into that section,
We touch a number of importa
ent mining points, with Houston
nv the present terminal, but TO
me farther in time. This road b
been determined feasible. Duri
es, the present year this compa
tc., has had a full corps of surveyo
re- in the field. who surved a rot
lev from Kelton. Utah, to the Ida
ace line; thence through a pass
of the Raft river range. to Ii
alb river; thence down Raft river
ce. the Snake river; thence crossi
this river on to Minidoka; ther
rty straight north to Arco, on I
8 Big Lost river; thence up /
6O T ,oSt river to Houston.