The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-03-12
VIM. Dunn was out from Custer
several days last week.

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Rebekah entertainment and
social tomorrow night.
Miss Daisy Cooper was down
from Clayton last Tuesday.
Governor Hunt vetoed the bill
to exempt women from juries.
Assessor johnson started out
on his 1901 assessing trip last
week.
Arch Howell will have charge
of the MCGOWAN & Felkner ranch
this year.
Jas. I'll. Marker and Arthur
Ferrin were down from Bayhorse
last week.
BORN:-In Maine on Feb. %,
1901, to the wife of John Pushaw,
of Challis, Idaho, son.
The Idaho senate killed the
irrigation bill and the eight hour
bill for underground work.
H. E. Gilbert came up from
Houston last Saturday and will
spend few days in Challis.
The Silver Republican party
of Idaho disbanded last week and
joined the Democratic party.
We are reliably informed that
the Fourth of July mine, at Gus
ter, will be worked this summer.
Hooray Throw open the
Treasury The public be id
This was a two billion dollar
Congress Hooray
Geo. Dearden, of the mercan-
tile company of Dearden & Nc
Gown, Custer, made a business
trip ia Challis last week.
We are informed that within
the last week or ten days that
Thos. w. Chivers purchased the
upper Penwell ranch in this val
ley. Also that the Small Bros.
bought the Pierce Bros. interest
in the Milhone ranch.
We had one of the heaviest
snow storms of the winter in
in Challis last Sunday. This will
make it rather disagreeable for
the robins and bluebirds that
made mistake and came some
two weeks ago.
A new geyser broke forth near
Fountain geyser in the lower
basin of the National Park, on
Feb. 10Th. 1t threw a 5-foot
stream of water 500 feet in the
air. Excelsior geyser is again
active after silence of 5 years.
One of the bachelor members
of the Idaho senate to retaliate
for the bill to tax bachelors, in
troduced a bill fining maiden
ladies $50 for each refusal for an
offer of marriage, and requiring
them to make an annual report
under oath to the probate Judge
of each county of the offers they
have received during the year.
The Seager & Coryell Gold and
Silver Mining Company, is the
name of new corporation in
Custer county. 1t is Incorporate
ed under the laws of New Jersey
with John Eilenberg, president.
and John Seager, secretary, who
live at Phillipsburg. N. J. The
capital stock is 100000. The
mines are located at Custer.
President Mckinley and Ted
dy were inaugurated on the 4th
inst. More pomp was displayed
than at the coronation of a King.
According to schedule Mark rode
with President Mckinley in
the inaugural parade. 1t has al
ways Oeen the rule Tor the out
going President to I'LL this posi-
tion. The question now arises
whether Mark is the outgoing or
the incoming President.
Frank McKennedy, a mining
man, arrived in Challis on last
! Wednesday evenings stage from
Salmon on visit to his old time
friends. Mr. McKennedy is now
located in Arizona. He used to
be in the Loon Creek, Leesburg
Florence and Warrens placer
camps some thirty years ago. and
is here for short time renewing
acquaintance with his friends of
long ago, when times were flush.
On roll call in Challis are still
left number of early day placer
miners. viz: Watt" (Enos Wat
sony. A. F. Challis, w. HI. Felix
ner, Joe Boggs. Dick Hull, B.
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