The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-09-17


rreloar, at Forney, Idaho. on|
Sept. 1st, son.
Evan Stephens of Salmon, and|
Miss Mahoney, of Leesburg, vis-|
+ ted friends in Challis last week.
The Lyceum Comedy Co. de-
parted for Salmon last Sunday
morning after playing for six
lights in Challis. This company
is a Boise City production. Ill
Manager Paul would discharged
about half the would-be actors in|
ais troupe and retain about -four
If the best, it would be pretty
fair show, for the poor or weak
ones are disgusting and spoil the
whole entertainment.
Challis has been showed to|
leath for the past month. The|
roads leading to Salmon and|
Houston have been kept hot|
with them. The next legislature|
should enact a law making ALL
travelling shows pay license. AS
lit is, these shows scrape the
towns of every spare four-bit
piece-and some that cannot we'll
be spared-and in return never
leave a dollar in the towns, only
their necessary actual expenses,
and most of the shows that come
to Challis cut expenses by living
in the sagebrush. Challis has
always been a pretty good show
town. Our people have patron
lied everything from the white
rat and negro show to the Will
liams' lantern show, but this
year they have pressed the limit,
and the people have become
heartily disgusted and showed to
a standstill, as it were.
The track is now laid on the
p Salmon River road within 1e
miles of Houston, and by the end
: of this week the first railroad
train that ever entered Custer
county will cross the Custer
county line, and by the 1st Of
next month trains will be run
ming to Mackay. Won't it SOUND
/ odd Change cars for Custer
4 county points /!
The Ford family were billed tc
give a ball in Challis last night
They are fine musicians.
The coon gave Attorney M. A
browns law Office genera
overhauling last week. PLEASE
note the wonderful change
Czolgosz, the would be assassin
of President Mckinley, is pro
nounced as though it were spell
ed "Shollgosch.
The tax levy of Custer county
for 1901 has been fixed at "a. 81
on each 800 of the assessabl'
property of the county. This il
a reduction of so cents from las
year. True, this is high lev.
/ compared with other counties il
the State, but Custer county i
holding up its levy to meet al
its current expenses and pay OF
the bonded indebtedness of tn
county, which is being done a
Ia rapid rate, and within thre
or four more years of wise ant
economical Democratic admins
tration as at present, and Custe
county will be out of debt ant
with only a $500 levy. Mex
year with all the railroad build
Hing and other Improvement
going on, and if nothing unfoi
, seen happens, the Board hope
: to cut the levy under the $40
mark.
a We have received a copy c
q Hattie Nevada's latest song er
D titled maid of Mexico;or, Dow
eN ON the Rio Grande." The word
r deal with Mexican love affair
: set to Mexican waltz time music
making an easy and catchy al
for which the author is note(
S THE songs 1.-The Letter Edge
: in Black, 'and"While the Leave
9 Came Drifting Down." by sam
! author. have been popular in th
u tsection ever since being publish
y Aed, and this new one, we beiiev'
will have a larger sale. Copy
this popular and latest song ca
be had by sending 25 cents
y the publishers, The Kansas Git
pN NTalking Machine Co., Kanss
nkCity, Mo.
n Last Tuesday morning Grac
: Burton and VIM. Casto's son. (
-fCuster, departed from Challis
q eattend school at Salt Lake City
al Willie Burton returned fro
r Salt Lake City last week whel
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