The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-11-19

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she leaves the job of town decor
ating to men.
Henry Sturkey arrived in this
city last Friday from Stanley
to spend the winter.
Thanksgiving service will be
held in the Church at Challis on
Thursday, Nov. 29th.
Governor Hunt has issued a
proclamation designating Thurs
day, Nov. 28th, as Thanksgiving
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Dickey, of
Dickey, Idaho, visited their many
friends in Challis several days
last week.
Henry Mccormick, Supt. of the
Lucky Boy Gold Mining Co., of
Custer, left Challis last Friday
morning for trip to Salt Lake
and New York.
Small Bros. will soon com
mence active work on their large
irrigating canal in Round valley.
They are now awaiting the ar
rival of a ditch building machine.
DR.. Robt. w. Philips returned
to Challis last Thursday evening
from professional trip on Lost
river, is again at his home in
Challis prepared to all kinds of
first-clas work in the dental line.
A call was sent out on the 18th
inst. from the Chicago Fedora
ton of Musicians asking for the
united efforts of all musicians in
the United States to make a fight
on music of the rag time variety.
The local union declares that rag
time composition is Immoral,
obscene, degrading and unworthy
of production"
The Evangelistic meetings at
the Church closed Thursday eve
ming with a full house, having
run two weeks. Indeed. with
one or two exceptions. the at
tendance has been large through
out and the interest good. The
singing of the chorus choir. and
the rotation of leaders of the
praise service preceding the
sermon, from night to night,
added most largely a substantial
interest. There will probably
be number of accessions to the
Church. In the Sunday School
Decision Day" was observed
last Sunday.
After many years a location
has been made of the famous red
paint mine, near the Stephens
ranch northeast of town. The
Red Butte above the lake, is
composed of limestone and an
endless quantity of hemitite iron
hard and soft form-the soft
predominating, which, having
sifted down the mountain into an
extinct crater and mixing with
water and some oily substance
produces the mud or red paint,
which almost every one in the
country nearby has used fo1
some purpose or other on barnes
roofs and fences. Tests are be-
ing made of everything coming
from the claim-that of lime and
iron for huxing, in smelter, and
that of red roof or mill paint
having already been settled
Prof. Benz. N. Lehman, of Phil
adelphia, is conducting the ex
periments. ]. P. Spalding, A
G. Bomar, Jonathan Job and E
G. Headrick are the locators.
f. j. Hagenbarth to a Sal
Lake newspaper reporter, las
week. said
1--WE have unloaded from ON
hands between so, 900 and 75,00(
sheep and lambs to prepare fol
winter. That leaves us 100,00t
to winter. We intend scattering
them in the Big Hole country
Nevada, and along the Salmon
river, Lost river, Birch creel
and Snake river in Idaho. The
drouth, that is lack of snow. il
being experienced, and is driving
the sheep out of the mountain
range. One day last week
counted nine herds headed fol
the desert.
1.-The sheep men are now de
pending upon irrigating ditche'
for water for their fiocks, which
are drifting toward Utah. Som,
have trailed 800 miles. The rang'
is growing more limited year by
year as the country settles up
We have anticipated this, anC
have expended S45, 900 on oul
own ranges and lot of none,
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