The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-07-01

OF wool at Arco waiting buyers.
Considerable snow fell on the
mountains in close proximity to
Challis last week.
A marriage license was issued
on the Goth inst. to Charles Paine
OF Custer and Miss Jennie A.
Wardle of Dubuque, Iowa.
Judge Masonheimer performed
the ceremony y.-Pocatello Trib-
une.
Telephone poles are strung as
far as Willow creek, and at that
rate the long distance phone
should be completed to Challis
within go days. This will be a
great convenience to the people
of Custer county.
Joseph Rodgers finished shear
ing his large band of sheep last
week. The wool yield was ex-
ceedingly heavy, but the total
clip was not as heavy as last
year. owing to the fact that dur
ing the past year he sold 1000
head of sheep out of his band.
Jack Gardner. or better known
as Sailor Jack" an old time
resident of the Salmon river
country, died at the County
Hospital in Challis, on Tuesday
morning, June oath, after a short
sickness. He was brought out
from RAMS Fork short time
ago.
Alex Robinson, who used to be
a resident of Custer county Ia
years ago, landed in Challis last
Wednesday direct from Thunder
Mountain, and departed for his
home in Montana Thursday eve
ming. Mr. Robinson does not
speak in very fiattering terms of
Thunder Mountain.
An unconfrmed report reached
Challis the other day in round
about way that James Kerr, well
known here, had died in Thunder
mountain from mountain fever.
1t is known that he has been sick
with fever. but the last news re-
ceived at this place was TO the
effect that he was convalescent.
The report of his death is not
credited in ChalIis.
We were in hopes after July
1st that Custer county would
have daily mail service, but it
does not look very favorable at
this time. owing to the company
suspending work at Mackay,
and no telling when they will re-
sumo operations. There is talk
now of only two trains a week to
Mackay. and that means only
two mails per week for the whole
of Custer county. We have at
present the most miserable serv-
ice that could be inflicted upon
any class of people, and it has
been of untold damage to the
of our county. There
seems but remedy and that is to
petition for daily mail service
from Salmon.
Should Thunder Mountain
prove a fake after it has been
thoroughly tested, it will be of
untold damage to the mining in
dustry of Idaho, and from which
the State will not recover for
twenty years. Eastern capital
has invested heavily in Thunder
Mountain mines. and if their
holdings there prove worthless,
in the future it will be almost
impossible to sell an Idaho mine
in the East. Capital is timid at
the best, and when an Idaho
mine is on the market for sale.
they will refer to Thunder Mt.
These are facts that cannot be
Our only hope is that
Ine new EluOrduO may prove
what is claimed for it.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Jos.
Hutchinson, of Boise, who will
be a prominent candidate before
the next Democratic State con-
Of Idaho for Congress-
man, and Mr.. Wright, of New
York, were visitors at the Mes
SENGER Office last Saturday.
Governor Hutchinson goes to
Thunder Mountain to report on
some sixty-five different mining
claims that Pittsburg capitalists
have bonded, and Mr.. Wright is
3 prominent New York capital
lst who is seeking investment.
MIR. Hutchinson says that he is
satisfied that the Challis route is
the most direct known to the
new gold fields. hence they came
this way. They departed last
morning and hope to