The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-12-23
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

DR.. G. S. Jones, the Salmon
dentist, will visit Challis about
Jan. End or 3rd, 1903, to remain
10 days. All work guaranteed.
LosT-In Custer on Oct. 10Th.
a double gray shawl, between
Cross & Coleman's store and the
bridge. The finder will be re-
warded by returning it to Nellie
Holzel, Challis, Idaho.
The Supreme Court of Idaho
has decided against Custer county
in the Bunting bank check cases.
1t involves several thousand dol
lars. Next week we will publish
the decision of the court in this
matter.
A glass or two of water taken
half an hour before breakfast will
usually keep the bowels regular.
Harsh cathartics should be avoid
ed. When a purgative is needed
take Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. They are mild
and gentle in their action. For
sale by ]. P. Spalding.
DIED-In Challis, Idaho. Fri
day night, Dec. 10Th, from pneu-
monia, Royce, the 5-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Sagear.
The funeral was held yesterday.
Royce was bright little fellow.
and often came to this office to
visit as. We sympathize with
the parents in their sad grief.
Mrs. Walsen has been granted
a divorce from her husband, G.
W. Walsen, and the Court has
adjudged that all the property of
the Recorder printing plant be-
longs to plaintiff, besides the
costs of the action are assessed
to defendant. We feel awful
sorry for the Salmon Herald, for
it has had a severe case of belly
ache ever since the Court has is
sued this just decree.
1.-THE Pinnacle of Parnassus, y
is the title of book of poems re-
ceived at this Office. The book
contains 103 pages, and is the
work of @. E. Eddy. 1t contains
many poems on Custer county
themes, beside others, viz "A
'Corker' in Women's Clothes, "
"Flenniken's Ride" :" 1.-The Devil
Outdone, +" "Challis Girls" 1.-The
Grave of Lizzie King" 1.-The Old
Deserted Claim. +" 1.-The Darkened
Home, In Camp at Mackay, .
lode to Mt. Estes" /" ''To Fal-
len Comrade" and "Custer Com
rades." The hook is bound in
heavy paper covers and illustra-
ted, and contains SO poems. II
is on sale at this Office at so cents
per copy.
Salmon City is raging with
smallpox. The stage driver in
forms us there at least so cases
of it there, and recently a lady
died from the epidemic. The
Herald says it is Cuban Itch. "
Last winter they called it MAN
lila Itch," and should it exist next
winter probably that wise sheet
will name it Porto Rico" OF
some other foreign itch" We
have a genuine case of smallpox
now in Challis-Leon Larter-
taken from one of the Salmon
cases of "Cuban Itch" The
State Board of Health of Utah
after an examination has quaran
tined against Lemhi county
smallpox. The Salt Lake Trib
une in speaking of the matter
says
THE Tribune congratulate
the people of Salmon City
= Idaho, on their discovery tha
what has been ailing them il
: nObniuS IlOI6 SSl lOuo bIldn SOOdl
itch; but we beg to assure then
most earnestly that the people o
this city have no desire to rol
them of the exclusive possession
of the satifaction they express
!, and so the quarantine will still
hold. We beg further to reminC
them that when this form o
smallpox began, now some thre'
e years ago, in this mountain re
!, gion, it was very generally pro
! nounced to be nothing more thai
E Manila itch, and though it ha
Il apparently changed its name, i
: remains the same old smallpox
2 in light form, which sometime
1 takes a form severe enough t.
n kill"
a Roy Huffman came down from
d Stanley last week. He report
7, about three feet of snow at th
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