The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-02-25

Percy Jones, formerly editor
of the defunct Blackfoot News,
was a Challis visitor last We'd
nesday.
Miss Lizzie ard Geo. Pitzer
of East Fork attended the mas
querade ball in Challis last Fri
day evening.
John Panero. of Custer, visit
ed Challis friends last week.
We learn that Custer had a
splendid masquerade ball on the
21st inst.
Miss Ida Hanna arrived in this
city from Custer last week on a
visit.
Notice is hereby given that
there will be no more dances
given in Challis this winter by
the Challis Social Club, as their
funds have become exhausted.
&c. V. Silvey, Geo. II.
Ross, Com. on Arrangements.
Custer Lodge No 81, of Chal-
lis, have concluded to observe
the 83rd anniversary of Odd Eel
lowship in America on April
Goth. Last Saturday night the
following committee on arrange
ments was appointed, viz: A. G.
Bomar, JIG. Finnell, Thos. Jose.
background hog doesn't draw
a salary, but he made the U. S.
Weather Bureau look like a re-
publican Philippine report this
year.
Location notices from Thun-
der mountain are pouring into
the Recorders Office at Grange
vile at the rate of fifty day.
Both Mr.. Tautphaus and Mr..
Roberts after having been to.and
returned from Thunder noun
tain, are enthusiastic over the
Morgan creek route. They both
heartily agree that by going this
road Thunder mountain can be
reached within rs miles from
Challis, and that a good wagon
road can be built from Three
Forks with little difficulty.
The last issue of the Idaho
Recorder says that Mr.. G. G.
Tautphaus returned from Thun-
der mountain to Salmon on the
18th inst, and that he was more
than pleased with the Salmon
route. Some one has been play
ing big joke, or else our highly
esteemed friend. the Recorder,
is badly mistaken. At the time
the Recorder mentions, Mr..
Tautphaus was in the Challis
creek mountains nearly dead
from starvation and exposure.
A matched foot-race was run
in Challis last Friday afternoon
between Henry MCGOWAN and
George Ashton for a prize of SO.
MCGOWAN was winner. Also on
the same afternoon horse race
was run here in which Guy
Bradbury's took first money.
Ex-County Commissioner F.
H. Tolman arrived in Challis last
Thursday from a visit to rela-
tives and friends in West Fitch
burg and Boston, Mass. Mr..
Tolman reports having spent a
very pleasant winter, and from
appearances Boston baked beans
and brown bread must have
agreed with him. Mr.. Tolman
says that nearly everyone back
there has got the Thunder noun
tain gold fever, and knowing
that he was from Challis, the
nearest point to reach the great
gold fields, he was kept constant
ly answering questions about the
new camp. When he left Chicago
they were advertising big ex-
cursion for Thunder mountain,
and were selling first-class round
trip tickets from that city to
Mackay for S33. Mr.. Tolman
says that while he was in Bos-
ton and Chicago that he read
Thunder mountain articles from
the MESSENGER copied in the
Boston and Chicago daily news
papers.
The Salt Lake Herald in paid
''write-up" of the Salmon route
to Thunder mountain, proclaims
that the Challis route to the new
gold fields has been abandoned,
and the Challis and Mackay
people have concluded to go by
the way of Salmon. This is alb
solutely false. The Challis route
to Thunder mountain is by far
the shortest and best road lead