The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-25
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Next'S Sunday is Easter.

w. E. Hanna and family of
Ellis will move to Challis this
spring.
Small Bros. have commenced
work on their large irrigating
canal in this valley.
| Fresh bread baked every day
at Mrs. Dorgan's, Challis, Idaho.
DIR. R. W. Philips, the reliable
resident dentist is at home again.
The railroad surveyors crossed
Willow creek summit with only
a 3 per cent. grade.
A. G. Bomar returned last
Thursday from a business trip TO
Idaho Falls and st. Anthony.
Nearly every stage arriving in
Challis now from the railroad is
loaded with passengers en- route
to Thunder mountain.
Fresh rye.bread baked every
Saturday at Mrs. Dorgan's.
Gatling, the gun man, has in
vented a plow that does the
work of sixty horses.
Last Friday the Thunder Mt.
wagon road from Challis had
been broken for distance of %
miles.
The Johnnie Pringle Comedy
Company are billed for three
nights in Challis-Monday, Mar.
24th, Tuesday, 25th and Wednes-
day, Goth. Last night they put
on "A White Elephant, and
played to a big house. 1t is an
up-to-date show and moral play.
The killing at Mackay last
, week of five men in a drunken
row proved be fake, and lie
without the slightest ground for
, such report. The news brought
to Challis on the 10Th inst, and
told by three different parties in
apparently good faith. The next
day it was found out that the
whole story was only a joke. We
, fail see wherein such a ground
less lie has the least semblance
of a joke.
Died in Council, March 9th,
1902, Sidney, youngest child of
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Foster, aged
two years. Funeral services
were held at the parsonage and
a large concourse of sympathiz-
ing relatives and friends follow
ed the remains to the Kesler
cemetery. where it was inferred.
! Not lost, but gone before.
District court at Ohallis for
r Custer county adjourned Friday
f forenoon, March 21st, and was
: in session 104 days. Owing to
t the big criminal docket it was an
l expensive term.
, The Pocatello Tribune is now
: issued daily, except Sundays, as
? an evening paper. 1t contains
, one page of telegraphic news,
! and is very creditable paper.
e The altitude at the mouth OF
: the Golden Reef tunnel on Thun-
der mountain is 1900 feet and at
u the peak of the mountain it is
5000 feet. The mountain has
great basial width and offers nc
precipitous fronts. The general
formation is rhyolitic granite
traversed by strong porphyry
dykes, the values occurring il
5 conjunction with the porphyry
Thunder mountain is the heart
of great mineral zone that ex
tends from Custer on the south
east to Warrens on the north
t west.
g The Guyed Guide.-The guild,
was guiding a guy. As the guide
- guided the guy the guide guyeC
> the guy until the guy would ne
/ longer be guyed by a guide whom
J. he had hired not to guy, but L
: guide. So the guyed guy guyeC
= the guide. No wonder everyone
, guyed the guyed guide guiding
= guyed guide.
< Attorney General Martin ha
r decided that IAN assessor shoult
!, assess a mine which is patented
r just as he would any other prop
/, erty, at its full cash value, a
/. our statutes provides that al
:, property not exempt by law shall
j. be assessed. A mine should no
l. be assessed at so much per acre
5, nor as real estate, but as a pat
!, ented mine, and it's value shoulC
n be fixed in the manner provide,
J. by the statutes namely, at tn,
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