The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-06-17

3d IN LnlS vicinity.
Mr.. Gillian has sold his ranch
near Clayton for 81, 500.
Mrs. Mason and daughter of |
are visiting in Challis.
The popular travelling sales
man, Mark Kuhn, of Ogden, was
with US last week.
Miss Ruby Calkins of Clayton /
arrived in Challis last Friday /
evening on a visit.
Chas. S. Jordan contemplates
a visit to bis old home
in Maine next month.
Supt. Greene expects to ''blow
in" the Clayton smelter for the
seasons run on the 21st inst
The fruit crop in and about
Challis promises TO be the best
this season ever known.
Mrs. Hayes of Clayton was on
the sick list last week, but is re-
ported convalescent a. this time.
1t is great consolation to
sensible Americans to know that
they are not responsible for the
fOol-antics of the rich Americans
in Europe.
Mrs. F. A. Reed and Miss VI.
keenan, departed last Saturday
morning for a visit with Pah-
samaroi relatives and friends.
Mrs. E. G. Dodge took last
Wednesday evenings stage for
Mackay, on a three months visit
to relatives and friends at La
Platte, Neb.. her girlhood home
Vim. Fegley started from here
last Sunday morning with his
pack train loaded with supplies
for Thunder mountain. Billy is
a ..rustler, and this will make
his third trip this season to the
new EIdorado.
Hon. H. F. Powell came down
from his Garden creek mine last
Friday evening. where he has
been doing development work
for the past month. The mine
i is looking well. and Mr.. Powell
will put few miners at work on
the property this season
/ We learn that Mr.. Gossi, both.
er of Philip Gossi, has the con
tract 70 furnish the telephone
poles for the Rocky Mountain
/ Bell Telephone Co. from Mackay
to Challis. This line is now be
ing pushed through from Black
foot and will be extended t
Thunder mountain. 1t is said vii
pass through Clayton and Gus
ter en- route.
All the teamsters hauling
freight from Mackay are request
} ed to join the labor union 70
J their own welfare and protec
ton. 1t said that teams loade'
} for Clayton have been hauling
5 from Mackay to Clayton for 1
} cents per 100 pounds and retur
freight for % cents, making 6
cents for round trip. We pay )
e cents per hundred for freigf
5 from Mackay to Challis one wa
T and the distance is less than
Z Clayton.
e A grim story of death come
g up from White Bird, which is i
: all probability attributable
t the Thunder mountain rush. n
n less than three dead men. a
S cording to reports. have bee
d seen floating down the riv'
5. within the past few days. Or
Ie body came within a few feet
5. the Remington ferry, at Viii
Q Bird, as two men were crossir
b the river. BY the time the
70 reached the shore and could 5
ct cure a boat the body reach'
lie the rapids. where they could n
Of find it. The other bodies ha
N been reported at various poin
lt nearby, but no one has had
IN boat at hand to follow them. O
ct floating body was taken from t
" river at ASotin. last week. viii
is might have been one of tho
ne seen here in the upper river. !
ig no lives are known to have be
er lost on the Salmon river betwe
to White Bird and the old Sta
ly bridge, where the trail ends, I
or bodies must have come from Fl
al ther up the river. 1t is believ
en- that the bodies are those of pr
ct pectors who have attempted
We cross the Salmon in coming fr'
of the north or northeast of Thr
ly der mountain; and lost their liN