The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-16
9nrnl 51et1ts Itents.

Custer will make the old eagle
scream on July 4th.
Prof. Motts, of Mackay, was
in Challis last week.
A buggy dealer, with a string
OF buggies, was in town last
week.
Leaton's hotel is nearing com
pleation, and it is a great i'm
provement to Challis.
Axel Olson arrived in ChaIlis
Saturday morning last from
Shelley, Idaho, where he spent
the winter.
Childrens' Day at the church
in Challis Sunday evening was
observed. The program was
excellent.
Two young lady relatives of
Mrs. Nels G. Jenson arrived in
Challis Friday morning from
Kansas City.
A. R. Smith will build a hotel
at the mouth of Yankee Fork.
also bath-house. He will pipe
the hot water down from the hot
springs near by.
Rev. G. Grovenor Haley, of
Mackay, delivered very inter
esting address to the graduating
class of the Eighth Grade at the
Commencement Exercises held
in Challis last Friday night.
The Idaho Recorder published
at Salmon has just entered upon
its 18th year of publication. Mrs.
Ada Merritt is the editor and
proprietor. The Recorder is one
of our most valuable exchanges,
and we wish it success.
M. Nordstrom says that he is
in no way implicated nor is he
the cause of the quarrel between
John II. Thompson and his wife.
He took the part of the Good
Samaritan, but the public wrong
fully censures him simply be-
cause they do not know the real
facts in the matter.
The City Bakery and Ice Cream
Parlors under the management
of Mrs. Mary G. Dorgan and
Mrs. M. E. Richard, one door
west of the Barber shop, Challis,
is fitted up in elegant style. and
is receiving a liberal patronage.
During the week of the 4th of
July there will be served ice
cream and cake, Strawberries
and cream, soda water, ice cream
and delicious lunches.
Arsenical poisoning, as well as
hives, is being brought about by
spring strawberries. A number
of cases have been called to the
attention of prominent physicians
in different parts of California
and Nevada, whose diagnoses
cannot be disputed. According
to the prevailing belief, these
cases are brought about by the
strawberry growers putting ar
senic on the berries in order to
keep away the bugs which are
liable to destroy them.
1t is with much regret that we
learn of the death of Isaac H.
Bowman of Ketchum. On June
| 4th he received a stroke of par
alysis and died the same evening.
Mr.. Bowman was one of Idaho's
early pioneers, and has many
friends on Salmon river. For
years he was editor of the Ketch-
um Keystone, and was consider
ed one of the ablest writer's in
Idaho. He was an open-hearted
man, and was his own worst en-
emy, but was always on the side
of humanity and justice.
The announcement that sur
veyors are at work in northern
Idaho, presumably in the inter
est of the Burlington system in
its efforts to reach the Pacific
coast, was read with deep inter
est in local railroad circles yes
terday, especially by those who
see in such projects the further
upbuilding of the West. While
it cannot be authoritatively said
thas the Burlington is behind
this latest survey, yet it has al
ways been freely admitted that
it wished to get to the coast. If
it is the Burlington, then the
! Northwestern will at once enter
the same field, and while the two
are at work selecting their pre-
liminary routes, the Oregon
Short Line will, no doubt, jump
into the field, and in protection
of its interests extend its Mackav