The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-01-27
Len Peck was appointed Road
Overseer of District No. /, vice
John Mock. resigned.


Overseer of District No. /, vice
John Mock. resigned.
An editor in an Idaho town
stated in his paper that he had
been kissed by the most beauti-
full married woman in town and
promised to tell her name in the
first issue of his paper next
month. In the two weeks fol-
lowing his circulation doubled,
but when he named his wife he
had to leave town.-Ex.
Albert Clarington, of Challis,
passed the examination at Salt
Lake City last Tuesday to go
on board the United States Navy
Training Ship. He will first take
a six months course at the II. S.
Naval School at SanFrancisco,
before entering the navy as
cadet. He is the 17-year old son
of Mrs. Nellie Hoezel of Challis.
Drink and the gang drinks
with you, swear off and go it
alone, for the bar room bum who
drinks your rum, has querulous
taste of his own. Feast and
your friends are many; fast and
they cut you dead; but they'll
not get mad if you treat them
bad SO long as their stomachs are
fed. Steal il you get million
for then you can furnish bail: it's
the big thief who gets out on
lief, while the little one goes to
Jail. Advertise and the dollars
will come, quit and they fail to
arrive; for how are men who
have money to spend. to know
you are still alive.
The Idaho legislature should
change the time when taxes be-
come delinquent. AS the law
now stands taxes draw penalty
after the first Monday in Jan
uary. This time is season of
the year when business accounts
are usually settled. Merchants
make their annual settlements
and it seems unfair for taxes to
| become delinquent at the same
time. Several states have laws
giving taxpayers the privilege
of paying half their taxes in
April and the other half in Sep
tember. To say the least the
law could be changed so as to
make the last day of grace be-
fore taxes became delinquent
about April 18th of each year.
Such law would not inconven-
fence the counties or the state
and would prove great favor to
the public and to the business in
terests of the country.-Wallace
Tribune.
| Up to the Seafoam Mining Dis
trict, Custer county, Idaho, is
located the thirteen claims con-
stituting the holdings of the
| Snowstorm Mining & Milling
company. From the stories re-
lated by the locator of the ground
and founder of the company, it
seems to be about the biggest
proposition in the way of pros
pect in the entire state. William
Mckinley Flynn, for long time
in the employ of Senator Clark
in Montana, is the president and
general manager of the company,
and he, it was, who stumbled onto
the ground while rounding up
the Thunder mountain region.
Three enormous true issure
veins, he says, traverse the
ground, but to speak of the
wealtk exposed in one of them
will be sufficient introduction to
them all. 1t is what he desig-
mates as the Snowstorm ledge.
From east to west it runs 1928
feet through four Of the claims.
At the east end it is cut in two
! by Rapid river, where it's width
is shown to be 79 feet. At the
west end line of the first claim it
!, widens to 259 feet, the entire
, ledge being q solid mass of steel
! galena, and Mr.. Flynn declares
! it would be no exaggeration to
say that there is 1000. 900 tons
of ore now in sight and ready to
be quarried out and shipped.
Numerous assays made on the
ore in various parts of the reg
ion show the average of the mass
to run 1858 per cent lead, 161. z
ozs. silver. 90 ozs. gold and GA
per cent zinc per ton.
: Mr.. Flynn came here with the
intention of listing the property
J on the local exchange and selling
enough treasury stock to build
! IL miles of road in order that the
marketing of the ore might be-
, gin. He has changed his mind