The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-05-12

OudS- t. IoSt NlSlteu MdCkdy
last week.
A. r. Smith came out from
Custer last Friday night.
First Glass Lime for sale at
Challis Bridge. 43-4.
DR.. Chas. Kirtley, of Salmon,
is now the company doctor at
Custer.
Senator Geo. CoryelI was out
from Custer last week on a bust.
ness trip.
Robert Campbell was down
from Clayton last Friday on
business trip.
Has winter commenced again ?
The cold weather for few days
past would indicate it.
IL will be late in the season be-
fore the rush to Loon creek at
the rate the snow is going away.
Col. Dewey, of Nampa, is re-
ported dying. He is one of Ida
hos wealthiest and enterprising
citizens.
Some critics say the Washing
ton Monument in Washington is
not high art. They ought to be
compelled to climb it.
The Clayton school closes on
the 26th of this month. We un-
derstand it has been a success
full term. Miss Martha keenan,
is the teacher.
A few more accidents in the
navy and our naval officers will
not know which end of the guns
to point at the enemy in the next
naval conflict.
| Attorney M. A. Brown went
down to Mackay last Friday eve-
ming to meet a party of Chicago
capitalists who contemplate in
vesting in Loon creek mines.
A Milwaukee woman has nam
ed her child Theodore Roosevelt
| Henry Clay Payne Bradenburg.
Is this not case for the Society
for the prevention of cruelty to
children
| A traveller who has just re
turned from Pompeii says that
as the excavations proceed it is
found that the Pompeiians had
houses fitted with modern plumb
ing and. in fact, all modern i'm
provements.
Miss Mary McFadden of Salt
, Lake City, was married on last
Wednesday, May 9th, to Richard
O'Neil, of Wells, Nevada. a
: wealthy stockman. The bride is
a school teacher and a charming
: young lady, (which is not the
; general rule with schoolmarm's).
She is the daughter of Col. Jas.
f A. McFadden, of Challis.
! A Challisite dreamed that he
had died, and of course, went to
heaven. He knocked at the
golden gate and was promptly
admitted. After spending sever
al hours taking in the sights of
the city, he came upon man in
I chains. This greatly surprised
him, so he inquired of ST. Peter
: if he had to punish men in
K heaven. "Oh," said the good
: saint: THAT man is from Chal
lis. We always have to chain
. the Challis people to keep them
! from going back"
d The Malad Valley branch of
e the Oregon Short Line, which is
# to be rushed TO completion this
n summer, will be something un-
< ique for railroad in this noun
g famous country. In the first
r place, there will be hardly any
J. curves, grades, expensive bridg-
t es, snowsheds or tunnels in the
whole forty miles, and as one of
l. the officers said, lit will be just
Il like building a track down a hall
Y way" The line traverses level
b valley, and, although it is but
n sparsely settled as yet, the whole
region is to be reclaimed. and
r when the land is worked and the
: big sugar factory throws open
e its doors the valley will be one
d of the richest ones along the
Y Oregon Short Line. Among 9TH
d er business enterprises spoken
d of for the same section are two
It creameries and a cannery, SO the
u possibility is that the valley will
It grow in importance when the
o railroad gets into operation. The
:. grading is going along faster
# than at any other point where
e construction is in progress, owing
: to the route, which does not re-