The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-01-13

time at the Court House.
Hon. Texas Angel of HALEY
arrived in Challis last Saturday.
Challis instead of mask ball ON
Washington's birthday this year,
viii have "hard-times" dance.
1t is Judge Horton" now, in
stead of Joe Horton. Yesterday
he qualified as Justice of the
Peace for this precinct.
The new Board of County Com
missiorers, viz Geo. Hosford,
E. B. Curtis and Frank Uehren.
met in regular session yesterday.
County Attorney Adamson ar
rived from Mackay last Friday.
His law Office is on Main street,
in the Buster addition to the city
of Challis.
Owen Swift was q years of
age last Friday, and to do honor
to the event his young friends
gave Tim party at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebberts.
We are in receipt of a letter
from Mr.. A. P. Challis, dated
at Carbondale, Kansas, Jan. 4th,
1903. stating that he arrived
there on Dec. Oath, where he is
visiting relatives. He reports a
very hard trip through Dakota,
and is now sick, but states that
bis health is improving some and
hopes soon to continue his iourn-
ey to Indiana
A sensation has been caused
at Wardner by little Lizzie Shuck,
scarcely 13 years of age, who
seems TO have the power of tell
ing the past, present and future.
Her ability as a clairvoyant Is
exceptionally peculiar compared
with the would-be clairvoyants
travelling throughout the country
and working gratis upon the
public. Her gift seems to lie
almost entirely in the descrip-
tons of mines and the locating
of valuable leads. Mineral prop
erty owners of the Coeur d'Alene
district are calling upon the girl
in large numbers. The mining
men who have gone to her for
advice say that she is simply
marvellous and that she can give
the location, describe the work
done, tell the size and character
of the lead, and tell other things
about their property even better
than they know. it themselves
TOf the dozens of people who
have been to see her on mining
and other matters there is not
one who has yet called her a
fake. A prominent mining man
of Wallace called on her the 9th
er day. Although he would not
allow his name to be used for
publication, he said:
THE information she gave me
concerning my property is worth
a large sum of money. She des-
cribed my property exactly and
even told the exact point where
lit was located. She drew map
of the section and outlined ex-
actly where the lead is. She
said there was big cabin on my
property. That I denied and
was ready to call her a fake, but
1 have since visited the property
and found what she said to be
true"
James Shannon. president of
the Silver Cliff Copper Mining
company of Wallace called upon
the girl some weeks ago and has
since followed her directions to
discover the lead. He is enthu-
siaStic over the results. Where
the lead was cut on his property
near the surface over a year age
a mill vein of very rich bornite:
of copper and some nearly pure
native copper was found. A shat
was sunk on the lead and drifts
run from the bottom of it. They
then went further down the
mountain TO get a depth of 70(
feet, but until since they begar
to follow the directions of Lizzie
| Shuck they have had no indica
tions of the paystreak. Now Mr.,
/ Shannon says the face of ths
drift is heavily minerslized. The
girl said the shaft was full O
water, which Mr.. Shannon was
inclined to doubt, as there haC
never been any indications Of
water in the shaft. Investiga
ton. however, proved the gir
to have been correct. Induce
ments are being made to get tbs
girl to travel. Her parents feal
she may be kidnapped. Tbs
father and two uncles of tbs
, child have been inveterate pros