The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-17
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

DAY.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Wilson's
little daughter is reported sick
with scarlatina.
The snow has entirely disap-
peared in Challis and Main st. is
dry and dusty.
George Hewitson and Prof. G.
A. Maple departed last Saturday
morning for Salmon.
H. I. Babcock, representing
Fargo & Co., of SanFrancisco,
was in Challis'last week.
Odell Bartlett of May has leas-
ed his ranch to w. E. Hanna, and
will shortly move to Butte, Mon
tana, with Instantly.
1t is reported that M. E. Foley
of Challis last week made good
strike of $25 per ton gold ore in
his Loon creek quartz claim.
We sent out several hundred
packages of government garden
seeds last week to the rancher
subscribers of the MESSENGER.
Senator Dubois has received
the assurance from the Navy De-
partment that the new 1900
ton battleship now nearing COM
pletion will be named Idaho"
We learn that Valentine Mael-
ger of May has purchased Olee
Mead's ranch. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Mead will move to old
Mexico, where he will be employ
ed by the Wood Live Stock Co.
W. H. Leatoh is building big
lodging house in Challis in con
nection with his hotel out of the
gymnasium building. 1t will be
a two-story structure. The first
floor will be used for the dining
room, kitchen and office, and
the second floor will be the lodg-
ing apartment.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Nea's little
son, Edward, was brought over
from May last Tuesday evening
for surgical attendance, he hav-
ling been kicked in the face by a
horse, cutting hole through his
upper lip. The little fellow is
getting along nicely, but when
the wound heals it will evidently
leave a small scar.
Small Brothers are preparing
to resume work on their big ir-
rigating canal in this valley as
soon as the frost is out of tbs
ground. The canal when com.
pleted will reclaim several hun
Gred acres of good agricultural
land. The water supply will be
permanent as it is taken from
Salmon river.
The initial number of The
Prospector. published at Custer
by G. e. Eddy and Reginald
Coryell, made its appearance in
Challis last Wednesday. 1t is a
5-col. quarto newspaper and the
issue was printed on a medium
grade book paper, and is well
filled with mining news and 9th,
er matter. 1t contained ten hall
tone cuts of Custer county, but
the Prospector hardly treated
US fair in this matter, as six OF
the cuts were loaned by the Mes
SENGER Office, and for which the
Prospector failed to give credit.
The finding of fine placer Oh
flour gold on Pahsamaroi las
week while digging a well on d.
Kern's ranch, has caused some
excitement. The well had beer
sunk to a depth of about fifteer
feet, when black sand was found
and the black sand sparkled with
what Mr.. Kerns supposed to b,
.. mica, but it was shown to Sid
Roberts, an old placer miner, an(
after examination, he pronounc
ed it gold. Each pan showed ;
. hundred or more fine colors. Mr.
Roberts to satisfy himself dug {
6.foot hole some feet away will
like results.
The eight magazines going un
der the title of the Big Eigh
; line up as follows with regard Il
circulation and rates:
! Munsey's 635,000 circulation
per page $3.50; McClure's 365, 90
) circulation; per page $345. 60
Cosmopolitan 800, 600 circulation
! per page 1858. 40; Lesl;e's Month
5 ly $4,000 circulation; per pag
S201. go; Review of Reviews 175,
600 circulation; per page $500
r Scribner's 1851 circulation
3 per page 5000; Century 165,00
circulation; per page $1S7. sc
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