The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-08-04
9nrnl 5le,us 1tents.

Hon. Geo. B. Baldwin of Gus
ter is spending a few days in
Challis.
Attorney Walker has gone to
Chicago. He expects to return
next week.
Spin" Helm of Custer depart
ed on last Wednesday evening
for Chicago.
Miss Sagers, sister of Lit
Sagers, arrived in Challis last
Wednesday morning.
The machinery for the opal
mine works at Silver creek will
soon be shipped in via. Challis.
Owing to an overflow of Com
missioner proceedings this week
many local news items are omit
ted.
Postmaster Reed moved into
the new postofice building one
door west of the New Challis
House last Sunday.
The Sunday School Conven-
tion comprising Lemhi and Gus
ter counties will be held in Chal-
lis about Sept. 18th.
It. ]. Kerr and S. F. Hunt, of
Challis, E. w. Clark of Butte,
have secured a lease and bond on
the July mine in the Singiser
district.
Mrs. Geo. L. MCGOWAN and
Miss Martha keenan, expected
to depart yesterday evening for
the National Park. They hope
to meet their brother at Black
foot who will accompany them on
| the trip.
President Cleveland and
General Miles have both been
trying to demonstrate that they
are too young to be laid on the
shelf. Mr.. Cleveland has just
become "a happy father" and
General Miles has ridden ninety
miles in ten hours. This may
prove generation of young old
men as we'll as a generation ol
strenuous young men.
The clerk who was detailed tt
count the number of registry
books in the Postoffice storeroom
found that there we're 1,2OO O.
the old style books on hand al
though several thousand new
style books had been purchased
from the General Manifoldins
company in which Representa-
} tive Sibley is interested. Th
clerk reported the fact and wa
reprimanded and then reduced t
e messenger work.
President Roosevelt has deal
t labor unions a serious blow b.
' the reinstatement of William A
: Miller as assistant foreman c
y the Government Printing Office
Miller was expelled from tn
labor organization of which b
was a member and the Govern
d ment Printer promptly dischars
S ed him. Now Mr.. Roosevelt ha
e reinstated him. The action ma
:, be right in itself but for pr
,. fessed friend of all organized lal
/ or it is a peculiar action.
4 Immigration for the the fisc;
o year just ended passed all pr
: vious records, nearly a millic
r aliens having come to the Unite
70 States, most of them being th
'e lowest class of labor from til
most undesirable parts of Europ
OF course the American manufa
turer must be protected from q
)r possible competition but IL
S, American laboring man can e
lie pect no protection from chea
IS labor. Senator Elkins and OF
st er men of his stamp who repr
sent the employers of chez
IL labor in Congress will permit !
n additional restrictions on imm
grafton.
1t was stated in Challis la
+ week, on good authority, tn
within 30 days the Oregon Sho
Line Railway would have a b
th force of men at work gradir
It. for new line from Mackay
oy Challis. The statement in ii
ch eastern papers that Harrim;
lit intended TO build a line from Il
t. Rock, Montana, to Salmon Cit
IL thence up Salmon river, folio
st ing the old Midland survey,
he Nampa, where the road will co
D. meet with the Columbia Sout
of ern, has put the Short Ii
in people to guessing. Let 'em
J. come +! Salmon river is the bt