The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-12-01

. =eLocAL AND OTHER NEWS !
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Only "A days to Xmas.

w. E. Hanna family spent Thanks
giving in Challis.
IT. J. Paul came down from Stan
ley Basiu last week.
-Chss. Kopp and Jake Leisinger
came down from Clayton Friday.
Al West and family, of Dickey,
are spending few days in ChalIis.
Mat womacks departed Friday on
business trip and visit to Missouri.
Duncan Williams killed large
white swan down on Salmon river one
day last week.
"A New York physician who adver-
tised S., 900 for an ear to be grated on
his patient, received over 900 offers.
The Thanksgiving ball in Challis
was quite well attended, and from the
proceeds the lodge must have realized
a net profit
Miss Clara Golfer, Miss Edna Mich
aeI, Jas. "a. Marker and S. f. Hunt of
Bayhorse. attended the Thanksgiving
/ ball at ChzIlis
Miss Pearl McGowan arrived in
ChaIlis last Tuesday from her trip as a
delegate to the Rebekah State Assem-
bly, last Octoser.
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Miss Sadie Sullivan. .Coney Sullivan.
Edw. Hobbs. Jerry Sullivan and EN-
melt Hosford, of Clayton, attended
the ball in Challis last Thursday night.
-''Cut out cigarettes or leave the
school, is the official mandate that
has been issued by the faculty of Cor
nell college which proposes to see that
the order is enforced TO the letter.
Robert Keninger, of Ketehum,
slipped off the sidewalk in front of the
tailor shop, opposite the News Miner
Office, yesterday afternoon, aud broke
his leg just below the knee.-Hailey
News-Miner.
r. L. Polk & Co.'S. Idaho State
Gazetteer and Business Directory for
I903-4 is out, and the agent delivered
the books in ChalIis Friday. The
Directory this year is an improvement
over last publication, as it contains
more pages and more valuable informa-
ton 1t contains 697 pages
The Semi-Weekly Salt Lake Trib-
une not only reaches iuter-mountain
readers from one to four days earlier
than either Eastern or Pacific coas,
papers, but is better paper for the
people of all this region. because of its
special state news facilities here not
possessed by outside papers. At SI.5O
from now until May 3Ist. 1905, it is moi
only the best, but the cheapest. send
for it now.
Last Tuesday evening Silver Lea
Rebekah No. 27. elected the following
officers
n. G.-Mrs. Eudora Huffman,
v. G.-Mrs- Nellie jarvis
! Sec'y.-Mrs. Mary G. Dorgan.
Treasurer-Mrs- Zilkey.
Trustees-Mrs. II. c. MeKendrick
Mrs. L. ]. Paul, Joe Ebberts.
D. D. P.-Mrs. Belle w. Thompson.
Custer county is situated 10 III,
heart OF Idaho, and is bounded on ths
north by Idaho and Lemhi counties; or
the east by Lemhi aud Blaine: on the
south by Blaine, aud on the west bJ
Boise and Idaho. About four-6fths o.
the surface of this county is noun
famous, many of the spurs being dens
ely covered with timber, and many
mountain streams coursing down th'
gulches. Salmon river runs tortuously
through the northern portion of the
county, and affords water enough il
properly conducted by skilltuI engin-
eering over aud among the mountain
passes to afford irrigation as well a
mining facilities for all who wish Il
utilize them. Besides the numerous
valleys of the Salmon river and it
tributaries. the Big and Little Los
: river valleys, and the many wales an'
eoves belonging to their tributaries
there are many basins, some of then
containing many thousands of acre
hemmed in by lofty mountains AM
destitute of living streams. Custer i
one of the great mineral bearing couu
ties of Idaho. 1t is Utterly covered will
gold and silver lodges, the greater par
of which is wholly undeveloped. Their
are also numerous veins of copper au'
galena. There are vast areas of nm
surveyed land in this county, much o
which is excellent for agricultural pur
poses, aud is fiue for grazing. Th
chief industries are mining, Sgricul
ture and stock raising. Challis, tn
county seat, is surrounded by noun
tains extremely rich in minerals. Th'
, climate is mild in the valleys for $,