The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-10-27
9nrnI 51euus Ltents.
This is ideal Fall weather.

haipn Ldrter came out from
Custer Tuesday.
Congress has been called to
meet in special session Nov. 9th.
Mrs. w. w. West departed for
SanFrancisco last week. Mr..
West will spend the winter in
Custer county.
Carroll Pyeatt arrived in Chal-
/ lis last Wednesday morning on a
visit. He is one of the guards at
the Boise penitentiary.
The MESSENGER has ordered
300 pounds of Brewer type. and
on IFS arrival will make $50 lbs.
of body type in this Office.
At Wicheta. Kansas. on Oct.
18th. Cresces broke the worlds
trotting record for mile by I of
a second. making the distance in
1:594.
There is a move on foot which
will be known as the telephone
stamp" the purpose of which is
to give the postmaster the priv
ilege to open letters bearing such
a stamp and read them over a
phone to parties to whom they
are directed.
No mail last Tuesday morning.
That being a fact the west end
of the county had to get along
without mail from the outside
for five days. The train and
stage did not make connections.
l Custer county, without doubt. is
blessed with the poorest mail
service in the world.
From the Lost Packer of Loon
creek, came a single carload of
ore during the day from which
the company will derive over
lS4, 900. the controls showing over
8 ounces of gold and 10 per cent
I copper. The rock was mined
/ from the upper workings, where
a good breast of it is now expos
ed, said a prominent shareholder.
and the next lot, which is now
being sacked. promises even bet
/ ter results. Salt Lake Tribune.
C. E. Eddy of Lost Packer
fame. arrived in ChaIliS on the
18th inst. and departed the same
evening for Salt Lake to pay q
visit to the other part of the
Eddy household. He says that
his new strike on the east fork
of Loon creek is the biggest
thing yet in that country. On
the surface the mine shows {
ledge of 10 feet in width. and be
, has had assays that run as high
. as 800 in gold and a small pei
cent in copper. In speaking ot
the Crackerjack group of five
claims located at Loon creek, Mr.
Eddy says the annual asseSsmen'
work is now being done on this
group. and a as work progresses
the claims show four or five fee
of ore that assays $50 TO the tor
from part of the ledge in gold,
and from 4 to ; per cent copper.
This group. he says. is one Of
the most promising in Loon. /
. is owned by c. E. Eddy. Ralpl
Beane and NJ. NJ. Sweet.
James Fitzgerald died at Nam
: pa Saturday morning at the cit,
engine house where he has lail
critically i'll for several days
says the Nampa Leader. Th
cause of his death was the ex
cessive use of cocaine aud NOR
: phine which he had used hypo
: dermically aud internally il
great quantities for many years
Fitzgerald was well known AM
unique character in more thai
4 one Idaho town, he having bee
an old timer in the state and oil
acquaintances of his in Namp
can recall the day when Jim wa
a well-to-do, pampered, goo,
looking, dashing. kindly ant
clever Jockey of Boise. a mar
Q who stood by his friends wit
l. muscle and money. He is sal
to have been worth about so, 90
; in the SOS. but he began dis
sipating heavily and with Fitz
gerald. as with thouandso of othe
young men. a promising life wa
ruined. His fortune melted ava.
e and in few years physical deca.
d set in and marked his specia
d example of what deadly drug
Ii can accomplish for their victims
5 He was about 40 years old at th
It time of his death and unmarried
e His mother resides at Clayton
i being postmistress at that place
r She probably cannot be commuu
e icated with before the funeral a