The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-31
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES soeseSeo
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Mrs. Jas. Coulter of BayhJrse yis-
tied Chalis friends last week.
-tlaude Cochran and Bert Jones
were over from Muy last week.
The frosts last week did li.tle. if
any, damage to fruit in this section Of
Idaho.
Why not organize baseball club
in Challis ? We have plenty Of good
timber this season.
We re-publish "kal KlawsoD's' let
ter on Jonah this week by request OF
numerous subscribers.
George Z. K,yes, William j.
Bowen, ". Ii. Fetkner aud Wm. J.
Lamme, delegates feom Challis, al
tended the democratic convention at
Clayton last Saturday.
1t is understood that Senator Reed
Smoot has received warning that II he
wants to read his title clear next win
ter he had better be mighty careful
and not let Utah or Idaho 20 demo-
cratic in November.
Miss Birdina NJ. Teunell and Miss
Hazel NJ. Morrow, formerly Of ChaIlis.
graduate this year from the Boise High
school commencement exercises ON
! Friday, June 3. We arc In receipt of
an invitation TO be present.
"A. ). Craudall, of Tacoma. Wash.
Mullen mines on Custer Mountain i
year ago. arrived in Chailis last Tues
day morning, and will go up to the
mines on his arrival from Salmon.
"A letter receieved in Challis last
week from Thunder Mountain, states
there is almost famine in the camp
not for want of money-but because
provisions cannot be had for any kind
of money Our informant also states
that the camp is well supplied with
gamblers and tinhorns.
Stephen Wilson Egan, formerly of
Maclay and Custer, has just issued a
6i-page book inter.ningled with prose
aud poetry, and illustrated. entitled
"The Seven Sinners of Salt Lake City
1t deals with lower class OF humanity
in the slums of the city, and is true TO
life. The book is aoiy written. and us
the author has experienced the ups
and downs of life, he handles this sub
jecl in mastery manner. The book
worthy of perusal.
We have not got our cylinder press
adjusted and running as we would
like to have it. Last week we broke a
small rachel wheel on the ink foun-
tain and had to send to the factory for
a new one, which has not arrived yet.
And then we attached the engine TO
the press, and il run the press so fast
that we could not feed the papers in
time. To overcome this difficulty we
have ordered larger pulley for the
engine belt on the overhead line shaft.
The Salt Lake and Pocatello news
papers say that a daily train will be
put on the Maclsay branch on or about
June End, and from which we would
infer daily mail The Pocatello Ad-
vance says: at is uuofficially announ-
ced that daily train will be put on
June LIST or End, between Pocstello and
Mackay, instead of the branch train
from Blackfoot as now. The trains
will be mixed, freight and passenger,
and will leave here at \. m each day
and arrive at Mackay al . p. m. each
day. This will require two train crews
who will live here nut who will remain
over night at Mackay on the up run
AT the primaries held in Challis on
Monday the 23rd, the following we'll
known democrats of this precinct were
elected delegates to the Clayton con-
ventiou, that convention to elect dele
gates to the Weiser convention and
the Weiser convention to elect delega-
ties to the National convention at st.
Louis July 6th. At the Challis prim-
aries good big vote was polled, al
though there was no particular con-
test as to vino would be elected. The
delegates elected were: VIM, II. Felix
ner. Wm. j. Bowen. Len. Peck, Geo.
f. Keyes, John p Spalding, William
J. Lamme, Thos. Chivers, j. L. Eb-
berts.
Next Monday is school election in
this district for u trustee in the place
of Mr.. Morrison, whose time expires.
Don't stay away from the polls then
"kics" about the school, the teachers
and the trustees. The school to great
extent depend upon the trustees as we'll
as the teachers. The time to enter your
protest is at the school election. If
you selet trustees that take no inter
est in the school it is almost a sure
thing the teachers will be indifferent,
or, allow us to use the old-time saying.
"They won't care whether school