The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-04-26
-Lockhart Boyd returned 70 Mac

The stages are scheduled TO change
on summer time next Monday.
-Chas. Wilkinson arrived Saturday
from MacI1sy with his freight teams.
Con Doty, one of the couDty's pion-
eer miners was down from Bayhorse
on Thursday last.
"A petition is in circulation here
asking the business houses to close on
Sunday afternoons.
Custer county has been apportion-
ed delegates in the Democratic state
convention at Weiser June 9th.
The s5th anniversary exercises and
ball advertised to be held in Challis
to-day, April Goth, have been declared
off by Custer Lodge No. 21, L o. o. Z.
Commissioner Hosford came down
from Clayton last Wednesday. He
brought Mrs. a. j. Dow down, and
she is now under treatment by DIR. C.
Z. Huston for erysipelas.
John n. Wallace has arranged to
sell Captain Winters tract of placer
land on Yankee Fork in Custer county.
The property, embracing 800 acres,
lies below the quartz property owned
by Mr. Wallace. Captain Winters
takes it under bond.-Boise Statesman.
Many exchanges are printing the
following If you are 20 years old
when your baby is year old. then you
are 20 times as old as the baby. When
you are 25 years old. baby is ), then
you are five times as old as the baby.
When you are 40 years old baby is 90,
and you are but twice as old. When
you get to be so, instead of being twice
as old as your daughter you are only
one-fourth older. Now, at this rate
how long would you have to live be-
fore your daughter would be as old as
you are
$. F. Hunt of Challis. one of the
best known geologists in the State. is
in the city. says The Capital News. He
is guest at the Overland. Besides ex-
amining and making reports on mines,
he owns quite a number of prominent
mines in the BayhOrse district, and
does more or less in promoting com
pauies. He started for Boise for the
purpose of attending the meeting of
the State Mining Association but a
washout delayed him three days en-
route, and he failed to arrive in time.
Custer county mines and mining are in
their infancy, he said. We have all of
the known ore formations in which
workable ores have been found in the
state. On account of the railroad fac
ilities we have not been able to make
the showing our county deserves. Con-
tinuing MIR. Hunt said that as a CEN
trail part of Idaho Custer county was in
the land of promise aud that time
would show it to be one of the great
est mining districts in the State. The
various properties were being worked
systematically and showing good re-
suits. The winter had been very hard
with them, but that with the return of
spring it would be prosecuted with
greater vigor than ever.
The Full Moon Union Minstrel
Co, composed of Challis local talent,
gave an excellent minstrel show in the
opera house at Challis last Wednesday
night TO crowded house. On the
stage there were the following named
burnt-cork artists Bert Williams,
Harry Topping, Cliff Larter, Clayton
Williams, Owen Swift, Earnie Aruson,
Jas. Gooch, Ben. Metzger, George L.
McGowan and Duncan Williams, while
DIR. 5. c. Jones took the part of inter
loeutor, while Messrs. Reed and Taite
furnished the music. 1t was a sur
prise to many here that Challis had so
much talent in this line, but which
has been dormant for all these years
1t has always been supposed that the
Challis girls possessed all the stage
talent, and our boys were secondhand
numbers, but the entertainmet given
wholly by our young men last wednes-
day night was proof positive that our
boys are not as slow as they may APP
pear. Besides they were loudly APP
plauded as vocal artists, aud numb
er of The "coonsr were recalled to the
stage, The first to appear in a solo
was Duncan Williams, and then APP
peared George L. MCGOWAN before the
foot-lights in that beautiful old plan
tation song "My Old kentucky Home, F"
and his melody rung out loud aud
clear on the large audience. Then
other singers appeared in turn. The
local jokes received encore after en-
core. Part of the program was omit
ted because T. ]. Atkins did not re-
turn from Salmon as expected. Had
be been present he would have taken
the leading part in the performance.
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