The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-06-07

Salmon and Mackay are GO
ing to celebrate on July 4th.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Cross Of
Custer returned Saturday from
visit TO the Worlds Fair.
The wire cable foot bridge
at the Hot Springs is impossible
at present, but has not gone out
as reported.
j. A. Czizek departed Friday
for Weiser to attend the Demo
cratic State convention. as dele
gate from Custer county.
The report that reached
Challis last week of the death of
Ex-senator Shoup, upon investi-
cation, proved to be d hoax.
st. Louis has on exhibition
at the Worlds Fair a 3. 600 horse
power gas engine. The atten-
tion of our political spellbinders
is respectfully directed to this
item.
"A dispatch from St. Peters
burg says that Russia will make
no exhibit at St. Louis. No won
der. after the showings she made
| at Port Arthur and along the
Yalu river.
Len. Peck while at work on
the road down near Watson's
bridge on Salmon river, was TAX
en- very sick last Friday. He
was brought TO town and is now
resting quite easily.
Mrs. Mary G. Dorgan has
closed her City Bakery in Chal.
lis. and has gone out to Dewitt
& Altham's ranch and sawmill on
Morgan creek, to cook. Her lit
tie daughter Ruthy, accompanied
her.
--Messrs. Graves and King, of
Boise, two well known irriga-
tion engineers in the West, are
surveying for Newton Hibbs on
the proposed dam across Salmon
river, near Mock's S wheel. The
dam is intended to furnish water
for irrigating purposes, also
power for an electric plant.
| The daily trains were start
ed running yesterday, June 1st,
on the Mackay branch. The
trains will be known as No. 81
from here to Mackay aud No. 90
returning. Conductor W. j..
Burke took No. 81 out yesterday
morning leaving here at Z o'clock
with engineer Burton. No. 50
| left Mackay at the same hour and
arrived here at . o'clock in
charge of conductor Toombs and
engineer Scllstrom. Each crew
remains over night at the end of
tue line to make the return trip
next day.-Pocatello Advance.
The little white country
school house, with its memories
is but fading vision, says the
Hampton, Qowa) Chronicle. The
people are dissatisfied with it
and the state superintendent says
it must go. The barefooted boys
and the sunbonneted girls are to
be educated in an altogether new
manner. Take a last glance as
you see them along the roadside
on their way home from school.
The dinner pals flash in the af-
ternoon sun as the childish
groups trudge along in different
directions. Far across the pillow
ed fields. here and there, are to
be seen the homes from which
they were sent in the morning,
the high wind mill, the big, red
barn, the house sheltered by a
row of willows. The childish
hands are filled with wild flowers
which have not yet been driven
from the prairies, and the tanned
faces, unused to the gaze of the
the stranger, ,droop in amazement
as you pass by. The school
house is silent. but the windows
are open and within is the teach.
er attending to those duties which
must be done after the school
has closed for the day. The
birds hum and drone fearlessly
about the building and sometimes
go so far as to fit in and out of
the windows. There is the play
ground, where the prairie grass
is growing rank, unhindered in
its growth by the dozen pairs of
feet that trample upon it at re-
cess. The sturdy farmer. plow-
ing over there in the field, carv-
ed his initials in the very desk at
which his children are now doing
their sums. On the edge worn