The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-05-10
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Mrs. Dow is improving rapidly.

Mrs. Dow is improving rapidly.
Miss Kate Roof departs this week
for her home in Kansas City.
John II. Anderson and j. G. Fox
went to Mackay last week.
Final hearing in the Big Lost river
water case has been set for May 25th |
at Boise.
MIR. Crow, one of the owners of the |
Challis g. Sturkey placer mines, went |
Stanley last week.
Mrs Daniels has opened a board
ing house in the new building recently |
built by VIM. Buster.
w. w. Adamson has gone to HALEY
where his case comes up before the
District court today.
About 800 head of cattle have |
been driven to Stanley for summer
range during the past two weeks.
The remains of Silas Romer have
been recovered and inferred. He was
killed last winter by a snowslide on
Jordan creek.
-Theo. Wust, well-known on Sal
mon river in an early day, died at San
Francisco recently. He lived, while
in this county, at Bayhorse and Custer.
We expect our new power press
this week, it has been at Mackay for
over a month-the gasoline engine has
been here for two weeks. When the
new outfit is installed we will have
two days more of each week to devote
to other work.
IS. F. Hunt has returned from
three weeks business trip from Boise,
Nampa and Salt Lake. He informs us
that number of prominent capital
lists told him they intended visiting
Custer county mines this summer with
a view of investing.
Joseph P. Dickey was in town last
week. He informed us that he had
sold his ranch and cattle at Dickey to
Pat. Lynch of Challis. We hope that
Mr.. and Mrs. Dickey will ontinue to
remain in Custer county for they are
two good citizens to lose.
Giving japanese girl a present
means you desire to marry her. If she
accepts the flower. the necklace or
whatever you proffer, she embraces
you as future husband. It's different
in this country When a man sends
woman a $3.50 bouquet and she ac-
cepts it, the transaction means merely:
Another sucker gone wrong :"
Thomas b. Wilde and family of
Philadelphia arrived in Challis Satur-
day last. Mr.. Wilde is general manag-
er of the Standard Metals Production
company, of Philadelphia, and comes
n tuba oh Of tha fr1rtla min of
Bayhorse. He expects to commence
making ore shipments from the mines
as soon as the roads are open. His
family will reside in Bayhorse.
VIM. McNutt, president of the Ok
obojo Mining company of Idaho. was
arrested in New York April 29th, being
charged by John Wyatt for swindling
him out of SO, 500 in fake mining stock.
Wyatt also bought 10, 900 shares of the
Central Idaho Gold Mining company at
30 cents each. Z. Patterson Hayes,
dentist, is president of the last named
mining company, and cannot be found
by the police.
The Custer-Lemhi case came up
before Judge Stevens in Blaclfoot last
week. This case is relative to debt
Lemhi claims since 1881 when Custer
county was formed. Custer claims to
have paid that debt, and does not owe
Lemhi cent Judge X. l. Perky has
been retained by Custer county. Last
week the Salmon Herald had an un-
warranted attack upon the good name
of Judge Perky relative to this case.
The attack was low, base and trifiing,
and shows the depraved nature of the
Herald editor.
j. A. Czizek and family arrived in
Challis last Saturday from Salt Lake,
! and will proceed to the Lost Packer
mine, Loon creek, of which MIR. Czizek
is general manager, within the next
! few days. lie will shortly put on
force of men to shovel out the trail be-
tween Jordan creek and Loon creek so
that the company's pack-train can
take in supplies and commence ship
ping out the high grade ore mined dur
| ing the winter. Good reports still con-
tinue to come from the mine. John
Boyle will be in charge of the Lost
Packer mine as superintended within
] a short time. Mr.. Czizek says that
work will be commenced on building
the wagon road to Loon creek from
Jordan creek as soon as the snow on
the route is gone.
! Daniel Sullivan died in Custer last
Thursday, May 5th, from pneumonia.
His remains were brought to Challis
on Saturday and Inferred in the ceme-
try at this place Sunday in the plat
beside his father, mother and brother.
The deceased has been in poor health
for several years. lie was born in the
northern part of Michigan 81 years
ago, but has lived in Custer county for
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parents when but a small boy. He
was the Oldest son of a family of ten
children-five boys and five girls-all
of whom are living except one-Mrs.
Mary Oster, Mrs. Margaret Bowen,
Mrs. Katherine Coleman, Miss Eta
and Lillian sullivan; John, Jerry,
William and Robbie dead, The dec
eased was an open-hearted, generous.
and kind young man, and was highly