The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-02-07

i WluUSI.
Challis had dance last Fri
day night. Another ball will be
given next Tuesday evening,
Feb. 14th.
John L. Sullivan is going on
the lecture platform but it is not
thought that he will deliver
many on temperance just yet.
A western man claimed to have
kissed carrie Nation though he
did not state whether he was
kissing heroine, or doing the
act of hero.
Russia is going to follow our
example with Schley and have
her greatest fighter tried by a
military tribunal. Monarchies
are almost as ungrateful as Re-
publics.
We have just found out what
has allied the weather man.
Every time Chicago has bliz-
zard New York has to have a
worse one, and the rest of us
have to stand for it.
Since the preachers have been
assailing the divorce evils SC
furiously it has shown greater
increase than ever. Why not
reverse the throttle and advocate
it on the homeopathic theory
maybe it will die with disgust
then.
Testimony was taken in the
D. S. Circuit Court at Pocatello
yesterday in the case of G. G.
Heisen VS.. James A. McFadden
and Caroline McFadden. At
torney Brown, attorney for the
defendants, and Col. McFadden
departed for Pocatello Friday
last.
L. L. Warburton, the rock and
brick mason, has up to this time
put in two brick fues in the post
Office building, two az F. Nick
erson & Co.'S. store; one at L.
H. Johnston's law Office and one
at the MESSENGER Office, and
other fues of brick will yet be
installed in Challis.
Manager Clark cf the White
Knob Copper company at Mac
kay, telegraphed from New York
that the company would resume
operations again on Feb. End
with a good force of men. It is
said the smelter will not be start.
ed till spring, but about sixty
men will be employed on the
mines this winter doing develop
ment work and taking out ore.
The company has been reorgan.
lied recently and Hon. N. H
Clark is still retained as manag
er at the mines. The property
of the White Knob company fol
some reason has been closed
down since last fall, and the
camp has been very quiet since
that time, but with the starting
up of the property it is agair
showing life and activity.
From good authority and ;
gentleman in position to know
who lives at Salt Lake, it nov
seems assured that next spring
the Oregon Short Line railroad
will extend it's branch from Mac
kay to Salmon river, the final
survey of the route having beer
made three years ago. Th,
fact that there are good pros
poets of a through line from
Butte to Salmon City, and theme,
up Salmon river, thence to Boist
and on to SanFrancisco, sup
posed to be backed by the North
western Railway compay, TO b,
known as the Butte-Boise & San
Francisco Railroad, and that tn,
enormous sum of $50, ,000,OO ha,
been raised to construct saic
road, has put the Short Lin,
people on the uneasy seat, fo
they claim Salmon river as thei1
territory and do not want to SCI
it invaded by competing line
but if it is really the Northwest
ern back of the proposed Butte
Boise & SanFrancisco line, anC
they are after a Pacific Coast
terminus, the building of th'
Short Line into this TERRITORY
will in no manner check th,
building of the other road. Blu
let both roads come then ther'
will be competing rates. Anoth
good sign why the Short Lin,
will extend its line is that Mr.
Bancroft, one of the foremos
men of that company, last fal
made trip of investigation tt
Custer county and reported a.
to it's resources, and he like