The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-08-21
Location blanks at this office.

Judge Cotter was over from
Ellis last week.
Lemhi county has $1,000 head
of cattle this year.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Sweet returned
Saturday evening from a visit to
Colorado Springs.
Revenue Collector Pond, of
Pocatello, was in Challis Friday
last on official business.
Another Democrat in town
Born-On Thursday, August 16,
to the wife of Arthur Wilkinson,
bouncing baby boy.
Mrs. Joseph Rodgers departs
next week for Denver, Colorado,
where she goes to put her daugh-
ter, Genevie, in school.
The Lost Packer company are
shipping in labor from the out
side to work at their smeIter and
mines at Loon creek.
Miss Matte Mott returns this
week to Butte, Mont, to resume
her duties as teacher in the pub
lie schools of that city.
George Ashton and wife, and
Mrs. Ashton's sister, have loca6-
ed at Salmon. George has en-
gagged in the blacksmith business
at that place.
1t is reported that Chas. Funk
houser has sold his ranch on
ChalIis creek to w. G.. Short of
May, and that Mr.. Funkhouser
and family will move to town.
People should not eat orange
rinds or use lemon peel, for both
are sprayed with a spray of ar
senic of lead, which is a most
deadly poison, and a number of
persons have lost their lives from
eating these rinds.
During the past week this see
ton of the country has been
deluged with waterspouts and
cloudbursts, which have done
a great amount of damage to the
wagon roads between here and
Mackay and between here and
Custer.
A large waterspout up Salmon
river last week made the river
muddy for several days. 1t must
have been big volume of water
for it raised the water in the
Salmon several inches. Also on
, the same day cloud bursts are
reported at Lone Pine which
washed out the wagon road for
quite distance. Another cloud
, burst occurred at Rye Grass, and
Mrs. Gilrs ranch house was
nearly washed away.
l A. Arlington Hibbs, General
Manager of the Oregon-Idaho
: Gold Mining Co., of Harrisburg,
Pa, was in Challis last week on
! business. Mr.. Hibbs while here
+ advertised for a contract to clb
and delivery 1000 cords of wood
!. at the company's mill. He says
! their mill at Meyers Cove, (for
: merly Singiser), will go into
commission in few days, and
he looks for a long and profitable
, run. The mines, we are told,
have immense bodies of milling
: ore blocked out, and which IS
+ being taken out daily.
I A boy by the name of Fergl-
: son, we are told, had one of his
legs nearly shot off with a shot
gun near Dickey station, the
/ fore part of last week. The gun
I was discharged in an accidental
manner by endeavoring to force
:, a loaded shell in the barrel by
l another person who had the gun.
. 1t was at close range and made
! an ugly wound. The boy wa,
/ taken back to the Bascom hotel
: and doctor at Mackay was sem
) for who arrived and dressed tn.
e wound. and it is said the limt
T can be saved. The people ara
e strangers in this section ant
d were travelling overland by team
It IL yon know of an item or ;
S piece of news, tell us about It
l. That's what we want. But ;
D. newspaper man sometimes e1
l. periences more difficulty in gath
re ering news than one would i'm
3 agine. This was the case whei
1t a reporter in a neighboring tow o
Id who, few days ago was sent on
T. to write up a fire in residence
IN Going to the door he inquired 0
ip the lady of the house. The mai'
is said she was out. Are any q
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