The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-05-22

Heed being called for, responded |
in very felicitous speech, which |
excited the applause of his audi |
tory. Judge Galbraith, also, was
summoned to the front, and add
ed his contribution in an i'm
Ipromptu of patriotic sentiment.
Judge Hawley, of Idaho City,
and Judge w. F. Anderson, of
Bonanza, being present, were
called out and made appropriate
remarks in obedience to the hos
pitable welcome of the citizens
of Challis.
After discoursing the merits
of the bountiful lunch which had
been provided, the assemblage
dispersed to engage in other
sports and festivities.
About a mile below town a
race track had been laid out near
the road to Colvin's bridge. The
first race was distance Of 600
yards, TO which there were six
entries. 1t was won by Fergu-
sons horse, Sage Brush" Then
followed a race between Buck
skin and the Roam Golf, which
was won by the latter. In the
! early part of the night in front
of Burns Hotel, which was very
handsomely illuminated, there
was brilliant display of sky
: rockets and other fireworks. A
ball was held in the evening
which was generally attended by
, the ladies and beaux of Challis
: as pleasing finale to this pat
: riotic occasion.
/ To the ladies generally great
:. praise is due for their efforts to
, make the day agreeable, and
& surely in all things they have
: been most successful. Yankee
: Fork Herald, July 9th, 1880.
You will note, Mr.. Editor, that
: the Fourth came on the fifth that
! year, as it sometime does. It
was also the first regular court,
. if 1 remember right, under the
l act legalizing the secession of
| this portion of the vast domain
of the mother county of Lemhi,
and about which she (LemhD has
: been fighting US ever since.
Nearly ali of the attorneys
1 1 present, you will further note,
/, were either Judges or had been
: of Probate or District Court or
} became so later on.
? Many of the participants in
8 the exercises of that first Challis
Fourth of July celebration have
a gone away never to return.
!, Judge Heed, 1 think, is dead.
2 Judge Galbraith died in Mon,
4 tana. Judge (Probate) Burns,
= President of the Day, is buried
n at Challis. Judge w. F. Ander-
/ son, our first, Councilman and
/ promoter of the Lemhi division
: Act, died at Shoshone. Felix
;. Rheinboldt is dead at Ogden
If J. L. Onderdonk-later our Ida
d no State Comptroller-orator o.
q the day, died of exhaustion on :
= journey in Alaska. think Capt
a C. B. Rustin, of the Kinnikincl
1 (Clayton) Smelling Co. was pres
l. ent. He also died in Alaska.
Indeed, there are but of thos'
- mentioned in the letter who ar,
a alive. James Shoup, the mar
le shall of the day, is q. S. Marsha
he of Alaska; Judge (Jim) Hawle.
G is prominent Idaho attorney
= : Miss Thulu Hardenbrook, VIII,
.. impersonated the Goddess o
Ar Liberty, is the wife of the Hon
er John r. Toole, for years resi-
d dent of Custer county and late
-. manager of the Marcus DAILY in
D. terests at Anaconda, and nov
e, president of the National banl
Id at Missoula. They have grow
e daughter named Thulu.
- And there is Sage Brush
n and 'Buckskinn and the Roar
K Colt" / have almost overlooke'
m them. They, too, have run thei
y - last race on the Challis cours
10 and are not seen on the turf an,
D. more.
ut The horse is a kind of a kir
As folk of the human family and il
~ greatest friend and benefactol
n. indeed, if it had not been for tn
horse, man would have cut