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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
Custer County.

Custer county, Idaho, offers vast inducements to settlers and
canitalists. It's beautiful scenery, its e~nterprising people, its var.
led resources, and its brilliant prospects not inaptly commemorate
the name of General Custer, whose dashing, romantic, yet produc.
five career has become a part of our national history. Thirty five
years ago when placer mining was in its prime and quartz mining
in it's infancy, the territory now embraced in its confines was
known only to Indians and an occasional party OF prospectors
travelling to or from Montana. To them a wilderness, to the max.
ers of maps it was "unexplored." In 1862 placers were actively
worked in Stanley Basin, on what is now our western border and
in 1880 a few venturesome men found rich ground on Loon creek
Tn 1870 other placers were discovered and yielded handsomely, but
until quartz claimed attention, five years later, the region now
forming Custer county was practically unknown. From 1875 to-
1879 the fame of its rich mines spread Notwithstanding capital.
lists and increasing its population-until the following year, by
since that time, until today it has a population of 5000 people.
and has the following towns
Chalis-County seat, farming, stockralslng, trait and mining
Mackay-Mining and farming.
Houston--Farming and stock raising
Bayhorse-Mining.
Clayton--Mining, farming and stock.raising.
Bonanza-Mining
~Custer-Mining.
Stanley-Placer and quartz mining, and grazing land.
and stock=raising is pursued to a great extent, viz Big Lost Riv-
.er valley; Thousand Spring; Round; Pahsamaroi; East Fork; An
telope and Stanley.
Custer county embraces in irregular outline about 5000 square
miles, ard it is as large as the State of Connecticut, and larger
than Delaware and Rhode Island together; situated in central Ida
he, it is reached by the Oregon Short Line railroad on the east.
and this road will probably be extended to Challis next year. The
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company have a line from Black
foot TO Chanis. The resources of Custer county are found in its
mines and its agricultural and grazing lands.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
GOLD IN THE KLoNDIKE.
Freeze the Flames Of Candles and
Sell Them for Strawberries.

Freeze the Flames Of Candles and
Sell Them for Strawberries.
According to the Alaska Miner, a
gentleman who has just escaped from
the klondike region gives the following
account OF some things that happened
there: "A man told me who had win
tered up there seven years that it was so
cold in january that they froze the
flames of their candles and sold them
for Strawberries. He said they kent
their fires over night by putting them
out in the air and letting them freeze,
and then thawed them out in the MORN
ing. He said he had seen four men die
of collie from eating whisky that was
frozen so hard it wouldn't thaw inside
of them. He said the cows all gave ice
cream till they froze to death. He said
he knew a clerk in hotel on the Yukon
that got rich selling the diamonds he
wore, said diamonds being nothing on
earth but ice crystals that didn't thaw
till after the clerk had got out of the
country. He said he had seen q man
fall off the roof of a barn and freeze SO
stiff before he lit that he broke in two
when he hit the ground. lie said he had
seen smoke freeze in a chimney till the
fire wouldn't draw, and he knew of one
case where the smoke froze after it
got II hundred feet up and fell back on
the house, knocking a hole in the roof
big enough to drive Il yoke of steers
through. He said the reason that
nights were so long in that country
was that the dark got frozen so hard
the daylight couldn't thaw its way
throngh i'm less thnn six months"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
Trees Root In n Tomb.

Meehar's Monthly has recorded trees
growing from the mortar of stone
walls and on church steeples. 1t is
said that a horse chestnut several
years old is still growing from a
tomb inside an old church at Kempsey,
near Worcester, England. The monu-
ment built in the church is to the mem
DRY of Sir Edmund Wylde, who died in
1920. The tree is o several years old.
having sprouted in the crevice of the
mortar on the back of the tomb, spreads
toward the light and forms a leafy can
opy over the stone form of the old
knight as cut on the surface.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
Climate, Timber, School. Etc

~ olmaU Oh custer county is very delightful-ligbt snowfall
rhaIi. '" "y SNORT winters and most charming winters. AT
1851 mo - %l'n on eeVauon OF 5,4OO feet, s~leighrides are well nigh
EocH az. Ileul'"oie 10 our countyis our plethoric school fund.
"a district has its school building and weil,paid teacher, At
0naLlS the high school studies are taught
e b aoDln one.ourt OF the mountainous territory of this county
IS neavhy tmbered with spruce, fir and nine
. ~, "% ne i@ls1 tracts Oh farming and grazing land uncultivated: with
with in NJ property annually l~engthening with giant strides;
Isl leyenue and decreasing taxation; with railroad
stooI, ""u sUo schools and churches, and little crime: with
oo1rang OF luxurious vegetation; with an admirabla climate
an t w n 70 Meath with a fertile soil, rich in fruitful products;
and tho rTo o%S' m m wealth in gold, silver, copper, lead, iron
oiftso M 49, s ne'aI2 custer county is blessed with natural
sMes n advantages that will prove its brief though Y or r. ex
10 nave been but a puny part of its progressive > .
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17

Concerning porpoise leather. the
Shoe and Leather Reporter says that it
is peculiar in This that instead of
stretching it shrinks when it has been
worn. 1t is practically waterproof,
and is, therefore, as hard on the feet
rs rubbers would be when worn con-
stantE. 1t is made up into shoes for
winter wear and shoe laces, its strength
and other qualities fitting it particular
" well for this
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
SURGEONS DILEMMA.
Electric Light Went Out During a
Serious Operation.


Serious Operation.
A Lewiston physician tells a story
about a surgical operation and an cleo
trio light, says the Journal Of that
city.
1T was ~ o'clock at night says he,
"when L heard a thunderous knocking
at my door. and going to it / found a
"a walking up and down the steps in
pain. He had an abscess under his left
arm and was suffering intensely. 1t
needed lancing, and we proceeded TO do
it. l got my instruments ready, placed
the man in a chair under the electric
light and made an incision. The armpit
is a very dangerous place, as many
large and small arteries gather there.
/ had just time to see that l had lanced
il, and had also severed Il good-sized
blood vessel, when the electric light
went out. 1 had no kerosene lamp or
gaslight in the room. | could hear the
blood falling in a little pool on the floor,
and my patient was terribly excited. 1
was scared. / seized a towel, made a
wad of it, and, ~chucking it under the
mans arm, told him to hold it down at
his side. Then l ran to the telephone
and called up the power station. 'Itll
be an hour before we can get the light
on again. A belt has broken they said.
But l have just cut a man and he is
bleeding to death in the dark here
Sorry, but l can't help it, came the an
swer. l then remembered a kerosene
stove, and, lighting this, I caught up
the blood vessel with thread and dressed
the wound by its failing light. 1t was
the most startling and precarious OPP
Grafton | ever performed.o
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
A WnifIcas City.

There are no waits in San Francis.
co, says the Post of that city. Occa-
sionally a family is discovered strug-
Cling with dire poverty, but as soon as
their condition is known they are cared
for. If any of the members of the fam
lily are capable of s%elf-support they are
put in a way of earning a livelihood;
and if they are too young to work or
the natural bread-winners are incapa-
citated by sickness or, other afiiction
ample provision is made for their ne
cessities. There are hundreds of boys
and girls in San Francisco. children of
parents who are poor, earning money
with which they assist to support their
families, but there is not one of these
who would answer the description OF
''waif."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
WORKING Hours In Austrolia.

Shop assistants in Australia do not
have a hard time of it. They work only
so hours per week. In Ballarat every
shop, excepting those of t~obacconists,
fishmongers and hairdressers, closes at
six p. m. for the first four days of the
week, on Friday at one p. m. and on Sat
urdays at ten pm. The majority open
at eight a. m. to be swept and busted by
the errand boys, the assistants arriv-
ing at $3.50 q. M.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
shoes for Hunting Dogs.

Dogs wearing canvas shoes startle
eastern men who are hunting prairie
chicken and quail on Nebraska plaina.
While the dogs waddle somewhat like
ducks when wearing these shoes they
manage to comfortably cover a lot of
ground in a day after having been
broken to the use of the ineumbrances.
Shooting the dogs saves their feet from
soreness induced by running over the
stubblc
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
NOTICE.
Black Hawk Mining Company, Limited,
ONCE, Challis. Custer Co, Idaho,

Black Hawk Mining Company, Limited,
ONCE, Challis. Custer Co., Idaho, 4
Notice IS hereby given that at a meeting of
.he directors held on the 22nd day OF July,
90s, an assessment OF two mills per share was
-evied upon the capital stock OF the corpora
ton payable TO NJ. M. Sweet, Treasurer, at
Challis, Idaho, on or before September 10th,
1908, Any stock upon which this assessment
remains unpaid on the nth day OF September,
1905. viii be delinquent and advertised for sale
at public auction, and unless payment be made
before will be sold at public auction on october
18th, 1909, TO pay the delinquent assessment,
together with cost OF advertising and expenses
OF sale.
MILTON A. BROWN, Secretary.
onee-Challls, Custer county, Idaho.
Dated July 22nd. 1908.
FIRST publication July 2Sth, 1913.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
Make Many Acnunintnncea-

1t has been calculated that a gold coin
passes from n person TO another
2 900, 600 COO times before the stamp or
impression upon it becomes obliterated
by friction, while a silver coin changes
about $3.50, 100000 times before it be.
comes entirely effaced.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
NOTICE or DISSOLUTION.

Notice is hereby given, that the CO.
partnership heretofore existing be-
tween the firm of Marshall Il Sturkey
doing " general merchandise business
at Stanley Basin, Custer county, Idaho,
Is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent. Mr.. Marshall will continue the
business and will collect all bills and
assume all liabilities OF the late firm.
II. II. MARSHALL,
HENRY STURKEN.
Dated October LIST, 1908.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
The United State. Of

The constitution fixes the title of this
government as the Omitted States of
America" 1t does not make any diff
how much outside territory we
take in, it will remain the same forever,
unless the constitution is amended, be-
cause the name is of political and not
geographical significance. - Chicago
pooorJ
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Matter of the Estate !
of !

of
Wilson Ellis, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed George A, Ellis, administrator
of the estate of Wilson Ellis, deceased,
to the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against said deceased to
exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within ten months after the
first publication Of this notice to said
administrators at his residence at Ellis,
the same being the place for the tran
saction of the business Of said estate,
in the County OF Custer, State of Idaho.
GEORGE A. ELLIS,
Administrator.
First publication Sept, %, 1898.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-11-17
I TO CREDITORS.
In the Matter OF the Estate
of

of
Joseph Jump, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed Budlong Carmen, administra-
tor Of the estate Of Joseph Jump, de-
ceased, to the creditors of, and all per-
sons having claims against said dec
eased TO exhibit them, with the nee
essary vouchers, within four months
after the first publication Of this no.
tice TO said administrators at his resi-
denee on East Fork, his postot'ce adj
dress being Clay ton, Idaho, the same
being the place for the transaction of
the business of said estate, in the
County OF Custer, State of Idaho.
BUDLONG CARMEN,
administrators.
First publication oct. 8, 1908.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16
ORDINANCE NO. 1866.

An ordinance to amend Section Six
Co q Ordinance number Sixty 900,
ladopted April 19th. 1906. approved
April 18th, 1906, for paving with Wit
lritled brick and otherwise improving
West Twenty Eighth street In the city
LOT Cairo.
Be 1t ordained by the city council
of the city OF Cairo:
Section |. That Section Six &c, of
Ordinance number Sixty tc0). ap.
proved April 18th, 1906. providing for
the paving with vitri6ed brick and
otherwise improving West Twenty
Eighth street be and is hereby amend
ed by inserting after the word "trol-
ley-wires" the following;
Provided that on the southerly
side of said West Twenty Eighth
street between Washington avenue
and the west line of St Mary's Place
West If extended south, said Cairo
Electric and Traction Company may
use wooden posts or poles instead of
the iron poles above provided for, for
the support of its wires on condition
that said Cairo Electric and Traction
Company shall allow the Home Tele-
phone Company to use the posts or
poles on said southerly side Of said
street for the purpose of supporting
its telephone wires and the said Cairo
Electric and Traction Company is ex-
pressly required to give the street
committee of said city of Cairo a full
description Ct the kind of wooden
posts or poles 1t desires to use on the
said southerly side of said street be
tween the streets aforesaid and obtain
from the street committee its approval
of the said wooden posts or poles
which it purposes to use as herein pro-
vided."
Section 2. This ordinance shall
take effect and be In force from and
after its passage and approval
Adopted March r. A. ID. 1908
Approved March IA. A. d. 1908.
GEORGE PARSONS. Mayor.
Attest ROBT. A. HATCHER,
City Clerk.
Published in the Cairo Bulletin
March 16, 1908.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16

IS receipts at $2.00 each ....s16 90
Treasurers receipt attached =. 16. 90
Respectfully submitted.
G.. ]. GILMORE.
Cairo, ILL.,. March 10, 1908.
TIC His Honor, the Mayor, and Mem.
bers OF the Cit Council. Gentle
men.
| herewith make fiaal report of dog
licenses collected by me for the past
year-1a07, since my last report made
in July, as follows, to-wit:
No. 8. Ben Hibbs: No. 9. A. ]. Hart
man; No. 1876; r. Sinclair. No. 127; r.
Sinclair. No. 1913: T. Goldsmith; No.
l2s. Peter Day; No. 1870. Tom Doud:
No. 131. Jesse Fitch; No 1872, George
Becker: No. 1873. George Becker; No.
1874. VIII Williams: no 155, John Mil.
Ter; No. 1876. win Burton: No. 1877.
John Beno; No. 1873, NJ. Reismann:
No. 40, New York Store Mere. Co;
No. al, c. E. Hessian; No. i42. Willie
Estelle; No. 143. C. Z. Rheinhart; No.
IL, II Geisenbof; No. 145. L. C. Her
bert; No. lac, Anne Starter; No. 147.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16

muhication In which he asked the
council to buy at least four copies of
the new city directory, which he is
preparing. for use of the various city
offices
On motion of Alderman Meehan the
communication was referred to the
finance committee.
Jacob Solomon submitted replat
of lots u, %, 20, "a, rs and 26, in
block. SO, first addition, SO as to. make
four lots facing Twenty-eighth street,
which replat was drawn and certified
to by Wilbur b. Thistlewood civil en-
gineer, and properly acknowledged by
Jacob Solomon as owner. on the tenth
day of March A. ID. 1908. The petit
ton was also accompanied by petit
ton from the owners OF lots IS, 10 and
20 and n, % and %, in the said block
SO, praying the council to grant the
prayer of Jacob Solomon.
Alderman Magner moved the matter
be referred to the street committee.
Alderman Scullin moved TO amend
by referring to the street committee
and a recess of five minutes be taken
Ito give the committee time to consid-
ler and report.
The motion of Alderman Senllin
was withdrawn and the motion of AL
Iderman Magner was adopted.
Resolutions and Motions.
Alderman Nellis offered the follow.
ling resolution and moved its adop-
ltion:
Resolved: That all the owners OF
Wagon Scales. located on Washington
lavenue be and is hereby notified by
lefty clerk to make arrangements for
removal of same at once. owing tn
said avenue going to be paved.
The motion was adopted.
Miscellaneous Business.
Alderman Magner presented an ordi-
nance entitled IAN ordinance to
|amend Section 6 (6l of ordinance mum.
Der sixty t60), adopted April 10th,
1906, approved April nth, 1906. for
paving with vitrltied brick and other
wise improving West Twenty eighth
street in the city of Cairo" which or
dinance was read at length and, on
motion of Alderman Magner, referred
to the ordinance and street commit
tees.
An ordinance was presented en-
titled An ordinance granting to the
Central Union Telephone company, it's
successors and assigns. the right to
erect, use and maintain telephone
poles. wires and other telephone ap.
paratus in the city of Cairo, Illinois,"
which ordinance was read at length
and, on motion OF Alderman Nelis,
referred to the ordinance and street
committees.
Alderman koehier moved to ad-
journ. The motion was adopted.
The council then adjourned.
ROBERT A. HATCHER,
City Clerk.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16

Alderman Nellis moved the miscel
'aneous claims and accounts be al.
lowed as read.
The motion was adopted by the fol
lowing vote: Aye-Bourgois. Davis.
German, Kelly. Koehler, Magner. Nee
han, Nellis. Scullin. Snyder. Thistle.
wood and Thomas-12. Say-None.
Reports of Officers.
George ]. Gilmore, street supervisor
and poundkeeper, submitted final re-
ports as follows:
Cairo. ILL.,, March 10. 1908.
To His Honor. the Mayor. and Gentle
men of the City Council Gentle
men:
I herewith make final report of dog
license collected by me for the pres
ent year-19OS. to date, as follows. to-.
wit:
No. 2. Louis Herbert; No. 2 c. E.
Hessian; No. 1. New York Store Mere.
Co; No. 5. Lee Hicks: No. 6, NJ.
Goldsmith; No. Z. W W Orr. No. 1o1,.
Barry Duncan; No. 102. Emma Wood.
ward.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16

Davis, German. Kelly. Koehler, Mag
ner, Meehan. NelIis. Scullin, Snyder
I histlewood and Thomas-12. Nay
None.
Unfinished Business.
The report of the finance commit.
tee recommending that the printing
contract be awarded the Citizen com.
pany, which report had been laid over
under the rules at last regular meet.
ing, was taken up and read.
Alderman Snyder moved the re-
ncrt be received and contract award.
ed as recommended. Alderman Nee.
han moved to amend by rejecting the
bid of the Citizen company and
award the contract to the Bulletin
Alderman Koehler moved to amend
to recommit to the committee for
further investigation.
Alderman Snyder moved as sub
stitute that both bids be rejected ami
Jew bids advertised for
The motion OF Alderman Snyder
vas adopted by the following vote
Aye Bourgeois. Davis, German. Kelly,
Nellis, Snyder, Thistlewood and
Thomas-S Nay--Koehler. Magner.
Meehan and Scullin--4.
Claims and Accounts.
The committee on claims and ac-
counts with the respective committees
to whom they had been referred. re-
ported recommending the following
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16
A LitttA anxloua.

A physician writes to the London
Spectator that he was recently at
tending a patient whose husband
came to see him concerning her con.
dition, and greeted him with the
words: Mr.. Irving. do you think
there is any need for any Unnecessary
anxiety about my Woman's
Home Companion.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16

In the early days OF the Common
wealth. when the Puritan broom was
yet very new, the authorities in Eng
fish towns went so far as to prohibit
all joyous celebrations. and the crier
was sent through the towns announc-
Ing the formal prohibition of festivals.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16
Serlous. Indeecif

To the principal of a school for
poor boys In London the father Of
one OF the lads wrote the following
note In explanation of his sons alb
sence from school: "Sir: Please ex-
cuse John for being away, as he has
been vers. bad with Information on
the insid6g
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-16

pumps lo'oo
Smith Terrence, boiler Twenyeighth 97s
H. Pendeton machinery $500
w Morris, labor materials $50
D r Mccarthy coa account pumps g bl ,..'''' 25o4$
Cairo lights pumps. bils)
Mccarthy Malnsk labor and material acct pumps, g
Worner broom and bucket acct pumps IS
j. H. Jones agent transportation acct Board Of Health 7o
Dr. John T. Walsh prof services acct Board of Health 1000
med
Dr. vi H Fields prof services acct Board Of Health 100
NJ 5 Egan feed for hourse .. :. .......... 1000
James Cheney files ,....,,.....
Cairo Ice Coal Co. y ton coal Thirtysecond street
R. E Cannon toms coal city Offices. 137S
balance department
md acctfr ills
b Warner mdse acct fire dept, g btls) 755
New York Mere. lantern globes, %
National Betting Packing and
s5ssles department
100
;o'y fire dept..... 1.4O
'elHs Coal Co. coal account fire department 1875
2akinRtenhouse Co. doz and globes D.. 26s
William oehler repairs department ..........
ialoney & Butcher set azes fire department 80
afro Ell 6 Tract Co., gas and electric lights fire dept $40
hilewood Co. feed fire department q bis) $3.50
hares Osterloh department g bfls)
afro Ell Tract Co, lights city offices g bls 49,
Paul G. sehuh & Sens duer, city offices So
Schulz Drug Company book city offices 100
illinois Printing election supplies ........ H75
Treasurer Chldrens II Children
iargaret Hatcher stamps city offices. 800
n F Simon Board Health ............ as5
Walter Wader stamps, notices asst Poplar street 600
W. c. Mezeer supplies,
John Rector supplies city Offices .''...'.'... 200
Ieofse d. Barnard supplies city ohices So
w Ssney supplies
Y W. Pyatt binding Bulletin and teasurers
Frank Finley
The Bulletin Co. publishing proceedings etc
Ernest Noman city Offices
POSTAL Telegraph Co. messages
Western Union Tel Co.
r. A. Hatcher paid packages city Offices
NJ Moore s27550 fines collected
tansden dsieek legal services rendered
Woodward Hardware
o collected tax
collected for
o To-
killed IL killed
L. L. Powell salary as librarian
A. Lansden salary assistant librarian
Marie C. Gauber assistant librarian
library
lights library,
A. McClug books, library
M l. Bland carpenter work library.
Frank Hlig reminding account library
H. NJ Wilson q Co. books ibrary.'