The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-10-26
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

F. J. Clyde is down from the
Basin.
John Boyd and wife are down
from Robinson.
The motion picture show here
the 18th, was very poor.
AL. Hoskins is working in r.
Brasseur's blacksmith shop.
A chicken supper will be held
at the church this Friday night.
All invited.
Mrs. Arthur Wilcox and bab-
les returned home last Tuesday
from Montana.
Mrs. Thos. Jose and daughter,
Mrs. Chivers, visited with friends
at Mackay last week.
Mrs. Buster and Mrs. Waters
returned from the Seattle fair
Thursday night last.
Bishop Funsten held religious
services at the church in Challis
on Monday night, the 18th.
VIM. Oster, Joe Gardner and
Paul Walter were down from
Sunbeam and Ivers last week.
1t is reported that W. H. Felix
ner and sister will soon move
back to Challis from Salt Lake.
The new O. S. L. folders have
a fine picture of Stanley Lake
and Petit Lake. The folder is
Scenic Idaho"
Mrs. L. H. Johnston and Rev.
VIM. Burnett went to Mt. Home
last week to attend the State
church convention.
DR.. Patterson and his father
killed three deer and one noun
tain sheep. up in the Stanley
country last week.
DR.. V. w. Laughlin is now ar
Alderman at Victor, Col. He
writes us that Lemhi and Custer
counties next year with the com
ing of the railroad, are going tt
have a great boom.
Since DIR. Kirtley has moved
to Junction it leaves the whole
Yankee Fork, Loon Creek, Sun
beam and Stanley regions with
,, out a doctor. Challis is thei,
nearest doctor, over 60 miles.
Custer county took first pre-
, MUM on marble, cinnioar ant
slate, and won the sweepstak'
f prize, which gave US first pre-
B MUM of $3.50 on our mineral ex
s hibit at the Inter- Mountain Stat'
Fair at Boise.
= We learn that work will agail
soon be pushed on the reclama
: tion project in this valley, on tn
east side of Salmon river, b.
Messrs. Truitt, Lane, Kilgor
and Hunter. They expect t
have the works completed b
May 1st, 1910.
i Peterson Bros. show will b
here tonight. 1t is said to be tn
0 best show that ever visited tn
z county. They have ten peopl
0 aud carry 7-piece orchestra
Z They intend to show here for 81
e nights. On Friday night, tn
3 Doth, they aim to give a dane
10 and no show.
y The P. & G.. Railroad survey
% ors have completed their pei
" manent survey to this vale.
. The line runs about two mile
" east of Challis, on this side {
~ Salmon river, and cuts throug
70 the west end of Dave Tewalt''
% Thcs. Jose, Jas. Kerr and Cha
= Jenson's ranches. Their first O
% ders were only to survey to tn
" valley this year, but now the
~ have orders to go to Clayton, al
~ further. if possible.
NJ We have information that son
Is new quartz discoveries have lat
ly been made in the Loon Cree
: country. John Metcalf has mad
a very good striko in the Sunri'
N claim, near the Lost Eagle, ar
le in the Lost Packer zone. Sc
S. eral feet of lead, copper, go
of and silver.
ut G. +. Eddy has made what
ct said to be very prOmisir
a strike of three to four feet of o
IN of Lost Packer character-hie
10 in gold and copper. Eddy's ne
n. find is by the roadside, about tv
ys miles this side of Loon Center,
)u Coleman's place, and pans go
d. even better than the Lost Pack
n. did when he first struck it. IT
Ly Poet PrOspectOr has been Ov
there a good portion of the SUI
al mer prospecting. After 'doin'
,v Nevada, Utah, California al