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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17
A Magnificent institution.

The people of Idaho bave just
cause to be proud of the great
advancement which the Normal
School at Albion is making. In
1905 the Girls Dormitory was
erected; in 1907 the Training De-
partment building. This summer
magnificent gymnasium 100 it.
by ga #. is to be erected, with q
free gymnasium floor of 100 #.
by 54 it. This gymnasium will
be equipped with the finest ap-
paratus that can be secured, the
Legislature having appropriated
S., 900 for equipment. During
the summer the science depart
ment will be removed to its new
quarters on the third floor where
four large rooms and an Office
are being finished for it. So, 500
worth of scientific apparatus is
to be purchased before fall Four
rooms are being completed in the
basement for the manual train
ing department and forges for
metal work and turning lathes
will be added to the already well
equipped shops. The institution
at Albion is certainly forging to
| the front
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17
Loon Creek Happenings

Clarence E. Eddy, locator Of
the famous Lost Packer mine, il
back in here again prospecting
His wife is with him. Mrs. Eddy
took sick and was taken to Gus
ter for treatment.
G. E. Plummer makes regular
trips between here and Custer
with his stage twice week.
The Bonanza Weather Observ-
atory, which has now been re-
moved to Loon Creek, has been
equipped for temperature read
ings. A snow bin and snow seal
es will be constructed as soon as
possible. One snow scale will
be located on Jordan creek sum
nit, and another at Ivers. In
this manner it will be possible to
arrive at an average depth Of the
snow fall for this district.
Miss Carrie Caste of Custer
has been spending few weeks
with Miss Lillian Sullivan.
The old timers. and quite q
few new ones, have taken to the
hills to do the annual assessment
work. and prospect for new dis
coveries.
Frank Coleman is putting in
Il mile of ditch to bring water
to his residence for irrigation
and domestic purposes.
The placer miners working on
Loon creek are taking out some
fine looking gold this summer.
Mr.. Bowden cleaned up $3.50 :
few days ago.
Loon Creek, Aug. 8, 1909.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17
b|CWATERDAM

IL now an almost assured fact big reservoir will be con-
:a " WIN hody ranch on Chall creek to reclaim
arid land in Round valley west side of Salmon river which
is estimated between 1000 nc Is 900 acres
This project promoted by Joe Hill the and MO aro
mas good financial backing 1t the most feas
ble projects that besides there is not better dam
site TO be found where for built big basin with
rock walls all sides except one opening Of ahont 40 foot
which wall will be built The to be reclaimed is some of it
the very best IN the valley which excellent for growing
all kind Of crops that be grown altitude Nearly all of
this land has been filed mostly people the outside who
desire to come here and establish homes
The contract for building we are told was let to the
fachc construction company Of Seattle, big
business OF thus kind Of work Already the machinery
arrived and there follow, including steam shovel
The wall for the dam will be length on the bottom
and 15O feet on top and the wall height
the waters from Chas creek will be
100 feet will be under the dam the The will
then be conveyed down along the side Chas
of about three miles At the Mill
will be umed said creek The water then will be carried
the big canal the north end Round valley will
veyed along the foothills almost south distance
mile passing through the
den creek and thence going south the school house. and then
on to the foothills beyond the cemetery 1t high line ditch
and win virtually all the arid land that could be irrigated
Round valley on the west side of Salmon river.
This big irrigation project together with the being in
the side of Salmon much for the future
Chas than double the population of Round val
ley In the place of % 900 of land nothing but
rabbits when reclaimed by will 25
farming land the West and mild eli
mate brought cultivation also than 0O
people will make their homes this valley 1t will be
great farming valley plenty of going waste
every other conditions ideal farm
ing of all kinds of industries An(
when we get the p G. G. railroad which claim they going
Salmon Boise by 1872 and who now making
their final survey Chais will have of the best little cities
in Idaho.
irrigation project this side of the river is be compet
ed by May 1910 inch to the ace to be furnish
and yearly payments at s250 per acre
nav for if besides there of so
each wear for This cheaper than water at Tw
Falls where they charge per and land IN time Will
worth as much here as Falls. 1t also good
TO the pares who are installing these projects
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

BOISE, IDAHO, AUG. 9Th. 1909.
To the Thunder Mountain Gold and
Silver Mining and Milling Company,
Corporation
You are hereby notified that l have
expended during the year 1908 in labor
and improvements the sum OF one hun
dred ($l0ol dollars upon each OF the
! following described claims, tO-wit
The Quadren No. l, the QuAdren No. 2
and the Quadren No. 3 lode mining
claims, situated in Thunder Mountain
Mining District, Idaho county. Idaho,
the location certificate of said Quadren
NJ. lode claim being duly recorded in
Book II of mining claims at page 334
of the records of said County of Idaho,
the said Quadren No. lode claim be-
| ing duly recorded in said Book II OF
mining claims at page 332 and said
Quadren No lode claim being duly
recorded in said Fook II OF mining
claims at page 336 of the records of
said County of Idaho
That said expenditures of 500 on
each of said claims, or total OF 5000,
was made by me in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Section
1924 of the Revised Statutes OF the
United States, and the amendments
thereto, concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re-
quired to hold claims and each of them
for the period ending on the 31st day
of Decem ber, A. D., 1905
And if, within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion
of such expenditures as co-owner,
which amounts to fifty (S50) dollars for
each Of said claims. or total of $3.50
for the three claims, your interest in
such claim or claims will become the
: property of the subscriber, ycur CO.
owner, who has made the required ex
pepditures, by the terms OF said Sec
ton.
DANIEL G. CASWELL.
First publication Aug. II, 1909. wl'
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17
Sealed Bids.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the Trustees
of Independent school District No. l.,
Challis, Idaho, for the delivery of 20
cords of dry 4-foot fir wood at the
school house in Cballis.
All bids must be sealed aud address,
ed to the clerk of the School Board on
or before Sept. 1st, 1909, and marked ::
proposals for Wood" The Board re-
serves the right to reject any and all
bids. NJ A. BROWN, Clerk.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

August is ScOrCnof.
Imeson Bros. are nearly ready
to start their sawmill on Bear
creek.
Rev. Burnett is taking vaca-
tion and has gone to Seattle to
attend the fair.
Miss Kelleher, our County
School Supt., departed for Poca-
tello yesterday.
Miss Kate Nickerson is at Salt
Lake receiving medical treat
ment from DR.. Root.
J. E. Bradbury went to Salt
Lake last week to have an Oper-
alton performed on his son.
The State Board of Equaliza-
tion has raised the assessment
on sheep from 50. % to S2.5 so per
head.
1t was legal to kill sagehens
and grouse last Sunday, the 18th,
but most OF them have been kill
ed off. Since Custer county has
to do without a game warden
there is no protection for it's fish
or game.
Martin Joyce, Billy G.nnell
and Guy Bradbury went up to
their mine on Garden creek last
week to work the claim all win
ter. We learn that Guy recent
ly purchased third interest in
the claim. They have good
outlook, and considerable work
has been done on this mine in
the past, and we hope the boys
will strike it rich.
Work is going on rapidly a.
the big power dam at the mouth
of Yankee Fork, being put in by
the Golden Sunbeam Mines Co.
to furnish electric power anC
light for their mills and mines OF
Jordan creek, and expect to com
plete it this fall. When com
pleted, they will be able to Oper
ate their property during tn
winter months as we'll as durin,
the summer.
Mrs. c. M. Henderson an
babies, and Mr.. Henderson
mother, departed yesterda
morning for Martinsville, Ind
where Mrs. G. M. Henderson wi
visit for a month or more, an
CORTLAND will remain here an
enjoy single happiness durin
all that time, and to go HON
when he wants to; no wood t
cut or water to pack; no babie
to disturb his midnight sluml
Y ers; and his only care to look a
ter will be to feed Boo and tn
chickens and milk the old blac
COW. Who wouldn't be single
g She stood at the glass and sh
: tried with her might To butte
< her waist behind; The mOvemen
. she went through were surely
Q sight-To button her waist b
n hind; she would reach and she
! tug, she would sigh and she
. groan, And after each etfO
NJ she'd let out moan; She twis
NJ ed and squirmed till she strain'
n every bone, To button her wal
N behind; She strained at the ris
of ripping her clothes, To br
n ton her waist behind; She wou
take long breath and tn
stand on her toes, To button h
,6 waist behind; She had a contC
30 ZIONIST beaten a mile, She wOu
p bend like a jackknife, and tn
10 straiehten awhile, And wond
70 why Nightmares like that we
Is in style-The waists that butt
36 behind; For an hour she labor
IS in widest despair and wish
50 she had to extra hands To b.
10 ton her waist behind; Her ia
90 became red and all loosened h
30 hair. To button her waist behir
90 She wept, and the tears splash
81 down in her lap, While for |
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17

Billy Nickson's brother from |
Grangeville is visiting in Chal-
lis.
Relatives from Wyoming are
visiting with Alex Burnett and
family.
Miss Mile Anderson of Moore
and Clarence Bowen were mar
ried recently.
Mr.. Manning, representing the
Boise Statesman, Idaho's best
daily paper, was in town couple
days last week.
John Oiler, who holds a gov
ernment position as carpenter at
Fort Robinson, Neb, is visiting
in Challis with his father.
Alex Burnett and family will
soon move into the Lee Watson
house, and Attorney Glennon
will move into the McKendrick
house.
A. W. Gayle and Leslie Dodge
went out to Corral Basin Sunday
after chickens. and they got all
the law allows.
Former Governor of Minneso-
ia, VanSant, was chosen com
mander of the G.. A. r. for 1910.
Atlantic City was selected as the
next meeting place.
School election will be held in
Challis on Tuesday, Sept. 7th,
to elect two trustees, in the place
of Messrs. Drake and Brasseur,
whose term expire.
Supt. Rowe of the Lost Pack
er mine, and his family are stop
ping a few days in Challis, be-
fore going to Loon creek, where
the will spend a few months.
Last week ]. O. Adams hat
the Zilkey boys here arrested fol
tampering with his irrigation
bitches. The trial was set fol
Monday, Aug. 18th, before Judge
Horizons court.
Work has suspended on DR.. l
J W. Lynn's new drug store ant
, hospital, waiting for lumber from
Imeson sawmill. The foundation
for the new building was com
pleted week ago.
? The First National Bank vii
soon start work erecting it's ney
concrete building. The concret
blocks are all moulded. Yester
/ day bids were to have been open
, ed for the sale of the corner 10
2 owned by the county. This i
. the most desirable place in tow
s for the bank. but if they do nc
J. get this lot they will build som
: other place.
e Thomas A. Edison makes thi
l. prediction Within five wears
airships will be carrying pa:
sengers across the ocean in /
O hours 200 miles an hour. Aerii
flight will be commercialized i
=" that time. The north pole ca
s and will be reached in a 4O-hor
a trip. The perfected heliocop;
! will be able to encircle the glot
a in a week.
4 DR.. Claude Furgeson, dentis
:. of Blackfoot, is in Challis, an
- is located at the drug store, PR
t. pared to do all kinds of frs
d class dental work. He is one {
st IdahO's best dentists, and qua
l. antees his work. He will r
= main only three days. Charg'
y reasonable. Give him a call ar
d get good dental work.
- Loraine's dog show gave ty
sr exhibitions in Challis-Thursd;
r and Friday nights under the
ID big tent. The first night tn,
IN had a large crowd, but the sc
:. ond night the attendance W
q rather slim. This show com
re about as near to being nOthil
IN as any show that ever stru
ID Challis-and we have had sol
al mighty bum shows.
It, Judge Truitt departed Ia
20 week for his home in Mosco
While here he examined the t.
g reclamation projects in Rou
q; valley, and is we'll pleased Wi
ed both propositions. He also is
fe favor of putting in reserve
a on Big creek in Pahsamaroi V
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17

Few Records every month.
PHI and hear and choose from
carefully selected two and
minute records.
Q save you the freight and
Pkage.
descriptions Carefully Com
|nded.
all Orders promptly attend
to by us.
s Anything not carried in
PIX will be cheerfully ordered,
Pu will let US know your wants
l. w. LYNN.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-08-17

The Barber and Fisherman T.
located on Main street, Challis,
where you can drop in and set
anything in the tonsorial line you
wart to pay for. Parker IT.
tourists a specially.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26
Carelessness in Coal Mines

After / read OF the entombing of 400
miners I'm an Illinois coal mine I'm Sum
days Journal, the whole day was cloud
ed with gloom and sadness to my mind.
Those of US who are on the outside
and freely breathing clean air cannot
understand or appreciate the feelings of
those persons who are caught like rats
In a dark trap. and must die from starva.
ton IL not suffocation. without being able
to send a word to the anxious ones on
the top of the ground. The horror OF
such a situation is beyond limit and in
expressible.
dreamed once that had been buried
alive and when I awoke in an agony
OF sweat and desperation, I thought
had a fairly good impression of what
such suffering must be; but human
tongue can never express what the real
fly OF such a situation would mean to
100 persons. hopelessly covered up in the
bowels OF the earth, and struggling to
breathe.
scanned the newspaper. account for a
reason for this awful catastrophe I'm I'LL
nois. and IL was admitted that a smolder-
ing fire caught to supporting timbers and
suffocation from smoke completed the aw-
full tragedy. OF course, there will be a
coroner's inquest. but IL is more than
likely that nothing will result in relief
from the investigation. Perhaps, too,
those who might suffer blame were among
the lost as IT often happens in train
wrecks from careless disobedience of
orders.
That there should be a remedy for such
carelessness goes without saying. but
there is also a recklessness with men ex-
posed to such accidents which is unac
cOuntable to a thinking mind.
Human life is about the cheapest thing
we know about, considering its real
value. and nowhere is this statement more
clearly proven than I'm venturesome &C.
equations like coal mining and others.
f, People go along safely in close places
until they become indifferent to danger.
Like the engineers and fagmen on a
railroad. they will escape danger until
that awful time comes, when death
catches them going or coming. Stick TO
IL long enough and death will have his
inning-without fail.
The extent OF this Illinois mine disaster
cannot be estimated in dollars or cents
The widows and orphaned children must
be brought in 20 this awful count, and
no man can tell how far-reachinR the
loss viii be. II is useless 10 say one would
never be a coal miner and expose life Ia
such danger. Poverty has no law nor linn
il when II means plenty to eat with shell
ter. and nothing but nakedness on the
outside. But these mines should always
be under surveillance.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26
Farmers Sowing Grain

since I have been afflicted with an in
Tanned eve have been driving around In
the neighborhOod. keeping out in the open
air and TO amuse myself because the good
doctor who watches my eye tells me I
must read and write very little these
days while the eye gives me trouble.
So the old pony and his mistress jog
along BY the country roads Ito steer
clear OF automobile as much as possible)
and to enjoy this wonderful autumnsl
weather and resist the temptation to read
and write according 20 Dr. CaIhoun's d.
rections.
I see many things which indicate re-
nexed interest in farm life and its oppor-
tunities. see the pIows running. and one
farmer I found uses a three-horse disc
plow TO turn I'D and put his land I'm fine
order.
I remarked to him. you are going deep
this time
Yes. ma'am: II you aim to keep fertiI-
ity in the soil you must pillow deep"
There can be no good farming unless
there is good preparation OF the soil.
You may scratch the surface awhile but
you must quit scratching or the soil will
wash off and leave you. I have often
wondered where all the fine soil went
that found IN old CasS. now Bsrtow
county % years ago.
A short time after I was married in Oc-
tober. Hss. by husband and 1 rode oevr
his farm as he was anxious I might see
what he appreciated so highly.
rode a fairly tan horse and the cotton
stalks in many places were as high as
my waist as I rode along took light
umbrella to shade from the hot October
sun and I found the corn stalks were
away above my head and higher than ]
could reach as We rode along between ths
corn rows.
There was no guano known In those
days and except the plentiful sowing OF
peas between corn rows there was no fer
filtration used or needed in the fields ia
grow fine corn
Now I am asking myself where that
rich. fine soil went to. and I guess we
may conclude that IL finally found its
way into the gulf Of Mexico. because We
were not wise enough TO keep IL with US
by deep blowing and proper cultivation
also believe that guano overstimulates
the soil and makes II dull and sluggish
afterwards just as a dose OF opium will
make you or I unhappy and heavy-eyed
next dax.
am also satisfied we will never make
the land yield its best until we make a
business OF raising enough cattle to fer
tiIixe the ground in natural and healthy
way. Our farm has 100 acres in BurmudH
sod We ought TO raise enough cattle "a
make the Bermuda support them in pas
turing time and fill the barn-yards with
rirst-cIass fertilizers
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26
Carrying His Sisters to
A Home of Ill Fame

NJ INDIGNATION was fatigued when
read OF a young man who was arrested
in Atlanta in the very act Of conveying
his two sisters TO a lewd house. there 10
begin a life Of shame and degradation.
life that leads to present and eternal
death-telnporal and spiritual.
/ am not prepared TO say what extern
of punishment should be inflicted on
man OF such low character. He deserves
a great deal more than the law will put
on him. and he should vacate his place
and 20 where nobody viii remember him
or this desperate effort to debase his sis
ters. He is an unworthy citizen as Wen
as an unworthy brother
Perhaps their inclinations are also low
as he made the plea that they were intent
on going into this debssed life; but there
was not a spark OF worthy manhood let1
IN him when he thus encouraged his own
kfth and kin into destruction.
I can understand how a brother could
Gain his consent to lead his sisters into a
den OF vice and leave them TO their fate
without a pang OF remorse or blush OF
shame
ri had been the judge who sentenced
him / should have given him the limit
OF the law. and then made note on the
court records that he, the judge, had en-
eountered the meanest OF mankind In
brother who had thus outraged deeency
and the common instincts of human
kind
There are numberless houses OF III
fame throughout this country. and they
seem to defy both grace and gospel they
are so secure in their hold upon common
society. The poor girls who drift into
them had much better be dead than TO
enter their doors. with lust and liquor
the evil one can pull down faster than re-
formers can build up. but these women
generally 90 there against the prayers
and entreatles OF their home people in
spite Of love and anxiety.
This heartless brother puts a new phase
on the subject that had not considered
up to this time. He ought TO be sent to
the rock Pile. in my Judgment. on gen.
eraI principles. because / would think
more OF a common liar or thief than a
degenerate who would thus cOnsign his
own mothers children to such deep i'm
depravity.
thought once had run across the
neanest creature alive when 1 was told
OF a negro father who hired his own. son
to a convict boss and saw the shackles
put on HIS innocent child TO keep him
IN such employ. When he was reproved
for his consummate rascality he said he
was only showing his son what he was
coming to- because the boy surely would
wear the stripes some day.
But this white brother who was caught
snl the very act OF carrying his own sis
ters 10 a brothel Is mesner than that ne
gro father-far meaner. He ought "a
be branded. before he is ever allowed 70
20 az large again. with big letters
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-26

Gle ABOUT forbidden fruit in connection
with Mother Ewes history, that | thought
was very good I cut IL out and saved
il. II had become the fashion TO lay a
whole lot of blame on Eve and indirectly
on vomenkind; and / thought your argu-
ment was good and would bear using at
some other time.
so il sometimes happened that would
be I'm company and hear women blamed
very heartily. Then I would reply that
men always wanted the best and woman
like. Just as Eve did, women wanted
them to have the best, and were willing
20 share with them in good things to the
uttermost.
afterwards I could bring out your let
ter to clinch the argument about Eve
and her transgression, etc.
But l have lost your letter can't mo
IL anywhere. and L just want you to
take up the subject again and make II
as pointed as you can.
II do thank you for all your good adj
vice and 1 also hope you may have many
happy. useful ears to write for those OF
us, who enjoy. all you write so greatly.
1 am your stranger friend,
/ am afraid / have forgotten all about
my former dissertation on Mother
Eve and may not therefore be able to
repeat all I wrote several years ago.
i
native courage than had Adam, and IL
Adam had led her wrong she would have
waited long time before she would have
said. Adam tempted me and also ate
the apple"
For the sake of the family honor I
imagine Eve would have kept the Sc
cret instead of making the poor fellow
feel like he had no helpmeet at all, In
his downfall.
The Lord said Adam was fine piece
. OF handiwork and he was, of course, but
he was not as brave as his smart wife.
who tasted that wonderful fruit, and ii
was so good she persuaded Adam to eat
also. I have no idea but Eve was try
ing to give pleasure to her consort. The
sweetmeat, whatever 1t was, she shared
with him, to her great sorrow, but she
was intent on giving him pleasure, not
trouble. when he partook.
We hear a great. deal about Ewes curl
osity, but Adam can give her two In
the game. and beat ii, when II comes 10
hearing about things. There are gossipy
men as well as gadding women. and
while women are never short on that
commodity called curiosity all of their
male descendants may possibly inherit
this trait or disposition from their moth
ers.
When you hear any of the masculines
prsting about the superiority of sex,
don't fail to tell them that a stream
never rises higher than it's source. The
mother couldn't give them what she did
not possess within herself. and while she
may not have been the smartest person
IN the world. all he got she gave him, or
he would even then be lacking in essen
tials.