The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-09-13
Local News Items.

Judge Nichols and wife were
over from May last week.
District Court does not con-
vene in Challis until Oct. oath.
The County Board met yester-
day to fix the tax levy for 1910.
Brasseur & Leland have put in
a new floor in their blacksmith
shop.
James McGregor, the mining
man from Salt Lake, was in town
last week.
DR.. Patterson of Mackay is
quite sick with rheumatism at
Alex. Burnett's home in Challis.
Joseph Rodgers, Jr., departed
recently for Salt Lake, where he
is attending school at All Hal
lows College.
Lee Watson has sold his ranch
across the river to Jim. Calvin,
and Lee and his family have
moved to town.
On Tuesday last D. B. Drake
and M. M. Sweet were elected
for three years as school trus-
tees of Independent School Dist
riot No. 1.
The Village Council has ex-
tended the pound limits to the
corporation limits down by l..
S. Treloar's residence and over
by ]. @. Adams residence on
south.
A large number of the water
users of Challis and Garden
creeks met at the court house in
this city Saturday afternoon last
and made arrangements to
have the waters of the two nam
ed creeks above mentioned de-
creed by the court, and a water
master appointed.
The MESSENGER publishes the
official election returns counted
last Friday, of Custer county
Primary Election held August
3Oth, and is the only paper tc
get copy of the full returns
and if they are published in any
other paper, without credit, they
are stolen from the MESSENGER
Our old pioneer paper hanger
and painter, E. G. Headrick, i:
now totally blind, and has gone
to Salt Lake to procure relief, il
possible. "A year ago it will b.
remembered that he lost an ey'
+ from a flying splinter, and abou
y month ago willow struck hin
in the other eye, and he is nov
Totally blind.
For Sale or Exchange. = Tw'
towo lots and 1O-room lodgin!
house, nearly finished, in Arco
Idaho, Salmon Avenue, one
S corner lot. Building and lots il
e business portion of town. Will
Is sell for cash, or exchange sam
r for farm property or livestock
For particulars inquire of or ad
:. dress Mrs. A. M. Hooper, Chal
lis, Idaho.
While the Idaho primary la,
> is very severe about filing a can
le didates campaign expense &C
count-whether the candidate
nominated or not, butit disqual
ties a nominated candidate frol
p running for office on the ticke
AS it happens in Custer count
= out of the three candidate VIII
failed to file their expense az
count, Miss Louise Bascom, fo
School Supt., was the only on
out of the three candidates wh
was nominated, and as much
her friends regret it, under tx
law she is undoubtedly disqual
fed to run for office.
LATER-Monday the 18th,
develops two more candidate
nominated on the Republics
ticket, are disqualified for offi'
because they did not file the
expense accounts, viz Arth1
Gayle and S. M. Ballard.
~ In all probability the Commi
~ sioners at their meeting to
the tax levy, which conven'
yesterday, will call another ele
tion, at the same time as Il
regular election on Nov. 8, 191
to vote again on the question
bonding Custer county for Il
sum of $4,000 to build bridge
This same bond proposition W
carried at the Primary electi'
last month, but it is not legal,
- the notice was published but
= days in the Mackay paper pri
to the said election, when t
law requires that this mott
should have been published
III DAVIS priOr tO this said election