The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-08-22
as. Bradley is visiting

Jas. Bradley is visiting in
town.
Mrs. McKendrick and daugh-
ter departed Tuesday for Idaho
Falls.
Mr.. Murphy, government
man, is here measuring the wat
er of Salmon river
Mrs. Milhoan departed We'd
nesday morning for SanFran-
cisco to visit her daughter.
About 5000 worth of repairs
will be done at the school house,
by order of the Board of Health,
before school starts.
Earl K. Dodge will have his
threshing done this week-the
first in the valley-then he will
have plenty on new grain for
sale.
Waters & Waters Hardware &
Implement Co., of Challis, will
sell all wagons at ACTUAL
COST, rather than carry them
over. This means CASH.
1t is the general report that
Jas. T. Gayle has sold his two
thirds interest in the general
merchandise store of R. n. Hull
& Co., Challis, to Dearden &
McGOwn of Custer
The name of the City Drug
Store has changed it's name, and
is known as the Challis Drug
Co., and under its new manage
ment of H. H. Hartman, is being
furnished with fine drug furni-
ture and new goods.
w. W. Waters was exhibiting
big ripe tomatoes last week from
his Challis earned, and he has
bushels of them. Who says that
tomatoes will not mature in
Challis ? Next thing we know
Challis will be producing peach
es, grapes, melons, and oranges.
Col. James A. McFadden re-
turned last Wednesday from
Salt Lake where he has been
ever since last winter. The Col
Onel is looking good but is still
badly crippled up. 1t is report
ed that he will start up his old
Yankee mines and mill on Estes
Mountain this fall. These mines
have plenty of high grade ore
in them yet.
A forest fire is reported on
J Peach creek in the Challis Nat
ional Forest, near Robinson Bar,
and Supervisor Laing has ali the
lservice and others out endeavor-
ling to extinguish it. 1t is no,
known how the fire started, but
probably from some camp fire
The high wind of the last few
days has spread the fames' an6
makes it difficult to get under
, control.
The Government now furnish
es monuments free of cost laid
! down at the nearest railroad
station, for all the old soldiers
who are dead. There are sew
. eral old soldiers buried in the
Challis cemetery, and r. n. Hui
is now looking up their biOgra
, ply for monuments, especially
, where they were born; what Co
: they enlisted in, and when the,
died. He wants information rel
ative to Chas. Maharen, Wise
=. Osborne and John W. Faulkner
DR.. Lynn reports that he wa.
held up" on Main Street las
, Saturday morning at 4 O'Clock
i He had just come home from
2 Pahsamaroi, and was walkiu,
e up the street to the hotel, whel
5 some one came out of darl
e alley and ordered him to halt ant
, fork over his money, but MI
n Lynn did not stop, but mad
quick time to his room at tn
? hotel. 1t was so dark that h
could not tell whether the fellO,
had a gun in his hand or not
to DOC" had $4,000 with him a
: the time.
t At Patterson creek the I'm
!. Consolidated concentrating mil
!, is very nearly completed, ant
: will start up on tungsten ores a
# an early date. The plant is G
q 30 tons capacity, and should or
a erations prove as satisfactory a
n is expected, the capacity will b
e increased to 100 tons. Progress
S of construction has been SLOW
Y by reason of the long distanc
J. by wagon road over which tn
=, ,ooh;uorxy bo1 70 ho fronSnOr,