The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-06-20
Michael McGovern returned
last week from California.

S. P. Jones of Ellis has gone
to the Arkansas Hot Springs.
This will be banner year in
this valley for fruit and berries.
H. F. Brockman has a broken
rib by a fall from a building on
the 18th inst.
Mrs. F. Coleman last week re-
turned from a visit at Salmon
and Leadore.
VIM. Waters and wife from
Challis attended the Clayton
wedding Thursday.
G. E. Gable bought the Gold
en- Sunbeam mines sold Wednes-
day by sheriff's sale.
Jesse Elgin, of Liberty. Utah.
brother of Mrs. O. Campbe II,
visited in this valley last week.
Challis will have a coon"
show by local "coons, and it
will be pulled off at the hall on
the night of July 3rd.
County Attorney Brown re-
turned Saturday from Mackay
where he had been in the prose-
cution of the Dye Gardner and
Rehfus cases.
VIM. Buster is now putting in
nearly a whole block of 9-foot
cement sidewalk in front of his
property on the north side of
Main street.
The Special Pony Race to be
given at the race track on July
5th, the prizes are given solely
by Waters & Waters Hardware
Co. of Challis. The first prize is
a $1,000 saddle, and the second
prize is $500 bride.
Miss Mildred Gayle returned
Thursday evening from POcatel-
10, where she has put in another
year attending school at the Ac-
ademy. Arthur Gayle, who had
been on trip to Butte and Poe.
atellO, accompanied her home.
Mrs. Joseph Rodgers, son and
daughter, returned last Wednes
day from Salt Lake, where they
have been since last September
and the children have been at
tending school-Joseph, Jr., at
tended All Hs lIows College, and
Miss Genevie took vocal lessons
The Patrick Moyner will cas-
was tried in the Probate Court
last week. Lou Tracht, repre-
senting the heirs, plaintiff, ant
Con Sullivan, ct al. defendants
The jury found that Patricl
Moyner at the time will was dat
ed, was not in any condition t
, make will. The case will prob
ably be appealed.
Commissioner Campbell cam
down from Clayton Friday t.
l look at the different bridge site
, for the steel bridge across Sal
: mon river-to see how they look
8 ed during high water. All Q
e them look bad. What is know
as upper site shows up the bes
on this side of the river, Will
l the lowest site shows up the bes
/. on the other side of the river. /
f the conveyance went down be
n sides Mr.. Campbell, were Con
s missioner job, Auditor Micha'
and Surveyor Ballard. AS
n matter of fact there are no res
v good high water bridge sites
h this valley, as the country is to
h fiat and the river banks too lOv
Z Pigs is pigs" That fact VIZ
;, determined some time ago by
y bit of fiction. But "hens is hen'
q is now determined by a bit
e fact. A carload of hens were L
n Gently shipped over the SAINT
y Fe from Newton, Kan, to Lt
"a Angeles. When the car reach'
; its destination there were ca
IS load of hens and three cases
~ eggs. Obviously here was ha
u shell to crack. Freight was pa
only upon hens, which are liz
o, stock. Eggs, in the opinion
s. the checking clerk, were n
:, live stock. The traffic depal
(. ment of a railroad has a mil
s. for statistics, but here was
r. poser. So the legal departing
ly was called in. Was an egg la
ne en- route ex-post facto or a prio1
le The only answer of the shipp
c. was that he paid freight on he
I'd and would not pay freight
as anything the hens might do.
~ The most extraordinary thi
I'd about the whole incident "
le that the legal department cOu
le find no way out of the scrambl
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