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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1894
Page
2
Fragmented text outlines a People's Party platform urging government order and civil peace, opposition to monopoly, and support for equal rights and fiscal prudence. It emphasizes free silver, water district creation, bonds for irrigation canals, and taxation safeguards while maintaining public order and lawful governance.
At the Populist convention in Boise City on August 2 a slate was put in nomination for the People's Party for Idaho. For Member of Congress and for Governor the nominees include J. W. Ballentine of Alturas. The ticket also lists a Superintendent of Public Instruction and a Treasurer, with the remaining names and details incomplete in the fragment.
The Idaho Republican platform endorses free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, protection for American industry and labor, and opposition to bad legislation harming sheep, fruit, flax, and timber sectors. It supports enforcement of laws, property rights, equal suffrage, and praises Idaho officials and congressional delegation. Also lists Want ads for schooling, houses to rent in Custer Clayton Challis, and a probate notice for George Finsterer.
A promotional notice for The News branded as a Populist Free Coinage daily, urging readers to subscribe in various terms: one year six months three months or one month. The message promotes nationwide readership and directs subscriptions to The News in Denver.
The line runs first class in all its appointments carrying express and passengers. It is the shortest quickest and cheapest route from the railroad into the Salmon river mining region serving Crystal Clayton Bayhorse Challis Bonanza Custer Sheep Mountain Stanley Seafoam Yellow Jacket. H C Lewis, Proprietor, Ketchum.
Ware to Blackfoot reduced to ten dollars with express at eighty two dollars per hundred. Powell and Pierson, proprietors, advertise transport to the railroad and all points east and north, highlighting discounted freight rates.
The Sullivan Hot Springs sit two and a half miles above Clayton by Salmon River offering sulphur rich waters for bathing and healing. The owner has improved accommodations and provides a day round trip carriage for guests at 50 cents, with two plunge baths completed and more amenities planned.
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