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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1906
Page
1
Short distance northwest of R N Hall & Co's store Challis Idaho offers large rooms and good beds for lodging by the day week or month with reasonable rates.
The Evening Capital News annual subscription drops to 3.33 by mail, with the Big Daily Paper at 3.88. Regular price 5.00. Savings come from eliminating solicitors. Subscribers can renew by Jan 1 1907, paying with a single remittance during Bargain Week. Capital News Pub Co Boise Idaho.
Snow measured at about eighteen inches falls on Custer area. Allen Williams and family plan to depart for California this week. Filo Clyde left last week for Oakland to study electrical engineering. Grace Anderson expects to attend the State Teachers Institute in Boise during the holidays. Rumor notes a December wedding between Mr. Graham of Mackay and Miss Addie Bascom of Dickey around January 1, 1907. Local mining reports from Copper Basin highlight coal ledges and promising prospects. A mail route Challis to Singiser is proposed. The Challis High School shows a streak of perfect attendance broken by illness. Local editorials urge civil discourse and honest opinion. Public notices mention a husband’s death near Challis from Bright’s disease. Reports include Challis real estate and agricultural plans, beet sugar factory ambitions, and large-scale irrigation and fencing projects.
An official order fixes the 1907 terms of the Sixth Judicial District Court in Idaho. Listings by county cover Bingham, Custer, Fremont, and Lemhi with specific start dates. All terms begin at 10 a.m. and the order must be filed, recorded in each county, and published for two consecutive weeks. Judge J M Stevens issued the order in Blackfoot on November 30, 1906.
A Salt Lake formed firm controls 570 acres on Loon creek five miles south of Lost Packer in Custer county Idaho. They plan 2600 feet of flume to deliver water for hydraulic mining with two six inch giants, targeting old creek channels rich in coarse gold. The group spans sixteen claims from the Cash Box area to the Narrows, with historic yields cited and projections of strong profit potential.
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