12 Jan 1904
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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1904
Page
1
Hobert Morrison proprietors offer First Class hotel with prompt meals and reliable board and lodging. Located one door west of the telephone office, stages stop here for driver boarding. Rooms are reasonably priced and meals served on time with the best market fare. Suitable for traveling men and the public.
Board and lodging at Mrs M Jose northwest of R N Hull Co store Challis Idaho offers first class meals and beds. Fine large rooms with table supplied with the best in the market. Available by day week or month at reasonable rates. Mrs M Jose.
Bascom House, located at Willow Creek Branch in Dickey Idaho, markets as the best travelers home in Central Idaho. Easy terms advertised by proprietor E W Bascom.
Report from Challis assay office on Good Friend Mine near Clayton four miles east of town along Salmon river near Poverty Flat. Ledge about 10 inches wide with ore in porphyry and shale. tunnel run 25 feet. Ore assays cited exceed 400 ozs of silver, 12 percent copper, 35 percent lead, suggesting high value and potential profitability. Local notes mention other rich quartz strikes on Salmon river and at Dryden group and Turtle group. local development continues on Colorado Kid and related claims.
A jumble of local items mentions Hotel Leaton, a Bay horse dance, Evan Stephens in Leesburg, and visiting commissioners Webern Hosford and Curtis. It quotes critiques of society and politics, hints at Democratic National Convention in New York, winter stock in Caster county, and wartime sentiment. A northern mining project near Dixie is noted along with a combative reader letter about editorial content.
A damaged OCR fragment presents verses titled The Song of the Skull from Los Angeles California. It laments life and consciousness after death, questions the soul and mind, and ends with the locality. The piece explores whether the skull preserves truth beyond mortality and hints at eternal inquiry.
Public notice states my wife has left my house and I am not responsible for any debts she incurs after January 5 1904 in Challis Idaho. Signed by don 5 altham.
The Idaho-St. Louis and Lewis and Clarke Fair Commission reports the 1903 appropriation for the state exhibit is insufficient. Governor Morrison and officials appeal for private subscriptions to cover higher costs for a state building and display. Idaho aims to showcase mining, agriculture, horticulture, and education with a funded exhibit, including a carload of apples stored in St Louis.
The Commission urges citizens to boost Idaho’s share toward a first class exhibit at the World’s Fair. With Oregon and Washington receiving state funds plus private subscriptions, Idaho trails and must raise money. Idaho women are raising 1000 for furnishing the Women’s rooms, while gifts go to C. J. Hurtt, Executive Commissioner in Boise for public acknowledgment.
Arrivals listed include D. E. McCallum Mackay Idaho John Johnson May Idaho James Christian May Idaho Lee Watson Custer Idaho George L McGowan Custer Idaho John Stephens and wife Challis Creel Mr C E Eddy arrived direct from Loon creek reports camp looks well There is about three feet of snow at the camp He also says he sold his interest in the Caster Prospector to Reg Correll
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