Challis News Highlights Local Activities and Plans
Fourth next Monday and Fourth of July shopping at City Drug Store with fireworks flags bunting and sundries. Challis hosts a special county commissioners meeting to discuss liquor licenses while local saloon owners prepare a new establishment run by Brockman and Geary. A County Fair is proposed for Challis this fall to showcase mining fruit vegetables and livestock with exhibits sent to Boise and the State Fair.
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Board of County Commissioners
Challis
Harry Brockman
Mel Geary
Watson
Supreme Court of Idaho
Ingvart Christensen
District Court
James McGregor
Supreme Court
Signa Jenson
Nels C. Jenson
Challis Creek
Boise
Round Valley
Campbell and
Ewing
City Drug Store
Hamilton
Ebbert
Millinery Queen Mrs Buster Serves Challis Shoppers
Nobby Millinery Goods in Challis offers the largest selection of hats and ladies wear in Custer county. Mrs Wm Buster features latest styles at reasonable prices and also acts as agent for the Boise Daily Capital News.
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Wm. Buster
Challis
Custer County
Notice to Cattlemen Seeks Buyers for 90 Registered Bulls
The notice announces the sale of 90 head of Registered Thoroughbred Short Horn Bulla aged 2 to 4 years. Bulls shipped from Iews and Missouri, available after July 1 for another season, with plans to replace them in a fall shipment. Inquiries to H. Lewis of Ketchum Idaho.
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Iews
Missouri
Ax T
Lewis
Ketchum
Ida
Challis to Get Major Round Valley Irrigation Project
The town of Challis in Custer county advances a large irrigation scheme to reclaim 5000 acres, with a reservoir capable of irrigating nearly 15000 acres. Slick Bros. Construction is selected to build once site and water rights are agreed, funding secured by settlers through attorney Carl A. Davis. The project surrounds Challis valley, using Challis creek as the water source.
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Capital News
Davis
Jas
Stephen Ison, Jr
W. B. Slick
Challis
Hanson
Messrs
Stephenson
Slick
Salmon City
Hill
Court House
Custer County
Boise
Carl A. Davis
Slick Bros. Construction Company
Slick Bros
Round Valley
Challis Creek
Pittsburg & Gilmore engineers plan Salmon Boise road
A long expedition of Pittsburg and Gilmore engineers left Salmon last Saturday to lay lines for a potential Salmon to Boise railway via Challis. Dr. H F Kimball of Salmon confirms the route up the Salmon River to Challis and onward to Leadore with depots contracted at 30 by 80 feet. The survey then shifts toward Dillon with a tunnel near Clark's canyon and an Oregon Short Line crossing at Beaverhead Rock.
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Pittsburg & Gilmore
Salmon
Boise
Challis
H. F. Kimball
Leadore
Boise Statesman
the Tribune
Gilmore & Pittsburg
Armstead
Dillon
Clark's Canyon
Oregon Short Line
Beaverhead Rock
Pittsburg
The
Tribune
Surveyors Rush Dillon Road Extension Plan
A telegraph received by the surveyors yesterday prompts rushing the Dillon survey. The company reportedly intends building the Armstead to Dillon line quickly, with plans to extend to Twin Bridges to connect with the Northern Pacific railroad.
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Dillon
Armstead
Northern Pacific
Dillon Tribune
Death of H D Jaquish Ends Bayhorse Pioneer Career
H D Jaquish longtime Bayhorse merchant and early Custer county settler died suddenly June 7 1910 in a Gainesville Georgia cotton seed oil mill He was 64 born 1846 He came to Custer county in 1879 sold his Bayhorse store 18 years ago and later ran cotton seed oil mills in Georgia He is survived by a widow and was buried at Crown Point Indiana He served four years in the Union Army including 14 months in Andersonville He was uncle to E J Michael county treasurer
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Hugh D. Jaquish
Bayhorse
Custer County
Gainsville
Georgia
Jaquish
E. J. Michael
Cracker Creek
I Taduiet
Andersonville
Mail Contract Awarded for Challis to Custer Route
Mail contract six times weekly between Challis and Custer has been awarded to Mr. Hanson of Mackay and Central Idaho Stage Co. for four years from July 1. The price exceeds 5000 annually, likely 5500 to 5800, higher due to high feed and horse costs. Hanson plans to begin July 1 at 6 AM. locals expect improved service with experienced operator, despite the harsh winter route.
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Challis
Custer
Hanson
Mackay & Central Idaho Stage Co
Sunbeam
Morrison
Ibis
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Challis, Idaho
M, Jose
Eries
RUG Store
Agt
Edison
Signet Horns
I. W. Lynn
Rb, Vanderwort
Havana
Allis
Idaho
L. M. Osborn
Laura Ellis
Matley
St. Mary’s Academy
Salt Lake
Decatur Spalding
Buster
Finnell
Dr. Leonard
Ben Metzgar
Junction
Pat Lynch
Clay Vance
L. E. Glennon
Arthur Greene
Mrs. Greene
Here
Mackay
W. B. Fowler
J. W. Lynn
Maxwell
Harrison Lynn
Chicago
Joseph Rodgers
Mountain’s
Dixie
Cochrane Co
New York
Sullivan Hot Springs
Clayton
Cornelius Sullivan, Jr
Margaret McCabe
State Summer Normal School
Pocatello State Summer Normal School
State Academy
Academy of Idaho
Nobby Millinery Goods
H. D. Jaquish
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