Bond Bid Adjudication for Challis Steel Bridge Project
Rigid adjourned meeting of the Custer County Board in Challis Idaho on March 1 1911 opened bids for $15000 in 6 percent bridge bonds. Nuveen & Co of Chicago offered $15165 with bonds ready for signature and $3000 certified, highest and accepted for Salmon River bridge funding. Warrant list issued for current expenses and road and bridge funds. interest to cease in ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of County Commissioners
Custer County
Idaho
Challis
Robi. Campbell
Alexander Burnett
Jonathan Job
E. J. Michael
Tarson & Son
Chicago
Ill
S. A. Kean & Co
Til
H. T. Holtz & Co
H. Coffin
John Nuyeen & Co
Keeler Brothers
Denver
Colorado
James N. Wright & Co
John Nuveen & Company
John Nugeen & Company
Salmon River
Challis Precinct
Repr
Campbell
Allice B. Chamberlain
Edna W. Keyes
War with Japan Looms Says Representative in House
The article reports Representative Hobson alleging an imminent war with Japan within ten months or before the Panama Canal completion. It notes a looming expiration of the 1894 treaty, a new treaty proposed to the Senate, and California protests over the omitted Japanese labor exclusion clause. It cites San Francisco as a labor center and recalls past school exclusion tensions under Roosevelt. It concludes with a note on a forthcoming direct election of U.S. Senators and Heyburn’s political fate.
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Hobson
Panama Canal
Senate
Japan
California
San Francisco
Pacific Slope
Roosevelt
Discouragements of Literature Cartoon Exchange
Mrs Quiz asks if husband faced plagiarism claims. Mrs Spacer says no and notes the quip discourages him, implying he has never written anything that others would claim as their own.
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Quiz
Spacer
Current Verse Reaches Cactus Center in Boulder Creek
In Davis Center the crowd argued over which pole explorer to credit Peary or Cook Pecos Johnson mocked Cook supporters as loco weed Bear Hawkins noted Peary boostersrelated to sheep Herdsmen left the saloon as tensions rose and the crowd moved to the sidewalk Now in Cactus we vow to stay alert and tally our feuds If a north pole hunter lectures here we will warn him of frost in Denver Republic
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Cactus Center
Davis Center
Gustin
Peary
Cook
Pecos Johnson
Bear Hawkins
North Pole
Denver Republic
Laws and Lovks and the Unenforced Lawmaker
A tale contrasts a legislator who builds many locks and deterrents on his door with the irony that none were ever used while he gallerys new laws. A wife jokes about buying a bonnet, noting a planned purchase backed by a price tag and a ticket home.
Inventive auto speed tip and farm talk missives stir a crowd
A quirky dialogue paints scenes of a neighborly prank for Christmas a cheery plan to quiet a noisy piano a man bragging of a fast odorless auto a fuel snack with emburg er cheese and a farmer noting agricultural progress while a visitor questions if corn still goes in a crib.
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Silver Messenger
Official Paper
Independent IN Politics
E. J. MicHart
Congress
U.S
Heyburn
LEVI STRAUSS @ CO
Revase Ly
Waters
W. W. Waters
Waters & Waters Hardware & Implement Company
Haressesaddles
Challis House
Chas, Wilkinson
Prop
Main Street
Postoffice
Challis, Idaho
Mel
R.N. Hull
Inks
General Merchandise
Custercounty
William Buster
Crockery and Hardware
Chaliis
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