15 Mar 1898
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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1898
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR hints at a report involving Idaho, Horst, a hotel, and tables being applied with the best orders. Mentions passing in Custer and Weling men. Details unclear. core items include places Idaho and Custer with hotel and tables.
Public notice lists warrants to be paid on the specified interest and dates. It mentions recipients and dates related to tax collections and treasurer statements from 1894 to 1898, with references to registration dates and payment timing.
The text references low prices at an old Jas. Briner stand, noting affordable offerings and local market activity. Details are fragmentary but point to a community trade scene centered on the Bed-Rock pricing era and nearby vendors.
Local Gleanings reports include wall paper ads, dances, and sales of the Frank Smith estate horse herd. Notices note marriages in Salmon, Alaska departures for Alaska, and Maccabee lodge SCOT events. Also features Challis creek dances, Odd Fellows history book offer, and Idaho resources discussion.
The note reports Geo Grubb's four children and Ed Short ill with measles. Ian A. Mead visits Challis. Miss Lalu Sill teaches in Challis. Charles Bassett badly cut on the thigh by a log-axe incident. Jim Wells travels to Dubois for the Wrights. Dr. Cutter visits Johnny Hammond. Chas Matley to farm Grove place and lease to Rice Crain. M N Lewis sells 500 lambs at $3 each to Wood Live Stock Co. Elmer Glick also ill with measles.
Thomas J Sutton aged years dies of consumption at his Front street home at 1 30 yesterday afternoon. He had been ill most of the winter and his death was expected. Funeral from K P Plowman residence on Main and Thirteenth at 2 this afternoon. Sutton was a newspaper writer, born Springfield Illinois, grew up in Berg Iowa, crossed the plains in 1852, mined in California and Oregon, edited Public Good at Han ford and Ven tura, fought in the Rogue River war of 1853, came to Idaho in 1863, captained scouts in a 1863 Bannock Shoshone skirmish, helped establish City World, edited Ketchum Keystone, founder of Boise Sentinel, married Rocky Bar 1877 to Mattie Ross. survives son T Shelley Sutton.
Ex senator Hill of Colorado returned from the East reports vast New York worry over war with Spain. He says there will be no war on principle, but acknowledges that if Maine blame is proven, pressure from plutocrats and trusts could push Congress toward conflict. He believes the money power shapes national events.
Death rate at Skaguay averaged fifteen daily with a recent victim being the postmaster of the town. The report notes ongoing fatalities in the remote Yukon coastal settlement.
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