Idaho Midland rail line sparks Boise Butte talk
A Butte miner interview reprints Idaho Midland railroad proposals linking Butte and Boise via Challis and Salmon river routes. Promoters Bates Watson and associates seek eastern financing and local bond subscriptions. Boise and Challis reporters travel to inspect—Polls indicate strong local interest and expected construction activity.
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Idaho
Butte
Butte-Boise Railroad
Boise
Keeley
Big Hole
Divide
Gibbonsville
Pnd
Chalcis
Middle Boise
Erporsaas
Idaho Midland Railway Company
Anaconda
Weiser
Pacific & Idaho Northern
Northern Pacific
Kamai
Lewiston
Missoula
D. T. Miller
The
Idaho Midland
Salmon
Challis
Boise Statesman
Thomas W. Bates
Idaho Midland Railroad
Edward H. Watson
New York
Watson
Bates
Mr. Bates
Publication notice on wartime reports and maps by Keilod Publishing
A fragmentary wartime book description outlines a Manila based mission compiling a war history with maps and battle accounts. It notes many correspondents sent from Manila to verify reports and to document the First Idaho regiment’s experiences in the Philippine campaign. The item mentions limited editions and 6000 volumes produced by Keiodd Publishing Company in San Francisco.
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Orne
Incisco
Ates
Repirexentatines
Manila
Aery
Japan
Idaho
Wrine
Keiodd Publishing Company
Breet, Tin Franciaeo
Walls) Stage Co. Mail Express and Passes
Walls Stage Co operates mail express and passenger routes from Challis leaving Tuesdays and Saturdays at 3 a.m. for Salmon in about 12 hours. Returns to Challis Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Connects at Salmon for Red Gibbonsville and all other hi and Custer County towns. W Raddicker, Prop. Idaho.
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Challis
Red
Gibbonsville
Custer County
W. Raddicker
Local News Briefs on Closure and Visits
School closed Friday due to unspecified reasons. Victor Dewey smoke noted. Alonzo Dodge returned last Tuesday for a Salt Lake City visit. The Beccas plan another banquet tonight in this city. Ranchers have been rowing for about a week or ten days.
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Victor Dewey
Alonzo Dodge
Salt, Lake City
Beccas
Bizarre Italian art project cited with odd restoration tasks
An Italian institution hired an artist to touch up a large painting with a long list of odd repairs and embellishments including correcting the Ten Commandments and repainting celestial elements. The bill was contested until itemized, and other local notes report arrivals, births, and a new post office at Yankee Fork.
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Italy
St. Peter
Eisard- Woh
Wiubio
Carmine
Tobias
Malaom
Baral
David
Goliath
Saul
Saloon Improvements and Local News From Challis
The Challis column reports Watson and Jordan’s saloon front recently painted by E Headrick. W H Felkner and Enos Watson travel to Salt Lake City for medical care, likely a month away. The piece includes moral guidance to young men, mining notes on Custer County ores, fish laws, gambling cases, and a vein-finder inventor visiting from Battle Lake. It cites Miller’s mining district statistics and post office bond changes affecting star routes.
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Watson & Jordan
E. ©. Headrick
W. H. Felkner
Enos Watson
Salt Lake City
Blackfoot
D. T. Miller
Miller
Custer County
Beardsley
Redbird
Forest Rose
Ramshorn
Skylark
Excelsior
Bayhorse
Golden Eagle
Custer Courge Social Event and Election Note
Custer Idaho March 24 1900 M A Fogarty and Henry Westlake left for Casper Wyoming Sunday. The Hard Times social on the 16th drew the largest attendance of the season Mrs McKenzie won a ladies prize for best costume Frank Coleman received the agents prize At the March 20 school election citizens decided to move the school location to Cas-
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Midland
John Beatty
R. Beatty
Mr. Beatty
Piein Butte
Burlington
Great Northern Goarees
Bub & Section
What & Boon
Arthur McGowan
Frank Tully
K. McKenzie
Maurice Uaa
John Hepp
Ed.Cochran
Dr. Monroe
Archie Lowell
Walls
Reamye
Mrs.Strand
New Challis House
Hades
Challis Odd Fellows
Rev. W. ©. Veazie
Topeka, Kansas
Q Challis
Rev. Foster
Hooper
Mrs. Greene
Clay ‘Ton
Lembi Agency
Mr. Heise
Robert Bell
Saltsman Last Briday
Idaho Mid- Jland Railroad
Yankee Fork
McFadden
Caroline McFadden
Wen
Porto Rico
Jim Townsend
Bodie
Qualland
Jim
Pahsamaroi River
Frank Tally
Custer
Calhoun
McKenzie
Wilson Ellis
Ellis
M. ©. Royson
Pahsamaroi
Oyster
Balmon
Mr. Bell
Oakland
Battle Lake
Wyoming
Ball
Yankee Park
Stanley Basin
Western Mail
Custer Cournge
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