10 May 1904
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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1904
Page
1
The New Challis House is a strict first class hotel with top meals and accommodations in the county. Board and lodging at reasonable rates, tables supplied with the best the market affords. Good accommodations for traveling men and the public with fine sample rooms for commercial visitors.
City Bakery offers fresh bread pies and cakes with delicious ice cream and lunch options. Mary G Dorian owner promotes the shop and invites customers to call for details.
Bascom House advertises as the best travelers home in Central Idaho on the Mackay to Salmon River Valleys route. Promises sparing no pains to ensure comfort with reasonable terms. Proprietor E. W. Bascom invites travelers to stop at the mountain corridor inn.
Mrs. Dow improves rapidly while Miss Kate Roof heads to Kanmaa City. Several residents travel to Mackay and Boise for personal matters and court hearings. About 1,500 cattle driven to Stanley for summer range. Remains of Lila Romer recovered after fatal snowslide on Jordan Creek. Theo Wast, Salt River pioneer, dies in San Francisco. Local mining ventures advance as power press and gasoline engine arrive at Mackay. Legal notices detail sheriff sale of Challis property in the Frost et al case with May 6 publication and May 15 sale date.
Treasurer Alice Felkner of Custer County posts a 1904 notice payable within sixty days with interest from registry. The column also covers a World Fair preview from Challis Idaho including satire on beauty shows, Igorrotes, poodles, dog eating, and foreign exhibits, noting critiques of the weather bureau and a Boser war reference.
In Challis some say preaching is easier than practicing and the writer agrees yet urges that sincere effort to live by one's words earns credit from the devout, even if the sermon content seems uneven or imperfect.
A sermon extols sincerity in preaching and the value of imperfect but ongoing practice. It argues that progress comes from daily deeds and faith, even as nations seek peaceful settlements and law guides society. The speaker urges reverence for life, personal growth, and respect for others.
Dispatch from St Louis reports St. Vrain Le Sieur, late president of the Le Sieur Opal Mining Co., sought by U.S. officers for mail fraud. He left with stenographer Miss E A Seaman, 27, amid allegations of stock theft, misused treasury shares, and missing funds. warrant issued for his arrest as state grand jury weighs true bill.
In Thunder Mountain Roose velt and neighboring camps housing about 1500 people through winter have shrunk to 800 as shortages bite. J H Babendorf notes stores overestimated stock, mines near idle, and only essential staff remain to guard property while trails stay closed.
In the remote country prices for flour and bacon rise well above prior levels as mining operations keep feeding ore abroad. The Diamond Chief company shifts crews, with Isbell planning a May 15 pack train of 30 horses. Snow, slides, and high water loom this season as unprospected canyons wait. A mail run on snowshoes faced a near tragedy when sacks were lost.
In a brisk week at Mackay junk shop, a cartoonist nicknamed Bird adds another leather picture to his space fillers in the organ, made from worn boots and old materials. Bled heads to the fair with promises of cheap thrills while Bird’s works fill space for ad pages, promising a free ride to the Exposition.
Notice to stock owners in The Custer County Stock Growers Association that members owning horses on Warn Spring Creek Antelope Valley and East Fork ranges will start roundup and branding Friday May 20 194 to begin at Antelope Valley. Johatnas Jon president J H Jouston secretary.
Arrivals listed for the week ending May include EB Devoss Mackay Idaho J D Brown and family Marthon Jons A G Laing Spencer Idaho Hunt Salt Lake Utah Thos B Wilde and family Philadelphia Pa V Hansen Mackay Idaho Mrs S Shaw Challis Creek Idaho Chas Shaw Challis Creek Idaho Mr and Mrs J P Dickey Dickey Idaho
Pacific coast millmen display an immense fir log eleven feet in diameter at the World's Fair. It was split into eight planes to haul from South Bend Washington to St. Louis and reassembled there to appear as if just cut from Washington forests. Assessor Uifer surveys wealth along Big Lost River.
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