Mines and boom at Yankee Fork spark new desert town
The Challis region roars back to life as the Lucky Boy Gold Mining Co starts operations. Vast freight, new crews, and stage arrivals fill Custer and Bonanza, with ore in sight at Yellow Jacket and a sharpened road network lifting the county economy. Notable mentions include Col Nick Treweek Major Stanton, Theo Wust in the office, and a surge of merchants, doctors, and travelers reshaping the once quiet camps.
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Yankee Fork
Lucky Boy Gold Mining Company
Col
Nick
Ktreweek
Major Stanton
Salt Lake
Ketchum Keystone
Com- 5
Euster
Custer
Bonanza
C. C. & C. Stage Co
Lucky Boy Gold Mining Co
Theo.Wust
California
Satan
Allis
Dentist Dr Pyle Heads to Salmon River Country
Dr Pyle the reliable dentist will soon be in the Salmon river country. Those having work in his line will do well to wait for him. Prompt and efficient work guaranteed.
Yellow Jacket Gold Mining Company Incorporation
Yellow Jacket Gold Mining Company of Lemhi county filed articles of incorporation with Idaho Secretary of State. Capital stock $1,000,000 in shares of $100, principal business locations Denver and New York. Directors include A. B. Roeder Robert Billings W. M. Totile Julius Thompson and John Searles. Idaho agent for service P. J. Cirkel of Yellow Jacket.
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Idaho
Yellow Jacket Gold Minting Company
Lemhi County
Denver
New York
A. B. Roeder
Robert Billings
W. M. Totile
Julius Thompson
John Searles
P. J. Cirkel
Yellow Jacket
California Idaho & Montana Railroad incorporates in Boise
Articles of incorporation filed in Boise for the California Idaho and Montana Railroad Company to build a line from Butte Montana southwest through Idaho and Oregon to San Francisco with offices in Boise, Denver Cheyenne New York and San Francisco. H A Woodworth and H H Daniels of Denver are incorporators. Daniels is in Owyhee county overseeing surveying efforts. A Cheyenne meeting planned in about one week to appoint officers and supervise surveying.
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Colse Mall
Boise
California, Idaho & Montana Railroad Company
H. A. Woodworth
H. H. Daniels
Denver
Owyhee County
Butte
Montana
Idaho
California
San Francisco
Cheyenne
New York
Jail Break at Hailey Sheriff Held Up by Masked Men
Last evening at about 10 o'clock two masked men robbed Sheriff Fenton at the Hailey jail. They forced him to open the steel cage and released prisoner Paul P Lawson, then rode off with four horses toward Bellevue. Jake Clark saw four horsemen on Broadford road. pursuit began led by Sheriff Fenton and deputies Dors ey. The incident prompted criticism of Sheriff Fenton for lax jail security and Lawson’s prior liberties while jailed in Hailey.
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Paul P. Lawson
Hailey
Custer County
George Watson
Houston
Idaho
Ovid Lawson
Challis
Blaine County
Lawson
Court House
Jake Clark
Broadford
Bellevue
Gray
Len. Dorsey
Clint Sanders
Sheriff Fenton
News- Miner
Ike Coer
George Watony Mit
Zenton
Infant death sympathy resolutions from lodge committee
A lodge committee drafts resolutions extending sympathy to Brewer J. L. Ebberts and family on the death of their infant daughter Mikired in Challis on August mth 2005. The resolutions express heartfelt condolences and comfort, noting the child’s innocence and requesting publication in the lodge minutes and the Silver Messenger.
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Hlala
Cosa
Abe
J. L. Ebberts
Mikired
Challis
August
The Challis to Yellow Jacket Wagon Road Opens
The road from Challis to Yellow Jacket was finished by Cotter and Cristo on Sept 1. Heavy and light teams have started using it and a linked route from the mouth of Fourth of July Creek is also completed. The project cost about 4500 dollars, with good grades and plans to profit from the contract.
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Lucky Boy Co
Stanley Basin
Idaho City
Boise Basin
J. J. McCarthy
Rocky Bar
Boise
Yankee Fork
Challis
Yellow Jacket
Fourth of July Creek
Messrs. Cotter &Cristo
Sees Road
Pa Ohiouss
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Redwine
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Omaha
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Black
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Pourty Judicial District Court of Idaho
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