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OWYHEE NUGGET
SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, FEBRUARY 9, 1906.
VOLUME XV.
NUMBER 38
LOCAL.
Valentines—A great variety at Row
etts'.
Murphy has announced a grand ball
the evening of St. Valentine.
Ladies' Silk Belts, 50c to $3 value,
sold by Silver City Supply Co. for 25o
to 75c.
L. S. Honstead, who went to Boise on
a business trip, Monday, arrived home
yesterday.
Now is the time to buy your Spring
Dress Goods. New stock at Silver City
Supply Co.
Born—Silver City, Idaho, February
5, 1906, to Mr. aud Mrs. Charles E.
Kingsley, a daughter.
A further wireless from Hi Henry
promises that it will not be long until
that famous troupe of minstrels will
be here.
Will Beuham was in from Bruuean
last Saturdry, applying for letters of
administration on the estate of his
late father.
Mrs. Mills, Silver City's fashionable
milliner, returned Wednesday, after
several days absence selecting and or
dering spring finery for her shop.
Mrs. Honstead entertained a number
of lady aud gentlemau friends at a
card party and luncheon, last Satur
day night, aud all declare they had an
enjoyable time.
Jack Breedlove is going to see that
the Trade Dollar boarding houses have
a plentiful supply of ice during next
summer. He is now busying himself
putting up large quantities.
Margaret Hutchinson Sampson ar
rived at the home of her parents, Mr.
aud Mrs. George Sampson, of this city,
on Thursday eveuing, February 8, 19l)6.
Mother aud child doing nicely.
Our beautiful all-day sunshine,
which we have enjoyed every day now
for more thau three weeks, is still with
us, although some thin clouds today
betoken a change in weather condi
tions.
Mrs. Thomas W. Cottingham, nee
Miss Nellie Hutchinson, arrived here
yesterday evening, from Nampa, just
in time to be with her sister when the
stork visited the home of Mr. aud Mrs.
George O. Sampson last night.
The total eclipse of the moon, last
night, was watched by a pleasant little
party, gathered at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Si Tullis. Whist was not even
suggested, but a vigorous game of high
five and a nicely served lunch took its
place.
Valeutine Day, next Wednesday, and
the young people of DeLamar propose
to celebrate ir witu o fine ball and sup
per. N. B.—The sleighing is excellent
between Silver City, Dewey aud De
Lamar, and our young people will be
very warmly welcomed in the busy
town down the gulch on that occasion.
Several Silver City people will re
member E L. Sinnot, representative
of the American Type Founders Com
pany aud .an occasional visitor here.
Mr. Sinnot was one of the victims of
the wreck ou ihe O. R. & N., jat Bridal
Veil, Oregon, last Tuesday, iu which he
aud three other persous lost their lives
ana several others were injured.
A correspondent has informed Nug
get that the socialists formed an organ
ization at Oreaua this weea, which
proposes to take a hand in local aud
state politics henceforth aud hereafter.
It is also asserted that that brand of
political discontent is quite stroug aud
vigorous iu Grand View preciuct, the
owuers aud mauagers of the irrigation
enterprise being imb< ed with it.
Mr. Nusbaum, of Cleveland, has this
week paid off the judgment agaiust the
Cleveland Milling Company, by the
miuers who held liens agaiust the Cal
iforuia mine, tbe judgment, with costs,
amounting to more than 8800.
Tbe :
suit and attachment brought by the !
merchants for supplb s furnished has j
uot been settled, but probably will be '
before the trial comes on iu the dis
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trict court.
Mr. and Mrs. Frauk Scott drove
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from Reynolds, Wednesday afternoon,
to attend the regular meetiug of" the ;
Daughters of Rebekah.
Mrs. Scott
fias belonged to tbe lodge here for
more than fifteen years, but living at a j
distauce, was never before "put through
the chair," as we believe those worthy :
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sisters call serving a term as Noble
Grand, and has been elevated to that
position for this term, and now feels it
incumbent upon her to attend as fre
quently as she can. Mr. Scott said
that he felt glad to get up here where
he could see the sun, it having been
obscured from view for so long a time
by the heavy fog in the valleys.
Mrs. S. D. Drollinger entertained
about thirty guests, Wednesday even
ing, in honor of her daughter, Miss
Alice Connors, who expects to leave
next week for Boise to attend St.
Teresa's academy. Whist was played
and prizes were won by Miss Peters,
Miss Gaylord, Mr. A. A. Getchell and
Mr. E. J. Burrough. At twelve o'clock
the guests were seated in the dining
room, where a dainty lunch was served.
Pleasure was added to the eveuing by
vocal and instrumental music by the
young people present. Departing, the
guests declared it one of the most
pleasant events of the season.
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To Return to Their Former Home
Nuuget is pleased to learn that Hon.
C. M. Hays has leased the residence
next door to the one iu which he aud
his family formerly resided here, with
the iutention of soon returning here to
make it their future home. We doubt
if at any time a family's departure
from here has been accompanied with
more sincere regrets, or if any could
return aud receive a more cordial wel
come.
Card °f Thanks.
The uative sons of far away Switzer
land residing in the vicinity of Sliver
City, hereby desire to express their
thanks and gratitude to the kiud peo
ple of Silver City, to the minister of
St. James' Episcopal church, and to
the Silver City church choir, for the
services rendered at the burial of the
remains of their friend aud fellow
countryman, John Pinaua.
Mid-Winter Number Capital News.
A most notable stroke of enterprise
was displayed by the publishers of the
Boise Eveuing Capital News, Tuesday,
by gettiug out 32 pages iu its regular
daily edition aud supplementing it
with a magazine of 64 pages, profusely
illustrated with half toue pictures of
Southern Idaho sceuery, public enter
prises, public aud private buildings,
etc. Although we have not had time
to carefully peruse the text of either
paper or magazine, it seems to have
beeu prepared by persous thoroughly
familiar with the busiuess of this por
tion of our wonderful state, aud nearly
all of it thoughtfully written or com
piled. It is a splendid advertisement
of the resources of this portion of the
Gem of the Mountains. Copies of it
will be mailed to any address given the
publishers, accompanied by fifteen
cents, and we would suggest that the
citizens of Idaho give it a wide circula
tion among their eastern friends.
Booming Grand Viaw.
Russell C. Massey, president of the
Graud View Laud aud Irrigation Com
pany, returned to the scene of his ac
tive work this afternoon, after a week
spent iu Boise booming this section of
the country. Grand \ iew is located
on Snuke river, south of Mouutaiu
home, aud Mr. Massey says it is a
second Garden of Edeu, where fruit of
all kinds is so abundant that eating it
is not forbiddeu. The town aud
sur
rouuding country are growing rapidly,
a large immigration arriving every day.
A uew three-story hotel has its capac
ity taxed to afford accommodations for
the people coming iu, and the ferry
across the river has beeu doing a busi
uess of over $100 a mouth duriug the
wiuter. All crops are produced in
abuudauce, aud the low altitude, to
gether with protecting cliffs, insure
fruit raisers aaainst late spring frosts.
: Mr. Massey is enthusiastic over the
! out iook for his section of the
j an( j has r..asons for predicting its
' bright future.—Capital News,
oouutry,
The State Land Board will sell, at
! Boise, March 3. a number of tracts of
I laud held by the state under the Graud
Here will be
View irrigation system;
; au opportunity to secure a home on as
tiny lauds as cau be found iu Idaho.
j Buy your Spriug Goods uow aud get
your choice of selections at Sil ver City
: Supply Co.'s.
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IN OWHYEE COUNTY
Whose7 V/hal7 Where?
George Wilson left for Silver City,
Idaho, last night on an errand fraught
with importance to himself and those
associated with him, as it involves the
capture of a mining proposition in
which $5090 silver ore has just beeu
uncovered, says the Sab Lake Herald.
If the reports brought down aud the
samples of the ore shown are going to
amount to a fraction of what is claimed
there will be a happy bunch of opera
tors in this old town within a few days.
Mr. Wilsou said duriug the afternoon
that matters were in just such shape
that it was impossible tc give any de
tails of what was up other than that a
most seusati-mal strike had evidently
beeu made, aud that Salt Lakers, in
cluding himself, were right on the in
side for a big turn if all was right, and
he had no leason to doubt but what it
was. He expects to be back during
the coming week with full particulars
and arrangements made that will per
mit his telling all about it.
This bit of information calls to miud
the statement of a mining engineer
who has beeu spending a great deal of
time in Nevada lately, aud particularly
iu the region to the uorth of where
most of the excitement of the last
three years has existed.
"My opinion is that the present year
will witness a succession of new dis
closures all the way north from Tono
pah and clear through the state to
Silver City, Idaho," said he the other
day. "Gold, silver, lead and copper
will all play important parts iu these
disclosures, for the eutire country is
rich iu mineral. For the past two
years or more prospectors have been
doing all their work in the southern
portion of the state. I have noticed
that they are drifting north and they
are doing just right, for they are now
workiug iu a couutry that is just as
richly mineralized, while the physical
cauditious are far better thau they are
dowu iu the desert couutry"
Crosscut Both Veins.
Nugget stated last week that it was
well kuown that there were three veins
of ore running through the Addie
ground aud that the tunnel was run ou
the center oue, but that the company
was then crosscutting to prospect the
oiher two veins. The manager today
informs us that both of them have
beeu reached aud make a very favora
ble showing, although at present he is
unable to tell their width, ouly having
just out into them.
The Addie mill, closed during the
cold weather, was started again yester
day.
Nugget has copied elsewhere a rather
sensational mining item from the Salt
Lake Herald, about a man coming to
Silver City on a great silver, lead and
copper mining proposition. We have
tried to run the matter dowu, but have
beeu uuable to get head or tail to it,
and think if there is auythiug to it the
gentlemau must have either been
steering for South Mountain or Castle
Creek, if either of these localities had
beeu named it would not sound so j
much like hot air. But we have nei
ther lead uor copper mines iu this dis
trict.
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Arthur Hues bee, muuager of the j
Pioneer Mines Company, went over to J
Boise with the bulliou resulting from
the first cleanup from the Cumberland
mill, under the uew ownership. Mr.
Buckbee did not make public its value,
but expressed himself very well satis
fied with the result. Everything is
running quite smoothly at the mill, ex- J
cept that the pump supplying water
for the batteries is uot doing its .work
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mill, and the management is striving j
to have it ready to start up by the time |
the water power call be utilized iu the j
early spring. Look out for more men ;
being employed at DeLamar,
properly, and will be replaced by a bet -1
ter one in a few days. The ore now j
coming from the mine is hiyh grade.
Very -satisfactory progress is now,
since milder weather, being made on !
tiie reconstruction of the DeLamar
next I
j summer, than ever before.
Jack Skovern.
Away down in the narrow valley of
I the sometimes turbulent, but now ice
locked, Jordan reposes the little min
| iug camp of Dei-amar. The smoke is
j lazily rising from the mill and the
snug cabins of the miuers. All around,
like the sides of a vast ampitbeatre,
rise the grand old mountains of Owy
hee, white beyond comparison; and
above all a sky of blue so intense as to
be indescribable. The sun bas ceased
to shine in the valleys, but is gilding
the mountain tops with a glory not of
earth. This was, on the first day of
this month, the setting for one of the
most impressive scenes the writer ever
beheld.
Away up on the mountain side, sev
eral hundred feet above the town, was
gathered almost all of its inhabitants.
In the center of the group stood the
surpliced minister of God, and before
him an open grave, into which careful
hands were tenderly lowering all that
was mortal of one of their fellow
workmen. Just as the eoffiu reached
its last resting place the voices of the
choir, composed of sweet-voiced s-ms
of old Cornwall, rose strong aud clear
in that masterpiece of Charles Wesley,
".lesus, lover of my soul,'' aud echoed
aud re-echoed through the hills aud
valleys in ever increasing pathos
Then the words, most solemn of any
on the tongues of men, "Earth to earth,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust," followed
by the impressive services of the Min
ers Union, and concluding with the
dropping of of piece of evergreen, tok
en of immortality, into the grave by
each of the surviving members. Then
the filling of the grave, while the choir
sang that beautifully appropriate
hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee."
Staudiug there with uncovered head,
as in the presence of the Deity, look
ing around upon the wonderfully beau
tiful winter sceue, aud listening to the
solemn words of the burial service and
the siugiug of hymns breathing a
stroug faith in the never-failing love of
God, the writer was overcome with the
solemn grandeur of it all. Aud as the
siugers, far from their uative laud, laid
one of their countrymen to rest, the
thought came, "Here is poor Jack
Skovern, ouly a miner, oue of eartiPe
lowliost yet the center of a scene that
never yet was equalled by funeral of
king or emperor, carried though he
may have.been through 'the lougdrawu
aisle,' while organs roared aud echoed
through the 'fretted vault,' and laid to
'sleep in dull cold marble 'ueath stor
ied urn or auimated bust.' " For sure
ly no cathedral with its columus grand
atrtl steeples pointing heavenward
could compare with that great ampi
theatre whose builder and maker is
God; aud no music that ever swelled in
pealing at.them the glorious note of
praise, within the walls of any temple
built with hands, could equal in har
mony sublime the trembling notes of
pleading prayer that echoed through
the snow-clad hills aud valleys of Owy
hee as those toilers in the deep con
cluded their burial service by singing
tiie words "Nearer, my God, to Thee,
nearer to Thee."
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j astical synod, says Antinquities of
Parliament.
Women In Parliament.
The ladies of birth and quality sat
in council with the Saxon Witas. The
Abbess Hilda presided in an ecclesi
j Mr. Wightfred's great council at
j Beaconceld, A. D. 694, the abbesses
; sat'and deliberated, and five of them
j signed the decrees of that council
J along with the king, bishops and no
bles.
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King Edgar's charter to the abbey
of Cowland, A. D. 961, was with the
consent of the nobles and abbesses,
who subscribed the charter.
In Henry III and Edward I's time
four abbesses were summoned to par
J llament, viz, of Shaftesbury, Berking,
St. Mary, of Winchester, and of Wil
ton.
In the 35th year of Edward III were
summoned by writ to parliament, to
I appear there by their proxies, Mary,
j countess of Norfolk, Alienor, countess
! of Ormond, Anna Dispensor, Phillip
] pa, countess of March, Johnanna Fitz
j Water, Agneta, countess of Pembroke,
Mary de St. Paul, countess of Pern
j bro k e , Margaret de Roos, Matilda,
| countess of Oxford, Catherine, count
j ess of Athol. These ladies were called
; by their proxies, a privilege peculiar
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proxy.
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REYNOLDS.
Robert Grant wout to the Democrats
Monday.
James Brown came down from De
Lamar last week.
Chas. Simmons made a business trip
to Boise last week.
Mr. and, Mrs. Frank Scott
Silver City Wedn sday.
Thomas Franks made a flying trip
up to Dewey last week.
Frauk Johustou went to Boise Tues
day, to be gone a few days.
Heury Ward went to Nampa. Thurs
day, to be gone a few days.
Leslie Bornes went to Boise Wednes
day, to be gone a few days.
VI rs. Armfleld is over from Caldwell,
visiting her son and family.
Mrs. Chas. Lore, of Murphy, visited
friends in Nampa last week.
A. J. VlcSweeney has been suffering
from a severe attack of la grippe.
went to
Mr. and Mrs J. M. By field were
over
from Oreana last week, visiting rela
tives.
Mrs. O. F. Brunzell entertained a
few frieuds at cards last Wednesd
evening.
A. A. McDonald arid Johnnie Mc
Donald were dowu from the Black Jack
last week, visiting frieuds.
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The dance given last Thursday
eveu
inp was a most social affair. Everyoue
remarked having a good time.
The eutertaiumeut given by the Odd
Fellows, last Saturday night, was well
attended and all had a good time.
■lames Carlis e is now driving the
stage between this place aud Murphy.
And the way Jim handles the ribbo
"isn't slow."
Mrs. Frank Scott gave a charming
card party at her home, Monday even
ing. About twelve of her frieuds
were
invited and had a hapey time playing
whist.
Dainty refreshments
were
served.
Clea.ra.nce Sale.
Iu order to make room for her
spring
millinery goods, Mrs. Mills is now offer
ing excellent bargains iu Neckwear,
Ribbons, Silks, Ladies' (.ape, Hats, etc.,
etc. Be sure to call aud see the tempt
ing offers.
Why Arizona, and New Mexico
Should Be Two Stades.
It seems to us that our qiiasi-infalli
ble president is iu error iu urgiug ihe
admission of Arizona and New Mexico
as oue slate.
Each of these territories is much
larger thau any state lying east of the
Rocky mountains, aud if admitted
oue state would be as large aud
wieidy as is Texas,
euce of two such states iu the south
western regiou, whose interests are
bound to be more or less antagonistic
to those of the other stales, would
prove a serious meuaee io the republic.
With Oklahoma and Indian Territory
it is different, as these two territories'
would not together make a state larger
than several of the
commonwealths.
The biddeu, tbe suppressed, the real,
objection to admitting Arizona and
New Mexico as different states, is that
this would give the west four addition
al senators instead of two, and thus
weaken the supremacy iu the senate of
the older states. Aud it may be that
President Roosevelt considers the
tinuance of that supremacy as
sary to the peace aud prosperity of the
country.
However this may be, tbe west is
titled to more senators thau it has;
aud if it does not get them iu oue way
it will iu auother. Statesmanship
would, therefore, it seems to us, dictate
that . ither Arizoua aud New Mexico be
admitted as two states, or not admiteed
at ull at preseut.—-Wood River Times.
Nugget "will receive and forward sub
scriptions for any newspaper or per
iodical published anywhere iu
world at the regular subseriptiou price,
thus saving subscribers the cost of
money orders and postage, and the
trouble of writiug. We have arrange
ments with a news company with wh'ch
we keep a deposit, which enables us to
do this.
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