The Owyhee nugget., December 27, 1907, Image 1

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OWYM r,K NUGGE1
OFFICIAL
COUNTY
PAPER.
BEST
ADVERTISING
MEDIUM
VOLUME XVII.
SILVER CITY, OWYHEE COUNTY, IDAHO, DECEMBER 27,1907.
NUMBER 33
THE LOCAL NEWS
Short Items of Interest for Nugget's
Many Readers
Buy vour heating and oook stoves
from Philipp.
Everybody travels on snowshoes who
can rustle a pair of skis.
Start in the New Year by getting
square with subscription on Nugget.
Shoveling snow and plowing ont and
breaking roads are leadiog industries
herabout these winter days.
David Sumerville came up from his
Malheur county ranch, and spent
Christmas with his family here.
Begin right now to do your swearing
off to the New Year. The most of yon
forget you have ever done so sonn
enough.
Our storm is over anil at noon today,
tho' somewhat colder, the sun is shin
ing brightly, in as clear a say as it can
only shine in in beautiful Idaho.
John Brunzell owns up that lie nev
er saw the like of such weather as we
had Christmas day before. Well, now,
what do you think of that.
By the courtesy of Mrs. Toe Corda.
Nugget had nice, crisp lettuce on
Christmas. You may ask how she
kept it. She transplanted it in the
cellar.
Ta^c Collector Kreig wishes us to re
mind the people that taxes will become
delinquet the first Monday in January
and ou and after that date a penalty
will be added.
John and Neal Shea from Trout
creek, Ed Maher aud Basil Deary of
Pleasant Valley braved the storm to
come up to the Christmas ball. They
left their home that morniug aud
eaid there was no snow then down
there.
Mr Joseph Babington was in town,
from Reynolds, Tuesday and made ap
plication to be appointed guardian for
his grand-children, the two little
daughters of his deceased daughter,
Mrs Millie Crocheron.
Robert Crumblin, who is lying so
very ill in his cabin that it was thought
yesterday that he could not hold over
another day, is reported to be slightly
better this morning. Kind people ure
nursing him and caring for his wants.
A young Mr. Curtis was here Mon
day night with a load of about four
dozen flue, fat turkeys, which he found
no trouble disposing of, though other
poultry peddlers had preceded him aud
many had been ordered shipped in. He
came from Vale, Ore.
Mrs. Louise Brooks, who has bien
staying with lier daughter, Mrs. George
Handy, in Caldwell, for several weeks,
returned to her mother's home, Mrs.
Mary Grete, on Tuesday. She reports
that Mr. Handy's health has improved
materially, aud that he has gained ten
pouuds in weight since tie visited here
last time.
T
Note the excellent showing made in
the Owyhee Countv Bank statement
published today. That modest little
has been a very great convenience
wsince its organization, to Lite people do
ing business in our town. It is care
fully and conservatively mauaged and
its cashier is always as obliging an con
ditions will permit.
Rowett has just received and placed
ou his shelves a consignment of Edison
phouographs, witii a great variety of
the latest records produced by that
machine. Wheu vou want a perfect
phonograph you will find that tiie Edi
son stand at the itead of tiie list for
clearness aud distinctiveness, as well as
great variety of records.
The Pythian Sisters have settled on
New Year's night for holding their
Grand Ball, at lower Masonic hall, and
these gracious ladies are promising
everybody who will attend a very de
lightful time, but finally decided not to
start in so early in the year with a leap
year party. The single ladies among
them will make up for this before leap
year is gone.
Following is the list of letters re
maining uncalled for in the Silver City
postofflce for the week ending Dec. 14,
1907:
Anderson, A. J.
Bell, Miss Frances.
Hopkins, L. F.
Johnson, Audro.
Scroggins, Mrs. Norah
Weldon, Mrs. Bonis J.
Letters not called for will be sent to
the Dead Letter Office at Washington,
C. H. Grete, Postmaster.
Depend upon our young people when
a dance is to come off, no matter what
the weather may be. The Rebekah's
ball, Christmas night, was not a pro
nounced success so far as to numbers
attending, but fully twenty ladies brav
ed the storm and got there. Quite a
load, with the musicians, got there from
Dewey, and altogether, it was consider
able of a party, with two or more young
men for every lady. None of the girls
were wall flowers, and they were sel
dom permitted to sit down. Altogeth
er it w'as a very enjoyable affair.
Saturday's and Monday's stages
brought home a number of our young
people who have been away attending
school—home for the holidays. They
all look well. We note among them
Miss Mattie Heer, from St. Margarit's,
Boise, Ted Connors, from All Hollow's
college, Salt Lake City, and Clifford
Weston, Arthur H*er and Frank Slat
tery, from the Idaho State University,
at Moscow. Russel Adams from the
same school did not come home, but
instead, his father left here last week
and is now visiting him. Lewis Grete
is putting in his vacation working in
one of the Couer diAlene mines.
D. C.
The royal bird of America was very
much in evidence in Silver City homes,
hotels and restaurants during Christ
mas, and nearly everybody enjoyed
turkey, witli all the good things whioli
go to make up dinners. The hospatal
ity of the families of this camp is
bounded only by the capacity of their
homes to entertain. The homeless and
the houseless are gathered in and feast
ed. Nugget's housekeeper being away
the old man, with a half dozen others
similarly conditioned, were made to
ft-el at home with a family of delightful
people, where the host carved and serv
ed a 27 pound bird, deliciously dressed,
roasted an(> served with a grace
which made the partaking of it and the
good things accompanying it more than
ordinarily enjoyable.
One hundred suits just received at
Sweeney's, $15.00 to $18.00.
EDUCATION.
Our government expends annually
about $250,000,000 for education. This
is an immense sum, and yet its figures
do not adequately measure the true
significance. Education is a real quan
tity in the problem of our national ex
istance. In the opiniou of a progress
ive citizenship it is incomputable. To
this factor much credit should be giv
en in effecting our advancement to so
conspicuous a place among the great
nations.
I want company and bauk checks
give 10 per cent premium on them.
Sweenet.
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MINING
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IN OWYHEE COUNTY
MINING ITEMS.
The condition of the weather, with
deep snow and unusual storms, has
left little to be said about our mines
this week. All outside work has been
virtually suspended, and the freight
ers delivering the material have been
literally suowed under, just as many
candidates will be next November. At
the big "going" mines, like the De La
mar and Trade Dollar, two days lay-off
has been taken on account of Christ
mas, but something has been doing in
the way of development work, never
theless.
POTO»|.
A station lias been cut out at the 300
foot level, reaily to begin drifting north
under the creek and town. The shaft
is making very little water, and it is
anticipated that there will be no tronn
le driving drifts both ways from ttiat
station.
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
is still pushing ahead in its tunnel on
high grade ore which is being sacked
for shipment, and is nearing a point
over which Trask took out a quantity
of ore of high value in earlier days, and
which he started the tunnel to tap from
below, but failed to complete. When
this point is reached an upraise will be
started to get air, v%jth the expectation
of finding this shoot of ricii ore again,
which Trask, in early days could not
work out on account of water.
THE BANNER
Miners are still continuing the Nortli
drift on No. 4 level, in good milling ore,
and have also crosscut the ledg», in the
uprise between No. 4 aud No. 3 levels
and have run into ore iu it which looks
better and is thought to be richer than
any heretofore found in the mine Sam
pies of it have been sent away to be
assayed.
A few carpenters are still kept work
ing on the mill when the weather will
permit and are making window frames
and doiug other work. Forty, or about
half of the windows have arrived and
will soon be put in place. A few days
milder weather would enable them to
get the lower half of the roof on, so
that the Setting of machinery could be
begun.
THE BIG SUGAR LOAF.
The miners out at the Big Sugar Loaf,
over the summit, are snowed in so that
they have nothing to do but get down
in the shaft and work, were represent
ed in town this week by Otto Peterson,
who got iu in advance of the storm.
Peterson says that at a deptti of 75 feet
they had stopped sinking and were
drifting both ways on a good four foot
vein but will begin right away driving
a cross-cut from the east to strike the
vein at the bottom of the shaft, to get
air aud arrange for taking out ore with
out having to hoist it. The slope of
the mountain where the cross-cut will
be ruq is about 45 degrees, which will
make the tunnel the same length the
shaft is deep. All the miners, who are
also shareholders, are well pleased with
the prospect.
Just received a brand new lot of
tailor made suits at Geo. R. SWeeney's.
THE STORM.
I
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:
Beginning Tuesday morning and last- j
ing until last night, we, in these moun
tains, were visited by an unusual storm.
Snow fell to a depth of at least four
feet, and drifted considerably. The
w ind was at its worst during Christmas
afternoon and evening and made it dif
ficult for even the strongest persons to
get oat on the streets. No mails got in
that evening, and only the letter sacks
were brought over the summit the
next day on horse back, and last night
the town was in darkness, because the
electric power line had broken down
and had thrown the lights and the ma
chinery at the mines and mills out of
commission. It was not, however, very
cold—not nearly as cold as it had been
a week before, when the murcary got,
one morning, down to 4 above zero and
we learned of it goiug as low as 22 be
low at other places.
A Christmas Tree at Dewey.
The Christmas exercises by the school
children at Dewey were very enjoyable
and reflected great credit on both pu
pils aud teacher, in the excellent man
ner iu which they carried out their
parts in the program, The people of
Dewy enjoyed every part of the exer
cises aid fully appreciated the pains
taken by their teacher, Mrs. Jennie
Avery, in making it an enjoyable even
ing. Great credit is due to Mr. and
Mrs. Frederic Irwin for the interest
shown by them in the Christmas tree,
and for the candy, nuts and beautiful
decorations with which it was adorned,
with Sauta Claus to make distributions
of tiie preseuis hung upon its boughs,
which helped to gladden the hearts of
the children and make it an evening
enjoyed by all. The following is a pio
gram rendered.
EXERCISES
Christmas Welcome.. .Everett Colborn
Hubert Nettleton
Christmas Day
The Bçthlehem Story..James Nettleton
The Star in the East. .Anna. McPIieters
The Bethlehem Babe...Song by School
Tell the Story .
Who Made the Speech. .Emma Nichols
The Little One's Speech.
Irene Swisher
Marion McPheters
Lÿie Colborn
"Plumpuppenbil".
Song, 1'il be a Sunbeam
_Olnie Perry and Annie Best
Chas. Nettleton
The Pumpkin and the Turkeys....
.Harold Best
What's the Use
Santa Claus on the Train
Frances Best
The Big Black Bear
.Willie Schrader
The Whistling Boy..Ralph McPheters
The Two Stockings....
The Loving Little Girl,
Katie Dayev
Florence McClung
Advice to Young Men
Clarence McPheters
Some Famous Articles.. .Primary Class
Emeline Nettleton
.... Violet Swisher
"Emily Jane".
Kitty is Forgotten
The Christmas Bells... .Song by School
Makes Bryan's Election Sure,
That is what Senator Dubois said
when the president made a fiual stand
last week and stated that he would not
accept the nomination. We can call to
mind many statements similar that
Senator Dubois has made, and the re
sult has shown that tiie majority of
soliool children knew us much about it
as he did.
in Idaho aud those who know him best
know how to take h>s statements on
political questions. We all know that,
if President Roosevelt had made an
evasive statement and intimated that
if the nomination came to him unani
Sen. Dubois is well know
I mously he would accept, Pnbois would
i have been just as prompt with a state
ment -'that makes Mr. Bryan's elect
: ion sure." The Senator will always be
reardy with his predictions.—Idaho
Register.
j
SUNDAY REST. (7)
A few Sundays ago a farmer drove
over to the county attorney's office and
demanded the arrest of a near
neighbor's threshing crew that was
violating the Sabbath, says an exchange.
The county attorney was pulling weeds
in his garden and he suggested that the
complainant go before the justice of
the peace in his township, but lie was
informed that the justice was fixing his
wiudmill. He was then asked to tele
phone the sheriff and have him attend
to the matter, but he was loading cat
tle at the stock yards. The farmer was
exasperated aud resolved to saddle a
horse and go for the constable, but hie
good wife who was canning fruit, in
formed him that the boys had driven
the horse to town and were playiug
ball.
In tho Probate Court of the Coun
ty of Owyhee, State of Idaho.
In the Matter of the Estate and
Guardianship of
ELLA MAY CROCHERON and
LETH A JOAN CROCHERON, Minors.
Joseph Babington, haviug made ap
plication bv petition to the Probate
Court of the County of Owyhee, State
of Idaho, for the sppointmeut of Jos
eph Babington as the guardian of the
persons aud estates of Ella May Croch
eron and Letha Joan Crocheron, said
minors.
Notice is hereby given, requiring said
minors, or their representatives, to ap
pear at the Probate Court, in Silver
City, in the County of Owyhee, and
State of Idaho, on the 13th day of Jan
uary, 1908, at 10 o'clock a. m„, and show
cause, if they can, whv said Joseph
Babington should not be appointed
guardian of the persons and estates of
said minors.
Dated December 26, 1907.
F. S. Heer, Clerk.
Report of the Financial Condition
of the
Owyhee County Ba.rvk
located at Stiver City, State of Idaho,
at the close of business on the 23rd day
of December, 1907.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts.
Overdrafts.
$27 713 01
432 15
Bonds, Warrantsand Other Securities.. 25 459 52
11 792 19
Due from Banks.
Checks on Other Banks and Cash Items
Cash on Hand..
851 S3
7 117 45
TOTAL..
... . $73 866 25
liabilities
Capital Stock Paid In.
Surplus Fund .
Undivided Profits.
Deposits.
.$10 000 00
594 51
. 2 790 98
. 59 980 78
TOTAL....
State of Idaho,
County of Owyhee.
I, Frank D. Hall, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that
the foregoing statement is true to
the best of my knowledge and belief.
Frank D. Hall, Cashier.
Attest :
$73 866 25
SS
Correet.
E. J. Burroughs, Sr., Director.
Subscribed aud sworn to before me
this 27th day of December, 1907.
J. S. St. Clair,
Clerk of District Court.
[seal]
Attention, Ladies!
Mrs. Mills will keep a full line of mil
linery at the oid stand in Silver City,
iu charge of Miss Hastings, and invites
her patrons to call upon her. Miss
Hastings will take orders for any ar
ticles she may not have in stock, which
will be promptly supplied.