The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-09-29

and Northern Pacific.
The dance given last Saturday even
ing by the Silver City Orchestra was a
decided success from a social as we'll as
financial point of view. The music
furnished by the boys was voted by all
present 10 be the best ever rendered
here for dancing. The orchestra, com
posed of George Ieffery, 1st violin; a.
M. Knapp, piano; A. M. Cameron, flute;
Otto Schenkle, trombone, and j. b
Dickens, cornet, intends giving one of
these social dances every two or three
weeks during the winter, and investing
the proceeds in new and up-to-date
music.
Has it occurred to anyone to note
the absence of blackbirds this fall?
Usually when the bright autumnal
colors begin to bedeck the leaves of the
willows and aspens and make our
mountain side glow with their gaudy
tinting, the roads are filled with, chirp-
ing fiocks of these plump and fat little
fellows, gathering and twittering about
their departure for the winter to be
spent in milder cline. This year
they must have taken their French
leave instead of their noi-ily twittered
good bye, or they are later in getting
together for their departure.
@. NJ Jones, the barber, left here
Tuesday to go to Lake Washington,
Vancouver Island, to bring home his
fifteen year old son, and place him in
school. A year ago, while living in
Weiser, the lad, like many others with
good homes have done, took notion
that he wanted to see the elephant aud
ran away. He has seen that animal
from good many points of view and is
now satisfied He is an Industrious
fellow and has been earning nearly a
mans wages in saw mill, but although
he had written his parents that he was
coming home Christmas, with little
money in his inside pocket, their long
ing to have him with them and attend
ing school induced Mr. Jones to go
and get him. This is the reason his
barber shop is closed this week.
A dazed young quail flew down on
the streets of Silver City, Tuesday, and
when seen men became as eager to kill
the poor innocent bird as they would a
wild cougar. Several shots we're fired
at it and all kinds of missels we're
thrown until the poor thing yielded up
it's life to the better aim of man with
stone. Then the alert game warden
put in his presence and reprimanded
the man for violating the law, and the
keeper of thirst quenching par or put
in his oar, with he result that the
game warden arrested the bird killer
and took him before the probate court
: where the man pleaded guilty tC
thoughtlessly killing the bird and paid
a fine of $3.50 Our game warden was
disposed to let him off by simply eau
! tioning him that it was violation ot
the law, had not the third party step
ped in and accused him of over offici
BUSINESS.
Nugget, last week, overlooked lien
ton of the death of John Biggs, wht
> was we'll known to all old timers here
he died early in the mouth in Custer
county, where he had long owned somt
? valuable mining claims on GreyhounC
? mountain, which he had discovered
, good many years ago, but which on ac
count of their remoteness from roads
: have only recently attracted attention
> He also claimed to have been the dis
coverer of the properties of the Grey
hound Mining- Company, in the sam
9 vicinity, now being operated by ex
Governor w. j. Mcconnell, Charles M
a Hays ct al, which are now coming int
d such prominent notice aud to whicl
d the state is now aiding in building
b road. Mr.. Biggs in his younger day
!. was pioneer stage driver. He lef
n here some IA years ago. He was th
n locator of the Leopard mining CLAIM
e on Florida mountain, which he sold t.
e the late Col. Dewty and which is nov
9, the property of the Trade Dollar Cor
Company. After receiving the none
a for the Leopard, it will be remembere
e that he and Charley stucker "took
r whirl'' east while the money lasted. H
l. did not return here again, but has live
Is in Custer county ever since. He spen
d some of his winters in Boise. He Wa
a about 6S years of age when he died
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