The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-11-24
LOCAL.

Mrs. W. B. Hurd and children, after
visit with her parents in Boise, left
that city, Monday, for a visit with
friends in Salt Lake City.
Shape your affairs so that you can
attend the Thanksgiving ball, to be
given at Silver City by the Miners
Union. OF course it will be swell
event.
Mrs. Fanny Taylor, of Meridian, has
several hundred nice, fat young geese
ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
She will sell them at 1219 cents per
pound. Orders left at Nugget will be
forwarded to her.
John Cogar, for years blacksmith
and tool sharpener at the DeLamar
mines, left early this week for Boise
and went from there to Horseshoe
Bend to spend short time with the
family of George Fault, another former
DeLamarite, now prosperous Jerusa-
lem rancher.
Barney Malloy, once DeLamar
miner but now a prosperous Sucker
creek rancEer. just over the line in
Oregon, was i'll town yesterday filing
proof of labor on claim he still hangs
onto on DeLamar mountain. OF course
Barney called upon Nugget and made
us glad.
A small fire broke out in the Idaho
hotel early Sunday morning, creating
a little commotion, but it was quenched
with no more serious damage than
drenching the room and furniture.
With the fire fighting equipment at the
hotel and the high water pressure, a
fire which could not be controlled
would have to gain big headway.
Attorney John f. Nugent arrived in
Boise, Tuesday, bringing his son Ainslie
with him but leaving Mrs. Nugent,
now happily recovering from the re-
cent critical operation, at the home of
her sister, Mrs. DR.. Perrauit, in SAT-
Francisco. She is still too weak to
travel, but hopes TO return as far as
her parents home in Boise within a
few weeks, where she will probably re-
main until spring before returning
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mills paid a four days
visit to Boise, returning Wednesday.
While there Mrs. M. gave new York
house an order for millinery goods,
comprising handkerchiefs, neckwear,
ladies' and childrens' purses and bags,
corset and hair bows and other articles
suitable for dainty presents. While in
Boise they called to see the Owyhee
people i'll at the hospitals. Jud. e Nu
gent they found growing gradually
weaker; Miss Alice Connors is doing
nicely and will soon be able to be out
again; Miss May McMahon is GONZALES
cent from severe siege of typhoid
fever; they did not see Judge Handy,
but learned that he was not quite as
we'll for the last few days as his friends
had hoped to see him.
j. G. Albright, deputy great incoho-
nee of the Improved Order of Red
Men, arrived here Wednesday and at
once got busy with arrangements for
instituting tribe here. Mr.. Junius
O'Conuor, having preceded him here
several days and mustered a sufficient
number of braves from among the
brightest bucks here and in Dewey and
DeLamar, to start off with a tribe of
about IS. Mr.. Albright, whose home
is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has a
jurisdiction extending over several
states. The tribe to be organized here
will assemble Saturday night for or
ganization, and Mr.. Albright will re-
main for several days instructing the
sachems, chiefs and warriors in their
work. Nugget will be able to give fur
ther particulars about the local tribe
next week.
Yesterdays Statesman contained an
editorial saying that numerous com
plants we're being made that dams
across rivers in Idaho were preventing
salmon and other fishes from reaching
their former spawning places, and par
ticular mention was made of the Swan
Falls dam on Snake river. The state
aud federal governments each require
that fish ladders shall be put in such
dams, aud in compliance with these re-
quirements, when the Swan Falls dam
was put in, ladder was constructed
up which some OF the fish found their
way But, three years ago, the then