The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1906-01-19
LOCAL.

Dewey and returned the mails TO the
postoffice here and waited until the
next morning.
Mrs Simon Harris, on Saturday, re-
ceived telegram from Washington, D.
c.. announcing the death of her
mother, Mrs. T. K Dehrand, long
time resident of the Capital City, and
dying at the age of 85 years.
Miss Lena DeLong arrived here from
her LaGrande, Ore, home last Satur-
day, to take charge of the telephone
exchange, but Miss Newell, who goes
from here to Emmett, has not yet TAX
en- her departure, but is awaiting the
arrival of the auditor to check up her
accounts.
A letter written to friend by
"Billy'' Thomas, the veteran Trade
Dollar mill engineer, now off on visit
to his former English home, states
that he had arrived at Queensland,
after rough passage during which he
had suffered good deal from seasick-
ness, but was all right then.
Mr.. A. H. Gaylord, the popular man
ager of the Silver City Supply Com
pauy's store, returned yesterday from
a several days business trip to Port
land. He says that city IS booming
and building right along, the closing Of
the worlds fair seemingly not causing
a check on its business or growth.
The board of county commissioners
is holding its adjourned meeting today,
to examine the sureties of the banks
making applications for deposits of
county funds. And, by the way, Mug
get was in error in stating, last week,
that the commissioners had held ov +
to examine the sureties of the "locap'
bank The Owyhee County Bank was
the only one making application whose
sureties we're passed upon and ap
proved last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Swaine of the
DeLamar Big Store, who went to San
Francisco several weeks ago for med
ical treatment, we regret to say, are
reported to be not improving. Mr..
Swaine's trouble is pronounced to be
Brights disease and that of his wife
catarrh of the stomach. They have ex-
, cellent friends there who are extreme
ly attentive to them, among the mum.
Der being Police Captain Gleason, one
of the gentlemen who extended sc
many courtesies to the Idaho Press
Association visitors, while IN San Fran
+, cisco last summer.
For the first time IN a good many
years, Owyhee county has so nearly
caught up with her Indebtedness as tC
be able to cash warrants for the cur
rent quarter from the current expens'
fund. Mrs. Weston, county treasurer
informs Nugget that she has paid ou
Z over $1,000 for 1906 warrants, and viii
be able to pay some more. All th'
warrants to be paid out of this funC
for 1905 have been taken up, but SOM
from the first quarter of 1904 are still
: outstanding The auditors report
published in this issue, shows that tn
county is in an excellent financial con
: ditioL. Its warrants, drawing Z pc
cent interest, have for several year
been eagerly picked up by investors.
Arthur Buckbee of the Pionee
Mines Co., manager at the Gambler
land returned, Sunday, from fort
: nights visit with his family at Sal
Lake City. His visit was saddened b
the death, while there, of Mrs Buck
bees father The gentleman, who's
name was Wood, made his home wit
!. the family and, although So years c
age, Mr.. Buckbee thinks he died to
soon, saying of him that he retained a
! of his faculties and enjoyed life up t
: the time of the brief illness which cal
ried him over the gEeat divide. He wa
an Argonaut, having gone to Californi
with the first rush to the goldfields i
'49. He was full of "reminiscences an
fond of telling incidents of those e,
citing early days.
A day or two before the big storI
began, Lucius Gardner accepted a
offer of $40 to carry letter from th
Cumberland mine to the Spence
ranch, at Big Springs, distance L
trail across the mountains of % mile
He went on horseback, and the storl
coming on, and he not getting bac
after five days absence, his brother g
George Winchester and James Levi