The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1906-04-27


of the hall the entire brigade of terri
BILE kids 1t is to be hoped that this
will be done on all future occasions.
Silver City boys are no greater nui-
sances than those of other towns, but
they have been allowed greater latitude
Mr.. Charles Swaine of the DeLamar
Big Store who with his wife, both of
them inyalids, speLt the winter in San
francisco, is expected home within two
or three days. Much anxiety was felt
in regard to them after the earthquake
as it was thought they we're in San
Francisco at the time, but fortunately
they had left there and gone south.
Quite snow storm occurred here
lasting all day Tuesday, making it very
disagreeable. 1t cleared up yesterday,
however, and we now have bright sun
shine and hope that better weather
has come to stay The sides Of the
mountains facing south are now al
most bare of snow, but there are still
big drifts on War Eagle and Florida
mountains which will probably last all
summer
The Odd Fellows an niversary ball,
last night was a success in a social way
though the attendance was limited al
most exclusively to the towns people
and from the mines. The condition of
the roads did not justify an attendance
of people further away. Something
over forty couples we're on hand at the
banquet at the Idaho With th fine
music supplied by Jeffery's Dewey or
chestra, the dance was very much en-
joyed and kept up until late hour.
he stages from Murphy came over
the summit on wheels, yesterday, for
the first time this spring. A gang of
men had been kept at work several
day S shoveling out the drifts At one
place cut had to be made 16 feet. For
some days the loads had to be trans
ferred to runners to come distance
of less than half mile and then load
ed on wagons again to reach town All
the other portions of the road clear
to Murphy have been fairly good for
some time.
VIM. Bews came up from Sinker yes
terday and having rented his ranch to
| w. A. Seaton, will go to work in the
mines. He says that engineers have
been making further surveys of the
reservoir proposition and the promot-
ers in company with couple of cas-
tern men visited the ground last week
and concluded that the better and
cheaper plan would be to build two
build two reservoirs instead of the
very expensive one on the Crocheron
ranch on the Bews ranch and one
in the canyon ou the Gilmore ranch
and they have taken options on these
ranches. They assured him that the
scheme would be carried through and
that WORK would begin this coming
summer.
The ladies and little girls of Mrs
Knapp's music classes promise, under
the direction their teacher to give us,
Monday evening at Honsteads hall, one
of the most charming musical enter
tainments, our people will have the op-
portunity OF enjoying for many day
Besides pantomime and tableaux, light
ed from lantern in varied colors, vo-
cal and instrumental solos and duets,
the children will appear in the delight
full operetta in five acts, entitled, Maud
Irving or the little orphan. with bean
tiful stage setting and pretty costumes.
OF course everybody will be there to
see and hear our dainty little misses.
No tickets will be sold but Mr.. Frank
Hall will be at the door and exact 80
cents from every grown up and half
that amount from the younger ones
and all the money he collects over the
actual expenses will be divided among
the performers.
The Silver City Miners Union is max
ing extensive preparations for cele-
brating the third anniversary of the
adoption of the eight hour shift in the
mines and reduction works in Owyhee,
May is. They will give a grand ball
and supper here, charging for tickets
and donate the proceeds to aid in the
defense of Meyer, Haywood and Petit
bone. The eight hour day was adopted
at the Trade Dollar mines and mills,
May II, 1903, but had been in vogue at
the DeLamar company's mines for