The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1907-07-05

and zest, all the same, and perhaps had
better fun than bigger crowd would
have brought us.
Everybody was up betimes in the
morning, and when the sun peeped
down over the mountains, he saw Old
Glory streaming from fagstaffs and
housetops and bunting everywhere,
and as usual, flags floating from tile
smaller nearby mountain peaks, and
heard the mountain sides reverberating
with the noise of bombs And a noisy
day had begun. At Silver City, at the
hour of nine O'clock, the decorated
platform in front of the courthouse be-
gan to fill with daintily dressed chill
dren and soon the morning exercises
was in full swing, under the direction
of Miss Hastings, and opened with the
Star Spangled Banner, sung by .cho-
rus Of little tots of girls; then brief
play entitled, ''In Betsy Ross's Time,n
by children, in which the scene of max
ing Of the first American flag by the
lady was enacted; then the song, Ida
ho," by chorns; then the reading OF the
Declaration of independence; then a
duet, "The Stars and Stripes and You"
sung by Misses Carrie Hastings and
Elma Hays; then an oration by Hon.
Charles ". Hays, and grand wind-up
Of The morning exercises with the song
America by everybody.
The exercises differed only in detail
and surroundings, from the same heard
in hundred thousand cities, towns,
villages, hamlets, homes and camps be-
tween where The sun first rose above
the horizon from the Atlantic, TO where
it gilded the mountain tops above the
homes of patriotic Americans in the far
off islands of the Pacific.
The powder that was burned, the
songs which we're sung, and the ora
tions which were spouted everywhere
in this broad, free and glorious Country
of Ours, all breathed the same spirit of
patriotic fervor and devotion
The Afternoon Sports
began at o'clock, with an amateur foot
race, and were kept up with lots of fun
until they ended with fireworks from
one of the neighboring peaks, at night.
There were many special features
among the games and sports from races
at needle threading and nail driving by
ladies worth mention but the horse
race around block; turning post
cowboy race and a bucking horse con
test eelipsed all the others in interest.
The horse race around block was a
reckless affair to be carried on where so
many women and children were on the
streets, but it passed off excitinglv,
with four horses and their riders doing
their reckless best, without accident,
young Will Cavaney winning. The
turning around three stakes, going and
coming in a race of 100 yards, in the
least time was fine display of cowboy
horsemanship, aud was won in 80 sec
onds by john T. Shea. The bucking
horse riding by - Sullivan, was very
exciting piece Of work A Wild never
before saddled horse was led from
corral by three expert vaqueros, thrown,
saddled, and brought to his feet, rear
ing, plunging and bucking in manner
which made life and limb in danger for
the onlookers, and then Sullivan, with
only a rope on the mad horses nose,
leaped into the saddle. Immediately
there was business then and there. The
horse began rearing, bucking and
plunging, but the rider staid with him.
The horse started for the corral, with
half dozen cowboys on their horses,
trying to keep him on the street, but
the boys got hin turned back, and he
and his rider gave the crowd royal ex-