The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-03-06
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new line of carpenter, mechanic and
cutting tools, hardware and household
novelties at Philipp's Hardware Store.
Mrs. NJ. M. Hanson and baby boy left
Black Jack, Monday morning, for an ex-
tended visit to her former home in Ohio.
Mrs Fritz schleifer returned home
from Boise, with her sick infant boy, last
Saturday. The child, though far from
well, is now in fair way to recovery.
Miss Gertrude Williams, a young cousin
of Mrs. Phoebe Spencer, is here from
Newberg, Ore, visiting her relative, prob
ably to remain with her during the sum
mer.
A rumor has reached here that two
Mexicans working on ditch below Jor-
dan Valley were killed early this week by
the explosion Of giant powder, which they
were thawing by a sagebrush fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Givens and their
boy-Mr. Givens being the general ac-
countant Of the Trade Dollar company
arrived home Saturday from a month s
visit in the East, chiefly spent with friends
in and about Pittsburg. They report
having had an exceedingly pleasant visit,
and all arrived home in the best of health
and spirits.
The saloon-keepers are now considering
the renewal of their licenses, now raised
to $3.50 per year, including all the thirst
emporiums in the county. Thus it is
made harder for the poor fellows all over
the state It is hard, indeed, the way
the law is expressing these poor gentry,
striving to make decent living by selling
booze, first by compelling them to keep
their drink parlors closed on Sundays and
then by increasing their licenses. What
is the country coming to anyway?
And again we have to remark about
the fine but remarkable weather we have
had all winter. Now well into March,
there has not been thaw or a breakup
since the deep snow fell, about Christmas
time, while in the valleys there has been
scarcely any snow and the roads are now
dry and, with the exception of occasional
brief storms, men have been able in the
mountains to go about daily outdoor
tasks with some degree of comfort, and
in the valleys no better season has been
known for building canals and bitches
and doing other outdoor work.
Married;-At Silver City, Idaho, satur-
day, February 20, 1908, Mr.. James How
ard and Miss Nellie Mowbray, both Of
Murphy, Idaho, R. S. Halves, ESQ.,, Of
ficiating. The happy young couple drove
up here quietly in the afternoon accom-
panied by Mrs. Bruce Sotheren and Mr..
Milt Mckinney stopped at the Recorder
office and procured their license and then
proceeded to Esquire Hawes's home and
had the ceremony SO quickly and deity
performed and drove away again that
few people in town were the wiser until il
was all over and they were gone.
An Indian, son of the once notorious
ly well known Big Jim, who was found
frozen to death over near Sinker tunnel q
few years since, was found dead at his
little shack home on Castle Creek, not fan
from 0reana, early this week, and Coro-
ner Farrer, Prosecuting Attorney Hays
and the sheriff sent for to go down and
investigate the matter. The Indian, {
strapping young buck, had been seen re
turning from Oreana carrying his custom
airy jag" and it is said, got home ant
drove his mother, his squaw and pap
pooses away from home, then went ou
and built fire in the sagebrush, laiC
down by it and died. When found the
next day the indications denoted that ht
had been badly beaten up, and foul pla!