The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-06-25

Pleasant Valley, were attending to bust
ness and visiting in our City the first Of
the week.
Peter Steel H. K. Doll, Robt Hatfield,
DR.. F. s. Heer and other stockholders in
the Banner property, left Tuesday morn
ing for Boise to attend the stockholders
meeting which met the oath inst.
Miss Matte Heer, Arthur Heer and
Clifford Weston are home from Moscow.
They took in the Seattle fair before they
returned from school Both the young
men are members Of the School Militia.
Silver City will have a monster two
days celebration this year, Monday and
Tuesday, July 9th and 9th. Hanson and
Mcleod have caught the Eagle, and have
been busy for several days teaching it to
scream.
Mesdames A. J. Swan, G. M. Caldwell,
S. Beaton, Swan, and Mr.. E. J. Bur
rough Jr. will start for Kent, Washing
ton, on July lst. where they will visit
relatives and also spend some time at the
Seattle Fair.
Attorney R. D. Thomas Of Boise was
attending to legal business at the county
seat during the past week. Mr.. Thomas
is associated with Judge Perkey Of Boise.
He was very favorable impressed with Sill
yer City and the surrounding mining.
country.
The foreign sheepherder pretends to
No comprende' when asked to observe
the laws relative to grazing of sheep; some
say the best interpreter one can use is
30-30 Savage, as they Savoy with no
difficulty when they find out that one will
stand no foolishness.
Ed. Catlow and family left last Monday
for their stock ranch in the Stiens Mt.
Country. They have been residing in
Silver the past winter for the purpose Of
sending their children to school. They
will be missed by their many friends here
as they formerly resided in this City.
For several days the past week our
brewer, Fritz Schliefer, has been hauling
great chunks of frozen snow from the
nearby snow drifts to use in his refriger-
ator in the brewery. It is not in every
locality that ice, formed by nature, can
be put up during the later part of June
Prof. Lewis of Flint has sure prospered
during his sojourn in Twilight gulch;
Percy White says that they have been fat
tening him for the market. Before com
ing into town, they succeeded in sinching
him up so as to bring the waist band of |
his overalls together so that it would but
ton: but Bob says it nearly choked him.
Clayton Danks, the horsethief and bad
man OF Blaine and Owyhee counties, who
made a sensational escape from the sher-
if in this city few weeks ago and was
later captured by Henry Zimmer, re-
ceived his sentence last week at Haley.
Danks confessed to horse stealing and
was given IA years in the penitentiary.
When sentenced by the court banks
busrt into tears and seemed anything but
. desperate. .-Nampa Leader Herald.
Prof. R. NJ. Lewis, more familiarly
known as Bob the Booster, :" and Percy
White were over from Flint Wednesday.
Bob brought over some samples of the
ore that he is taking out of one of his
claims in that locality. This ore shows
values Of $21.0 in gold and 800 OF. in
silver; at present value of 81 cents per
ounce it would give silver valuation of
S35S.SO per ton, making total value Of
S379.S0. BY taking select specimens a
much higher assay can be obtained. The
edge is over 4 it. in width, all carrying
good value.
One day last week a Bascoe sheep
herder, Fernando Bilvola, attempted to
mix his band with H. L, Avery's sheep
and when Mr.. Avery objected, the for
signer drew his knife and threatened to
kill Avery. In order to avoid trouble Mr..
Avery came to town and had Bilvola ar
rested for assault He y,ae b,,ono,b4 i, h.,