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SILVER CITY JAIL
The new city Calaboose is about completed and
Mayor Huffaker and Marshall Kurtz are looking for star boarder with which
to dedicate the building. All that is necessary for you to do to get a
little free board is to load on “bug juice” and try to paint the town a
brilliant red.
6-1-1911 Silver City Times.
NEW JAIL DEDICATED
Silver City’s new cement jail,
which was built last summer, has at last been duly dedicated, and
henceforth and for ever more will be known as the “Miller House.” This
dedication took place Monday morning when a young man named Miller was
arrested and placed in durance vile for breaking into a freight car.
Young Miller claims Chicago as home and says he got into the car in Omaha
with the hopes of stealing a ride to his home city. But in the car was a
box of millinery goods belonging to a Miss Clara Plumb of Silver City.
Miller broke into the box and
decorated himself with a lot of millinery fixin’s that originally intended
for members of the fair sex only. After being properly bedecked as he
thought, Miller laid down on the floor and went to sleep. The car came to
Silver City Monday morning on the local freight and when the train men
opened it they found Miller sound asleep. He was arrested and deposited in
the new jail until Tuesday when a railroad detective arrived here and took
charge of him. On Wednesday Miller was taken before Justice of Peace,
Frank Pullman. He confessed to petit larceny and gave him ten days in the
county jail.
(Silver City Times Nov. 30, 1911)
The summer of 1979 the old jail was painted and cleaned up for the towns
100 year celebration. |
