The Owyhee nugget., March 08, 1907, Image 2

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Entered ns second-class matter January
4.1905, at the post office at Silver City.
Idaho, under the Act of Congress of
March 3,1879.
FRIDAY. MARCH 8,1907.
The two mile limit law will con
tinue to cut ice future elections.
The senator and representative
from Owyhee, both sheepmen,
had opportunities to place their
respective parties on record on
this question. The democratic
senator to cut it down to one
mile and the republican repre
sentative to leave it as it is.
which vote will the people ap
prove?
Of
The fifty-ninth U. 8. Congress
passed into history at noon, last
Monday, with its record of things
accomplished, and marking the
greatest two years of prosperity
this country has ever known. It
was truly a billion dollar con
gress in the amount of its ex
penditures and appropriations,
hut then it had to he to keep in
march with the progress made
by the entire nation.
District court opened in Cald
well on Monday, with the new
judge, E. L. Bryan presiding.
Aside from what action may be
taken in the Moyer, Heywood
and Pettibone trials, but little of
general interest is to come before
the session. In these cases, by
stipulation of the attorneys, no
proceeding will he had until the
lawyers have done with the case
of Steve Adams now going on at
Wallace and have time to return.
What action will he taken then
must remain a conjecture.
An inquiry has been handed
Nugget, coming from Rochester,
N. Y., asking for information
concerning the Golden Eagle
Mining Co., located in Carson
Mining district, incorporated in
18(54, of which J. A. Post was
secretary aud A. P. Minear presi
dent. As there are only two or
three men in the county whose
memories go hack 48 years, and
as all old records were long since
destroyed by fire, tile inquirer
will have to he content with the
answer that the existence of such
a corporation has long since been
forgotten here, though the name
of Mr. Minear, long since deceas-j
ed, is quite well remembered as
one of tiie prominent early pio-1
neers.
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By the grace of tile Governor
and a narrow margin of right- j
eousness oil the part of the legin
lature, the two mile limit law lias
been allowed to stand as it is.
The Governor, himself a sheep
man, was inclined to favor its
being cut down to a one mile
limit until he fopnd that chair
man Brady had given assurances
that the law would neither be re
pealed or modified. Hence, in
compliance with an implied par
ty pledge he opposed cutting the
limit down to one mile as the
sheep owners wanted done. But
the law is far from satisfactory
as it stands. It only requires the
sheepmen to pay damages to the
injured party for its violation,
and throws the burden of proof
on the injured party. It should
also make its violation a misde
meanor, especially where sheep
are permitted to pollute the
sources of water supply.
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The direct primary election bill
passed the lower house of the
legislature last Saturday by a
vote which was quite satisfactory
but did not do much credit to
the republican party which had
pledged such a measure in its
platform as it was only support
ed by a majority of two on the
republican side of the house,
while all the democratic members
favored it. The senate concur
ring and the Governor approv
ing, of which there can be no
doubt, the ordinary nominating
conventions will henceforth be
eliminated from Idaho politics
and the parties will have an op
portunity to express their choice
for candidates at the primaries
to be binding at the elections to
follow. This plan now adopted
in a number of states with vari
ous modifications has yet to he
tried out to ascertain its defects
and good paints. It is quite cer
tain that it will remedy some of
the evils of the existing system,
but it is not altogether certain
that other evils will not he dis
covered to have taken their place.
The present day political heeler
is too resourceful to be turned
down simply because some of his
old methods cannot longer he
employed, and if the primary
elections are not strongly safe
guarded he will invent schemes
to circumvent them. To be sure,
it is claimed that the new system
will bring the choice of all elective
officials nearer to the people than
old methods, hut will not ballot
manipulations and ballot box
stuffing be quite as readily done
at the primaries as at the elec
tions to follow? Again, will it
bring careless people out to the
primaries? Or will they St ill re- j
train from doing there duty, and
let manipulators run
maries and then do their com- !
the pl'i- !
plaining when they find that un- 1
desirable men have been selected ;
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as candidates, as a result of their
indifference about performing a
plain civic duty?
In Kentucky.
The following humorous sketch
of Kentucky life was written by
Col. E. E. Richardson of Kansas
City, for the Kansas City Staf:
".Man born of the mountains of
Kentucky is of fued days and full
of virus. He fisheth, fiddleth, cus
8eth and fighteth all the days of his
life.
He shunneth water as a mad dog
and drinketh much good whiskey.
When he desireth to raise h-,
he planteth a neighbor, and loi he
reapeth twenty-fold,
from the cradle to seek the scalp of
his grandsire's enemy, and bringeth
home in his carcass the ammunition
of his neighbor's wife's cousin's
uncle's father-in-law, who avenged
the deed.
Yea, verily, his life is uncertain,
and he knows not the hour that he
may be jerked hence.
He goeth forth on a journey half
shot and cometh back on a shutter
full of shot.
He riseth in the night to let the
cat out, and it taketh nine doctors
three days to pick the buckshot out
of bim.
He goeth forth in joy and glad
ness and cometh back in scraps and
fragments.
A cyclone bloweth into the bosom
of his neighbor's wife, and his
neighbor's wife's husband bloweth
him into Abraham's bosom before
he hath time to explain.
He emptieth a demijohn into
himself and a shotgun into his ene
my and his enemy's son lieth in
wait for him on election day, and,
lo! the coroner bloweth up a 40
acre field to bury the remains of
his enemies.
Woe, woe is Kentucky, for her
eyes are red with moonshine whisky
and her soul is stained with the
blood of her innocent moonshiners.
He riseth
j t? reat variety at Rowett's Jewelry Store,
! Philipp's llardwme store.
Too Mvch Ja.cka.bs,
In one of the engagements of
General Sheridan with the Indians,
his men, taken unaware by the red
skins, bud no lime to remove their
mountain howitzer from the mule's
back, so they blazed away sending
mule and gun tumbling together
down hill upon the Indians, who
fled in panic. One of them, cap
tured a few days afterward, was
asked why he ran away. He re
plied: "Me big Injun; me not afraid
of little guns or big guns; but when
white man shoots jackass at Injun
me light out damn quick.''—Parma
Herald.
Leave your orders with Mr. Geo. R.
Sweeney at the Idaho Hotel, for the
cleaning, pressing and repairing of
your suite. All work neat y done.
Souvenir Chii avvaiv and hand paint
ed chiuaware in beautiful designs and
National stoves aud Ranges and New
! Home Sewing Machines (or sale at
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; Cali,ornia Figs 14 f,esb ° r
j Lemons at Tremewau's Fruit and Can
! dy Store.
CHURCH SERVICES.
j Services will be belli at the following
j places during the winter on the first
and third Sundays of each month and
the two
t>r vines evenings : Black Jack
Friday evening; I)ew
Saturday eve
ning; Silver City, Sunday, 11 a. m., De
Lamar, Sunday, 7:30 p. m.
Geo. P. Pemberton Pastor
E expected to fill this space
this week with an important
Announcement of the arrival
of Goods for the Spring Trade, but
delays in Transportation have com
pelled us to postpone the An
nouncement until it arrives.
McLAIN «, BUR.ROUGH
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and DeLamar
STAGE LINES
ÎIWThe best facilities for transportation between the railway ter
minus to aud from Silver City, DeLamar, or other points in Owyhee.
Keep good mountain rigs, with good stock aud Careful Drivers.
Stables at Silver City and Murphy
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REGULAR
TRIPS
Between DeLamar and
Silver City. Stage de
parts from Dolamar at
S a. in. Departs from
Silver on return trip at
2 p. m. Passengers and
Freight carried. Stops
at !>e\ve> en route.
Delamar Livery, Feed
and sale STABLes
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