The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-03-26

prise.
No one could ask for more delightful
weather than we are having at present.
With the bright sunshine, pure atmos-
phere and plenty of snow banks to keep
one from being overcome by heat, there
is no more ideal climate in the wide. wide
world than in the Owyhee mountains.
The recent decession of the Montana
Supreme Court ON the injury of employees,
that the right of action for damages dies
with the injured in case of instant death,
is about as rank verdict as could be
conceived Such decisions will destroy
what little respect the people have for the
Courts.
The Odd Fellows Lodge of Silver City
are making extensive preparations to eel
ebrate the anniversary ofthe organization
of the Order, on the Goth of April. Full
particulars will appear later. This Order
is one of the most beneficial orders in ex-
istence, and has a large membership
throughout the country.
The Seattle chamber of commerce will
conduct an information bureau in Seattle
while the Alaska Yukon Exposition is in
progress for the benefit of visitors to the
city. Agents will meet all boats and
trains and in this way persons who visit
the metropolis of the state of Washington
i this summer will be assured of reasonable
rates at the hotels and lodging houses.
The Sheriff and Coroner returned from
the Bruneau country Monday evening,
having in charge Ray Williams, who shot
and killed Joe Pelessier near that place
The Coroner's inquest was held at Frael
Springs, about lS miles south of Glenn's
Ferry, and the preliminary examination
at Bruneau Williams was bound over
without bail to appear at the next term
of District Court.
Yesterday morning when Jack Ward
and George King went on shift at the
Potosi, in the north drift on the 300 foot
level, Ward noticed that the air was bad
and they started to get out. When Ward
came back to where King was working
loading the car, he found him knocked
out and lying on the floor of the tunnel.
Although hardly able to walk, Ward sue
ceeded in carrying King to the station,
a distance of abont 800 feet and getting
him in the bucket and they were raised
to the surface. Steps must be taken to
get better ventilation, as several OF the
boys have been overcome by gas in sew
eral of the mines.
At this time, more than two months
before the official date of opening, the
buildings stand complete, the streets are
paved and now the exhibits to fill areas
of space are arriving in Seattle. Canada s
magnificent exhibit that attracted the
attention of thousands of visitors to the
Franco-British Exhibition at London last
year has arrived in Seattle and from Italy
come several carloads of rare exhibits for
the foreign section and big manufactur-
ing concerns throughout the United States
are forwarding their displays direct to the
exposition grounds where now long row
of heavily laden freight cars waiting to be
unloaded is daily scene.
How about our Commercial Club?
While other towns are out boosting for
their particular localities and the country
in general, are YOU going to stay asleep
and take no interest in calling the atten-
ton of the multitude of investors and
home-seekers, who are on their way to
the west, seeking profitable investments7
The farmer who waits until the spring
freshets come, to build his dams and
bitches for irrigation, soon learns that he
can never irrigate with the water that has
: passed by. Today and tomorrow the
Idaho Oregon Development Congress
9 meets in Ontario, to discuss matters o.
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