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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1899)
8 THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, October 18, 1899. TALK OF THE TOWN. H. G. Wood lias returned from Can yon City. Miss Buruap, of Centralla, Is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Copping. I. rlopp, owner of the Ajax, is in Sumpter for a few days. W. W. Looney and Joe Mlckel took In the Spokane fair last week. Two carloads of mains for the Sumpter water works have arrived. Or. Tape Is out at his mine this week, superintending development work. Mrs. Mollle Doau and Miss Frankie Britten left yesterday to attend the Port land fair. H. J. Jory returned yesterday from a trip into the hills, where he went to ex amine a mine. I-'. E. Hrockman, bookkeeper for W. C. Calder, was joined here by Ills wife and children this week. Dr. G. W. McConuell was here Satur day on porfesslonal business. He went out as far as Granite. N. C. Richards has been appointed at torueyforthe Sumpter Towusitesyndfcate. Mrs. Kichards has arrived from Tacoma. J. H. I.eland returned last evening from the Gnu of the Mountains mine, where he has been for a week having It pumped nut. Attorneys Stott & Sheldon have moved Into their new ottices next door to the city hall, and now have the best appointed quarters In town. N. T. Collett, representing Wadhams Hi Co., of Portland, has been In Sumpter this week, accompanied by Mrs. Collett and their little daughter. J. (!. Council returned early in the week trom a business trip to Lu Grande, which town he reports quid, In comparison with this live mining camp. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. mils and Miss Carrie Spalding attended the Spokane lair last week, are In Portland now and will be at home In a few days. K. R. h'rwln Is home from a visit with his lamlly at Heppner and a flyer at the Spokane fair. He refuses to make affi davit as to all he did in Spokane. Another snow fell last night, to a depth of four Inches, but the temperature Is above the frccxliig point today, and the alleged beautilul is fast disappearing. Hon. George Alnsley, of Holse, passed through Sumpter last week, driving a private rig. He had been looking over the mining district and was hurrying back home. K. J. McPhee, a well known mining man ol Spokane, Is here for the purpose of connecting himself with one of the principal mining companies ol the Sump ter district. John M. Burke, of the Banzette Con solidated Gold Mining company, has re turned to Sumpter after an absence of two months, during which time he has been to Tennessee, where many of those Interested In the company reside. He went out yesterday to look at thepropery, which has been managed by G. P. Mlms during his absence. Central Is now more readily reached. The telephone company has removed its oltice to the new headquarters In front of the Hasche Hardware company's building, on Mill street. Mrs. J. H. Harchus, of Portland, will b hi Sumpter Nov. i to open a studio for the purpose ot teaching oil painting. A display of her painting Is now In the win dow of Dr. Fisher's drug store. Mrs. C. S. Warren has returned from Spokane, wherr she has been for a week or ten days past. She was accompanied to Sumpier by Mr. and' Mrs. John W. Murphy. The latter is a daughter of General and Mrs. Warren. Mr. Murphy will engage in the Insurance and broker age business here. Two sisters of mercy, representing a home for the aged recently started at Portland, have been in Sumpter and, sur rounding camps for a week, soliciting con tributions for this charitable Institution. Pint Bank of Sumpter Begin BtalotM. J. W. Scriber arrived in Sumpter last evening and will open the First Bank of Sumpter for business the latter part of this week. The bank has been incorpor ated under the state laws by J. W. Scriber, R. H. Miller, J. H. Robblns, of La Grande, and J. W. Mead, of this place, with a paid up capital of $20,000. The officers have not yet been elected, but probably will be today or tomorrow, when permanent quarters for the bank will also be decided on. For the present the Institution will do business In the Sumpter Hardware company's store, a corner having been partitioned off for this purpose. The safe and supplies arrived here some days since. A number of leading business men of Sumpter have subscribed for stock. Jumped Out of and Run Over by a Stage. Monday while McEwen & Sloan's stage was going from Granite to the Red Boy mine, a man named Rankin, jumped nut of the vehicle, was run over and badly injured. The stage It a covered one, the doors were closed and tied. The driver says Rankin jumped out of the small opening in one of the doors, and that he was drunk at the time. He was brought back to town yesterday. Dr. Fisher was called to attend him. He siys the man looked like he had been through a threshing machine, his head be ing cut in a number of places, but for tunately no bones were broken nor Inter nal injuries received, so the wounds are not dangerous. He fs on the street last evening. He says he doesn't know how he got out of the stage. Ongontin, Not Telegram, the Grafter. TDK MINER Is in receipt of a letter from C. J. Owen, editor and manager of the Portland Telegram, stating that he never had an interview with W. C. Calder, never saw Puget Sound, and never attempted to "hold him up" for fji or 100, as Mr. Calder was quoted as stating was the case while in Portland re cently. This letter was shown to him and he at once stated that It was the editor of the Oregunlan who attempted to graft hlms that if he said Telegram it was a slip of the tongue, occasioned by the fact that the man had formerly been connected with that paper. THE MINER regrets that the mistake was made, and gladly publishes this correction. Hauling Machinery to Magnolia. The work of hauling the four carloads of machinery,wh!ch have been standing on the track at the foot of Center street for some weeks past, to the Magnolia mine, owned by W. L. Vinson, was started yes terday. The buildings are about finished now. The long delay in unloading this machinery was occasioned by ,the fact that the buildings at the mine were not ready for Its reception. Mr. Vinson, Is using his own teams, ten In number, to do the hauling, and will soon finish the job. City Council ProcMdiagt. The time of the city council was taken up very largely at the meeting Saturday evening, in discussing the grade ordi nance, which was Introduced at that time. The instrument was ordered enrolled. The matter of opening Columbia street, from Auburn to Granite, was laid over until this ordinance Is passed. The com mittee which was authorized to buy a tire- They report having been very successful proof safe was given another week in in their efforts to raise money. which to prosecute Its search for a bargain. GROCERIES Crockery, Glassware, Tobac co, Cigars, Oranges, Candy and Nuts. Everything carried in a first-class grocery store At The SUMPTER GROCERY COMPANY ELLIS BLOCK, SUMPTER, OREGON. j j NOT MADE BY A TRUST j j SMOKE "MASTIFF" PLUG CUT J. B. PACE TOBACCO CO. Richmond, Va. GRANT THORNBURG, PROPRIETOR. ..HOTEL GRAND. The best hotel building in the Mining District. Table always first-class. Rooms large and well furnished. First-class bar and billiard room in connection. Reliable Inform ation and guides furnished to mining men. GRANITE, - OREGON oeoooooeoooooocooocoooeoooooooeooooooo Capital Hotels uo oeeoeeeoeeeeoooooooooeeooeoooeeoeeooo o o u MRS. G. B. TEDROWE o Proprietress coooeooeooooooooooooooeooooocooocoeoo" Centrally Located. Electric Lights. Newly Refurnished. 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