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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1899)
THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, November 22, ,1,899 IS SUMPTER A FAKE? So Designated by Butte Paper and Drunken Bum. Sumpter has attained a position of suffi ilcnt importance to inspire an attack from a powerful rival; no less, in fact, than the mud) boasted, acknowledged "(greatest 1 .imp on earth," lititte, Montana. The Inter Mountain, a daily newspaper of that town, publishes In Its issue of No vember lO, under the scare head-line, 'An Oregon Fake," a ludicrously false letter from one, Tim l.owney, dated at Sumpter, November 13, in which he des ignates this town as merely a logging iamp crowded with Idle, hungry men: speaks disparagingly of three of the greatest mines on the continent, the Got uiuda, Red Hoy and Ronana-, says the only good rock he has seen here came from Montana and relieves himself of his entire job lot of similar transparently idiotic falsehoods. 'I III: MlNKK man never heard of Tim l.owney before and could not find any trace of him In any of the hotels or .lodg ing houses here, but in his efforts to get a glimpse of so monumental .1 liar, met a number of Butte gentlemen who 'volun teered some Interesting Information re garding the antecedents and character of tills authrapoldal ape. In the first place, he wears (lis championship belt for being the must irredeemable gold-lined idiot, ever manufactured at and turned out of any of Professor Kcrley's fool factories. He has fallen from grace, so far as the whiskey gujllng habit Is concerned, but still retains the Kcelcy gold-given mental malady known in non-scientific circles as damfool. Aside Iroin these acquired ac complishments, he was endowed by na ture with a self-cocking mouth, a breech loading enunciating apparatus and an In exhaustible magazine of blank cartridges, loaded with explosive language only, and was never known to tire off a sensible Idea or a substantiated faU In his life. Since Ills arrival In Sumpter he spent his time around the saloons, until he be came such .an uiiludtirable "ringer in" nuisance that he had to be abated. He then turned his attention to literature and the effusion published In the tlutte Inter Mountain is the result of his labors. One gentleman from Hutte Informs Till: MlNKK that he has not left the camp since his arrlvaj, and If he had seen a mine in the district, it was from the Kick window of some saloon, the proprietor of which hadn't gotten on to his game and tired him out. Of course such a character is not worthy of the space and attention here given him, but the fact that an apparently reputable newspaper has 'used his letter to defame this camp, extending to it edi torial endorsement by Identifying the writer as a former constable in a justice court there a lofty position for any man to attain, to be sure lends to the subject an air of plauslbity that justifies this reply. The motive of the Inter Mount tain Is almost too apparent to be" here pointed out. It is found In the introduc tory remarks, where are these words: "When the Sumpter boom broke out In Hutte some weeks ago," etc. Hutte's men and their money are stampeding to Sumpter, and this is a feeble, poorly planned effort to Iwad tf that MampeJe. Among the Hutte people who are.clther now here or have visited the camp and were so favorably Impressed that they left with the avowed intention of return ing, either for Investment or permanent residence arc, ex-Mayor Dugan, J. K. Pardee, C. P. Booth, John Gillie, S. Hattemau, Prank Shaw, V. P. Cobban, Jimmle Howe, superintendent of the Bo nanza, Hon. K.G. Number, and hundreds of other prosperous and-well pleased Montana men in the Sumpter district. This fact refutes the Lowriey lie as a whole and there is, therefore, no necessity to prove its falsety in detail. Go and see Case, Looney &, Co.'s new furniture arrivals. If he hasn't it in stock, Carl Adler, Ba ker City, will order for you any book published in the world, in any language. .Sumpter' . d Bottling Works a j j j j Gagen & Sloan, Proprietors. jt j j j j$ Manufacturers of all kinds of car bonated drinks and ciders. Or ders tilled and shipped on short notice. jt jt j j jt SUMPTER, - - OREGOIxf New Bakery J J J AND CONFECTIONARY All kinds' of Fiesh Fruit in Season. O. RKECHTEL, Proprietor Opposite S. V. Hy. Depot. H. J. JORY A Mining engineer. Northwestern Assay -) Office &- Samples by mall receive careful Attention. 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