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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1900)
to THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, March 21, 1900 ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Couldn't Find Pay Streak in His Lady's Affections. On the railroad track about a mile be low town, between I and 2 o'clock Mon day morning, Jack Gctts found the body of Joe Peterson, apparently dead. He notified the authorities, who brought the man to town. He was Mill alive. Dr. Pearce was called, who found that he was suffering from a pistol wound In the left breast. The ball was discovered In the back, having passed under the heart. Peterson was conscious all the while and acknowledged that the wound was self inflicted, with the Intention of committing suicide. He would assign no cause for committing the act; merely reittcrating the statement that there are those here who are cognisant of his rea sons. It is generally believed that It is a case of unrequited love, he having failed to find tlie pay streak in his lady's affec tions. Peterson had lived here several years, had a good character and was considered a successful business man. He made money shipping in fruits and vegetables, had money on his person and In the bank. He has a sister living here and in a will which he had made, left all of his property to her. He Is between twenty-live and thirty years of age. He was taken to the hospital at Maker City Monday afternoon. It is not thought the wound will prove fatal. Being found just when he was, at an hour when not once in a thousand times would any one have been passing, Is doubt less what saved his life. And on this lucky chance also hangs a tale, one of the lower strata of romance, of brutality and degre- ever earned for myself at one time, I re ceived as the pay. of a private soldier." Under the second is, "I said to Jesse Jamesi 'As long as you don't break any of the laws of this territory, you will not be interfered with.' " Beneath the third Is this1 sentence, which his friends will recognize as his very ewn: "All I had to do In those days was to get up In the morning, milk fifteen cows, carry three or four barrels of water for the women, pull up an acre or so of pigweed and then plow corn." Rich Copper' Ledge Found On Hit Farm. A new mineral discovery has just been made a few miles from Union that prom ises much for this section of the country. A few days ago a ledge of high grade cop per ore was found on the farm of C. H. Prescott, a mile and a half east of Tclo caset and about nine miles east of Union. The property has been developed suffi ciently to demonstrate that it Is a true fissure vein six feet in thickness and has been traced for a mile and a half In length on the surface. The ledge runs In a north easterly direction and there is every indi cation that It Is a well defined, permanent and rich ledge. Samples of the ore are being assayed and its exact qualities will soon be known, but as to its richness no one who has seen the ore will doubt. The ledge is most conveniently located for working, being only a short distance from a railroad and only a few miles from Union, the natural supply point of this rich min eral section of Union county. Union County Republican. Sumpter Picture in Harper's Weekly. The last Issue of Harper's Weeklycon tains a full page wash drawing by the famous artist, W. A. Rogers, Illustrating "A winter stage route in the mining re gions of eastern Oregon. Mining experts, promoters, engineers, etc., on their way into the Sumpter and John Day country." I lit Ititiiif I'imt.'iliK tint nnnthtr tL'nnl nf datlon. Kippllng would dismiss It vlth-;r(.ajllR maer abou, ,)e dsret The "hut lliit'.: .imilliiar il.irt. ' II tiilll lu. ...... figures are all bundled up In furs, as if 'but that's another story." It will be told here, however, and briefly. Jack (Jetts is a skilled carpenter, and worked at his trade here for months, until he tunned entangling alliances with a woman ol the town one who flashed wicked lightning from her eyes, a subtle power that saps the character and resolu tion from stronger and better men than ietts. He started In to lead a "sporting life." He backed the looser ill the prize light Saturday night. Thinking he was something of a list lighter himself, he then boastfully, Irritably declared lie could lick any man in the house. One was lound who knocked him out without turn ing a hair. Falling to whip his man, he soon afterwards beat up his woman. And Sunday night Marshal Austin ordered him nut of town. That is Iiow it happened, that he was tramping along the railroad track at that lime ol night and saw Joe Peterson's body lying there in the cold, clear moon light, and thus saved the life of one who sought to olfer it as a sacrifice on the altar of the little blind devilish Cod of love even as he had wrecked his own. Page and a Half Sketch of General Warren. In the Anaconda Standard of .March 18 a page and a half Is devoted to General Charles S. Warren. It is a splendidly written character and biographical sketch of the gentleman, giving many interest ing incidents of his life hi Montana dur ing the early, tough days, when he was sheriff; something of his war record and devotes considerable space to his varied, . this were an nrtic region. The chances are that Rogers never saw this section of 1 country, and that this picture is one drawn I to illustrate some Alaska scene. Now that tills region has become famous as a gold producer, the paper perpetrates this fake. foaquln Miller Will Lecture This Evening. Joaquin Miller will lecture to-night at the church on "Our Arctic Umpire," with a prelude 011 "Lessons Not Learned Prom Hooks." He is the most unique figure on the American platform to-day. There is no set form to his speech. He does not follow, any slavish thread of thought, but rambles on apparently at the behest of sweet fancy,- ''now dealing in blunt common sense, now quoting poetry, and then 011 occasions painting such delicious word pictures as that in which he des cribes the birth of a day in Alaska. In deed, 'there Is an ,'undercurrent of poetry In all lie says, a sort of reverent Idealism that flames out in swift flashes of inspir ation. It was as the lover of nature, as the prophet of the beautiful, as the stu dent ol the book of God, that lit wrote of all the trees and flowers and mountain sides. And his lectures are 110 striving after a crash of literary pyrotechnics, but are stirring, simple words from a good, gray poet, who has communed with na ture until lie knows. His appearance In Sumpter will be an event In local literary, social and Intellectual circles. Many old timers who knew the poet In pioneer days in eastern Oregon will attend In a body. eventful career as financier and mining operator, the fortunes he lias made and Dissolution of Partnership. lost and spent and "passed up." The Notice is herebv given that the firm of story also tells, rather skeptically, of-an- j Molir & Mayer Is -this day dissolved, other big one he feels sure of making here. All premiums and insurance policies This skepticism Is uncalled for the for- ' issued by the firm must be paid to the tune Is In sight and has already begun to pile up. Three sketches of the general, In characteristic attitudes, are given. 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