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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. Un
der the first Is queted: "The first i) I
undersigned, who will continue the busi
ness.
A. MOHR.
March 15, 1900.
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