Wednesday, March 21, 1900.
THE SUMPTER MINER.
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McEWEN & SLOAN SELL
EVERY THING CONNECTED WITH
STAGE AND LIVERY BUSINESS.
Including Sumpter Real Estate T. G.
Harrison andW. H. Cade, of San Fran
ciaco, the Purchasers New Company
Organised Tom McEwen Remains
With the Concern Plans for the Future.
T. G. Harrison and W. H. Code, of
San Francisco, mention of whose arrival
here was made in these columns some
weeks since, have bought from McEwen
& Sloan their livery and stage business
and all of Its accessories, Including the
property of the Sumpter Livery stable, the
Sumpter and Eastern Oregon Transporta
tion company, the blacksmith and wagon
shop and harness shop. The deal also
includes the real estate of the various con
cerns, three lots on Center street and three
on Auburn, where the barns, shops, sheds
and other buildings are located.
A new company will be incorporated,
under the name of the Sumpter Transpor
tation company, to handle all branches of
the old.buslness, with Messrs. Harrison,
Cade and N. C. Richards as incorpora
tors. The inew owners have already taken
posession and will at once begin to ill
augurdte changes and improvements,
such as experience and ample capital sug
gest -and permit. This whole section of
country, to the north, south and west,wlll
be .covered by freight and passenger lines.
Arrangements will be made with the rail
roads to have coupons attached to all
through tickets, entitling passengers to
stage transportation to any point desired.
iQne important change to be made here
in Sumpter immediately wiiJ.be to abandon
the Center street building as a barn, reno
vate and remodel the Immense structure
and convert it into a tuts -story business
block, with large store .rooms on the
around and offices on foe second floor.
Another site, not so centrally located, will
be secured on which a new barn will be
built. For the present, until this new
building can be constructed, the company
will make the Auburn street barn answer
Us purpose.
The public in general will be pleased to
learn that Tom McEwen, than whom there
Js.no more popular man in eastern Oregon,
nor one better posted in the stage and
freighting business, will remain with the
new company, occupying an important
awl responsible position. .He has con
iMited to remain with the new people for
at least six months. ' ,
r. G. Harrison and W. H. Cade are
good people for this town and district to
sec uce as citizens. It is understood that
they irpresent unlimited capital and that
thisisanly a starter; that they contem
plate making other large investments and
will ssan enter upon some important and
gigantic enterprises.
Bk Mauntain Telephone Line Sold.
The Blue Mountain Telephone company
has just dosed a deal whereby it has
transferred its entire telephone system,
composed of lines from Heppner to Wag
ner, Lone Rock, Long Creek, John Day,
Canyon City, Burns, the Narrow, Sump
ter, Baker, Bourne, Susanville and all the
principal mines in this district, to the In
land Telephone and Telegraph company,
which will soon take charge of the same.
Looking For Subscribers and Ads.
The town has beer) besieged this week
by representatives of outside publications,
seeking subscribers and advertising.;
Messrs. Freese and Baker, of the Spokes-'
man-Review were-tint on the ground.'
That paper, which has done much for
this district, already had a large list here
and these gentlemen have materially in
creased It. Leonard Fowler, editor of the
State, a monthly magazine published at
Tacoma, and his advertising manager, G.
W. Gantz, arrived Sunday. They always
have some attractive proposition to sub
mit and never fall to land their victim,
whether it be a community or an individ
ual. Granite Incorporation Petition Granted.
Grant Thornburg, W. J. Patterson and
Gus Bachman returned Monday evening
from Canyon City. The petition by
themselves and others for the Incorpora
tion of the town of Granite was allowed,
and Monday, April 9, was the day set for
the election of officers. The coiihty court
also granted right of way alongthe public
highway of Grant county for lines of the
Eastern Oregon Electric company, of
which these gentlemen are among the
leading stockholders. The sale of the
Stevens placer claim, patented, was also
confirmed and this valuable property will
soon be platted as an addition to Granite.
As it occupies an especially -favorable lo
cation the lots will find quick sale nt good
prices. Granite Boulder.
MR. AND MRS. CONNELL RETURN
Have Spent Several Weeks on the Coast
and In East.
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Council were glad to welcome them
home Friday, after an absence of several
weeks, visiting relatives and friends west
and east. They left Sumpter January 2
and returned March 16. Miss Agnes
Connell, who went with them, stopped at
Hoquiam, Washington, with a sister and
will remain there at school until summer.
After coming here Mr. and Mrs. Con
nell went to Portland and Gray's Harbor
for a short stay, and then left for Charles
City, Iowa, the home of their childhood
After visiting friends In other parts of
Iowa they went to Kansas City, Omaha
and other cities in the east.
Mr. Connell says the country every
where is .fairly prosperous after a fashion,
but not like the Northwest in Its business
activity. To a MINER representative Mr.
Council said he was agreeably surprised
to see such expansive strides taken by
Sumpter during his absence; that he was
so bewildered by the great number of
strange faces and new buildings that he
had to inquire where he lived.
Asked in regard to what he was going
to do in .a business way, as the lease of
the Star hotel, which he ownes, expires
within a Jew weeks, he said he was not
yet decided; that in all probability he
would build a new hotel on the property
between the Star and the First Bank of
Sumpter, or on the lot now occupied as
his private residence, on North street.
Mr. Connell said everybody had heard
of Sumpter and this wonderful mining dis
trict, and he was kept busy answering
questions from persons in all the places
where his presence was known. There is
no doubt about this country receiving its
quota of the vast emlgratlpnsoon setting
in from the east and south, 'if they don't
come this month, they will the next, and
so on. Mr. and Mrs. Connell arelobkinz
well and greatly Improved by their outing.
A Japanese boy wants situation as
Cook in private family or mining camp.
Address, Frank Sano, care On On & Co.,
Baker City, Oregon.
The celebrated Jed Clayton brand of
whiskey at the Mint saloon, corner of
Center and Sumpter streets.
Sumpter souvenir spoons. F. C. Bro
die, watchmaker and jeweler, Opera
house block.
The Columbia beer, brewed in Sumpter,
is today as good as any made.
Ask for the Columbia beer, brewed in
Sumpter.
WE BUY ALL OUR GOODS
IN CARLOAD LOTS
WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL
C JL Johns' Big Store
New Spring Goods
will begin to arrive daily next week,
and we can promise the handsomest
line of DRESS GOODS ever shown
" in Sumpter.
Men's and Boys' Spring Hats
are here now, and others are arriving from time to
time. SPECIAL a beautiful lise of Ladies' Mus
line Underwear. Must be seen to be appreciated.
The HARDWARE DEPARTMENT has been fuily
stocked up again with everything in shelf and
heavy hardware, builders' tools, iron, and
steel and miners' wares; also largest
stock of paints, oils, sash, doors
and window glass in East
ern Oregon. New
goods are arriving
" constantly.
,
C.J.JOHNS. Sumpter
STARR & ODELL
MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD
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We are fully equipped to make reports on mines, and can handle prospects or
developed mines. Main office, Sumpter, Oregon. Branch Offices,
Spokane, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
Cor. Center and North Streets, Sumpter, Oregon. Telephone No. 131.
First and Always
a
FIRST-CLASS
HOUSE.
Newly Furnished
Throughout.
Only White Labor
Employed.
All Outside Rooms.
Only Half Block
North of Depot.
j j THE j j
Golden Eagle Hotel
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BRUCE & FOWLER.
Mill Street,
Sumpter, Oregon
THE BEST APPOINTED.
Pharmacy
IN EASTERN OREGON.
No prescription too difficult to fill.
(Service day or night.)
A complete line of druggists sundries, stationery and toilet articles.
( : ' ' The Sumpter Drug Co
L. C. EDWARDS, MANAGER. . SUMPTER, OREGON.