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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1900)
THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, March 21, 1900 The Sumpter Miner PUIlUMIIIl TVCKY WIIINESIIAV IIY C. II. MARSH anii J. W. CONNCLI.A MJIISCMU'TION WATI'S One Year M Months ALWAYS IN AtlVANCr. I nlerrd at Hie pintofrlce In Sumpter, Oregon, (nr trjnmltlun through Hit malls as second class matter. SUMI'TI-K Is revelling in ide.il weather. The bright sunshine Is rapidly melting the snow in the mountains and drying the roads. Till: town council Is turning Its atten tion In internal improvements; a wise timely move. It Is hoped that a large measure of success will crown the worthy effort. "OUR personal acquaintance with Mr. I'owlei and his able work on the State, makes that publication one of the ablest on the I'aclhc coast," says the Maker City Kepulicau. leather a valuable acqualu t.incethat. Would like to meet "Our" ourselves. AN Associated Press dispatch reports that Bishop Murst, of the M. I:, church, New Jersey, is authority for the state meut that when President McKlnlcy leaves the While House, he sill accept the chair til international law in the American Col lege, Washington I). C. AND now Sheltnu, the demagogue pre.ii.her w ho has been running the To peka Capital as "Christ would run It," aiiuouiices that the method Is a failure Ifom a newspaper business standpoint. Shellou can't do anything as Christ would, and this use of Mis name is rank sacrillge. Sl'l-AKING of the Porto Rlcan bill now before congress, a press dispatch quotes a cabinet officer as saying, Immediately alter a cabinet meeting held Menday: " The president will be satisfied with any thing the majority In congress does. It Is understood that the chief executive has now come to the conclusion that the best way for him to get out of the muddle, is to wash his hands of the whole affair." SliVt.KAI. outside newspapers have de voted considerable space during recent months to Sumpter and tills mining dis trict, notably the Spokesman-Review and the Portland Telegram. I hey are reap ing their legitimate reward in a rapidly Increasing circulation throughout this whole section of country. Sumpter's litiens are willing to do more even than this, to go down in their pockets and pay any reasonable sum for advertising. Hut when a single paper demands f 2,000 for a write up and anollirr f 2100, that is e.xtor Hon; looks very imuli liken holdup, and the chances are that the Intended victim will not submit. That amount of money invested in the work of one of the local printing ollices would do a vast deal more good. Advertising in outside newspapers is wanted and needed, but some of them have the nerve to dcm'ind the earth and tx tidiness thereof, which they will never get. I"()l some time past Certain state pa pers have been casting insinuations and I sneeiing at Paul Mohr s portage rail 10 id down on the Columbia. Several veeks since there began to appear in The Dalles limes-Mountaineer some plain statements of facts regarding the work be ing done, accompanied by some reJ hot editorial comments 011 the methods and motives of those editors w ho had thrown their poisoned darts at the gigantic enter prise. There is but one writer on the coast who commands such heavy artillery as that w hlch has been used to bombard these newspaper bushwhackers through the columns of the Tlmes-Mountalnm, and that one Is Colonel Donan. Nor Is there anywhere such a quick, accurate gunner. He has driven them into cover, made the whole outfit change their tactics. QUITE a readable story has recently been published in several Northwestern papers, from their Sumpter correspondent, to the effect that "Old Felix," a French man who explored this country so long ago as when the surrounding hills were holes in the ground, claims to have a pat ent to the townsite of Granite. One man in Portland, whose name is not given, read the article and hastened to the Tele gram to inform that paper that the whole scheme is one devised hereto injure Gran ite. Such is not the case. The people here don't want to injure Granite. If they did, they would work up a more skilfull job to accomplish their purpose. No one believes that there Is any flaw In the title to the Granite townsite; it comes direct from the government and that, In itself, ought to allay the fears of the timid prospective Investor. As to the Old Felix story, it contains scarcely a trace of the probable; Is so gaudy and gauzy a romance that it would be classi fied on sight as fiction. Tilt: MlNI-R re peats that Granite is all right, title and all. W, P. MURRAY, Aiuyer and Chemist, I am prepared to mike (esls on free milling ore giving the per cent of In value that may be extracted by the free milling process, also the degree to which ore may be concentrated. MImi Eiimlatd and rUetrUJ en. Result! of assays given only to the persons leaving work or on their written order. GRANITE, OREGON J K. WHEELER, CITY ENGINEER. Office: Room 4. First Dank of Sumpter. Notary Public. Mining and Civil Engineer. U. S. Deputy Mineral Surve) or. Mapping and Blue Printing. Mine examinations and reports made. Special at tention given to cyanide process. D. W. WARD Physician and Surgeon. Hasche Building Mill Street SUMPTER, OR! ARTHUR PHII.HRICK Civil and Mining Engineer. If. S. Deputy Mineral Surve) nr for O.egnn and Mario. Mammalians anj reports on mining proper lies. Ollice with Little (ilanl Mining Co. C.H. FENNER, Civil and Mining Engineer. U.S. Deputy Surveyor. Engineer for the Sumpter Townsite Company, Llmllcd. Ttwailtei termed aaj Platted. Mapping. All work personally and professionally executed. Use Printing tad bumpier. Oregon H. T. HENDRYX & CO., Mines Bought, Sold and Developed. SUMPTER, Bargains In Sumpter District Vuaru uaims. OREGON Basche Hardware Co. W. A. SAMMS, ARCHITECT, BAKER CITY, ! OttEOON Reliable plans, specifications and estimates furnished Mill StPILT. Suwi'TCtr, Onloon. L T. BROCK, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Sumpter, Oregon. Special Attention (Slven to Surgery and to DIs. eases of Women. Olhce, Nelll Bleck: Residence, (iranlte Street near Mill. DRS. HENDRY & BROOKS, DENTISTS. Crown and llrldge Work a Specialty. Oflke, Center Street, opposite McEwen & Sloan's Livery Darn, Sumpter, Oregon. SPOKANE Drug Co, Only exclusive whole sale drug house In the state. We sell only to merchants. Make the best prices on min ers' and assayers' sup plies. Freight no higher than from Portland. Write for quotations. JOHN C. LGASUR8. WILLIAM O DONNELL CHA5. F. HYDE. tEASURE. HYDE & O'DONNELL, Attorneys-at-Law. Omens: Haskell Building, Baker City. HAMMOND & CHANCE, Attorneys-at-Law. A. A. HAMMOND. CIIAS. II. CHANCE. Notaries Public. Offices, Poller Building, Granite street. SUMPTER, OREOON. pA.ll STARK, Attorney-at-Law Center, cor. High St. Sumpter, Oregon Spokane Drug Co. Spokane, Wash. C. STEITEN. Justice of the Peace, Sumpter District. General Conveyancln INSURANCE. E.L. MANNING, REM ESTATE City Recorder and Nolarv Public. Collections Abstracts Agent for Ftrlcldt Fire Extinguisher. Sumpter. Successors to W. R. HAWLEY Sumpter, Oregon. GENERAL DEALERS IN Shelf and Heavy Hardware Iron and Steel Pipe Mining and Mill Machinery STOTT 4 SHELTON, i Attorneys at Law. SUMPTER. OREGON D. LINDSAY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Particular attention paid to diseases of the Lungs, Heart and Kidneys. Temporary oHce. Star Howl. QHAS. E. 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