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. ROBLIN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Notary Public
Room j, First Bak of Sumpter SUMPTER, OR
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Agents for
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Fuse and Caps
C. C Basche
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