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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1901)
THE SUMPTER MINER vol n. SUMPTER, OREGON, FEBRUARY ij, 1901 NO. 23 NEW CHARTER NOW IN FORCE EMERGENCY CLAUSE MAKES IT FFFECTIVE WHEN APPROVED. Mayor Appoints Both Recorder and Marshal Can Suspend Them at Will Bonded Indebtedness Provided For To be Voted on by Taxpayers, Including Women Can't Exceed Ten Per Cent of City's Assessed Valuat'on Abutting Property Must pay For Street Improvements. Sumpter's municipal government is now regulated by the ne city charter this is no longer a town, but .1 city; though it continues to be a "camp." The governor has signed the act granting the new char ter. It contained an emergency clause, providing that It should become a law as soon as it should receive executive appro val. The principal change from the old, gen eral charter, under which the town has been run, is that only the mayor, council men and treasurer are elected by popular vote; the recorder and marshal being ap pointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council The city attorney gets his job through the same process. The Instrument provides that the mayor can suspend his appointees at will. City Attorney Chance says that this provision applies to the present recorder and mar shal, who were elected, as well as him self. He states the law to be that the legislature has absolute control over mu nicipal charters; that the principal of the law that no act shall be retroactive, ap plies only in the case of vested rights, that the tenure of office Is neither a con tract nor a franchise and therefore not a vested right. The city is permitted to bond itself for specific purposes, on a majority vote ot taxpayers, Including women. This bond ed indebtedness shall never exceed ten per cent of the assessed valuation of city property, and no city indebtedness shall draw more than eight per cent Interest Special tax levied to pay interest on bonds shall not for any one purpose be more than one mill on the dollar, nor aggregate more than two mills. A provision is made for street improve ments, by which a special tax Is levied on abutting property to pay for the same. This is not included in the indebtedness of the city, on which a maxium limit Is fixed. activity, which is the uneasy financial con dition In eastern money centers. Morgan and others who control the money market of the United States are englneelug some such gigantic deals that they may need all the money themselves, and if they need it, it Is a safe proportion to wager they will have it. In that case, there will of course be not much left for mining Investment In the West. MANN PLACER MINES BONDED. STRIKE AT GOLCONDA. Men Walk Out On the New Superintendent, Rowe. A. M. Keltic Ties Them up for the O. P. and P. Company. A. M. Keltic returned yesterday from Pendleton, where he lus been for a month past transacting business pertaining to the mines of this district. The purpose of his trip home at this time is to close a deal for a bond on the Mann pl.icer mines ad water rights, acting for the Oregon Placer and Power company, with which company he has been connected, in the capacity of secretary since, its organiza tion about a year ago, and of which N. J. Sorensen Is president. The bond Is for nlety days and the pur chase price is said to be In the neighbor hood of $ 50,000, though, of course, this detail is not made public. The Mann placers consist of 490 acres, 80 of which are patented. They are situ ated thirteen miles trom Sumpter and two miles below the Bonanza mine. All of the ground is considered good and only a small portion of it has ever been washed. The owners of the property have received large returns from the sluices In the past, and placer experts who have examined the property, say there Is no richer ground In the state. Two quartz claims, the East and West Hope, partially developed, are also Included in the deal. The water rights and ditches are the most valuable in the camp. They consist of the Quart Gulch, Little Salmon, Ren net creek, Virginia and Steve Winter's ditches, and give an immense quantity ot water for the successful operations of the property. Part ot the water Is now sold to the Wlnterville Placer company, and these privileges in themselves produce a handsome revenue. Considerable of the stock has already been subscribed for by citizens of Pendleton. Seymour Bell is Optimistic Seymour Bell returned Monday from a hurry trip to Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. He met some Butte men at Spokane and transacted some business pertaining to Sumpter district property, the details of which he Is not prepared to divulge at this time. Mr. Bell says: "There area great many people, mining men princi pally, coming to Sumpter in the next fev months, looking for investments. This is no hot air blast I'm givh.g you, but an unadorned fact. Everywhere I go, I am besieged by substantial men who are anx ious to learn more about this country. Everybody knows sometning about the Sumpter district, and that intormatlon Is generally favorable. There is but one thing that can prevent this country from experiencing a season of great Industrial Farewell Reception to Miss Myers. At the suggestion of Dr. and Mrs. Tape a farewell reception and parly was tendered Miss Anna Myers last Saturday evening, Ellis Opera house being engageJ for that purpose, together with the Mor rell orchestra, which furnished the music. Word was passed around In the afternoon by the Doctor, Mr. and Mrs. Strffen, which brought out sixty or seventy of the intimate friends of the oung lady, who enjoyed the pleasantest evening of danc ing ever had in EMU' hall. No more fit ting compliment could have been offered Miss Mvers, who has faithfully served the Sumpter public as a teacher in the schools for the past two seasons, the first of which was as principal. She departed for her home at Forest Grove, Oregon, where she will remain until March 6, when her marriage to Mr. Neill J. Sorensen will be performed at the home of her pa rents. Later, it Is stated, the couple will return to Sumpter to reside, as Mr. Soren sen has mining Interests here which will occupy his time this summer. Every housekeeper in Sumpter can have the advantages of green vegetables, fruits, butter, eggs and Iresh tish the same as In Portland, at H. O. baker & Co.'s, 149 Mill stieet, next to the bank. Always reliable Giant powder. The new management at the Golconda. has appointed F. J. M. Rowe mine su perintendent, and Air. Rowe assumed the duties of the position last Sunday morn ing. For some reisnn, best known to those concerneJ, the force of miners employed previous to his coming all walked out Alonday.ind maiiyot their places were tilled the same day and yesterday trom Sumpter and Baker City. It Is staled that more will be engaged from other points, until a sufficient force shall be employed to oner- ate the mine on a larger scale than evrr, as the new manager intends doing some extensive development work at once. There are various reports as to the actual reason for the differences between the new men In charge and the old miners. Mr. Rowe was for a e.ir, until reient ly, employed in the same capacity at the Bonanza mine, and previously at other mines in moniana auu Utah, and is re puted to be an ellicient man at his busi ness. Harney County Copper Deposits. Mr. Fitzgerald who, with Thornton Williams and Henry Welcome, returned last week trom the Pueblo camp, gives a happy report of the prospects for that embryonic Eldorado. Numbers of pros pectors are In the region from Sumpter and other camps, and all seem enthusias tic concerning the future of the camp, whenever the necessary development can be done. So far the work Is confined to prospecting, but the ore shows good val ues in copper, gold and silver, and more recent discoveries show nickel bearing properties. It is hoped that the expecta tions of those who are striving tor the opening of the camp may be realized, and the Pueblo mountains may in the near future become a mining center of first im portance. Harney County News. Dance Thursday Evening. Among the social events of the past week, the delightful entertainment pro vided by Messrs. Tom C. Gray, A. P. Goss and Frank Hobson, last Thursday, will not soon be forgotten by those In at tendance. Dancing was the order of the evening, In the hall opposite Townslte company's offices. The music was fur nished by the Morrell orchestra, which needs no further favorable mention. An agreeable feature of the occasion was the reallv elaborate sunner served at mldnlvht in the elegant quarters of the Townsite company, whkh were beautifully dec orated by Mr. Gray. Mrs. Frank Hob sou charmingly did the honors as hostess during the evening. Following the sup per dancing was continued an hour, when the well entertained guests departed for their various homes. Sullivan Brothers' Restaurant. The Sullivan brothers have fitted up the looms adjoining their main place of business, comer Granite and Cracker streets, and made thereof a first-class res taurant. In appointment they have ar ranged for each class of trade.from a fight lunch to the course dinner. The various rooms, of which there Is a front dining room, adjoining lunch counter and private boxes In the rear, have been handsomely fitted, the decorations and graining work being done In n modem and tasteful stylo by Mi Evoy & Shaver. A large ten foot range will be presided over by a first class cook, who will make life agreeable for his patrons. Its a good place to eat. Rich Ole Shoot in (he Imperial. Last week Till: AMNhlt mentioned the fact of a rumoied rich strike in the Impe- 1i.1l. The Baker City Deimkr.it ot to day contains this continuatien: I ho well aulhenlli.-itrd topott comics trom Cable Cove that In the Imperial mine, one of the Grey liagle group, owned by Crls mini & Young, .1 tkh pay shoot has been found in the old vein in (lie 1000 loot tun nel. The me is said to be of very high grade character and will give good ship ping returns. San 1'rancUco Visitors. Charles L. Asher, .1 capitalist I rum San l-'ramisco, and Herbert Uinuski, an at torney and promoter ot the same illy, came up Monday a nil were guests of Paul I:. PoiudeMer. I'hey wne dilveu by the latter to the Red Boy and Alamo districts, to investigate a milling property there abouts, with the probability that another Sail Francisco company will be organized to operate here at an e.uly day. Moth the visitors say the Caliliuulaus aie Decerning t.imlliar with the mining af fairs ol the eastern Oiegon district and considerable money may be Invested hem from that source. Benefit for Public School Library. A literary and musical entertainment will be given at Fills Opera house on til evening of Thursday, February 21, by tha pupils of the public school, assisted by outside local talent, for the benclit of the school library. A number of books and some equipment are iniiili needed anil it is hoped that the citizens of Sumpter will extend a liberal patronage to this ef fort to raise the luuds necessary for tins worthy object. A program of the enter tainment will be published next week. Copy of a Paper Dated August 30, J 77 J. W. II. ileasou has In ills possession a copy ot the " Maryland Journal and Bal timore Advertiser " dated Friday, August 20, 177), whkh Is No. 1 of that publica tion, now the Baltimore American. In It is published a patent notice signed George Washington, but with no olticlal title given. One of Mrs. Gleasou's iclatlves gave him the paper while he was east last whiter. Run of Entertainments at Ellis Opera House Ellis Opera house will be " dark " but few evenings during the coming two weeks. First comes the Valentine ball; then Professor Nelson, the hypnotist, has engaged the house for the 181I1, lyth and 2olh;the public schools will give an en tertainment for the benefit of the library 011 the 21st and three dances are booked between that date and the 2UH1. Death of Alderman Stlnson's Father. Alderman William Stiuson received the news within the past few days of the death ot his father, at Clinton, Outatio, Canada, at the advanced age ot 97 years. 'I he home papers Irom there give an ex tended review of his long and interesting lite. He was the lather 01 fourteen chil dren, ten of whom are yet living. Removed. F. C. Brodie, watchmaker and jeweler, has moved to the store .formecly occupied by Beardsley and Cushman, the barber. opposite the Columbia maiket.