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TALK OF THE TOWN.
John C'lark has hoIiI IiIh intnrcHtn tit
I tour no, imil Ih uh yet undecided what lit
will ilo in future.
Tim Forrest Slock company will pre
sent In it Spider's Well at Kills opera
house (IiIh evening uml A Runaway Wldi
tomorrow ovcning.
Karl Diil rick, hoii of .Mr. anil Mrs. i.
II. hedrick, Iiiih ri'luriii'il homo from the
Hill Military Academy at I'ortlauil for
tin? summer varation.
(J. II. Fisher, tlm mining machinery
man, in again in Humptcr tislay, llguring
on a dig contract, tlm particulars of
which will lie given when tlm ileal in
dnHcd.
Dr. ami Mrs. T. A. Wheeler loft for
their homo in Chicago Momliiy. Thu
Pis-tor Ih largely Interested in tlm St.
Anthony miini, anil Ih a brother of its
manager.
.1. N. Van Horn wan in town Miuulay
from hin Kliloriitlo mine, near Granite.
Iln brought in some line hmm'mimiih of
oni from a W-fiMit ledge, which ho Iiiih
driven in on only twenty feet.
It Ih reMirtel, apparently on gntsl au
thority, Unit the North Polo will mlil
twenty stamps to IIn mill, making thirty
in all. Men are naiil to lm alreaily at
work on thu aililllton to thu building.
.1. M. McPhco bun taken IiIh wife tu
HcbhIiIu, Oregon, tor her health. She
Iiiih heen very sick, hut In now reHrtcd
to lie improving. Mr. McPhco writes
that he nil i prohnhly not return to
Sumpter for a month.
Mr. iiihI Mr. A. W. KIIIh ami Miss
Amy lluiiieH retiiriitt'l Monday from u
llHhhigtripto the Mi, I, Ilo Fork of the
.lohn Day. They hud only moleralu
luck, iin the trout are now spawning ami
not hitiiig. They caught about seventy.
K. II. Horner, Itoh Henry, Clark
Simle, A. .1. StiiiNiin ami 1'iito Johns re-
turui'il M iiiilny from North Powder
lakes, where thuy eaught over 500 trout
in h'HH than two days Ashing. There Ih
Htill Hindi hiiow on the Hiimmit ami the
trip in a dilllcult out;.
.1. II. ('raillehaiigh arrived in town
neveral days since, after having spent
thu winter at Thu Dulles anil Hood
Itivur. He exacts to remain in eanteru
Oregon in future. Hu left Monday for
the Double Kaglo, a Greenhorn proierty
in which hu in interested.
Itev. M. .1. Goodhcurt, thu P.piscopal
miulHter here, left for Cortland Monday.
Ho gm'H to attend the Htate con vent ion,
where ho will Is onu of the Hteakcrs.
Owing to IiIh absence, tlntre will be no
Kpiscopal services here Sunilay, the
twenty-ninth innt. Mr. (iiMNlliuiirtwill
return by the middle ol next week.
Michael HaluiH, known an "Dutch
Mike," n limn over sixty yearn of age,
wiih found dead in Ins cabin Sunday
evening, Coroner Snow held an iniiieMt
Moiulay, reHiiltlng in a verdict of sill
eide. lie hail lost all of bin money, sov
eral humlreil dollar, gambling. Hu bad
worked at Wcigel's bakery all winter,
but until IiihI fall had la-en in thu
lllillCH.
Din Under Suspicious Circumstances .
Mmiiliiv afternoon Dr. Ilroc.k wiih
called to Whitney to seu a MrH.
Smalley, but before hu reached there
the woman wiih deud. Though hIiu bad
U'cn complaining for sovenrl days past,
clii' wiih up uml iiImiiiI the Iioiihu the
evening before. There wiih much indig
nation among thu nelghlMirs, who open
ly accused the IiiihIhiiiiI of running bin
wife's death, (.'orouer Snow wan tele
nhniied fer: he went out vcHtenlay, nc-
compauled by Dr. Ilrnck, and held an
inipiest. The latter inadii the autopHV.
He textilled that death wiih the result of
liiiliiiMinaiiiiii of thoMomiii'h. The cause
of the Iullammaliou, of course, ho could
not Htate, further than that, apparently,
it wiih not thu result of disease. Niverai
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witnesses tcHtiiled regarding the cruelty
of the huHhaml, hut none would swear
that he inflicted the injuries which re
Hiilted In death, ho he wan not implicated
by the verdict.
At Work on Olive Lake Power.
A-ked if it wiih thu intention of the
company to continue deep sinking in the
main shaft and put in the Olive lake
water power during thepr HentHunimer,
Mr. Howard Mated that arrangemeiitH
wero being Mrfected uh rapidly uh mh1
hlu, thucoiiHiiinmatiun of which would
mean the Hiiiking of thu Hhaft at leant
1000 feet deejier and the completion of
the Olive laku water )ower plant, ho the
company can develop at leant 2000 borne
iwwer. Thu company holies and lie-
liuvcH that it will be ablu to get both of
thcHountcrpriNCH well under way during
the present fitinnner and fall. East Ore
gonian. For fluent confection, fruits, tobaccos,
cider, etc., go to ".Sturgill's."
Something to depend upon Giant
powder.
T. G. Harrison, agent for Giant pow
der company.
Leave your measure for a suit of
clothen at Neill Mercantile company's.
HarriHou can tell you why nil lucky
strikes are made with Giant Powder.
Hoffman'H Hakery makes a specialty
of furnishing icu cream for parties.
Prompt attention given all orders.
Wouldn't that jar yer? What? Giant
IMiwder. ,
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Water Right Locations,
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Mining Deed, Option to
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On men's and boy's shoes, 'till certain lines are gone,
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At 2.o the Brown Queen Bee is the best shoe
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Yours for a shoe trade,
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