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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1903)
'-JZL 8 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, Decen bei 2, iqo; PORTLAND PAPER TAKES A TUMBLE Gets On the Pact That Eastern Oregon Is Not Enamored With Web foot Metropolis. We often hear tho (UHotiou asked, "Why 1h it ho much apathy exists in Portland iih regards tho vaHt mining interests of eastern Oregon, and why the luck of interest diHplayed by Home of the Portland people?" The people of the eastern section of the stitto oliif in that they havo cimst) to complain, and that they reueivo more courtesy aud attention from tho puperH of .Spokane, Seattle and Halt Lake than they do from tho paporti of Portland. TIiIh Ih a fact. Our local papers annually visit eaKtorn Oregon with the glad hand, promising great circulation and Hue half-tone work and tho further agreement of eouHtiint attention from a mluitiK iiowh stand point, for whloh thoy receive hiioIi Kratultlex iih the eastern Oregon con titiKeiit nee lit to hand out. Tho result In tho pawt Iiiih boon no excess in circulation, poor half-toneH, on poorer paper, and never a Hue from Now Year until season. The wholesale Portland and tho tho next grafting business men of mining machinery hoiiHOH for years havo boon touted to sit in their offices, BCCUB- while the eastern Oregon trade, having no other place to go, was naturally laid on their counter. This method of doing husluoss has caused the moss backs to .believe that thoy own it. In tho meantime tho cities of Seattle. Spokane and Salt Lake havo been settled with a class of people who be lieve In going after what tbey want, in giving value for money received aud ox pressing thanks for favors rendered. The innovation on Port land's method naturally has won tho trade aud confidence of eastern Ore gon until she knows who her frlouds aro aud they got the lesults iu no uncertain iiiautltieH. Anything emanating from Portland Is given the "Icy mil," aud it is nothing more than what tho metropolis of the state has earned by Its "dog In tho man ger" stylo. While tho Portland ma chinery and wholesale houses aro complaining that they do not receive proper recognition, outside agencies have their representatives constantly iu the Held doing all In their power to cultivate a friendly alliance. Until recently tho papers of tho three cities mentioned havo con tallied more mining information every day than could lie counted lb a mouth's issues of Portland's pa pers. Pacific Mluer. Snakes in a Shaft For Years. Hewitt Vauarsdall, who is iu oharge of Colonel Jack Chinu's Hour spar mine at Salt Spring, was in town Saturday, and though rather late Iu the season for suake stories, tells us one that Is out of the ordinary, says tho Harrodsburg Herald. The mine entry is beiug driveu in the side of the cliff abou fifty feet below an old shaft, suuk half a ceutury ago by miners iu quest of silver. A few days ago thoy reached the old shaft, and there u surprise nwalted them. The bottom of it wiih covered with snakes of all kinds vipers, mocca hIiih, copperheads, hliicksutikos and other varieties more or lpssvcnomouH. The rpotllus rcHBtited tho intrusion, and it wiih only after a pretty lively ' fight that they wore killed. At first I tho workmen thought that the snakes had gathered horo to hibernate, but an investigation showed that all hod fallou Into tho pit aud had no way to , escape. Many of them had been there ' for years, and hud fed on the quuntl- Uoh of t oiid h, rabbits and mice that slimed their mlsfoituno of fulling into tho old nhaft, but not Into cou- i genial compiiuy, hh did the (make. J.P.MORGAN'S WEEKLY ON NATIONAL POLITICS "On the whole," says Harper's Weekly, in commenting on tho ro- mlts of the elcctiotiH tbroiiKhout the country, "the Impression mado upon us by a review of tho whole coiitost Ih that Senator Hanua has boeu thrust once more into tho republican fore ground, whllo on tho domocartio sldo events seem to bo swiftly preparing for the advent of ex-Presideut Clove- I.....1 " Which would bo lovely enough from tho Morgan's Weekly point of view. With llanna on one sldo and Cleveland on the other, the rapa clous, selfish, designing and lawless interests arrayed against President Roosevolt would care nothing which way the cat bopped. They could peed serenely away on their summer vacations and be Joyous In the reflec tion that things were sure to come tholr way without money aud without prico. There would be no need to collect a gigantlo campaign fund. Perhaps, though, it is a case of the wish being father to the thought. Tho signs of the elections do not point to Roosevelt's defeat in the uatloual convention, as Mr. Mor gan's Wookly would like to nciieve. That jourual reaches its conclusion by advanciug two premises that will uot bear examiuatiou, namely, that Tammany's victory proves that "New York is lost irrevocably to the repub licans," aud that tho vast republican majority Iu Ohio is wholly due to tho persoual popularity of Mr. Hanua. Tiimmauy's recent victory signifies nothing iu tho broader realm of national politics. It is merely a reminder that the masses of Now ! York voters prefer Tammany's policy of it "wld opeu town" to bows pol icy of restricted immorality aud vico. As for tho victory iu Ohio, it was more of a tribute to the administraiuu of President Roosevolt than a mani festation of riproarlug atrectlon for Senator Hauna. Mr. Hanua uudor-stands-thls thoroughly, as proved by his almost luedecout haste to climb luto the Roosevelt baud wagon last May, when the president, Iu publio statement sent out from his special train at Walla Walla, Intimated that those who were uot for htm would bo regarded as against him, aud lutimut lug that if Mr. llauua wauted a personal issue drawu between them iu, Ohio he could be accommodated. Of course Harper's Weekly will be seeing all sorts of sigus of Roosevelt's waning strength and Hauna's risiug popularity, but its motives are so palpable that it will Hud It hard to convince the republican party that it Is not havtug visions and dreaming dreams. Spokesman Review. WONDERFUf TONGUE That Of the Nez Perce Indians Has 200.000 Inflections. Father Cataldo of Unozagn college, who Ih one cf the pioneers of the In dian mission work in the northwest, Hays that tho language of tho Nez fPerco Indians Is the most expressvio , known. Tlioy never oxperlonco auy difficulty in expressing themsolves. Thoy aro great coiners of words, and if thoy have not a word handy to mnko themselves understood thoy mako ono. "Tho activo verb of tho Nez Perco language," said Father Cataldo, "hiiH nearly 1100,000 contractions. Their grammar has nothing of a similarity to that of auy Etiropenn language. Instead of one .inflection, as iu Latin, tho first person has also four inflections and the third six. "Thoy have fifty-one tenses. Every tense has twenty-eight Inflec tions, so theso multiplied by tho tenses, give us 4i!8 inflections. "Thou they have about 1C0 ad verbs that are oounected with the vorb; for instance, with the verb think. I think, I think a little, I think much, I think going, I think coming, and so on. They differ from the English language In that they are really part of the verb. So theie 428 Inflections must be multiplied by ISO modified verbs, making 04,200 Inflections. "Besides this, there are about twenty-flve participles which are de clined with the regular declensions, having fourteen cases in the singluar and fourteeu in the plural. This gives us 700 inflections in paiticlples. This multiplied by the 1G0 modified verbs gives 105,000 inflections of the participle, whloh must be added to the 04,200 inflections of the verb, properly speaking. Thus It will be seen that we have discovered 1CD, 000 Inflections. However, we are satisfied that there are enough more to mske up the toal of 200,000, although this Is all we found it necessary to use In our work among the Nez Perce." Fatbor Cataldo says that the Nez Perce have Iron bound rules of grammar. Tno only other language he has ever heard that shows any similarity is that of tho Eskimos. That ouly resembles it in regard to inflection. Spokesman-Review. Quicksilver In Crook County. 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