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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.
It has been thought for a long time
that valuable doposits of quicksilver
exist iu Crook couuty, aud recent
developments iu the Lookout Moun
tain district aro more than justify
ing this belief. From the Crook
Couuty Jourual we learu that Tacoma
capital has become interested iu that
district, and considerable develop
ment work is under way. J. F. Mor
ris, of Prineville, has had au assay
uiude of a specimen from that district
which shows 0.02 per ceut quick
silver, with a value of nearly 880 to
the ton. Wheu It is remembered
that some of the largest quicksilver
mines in the country are working less
tbau half of one per cent ore, it will
be seen wbat fortunes lie in the
Lookout district, provided ore of the
quality assayed by Mr. Morris can be
found in auy quantities. Ashwood
Prospector.
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