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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, January 271904 The Sumpter Miner OfriCIAL lAER OF THE CITY OF SUMPTER PUllMt! RVBRV WEIINMOAf BY J. W. CONNELLA T. O. (iWVNNn. EDITOR l-fitrrtd l th pottolllc In Sumpter, Oregon, tor iranmltlon thruugh the malti tcon4 cUti filler. MJHSCRIPTION RATI! One Yir... all Munlhi . Si.oo i.M ALWAVt IN ADVANCE. The AlnbaniH man who bought a flour mill, organized a lunik and con trolled a (inn nly iu that state on a capital of 1200 obtained on a forgod obook, bad his uervo with him, to Hay the leant of it. Tbo report of the sale of the Daly West and Silver King mines to the Federal Mining and Smelting com pany, Iiiih been confirmed. The iimouutH involved are said to be 7, 000,000 for the former, and 2,000, 000 for the latter. The Daly West is said to yield 117,000 u month. Htid the Silver King 100,000. "Critic," whose task It is to ex jioso the fakirs iu the mining world through the columns of Mining In vestor, published at Colorado Springs, is an artist iu his line. His is "good Htnlf, " not only on account of its value to Investors, but also from u literary standpoint. Then, too, it has the striking novelty of Iwliigfroe from all suspicion of black mail; it is honest. Iu his history of the Hank of Eng land, 1)01111 Francis declares that iu 1H25 he saw the prospectus of a t'ompauy tu la formed for the drain ing of the Ited sea mid the recovery of the gold and jewels left by Pharaoh und his army Iu the pursuit of tho Israelites. Evidently, our modern lirnmntors are a lot of "dead ones," when It comes to separating suckers from their money on a clean cut, iirtlstlc fake. A New York special to the Seattle Times tells iilinut a now printing ma chine whfoh everlastingly lays It over the linotype, unilypo, monotype or any other sort of type ever invented. Its a llthulypc, and is something like 11 typewriter, soiimlhiug like 11 hand organ, something like a piano, but whatever it is, It Is cheap, portable mid every man can be his own type setter. The man who invented it Is named Timmls. and Tlmiuls hays he lias printed volumes 011 it. A perusal of the autobiographies of members iu the congressional di rectory shows that a large pel ceutngu of them began life 011 the farm. On the other hand, few boys who engage iu me-'mnlcal pursuits, iu factories, or elsewhere, ever reach the national legislature. It seems as If the man who takes a tool iu his hand loses ambition, whereas the youth put to the plow is inspired with an anxiety to do something better for himself. The inference may be in correct, but it is borne out by the records of the last quarter ot a cen tury. Shipping bill. are coming thick and fast. There are throe now pond- Tbey are: Gardner's bill to Kepresoutativo create a commission to study the sub ject of American shipping and report to congress at its next session, in Decombor of this year; Senator Fryo's bill extending the coastwise Iuwh of the United States to tbo trade with tbo Philippine Islands, so that all comnierco between tho United States and tho Philippines shall bo cairied in A mo lain vessels, and Sen ator Fryo's bill cotiilnlug tbo ship ment of war and naval stores of the United States exclusively lo Amer ican vessels. According to recent statistics, Australia is beginulug to pay a ruinous prico for its socialistic experi ments. Owing to extravagance iu tbo form of public works undertaken primarily to give employment to labor and hold tho labor vote, tho country Is heavily burdeuod with debt, and vague proposals looking to repudiations more or loss thinly veiled are alroady in tho mouths of demagogues of the basor sort. Owing to depression caused mainly by crude legislative attempts to lovolutlouizo tho natural laws of trade, tho country is Ion a the thriftier and more self relhi t part of its popula tion by emigiii Ion. The Chicago Post says the Iroquois club, one of the leading democratic organizations of the west, is prepar ing to boom General Miles for (ho democratic nomination for the presi dency. The committee of the club has been authorized to arrange a ban quet soon at which Miles will niako the principal address and to bailed as a bona tide candidate for tho pres idency. Uenoral Miles has accepted the invitation tu be present. No club has ever yet succeeded in nomi nating a democratic candidate for tho presidency; but it would bo an inter esting scrap. 11 light to 11 llulsh with bare knuckles, could it be arranged tu have Miles run against Koosevelt, two men who personally hate each other. Spain is making preparations to hold an Interuiiuiitlouiil celebration In 1005 Iu honor of '.he tricentenary of the publicaton of Cervantes' Don Quixote. A statue of Cervantes will be unveiled, there will be a mediaeval tournament. 11 bull fight and a dramatization of Don Quixote will lat played by Henry Irving iu the principal theater of Spain. Iu this Spain does well. It will be a celebration iu which all nations can participate. Cervantes was not only Spain's greatest literal)- character, but one of the world's greatest, Spain has produced few literary men of International reputation. Outside of the author of (Sil lllas, if indeed Spain can claim him, since by birth and education he was French, Cer vantes stands ati the only writer who bus merited world wide fame. The death of (ioeorgo Francis Train removes one of the most picturesque anil erratic figures iu American history llesides being active in commercial lines he was the author of some forty books, and a well known newspaper writer. Ills own summary of his career Is this: "Shipping clerk, 10; manager. 18; partner iu Train it Co., 20; income of 10,000. Established tlrm of tieo. Frauds Train k Co., Melbourne, Australia, 1853; agent White Star line, Income 90,000. Started forty clipper to California in 1849. liuilt railroad connecting Erie with Ohio and Mississippi. Pioneered the tlrst iug iu congress:. street railway in Europe, America, Autrallh and England. Built first Pacific railway, 1862-69, through a credit mobillier Owner of 5,000 lots In Omaba, worth 83,000,000. Ileen in (Ifteeu jails without a crime." News of a great mining company like the Alaska-Treadwell, operating as it does on very low grade of gold rock, is very Interesting, says Mlnglng World. During tbo month of October this company operated the 240-stanip mill 29 !a days, while the 300-stamp mill ran 29 ? days. Iiotb crushed 81. lint) tons of ore, tbo esti mated realizable value of the bullion bolng 80.141 and 1.6.10 tons of concentrates worn saved, of tbo esti mated value of 86,203, making a total, realized value of from 18,450 tons of ore of 166,344, or some thing moro than 2 a ton. Operating exponsos wero 87,077, leaving nearly half of tho total recoipts as profits. There la in eastren Orogon euough of this low grado ore exposed to keep a thousand stamps working for years, and tho conditions for cboap mluiug are moro favorablo bore than tbero. Dr. A. Loir, of Paris, makes the statement that wluo does not produco alcoholism, but that, on the con trary, wino possesses uutritlvo and stimulating qualities, tho bad elfocts produced ou human bodies by drink ing it bolug caiued by ."diseases" with which tbo wino is aflllcted. Naturally wino may bo Injurious to health because of tbo adulterations which merchants and prdouceis resort to, but Dr. Loir states that phy sicians who forbid their patients wine do so because thoy proceed from a falso goiioralizatlou; tbey attribute to all wluo the injurious effects pro duced by coitalu forms ol wino. Dr. Loir states that Pasteurization Is the nuly way to battlo with alco holism by preventing tbo introduc tion of "diseased" wino and making possible tbo drinking of only healthy wines. Pasteurization, be says, takes from wino "tho acids and other sub stances which are produced at tbo timo tbo wluo becomes 'diseased' and which are tho causo of tho greater numbor of nufavoiablo influences which are commonly attributed to wino Itself." One, Lake, who handled the (lollou Kulo Copper company, of Arizona, now defunct without assets, not oven title to tho giouud, baited his hook for suckers of a roliglous turu of mltid, and trinimod up a bunch of New York Uaptlst brothers and sisters for better than a hundred thousand dollars. Uufortuuatley, ho didn't hook lirother John D. He turned the trick, secured their confi dence and money, by opening busi ness meetings of the company with prayer. It is passing strange bow easy it is to work a deal like this wbou ouo makes up his mind to sacrifice all honor and bouosty; to make tbo ob ject of beciirlug a few dirty dollars the paramount isauo. Aud tbo strange feature of tbo proposition is that, comparatively speakli'g, bow few there are who resort to really dishonest methods to socuro a foot bold, wbou tboy know that a measure ot success could bo attalued by adopting crooked uietbods. Every western reader can call to miud a dozen iustaucse of mou who have made an honest effort to promote some legitimate mining deal, aud failed; to every one who has gone into tho busluess with the deliberate intention of swindling. Auotber Interesting phase of this business Is that once embarked in it as a fraudulent enterprise, a man seems to prefer to Ret bis money dis honestly from the pockets of bis vic tims, than to dig the gold out of the ground, even when there Is an oppor tunity to do so. He seems to enter tain a contempt fot the easy marks whom he robs and takes a delight iu the operation of fleecing them. And in such cases as thai above montlnoned, whoro a so transparently hypocritical act as opening a stock holders mooting wltb prayer serves to separate the fools from their money, the public has little sympahty to waste on them. Denver business women aro after tho "masher" and tbey propose to mako the atmosphete of that city so tropic for him that he will either have to change bis habits or residence. Miss Louisa Lee Hardin, editor and pub lisher of the Business Woman's Mag azine aud president of the Business Women's club, is at tbo head of tho movement. This is all right and a good thing. Tbo average ohronio masher is a brainless blot, who de serves to bo smitteu hip and tblgb by tbo good womeu of tbo republic and cast into outer darkness. It would not hurt lor tbo good men to lend a hand in bis extermination. Miss Hardin has adopted a foxy plan which shows her worthy to head such a movement. Hero is tbo way she proposes to do it: "You have uo Idea of tbo great number of individual complaints that bavn been filed at my oftlce, many of which coutalu tho names of tbo men who have offered the insult. In tbo futuro we shall write a note to tho wifo or parents advising them of tho moutal condltlou of their rela tive whilo away from their soothing influenco, aud upon wblcb, as dutiful wives, fatborB aud mothers, tbey will act and be only too grateful to us for tbo information. This may have the effect of showing the offenders that wo aro not without means of protection aud indicate to them tho 'sisterly' interest wo tako in their welfare." GOVERNOR CHAMBERLAIN PILLING FOR IRRIGATION Governor Chamberlain, of Oregon, has requostod Secretary Hitchcock to direct tbo reclamation sorvlco to co operato with tbo state laud board, recently appointed by the governor. In drafting a bill to the next session of tho legislature, dealing fully with the subject of irrigation iu that state, modifying, repealing aud otherwise amending tho present laws aud enuctiug new provisions in rela tion to this subject. Tho matter is ouo in which tho re clamation service is very greatly in terested, since tinder the terms of the law. Juno 1, 1902, section 8, it is 6tatod that tho secretary of tbo in terior shall proceed in coufoimity wltb the state laws. It Is tberofore of great importance whore such laws aro defective or need revision to have such changes made as may render possible the carryiug out of the re clamation law iu the most complete mauuer. The secretary will probably de signate Chief Engiueor F. II. Newell aud other members of the sorvlco to reuder all possible assistance to the Oregou commissioners. Press dis patch from Washington. ,fain