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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1904)
1 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, February 17, 1904 The Sumpter Miner OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE C1TVOF SUMPTER PUilUHID IVIU WIDNIfDAY IV J. W. CONNELLA T. fl. OWVNNE. EDITOR Entered l lh pottoflc In Sumpter, Oregon, (or rantmlttlon through lh mills cond clti tr. 1n Yf ... rfli Moniht iumckimion rath ALWAYS IN ADVANCI. . .fl.oo .. i.m This appropriation of 11,000 over the grant pf the preceding year, until the amount to be paid there after to each state and territory He- comei 120,000. , . The secretary of the treasury has officially decided, after hii exhaustive study, to dotermiiie the rate at which frog's logs whou importi'd from Canada should lm taxed under tho Dlngloy tnrlir Ihw, that thny hIihII Ho iih poultry. Tho question arises, If froK'a logs lire poultry, in r hull frog m rooster? In Home of the French forests n platinum wire kept at h white limit by an oloutric current line laion om ployod luatoad of a Haw for foiling treoa. It Ih ol h I mod that by this plan h troo can be lulled iu one eighth of the time required by the old aawlng mulliod. Tho eutlro ab Honce of sawdust and tho boiiolloial offeet of thn Hllgbt carboulzation of the enda of the cut timber In preserv ing the wood are reckoned as decided advautagoa. That a aetiator from tho littlo two by four alate of Connecticut, tho poo- pie of which are endowed with ruoutal vision mm Miuall and narrow as their irtate, can reach across the continent and enforce thoir puritanical ideas on Oreguu Is an Irritating proposi tion. It was United States Senator Piatt, of Ciinnoctlciit who forced the amendment to the Lewis and Clark exposition appropriation bill, requir ing that the show bo closed on Sun days, making a sort of church fair out of the enterprise. Beginning March 1, the Union Pacific will resume running regularly at intervals of a few days homesoekers excursions. Many thousands of peo ple will bo brought west from the east and the Mississippi valley, look ing for locations to establish them selves in business and Invent in prop el ty. These excursionists will be given stopover tickets wherever de sired. They will all pass through Oakor county, and unless some effort la made to attract their attontlou and interest, they will merely pass through; none of them will stop and invest a dollar here. This is a great opportunity for Sumpter and Baker City to unite and do some beneficial work for tbla county, but so Indiffer ent aro tho people here, possessed of so little public spirit, that The Minor feols that It is usolesii to sug gest that If a representative were Nlatloued at Shoshone, Idaho, and supplied with good literature, pre senting (he i' Wantages offered by this flection In sottlors, business men and luvostoi . for distribution on those excursion trains, it would be or vast matenil bonetu, directly so to individuals. retary. but he could not agree as to the man. He refused to take any .one but a native, and the business men and planters would not agree that there was any Hawaiian capable of holding the place. So there was a parting of the ways, and the delgate took along a young native, with no. particular place. qualifications for tho Wall si mot oporators have boon detected In u scheme to learn tho de cision of I ho Supremo court In I ho Northern merger case, before It Is made public, for speculative pur poses. Their plan was to bribo sub ordinate of the court to reveal tho information iu advance. Another Wall struct operator, who was refused admittance to this syndicate of brib ery, Informed one of the judges of the outcrpriHo. Ah a result no uteuograplior, typewriter or other clerk will be permitted to do any work couuected with compiliug this decision, ami the opinion will bo written by ouu of the Supreme court judges. There Ih an elfort ou foot to secure the pasta,;)' of a bill proponing to endow aud uuppoit schools or depart ments of mining iu tho several slates In connection with state agricultural colleges, at the present sesslou of congress. The pond lug measure proposes to create a fund from the moneys do rived from the sale of public lauds iu all states whli;h are nut benefitted by the national act. From this fiiud it a proposed to,. pay f 10.000 to each state aud ternary for the current year for the purpose of establishing schools or departments of mining. Ovor at Itathdruro, Idaho, the local attorneys are lying awake nights, trying to doviso some scheme whereby outsldo lawyers can not practice in the courts- of that county. Their ooutral idea la to make residence a necessary qualification. This idea la not original with the Idaho petti fogera; they are merely adapting it to their profession. The brilliant plau to shut out rivals through somo rule of law or legislation waa conceived in the commercial world, aud took tangible form In the protec tive tariff. Now, every business and profession la endeavoring to work the graft. Ovor in Washington the den tists secured the passage of a law that makes It practically impossible for a now mau to settle there, unless tho "board of examiners" arbitrarily so will it. The doctors lobbied through a bill barring nut the disci ples of certain schools of medicine. Dowu In California, resident members of both of these learned professions are securely protected from "outside competition." In Chicago the great Dr. Loronz. who camo all the way from Vlonna to operate on the littlo crlpplu Armour girl, waa fined 830 for "practicing medicine without a llcouso." And this is tho spirit of tho age. From down Goldfleld, Nevada, way cornea a wail so familiar to Ore gon eara that It almost seems to be an infringement on our copyright. (Jolddeld la the new gold camp about twenty-five miles south of Tonopah. A few weeks since free milling rock running as high as 1600 waa uncov ered loss than ten feet from the sur face, there being four feet of It. In Beveral other places rich ore was found at the grass roots, 1200 being the minimum value. These discov eries don't create enough excitement to suit the press correspondents there, who verify the reports in detail. Tboy say Novada has boon hoodooed as a mining state for a dozen years past; that if such discoveries were made In Colorado, Montana, or C'l ifornla the local people would go wild, that there would be a great etampode from the outside; but noth ing of the kind occurs there. The same here, friends, within a half dozen miles of Sumpter ore bodies have been opened up that went 150, 000 in gold and. there wouldn't be four people go out to look at the dump an eveut tbnt would call for special excursion train for hundreds of miles around In Colorado. There Paclflo coast was.tben a remote see-, tlon of the country, and had it not been for the gold discoveries in Cal ifornia, which brought thousands to the" far west, It la doubtful it there would have been' any notable advance for a quarter of a century or more. The Rogue river mining excitement attracted many people to the western part of Oregon forty years ago, and gradually the Willamette valley bo- gan to fill up with people who appre ciated Its marvelous fertility; but it was not until the advent of railroads that the state began to note a sub stantial Increase in population. In the last, fifteen years. 4ho growth of Oregon has been solid and satisfac tory. Thousands of people have settled upon its rich farming lands, east and west of the Cascade moun tains, and the growth of its cities and towns has' been in keeping with thn advance of its rural communities. Like Washington, It Is a state of magnificent resources, and only the first chapter in the story of its devel opment has been reaobed GIRL RIDES 75 MILES TO TAKE TEACHERS' EXAMINAFION la surely something In this mining hoodoo business. Princo Cupid, the congressional dolegatu from Hawaii, finds the airalrs of state Ht Washington too woighty, aud, moreover, he complaua of a lack of consideration on tho part of tho president, members of congress and tho various departments. Ho threat ens to reslgu, and wants the job of dolegatu to the republican national convention at Cbicugo. Priuce Cu pid waa sent to Washington with misgivings by tho luflueutlal men cf Hawaii. He was nominated for dole gato as a republican, although ac knowledged as a home rulo leader at heart, every white man there recog nizes the limitations of the delegate. For this reason business nou aud plautors made up a fuud aud agreed to pay 15,000 a year for a secretary to the delegate, provided a lawyer una a mau oompeteut to glvo advice was cboicn. Cupid was williug to accept tho offer of salary to his sec- It la reporteJ from New York that John D. Rockefeller's bank made Russia the loan that enabled the Czar first to go to war with Japan. This waa I rltaulnaAsl aft at Bntrtinl ht 111 Ham lial begun. The Standard Oil company ia understood to have, secured the good will of Russia In connection with oil concessions as part of the consideration for the transaction. President James Stillman ia the man who engineered the delicate deal, it was after the Czar had appealed to the Rothschilds and bad been re pulsed because of Klahlnef atrocities that the City bank became Interested. In order that the publlo might be kept lu the dark as long as possible, the loan was bandied for the Czar by the imperial bank of Ht. Petersburg aud was made to look line an ordi nary commerrclal transaction. With almost tho single exception of tbe City bank, Now l'ork downtown hauks aro Iu open sympathy with Japan. Ranks with Orloutal connec tions were receiving contributions all day from Japanese aud tbeir friends for tho use of Rod Cross socelty In connection with the war. Rocke feller ia evldontly making n big play for absolute control of Russian oil Interests aud the case will probably go ou record as ono of tho Standard's greatest mauipulatious. Russia may also havo been playing its game In repulsing Standard control in that country a few mouths ago. Forty-five years ago, saya tbe Spokesmau-Reviow, Oregon waa ad mitted into the Union as a state. In 188 Oregon had been made a terri tory, and iuoluded witblu its limits what has since become tbe state of Washington. When Joseph Lane,' the first governor of tbe territory, arrived aud organized tbe territorial administration the population was less than 9,000. For many years afterward tbe growth was slow. Tbe Miss Retta Andrews, a teacher now attending tbe examination at the courthouse, rode 76 miles on horse back tbiougb a blinding snowstorm, for two days, to reach this ctiy, In time to take the examination, and be enabled tn teach school the com ing year. She la a resident of Umatilla county, near Dale, and should have taken "the examination at' Prairie City, having taught in Grant county, but tbe mountain roads were almost Impassable, and as abe was deter mined not to be defeated in her pur pose to teaoh, she saddled up her horse and started for Pendleton in a driving snowstorm, traveled two daya over the rough roads of tbe interior and reaobed this olty In time to begin at the first of the examination. She has been teaobing at Rltter, in Urant county, 80 miles south of this city, la a proficient Instructor, and has held a second grade certificate. She ia very modest in giving her ac count of tbe long and perilous trip and speaks of it as if it were only au ordinary occurrence. She will return home at the olose of tbe examination, as abe came, and thinka nothing of tbe fact that ahe made a trip that would cause strong men to think twice before attempting It. Tbe road from Dale to Pendletou leads over tbe spur of tbe Blue moun tains, la a rough, uneven, billy, mountanlous highway, and only au Oregon girl inured to hardships, de termined in her aspirations, and brave beyond compare, would bavo attempted tbe trip, iu the middle of tbe winter, In tbe face of u blinding snowstorm that threatened to block ade tbe trails and roads at any time. East Oregonlan. E.P.BHUNH0. EXCLUSIVE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS MILL SUMPTER STBERT ' " OREGON