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THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, March 2$, 1904
The Sumpter Miner
OFFICIAL IWER OF THE CITY OF SUMMTIR
pumiMttn vir widnmoav by
J. W. CONNELLA
T. O. CSWVNNE, EDITOM
fcntrrea at Ihr poitofflce In Sumpter, Oregon, lor
trafiimlttlon through th mills ttconi li
ttttr.
tUHSCHIPTION BATHS
Cm Vm , Ii.oo
all Monitu 1,15
ALWAYS IN AUVANCR.
It Ih announced (hut 11 81 nil, 000
building, with ntiiili) laborutory
e(iiliuiuii(, Ih to lit) erected lit Cold
Iliirlior Springs, Long ImIiiiiiI, under
thn auspices of tin) Carnegie IiihIIIii
tlon, where tliri'it Chicago piufcssors
Will CflllflUl'.t investigations Into thu
origin of lift. Those savants will
wrestle with tint irnlilt)iii mill show
whoro til it u came frmii ami which way
tin Ih Itt'iiilittl. May lit) so limy will.
TiihIii Ih iiiiw winking (in it scheme
Hint will put thn tlnlly newspapoM
mi tint Iiiiiii, lly moiitiH tif 11 gigeu
tit) transmitting power lit) Ih erecting
(ill Long lMlliUil,liiossHgcs limy hi) sent
tt) (lit) iitliiriniiHt pnrts tit lilt) globe.
A mini mny stand In thn niliMlii tif
Kuliiirii 11111I with it small, Inexpensive
piuikiit I tint rtiinoiit , lit will hi; t'linlili'il
to know what (Ih going on In Now
Vork, if tht HyHlmn workH.
Thn touching Htory liv thu Seattle
Times tif 1111 honest trump who found
81 0,0(10 lost from a (I rent Northern
trnlii In thi) Cascades, Iiiih Iiuuii badly
pmitittirid. It tutiiH out Unit tin) until
wiih not h trump lit iillf lint mi
timpltiyii sent nut to locate thu
missing coin. Fuels uru cruel
things. It huh 11 much better Htory
with lilt) llOUOHt I10I10 hero, mid It
hIiiiuIiI Iiiivii been hIIoiiI to ii'innlll
hm Thu Times originally hud it.
Ilmiltfi Commissioner Darlington,
of New Vork, Ih conducting Itivcitt I -KiitloiiH
relative to thu spread of
tinutitgintis iIIsiuisoh through thu
handling of i'oIiih and paper money.
Hi) t'liiluiH to Iiiivii discovered that thu
iivoragii'plofit of inoiii.y in I'iri'uliitinu
Ih 11 regular I'littleshlp.mauuod by nil
HtirtH of ticntli dealing germ. TIiIh
may nil ho true, but It Ih also true
4 tin t tint t'W'iy tiny citlon will eon
tliiuii It Ih ouilriivnrs to t'liptiirti (lit)
iiutimy, icgiirdlcss of bin butteries.
Tim fauiilftil tlintiry Iiiih been
nt 111 tiil ut HI. t'ctcrshurg that thu
lupnucso inn thu lust Tun 1'r I Imh of
iHraul. Thu bleu, while lutllcriiiiit,
Iiiih limiu scl'etl iipiiu by thu nut I
Humltitt press mm a melius of stinting n
now uutl-.iculsli outbreak. $ Thu
Noviiu Vriimyn wantonly tieats It
seriously, and thu Dully Drckrcs says
tllU JtlWH Of RllSsIa lilt' Subscribing
largo sums to aid tholr ncw-found
lirutluuu In thu fund mil of Urn war.
It Ih feared thu contention will lu
thu cause of a renewal of thu Klhlil
nt'lf massacres during Easter.
It Ih n littlii uurioiiH, says thu Chi
oagn Trltitiuc, that whllti hoiiiu womuu
11 ru starting crusades agnlust splttcia
and other masculine monuoors of tho
pulillo health, still others should by
the wearing of Iouk skirts spread dis
ease and disseminate dirt. Tho hhimu
vromaii who shrinks fastidiously from
thu mlcrubo-bearlng rags of thu beg.
gar at t tic door Ih frequently knowu
tu oirur resting place ou her skirts
to the udih despised genu. She re
fuses tu allow ber imagination to
sink ro low as tbo hem of her iiown,
Hurl her liiRiinltHry rale Ib assumed In
Ignorance riither than In deflRUce.
Vet on tbe other liHtid, It la Htated
that no He rrn formidable 'enough to
stilxlue a woman's faulty has yet
been discovered, aud that the only
way to net rid nf the long street
skirt Ih to boycott its wearer. ''Hut
the women apparently will not do
thin, mid tho men, of course, dart)
not.
Arthur Ilorublow, in The Critic,
duclarefl that llulwer-Lyttou foretold
thu discovery of radium tlfty yours
ago In his novel entitled "The Com
ing Knee." Whllu it may not bo
probable that radium will ever ac
complish the wonderful results of tho
myHteriniiH Vril described In tbo
novel, yet the Hlmllarity between tbo
real mid imaginary substaucsc la
striking. For ilistnucu:
"Tin" Htory tells tif human beings
that dwell below thu surface of thu
earth. Their iincostorH hail takuu
rt'fuuu in Hit! IjowuIh of the earth
when 11 KH'iit f I nod had ttuviiHtated thu
world above. They enjoyed nil thu
meuhaiiit'iil luwiiitloiiri known to our
uc, niitl fought amoiiK thumselvos
JiihI hh tin the iieoplu of upper earth.
"At liiHt, however, n now era wiih
introduced by the tliHCtivery of n iii.vh
terloiiH Hiibstaucu which tlioy culled
Viil. It wiih 11 iullity atelier over
all forum of mnttur, aulmato and In
animate, So potent wiih it for do-
Htructiou that war became impoHHible.
"Force therofore Kraduiilly vuiilsh
ml from polltlcnl HysteniH. Finally
A-Vrll beenmu HyuonymoiiH with
civilization, and Vi 11 yn hIiiIIIoc1 tho
clvlllatlon imtioiiH, iih dlstiuct from
those peopleH who know not tho uso
of Vrll.
"A Htnitll amount of Vrll, accord
Iiik to llulwer-Lyttou, could destroy
a city ns largo iih London, mid u child
could annihilate an army. Science
now assures iih that the power of
radium Ih almost limitless, two
pounds beiuK sulllcieiit to destroy
three millions of people and ono
ouiiue to blow up a battleship.
"Vrll lighted the streetH utiil
Iiouhch of Ilulwer-Lytton's tu liter
raiieau people. .Science tells us that
nullum gives out heat ami light with
out waste or diminution,
"Vril cured disease, and the rnco
of thu novelist depended upon it to
Invigorate mid lestoru life. 'It en
ables tho physical organization,' ho
wrote, 'to rti'CstiihlUh thu equilib
rium of its natural powers anil there
by to cine itself.'
"HNperimeutH with nullum in the
hospitals show t hut it will cure cer
tain forms of disease. If tlilfereutly
used it will hum and will destroy
life. Wo have only begun to guess
Us power over (lie hotly.
"Thus, whether or not radium is
ever made by man to do what it ditl
in the Illumination of thu novelist,
the similarity between the two sub
stances Ih Hiilliciently strong to bo
decidedly Interesting. "
BONANZA MILL HAS
RESUMED OPERATIONS
i report from the llouauza states
that tho repairs at tho mill have
beeu completed aud operations re
sumed. The mill was closed dowu for a
short time to make some ueeded Im
provements. These have been Mu
lshed aud things a-e going as usual
at this well known propeity.
BOURNE'S CHARTER
MAY BE ANNULLED
it Is understood that a quiet etfort
is being made by the mine operators
of tho Cracker Creek district to de
prive Iloumo of its charter. Tbe
auimius of tbe situation Is to remove
saloons from tho vicinity of tbe
mines, siuco the operators reckon
these among influences which mili
tate against effective service from
their employes, if tho town were
deprived of its charter, no license
could be gruntej according to law for
u saloon nearer than one mile of an
operatiug inlno.
The Huuulliug of the charter hinges
ou the constitutionality of tbe act of
the legislature delegating to county
courts thu power of granting charters !
to towns of this class. It is held by
u good many authorities on law that
this act of tbo legislature Is in con
flict with tbo stnto constitution, in
that tbo constitution does not war
rant the delegation of any such pow
ers to a county court, and therefoie.
tiny town charter now hold uuder ,
such provision could bu annulled.
At tho lust general session of the
legislature llournu applied for a
special charter, but the application,
was rejected. Tho county court wiisj
then appealed to, and the present !
charter uuder which thu municipality
was organized was grauteJ.
Tho constitutionality of the law
bus never beeu tested, us uo protest
has over beeu made, but a great muny
lawyers are of tbe opinion that it j
would take lint little etfort tu estab
lish the points of coufllct and, there
fore, declare the law void. Iieforriug
to this matter, Sam Stott, the lawyer
aud mluiug man, who was recorder
of Sumpter whou tbo town oporated
under n similar charter, says:
"When the Viucuut water fran-1
chlse was granted bore, this samo
question came up iu connection with I
tbe validity of the franchise. I recall
having discussed the mutter with
Charlie Juhns, who was of the opin
ion that if thu law weru tested its
constitutionality would not hold.
However, vti agreed to graut tbo
fruuehiso, Us there was uo opposition
to it, and Inter when tho towu was
given u charter by thu legislature tu
validate thu transaction. This, of
course, placed tho franchise ou a
secure basis. If any objection had
beeu raised it whs my npiulou then,
ami I urn stil' of tint same belief,
that tlie county court charter of
Sumpter could have been tulcn away
by t"stlug tliu constitutionality of
the law, Iloumo, of course, comes
iu this same category."
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from tbe mine operators themselves,
It is admitted that an'effort is being
made in this direction, in order to
clear tbe Cracker Creek district of
, saloons.
OFFICIAL RECORDS.
The following instruments were tiled
at tbe Dukur county court house during
the week ending March 22, 1IHH.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
DKKnF.
May 17, '02 U. S. Huntington
land wife to Augusta Almqulst, lot D
block 25, Huntington; 820.
Aug. 28 U. S. A. to Ellen T.
Audersou, receipt to S. . i Sec.
Ill Tp. 7 It. 42 E; 8400.
March 10 C. Sluuot by sheriff
to E. Pointer, tax deed to WiO acres
In Sees. 25 aud 20 T. 10 R. 40 E. ;
813.
March I. 'I M. L. Crawford, aud
wife to Jas. W. liuckley,S. E. 30x50
feet iu lot 4 block 2, C. II. Fisher's
ndu to linker City; 83,250.
Match 12 W U . Jackson and
wife to F. II. (iiabner, lota 18 aud
1!) block 5, Stewart's 2nd adu:
8300.
March 7 S. II. lleil aud wife to
Henry Hewitt, .lr., 120 acres in See.
7 Tp. 10 K. 3(1 E; 8080.
March 7 J. C. Miller and wife to
II. I'. Kimball, one-third interest Iu
50x48 feet ou Spring (Jartlou nveuue,
linker City.; 81.
Mnrch 12--lt)sephluo Icon to E.
M. Chandler. N. E. H Sec. 27 Tp. 8
R. 30 E; 85.000.
March 10 E. Ueiser to John A.
Sturm. 50x100 feet of southwest
corner Haskell block linker City;
81.000.
April 20. '02 T. Drislnuo et a I
to F.M.Deau, lot 14 block 41 Paciilu
addltlon to linker City; 835. ;
Aug. 1(1 (Sep. Urouougli und wife
to T. C. Shea taud E. E. La Jirle,
4 8x50 feot mi Spring Harden aveuuo,
in Maker City; 81.
March 7 Fred Law sou to Win.
Lawsou, lots 11, 12 aud 13 block
27, Sumpter; 8300.
Muy 21 J. M. Masters and wifo
to C. W. Musters, lots 4 aud 5 block
3 iinittiiln aud McCouuis addition to
linker City; 850.
Mny 12 Frauk It. Areus to A.
Vaudordor. E. H N. E. )i Sec. 13
Tp. 7 It. 41 E; 81.
MINING MATTERS.
UEKDH.
March 12 A. J. Stiusou aud wifo
to Wm. Stlnsou Handy Andy placer
claim; 8500.
March 12 Win. Stiusou and wifo
to F. II. Itothchild, 1-2 interest iu
Handy Andy placer claim; 81.
.Inly 27 .Ins. Cuviu mid wifo to
D. W. Thornton, '.,' interest In Del
incut ami 1-0 interest in Duckhoru
quartz, claims: 8500.