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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1904)
n Wednesday, August 24, 1904 THh bUMPTER MINhR J. WALKEE TABER HELD UP BY A HIGHWAYMAN Put to Flight the Bold Knight of thepoad By Scratching a Match. Ad attempt was mado about 12:30 Inst night on tun road betwoou Granite and Alamo to hold up J. Walkee Taber, the woil known aud popular propriotor of the Sumpter Granite stage line. The uttempt oc curred a milo this side of tho Red Hoy and Dome threo miles from Granite Mr. Tabor had gone to Alamo to makejWne collections, and though he does not put it so, bo was sup posed to bavo money on his person. Ho was horseback, jogging along at a moderate paoo. The now moon bad g'oue to bed in the west, and the light which tho stars gavo out was nut of a high oaudlo power, but sufficient to boo tbiugB. Mr. Tabor was thus making his way homoward when a highwayman emerged from the brush at the side of the road, and gave the somowbat hiokneyed command to elevate bands. Walkee is an old otagor, aud an order of this kiud dues nut neces sarily throw bim iuto a paroxysm of fright Hedid uot obey, but politely requested the individual to come out into the open while ho struck a few Brodle Felt Like Thlt 'y Cents. G. F. Hrodio says t tin t while oast a few wooks ago ho was nivon an op portunity to experience the seusution of feeling like thirty conts. Ho took with him for purposes of exhibition a vial of beautiful cnarso gold, thinking his friends thero who had never seen gold iu its native state would bo interested in examining tho stuff from curiosity, if for no other motive. Ho was mistaken, however, ad few soomed to care anything about it, excopt as the basis of our singlo standard currency n vaguo, uobulous conception. A twouty dollar gold piece would havo been quite as much of a novolty oud a whole lot more in teresting. Ho showed tho dust to one old acquaintance, who glanced at it :ausally and asked carelessly: "Where did you get all thoso fillings from teeth?" Mr. Brodie didn't try to uouvince him that It was native gold and kept tho exhibit in his pocket aftor that. Then it was ho felt like thirty cents. Baker Gity Delegates. At a recent session of the Baker City couucil the mayor read a com munication from Mayor Williams, of Furtland, asking him to appoint a committee to represent Baker City at the National Miniug congress to be held in Portland on August 22. The mayor appoiuted W. L. Vinson, of the Emma mnie, Frank S. Baillie, of the Columbia mine, aud H. T. Hendryx, of the Gem miue. matches to iiscertainfwhat sort of persoD ho had to deal with. Mr. Tabor is uudor tbo improssiou that the highway porsou had a gun, porhaps a 41 Colt, nr somo similar weapon of dofotiHo, but in tho indis tinct light bo is uot sure that such was tho enso. But this may bo as similatod as a fact, since it would be a! mighty bum hold-up individual who was not?arniod cap-a-pie, nud'u 44 Colt sounds woll uudor the cir cumstances. Out Walkoo didn't loso his head, and his cool request for the man to advance under tho match-light prob ably loft tho impression that the party attacked also carried a private arsenal, although be it Btated he whh entirely unarmed. Tho bluff worked, however, and the road agout took to tbo woods without further investiga tion. Mr. Tabor deolaros that tbo money he col looted at Alamo had been paid out, and that ho had ueitbor cash, or arms on his person, but ho didn't propoBo to submit lo tho dolay of having any rude and un cultured higwaymau go through him, evou if"ho hadn't..". RIVER TRANSP0RTA1I0N FOR THE IMMHA MINIS Enigueor C. W. Luck has returned from the (muaha district at (lie mouth of tho (mnaha river, about fifty-two miles southeast of Lewiston, whore ho wont to examine some mining properties for the Eureka Mining, Smelting it Power company. Mr. Luck brings somo good reports from that section but, of course, his roport to tho company will not lie made public until some future time. Ho also brought with him some spleudid samples that he has on display in his ofllco. Mr. Luck states that the company has already expendodtho immeuse sum of 8175,000 in developing thoso properties, besides erecting a mill, which is not yet in operation, aud establishing a townsite. Tho new steamer "Mountain Gem," which was receutly completed to take the place of tho one that was wrecked, is now making regular trips to that district from Lewiston aud is one of tho most substantial crafts afloat. The government is now building a big drodgo at Riporia which will be used iu cleaning out and widening the channel from Imnaha to Pittsburg Lauding, a distance of twenty-five miles, and as soon as this is com pleted the steamers will theu be able to traverse the Snake river fiom Lewiston to the latter poiut. Weiser Signal. MAN HAD NEVER SEEN THE AMERICAN FLAG A man was discovered in Coosa county, Alabama, last winter who had novor soon tho American Hag. What is more, he had not tho least perception of what it meant and was much astonishod when this was ex plained to him. Tho incident happened in the long leaf pino country in which the Haul Lumber company is operating, near the ilttlo backwoods town of Juinata. A party of government foresters encamped in tho woods bo side the road. A largo Hag tied to a sapling pino announced the site as a government camp. Ono evening a little old man camo down the road driving a yoke of steers and stopped to inquire whothor tho patry would liko to buy somo pork. Ho got oiit of his cart, sat down on a stump and after a moment's conversation his oyo caught sight of tho flag on the sapling. Ho looked at it in a puzzled way, then asked what it was. The men thought at first he was joking, but it was soon apparent tho question was in good faith. "That's the American flag, man, Haven't you seen the flag before?" No, be had never soon a Hag of any kiud before. Ho had heard theie wero such things, an once he had seen a picture of a flag on a postor, but that was a long time ago, and he had almost forgotten it. Ho had livod in the woods all his life aud had never boon more than thir teen miles from home. He wanted to know what the flag meant, and listened in silence when this was ex-1 plained to him. 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