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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, December 28 1904 L ' l MITCHELL, BINGER AND WILLIAMSON Tho Oregouian of this morning publishes H NHUHHtitlllHl Htory, tO ttlQ olfer.t thnt the federal gtand jury in hohhIou In Portland Ih lit work on evidence in the timber laud frauds, with n view to Indicting Senator Mitaholl, Congressmen Hnrmnnii and Williamson. Thu Oregouian says: They ay they are innocent, that the prosecution of thu government Ih persecution and thnt timo will right their wrongs and show they have been and are now the objects of a conspi racy instead or being originators or participants in onu. "Hut it ia now dollnltely atated the proseoutlon expects to prove en tirely to the contrary the declaration made Ity the two congressmen fiom Oregon. Talk Iiiih not linen idle rumor, it ia said, and it will ho cold faota before aiiothef two wooka have passed over the waiting people. "How, though, are the aenator and repreaeutativeH commoted y ia the oommou query. That ia a hard question to tut auawerod with any amount of detail, if WllilauiHon la entangled with Maya, ao in Hermann, and ho in Mitnhell, it ia said. It has been ahown hy the story of Maya in oouneutiou with Putoi, who ia con vlotod of one olfniiHe, he has boon A. A 111 11.. A 1.. A. I.. more miorosioti wiiu i-iuer 111 ma dealings. It wiih Maya, who, iih at torney for Putor, gave the letter of Intrnduotion to John Mitchell at Washington. Thia much wiih ahown in the testimony in the trial in which Putin- wiih convicted. Mitchell ATTENTION! Do you, fleal ro to Hell stock in your (Jold, Copper, Mining or other In dustrial companies? H ao, you can not lluda better advertising medium than HE OWE MANUFACTURER IMMMHJll, AlUAiA. It Ih the leading industrial and llmiucial paper published in the South. It reaches t'uit class of read ers who arc interested iu iluaucial and industrial afTalrs. It is old and cMalriislntl. I'uhlislied semi-month-lv. (itiarantcttl circulation 10,000. h'uhicriptiiiii price t'-MM) per year. Advertising!! rate reasonable. Keiul lor sample copy ami advertising rate-. Addrea-t, RoantrM Publishint Compiny iirnuHtlun., Alabni. THE SUMPTER GOLD BELT WN1N6 COMPANY CAPITALIZATION ,$100,000 wmmmm' i i K. IVMIODIK, President M, K, MUZZY, n Vice President K (fc.lUKJKNUM, -, So, and Tress C. II. CHANCE, .- Attorney C. 11. FKNNKK, - Engineer i ! "fffff it, it) tfttATESJKSIim. , . mm w awp ' IISTMGTS i4 iiilntw lniMiM i'J JL' SiiuHk, OriM took i'uter, upon presentation of the letter, to Hermann aud told the com mlHBloner I'uter was oue of the heat men in Oregon, entirely responsible and it would bo a favor if the landa in which he vih interested were to be passed thiough out of their order; that they be taken from thej Hit of suspended claims and made special aud immediate. Thia much has been show at the former trial. "Ilutgthla ia not all. Allegations will bo made that Mitchell was a frioud and helpmate of timber dealers and lobbyists; that his committee rooms lu Washiugtou wero head quarters of thia class of men and he shared in their ooutldeuco aud help ed iu thoir benellta. Thia ia in part, the nature of the evidence which it ia reported will be brought to boar against the testimony of the senator when he niters tho jury room to ex plain to the men there his Innocence of all wrong. "Hermann will have hla turn In tho jury room with the senator. Ilia connection witli the i'uter-Maya deal will be shown. It ia assorted, he It win who, acting aa commiaioner of the general laud oillce, took the suspended claims from the table aud expedited them to patents at the re quest aud solicitation of i'uter aud Maya et al. Nor is this all, the ex- commissioner will be asked to ex plain. "The atory of the missing letter llles will apply not alone to Washing ton but to Oregon." MAY GRAZE ON RESERVE Washington, Dec. 21. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, late yester day afternoon, issued an order which J will throw open the Rakoi City , forest reserve for grazing purposes during tho comings summer aud fall. The importunities of stockmen ranging east from the Cascades and (seeking a fall Niarket at linker City ! havohcon the most remarkably par 'sisteut of any applications made to i get thu 'department to change its order lu regard to grazing. Congress : unto Williamson's constituency iu 1 Crook, Wasco and 11 rant counties have burdened his mail with recitals 1 of the necessity of such a step. Secretary llitchock'a order places limitations upou the herds and I drove aud time limits for each. These details will bo conveyed to Forest Reserve Overseer Teirlll later on, so that owners of stock may get in touch with this ami learu of the conditions Imposed. It ia the second I grazing permit that has boeu made iu the northwest aud is looked upou by department ottloials at a oouses siou of oousequauces. . Flue priutiug at the Miner office. CHARLES NOW A Charles M. Reed, alleged million aire, baa been deularod a bankrupt in tho United Statea district court at Pittsburg, Pa. He owes nearly a million dollars, with .no assets except, an Oregon copper mine. The bankrupt is the son of (Jen era I Charles M. Reed, a pioneer of Erie, one-time king of finance, be fore the word frenzy was coined in that connection. (Jeneral Reed was one of Vanderbilt's lieutenants in tho building of the, Erie railroad. When be died he loft two million dollars to bis sou. Tho remaiuder of a tou milliou dollar estate went into better hands. Voting Reed reared in luxury, kuowiug uothlug but the social graaes, a bon vivant, a spenthrlft with tremendous capacity for costly things went the pace. Today he is less thau 40 years old; crippled from paralysis, duo to high living, almost an imbeailo, and baukmpt. Vcuug Reed, before ho filtered away his fortune, financed tho North wost Copper Mining compauy, tho Northwest Railway, aud the Iron Dyke mines, located iu Raker county, on Suako river, just across from Soveu Dovils. Later ho plastered this property with a MOO.OOO mort gage aud hung other claims to a like amount, agaiuat it. Ouo of tho claimants is Florouoe Sbatto, of Erie, who claims oue-foutrh ot all the Orogou property. Not long ago the mortgagees foreclosed, after sensa CALL MASS MEETING Next Weduesday evening efforts will be made to couvene a mass meet ing of Humpter citizens to discuss needed legislation with Representative-elect A. P. Smtlb, who will come dowu from Rourne for that purpose. Mr. Smith was oicuted to represent Raker county iu the state legislature because he was a republican, a min ing man, a good mixer, aud pledged to work for the repeal of tho Eddy corporation tax law. One of the principal purposes of the proposed of the mass meetiug is to formulate a set of ringing resolutions, demand ing the erasure of this obnoxious Eddy law from the statute books. The mas meetiug will be held at the Hotel Sumpter, under the aus pices of the Sumi ter district brauch of the Otegou Miner's Association, aud the call has beeu issued by Secretary Anthony Mohr. While the speoitlc purposes of the meetiug is to discuss with Mr. Smith matters relating to legislation of interest to the mining fraterutiy of this district, other topics will very likely come up tor consideration. The questiou of a law to regulate freight rates operating wholly within the state lu which class cornea tho M. REED BANKRUPT tional counter suits, at tho trial of which, Cairo Reed, son of the bank rupt, turned against his father, whose sole supporter and friend was Madame Sbatto, about whom there hangs a romance. Judgment of foieolosure waB secured against Reed, but an in junction was granted the unsecured claimants, restraining the judgment creditors from disposing of the prop erty until their claims could be adjudicated. The court has sinoe decided that this injunction shall dlssoolve on February 15, on whichi date the last vestige of a princely fortune will have passed from Reed's bands. lu protection ot her aud Reed'a oquitloB iu the Oregon property, Madame Shatto last summer filed suit against the mortgagors of the Iron Dyke miuo for six million dollars. The case wbb filed in the federal court of Oregon, it may uever conio on for trial. Tho judgment oroditors of the mine and railway, who now own the property, aro wealthy men of Penn sylvania. As au evidence of their aillueuoe, it might be rnebtioned that one of them once advanced 30,000 in cash to Reed without other securi ties than a verbal promts to pay. These geutlemen are arranging to roopeu the mine aud complete the railway from iluutingtou to Iron Dyke. Toe mine is considered a vaulable boldiug aud the railway franchise and right of way will he worth millions some day. Sumpter Valley line will undoubt edly bo brought before the mooting, iu an offort to determine Mr. Smith's stand ou this Important question, lu a recent article iu Tho Minor, dealing with this matter, speculation was iudulged iu as to whether Mr. I Smith was tied up with the Sumpter j Valley, a couditiou of servitude in ! ivhlnh fiMnin flunutni' .In tin I. Puwirt finds himself, by reason of being at torney for the railway company. In this morniug's Raker City Democrat, Joseph Rarton, general traffic man ager of the S. V. bands The Miuer some fragrant boquots, aud iuoideut ally says: "So far as Representative elect Smith, of Ron rue, is coucerued, we have had the pleasure vt meeting him casually, as wo did many other candidates for office at that time, and our opiulou ia that no oue Iibb any strings ou him, or will have, but that he will perform his legislative duties conscientiously, without fear or favor towards auyone in particular, but will always have iu mind the publio good." It is iudeed pleasing to receive authoritatively from Mr. Rartou a statement of such unequivocal uature to the effect that the Sumpter Valley company "has uo strings" ou, Mr. Smith. At the forthcoming meeting it is uot improbable that Mr. Smith will be given an opportunity corrobor ate Mr. Rarton's testimony. The general nublio of Sumpter, as well as all the miulng men in the contiguous camps, are urged to be present at tb mass meeting.