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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1905)
'W, ff" THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, March 22, 1901? The Sumpter Miner PUBLISHED BVBRV WEDNESDAY BY , J. W. CONNGLLA hntrred at tfie postofllce In Sumpter, Oregon, for runvmlnlon lhruu((ti (tie malls at second class mailer SUHSCHII'TION MATHS -tic Yfr .....' , fa.oo Stx Months'. .tv 4 .5 jaWAVS IN ADVANCN. , TI10 really' important piirt of tho digging nt tho' Panama oh mil will bo done by (lie American tux payors. The Dally Mining Record takes a MfiluncilrJ staud against knockers; tho broHil view that there is no good pur nose accomplished even by 0110 iIIh trlot or HtHtu speaking in a derogatory man nor of another. More harm .baa been dune to the mining industry by the "anvil chorus" tlitiu hII otbor lu illuoucea combiiiud. An Ari'oiiH paper contains thin suggestive Item: "Last night h bur glar entered tbu room of W. S. Tump kiiiH, 11 promoter. In crawling into tint window ho made h noise that at tracted tbu attention of Mr. Tomp kins, who nwoko fit ouoo and im mediately grappled with too intriidor. After 11 Huron struggle, tho promoter Hiicooodod in robbing tbu burglar. " Tom 1.. Johnson, tho politician and Htrotit nil I wit. t magnate of Cluvolaiid, Ohio, prodlott that at no distant dato tho Minn nmiMHHary to travul between Now York to Ghlc.igo will bo reduced from t wii ty to two bourn, liu says that wheels cannot bo made to turn at a speed f tutor than i!00 miles au hour, but bia scheme Ih to substitute a Hliding motimi. Electricity Ih to bo tho mrtivo power, straight away, instead of In a circuit. Tho (inn cant piuco whh first coined in 1780. From 1785 to 17HH hov oral stale coined copper oouta on their own account. Thorn were altogether In circulation up to 1 H57 no litHrt than hovcii d liferent typoti of the copper cent. The half-cent llrst coiuetl In .IHforsuu's time whh in circulation up to about 1800. It waH ahull ihcil by the government In 1857. The old copperH were llkowitio in 1 H57, replaced by a ftmallor cent, oompoHod'of H8 per1 cent copper and 12 nick In. Ill '1801 till wan sup limited by the pre lent bronze cent, which Is'ilti pef cent copper and 0.5 per cool tin itud'zluo. . '.ii.Tii'' The Lps Alleles t Santa Fo Hall way oomuH,uy h making arrangement to plait (he suuthwoHtoru deserts along tbe,.cuulo with spineless cacti, which iumiInIuk. Iijli, food ami water for imiIUv Thr.A'UJMy desert will first rocejro Mttouf loi ,theu Arlnmua mid Nojv MukJoii, tfpimilos eaofj plants itin itow.WQtth tl0 each, bqt they aitt easily, propagated, They were dnyvlopiHl.y ltr lluibank, the fimmn, ).,loitl..itiirlri. The percent hu, ( nurltlou in next to alfalfa. The railroad oompau.y'8 Motion meaiiH that iiiIIIIoiih or acres of desert Itiud will be turned into pasture. the law would undoubtedlyyleld an annual revenue of 810.000,000 to the state. Of course Wall Street la protesting vigorously, and this is the way the New York Commercial, its mouth pioce, registers the kick: 'That would be 810,000.000 a year wrung directly from a brauah of New York City's business that Is ono of the most important in the world and has been among the chief1 (MUhoh contribution to the com mercial supremuoy of the metrop olis; for practically the whole volume of the tradlug in stocks in this Btate in done hero in thu city; and the supporters of this bill cooly oroposo to slice 810,000,000 a year out of the business aud trans fer it to the state treasury at Albany to mulct I be city for the benefit of tho country. Apart from the dozen and more sound reaaoue ad- vauced against the passage of the bill at the recent committee beariug, there are two that ought to be quite suoflliont to oompaHH his defeat: "The teudouoy of such a law would not only be to decrease aud discour age local stock-trading, and thus to defoat its owu purpose, but it would aslo inevitably drive away from Now York much of tho brokerage business tout now comes hero from outside tho state In such great volume, booaiiBo the traders would naturally seek those exchanges whore the busluo-is could be done with the least expense. "And, from the outlet, the extreme unpopularity of tho bill would In vite its evasion, and "huekotlng" aud othor frauds would multiply rapidly under it. "Every luuator aud BHsomblymau from Now York, Kings, Queoue aud Richmond counties should tako the floor iu vigorous prutoHt against this bill when It comes up for discussion ill oither bouse. They ought nover ty have allowed it to get out or oom mittoo. They can kill It now if they will only orgaule a light ou it with out delay." A bill has boon introduced iu tho California legislature, the purpose of which ih to punish fraudulent promoters and stock jobbers. Tho bill applltiH to corporations gouerally aud lmpuaos a penalty of two years' Imprisonment or 85,000 Hue or both, upon any olllcer or director of a cor poration who wilfully given incorrect information or assent to or allows the publication of false or exaggerat ed statements regarding the company or stock to mailed investors, there the hhuio be given to individuals pri vately or to the public. The same applies to any person representing iimiHOir as a director olllcer or a com ptfliiy to deceive Invevtors. etet and the washer woman to the end. There la a atory that neither could read nor write.. After ; giving au entertainment at the International hotel, suab as that hosterly of mtuy grandeurs bad never before seen, they went to Europe for two years. When they came back they were still tho teamster and the 'washer woman. Europe had added' no ve neer. Hut the money was sMU iu plenty. "Money to throw at the birds," as the old mau was wont to say. Nevada was more to. their taste tbau anywhere else, so they elected to remain there, aud that strange mounmeut of wealth,, which is kuowu all through Nevada and California as the Bower mausiou, was built ou the shore o Wasboe lake. Thy aite whh one of. extraordinary beauty with the walla of suow-caped Sierras behind it, the sapphire swep of water in front. Money was never considered in ita construction. It wbb built of quarried stone aud fur nished with the costliest San Frau- oisco could supply. A library of hooka with Sandy's name ou every volume was one of ita features. Tho door handles were of sivler, the table furnishings the finest to be bad at that place at that time. Hero the old pooplc--for they wero gottiug old settled aud dispensed a lavish hospitality, lloro au adopted child whom they dearly loved aud had mimed Porsiiw died, lloro, too, later ou, Haudy died and was buriod In the garden under the shadow of tho Sierras. Aud here the shades of evoulug begitiuiug to close ou this strange drama poveity overtook his widow. She strove to redeem her first louses by speculation, tbrnwiug good money after bad. Iu her case, tue wheel of fortune made a com plete revolution. Her old age saw bor as poor as she bad boon lu her youth. Sbo passod from stago to stage, and dually mado a livllbood by piacticiug fortune-telling iu Sail Francisco, it having been always un derstood that she had the gift of second sight. Tho crystal lu which sbo gazed bad shown bor many tilings, but nothing stranger, more diamatic aud varied thau hor own lifo. Miu iug and Engineering Heview. Moore, 3, S. Ed Ciuley, Metz, J. W. Benpsy, Tom Naughton, J. M. Charles, J. 11. Sellers, W. J. Gril Itoftton, J. T. Busk, L. R. Rusk, A. B. Brown, W J. Evans, WD. Spruut, G. R. Fenz, John Orwoll, E. Beeoraft, N. Eaetham. R A. Miller, (.ins Nelson, Pat McUiunins, 11. Fleegle, J. Uilles, J, D. Covllu, T. L. Downey, H. R. Caddy, Harry Bates, John Brown. T. Stompfer, D. V. Ring land. B. R. Woods, II. Love, P, C. A Ins worth, W. C. Carrell, W. B. Byron, W. S. Lamb, Ed Morgau, .13. M. Keuua, O. D. McDonald, W. J. Roreberston, F. Lloyd, Guy Harris, Joe Cobb, Win. Baeler, J. T. Mahoney, E. O'Harra, Matt Mark manu, W. McDonald, C. H. Burns, Mevlln Graham, I. E. Bass, C. O. DeForeit, John Paddook, C. S. Kear, Notice ia hereby given that the undersigned, George Wright, Sr., will, at the first day of April, 1900, term of the County Court of the County ot Baker, State of Ore gon, or as soon thereafter aa he can be heard, apply for a license to sell spirituous, malt and vinous liquors at the Halfway Houbo, in Bourne precinct, Baker County, Oregon, for the period set forth iu the foregoing petition. GEURGE WRIGHT, Sr. G0MST0GK WEALTH. ROMANGf. TRAGEDY Duipitefthe Htroug preterits from New York City the Htate ueuate com mittee has reported favorably on the tiill to Uivy n tix on the salon of joks. Although the moutuire was ullgbtly amtiutfd.iu cue or two par ticulars, its real character has iu tic wine, beup chaud, aud , tb 'committee atiuoououtt that, if paed, Sandy Bowers was a teamstor, his wife a buxom aud not uncomely Scotch woiiibu who took iu washing aud kept a miners' boarding hi use. It was iu the early days of Virginia City, before men bad grasped the full value of the discovery, aud tho team stor, iu company with others of his kind, came into poBsessiou of several hundred feet ou the lode of iho Gold Hill. His claim bucame one of the bon anzas of the region, aud Sandy found himself richer thau be ever thought anyone oould be. Neither he nor bis wife ever rose to the level of tbair fortune. They remained the team- Petition for Liquor License. Bourne, Oregon, February 21th, 1000. To the Honorable County Court of the Couuty of Baker, Stato of Ore Ore eon: We, the uudersigued, do hereby respectfully represent that we con stitute a majority of the legal voters of Bourne product, County of Baker, State of Oregou, aud do hereby re spectfully potitiou your Honorable Body to grant to George Wright, Sr., a license for the period of three mou'hs.couiuienciug April 1st, 1005, aud euding June HOth, 1005, to sell spirituous, malt aud villous liquors at rotail, at what is commonly kuowu as too nairway tiouse, iu nourue precinct, County of Baker, ritato of Oregon, said Halfway House beiug situated ou tho Sumpter-Bourue wagon road about three miles Huutberly from Bourue, iu said Couuty aud State. Aud we further rospectfnlly rep resent that said Halfway House is not wlthiu a mile of any mine. 11. C. Neidermark, Wm. Weigaud, Joseph David, W. B, Palmer, A. F. Raymond, N. M. Johuiou, Dau Furry, C P. Williams, Dou Patter sou, Jake Green, J. Welderham, James GHUlliu, Johu Soratb, J. J. Mullett, 1). W. Couzeus, F. II. Steveusou, Qua K. Bajrd, W. H. Baelste, Dauiel Cahlll, Jas. F. Can't Work Roads Yet. Pote Eaton, who has a life tenure of tbo job of road supervisor for this district, aud a hotter mau for tho place cau't bo fouud, says that tbo roads leadiug from Sumpter are in a horrible oouditiou, but that be can't do a thing to improve them until they get somewhat dryer than they uow are. It does no good to throw gravel luto bottomlesi mud, aa it soou works down aud the work would be wasted. He has a arew of men ready to send out wheuever needed, should auy plaoo become impassable. Resume Work on the Virginia. A. B. Eruo4t, of Seattle, manager of tho company that owns- the Vir ginia, in tho Greenhorn dUtriot, ar rived iu towu yesterday aud left this afternoon for home. The purpose of bis present trip to eastern Oregou is to HGttlo Boino business matters, which were aucesafullly consummated yesterday. Mr. Erueet will leave in about ten days for the east, expecting to returu here by May, when ar rangements will be perfected for ur once resuming work ou the Virginia. The shaft will be suuk auother 100 feet before the mill is started. stray Notice. Came to Oregou Lumber company's raucb at Whitney, Christmas, 100-1, brown pouy mare; small white star ou forehead, a little white ou left bind foot; branded with au X iu cir cle ou left shoulder. Owuer cau have lame ou proving property aud payiug expousos, ou application at abovo raucb. L. L. WILSON. Beautiful Gage Hats. Mrs. E. L. Sullivau, the Baker City modiste, will display a com plete Hue of spriug milliuery at Hotel Sumpter for two days, April aud 1. Spring Millinery Opening. Mr. E. L. Sullivau, of Baker City, will be at Hotel Sumpter for two days, Monday and Tuesday April 3 aud 1, with a full line of spring millinery, iuoludiug the cele brated gage hats.