THE SUMPTER MINER
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MR. GILKEY
SWIPED THE
MULLIGAN
T. 13. Uilkny, who, with Sum Kor
tihaw, last wuuU (Uncovered that fabu
louHly rich pookotjun thuir Liolmout
minn on Vlusuu crook, IhJ a great
practical joker, llarluy (J. Wood,
who served on the police foroo while
John Klggs was away, dollghtB to
tell of the time wIimu Uilkuy stole a
mulligan stuw from a hungry minor
in Sump tor last wlntor.
"This hungry person," la the way
llarloy rnlateH thu tale, "was a
HWiiHhbuckling minor from up thu
gulch, nig ih an ulephiuit aud a hud
inunjln hia cups. He came to Sump
ter and hogan making qiiiinlltutlvo
analyses of all thu rod llkkur in town
whuu hu was luvitnd to drink, lie
wouldn't spend IiIh own moiiuy. or
which ho had quite a roll, and con
H0(uuntly thu gang got Horo. In una
of thu local hhIuoiih iiliont ton o'clock,
(Sllkuy and a party of (rluiulri woro
Hpiuuiug yariiH aud drinking boor,
wlion it hogan to iio noticod that thu
big miner wiiHii't 'Hpriuging.' Con
aoquuutly the party out hi logout, aud
even wuut to thu uxtrumn of (kooping
him away from thu fruu lunch on thu
tmr, which hu had huuu hitting quite
froiiiuiitly.
"This idg minor juwod around a
wliilu ami tuuu wuut to thu China
noodiu joint aud liought two wholu
ohickuiiH, orduriug thu chink to maku
thu hIrdH into a mulligan stuw. IIIh
idea wiih to liutt hack into thu party,
tmy hiuiHuli a drink, and devour that
mulligan hIow all hIuiiii, whilu thu
gang looked wii with longing. Hu
oontldud IiIh Hchuiuo to mu, hut it wiih
too good to Iio tints ho I put tlllkuy
who. I'rotty hooii thu tiig minor
ahowud up, ordurud a glanH of huur,
placed a water liuukut full of Htuiim-
lug mulligaii stow on thu liar, so that
it'H odor would hhIuIo'IIio noHtrilH or
thu gang, and pruparud to make good.
I diverted hia attuntiou for a moment
whilu relation the nad, Had hiHtory of
my life, and ivlmii hu turned arouud
,Ii)h Imiikiit of mulligan Htow wan
gone Oddly uiiough, (lilkuy had
Iho tllHiippiiarud. Vuu uuvur heard
hiioIi laiiguago in your life. J'J'hat
big minor had' thu mortt oxtunUvo
vocabulary of any man I uvur met.
"Of uiiuiae, Hi ii police otlluur, I
hud to maku some nort of a hlutf at
arreting tlm thief, ho uIihnwI around
town until 1 found ( Mikity. Together
we repaired to thu uuaroHt nalcou and
utu thu mulligan. It whh great.
"Now, mmiii people may think 1
did wrong in thu pruinlHos. 1 didn't.
JtiHt think of the awful things that
would have happened if the big
minor had eaten that bucketful of
iiiulligaii all alone. It would havu
killed him. Ah it was, tillkey and I
aved bin life."
HUZZARDCTTE SWtPT OVEK
SUMPTER THIS MORNING
A tillxznid dldu't exactly atilku
fiumpte'- this morulug. but it waB a
bllzzradette. Snow began to rail
about niuojo'olook luet nigbt.tiy
dawp a foot of the"! whio feathery
covering ooiicealod Fthe previously
hare streets. About ten o'clock this
morning a wind whipped up from
tho lower canyon and did stunts.
The tempreaturo full rapidly, but by
noon tho wind fcll'aud tho Bunfahono
intermittently. Local weather sharpB,
who Have successfully prognosticated
motenrolrgicul pbeuomoua since Old
Haldy wiih a hole in tho ground, unite
in saying that thl i settles it; that
March dime In like a lamb and iu
going out like a lion; aud that next
week spring loft, salubrious geutlo
spring will bo in our midBt. ,:
W. 13. Hurd, howevor, says that we
will have more J-auow in May than
fell up to March 1. But be has beou
waiting here for several weeks for the
auow to disappear In tho hills, that
be may start work on his mlniug
properties, and ia getting desperate,
which colors hia judgment.
Sevoral of the miners came down
from tho Overland ('yesterday after
noon and report that threo feot of
mow had fallen in thu Cable Cove
diatriut during the past fuw days.
Last night nurely added another.
Tho snow plowjhad to be sunt over
the Sum)tor Tipton division of tho
Humptur Vulluy railway this morning
to break a way for tho piiHHungor.
Matloon, Illinois. People Here.
A party of olHcors an liuavy atook
holdurs in thu Maltoon Mining oom
iiiiiiv. uncrating iu thu Pocahontas
district, arrived in Sumptur tills
morning from linker City ou a visit
to tho local Hmultur, to which tho
Mattooti company uxpuctH to bu a
regular shipper this suuimur. Tho
party consists of (Jonoral llorce S.
Clark, a prominent jusrlHt of Mat
toon, llliuuis, W. 8. White, mayoi
or that city; L. Ashmoro, a mombur
of the Mattoou council, aud A. W.
Hutlur, of Maker City. (Jon. Clark
ih proHidont of thu Mattoou com
pany; Mr. Whitu ia vIco-pruHldont,
and Mr. Butler miuiugor. Thu party
ruturuud to Bukur tuis afternoon.
ANNUAL M10UTINU
BLUIO HIKU MININU COMPaNV.
Notice is horeby glvun that thu an
nual mooting of thu Htoukholdura of
thu liluu Bird Mining company will
bo held at thu ollluo of Williamson &
Burleigh, 242 Watei Street, Augusta,
Maine, on tue eleventh day of May,
1005, at 2 o'clock iu tho uft'iruoon,
for thu following purpeses:
First. -To uluut a board of direc
tors for the ensuing corporate year.
Suond.- To transact am other
binluuHH which may comu buforo suid
mooting.
Sumpter, Oregon, April
1005.
O. O. WltlllllT, Secretary.
Bird Milling Company.
21th,
Hluu
ANNUAL Mtir-U'lNli
HUCK IIOKN MINUS.
Notice is hereby by given that the
aiiiiuual mooting of thu stockholders
of thu Buck Horn Mines will bo hold
at thu otllou of WilliaiiiHou it Uur
luigh, 242 Watur Street, Augusta,
Maine, ou thu seventeenth day of
May, 1005, at 2 o'clock iu tho after
noon, for the following purpeses:
First. -To elect a board of direct
ors for tho eiiHiiliut corporate year.
Suuond. To trausaut any other
business which may come buforo taid
mooting.
Sumpter, Oregon, April 24 th,
1005.
0. C. W BIGHT, Secretary. Buck
Horn Ml no.
INJUNCTION
AGAINST THE
COLUMBIA
Another chapter baB been writen in
the sensational suit of Harry T Hen
dryx, Hucoessor to the Ueiset-Hendryx
Iuvoitmout company, against the Col
umbia Gold Mining company and
Frank Baillie, general mauager there
of. The suit Ivolvea possession of
the celebrated Tabor Fraction. In
the circuit court at Baker City yes
terday, Judge Sam White answered
the prayer of the plaintiff aud issued
a temporary injunction against the
Columbia company, restraining it
from mlniug aud milling any more
oro from the Tabor Fractiou until
further orders from the court.
The injunction Ib the outgrowth of
a suit reooutly instituted by Mr.
Heudryx, piayiug for uu ubrugatlou
of contract with tho Columbia com
Miuy,
Tabor
relativo to operation of tho
Fractiou, and demand lug au
accounting of oros extracted aud
treated fborofrom hy the dofonddnt
company. Tho original complaiut
sot out that the (Joisor Heudryx In
vostmeut company had eutered into
au agreement with tho Columbia Cold
Mining company, by the terms of
which the latter was given authority
to mluo and mill all oros from tho
lower lovola of the Tabor Fraotion on
a ruyalty basis. Tho plaintiff alleged
that since the signing of this contract
and agreement the defendant company
has mined aud milled oroH to the
value of approximately 850,000, and
that no accounting li'is been made
thereof. Judgment in abrogation
of this coutract, aud ordering au
accounting, was prayed for, and
during tho penduuoy of the suit an
injunction was asked.
The final outcome of tho case is
watched with considerable interest by
the miniug fraternity of this camp.
Mauager Baillio, uf tho Columbia,
paused throuli Sumpter this afternoon
ou his way to Baker City. When
asked by a Miuor mau if he had any
thing to say regarding this injunc
tion, he pulled out the papers aerved
on him yesteraay, witu rno remara:
"That tells the story, We have shut
dowu everything at the Columbia aud
will wait ror the conclusion of this
series of litigation."
The language of the injunction is
"until further ordors of the court."
Mr. Baillio said that his compauy
will do nothing to hasten the court
to issue any additional order, ap
parently Implying that a waiting
game would suit him as well a3 any
otber.
Principles of Atomic Theory.
It has beeu hastily aisumod that
the recent marvellous discoveries of
thu extraordinary properties of rad
ium have entirely upset the atomic
theory This is far from tho truth.
What effect the passage of ouo ele
ment iuto another will have upon the
atomio theory is yet a matter for the
future to disclose. Iu tho meantime,
chemists are still retaining aud using
iu their every day work the principles
of the atomio theory. This is evi
denced by the very large numbers of
re-determinations of the atomic
weights made during the past year.
The atomic weights, ho far as whole
numbers, and as far aa the first place
of decimals are concerned, are pretty
well established. The right now is
for fixing these weights to the second
and third place of decimals. For ex
ample, nitrogen has been assumed to
have, as a result of careful expert
mental work, the atomic weight of
14.04; the work done last year
throws souio doubt upon tnis, aud
would seem to indicate a lower atomic
weight. Possibly 14 007 is uearer tho
truth. Mauy otber atomic weights
are under investigation, and as a re
sult, we may look to see some facta
revealed which may be startling to
the geueral loientlflo public. Min
ing Reporter.
INVESTOR SAYS Hf
WAS fllMFLAMMED
Using the uame of C. B. Wade, de
funct cashier of the First National
nsnk of Poudloton, iuJicted for for
gery aud embezzlement, aud a bank
rupt mining speculator, aa the
opou soasnmo to bis bank acoouut,
C. C. Laubghlin alleges that M. A.
Butlor defrauded him out of 85000
ciiBb aud numerous promissory notos
iu cuuneutiou with the manipula
tion of the Woatberhy group and
Bouanza mines iu eastern Oregon.
Laughliu has brought suit iu the cir
cuit court to sot iiHide the promissory
uotes. aud for a judgment agaiust
Butlor of 85000 aud $5000 addi
tional damages.
Laughliu, in his complaint, alleges
that Butler, through fraud aud miB
repreieutatious, iuducod the plain
tiff to buy tresaury stock Iu the
Weatherby group of miues for 82500.
He says Butler knew at the time
tho mine was nothing more than a
bole iu the ground, but represented
that it was a paying piopositiou.
After this tho Weatherby Mluiug
compauy became insloveut aud was
roorgauizod. About this time O. B.
Wado's aousatioual failure was an
nounced, aud Laughliu says that
Butler canin to him Haying that Wade
held 75,000 share? of the Bonanza
mluiug stock, aud that It would
be sold at public auotlou, aud ad
vised plaintiff to buy it. Laughliu
says be commissioned Butler to buy
the stock, which ia reported waa doue
for 82500, but, iu fact, Laugblin
alleges, Wade never owued any of
this stock, but that transferred to
Laughliu wps owned by Butler, who
was hurrying to get out of a losing
proposition.
Laughliu says that since the expose
of Wade's gigautio mining schemes,
he has learned that the Wetherby
group aud Bouanza miues were worth
less, aud further that Butler's state
ments were fraudulent and made with
tho iuteutiou of awindliug the plain
tiff out of mouey. Telegram.
Pa'd Gold for Gold.
Tom Duupby yesterday bought
from Gilkey & Kershaw about 81400
worth of gold dust and uuggets, part
of the gorgeouB display which the
lucky Viusou creek miners panued
from a pocket ou their Belmout mine.
Mr. Duupby will keep the nuggets for
display, first lu the permanent min
eral exhibit here, aud later iu the
miues building at the Lewis and
Clark fair.
Fresh line of Lowney's candies at
Ed. Wesiberg's; Hotel Sumpter
Building.