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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-05-22
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States, for the Wall.

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States, for the Wall.
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sending for your family, do not buy your
tickets until you have secured rates from
the Illinois Central Railroad company.
Their service Is excelled by none, and
they can reach all points In the east, south
and sotheast from any point In Oregon.
Washington or Idaho. Through tourist
car from Pacific Coast to New York.
II you will send fifteen cents In stamps
to the address given below, we will for.
ward you by return mail large wall map
Of the United States, Cuba and Porto
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For particulars regarding passenger or
freight rates, call on or address,
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Commercial Agent, I42 Third street, Port.
land Oregon.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-05-22

Development Of the Dssdgs in Mining.
The development Of the dredge Is one
Of the most interesting incidents Of placer
mining. The present elaborate machines,
each Of which costs from tas,ooo to S4s..
600, had their origin In New Zealand, and
the first dredge was nothing more than q
stout iron ring, know as a spoon" to
which was attached an oxhide bag and q
long pole. A rope was attached to the
ring and secured 10 winch on the bank
Of the river. The ring and pole were
then taken out In the river with boat
and dropped In the stream. The bucket
was pressed by the pole As deep as possi'
bic into the wash In the bed Of the river.
and then hauled ashore with the winch
and the contents Of the bucket washed In
q California rocker. The most marked
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-05-22

success Of the dredge In this country Is In
California, where a dredge operator re.
ports that last year he handled $4,000
cubic yards Of material which yielded IS
cents per yard at a cost Of 5 cents per
yard. This In round numbers means the
handling Of /. 900 cubic yards at profit Of
SIooo-Mining and Engineering Review.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
a oAMPAIaN MlsTAKE.

IA city election arouses more interest
among all classes than a state or ma
tional election because the issues are
nearer TO the voters.
The contest which closes with the
primary tonight has been character
istic one for the people have been thor
oughly awakened.
Mistakes We're made in the campaign
and the greatest OF all was the exhibit
ton OF weakness on the part Of the law
and order organization. Because J. w.
f.. Hughes was persistent and insisted
upon being a candidate the law and or
der organization accepted him. record
and all.
1t is not wise to nominate unsafe men
for public office and any man ororganiz-
alton which advocates sucif a course
must ultimately lose influence and
standing.
People love character, stability and
earnestness in public men. The voters
will not cOndone faults in those chosen
to serve them nor viii they trust those
who have proved recreant to a trust--if
they know it.
A man can not always pose before
the people in a false light. There is
nothing that the great mass Of human.
ity admires more than constancy. for
conStancy IS character ana II IS 1OuHu
only with strength of mind
Campaign partisans are often unfair,
and good man is sometimes roughly
handled. but once let the voters dis
cover that they have been deceived, and
they are ready to make amends.
Every one is laboring for the welfare
Of the city. The only point of difference
is concerning the avenues through which
it can best be reached.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

his spring plowing started that he IS
running a night shift breaking stalks.
An Qlathe man has solved the prob-
lem Of honest elections, invent1ng ma
chine that makes fraudulent voting I'M
possible
An Usage City man is wondering what
to do with a fourteen foot snake sent
him from a friend in Cuba now that
the joints are closed
In a way heaven was kind to an Os-
borne county man who smoked cigarettes
50 long that he went blind and could no
longer see how to roll them
In the old days Diogenes took a Ian
tern TO search for an honest man but al
Fort Riley no chances are taken on
anything less than searchnght.
Some Rocks county farmers held a 81
a plate banquet recently With the Wo-
men wearing evening gowns. Here's a
new patient for the octopus to get after
Pratt county roads are SO bad that
Representative Blafne's automobile has
been taken out of commission for a time
Evidently the craze for rough riders is
dying out.
An Olsburg man has a pair Of horns
from an Alaskan mountain sheep which
he has decorated with faded love letters.
old valentines and broken New Years
resolutions.
a Wellington man has resigned his
position as section boss and gone into
the cold storage business on the theory
that an ice wagon is less dangerous
than hand car
Two Minneapolis society girls have
dizzy figures in the firtaticn language
with some sold boys of the town There
ought to be a law compelling every grass
WidoWer to wear a. cow bell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
EAST VERSUS WEST

Senator Carter seems to have put his
hook in the eastern states and then
turned it around. That is to say. he
has got revenge and got it in a way
that viii make every eastern represen-
tative in congress know that there il
something and somebody west Of the
Mississippi river.
The west asks for very little at the
hands Of the east, and it is entitled to
all that il asks for Tt gets compare
lively little political pap, and the small
end Of the appropriations which it re-
ccives has been very welcome, but the
end has been 80 small that il would take
a magnifying glass to see it. When the
past session of congress opened, the west
asked that the. streams in the arid
states be damned that water might be
stored for future use in irrigating. just
as Is done in Egypt It would require
an appropriation. not a large one, to do
this. but the eastern members of con
gress could not see that it would benefit
them in the least. so they killed the bin.
Senator Carter said nothing, but when
fhe session was almost closed he got On
his feet and talked until the hour for
considering bills was passed and thus
killed the river and harbor appropria-
&1on bill which is dear to the hearts Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
VOTE ZOE ZEE sHops-

While the election is warming up and
citizens are taking such great interest
in the fight for city officers, they should
not forget that the extension of the
Santa Fe shops viii be voted for at this
election It is a matter Of utmost i'm
pOrtance that the proposition be carried,
and there is no question but that it will
be if every one who favoas the issue
votes for it. The danger lies in the fact
that citizens are likely to forget about
the proposition in their interest in the
candidates.
The extension OF the shops means
much for Topeka; in fact. it is the most
important question that the people have
had a chance to vote upon for years.
Do not forget to work for it and do not
allow your neighbOr to forget. The ques-
ton VIII be decided at the city election
on April p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

We're simply buncoed out of the price Of
their admission.
Made impudent and careless by i'm
munity from punishment the pugs threw
Off all pretense TO respectability and
scientific exhibitions and simply begun
making matches with a view single 70 .
profit for themselves. regardless Of the
rights Of those who paid to witness the
contest
In the old days, indeed until within the
past few years, ring exhibits were con-
Quoted, in sporting parlance, "on the
Level" John L. Sullivan and Robert
Fitzsimmons have been a class Of men
that never tried to fake the public
whatever their other faults may have
been But, alas, now the mighty have
fallen since these grizzled veterans have
retired from the ring
And so a long suffering public has
grown weary. and stringent laws against
prize fighting have been passed in most
Of the states. And this il why the prize
fighter is sad and why they are hunt
ing for greener fields.
However. popular priced steamer ex-
cursion rates from Charleston and New
York will still give those who insist on
being fieeced out OF their money a
chance to witness "boxing matches"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
DUST HERE ONCE MORE.

Much has been said OF the conditions
Of the paved streets in the business part
Of Topeka and it seems that much more
may be said before a satisfactory rem
edy for the evil may be found.
It does not seem that the street de-
partment is wholly to blame for the
white wings work diligently and now
and then a street sweeper is sent out to
stir up the dust in the corners and
cracks of the pavement and to leave a
streak behind showing which way it has
passed. Those who live on the paved
streets or who have to walk or - on
them in windy weather. such as March
always furnishes, wonder how it would
be il the efforts Of the street department
ceased. In that case the air might be
SO fun Of real estate that a person
would have TO run a sod breaking plow
ia front Of him behind an air ship in
order to plod along. The city does not
even run sprinkling wagons. On windy
day Kansas avenue and others OF the
paved principal thoroughfares are not
1T for people to travel. Can not some
thing be done2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
WIFE DISCRETION.

From the Boston Herald.
Tt is stated that the three charitable
societies of Chicago reported more than
1000 cases Of want created by the deser-
2 000cases Of want created by the deser-
ton of wives on the part of the hus-
bands in that city last year. In the ma
jOrity of these instances, young children
were left to the wives to be supported,
whom their natural protector had aban-
doned- The subject has attracted the
attention of the Illinois legislature,
where there is a proposition made to
punish a wife deserter by a term in the
penitentiary, with the provision that he
shall be compelled to work at some trade
there, and the earnings which result
from it shall be appropriated to the sup
port of the family that is left in want.
The wife bea1er may be more brutal than
the wife deseTter, but nothing can we'll
exceed the feaTtlessness OF the latter.
Both would probably find an oppoFtu
nifty for usefulness foreign to their ma
lures if put into employment such as the
above proposed law would provide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
TIRED OF PRIZE FIGHTERS.

A new mecca has been discovered by
the prize fighters and hereafter the
knights Of the roped circle win pitch
their tents in Bermuda and hammer
each other to their hearts delight. with
out police interference.
For some time the business OF this
class OF gentry has been Improbable in
the United States and has daily been
becoming more unpopular.
From a once manly sport boxing has
degenerated to smuggling contests and
fake affairs where the ring, inmates were
benefited BY large purse and division
Of box office receipts and the spectators
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
Canada claims the North Pole.

We are meeting with the usual diff
culties which follow a policy of expar-
sion IT has always been supposed that
Canada was the proprietor of the north
pole. and that we could have the article
whenever we chose to call for it. But
no sooner do we propose to go and bring
that pole home than claims are made
by other countries which caper off III
that direction, and it is said now that
we are entitled to only one-quarter of
the pole We are strongly opposed to
jingjoism, but there are some things we
are not prepared to stand, and we give
due notice that we viii wade knee-deep
in ink before we will give up any part
Of this birthright of every Canadian
From the Toronto Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
I.EaIsLArrvE LESSONS.

The salient points of the legislature
have been the enactment Of four humid
red laws. mostly local in import, and
of the general laws haziness about
their constitutionality. Like all legisla-
lures. the expenditure of money has been
lavish. and exceeds that Of the last. and
the excess. viii go far toward the half
million mark this time. This feature is
SO prominent at present that the treas
ury is expected to be exhausted within
sixty days and warrants viii have to go
unpaid until taxes begin coming in in
June. The grabbers have had their fists
plunged deep into the public purse and
helped deplete it so that three-quarterz
of million Of obligations have been
piled upon the treasury by the legisla-
ture and there is on hand only about
$500. 600 to meet them The miscellen-
eous appropriation bill with its $l50,0
including many dubious items. is small
compared to the bulk Of debt created by
other and unusual expenditures There
was little stint about raising salaries
There was a big state printer deficiency
and a hundred thousand dollar debt 10
pay counties because there is not room
for the insane in the asyluns.
Biennial elections for county officers is
now the law. but so Jealous were the
law makers to hurry the matter that
ohicelSeekers win likely upset this econ
omy because of a constitutional defect
Some pettiness and petulance attended
the closing days Of the session The two
houses at legislative swords points over
the imputations of jobbery in the school
book bill and the governor Furnishing
both for disregarding his dictum as to
local bills were amusing as well as ex-
renzIva
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
JAYHAWKER JOTs.

In dispensing with her joints Great
Bend has also passed up her night mar
shal.
The coupon rug fever has reached
Johnson county with flying wedge at.
tachments.
The grass is getting green on the
southern slopes in Kiowa county" notes
the Signal
Harry Seacat Of Ford has been SER
iously i'll for several days but not with
sea sickness.
1t cost a Coffeyville man thirty-seven
days in jail to steal a pair of measley
fifty cent overalls
With the approach Of spring Kinsley
has started TO blowing up the ground
for Santa Fe division point shops
50 anxious il 8 St. George man to get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
The street piano supplies airs by
handle.
The flow of water in river is a mat
ter of course.
a fish in the hand is worth two in the
anglers story.
Remorse, like a wooden leg, is some
times a necessary. evil.
Fools create opportunities for wise
men to take advantage Of
If you would find a good looking glass
follow a good looking lass
The average woman takes the cork out
of a bottle by pushing it in
Nothing is more unsatisfactory than
the love that has to be purchased
Haste sometimes trips up a mans
heels and brings him to a sudden stop
Remember that scrubbirg the floor
and busting the cushions often comes
under the head of church work.
A tipsy fellow on being told that the
world was round said that accounted for
his rolling around 50 much.
No man ever realizes how attractive
his home really is until he offers it for
sale and reads what the real estate
agent says about it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

A Jaw has just been passed by the
indiana legislature providing for the APP
poinfment Of marriage commission
composed Of two women who are moth
ers. two physicians of not and one at
torney- 1T shall be the duty Of this com
mission to prepare a set OF questions 70
be asked by marriage license clerks and
by justices or ciergymen who perform
marriage ceremonies. The purpose is TO
compel candidates for matrimony to
pass an examination as 20 their physi-
cal. mental and moral fitness, in the in
teresl OF society at large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

A dog has to have a fight about SO
often to be healthy
A joke that should be called in con-
Germs riding the goat in lodge initia-
lions.
How does it happen that all milliners
come from New York, Chicago or
Paris?
In nearly every family. there IS a
queen, who acts naughty and makes
trouble
A gasoline stove and some weiner-
wursts and bread are about all that are
needed to give a lodge banquet now
A mans first gift to a son is usually
something he always wanted nin ltss.-
when a boy and which was denied him.
Rebecoa at the Well isn't as interest
ing q picture to most people as one
would be of the Plumber at the Hyd-
rant
Our idea Of a man who hasn't much
sense is one who hears spiritual rap
pings and takes a great deal Of inter
est in them.
After a woman has kept house in
cramped quarters for a few weeks she
turns sick every time a guest uses the
word cosy"
An AJcnISOn GIL. VINO WCTtAS ntA@S4A
to death for the church, makes her
mother. who does her own work, pay
her ten cents every time she washes the
dishes
It is a good idea to have a baby in
the room when someone performs
on the piano. so that the guests may
have something to stare at without en-
barrassment
When a man boasts that his ances-
tors lived in the same place for almost
a century, no one is impressed; every
one reflects what a lot of rubbish must
have accumulated.
Some one asks what IS tact. It IS
that feeling which prompts a woman
to dig up the photograph of a friend
tom bureau drawer, and put it on the
parlor mantel-
1t Is with regret that we announce
that the Atchison girl who dance at
the inaugural ball. didn't get her II
ington Post Tt must have been great
disappointment to her
It is one evidence Of parental sup
preston when the daughter decides
that the pictures in the partor are old
groups to make room for row OF
Hoseas AIadonnas and Christ heads.
When a new milliner arrives in town
from Herkimer, Indiana, or Keokuk,
Iowa YOU cant fool anybody by an
nouncing that she is from New York. -
Besides, milliners from Keokuk and
Herximer are just as good as milliners
from New York. New York receives
too much free advertising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
AMuateriona Meseage.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.l
Nfkola Tesla gravely announces that
the earth has received a message from
another world-presumably Mars.
It is two-three.
This sounds dreadfully mysterious
Perhaps the man in the moon was
fighting a duel with old Colonel Jupiter
Or, possibly. It was merely the cry of
surprise with which a paralyzed Mar
tian may have greeted the discovery
that he was the father of trlplets!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

every eastern member 1t may have
hurt some parts or the country which
were not unfriendiy to the west, but IL
did hurt the east. which win cry over it,
When the west again asks something
at The hands Of the cast it is probable
that the request viii be given serious
considerat ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

Addicks said it would be he or no
body. and it is nobody. Delaware Will
be without representation in the United
States senate until another legislature
shall assembly. at. least. Perhaps the
legislature has acted wisely. No sena-
tor seems TO be preferable to the gas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

Senator Carter did not secure a re-
election. but the president has provided
him with something Just as good" He
will continue to draw $1,000 a year from
the government as Commissioners of the
St Louis exposition Perhaps this Is In
tended as a reward for killing the river
and harbor bill. AT any rate the taN-
payers will hardly grudge him his good
fnrrsruz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09
KER.REFLECrIoNs.
from the Philadelphia Record
A bride path-the church aisle.

iErOm the Rh1lade1Dnla ReCOIQ.l
A bride path-the church aisle.
No. Maude, dear; opera singers should
not be referred to as operators
The careful housewife who. saves
money on eggs feels like Growing about
The man behind the gpn doesn't seem
to be in it with the man behind the
pull.
The woman who laces evidently doesn't
believe in letting things 60 to waste
Blobbs-'.How do you know the jon
sons are English?', Slobbs--"They drop
their his"
After all it doesn't amount to much
to have ones name in print. Just look
at the city directory
whats your name2" Numbered the
Magistrate John" replied the man Of
many aliases What's your last name"
Il haven't quite decided"
so you want me to get you a pen
was your husband in?" Husband,
nothin'l" snapped the woman: Il served
under Mrs. Nation in Kansas"
..Many dealers sell adulterated tea,
said the shoplzeeper; but mine is per-
fectly pure mo doubt you find honest
tea is the best policy murmured the
professional humorist, shamefacedly.
Il un'nnerstan' Eat re baseball is re
rationale game" said the distinguished
foreign visitor; but do not see. eef eet
IS game of chance. who win2'' "Oh,
the public generally gets tie worst of
it, replied the native American.
A pessimist is just man,
Who. fishing every minute,
May never even get bite,
And simply glory in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

one way the servant girl question
might be solved would be by raising her
pay dollar or two week, but that
would be more expensive than by the
talk method
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

In presenting $4,000 to vassar college.
Mr.. Rockefeller is showing a disposition
TO scatter his faVors. which viii be wei
coined by other struggling institutions
OF learning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

one more attribute Of Imperialism has
developed in Hawaii where there is a
row about the language to be used in the
legislature. The trouble has not yet
reached the hghtng stage as in Aus
rrIa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

The populaee in san Juan. Porto Rico,
has been giving the American school
superintendent touch Of the strenuous
life The demonstration was suppressed
in the manner peculiar to that region OF
the worldly the soldiers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

Montana has filled her vacant place in
the united States senate BY man who
seems to be in every way the opposite
az Senator Clark. except that he is a
Democrat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

Nebraska is sure Of one United States
senator whether the asgislature deadlock
shall be broken or not Mr.. Allen IS
hanging on and his position has been
recognized by the new body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

There is no longer any question in this
country about the propriety of spelling
Nation with a big \. A certain woman
frrrn Medicine Lodge settled that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

The presidential campaign IS on al
ready. The Chicago Inter-Ocean biz
teriv attacks Carter Harrison's position
on national issues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

The ministers Of the powers having
brought about a peace in China, should
be induced TO come over here and Try
their hands on the baseball war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

what a pity Mr.. Eugene Zimmerman
hasn't son. He might marry him 10
Miss Portia Knight and stop the breach
VI promise suit against his ducal son-in-
law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

The Chicago Inter-Ocean Is attempting
10 defeat Carter Harrison by appealing
TO the farmer vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

The business Of the United States sen
ate is not likely to be crippled by the
absence of a senator from Delaware
The result at Dover seems to prove that
there are legislatures which are not pur-
chasahI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-09

Statistics Of the future probably Wa
show shat in 1901. Illinois led In the mat
ter Of colonies.