The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-01-02
WHAT ONE
MAN THINKS.
School Of Mines, the Senator
ship and Oregon Hoodoo.

one OF Sumpter'S popular resorts Saturday
evening, discussing the West Point haz.
ing investigation, the South African war,
the situation in the PHILIPPINES, Hanna's
ship subsidy steal, local mining matters
and other subjects Of present popular In
terest. One Is recent arrival from a
neighboring mining state, who Is here In
the interest Of a syndicate looking for a
property for his people. He was toying
With stack Of chips, shutting them with
one hand, displaying a skill that could
have been acquired only by long practice
and intimate familiarity with these clear.
ing house Ger ifieates. The other has
been resident Of eastern Oregon for ten
or a dozen years. He was liSllesslv, re.
peatedly dealing out four poker hands.
discarding from and drawing to each, but
apparently was making no very accurate
scientific ejaculation as to the chance Of
"helping." They were not trying to do
business, to reach an agreement Oh the
price and terms Of any group Of claims,
but were merely aiding each other to pass
away the long evening.
"That was rather clever editorial in
THE MINER this week on the subject Of
state school Of Mines" said the expert
chip manipulation, as a representative OF
this paper approached, evidently throw Ing
this boquet for the purpose Of making an
opening for further remarks. But he
didn't make them. The man with q
dozen years residence In Oregon to his
credit threw down the deck of cards, re.
marking: 81 beg leave to differ from you
In that opinion. It was far from being
clever, because It displayed an absolute TX.
norance Of the Oregon type Of political
hog. They think they can fool al the
people all the time, and my observation is
that they are themselves rarely deceived
on this point. Or course nothing will re-.
suit from all this talk about state division,
and no one is more positive on this point
than the machine politicians around Port.
land and Salem. This peace talk as
THE MINER expressed il, which you see
In the papers published over that way, Is
merely for the purpose Of jollyng the rep.
resentatives from eastern Oregon. SO that
they will be more spproachable v hen Cor.
bets squarers start In TO do business with
them on their arrival at the capital. The
senatorial question Is the only issue In.
volved-they are not scared little bit
about state division, nor concerned In the
least because all the state institutions are
grouped In trading distance Of Portland.
"The only possible chance of ever get.
ting an appropriation for state school Of
mines, to be located In eastern Oregon,
would be for the representatives from this
section TO demand II as their price for aid.
ing In the election Of Corbet to the United
States senate. Ny opinion Is that he will
control the legislature and Is going to Sc.
cure that long coveted senatorial seat. It
will belong 10 him hen he gets 1t, too;
for he will have paid for It and ought to
demand a properly executed bill Of sale.
"Even II the situation should be such
that this deal could be worked, and this
additional if-that our representatives
should break all records and secure some.
thing for this section Of the state instead
Of for themselves, the thing Is sure to be
'baIled up some way, so that II would be
a characteristic state failure.
~ can see half dozen schemes where.
by this result could be accomplished.
First, the legality Of the appropriation
would te tested in the courts, and II the
push wanted to kill off the school, the