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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-07-01

One work shop including one
heating stove and pipe.
One assay Office and contents,
situated at said Don Juan mine, 8
links Of stove pipe, 9 bed steads,
one pair springs, . shoevls, one sink,
% axes, one gold pan, one hammar,
one bucking board, one mortar.
one stove and pipe, one saw, one
wash tub, one square, one chair, 10
packages soda, lot Of acid bottles,
one furnace, . boxes Of pulp, so
bricks, one box cuppels, said property
Is located In said assay office and in
cluding all personal property In said
assay office. All Of said property
situated at the Don Juan mine In the
Greenhorn district, Baker County,
Oregon.
The following Is a description Of
the real property and mining
property attached In said action at
the instance Of Plaintiff by the
Sheriff Of Grant County. Oregon;
said property being situated In the
County Of Grant, State of Oregon,
towit:
The May Queen quartz mining
claim as located by ID. ID. Mcleod
on the Goth day Of October, 1901,
and as described In the notice Of
location thereof recorded In the office
of the County Clerk of Grant
County, Oregon, In Vol. NJ. Of
mining records at page IA. Said
claim adjoining northeast end line
on the south side line of the Golden
Star claim.
Also the Ollie Van quartz mining
claim as located by James Gahan on
the 1st day Of January, 1902, and
as described In the notice Of
location thereof recorded In the
office of the County Clerk Of Grant
County, Oregon, In Vol. NJ. Of
mining records at page 202 thereof,
said claim being situate about y OF
mile northeast of the Don Juan
mine.
Also the Moscow quartz mining
claim as located by James Gahan
on the 18th day of August, 1900,
and as described In the notice Of
location thereof of record In the
office of the County Clerk of Grant
County, Oregon, In Vol. X, at page
400, and all said above described
attached by the Sheriff of
Grant County and lying and being
situate In the County of Grant and
State of Oregon.
CHAS. II. CHANCE,
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-07-01

day. the siSt dsy Of August. 100.
he names as witnesses: William n. Mead, Of
Spokane. Washington: samuel n, R,shel. Henry r.
CAN ptc. James Warren. ot Whitney, Oregon,
Any and all persons claiming adversely the above
described LANDS requested TO file their claims In
this office before said siSt day OF August. 1901,
e. W. BARTLETT. Register.
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with improvements thereon constitute
what Is commonly known as the Dor
Juan Mine situate on the slope OF
Greenwood Gulch about 80 rods
northerly from the Phoenix mine In
Township 10 s. r. 35 E. W. NJ, In
B'ker County, Oregon.
The following Ia a description OF
the personal property above men.
toned and attached In this action to
satisfy Plaintiffs demand; the said
property being situate at the said
Don Juan Mine in Baker County,
Oregon, to.wit:
One frame office building, situ.
ated at the Don Juan mine together
with the contents thereof, consisting
Of office furniture, gold scales, beds,
ETC., as described in the Sheritf's 9
return on the attachm ,nt herein ;
one small chicken house and pig pen
combined, also four chickens and
including all personal property in
said Office, cellar, and chicken house.
One log boarding house, together
with the contents thereof, consisting
Of stoves, dining room furniture,
cooking utensils, and as the same is
more fully shown In said Sheriff g
return, and including all personal
property In said boarding house.
One frame bunk house building,
one cross cut saw, one stove and
pipe, beds. said property being
located In said bunk houses.
25 cords Of wood situated at the
Don Juan mill.
One 10-stamp mill building, one
steam mill engine complete Erie
make), together with all belts,
pulleys, and all equipments, one rs
horse power Erie make) boiler, com
plete, encased In stone, together with
all pipe and all equipments of said
boiler, one wood track containing
about IS feet 4. Rail (more or less)
and one wood car; one wise, two mill
lamps, one hammer, one pipe wrench,
one gas pipe cutter, one gas pipe
wrench, one square, one auger, 5 five
gallon cans part filed with oil: one
rope and windlass, one box old iron
scraps, one hand lamp (large size);
one feeder pump complete for boiler,
one heater connected with said
boiler. one pick. one sledge, one ax,
one Willisui Concentrator complete
table and frame. one lot of
ore sacks. Is sacks of concentrates,
copper mill plates size 6xl2 feet;
,ne lO-stamp mill complete with
stamps and dies including frame
md all equipments herewith; . five
stamp battaries, one wrench, one lot
If tools, one crock and contains
about Is pounds Of quicksilver; one
nortor, one gold pan, one straight
wrench, one lot of old iron shoes
md dies, a lot Of old tablets, 9
,oppe,s or feeders, one heating pipe
IA inch and about 60 feet long, one
'ock crusher, one grindstone, one ore
'ar, one log chain, one lot of steel
lrills and underground mining tools
ituated In said ore car; chain
blocks and rope, 5 boxes Of giant
powder, one pipe and vice, one roll
II packing, one grindstone, one iron
'risly, all Of said property IL located
n the mill Of said Don Juan mine,
md including all personal property
n said mill.
One tramway about 800 feet long
more or less, 600 feet more or less
4 2 and \ steam pipe, 1900 feet
more or less Of T. Rail, 600 feet
more or less of @ inch stove pipe,
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sum MONS.

go Plaintiff, SUMMONS
N. H. THIBAULT,
Defendant.
To N. H. Thibault, the above
named defendant; In the name of the
State OF Oregon, you are hereby
required to appear and answer the
complaint fled against you in the
above entitled cause by the 18th day
Of July, 1908, which Is the last day
OF the time prescribed 1 n the order
made by the County Judge of Baker
Comfy, State of Oregon, for the
publication Of this summons; and II
you fail to SO appear and answer said
complaint judgment will be taken
against you for the sum of Five
Hundred and Sixty Seven and 100
(s567.4l) Dollars, and interest
thereon at the rate of six per cent
per annum from and ever since the
goth day Of May, 1903, until paid |;
and an order will be also taken
against you for the sale upon ex-
ecution Of the real property, mining
property aud personal property
hereinafter described for the payment
Of such judgment as said Plaintiff may
recover against you in the above
entitled action: said property having
been duly attached In this action by
the Sheriff Of Baker County, Oregon,
on May 10th, 1908, and by the
Sheriff of Grant County. Oregon,
May 9th, 1908, at the instance
Of Plaintiff to satisfy the amount of
Plaintiffs claim:
And you are hereby notified that
on the 28th day of May, 1908, the
Honorable W. W. Travillion, County
Judge Of Baker County, Oregon,
made an order that service of
summons in this action be made upon
you by publication of summons and
that the date Of the first publication
Of this summons Is June 3rd, 1908,
and the date Of the last publication
there of is July 18th, 1908.
Aue ioiioWiuk 10 u uesCIlptiou VI
the real property and mining property
which plaintiff will ask to be sold
or the payment of such judgment
AS he may recover against you,
situate in the County of Baker and
State of Oregon, to-wit:
The Don Juan, Do DO, and Do Do
No. . quartz mining claims, situate
In Baker County, State Of Oregon
the Don Juan Mill Site situate in
Baker County, Oregon, and con-
tiguous to the quartz mining claims
above described: Also the Susan
d., and Big Canadian lode or quartz
mining claims situate about l and
q miles southwest from the Don
Juan quartz mining claim above
described In TIP. 10 s. X. 35 f. W.
NJ, in Baker County, Oregon, said
claims adjoining the Phoenix mine;
also the Belle Vile quartz mining
claim situate about 4 mile easterly
from the Don Juan quartz mining
claim above described. Also the
Greenwood water right as located by
G. T. Kelly and others on the l5h
day of July, 1895, and more par
ticularly described In the notice Of
location thereof recorded at page 388
of Vol. ID, of records of water rights
of Baker County, Oregon; said water
right being situated In Baker County,
Oregon.
Together with all the improvements
thereon, and the tenements, here
ditaments and appurtenances there.
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TIMBER LAND. ACT JUNE ,. Is,s.-SorIcs FOR
PUBLICATION.
United States Land Once.

United States Land Once.
Ia Grande. Oregon, June 9, I9ot
Notice Is hereby given that In compliance with the
provisions OF the act Of congress Of June I, 1876
titled An act Tor the sale OF timber lands In the states
Of California. Oregon. Nevada and Washington Ter
ritory as extended 10 oil the Public Land states BY
act Of August =. isos.
CALVIN KOONTZ.
Of Spokane. county OF Spokane. state OF Washington
has this day filed In this ofce his sworn statement
No. sS,s tor the purchase Of lot . and u X and
ne Y swk Of section No. In township No. 10 south.
range No. 70 ew N. and will offer proof TO show that
the land sought Is more valuable for It's timber OF
stone than Tor agricultural purposes and TO establish
his Claim to said land before Chax. n. Chance. U.
5. Commissioner. At Sumpter. Oregon. on FRI
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
rhIs hi No. Proper Thing.

THIS Is the PROPER ) lu'ss'
then together they were to deGlGe on tne
style for the pond people. men eaSh
had put on his mannish clothes he nara
ly knew the other. ,d
Mr. Goose was rugged out In G !,s. ana
vest with tall slx-story piccaolliy So,
lar. and high hat Mr.. Frog was dresseo
Simply in a low standing collar and sporty
derby ..u .a,a Mr.
Frog: "all the sports wear ~; a. mat
'.Imagine what a sight "a pc N t dts-
little linen band" said the goose, uls,
custody. This neck of mine neeus ~ ID
hieh board fence about It. And as iof
that hat-I should be lost TO view, +h.t
"Think what figure IA cut IN tnat
collar OF yours" grinned the r Eihoas
might do for crown anu is
clothes-oh. awful! tell you NINE 10
'h sN s,y' mine Is, for yours wouldn't stay
on me one moment. ,ar,r
that they came 10 blows. and the goose
iii hut swallowed the frog, .,,.
Then. with collars torn ard CLONES ft az
and hats smashed. they sat ao"h On l'''
oah II guess tie style said Me- G 3ssis
ers .'is to wear what suits you pes', tad
III guess you told the run, pa'ts
Mr. Frog.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
Another Outside View.

The Richmond street car strike, involv.
Ing altogether less than thousand rnens
Is getting iscidely monotonoass to me
position to kno wsomethlng of the con
ditions believe that the Commonwealth -
at the present time being put 10 neeaiess
companies of militia to do work that
could, in the opinion of many, be done
by the police and the Richmond COM
panies. 1t Is asserted with great candor,
sertlon, that the police force Of the city
has been decidedly derelict In their duty
during the present strike. and there are
where IT. haya
pnthized with the strikers to the extent
OF allowing disorder without an effort to
arrest the offenders. Now It Is all so
we'll and SO good for the State OF vir-
ginia to protect the property Of Its tax
payers when any city or county IS unable
to do so, but no sane person believes. IN
view of existing conditions that the city
Of Richmond is as helpless as is indi-
Gated by tho continued presence OF out
or-town troops within her borders. AS n
matter Of fact. there has been since me.
the rioting and disorder assumed any ex.
traordnarily alarming proportions, and
that was the Wednesday night following
the arrival Of the first companies OF
were composed mostly of boys. and at no
time were the conditions as serious as
painted For the last two weeks Rich
mond has, with the exception OF one or
as a lamb, and yet the troops are kept
there at an expense OF nearly two thou
sand dollars day to the State. They
have been there for weeks. and the time
has arrived when Virginia should DO re-
lieved Of this expense and the city OF
Richmond left to handle the situation.
which It can do easily II It's police force
is made to do its duty. There Is neither
sense nor reason In the continued pres
ence OF the militia. Outside OF the cost
to the State there is to be considered the
pecuniary loss which many of the militia
men are sustaining and the Inconvenience
caused business men all over the State by
the forced absence Of their employees. All
OF these demand consideration ar. call
loudly for the sending hons OF the troops
now doing duty In ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
burg Free Lance, ,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS,

The report OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission on railroad accidents In the
United States for the three months end
Ing March Slst 1903 shows that in that
time 800 We're killed and 1854 injured In
train accidents, Other accidents sus-
ta!ned by employees while at work and
by passengers In getting on and off cars
make the aggregate OF casualties soT
killed and Il,4sl injured
This Is n bad showing for the railroads.
In this age of telegraph and telephone
and various other scientific devices that
ere available. and especially with our
long experience in handling railroad
trains, II does seem that the number OF
accidents should be- reduced
This exhibit is a warning to railroads
| That road which shows the fewest nun
4 Der OF accidents will. all things else be-
i ing equal receive the greatest number o!
passengers, II is good business. there
fore, for the railroads to reduce accidents
to the minimum. There have been seyera
disastrous accidents In the South re
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
Law at Any Cost.

responsiveness Is characteristic OF
strikes. and all precedents. would have
been set aside II the strike In Rich
mond had proven paying venture. Those
who have taste for figures have cal.
cuated. with apparent accuracy. just
what the Richmond strike has cost the
State. the city and the business men Of
Richmond, and the sum is sufficiently
large and round to furnish demngogues
with excellent material for. appeals to
tho prejudice OF the one-gullused voters.
Eliminating the loss to the business
men OF Richmond, and to the railway
company. there should not be found In
Virginia any law-abid!ng or order-lov.ng
citizen who Will say that the cost at
tending the strike was eXtravagant or I'M
necessary. The amount expended to
maintain the supremacy OF the law. TO
define the extent to which employees may
go in enforcing their demands, however
reasonable. and to protect life and prop
erty from destruction at the hands or
lawless mobs. is mere bagatelle to the
value of the results accomplished
1t costs something to maintain tu-
diclal system in Virginia-to apprehend
and punish criminuls-and not to have
called out the military of the State. and
not to have kept them In Richmond as
long as there was n necessity for their
presence would have been as criminal
iy unwise as the abolition OF the trial and
punishment Of crimes and the destruction
Of safeguards OF society.
ANY tEaddle about the cost OF sup
pressing the riot In Richmond merits
scorn and Indignation only:-Charlttes-
VILE Progress.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
THE REVISION COMMITTEE.

We learn that the Committee on Kew
sions appointed by the last General AS
sembly to revise the new statutes is get
ting along we'll with It's work, ana VIII
In all probability be ready to report when
the General Assembly is reconvened on
November 10th. The work has been done
largely by assignment, each member or
the committee taking his part, but all
the work will, of course, be carefully gone
oycr by the committee as whole before
II Ia finally reported. Each statute mas
been carefully scanned, corrections made
here and there where deemed necessary
or desirable. omissions supplied and
changes noted In the Code as they occur.
It has been difficult work. and the
committee could the moro easily have
complied a now Code, but as some Of
tho acts are necessarily experimental,
and as It would cost tho State large
sum to have new Code printed, the
committee will probably recommend that,
for the time being the State will adopt
an annotated Code, and defer the work
OF making q new Code until the statutes
have been tested and finally and thor
oughly revised
It has been a giant task to make new
Cons titution for Virginia. and to enact
statutory laws necessary to carry the
provisions OF the Constitution into effect.
But the work has been we'll done. we
have now been living for some time I'M
der the new Constitution, and generally
speaking, it has proven to be quite sat
isfactory. There has been some confu-
sion, necessarily. In the statutory laws.
but within the next several months most
Of the tangles will have been snootheo
out and the machinery of the law VIII
be In good working order
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
THE GOVERNMENTS WAY,

Representative Rixey, of Virginia, VINO
has recently returned from an lnspection
ne the various navy yards Of the govern
ment, says that he and other n'e'i'De''
Of the Committee on Naval Affairs WY
accompanied him are convinced 'ha' .t'o
rr.,ent system Of navy yard organization
"a .antiquated and extravasant' anu
that a reconstruction on moaern l''1ee
would save millions.
with this view remarks the ne"
York Evening Post, by way OF comment
"any one will agree who has lookeu i'i'o
The matter. A year ago, for 'l s.ai'ee'
.he government, with great hourish oi
tr,,mpets began the construction OF me
ha+tleship Louisiana at the New YORK
yard, in competition with the Connecticut
which je being built by the Newport News
Hhipbuilding Company. Every effort was
to be made, It was announced, 70 sno"
the country that the navy yard cou!o
build ships as speedily as the private
cc,npany. Tho race has now been on for
about a year, with the result that the
Newport News Company has it's boat
four per cent. nearer completion than IS
the Louisiana. Doubtless Mr.. Rixey ana
his conferees will urge large appropria-
tions next winter to rebuild the navy
wards. But by the time the reorganiza-
+,on is complete the new machinery may
again be Anticipated. The private manu-
facturer keeps his yard up to date BY
adopting new methods and new machines
az they appear The government wakes
ur to the need of progress at irregular
intervals of from five to thirty years"
These facts are commended to the ad-
vocates Of government ownership and
operation of railroads and manufacturing
enterprises.
II is we'll known fact that In such
matters the government Is not progress
awe. and rarely takes the initiative. In
dustrial progress and development are the
work OF individuals. and not of the gov
ernment. The postal service was not
started by the government, but by indi-
y,duals, and afterwards taken over by
the government, and there Is good reason
20 believe that more progress would have
been made IN that se''ice ~ 't'e $3.50
ment had never taken 1t In hand the
government works too much by rule Its
rules are ixea, and,:it is very hard to
change them. It would be disaster te
our form of government and disaster
to business IL the government should un'
dertake TO operate the great enterprises
OF the land. The function OF the govern
ment is to govern. and not to NEEDLE viii
business affairs.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31

entertaining the mighty hosts or hiks
who assembled there is substantial eVi-
dence of what 1t would be capaoie oi
In the way OF handling nationai con.
vention. 1t has the very pest sote "
auditorium in the Fifth Regiment Ar
mory, and for ssnuine hospitality Its
peopIe are far famed.
The only argument we have heard ad-
vanced in opposition to Baltimore's claims
is that 1t is not centrally located Well
IL would not be Baltimore If it were out
II, the prairie country or the Rocky Noun
tain region, but there are plenty of rail-
road trains and steamboats, running to
Baltimore, and II has advantages that
are peculiarly It's own.
So unless 1t can be demonstrated that
the prospects of the national Democratic
party can be better promoted by It's nom
mating convention going elsewhere. we
SEQ no reason why the honor sought by
the Monumental City should not be ac-
corded it.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31

vast improvements which have occurred
here since her fathers senatorial days.
Speaking OF conditions In his State, Sem
ator Overman said: Two are having
campaign OF a unique character In North
Carolina. It Is In reality campaign of
and for education. About a score of prom
inent and Influential gentlemen are tour
Ing the State and speaking to the peop.e
solely. on this one theme. They are
preaching the cause OF better instruction,
longer school terms. better school-honses
and the need OF supplementing State aid
by local taxation. They are rousing the
masses TO a pitch OF interest unprece-
denied In our history. and there is. no
doubt of the good results that will follow
such propaganda. The illiteracy that has
been q reproach to US In the past VIII
surely be banished. Education is going
to be more priced among our people than
1t ever was. for after 1907 1t Will be abb
solutely necessary as q condition prece-
dent to the right of suffrage.
ANY race troubles in North Carolina"
.'None whatever and no prospect of
any. Our colored people are doing better
and are more contented since the adop-
ton of our new Constitution than ever
before There is to-day a better feeling
among the whites and blacks with us than
there has been In a long time. The negro
problem will settle itself. My own opln-
Ion is that 1t is being agltated too muen
too much ventilation OF It by people who
would do good service to their coun-
try by letting 1t alone"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-31
Divorce Pro TEN.

The ease with which marriage can be
Western States has been illustrated In
the case of citizen of Ottowa, Kan.
who gets the adjective prominent" IN
brought wife with him from the East
A few weeks ago, his friends We're as
tonished by receiving cards announcing
the wedding of the man and woman in a
nearby town a few days previous. Ex-
nianation was asked for and 1t was learn
ed that shortly after their first mar
riage certain legal entanglements arose
required that the wife must be single
woman in order to get her share of the
property. Therefore, they got a secret
divorce. AS soon as the estate was a.
have been the wiser had they not sent
out those cards for they had lived TO,
gether all through the time they were
divorced,
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