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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-01-21
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nanza Mines Purchased.

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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-01-21
FOUR VEINS
CUT THROUGH
unnel on Oregon Monarch
is Being Crowded Ahead.

Four veins have been pierced by the
crosscut tunnel being driven with power
drills to intersect the several veins on
the Oregon Monarch lodges adjacent to
the Red Boy.
These veins are considered as 80 many
assets to the company and greatly en-.
hance the value and the possibilities of
the property. Whenever the manage.
ment sees fit drifting can begin on these
leads, thus blocking out ore reserves for
future treatment.
All interest and work is being concen.
trated In pushing the crosscut through
the heart Of the mountain, that the en-
tire property may be thoroughly ex.
plotted and the vast mineral deposits
revealed. This is pursuing scientific
and conservative policy and will be pro-
ductive Of the best and largest results.
Many properties fail because treating
plants are erected before the ground has
been thoroughly explored and the com.
pany has been fully apprised Of the
character and extent Of their ore bodies.
When this crosscut has penetrated the
mountain and opened every ledge in
tersecting the property, the manage.
ment will be in position to determine
what kind Of machinery will best treat
the ores, and what should be the mag.
nitude Of the plant.
The cropping veins, which have been
proven by surface work, are being ap.
preached day by day, and in the course
Of time will bs opened up and their
values proven by the tunnel now being
pushed into the mountain.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-01-21
A New Restaurant.

Philip Arsenault has resigned his
position NJ chef Of Hotel Sumpter, and
will open tn" Ideal restaurant, opposite
the postofiice. 1t has been newly
papered and reftted throughout, and
will he run as u first class eating house.
Mr.. Arsenaults long experience in this
line, and his wide acquaintance in
will insure hin, II hourishing
business from the start.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-01-21
SILVER QUESTION
is NOT DEAD.
Trying to Force Mexico Re-
wives an Old Issue.

II appears that the American banker,
are not having the easy time that the,
anticipated in forcing Mexico to adop,
the gold standard.
Their attempt to do ~ has in u grca,
measure stirred up the silver element OF
the United States and set the people ol
this country 10 thinking the same NJ il
has the people Of Mexico.
II has been demonstrated that since
the gold standard advocates have secur.
ed their firm hold, America, England
and Germany have been steadil losing
business ~ China until the falling off
now amounts to two hundred million
dollars annually.
Mexico supplies all the Orient with
its surplus silver because no other
money can be used there. Therefore
the money power is useing every means
in its power to bring Mexico under its
yoke.
Some idea Of whether this will work or
not can be gained from the following
dispatch showing the attitude of the
common people Of Mexico.
"rhe silver question continues to be
ono Of the greatest topics Of public dis
cussiOn. II is now certain that the
silver miners and farming classes will
make u common cause against the adop.
tion Of the gold standard. Meanwhile
oil prices are being raised and there IL
much anxiety among the middle classes,
especially wagearners and salaried men.
The cost ot living In considered to be out
Of proportion To income"
Apparently the much discussed silver
question which WAS sO thrashed out
from 1913 10 1896, is not dead yet. The
persons who caused its downfall, drunk.
on with power. have started IN too early
u force silver nation IN their way Of
thinking. The coercion, intimidation,
threats etc. which won in the United
States, may not count for much with
the despiS.sd Mexicsns.
There in something unfathomable in
this silver business after all while the
gold bugs are trying to foist the gold
standard ou Mexico. the Guggenheims,
head of the American smelling trust,
are spending millions of dollars in the
purchase Of Mexican silver mines.
Doul'ticss Theses shrewd Jews see that
the efforts Of the single standard people
will amount to naught, and they will
profit by supplying the Orientals the
money they have used for centuries and
will until the end Of time.
II may ~ after all that this great
question has been merely slumbering,
and will awaken into new life sooner
than many would desire it to, and there
In M telling what the results might he
were it again to become AN interna-
t'onsl matter. One thing il certain,
like all great questions. it never will
b. settled Matil il is settled right.
IL may sleep for II time, but All
awakening will come and after the
inaction the people will look at its
different phases with renewed interest,
" they do at all affairs Of life after
.,,,t ni n wall AN rnt ruat
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-01-21
For Fifty Cents Per Share.

The Magnolia Consolidated Gold
Mines company are selling their stock
at fifty cents per share. This shows
that the mines Of Granite are valuable
propcrties.-Granite Gem.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-01-21

Only the hest brands OF liquors and
cigars ut Dunphy's 1.-THE Club"
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-01-21

All the latest novelties in hats q
Neill Mercantile company's.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

peoples safeguard. By the re-
ports issued by Democratic audi
tors it has been shown that the
Democrats have used eleven mil
lion dollars of the peoples money
in the past thirty years for which
a proper accounting has never
been returned. Insistent demands
have been made for an impartial
examination Of the states books,
but the Republic held discrepan-
cy of eleven million of such small
account that it refused to see any
reason for such examination. If
boodlelsm is worthy of being made
a political issue it surely should
become ono here in Missouri, the
home of boodlers and ringsters, be-
come so under the fostering care
of the party which the Republic
upholds.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17
SCOTS EMULSION

es is president, has been sent to
the penitentiary for naturalizine
illiterate Foreigners by fraud at
the rate of four hundred a night In
the Democratic Court Of Appeals
for the Eastern District of Mis-
souri,. More than this, the man
whom Hawes made chairman of
the Democratic City Committee
and one Of Hawes' policemen have
also been indicted for naturaliza-
ton frauds. OF course, Hawes is
not responsible either as president
of the Jefferson Club or president
of the police board, because not
only was the Jefferson Club branch
president convicted of thus making
fraudulent Democratic votes, but
the evidence showed that his con-
fcderate was a police officer en-
ployed by the Hawes police board.
But then did not Governor Dock
cry receive part of his St. Louis
vote in this manner, and has not
every Democratic candidate for Of
flce-congressional, state, legisla-
tive and municipal-been elected
through naturalization frauds, bal
lot-box stuffing and robbinQ, regis
tration frauds, repeating, falsely
pcrsonating voters, falsely count
ing tho returns, forging the re-
turns, vitiating ballots, otc., all
conducted under the direct SUPER
vision and control, by law, of
Dockery election and police boards
assisted by the Dosksry excise
commissioner formerly Democrat
ic state cha:rman2 If you do not
belive it, inform yourself. Read
the evidence in the Horton Butler
and the Wsgoner- Butler congress
ional contests and the Isaac w.
Morton and BIanke grand jury re-
ports.-State Republican.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17
All Around the State.
Special Aerograms to the Journal.

c,lsing himself on the ground that
the southern man 'swas rebel and
his family didn't deserve anything. "
He continued to keep the money
until a few days ago, whom he paid
it back with interest.
There are not few men 10
Stone County who confidently be-
Iieye they could quickly make
themselves rich if they could but
get suits of rattlesnake proof cloth
ing. Secreted in cave near Blue
Eye postofice, they think, are sew
eral pots and kettles filled with
gold and silver coin; but the mouth
of the cave is guarded by rattle
snakes and no man has ever been
known to enter the cavern and es-
cape alive. 1t is said that the
treasure was taken from bank in
the upper part of the state during
the war and carried by bushwhack-
ers or guerillas into the wilds of
Stone County.
W. S. Booth of Winfield, Kan,
owns u tract Of land in the north
east portion of Shannon county, op
which, according to indications, is
located one of the richest gold pros
poets ever found. He had a num-
ber of samples over at Eminence
last week, which was taken from
this land several years ago, which
he has had assayed, and which run
we'll up in the hundreds of dollars
to the ton. The assayer prononn-
ced it as being as rich gold quartz
as he ever assayed from any coun-
try. The quartz is black, and
when rubbed with piece of steel
becomes shining mass of gold ore
over its entire surface. A capital
ist offered Mr.. Booth $4,000 for
the land, which was was refused.
Mr.. Booth IS in the county now
for the purpose of making an ill.,
vestigation.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17
Confessions of Civil Service Ap-
pllCants.

Among tho regular questions to
be answered by applicants for ad-
mission to the examinations in the
city of New York is the following:
''Do you uso Intoxicating bevor-
ages, and, if 50, to what extentf"
1t was a Yankee who replied, ''No,
but take 4 drink" and it was
Swede who carefully estimated the
extent of his indulgence at zone
glass of beer in ten days" The
birthplace of a man who wrote
that he did use Intoxicating bever-
ages, "but not as an occupation"
is not recorded, and the nationality
Of the mournful applicant who al
30 drank, but ''not to success"
may we'll be a matter of doubt.
One applicant of simple vocabu-
larry was content torespond "yss-
mild" while another added the as
suranee that he drank in a "gen-
tlemanly way" Still another
sought to remove all prejudice from
the minds of the examiners by
stating that he never used any
"beverages'' at all, and one of his
companions admitted using them,
though "not egeotively."
The eommonest answer to the
question consists either Of the sin
gle word "moderately," or of some
equivalent phrase, which, On the
whole, seems to the examiners the
most suitable response. Perhaps
the honest soul who reported him.
self "almost temperate" was fair
representative. Sometimes by I
slip the applioan: would write th'
reverse of what he obviously In
tended, as when recently one saic
"immoderation," and another re
piled, eyes, to NO extent" Nc
Clure's Magazine.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

The ringsters and their organs
seem to feel perfectly confident in
the ownership of the state by the
ringsters, that the title they have
heretofore had, and still have, to
foil political control in the state is
given them in perpetuity, just as
they have saddled the school fund
certificates of indebtedness in per-
petuity upon the taxpayers. This
assumption of ownership and its
ratification by the people, has made
the ringsters selfish and arrogant.
They seem to think that they have
a right to do as they please with
whit they regard as their own,
and, consequently have been sell,
ing legislation to whoever had the
price. The lawmaking function of
the state government was poddled
out at so much por act, the price
depending largely upon the amount
tho people could be mulcted for
through the aid of these laws by
the corporations they benefited.
The baking-powder and school
book laws arc fair examples of this
sale of the state by the ringsters.
While condemning the ring for its
misuse of power, it should not be
held solely responsible for its con-
duct. The people who have kept a
gang of selfssolsinQ eormoronts in
power long after their true eharac-
ter has beon exposed are just as re-
sponsible for the abuses that have
now grown to length where they
must shame those who put ringster
Democracy above any other rule
Because of the appellation it wears.
Not only should the government at
Jefferson City be reformed, but
the people should reform them
selves of the bad habit of being
satisfied with anything that calls
itself Democratic.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17
Work for the Churches.

Commercialism in politics, with
its characteristic venality, and the
decadent civic spirit which at once
satirizes it and tolerutes it both in
municipal and State administrn-
tion, have long been IL matter Of
notorious infamy, in the eyes. of
civilized nations our national
shame and reproach. Tho detaiIs
of this political pro6gacy that have
been published during the last six
months have at length burned into
the conscience of the churches a
convic.in of the moral danger
threatening the national life, and
of their own dnty to sound the
alarm and urge the remedy. En-
couraging notes of the awakening
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

Fulton is to have new S15,O0O
opera house and and $4,000 new
hotel also.
Morrow P. Myers, of St. Jos
eph, shot himself on the 18th inst,
while his daughter WAS playing on
a piano in an adjoining room. 1t
is said, however, that tho girls
playing was not the cause of his
rash act.
A Missouri jury sets tho value
OF husbands love at $4,000. Mrs.
HeIon Link brought action against
Mrs. Dora Vorhouer in tho Clay
ton circuit court recently for $780,
900 for having aIienated the affec-
lions Of her husband, Edward G.
Link. The jury was unanimous
that the loss WAS worth $4,000 and
returned n verdict for that amount.
A few days ago five cattle be-
longing to man noar Blairstown
were standing with their heads
over wire fence when lightning
struck the top wire and killed them
all. This prompted the editor of
the Blairstown Herald to suggest
to his farmer readers n way to
prevent such accidents in the fu-
ture. This is, to run a wire from
the top of every eighth or tenth
post into the ground, sinking the
lower end of the wire SO deep that
it will always be in moist earth.
A Saline County man enlisted
during the civil war in the southeln n
army. He left 4 large stock Of
hemp on his place, this being prac-
tically all the visible means of sup
port his wife and children had.
The wife bargained with a neigh
Dor to break and sell the hemp, but
instead of carrying ont his con-
tract, he took it to Glasgow, then
in possession of Union troops, sold
it and pocketed all the receipts, ex-
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

present state government, and
points out that the boodling has
been going on at Jefferson City at
least twelve years, without one
word Of exposure or protest from
any state official. High state Of
ficials," says the report, shave con-
fessed to us of having been paid
bribes for official influence, and
have acted AS go-betwecns in secur-
ing bribes for other legislators"
Will the Republic support for gov
ernor any official implicated in the
corruption or who has witnessed it
without an effort to protect honest
government or inform the people
concerning the ever-swelling tide
OF briberyl Would the Republic
regard the nomination of any men,
ber of the present dominant ring
as ''intelligent"! Folk occupies
an individualized place in the Dem
ocratic party in Missouri. He can
not be Jumped with the machine
and an average struck of intelligent
availability.
Missouri Republicans would re-
ioice over Folks nomination by
the Democrats, because. however
the election might 80, the boodle-
ing machine woul be uprooted and
destroyed. Folk would end the
long and infamous reign of the
ring that sells out legislatures to
monopolios. So would Republi-
can governor. The Republic calls
the Republican party of Missouri
an aggregate of incongruous and
seditious cabals, cliques and jun
tos." But the 314, 900 Republicans
of Missouri are able to say they
are absolutely of one mind on the
avowed policies of the party and
expect to rid it Of faetional leader
shir wherever traces of it are
found. If the noxt governor of
Missouri must be a Democrat,
which is possible but not likely,
they hope it will be Folk, provid-
ing he remains true to the record
ho has already made. If he should
70 over to the state machine fol
any reason, and turn up arm ant
! arm with Stone and Sam Cook
!, there would be nothing left to dt
! but write "Finis" at the end of
promising, but abortive, chapte
in state politics. Demo
erat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

The St. Louis Republic can be
about as Inconsistent on questions
relating to politics without becom-
Ing quite imbeeilo as the rankest
partisan may desire. 1t now looks
toward Washington for the devel-
opmsnt of 4 national Doodle issue
and intimntes that there is a strong
tide of public sentiment turning
against the Republicans in that
quarter on account of the alleged
scandals in the postal department,
and that there may soon be a pub
lie elamor to Investigate tho
books" kept by the ''billion dol
lar" congress. The Republic re-
fuses to see tho beam in its own
cys while looking for notes which
may trouble the Republican party
in national politics. Here in Mis-
souri, under Democratic rule, the
most outrageous scandals which
ever disqraced party have been
uncovered. They involve the very
topmost circles of the party's Or
1anization, whose conduct has be-
come a shame and a reprosch te
the state, yet the Republic does mo-
hold. this as sufficient excuse fol
turning the rascals out. Ring
sterism tor looting and sandbag
gipg purposes has for years beer
organized in Missouri and intrench
ed in tho state capital under th
euphemism of Democracy, and til
Republic seeing this and KNOWN,
it to be true waves grapdiloquentl
to the Democratic party rs tn
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

The Servian government under
went q sudden and tragic change
last Thursday. The king, queen
and the entire cabinet were ruth
lossly murdered by band of con.
spirators, and a now king of diff
fsrent dynasty set up. 1t is re-
ported that the unpopularity of the
late queen WAS tho principal cause
Of tho bloody end of her husbands s
reign.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

James Clemens, miner for the Doe
Run Lead Co., ut Flat River, returned
home from work Que evening recently
and found his home vacant, the furni-
ture being gone and his wife and two
children missing also. Investigation
developed that Mrs. Clemens had sold
the furniture and eloped with one
Robert Laehance, taking the children
with her. They were traced as far as
St. Louis, where the search was aban-
doned.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

Nicola Tesla, the electrician, has
broken into print again, this time
with a proposition to send wire
less telegraph message around the
world. Somshow the wonders Mic
is going to accomplish in the elec
trical field never get any farther
3han the newspaper columns.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

John Radford, Listus Wilkins and
Bvnk Lunsford, three miners working
in the shaft Of the Federal company,
at Flat River, were seriously injured
Oh Monday Of last week by beiug
caught between the cage and the wall
OF the shaft as the cage dropped into
the sweep.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17
Will Support Any Old RIngter.

In referring to the talk of Folk
as the Democratic candidate for
governor next year, the Republic
says ''any intelligent nomination
by the Democratic party" would
be successful. 1t would be vain
to ask the Republic for list of its
eligibles, since its political policy
for years has been one of trimming
and evasion. 1t is by turns for
and against everything that comes
up in Democratic state politics, its
idea being that it can thus please
Missouri Democrats of all shades
Of opinion. "Any intelligent nom-
nation is Enthusiastically vague.
The Republic has never denied in
telligence, such as it is, in the state
machine, in Senator Stone, Sam
Cook or Ed Butler. 1t baked
slightly at Stone, yet excused his
supply of political influence to cor
porations on the plea that no law.
yer can be expected to "eat snow
and sleep under the fence" as lone
as there is a demand among the
trusts for legislative favors. A.
matters stand, Folks nomination
for governor by the Democrats
would be new departure. 4
grand jury report, shaped by Foil
as prosecutor, has just declared
that "our Investigations have gon'
back for twelve years, and durin,
that time the evidence before u
shows that corruption has been tn
usual and accepted thing in stat
legislation, and that, too. withou
interference or hindrance."
1t is quite probable that Fol
wrote the report of the grand jury
!, At all events, he saw it in advans
, and backs up every word of it.
. is a startling arraignment Of tt
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17
Where Is DoCkery.

Governor Dockerv has not re-
quested the resignation of Harry
B. Hnwes as president Of the St.
Louis police board. although the
president Of the Hebrew branch OF
the Jefferson Club, Of which Haw-
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

WANTED - SEVERAL INDUS
trious persons in each state to travel
for house established eleven years and
with a large capital, to call upon ner-
chants and agents for successful and
profitable line Permanent engage
ment. Weekly cash salary OF SIS and
all travelling expenses and hotel bills
advanced in CASIO each week. Expert
ence not essential. Mention reference
and enclose sclf-addressed envelope
TIE NATIONAL, 33l rear1prn St ,
Cl!ic1u0
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

The proposed telephone rate In lIon-
ton will be 1926 month for business
houses or office aud 81 % month for
residences. An additional charge of
81 Is made for putting tho Telephone
In the house.-Ironton Register.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-06-17

john Wagner, an engineer employ
ed in the alcohol works at Sligo, was
caught on . shaft on which he was
placing belt on the 5th inst, and
crushed to death by tho swiftly revolv-
Ing machinery.