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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11
DRIFTING ON STRASBURG MINE.
Six Claims Near Alamo Owned by a Well
Financed Company.

A small force Of men keep drifting on
the vein of the Strasburg, ear Alamo,
from the level Of the lower tunnel. At
this point the pay streak averages four
feet in width and is pronounced by
we'll posted men from that section rs
being the finest milling ore yet found in
the district.
This property belongs to an incor.
porated company. W. s. Mccormick, the
Salt Lake banker, W. II. Remington, a
well posted mining man, and Portland
parties are the holders of the stock.
Three tunnels have been driven to de-
velop the property, which aggregate
230.feet in length.
The body OF ore now being developed
is on the level of number 3, or the lower
tunnel. This drift is 200 feet vertically
below any other workings. This group
consists OF six claims, all Of which are
patented. This company have plenty Of
means OF their own, and are not offer.
ing any shares to the public. 1t is SAID
that when the present ore shoot Is fully
explored, upraises made and the ore
blocked out, that a large and first class
reduction plant will be installed.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11
Knapp'G Group Of Claims Sold.

The Knapp group Of claims, located
on Rock creek, and adjoining the Max.
we'll mine, has been purchased by the
Highland Gold Mines company, q cor.
poration of Sunpter, Oregon. The
purchase price given in the deed is
~. 900, and the property is said to be
we'll worth that amount. Considerable
high grade ore is already exposed, and
it is a we'll known fact that the North
Pole lead extends through the property.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department Of the Interior. I

Department Of the Interior.
Land Once at La Grsnde. Oregon. Feb. :. 1904,
Notice Is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice OF his intention TO make final
proof In support q his claim. and that said proof Will
be made before George F. Wari. U. s. commits
sioner q, CANYON City, Oregon. on April o. 1904. via:
n. Z. No. 7so,.
PATRICK FiNLAN.
Of Austin, Oregon. Tor the " !, Y, Sc tne.h
Sec 10, INV. Sec. 90, rp. ~ s.. r. IS EWM.
He names the following witnesses IL prove his con
tinuous residence uron ani cultivation VI said lani,
via: John ; GuuiJse. |. wis Hess. John Kelly. OF
Prairie City, Oregon; and q. W. Dart. OF John Day,
Oregon.
Z. W. BARTLETT. Register.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11
TIMBER LAND. ACT JUNE }. ,~s,s.-Soucs FOR
PUBLICATION.
United States Land Once.

United States Land Once.
La Grande. Oregon. Jan. ~. 1901.
Notice Is hereby given that In compliance with the
provisions Of the act Of congress Of June }. 1873. en-
titled IAN act for the sale OF timber lands In the states
OF California. Oregon. Nevada and Washington Ter
ritory. as extended to all the Public Land states by
act Of August q. 1909.
ALBIN SELlN.
OF Sump,er. county Of Baker. state OF Oregon.
has this day filed In this office his sworn statement
No. 1907. for the purchase OF the SwH nwh. W. s~H
and SEX swK Of sec No. 30 In township No. ~ south.
range No. % q W n. and will offer proof to show
that the land sought Is more valuable Tor It's
timber or stone than Tor agricultural purposes. and
to establish his claim to said land before Chas. n.
Chance. u. s. Commissioner. At Sump,er. Oregon.
on Friday. the 18th day OF April. 1901.
He names as witnesses: William A. Green. Van
Rensselaer, Mead. Edward Reed. Ralph Mead. all OF
Sump,er. Oregon.
ANY and all persons claiming adversely the above
described lands are requested to file their claims In
this ONCE on or before SAID nth iay OF April. 100,
e. ". BARTLETT. Register.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11
PROSECUTING ON SOUTH POLE
Main Tunnsl b Now Ia Nine Hundrsd
Feet From Portal.

ESGS SIOW SobSA]
W. H. Reeves, foreman Of the work
now being prosecuted on the South
Pole mines, came over the high noun.
tain between Cracker and Rock Creeks
on Saturday, returning on Sunday. He
travelled on snow shoes, but did not find
locomotion very pleasant, as the recent
fall OF snow had not settled.
He reports the tunnel on South Pole
territory now in a distance Of 800 feet.
A short distance back from the face,
crosscuts have been started in each di.
rection which is intended to determine
the width Of the vein. Each cut had
been driven ten feet at the time Of his
departure with no walls in sight. This
would make the vein over twenty-five
feet in width at present.
His account Of the appearance Of the
ore body exposed at this point, is that
It is better than at any other place in
this long tunnel, which has been driven
in on one OF the numerous leads con-
trolled by the South Pole Mines com.
pany.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11

william NJ. Hennessy, for some time
superintendent OF the Last Chance
mine in Cable Cove. has been recon.
ended by former manager Oscar Towns.
end a. his successor. Nothing 10 known
definitely a. to the action some Of the
n and directors will take when
they arrive here, but some Of them are
expected soon. Mr.. Hennessy has had
q long and varied experience in every
department Of mining from q prospector
to manager. He was among the very
first who braved the dangers Of the
SLOGAN, in British Columbia. Going
into that almost inaccessible region
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11
OF INTEREST
TO MILLMEN
Cyanide Of Potassium May be
Reduced to Ten Cents
Per Pound.

In a report from Berkeley, California.
1t is stated that Professor Edmund
O'Neill Of the University Of California,
after experimenting for six months with
varying success, has finally discovered
a new process for making cyanide OF
potassium from the nitrogen OF the at
mosphere.
A discovery that will allow Of the pro.
duction Of the compound at a rate far
cheaper than it has ever been possible to
manufacture it. Such al advantage
a be obtained by the new method that
it is hoped to secure a great reduction in
the cost OF extracting gold by the cyan.
ide process and in similar other metal.
lurgical operations.
Professor O'Neill's process is de.
scribed as analogous to the method Of
making nitric acid from the nitrogen Of
the air, a result which has been worked
out and successfully demonstrated at
Niagara Falls.
Following on the line Of these ex.
periments he has tried q number Of
snytheses in his laboratory at Berkeley,
working on a small scale and persisting
through a long succession OF failures in
the details Of the research.
Finally he has been able by the use
OF petroleum, gasoline, coal gas, furnace
gas. and almost any form Of hydrocar.
bon vapor with the nitrogen Of the air
under the influence Of the electric arc 10
produce h~ydrocyanic acid, which a be
absorbed in potash with a formation Of
potassium cyanide.
The cheapness Of the materials and
the simplicity Of the apparatus com.
bined with the saving in energy per.
mitted in this operation are, as stated
in the report, factors that give the new
process q tremendous advantage over all
other processes now in use.
The manufacture Of cyanide Of potas.
stun has always been exceedingly ex.
pensive. 1t has been made from animal
refuse fused with potassium carbonate,
or from ammonia and metallic sodium.
The price within the last five or six
years has been cut down from 81 to
twenty-five cents per pound by small re.
auctions in the expense Of the mater.
isls, and it was felt that little more
could be shaved from this lowest figure.
Professor O'Neill, while maintaining
. very conservative position regarding
his discovery. feels that there Is no
reason why the cost per pound cannot
be brought down to the still smaller tig.
ure Of ten cents.
As this process has been demonstrated
only on a small scale in the laboratory,
Professor O'Neill 10 not prepared to pre-.
dict what success il may have when
tried on a large manufacturing scale.
As he refuses to patent his discovery.
it is expected that some Of the eighteen
factories in the United States at present
turning out the chemical will give the
invention a substantial trial before long.
journal for Investors.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-02-11

when it was an unbroken wilderness,
and was one Of the factors which caused
its development.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
Books and Authors
COST OF LITERARY SUCCESS

The Bookman deVotes considerable
space to the statement of a contributor,
showing that literary success is obtainable
only by hard work, patience, submission
to slaps In the face and other discourage
ments. The contributor goes back to the
first half of the nineteenth century and
cites Poe and Elackmore, Jane Austen and
a few others as examples of unappreciated
genius in its early efforts. Later he shows
the slow progress of Conan Doyle, Walter
Besant, Clara Louise Burnham, David
Christie Murray, j. M. Barrie, Edna Lyall
Marie Corelli Sarah Grand, Grant Allen
Iowells, Whitcomb Riley, Anthony Hope.
But he names a dozen who achieved sue
cess with first novels, most Of them in
more recent years and, notably, in fiction.
The fact is, any writer of real genius in
this twentieth century need not mediate
suicide or look as If he had lost his dearest
relative, because he can't find a publisher
for his literary output. There are, indeed,
publishers who are so eager to make a
hit that they recklessly accept manu-
scripts and publish them at venture and
advertise them yoluminously-take their
chances, indeed, and quite often the
chances are terribly slim. The opportuni-
ties for the success of genuine genius in
literatur are unquestionably more abund-
ant and promising now than at any period
heretofore. Yet the path of literary sue
cess is certainly not lined with roses and
violets and daisies It is a hard road to
travel It involves continuously hard
work and study. It is q distinctly exact
ing profession.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
Definitness Needed.

The Ohio republicans inserted financial
plank in their platform expressing a de-
sire for a, more elastic currency, but, like
most Of the financial planks In recent
years, not defining the method by which
elastic currency may be brought about It
would be better If the constructors of
financial planks in platforms were more
definite. Explicitness is needed, but, In
stead Of that, we have nebulosity.
# measure is brought UP in congress
labeled elasticity and embodies the
feature Of asset currency, providing that
a bank may issue limited amounts Of cir
culating notes against it's commercial as
sets, as well as against government bonds
deposited with the secretary OF the
treasury, the whole circulation not to
exceed the amount Of the paid up capital,
there is an outcry Of wild cat CURRENCY,
altho the issues would be under govern
mental supervision and limitation as much
as national bank issues are now.
Senator Aldrichs plan to increase the
currency supply by permitting banks to
deliver as security for government de-
posits with them, not only government
bonds, but first-class municipal, state and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
MONDAY EVENING,

carts Of Mr.. Underwood's editorial that
IRE more striking and epigrammatic the
best advice In 1t Is In this paragraph:
II you are thoro and Industrious, you are
sure to be necessary, and when you are
that you have started on the road to sue
cess; and your speed will be governed only
Ry your ability and your surroundings.
Leaving out Of account the accidentally
successful man, he succeeds who makes
himself Indispensable; and he becomes in
dispensable, generally. who Is thoro and
Industrious Mr.. Underwood clearly states
the essential condition of success, but at
the same time he does not promise that
all who are Industrious and thoro are
going to be millionaires or winners Of high
positions in the world, for he adds that
progress In success will be governed by
ability and surroundings. man can not
rass the boundaries Of his physical and
mental powers, and an hnfavorable en-
vironment may keep industry and thoro-
ness from their reward. But Mr.. Under
wood recognizes that any man succeeds
who does his best, even If his position be
q humble one. Always keep In mind, :
he says, .'that it is better to be a good
follower, who has a greater place In the
world and is better part Of 1t, than a
poor leader
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
Fred Underwood's Editorial.

Thru interviews or special articles the
men who have made America what If ID
to- day are now contributing to the news
papers what are essentially editorial ar
ticles. In these contributed editorials
the discovery is made from time to time
that men who have achieved greatly can
write well. Occasionally you will find
a captain Of industry who has no more
power of expression than a cigar store
Indian, but most Of them count ability
to use the English language effectively
among their most valuable assets. They
may not produce literature, but they can
crowd hard facts into striking verbal
dress. Fred Underwood, now president Of
the Erie, and for many years general
manager of the $780, has recently given
the public a taste Of his editorial ability
by writing for the press a very luminous
article on the problem of success for
young men. Every Industrious young
man should post the railway managers
advice in a conspicuous place and ponder
well It's meaning. While there are other
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
THE MAGAZINES

Country Life in America, (New York:
Doubleday. Page & Coz, is all that a
June magazine dedicated to country life
can be. There are personal experiences
in gardening with ideas and Illustrations
for amateurs and veterans; many inter-
esting natural history facts, papers on the
pleasures Of houseboating and fishing,
and some useful suggestions about poul-
try raising and Bookkeeping. Everybody
will be interested in the Fullertons' ac-
count Of Discovering a Country Home, =
which will. no doubt, encourage weary
city fiat jewellers to try and do likewise
The illustrations of this fine periodical
are always most attractive, and they
make most alluring feature in this
number.
The leading feature of the National
Geographic Magazine is the profusely
illustrated paper Of DR.. Alexander Graz
ham Bell upon 1.-THE Tetrahedral Princi-
pie in Kite Structure form Of kite
for scientific purposes discovered by him
self The principle involved may one day
be successfully utilized in the construc-
ton of airships. The kite, from being a
mere toy, has become a most valuable
aid to meteriology. There is paper on
the Ziegler Polar Expedition and one on
gold discoveries In Alaska.-L Washingto
D. G.. The National Geographic Society,
Corcoran Building.l
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08

railway bonds, is denounced In some quar-
ters as a discrimination In favor OF big
metropolitan banks which control large
amounts Of railway and municipal bonds.
The pinching currency famine Of 1893
was met by the issue Of about 100000
600 clearing house certificates, certified
checks. certificates Of deposit and CASH
iers' checks. Those certificates did most
useful service during that panic year In
tiding over the stringency, moving crops
and keeping the business machinery going
until confidence was restored. Our cur
rency system could not respond to the
demands Of business at that period of de-
preston and could not by its very compo-
sition expand to reach the necessities of
the times. This certificate expedient was
contrary to law and the paper was sub
ject to a tax Of 10 per cent, but the
government did not demand the tax be-
cause the temporary issues performed an
essential business service. Now it re-
mains to be seen whether our financial
expert cannot devise an emergency Cir
culation which under well-devised
national laws, will perform exactly such
valuable business service as the clearing
house certificates and, certificates Of de-
post, ETC.. performed in 1898. Such re-
form embodies a currency system which
will expand automatically under business
needs and contract when the business
need has been satisfied and the need for
| more money does not exist. The problem
] has been solved in Germany England and
France. It can be solved here If our
statesmen will treat the currency and
banking problem from purely rational
business standpoint, with politics and SEN
timentality eliminated. The thing is to
get definite and rational business plan
before the country.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08

Senator Elkins. who introduced into the
last congress s bill to raise the tariff 10
per cent on goods brought into this coun-
try in foreign vessels, now seems to be
ready to accept the suggestion that was
then made to him by those who feel that
the tariff is already too high. He was told
that he ought to make his bill provide for
the reduction Of the tariff by 10 per cent
on all goods brought to our ports in
American vessels. Such discrimination
in tariffs is the best possible way Of en-
couraging the American merchant marine.
It increases no burden to pay a subsidy,
neither does it take from some to give to
ening the burden of all consumers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08

It is to be hoped that Judge Advocate
General Davis opinion that the new ma
tional militia law does not vest the con-
troll Of state organizations in the federal
government will mollify southern oppo-
sition to it. The law is in no sense an
encroachment on states rights. It is de-
country uniformly organized and armed.
The federal government, which feels the
need of trained soldiers, is willing to do
certain beneficial things for the state or
CARNATIONS If they will, in return, agree
to conform to the organization Of the reg
ular army. Only the most hysterical de-
fender Of states rights can conjure up a
scare out OF such an arrangement.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Mr.. sperry Corrected.

j.
To the Editor of The Journal.
In the interest Of what I believe to be
the truth, / desire to correct Mr.. A. M
Sperry, who, in T h e ] gu a of June
5, says that John Wilkes Booth was buried
in the Potomac river.
This story was told at the time, but it
was done for the purpose of preventing
general knowledge Of the real disposition
Of his remains. The body was at first
temporarily buried under the floor Of the
arsenal at Washington, and the story Was
given out that it was wrapped in blan-
ket and slid down the plank into the Po-
toman river, with q cannon ball in the
end Of the blanket. Subsequently the re-
mains were taken up and buried in the
family burying lot in Baltimore.
Booths relatives and the dentist who
filed his teeth identified him beyond
doubt. While was not present at his
burial, know something about the trans
action, having been sent down the Potomac
river on the Virginia side to aid in his
capture, and during the trial of David b.
Harold and others, I was on guard duty
at and about the arsenal where the trial
took place.
All the parties who were then tried are
now dead except Samuel Arnold.
w. H. Harries.
Caledonia, June 6, 1903.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BEGGAR. By
Il. X Friedman. Illustrated. Boston: Small
MAYNARD &, Co. RI
LITERARY NOTES

The BoOkmdn announces that it is going
to stop publishing the portraits of literary
May flies and will-o' the wisps that flick
er over the surface Of the literary pond
for few moments and then vanish into
the nothingness whence they came This
is wise The rushing of these portraits
of new literary aspirants into conspicuity
only encouraged the lame literary ducks
to try to SWIM
The Bookman publishes a portrait
Gabriel Hanotaux the distinguished
French statesman, who has fine literary
reputation also, and is now engaged upon
a study Of Cardinal Richelieu.
Professor Harry Thurston Peck has
coined the word Aelurophobia to fit DR..
William Mitchell's "Catfear,' for which
no technical. term has heretofore been
devised. Why not leave it "Catfear,''
that the public generally may know what
is meant?
The late Ludren G. Wheeler (Nym
Crinkle) was the j. p. Mowbray whose
books in recent years have been SO pop
ular. He died on his farm in Pennsyl-
vania recently. Such books as Tangled
Up in Beulah Land '"The Making Of a
Country House, "a Journey to Nature"
will not be forgotten.
Conan Doyle is said to be writing some
more of Sherlock Holmes adventures.
Most people thought Doyle had played
Out I1OlLlcS ill IlOuIlA VI Lie A9cShCA
villes.'
The Bookman publishes a new full
page portrait Of William Dean Howells
from frank Fowler's recent painting.
Howells looks jolly, but somewhat
elderly.
Little, Brown & Co. say in their notes:
1.-THE current issue of a New York literary
magazine makes the following ridiculous
remark: Speaking of histories, how few
| Of those that we hear the most about
have any large sales. Take the works
Of Francis Parkman, for instance. There
are no books that have been written in
America that we are more proud Of than
these histories, and yet many novels thai
are reckoned failures have larger sales
than they have had The publishers Of
Parkman's works, Messrs. Little, Brown
& Co., Boston, who have had considerable
experience in publishing, state that they
would consider any novel which sells as
steadily as Parkman's histories year after
year a conspicuous success. This firm has
recently brought out a second subscription
edition of Parkman's works in nineteen
volumes, in addition to the popular and
library editions.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-08
AT THE THEATERS
BiJou-"For Her Sake"

BIIou-"For Her Sake"
The customary broth of blood was
served yesterday in another Russian"
nelodrama. Knives flashed, revolvers
cracked, and knout descended upon a
young girls fair, bare back (pure silk en-
broidered), and a red hot iron evoked the
smoke of burning flesh from the body of a
lettering grandfather. The young girls
screams were applauded. The torture of
the old man aroused enthusiasm. For
Her Sake like "Uncle Tom" "Quo
Vadis' and other plays of similar charm,
illustrated once more how the civilized
savage still joys in the anguish of his
fellows. And, indeed, this branding of the
graybeard would have transported into
ecstacy Sitting Bull the Sioux, or a
resident of Belleville Ill.
Besides making every one glad that he
lived in "a land Of sweet humanity, the
n1elodrama argued why serfdom should
be abolished, If it still existed. A
mothers doting love was also pictured,
the love that made her wish her son a
lifelong convict in Siberian mines rather
than the husband of asgirl of vulgar rank.
Yet Prince Vladimir Walanoff (Why temp
the punsterO remains true to his own
Olga, born a serf girl, and is delivered
with her from Siberia and the knout.
For a little while the story promises
FEASIBILITY. But reason is scarcely
seated on her throne when she's pushed
off by a New Y ork Gtrl"' and her fance,
a British nobleman.s Sc They mix them
selves with nihilists and convicts for So
cial relaxation That these grotesques
provide the comedy shroud the play in
gloom still more Cimmerian.
Nevertheless, the New York lass is q
fascinating Minneapolitan and the in
anity of the nobleman is translated by
a Shakespeare. Piquantly pretty, with q
childlike voice, is Miss Millicent Evans
this Phinis Gray who would make a de-
Hcious ingenue, if only her glances anc
her gowns could be disconnected from hel
paretic role. Eugene Shakespeare, too
might be pleasing actor, did he no
struggle with the worn-out fun Of LORD
Chumley Hargrave. Thesremainder of thu
cast displays an average competency. Al
to costumes and other subsidiaries, the
frame is better than the picture.
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