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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1904-12-07
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN
CORNUCOPiA HISTORY

Another chapter has been written
in Cornucopia mine history. Last
Monday. at Baker City, Colonel w.
f.. Butcher, as attorney for large
number of judgment creditors, bid
In the real property Of the mine at
sheriff's sale for s3S, 166. A week
ptior be purchased the personal
property at forced sale for trifle
less than $4,000. The owners Of the
mine have. according to the Oregon
mining law, sixty days In which to
redeem the property. There can be
no redemption of personal property.
A conflict of legal opinion exists as
to the constitutionslity Of the sixty.
day redemption provision In the
Oregon mining law, which is con-
sidered by some lawyers as In direct
contravention OF the statute provid-
Ing IL twelve. month redemption
period for real estate sold by the
sheriff. This question has never been
passed upon by the supreme court of
Oregon, but will undou btedly bs
in the Cornucopia case, as so far as
known, no move has yet been made
by the old owners of the mine to re-
ieem the million dollar mine, which
sold under the banner for less than
$40. 900.
1t Is believed that it is due time
'yndicate, recruited from among the
I'D owners OF the Ccrnuoopis, who
include such men az ''SuRar Baron"
'earlss, Ex Secretary OF the May
Tracy, United States Senator John
Mitchell, of Oregon, United
states Senator Allison. of Iowa, and
'ther national Figures. will be
OF med to take over the mine and
esume production.
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Receivers Final Report Approved by Judge
fdkin Yesterday. ...Waiting for
Orders From Chicago.

The hO6l transfer Of the Red BOY
mine to the Prussing syndicate was
effected yesterday st Baker City
when Circuit Judge Robert Eakiu
officially approved the hnal report
Of Receiver John Thomson. Il was
contingent upon the courts approval
of ths ieceiver's final report that the
Prussing syndicate purchased the
mine IT. public auction for about
$50. 900, aud promised 10 reopen the
mi ne on large scale. The property
ts now In the full aud complete
possession Or the reOrRani ization
committee. ut the head of which is
Alexander Prussing. Of Chicago, and
IL only remsins to complete n few dc.
tails connected with the incorpora.
ton of ~ new holding company be.
fore the famous gold bullion pro-
ducer is again on the active list.
keosiver Thomson, who since the
sale of tho mine To tho reorganizers.
has hssn acting manager, will un.
doubtsdiy bs continued In that
position. During his incunbency
M reostver aud later mn sutinR man
~ er, hs has 0vsrhanlsd the Rcd Boy
equipment. made u number Of needed
surveys. cleaned up the surface, aud
placed everything In readiness for
immediate resumption. An eiectric
plant is Ia rrooes, Of installation,
mining timbers sufficient for six
months work have been cut by the
May Queen sawmili. aud the manager
only awaits the command from
Chicago to start the $3.50, 900 hoist.
Ing plant aud take out ore.
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mother lode system meets the granite
Of the higher hills, IL the Free Coin
age mine, which, since 1900 has besu
~ idle M n school boy knee deep Ia
June. it, hoistinR plant IL Rrsdu
ally going to wreck aud ruin, It's
boarding house windows are slowly
succumbing tn the irresistible temp.
tatton of traveller to see how close
they can come with rock tn the few
remaining panes. The spirits OF
desolatiou aud abandonment hover
over the mine. whyy
II WAS In 90 that w. II. Hurlburt.
then general passenger agent Of the
q. X, Il \. railroad. now general
manager of the q. W. Il =. com-
pany. At Portland; Victor Suhilling,
eN.uity u. X. n n. ticket agent IN
Portland; r.. &. Little. United
States hsh commissioner for the
state OF Washington, with head.
quarters Ia Tacoma; whitney Boise,
u Portland attorney; Ed Cannon, OF
snd u few rsilroaders from
the west cosst, acquired the Free
Coinage. In the dead of winter e
hoist aud steam plant were shipped to
the mine, carpenters working with
alf'frozen fingers to erect the plant
with all possible speed. A shaft WAS
sunk on tie vein, which showed q |
'sir grade Of free gold ore, aud the
began figuring on divi-
lends. just M the spring OF 1900
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FOUND THE CREEK"
IS DYING IN POVERTY

Bob Womack. the man who dis
covered gold at Cripple Greek, anC
thereby added sl6O, 100000 to tn,
worlds wealth, 10 lying helpless aud
paralyze In a sanitarium at Colo
RADIO Springs.
lie used to be known ~ Lucky
Bob," but to judge from his his.
tory "Unlucky Bob" would be q
more appropriate name. He was
always what people call an "easy
mark" his habits have awlays been
correct; he has had plenty of money
ut times and once he owned ESQ, 900
worth Of cattle, hut he has been q
"hiRh roller" aud never could keen
his money.
lie has been spendthrift and has
Rsmbled II away aud has been In the
habit Of "blowing II in," like other
cowboys. Once when be had sold q
thousand head Of stock In Colorado
Springs, he took his pay In slO bills,
aud, sitting one u curbstone on TETON
street, handed one of them to every
body that passed, NJ Y token OF his
regard.
The news that Bob" Womack
wa, giving away ten dollar bill,
naturally spread like prairie lire
aud long procession WAS promptly
formed. Bob" sat on the curb
aud exchanged repsrtee, cowboy
fashion, with the people as they
passed him aud handed each a bill.
Some Of his friends tried to inter.
Iere, which made him furious. lie
Informed them with great dignity
hat he was able to take care of
himself aud also of disposine of his
money In any way he liked. That
,e had not entirely drowned his
'sasou In his cups was evident by the
manner In which he detected IRE.
IN the line.
Nobody was able TO fool him.
Whenever man or woman would
ome up second time. Womack
would rebuke them stsrnly In good,
trona ranch language, aud be told
hsU what hs thought Of their
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IDltNfSS OF THE
FREE COINAGE

In travelling the road to the star
grazing summit III the Baid noun
tain divide, which separates Lake
Creek from Cable Cove beneath the
shoulder of ~hioa cliuRs the Cali.
tornia mine like n bsrnacle To n
green ship's huil-ons pssses mine
after mine. prospect after prospect.
location after locstion. Discovery
shafts mark the route from Sumpter
up Powder river tn Hanover. from
Hanover up Silver creek To the
azores, Id star grazing summit.
Tunnels line the rusd. aud the ring
al hammer on steel answers the
hollow reverbsratinv roar of blasts.
The ohuaainR noise of machine drills
ooyes out over good sized dumps,
aud from over the California mouu.
tain comes the thunder Of dropping
stamps ut the Imperial sni Alpine.
All OF which spells production, activ.
ity aud life.
just this side Of the Cable Cove
contact, where the slate of the
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Mining Excitement at Paisley.

FALSELY is enduring the throes OF
mining excitement which has had
several weeks duration. Some four
miles south of the city a large mum.
ber Of claims have been staked Oft
and active prospecting 10 being
carried on In an attempt to locate
lead deposits. The excitement was
caused by the location OF several
claims by San Francisco parties who
have stated that the district 10 rich in
lead, aud their assertion IL backed up
by quite heavy expenditures for de.
velopment work. 1t is said that
should these prospects come up to
expectations the country would ex.
perience boom such rs made Tono.
pah and GoIddeid famous. The dis
trict In question is known to con,
tain heavy mineral deposits. Crook
County Journal.
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manners as be ordered them out of
the line.
In the early days the ore had to
yield 800 a ton or more profit. but
nov, through the introduction Of the
cyanide and colonization processes,
It will pay to reduce 80 and $40 ores.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-13
 HEAD SOLID SORE Awful Suffering of Baby ard Sleepless Nights Of
 Mother. CURED BY CUTICURA Skin Fair as a Lily with no SCaI to Recall Awful Sore
 Writes Mother.

"I herewith write out in full the be. ginning and end of that terrible disease, eczema, which caused my babe untold suffering and myself many sleepless nights
 My babe was born seemingly fair. healthy child. but when she was three weeks old a swelling appeared on the back Of her head, and in course of time broke. It dld not heal but grew worse, and the sore spread from the size of $ dime to that of dollar. used all kinds of remedies that could think of, but nothing seemed to help; in fact, it grew worse. Her hair fell out where the sore was, and l feared 1t would never grow again. It continued until my aged father came op visit, and when he saw the baby he told me to get Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment right away.
 To please him did so, and to my surprise by their use the sore began to heal over, the hair grew over 1t, and to-day she has nice head of hair, her skin is as fair as a lily, and she has no scar left to recall that awful sore, and 1t is over eight months and no sign of it's returning"
 Mrs. VIM. RYER, Elk River, Minn.
 "Cure permanent" So writes Mrs. Ryer, Feb. 25. 1903, six years later:
 :. Your letter ofthe 18th inst. received, asking in regard to the cure of my baby some six years ago Well, the disease has never returned to her head which st that time was solid sore on top and down the back. Once or twice since then patch hes come on her hand near the wrist, hut 1t finally disappeareo after proper treatment with Cuticrra.
 solt throughout th. world cuaours Rssolvsnt. snc nn farm cf Ghorotate Coated pt 2Sc pss vial of 60l Ointment. Nc. Soap, s5a. Dspota London ShsIss hous sq. pafts Aps de A pa1 boeton lS SoiumDat avs fa,ter Dyus a Cham. corp., sos tropnetara
 sy Ssad inf ' Hey ic GpEs EcssmA"
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OBITUARY NOTES.
EIlzabeth s. Girbert.

Elizabeth s. Gilbert, widow Of the late Henry Q. Gilbert of New York, died yesterday at her late residence, Ss clin- ton avenue.
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NEW HAVEN BRANCH.
Of the Woman's Board of Missions
 Meets To-day.

Of the Woman's Board of Missions
 Meets To-day.
 The December meeting of the New Haven branch of the Woman's Board of Missions will be held in Center Church chapel this afternoon at 8 o'clock. An address will be given by Miss Bush of Turkey. During many years of service there as a missionary, Miss Bush has spent much time in touring and might say with St. Paul that she had been in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in weariness and painfulness and watchings often,'' yet her courage has in no wise lost it's cheerfulness.
 The tours have taken her among the Taurus mountains, beautiful at some seasons dangerous at others; to villages unprotected from attacking Khurds; into ancient walled cities and over the historic ground where flow the Tigris and Euphrates, rivers of Eden. The resting places were ofttimes lowly way side inns, where one slept in stable with tho sheep and oxen, horses and donkeys, as did the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus.
 Besides vast stores of experiences, Miss Bush possesses a graphic style of narration which insures her address proving of great interest.
 The New Haven branch is happy to be able to offer this opportunity of hear ing her to the women of the city and vicinity.
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Unlted states Government Bonds.
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i,nttnn Mnrtxet.

Cotton Market. Reported by Dick Bros. & Co. members of New York Stock and Cotton Ex- changes. Branch office, No. 19 Center Street, New Haven. Conn:
 New York. Dec. 12
 High Low. Last
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ClOsIng Prices.

The following are the closing prices reported by Prince & Whftely, Bankers and Brokers, 25 Broadway, New York, and l5 Center street, New Haven, Conn:
 Rid Aekad
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WE'LL KNOWN ARTIST.

Dr. A. J. Penney, of Branford, has re- covered from grip cold, and is now able to attend to his practice. The doc tors father, who has been his guest for some weeks, returned to his home in Portsmouth, N. H., on Friday. MT. Penney, who is an artist of fame, hay ing pictures in many of the art gal leries throughout the country, is sev- enty-eight years of age, and is still in the full yigor of his art. He has paint ed the portraits of many men of note.
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CAPTAIN TANK D. BANGS.
 nnnnETNYtsrNyr ry D NNAN

PROMINENT G. A. R. MAN.
 Captain Frank D. Bangs, prominent in Waterbury, and we'll known in G. A. R. circles throughout the state, died at his home in Waterbury yesterday. Medical Examiner Crane, after viewing the body, pronounced death due to heart failure. His funeral will be held on Wednesday at 2 p. m. Captain Bangs was born in Bethany, Pa, in 1883. He came to this state when young and settled in Ansonia He en- listed in Company B, First regiment in 1861 and served in many of the large abttles of the civil war. He had been in the employ of the Benedict and Bur ham company for about twenty years. He is survived by a widow.
 The clock maker should not be too arrogant in ordering his hands around unless he wants strike.-P philadelphia Record
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in that market rivalling the break in Analgamated Copper on the exchange. But the days losses in stocks of all classes, including standard railroad and industrial properties, runs all the way from ? to over points. The tone at the closing was as weak as at any time during the day. .
 Bonds were weak in sympathy with stocks. Total sales. par value. s5.s4O,- 900.
 United States bands were unchanged OH call.
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High. Low. Last.
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Etmamrfal,
rEsuKRDAr's STOCK MARKET.
General slump and weak Close.

General slump and Wenk Close.
 New York, Dec. 12.-The speculative demand for stocks seems to be complete ly paralyzed to-day and confidence en- tirely departed from all of those who
 were such eager buyers up to week ago at prices far above those prevailing to-day. The feeling of doubt spread
 more and more to holders of stocks dur. l ing the course of to-day's market and
 the pressure to sell long stock steadily increased. The only buyers in evidence were those who first sold, mostly bear operators who went short of the market,
 and then bought to cover at the invit- | ing profits accrued on the subsequent declines. Buying of this character caused frequent rallies from the violent declines. But the selling was constant
 ly renewed OF therallies and the fall touched new levels at each renewal.
 The range of the declines compared re specially with that in last Thursdays panicky break, but there was less resi- fence to the market. Prices hardly got as low to-day as the low prices touch- ed on Thursday, but owing to the yio- lent recoveries on that day and the weak closing of to-day at the lowest prices, the range of values is substan- tially lower tonight than it was on last Thursday night The most striking fact in to-day's market was the utter lack of resisting power in the market. It only need a slight increase in the
 rate of activity to start prices precipi- tately downwards. General conditions
 of finance, commerce and industry were
 not suggested by any of the headlong sellers. Money on call loaned down to | ? per cent. in the late market and pres sure for funds did not seem to be the
 motive for selling any stocks. s x Last weeks quick recovery aroused instability of prices at the height to which they had been lifted by the in judicious speculation which preceded the break. There was revived discus sion of the unsettlement of values threatened by the effort to establish federal control of railroad rates. The heavy fall in value of November ex- ports of agricultural products, reach ing $17, ,727 ,696 for all products, was a minor cause of depression, especially with a renewed advance in the price of sterling exchange and the nooted question of a further export of gold.
 Prices on the curb were as violently disturbed as on the exchange, the slump in Greene Consolidated Copper
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DEED SUNDAY NIGHT.
Joseph Ford of Milford, the Oyster

Joseph Ford of Milford, the Oyster
 man.
 Joseph Ford of Milford, aged fifty seven, who recently suffered q stroke of paralysis while engaged in oystering in the Housatonic river, died Sunday evening after an illness of about ten days. For the past twenty years he had lived at Milford Point, enjoying a good livelihood from the proceeds of oystering. During the early part of his life he was a salesman in several of the Milford meat markets. and was always of a jovial disposition. He is survived by two brothers, James Ford, Of West Main street, and Sydney Ford, of IVinstcd. .
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CHILD DIED OF BURNS.
Dress Caught Fire in House at ss York
 Street Yesterday.

Dress Caught Fire in House at 63 York
 Street Yesterday.
 A little child named Katie Langer, nine years old was fatally burned yes- terday morning. Her clothes caught fire in the flat occupied by her un- cle, Harry Powilaski, on the third floor of the twenty y-family tenement house at 63 York street. The child rushed through the hallway with her clothes blazing, and men and women cried frantically. Their screams attracted the attention of those passing by and an alarm of fire was turned in from York and George streets. The firemen found that the child had rushed up and down stairs and through the long railways. She was followed by shouting women. In this confusion Solomon Kite, an ex- pressman, and Conductor Charles Schaefender, employed by the trolley company, caught hold of the child. The former took off his coat and wrap ped it around her. Then there was a call for quilts and all of the women were rushing towards the third floor with bed clothing when the firemen en-
 
 tered the house.
 The child, held by the two men, was in S. Goldner's doorway, and women were throwing pai1s of water all over the charred clothing. The fremen i'm mediately took the child into a bedroom and Policeman McKiernan telephoned for the ambulance. The surgeon in the New Haven hospital ambulance attend ed the child before taking her to the hospital.
 While this was going on excited wom- len crowded the doorway and the po- licemen had their hands full in keep ing the place clear.
 The father of the child, who is a we'll known milkman, came from his place of business, and he did not know it was his child until he entered the Goldner apartment. When informed that his daughter had been burned he was exceedingly affected. The police refused to allow him in the room with the surgeon. The child lives at 61 York street, which is next door, and while visiting her dress caught fire from a stove. She died at the New Haven hospital shortly after she arrived there.
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M,KEEs TIME UP.

VIII be Released from Jail Early This
 Morning.
 To the great delight of himself and his friends, John A. Mckee will to-day be discharged from the county jail, having completed that portion of his sentence formaintaining pool room, and arrangements having been made for the payment of his fine and $750 and costs of about S20 more.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-13
BERNARD M'GRATH.

The funeral of Bernard McGrath, of 114 Ashmun street, took place Sunday afternoon at St, Mary's church. The bearers were s. Smith, W. Hill, F. Col gan, J. Long, P. o'Donnell and J. o. Donnell. The flower bearers were Thomas Dwyer and Thomas DWyer. Mir. McGrath leaves a widow and six chill dren. His age was sixty-four years.
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A NEW YORK COLLISION CASE

Attorney James P. Dowell, Jr., Engag-
 cd in It.
 Attorney James D. Dewe1i, jr., is in New York trying the collision case for John H. starin brought by Howard Gould because of damages done to his yacht Niagara by being run into by the steamer Laura M. Starin.
 The claim of the Niagara is that on the night of June G. 1903, about 10.30 o'clock, when anchored we'll within the anchorage grounds off Twenty-ninth street, the tide being ebb, and the yacht heading up the river, the weather rainy with a slight haze, the steamer Laura M. Starin, coming down the river with the barge starina lashed on the starboard side, ran into the Mag ara, the starboard side of the barge coming in contact with the starboar6 side of the yacht and doing great dam age to her hull, injuring spars, davits and awnings, and crushing 8 gig and racing boat carried on the starboard quarter.
 The claim of the steamer is that she was going very slowly, it. being hay, sounding proper fog signals, that the yacht Niagara had no lights up that were visible, and was not sounding fog signals as required by the rules, and that because of not having proper lights and not sounding fog signals, she did not see the Niagara in time to avoid collision.
 The case is being tried in the United States district court for the southern district of New York.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-09-22
Tells Home-Like Story.

''Slaves of The Nine" which comes
to the Colonial Theatre next Satur-
day matinee and night. tells all every
day home-like story, fiavoring of the
soil of the locality in which its scenes
are laid, with characters drawn from
life, and comedy galore. 1t is the
latest and most successful play dealing
with the subject handled. 1t is skill
fully constructed, contains bright
and witty dialogue, strong complica-
tions and dramatic scenes of great
strength. The authors, Daniel l..
Hart, who wrote 'The Parish Priest
and @. +. Callahan, who is credited
with writing "A Romance of Coon
Hollow" have injected the same
flavor in their latest play as is TO be
found in their older successes. Special
new scenery by James E. Fox, of New
York, the Eagle Quartette, and care
fully selected metropolitan cast insure
a finished performance that will be
worthy of liberal patronage.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-09-22
Creatore's Success.

Oreatore and his Italian band, which
will be heard at the Colonial Theatre
Monday night, will be the success as
we'll as the musical event of the sea-
son, judging from the indications.
Seat orders are being received from
out of town and from all sections the
people will come to take advantage of
this chance to hear the grand con-
certs. Creatore has been enjoying
this same success everywhere, and
that it is not a mere matter of curios-
j ty is seen from the fact that he has
played many return engagements in
many cities where the attendance has
not diminished, but has steadily
grown. He played for three seasons
at che Pittsburg Exposition, each year
drawing more than ever before in the
fifteen years the exposition has been
in existence, and shortly after his con-
cert there, will go to Boston to play
series of concerts, which will
more than complete his one hundred
there. At the Colonial
Theatre Monday night, September 26.