The Sumpter Miner from Sumpter, Oregon • Page 3

Wednesday, March 21, 1900. THE SUMPTER MINER. McEWEN SLOAN SELL EVERY THING CONNECTED WITH STAGE AND LIVERY BUSINESS. Including Sumpter Real Estate T. G.

Harrison andW. H. Cade, of San Fran-ciaco, the Purchasers New Company Organised Tom McEwen Remains With the Concern Plans for the Future. T. G.

Harrison and W. H. Code, of San Francisco, mention of whose arrival here was made in these columns some weeks since, have bought from McEwen Sloan their livery and stage business and all of Its accessories, Including the property of the Sumpter Livery stable, the Sumpter and Eastern Oregon Transportation company, the blacksmith and wagon shop and harness shop. The deal also includes the real estate of the various concerns, three lots on Center street and three on Auburn, where the barns, shops, sheds and other buildings are located. A new company will be incorporated, under the name of the Sumpter Transportation company, to handle all branches of the old.buslness, with Messrs.

Harrison, Cade and N. C. Richards as incorporators. The inew owners have already taken posession and will at once begin to ill-augurdte changes and improvements, such as experience and ample capital suggest -and permit. This whole section of country, to the north, south and be by freight and passenger lines.

Arrangements will be made with the railroads to have coupons attached to all through tickets, entitling passengers to stage transportation to any point desired. iQne important change to be made here in Sumpter immediately wiiJ.be to abandon the Center street building as a barn, renovate and remodel the Immense structure and convert it into a tuts -story business block, with large store on the around and offices on foe second floor. Another site, not so centrally located, will be secured on which a new barn will be built. For the present, until this new building can be constructed, the company will make the Auburn street barn answer Us purpose. The public in general will be pleased to learn that Tom McEwen, than whom there Js.no more popular man in eastern Oregon, nor one better posted in the stage and freighting business, will remain with the new company, occupying an important awl responsible position.

has con-iMited to remain with the new people for at least six months. r. G. Harrison and W. H.

Cade are good people for this town and district to sec uce as citizens. It is understood that they irpresent unlimited capital and that thisisanly a starter; that they contemplate making other large investments and will ssan enter upon some important and gigantic enterprises. Bk Mauntain Telephone Line Sold. The Blue Mountain Telephone company has just dosed a deal whereby it has transferred its entire telephone system, composed of lines from Heppner to Wagner, Lone Rock, Long Creek, John Day, Canyon City, Burns, the Narrow, Sumpter, Baker, Bourne, Susanville and all the principal mines in this district, to the In land Telephone and Telegraph company, which will soon take charge of the same. Looking For Subscribers and Ads.

The town has beer) besieged this week by representatives of outside publications, seeking subscribers and Messrs. Freese and Baker, of the Spokes-' man-Review were-tint on the That paper, which has done much for this district, already had a large list here and these gentlemen have materially increased It. Leonard Fowler, editor of the State, a monthly magazine published at Tacoma, and his advertising manager, G. W. Gantz, arrived Sunday.

They always have some attractive proposition to submit and never fall to land their victim, whether it be a community or an individual. Granite Incorporation Petition Granted. Grant Thornburg, W. J. Patterson and Gus Bachman returned Monday evening from Canyon City.

The petition by themselves and others for the Incorporation of the town of Granite was allowed, and Monday, April 9, was the day set for the election of officers. The coiihty court also granted right of way alongthe public highway of Grant county for lines of the Eastern Oregon Electric company, of which these gentlemen are among the leading stockholders. The sale of the Stevens placer claim, patented, was also confirmed and this valuable property will soon be platted as an addition to Granite. As it occupies an especially -favorable location the lots will find quick sale nt good prices. Granite Boulder.

MR. AND MRS. CONNELL RETURN Have Spent Several Weeks on the Coast and In East. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.

J. G. Council were glad to welcome them home Friday, after an absence of several weeks, visiting relatives and friends west and east. They left Sumpter January 2 and returned March 16. Miss Agnes Connell, who went with them, stopped at Hoquiam, Washington, with a sister and will remain there at school until summer.

After coming here Mr. and Mrs. Con nell went to Portland and Gray's Harbor for a short stay, and then left for Charles City, Iowa, the home of their childhood After visiting friends In other parts of Iowa they went to Kansas City, Omaha and other cities in the east. Mr. Connell says the country every where is prosperous after a fashion, but not like the Northwest in Its business activity.

To a MINER representative Mr. Council said he was agreeably surprised to see such expansive strides taken by Sumpter during his absence; that he was so bewildered by the great number of strange faces and new buildings that he had to inquire where he lived. Asked in regard to what he was going to do in business way, as the lease of the Star hotel, which he ownes, expires within a Jew weeks, he said he was not yet decided; that in all probability he would build a new hotel on the property between the Star and the First Bank of Sumpter, or on the lot now occupied as his private residence, on North street. Mr. Connell said everybody had heard of Sumpter and this wonderful mining district, and he was kept busy answering questions from persons in all the places where his presence was known.

There is no doubt about this country receiving its quota of the vast emlgratlpnsoon setting in from the east and south, 'if they don't come this month, they will the next, and so on. Mr. and Mrs. Connell arelobkinz well and greatly Improved by their outing. A Japanese boy wants situation as Cook in private family or mining camp.

Address, Frank Sano, care On On Baker City, Oregon. The celebrated Jed Clayton brand of whiskey at the Mint saloon, corner of Center and Sumpter streets. Sumpter souvenir spoons. F. C.

Bro die, watchmaker and jeweler, Opera house block. The Columbia beer, brewed in Sumpter, is today as good as any made. Ask for the Columbia beer, brewed in Sumpter. WE BUY ALL OUR GOODS IN CARLOAD LOTS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL JL Johns' Big Store New Spring Goods will begin to arrive daily next week, and we can promise the handsomest line of DRESS GOODS ever shown in Sumpter. Men's and Boys' Spring Hats are here now, and others are arriving from time to time.

SPECIAL a beautiful lise of Ladies' Mus-line Underwear. Must be seen to be appreciated. The HARDWARE DEPARTMENT has been fuily stocked up again with everything in shelf and heavy hardware, builders' tools, iron, and steel and miners' wares; also largest stock of paints, oils, sash, doors and window glass in Eastern Oregon. New goods are arriving constantly. C.J.JOHNS.

Sumpter STARR ODELL MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD Tfi We are fully equipped to make reports on mines, and can handle prospects or developed mines. Main office, Sumpter, Oregon. Branch Offices, Spokane, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Cor. Center and North Streets, Sumpter, Oregon.

Telephone No. 131. First and Always a FIRST-CLASS HOUSE. Newly Furnished Throughout. Only White Labor Employed.

All Outside Rooms. Only Half Block North of Depot. THE Golden Eagle Hotel 3 BRUCE FOWLER. Mill Street, Sumpter, Oregon THE BEST APPOINTED. Pharmacy IN EASTERN OREGON.

No prescription too difficult to fill. (Service day or night.) A complete line of druggists sundries, stationery and toilet articles. The Sumpter Drug Co L. C. EDWARDS, MANAGER.

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