Morning Democrat newspaper, 20 April 1900, Baker City, Baker County, Oregon ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Project Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - March 2002 - not copyrightable ************************************************************************ The Morning Democrat, Baker City, OR; 20 Apr 1900 - CIRCUIT COURT No Receiver for the Sumpter Water Company TESTIMONY OF MR. VINCENT Books of the Concern Exposed and the Attorneys for the Plaintiffs Withdraw Application. The trial of the case of Crane & Co. vs. The Sumpter Water works came up before Judge Eakin in the circuit yesterday evening. The suit is brought by the plaintiffs to have receiver appointed on the ground that the company is insolvent. The claims against the company aggregate $64,000, and the amount due Crane & Co. is $1,900. Besides this the Wolf & Zwicker Iron works, of Portland, has a mechanics lien of $10,000, besides other subordinate claims. Attorney Butcher, of this city represented the water company and Attorney Cake, of Portland, Crane & Col., and Starr Simon and Heilner appeared for Wolf & Zwicker. W. L. Vinson appeared as a witness, and in answer to questions stated that he was manager of the water company and owned the principal part of the stock. Attorney Butcher objected to the testimony on the ground that as Vinson had the entire control of the water company and also was a director the court had no power to take it out of his hands. All of the claims against the water company were entirely in the hands of that concern. The court overruled the objection. Mr. Vinson continuing, said that he held 492 shares out of the 500 shares in the company, and that the books were in his charge. The court remarked that it was better to have the books for the purpose of being examined. Mr. Butcher said he had not the books with him but that they would be brought into court when required. Long arguments were then gone into by the different attorneys and several authorities were quoted to prove their contentions. The total indebtedness of the company $60,000 and the value of the concern not being more than $50,000, it was argued that a receiver should be appointed and the property kept intact so as to pay the creditors. Mr. Vinson in answer to further questions by Mr. Butcher said he did not keep the books himself and made no entries on them. The court then adjourned until 7 o'clock in the evening in order to examine the books. After reconvening, the books of the company were examined and were found to be properly kept. Attorney Cake then withdrew the application and the court dismissed the case. - ADVERTISED LETTERS Following is the list of letters remaining unclaimed in the postoffice at Baker City, Oregon, for the week ending April 20, 1900: Anderson, James Brain, E. M. Beck, Morris Buts, Lesus Lbrook, mrs. M. Brooks, J. W. Brown, Pearl L. Crockwell, Earl M. Dougherty, P. H. Dean, L. W. Morris, Ruphey Martin, J. B. Moore, E. E. Moore, J. B. McMahon, Louse McKinney, Clark McInnis, Chester McCreary, W. H. McDonnell, Angie Sacks, Mrs. M. Phillips, F. S. Phillips, Al Robinson, Ottis Simmons, Will Reynolds, Mrs. P. Horsepool, E. A. Grady, Mrs. T. Greenwald, Peter Gibson, Catherine Jets, Jack Joyce, Thos John, Bertha Lariety, J. Elliott, Norman Engman, Mrs. Mary Morin, Emaly Westfall, Arthur J. Wiegand, William woodruff, Lizzie Wilson, Martha Willard, Nettie Woods, Rilla VanWinkle, R. Young, W. J. Shephard, Bertha Sammes, Arthur Stewart, Mrs. J. M. Smith, C. N. Taylor, Essie Taylor, Sadie Wallace, Henry The above letters will be held 15 days after which they will be sent to the dead letter office. Persons calling for same, please give date of advertisement. - B. T. POTTER, P.M. - MORAN - WEBBER ON April 16, Mr. O. E. Moran, boarding house keeper at the Columbia mine, was united in marriage at Anoka Minn., to Miss May Webber. Mr. and Mrs. Moran arrived in baker City yesterday morning and in the evening went to Sumpter, accompanied by Mrs. Mills, Mr. Moran's sister, who came down from Sumpter to meet the happy couple on their arrival here. - RETURNED FROM GRANITE John Anthony has returned from Sumpter, Granite and Lawton where he took a carload of potatoes and 650 dozen eggs which he disposed of at very remunerative prices. During his stay in the mining section, he visited a number of the noted mines among which was the famous Red Boy of which so much as been written, and was astonished at its vast richness. Mr. Anthony speaks of the highest terms of praise of all he saw and says his trip was perfectly satisfactory financially, as well as in point of information and pleasure. - La Grande Chronicle. - PEOPLE JUST PASSING H. R. Hanna, of Union, is in the city. A. V. H. Pemberton, of Olympia, is in the city. T. K. Muir came down from Sumpter yesterday. F. A. Laining and wife, of Idaho Falls, are in the city. I. N. Sanders, of North Powder, spent yesterday in the city. Mrs. J. P. Hannon and two children, of Huntington, are visitors in the city. C. J. Freese and C. H. Breed, of the Spokane-Review, are in the city. G. W. Hunt, the erstwhile Inland Empire railway magnate, is in the city. Ed. C. Allen, formerly proprietor of the Golden Rule hotel at Pendleton is in the city. Hon. William Cake, judge of Multnomah county, is in the city as counsel int he Sumpter Water company case. E. P. McCornack, the Salem banker, is in the city looking after his interests in the Sumpter Water company. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Young, of Springdale, Wash., are visiting their sons, Rev. F. L. Young and Henry Young, in this city. B. F. Wilson, ex-register of the land office at La Grande, is visiting the city. Mr. Wilson is now a prominent attorney in the "Sugar Beet" city. J. H. Robbins, president of the First Bank of Sumpter, was in the city yesterday on his return to Sumpter from Portland. He was accompanied by his family. Hon. Ralph E. Moody, member of the legislature from Multnomah county, arrived from Portland yesterday morning. Mr. Moody is counsel for the bondholders of the Sumpter Water company.