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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1891)
S ALL KINDS OF The Scout hag 1 ft Commercial Printing I uouwe tne uirciiiaiion i iff P IN Y VWKH IN TUB mi'NTV Jilt ttOXE AT RKAMINAKLK ftATEH. fit Hero Will tlio Prass tlio l-?oplo's RtRllts Mfiintfiin. VOL VIII. ITXIOX, OKECJOX, T1IUKSDAV, OOTOKHK 22, I8SM. ISO. IS. y PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. W. I-HE1.TON. J. X. C.VKROU.. S HELTON A CARROLL, Attorneys at Law, rXION. OKK'tON. Speolnl nttcutiun Riven to all btuinen entrus ted to im. Office two doors couth of bank. It. EAKIN, Attorney at Law, CXION, OKKCiOK. Prompt attention paid to till business ontrus tcil to me. Office two door south of hardware store of Summers it I.ayne. I. N. CROMWELL M. 1)., Physician and Surgeon, IXION, oltEGOX. All calls promptly attended today orntpht. Olliee with It. Kiikln. Residence on A street, fourth house we.-t of Wright's store. E. BROOKS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ISLAND CITY, OREGON Prompt attention given to all professional calls, day or night. T. McNAUGHTON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Kr.(iIN ORKUOK. All calls jiromptly attended to, day or night. W. H. EWIN, M. J)., Pliysician and Surgeon, COVE, OREGON. All ealls attended to, day or night. MRS. A. M. PELHAM, M. D. ' Ilomoepatliie Physician, Diseeses of Children a Specialty. Oilieeat the I'lm residence, North Union. City Meat Market, I NION, OREGON. BENSON BROS, Proprietors. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Hams Lard, Etc,, Kept eoiihtuntly on hand. Cornucopia Saloon, UNION, OREGON. WILLIAM WILSON, PROPRIETOR. Finest of Sines, Liquors and Ci gars Kept in Stock. JP-Liquors' for medicinal purpose a spe cialty. Good billiard table. Drop In and bo sociable. LXJMBEK for SALE at the High Valley Saw Mill. All kinds of lumber constantly ou hand or furnished on short notice. Prices cheap an the chcapent. Patronage - Solicited. 15-30-tf VM. WILKINSON .V. SON. HON CITY HOTEL, L. J. Boothe, Propr. Opposite the Court House, Union, Oregon. Having again assumed control of this popular house, I cordially Invite the public to give me u call. Tables Furnished with the Best the Market Affords. Kirst-class Lodging. Everything nicely and neatly lltted up. Meals. O Cer.cs. Beds,- Cents. None but vt hlte cooks employed. I lG-tf. A WEAK MAIM Can now run himself of the doplora Wo results of Early Abuse and Perfectly Restore ids Vigor and Vitality by our Home Treatment. The Remarkable Curea of hppeless cases of Nervous Debility aml Private Complaints nn stumping out quackery everywhere. Treaties and Question List, a physician's gift to humanity, will be Sent Free to thoso afflicted. Address with stamp PIONEER INSTITUTE, 105 Kearney St. Room 2 5-7-yl. San Francisco, Cal. ASCENSION :-: SCHOOL! A Hoarding and hay school for i.lrl. Cove, Unluu fount) . OrcKon. Tin: ItT IU:v II. WisTtit Mnam. I I . Hector amt VUltor Mlsa II. II. HtWlK'K, l'rlllClt Mil. AMTIIPH IlLHMOU'. Aaatllalll. The next Suawlou ol tbli School (Jjkjus iSoiHuiiibor id. Ktx. gmr I km ft aalMlaawi a lit Im IMm HtMwiV, Iail fin)l) yfAVmh Parti.- Mjte iu w l w Ww Ju an i n a R. 1-1. BROWN, Denier in Drugs aMMcines TOILET ARTICLLS, PERFUM ERY. PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, Etc. A compute and varied stock of wall jwtw al ways ou hand. gf2? full supply of school books constantly on hand. DRIVER & MARTIN, AND WAGON AAORK. Care nnd attention paid to Shoeing Trotting Horses, In terfering and Contracted Feet a Specialty. Plow work, Laying of Cylinder Teeth, llalanclug, etc., given special care. Shop .Main PL, Union, Oregon. o-7-tf. THE State Agricultural College. Opens Sept. 18, 1891. COURSE OF STUDY arranged express ly to meet the need" the Farming and mechanical interest', of tue State. Large, coinmodiou an well-ventilated building's. The College is located in a cul tivated and Christian community, and one of the healthiest in the State. MILITARY TRAINING. Expenses need not exceed $150 for the En tire Session. Two or more Free Scholarships from very County. Write for Catalogue to B. L. ARNOLD, President, 7-lC-Um Corvallis, Oregon. Do You Want to SAVE FROM 25 TO 50 CENTS On Every Dollar You Spend? If so, write for our Illustrated Catalogue, containing illustrations and prices of every thing manufactured in the United State?, at manufacturers' prices. 10,000 illustra tions, all lines represented. Catalogue mailed free on application. Address, CHICAGO GENERAL SUPPLY CO., 178 West Van Buren St., Chicago, 111. 4-23-vl The Cove Drug Store JASPER G. STKVENS, Propr. DGAI.KIt IN PURE DRUGS, Patent Medicines. Perfumery, Paints and Oils. Prescription Carefully I'rnrinroil, ALSO IlKAl.KK I.N SPORTING GOODS, Consisting of Itifles, Shotguns, Pistols and Cartridges. Imported and Domestic Cigars. School Books, Etc. A Grand Opportunity! THE FINEST OF THEM ALL!! 'Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands." Hy J. W. HTJICL. The grandest subscription book ever Intro duced ou the coast Over OX) extra Ian:c iiinrto page. :) musnlllcent original Illustration, houblc-paite colored plate. SELLS ON SIGHT. , lJ"N.T'"l"xO watelIiithIaroumy, J.Vjr 11 IX 1 O Aawe are determined loexlind our biisliiem Into IhU Mate, wu ro Kolin; to slatl In by oirvrtux Utler Indiireine.u lolUe ucellla than nil)' other tiotlM) ha. ever tlotiu before. Wudvlher Die book rlxht at our very door (reu of frelxhl Hiurxv or any other et'lise, all of which o 4 olirsvlve. Itim't luku any aiteiiey for tliUiirval work from any otluir itoiiu' until ou liau scntioiu for our dc.iirlpllva circular, and .xth i ihi iui. iruixx ithu rfl't''iai)T hIII aoaraiitt lu ! Uilti uy )hi .. . DOMINION IM'III.UIIISli ru . abuuif. HrlUtli CuluisWu timfNt Avvitia I ik t taaliltilM" Gen lilt 4J pii.i t . . rftl ! Id t I.I V u Hum u M I UUsuu h imfi f ANTELOPE ITEMS. News Notes From (he New Mining District. THE KIND OF A GIRL TO HAVE. Now and Xioli Discovery of Silver Bear ing Quarts ou Mr. Frazlcr's Plaoa. ntki.oi-k, October It, tail. Several of our onergetio farmers are plowing. Save your potatoes. They are cheap now, but will bo in demand in the spring. Mr. Taylor Green drove his sheep down from their summer range to his Antelope farm last week. Mr. John Dobbin, Jr., has contraet ed to deliver the- lumber, about 12,000 feet, from the Park saw mill for the Telocasct school house. Mr. Win. Catcs is busy hauling rock for the foundation of the new school house at Telocaset. It is to be some what larges than the new school house in upper Antelope. Everybody hauling wood for winter. Many of the farmers havo hauled con demned ties from the railroad for their winter's wood. Mr. Joseph Yowell has a pile as high as his house. Judging from the way that horses have been shipped east this last year they will soon be scarce and in de mand. Buyers o east with car loads of horses that they purchase hero for a song and return and inform the fann ers that horses are a dull sale cast and they havo not made anything, but notwithstanding they don't make any thing in buying and shipping horses out of Grande Rondo valley, 1 notice they still keep in the business, for tho fun of the thing 1 suppose. Several of the mogul stock men of Grande Rondo valley hayc had their bronco busters riding the Antelope range lately, rounding up and driving ofV cattle to the valley. The conse quence is that several of our cows and steers have disappeared from oft" of the range that before their advent were running on the hills back of our farm in Pyle canyon. They are probably wandering around the lanes in Grande Ronde valley or have joined the gang that infests the streets of Union. It is a nuisance and should be suppressed. Probably the next thing they will be taken up an estrays and cost us a good round sum to get them buck. If any body that notices cows or steers brand ed with the triangle brand on the left hip and a crop and slit in the left ear horses triangle on the right shoulder vill drop me a postal card I will be much obliged and will send them a chromo for their trouble, or, if they prefer it, my photograph, if I can in duce my girl to part with it, but I do not believe she will, for See's a daisy, idie'N a ducky, she's a lamb, And Ik lautiful, bonule, bright and free. she's thcKirl that doesn't care a damn I 'or any man in Antelopo but me. It has been known for years that the mountains at the bend of Antelope and around Lyon's hill were full of lloat quartz, but no one has ever pros pected for tho ledges. Two or three weeks ago, however, Mr. Irwin Frnzier uncovered a large buried ledge of dull looking quartz on his father's homo stead. It is on tho hill back of tho old gentleman's dwelling hoino. It is a largo body of oro and not very pretty to look at, but Oh My! Ervo has just received his first nssay of tho ore from McVicker, an assaycr of Salt Lake City, Utah. It assayed a trillo in lead, traces of gold nnd 1"0 ounces in silver. How is that for high? McVickor stands high among mining men uh an accurate assayer. Irwin will immedi ately send oil' other samples from difl'erent places ou the ledge to several assayers, to verify the Suit Lake City usHity. I was dowh in his shaft yes terday. Ho is only down about ten feet hut 1 miiitt bay it looks fitvorublo for u jmrinanunt ledge, Of course he has not developed it enough yet to bo stiro us to iU permunoiicy, but receiv ing tmoh nn assay from audi ii lurgu body of quart in night u very onooiir aging. ThU Antelopo (y)iintry ouo of those iluya will atirprloo tho ekuiluu, It i full of Imluu ami llout iimU, mid lm iKJYur bfiiii ji!opiiM by iuliuror (Miuiiu also, fenny oJ Uic lloitt UM4y wu Jt fltMM )0t KU)0 from tho heaven., but from buried ledges that some day, when t"P right class of miner! get in lu re, will be found, and then Antelope will hum with industry. It u to be hoped that Erve'a ledge will prove permanent and tlmt the assays to be hnd t-hortly will verify the Salt Lake assay. TT. FAVORS THE WASHINGTON SIDE. Tho Portland Chambar of Commerce Intor eatinjf Hnolf In an Open River. Tho Portland chamber of commerce has decided to adopt tho portage rond from Tho Dalles to a point opposite Celilo ou the Washington side of tho river. This route was adopted by a vote of 20 to 7. Portland is to take $300,000 in bonds. Lengthy reports wore made on all possible routes. The following contains tho gist of tho re port of the committee, as relates to tho objections of the Norton route. Wo do not consider tho so-called Norton route on tho Oregon side feasi ble, nor, in view of tho probable legal complications over the rights of way now controlled by the Union Pacific and tho Columbia Railway and Navi gation Company, do wo consider the route parallelling the Union Pacific on the other side, or the route suggested by Mr. Rogue in his report, from a point near Tin eo Mile Uapids to Celilo, on tho Washington side, as being proper for favorable recommendations. Wo find that by Mr. Rogue's estimate tho lowest cost of this route would bo $.'M7,000, exclusive of warehouses, wharfboats and steamboats. This es timate is made on a basis of .$18,000 per mile, cost of construction, while the same engineer for a piece of road on tho Oregon side which, wo arc in-, tormcd, is not much if any more diffi cult of construction, estimates the cost at !f25,000. Referring to the possible lino on the Oregon side, suggested by Mr. Rogue, parallelling the Union Pacific, wo find the estimated cost by tho report is $100,000, exclusive of boats and wharf boats, and in this estimate apparently the necessary tunnel at Capo Horn, referred to in Mr. Roguo's report, is omitted, which tunnel would cost on a conservative engineer's estimate from $05,000 to $75,000, and again, while this line is estimated to cost $25,000 per mile, we find on investigation that the Union Pacific lino in the same district cost from $50,000 to $(10,000 per mile. MILLIONS OF BUSHELS LOST. Rain and Snow In the Northwest Causes Irreparable Damage te tne Wheat Crop. A Minneapolis dispatch of October l.'lth says : The sUKpenseover the wheat crop of North Dakota and the Northern and Western lounties of .Minnesota has grown into positive alarm. Up to today there was a general hope that the grain could be threshed and graded, re jected or used for feed for stock. Dur ing the night, however, heavy rains set in all over the North country which changed to snow at 10 o'clock Huh morn ing and is still failing. Tin storm ex tends as fur south as Minneapolis to night, and all threshing operations are suspended and will not lo resinned be fore next week, even if there is no more rain or snow. Mill and elevator men declare tonight that front three to live million bushels of wheat will be utterly ruined. Oregon's Financial Condition, The fact that tho state treasurer is now indorsing all warrants drawn on the general fund, "Not paid for want of funds," has elicited considerable inquiry as to the financial condition of the state. State Treasurer Motchuni said that the state Injard which made the levy of taxes for this year met just prior to tho legisla ture and levied a sitllicient Mint to meet the current expenses of tho state for I8'.H, estimating ou the suiiio basis us IMKI, but the legislative assembly made greatly increased appropriations and large stuns were noon asked for, for which no provision had been uiaile hi tin estimate. Ah a natural consequence tho funds have lieeti exhausted. The total amount received into the gcncrril fund this year, including the balance turned over, in a Unit t.VIO.OOO, which has been paid nut on wurrantx since Jauuury I. Htuto warrants me eugerly sought at their face value, showing the Hiiindiiin- of the state's llnuurlul condi tion. Tlit'le In lio alutti liidtblidiiitH, tin lumbal debt un hut ( WW), ami oiiUluudlng warrant othwr (Jjuii llioo nl I Ida ytKir, wlily (700 TL bus! IjU iU'Hii&i u 'a in- iimsJ til UiU ultitw. WASHINGTON. Our Weekly Letter From the Xatioim! Capital. CUSTOM COLLECTION DISTRICTS. The Speakership Contest at a Standstill A Methodist Conference In Session. ASHi.viiTo.v, October !, IM1. Editor Okkuux Scout: Secretary Foster was a sticessful business man before ho ever entered politics; therefore when he tells the public, as ho did in an interview with a committee of merchants from New York, that there are at least fifty cus tom collection districts in tho United States that cculd bo abolished without detriment to the public service and at an annual saving of several hundred thousand dollars, were it not for the opposition of tho politicians, his words arc worthy of tho most careful consid eration on tho part of tho people, who aro already beginning to realize that they aro the masters, not tho servants, of tho politicians. Mr. Foster is a good deal of a politiaian himself now, but it was tho business man, not the politician, who spoke when ho told of this absolute and unnecessary waste of public money, simply to provide pat ronage to bo disposed of by politicians. He said of tho districts which ought to bo abolished : "More than a scoro of theso districts aro in New England alone. Out of fourteen districts in Maine, but four are really necessary. Massachusetts has eleven, and of these all but three ought to bo abolished." That is plain language about his own department, and ho was equally plain in replying to tho question asked by ono of tho merchants, "why aro they not abolished, thou?" Ifosaid: "Re cause the politicians will not allow it to be done.TrTho abolishing of thoso districts means the abolition of just so much patronage, and representatives and senators aro more interested in increasing than decreasing patronage." What an indictment that is 'against congress. This is tho second time that Mr. Foster has dropped tho rolo of politician long enough to call atten tion to useless offices connected with the treasury department. It is a very unusual thing for the head of a depart ment to do, ami something ought to be done to save the people's money. Rut will congress do it? Senator Call, of California, appears to be confident that he will win in the contest for a term in the senate, not withstanding the action of tho govern or of the state in retusing to sign his credentials, and in appointing ex-Representative Davidson to fill the vacan cy, which ho claims exists by reason of tho failure of the legislature to legal ly elect a senator. Mr. Call bases his confidence upon an act which was in troduced in congress in 188(5 by Rov crdy Johnson, which says that a majority of both branches of a legisla ture acting as ono body may elect a U.S. senator. Ho claims that eight similar cases furnish precedents in his favor. Tho senate committee on elec tions, of which Senator Hoar is chair man, will really decide tho contest, as tho report it makes after investigating will almost certainly ho adopted by tho senate, and as a majority of the com mittee are republicans and both of tho contestants democrats, there will bo no political complications in tho case, which promises to bo decided 60lcly on its merits. The speakership campaign is prac tically at a stand still, as thoso mem bers yet unpledged and there area good many of thorn prefer waiting to see tho result of tho state elections next mouth before committing them selves. At first glance this may look queer, and one not used to going be low tho political surface might ask, "what have the results of tho stato elections to do with tho speaker of the house'" Hut thofto who aro familiar with tho undercurrents of things po litical know that upon tho result of tliu state elections depends tho fate of ono of tho loading candidate for speaker, mid every ony of the candi date will ho aflccted one way or tho oilier. For Illinium, the fourteen doritoyrutlo uoiiHiimniun front Nuvy ItDUluml Iimvo formally ilttulilwl nut lu flfliuiuH UiuiiisuJvM lii tow of my uiiiiiIii(u until uftui tliu Main iilao- tiom. All of the uncommitted ml to go to the side of the wintv i . tin they recognize tho fact that it will ! easier to pick the winner aft r tl.i result of the state elections is L,. ur. Away back in the days "Im ! -h l wnh" the negroes used to sing at tlar church meeting a hymn with a r -frnin something like this: 'Top a Meth'dix' born and n Meth'dK i - An' a Meth'dIV t il bo till I'm; dead, ' that ought to bo iopulitr hen th -woek, owing to tho presence oi -. many Methodists from all parts tin j world in attendance upon the Kei- monical conference of all tho braucht -of that largo denomination, which opened on Wednesday, and which to last two weeks. Wednesday night a Washington banker gave a recep tion to tho delegates which is taid to have eclipsed a similar entertainment given to the last conference, ten years ago, by the Lord Mayor of London. The presence of Mrs. Cheney as a guest at tho White House has given tho rumor a fresh start that ex-Governor Cheney, of Now Hampshire, is to be secretary of war. J. H. C. A BIO SUIT. The 0. & W. T. R. R. Co. Made Defendant in a Proceeding for the Collection of $4,000,000. The Farmers' Loan & Trust Com pany of Now York have commenced action to foreclose mortgages aggre gating somothing over $1,000,000 against the O. fc W. T. Itailroad Com pany. Tho suit was.begun last week in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Oregon, and service was had on the l.'lth inst. upon the defend ant company's attorney, C. II. Carter, Deputy U.S. Marshal Gregg of Port land visiting Pendleton for the pur pose. Tho plaintiff company holds tho mortgagees its trustee, to secure the bonds of the defendant company which havo been issued. The suit is undoubtedly the largest ever brought in Oregon courts, and will doubtless bo the means of deter mining tho truo ownership of the (). it W. T. railroad. It is stated that mere ly the real estate of the company, and not its rolling stock, is covered by the mortgage. The complaint prays for a decree of foreclosure and for tho appointment of a receiver. The defendant company havo filed no answer and as yet the action they will take is problematical. They havo always' been in a state of financial difficulty, which is increased by the suit, and it is believed in thb instance if rescued at all from collapse tho Northern Pacific will be thn saviour. At present, it is understood, the Northern Pacific is not tho owner of the road, as has been oltcu believed, Railroad In Luck. It is said that tho decision of Judge Caldwell in. tho North Pacific case is worth from $15,000,000 to f-JO.OOO.OOO to tht railroad, although on the main issue, as to taxation of the lands, the decision gives them a clear title to all the land within their grant not known to con tain minerals at time of filing maps of the definite location of the road. The interior department has hitherto refused to patent these lands until the railroad should produce proof that the lands did not contain minerals. .Manv thousand acres of laud in Montana, Idaho ami Washington, upon which gold, silver ami copper have been dis covered since the filing of the maps of location, and which the interior depart ment held, were not included in the grant, am by Judge Caldwull's decision declared to Im the property of the rail road, not only the laud but the mineral uh well. The value of the railroad taxes involved in Judge Caldwell's decision for the twelve counties interortcd will be about $100,000. A Nightmare, Have you ever Imvii visited by that frisky and uncomfortable animal, called a nightmare? Have you ever htul it climb ti m tn the I ail while you were asleep and go through a lively perform auce which would make a fortune for the proprietor of a circus? You never can tell just when this nocturnal steed will make its appearance, but you tue abso lutely safe from it If you happen to lie rejMislna on ouo of K I'. MIMer'n new UiUlimd, which ure unMirpiiK-M In qlialltf and price. II. II. Ihovvn U Kiillhikf m'ImmiI Uiba itt Portland pili tM tijul I tflviiiy anas a M uf IwuiJjssuiJi' idjuiiji' mnl 1 1 I'Mi'li Ijoyk bmIiI, I'mU ii)y utulwri I'lmh'wsl auk liM?m