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o The Oregon Scout. 3 , VOL. II. UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 1H, 188G. NO. 37. r Tim OREGON SCOUT. An Independent weekly Journal, issued ovo y Bnturdajr by JONES & CHANCEY, Publishers ana Proprietors. A. K. Jones, I Editor. ) 1 II. CltANCKV, I Foreman. IIaTKSOF SUUSCHIITION: One copy, nno year II M " " Six months 1 (X) " " Thrco months Tii Invariably cnf.li In advance. If by any clinnco subscriptions aro not paid till end of year, two dolltira will bo charged. lUitcsof iu!vcrtl8li)?-made known on appli cation. Correspondence from all parts of tlio county solicited. Address all communications to A. K. Jones, Editor Oregon t-cout, rnlon, Or. Loristc Directory. GitANn Monde Vai.i.ky Loixik, No. no, A. F. and A. M. Meets on tlio second nnd fourth Saturdays or each month. O. F.IIkix, W.M. C. E. Davis, Secretary. Union I,oior, No. UK I. 0. O. F. IteK'ilar meetings on Friday dvenlnjrs of each week at their hall in Union. All brethren in good standing aro invited to attend. Ily order of the lodpo. S. V.Lo.Ml, N. 0. (i. A. Thompson, Secy. Church Illrectory. 51. K. Ciiuitcn Divine sorvlco every Sunday at 11 a. m nn17 p. m. Sunday school at 3 p. m. l'rayer meeting every Thursday evening at(i:). Jtr.v. Watson, Pastor. PitBKnvTEiiiAN CinTitcii KcKiilar church services every Sabbath mornlnsr and evening. Prnyer meeting each week on Wednesday evening. Sabbath school every Sabbath at 10 a. in. llev. II. Vr.itxo.v Hick, Pnstor. St. John's Episcopal Council Sorvico every Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. ltuv. W. It. Powell, Hector. County Ofllccr. Judpe A. C. Cralfr Sheriff A. I,. Saunders Clerk 11. F. Wilson rTfnGnrnii A It1 HiinQnti School Superintendent. J. L. Hlndinmi Surveyor E. Plmonls Cnmnn- I? II Ininlo ......... LJ HI UV COMMISSIOXUHS. Oco. Acklcs Jno. Stanley Stato Senator L. II. Itlnchart ItW'HKSENTATlVKS. F.T.Dlcit E. E.Taylor City Olllccr. Mayor I). II. Hccs COUNCII.MHtf. S. A.Pursol W. D. IIoMIoman J.S. Elliott J. 11. Thomnson .Ino. Kenned v A. Levy Itecordor M. F. Davis Marshal E. E.Cates Treasurer J. J). Carroll Street Commissioner L. Eaton Departure or Train. Hemilar cast bound trains lcavo nt 0:80a. m. West bound trains leave at 4:20 p. m. rilOFHSSIONAI. J. K. CRITES, ATJ'tnWKV AT I-AW. Collecting and probate practlco specialties Olllce, two doois south of 1'ostoflice, Union, Oregon. It. EAKIN, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Office, ono door south of J. II. Eaton's storo Union, Oregon. J. N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Office, ono door south ot .1. II. Eaton's store. Union, Oregon. A. E. SCOTT, M. 1)., i'iivmician aivi ;si:ksi:o:v, Has permanently located at North Powdor, where ho will answer all calls. T. II. CRAWFORD, ATTOKNISY A'l' IAW, Union, - - - Oregon. D. Y. K. DEEMING, lliyHl:iuit mill Surgeon, Union, Oregon. Offlco, Main Etrect, ncxtdoorto Jones Bros.' variety storo. ltesldenco. Main Btrcot, second house south ot court house. Chronfodlseusoj a specialty. D. 11. REES, Notary Public -AND- Conveyancer. OFFICE Stato Land Oflico building, Union, Union County, Oregon. H. F. BURLEIGH, Attorney at I.tnr, Heal KntnUi and CoIIcc-IIur; Agent. Land Oflicc Business a Specialty. Offlco at Alder, Union Co., Oregon. JKSSK IIAHDK8TY, J. W. 61IKLT0.N SHELTON & HARDEST!, ATTOItNHYN AT IiAW. Will practice in Union, linker, Grant, Umatilla anil Morrow Counties ulsn in tho Supremo Court of Oregon, the District. Circuit nnd Buprcjne Courtn ol the United Btutcs. Mining and Corporation business a spe tialty. Oilice in Union, Oregon. GOULD'S UNEASY LIFE. The Railroad Magnate Said To Be Afraid to Ride Over His Own Road. Private Detectives Constantly in His Em ployt One Being Always at His Call. Why Ho Is Fond ofllis Yuclit. A Charleston correspomlont of The New York Times writes: When Jay Gould recently hurried down hero by rail to go on board his yacht for a win ter's sail through southern waters ho brought, beside Ids family and Ids doc tor, another guest, a man of retiring manner, who was never seen with tho excursionists; but who was, for all that, in Mr. Gould's estimation, an important member of tho traveling party. This man of tho retiring manner, was a pri vate detective, a doughty, middle-aged fellow of experience, who draws a year ly salary out of Jay Gould's till. He is the employe of a New York detective agency, whoso chief patronage is said tr conic from Gould, who iinds ample for a big stall' of such oilicers. They Serve him not only in personal matters, but look out as well for certain delicate affairs that it is well for Gould to have clearly in sight in tho management of the various corporations where ho has large financial interests. Newspapers down here, as elsewhere, within the lastfow years, have frequent ly reported Jay Gould when for a time leaving New York as oft' oil a tour over his southern and southwestern roads. The truth is that Jay Gould for years has not dared to make such a journey. There arc miles and miles of railroad governed bv Gould over which he could not be tempted to ride. His life would bo in danger there, and ho knows it. Ho knows where ho is safo and when he is safe; it is to tell him this that he spends thousands of dollars yearly upon private detectives whose reports aro made to him weekly in tho same con cise form that ho requires from the bookkeeper who attends to his personal balance sheet. Gould it is said, began to employ pri vate detectives extensively a half dozen years ago, when by some mean? ho dis covered a plot that had been mado by dissatisfied spirits on tho lino of tho Wabash railroad to wreck a special train on which ho was preparing to make an inspection trip with Russell Sage. A man who knows Gould well says that his detectives cost him more than the clerks in his New York oilices. Ho never makes a journey, even tho shortest, nowadays without lirst send ing his scouts on ahead to discover if any obstacles aro likely to bo encoun tered. A corps of these detectives aro kept constantly traveling up and down such lines as the Wabash, Missouri Pacific, Texas Pacific, and tho Missouri, Kansas and Texas. No criticisms aro openly uttered, no tltreats made, no or ganizations formed that aro not prompt ly reported to him. Twice within the past year and a half Gould made ready to run his special car over his remoter roads, but in each instance, it is said, lie was advised by his agents not to at tempt tho experiment, and in deference to tho opinions of these detectives he both times abandoned his purpose. People at tho north who have been startled and angered at his open and notorious purchase of legisltaures and courts of justice are still without ade quate idea of tho hatred borne this man along tho distant lines of railroads whose policy he dictates and whoso em ployes ho rules, Mutterings of discon tent have been heard, and tho ven geance vowed by hundreds of men is still theii purpose. It isn't idle talk to say that tho wickedest deed against oven the lifo of Gould would bo excused, and oven justified, by multitudes who see in him only a sordid and cruel taskmakcr, sounding armies of men to death for his own gain. Tho reports of tho detec tives havo been startling information to Gould. For a time, it is said he disbe lieved 6vcn tho news they sent him, but other men dispatched to tho samo terri tory furnished him precisely tho samo tidings, and ho was perforco obliged to recognizo tho truth of how deadly a hato was borne him. Month by month the same story has been sent to him. If he has ever done anything to bring about a change in tho sentiments of these peo ple who aro his own enemies, nobody has over heard any hint of it. Tho bad teeling along his roads has increased continually instead of lessening. Dis patches wcro latoly sent from this city representing that he had changed his plans so far for this winter as to decido to givo up his yat citing trip and go an inspection tour over tho Southern Paci fic lines. For tho very reasons that have been indicated already this report was untrue, Ho had no thought of making a Southern Pacific trip. Tho statement that he had was used only for n peg to hang a stock-jobbing scheme upon. An entertaining story is tohl of how on one occasion Gould overreached him self in a rather embarrassing fashion in his use of privato detectives. A man well known in Wall street had incurred Gould's enmity, and the unscrupulous magnate was determined to break that man down. Plans were laid carefully, but for some reason they miscarried. The man marked for financial extermi nation discovered what was going on before the end of the game, and prepar ed to defend himself. Anxious to know just how far the campaign against him had progressed, lie applied to a privato detective agency for a reliable man to make certain investigations. Tho man was supplied one of tho very men actively engaged in serving Jay Gould in this very case. This was a little moral lapse not remarkable in tho his tory of some private detective agencies. Gould of course was promptly notified of the now move, anil naturally ho was delighted at the spectacle of having his enemy placed so readily within his grasp. Gould, it is believed, practically wrote the reports which tho detective made . 'y to the new client, and tho prettiest sort of a trap was set for him. Little by little circumstances were arranged to lead up to the grand denouement, anil all was in readiness for the slaughter, when ono day tho detective called upon the victim with an explanation of how lie coidd badly embarrass Gould by a certain stock speculating transaction. It was a pretty story; it bore all the evi dences of fact; Gould, so the detective said he had discovered, had suddenly become a big customer of a well-known Wall street linn, and was so placed that he could be badly squeezed if one or two hundred thousand dollars should be plunged into the market all at once against him. So thorough had been tho detective's investigation, lie explained, that ho had even been able to get into his possession tho originals of the orders sent by Gould to his brokers. It was a decided temptation. Two or three hundred thousand dollars was a big lot of money, tho greater part of this man's fortune but surely there could bo little danger, ho argued, so confident was lie that he was receiving correct and trustworthy information. And llicro was Jay Gould's own hand writing on his own note-heads; what stronger or belter evidence could bo asked? There was only ono thing that bothered him. Tho brokerage firm named as Gould's representative? ho had never supposed were mixod up with Gould in any way, for ono of the partners was his victim's nephew or cousin. But tho detective went away to carry news to his millionaire, employer that tho device had taken anil that suc cess was sure. Of course, the specula tor, elated by the prospect, hastened to complete his plan, and instead of doing what he had been represented as doing he put out a big lino of stocks directly on the opposite side of the market, so that as soon as the victim made his first nibble at the bait he could bo landed high and dry on the shore of bankrupt cy. But tho victim went to ceo his cousin, for hp couldn't find it in his heart to hurt his relative while ho was punishing Gould. Tho cousin sur prised him, enlightened him -told hirn that the detective had been deliberately lying to him, old Gould had not then and nover had an account in that brok erage oflicc. Tho victim said nothing. There was a hole in tho millstone, and ho saw through it. Gould was outwit ted. Tho victim declined to ba victim ized. The snare that had been set had caught no gamo save that on its re bound it caught the very man who had set it, and Jay Gould lost a big pile of money by his over-smartness. Yet but that an accidental naming of tho wrong firm led to his punishment, his game with tho holp of tho private dolectivo's fcrviea would havo worked to his heart's content. "Wanted Him. Tho general superintendent of a great railroad was sitting in his oflico when it well dressed man entered. 'This tho superintendent?" "Yes." "Glad to see you, sir. My name is Balkers and I want a job." "In what department?" "Wanta position as conductor of a passenger train." "Do you understand your business?" "Try mo once?" "I suppose you would turn in every cent that belonged to tho company?" "No, sir, but I'd whack up." "About how much would you take per day?" "Owing to business." You'd always mako it a point to bring in some little money, wouldn't yoa?" Woll, I'd help myself first and then" "My friend," said the superintendent, "I want you. You have told me tho first truth that I havo heard foryuari." THE TWIN NATIONS. Proposed Measures for Closer Relations Between Canada and the United States. Tim Advantages To Be Derived from Commercial Union and Identical Tariffs. Mutual Interests. The Toronto Week, says: In placo of a reciprocity treaty, Mr. Wharton Bar ker proposes the larger and more stable measure of commercial union on tho footing of a common tariff for both countries, and a division of tho receipts front customs on the basis of population, or any other basis that might bo deem ed equitable. Should the arrangements seem likely to bo attended with loss of revenue to Canada, ho would proposo to guarantee to her a sum equal to her present receipts for a certain number of years. Entire freedom of trade with mutual services and benefits would then prevail through this northern continent. The fisheries question, now tho puzzle anil plaguo of diplomacy, would bo at once and forever solved. Tho admis sion of Canadian shipping to tho Amer ican coasting trade would, as Mr. Barker suggests, naturally follow; and as the people of the southern states do not take much to the sea, tho maritime provinces of Canada would be likely to supply shipping both for tho coasting trado and for that trade with the West Indies which is no.w largely ttansacted in European bottoms. To the special industry of tho mnritimo provinces a i. great stimulus could not fail to bo given. Commercial union would, of course, involve equalization of tariffs; but in this there would be no great difficulty, the Canadian tariff being what it now is, and tho disposition in tho United Slates, as tho necessity for revenuo decreases with tho national debt, being toward gradual reduction. It would also be necessary to equalize tho excise; otherwise, tho custom-house line being removed, thero would bo contraband exportation from the country in which the excise was lower to the country in which it was higher. But tho difference between the Canadian and American ex cise, again, is not so great as to present a serious obstacle to adjustment. That it would bo an immense benefit to the people of Canada to be freely ad mitted to the markets of their own con tinent, freely to share its resources, to havo its capital freely circulating imong tliein, and freely to participate in its commercial life, will hardly bo denied by anybody who has not somo personal interest, real or fancied, in maintaining the contrary. Certainly it can not bo denied by any Canadian stutosman who has had a hand in recip rocity. In their present stato of com mercial isolation tho people of Canada can never enjoy tho fair earnings of their labor, any moro than could the people of any other territory destined by nature to form part of an economical ivholo with tho adjacent territory, if it ivcrocut off by a customs lino from tho rest. As a district of England or France, with a population of 1,500,000, would be if severed from tho country to which it belongs, so is Canada commer cially sovered from her own continont. Wo have already a monetary union with tho States; for every purposo exi copt payments to government tho American currency passes hero as freely as it docs on the other side of tho lino. Tho image and superscription on tlio coin wcro appealed to as tho test of uo litical jurisdiction and they aro a proof not less conclusive of economical con nection. Thero aro those who, not perhaps without n political bias, contend that our natural trado is "lateral," or along tho parallels of latitude. Whether they are right or not will bo seen when both courses aro aliko open. Freedom of trado willi tho United Slates will not prevent our exportation of grain and cattle to England. If tho best price for tho wheat of tho northwest is to bo got by Bending it to England along tho the north shoro of Lako Superior to England and along tho north shoro of Lako Superior it will continue to bo sent. Between tho different provinces of the Dominion thero is scarcoly any natural trado. All hopes of commercial advan tage to bo derived from confederation from tho people of tho mnritimo prov inces havo Imjoii disappointed. Tho at tempt to force Ontario to burn Nova Scotian coal by laying a tax on her sup ply from the States has failed. Between old Canada and tho northwest such trado as exists is not natural, but forced by means of a tariff constructed, like everything else connected with tho administration of tho northwest, for a political purpose, und not for tho mate rial benefit of tho people; nor la this ar tificial urrangement likely to endure be yond tho political patronugo of tho provinces which aro its victims. That political railroads, run through a lino of territories which have no interest in common, fail to produce commercial unity, tho in tereonlonial road bears melancholy wit ness. Troops may bo conveyed along such lines, or munitions may bo for warded to imperial w;ars on the Pacific, but commerce takes little heed of their existence. Of tho four entirely sepa rate territories of which the Dominion is made up that is to say, the mari time provinces, Canada, French and British, the Northwest, and British Columbia each is commercially con nected, not with its political partners, but with tho adjoining states of tlio union; and squander the earnings of tho people in resisting nature as you will, her ordinance will at last prevail. It is unnecessary hero to debate the question between five trade and protec tion. There may bu a rational differ ence of opinion a.s to tho respective ad vantages of the two systems in the case of a country like tho United States, which is in fact, a continent, reaching from regions almost arctic to regions almost tropical, embracing in itself al most every variety of production, and inhabited by lif,y or sixty millions. There can bo no rational difl'oreueo of opinion as to the inexpediency of ap plying protection to a country situated entirely in a high lattitude, with a very limited range of production, and a pop ulation under 5,000,000. Forcing man ufactures into existence in a district de void of coal, within easy nvngo of dis tricts abounding in coal and provided with all industrial advantages, is a pol icy tlio results of which might havo been easily foreseen. We know now that it was pressed upon the government by the political inlluencc of tho manufact uring interest, rather than adopted on commercial grounds. Tho effect is manifest. Canada, instead of being cheap, is fast becoming a dear country to live in, and will presently bo shunned by people of moderate moans. That thero is a perpetual exodus into tlio States is certain, whether tlio statistics havo been accurately taken or not. Somo things there are, such as first rate printing presses, which a country affording but a small market for very expensive articles is unable to produce for itself. It is, perhaps, not a matter of first-rilo importance, but it is indica tive of our false commercial position, that a good book storo can with dif ficulty exist in this country, tho book seller being unablo himself to keep all tho now books in stock, and being cut off by tho custom" lino from his natural center of distribution at Now York. Unwise as many of us think was tho policy of the government in artificially stimulating the growth of manufactures here, tho interest thus created by the act of tho state has a title to equitable consideration. Behind a tariff adjusted to that of the United States, and sup ported by the cognate interest among tho Americans, Canadian manufactur ers would still be sheltered from Euro pean competition; and, considering the fatal hollowness of the ground on which they at present stand, and their liability to lose all by a sudden ehango In the balance of parties, they would surely ba gainers by tho arrangement. Protec tionism, as 1 believe, is not destined anywhero to livo forever; it will bo in great peril as soon as tho workman clearly perceives that what ho gains in tho nominal rates of wages is moro than lost in their purchasing poworjbut its longest respite from death seems liKely to bo under tho t a rift' of tlio United States, becauso it is thero that, from tho vastnoss of tho territory and tlio variety of its productions, tlio evils of tho system aro least felt. Tho general benefits of commercial union to both countries especially to ours, can hardly bo called in question. What is thero to bo said on tho other side? Nothing, except thnt commercial union might bring with it political an nexation. I believe, and rojoico in tho belief, that tho schism between tho two portions of tlio English-speaking popu lation of this continent, whiolt I regard as tho grcatost misfortune of our raco, will somo day bo entirely healed, and thoy will again becomo ono peoplo, united in kindly feeling toward tho his toric parent of us all, who will herself, as I am firmly convinced, bo a great gainer by exchanging the nominal pos session of a distant dependency, which can givo her no military holp and does not even afford her an open market, for a cordial alliance with tho whole conti nent and tho friendly voto of Canada In its councils. This I frankly avow, and my conviction is daily strengthened by what I sco on tlio one hand, of our in creasing connection, social und commer cial, with tho United States, and, on tho other, of tho difficulties of amalgamat ing French with British Canada, and blending this straggling lino of prov inces in a nation. But it has always appeared to me that tho political and commercial questions woro porfoctly diMinet, nor can I see why any change in political relations .should necessarily follow from the mere abolition of tin customs line. A nationality would, in deed be weak, and its lifts would lx worth scarcely a twelve months' pur chase if a customs line were the sole security for its existence. Reci procity did not weaken the politie.il bar rier; why then, should commercial un ion, which is merely u complete meas ure of reciprocity, break it down? If anything, commercial union, by remov ing the obstacles to material prosperity, and thus rendering the peoplo content with tho present political system, seems likely to diminish the temptation to change. Canada would remain abso lutely mistress of her own politic.il des tinies. How can a nation, if it is true to itself, desire more? Living a Century. Polly Wilcox, of Hope Valley, H. I., has just celebrated her centennial birth dav. llarrisonvillc, N. J boasts of two centenarians, Bartholomew Coles ane Michael Potter. Christopher Mann, of Independence, Mo., died recently aged 111 years. Ho was born in Virginia in 177-1. Itenjamin W. Bowdie's old slave, Na than, died recently at his homo in Talbot county, Mississippi, aged 107 years. After living a century, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas was killed recently while walk ing on tlio railroad track at Heading, Pa. William Waterman, aged 109, lives at Oshkosh. lie is a Methodist, lie user liquor and tobacco, and finds no fault with this world. Among the celebrants of the ono hun dredth birthdiwof Jane Wilson, of Edge worth, Me., were her sister, aged ill, and her threu daughters, the eldest 81 years of age. Probably the oldest minister in tho world is Thomas Tenant, of Vineyard township, Arkansas. He was born in 177. Ho is an itinerant Methodist preacher. At Wilson Creek, N. C, Mrs. Susan Phillips died recently just as she was closing a century of life. She had thir teen children, sixty-throo grandchildren, and sixty great-grandchildren. Ono of tho most forcible and cfi'uctivo shoutors in the Methodist church ol Brown's bridge, Forsyth county, Ga., is old Auntie Seroggins, who has enjoyed religion for 91 years, and is-now 101 years old. Rosalinda Curtis.), an actress o Verona, lias just completed a century oi life. At the one hundredth anniversary of her birth she offered (o recite at an actor's benefit porformancu'. Shu remit :us well as over without spectacles, Sarcastio Washingtonians. Sartirists are poking sharp sticks at tho hangers-on to Washington society for having announced that they had postponed dinners, receptions or tea parties on account of tho death of "poor, dear Miss Bayard." Somo of those who gavo notice in tho papers that their en tertainments wcro postponed have nover crossed the Bayard threshold, eitliet hero or at Wilmington, and others, who only enjoyed a bowing acquaintance with tho deceased, matlo ridiculous dis plays of their grief. Ono lady, who is somewhat famed for her bad English and her good punch, is said to have re marked at her last rccoptiou: "Try a glass of punch, my dear. It's only claret to-day, without any rum in it- tho Bayards, you know." Sen: Pcrley Poorc in lioston Budget. A Slight Oversight "Soo hero," said the managing editor to a head liner employed on tho papor, "haven't you matlo a mlstako in tho heading to that artielo?" "How so?" inquired tho youth anx iously. "You say that tho members of con gress will attend a 'horse circus.' Tho word 'horso' is superfluous, is it npt? All circuses are horse circuses, I be lieve " "You think, sir, it would havo been better to have omitted the word 'horso'?" "Decidedly." "It would havo boon all right then?" '0 yes." "But tho proof reader Is to blame. I wrote it 'house caucus.' " "Oh!" Drake's Traveler's Magazine No Harm Done. Mrs. Fogg I declare! it's outrage ous! Mr. Spread, tho editor of The Clarion, says ho is going to havo your picture in his paper to-morrow morn ing, with your biography. It's' an out rage, that's what I call it au outrage! Mr. Fogg Oh, don't got excited, my dear. Nobody'll ever recognizo the picture as my portrait. Mrs. Fogg But they'll know it U yours whon they road tho biography. Mr. Fogg Peoplo who know liow to read novor bother theiiHolviw ove'f illus trated uuwspapor article. Tramcript, a