The Oregon Scout
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VOL. II.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1880.
NO, 49.
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THE OREGON SCOUT.
An independent wcokiv journal, issued ovo y
ouiuruuy uy
JONES & CHANCEY,
Publishers and Proprietors,
A. If.
.Tone?. I
Editor, f
J B. CltANCET,
I ioremnn,
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Address all communications to A. K. Jones,
Editor Oregon Scout, Union, Or.
Iitxlgo Director.
Guard Roxnn Valley Lodge, No. 50. A. F.
and A. M. Moots on tho second and fourth
Saturdays of each month.
O.F.Bell, W.M.
C. E. Davis, Secretary.
Union Loixik, No. 39, I. O. O. P. Regular
meetings on Friday evenings of each week at
their hall in Union. All brethren in good
standing aro iuvltod to attond. Uy order of
tho lodge. 8. W. Lo.NO, N. G.
G. A. Thompson, Secy.
Clmrrli Directory.
M. E. Ciinnrn DIvino sorvlco every Sunday
at II a. m nnu 7 p. in. bununy school at ;i t
m. Prayer ineoting every Thursday evening
atu:uu. hkv. watson, rastor.
PliESUYTEiiiAN Cmmcii Regular church
services every Sabbath morning and evening.
Prayer meeting each wcok on Wednesday
evening. Sabbath school every Sabbath at
10 a. m. Rev. H. Vehnon Rice, Pastor.
St. John's Episcopal Cnuncn Service
every Sunday nt 11 o'clock a. m.
Rev. W. h. I'owell, Rector.
County Olllccr.
Judge A. C. Craig
Sheriff A. Ii. Saunders
Clerk li. v. Wilson
Treasurer A. F. Benson
School Superintendent J. L. Hlndman
Surveyor E. Simonls
Coroner E. II. Lewis
COMMISSIONERS.
Geo. Aokles Jno. Stanloy
Stato Senator L. B. Rinchart
REPRESENTATIVES.
F.T.Dick E. E. Taylor
City oniccm.
Mayor
.D. B. Roes
COUNCIEMEN.
w.
P. A. Pursol
D. Bo'dloman
B. Tliomnson
J.S. Elliott
Jno. Kennedy
Recorder ,
Marshal
Treasurer
8troot Commissioner
A. Lovy
M. F. Davis
K. E. ates
J. D. Carroll
L. Eatou
Departure of Train.
Regular cast bound trains loavo t 9:30a.
m. West bound trains leavo at 4:20 p. m.
l'JtOFCSSIONAIi.
J. R. CKITES,
ATTOKIVEY AT I.A1V.
Collecting and probato practice specialties
Ofllco, two doors south of Postofllce, Union,
Oregon.
R. EAKIN,
Attorney at Law and Notary Public.
Office, ono door south of J. B. Eaton's storo
Union, OroifOn.
I. N. CROMWELL, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon
OfBco, ono door south ot J. B. Eaton's storo,
Union, Oregou.
A. E. SCOTT, M. D
PHYSICIAN AIVI) S8J8C; !:,
Has permanently located at North Powdor,
wheroho will answer all calls.
T. II. CRAWFORD,
ATTORNEY AT liAAV,
Union, - Oregon.
M. Baker. J. F. Bakeh.
BAKER & BAKER,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
AND
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
LaGkande, - - Okegox.
D. B. REES,
Public
Notary
-AXD-
Conveyancer.
OFFICE State Land Office building,
Union, Union County, Oregon.
II. F. BURLEIGH,
Attorney at Law,
and Collecting
Real i:into
: Agent.
Land Office Business a Specialty.
Office at Alder, Union Co., Oregon.
JEBSE IIAItDrSTr,
J. W. 6IIELTON
SHELTON & HARDEST!,
AXTOKIVKYS AT liAW.
Will practice in Union, Baker, Grant,
Umatilla and Morrow Counties, also in the
Supreme Court of Oregon, the District,
Circuit and Supreme Courts of the United
A. A
Mining and Corporation businea a spe-
cialty.
J
Office in Union, Oregon.
J. W. STRANGE,
OFFICE Corner
Union, Oregon.
Main and A Streets,
All work
reasonable
strictly first-class. Charges
A. L. COBB, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN ADD
Having perinnncutly located in Alder,
Union county, Oregon, will bo found ready
to attend to calls in nil tho various towns
and settlements ol tho Wallowa valley.
Chronic lMscnst'N il Specialty.
PBMy motto is: "Live and let live."
DEP0TJ10TEL
A. C. CRAIG, - - Proprietor.
(Union Depot, Oregon.)
cplenuiu accommodations lor commer
cial men. Tables alwnyH supplied with tho
best the market alionls.
&0IIot and Cold Minkiial BathsHS
KENTUCKY LIQUOR STORE
AII SOJA JFACTOKY.
Cor, Main nnd I Sts., - Union, Oregou
SJIKKITI.l.N AiltlliKV, I'rop.
Manufacturers and dealers in Soda
Water, Sursupiirilln, Ginger Ale, Cream
Soda and Champagne Cider, Syrups, etc.
Orders promptly Idled.
Daily Stage Line
From Union to ths Cove.
J. S. Elliott,
PiiorniETon
Leaves Union at l0:;!0 a. in., nnd re
turns at 2:110 p.m. every day except Sunday
Faro from depot to Cove
liround trip ?1 U.r
Passengers will bo t alien from tho depot
through to Cove via Union.
W. R. JOHNSON,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Main Street, Union, Oregon.
Finns nnd Specifications for Dwellings,
Horns nnd Bridges furnished FULL Ol
CHARGE.
Bridge Building a Specialty-
All kinds of Cabinet Work neatly execu
ted. Repairing done on short notice.
Xono but tho best workmen employed,
and satisfaction guaranteed.
Call and interview me.
FRUIT AND SHADE
APPLE, PEAR, PLUM, PRUNE, PEACH,
APRICOT, CRAHAPPLE, CHERRY.
SHRUBBERY AND SHADE TREES
Of well known varieties, suitable for this
climate. Can also furnish foreign sorts at
one-third tho price asked by eastern can
vassers. I (lesiro to sell trees nt prices
that people can afford to liny.
L. .1. ROUSE,
Cove, Oregon.
Or. Van Monciscar
132-134 TIM tat, Portland, Oregon
TS a regular graduate in medicine; has
been longer engaged in tlio special treat
ment ol all Venereal, Sexual and Chronic
Diseases than any other physician in the
West, as city papers show, and old resi
dents know; SI, 000 reward for any case
which ho fails to cure, coming under hia
treatment, by following his directions,
DU. VAN is the most successful Catarrh,
Lung and Throat Doctor in America. lie
will tell you your troublo without asking
you a sinslo question, and WAKHANTd
'PEUMANENTCI'IIH in tho followingcuBea:
NERVOUS DEBILITY, Spermatorrhum,
Seminal Losses, Sexual Decay, Failing
Memory, Weak Eyes, Stunted Develop
mont, Lack of Energy, Impoverished
Hlood, Pimples, Impediment to Marriage;
nlso Blood nnd Skin Diseases, Syphilis,
Eruptions, Hnir Fulling, llonu Pains, Swell
ings, Soro Throat, Ulcers, Effects of Mer
cury, Kidney and Jlladdcr Troubles, Weak
Hack, Burning Urine, Incontinence, Gouor-ha-n,
Gleet, Stricture, reeoives searching
treatment, prompt relief nnd cure for liTo.
NERVOUS Diseases (with or without
dreams), DUcnueddischnrgescured prompt
ly without hindrance to busiuoM.-i.
BOTH SEXES consult confidentially. If
in trouble call or write. Delays are dang-
crou.
DiHcarcs of tho Eye or Ear, Ulceration or
Catarrh, internal or external, Deafness or
Paralysis, Singing or Itoailng NoImos,
Thickened Drum, etc., permanently cured.
LOST MANHOOD perfectly restored.
CANCEUS AND TUMORS permanently
removed without tlio knife or caustic.
.Medicine compounded and furnished to
all patients at odice strictly pureand vege
table. GunranUo of i'cuiunknt cures in
all ca?ea undertaken. Consultation free
and strictly coullduntliil. All coriespon-
uB..cu prompuy anu . .00 1 n.u.,.tu. ,.v
by express to any address tree from expos- .
ure. Call or oddros Private Dispensary, I
Nos. 132-134 Third St.. Portland. Oregon. I
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I T.ina utl.tl AflUa liniiHi Q n n. I
to 8 p. ni.
Courier.
OPPOSED TO LOAFERS.
A "tt hlMiy x'onlc Who Believed In tlio
Hlulits of Labor.
"I -till insist on my views on the
cignt hour quotion," remarked a man
with a seedy .-nit of clothed anil a bad
ly torn hat. as hi' assumed an oratori
cal position at (ho bar.
No one here has doubted them,"
answered the Court, as ho took oft his
spectacles.
"Hut the officer interrupted me just
as 1 was about to finish my argument
and east mo into a vile dungeon," in
dignantly added the prisoner.
"He says that you were drunk, and
that you kieked a banana peddler in
the shins," said the Court.
1 deny the allegation!"
"And. of course, you defy tho alloca
tor?" observed the Court.
"I do, sir; inot emphatically! Why
Fir, I was not drunk! Whenever I
speak of the oppressing greed of capi
tal as oppoed to tho rights of the
laborer, my blood begins to boil, and
my feelings carry nio away! Capital,
sir, is a monster that will yet destroy
labor unless the hitler organizes, and
hurls back the (Moulds and Vanderbilts
Willi their bloated millions, and "
"Hold on my friend!" interrupted
I lie court. Hut'tho man at the bar was
excited and Hinging his arms around
wildly yelled: "Down with organized
capital; down with the vampires who
live oil' the earnings of the laboring
man!"
"Exactly, sir, 1 adiniro your lan
guage," said the judge', "and also the
sentiments contained in it."
"I am filled with tho wrongs of tho
laborer!"
"1 am forced to say that from tho
nflidavit it appears that yesterday you
were- lilled with soul destroying liquor."
"It was tho excitement of tho occa
sion!" "The allidavit further savs you broke
a window in a saloon!"
I was gesturing. !"
I'reeiselv! And tho barkeeper is
willing to swear that you hit him with
a rock when he suggested that you pay
for forty-live cents' worth of" drinks
that you had ordered."
"1 merely told him to wait.
"Of course. And tho policeman has
a bill tor ?.o, for damages to a dress
coat which he will tile against you. "
All ins own laull, sir. We working-
men have undeniable rights which even
policemen must respect. 1 spared him!
because he represented tho law.
could have crushed Jiini !"
See here, mv friend! You have
been howling about workingnien's
rights for some time. What do von do
for a living?"
"J I I that is you seo "
"Out with it, sir!"
"Well I ain't employed hist now. I
have been unfortunate!"
How long have yon been er unfor
tunate?"
iveii, lei ine see. in Joi 1 hail the
rheumatiz for eleven months. In 18 So
Ihe dumb ague tackled me, and never
let go for ten months. Since thin I
have been lighting malaria."
Sure it is malaria?"
Oh, yes; 1 have Ihe statements of
six physicians that it is malaria."
"(.'ouldn t it be whisky ?"
"No sir! It was malaria!"
The court put on its spectacles, and
nfter liguring a minute with his pencil,
softly remarked:
After mature deliberation I am
forced to the conclusion that von aro a
bum."
Me, sir? I urn a Knight of Labor."
"You are a fraud! You aro a Knight
of Loaf! And I am going to put vou
to work!"
Don't do it.",
"What, put you to work?"
"Xo, I nieanl- don't send me up?"
"Fall baek, you labor champion, and
asle Ihe sweet fruits of hard labor on
the rock pile."
"You aro in league with tho monop
olies! You are opposed to labor as
against capital!"
"I am opposed to loafers. Fall back
nnd wait for tho chariot that will con
vey you to the Home for Snide Labor
Agitators!
I'll have you boycotted."
Too late, sir. Tho sentence to-day
will Do llireo months. The next timo
this Court will make it double." And
after ho was taken down tho turnkey
chalked "John Wilson, boo.e lighter,
3U-.W, on
his cell door. Cincinnati
'J'iinea-Slur
Advent of the Mosquito.
Ou fleetest wing thou sure hast cornel
Last eve I heard the soiif; thou Miiif;;
i scarce nail tnouL'lit thy fcason due;
As toon Pd meet an untamed bhruw.
A fellow feels as he would die
Phlebotomized by a Spanish fly
Oh, no; not the'llv cantharidefi,
Hut the ily mosquito, If you please.
Of all tho Ills that flesh Ir heir In.
Fonc there are that can compare to
TnH buzzing;, tliiglug, stliiKlnc creature
mm in-imi, Buiiuiiiury KKCClCr,
Thou couinst e'er the soul to vex.
I . .1 n.
iiuu iiistxiiYurouB iincx.
QoodaWt Daily Sua.
Down with flic Tyrants.
"Yes," said he, to his neighbor
across the fence, "the laboring men
aro in tho right. It was timo for them
lo ri6o against tho tyranny of capital.
Down with all tyrants I say"
jonn Jicuryr siiriekcd a sliriJI volco
ll-olll flin LMtmiPfl "fil'fi fri!itr t r
tho kitchen, "am
,g out that 0 Ot lOS illO !Uld split that
,,.7i ,i ,i, ,1..., .., ' 1 , ,1 i
wood and draw that water, or fclmll I
to como out to your"'
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4 V Ail. .M i TJI tl (I V. " 1 1 0 fl 11 U lUDrdl 1 linn L- 1 1-
'"I'm going right about it." llottan
EX-SENATOR FIRRY.
The
Mlcliluiiii Politician nil
r.llo
li'inii Ills (iiiiitry,
"It U not very generally known
said a Michigan man to a reporter for
The Xcw York U'arhl, "that ev-Senator
Thomas Fern is an exile from hi
state and country, lie dare not return
until the matters pending against him
are either outlawed or settled. There
is an indictment against him for for
gery."
Lpioine tune ot ins ueleat for re
election a few years ago lie pa.-ed as
very rich man."
"U's, but that was far from thi'
truth. Ten or fifteen years ago he was
worth considerable money. He had an
interest with his brother in some ISIich
igau pine land, and together they op
crated an eteiiMvc lumber yard
in
Chicago. 1 say together, but Thomas
never had anything to do with the man
agement of I lie business, l'hcv mado
eon-iderahle money for a time, and as
usual their fortune was greatly over
estimated by the otil.-idc public. He
verses came, however, and in addi
tion to tins tho senator got to
leading a verv wild life in Y:sh
ington. lie spent more than his salary
Hi dissipation, and became involved in
seeral disgraceful scandals. You rr
member how ho was hor.-ewhipped in
na mums ai ine iaiiouai noiei nv an
irate young lady and her father. Poor
l'orrv crept under the bed and howled
lor mercy, but his as.sailauls only
stopped when they were completely
e.iiauMC(i. i no siory loin al the tnno
was to the ellcct that I'errv had insult
ed the young lady in some, way, and
that was the method chosen to aven-o
it. l erry never made any complaint
uui mis miner oi me oung laiiy re
ceived a note from the senator a couple
oi nays aner I lie attack, lie opened it,
expecting id iinti at least a challenge,
uul inMcau ne. lounii an annual pass
iui iimiscii aim lanuiv over tlio i'enii-
sylvania railroad, twicer way of de
mantling satisfaction, wasn't it?
"Ferry's exposure would have come
several years before it, did lint for tho
fact that he held a scat in the United
btat-s .senate, and if he had been re
elected I presume his a II airs would
have been hushed up somehow; but
when lie became a common citizen.
with no patronage at his disposal, then
ruj or ins creditors jumped on him. If
was learned that lie hiid been engaged
in a number of very quest ionablo trans
actions, among winch was tho charge
of trying to mutate another man's sig
nature. Ferry made a desperato efl'ort
10 gci uaeK io me senate, and the ma
chine discipline organicd by Zaeh
Chandler in Michigan held his forces
in line down lo tho eighty-first ballot.
j nen a uicaic came, and tlio present
oenaior rainier was tno result. Kerry
fled at once to Europe, and had scarcely
got out ot Hie country before warrants
worn issued for his arrest on several dif
ferent counts. This was three years ago.
lie lias never returned, anil ho may dio
in exile. The ex-.seiiator's brother,
however, is devoted lo Tom, and lie has
been trying to build up the fortunes of
the family, lie is by far tiio better
man of the two, and has considerable
business ability and push. 1 am told
that he has been very fortimato in some
silverniine investments and may become
rich again. In that caso I suppose all
the claims against Thomas whom a
criminal prosecution could be brought
will be set thiil up ami the exile will find
it safe to return. But ho nover can
again he a factor in .Michigan politics.
Of late years he lias become a victim
of tlio morphine habit, which has al
most completely undermined his intel
lect." "Where is ho living?"
"I believe ho has passed most of his
cxilo in Italy, but he has been roaming
all over Europe. A groat effort was
made to persuade President Autliur to
give Ferry the Russian mission just af
ter tho death of Minister Hunt, but Mr.
Arthur concluded that it was not best
to appoint a man who could not visit
his own country to present his applica
tion. Senator Conger made tho effort,
I believe, out of Charity.
"It's a little bit singular that a man
who served eighteen years in tho sen
ate six years as president pro tem
pore of that body, acting vice president,
and acting president for a day, on tho
Sunday
Grant's
Intervening between Gon.
s retirement and President
Hayes' inauguration- -should find him
self an exilo from his own country and
a fugitive from justice. It illustrates
the ups and downs of politics with a
vengeance."
Hindoo CraftHinen Feet.
Tho supple, dolicalo fingers of the
craftsmen aro as remarlcablo as those
of the Japanese, although their hands
are much larger; but one thing must
very forcibly strike the visitor who
watches these clever workmen, and
who observes the primitivenoss of their
appliances tho sad fact that the inarch
of civilization has deprived us western
nations of the use of our toes. To lie
able to use four hands instead of two in
art work must obviously bo an enor
mous advantage, and tho long, prehen
sile too of tho Hindoo craftsman Is even
moro remarkable than that of his Jap
anese brother. To see tho ivory work
er turning his lathe with his tipper
hands, while he guides it and -holds tho
Ivory in his lower ones, is quite an cd
ucath in possibilities of development
of vl
ment
Ing i
fuM. -
A to us aro really almost rudl
. organs daily, in faot, beuom-
1 so under tho operation of the
bio bootmaker.
BLACKLISTED.
Or! .
en Prom IMnco to Place An
Iti-
eldeiit of linnieloBs- Dls
e limliiiitloii.
A robbery had been committed,
man almost ragged was arrested
one of those shrewd detectives against
whoso piercing gaze sheet iron cannot
successfully stand. When tho man was
taken into court for preliminary trial,
it was easy enough to suspect him, for
having been accused of a crime, ho
seemed to sink under a weight of guilt.
The magistrate, addressing tho prison
er, asked a few questions and then,
turning to the detective who had made
tho arrest ho inquired:
"What caused you to suspect this
man?"
"Well, your honor, he happened
hero a few days before tho robbery
was committed and being of suspicious
appearance I watched him. I asked
him his name and lie said it was Rarnes.
but shortly afterward 1 heard that his
name was Powell. I lost sight of him
on the night of the robbery, but early
next morning 1 .saw him trying to sneak
out of town, so I thought that lie. ought
to be arrested."
"1 think, replied tho magistrate,
"that vou acted rightly in making tlio
arrest. Isow. turning to the prisoner,
"can you explain vour conduct and es
pecially can you explain why you go
under two ii'imosi' '
".Judge, first let me explain why
nave two names ami mat, will explain
my conduct. I nder.sland, now, that I
.i . ...a ...
no not, oeg ior mercy, mat timo is
past. 1 am now hardened. I will not
detain you lonir. but 1 ask vou and this
is ail I do ask--to believe me. Two
years ago I was the master mechanic in
a large railway machine shop. I re
ceived good wages and my family, con
sisting of a wife and two children, lived
as well as any family in town. 1 was
most happily married, and sometimes
at evening, when my little boy climbed
up and begged mo to tell him just one,
story, 1 wondered if such happiness
could last.
"One day I was discharged. I was
never moro astonished in my life. I
humbly asked the cause of my dismiss
al and was grullly told that it was be
cause 1 was not wanted any longer.
They should have given mo notice, still
I did not complain as I recognized their
right to employ whom they pleased.
hen 1 wont home and told my wife
that 1 had been discharged, she put her
arms around my neck ami said: 'Never
mind, dear, you can soon ret another
place.' The very next day I started
out in search of work. I had spoilt mv
1 fo in machine shops and could do no
other kind of work. 1 went to a town
not ti great distance away from mv
homo and applied for work.
" l holiovo we aro needing a man.
said tho superintendent. 'What is
your namo?'
" '.John Powell,' I replied.
"Ho went into an inner oflico and
after remaining a few momenta ho re
turned and said: 'No, wo don't want
you.'
"Uy this time my money was nearly
gone but I had not tho heart to wrlto
ionic for moro for I had left hut onotiL'h
all I had to sustain my family a few
wccks. i went to another town, cor-
1.J..JI-1. ...-1f.il 1 M
mm i mu i siiouin oimun worK, lor ono
of tlie machine shops in the nlacn had
ulvcrtisud for men. Tho head man
iskod mo my name and then, pointing
to a honch, told mo to sit, down and
wait until ho eanie back. Ho was not
gone long. When he returned ho said:
" 'JJon l want you.
"'My dear sir.' I ronlied. 'I am a
skillful workman and only ask you for
a trial. Then if 1113' work don't suit
you, I'll leavo.
'1 oil II leave anyway,' ho replied
as ho turned away.
"ly this time my money was exhaust
ed, but 1 could not stop I must push
my way onward. I wrote to my wife.
telling her that I had not succeeded in
gotting work but that I thought my
prospects were good. I told her to
write to me, giving as my address a dis
tant town. 1 had hoped to get over tho
road but failed. I know why. A promi
nent railroad ollicial told tho engineers
not to let 1110 ride. After walking
many weary miles I reached the town
and applied for work.
' 'Wo don't want you,' said tho
superintendent.
" 'Why?' I demanded.
"Uecauso you aro blacklisted.
" 'My God, man, what have I done?'
"'I don't know and I don't caro a
damn, but you aro blacklisted.'
"I went to thopostolllco. I found a
letter addressed in an unfamiliar hand.
1 was disappointed. I had hoped to re
ceive a letter from my wife. I tore
open tho envelope. Hero Is tho letter.
Uend it. judge."
Tho justice read as follows: "It is
my painful duty to write this. Your
wife, having greatly exposed herself in
moving from the hcAiso which belonged
lo a railroad ollicial -r-sho had to move
contracted n sovem cold and died of
pneumonia. Your littlo children are
at my house."
"That is tho letter I iccoived, judge.
.Several weeks ago I heard that my littlo
boy was dangerously ill not expected
to live. I tlraggod myself to this town,
wheero 1 learned that my little girl and
the boy, upon whom I had centered my
hopes, had died of diphtheria. I could
do nothing. I was crushed with grief
broken down with despair. Then I
changed my name so that I might earn
money enough to take me to the graves
of my wlfo and children. 1 (lid not
commit the robbery. 1 want no lawyer.
I leave It with you. As I previously
remarked I ask for no mercy. 1 am in
your power. Use me as yon will.'
The old magistrate - a man who had
spent hi early days at the anvil arose,
approached the prisoner, pressed some
thing into his hand and said:
"(Sod knows that my heart bleeds for
you. When you stand over the graves
of your wife and children, remember nn
old man who has seen his last loved-ono
buried." Arkanmw Traveler.
San Francisco Stock-Gambling.
1 am confident that tho ronianco of
stock-gambling will never be written,
writes a San Francisco correspondent of
The Sacramento lice. Life hero is too
rapid, too pushing for men to pause
and reflect on that curious "has been"
of San Francisco. But I never stroll
down Pine street, or linger in the shad
ows of Pauper alloy, but I meet sonic
one who would bo entitled to a place in
that unwritten romance Tho tall fig
ure, a faco clean cut and rofincd, gait
slow and painful from tho effect of an
old wound, is beforo me as I write,
i anies i). aiuor ten years ago was a
member of tho bonanza firm, and his
check was good for 500,000, aye, or
!?1, 000.000, at any bank in the country.
Then Flood and Fair bought him out,
and Walker opened a broker's ollico
under the Nevada bank, and did all tho
business of his former partners. In
these times Flood, Fair, and Mackey
were on tlio top notch of speculation.
They were swinging tho market at their
own swcot will, and making or break
ing the thousands who were buttling
with tlio lierco tide of stock-gambling.
Alexander Austin, or "Sandy," as his
feiends used to call him, had Just served
his term as tax: collector, and went in
with Walker. How they did mako
tilings boom! The high-salaried clerks
tlio book-keeper got SI00 a month,
and had a sumptuous lunch served ev
ery day in a largo room in tho roar of
tlio ollico nt tho exponso of tho firm.
Their expenses were enormous, but so
was their business. Tho partners were
clearing $20,000 a month, but they were
standing on tlio brink of a preci
pice. Flood romarked that other
and outsido brokers were manip
ulating certain stock precisely
as his own brokers. This would never
do, so ho called a consultation, and in
formed tlio Walker firm that sort of
thing would not do, that there was a
traitor in tlio camp somewhere, anil
that, unless he was detected and lircd,
their relations could not continue
Closo and earnest investigation was
made, but without avail. Then came a
transaction of more than ordinary im
portance, but to the intense disgust of
tho bonanza llrm. it was apparently
foreseen nnd anticipated by these same
outsido brokers, kept posted, apparent
ly, by some traitor in tho Walker-Austin
camp. Then the bonanza peoplo
changed their broker, and from that
hour tho fortunes of Walker & Co., be
gan to decline Matters grew woro
and worse Austin committed suicide
Walker sold a magnificent mansion in
Oakland which cost him closo on $.r)00,
000, to prop up tlie waning glory of the
swell firm. At last it was a clean caso
of bust, and I don't believe Mr. Walker
to-day could put his hand on 200. I
saw him looking wistfully at tho Nevada
imnK uiiiiiiing, prouaDly comparing tho
different stales of Flood, the member.
and Walker, tho oxniember, of tho
bonanza firm. Ho discovered, when too
late, that tho high-priced book-keeper
was tno traitor, no sold lilsomplojors,
bul no luck ever came of his treachery,
and ho is to day keeping hooks at $.30
a month for a Ilobrow clothes-dealer in
Portland, Ore
Walker is but a type of hundreds of
others who have had their chance and
their day on Pine street. With a
strange fatuity thoso wrecks still cling
to tho locality wlioro they mado and
lost fortunes in tho past, though niuo
teiiths of them have not a dime to
speculate with, and could not get credit
for a glass of lager, when their names
a decade ago were sufficient guarantee
for a dozen or iifty dozen cases of
chamuagne. A few have pulled out
with a small stake, and there aro somo
thcro ou tho streot yot who havo a littlo
money, and would speculate if they
saw an opening, and not a fow fanatics
who await the coming of tho Messiah -'the
discovery of anotlier groat bonanza.
Tho Other Court,
"I beliovo that n man should love his
wlfo just as much after niarriago as ho
did before," said an elderly lady to a
gentleman acquaintance who was not
on intimate terms with his own wife.
"I do too," replied the gentleman,
"if she is worthy of it."
"Then why do you not practico what
you preach," replied tho lady, your
wife is a most estimable woman, and
you should court her as much now, as
you did prior to your marriage"
"Well, butltlo," said tho gentleman.
"Your actions hollo your words."
"You ntisconstru mo, madanie. I do
Court her now more than over. I am
trying to get a divorce from her."
National Weekly.
lloth Kitten.
He, few weeks after
mnrringo
Now in making that improvement lu
our house, wo might use to advantage
a part of that 20,000 you said you
wore going to yivo mo after tho wed
ding. Sho Well, dear, as soon as you
place tho VCO.OOQ you told mq you had
In tho bank to mv credit, us voa prom
ised mo you would, I'll give you a third
of it, Tiii Uila.