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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1887)
vol. in, The Oregon Scout. An Independent weekly Journal, issued ev ery ivituvuny morning by Publishers nnl Proprietors. A. K. Joxiss, i Kill tor. I ( H. t'HAXCKY, ) Foreman. KATJ2K OF MUl!SCi:llTTOM Ono eoity, one venr $1.50 " ' Mx mouth. .. . .... l.ou " Hiroo inoutoe "ft 2 Jnvnriiibly CnsJi In Advance. by vhahcr tiii.ict-iitiitut tire not paid till ant nf ye n; lai) iMI'i.n irilt hr rliaroal. I!nte nf advertising llttidr- known on ap plication. (yrnrrrj-powkwe from a!l purls of tho country solicited. Adrc-tt nil euniniiinicatiod-to tho Ohwos Hcni'T, I Tni:iii Or.gon. Lodge l?rectory. G HANDK li')NI)l: VALLKY l.OIKiU. No. A. l and A. M.- Meets on the second it txl fourth Satunlav of each month. V. T. WKltillT, W. (J. A. 1,15V V, Secretary. UNION I.OPOH, No. X) T.O.O.V. ltegulnr meetings on Friday evenings of each week at their hull in Union. All breth ren in pmd standing uru invited to attend, liy order of the lo.e. (i. A. THOMPSON, X. C. CHAS. ii. Ml M.Kit. Secretary. ('I)iiiTli Directory. MKTHODlsiT Kl'ISCOPAL CHURCH. Divine service cvoy i-iunday at 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. Sunday school at .'! p. iu. 1'raver meeting everv'l hursdnv evening at (:.'". REV. (J. M. IHWIN, Pastor. 1) iMnvTKiuAN riri jicji. -i:i:cjit- X larehitreli .-ervi. e every 8.:.)l.th morn ing nnd evening. Prayer meeting Vedne day evening of i ai h week, i-abbath school everv S.ibtj.itb at it) a.m. lti:V. V,'. C. 11AIJIP, Pastor. QT. JOITN'eS KIMS' 'OPAL ClffllCH. kJ Sci-viee everv Sundav ut .1 o'clock p. in. IJKA". W. 11 POYVKI.t., Jleetor. , County OHiici'B. Statu Senator . . 1.. 1. llinolmri Pepresentativcs 'ul! K.l). .MeCtil'v Judg.' ... .o. P. Oeodall .o. P. John Chrisman Commissioner, Pherift A. . Jiamiitnn A. T. Xeill .K. U. lirasmtid ,1. L, Ilindmtui M. Austtu Clerk TrctiKtijvr Seluml Superintendent Surveyor AsHessor .... O. V, Thomlinson Coroner AlbeiMiu City UUlenis. Uhtyor . U. 1!. liecs 1 S. A. Pursol J. S. Klllott Councllmen ! r'niL..n,!,. V t J Mill V f E. V'. Ihivw Kd. Pemiliard Peeorder J. 15 Thomson iarshul . K. K. Catts Tretwnrer . . .1. U. ( iirroit Street Commi--sioner 1.. ICaton i'ltOFHKSIONAf.. JOHN It. CUITES, Attorney at Law. Collecting and probata praetioo speeinl tjes. Olllce, two door. south of poKt-oilUic, Union, Oregon. Attorney at Lav AND NOTAl'Y PUUI.IC. Olllo, ono door south of .1. 1J. Katon's tort', Union, Orngon, J N. CUOMWELL.-M. D. , Physician aiui Surgeon. Office, one door south of .1. I!. liatonN store, Union, Oregon. jy II. KEES, Notary Public and Conveyancer. Offlce-State band Olllue building, Union, Union county. Oregon, JJ F. IIUKLKIG1I, Attorney at Law, ltal ctnto and collecting agnt. Land Oluoe Itufcinoss a Speciultv. Olllce at Jo suph, Wnllawa cuunty. Oregon. Q P- 1M5I.L, Attorney at Law, n1n0tar.,,.ub.,lc' 3,u Abstractor of Title. OiHix Mate Laud (Hlloe bulldinic. comer Main and A Mrett, UmM1( Oregon. l. conns, m. d.j Physician una Surgeon. Ilaviug pori4tu?ntly loeatodal Apjr un. ion e Hi iity Oregon. ii! be found ready to attend to r.x I- iu nil ih various tovr ed vettlements if the Wullowu alley. S-CUP. -NIC liSK.sl v s j.,.;, IAI Ty JJi t'i ' "f h . ,e d I.-1 Iup I'ltorKssiov!.. yr 1''. PHUDEX, M. 1). Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Summorvillo, Union, County, Oregon. J. M. C.YUltObU, Xotarv Public. li. K. Wtl,30:. Kx-Co. Clerk. QAltltOLL Sc WILSON, I Conveyancers and Abstracters. Abstracts to Ilea! and Mining properfv furnished on .short notice, at reasonable rates. Sales of Ileal and Mining property uegn tiated. Collection business promptly at tended to. OIII'-e next door south of Post-ollicc. Un ion. Oregon. . M. H. k eh'. .1. W. SiiLl.To:.. .1. F. Bakku. akkr, .muirox baker, Attorneys at Lav. OFFICKS Union and La Grande , Ore gon. Hpreial Attention given all business entrusted to ns. AreliileGi id Buisr. Plj'iis ami les-is fo, :i'iv kind of buil cliiirf turni hi'd on a plii ation. Keeps mi hand a complete stock of DOOilH, WINDOWS, CARPETS, 1CTO., ETC. Vhich li- will sell at a low tifrure. Parties uhe dsive to build will do well to commit him. ut Cove, 1'i.ioii county, Or. w. '. .IOUXSON, Ooslracter I'nion, - - Oregon. Plans anil specifications f r dwellings, barns and bridges, 1 u-n'.sh-. d in e ofcharne. PiRIDOK UUILUINO A SPECIALTY (trp"Call and interview me. z X. GAiiDXEIl As CO. Wai;ciin:ikoi'S & tlewolors, Union, - - Oregon. Clocks and Jewelry For Sale. I : cp:i i i! ii j- at Moilei-ite Kates. Call and t.. iininconr .uoods and riees. Geo. Wntour, ) Y. T. Wuk.iit, Pre.-ideut. I Cashier. l im MMlk- mm, -OP EN ION, OIIEC.'ON. l)ns a General Ranking Huxiuess. Pays and sells exchange, and clscount commer cial paper. Collection earrfnllv uttondcil to, and iSAVE YOUR SOLES AT AI. Dickson's Eool and shoe shop, two doors north of Iioiisou liro's meal market. BOOTS aiul SHOES Made to order out of tho host mate rial to be obtained, and at pricos as low as the lowest. Koptiirhig done with ncatiic&! and dispatch, cheap for cash. Tonsorial Rooms. J. M. JOHNSON, - - PliOI'HIETOn, Main Street, Union, Oregon. Ha!'- liming, 'h.ving a. id -humpooing done ;irat!y and iu the beU style. Hot and Coid Baths. AM) SODA FACTOItY, Cor. Main J'ld I! M . - - Union. Oregon, hHKiniAN.V ItAI.KY, 1'rop. : Manufacturer and dealer hi 8oda V . tcr, S.ir-'ip.n-ili lii'igi-r Ale, Crni S td.i and ( h .in; i ( d r. - , nip tc. Or tier n . ,ii j,i 1 ! n1:, .,. Mm KentucKY LKiuor Store UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, t'OUXrCOPEA. Letter I'lnni Our Ilcgtilar ('orrespoiutent t'onrcriiJiiK the I'lnc ( i-'e!i .lllnen. A fnm of men lmvc coniiiienced work n tin- mul from Pine Valley to the euntp- Tlu' ntw mills litive n conlntel to cut tlnvi) IhiihIixhI llioiisand feet of lttm bvr for tho "Whilinnn" cotniiany. B.u'on nnd ojrss fcavec in camp. A hundred duKfti fgi,s brought into eanip the othor day, were sold out in no time. Conducted leitiniiitely, milling is tho grididest industry on earth, inas much that fitch dollar of jtolil or silver extracted from it nnue is n dollar crea ted not merely transferred from the Inink account of one man to that of another, t.s, when gained iu trade. It i.s tho work of time- to so far de velop our urines as to make them largo producers', hut enough has heen ac complished in the Pine Creek mines to demonstrate it importance as a gold producing section, and its future is none the less hright that it is the one that will have to he mined, not the stockholders. "Wo do not anticipate a Ikkjiii," nor do wo want one. There is it growing demand for prolilnhlo pro ductive gold prospectors, and those who work their mines lor the money they kef in leiurn, do not want a "hK)iii," if it is to lloat that class of men who secure mining claims nnd then go East and "work the people" for money, with the pietense thai they need only a mill or smeller to enable thuin to pav large dividend.-. J I EC. Cove (Inning's. Mrs. E. O. Henry will teach it tci'm of private hcheol, in Cove. The farmers have heen very busy this week plowing and sowing. Edgar ..'ones has returned from J'utte City. IIo reports it tin overdone town. The choir of the Ascension Church have in preperation some choice music for Easter. AIish Clara Parker, an accomplished young lady of North Powder, is visiting Miss Pearl Payne. IHouniniu sheep are said U he plen tiful in Wallowa. Win. .Mnkin recent ly killed two iino specimens. Win. Forrester haa gone, to Wallowa where he will become it bloated land owner in that classic region. The Union nurseries are shipping large quantities of trees to dillereut points in this and linker count1. Frank Newell and family have mov ed to Co'r d'Aleiie. where he will en gage in. the manafacture of butter. A substantial factory will he built on Newcll'is place during the summer hy a local company organized for that pur pose. Public school closed last Friday. Saf- urriay eve the scholars and teachers ! gave alt exhibition at tho hall. It was largely attended and gave good satis faction. Uncle Tom's Cabin. McFadden's Poston Double Uncle Tom's Cabin to appear at Wright's hall, in this city next Monday, April 1th. is a mam moth company, composed of twc.nty.fivo porforinors, ten colored plantation singers, two imported Irish trick donkeys and six monster bloodhounds. The vurslon of the drama as played by this mammoth compa ny, is new and novel, introducing many old-time southern scenes, characteristic of the sunny south, representing tho gieat plantation Jubilee festival, tho M ississipl Meauiboal and leovc scene, the South Caro lina jubilee and plantation Mngers, songs and daueioi, specialties and a host of new and original ideas never produced by any othor company. Cure lor I'llex. Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight in tho back, lohn and lower part of tho abdomen, causing the. patient to sup pose bo luu Moiae affection of the kidneys or neighboring organ. At times, symptoms of jndltfeiition are present, flatulency, uncasy ues of Hie stomach, etc. A moisture llktt perspiration, producing a ery disagreeable Itching after gel ting warm, is a common atirndunt. blind, Weeding, and Itching Plleii yield at onec to the application of Dr. IJo-iuiko.s Pile Ilomedy, which acts directly upon the parts elfected, absorbing tho Tumors, allaying tho intense Itching, and uffoetlny a permanent cure. Prlee,M conts. Aililren, The Dr. llo-anko Modleiuo Oom wuiy, Plima, O. Sold by J, T. Wright, union, Otvn ia.ST CAM.. All thoe knowing Uieiiuwlvox Indebted to u itre requested to fttl at oncu. Thin h the liHtJlhiie we shall make the request. If it ! not (umpllcd with, wo nhull collect it by law. UV.KH A H0I5INS. a Grande. Kpltoinc of tint i'nst AVeeU's KvihiIh In Our Sister (Mt.v---Precocious Youngster. .PERSONAL M ENTION. La (irandc is booming. Thirl v immigrants arrived in one day. We all attended church last Sunday night. Mayor Welter is La (S Hindu's host mayor. Our Calaboose is approaching com pletion. Sheets A- Uey make tho iron doors for the new jail. ICd Eckly looks like a young man since he shaved. llotsepool has come to tho new town with his incut shop. Jim Clayhotirno's whiskey is had. It makes lots of tights. Wo understand that our new hank is to loan money at ton per cent. The weather is charming, grass looks beautiful and stock men are joyful. The Temperance service at tho uni versity last Sunday afternoon was good. The largest man in town is Mr. Charles Me Reynolds who conies from southern Kansas. The Svnthirl has arrived and shed its old skin and will appear as the La (!ra,ulf Journal. Rev. Hayes wants to sell out and go to (Irani county, where the wicked cease from troubling. City Attorney Cook hits had no cas es of importance to look after since his election to to oilice. The only prominent ruin of the Au gust lire now left in sight U that of Staver it Walker's Agireultural Ware house. Winnie Wilkison is again at home with her mother ami Miss Stephenson is spoken of as her successor in the Simimervillo Haul;. Tho portion of depot street fenced in to keep people from driving into the creek when the bridge is only half built is now labeled "Tho Oily Pound". The theater as a means of raising money for church purposes is becoming quite popular iu town. Our Presbyter ian friends will soon bo 111111 to pay for their new bell. Mother Watson of Illinois who in ov er seventy years old, had a place on the piogramine at the temperance concert and recited a poem which was well received by all. Revs. Wood and Cullins from Wallo wa have been holding meetings in the university during the past week, but though they worked like saints, the sinners have failed to come to time. Some callers at the house of ono of our prominent meat venders, found the younger members of the family learning their fathers trade by practis ing on cats of which they had killed and dressed two, and were in the act of butchering another. Eagle Chatterings. Weather pleasant. The peoplo arc beginning to think about gardening and putting in their crops. Health good with exception of a few. Mrs. Heck, who lias been confined to her bed for some threo weeks is thought to be better, Tho majority of the peoplo huvo driven their stock to the hills, tho grass being sullicicntly good for them to make a living. Our Sabbath school is progressing finely with Mr. C. T. Wise as Superin teudant. He seems to be the right man in tho right place. The Literary society has alniOHtcomo to a close, for tho present. Presume will commenco another as HOon as the nights get to bo longer. Some people in tho valley are mov ing while otliers are making prepera tion to move. A family or two tiro ex pected from Missouri, in a short time. Wo were very much disappointed that Row Royle's did not get to fill his last appointment, llopohia children will soon rocovor from tho scarlet fe ver so ho can come anil preach for us occasional. Daisy. A JCtllnble Article. For enterprise, piuh and a desire to get kttch goods as will give the trade nutlsfactloa, J. T. Wright, tue druggUt, Icotln all compe tition. He tells Dr. Posunko's Cough and Lung Syrup, because It the best medicine on the market for cough, eoldg, croup and primary cousumptiou. Price W) ccuU aud l.ijo, fc'ainplc free. 18S7 I SLi AND CITY. fashion N'kIcm ttciortiMl i:iircly for Tile "(hi'i;ii trout." As yet there has been little change in . spring styles, hut. as the season advan ces there will no doubt appear some unique novelties. (Juitcu number ap peared at the party given recently. One very elaborate toilet noticeable, was of that lovely new shade decayed gooseberry. It was beautiful as it shone in the gas light, trimmed with Medecis-laee and pearls in shell pat tern. All were elegantly attied in silks, satins and velvet. Up to this writing, six-button pan taloons continue to be worn, and out with two legs, sitle and pistol pockets. For the hilly country one leg is cut shorter than the other to accomodate the limb that stands mostly on the rise. Father Hubhards have been worn only in dixlutbillc. They will be con tinued with a slight change. In the future the front Hap will bo hand-painted in gaudy butterflies, grasshoppers, potatoc-httgs and mouse-colored baby elephants, and will bo used instead of a fan. There is a whisper that the dude's early summer outfit will be a Ut lChar tottn, vis: a turban, a horse collar and a pair of spurs. Chewing gum and tobacco quids are to enter largely iu facieal adornments. Henceforth he or she who has the 1 courage to appear without a cheek j wen raised by a wad of tobacco or gum ' must consent to become a fossiled Darwinian. Roiled shirts will not be milled at the j bottom as predicted, but heavily ein ' hroidered in antique patterns in ICen i sington stitch. I I Ianrikei chiefs will appear mostly in ! the dirty shades. It is no longer styl ish to use musk or any of the vulgar ' odors on the handkerchief. The Iwiui- womb' now use a very delicate perfume . styled (Hh'r-tlr-pah'Cttt. j Jn knee patches for overalls, and , new spring heels for socks, a great change is coming over tho dudes at the stock ranch and Indian reserva tions. That novel and dainty pattern j of dress goods, Schiilly-delaine, is the only material permitted for the pur 1 pose, and as mothers and aunts are now subject to spring laziness, tho pretty ereani-eoloretl stuil' is pasted iu , oblique sections over the holes 'with china shavings. As soon as the full crop of cats from Eli Haer's hotel, is harvested, catgut will supplant the china shavings. Sau.y Ann. Telocasot Tattling". Windy as usual. Seed grain tcvins to bo scarce. Plowing, the engagement of all. Lambs and calves are tho leading products of Antelope valley. Sheep men are the most enterpris ing ami generous men to he fuund. The latest arithmetic problem out is, "If a dead dog is worth fifteen dollars, what is alivoono worth"? If the new Pino Creek road cannot traveled yet when can it bo? It is high time for all public, and much traveled thoroughfuro to bo passable. Telocasot neetl a notary public. It is to much trouble to go to Union ev ery time u man gets unruly. Acci dents and natural events occur, and in this place they happen tolerably often. In a letter from Cornucopia, recent ly published iu tho Scout, it was stated that wages for common laborers was $2.50 per day, and board cost one dol lar a day. Hero is a field for all idle people. As the spring weather advances, the snow vanishes; us the progress of civ il.ation penetrates the wilderness, the appurtenances follow. Stores, mills, manufactures, saloons, dancing hall, blacksmith shops, hotels and barber shops uro gcuemly considered iippur tennunces Jof civilization but none of them appear in Telocasot yet. It is a very singular, and extraordi nary fact, that whenever a country has natural resources to draw from, for aiiiufliiiout, as well as means of support, that, generaly that country establishes an inexhaustible, and easy system of avails. Antelope is surrounded by a farming and grazing country, and iu time will be an immense business place. Why dont somebody get tho lirst situa tion for a store? lUCIIAItl). Cheap llnoU anil BUucy. Ladles' French kid shoes, $.'1,60; mens' bootn, 'i 75; mens' two-buckle shoes, $1.25 at Vincent's. He Is closing out bis good regardless of cost before getting iu his Bpring totk. Everything else at similar prices. Now is the time to get bargain. NO. 40. Pine Creek. Intel I'Htlnc t'oiuiitiuilratloit ('onceriillitr IlnliiK, MoIrnUliij mill l'nt ui- , lug In that Section. GOOD KOADS NEEDED. En. Scout Truly hope is a delu sive phantom, horn of idleness and ig norance. Agitation sometimes bring reforms, or a hotter condition of things, but only when founded on facts. Truth alone stand the lest of lime ami in spection. While many iu Eastern Or egon are hoping for it large immigra tion to come ami relieve them of all their tlill'teulties, would it not be wiser to try and better the conditions of those ahvitdy here, before holding out in ducements for others to come? Ono of the most laudable attributes of man is to be honest with himself. The ma jority of immigrants are looking for land that is good land lit for agricul tural purposes. In what part of Union county tiro such lands? There, aro many here that would gladly avail themselves of such an opportunity. Even along the small streams far uj in the mountains, where the shadow of the bill at. miil-day envelopes the en tire ranch, you will find a settler wait ing and hoping for more immigrants to come so they can form a new coun ty simply death before existnee. Tho next and by far the greatest industry in Eastern Oregon is stock raising a remunerative occupation, but the very samo dillieulty presents itself, for near ly three out of live men that you meet tiro enquiring for stock ranges. What does it mean? .lust this, that they am extremely scarce. Another phase in the stock business is that tho greatest clear profit, is between the buying and selling price, and tho greater part of that money in handled and spent out of Oregon a considerable loss, for ono of the fixed laws of nature is that sho t'cldom if ever give something for nothing. It necessarily has to exhaust to produce. Now th 'ii, if it has been proven by tho best cultivators that ag riculture is not u success in this part of the conn try, partly owing to our geo graphical position being m far from market, and partly bocau.o wo cannot hope to compete with the broad acres of the Mississippi valley, aud that stock raising is at its best, owing to the rango being nearly all used. Then where in the future for this part of the country? lint we think a bright future begins to dawn that will prove prolific iu results, that is Eastern Oregon's mining resour ces. True it will take both capital and skill to make the necessary devel opment two commodities seldom met with in our markets consequently will have to be imported from other States that have hail more oxperienco iu that particular branch of industry; ami right there will be a clear gain, for every dollar brought from other States and invested hero is a clear gain, being produced elsewhere, consequent ly no exhaustion here. The question is whether wo have mines iu Union county that have merit or not. About, two years ago tho discoveries were made iuKlranito district ofti largo number of letlges, showing mineral on tho surface, hut of a base nature, con sequently requiring expensive machin ery to extract tho metal from tho rock, aud to save a sulliciont per cent to jus tify working tho claims. During tho two years quite a number of mining men have visited tho camp, ami near ly all were well pleated with tho sur face indications, and quite a number of claims have been worked enough to convince any reasonable person that mines do exist. When we say mines wo mean those that will pay t omuthing above the working expenses. Tho rea sons for thinking so uro, lirst, that tho ore haslieen shipped to San Fraucisco, Omaha anil Denver, iu as large quan tities us ten tons, and the expenses of shipping and freighting to tho railroad are exceedingly largo, and uliil tho ore paid money. Prejudicial persons un acquainted with the facts are pleased to say "pocket uro." Ten tons of pock et ore without any development ought to staiko tho public as rather absurd. It would seem that the amount of oro horo could not have existed only in suitable surroundings. When wo huvo the ore and proper formations we also have tho right to say that wo have the mines. Tho "Whitman" company huvo now reached thu depth of two hundred and fifty feet, with encoura ging results. Tho company, through, the able guidance of Professor Luce, , have dono more than all the rest of tho camp. His work is not only a ere ' dit to himself, hut bids fiar to be a ben . eiit to tho county, There is quite a ; possibility of his boing held in check , from moving his machinery into camp.; Cvntlnual wt hit ,