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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1887)
THE OREGON SC05JT. AMOS IC. J ONUS, K.MTOK. The Oregon Srov.lhantm large ( crrii lalion an any three papcrx m th w tton of the Stale, combined, (intl in cor respondingly valuable as an advrt isni; medium. Stuvcly, July and., 1S87. Union tuul Vicinity. County Court on the llkli. 1 laying will commence in u few days. An assortment of tent.x and ham mocks just received at Levy's. Is thn'Tiiion County Agricultural Society" going to liave a "fair" this year? The heavy frost last Sunday evening damaged the gardens in this vicinity to a considerable extent. lted liah are beginning to ascend the Grande Hondo river, and Wallowa lake will soon be populated with them. Sherill' Hamilton is still worrying the delinquent tax-payers. It is to be hoped that he will keep it up till there is not one left. The Union Silver Cornet IJand have procured new uniforms and no doubt will look nobby in the pioce.-sion at SumnuTville next Monday. Mrs. (Jarrett's dwelling house in La (JrJmde was totally destroyed by lire last Wednesday night. We did not learn how the tire originated. Mr. Newhart, of the Hot Lake, in forms us that that will be made; a Hag station, and so marked .on the new time table which will soon be issued. People will buy where they cm get the cheapest and bust goods. That is the reason of the unprecedented suc cess of the Xew York Store, at La (Jrande. Union, no doubt, will appear some what deserted next Monday, as a great many of our citizens will attend the celebration, either at- La Grande or Sumnierville. The agent for the Pacific Kxpress Co. was in the city during the week adjusting the losses sustained by the company in the late (ire. All claims were paid in full. The La Grande city council is mov ing in the matter of purchasing host; and other tire apparatus. Our city council could imitate their example with beneficial results. All the small boys are rushing to the Cove drug store to invest in gum. Eight pieces for ten cents anil every piece draws Homau candles, pistols, lings, China lanterns, etc. Isn't the coming election sufficiently near at hand to justify some one in setting up a howl about the "court house ring?" Let us hear the familliar old song as soon as possible. Al. Goodbrod is having a set to with the skunks in the vicinity of his gar den. So far the skunks are on top. Last Tuesday night they killed ill of his ducks, and 2U chickens. Our merchant. i are constantly re ceiving new goods, and it can be truthfully said that they are selling cheaper than the merchants of any other town in Union county. )r. Drake, who has been out thrQUgh the valley, informs us that while the vegetables in varjous localities were ruined by the recent frost, the wheat crop appears to be uninjured. Mr. A.. I. Kibbe, of this city, erected one of his Enterprise wind mills for Thud J)ean, of Lower Powder, last week. The "Enterprise" is a good mill and is fast coming into favor. Many of our citizens who would like to attend the celebration at La Grande, cannot do so on account of their being no return train in the evening. Those Avho go over on the cars will be forced to stay there till next day. Mr. .L "W. Earls, of Ladd canyon, was in town Wednesday. lie is consid erably riled up on account of having six or eight of his horses nearly killed by running against barbed wire fences, erected by parties in that vicin ity. Mr. Al. Goodbrod, co;inuader of Preston Po-t (!. A. K. of this city, re quests us to say that all members and visiting members of the post arc re quested to meet at the hall in this city at 8 o'clock on the morning of the Fourth of July, as it is the intention to attend the celebration at La Grande in a body. Excursion tickets to La Grande and return, good on all trains on the Sid, lth. and nth., will be sold. The rates aie as follows: From Luion, f0 ets; North Powder, tfl.oO; linker City, 2.11); Huntington, ROD. A passen ger co.ich will be attached to the freight train oil the morning of the Fourth to convey passengers from Huntington and intermediate points. In the case of Ford vs Umatilla county, the Supreme court Friday af firmed the judgment of the Circuit court, under which Ford received $701) damages for breaking tluough a bridge on Uutter creel:. The case has cost the county about $2,000. E. O. This is a fair warning to our county author ities to fee that bridges are kept in good condition. A gentleman from High Valley in forms us that John Minnick has his new steam engine in working or der, and a few days ago got up steam and tried the whistlo a fow timps. T.eumsual sound frighU'iiwl the na tives considerably. Several men were up in tlw mountains cutting wood, and when the thing broke loose, one of them, after listening awhile said exci tedly, "There's something wrong at home, sure; that's my wife hollorin ; 1 know her voice!" and lit out atu2.-lU 'gait. The ladies of High Valley evi dently have very good lung. ETCHINGS. I Tr Imiirrliti Mmlo n the "Scour Till? KoAD SniVKYi:. Mr. Cook, the surveyor employed by the Union county eouit to survey the road be tween Goose creek and Pine valley, winch was built by the Pine creek road commissioner:', has completed the woik and is now engaged in making a map of the same. When the two routes am platted the Grillith survey, on whieh it was contracted the road should be built, and the route on which 'fihaw & MeLeod built whnt they called the road, it will be seen that no attention, apparently, was paid to the Grillith survey, or the terms of the contract. The mad as built crosses and rcciosMN the Griffith survey, and is hardly on it any of the distance. Sharp turns are made, making it im practicable for heavy freight teams. A measurement of the grades was taken, and where then' should have been but two as steep as 12 feet lo the hundred, 2.'1 can be found which go all the way from 15 to 2(5 feet to the hun dred. We do not know what the con tractors will have to say to this, but the case will come up at the next term of court and they will have an oppor tunity to explain their extraordinary inanueverinL's. Wc trtwt that all par ties concerned will get strict justice, and nothing else. Tun Latust Hkho. We have re ceived from the "Denver, Colorado, Pictorial ihiroau of the Pre's," the in telligence that they have a very line pot trait of "Pony Hill" which they will furnish us, with his biography, at a reasonable figure. Unfortunately we never heard of the gentleman before, but have iio doubt that he is a great and good man. Wc would like very much to know more, and have our numerous readers know more about "Pony Hill," but we are afraid if we were to intioduee this new hero to the people of this section, some of our own great, men, who abound here in large numbers, might think we were trying to dim their laurels by comparison, and become riled up as it were. We want to go on the even tenor of our way in pence. We are willing to mi nut that "Pony J 5 ill is a big man, but we don't want to monkey with him and we don't want him to monkey with us. Mi!s Mayok. The Mayoress of a northern Kansas town, says the Wich ita Entile, who was elected under the new woman sull'r.ige law last week, came down to her office the other day with a Mother Hubbard on, and as the sat ero-s-legged in the Mayor's chair the City Clerk noticed that she had a hole in the heel of her stocking and that her bustle was to one side. Horepcrted the fact to his wife, his wifu told the hired girl, the hired girl told her fellow, her fellow told the City -Marshal, the City .Marshal told the .Mayoress, whereupon the City Clerk got fired and the town is scandalized. The Mayoress said she would wear her bustle in fiont, behind or sideways, and it was nobody's business. It is need less to say the fair Mayoress is red headed. Ax AMfsixdTvi'onitAi'iiifAi. Eiiitoi:. An amusing accident occurred in Carson, Nevada, last Sunday through a typographical error. The Appeal says Rev. Mr. Vandeventer sent to the Tribune office : In the M. E. church on Sunday, theme. "Receipt for the cure of Iloodluinism." This appeared in print as "Receipt for the cure of fSlietunntism," and it had the effect of crowding the church with people, many of whom had not attended di vine worship for a quarter of a century, I and a considerable number who were stiffened more or less with rheumatism. Tm-: lloiisi-: Makiciit. Mr. James Fleetwood, of Upper Unint river, who, in company with Mr. Alex McPheai son, went to Kansas to look after the horses they had shipped there the sum mer previous, returned to linker yes terday. The gentleman informs us that the horse market in the East is exceedingly dull, lie and Mr. Me Pheaixm have not succeeded in sell ing their band as yet, the price offered being much less than the market prico in our own county. McPhearson will return hero in about six weeks. fHa- ker City Democrat. j Futi: at Daytox, W. T. A little af- tcr 1 o'clock Friday morning the 21th atiiobroku out in Dayton, W. T., and i destroyed all the buildings on Main I street between Second and Third, j streets, amounting to .flu.ou; insu rance, !yS!l,-150. A strong wind pre vailed at the time, and the lire de partment were unable to make any headway against the flames. The Cfirodicle newspaper ollice was totally destroyed. This is a great calumity to Dayton, one of the bestfowns in the Territory. A Cniiosrrv. A friend this week sent us an old copy of Tie Columbian, a newspaper formerly published on the Puget Sound. It is dated, Olympia, Paget Sound, Oregon, Saturday, March 5, 1S5H. It is quite a curiosity and gives us a fair idea of the manners and customs of those early days. On the first page is a dictionary of the chinook jargon used by all the different Indian tribes west of the mountains, as a means of conversation with the whiles, 'compiled expressly for The Columdi on." Tju-wkkkj.y Mail Link. Petitions sire being circulated, and numerously signed, nuking for the establishment of a tri-weekly mail service between this city und Cornucopia to supply the limbs of the projKsud offices of Park, Medical Springs and Sanger. This line cannot be established too soon, as it is grontly needed and will nccomino dnt largo number of people. Un aking curt for wilu, ISnnuiro of J)r. I). V. K. Deerinv, Union. Social Scintillations. Pumcrni li lVi tnluliiR. Prlnrlpnlly, to tht I'iti'ri liiatldim of tin 1 oiulni-;. "THE WOULD DO MOVE." Matt Johnston, of Wallowa, called on us this week. Mrs. Sanborn, of the Cove, was in Union, Thursday. Mr. Cavincss, of Island City, made Union a visit this week. Mr. John Childcrs, of Island City, was in town Thursday. County School Superintendnnt Hind man was in the, city yesterdny. Mr. W. J. Shoemaker and family, of Cove, visited Union this week. Jos. Carroll and wife, of North Pow der, made Union a visit this week. J. T. Wright and wife returned from Cornucopia the fore part of the week. Mr. S. A. Pursel and family are visit ing relatives and friends in Pine Valley. Mr. (J. W. Frazier and family, of Tclocasct, were in Union last Thuis day. Mrs. S. J. Hell leaves to-day for the home of her daughter in Washington Territory. M. H. W. Davis and family, of Alder, Wallowa comity, were visiting in Un ion this week. Mr. Julius Lachs and family, of lin ker City, have been in Union for sev eral days past. Misses Helen and Lillv Levy took their departure for a visit in Umatilla county, Wednesday. Huey Lynch, of Antelope valley, was in town this week, lie reports every thing flourishing in his section. Freeman Steele, Clarence H. Gay lord and Henry Tubesing, of Pine Val ley, were in Union, the fore part of the week. Mr. W.T. Wright received this week a life size crayon portrait of his wife, which he had enlarged by an artist in New York. Mr. Joseph linker, attorney of La Grande, was in Union, this week, at tending to some law business. Jo is always on the rush. The members of the Episcopal church, in this city, will give an en tertainment during court week, for the benefit of the church. Johnny Kinibrell, of North Powder, was in town yesterday, lie snys his wife who has been quite sick for sever al days past is improving. Mr. Kinney, of the linn of Horoughs it Kinney, job printers, Pendleton, was in the city during the week" We ac knowledge a pleasant call. Mark Wilzin. ky, of Portland, is so journing at the Depot hotel, bathing in the mineral waters for the benefit of his health. He has been troubled with rheumatism for some time. Mrs. Schoonovcr went up to Cornu copia, Wednesday, for a short visit. Mr. Schoonovcr lias been there for sometime overseeing the road work now being done between Cornucopia and the valley. Mrs. Collin and daughter, Nora, will start to-day for Portland to meet Grace, who has not been benefitted by her trip to Tillamook, as much as she expec ted to be, and is on her way home. E. II. Clingan, of Cornucopia, ac companied by his biotiier, Dr. C. K. Clingan, of Sioux City, Iowa, arrived here Tuesday. The doctor had been making a tour of the Pacific coast, and was on his way home. A number of our citizens, probably twenty or twenty-five in all, took their departure this week for Wallowa coun ty. They expect to have a big time, and will probably be gone a couple of weeks. Mr. Springer, who has been out to Stein's mountain, looking after his stock interests, returned a few days ago. He reports a considerable loss of sheep, on account of not being sulli cicnt feed for them obtainable. Kov. Powell, of Cove, was in the city during the week. He informs us that, hereafter, services will be held at the Episcopal church in this city, regu larly every Sunday evening at 7 :-15 o'clock. A choir has been organized and there will bo good music. Mr. A. E. Eaton, who has been in Malheur county looking after his stock interests for the past two or three weeks, returned yesterday. He reports grass in abundance on the ranges, and stock doing well; but thinks that county is cursed with a gang of thieves, who have been carrying on a regular system of horse stealing. About (18 head of his horses are missing. RESTORED HEll SIGHT. Mitchell, Or. July 2(1, 18S0, For the benefit of the human race who may suffer from diseased eyes: When I was a child my eyes were af fected from scarlet fever. My father, J. H. Howard has spent a great deal of money for me without getting any relief. At times my eyes were so bad that I could not see at all. I was obliged to remain in a dark room for ten months at one time. No language can explain what I have suffered with my eyes. A success is Heaven to inc. June 28, 1880, 1 was fortunate, in meet ing Dr. S. Harmon at Prinevillo, Oregon- I had lost all topes of ever get ting cured. When 1 met the doctor ho examined my eyes and gave nie medicine. When I left his office I laughed at myself, thinking ho could do me no good, as I had tried numerous doctors before; but to-day this the 2(ith day of July, 188(1, my eyes are better and stronger than they have ever been since a child. I take great pleasure in recommending the doctor to like sufferers. MltS. FltAXKIK HoWAItll Btkwakt. Signed in presence of J. N. Iii.AOKKTT, Justice of the Puaco for Mitchell, Crook county,- Oregon. Hated July 20, 1880. Local Lines. For harvesting machinery, call on Jo. Wright. A cnnipmccting is in progress at Al der. Wallowa county. Don't wear out valuable machinery for the want of oil, when you can get the best at Jo. Wright's. ' Union is now without a marshal or nightwatchman. We wonder how long the council will let things contin ue in tliH way. 'fry the new baking powder at Jones Hro's. Only 115 cents a can. Warran ted as good as any powder in the mar ket, or money refunded. A. sixty thousand dollar fire oc curred at Pullman, W. T., ,last Mon day. M. Nodine, formerly of this city, lost his butcher shop valued at JfloOO, but it was insured for $101)0. The Chieftain says there will be over .'5000 feet of sidewalk built in Joycph this season. Good enough. Nothing like good sidewalkes to make a town look substantial and inviting. Sample hay press at Frank Hro'.. Implement Co. Island City house. It will press faster anil with more ease than any other. Don't fail to see it before purchasing. If you want a line pair of shoes or boots, call on Mr. C. Vincent, who has just received a large assortment of la test styles from the east. He will not be undersold for cash. Trv him. Jos. Wright is now fitted up in his large brick, with a new, full and com plete stock of stoves, tin and hardware, and will continue to sell goods as be fore cheaper than any house in Un ion county. Iteinenibcr the grand ball to bo giv en at Dunham Wrights hall in the i Park, on the evening of July Fourth. (iood mnsie will be in attendance, and an excellent supper served. Tickets including supper, $2.50. Every body invited. Frank llro's. Implement Co, of Isl and City, have just received their sec ond car load of harvesting machinery. They have all the late implements, and their pricen are lower than ever. See their new mower with late improve ment fv It is the boss, and don,t you forget it. In the inuch-written-aboiit wrestling contest which came oil' Saturday ev ening at linker City between James Pascoe, the Montana light weight, and Win. llowers, the former was the win ner. There were three "bouts" and as many styles of wrestling catch-as-catch-can, Cornish and Grieco-Roman. Pascoe was victor in each. The con test lasted a little over two hours. Powers weight, about 170 pounds, and P.ucoc 150. A very large crowd wit nessed the con tut. At Walla Walla and Dayton there is a great deal of talk about woolen mills, and it is believed that before the year is through cloth will be made at both places. It has escaped notice that fortunes have been made by every body who has engaged in woolen man ufacture in the Northwest in lateyears. linker Democrat. In this connec tion we will say that there is not a place in the State of Oregon where bet ter facilities for a woolen mill are to be found than Union, or a better sheep raising country to support it. A REPLY. Enrroit Scorr: While I deprecate the practice of rushing into print, yet I am the man that circulated the E. 1 lager road petition, and Mr. Parker says he blames me for not locating the road in a different place, hence. I feel it my duty to state a few facts to show that (in my opinion) Mr. Parker's neighbors are not imposing upon him as niuchiiR he seems to think. "Yank" and Mr. Parker both certainly made soino erroneous statements. In the first place there is less than 25 acres of Mr. Parker's land covered by county road he says from 50 to 00. The lin ger road takes less than '.I acres he says 0. There is less than 1 miles of road running through his ranch, one mile of which was thero before he owned the place. The rest of the county roads he speaks of is on the outboumlnries of his land and on lines between his laud and that of his neigh bors. All the county roads through and around his ranch of 2700 acres, in- j eluding the linger road, are as follows: 1 Three hundred rods 00 feet wide, 00 j rods -10 feet wide, 5(10 rods .'10 feet wide, and 1120 rods 20 feet wide. Myself and fifteen others of his neighbors signed a petition for .Mr. Parker asking the county court to vacate over 2 miles of road 00 feet wide and estab lishing road on lino at a cost to the county of about $17.50 and to this road district -111 day's work and $12. worth of lumber, and when some of the same neighbors with -10 others ask for one half of a road on a line !l of a mile be tween him and a neighbor, he thinks wc are imposing on him. Wo think not. Yours for the right, J. W. KIMDRELL. Just received at Herman Waldeck's, Summerville, an extra line and well se lected stock of mens' hoys' and youths' clothing which will he sold at astonishing low prices. Call and con vince yourself. Must Bo Settled. IlavhiKliinl the ml fortune to lose my en tire stock of goods, by tire, on the morning of the ;tOth. I must rnjueft nil those indebt ed to me to cull ut once and settle their ac count, uh 1 am in incd of money, and must huve it. , JOS. WltlOllT. Nutliu to Stockholder!. The minimi meeting of the stockholders of the Union Milling Ci-niniiny will lo held at the ollice of the cuiniiany In Unbn, on Sulurdav. July UW at -'"'clock V, M. ' Ji. 11. DltAKK, Sicy. From no.w until Herman Waldeck's, 20 YARDS 1.1(5 YARDS. 0,ffi-fe)hSl. Parasols, from 50 cts. upward. Jerseys, from one dol. upward. GLOVES, HOSE, CALICOES, RUiliONS, Etc, AT PRICES Fine ORIENTAL FLOUX Slits, $17.00 Mens' Fine Diagonal Suits, Si 6.50, t'.U.I. H.Uil.Y, SKCTHK TIIUSK CLOTHING, lens' Fine Gassimere Extra (tally Map- "SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT." List, 'twill be well for you, List, while I tell to you How I will sell to you Bargains all the way through. Ladies' Dress Goods Sold by Sample at Portland Prices, : GROCERIES AT BEDROCK rr rr SALT ALMOST MS Af AY, HARDPAI 01 F11SHIIS. II STOCK OF II M JOB IN. "As the twig is bent, so is the tree in clined. Drake buys for cash and gives, his custo mers the benefit. Cash is king- and success is his servant. Drake's low rent and low prices makes his store the place to save money. "I WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD." . it it is our turn, Inf.'rm tliu Citizens of 1'nlon mill I'ni iii'CoiintyFtlitit wi'.aro KrtTlvhiRii LuiKi) unit Finely Skrti-d Stink of Dry Goods, .Furnishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, Glass and Queensware, kre, hi and Iwm i etc. Which was bought for cash and will be sold strictly for cash, at prices that will "as tonish the natives." Wo don't cxii'ct to "run this town." lmt iln expect our nliuro ' tliu tnuto of this city 11111I country, if fulr iIciiIiiik. ooil.suuil low lrk'i'H will mxoniiillsli that ctitl. The old way of doing business is a thing of the past. Casli men do not want to pay poor debts and long-winded accounts. We expect to re-organize the mercantile busi ness in this valley, not to drum or humbug the people by misrepresentations, not to sell goods less than cost, but to make a uniform cash price on all goods, which means 20 per cent, lower than any man who buys on time can sell for. Twenty thousand dollars worth of general merchandise bought arid sold for casli will make this saving: 10 per cent, for the risk, 0 per cent, discount, cash and S800 for book keeper, making a saving of S4, 000. Does anybody blame us for starting the ball a rolling? An early inspection of our stock will wince TI10 most nkc)tlclc that tlio new order of business Ik much m'oro xntlsfactory o , JAYCOX & FOSTER, - - Union, Or. further notico, at - Summerville, Or. 6 yds. Wi I)H Oriental lace, 5 1 .00. GOOD COKSKTS, 50 cents, each. GINGHAMS, E.M11ROIDERIES, IN PROPORTION to A HOVE. CIXG for DRESS Fronts. nal, $221, BOYS' SUITS & JO SI ES in Proportion. llMHi.VIXri mill uvuid tin- HUSH. not to Hot ; tot to