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
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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