VOL. IV.
the Oregon scout.
An independent weekly journal, issued ev
cry Saturday morning by
JONES & (!HANCEV,
l'ubli-liers and Proprietors.
A. K. .Tom,
Kditor. f
i R. Ciianci:y,
( Foreman.
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" " Six intuitu 1.00
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If by ehanrr mtlitcrljitloiix arc not paid till
Rates of advc'itilnj? made known on np
plication.
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country solicited.
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Scott, Union Oregon.
I.nit;e Directory.
""A RAN'DK RONDK VALLHY IvOIKiE
Of No. .'. A. b and A. M. Meets on tho
second and fourth haturda vs of each month.
O. K'RKhL, W. M.
K. W. DAVIK. Secretary.
TTNION I.OIMJK. No. 39 I. ). O. V
KJ Regular meetings on Friday evenings of
cacn weeK attneir nan in I'nion. ah nretn
ren in good standing are invited to attend.
Ry order of the lodge.
fi. A. THOMRSO.N, N. O.
OIIAS. S. MILLKR, Secretary.
Chinch Directory.
MUTIIODIST KPISt'OI'AL CHURCH.
Divine service every Sunday at 11 a.
ni. and 7 j. in. Sunday school at It p. m.
Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at
ti:M. JU'.v. u. m. utwiA, rustor.
PRKSRYTKRIAN CHURCH. KKGU
larchureh services every Snhbatli morn
ing and evening, Prayer meeting Wednes
day evening ot each wcel:. r-animth school
everv hauhatn at hi a. in.
11KV. C. COX, I'astor.
OT. JOHN'S U PISCO PAL CHURCH.
Service every .Sunday ut !( o'clock p. m.
Ki;v. V. K vuwiAAi, Hector.
County OlMccra.
Statu Senator L. R. Riuchart
Representatives K,Bj&v
Judge. O. 1'. Kendall
O.nmissio.iers K;1),n,m:m
. Sheriff A. N. Hamilton
Clerk A. T. Neil!
Treasurer .K. C. Rralnard
School Superintendent . J. L, Iliudiuau
Surveyor .... M. Austin
Assessor O. I). Thoinlinson
Coroner S. Albcison
City Olllcers.
Mayor
I). 15. Rces
S. A. Purse!
J. S. Elliott
A. Lew
J. W. Kennedy
E. W. Davis
Ed. Rcmillard
Counciltncn
Recorder
Marshal
Treasurer
Htreet Commissioner
J. R Thomson
. , M. Heritage
J. 1). Carroll
j. Eaton
ritori.ssioNAL.
JOHN R. (MUTES,
Attorney at Law.
Collecting and probate practlcu speeial
jr ties. Olliee, two doors south of post-otlice,
Union, Oregon.
EAKIN ,
Attorney at Law
AND NOTARY I'UKLIC. Offlce, one
door south of .1. 11. Eaton's store, Union,
Oregon.
J N. CUOMWELL, M. D.f
Physician ami Surgeon.
Ollicc. one door south of J. R. Eaton'n
store, Union, Oregon.
JJ F. BURLEIGH,
Attorney at Law,
Real estate and collecting agent. Land
OtUco Business a Specialty. Otlke at Jo
seph, Wallowa county. Oregon.
Q K. RKLL,
Attorney at Law,
Notarv Public, and Abstractor of Titles.
Oflice State Land Olliee buildinc, corner
Main anil A Streets, Union, Oregon.
Q II. DAY, M. D
HOMEPATIIIC
Physician Surgeon.
ALL CALLS IT.OMI'TI.Y ATTENDED TO.
Oflice adjoining Jones Rro's store. Can
be f iu nd nights at tliu Centennial hotel,
room No. '23.
M Rakkii, J. W.Shelto.v. M. R Rakek.
B
VKKR. SHKLTON .fc RAKKIt,
Attorneys at Law.
OFFICES Union and IOrauiie, Ore
gon. Spcclul Attention given nil huhlDtfua
t-ntriistVil ) in.
ruoricssioNAi,.
jy 15. KEES,
Notary Public and Conveyancer.
Onice State Land Olliee building, Union,
Union county. Oregon.
J.M. CARROLL, I R. F. WILSON.
Notary Public. E.-Co. Clerk.
QAKltOLL & WILSON,
Conveyancers and Abstracters.
Abstracts to Real and Mining property
furnished on short notice, ut reasonable
rates.
Sales of Real and Mining property nego
tiated. Collection business promptly at
tended to.
Olliee next door south of l'oat-olliec. Un
ion, Oregon.
i j. conns, 3i. d., .
Physician myi Surgeon.
Having permanently located at Alder, Un
ion county O 'eg n. will be found ready to
attend to calls in all the various towns and
settlements of the Wallowa valley.
I3rCHR0NK: DISEASES A SPECIALTY.
My in .tto is: "Live and Let live,"
RELL,
House, Sign and Carriage
PAINTER
Graining a Specialty.
Shop, Corner Main and A Streets, Union,
Oregon.
JV. GAIIDXER& CO.,
Watchmakers & Jewelers,
Union, - - Oregon.
Clocks and Jewelry For Sale.
Kcpiili inK nt Mnler.-Ui! lCntes.
Call and examine our goods and price1).
AND SODA FACTORY,
Cor. Main and R Sts. - - Union, Oregon,
SIIKtlMAX ICAIiKY, l'rups.
Manufacturers and dealers in Soda Wa
ter, Snrsaparilla, Ginger Ale, Cream Soda
and Champagne Cider, Syrups, etc. Or
ders promptly tilled.
City-Meat -Met
Main Street. Union, Oregon,
BENSON BROS. - PROPRIETORS.
Keep constantly on hand
BEEF, PORK- VEAL, MUTTON,
SAUSAGE, 1IAMS, LARD. Etc.
Tonsorial Rooms.
J. M. JOHNSON, - - PROPRIETOR,
Main Street, Union, Oregon.
Hair cutting, shaving and shampooing
done neatly and in the best style.
Hot and Cold Baths.
Geo. Wkiout,
President.
W. T. Wright,
Cashier.
-OF-
UNION,
OREGON.
Does a General Ranking Rusiness. Ruyg
and selln exchange, and discount. commer
cial paper.
Collections carefully attended to, and
promptly reported.
ALPINE H0TEU
Cornucopia, Union county, Or.
R. C. WARINNER, Prop'r.
The oiilv firrit c'as home in thu enmn.
Kentucky Litiiior Store
First laU hL
Nopainj fp.urd to make guest tooifoita
Lie. Ctrareres Rttisorrgrbr.
UNION, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST
Our Poets.
TliN Mpnre is given for the ue ant!
henetitt of our local writer" of verse,
and we hope to make it a pleasing feature
of the paper. To that end eontrihiitlons are
solicited, hut they mtwt po.M's undoubted
literary merit to' obtain place and recogni
tion here Ei.J
Written for the HcofT.)
MoniiiiN siii:riii:iti)S.
Unlike their (plaint ancetors
The shepherd of to-day;
Nut stamped with Heavenly piety.
Rut more jocund and gay.
They sport not now the harmless crook,
Rut pack a "needle gun"
And 'run a blulP' on any man
When fresher range is won,
In lonely tents beneath the trees,
They pas the night away,
And "wooly, wild and full of llecs,"
Await the coining day.
Instead of winged angels,
A cougar or a bear
Comes to the camp at dead o' night
And spreads confusion thre.
Their sole associate is a dog,
Their sole defense a gun;
If irate rancher conies' around
The herder is sure to run.
Instead of gaining light from Heaven,
He endures the scorching rays
Of the autumn nun on barren hlhs,
Wldle on a harp he plays.
Unlike the hurp of David,
Which waked the weary souls.
Tills harp supports a famous name
Has ' Richtcr"on the moulds.
Long live tlic.se noble shepherds
To tend the herds of men,
Albeit nut beholding
The Star of Rethlehcm.
-R. W. II.
Telocaset Tattlings.
Augnst 17th, 18S7.
Let us bo incorporated,
Ere G rover in nominated
la the lmppy time to conic in eighty-
eight.
With a Haw mill to mipport us,
And Pine creek mines to court us,
We'll deride our gmuller Kihtcra o'er
their fate.
Haying about over.
Weather very warm ; 00 in the
shade.
Sammy Brooke, of the Cove, paid us
a visit the lirst ot the week.
Miss Enolu Twigg, of this place,
took her departure for Hood river,
Monday.
Eccles tfc Go's, saw mill is in run
ning order. Hurrah for Antelope!
We will have to be imposed upon now,
perhaps, by a store.
Toniliiihon it Brooke moved one
band of their sheep to Suinpter valley
in Baker county, the lirst of tho week,
in search of better range.
The grain crop in this vicinity in
better than it lias been for n number
of years. The range in drying up very
fast, and outside stock will have to be
pastured as soon as possible.
Mr. A. G. Carter, more familiarly
known as "Uncle Andy," received the
papers granting him a pension, a few
days ago. He is the snow shed watch
for tho O.R. & N. Co. and one of the
sturdy survivors of the Mexican war.
It seems that tho old religious part
of Antelope valley is gradiniliy dying
out. A few year ago some of our
good people would go to church twice
during the summer, but now they do
not go at all.
Tho huckleberry patch is one place
where friend and foe meet on an equal
footing; neither one is encroaching on
the others rights, and consequently, all
go there at every opportunity to in
dulge in a few day of free and unmo
lested quietude. B, II.
(JIVK THEM A CIIANCKt
Thnt is to say. your lungs. Also all your
breathing machinery, Very Wonderful ma
chinery it is. Not only the larger air-passages,
but the thousands of little tubes and
cavitiei leading from them.
When these are clogged and choked with
mutter which ought not to be there, your
lungs cannot half do-their work, And what
they do, they cannot do well,
Call it cold, cough, croup, pneumonia, ca
tarrh, consumption or any of the family of
throat and nose and head and lung obstruc
tions, all arc had. All ought to be got rid
of. There is ust one sure way to get rid of
them. That Is to take Rosthee'a Herman
8yrup, which any druggist will sell you nt
76 cents a bottle. Even if everything else
has failed you, you may depend upon this
for certain.
SLOfJO.OOO to loan on firrt class real
ebtato ecc'urity byt P. F. Balcer, Union.
COVE.
Nous of lln M'iM'li in Nnle.l liv rtnr WIrte
uwaKc Cot ii'siionilinl.
August lSth, 18S7.
O. P. Barnes, of Paradise, and Mrs.
F. M. Mason, of Lost valley, are in
town. They have not forgotten their
old home.
The festive porcelain pump man, of
Baker, done the town this week, and
inserted several of his instrument: in
Cove wells.
Win. ICoenig sports a horse and bug
gy since Tuesday, lie says it is just
as cheap to ride behind a phaeton and
a Jay Eye See as to walk.
Born. To the wife of .1. L. Gibson.
August the Ilrd.. a sou. The happy
father is in Chrnueopia and has not
been heard from since tho joyful event.
Win. Bloom and Robt. Cochran
have gone to Hogcm whore they will
be employed about the mills'. Dudes
in town are scarce since their depar
ture. Fredrick Mitchell is preparing to
build a commodious residence for his
own accommodation, near the site of
hid present house. Win. ICoenig has
been employed to plan and erect the
same.
Edwin Boswell returned home from
Pine valley, Wednesday. He has been
engaged in hauling lumber to the
mines since May, and brings home a
pocket full of sheekels, tho result of
honest toil.
Born. To the wife of Wesley Dun
can, in lxiwer Cove, on the Ilrd. inst.,
a boy. Wes. was Been, by tho neigh
bors, in the wash tub the next day, so
no alarm need be felt on account of
his condition.
Haying is nearly finished. The
quality is very good this year and the
quantity nearly double what was
cured last season. Unless shipments
out of the valley are large, tho supply
is ample for the most severe winter
and spring.
J. W. Murphy Iuib picked, on his
farm, and sold, this season, tivo hun
dred gallons of stiawberrios and rasp
berries. Several hundred gallons of
the latter fruit Rave gone to waste,
having been neglected on account of
necessary attention required for hay
ing. Profs. Smith and Powell, of the
Episcopal schools, visited Baker this
week. Jt is expected a number of
students from Baker county will take
advantage of our line educational ad
vantage!! this fall. The Ascension
school for girls opens two weeks from
next .Monday.
Cove orehardists aro suffering from
depredations of midnight marauders
who carrv away loads of peaches and
plums besides breaking and injuring
the trees. The loss has been so seri
ous that somo now aro going nightly
on a vigil, guarding their property
with shot guns charged with bird shot.
For sale at an cxtortionato price,
Prof. W. F. B's chronometer, price 25
cents. Davo. Ugh! 1 drank two
gallons of water to-day, with a cat in
the well. Bert. Tho next time j
cross tho valley, will indulge in pedes
trianism. After-colliding with a lum
ber wagon, carts are an oxjiensivo lux
ury. Miss Surah. Wo did not know
Jno. saw us gathering forbidden fruit.
Two ladies. A repeating yellow jacket
along tho vertebrae is not t-o pleasant
as it is cracked up to be, Bud.
TO THE CITIZENS AT LARGE.
New Bridge, August l, 1887.
We, tho undersigned, have been in
formed that wo havo told that wo be
lieved that Thos. Council and Jus.
Butterfield killed John Nolen, the man
that left tho vicinity of Little Euglc,
Juno 12, 1887. Anyone understand
ing us to nay that, misunderstood us,
and wo had no intention of telling any
thing of the kind, as we do not bulieve
that cither of tho above named men
would do anything of tho kind.
Lkwib Jknninoh,
E. II. Smith.
EAGLE COOPER SHOP.
S. B. Aylcs, manufacturer of but
ter barrels and kegs, has always pn
bund a good supply of tho best quality
and will sell them ut reasonable prices.
Givo him it call at his shop, south of
the Bchool house, Union.
THIRTY-FIVE CENTS A CAN.
Tho Milk'ino Baking Powdor, full
pound cans, warranted as good us any
in tho market. For sale at Jones Bros.
Try it.
20, 1SS7.
I
ummerviiie.
The
'rnp Ontl k- l'lro
Neoilrd -Tlm Olrthci-la-r.iitKi'tnliuncnl.
DcHru-linrnt
A t'.eo
tii id piuHiiisrncmsTH.
Summcrville, Aug. Hi, 1SS7,
Oh, the dust, the Milling dust !
II. Waldeck is laying in a stock of
goods for the tall trade.
My items of hist week should have
stated that "haying" was over, instead
of "heading."
J. H. UinehiUt and wife returned
from Wallowa on Friday of last week,
and report plenlv of rod lisli in the
lake.
Several threshing machines have
started up at this end of the valley,
and all report the grain to be of a good
quality.
W. II. Utis'scll disposed of his band
of horses and mares at auction one day
last week, realizing from the sale about
$12. per head.
Still the hot weather continues, and
still the weary laborer continues to
cuss the fates tliatdoom him to a life
of toil. Rut 'twas ever thusly.
1 am the "boss of the road" since I
received my new bycicle. II. ( li.
Stop me, boys, 1 am about to fall. A.
J. P. 1 don't buy any more wool,
now. 11. W.
The mills at this place will shut
down in a few days for want of grain.
This will give them uu opportunity to
make some necessary repairs before
beginning on this year's crop.
Summerville is in need of a lire de
partment, and a meeting should he
called to devise some nitans by which
our town would be, heller protected
from the fury of the "lire fiend."
Dr. C. Dittebrandt has quite a large
number of cases of diphtheria, and so
far has handled them very stieeesfully.
He has not, as yet, lout a patient,
though some eases were very aggra
vated. I). Summer has opened a branch
store at KIgin, and Chailes Patten lias
gone to that plaru to assume charge of
thu same. Chalk's is A nteady boy,
and Mr. Soinmer may rest assured that
his business at that place will receive
due attention.
Tho prohibitionists at this place are
making ready for tho light that will
tako place at The polls the 8th of No
vember. What the result will be, time,
will tell. Tho anti-prohibitionists at
this place sire quite numerous, and will
piobubly carry tho day in this precinct,
hut by good mananeiiieut on the part
of the "no wet" party, the verdict may
Ihj changed,
On Saturday of last week tho citi
zens of this place of all sexes, ages and
conditions were out on the streets to
witness a performance, tho like of
which had never heretofore been seen
evon in tho most luxuriant city. Va
rious were the comments bestowed,
and many wero tho criticisms passed,
but wo think tho skill of the perform
er was not to bo questioned, as it was
his first appearance in publje, and tho
sight of such a large crowd no doubt
unmanned the boy and made him ap
pear at adisadviiutage. When Harvy
gets acustomcd to the "bucking" of tho
"critter" ho may mako a better show
ing in public, and may even bo ablo to
rido tho cycle without taking a, "head
er.'
Crank.
La ( ramie XoteH.
Weather very hot. with heavy even
ing breezes, which makes tho dust
disagreeable at times.
Thoro is a good deal of building go
ing on, and somo very unique residen
ces aro being erected.
The waterworks will bo of great ben
efit in case of Hro, if tho pressure is
sulllcieiit, and will help to beautify tho
city, it boing an excelled irrigating
means, thus keeping tho Lu Grande
park whoso existence is not yet and
tho yards of residentcrs more verdant
than they aro at present, but probably
tho near future will witness u great
battlo, in which right versus' might,
through their respective delvcrs in
Lycurgian lore, will cut great gashes in
each othor'H sides, whilo tho Goddess
of Justice blindfolded with u checked
silk handkerchief will look down from
a dizzy height upon the bleeding con
testants, and with her adjustable balan
ces, dutormiiio tho value of tho pros
and cons of tho caso.
To ront. Good barn, wull arranged
aud couvoniunt to wator. Centrally
located. EnVfiiiro df II, B. Drake.
NO. 8.
AX Ol'TIXCJ.
Adw'iiturrs of our l.a (ir.imte Corrripoii
ilonl anil I'nty ol I'l-li'iuli.
Huckleberry Mountain, Aug. 18.S7.
Dkau Km-rim :
Well, here we are, live men, four
guns, three women, two children and
two dogs.
l.tict Wednesday morning just as
old irol began to peek over the Eagle
mow caps, we bade good-bye to La
Grande and soon were climbing Fox
hill on our way to the wowds. Of
course wo could not ride; no horses
could lie found strong enough to tako
such u load up such. a grade, hut while
our tents and supplies rode, every
creature "with legs hud to ue thorn;
but we were in no hurry, and would
frequently stop and rest and enjoy the
beautiful scenery which gradually un
folded to our view as we ascended from
the river at Oro Dell.
The n freshing green of the meadows,
the golden line of die harvest fields,
the comfortable homes of tho farmers,
and the noble Grande Untitle with its
majestic, sweep and graceful curves,
going far towards making our valley
tho most beautiful spot on earth. No
wonder it is called the "Gem of Ore
gon," for there is nothing so fine in tho
whole broad State. No wonder that
imigraiits from the East never want to
go hack.
At. 1 1 :!!() we stopped for our noon
day hutch, for which wo had a good
relish, and at 1 o'clock we pitched our
tents among the towering pines of tho
mountain.
While the valley is beautiful, this is
grandly delightful, with its velvety car
pet of grass, the breath of the fragrant
evergreens, a constantly cool atmos
phere, and drink from the snowy
springs. Oh, how w'e wished all our
friends could enjoy it with us.
Rut the fuvl - f hours in camp aro
not the most pleasant onus for a party
of picnickers like the first year of
married life, some things have to bo
learned. Everybody enjoys sitting
about a IJazing camp-fire, but not ev
erybody knows how to cook by such a
lire, so the bread is liable to get most
too biown on theotuVulo while, tho in
side is not brown enough, and tho
meat lias most too much variety about
it. The teapot gets its nose melted oil'
and so does the cook almost; and
then it requires at least ono night to
get used to the new beds. You aro
liable to spend a part of the first night
on your knees hunting for the pino
cones and little stones which mtulo
your bed uneven, and then you think
about snakes and bears and cougars,
so that you can't really say the next
morning that you had a good night's
rest; but after awhile the situation im
proves, or you adopt yourself to tho
situation ; the bracing air gives, health
to the blood ; tho food becomes pala
table, and you sleep as well as though
thoro wero no cougars or cones within
a thousand miles.
lluckloberrying is very nice, but
rather tamo enjoyment. It is very
easy work, but not very exciting. Wo
start out, find a good patch, gather
our arms full of bushes, then select a
nico place where wo can sit down and
pick oil' tho berries, then gather anoth
er arm full of hushes, etc. Spine of
our party tried knocking tho berries oft'
on sheets, but they found tho fruit was
not quite so nice to eat during tho
day or tho sheets to sleep on at night,
so they gave it up.
After a few day's picking ono gets
tired of it and longs for something
more entertaining, so we wero delight
ed ono evening to hear that a cougar
had been soon or heard near whom
tho women worn picking berries. Thoy
heard certain ominous sounds, such as
tho cracking of dry sticks, and onco
thoy heard a heavy fall as though
somo heavy animal hail sprung from a
troo to tho ground.
A council of war was hold, and it
was decided that four of tho bravest
hunters should startotit and spond tho
night in a hunt for tho cougar. Tho
guns worn examined; tho harmless
squirrel shot was extracted ; tho deadly
buck was substituted, and at dark wo
started out. Thoso who have nover
been out on such an expedition know
but little of thu difl'culties in tho way.
Frequently a fallen troo obstructs your
path ; badger holes aro froquent, and
thero aro very loncsomo gulches to
cross, besides tho danger of meeting a
bear, so as a consequonco wo did not
got so very far from camp, but finding
a lingo log which looked as though it
would protect our backs, wo all settled
down to watch for tho cougar. Boon
wo concluded our backs would bo bet
ter protected if wo had two nion on tho
other sido of tho log, so wo called for
tho volunteers, and alter a while two '
(tontinvKi oi Idu pane