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VOL. IV. The Oregon Scout. An independent weekly Journal, issued ev ery Friday niornlng bv JONES & CHANCE Y, 1'ublMicrs and Proprietors. A. K. .To.M'.s, l Editor. ) I 15, ClIANCT.T, "( Foreman. 11ATKS OK SUP.SCKII'TION: One copy, one year $1.50 ' " Six months ... 1.00 " Three niontos Invariably Cnsli In AilvaiuM-. If by chance subscription tire nut paid till end of year, tiro dollars will be charged. Kates of advertising made known on ap plication. J3f Correspondence from all parts of the country solicited. Adress nil eommunicationsto the Ouniios Scout, Union Oregon. l'KOIMCSSIONAl. It. Eakin, .1. A. Kakis, Notary Public. J EAKIN , & BBOT1IEB , Attorneys at Law, Union, Oregon. JISTPrompt Attention Paid to Collect.ons. joiin it. cbites, Attorney at Law. Collecting and probate practice special ties. Office, two doors south of post-olllec, Union, Oregon. J N. CROMWELL, M. D. , Physician and Surgeon. Ofllcc. one door south of J. H. Eaton's store, Union, Oregon. Q P. HULL, Attorney at Law, Notarv Public, and Abstractor of Titles. Oillce State Land Ofliee bidldinu, corner Main and A Streets, Union, Oregon. Q II. DAY, 31. D., IIOMKPATIIIC Physician and Surgeon. ALL CALLS l'ltOMl'TLY ATTi:.Vni:i) TO. Ofllcc adjoining Jones Urn's store. Can be found nights at the Centennial hotel, room No. 23. M. Bakkh. J. W. Siii:i.to.v. J. P. li.vKini. JgAKEK, SIIELTON& P.AKElt, Attorneys at Law. OFFICES Union and La Orande, Ore gon, Special Attention given alii business entrusted to us. rj II. CBAWFOBD, Attorney at Law, Union, Oregon. Office, one door south of Centennial ho le!. J. M. CAItUOLL, I I!. F. "WILSON. Notary Public. Ex-Co. Clerk. QARBOLL & WILSON, Conveyancers and Abstracters. Abstracts to Ileal and Mining property furnished on short notice, at reasonable rates. Sales of Real and Mining property nego tiated. Collection business promptly at tended to. Otlice next door south of Post-office, Un ion, Oregon. J. E. TUTTLE, Union, Oregon, Has for sale on easy terms, 18,000 acres of good laud in Union and linker counties, al so some choice town propeaty. Money to Loan. Collections Made. Agent for the 0. R. & N. Com pany's Land. Office, one door south of Centennial hotel. FASHIONABLE DEESS - MAKING ! Miss Linda Mathicus, (Late of Paris, France,) Has opened a dress-making establishment in the building one door north of Johnson' blacksmith shop. Ail Work Warranted to Give Satisfaction. OHA KG US REASONABLE. Rea Estate Ap X. GAIlDXlillib CO., Watchmakers & Jewelers, And dealers in Spectacles, Eye Glasses, Gold Pens, Watches Clocks, Jewelry, etc. Main Street, - - - - Union, Oregon. On farmland in Umatilla. linker, Union, Gilliam ami Wallowa counties, a at 8. I), 10 and 11 per cent, on live vcar's time. Call on. I. li. 1IINE1IA11T, at tho Farm ers' Mortgage and Savings ltank, Summer ville, Oregon, if you want money on.fnrm loans. The 8 per cent is on improved farm land Hear the railroad in Orande Hondo Valley. 10-21-mO, J. II. HINE1IAHT. City - Meat -- Market. Main Street. Union, Oregon, BENSON BROS. - PKOPBIETOBS. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, PORK- VEAL, MUTTON, SAUSAGE, HAMS, LARD. Etc. Gi:o. WitrmiT, ) W. T. WitionT, President. j" Cashier. -OP- UNION, . OREGON. Does a (icnoral Banking Uusiness. lluys ami sells exchange, and discounts commer cial paper. Collections carefully attended to, and promptly reported. e trail I A. J. GOODBROD, Prop. OPENED ANEW. The Leading Hotel of Eastern Oregon. Everything New and First Class Throughout. The table always supplied With the best ahe market affords. ExcellentAccomoda tions for Commer cial Men. Charges Reasonable. I ORTGAGE UNION, OREGON. $500,000.00 to Loan on First Class Security, From One to Five Years Time, at a Low Rate of Interest, Also lluys, Sells ana items l'roperty lor Non-reidents. T POSI I () OXKV HECKIVEl) ON DEPOSI To 1m; Invested on Guaranteed Security. All Collections Promptly Attended to Without Delay. Line to Cove. Loaves Union daily at Up. m, arrives at Cove at 8:80 p. m. Iamivcs Cove at 8 a. in., arrives at Union atOiIJOa. m. Connections made with Elliott's couches running to tho depot, carrying passengers for east and west bound trains. ItATKS for l'AHKKNOKIlti, I.lWflAni: mill I'lIDIIlIlT, JtKASONAllI.K. ROIMNhON A; LAYNH, Proprietor, Fra laiiuul M Bank, UNION, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL ? ISSS. mviiii,i;:raur.jxmTCiiis; OUR POETS. This space is given for the use and benefit of our local writers of vero. and we hope to make it a pleading feature of tho.paper. To that end contributions are solicited, but they mtM jk-ms undoubted literary merit to obtain place and recogni tion here Kl. Written for the Scout. 1 Al)l)j:i:SS TO 3IISKKV. Through all my limbs with raging speed, Not deeming it a wicked deed, Nor giving to my wailing heed. Your pain is felt, Ilv Jove! mv heart is sore in need Of kindness dealt I Thou venomned reptile of deep Hell. Your shooting pangs of anguKh ipiell I Or do the elements rebel That fonm your name? Ah, what you eaue, no tomr'ue can tell I Of vice and shame I Could wealth your pain and anguish buy ! Could swallows carry to the sky I Could mankind view thee with the eye Of death's sure dart ! Who now on earth will sound a cry When you depart ? I'll give thee all that others can, The blessings of an honest man, To go and live where you began, Ne'er to return ! Go haunt the Devil and hi vain, Where all sins burn ! Take back the heart of lire you gavel Take back the soul that mocks the gravel Leave me your humble toiling slave Forcvermorel Launch me upon Life's stormy wave Far from the shore 1 When to the final test I'm brought, And lost the Heaven I long have sought The paradise where Adam fought With serpents vile; I'll lay it to the harm you ve wrought, To this pure child I I!. W. II. A SHEEPMAN KILLED. The sad news reaches us to-day (hut William Boss, the wealthy sheepman of Pilot Hock, has been stabbed and killed. Yesterday, about 4 o'eloek, Mr. Boss went to one of his sheep camps, on the old Carlson pre-emption claim, and got into a row with his herder, Fred Noble, whom he struck iirst with his hand and then with a club, which tho herder resented by drawing a knife anil stabbing Mr. Boss m the right side of the abdomen. He was taken to one of the camps near where he was stabbed, and died about 12 o'clock last night. Very little could be learned about the trouble between them, except that it was about some fencing. An other report is that Noble commenced tho row and struck the first blow. However, McKay left for Pilot Bock this afternoon to hold an inquest, which will probably determine which was to blame. Mr. Boss has always been one of our best citizens until with in tho past year during which time he has had considerable trouble with va rious persons. Somo think ho has been partially insane, while others think he has only been led by trouble some persons to believe that everybody in Pendleton were combined to rob and abuse him. Mr. Boss was probably worth about $75,000, and employed a large number of men in his business. He was universally liked and respected until within tho last year, during which timo everybody seemed to fear him. He was divorced from his wife a short timo ago in Morrow county and made a fair division of his property, which leaves her in comfortable cir cumstances. The coroner's report will probably give further and full particu lars. Pendleton Republican. HONEY FBOM PEABS. A writer in a lato number of Vicks Magazine, sayH that after reading an account of how they mado honey from pears in Switzerland, he determined to attempt something of the kind hini pelf. Accordingly last season ho took a basket of Sheldon pears of melting ripeness, and after pressing thorn first through a linen cheeso cloth and then through flannel, ho had about three quarts of tho juice which he put in a stone jar and set in a heated brick bako oven, over night, whero it was allowed to simmer until next morning, when after boiling tho same for about an hour, it was reduced to about a quart of delicious honey, which, though not an improvement on that made by bees, was quite an agrceablo variety from it, containing all its sweetness, with a perceptible flavor of the fruit. It kept perfectly sound through tho succeeding winter, with its pear flavor oven lottor than at first. Not a grain of sugar was used in the process, tho 'honey being the pure juice of the fruit. Miss Mathien will bo in Covo until further notice, every Monday afternoon, and will remain about two days. All those wishing dress-making, etc., will please govern themselves accordingly. tii iiinirrTT-i ynvr-r tttti - Cove C'ullin&s. April nth., JSSS. Fvank 2Tcwall has rented his Cove farm to James Ilursin for one year. Mrs. Aaron Thonms has gone on a visit to her parents living at Williams, in Josephine county. Trout falling along the creek is all the rage now. Many strings ranging from fifty to a hundred have been taken. Tho pnstolTico was moved, Tuesday, to the Wright it Duncan building, in a front room prepared for its accom modation. L. .1. Bouse was in town this week, lie started, Monday, for Wallowa county, taking a load of fruit trees fiom the Union nurseries. The Episcopal schools produced tho "Count of Serano" at La Grande, Monday evening. Tho receipts were about seventy-live dollars. Mis. lloltby has returned to Cove, having completed her school near Suminerville. She has accepted the High valley school and will soon com mence. Miss Nellie Stevens went to Pendle ton, Monday, on a visit. During her stay she will apply for a position dur ing tho fall term of tho Pendleton public school. Frank Mitchell started with his drove of three hundred and fifty head of cattle to Crow creek in Wallowa coun ty, Wednesday. Win. Jones will herd them this summer. The prominent democrats, Messrs. C. M. Jameson, .las. Ilendershott, and E. P. McDaniel went to Pendleton, j Monday, to be at the tceno of action I early. Mrs. Williams and daughter, Miss Nell'c, also Mrs. Green, all of Looking Glass, Douglass county, arc visiting ! relatives in (Jove. The ladies are sis j ters of tho Mitchell brothers of tiiis , place. B. Ilassom and wife, of Lake Mills, i Wisconsin, are visiting acquaintances j in Cove, this week. Mr. Ilassom has ' made a tour of the West, including California, and expresses himself well , pleased. ' Jno. Doney and Wesley Matlock, of Loighlou Academy, have quit school i for this year. Mr. Doney has accepted I a position in a store at Baker City and j Mr. Matlock has returned to his home : in Pendleton, on account of failing health. .1. C. Doney's nursery is beginning to make a good appearance. Ho lias just finished putting in twenty thous I and grafts. Ho will have a fine lot of j trees for market next fall, also a good I linn of shrubbery and evergreens. He j has placed an Eastern order for the latest and best variety of strawberries. At tho republican primary, Wednes day, Messrs. II. J. (Jeer, James Payne, J. M. Selder and M. B. Beese were elected dleegales to tho county conven tion. No instructions were given, but on motion a ballot was taken to find out the sentiment of tho meeting. Tho following received a majority : For joint senator, J W. Norvnl; for clerk, Jno. Williamson; for sherill', A. N. Hamilton. Tho new proprietors of the Indian creek saw mill mamhalled their forces and proceeded into tho heavy forests this week. S. Bloom is captain and chief advisor; Win, Bloom and J. Bumbley, two best bowers; J. Conner, end man and off bearer; O. Pugh, bean boiler and compounder of deli cacies; Laf. Keller, bull puncher mid conveyer of material. Wo may ex pect a decline in lumber this season. I am quite a sight sometimes, whilst sawing sweet strains from a violin. .1. L. I wasn't frightened; it was only powder on my face. Miss V. It costs something to go to La Grande. W. M. The only and original "Uuclo Ful ler" of historic, nolo is keeping house for me. Elmer. Oh, Mr. Bobin.son, just hold tho stage a minute. X. I inn through with La Grsude: lliey guyed us. J. C, One man at least wants mo for clerk. Ammi. And hero for fcherill'. Eugene, You are nobody at all now, unlws you have a dozen or so of Job's comforters on tho hack of your neck. S. Karo-thee-well, sisters anil hrethron. -Wosloy. Mrs. Landis, who was nrrustcd some timo ago for netting firo to hor dwell ing in Walla Walla, at tho name time the Aurora hotel wax burned, has made a confession implicating Mrs. J. Pylo, proprietor of tho Aurora hotel, Jimmy Hellloy and John Hum, It is very likoly that she was nn much interested in setting the buildings on fire as the othersr The whole crowd are in juil at Walla Walla. - i - j Novlh Powder Nuggets. April2, 1888. Dave Beveridge went to Union yes j tcrday. Young Mr. Norval, of Suinmerville, was up to-day, on Wolf creek, looking for a school. N. 15. Bowman almost severed his thuin with an axe, last week while splitting wood. A Mr. Sherad, brother-in-law to S. Vandeear, of this place, has bought the James Castle ran civ. J. Sharinghousen, of Portland, was up last week, looking after some land which hoownes on North Powder. Tho company of Oreuon State mili tia at this place has etlectod a perma nent organization, with Miles Lee as captain. .1. W. Kimbrell returned last week from Pine Valley. Ho says there is some snow in the valley yet, and farm ing has not commenced. On e of our eilhicns at the primary last week thought that it would bo better at the next election to elect difl'erent men to some of tho more im portant offices, as; county orders are too high, you know. We used to buy them at (!() to 70 cents to pay on our taxes; now we have to pay 'Jo cents, and it's a dieted shame, you kpow. Yank. High Valley Happenings. The frogs are singing for rain, but it comet h not. The result of the democratic county convention appears to give general satisfaction hero. Mr. E. Draper, with characteristic energy has circulated a new road peti tion, hoping to have better success this, time. Our school opened on the 2nd i list with 27 pupils, JIws Mary Holt shy, of the Covo as teacher. Why can anyone bo surprised at the stringency of our money market when there is something over six hundred millions of currency, including gold and silver coin, greenbacks and nation al bank notes in the United States treasury? If spoilage and patronage are the means that must be employed to reward certain of tho brethren for their faithfulness, leaving out fitness and fairness, then does the end not justify? Homo. Brownleo Perry. March 2filh 1888. j We aro having splendid weather j now, and the grass is fine. j We are still in search of the lost boy. I The report that w.is circulated some I time since that he had returned is j false, and the person who circulated it ) is a liar unworthy of notice. Tho ferry is in running order, and j the road in line conditou. Travel ban I already commenced this way. Several I wagons and a herd of cattle have passed hero bound for Montana, dur ing the past few days. Anyone wish ing to drive stock to tho upper coun try will find this the best mid shortest route. Wood, water and grass aro to bo found almost anywhere along tho route. Tho ferry rates have been re duced to one-half what they were last year, as follows: Loose slock, 12$ cents; man and horse, f0 cents; pack animals, 2,ri cents; wagon and two horses, sfl.fiO; sheep, -1 cents; hogs, 1$ cents; Boiihut Biiown. jtKAVi: ur. You are feeling duprcuxcd, your appetlto In poor, you aro bothered with Headache, you are figetty, nervous, and generally out of sorU, ami want to niucr. up. II race up, but not with Ktlmulciits, spring medicines, or bittern, which have for their basin very cheap, bad whiskey, and which Mlinuluto you for an hour, and then leave you In worso condition than before. What you want In an alternative that will purify your blood, idart healthy action of Liver und KldneyH, restore your vitality, and give re newed health mid xtrcugth. Much a medi cine you will find in Klectrlu Hitters, and only .'-0 cents a bottle at Wright's drug store, Union, Oregon. Why buy from iinigrating agents of whom you know nothing, eitherof their responsibility or tho charecter of their goods, when there are responsible deal ers located near you, who carry full and complete lines of all farm and mill machinery and implements, and whoso niiccesH it is for your best intereatH to support with your patronage? Frank Pro's. Implement Co, of Island City request your consideration of their claim, and refer you to your neighbors who have had dealings with them, li IN). 41. Washington JLolter. March 27th, 18S8. EniToit Ohkoon Scout: The Confederate soldier was the in nocent cause of quite a breeze in the United States senate on Tuesday. Tho "bloody shirt" was again introduced, and an extended debate followed, all in consequence of Senator Blair's lat est bill, just introduced, providing that in appointments to civil service posi tions, ex-Confederate soldiers are to bo preferred to other Confederates. Senator Piatt thought that the bill had a pietly unfortunate title; it docs not give the Confederate soldier tho first ptefcronee; it does not put him ahead of the honorably discharged Un ion soldier as might be understood from the title alone. It simply prefers the wounded and disabled Confederate to some other kinds of Confederates. In tho discussion, Senator Hale said it. was apparent the bill proposed to aj ply to the Confederate soldier a prefer ence which is now given by law to tho loyal velerans'of the North. He could not countenance such legislation.1 Sen ator Piatt further said that tho bill recognized service in the Confederate army as meritorious. He was unwil ling to vote on any proposition avowed ly favorable to a Confederate soldier as such. A number of senators were led into tho debate, among them Hoar, Deny, Biddleberger. Hamilton, Dan iels and George. The New Hamp shire senator, who interests himself in overy good cause, and advocates any legislation that seems kind and gener ous and humane, whether it be to ex tremely "constitutional" or not, stated that he had introduce this bill on Ins own responsibility, believing it to bo a simple measure of justice. Ho was satisfied that in making appointments of men who were disloyal, justice has not bo done to tho wounded veterans. Congress has given no attontion to the question of prohibition since last week when Senator Colquitt, of Geor gia, who has taken quite a prominent part in tho prohibition movement in his state, introduced a local option bill in tho senate. It provides for a local option election in the District of Col umbia, whenever 10,000 inhabitants of the District shall petit on the Chief of Police to order such an election. A member of tho Senate District Committee suggested that it would bo nioio business-like to obtain an ex pression of opinion through the polico department by a general canvass of tho city. In this way the sentiment of the people could be nearly enough determined as for or against prohibi tion to afi'ord congress a safe guido for its future legislation without resorting to tho questionable machinery of a pop ular election. It is understood that Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, favors a high license system and that he is preparing a bill to that eileet which he will introduce soon. A New Hampshire congiessman has just given a surprise to Washington political circles by developing tho tPlo of "Bcverend." Tho Universalist church of our Father, in this city, which is now without a pastor, is tak ing trial sermons from different prea chers. On last Sunday tho service was conducted and tho sermon deliver ed morning ami evening by Bepresen tativo McKinney. Tho reverend con gressman made a very favorable im pression and from the comment passed by leading church members, it would not be surprising if ho were called to the pastorate of this church. In the early part of this week thero was a great crowd in the United States Supremo Court room to hear tho de cision in favor of the Dell Telephone Company. The court held that there was nothing to show that any one laid invented an apparatus prior to that in vented by Bell, although vibration by electricity had been transmitted by wire prior to 1854. It held that Doll discovered tho principle, and perfected it. There is nothing requiring tho op eration of instruments boforo the pat ent issues. It is the practicability of the process that is to be shown. The women are nearly all here and are nearly ready for their greut Inter national Council which begins on Mon day and lasts a week. To-morrow thoy will give a public reception at tho Biggs House to let the people see "what man ner of women wo are," Those wore Mis Susan D. Anthony's words. The friends of Gen. Hancock who have been active in their efforts to raise sufficient money to presont lua widow with a house in this city have at last met with success, and tho pre sentation will tako place on tho first of April. It is a handsome brown stone and brick structure, of which Mrs., Hancock will take possession at oum. J. H. ?. - Subscribo for TllK Okkuon Soatw,