VOL. IV.
The Oregon Scout.
An independent weekly Journal, issued ev
ery Friday niornlng bv
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ?.
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