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V - t The Oregon .Spot it VOL, V. UNION, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, ISSS. NO. 9. . '"the 01 GoncouT. An independent weekly Journal, is-ucd even- Friday niorninu' lv JONES & V I T ANCE Y, Publishers anil Proprietors. A. K. .To.ni:s, ' Editor, i" t U. ClIAKl'llV, '( Foreman. KATKS OK Sl'llSCKIl'TiON: One copv, one year $1.M ' Six months . . 1.00 " ' Three monto 73 Invavlalily Cash In Ailv.ince. If by chance rubscriptions arc not paid till end of year, tieo dollars trill be charged. Hates of advertising made known on ap plication. j3f"Corretipondenee from all parts of the country solicited. Adress nil communications to the Onncsox ScouiyUuion Orison. rnoKEssioxAi, It. Eakin, J. A. Eakix, Notary Public. J EAKIN, & imOTIIEU, Attorneys at Law, Union, Oregon. SSTPrompt Attention Paid to Collcct.ons. JOHN It. CHUTES, Attorney at Law. Collecting and probate practice special tie. Office, two doors south of post-ollice. Union, Oregon. J N. CROMWELL, M. D. , Physician and Surgeon. Office, one door sonth of .). R. Eaton's store, Union, Oregon. Q II. DAY, M. I)., UOMEPATIIIC Physician and Surgeon. ALL CALLS I'llOMI'TI.Y ATTENDCD TO. Office adjoining Jones Bro's store. Can be found nights at tho Centennial hotel, room No. 23. M. Bakkk. J. W.Siii:lton. J. P. Baki:i (AKER, S1IELTON& BAKER, Attorneys at Law. OFFICES Union and La Grande, Ore gon. Special Attention given allj business entrusted to us. tj II. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Union, Oregon. Office, one door south of Centennial ho tel. J. M. CARROLL, I R. F. WILSON. Notarv Public. Ex-Co. Clerk. QAKHOLL & WILSON, Conveyancers and Abstracters. Abstracts to Real and Mining property furnished on short notice, at reasonable rates. Sales of Real and Mining property nego tiated. Collection business promptly at tended to. Ollico next door south of Post-ollice. Un ion, Oregon. J W. STRANGE, DENTIST, La Grande, Oregon. Will visit Union regularly on the first Monthly of each month. , ALL WORK WARRANTED FIRST GLASS ZEEIEl ORTGAGE UNION, OREGON. $500,000.00 to Loan on First Class Security, From One to Five Years Time, at a Low Rute of Interest, Also Buys, Sells and Rents Property for M Non-residents. T ONEY RECEIVED ON DEPOSl I To be Invented on Guaranteed Security. All Collections Promptly Attended to Without Delay. City - Meat-- Market. fam Jjtreet, Union, Oregon, V BROS. - PROPRIETORS. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, PORK- VEAL, MUTTON, K SAUSAGE, HAMS, LARD. Etc. Cornucopia Saloon, Wm. Wilfon, Phop. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always in stock, TIR8T CLASS BILLIARD TABLE. lifop In null Ik l-'oefabTe BANK, Tlie IMoi City Hotel t)iiSto court luni'-c. Mc.in St. Good rooms flood beds, and tho Table Supplied with the Best the Mar ket afford. glST f'HA RUES REASONABLE. Having rented the LIVERY STABLE Ponnerly conducted by T. B. II. Green, it will hereafter be run in connection with ti e hotel. FIRST CLASS LIVERY TURN OUTS unci CAPARISONED SADDLE HOUSES, For Ladies or Gentlemen. A LIVE MAN AT THE DOOR. L. J. Bootiie, Proprietor. For Roys and Young men, and For Girls, Cove, Oregon, will open Sept. tith. 1888. gjSTTor prospectus of either school, address : Rkv. Wm. R. POWELL, Principal. T ill Hall, Bnos. Proprietors. Storage, Forwarding and Com mission. -Also Dealers in- Fine Cigars tJ AND Tobaccos, SCHOOL BOOKS, STATIONERY, and a full lino of CARTRIDGES, POCKET CUTLERY and NOTIONS. J ontreal Saloon, En. Remiliakd, Prop. For a fine Drink or a good Cigar Drop I nl Billiard and Pool Tables for the accomo dation of customers, IN THE- noil vr name . Mgainsi Accident, Sickness Mutual Relief Associate AND Funeral Expenses of the Northwest From $5.00 to $25.00 weekly indemnity in case of accident. From $5.00 to $12.50 weekly indemnity in case of sickness. $100.00 for Funeral expenses. JNO. E. TUTTLE, Agent, Union, Oregon. MONEY to LOAN On farmlands in Umatilla, Baker, Union, Gilliam and Wallowa counties, at 8, 9, 10 and 11 percent, on five year's time. Cull on J. II. It INK If ART, nt the Farm ers' Mortgage and Havings Rank, Summer ville, Oregon, if yon want money on farm loans. Tho 8 per cent is on improved farm land near the railroad in Grande Ronde Valley. 10-21-mO, J. II. RINEIIART. PATENTS Ohtaincd. and all Patent Business attended to Promptly and for Moderate Fees. Ourotlleo is opposite the U, H. Patent Ofllee, and we can obtain Patenis In less time than those reinnta from Wasoington. Send MODKLor DRAWING. Wo advise as to pantcntabililv free of charge; and wo inako NO CHARGE UNLESS PATENT 18 SIX'URED. Wo refer, here, to tho Postmaster, the SuptPof Money Order 1)1 v., and to official of tho U . Patent OMce. For circular, advice, tonus and roll'erences to actual cli ents In your own .state or County, write to C. A. SXOW & Co., Opposite Patent Gillce. WcsWtujtan, I). 0, klip ! kn DM WAREHOUSE OUR POETS. This space is given for the Uo and I benelit of our local writer- of verse. I and we hope to make it a plcnsini: feature j of the paper. To that end contributions are solicited, but they inu-t poes undoubted literary merit to obtain place and reeogni I tion herc.--Ei. From the Albany Icnvx-rat, V.AmiHJ:, AVASKKI5. An Albany ('hiuamnn, ugly and brown. Stood polihinghlrts in hi den down town, With dangling pigtail and painstaking smirk, And here is the song lie nng nt his work ; Halisonoe Moltou. Olenialgalce, Chinee mance good man, Whisky lice. Eatee much rat soup, Niece pnppee, Velly cheapoe livco, We Chinee, llallisonee Moltou, Hip, Hipee! Cldnee manee good man, Victoly I Whence battle donee, We Chinee, Alice bloodee shirtce Quick washee. Summerville. Aug. 113, ISSS. The following letter was received too late for last week's paper but is still good. Ed j En. Scoitt. 1 take Hie liberty to give you an ac count of the lire that has just swept Main street of this town. The lire started at about 1 :30 a. m. Tho cry was given first by Mr. Whit more, proprietor of tho New hotel. The Methodist hell was immediately rung by the pastor and was tho. moans of arousing tho people from their slumbers. ,It was supponnl to have started in the hank owned by .1. 11. Rineh.irt or in the room above, occu pied as an olllce by Dr. Dittcbrant. The lire spread rapidly, the wind being favorable, and in less than an hour the whole of Main street, was in flumes with the exception of the two corner stores, one occupied by Mr. I). Som mer and the other by Mr. McKenzie, druggist. Those buildings being little apart from the rest of tho buildings and by a strong and continued ellbrt on the part of the citizens they were' saved. The following is as near an estimate of the loss as can be ascer tained. Wade & Co., meat shop and waie house, probable loss $1,000. Photographer, traveling, $200. Mr. McPoil, largo hall $1,200. Mit-s Wade, millinerv store $(100. Mr, Whitmore, proprietor of hotel $200. Mr. Mc Williams, hotel owner $800. Bank building and store, J. II. Rine- hart $2,500. Mr. Waldeek, goods in store $3,000. Mr. Norton, vacant store $U,.r)00. Mr. C. Chattin, house and meat shop $2,000. Mrs. Welty, millinery store $1,000. Stables, fence ote $1,000. Dr. Dittebrant, surgical instruments $1,000. Total loss about $15,000. Tho following property was insured : Mr. Waldeek, goods $3,000; Mr. Chat tin, shop $1,000. Tho citizens worked hard and did noble work and saved couf-iderable property. No attempt was made to save any of tho houses except tho corner houses above men tioned and they wore kaved by water being carried in buckets and continu ously applied to the buildings as a pre ventative. After it was known that tho lire was not likely to spread any further free whiskey became the order of the day and as a result free tights followed and a citizen remarked "it the lire should break out at t-omo other point, there would not bo enough men to carry even the furniture out of tho houso or even save its inmates. I would not have you think that drunk enness is customary in our quiet little town, for we aro privileged beyond tho common lot in having good, industri ous, sober citizens. To-day's proceed ings was but a preliminary, practical test of what "free whiskey" would do. About six o'clock it was found that the vault of the hank which was con sidered fire-proof was on lire. Imme diately a dozen men under the super intendance of our worthy banker set to work and in a fow minutes tho walls were perforated so that an en trance was effected and tho firo speed ily subdued. It was found that viily a few banking books and unimportant letters were burned. Mr. Charloa Chattin ami Mr. J. II. Rinehart will begin tho erection of now buildings in a fow days. Dr. Barnes our newly located physician figured conspicuously working with might and main anil had a practical introduction to tho nconle. I conclude by stating that I will J keep you posted in Siimtnervillo news, i Let the man who started tho fire got out or bowaro. DirrKoxivit. Tim Ptrtlntwl U'nrl.l u,,... O'I'lw. I Orenon Scout lias laid aside its unimio head gear, and now appears in u neat and compluto dross. Tun Woiii.n is nlcnscd to note lheso evidences of do. served prosperity. Tim Seoul is al ways elcun and uewsy, and often pi (j'tfuul and poetical." Island City Items. lsi.A.vi Citv, Aug. IS, Island City affords a lint class hotel. Considerable s-ickne.s in this vicin ity. A great amount of machinery being sold. Social dance at the old Barnhardt house last night. Lawsuit in town yesterday between Mrs. .1. Ladd and Freeman Ladd. Mrs. Ben llalloy will return from Portland in a short time greatly im proved in health. Last week Mr. J. R. Kel'.ogg killed a porcupine that had visited his hen hoiL-e during the lone starry hours. Mr. O. II. Wilcox once the boss blacksmith and goose destroyer of the sandiidgo, now a rosidont of Long valley, has returned to his old haunts on a visit. On nevoral occasions when in search of Island City itenm wo have been in formed that our accommodating mil ler, O. indwell, had just taken a flying trip to Union and we have been led to consider that when the roads aro so covered with dust as to cause the com mon traveler to swallow a quart (of dust) every three miles or when the crust of old mother earth is in a soft ened condition half way to the hoatod interior, how pleasant it must bo to sail through the air on a Hying trip. The small prairie schooners of tho emigrant aro not as plenty among us as they were before the iron horse made its appearance, but what visitors of this kind do come, receive a hearty welcome, especially at this time of tho year, when farmers are needing assist ance in saving their crops. Welcome 1 thrice welcome thou Iravel- stained pilgrim, Make your home with us at least for awhile liody and poekctboulc both need recruiting, Traveling expenses have gobbled your pile. Cooling the breezes and cleansing the foun tains, To those who have traveled o'er deserts enroute; Grande Itondc is trimmed on the edges u ith numutainn. 'Twill be up-hill business to over get out. A slant light occuriod in the Island a short time ago, botwoun .Mills An dros on one side and two Mi. Short's Sr. and dr., on tho other. Mills pro ceeded to wade in on the Short's after tho latest improved style, roller pro cess, and but a short time elapsed till one of Mills' rollers stayed from tho path of duty and Hew around in such a reckless manne'r as to hit tho Mr. Short Sr. on tho optic causing a new light to dawn on that gentleman's be nighted vision of how sinful it is for man to lift his hand up against a neighbor and as with one hand he covered the tide of his face in mourn ing, and lie called to his boy saying "My f-.on desist; it is very wrong to fight and we can settlo this matter without." The buy in tho meantime had been whittling away with energy anil a pocket knife at .dr. Andros side, causing a wound but nothing of a se rious nature. In order to be in the faohio;i and also to secure, a supply of fruit for the winter an emigrant family concluded to take the general eour.-e of empire up tho western hill after huckleberries. The family team were brought into use as pack animals, being laden with the uoces.-nricH of life anil various ar ticles needed in camp. The gentle man of the party rode with one pack while two little girls accompanied the other and two ladies on foot led the procession. Scarcely had they began to ascend the hill when tho usually docile animals began to show signs of uneasiness, sniffing the air like the war horse kcenting the battle afar oil'. Tho fuither they went tho nioro un manageable the brutes became, till at last with rolling eye-balls and distended nostrils they riu-hed furiously back down tho hill scattering tho gentleman of tho party along tho road in reckless confusion; likewise tho two little girls hurting one of them considerably, at tho same time distributing tho culinary outfit along the road in a fair and im partial manner. Tho ladies looked on in mystified wonder at the unusual behavior of their beasts of burden, but tno mystery was soon explained when a party of campers appeared descending tho mountain f.omo half mile above bearing with them tho pe culiar aroma f torn ten gallons of this lucious fruit of the mountain. Luna Tick. Kl.lSCTUIt; ItlTTKlW. This remedy w boconung w well known and 10 popular as to need no Npeeial men tion, All who havu used ICleetrio Hitters (ting tho saino ong of praise.--A purer mudU'lne does not exlht nnd it is guaran teed to doull thut U claimed. Electric. Ilk ters will oiira blldixeanoM of tho Liver and Kidney, will remove Pimple, Roll, Salt Rheum and other uHectluu canned by Im pure blood. Will drive Muluria from the syntem and prevent u wuJl as euro nil Ma lannl fever. For euro of Headache, Con stipation mid Indljfeotinii try Electric III t tor Entire mlUfactton iiuniinteed, or money rofuiidcl.Prie50ew. nnd ?l.tJ per bottle at Wrluhfs drug More. Union. Or. If you desire to potuiosfl u benuliful : complexion take Aycr'a Sunmpnrilla It cleans and purillea the blood, and removes blotches mid pimple, making the skin Binootli and clear, and giving : it u bright and healthy uppcarnnce. , Take it this month. ' Enrle Valley. Health generally good. Mr. Eugene Chandler is building a new barn. Mr. A. Parker is teaching school in Pine valley. Mr. John (livens will teach at the Sw isher school house. Miss Ida Perry is going to attend the state normal school. .lodge Bennehotr has a large amount of hay and plenty of fruit. Mr. Ha'nau Swisher is preparing tc build a line dwelling houso. Win. and Eli Chandler will stall feed 300 big.steers this winter. Mr. Joseph Uolcomb is working in the Camel mines on Snake river. The Eagle valley brass band is ready to furnish music in good style. Mr. Moody, Mr. Young, and Mr. Craig are putting up lots of hay. Mr. Ed. Parker was in the valley recently buying horses to ship east. Mr. Nuto Young has the largest stack of hay ever put up in this valley. Mr. Paladay is moving his store from this place over on Powder river. Lumber is being hauled to build a fine school liotise in tho Craig district. Air. Saunders has been appointed postmaster here in place of Mr. Has sett. Mi (leorge Ilolstein who went east with horses last spring has not returned yet. (Jus Ponton is putting on lots of style about his house and nice yard fence. Wm. Nash's wife and children will start on a vihit to her father's in Cali fornia, soon. Mr. Joseph Beck is talking of selling his farm, lie is left alone but has many friends here. Eagle valley has a Sunday school. Will give a Sunday picnic on the fth of Sept. We have preaching twice a month. Mr. Frank Lee has finished his now dwelling. It looks tine, and he will at once commence improving his farm to correspond. Mr. lien. Longlev, foreman for Rob ert Whitakor, is herding their 20,000 sheep. Ben knows how to do that kind of work. Mr. Samuel Jones started last week to his farm in Nebraska, on legal busi ness. Sam is a jolly boy and his many fiiouds whh him u pleasant journey. Mr. Wm. BennehofV says he will not teach school this winter. He wants to improve his ranch, Maybe ho wants to look around for a housekeep er also. Sam'l Jones and a few others went out fishing recently and caught one sturgeon nine feet long, and one six feet long. This made tho Misourians open their eyes. Air. Wm. JCirboy's lioaHh is lino, af ter a long spell of sickness. He looks well and weighs heavier than ever bo fore. Ho is well pleased with his new home. Mr. Lewis Furgason returned a few days ago from Indiana, where ho took two car loads of horses. Mr. Eli Chandler went oast with horses at the tame time, but has not returned yet. Mr. Lester Holcomb had a big pile of hay and has sold it, Mr. Dick Makinson also has a considerable quantity of hay and is building a new barn. Ho says ho will take $5,000 for his ranch. Our farmers are ready to cut their second crop of hay. It is fine, and there will bo a large quantity of it for sale here. Those wanting to buy will do well to come to Eaglo Valley to winter their stock. They can get al falfa or timothy and good places to feet I. Stubble land is Belling very high in the valley and but little for sale. K. Telocaset TattlingH. Aug. 21, 1888, Harvesting about over with. Huckleberry crowdH less numerous. Sunday laws aro not in forco in An telope. Many of our citizetiH attended the lecture in Union last week, and came home well mtisfied with Putnam an an orator, and well disgusted with Braden as a genuine cur. .Mr. F. C. Middloton, of tho Ropubli. can, was in Tolocaset, Saturday, look ing around for something to touch with tho mystic wand of his literary ability, but alas for those who look in vain. It is not party interests and party policies that should move tho Ameri can citizen to action in tho political isauos of to-day, but it should bo Amer ican interests, and thountratncllod pol icies that benefit the American'Jpeoplo that actuate men to their utmost en deavors now. Ycb, "Ajnx," hut wo would rather bo eclipsed by honest effort nnd power than to he oclinscdhvhavitif thn dnm. oorntj0 a,cup owner iM wool over om. ovea lmtii wo ..oni,!,,.. flllr rM1, standard of belief to know how wo stood in relation to it. Jf November Oth is to bo tho eonstiination of this political eclipse, it will place tho form of Ben. Harrison in tho heavens ns a Chinese augol, and a full-flcdgnl UumocnUiu plieop--cvlCBtful gldry and tcrrcVtiul dmiptfdn. When the pulpit has to bo resorted to as a dVs.v Jiu room of the form and tenets of infidelity, by the ministers of the gospel, the influence of the church is becoming a useless and neglected burden on the heads of its supporters, and the moral lesson it is supposed to impart, becomes a lustorless and dull fragment of advice. Sunday last, ye correspondent took into his head to travel. .Mustering up a little courage, in company with an other ugabond, ho proceeded to take in the country. Aa the sun lifted his effulgent face aboTe the pine-clad east ern hills, wo rode into the dry, arid, sterile, hilly country known as Bed rock. Nothing but page brush, sago hens and rock, heated and dried by the sultry gaze of agoH of sun and hot sun at that meet our staring eyes. A few miles of this and we left "this dull scenery behind, to rest in its qui et, dejected lonliness, forever, and wo coins to the sunlit that overlooks Big j creek. Here the scenic beauty of na ture wore a different aspect that be ' hind was beautiful for its wild,unwood- ed, barren splendor, and this for its i fields of grain, ripe and yellow its J bright green hills, its sparkling waters, 1 its towering hills, waving in their pris i tine glory w ith the golden lined bunch I grass, and the clear, deep, moist blue ot its overhanging sky a sky not tired and weary with gazing at the barren hills and burning rocks, but eloquent in tho uttermost with looking on tho tranquil drama of busy, bus tling, joyous life and having its vis ion relieved over and anon with new and beautiful changes. We passed down on the Big creek bottom, passed over its fertile fields and smiling mea dows, on tip the dusty road toward tho garden of Eden, in Eastern Oregon tho Park. We passed tho hall, whero the genial Dunham Wright dwells, and then we left Big creek once more behind us, to ascend the sloping, grasy hills into tho Park. The instinct of the humanity revolts at .its own dullness, when brought face to face with the grandeur of nature. Wo arc inspired with a passionate desire to live and mingle forever in the delicious air, the soft, wavering little mountain breeze that calls up, "Friends our soul with joy remembers, How like quivering Haines they start When we tan the living embers On the hearthstone of our heart,'' And to listen to the song of the birds as they dance and frolic in the shim mering leaves of the austere old firs, and gentler willows, and to linger by the babbling streamlet, whoso soft melody floats upward and onward, mixed and mingled with tho bird songH until they become one grand harmo nious strain, that echoes and rcechoca forever, ami forever in the dome of tho azure skies. The Park is yellow and teeming with the riches of the ripe grain ; the crowded shocks of wheat, oats and barley now on tho fields, speak in a silent tone of tho reward that honest labor and zealous willingness inevitably reaps. The sun was just sinking down behind the hills of the far, far Occident as wo left tho Park. We had lingered thoughtlessly, and were to enjoy a rido in ttio moonlight and mountains as a welcome reward. Reader, can you picturo to yourself the scene, for words are too dull to describe it. Imagination alone, with her varied fancies, and her many colored hues can deftly tell you how the mountains looked, towering in mute picturesque ness over the lowly, mellow, delicioua vales below, where the cows stole silent ly homeward, the sheep bells tingled in silvery melody, tJU evening carol of the jocund bird lingered in the treo tops, and left an ecstatic thrill of some thing grander and more sublime than the dull tones of art ever produced, forever there. Where tho scenic beau ty of earth blushed in conscious insig nificance, as the queenly moon tripped into the midst of the zenith, with her lustrous escort of gems so fair that ru bicH and sapphires paled before tho brightness a brightness that seems almost divino? Whero hor quivering rays of light poured down into tho rip pling brook, and there united in tho undefiled bliss of eternal love lovo that pervades tho most secret depths of natjiro's mysteries ; where tho sky spreads out her robe of blue, as soft, and pleasant as the cheek of tho nomad maid that dwells beneath tho tents of the old, old Ishmael; where happiness and joy form the shriue of every home, and labor anil innocent love are the godB that reign "supremo; and Inst of all, where the little vicissitudes of lifo aro patiently overcome by tho holy resignation to fate eternal fate. Af ter passing through the Park wo hur ried and bustled along tho cxccllaut mountain road, down into tho little canyons, up over u littlo raiso, out over tho rolling plain, on down to Catherine ereek, fast and faster, near er ami nearer wo came, until at lat aa the hcllH were summoning the wor shipers to duty, wo nrrrVod at Union tired and hungry, hut oh, how much bettor off, intellectually. B. W. Huffman. HUOKLKN'H AltNICA HALVK. The Rest S.i.vr. in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcern, Bait Rheum, Fever Bore, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chllblami Corns, mid all Bklu Eruptions, and positive ly euros Piles, or no pay required, It Is guaranteed to give perfect natlsfuctloa, or money refunded, l'rfw !'5 cents per box. For Halo at Wrlght'a dru8taro. r CkSod jfarui or, talc, on easy tbrdla, nt Mortirugo Bank.