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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1888)
The Oreg scout m '4 ( VOL. V The Oregon scout, i Jfti liulrp ii(U'iH weekly journal, issued ev- r Friiliiy uiornhuc bv JONES & CliANCEY, Publihers and Proprietors. RA.. K. Joni:s, I 15. ClIAXCT.Y, Foreman. i-Aiuor. i KATKS OF SUHSCUII'TIO?:: 'One copj', one vear .1 Klv month 1.00 vv " ' Three inontoH 70 liivnrlnbly Cash in Advance. & If hu chance xnlrcriptions arc not jntid till $,end of year, two tlollart vcill be cluirgcd, f Hates of advertising made known ou ap 1 1 .1 JSrrorroFpondcucc from all parts of the country soiicucc Adress nil communications to the Oueoom Scout, Union Ongon. l'KOFKSHlONAL. jR. Eakin, J. A. Eakin, Notary Public. 'T-R EAK1N , & BROTHER , Attorneys at Law, -:ij Union, Oregon. "Prompt Attention Paid to Collect.ons. JOHN R. CR1TES, . Attorney at Law. Collecting and probate practice special tie. Office, two doors south of post-otucc, Union, Oregon. J N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office, ono door south of J. B. Katon'H store, Union, Oregon. Q II. DAY, M. I)., nOMKPATHIC ' Physician uui Surgeon. AU, CALLS PROMPTI.V ATTRKDEH TO. '' Ofllcc adjoining Jones Bro's store. Can i thc found nights at tho Centennial hotel, room no. M. Bakkr. J. W.Shklton. .1. P. P.aker. JgAKER, Sll ELTON & BAKER, Attorneys at Law. OFFICES Union and La Grande, Ore gon. Special Attention given allj business entrusted to us. T. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Union, Oregon. Otlice, one door south of Centennial ho tel. J.M. CARKOLL, B. F. WILSON. Ex-Co. Clerk. Notnry l'uuiic. QAUROLL & WILSON, Conveyancers and Abstracters. Abstracts to Real and Mining property furnished on short notice, at reasonable rates. Hales of Real and Mining property nego tiated. Collection business promptly at tended to. Oflicc next door south of Tost-oHlcc. Un ion, Oregon. J W. STRANGE, DENTIST, It Grande, Oregon. Will visit Union regularly on tho first Monday of each month. ALL WORK WARRANTED FIRST CLASS I EES ORTGAGE UNION, OREGON. $500,000.00to Loan on First Class Security, From One to Five Years Time, at a Low Rate of Interest, Also Buys, Sells and Bents Property for MNon-reeidents. TT ONEY RECEIVED ON DEPOS1 I To be Invested on Guaranteed Security. All Collections Promptly Attended to WithontDelay. City -Meat -Met Main Street, Union, Oregon, BENSON BROS. - PROPRIETORS. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, FORK- VEAL, MUTTON, SAUSAGE, HAMS, LARD. Etc. Cornucopia Saloon, Wm. Wii.hon, Pnor. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always in stock, FIRST CLASS BILLIARD TABLE. Prep In and k sotilahlo BANK, Cove (hillings. August Mth, 18SS. Several fields of barley in lower Cove yielded fifty bushels to tho acre. Mrs. Mollie Nichols, of Auburn, is visiting at the residence of Sir. John I Phy. Mr. Ilenderrhott and family, Mr. Darrah and Mrs. Eaton are camping in the mountains above town. II. J. Gecr it Son have a fair crop of hops this season. They will be dis posed of to local brewers in Oregon and Idaho. A band of noble red men passed through en route to Minam, Monday. They will hunt and fish and recuperate their herds of cayusos. Miss Ximcnia Sanborn having fin ished teaching in Cornucopia, returned this week, llcr many friends are glad to sec her home again. A. J. Foster is making a tour'of tho Pugct sound country. He will bo well posted on the business prospects in that vicinity, on his return. Sir. Albert Shocmnker, a young jew eler from Detroit. Mich., is visiting his aunt, Mrs. S. Shoemaker, and cousins, of Cove. He is much pleased with -the valley. Cove 5b supporting, lately, a blood thirsty coyote. The varmint has killed, this week, for Jas. Hendershott, Fomc fifteen pigs, four geese, and sev eral turkeys. Work will bo commenced, this week, in tho Cove flouring mills, placing additional rollers in position. In a short time new process, full roller Hour will be made. Mark Ellsworth and Elmer Wcrt man will start East via thc 0. 8. L., next Monday. Thc former will enter a college at Ann Arbor, Michigan and the latter will visit his home in Linn comity. Iowa. Gcer has a fine assortment of nurs ery products for sale. He proposes to sell to anyone in any amount and col lect his pay when Harrison is elected. Ho should find many customers among thc free traders. Born. To thc wife of G. L. Keller, Aug. 27, a ten pound boy. Lafc is in great gleo over the sudden arrival of the lad, and returns to his occupation of logging on Indian creek, with a self satisfied smile playing over his features never seen there before. Prof. A. J. Hackett, principal of thc Union public school, was in town this week. Sincu his last visit, ho has travelled over the greater part of the State and says the financial condition of thc inland empire compares favora bly with western and southern Ore gon. It's sad, you bet, to leave my . E. And how are they going to man ago to live withont nie? M. Oh, it's all right, it is a boy ! G. Boys are pretty hard up when they ivill damage a garden of an old man who is com pelled to depend on tho sale of veget ables for a living. Jorfhua L. Like Sullivan, I aiut as good in thc arena as I used to be. F. I am pretty fair with my props, myself, by moonlight. J. L. I don,t make a practice of dropping pieces of calico. Dave. When I go to the Cove thu fairest daughters smile on mc and take me for a ride. A. J. H. For a pleasant ride at a trifling outlay, I would ad vise one to travel from Cornucopia to Union. X. Medical Spring Spray. August 28, '88. Haying is over. The festive huckleberry is no more. The dance at J, B. Dolby's hall was a charming afl'air. Threshing and harvesting with its variations is in full blast. Mr. Barnes will erect a dryer soon .at his garden, costing $1000. Sir. Lou Remillard bought some horses here recently. Thc average price paid was $95. Tho sweet apple, the sour apple, the paragoric and tho doctor arc here. Look out for them. Tho noble red men infesting these woods just now will soon take their departure for tho Umatilla Reserva tion. Sirs. Daisy Jameson is teaching music in this vicinity. She is a skill ful musician, and an accomplished lady, Her home is on Lower Powder river. C. U. and D. P. Duncan started out this morning to locate chums on tho celebrated Black Hawk ledge, situated in thc Eaglo rango of mountains, from which tho noble red men havo shown eo many rich specimens, hero in tho Park. Considerable dissatisfaction is being manifested over tho way the mail is be ing carried from Union to Cornucopia. Thero is no regularity about it. Some times when thu mail should be going out it is coming in. Occasionally the driver passes by tho way poatufficcs without stopping. If this is the best that can be dune when tho roads are in prime condition, what will bo stato of affairs when tho roads become raud dy and covered with snow? Money loaned on Real Estate at the Mortgage Bunk, on long or short timo, at a low rat of intcn-et. UNION, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, North Powder Xoles. j Andrew Lun lost a valuable horse by being l tin over by a freight train, recently. Mrs. Hurk and family left a few days ago for a visit, to friends in East Portland. A. R. Mattoon, of La. Grande, was here on Saturday in tho interests of his firm. Mr. Mike Riddle went down to Grande Rondo valley on Sunday. He will remain during harvest. Thc hay crop in this part of thc county did not yield tho amount ex pected by at least one-third. A stage line from Haines to Cracker creek is under contemplation, via thc North Powder road as soon as com pleted. J. R. Hardin owns a valuable pla cer mine on Anthony creek which ho is about to sell or lease for a remuner ative price. Sir. James Gates still remains at the Rodgers House quite unwell. His condition is still critical and improve ment slow. Jas. Dalton and Daniel Leo havo taken a contract of logging at Eceles' mill. They left on Monday to com mence operations. Dr. Briggcrs, an old resident of this county, has recently returned from a visit to California and is spending a few days visiting here. Democrats Btill continue to wear republican "dicers"" and vice versa, notwithstanding thc various decisions of responsible authorities. A tooth was extracted hero last week that measured of an inch across the fangs and one inch in length. Who can produce a larger one? "K" company is to be measnred again for suits and each member of tho company is requested to report to tho captain at once for that purpose. Sir. Hamlin and family passed here on Sunday from Cornucopia bound for Haines. Sir. H. has mining interests at thc latter placo where he will locate. J. F. Smith, V. S., an uncle of Robt. Lloyd's, arrived here last week from Illinois. Ho will return within a month with two car loads of valuable horses. Mr. Hall, of Haines, exhibited some fine specimens of gold quartz from his mine at that placo a few days since. Virgin gold was plainly visible to the naked eye. Numerous forest fires arc raging in tho mountains in close proximity to saw mills and ranches which occasions alarm among mill men and farmers in that neighborhood. Largo invoices of goods of every de scription arc arriving, ordered by our local merchants. Renewed activity in tho mercantile lino is anticipated by them tho coming full and winter. Slessrs. Spencer, Ramsay it Hall's mills havo closed down on account of timber. Ono engine will be moved to their new mill above town, while the other will be transferred to a new lo cation. Sir. Geo. Bobier received tho con tract for opening tho Cracker creek road and has placed a force of seven men at work. He expects to finish the contract by Oct. 1st, the specified time. WH1 some ono "who knows" very kindly dispose of the "presidential tile" question? Democrats represent Air. Harrison while republicans come out for Mr. Cleveland or vice versa as you like. Mr. Shaw's steam thresher moving thc Btreets by steam power alone, attracted a good deal of attention. It is in first class condition and makes good time on thc road as well its threshing grain. Tho committee on tho Cracker creek road let tho contract to Sir. Geo. Bobier for $G00, to bo completed by October 1st. It now remains to bo seen whether that "mirage" of tho Blado man at Baker will become a stem reality or not. Sir. Wm. Shaw lately purchased of Slessrs. Gorham fc Rothchild a steam thresher of 1G horse power, capable of threshing 5000 bushels of grain per day. It arrived by train on Monday of last week and is now in operation in Clover creek valley. Died. At his home at the Warm Springs, Mr. Louis Hart, aged about 35 years, of acute inflaraation of the stomach and bowels, Monday evening, August 20th. Sir. Hart had just re covered from a severe attack of the measles when stomach and bowel troubles set in, resulting as stated. He has resided in this valley 'or some twelTC years past and had but few, if any, enemies, while his friends aro legion. Ho IcayeH an aged father, a wife and four small children, besides numerous friends, to mourn his loss. Sir. L. Stanford received a dispatch on Wednesday of last week, stating his son, Frank, had been drowned in Snako river at or near Slunda's ferry. Mr. S. has returned and says his sou and another young man wcro swim ming some horses across tho river when it is supposed his horse fell and threw him in the water ut tho sumo timo striking him on tho head, as a fracture was found on tho forehead. Frank was about twenty years of ago, of kind disposition and respected by all of his acquaintances. His com panion was drowned at thc sumo Limn. A J AX. ffrerr-rt'.7T.rT,vtTyivrT"-l I UMIIIIII lilllllllll .Letter From Canada. En. Okkgon Scout : 1 wonder if a few lines from a wan derer would be of interest to any of the old timers where roams Tuk Scout. It is hardly worth while for mc to "fill in" with any extended description of the tips and downs or present pros pects of my "Totem of Health" busi ness; if I fail, the wie will s;iy, "1 told you so ;" if 1 succeed well that's only what I am trying to do. It would no doubt interest many of my old time friends to know that I have at least planted a business in Can ada, within the past sixty days, that showed over one thousand dollars' re ceipts during tho first twenty days of this month. If 1 can hold it there and spread it like tho yellow fever in Flori da, that's what I am hero for. j Well, this is not a desirable place to I writo an article to interest anybody. I am in the reading room of the Gris- wold hotel at Detroit, surrounded by half a dozen men, almost every ono puffing a cigar, and as Dan. Stooro and I havo a little bet of $20 at stako, I dare not join in the smoking match. I came hero from London, Canada, whoro my wife and Nettie are, for the purpose of arranging with parlies hero to push the "Totem of Health" sales in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Dis trict of Columbia, and I believe I havo succeeded in arranging tho deal on terms satisfactory to all concerned. Wo havo been sojourning over in tho Queen's dominion (God save the Queen, take, some notice of tho King "over theie," but let the devil liiko the Jack,) since "Her Majesty's" birth day May 2-Ith, and If 1 had time 1 could give your readers some items of interest in regard to life over in that country where "a quiet Sabbath" is the boast of the "Kanacks." Not a business house notols excepted and drug stores at certain hours is open on Sunday; not a street car moving, and at least ninety percent, of tho people- attend s.omu of the various churches for morn ing and evening service, and withal their piety I have seen nwro drunken ness in three months in Canada than 1 have in three pears in tho United States, and tiro riots I witnessed in Toronto liisl week, wherein tho Orange men stoned tho dwelling of the Catho lic priestaml the sisters and tho lit' lo children tinder their charge was enou li to make any ono heart siok. Riots, labor strikes and the most cruel and bitter persecution of Catho lics and proteslantH, (just owing to which of tho fiendish scuts hold the balance of power) Vccm to bo, tho main object in life among thc Canada peo ple just at present, and I supposu it will continue until ono party or, tho other driven to desperation k tall make a second St. Batholcinew icasacro and clean up, and I guess tho sooner it comes to that tho better, and ao far as I am concerned I would not toes a cop per for choice, for I don't think there is much dilferonce in the intolerance that either would manifest if thoy had equal chances. Opportunity seems to bo all that is requited to make thorn rank with thirst for human gore. Just as I am writing, tho "noblest old Ro man of them all" ispasring Detroit on his way to Port Huron, where ho will blow his noso in his red bandana, be fore a howling mob of admirers, who will vote the straight ticket for crisp two-dollar bills, unices somebody comua along and raises tho bid a dollar. But in all soriousucas, while I am frank to admit that 1 havo been ashamed of tho vaccinating non-com-mital action of the democratic party for tho past ton yoars, with its utter failure to advance an idoa or adhere to a principle, I am certainly proud to seo it suddenly assumo the manly bear ing of a champion of tho right and stand forth and boldly proclaim tho justness of a principle which if hon estly put in force must and will givo it control of our government for nud in tho interests of tho people for many years. While- my wandering may pro vent mo from voting for the old Ro man with tho red rag, (which by tho way wins to havo brought him more prominently before tho paoplo than did his heroic con me in rogartl to tho Union Paeiic railroad affairs,) yot I can at loast wish him nuccom, and u for Cleveland, I think tho American people owo it to thumeelvoH to keep Sirs. Cleveland in the White Houso another term, if merely tn unub snob bery and learn the jwoplo good man ners and a littlu common nemo. Rut I fewr I shall worry somebody, "JiwrnV a xmila for tlio who lovo me. And a nigh for tho who ha', And whatever above ni' . llnrev u hviut for every fute.1' J-'.t. Mtf-OMAt . 'A- lu :. f , O: ', 188S. 1 1 I H t II II' I III! I IHI II "I 1Y I "ITiIH. I nTTT Telocnsel TalUinsrs. August 'JSth, 1SS8. Rev. .1. M. Jones, of La G.tande, pniil us a vibit to-day. KcpIc' mill started up Monds'y for a fir.t class fall run. Mrs. Saunders passed through tho first of the week. C. F. Miller came up to Telocaset recently, ftom Grande Rondo, where ho has been engaged in sticking hay. The road is almost lined with teams passing to and from tho mines, Har ney valley, and numerous other points. Query : fs it lawful for a black smith, with a wife and nino kids in Wisconsin, to try to "mash" our Ore gon girls without first asking tho girl's mother? Born. To tho wife of Sir. Hart, Friday, August 2.1rd, a nine pound boy. 11 art snys the hm' in bound to bo a saw mill man, if Bill Nvo's ad vice is worth, anything that's all ho regrets. Still we havo no school teacher. Time is Hying by on tho wings of the wind, and all the uncultivated genius of Telocaset is still uncultivated. This wont do, at all! "Teach tho young idea how to shoot." Wo advise Mr. Irwin to procure a search wan-ant for tho Scwr ollieo, ami likely tho buggy whip will bo found. No doubt Jones was contem plating his "communion" trip even before thu lecture, and was getting to gether his little paraplianalia for it. Well, now, perhaps the world will not care anything about our progress and wo will not weep but then oven if Tolocasot does not gain any great fume in tho history of tho world, nho can boast of doing her best in tho world's advancement, and that is to furnish supplies. Yes, wo arc going to let ono of our prettiest girls he mar ried. "Woo is mo, Albania." A correspondent from North Powder asks the Oregonian for tho trtio color of tho Harrison hat. Wo humbly sug gest that tho man go by the following rule, to wit: Cleveland hats are mostly number eights, and a man who seeks a Harrison hat should be careful and not try to crowd a number eight hat. on to a number six Harrison hat head. This in true "let facts bo sub mitted to a candid ' world." Won der if Seott is the fountain head of all Harrison knowledge? If so, wo ask if Harrison will bo elected, truly? How grand to sit upon a mossy stono by tho brook, and listen to tho ripple of tho billowy banks of leaves, and the varblo of the unassuming birds; to feel the breezo from tho mountain's brow steal down on you, and havo tho sympathetic tromor quivr down thc tender chords of life, till you foci your naturo all aglow with tho subtle sensation. And bow grand a treat it will bo this fall to see that thousand dollars worth of blooded stock wo havo bet on Bon glide into tho fingers of our other friends friends on the Democratic side of tho fenen. Finer and more ex quisite than Nature's nircjt treats! Rut "all in a life-time." Saturday's Freothought nays; "Tho Chinese havo a new Baptist church in this city, (S. l) ami Jivo Chinamen wore baptised." Wonder if the Chiuamon are going to organizn a Presbyterian church this 'fall. It would bo nothing moro than just. If you assist a man ono way, assist him in all other ways as willing ly if yon lend political assistance, lend religious assistance just as heart ily. What will America coiuo to? Isn't thero enough churches now, for goodnosi' sake? Build some school houses with your surplus cash, Mr. "Tu nn muca hi," and lot tho church buildings bo supplied with necessary truth to keep those aheady erected in going order. B. W. II. Pine Valley Pellets. Times duller than a moat-ax. No rain and tho hilla getting very smoky. Several Pino Valloy boys, gone to Cracker Crook . School began in Pinotown recently, Mr, A. W. Parkor, teacher. Many horses in Pino aro dying. There seems to bo an epidemic or dis tompor prevailing among thorn. Sloro warm weathor, flies, yollow jacketx, snakes, skunks, coyotes and "vaimint" generally in Pino than over known before, Somo parties havo turned Pino Creek ontirely dry this summer and scorn to ho trying to start a new creek eUowhorc. This "hogging" tho whole business will b.iar investigation. Quito a number of strangers in val loy recently, among them Sir. and Sirs. Eukon, Sir. Walker, Sir. Cooper Singor man; Marion Davis, Sirs. N, Sohoonovor, Sliss Slary Shaw; also .Mr. und Sirs. Pursel, Sirs. Thomson and children and Sin.1. SIcComas who havo been on a visit hero to their rela tives, Sir. and Slrj. J, A. Doiiuoy. RiiroitTKit. HAG L 10 COOPER SHOP, S. B. Ayles, proprietor. Slanufac-i turn of butter barrels and kegs. A good supply ulwuyd on bund. Bhopi south of school hVxip, Unio'u, Ofrgdji, NO. 10. HITIirTHl Sununerville. August 28, V)8. It is with pleasure 1 road your valu able papor from week to week, giving us a rich supply of news relative to tho oanipaien, now we might my, really s?art'd. At tho present time, more than at any other, wo need solid information relative to the true posi tion in which tho two great political patties stand. The question which I think every citizen ought to settle in his own mind is this: Is high pro tective tariif or a low protective tariff right? This 1 think is thc real isue. Now I am of opinion if your many readers will road your paper very care fully week by week, thoy will answer this question very emphatically next November, anil especially tho man of toil, who lives by thc sweat of his brow; tho laboring man of America will find by judicious voting that tho land ho owns to-day will still chair, to him after tho crisis of tho coming election, providing ho takes care to hold fast that which ho hath "Man of toil sell not thy birthright for a mess of pot ago." When I hear so much of the past, and find people longing for tho things that wore, preferring those things that aro antique to those of modern im provement, thero is ono word that rings in my oars, and "Will not down," it is thu word "Dotago" with its synotnym, childishness, and when I seo many of tho papers purporting to bo the intellectual guides of the lat ter quarter of tho Wtli century, ever prating about the days of yore, and would make us believe that there is far monTsafcty in tho old canoe of tho Indian, and the rough, unhewn log cabin of thu early settlers than in tho stately ship that plows tho ocean, and thc great substantial homo that bids defiance to wind and rain, the home of tho Americans of to-day. Now, 1 for one, beliovo in progres sion, and this to mo is a reminder that to substantiate a legal right to my signature 1 must givo you a few se crets which my position asav dctectivo is a sullicient voucher for. I givo thorn with tho warning which every gossip adds to her secrets : "Now bo suro and don't divulge them." Sir, .1. J. H. Rinehcart will com mence in a few days the erection of a building to bo used as a bank, this timo only one story high. Dr. Dittebrant, our intelligent young physician, will havo a neat ofiico erected adjoining tho bank. "Blood is thicker than water," so says tho Doctor. Dr. Bangs, our preacher physician, preached a good sermon last Sunday in thc .Methodist church to an intelli gent congregation on thu subject of "Christ's Incarnation." Ho handled it very methodically. Sir. Wclty, jr., commenced this morning thu erection of a two-story building on tho old site ,to be used as a dwelling houso and millinery store. Sir. Wclty is an industrious citizen and his wife an accomplished milliner. Shs. Wclty deserves en couragement, 'and it is to bo hoped sho will be patronized by everybody and bo free from competition in the shapo of rival young ladies. Sir. Waldeck is in -San Francisco buying goods; look out for fivo or ten thousand dollars worth of goods in bin store within a week or two. Ho has routed Dan Sommers' store by tho month. Mr. I). Sommers (started this morn ing for Enterprise, Wallowa county. Wouldn't be surprised if Sir. S. started business at this point before long. Sli.ss Louisa Wclty has boon on a visit to the Wood River country and is expected homo in a week or ten lays, Tho Southern Methodist Confer ence held at Pendleton lately, decided to send two preachers on this charge this year. I supposu thoy will both tako up vacant land, tho only way 1 seo for them to get broad and butter. Preacher Thompson of tho SI. E. church is busy completing a church at Pino Grove, to be dedicated Sept. Kith by Rev. Ira Wakefield. The Chattin Brothers havo not yet decided whether they will build a meat market or not. "Birds of a feather will flock to gether." This is illustrated in tho fact that Adam Boresford, an elder in tho Presbyterian church of this town, and a delegate to tho late General As sembly in Philadelphia, anil moreover a rigid Prcdestinariau Oalvinist, is building a neat, commodious houso adjoining the church of his choice Preacher Willard is superintending the job. Sir. SIcPhoil, barber, latoly burned out, has removed to La Gnuulo and will hereafter assist his brother in tho same business. A subscription was raised amounting to ninoty-soven dollars and presented to Sir. and Sirs. Whitmoro on account- of thoir loss by fire, another for Sh-. and Sfrs. Bunnell amounting only to. about six dollars. Dktkctivk. lUJOKl.KN'S AHNIOA HAI.VK. Tuk kht N.W.VK ill the world for Cuts, llruiscH, Sores, Ulcers, Halt Ithciun. Fever Soren, Tetter, Chapped llniula, Chilblains CoriiH, and all Skin Eruptloim, and positive ly cures Piles, or no pay required. It la guaranteed to givo yfec' nutldfaetlou, or money refunded. PrJco conta per Vox. P5r Hale at Wright's drcurktore,