The Oregon scout., February 21, 1889, Image 1

The Oregon
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VOL. V.
UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2U 1881).
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ritorussioxAi.
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.1. A. Kakis,
Notary rueinc.
J EAKIN, & BROTHER,
Attorneys at Law,
Union, Oregon. m
TPrompt Attention Paid to Collect. ons.
JOHN It. CIUTES,
Attorney at Law.
Collecting and probate practice special
ties. Ollicc, two doors south of post-otlice.
Union, Oregon.
J N. CROMWELL, M. D. ,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office, one door outh of J. 15. Knton's
store, Union, Oregon.
Q II. DAY, M. D.,
IIOTdHPATIliC
"Physician ami Surgeon, j
ALL CALLS PKOMrTI.V ATTIPED TO.
Ottire adjoining .lonci Hro's store. Can
be found nights at residence; in botith
west. I'nion.
J. W. SH1-.J.TON. J - M- Cahuoll.
gllELTON h CAUKOIL.
Attorneys at Law.
Ollicv: Two doors south of post-oflice, I'n
ion, Oregon.
Special attention given all business m-tru-ted
to us.
r II. CRAWFORD,
Attorney at Law,
Union, Oregon.
Office, one door south of Centennial ho
tel. p. WILSON,
Conveyancer and -Abstracter.
Abstract to Ileal and Mining property
furnished on short notice, at reasonable
rates.
Sales of Ileal and Mining property nego
tiated. Collection business promptly at
tended to.
Oltice next door south of Post-otllcc. Un
ion, Oregon.
A. L. SAY LOR, M. I).,
Physician and Surgeon,
North Powder, Oregon.
Has permanently located and will attend
all professional (sills day or night.
Office: Drug store building: residence,
one door west of Hodgcrs' hotel.
J W. STRANGE,
DENTIST,
La Grande, Oregon.
Will visit Union regularly on tho
first Monday of each month.
ALL WORK WARRANTED
FIRST CLASS
Cornucopia Saloon,
Wm. Wilson, Pi;oi
The Finest of Wines, Liquors
and Cigars always in stock.
FIRST CLASS BILLIARD TABLE.
Drop in and bo sociable
Shannon Marshall,
Tilt:
Practical Horse Trainer,
Will alwav be found at Iloottie it Camp
bell's livery stable.
Take vour vicious horses to hlui and ho
will break tin in. Charges rcasonablo.
Slap linejs Cove.
le aves Union iluily at 2 p. in, arrive at
Cove nt 3 :30 p. in. ,
U-avif Cow at 8 a. m., arrivo at Union
ut !: a. m.
Connection made with KIHott' concha
running t the depot, carrying jtasixjngore
for east and west lound trainx.
KA1 KS lor I'ASSl' XCJmtS. LUOfSAOK
and J'KUHiHT, Jti:.VSONAUL.
K0T3IKEOK & LAYKE, PrajirlcrdN.
J
The Modern City Compared with
its Former Splendor.
THE SUPREMACY OF THE POPE.
Will History Repeat Itself in Our Own
America.
Romk, (Italy), Jan. 15th, 1SS9.
Editou OitKtiON Scout:
This morning finds mo on the ground
where some of the rarest of men have
lived and died. This is a more beauti
ful place than any other we have yet
visited. That grand old river that was
once so noted Hows on freely and gnyly
as it did whdn its waves were tinged
with the blood of captives and foes,
long, long years ago.
Rome is more of a business place
than we expected to see. It is thronged
with Americans and other nationalities.
The buildings are of a more classic
style and of more imposing aspect,
even if the change in historical attrib
utes, in social and political features
of centuries, have left their string of
heiroglyphies set in bass-relief on every
column every stone. The workman
ship displayed in the massive pillars,
galleries, colonnades, and temples is
magnificent. The marble Htatues of
Pompeii, Ca'sar, Antony, Brutus, and
many others of note seem to speak to
one almost in the dead sentences of
by-gone times.
"Into the canvas" that throbs the painter is
hinted and hidden ;
'Lu!o the statue, the breaths, the soul of
1b" ffolptor is bidden 1"
Tho monasteries are grand; tho
cathedrals are sublime. The sparkling
domes and flashing spires of churches
rear their heights toward the blue skies
and make the scene one of the richest
pauamoras that art could give to the
admiring soul of man. Long, white
walls lift up for miles away. The Tiber
ebbs and breaks against the crumbling
ramparts of what was once Imperial
Rome. Olive gardens are cultivated
here more extensively than in other
parts of Italy. Figs and currents are
diied in vast quantities. Goats arc
raised for their milk chiefly, and somu
extensive flower gardens bloom in their
b'iauty around the suburbs of the city.
Monks! monks! monks! They scour
tho colonnades from tho Palatine to
tho Tiber day after day. The Pope frits
in power over the cringing millions of
people in this fair land, and the very
elements of intellectual progress arc
"withered on tho stagnant air." The
little fruit and book stands are nestled
by every street. Tho soft-checked flower
girls Hit nimbly here and there, up and
down, bearing baskets and garlands
of the rarest productions of tho floral
gardens in their arms. They sit on the
stairways and by tho public promen
ades to dispose of their tender burdens.
A visit to the crumbling forum would
almost bring tears to the eyes of the
student of history. Its cracked and
mouldering inatble, its ruined grace,
its fallen grandeur, the crumbling stair,
the confused moss climbing over its
trodden seats, all these arc what neglect
and stupidity will do. The echoes of
the sombre owl that hoots in the moon
light teem like the Nemesis of Fate
pointing at tho trampled grandeur of
Rome.
The Fcnatc chamber,, where the
bearded legislators of tho world sat in
Eolumu authority over the affairs of
that nation, is decaying, if such a word
is allowable when applied to marble
and stone hewn and fashioned by tho
artistic hands of Roman citizens and
architects.. Tho eloquence that once
played through its galleries is dead.
The shouts and curses of the tottering
empire seem to linger on tno walls.
Tho intellects that oneo inhabited these
hallowed halls still shine in all the ex
isting laws that rule tho nations of the
nineteenth century. The military dis
cipline t till goes abroad over tho lauds
of tho woild to-day. Home things never
die; and Roman splendor, with Roman
rule iH one of tho impel irhables.
It does not Mem now that this could
havu been what it once has been.
Tin so nuek-looking Italians that plod
along under the fhadow of thebc wuIIb
seem like the lost link to the chain of
down trodden people. Virgil could not
burst forth with his melodious praises
of her people could ho step in Rome
on a fine day and U hold the loungers
un the wharf, docks, and around the
stalls of fruit -venders. It would eond
u thri'U of ikk:c rafridfaw tduiMiog
hrough his being like it did twenh
centuries ago. It is curious what
changes a few years can bring about.
Here, still surviving tho burning sun,
the rust of ages, the wear and tear of
time, the neglect and heartless over
sight of nations, the temples of Augus
tus still stand in crude, but holy
grandeur. The statues of her great
sons still linger on the ramparts of
crumbling Rome. The muse seems
weeping for her fallen children, while
the stupid demon of destruction lurks
with hungry eyes over tho fall. It is
so with all nations. Some day, per
haps, our own fair land, whcie the
placid Pacific sweeps and swells on the
verdant shores will fall amid the rained
empires of the past.
In years to come it may be that some
fierce horde of invaders will bring our
own America low in the dust. The
halls of statesmanship, the galleries of
civil greatness, the corridors of elo
quence, atid all the proud array of
intellects that deck this land may some
day fall to the abyss of decaying
grandeur. Tho traveler of a thousand
years from now may linger with tearful
eyes on the broken verge of what to
day is American glory, and he may
see back down tho misty vales of tho
past the tramping millions who live
and breathe, throb and act with
vigorous, intellectual aunimation tho
civil pomp and individual freedom of
the nineteenth century.
'"Westward the eour.c of empire takes its
way I
Tho four great acts already past
The fifth shall close the drama with the day !
Time' noblest offspring 18 the last."
Cam. Ross.
HoW IS IT?
A Tax-pnjfir Wtiulri l.lko to llnvo nn
Annwer ti a l'ow Iiiturrojjnllom.
Editor Scout:
The recent failure to hold eiicuit
court in Union county has incurred a
heavy debt on the tax-payers of this
county. No one may bo to blame
particularly, but it looks like some
provision should be made for the sup
ply of a judgeship in case of vacation
by sickness, or other cause. This is
an oversight on the part, of our law
makers indeed. Our citizens who had
business to attend to in court came
from all partB of the county; tho wit
nesses, attorneys, jurors, and officials
all went to the necessary trouble of
preparation for business, and then
when all was ready, just because there
was no way, legally, by which to fill
tho chair of a sick judge, they all had
to go homo without opening court,
the county necessarily went to ex
pense, the people lost their time and
were placed under expens-j for no pur
pose. It seems that the present judge
should resign his position, or else do
the duties of the office for which ho is
constantly drawing a regular salary.
If he is not able to discharge the du
ties, on physical ground, it is too bad,
but sympathies arc not to bo made a
medium of bringing an inconvenience
to the people who support the county,
and who must demand from tho par
tics who arc chosen and paid to act
officially, a speedy performance of the
necessary duties which such official
position assigns to them.
If the governor feels any delicacy in
the matter of choice or appointment,
or considers himself under the slight
est obligation to a person he may bo
convinced is not capable of filling that
position, he may easily relieve himself
of such obligation by letting the voice
of the people call to the chair of jus
tice the man of tho people's liking.
If the tax-payer sayo who shall bo
the judge, it is to be supposed that the
tax-payer is willing to put up with
that man's decisions and judgment,
but if fcomc "clique" or crowd of lob
byists clutter around the governor and
praise up some fellow who will favor
their narrow, petty interests, and who
is not the man to act justly for the in
terests of the people, then if the ap
pointment is unsatisfactory it will
become the people to "kick."
Tax-payek.
Ill Ituilnr IloomluK.
Probably no one thing ban caused such a
general revival of trade, at Urown.x drug
tore as hU giving away to hU cnsio
niers of so many free trial bottle of Dr.
King's New discovery for Conxuinpllon.
Ills trade In simply enormous in this very
valuable article from the fact that it always
cures and never dliappolnU. Cough,
Colds, Asthma. llronchiiU, Croup and al
throat and lung diica-e.i quickly cured.
You caoUsd It before buying by getting a
IriaJ bottJo tree, Jiffiie tycfj. iprery UnUo
WMfrAittfil.
WASHINGTON.
Blaine Preparing to Take Charge
of the Government.
TROUBLE AMONG THE HUNGRY.
Fred Grant Wants to be Minister to
the Flowery Kingdom.
Washington, Feb. S, ISStt.
EniToit Oi:k(;on Scout:
Tho Judiciary committee of the
IIousu of Representatives has comple
ted its consideration of the Xtituraliiu
tion bill, though Messrs. Collins and
Seney will present a minority toport,
holding that the bill puis applicants
for naturalization to needless expense
and inconvenience. The bill limits
naturalization powers to courts of
original jurisdiction, removing tho
power from lower State courts. Thus
the applicant might in the newer
Stales be compelled to trawl a couple
of hundred miloa to complete naturali
zation paper. Although the piovis
ion as to writing English has been 10
moved, the requirement as ts speaking
English remains, and as this would be
objectionable to the Norwegians of
Minnesota and tho various races rep
resented in Wisconsin, a big opposi
tion may be expected from that quar
ter. The minority will, in shoit, hint
that the pioscnt naturalization laws
are all rijlit if only properly enfoieed.
Having accepted the Secretaryship
of State, James Gillespie Blaine has
leased the old Seward liott-e for a term
of ten yoai-3. Tho house is convenient
to thu State Department and ono of
the nearest private residences to tho
White House, being No. 17 Lafayotto
Square. Tho mansion is very old
fashioned and the rooms tunc u. illy
large. It has recently been used for
offices by the War Department, and
has been badly treated. Still it Oiti
be greatly improved and as it is close
to the White House will enable Mr.
Blaine to keep a great many things in
view.
Ex-Senators Piatt and Miller have
both been hero this week, though an
attempt was made to conceal the pres
ence of the former. Senator Palmer
gave an elaborate dinner on Saturday
to tho Washington correspondents for
the purpose of reviving tho Miller
boom, but it somehow failed to revive.
The talk is now all of l'lutl, and tho
impression is that Miller will huvo to
bo contented with tho Agricultural
Department, which will be accepted
with ill grace.
Tom Reed is kept on the ragged
edge of his speakership contest. No
sooner has he nailed ono of tho lieu of
his opponents than another takes its
place. Just now tho wise ones are
solemnly reasoning that, so long as
Mr. Blaino is going into the cabinet,
it would not bo advisable to over fa'or
Maine by giving Mr. Reed his coveted
honor. Do you wonder that his ro
tund figure is wasting?
I saw a bet of .ffiO made at Welck
er's last fall that Col. Ficd Grant
would be avowedly after an oflico be
fore Gen. Hanison's inauguration.
Tho bet is settled by Colonel K red's
modest announcement that he is wil
ing to be Minister to China. "I shall
not," ho said last week, "ask for a po
sition except in a manly way." Peo
ple who know Col. Grant host know
that this means that Gen. Harrison
had better give it to him or receive
his left-handed blessing and be an
noyed to death. Great boy, that same
Fred.
CommiFsioner of Pensions Black is
having a hard time of it. Aflor his
recent failure to secure the position of
legal ndviier to tho army, he conclud
ed to accept appointment as Pension
Agent at Washington and urged hi
claims upon Prosidont Cleveland.
But ho failed, for the piesident ronoin
inatud the present incumbent. Three
weeks only remain in which Gen.
Black can continue hU search for a
sinecure, and that is a short lime lit
best.
There are thirty-four certtficatt'H of
congressmen-elect that have not beon
filed with tho clerk of the House.
Tho delay is unusual, and is, of courao,
mostly on tho republican side. Thu
last CongriisMoiial Directory, just
issued, gives the next House in ooiu
pocd of 158 domoerats and 107 repub
licans. The present House contains
100 domoerats, 152 republioans and J
indutiemlont and laDor members.
J. II. O.
mmstu rovm:i:.
Nett ill" tlir- Wi'rU nuit iVr'i nnl Note
li AJn.
February It). ltW).
The M. E. festival has been post
pi ni'd.
Mrs. Thoma, of Baker, is visiting at
Mr?. Samuel Dye's.
The frame work of the new church
building is erected.
Henr Edwards was kicked by a
horse, on Tuesday, quite seriously.
Mr. Mcacham, of ihe Cove, sup
plied tho town, on Friday, with a
choice article of fruit.
Nobby suits and side arms have
be n uvcive 1 by coine of tho officers
of tho Guard. More will follow soon.
The ball at Haines on he 22nd
promises to b. an iuU resting event.
Many from this section will attend.
Mr. John O'Bryant's team vacated
town at a lively rate without a dliver
a few da s line, but wt re overhauled
before any iuateii.il damage resulted.
Mr. Cbas. Sehcidhatier has the
thanks uf the travel. n.; pubUe
erecting a suitable hitching place
for
tot-
their horse's when in town.
A revival of religion is in pregrcss at
the Wolf creek srhoolhuuse, conduct
ed by Rev. Walsh, of Baker City, and
assisted by Rev. Winter and wife of
East Portland. Great interest is
manifested.
Met sr.". Mom Levy and Miles Leo
returned from Cracker creek on Sat
urday. They have decided to engage
in the tin rcantile business in Cracker
Cieicek City and will take in a stock of
g oils in soon as the roads will admit
of transportation.
Mr. Frank Uolan has leased the
North Powder hotel, to take possession
March 1st. Mr. Dolan is well known
hero and l)is many friends are pleased
to have him return again. Mrs. Rich
ardson will retire to her ranch some
four miles from town when possession
of hotel i.s taken.
Valentine's of every description from
comic and cerio-eomio to tho truly
gushing aitiele rained alike upon the
just as well as the unjust similar to a
minaturo Nebnifka cyclone, on the
M b itist., denominated St. Valentine.s
day. tending to please as well as dis
ple.np the average citizen. Yet after
all painstaking sonic people will be
disjileas d and notbin short of a
"pull at the public pap" would seem
soothe tic ir raging breasts. R-a-t-s.
A "quack cancer and corn euro
man" i.s in limbo at Baker awaiting
the result of some of his infallible cures
at 11 aims and vicinity. We learn
that a lady resident of that place will
more than likely lose her hand, and
possibly her life, by patronizing tho
"doctor." Another case in that vicini
ty is in about as precarious a condition
also. This session of tho present leg
islature will bo called upon to pass a
medical practice act (as thirty-live
slates and territories have done) pro
tecting tho people against a class of
ignoiaut inoutooanks of which this
worthy is a sample. A J AX.
Our C'llin.'ilii.
In an article in the Scientific
Monthly for January, entitled "East
ern Oregon," Prof. Jay Guy Lewis
speaks as follows of our climate:
"We have not onlv the richest cold
! milieu in the world but also the best
I climate, fine'st. limber, abundance of
pine siuing water, rapid mountain
streams filled with mountain trout,
rivers tilled with sulmon and salmon
(tout., woods full of elk, black tail ekcr,
bear, mountain sheep, grouse and
piairie chi "lions. Our uplands tiro
covered wi ll hunch and other nutri
tious gr.isse.-, and our valleys produce
four crop. of alfalfa clover each season,
and all o'her ceieals and vegetables in
like proportion. Why, if I wero to de
scribe our vegetables as they actually
are, your readers would doubt me.
Potatoes weighing 10 pounds, cabbage
40, In ats iG, onions 1J, and turnips 27,
ate not unusual in Eagle valley, near
the town of Sparta.
I say to all i he world Oregon is tho
poor man's paradise, tho lich man's
homo. Coino and sue for yourself."
Wlial'xllu. Mutter With Ynu?
You are not "all tight.'' You feel tired,
your buck aches, you feel shakey In the
knee, you aro vubjcci to dull headauhos,
are iirrv.uii, enim, and nil things don't
si eni t go Ju-t rhht. In short, you aro
full of ma'ar in, and on will continue1 to fee
wore until you got something to kill an
I expol the poiion. We recommend Llectrli
! Hitter, becauuo It will jiint lit your cane.
Ho coiilldeiitaro we, that wc gutirauico it,
which moans iliat your money will bo re
funded If you ure not bonetltcd. No fairer
nhV oun bo made. You have a sure thing.
Try It. P. i. COc, and $1 00 at Brown's
drug stoio, Union Oregon.
Farmers and otherH in buying farm
implements, wagons, etc., will invaria
bly find it to their advantage to let
traveling agents alone mid buy of well
known mid reliable firms. Thoso who
purchiuu of Finnic Bros.' Implement
Co., of Island City, will ho sure of get
ting jiut what they buy, and may
count on fair dealing every time.
Thoir priiws are fixed (o'stiit tho times
and they alwuys huVii Un kfuroXlB uxtnas
tot tjooda tWyiXrtl. 3
SALEM.
Proceedings of Our Solons in
the Legislature.
THE WALLOWA CANYON ROAD.
Aspirants lor the Office of Railroad
Commissioner.
S.u.hm, Fob. 10, 1S8D.
Editor Scout:
Next Thursday will complete tho
fifteenth bi enniul session of tho
Oregon legislature.
As a liberal assembly this session
has it"or been equalled. They havo
recognized the fact that (hoy aro tho
repn acntalivcs of a great and growing
plate and have not been parsimonious
in their dis'iibulion of aid for tho
needy tectums of our state.
Hunters bill appropriating .$S,000
for improving the Wallowa canyon
passed b ith Houses almost unani
mously and is conceded lo bo one of
the most meritorious appropriation
bills passed.
The Bull Run water bill, after being
defeated, was unexpectedly called up
in the House on Thursday evening,
passing by a vote of 1V7 to 111 with four
absent. It is understood that three
who voted to sustain the governor's
veto, being so bound by caucus, aro
pledged to sustain the bill notwith
standing the governor's veto at this
time. The bill passed the senate yes
terday, and is now in the executive's
hands for his approval or veto. Thin
mensuro is one of vital importance to
Portland, and to tho whole state in
fact, and should by all means pass.
House bill 121, introduced by Wil
liamson of Crook, is one of great im
portance to Union county and is en
titled "An act to prohibit sheep, cattlo
and horses from being driven from any
place outsido of tho state into tho
state, or from ono county into another
for the purpose of being pastured or
herded upon the public lands or upon
land owned by any person other than
the owner thereof." This bill passed
tho House yesterday, and will certain
ly become a law, and if so, will protect
Union county range from tho ravages
of Umatilla sheep which pay no taxes
in our county, but have full benefit of
our grass.
The act enabling Union county to
change her county seat is still in tho
hands of tho committee of tho senato
and there seems to be tomo disposition
to keep it there.
Hon. Dunham Wright, of Union
county, is a prominent candidate for
railroad commissioner should tho se
lection of a demount fall to Eastern
Oregon. J. R. Slater is also hero
wot king for tho same office.
James Fell, of Baker City, is prom
inently mentioned for the sainu ollioo
by the republicans, with strong proba
bility of being chosen as bitch com
missioner. Mr. Fell's largo business,
interests and undoubted integrity ren
der him a very strong following here,
and it seems to be conceded hero that
the democrat will come from Southern
Oregon and with Wagner, of Corvallie,
and Fell, of Baker City, will compose
tho railroad commission of Oregon.
The weather has been all that an
East Oregonian would wish for, roads
dry and dusty with light frosts at
night. Wo aro all ready and anxious
to again breathe- tho air of our own
Union county and havo no desiro to
swap it for webfoot weather.
Hayskkds.
Alluill Land for Alfalfa.
In tho Bakerslield Echo we find tho
following on tho practicability of grow
ing alfalfa on alkali land. Wc, in
common with nearly every ono witli
whom we havo talked, have believed it
would not do well on that kind of
laud, hut this experience seems to bo
of a different sort:
"In company with W. E. Houghton,
wo drovo'out to his Berkshiro rancho
last week and wero repaid by seeing
many things of interest. O'nu of tho
most remarkable was a Held of alfalfa
which was seeded last spring, and the
fifth crop of hay was being hauled in
while we wero there. A feature of in
terest about this field was that the al'
fulfil looked Btrong and hearty, al
though the ground was so impregna
ted with alkali that thu surface is
white with the salt. This convinced
us that with proper handling this
class of lands are noUeo worthless as
wo had tliought, but aro, ou tho con
trary, very valuable. Mr. Houghton
said that when onco well set to, alfalfa
Hicli laud appeared to;bo tftrongiJr arid
riuuW kVa IrrifcWkm th'an any