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V The Oregon SCO! IT VOL. V. The Oregon Scout. An independent weekly Journal, isucd ev ery Tliur.xd.iy nioniim; bv JONES & CHANCE Y, Publishers ami Proprietors. . K. Jon I Editor, j j 11. Ciianct.y, ( Foreman. RATKS OF BUUSCKIl'TIONl One copy, one vear . . Six months . " ' Three niontos 1.00 7"i lnvarlnbly Catili In Advance. If by thance tubsci iptivus are not paid till tml of year, wo dollars will uc cnartjai. Rate of advertising made known on ap plication. tSTCorreipondence from all parts of the ountry solicited. Adrcss all communications to the Oucuon Scout, Union Oregon. VKOFESSIONA1., It. Kakik, J. A. Bakin, Notary Public. EAKIN, & BROTHER, Attorneys at Law, "Union, Oregon. KT Prompt Attention Paid to Collect.ons JOHN R. CRITES, Attorney at Law. OillrcHnir and probate practice special U. Office, two doors south of post-ollice. Union, Oregon. J N. CROMWELL, M. D. , Physician and Surgeon Office, one door outh of J. 15. Eaton's store, Union, Oregon. Q H. DAY, M. D., H0MEPATI1IC Physician andSurgeon. ALL CALLH TROMrTLT ATTENDED TO. Office adjoininc Jones IJro's store. Can dm isnnu iiiguis ui icjiuuik in kutm wst Union. Jk W. Biiklton. J. M. Cauuoll. S1 HELTON & CARROLL. Attorneys at Law. Office : Two doors south of post-ofllce, Un ion, Oregon. Special attention given all business en trusted to us. t II. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Union, Oregon. Office, one door south of Centennial ho tel. F. WILSON, Conveyancer and Abstracter. 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. Office next door south of Post-office. Un ion, Oregon. A. L. SAYLOR, M. D Physician and Surgeon, North Powder, Oregon. Has permanently located and will attend all professional calls day or night. Office: Drug store building: residence, one door west ot liougera' noici. TV. KIMI5RELL, County Surveyor, And Deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor, North Powder, Oregon. J W. STRANGE, DENTIST, La Grando, Oregon. Will visit Union regularly on tint fint Monday of each month. ALL WORK WARRANTED FIRST CLASS Cornucopia Saloon, Wm. Wilson, Pjiop. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always in stock. FIRST CLASS BILLIARD TABLE. Drop In and lo sociable Shannon Marshall, THE Practical Horso Trainer, Will always be found at Boothe & Camp bcll'livery stable. I Take your vicious horses to him and he will break them. Charges reasonabla. For fine guns, 1 MOUNT TACOMA. I Written f.r Ti;n J-'loct.I llich up am .i,u tin- rltu 1 laud lifts Ploud Mount Tarcnw's now-chid olillV. Her glided pi.inaclr.s of snow Kctlei t beucuth a purple glow; The tinted rliUes "f her crest IJlush deeper as the sun goes west. Swift 'round her crag the eagle sails, And frolics with the oky-born'gales. Ills wide-spread winns his noble air, Drinks from the vigor resting there. He soars, and races with the mist, And cleaves the clouds, with sunlight kissed 1 Tar up along her bo.om creeps SotuoMiow-gluzed ridges snow-Hncd deeps. The clouds hang on her lifted hand Like streaming draperies o'er the land. The morning rays are cleft in twain, And then at eve, unite again. Proud monuments of Nature's art! Of grandieur, thou, the grandest part 1 ltold land-mark of lom; ages past. Thy tales and legends cVr shall last. The heiroslynhies on thy breast, , fc-hull be, when nations are at rest. ITov," many a wild tradition clings How many a legend softlv rings Around thy snow-clad dills and peaks. Thy everv crag and chasm speaks Of distant talcs of long gono years; Degenerate fable lurks and" fears. Oft' has the rod man's suppliant knee Rowed low in reverence to thee! Among thy sun lit heights he saw The source of every change and law. And at thy foot his every dream Saw thee the god of all supreme. White is the mantle o'er thee cast, Pure as n saint, and till the last Of Nature's funeral piles shall die, Thy nurity shall deck the sky 1 An emblem of a purer throne in these fair climes has novcr shone. Ho who wou.d step to higher planes, And ask the world for nobler g.iins, Must be far purer than the kind He leaves in lower state behind. If an example one would set He purer than the purest yet. Orand is the majesty that glows From out the mirror of thy Knows. Anil grander far the shadows deep That fall at evening at thy feet. The waves that on Pacific's beach Surge backward to thy summit's reach. Mankind looks upwards to thy crest, And sees thy eloquence at rest. He sees tlie likeness of a life. Purer than his, and free from strife He sees amid thy summits wild, . Creation's grandeur undcfile.l. 15. W. Huffman. Tacoma, Mareli lt, 18S9. TELOCASET ITATTLINGS. March 20, 1889. Farmers busy plowing. School will probably start in this district. April 1st. Mr. Henry Simons and 'family, of Tacoma, have been visiting their ma ny friends and relatives in this placo for the past week or two. Mr. C. 1". Miller will remove lo Washington Territory to spend the summer. We regret to see our ranks thinned out, for the vacant houses in our burg look sadly like "sweet Au burn" of which Goldsmith has said so much. Mr. T. B. H. Green moved a band of fine looking sheep to the hills, Inst week, for the purpose of getting flesh on them, ami to prepare inem ior market. Ecclcs' saw mill will eooii start for a good season's run. Considerable dry lumber is on the yard here yet. They have a sufiicient amount of good logs cut now to last them half the season, and the material will bo ground out in fust Older. Mr. .las. Huffman, who has had Ben Mache's ranch rented for the past year, lias moved to union aim we near iie will soon go to Malheur county and engage extensively in the stock busi ness. Jim. is a progressive boy and will succeed, no doubt. The green grass growcth, the gentle stream flowoth, the lazy cow lowoth, for all that and all that; tho bedbug creepeth, the young sheep lcapeth, the old women wecpoth because it is too dry to plant onions. Some occa sional showers have fallen lately, but for this time of tho year tho ground is very dry. Eastern Oregon is tho placo to stay after all. It is not booming itself into popularity, it is not advertising itself into fame, nor is it misrepresenting its real and substantial merits. People find it quiet, but busy, full of life, but steady. No great booming schemes arc on foot, hut it'steadily grows and gains in wealth, gains in the qualities of a lasting and well founded homo country. Miss Elizabeth Ashby, of this placo, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Gorman, in Baker City. Miss Ashby is noted as being the only single girl of any ago now left in tho district. Only a very few years ago wo could boast of having tho gayest, jolliest and largest number of girls of any placo of our magnitudo in tho country, but Jfynien has en snared them all in his army of house keepers. Time will bring about changes. J'ylc canyon is a legendary place. Tho cliffs and canyons that skirt its edges arc alive with old and mystical stories of long gono years; of immi grant and Indian battles, of hunters and trappers, of hard times that over look the frontiersman, and of many otlior fanciful and queer legends. Somo time it may be, jf tho columns of Tub Scout arc open to such, somo lucky pen may trace out a few frag ments of these old and time-worn bits of love and put a tinge of ink on tliein. TltAMI. optical goods, etc., of UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH HIGH VALLE'; Intcrrllii!; Mcnilmi of x-vfi-nl I'roiiitiinnt SI no".: Men Ximi s of tho Week. Mr. A. ( Cool: h.is bought the La Bull' ranche. Our school opens tho first day of April with Mr. Conkliu, of Cove, as instructor- 4 Mrs. Mayotte, who has been sick for a long time, we are glad to state, is slowly improving. Mr. Wm. Wilkinson nought of Rtis sel it Co. Portland, a sixteen horso power engine for his saw mill, to take the place of water power. The farmers are all getting in their crops and the frequent showers are getting the ground quite wet, a cer tain forerunner of a good crop. Nathan Swager has bought of Har lan Stewart the Cates ranche, consist ing of 570 acres. Prico paid, $7,000. He has f)72 acres of farm and pasture land in High valley. J. Q. Shirley has mtrchascd the Stanton ranche and the old 1 lender - shott place, together making 1G00 acres llehasaneyo single to busi - ness and that is for the advent of tho Hunt rail road. Ho is on tho subsidy for $5,000. The Wilkinson Bros, will drive thoir stock out of their tulo ranche tho 1st of April. They aro feeding 150 head of cattle and 40 head of horses. They have 1G0 acres iu the tulo ranche anil 830 of farm and pasture land in High valley. This is the timo of tho year when tho traveling tree agent is among the farmers, eloquently talking tho tree from tho fiberous roots to tho rosy fruit, specimens of which ho usuallv carries with him in magnifying jars. increiore, tanners, beware of his sil very tongue and gilded chroinos. Patronize your homo nurserymen and your home merchants and thereby never get swindled. The good farmer is he who conducts his business as docs every good busi ness man in other, departments of labor. So wo thought as we rodo over Mr. George Ames' Uilo rancho where he is feeding 450 .head of cattle and 2S0 head of horses. He has some lino imported horses and several head of Short Horn cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Ames hold title to :i,500 acres of land, about all under fence. This includes a largo tract of farm and pasture land in High valley. Nobody can wish any of those good people, wo have made mention of, aught but good luck. If ever anybody is deserving of a good tar and feathering, that person is the gossiper and talo bearer. A liar is bad enough, but a talo bearer is one of the most despicable of God's crea tures. In his person, no man or wo man's reputation is safe a moment. A breath from such whited sepulchres is sufiicient to tarnish oven falsi! v itself. Ono often wonders, at times, at the loss of this, that or the other friend and finds that it is owing to somo dev lhsh talo niado out of whole cloth and containing about as much truth as ono would expect to hear from tho devi himself. Homes have been niado des olate, friends separated and manv heart sorely wounded by thy uninton tional(Y) remark of somo exceedingly uninterested friend, i1 nondship is something that cannot ho spared in this world, and the ono that steps in to separate friends is, as we havo sau deserving of the severest punisnment that can bo visited upon him CORNUCOPIA. InturoHtlni; Account of Union Fuiuoim Mliiro. Comity's March 10, ISS'J. EniTon Scout: Surrounded by hills, mountains and tho towering pine, I writo you my first letter descriptivo of what 1 havo teen and am now seeing. Although I cun 1 j ft y- uaio my resilience in uregon awav back into the "fifties," I can truly say that I never have known half the value to bo placed upon Oregon and its productions. Although Oregon has been prolific of painters and poets, and some of no mean pretensions, among whom I can number Judge Miller, the poet of the Sierras, who first unchained his oxcontric horso in Canyon City, Grant county, its word painters and its politicians and states men, their eyes and voices, seem to have been closed when the marvelous beauties of its natural scenery cavo ample opportunity for their brightest efforts, i have seen paintings of Cal ifornia, rock and hills and the over restless ocean which laves our own shores as well as hers, but tho tall and waving pines of inland Oregon, which in many places, us iu this, shade and shadow the richest of mineral deposits, fail to inspire tho brush or voice. It is only when tho poorly paid an un appreciated newspaper man "holds converse with Nature's charms" and unrolls its beauties and bountiful gifts that wc read of its lavish distribution to our denizens. While gazing at tho denso forest which everywhere sur rounds mo and hides beneath an end less shude such vast deposits of glitter ing gold, us this region contains I am surprised that the foot of tho prospect or over found its way hither. But dropping from these genorali- every descripsion, en ties and speculations, 1 will venture the assertion that nowhere since the fabulous era of California's gold dis coveries, has thcie been found lienor and more extensive mines of gold than arc hero in and around Cornucopi.i, in Union county. It is, too, not out of humanity's reach, but iu a civilized, thickly settled and fertile region. Tho products of the soil nre variolic and abundant. "Wood, water and grass" is everywhere. It is truly a miner's paradise. I can see no drawbacks no discouraging aspect no clouds to dim tho horiion. Its accessibility adds to its charm. Taking the stage in Union at m in the morning you are in (he "horn of plenty" at tho samp hour in tho even ing, and when only thirty miles out you strike the Sanger mill and mines which even tho Baker City journals chronicle as shipping, a row weeks ago, seventy thousand dollars in gold bullion. 1 here are iwr. mines are discovered and undiscovered, avocation of the prospector is than The not gone, i nero is yet ninny a pino j which marks tho boundaries of claims yet lo be located. The prospector enn 1 strike himself rich and all the while live in a land of plenty and comfort, while the school bell chimes melodi ously with tho whistlo of the quartz mill and rattling of stamps. Tho town of Cornucopia was laid out in the fall of lb'85, tho first mines having been located in tho fall of that year. It was named, after tho old Ne vada town of Cornucopia, by W. R. Usher, familiarly called "Uncle Bill" Usher. Mr. Usher, Sam Senor and Geo. Bolles. old Tuscaroms, now own valuable mines named the "Comet"' "Way Up" and "George," which are held way up 'in tho thousands, with the prospect of a salo during the com ing sumnior. Allentown lies below and adjoining Cornucopia, and was laid out by some parties second comers who were too late to get their choice of lots in Cor nucopia. In both places thero are in tho vicinity of two hundred houses, many of which aro now vacant, but present indications aro that in two months timo they will be mostly occu pied. Lumber, delivered, is from $17 to .$20 per thousand. All vegetables and farm products are oheap and abun dant. In Cornucopia thero is ono hotel, kept by Mr. Nicholson, three stores, threo saloons, and one public hull and school house. Pino creek runs through' the center of tho town and southerly through a rich and thickly settled ag ricultural valley. Trout are abundant in tho creeks, as also in a lako situa ted six miles from Cornucopia. Tho timber is tho black, yellow and bull pine. Some of tho trees aro 120 feet high and from 3 to 7 loot in diamotor at tho butt. This town, almost exclu sively tributary to Ui nio.n, ias every cunveuioiico auu luxury tur tuo sup port of a largo and thriving communi ty. While in California last winter your correspondent hud frequent con versation with mining meu about milling sales. There, the only talk was about gold, and here thoy can find it. I can assert and you can safely pub lish that out of a thousand locations in this district, there is not one which will not mill two dollars .per ton, and from that up in the hundreds, hi Grass valley, Cal., mines pay dividohds that mill only sixty cent's, so your readers may form somo idoa Of tho ex tent and value of this locality. Tt is truly Cornucopia a hi horn of plen ty. In my next and futuro communica tions I shall particularize, 'giving the number of locations, namo of mines and their owners. 1 feet liko adding, such is the richness and profligate dis tribution of gold in Cornucopia, that Wo need no pick or shovel, No nan. no simdo or lion. For the larger eliunks are top of ground, AVlilch ever way you go. lUXIHN. Anoltuit Wlioat. A most interestintr experiment raising of as old as culminated to-day in tho wheat giown from seeds the Exodus. The oxnerimontor is David Drew, who hist vear received from a friend in Alexandria, Egypt, somo grams of wheat taken from a mummy exhumed near tho ruins of Memphis, and belonging it is beliovi d, to the period of tho ninth dvnatav. which would make it ifrown about J1000 B. C, or bo nearly S0!M yours old. IIo planted tho fioed oarly in the spring and carefully nursed it. ft grew rapidly, and tho timo cutting measured from six and half to sovou feet high. Tho leaves alternate on tho stock liko ordinary wheat, but tho product of tho phmt is tho tnont singu lar part of it. for instead of growing in aneariiKO modern corn, more is a heavy clustor of small twigs iu plucc of tho spiudlo which hane downward from its weight, and each twig is thick ly studded with kernels, ouuh of which is in a separato husk. From what is threshed a larger crop will lw grown next year, as tho result nrovtw tnis ground to exceed in quality anything that tho modern grain onn srroiv. Cincinnati Enquiror. Job printing dono at this dhVe on short notice. Piioes raisonnbh . 11 on A. N. Gardner, ? 21, 1889. NORTH POVDER. I.iito XfWv.'A Child's KiMinrltnMo lis !! from Dcntli. March 12, ISM). Haines whs down J. I). Wilcox, of on Wednos lny. Emi ;mtion from the cast it coining iu daily . . Stoddard's saw mill will rcsunio op erations soon. O. 1). Thomlincon wag oloctcd olork at tho school meeting. A daughter of J. Bradford arnvod here from tho east a few days ago. Mr. Stanford has goue on a business trip to tho Cracker mining legions. Frank Huff is on a vmH to Omaha. Neb. He is oxpctctl to return this wek. Messrs. Kellogg & Punch will rn movo their storo to thoinitta in a, short time. Considerable interest m manifested in the revival meetings taking placo here. Mr, H. A. Travillian has gono to Walla Walla to counsel an oceulist in regard to removing a cataract from his eye. W. H. Pearson and family, who returned east last BUininor by team, camo back by team a fov days since, to remain. Jasper Stevens slaughtered three porkers last weok wIiobo maximum weight, when dressed, amounted to pounds. Miles Loo has taken the contract of hauling tho quart mill and . machin ery of tho Excelsior mining company into Cracker creek. W. J. and T. J. Grains left for Hil gard, Inst weok, to work on a contract of delivering somo 2,000,000 feet of logs for Young & Co. " Tho' medical act does not restrict "Quacks" from practicing but preventa others coming into the State who can not pass an examination. March 10, IS89. 1 The Baptists held a business meet ing at tho school house on Saturday. Posters aro nut for a school mooting, the object of which will bo lo levy a tax. ' ' Mr. P. H. Cox, of Txland City, called hero on Saturday in the interest of his firm. Mrp. Ed. Stout returned on Friday from the Willametto valley after an absencu of several months. Mr. Jan. Gilkinsou, of Eagle croek, formerly in tho employ of tho mill contpany, camo over on Saturday to remain a fow days. Mr. Mose' levy did not go to St. Louis, as reported, but to Spokane .t.'aIls,'Y. T. It requires considerable "boosting" to get some people into business, it appears. Mrs. McCurry has been quite low with pneumonia, at her residence, for several days past. Fair prospects for another busiuoss house in this town in the near future Our shoemaker wants an uut6matio typo writer to uso in appending his signature tn tho numerous petitions afloat, lie thinks ho can save valua ble timo from his labor. Mr. Jn.i. Mooro, of Bulger. Flat, has removed hi-, family and stock to a homestead ranch on Burnt river. Tho section men on tho Tolooasot section quit work on Tuesday last and new men have been employed. Causo double with the foreman. Work on tho now Baptist church progresses surely but slowly. A few more weeks will bo required to com plete it. Mr..!. D. Wilcox, hero yestrnluy. He good in that vicinity. of Haines, was reports times Mr. Daniel Starbird and E. White head aro on a sporting tour to Grande Rondo valley iu quest of ducks, geoso and other game. Our new host of tho North Powder hotel starts out with fair patronage and good prospect of success. So mote it be. Work commenced yostorday on tho foundation of Mr. Ifonry Gorlmm's stone store building and tho Odd' Fel lows temple. Work will not cease now uutil the building is completed. The youngest child of .Mr. and Mrs. Goi haui was missed for a short timo by itn mother on Saturday and on search lx:ing nmdo tho little fellow was discovered in an limited well in the barn lot It appears a plank had been removed and he had fallen through the opening, a distance of somo fifteen foot. Fortunately his descent was broken by coining in contact with a scantling containing a fow nails upon which hi clothing caught, suspending him with his head just above tho wa ter, in which condition ho was found, The well contains ubout four feot of water at" present. This is probably ono Of tin' narrowest and most fortunate eMnp . from drowning on rocord in this p..it of tho country. Ajax. igK. ah stsel harrows are the hast nmooilihig ImrrowH yet produced. Ask your neighbor who mug one, and order from l rjnl! UtoV Implement Co. at Is- lai. Ui.')- l.i 1 1 1 iiii!''. tlie jeweler, main hwhbt, NO. 39. mi i.iaui-nfTrmui vim ui. n m ITIIU--J1LLLL-JJL-.ii.: THE COVE. l.otlitt'ii Academy llciii.riiotl-.N mth of ttio Work. Tlie .March 20, ISS'J. Mr. llert Benton is able to bo on tho fatreot again after a tedious spell of fever. Tho boys nre talking baseball and aro thinking of commencing activo practice. Horn. To the wifo of Mr. Goorgo Ilea, March Kith, a son. All inter ested improving. Studies were resumed at Asconsion school, Monday, after a two week's va cation on account of sickucss. Ed. Robinson is the Cove butcher at present, having purchased the shop, accounts and gooil will of Wm. Mar tin. The weather is well suited to plow ing. Farmers aro busy in every di rection and a largo ticroago is boing sown. Sam'l. White is re-papering and rc- ' painting Dr. McDonald's house which will be occupied by Mel Campbell in a short time. Dr. llardingo will move this week to Mr. B. B. Sanborn's residence whero he will be found by those in need of his services. heighten Academy oponed again to students, Tuesday, and is under tho same excellent management as before tho vacation, Among thoso seriously indisposed this week, are Mrs. Joseph Martin, and Mr. 1). B. May. Their many friends wish for them early recovery. Tho Covo flouring mill is grinding day and night, there being an abund ance of water in tho creek. Ready snlo is found for tho Hour and mill stufT. Tho Covo public school has finished tho term and closed for tho summer. Mr. Eugene Conkliu has been engaged to teach a six months school in tho Park. Mr. Elmer Wortman and wifo aro expected to arrive from California this wook. They intend to become polina nent residents of Covo, and aro tho kind of citizens wo need. The Childri brothers will depart from our midst in a fow days. Edward will leave for his home in Walla Walla and Lewis will go to Spokane Falls where ho expects to remain during tho sum nior. Burroughs' steam shinglo works aro being operated early and lalo and ho has a fine lot of products on tho yard. Orders aro coming from all parts of tho valley, showing that such a good artielo of shingles is appreciated. The Covo dairy company will opon tboir factory in a fow days and begin work for tho season.' A largo quantity of milk is already insured and tho out put of cheeso and butter this year must bo large. J. C. Donoy has somo splendid nur sery stock on hand and is disposing of it in considerable quantities. Tho trees are of tho very best varieties for tius climate as experience has provon. Tho well known canvasser, II. Cham bers is traveling in tho interest of tho nursery. Mr. J. Chadwick will go to tho Indi an orouk saw mill noxt Sunday whoro ho will bo employed this summer. John has borrowed a musket and had a pair of trco climbers made and says ho will havo trouble with tho beara which aro plentiful in that region. O. P. .Taycox canvassed tho precinct, last weok, in tho interests of tho Hunt railroad subsidy. Sovorul subscrip tions of a thousand each woro sub scribed and many in smaller sums. Zilo talked so much logic at thorn that tho most fell victims and put down what thoy could afford. To Hiionro Immigration. A writer in a Portland paper says tho truo way to secure Immigration and make a country prosper is to be ablo to sell land at a fair price nml cut up great farms into small ones. Tho money to bo made hero in Oregon by agricultural pcrsuits cannot bo niado by trying to farm on a large scale but by selling offland in small tracts, especial ly land that is located near towns, orsulted for fruit growing. Quo man can make mon ey off twenty aero because ho can do much or most of it without hiring, and by the gardenlnj,', small fruits and orcharding, his crops will bo of the remunerative kind. Bven If engaged Inordinary farming it U possible to make more clear money oil' a quarter of a section than has been made from a whole section as commonly done. Diversified farming Is all that can pay. To grow wheat after wheat will net pay. A Hufo Invoiliiuitit, Is ono which Is guaranteed to," bring you satisfactory results, or In casoof falluro a return of purehaio price. On this safe plan you can buy from our advertised druggists a bottle of Dr. King' New Discovery for Consumption. It Is guaranteed to bring relief iu uvory cane, when used for any af fection of Throat, Lungs or Chest, such as Consumption, In amotion of ungs, Uron cliltls, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Croup, etc. It U pleasant and agreeable-to taste, perfectly safe, and can always bo dopouded upon. Trial bottles free ut It. II. UrownN drug store, Union, Oregon, Union, Oregon.