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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1889)
Scout. ) " VOL. V. UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL II, I88JK NO The Oregon Scout. An independent weekly journal, i-sucd ev ery ThurMlay morning by JONES & CIIAXCEY, Publishers and Proprietors. K. .Tonus, I Editor. )' ( 15. ClIANCHV, ( Foreman. KATKS ()!' .SlIltSCKll'TlONi One copy, one year . $l.r0 " " .Six months 1.00 " ' Three inonto "i lnvnriiibly Cnhli In Advance If bxi thaHce subset iption arc not paid till ni of year, two dollars tclll be charged. Rates of advertising made known on ap , plication. $2rCorrcspondcnce from all parts of the country solicited. Adress nil communications to the Oiskgo.v Scout, Union Oregon. afrsa3tn nwgasxrftJLUJVjtji TRAVELERS, Wlion in La Grande V.'ill Find the ! li litain Hotel A Firv-cln hme in every respect. This hou-se i now under new manage ment and everything i neat and clean. The room are large and newly fnrnihed ami the tables; are alwaj- Mijiplied with the ue.si uic market nnorn. JERUSALEM. Pen Pictures of Scenes in 1-Iolv Land. the THE BARREN tLE OF PAT MOB. On the Shores of the Dead Sea Icn Turk. -The Sul- CHARGES . 1'. IIHUVKS, Proprietor. lEoa Ton REASONABLE K. I. ;itr;!F, 11. ad rirrfc ritoricssioNAK, J. A. Kakin, Notary 1'iiblic. R. Eakin, J EAKIN, Ss BROTHER, Attorneys at Law, Union, Oregon. iTrompt Attention Paid to Collect. ons. JOHN R. CIUTES, Attorney at Law. Collecting and probatu practice special lies. Olllce, two doors south of post-ollico. Union, Oregon. T N. CROMWELL, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office, one door outh of J. I?. Eaton's stor, Union, Oregon. II. DAY, M. D., IIOMKPATIIIC Physician and Surgeon. ALL CAM S PROMPTLY ATTI-NUKD TO. Office adjoining Jones Pro's store. Can be fbund night at residence in South west Union. J. W. Suelton. J. M. Caruoll. O HELTON & CARROLL. Attorneys at Law. Office: Two doors south of post-oflice, Un ion, Oregon. Special attention given all business en trusted to us. Marat' I I i Jniif? Ai-RM. March 0, I8S9. KniTou Okkuon Scorn I Last Sunday morning, ns the sun i was glinting the sky with streams of , lustrous light, from far behind the craggy i aunts mountains, wc steamed up nuitra lone, desolate, barren elilfof brown rocks far awav from anv shore. temples of the city look up in spectral ! silence toward Calvary. Here during the Crusades more bloo i was sj ilt than would have redeem, d mankind if redeemable with blood in trying to place, the sepulchre of Chi tat in the hands of the follower?. The Turk was obstinate. The weary Christian staggered before the well meant blows of the oimotar of the Inlidel. Oh, religion, what things are dotto in thy name! A world to-day bows at the foot of tne cross, and here in .laden, among the low-browed hills and level plains, where the sun goes down in lurid halos, was born that immense spit it of reformation that has taken the mightiest potentates by the hand, and they have knelt. It has went to the courts of prince and they have bowed at its feet. It spread from Bethlehem like wavelets from a jnjbble dropped on the water. Mankind shuddered. Ho was awe SUMMERY! LLE. Improvements in That Thriving Young City. THE HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK. llrief Mention it the Metrojlis in Gi.:m!i' Precinct. Li Sow open to the public on Main Street, 1 ,.t v,n il."rear-v looking place. iot a j siruei:. it is a mysterious legend. Union, Oregon. j sign of life, animal or vegetable, was The sword of nations has beu drawn I visible on the heated spot It stemtd its defen.-e, and against it. It may true. Tune will tell. The tranquil ' world brings tribute to tho cress and y I 1 T 1 vision! on tne neateu spot it seemed in its nor HOn IT OH OH HO" lo ho merely a lone and barren cliff: all lw t UtllU aiAU 1"UU511J&,i jutted up in the breast of tranquil 1 world bri nnlfi ID Olb SERVED at All Hours 25 en I waters. wc j admired the ' No Chinese cooks employed, and every tiling neat and clean. The Public Patronage Solicited. Mii.V M". Woi.kath, Propr. l'J-S-tf C. Gily - Meat - Market Main Street. BENSON BROS. Union, Oregon, - PROPRIETORS. JCeep constantly on hand BEEF, PORK- VEAL, MUTTON, SAUSAGE, HAMS, LAUD. Etc. Slu e Lob to Core. Tj II. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Union, Oregon. Otlice, one door sonth of Centennial ho wl. g F. WILSON, Conveyancer and Abstracter. Abstracts to Ileal and Mining property furnished on short notice, at reasonable rates. Sales of Real nnd Mining property nego tiatcd. Collection business promptly at tpnili.il io. Olllce next door south of Post-office. Un ion, Oregon. Leaves Union dnilv at i! p. m, arrives at Cove at 3:30 p. m. heaves Cove at 8 a. m., arrives at Union at 0:30 n. m. Connections made with Elliott's coache. running to the depot, currying passengers for east and west hound trains. KATKS for I'A SSK.NT. KISS. T.UC.f! AO 13 ami FKKICHT, KKA SO'A ICf.K. ROBINSON & LAYNK, - - - Proprietor. Union and ('ormieopin gazed nt it iu silence and , u.avi taav ninif 1TV UU Plat VU first wdid e not know that we stood I at the side of a historical landmark. , We did not know this lone, desolate chit was tho scene ot a drama that has been translated into 37 different lan guages. Wo stood face to faco with tho It-le of 1'utmott. Yes, the craggy rock near our side was Putmos where Til,.i ,1.,, li. . ; ..;.i l . t banished by .Nero in 81 A. D., and 1ns tory tells us, also, that on this lane, desolate spot, when tho clouds were black, when the waves lashed the rocky jut in wild unfettered fury, that one John saw, in the form of an angel, a being or vision which related to him, and bade him copy, the inexplicable enigmas and Dulphic-liko mysteries contained in tho last, book of tho New Testament Revolutions. Jt is be lievod by more than half of the civil ized world to-day that here, far away from any other human being, alone, a banished vagrant from the courts of Koine, .John was given the tiery anan thcm.ia and the ultimo of profligate, difObedient man. Here on this steiilo I rock, with no treo nor shrub in sight, it is thought by some, onco beamed tho face of Him who rules all things. It seems almost impossible, that this weird, spectre-like cliff could he tho birth spot of words at which tho bravest sometimes tremble in Mibmis ive awe and yet defy the world to touch their princely robes! Whether history bears the story ifown to us true or not, whether John the Baptist ever lived or not, or ever saw Patmos, it is a wild looking spot. Wo will be content to let time solve theso mnnv things while wo make the best out of Calvary, but after all "Worship's deeper meauing lies In mercy, and not sacrifice ; Not proud humilities of sense, Nor posturing of penitence But Love's unforced obedience." Uaki. Ross. THE COVE. Our ltrRUlat Cot-reaiio&dent'n Iludgot of liitcreRtluR New. lad Shoum m b is returned from u visit to Lost Wnllowa eotiutw Ed. Collins is mi crutches. Cause, too much Aw "p lu .ding. Jap Bonne! le will soou start up iu the bl.ieke.mi th business. Tho Siynmervil!-) cornot band has icorgrtimt'u in gonl shape. Everybody and his boy is farming making iv.uiy for the Hunt railroad. E. B. Moroloek's little boy is im proving under tho care of Dr. Ilonan. J. K. Y. Hxrrv. wile, and fattier Imvo bi.-n v ivsii'k ot late, but nro Im proving. Thcie ba-s been a groat deal of sick ness in this lo-thty, 1 are for the better. The Wa!.vis:-w is daily loaded with pa.- n..: is. Wheio do they all come fio :i .' tbi. i.er in our little .l as, and thev all :'otct 'an Is. Thev ar ignrant that our county contains thousands of acres of the finest of lands for agricultural pur po.es, which, at the low juice of fioin fS to .f'io j., r acre, is almost like find ing land comjarod with eastern jtrice?, and even with Willamette valley juices, which rate at from tffil) tolfiO jioraero. They do not know that the hills and mountains eneiieling and dividing our valleys arc covered with the finest of pine timber focond to none for lum bering jitirposts, and which can jio had for tho asking. Nor do they know that in these hills and mount ains liv vast bodies of oro containing gold and silver in large quantities a w.iiing the powers and ingenity of men to transform into a circulating medium, of which facts of tho dovelo inents at Sanger, Sparta and Cornuco jiia bear testimony. Neither do they know that Grande Hondo Valley and tho country adjoining jiossesses an agreeable and healthful climate as any country under the sun. The immigration now coming and to ionic, to the Pacific northwest is in utter igor.ince of the many and un oqualed advantages ollbied to tho home seeker sju-culator or bueinoss num. Are these jkojiIo to remain iu iguoraneo? Are we going to sit idlv 1U1S8 US :1C al April 9, 1889. witrge hocks oi sand mil crams are on the newly jilanted grain fields in ,' i.ower v. ove arm doing some damage in jiicking up wheat. The boys are spearing some fine salmon trout in Mill creek on tho days that the water runs clear. Miss Sarah Chrisman started for Goldendale, Friday, where she will vis it relatives. She will extend her trip thiough Willamette valley before re turning. . Mr. J. (). Smith was iu town last week, repairing machinery in the cheese factory. Ho was accotnjianicd by Miss Katie Thomas, of Island City. Several Co voiles Avero considerably interested in the alleged discovorie.u of rich mines near Tolocaset, and were jireparing to repair to tho scene. Later reports changed their minds. The jiostofilco- has been moved 'o the drug store. .las. Russell has dis jiosed of his variety store to Jasper Stevens. Mr. Elmer Wertman and wifo have arrived from California. Elmer says ho is glad to bo in Grande ltontle igam, and that it is a country hard to bijipod, this week, . Its to the Portland 55 IP! A. L. SAY LOR, M. 1)., Physician and Surgeon, I North Powder. Orecoa. fl f Una nurmancntlv located and will attend all professional calls day or night. Office: Drug store building: residence, one door west of ltodgers' hotel. J W. KlMllUKLL, County Surveyor, - And Dcjiuty U. S. Mineral Surveyor, J North Powder, Oregon. AMES C. DOW, t T Attorney at Law, Cqrnucopla, Oregon. Land Business Promptly Atten ded to Before the U.S. Offices. CSTMlning claims boucht and sold on Commission. Mines examined and repor ted upon. Quickest and Cheapest Jiotite to tho Pine Creek Mines. KATKS : Union to Park ' " Saniicr " " Cornueopia - I'UiE. 1 .10 - 3 00 - (i 00 FBI'.IfillT. IJ-iic U"ic Geo. F. HALL, Agent, Union, Or. UNION Tonsorial ParSors li. .1. lU sieK, PliOrRlETOR, Shaving-, Hair-cutting and Sham pooing, in the Latest style of the Art, Shop two doors south of Centennial hotel. OIVK ME a CALX. 9 23-tf. i the jiresent. Life is more a ijuestion , beat. JTe and Bert Benton have rent ' of present gain and loss than of future ' ed Jus. Payne's farm and have taken salvation, anyway. , possession of the same. This morning, the (1th of March, Dr. Hardingo has invested in a new o, uYmon"( hc sf,u,n-v .,hllls. of horse and cart. Ho. now makes pro .1 idea Just north a few miles rises , fefcSionnl calls oxjieditiouslv and corn Alt. Olives, majestic and grand. Far ! fortblv tllf VliKt". nlilltlU mill tlltmL- nnno ' famous in historv. stn.teb in,. 1,1.,,. I CNt-UL'w b l)lilu0 v iiiiio HIV iiL-UUCll Willi i i t a. a. . i sheep, the plains rich in tho many ! c.,mtetl " Vltc'rt!st " two cheoso facto erojis ami gardens of Palestine. In ri08' J1.0 '? il good eitizeu and u. this vicinity it is verv easy for the I """O' f" lends are, not pleased at his common j.coj.le to gain a livelihood, j ,lol,url" Ogon. but to tho east of tho Dead sea the , L'nclaimed letters remaining in tho country is now arid, hot and sandy, i Ct?vo lo--to(liee : A. C. Crooks, Mics i he Turks raise great numbers of cat-, Jl"inie uavis, Jirt Davi., Alios, llen- tle, horses and sheep. B. B. Sanborn 1ms purchased Frank ewell's jilace. Frank will ' shortly move to Wisconsin wheio ha has inir BOOTH K'S J W. STRANGE, DENTIST, La Grande, Oregon. tho bol Wl Will visit Union regularly on first Monday of each mouth. ALL WORK WARRANTED FIRST CLASS jCojfoucopia Saloon, Wm. Wii.ho.s-, Phop. The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars always in stock, IRST CLASS BILLIARD TABLE. Drop in and be sociable (Opposite the rouit house. Union) Horses IJoarded by the Day, Week or Month. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED. il PATENTS Obtuined. ami all Parent JniinesM attended to Promptly and fur Moderate Fies. Our otlice is opjionit.' the U. S. Patent Otlieo, and we can obtain PutfiiU in lend time than thoe remote fnmi YVawnitigton. Send .MODHI.or DltA WINO. We udvltte a to pank-nUbililv lw of ciiurKe: and we inako NO CH A HUE UNLESS 1'ATKXT IK SECl'ltED. , We refer, here, to the I'otmaHtrr, th tsupt. of AIoiH'V Order Div., and t orti laN ortlml'.y. l'alllt Oil.ce. J'. I linular. advic1, term and roffrreiicei ti actual . 1 ents in your own Stal or Cuuut , rite lu C. A. SNOW & Co Opposite Patent Ofnco. Waabiiifrton. IJ. O Have you exa mined tho fine assort On tho hills of old Judea tho range and water is delic ious. 1 he government is of the very jioorest kind in oxistonee. It is more boy play than real government. (1 do not think a copy of this will fall into tho hands of a Judean Turk, or I would fear his bloodthirsty cimetur.l A few crticisms on Turkish rule are allowable. Fifteen miles to the southeast of Jerusalem lies the sullen Dead sea. It is 1300 feet below tho level of tho Mediterranean and its shores are hot, sandy and arid. Tho customs of tho people change with every new place in tins Old country. Tho Turks havo their wild nomadic ways of herding and plodding back and forth like Ish mael of old, while the wary Jew jdics his trades with alacrity and zeal. The country folks are very low in manners and ways. Character is with them as truth is with Bill Nye a scarce article. In some localities tho country is in fested with roving bauds of robbers who make a fat living from the inno cent shepherds and unarmed travelers. It is not afo to trust a turk with any thing. Of all jioojdo in tho world they are tho most treacherous. Brown and swarthy, taciturn and sullen, they jily thoirtrudo with no juolific pomp or noisy enterprise. What to tho Turk is pleasure, is to a civilized man nearly torture. He is peculiar. If ho finds a custom in his daily routine that others around him jiraotice, ho abandons it and moulds for himself some now mode of action. Ho loathes society. When he goes for an oveiiit.g walk, instead of taking a comjmniun, he stalks oil' alone and sj.oaks nor e says to look at any one. Standing on this ground one can but fuel a stmstf of solemnity. It seems thrilling yet with the volcanic quiver of Iho day when Pontius Pilate nailed to the cross the central figure of modern history. Tho towurs and ment of Watcher, Ci ry, S. E. Humlelt, N. Hanson, J. N. ,fe Ella Jones, Sylvester Murdoch, Mrs. Thos. Mills, Miss Caddie Macfarland, Levi Moiiis, Mrs. E. A. Reed, Mjs. Annie Watson, M. R. Woodard. Miss Minnie Bu..cll lectured Sun day afternoon on the habits and cus toms of the Chinese and succeeded in charming the audionce by her very pleasing appearance and enter taining description of tho heathens. She will lecture on the Japanese this evening. Miss Nellie Stevens commenced a private school in the Covo school building, Monday. Tho attendance is fair and is increasing daily. Jas. Hendershott und E. P. McDan- iels started for Walla Walla, Portland and Tacotna, last Thursday. The Cove tannery will bo reopenod soon. Adam Crosgmun and others of La Grande are iuteieslod and have al ready contracted for a supply of bark. Prof. Wm. Smith has concluded to resume the practice of law, bo has been attending circuit court. Wo pro diet for him a successful career in his chosen profession. .Mr. Honry Stirling and Wm. Cavi noss, of Island City, paid Covo a short but inferosting visit this weok. Drunime:. burg, 1 1 Lie, seem to nuik D.in Hummer about S'OO m; c markets. Sam. Forma n, of tho tirm of Starer it Walker, has b en iu our midst. Sam. says ho is not b.ss, hut ho makes some good sales. Clmtlin Bin's, hnvp erected n nice front on their new butcher shoj), which is a credit to t he town. John Kerehoffor is making projwra tiona to build in the near future, in or der to open' out a new mercantile house on Main street. The town is full of Presbyterian miujsters atl -tiding the Presbytery now beint; held in their church at this place. Where i.; the man who claims that ho was i.jfered $12,01)0 for hia vote when the records show that he voted for every dirty measure that was in troduced in the last legislature. The Humn.revilh) mills have a fine lot of Hour ou hand awaiting bhipnient. When tho Hunt road is built this will not be. Barney nnd George are consoling each other over their late sickness. George says he thinks a trip to tho mountains would be very good. Most men of bis cxjieiienco havo thought the same snie iim- or other. Barney says he Won't ;o .. it would be worse When he came back. Fiuloy Mc Kenzio will sell bis town property and houtehold goods next Saturday, and hio away to Scotland, the land of his birth. Bro. Shaw is hunting another road contract. Look a little out, Shaw, there is au enemy in your camp nnd don't forgot it. Our old friend Burke has buen doing this community, gathering informa tion from tin old pioneers to assist in publishing the North Amiriean llistu-j ry which will come out in two volumes about Sept. next. Uev. A. Thompson bought a 1200 pound boll of K. B. Mprolook for u,0 M. E. church, North, at Elgin. Whon hung in its placo it will arouse tho Klgmite'-, frem their sleep and lothaigy. There, will be considerable imjirove ment in Ssitnmei villu this season in the way oi building, us you can hear the sound of tho stone hammer, sawHj and rattling of lumber iu every direct ion. H La Grande continues to hnnrovo it will he tho largest towaiu La Grande precinct. Then they neod not try to keep all tho commercial men who come there away from Himimervillo, as thoy Will then have all tho trade of tho world wot of Island City. Out-mouth Joiix. ins lnaicatioua ' uown ami al ow tho .sands to ; without even inviting them to insjiect. Alio suriace of our claims to greatness? It is to be hoped that such will not bo tho case. The sjiirit which has boon manifested in securing, wo hope, a link connecting us directly with deep water at tho Hound, and affording us gieut transpnratiou faeilties will se cure us hundreds and thousands of on terpriain;; and intelligent people, with means to help us in dovclojiing and building uj our country of varied and extensive resources. And let us all join in jmtting our shoulders to the wheel, and by every means available and at our command, try to obtain thu attention of tho im migration now coming and to come, and secure our share of the same, and let us do it now. NORTH POWDER. J.VVTH ortlio AVi.fK" ns;lntlurMl Iti'Kiilnr ('iii'i'i.spoiKltint. W. ly our 188!). UNION COUNTY. Attention of PBligTravnIei- Slitmlil lie AUraiti! to IU Many Atvna;". Rditoh Orroo.v Scoit : - While wr are waiting in luspouse upon developments tending to produce failure or hueeess of uur efforts to secure the extension of the O. t W. T. R. R. to Gtmide Rondo Vallov. and to .Mrs. K. A. Holmes, at this writing, is 1 Union, we should not lowj sight of tho nowjy imjiroving ami nor many i friends hojie to see her convalescing j very toon. , Roads aro dusty and troos are in bloom. A your ago warm, jiloasant weather had just commenced. Prank Phy has returned from the Portland Biioiue.s College. He did not lose his rejtutatiou for close apj.L catiou to his studies, hut stood high in 1 his class. Prank has a high ojiiuion 1 of Portland us a home. titutU carries ths only drat class Ui : rieal orgunizatwu In ths wmt.Jixaminr, fact that every day tram loads of emigrant'. eking homes in our west ern country are pa-sing it by without hardly dcit'iiui.; to look ujion ono of thu bet intuitu in the Unilorl States. It is not '!- iint such is the f.e t, ami :, ., . ..lively not ono ot the in.. in , , , unine into tho r --i!i. . il 1 1 iy, and the op- lotiu..i. , outn.i ior disirable loca tiiM. Tleu-..:: -iti ri has not been drawn t . m tHHe we in. o tile u, '. th- e.l ,. W allh in . April 0, WftAv orkmen commenced laying tho foundation of Mr. Gorhiim's store building, yesterday. Mr. Nathan Sliirbird, brother of Mr. Dun'l. Sturbird, arrived hero a l'owdavs ago. iMr. Wilson's road cart was badly damaged a few evenings ago by a' frightened horse. Mr. Purroy is at Seattle on a visit of two or three weeks duration. Mr. Mooro, tho traveling artist, fold ed his tent and hied away to jiastures now, on Sunday. Mr. Jas. Hutchin son purchased a tine horse in Baker City, last wool;, at a cost of 1000. Ton car loads of cattle and two of horses passed horo on Friday, bound wesl. Lieuts. O'Brien and Bascho, of"K" Co., O. N. G., of Baker, wore in town on Sunday. Tho Bajtiat denomination nro jire paring to hold utjoncort, to take jilaco at Easter. Mrs. Rachel Richardson is recover ing from a recent severe sjiell of siolc ness. Mr. Tbo.. O' Bryant has so far re covered, mentally, that the asylum su- jieriiitetidunt allowed bun to bo biought homo last week. A valuable horso accidentally sav ored an artery by stojiping on a jilow- . share in front of tho blacksmith chop, on Tuesday. Can not fomo onteririsiiig, thrifty citizen "dig up" Hay lO.OOO and start a bank here? Such an institution is badly needed. Mr. Geo. Vonable, our local station agont, contemjilates an c.tondcd visit to the Willamette valley about tho first of next month, Win. JC. White, a minor, was tried before Justice Dolan on tho 2nd inst. for assault mid battery on J. 13. Car roll, resulting m a lino of !f5.0Q and costs. A Just ice jury trial took jilnco yes terday between two of our citizens. Juslico so dispensed is a luxury but few can afford. Salmon killing is an attractive sjiort some of our doni.ens nro indulging in. Fifteen miles down tho river to tho grounds doea not seem to bo any pediment. Our Baker friends will overlook tho seemingly inattention of parties horo on Sunday lust, as it appears a misun derstanding existed. Como again, gentlemen, and don't forget u follow feeling should exist amongst us. Ajax. iin- 1 . Hi I Plows I Plows 1 Plows 1 1 Latest huprovc iiieiits and lowest living prlcrs. Khnjlest unit most convenient method of adjusting beam and lino of draft, making plow rim lighter ami do bettor work. Jin never been mpialml and cannot bo excelled. Tho lightest druft sulky plow hi thu world Is the I murfivful Wltfi.J f. .....I cf.l.. lkl... Ment ail van-. and there is no plow made that will do bet- terwork. TJioho jiIows all manufactured by the Hock Uland Plow Co.. ami aro sold by Prank lire's. Implement Co, or their ugents. l ntlier MKlllOll v nothing of not of its mineral and ocks and Jewelry, jn'st received by A. N. Gardner & Co?