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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1889)
.jigmua.-.iw.nJ'tn!Aiuj....1-). i u. THE OREGON SCOUT. AMOS K. JONES EDITOR, City and County Official Paper. Thursday, Aug. 8, 1880. KIllTOItlAt, NOTKS. Font woolen mills, three of them in Now England, shut down Inst week, two of them permanently, and thus is tho republican policy of taxing raw materials vindicated. l'OST.M A KTKIt-G KN'KIt A Ij WANAMAKKK is anxious to obtain a suitable design for his forthcoming two-cent postage stamps. Why not have a plain sur face bearing tho legend : "Go to Wnn amaker's for Bargains?" This would bo simple and useful to Wanamakcr. World. An account of tho destruction of Spokane Falls by ire will bo seen else where in this paper. The burning of so many cities during tho past few weeks looks ominious. Docs it not seem to indicate that a band of organ ized' Anarchists are in tho country plying their devilish work? Caknkuik'h men have gone to work at a reduction of 28 per cent all around. Last year this man was vig orous m shouting, "If you elect Cleve land your wages will bo reduced." Now see what kind of protection ho gives to American labor. Tho same kind tho wolf gives to tho lamb. Tin: La Grande Journal has been sold to II. Patterson and M. I). Scott, two young men from Dakota. We wish them success and trust they will stay with the colors and make a suc cess of tho paper, A pupor that is eternally changing hands will never amount to anything. 1'iiojt parties iust over from La Grande wo learn that tho O. It. A N. Co. now ask a subsidy of $75,000 to build tho brunch to Elgin. This is probably a niovo on tho part of that company to evade building a road that thoy know would not pay running ex penses after tho Hunt road is com plctcd. .1 in: Summerville Annoiator speak ing of tho delegation Hint camo thero from La Grando a few days ago, says : "They hud some secret mission which thoy preferred to hatch before they would develop it to tho public. Tho Greeks ought to bo feared even when bringing gifts." Tho remark of Tho Annotutor contains a whole volunio of wisdom, particularly when applied to the subject in question. Only tho treacherous work in tecrot. Wiikn tho La Granders proposed to buy 2f)0 county seat votes in tho low er end of tho valley, wo presumo thoy did so with tho consont of tho 0. J. it N. Co. Othcrwiso it would bo impos sible for them to "delivor tho goods." Tho 0. It. it N. Co. ought to bo aware of tho fact that it hns monkeyed with tho people of Union county a little too much already, and that thoy havo about made up their minds that it is not tho master any longer. E.i'i.oiti:iiH in the state of Chiapas confirm tho reported remarkable dis coveries of areha'ological matter. Itoads built by prehistoric inhabitants were found and ruins of cities with an estimated total population of 110,000, 000 wero discovered. Tho houses aro of a pyramidal form of architecture and indicate a high degreo of sciontitlo attainment. Carved male and female figures dug up aro plainly of tho Egyptian stylo. The locality was un doubtedly densely populated. A I'kiison entitled to pre-empt and homestead a quarter of a Beclion of government land can either home stead or pre-empt fust, as ho chooses. Tho objection to homesteading ilrst is that ho cannot leave his homestead afterward to pre-empt, as tho pre emption law prohibit leaving "any land of his own to settle as a pro emptor." Tho best way is to pre-empt Jirst, because you can homestead after ward and still own your pio-omption, us tho homestead law has no such olauso in it. Tin: constitutional roiivontion at Olympia has inserted a clause prohibit ing counties bonding themselves for tho purposo of scouring railroads, oto. Tho hand of tho O. It. 4t N. Co. is plainly visible in this. That compa ny novor expects to bo subsidized by tho people, anywhere, and in order to retard tho building of competing lines tho policy is to handicap the various counties and prevent them from giving aid to other linus if possible. Jt is very probable that this will causo tho Hunt road to bo extended to this city from Allium instead of Walla Walla. CIIINKBH TOt HI j2X. A few weeks ago a number of China- men wcro refused landing at New Or- leans by the local ofliccrs. The case was appealed to tho higher oMcials, j and Attorney-General Miller at "Wash- ; ington, with tho sanction of President , Harmon, has decided that the China- J men are "tourists" and can land and i pass through this countiy. In Kan Francisco the matter has boen thor- i oughly discuised and the administra tion censured severely. Tho Call, a republican paper, is in clined to see in it the loss of California to the republican party in ;1892. This paper editorially says: "It was with much difficulty that the state of California was carrifid by tho republican party at tho last presiden tial election, and then it was only by publishing extracts from Goneral Har rison's remarks during the eanvaes when ho had referred to the Chinese exclusion question in terms of com mendation. In every ono of his speeches, we believe, when allusion was made to the Chinese, he expressed him&clf in favor of exclusion of that class of emigrants from the United .States. Wo aro unwilling to bolive that Mr. Harrison will permit railroad companies to interfere with the proper enfoicement of the ChinoEo exclusion act, but should be unfortunately provo thcjicts of Attorney-General Miller and Secretary Wiudom, the vote of the state of California,and Ave be licvo alto tho vote of tho PncihVstates, will lo ost to tho'iropublican party at the next presidential election, in the event of General Harrison being candidatofor re-election, and it i.i now quito probable that the Pacific states will be lost to tho republican party, no matter who fchould bo nominated for tho presidency in I8!)2. Wo ex press this opinion becauFO it will not require many votes to give the Pacific states to the democratic party. Any trifling with the Chinese question on this coast will bo found to bo fatal in its results to tho present administra tion." Tho Chronicle, a republican journal, makes this comment: "There niustj'bo something in the summer atmosphere of Washington which promotes disregard of tho withes of tho people. On tho ovo of tho last presidential olection the leaders of both political parties responded to tho senti ment against the Cliincho immigration by endeavoring to outdo each other in the matter of effectually excluding tin's class of immigrants. Hut tho noise of tho conflict has hardly ceased, and the law department is hard at work trying to nulify tho legislation of congress. it is quito ovidont that tho executive departments will continuo evading tho spirit of tho nnli-Chincsc acts until congress succeeds in drawing up and passing an act which will declare in tho most unequivocal terms that no Chineso can enter the country." And tho Uullotin, another staunch republican paper, speaks of the sain o subject as follows : "Tho law in some eases nppenru to bo a plaything of tho dopartmouls. It goes right along, doing its work until some interests objects. Attorney-Gen eral Millor dill not do a good day's work foi tho administration when ho unearthed Brewster's second, and cer tainly discredited opinion in vesting coolies with tho character of tourists. If steps bo not taken lo decently intor that queer docuniont, a political sur prise is just as sure to oomo at the noxt olection." rho only democratic paper of San Francisco makes its comment brief and to the point: "It looks as if wo should have to un pen! to congress again. It is wenry- somo work, and it seemed last fall as if it had ended forever. Hut wo aro back in the slough of desMiidcncy from which Cleveland raised us by tho Scott act, and only eongrois can pull us out." luBummiiiinimun Till: NA1IANS Itll.Kt). Tho soizuro of tho nailing whinuier IMaok Diamond, of Victoria, for soul poaching in the llohring sen threatens to caiiKO serious complications with Canada. At Victoria there i talk of armed resistance. The jurisdiction of tho United States over Ut bring so has been disputed since JNS, when tho invention of a now soul gun made open-nea rouling profitable, ami on bohulf of tho Victoria soaloro tho Brit ish government sot up (ho claim that llehring was not a closed sou. Since tho middle of tho eighteenth viuurv Kussia uluimcd exclusive control of tho llohring taw, booauso of ite Alas kan possesions, the owtuihip of the Aleutian islands aud tho riht of dis covery. Thtiee claims vtu- never ilis- I L. Pt'7 II... II..!.. .1 ... . jimuu, in l oil I I III- I'lllUII PWiU puu.l.uoil Al.l;, with all U.e . . t.. l 1 nl . I. forth..' sum of &7.0OO,- Oi0. I,i this wy it succeeded to i Husmu's riulits in the Bchrititr. After England's claim of 1883 there was j fotnc dispute ns to the application of I tho Alaska n fishcrv laws to all the j Hchring, and to remove nil doubt, Congress on March 2, 18S7 passed a .; ial law declaring that the fishery , l.iw.s applied to the whole of the sea ; and islands. The Victoria sealers publicly eaid they would not obey that law, and a few days later President Harriton issued a proclamation notify ing all persons that ships caught in tho Bchring sea, or with contraband seal skins on board, would bo seized and confiscated. Despite this procla mation, twenty-two sealers fitted out in Victoria, four in Pugol Sound and sixteen in San Francisco. Tho Ulack Diamond was tho iirct ono seized by the Rush, which was sent to tho Ileh ring to enforce tho law. All this will probably amount to nothing more than a tempest in a tea pot, and the difficulty will, no doubt, bo peacefully adjusted. 3IOUK OV IT. Day by day the fallacies of tho or gans of "protection war taxes" aro exposed. What is funny about the whole thing is tho manner in which these organs contradict each other, and the manner in which an organ often contradicts itself in order to maintain tho structure of war taxes on tho sandy foundation on which it rests. Tho Oregon Ulnde, a sheep or gnn, says: Hud tho democratic parly been suc cessful last fall the Mills bill would havo become a law, and mutton would havo been plenty, and wool would now bring five cents instead of 18. Now let us tec. The republicans have jcorcd and hooted at the state ment insisted on bv democrats that the duty on wool was added to tho price of the homo article which peo ple havo to buy. They havo tried to ridicule tho position taken by demo crats that the tariff is a tax paid by tho American consumer whether he used a homo article or an imported article. Theso republican organs, tho Blade among them, havo often made the argument that placing a dutv on an article reduced Hs price, ana caused it to boRold cheaper than if tho tariff had never been imposed. Hut now tlio lilado comes forward and states that if tho tariff had been re moved, wool would havo been sold for 5 cents a pound instead of 18, which it now brings. The duty is 10 cents a pound, and the Dlado argues that re moving it would make a difference of 13 cents per pound, and retaining tho duty makes tho same difference. Theso orgau-griudors are being drivon into knotholes from which they will never bo able to extricato themselves. If tho price of wool is increased l.'l cents per pound by a 10-cent tariff, who pays this increaso or tax except tho man who consumes tho wool? It would bo laughable, wore it not so se rious a matter, to see tho very awk ward dilummas into which theso or gans got themselves, by tho illogical attitude they tako on the subject. Al bany Democrat. Tun Washington constitutional con vention havo had quito a tusslo with the oranks who want to put God in tho preamble of the constitution. Tho United States has worried along fair ly well for over a hundred years with out any reference of this kind in its constitution, and tho Solons of tho new Statu will hardly bo able to im prove on the work of tho framers of that immortal document. Tho safety of our government lies in tho complete separation of church and state, and the tirbt stop, toward a change in this respect, hhould never bo taken. Sheep for Sale. Three ThmiMiml head of stuck sheep, ouiNflnr of nl'tui IhriH hmnlrcil luiuhs. uml the rtMiiaiii'liM' cir-lini: in to Vvcur- oUlx. Sol. I on i'iiv urius lrovlil(l Kilt- otliro MYiinU- is itivi'ii. Kinitiint nl Mils nllliv Mt. Angel College! MAKION t'OI'NlV, Oil KMC X. KltMncntary niul riimrntury dusoos f0r Ikij-h from ii to 12 yi'ur. Complete Commercial, Scientific and Classical Courses Tor lanrpr lioys mid young men. 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Positively tho tics', ohoo In America lor tho money. Do not bt ucooivwJ. Beo vtp.mii on bottom of each sboe. Tnlsc no other. Kverv pair warrmtcd. StTltah and CQiuil to any & olioo In tho murLet. I or sale bj Jos. "Wright, Union, Or. JASPER G. STEVENS, Tropr. -DKAI.Klt IN- jjnro Drugs, Jiitunfc Medicines, erl'umery, aints iuitl Oils. Prescriptions carefully prepared ALSO DKAI.KIt IN SPORTING GOODS, ('oiisistiiiR of M, Shot Guns, Pis nds an A GartriCsBS. Imported and Domestic Ci gars, etc. GIVE ME A CALL. Union and Cornucopia Quickest and Cheapest IJoule lo tlie Pine Creek Mines. liATKS : KAUK. $1 .")() it (HI (I 00 KHKKUIT, Wo 2.W Union to Park " " Stumer " " Coriiui'Oii;i Geo.l?. HALL, Agent, Union, Or UNION Tofiisorial Parlors 1UIK1) it HUSICIC, I'ropr's. Shaving-, Hair-cutting and Sham pooing, in the Latest style of the Art, Shop two iloors south of Centonnial hotel. GIVH TS A CALL. o 2,s-t r. LUMBER for SALE at the. High Valley Saw Mill. All kliui of lumber eoiiMantly (in liaiul or (urnlslifd on khurt notiiu, l'rieiw cheap A IllO (,lllMCt. Patronage - Solicited. 6-SOlf Iff iMP a Wil. WILKINSON A SON. DEALER 1N- Latest Styles. Just Received, Direct from the East, n Largo Invoice of LADIES' and MISSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, the Uest Ever brought to this Market. Also a Fine Assortment of GENT'S -:- FURNISHING -:- GOODS. My Prices will suit the times. Drop in "n(i sec me. C. VINCENT, Main Street, Union, Or. y y KK M . iMKKY m K H .K !! IP I n ! SI f it (OPPOSITE CENTENNIAL HOTEL.) TTB Everything First Class. Terms Very Itensonable. Buss to and Fiom the Depot Making Connection with all Trains UNION, - All kinds of photogTaphic -ork done in a su perior manner, and warranted to give satisfaction. Joraes Bros- Wilson & Manufacturers Sasii, Doors an MoulaiMs, Keeps Const.intly onlianiln Largo Supply of Bedding, Desks, Office Furniture, etc. All kinds of Furniture Made, ami Upholstering done to order. WILSON & M1LLKH, Main St., Union. Or -)DEALEUS JN(- GROCERIES u . h .if y.ii r'inn r tmwuv mm a 6 " u m COKNEll MAIN and C STI1EETS, Bon Ton Restaurant Now open to the public on Main Street, Union, Oregon. Board and Lodging. SERVED -at All Hours Hi 13. No Chinese cooks employed, and evcrv tlniiK neat andVlcan. The Public Patronage Solicited. ICE CREAM PARLOR! Just opeuixl at the Bon Ton Kotftauriuit. IooeroHin and t'iiiHrncc driak wtrwd all hfiira. i'llvatf ri:ni (ur lltdlC. Meals OR Pto LiO Ul All Kinds. Proprietor. OREGON. P .t? jr. Miller of and Dealers in iiuiui mm ui in Soiii 'I v M ' s ii Sinry. UNION, OREGON. me is M. Leaves I'liion daily at - p. in, arrives at Cove at :i:B0 p. in. Loaves Cove at 8 a. 111., nrrivoa at Union at 0:80 a. in. Connections made with Elliott's coachn running to tho depot, carrying pawfenccrs for east and wont bound traniB. ItATliS Tor lMKSHKOTiUS, l,UOn,l(!J: nn.l 1'UltinUT, UCAHUXAItX.IC. 110IUNSON .t LAYNH. - . . Proprietors. We Still Live at the UNION CITY HOTEL (Opposite th Court Ilonoe.) Tliu Ilcot uf AceuiniuodHtioui to Patrons. 3 B E3E5C5f& esraflssBra Meals, 35c; Beds, 25c. U wtik ttc Hotel. I'ATIIONAQE 80WC1TT5D. U t, BOOTHK . Vr.iprit-tor. 3 0 tf Miib. WAURATIT.