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THE OREGON SCOUT.
AMOS K. JOKKS
EDITOK,
City and County Official Paper.
Thursday, Dec. 12, 1S89.
KLILJTA..J '. jm
i:i)iToniAr, notkh.
Ei:i'UHMCanh throughout the stuto
anxiously await announcements from
Washington which are expected daily.
Jkituksox IJavih died at his home
in Now Orleans on the Ctli inst. The
entire south is in mourning over the
event.
Ouu Summcrvillc correspondent is
notified that wo are investigating the
matter concerning which ho makes en
quiries, and will give the result to our
readers in duo time.
Wk are indebted to Hon. J. IL
Mitchell for a hound volume contain
ing the proceedings of the Fiftieth
Congress, with completo reports of the
heads of the various departments. It
is a book valuable for reference.
Wk give our readers Prcsidont Har
mon's message this week, in the form
of a supplement. They can judge of
it for themselves. The president ap
pears (o us like a man whoso mind is
unsettled on the subjects ho discusses
and who is undecided which course is
best to pursue.
Ab tho coming of tlio Hunt road is
now a settled fact it would be well
onough to decido at once where tho
depot is to bo located. Early next
Hpring a vast amount of building will
bo in progress, and many projectors
of enterprises will want tho matter
fcottlod so that they may act intelli
gently in their choice of business lo
cations. Wi: are informed on what appears
to ns to bo pretty reliable authority,
that tho O. It. it N. Company are mak
ing arrangements to move their road
from tho mountain side wett of hero
to the east side of Pylo's canyon, by
way of Union, and that tho prelimina
ry work will bo commenced in a short
time. It would certainly bo a wiso
movo on the part of that company, and
Union will not object to it in tho least.
Tho moro roads wo can got to contor
at Union tho bolter. It is said that
tho lino will awing pretty well down
the valley and go by way of Island
City to La Grande, thus obviating the
necessity for a branch from that place.
This will make Island a very promi
nent point.
Tin: futmo of Union is now'sottlod.
It is destined to bo tho most important
town in Eastern Oregon. Its location
and natural advantages will warrant
anyonoin this conclusion. Situated
in tho exact center of ono of tho rich
est counties in tho state, surrounded
by a vast area of agricultural, stock
raising and mineral lands, supplied
with unlimited water power, with two
important and competing railroad lines
converging hero, it will only bo a very
short time till it will assume astonish
ing proportions. Already tho impetus
consequent on tho certainty of a glo
rious futuio is being felt and tho ad
vance movement has commenced. It
is vory seldom you will lind a man de
sirous of selling any of his properly in
Union, but there are numbers who are
now anxious to buy. 1'roporty, how
over, hf not held at unroiicoimblu fig
ures, and wo have no hesitancy in say
ing that thoro is not a bettor place in
tho state of Oregon for tho investment
of capital than Union. Those who aro
wiso onough to grasp tho Mtuation will
not bo slow in taking advantage of the
opportunities now oflorcd for making
paying investments.
OKICdOX TIM II till LANDS.
Aii important quostion aileeting tho
right' of married women in tho stato of
OiOOn to take timber lands under tho
United States timber aot of Juno !l,
187S, is now being considered, and will
soon bo decided by the secretary of the
interior. Tho lata . commissioner of
tho general land olllee, Mr. Stocks
ktgei1, decided that married women in
Oregon could not tako up land under
that aot, basing his decision wholly on
tho ground of tho provisions of thu
Oregon statutes in relation to tho
rights of married women in reference
to holding ami transferring real estate.
An appeal from this ruling was Jtaken
to tho secretary, tho appellant being
Dolilnh Btuoklo. Tho case in the ordi
nary course would not have been
ronohod for over u year, but as many
married women in Oregon havo made
application to purchase under this aot,
Unitud States Senator Mitchell moved
that Secretary Noble advance tho
Hluoklo case, which has been done.
Mr. Mitchell regards tno -decision of
btouktdugor as wholly untenable.
A Bismarck (Dak.) dispatch of the
15th inst. says: The point wag in
formally raised to-day by E. M. Dud
ley, of tho legal department of the
Northern Pacitic railway, in tho United
States land office, that tho pre-emption
law has been repealed by the act of
congress providing for the admission
of tho new stales. It looks as if it w
intended to repeal the eighth section
of the act of 1841 as to tho donation of
500,000 acres of public land to tho now
states for public improvement?, but
the tcxtincludos not only tho repeal
of the section but of tho whole law.
The land department has not had its
attention called to it yet, but it is cer
tain that the commissioner will be
called upon for an opinion, and if this
opinion is adverse tho question will be
carried into tho courts. The repeal
referred to has also decided a very
largo number of cases where tho North
ern Pacific Itailway Company is party.
IMhclawis repealed all pre-emption
filings whore tho final proof has not
been made, aro defeated. This neces
sarily involves tho rights of every pre
emptor who has not proved up in tho
four states.
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A TALE 01' THS "EAELY DAYS."
Squiro Jonea Telia Gonio of His Experlon
C03 In 'G3 Hoy tho Chinook and tho
Floou Vfero Brought Just When They
Were Wooded.
A correspondent of the Hast Orego
nian, wiiting from Weston, repeats the
following story of the early days of
Oregon told by ono of tho first settler.
It is quite interesting to us, as tho re
contour is tho father of tho editor of
Tin: Scot,T. Wo republish it, as it
will sorve to recall those early days to
many old timers. Tho correspondent
says :
"On a former acca3ion I referred to
Weston's most happy raconteur, W.
11. Jones, and his inexhaustible fund
of pioneer rctninisences. By your leave
I will give your rendors ono of the
Squire's stories of tho early times in
Oregon as related to-day to that choice
coterie of friends, who may usually be
found gathered about tho postodlco
stove, and who havo gained tho ap
pellation of tho 'postofiice club.'
The old gentleman was among tho
first settlors in the state, having set
tled in Lano county in 1851 or '52.
After securing a donation claim lie
sottled down, and for several years on
joyed tho extreme privations that all
tho pioneers endured in those halynou
days. I used tho word "enjoyed" ad
visedly, for I havo never mot ono of
thoso old folks who did not tell With
prido of tho lime when they were
obliged to live on parched wheat and
hominy mado of tho same cereal. Tho
Squire, however, was not one of the
number who subsfsted on this scanty
fare long, as ho soon after his arrival
in this country, constructed a flouring
mill; a prhnitivo afl'aii, turned by a
water-wheel, but of sufficient capacity
to grind a coarse quality of Hour, and
supply what was certainly a "long fell
want" at that timo. (Hy tho way, it
was tho third mill of tho kind orectod
in tho state.) At this period thoro
were several tribes of Indians still
roaming through tho valley who woro
frequently troublesome and always a
source of annoyance to tho white set
tlers; but tho Squire relates that his
standing among thorn was excellent,
owing to his ability to make the much
prized "shapalul," which ho was koiuo
times compelled to donate to them or
too them perish from starvation during
the unusually scarcity of food among
them, lie mentions tho fact, however,
that when he linst settled on his claim
ho averted a serious row and a possible
eviction by buying oil' the prior claim
ant, giving him an old pair of panta
loons, a vest, and a hatful of bran for
tho same. Ho it said to tho honor of
old Sposes Jim that he never adverted
to his former rights, and the 'Squire
enjoyed peaceful possession and re
tainer until ho was dispoMeiwed by a
man with a bagful of money.
Hut to tho old gontloman'n Blory :
Ho says that the winter of ,ft!l was an
extremely severe ono, ami tho Indians
were upon tho verge of starvation.
The whito settlers woro not in a much
better condition, butthoy managed to
keep him grinding wheat a good por
tion of tho time, and ho doled out tho
bran and shorts to his savage neigh
bors, gaining thuir eternal gratitude
and disagreeable prosonoe for hi paint.
The snow lay deep on tho ground, ad
ding greatly to tho discomfort of tho
miserable Indians as tboy woro unable
to hunt for game, and a council was
held to devise ways and mean out of
their difficulty. Tho emtio old"SpotH
Jim," who had sold thu squire his
birthright for u hatful of bran, lived
some miluti down the river. Ho had
a truinqnduoiis reputation among the
Indians for his power of producing a
ehiuook, but the old rac d was a rvgu-
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Rineliart
Main Street,
lar Jay GuuVl in his monopolistic pro
clivities, and generally managed to
break the whole tribe by his extortion
aU demand i fur such services. Their
condition in this in.t.uieo was desper
ate, however, and the sueriiteo must be
made. MJankets, robes and shot guns
were piled up'bjafero the great conjurer
until he wa satisfied, and lie began
hit iuoantatioiji m a large tent pre
pared for tho-occasion. Hp beat his
drum and chanted. Ids chant all the
iltst day, but tjio south wind ho told
his employers was yet. far away. All
the succeeding nigh i, without food or
drink, ha kept up the pow-wow, when
"next morning 1,11 bo dinged and hope
I nmy never iitir, if the ehiuook didn't
begin to blow, and the snow was all
gone before night," relates tho Squire.
Of oourso the Inquire knew that tho
oh in 00k would have been there just
tho same, but us was natural, old
Soses added greatly to h reputation
among the Indians by his apparent
suoeoaa.
Tho winter woro away, and Ihe
Squiro ooutiuuwl to grind with his mill,
retailing tho Hour he made for $20 per
sack to his neighbors. As I havo re
lated, the motor power 01 his mill was
water,, mid il happened that during the
summer there was u ceaieity of that
lluid in the little stream, and tho mill
whs runuiug on extremely short timo.
One day the Squire was worse down on
hk luck than usual, owing to tho faut
that lie had fume btrg grists in the
mill and nu water to j;riiid them with,
when un fid liuluu apu .uhod. This
old fellow th'. B.uiir bid nieknaiiud
'Biuion Girty,' and was a toil of fa
vorite of his.
lie oiten twitted him for allowing
' old t v: u 1 1 him out of his gun
j thu pretnt'vliH. winter, the losa of
1 which ii:t : ti kieiiiy n .w that game
w.i t iU 1 .. . ai. d ...1 it. lint he
I jUfcUii' I 1 ie 1.1. i'v u imiubii; the
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Union, Oregon.
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see the creek is dry and I can't run
my mill; niako it rain and I will give
you a sack of Hour.' 'IIo wako
inomke chuck,' old Simon replied,
but mo go git Sposes.' Ho left tho
mill, and the Squiro thought no moro
of tho circumstance. Tho succeeding
night a sudden storm aroso and tho
rain descended in torronts, raising the
crook and starting tho mill wheel to
turning merrily. Tho old man in his
anxiety to utilize its every revolution
arose during the night and filled his
hoppers, and soon tho white treasure
was iilling his bins. While thus busi
ly engaged he was astonished upon
looking around to see Simon IJirty
standing, sack in hand, with a self
satislicd look on his dark face.
'What in tho nation aro you after
this timo o' night?' asked tho aston
ished Squire, 'Sposo mo make him
chuck oharco, 1110 eoino kctchum Hour,'
replied Simon (lirty. Tho old gentle
man says ho lilled his sack without a
word, and lo this day, if ho is living,
ho no doubt thinks that ho oarned
justly his precious fee. Ho informed
tho Squiro afterwards that ho had
some doubts at rlrst of his ability to
make the rain come, but thought he
would try once before ho went for
Sposes, and to his delight found that
his cantatious woro successful. Ho
afterwards became a most suoceskful
medioino man in his now extinct
tribe."
Rtniarkable Romuo.
Mrs. 31 lelmtil Curtain, l'liiinfleld. lllinoU,
mnkua the otntemuat that tin caught volt),
whloli ottlml on her lungs ; sl wna treated
for a mouth ly her family physician, lU
grew worse. lit tuld her tbatahe won a
hopeloa victim at ootuuiuntion and thut
no inodieino eeuld euro her. Her driiKPM
sUggiottMl Dr. Kilt;' New Ii.r nT iir
Consumption; slie Ivouirlit a bottle mid to
hur delight found lu-i-seli liem-ntcd from
tho lirst doe. She ttinuiuud it ue u..d
after taking tun Uuuk-a, tuuuU
sound and wi)l, tiow iIduh he. own huu-4-work
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