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constantly on hand and for sale cheap.
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SOME REMARKABLE EVENTS.
Farmtrs and Politics Manner and Cus
toms of the Natives.
MoMtor., Iowa, .lau. 20, s9X
Editok Okkook Scoit:
Wo loft our old homo the lSth on
tho first sleighing snow of the season,
which fell on the morning of the 14th,
and on tho morning of tho 10th tho
thermometer registered 20 below zero;
twenty-four hours after it was 10 above,
making a variation of SO degrees in
that time. Is it any wonder people
e migrate to the gonial clime of Ore
gon? On our way to tho train we stopped
to sec an old friend, Mr. George
Schucek, whom wo had not met for
eighteen years. His wife was absent
at the bedside of her invalid mother,
lie is a successful farmer of broad
views and good management. Sale of
stock at the proper time has kept him
oven in purse at the present prevail
ing low prices. Wo regret our stay
was so short, but wo bade him and his
little children adieu knowing they will
be readers of Tin: Scout.
Wo liavo talked with a number of
farmers here who aio utterly unable
to support their families and pa their
taxes on a good forty acre farm, and
they were farmers who were perfect
masters of their business. Of course,
the farms of such men are worked un
der a high degree of discipline, but
there is no noise about it. Men of
good business minds do not make
much noise in tho management of
their business. Men of good, broad,
practical minds do not make much
noise any where. It is the little
things of this world that are tho noisi
est. Butter 12 cents .per pound ; eggs
12 cents per dozen ; hay '.' per ton;
taxes 22 mills. Buying potatoes at 10
cents per bushel and shipping them to
California. The corn crop of Iowa is
estimated at 3:1(5,000.000 bushels. No
other state ever raised such a crop.
But where is the benefit of all this
huge crop diverted to? Certainly not
to tho toiling, ever-patient farmers
who aro selling it oil' at 12 cents per
bushel. At the Farmers' Alliance
some evenings ago there was discussed
the leasons why such prices existed in
the face of universal prosperity. Tho
principal reason, it was thought, is on
account of our money being locked
up in tho United States treasury.
One enthusiastic cuss fays wo will all
soon get a government pension, when
our troubles will be ended. This same
Mr. Hill we found to be n member of
the G. A. R. Tho members of this
class aro generally well clad, good
feeders, fat and lazy. This Grand
Army has n right wine; and a left wing,
as other armies have, and a reserve
corps, but in this caso tho reservo
corps greatly outnumber tho soldiers
proper. Tho light wing of tho Grand
Army is composed of those who hold
ollice under tho government of tho
stato or nation, and behind them is a
huge leserve of anxious expectants.
The left wing of tho army is composed
of those who in tho hour of their coun
try Vneed areoxpectedto fearlessly draw
their pensions, and behind theso is a
greator army of those anxious to bo
enrolled and expect to be as soon as
Tanner's substitute can get around to
it. Thus goes tho government sur
plus. Who will say tho farmors' sur
plus does not fall in thoro too? Harri
son in his big message says of those
who wero mustered out in sound
health and have tinco tho closo of tho
war, whilo fighting with tho samo in
domitable and independent spirit tho
contests of civil lifo, boon ovorcomo by
diseaso or casuality. And then cornea
Gen. M. M. Trumbull who is very anx
ious that tho pension temptation shall
not bring dishonor upon tho Groat
Grand Army and ho gives tho treas
ury rHidors n lushing whioh ought to
make them winco.
The hulies here aro slavos to tho
bustle. An old hayseed espied a box
of them setting out ami mistook thum
for the late patent wire dishcloth and
es, Clocks, Jewelry,
bought oiu Half tho young men
hero are bald headed from the otlbrts
to fill all roquiroincnts of the dude
fashion of sliding oil' tho hut when
meeting their best gills. At O.-kaloosa
wo were captuml by the salvation
army. The captain was u Mrs. Dries,
three years in tho service. Thoro aro
forty-livo valiant -oldiors. By their
creed they prohibit dancing, drinking
and fine dress, and everybody is con
signed to endless perdition who does
not believe as they do. For church
music they use violins tambourines,
brass horns, bass and snaro drums,
ith v'.t t'.i- .")'.' i ; u i r. in h h-
est pitch, making a combination of
outlandish and unoaiUily strains that
would frighten oven the devil.
At Ottumwa we had four hours
layover waiting for the train to Red
Oak, but failed of an interview with
Doe. Hamilton's relatives there, as tho
ollice was vacated by La Grippe or
"Grip"' as it commonly culled hire.
However, we saw a Jewish marriage.
The woman was placed on the right,
but throughout Christendom her placo
in the ceromony is on the left. At
Chariton we learned something the
like of which we never heard before
a birth and a wedding in the samo
house at the same time. The doctor's
daughter, Susan, became a happy
bride and his other daughter, Mrs.
Lockwood, who was visiting there,
became the happy mother of a sweet
little girl. These are events that can
not well be postponed, and so the
venerable doctor and the over practi
cal preacher, with the natural courage
of their natures, had thorn both occur
at tho same time. Ottumwa is the
place where we turn our face westward
and homeward. Tho train is due in
twenty minutes now for Reil Oak.
Ked Oak. Jan. '.'a, 1S00.
This place is on the main lino of tho
C. B. it (. railroad, forty miles east of
Omaha. Tho division and repair
shops aro hero and employ a largo
number of men. Tho appearance of
Red Oak is inviting as one lolls into
the depot and alights. Ho may tako
cither street cars or 'bus. Tho city
has three ward schools and a splendid
high school. Churches are numerous,
some ten or twelve. Tho opera house,
called tho Little Gem, scats 700 people
comfortably. The city has a lire de
partment, three hotels, band company,
gas and water works, building associa
tion, three newspapers, three general
banks, four private banks and two
wholesale houses.
In Rome wo must do as Remans do,
so wo follow tho largest crowd to tho
top of school hill and rido tho tobog
gan sleds down a natural incline of
three-fourths of a milo at about forty
five degrees pilch and land about one
milo from the starting point. They
had horses to draw up the empty
sleds. How delightful it was for the
green Oregonian to hug tho pretty girls
knees under his arms I At 11-10 p.m.
we board tho Jlyer for Kansas City. A
plain cuso of Mohamet and tho moun
tain, to see the sights in tho modern
Nincvah. At Hamburgh, a little
town on tho oast bank of tho Missouri
river, we had to lay over two hours for
tho express from Omaha. A shabby
looking couple came out of a box car
that just came over from Nebraska
and demanded to bo immediately mar
ried as papa was after tho girl. Soon
they were made as one, but rather a
seedy looking job. Thoro is ono time
in lifo when lovely woman should look
her lovoliest and that is on her wed
ding day. It is a timo of all times
when sho crosses tho threshold of her
maidenhood to go far out into tho
paths of married lifo whero roses blush
and bloom, but where, also, thorns
abide. Let connubial heartwork and
handwork accomplish what it will, let
husbands be over so gentle, patient,
trusting, kind and true, they cannot
provent tho downiest pillow from be
ing hardened with tho cures of life.
Therefore it is meet that brides should
look their prettiest on their wedding
day so that she momory of tho occa
sion inn y linger with thorn.
J. W. MINNICK.
Commendable.
All claims not comUtent with tho high
character of Syrup ol Figs aro purposely
avoided by tho Col. Ilg Syrup Company.
It aotft gently on the kidney, liver urn!
bowels, cleansing tho .ysteiii cll'ectiially,
but it Is not u curo-ull ttnd mukes no pre
toiiiloin that (.very bottle will not uubttuii
tiuto. i Silverware, Guns
R. R. EXTENSIONS.
An Easy Route Through the
OPINIONS OF AN ENGINEER.
Tho
Natural Advantages of Ualon
Make it a Large City.
win
Si'AUTv, Oregon, ll, 1, 1S00.
Kntroii OitiHso.v Scorr: -
During a residence of throe years in
Eastern Oregon, much time and atten
tion has been devoted in acquiring
information regarding the geography
and topography of tho country, and
tho facts aro brought out that owing to
tho geographical position of Union it j
can bo made tho commercial emporium
as well as the railroad center of Eastern
Oregon. From Union, nt least three
available and aece-siblo routes present
themselves for railroad building, among
which tho Idaho extension of the Hunt
railroad seems the mo.-t important at
this wilting, and is made tho subject
matter of this article. Rapid develop
ment of tho natural resources of a
country means rapid and permanont
building up of tiie towns accepted as
commercial and manufacturing cen
ters, backed by natural advantages,
and best of all, push, energy and enter
prise of the citizen. Union has all the
essentials to make her the Osteon city,
and if your citizens will stand by tho
natural advantages your town possess
es, she will bound into prominence
and outgrow the expectations of your
most enthusiastic admirers.
Follow mo along the route I propose
to tako you from Union to tho Seven
Devils country ; figure closely the ad
vantages oll'ercd the railroad and tho
benefits that will aeci no to the people
along tho route and you will say as I
do tho extension of tho Hunt road
from Union to Idaho is an assured ne
cessity. From Union tho road will bo
built up Catherine creek ten miles,
then cross an easy dis ido II vo miles to
Big creek, then down Mig creek fifteen
I miles to Powder River valley; thonco
! to Snake river twenty-live miles, then
down Snake threo miles to Lewis ciook,
up which stream i found tho only ac
cessible route to the rich gold, silver
and copper fields of the Seven Devils
country in I'daho. When this road
is built, whioh surely will be, at least
two other roads as feeders to Union
will reach out thvir arms and gather
in the products from mine and mill,
agriculture and lumber, making your
town tho manufactoiing as well hh
trade and railroad center. Thousands
of acres of tho most productive lands
will then attract the attention of the
settler; happy homes will bo mado,
where to-day the bark of tho coyoto is
the only music made. Hiiglo, Pine and
other productive agricultural valleys
will furnish many car loads for ship
ment. Hundreds of car loads of horses,
cattle and sheep will go to tho markets
of tho world over this lino, and tho
mines of Sparta, Cornucopia and othor
points tributary will prove a nouroo of
great revenuo to the roiul us goon us
completed.
But few of your readers have tho
slightest conception of tho imnioiiBity
of tho copper deposit in tho Sovon
Devils country, and whi n I say with
out fear of successful contradiction that
forty car loads of high grade copper oro
can be mined daily for tho next twenty
years and not sink below water level,
some idea can bo formed of tho extent
of this mineral belt. Hematite and
specular iron ores of superior quality
are found in inexliuustible quantities
in 1 1 io mountains of Idaho, which need
the touch of capital and transporta
tion to mako them productive of un
told millions. Tho rotito given is ac
cessible; tho advantages set foith seem
sufficient, and by earful management
tho road will be built and wo uun all
rejoice at tho bonefitw boijtowod upon
our fellow man. O. S. B.
TEL00ABET TATTLUCO0.
Feb. i, 18U0.
Suction hands huvu boon in demand
here for tome days t.
John Gates isnblo to navigate again,
aftor a serious attack of rheumutum.
A pond of water two feel deep has
been standing in main itlreet during
and Amunition Just
the recent reduction of tin1 many deep
drifts near hero.
John Hanson is our regular manip
ulator of tho saw and chisel now.
Those having carpenter work to do
please call.
We expect to be supplied with
extra operator in a short time lo
an
do
night duty. It will bo a groat conven
ience to tho post-nuuder and to the
many passengers w1k daily arrive at
and leave our station.
All tho cellars in this vicinity are
chuck full of water. Two week ago
it was a hnrd matter to get water with
which to wash befoio breakfast, but now
wo are receiving a tremendous supply.
Thojo who listen to tho sermons of
our neighboring ministers, occasion
ally, have their knowlege of history
shocked by the broad deviations said
ministers often make. If a man is
going to bo an instructor let him bo a
truthful one.
Tho treatment the prodigal urchins
who recently loft bore, aro reported to
have received at tho hands of La
Grande's tinhorn populace, and va
grant raihoaders, should be looked
after by frionds of said boys. Such
a brainless, shameless, detestable
crowd is a line representation of a town
that aspires to boa county scat. Noth
ing better could be expected in such
a low and leperous place.
Tho hills "around about Jordan" or
Telocasot, aio nearly bare, and tho
roads that lead thereto are lough.
Tho way of the transgressor is iv handy
way in theso parts.
(Sunday-school teacher.) Now clul
eren, any of you toll mo how Flijah
went out of the world. (Original schol
ar.) "Like Bludso got outjail backed
up to tho window and fell out."
Through a private letter from Wil
liam Ashby who now resides in Pino
valley, we learn that he has killed two
cougars, and somo fur bearing animals.
Ho is settled permanently in that
place, and is well pleased with tho lo
cation. Siu Sinum:.
CORNUCOPIA.
A Bright Outlook for tho Pino Crook Minos
-Tho 0. O. M. Co.
The Democrat was tho recipient of
a very pleasant call yosterday from Mr.
Robert ICelley, of Cornucopia, who
was on his way to Portland to bo ab
sent a few weoks. In regard to tho
outlook of tho mines of Cornucopia
distiict, Mr. Kelly said :
"Tho people of the Pino crook mines
aro more hopeful that a number of
mining sales will bo mado this sum
mer than they havo over before been.
"From a careful noting of tho camp
I find 2(5 initio that, as far as work
has been done on them, give almost
positive evidences of becoming divi
dend paying properties. And thoro aro
a legion of othor mines that aro in that
indofinilo condition that it would bo
too risky lo predict their future, but
doubtless a reasonable per cent, of
them will also prove to bo paying
mines.
"This numbor of mines that havo
every prospect of becoming dividend
paying properties will lie considered as
an ovor-cfltimato by tho majority of
mining mon, but tho failing has been
that exports in coming to examine tho
mines havo romuinod but a few days,
whilo it would tako with laborious ex
ertion at least two weeks to cxamino
tho district.
"Tho O. G. M. Co. commenced on
tho 2fith ult. to break tho road to tho
Red Jacket, and which will bo oponcd
to the mine on tho 1st or 2nd inst.
Thoro was but little damage dono and
in a fow days everything will bo put in
running ordor again. Tho mill will
most likely start up in two or threo
weeks.
"Tho now superintendent, Mr. Peolo,
has hud a most trying and discourag
ing time since ho came to the camp,
but he appears determined to push
things, and patieuco with a continued
effort will overcome all difficulties and
again wo will soon hear the humming
sound of the stamps and the (thrill
whistle of Htoam." Doinocrat.
Millinery floods at Cost.
M osd aires llldwell & lionson the enter
prising inllllnurs of tbli city will now sell nil
full and winter good at actual cost. As
tholrgomlx are all of the nowent ntylet), those
wUhingburgniiiH will do well to cull ut once.
Received at A. N.
ALBANY.
The (Jueen City of the Wil
lamette Valley.
THE FIRST STREET RAILWAY.
Electric
Light Plant-Woolen Mlll
Santla:n7Water Ditch.
The
ICniTim Okkoo.v Scout:
I have been a careful reader of your
invaluable paper for somo time and
never having noticed anything from
this thriving section of God's universe,
I will endeavor to give your many
readers a few facts concerning our
prosperous and growing city.
Albany is a splendidly situated town
of between -1,000 and 5,000 inhabitants,
contains, besides the usual dry goods,
grocery, hardware stores, etc., ten
church houses and colleges, a public
school, employing eight teachers, iv
sisters college, four llouring mills, two
planing mills, a woolen mill, iron
foundry, ico works, chair factory, wiro
mattress factory, and as good an elec
tric light system as thoro is in Oregon.
Tho motive power to run all this is
furnished by the Suntium canal which
brings water from tho South Suntiam
river to Albany, M miles, and has a
running capacity of 200,000 inches per
minuto. This canal furnishes tho city
with water which is forced all over tho
town from tho pumping station at tho
end of First street.
Albany built her first lino of street
railway last year and now has in oper
ation about one milo of road and wo
are assured by tho company that it
will be lengthened as tho needs re
quire. Over .$700,000 worth of real estate
transfers wero made in Albany for
1880 and over $100,000 was oxponded
in buildings last year.
Among tho sound institutions of
Albany might bo mentioned tho
Farmers and Merchants Insurance
Co., Albany Building and Loan Asso
ciation, Bank of Oregon, Linn County
Bank, and also tho First National
Bank. These, with the rest of our
business men, report a good business.
A threo Btory brick woolen mill wiib
erected at a cost of over $75,000 and is
now in full operation. The Sugar
Pino Door it Lumber Co., of Grunt'a
Pass, Or., havo completed arrange
ments to establish a branch houso
hero, work on which will bo com
menced at once.
Albany is tho meal station of this
division of tho Southern Pacific R. 11.,
also of tho Oregon Pacific which is now
operating about 1-15 miles of road ex
tending from Yaquina Bay, tho west
ern terminus, to Coo, its present east
ern terminus, and will roach Boiso
City as soon as it can bo built. This
will bring Albany on two transconti
nental lines. Wo have rail, and rail
and steamer connection with San
Francisco, also rail and river connect
ion with Portland. Thus, you sco,
giving us tho very best of transporta
tion facilities. As toon as spring
opens work will bo begun on tho Alba
ny it Astoria railroad which will givo
Albany two direct rail outlets to tho
sounding sea.
Tho Bunk of Oregon will begin tho
erection of a threo story brick and iron
building as booh as tho weather set
tles. Tho building outlay for 1890
will reach moro than ono million dol
lars. Albany's growth is pot spasmodic
nor of tho boom character, but a good,
solid growth which will stay. Thcro
aro many othor features which wo
might mention, but will stop at this
for to-day. Anyono wishing informa
tion cun obtain it by applying to either
of our nowspapers, of which wo havo
two daily and two weekly.
Hoping you may hco enough good
in this to want unother, I am,
Yours for prosper! tyfc
P.
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