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VOL. VI.
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THE KANSAS CITY OF TO-DAY.
Some Immense Establishments Tbe Pro
hibition Law in Iowa.
Kansas City. Jan. 24, 1S00.
Editor Okero.v Scout:
Ono often bolicvcs that the good old
times wore best, but those old days are
going. Tlie small towns are enlarging
and our big cities arc choking and
gorging with people, elbowing each
I other into the gutters, and fighting
j ri ght iU1(1 loft for ft ,iving u ;s ft
i .
qucsuuu iui scientists wuutuer our
country is not better on" when the peo
ple are evenly distributed over the
land, rather than crowded into the
cities. But, after all, wo modern peo
ple must follow the tendency of the
times. Some day people will look to
these days and talk of the good old
times to their youngsters. All things
have their state of ilux and increase of
action, and it probably is not safe for
man to set up protests against the
natural evolution of things as they
take place in this world of ours. These
weie some oi our quiet meditations as
wo rode over this proud city of two
hundred thousand inhabitants. This
city has as good a system of cable cars
as any in America, and for five cents
you can ride over seven miles on ono
road by transfers. The entiro city
is interlaced with them, ono elevated
road and cable routo beneath the
same on the entiro system. Trains
pass every three minutes. Kansas
City is situated on a hilly bluff on the
bank of the Missouri river, and tho
streets in some places are on an inclino
of somo -15 degrees. The cable cars
seem to stand on end as they go head
long down the track. It makes one's
hair raise to make tho first trip. The
Metropolitan Cable Co. have electric
lines and own the machinery that run
both lines. The power used is two
Cnrlcss engines of U50 horse power
each. These cables cost from $14,
000 to $1(5,000, are made of steel wire
and last from four to live months.
Their earnings for 1SS9 was over one
million dollars. That alone will tell
of the volume of the street travel in
Kansas City. A grand sight is from
tho top of the bluff looking at the
legion of lights burning, of all colors,
and moving, flickering signal lights of
the sixteen different railroads hedging
in around the Union depot. Ono who
sees it will never forget it. There arc
twenty thousand negroes in tho city
and one Fees them everywhere There
is two negro school houses, the Sum
nor and Lincoln, where the shady
urchins can learn ,(A B C's." Our in-
i speotioiia of ono day around the stock
yards convinced mo they arc second
to nono but those of Chicago. They
cover several acres of ground and one
yard can accomodate 20,000 head of
cattlo and that many hogs. Besides
thoro are two other smaller yards. I
saw 11,000 head in tho pens ono day
on my visit there a grand sight in- j
deed. Hogs by tho thousand, Ar
mour's packing house, working 21,
000 men, killing hogs at tho rato of
ten por minute. What I saw there
and in tho various other firms we have
visited will bo given in some future
lotter. Tho telephone company of tho
city has 12,000 boxes in use. Tho
New York Lifo Insuranco company's
building is twelve stories high. I rodo
in an elevator to tho pinnacle, and
saw the top of Kansas City, a black,
stnokey, dirty prospect indeed. Tho
smoko, on our first view, thirty miles
distant, could bo plainly seen hovering
over the city liko a mantle of hades
wo read about. Quito an excitement
provuils around tho stock yards on ac
count of the Alton railroad cutting
cattlo rates to Chicago. Tho average
shipmonts nro 12,000 per day, and tho
reduced rate was swelling this number
greatly, and speculations wore running
high. Tho rato war is now only be
gun on cattlo and it is to be hoped it
will not stop until the desorving Nebraska-
farmers can get reduced rates
on corn to relievo thoin of tho hard
time they are having, with millions of
hurholti of corn and only 15 cents per
es, Clocks, Jewelry, i
UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY !U, IsflO.
bushel offend. A portion of the city
that now contains ne.ir "iO.OOO popu
lation was a corn field ten years ago.
All the way down the Missouri river
there are hundreds of teams and men
engaged putting up ice. There seemed
to be no limit to the wholesale demand
for this product. The sycamore, white
elm, hackbury and buckeye trees on
the river bottoms were a feast for the
eye. Wo are asked so many times
"where in the west do you reside," and
i we ask "where in the east do you
1 board?" One man, a New Yorker,
says ho isj"gomg east" when he goes to
Maine. In Dakota a man who makes
a journey to Chicago says he is "going
east." At Cincinnati people go to tho
"far west" when
they take a trip to
.atelytho Kansas City
Kansas City. I
Times said of a representative who had
just returned to that city from an ex
tended tour in tho west: "Where is
the cast and where is tho west in this
country, anyway?"
Tho prohibition law of Iowa is a
complete failure. Everywhere in our
travels through tho state can be seen
men who have liquor all tho time and
plenty to give away. I saw whole jugs
full of it in stables and barns, bottled
up and stored away in every conceiva
ble place, and as bad as tho drinking
habit may seem in the inland towns it
is nothing compared to the river towns
outside of Iowa, such as Kansas City,
Hannibal and St. Joe. The shocking
sights that meet the eye in the low
parts of these liquor towns are horrible
and distressing.
Only ono railroad represented in
Kansas City would sell us a through
ticket with a three days' layover at
Extcr, Nebraska, where wo wished to
visit a brother. The B. it M. most
graciously granted our humble request
and we leave the city rejoicing over all
our good fortune. Having found Mrs.
Logsdon and her family, the mother
of Mr. Bernard Logsdon, of I Iigh val
ley. They are happy and contented,
tho girls especially. Four of them aro
at home and they don't want to mar
ry. AVith Mr. Joseph II. Logsdon for
guide we "took in" tho town for two
days and nights. With many rogrets
we bid them adieu and start for our
brother's homo in Nebraska.
J. W. MINNICK.
COVE CULLINGS.
Cove, Feb. 11!, 1890.
Items this week aro a variety and
tlinsn wliirdi minniLr nro lint, nf llin mnst. !
i i -
startling moment.
Mr. C. C. Olson has commenced
building a commodious dwcllingon his
premises. Mr. J. L. Gibson, assisted
by Mr. Ed Robinson, is doing the car
penter work.
Mr. K.B. Burroughs sawed 20,000
shingles last Tuesday. Ho, uses both
steam and water power.
Mr. J. E. Hough will try gardening
on an extensive and scientific scale.
His soil is of tho very best and ho no
doubt will raise a largo quantity of
tho choicest garden "sass."
Prof. E. B. Conklin will hereafter
accompany the choir of tho Sunday
school class at tho Morrison church on
a cornet.
A prominent and popular instructor
of Covo says that walking from Union
bore is better than could bo expected,
and that u pedestrian is well treated
along the routo. lie does not believe
in allowing a stago lino to becomo a
monoply.
Several of our young men bid thoir
friends an affectionate farewell and star
ted on a brief vacation Sunday. Fail
ing health made it necessary that
they should seek a different climate
for a time.
Mrs.M. Jf. Eaton will give an anni
versary ball and supper on tho
evening of the 2Jst inst. Sho
will make every effort to insure her
guests a splendid time.
Mr. Swain has recommenced work
on John Wugncrs house, and will
hurry it through to completion.
FrankKolly has secured tho agency
for Stanley's African Explorations.
Jt is u book of absorbing interest.
Millinery Goods at Cost.
Mcsdaires Iiidwell A llonson the enter
prising Milliners of this city will now Bill nil
fall mid winter goods at actual coU. As
ihelri.'oodure nil of the no wct styles. thoe
wUhing bargains will do well to call at once.
2
Silverware, Guns
AN IOWA LETTER.
Written by a Fur in or Jiesi
dent of Tnion.
VISITING THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
A Somnambulist's Freak Chleajo's Lingo
Personal Mention.
lhvi-i! lrvi-rmv .!.,... I'M. f 1 MO
Editou Scoot:
Doubtless you have placed mo on
your coriospomlcnts' black list before
this, but with tho old maxim in view
lh,u it is nover too (U(, , (lo gQO(1( ,
wU1 tlt onc0 ,,ro(.ec,i to let vou know
1 am still on earth.
1 am no more an obscure denizen of
that truly wonderful city, Chicago, but
have, to use some of its own elegant
"lingo," once moio got a "slant on mo"
toward the western slopo or a slope on
me toward tho ucstcru slant, or to bo
more accurately acurate or explicitly
explicit, in Bill Nye's birds-oye-view
style of introducing his birds-eyo-view
sketch of himself to tho public, I will
say this is W. II. McComas looking
west.
I arrived hero two davs atro and am
writing those lines beneath tho roof of
the palatial three-story brick where I
spent the last few days of my stay in
my childhood's hunting grounds near
ly eighteen years ago. I am a guest of
my brother-in-law, Henry Walker, who
has lived on the farm that now sup
plies his every want for about two
score years, whoso kind heart and gen
erous hand was ever ready to adminis
ter to his fellow-man, whose noble life
is( worthy of emulation, and whoso
namesake I am proud to acknowledge
I have tho honor of being. Hut while
voices that once added to the cheerful
ness of these surroundings aro hushed
in death, and faces we would almost
involuntarily look to see aro scattered
and gone, there is still a stoically un
changed surrounding of an almost
monotonous sameness tho farm with
its varied and familiar landmarks its
substantial improvements but little
worse for their wear, to revive tho
same old home-like cheerfulness and
almost enablo one to forget the vast
number of years the same old clock
mat solemnly lick tacks on llio mantle
now, and has for nearly forty years,
has faithfully counted since my de
parture But a visiouaiy reality
seems to loom up boforo mo of lifo be
yond a range of snowy mountains
where the sturdy pioneer wrestl36 with
the playful Grande Rondo zephyr as it
persistently insists on playing a tunc
through his whiskers, and thus I am
again reminded that I havo been in
tho talons of time, and the old biid has
been on the wing.
I loft Chicago in charge of a lady '
friend, Miss Ilinkloy, whoso many
friends in Union connlv will be snrrv !
to learn, is, at present, a helpless inval
id from tho effects of a four months
siege of inflammatory rheumatism.
Sho is an acquaintance from my child
hood and has been for ten years in thu
railway ticket department of tho J. M.
W. Jones Printing Co. of Chicago.
Since placing her safely in tho hands
of friends I havo spout ono day in vis
iting my uncle, whoso eldest child is
now older thun its mother was when 1
saw hor last, and chatting with others
whom I chanced to moot. Tho moro
people I coino in contact with tho
moro enormous tho duty J owe to tho
friends of other days seems to be, and
I will either havo to make an uncere
monious "sneak" or spend tho sunimor
here. Bo tho latter howsoever truo,
tho former I will never do.
The nearost town, of any conso
queucc, to this ioiiit is Jowa City
which is situated twelve miles north of
hero on tho Iowa river. Jt is a beauti
ful country seat and liko many anoth
er town, and many men as well, it lives
in proud remembrance of what it used
to bo. Although a warrior bereft of
tho implements of war, it is still pos
sessed of that suavity of iiiiuinor char
acteristic of its station, and whilo its
population, eight thousand, eighteen
years ago, has scarcely doubled, thoro
is much about its varied resources to
attract capital, aud much about its
stately majesty to bo admired. It was
at ono timo tho capital of tho Hawk
Eyo state, but the old sUtf hoiifo has
and Amunition Just
for more than a quarter of
thereby adding much to tho general
prosperity of the city.
Iowa, as a state, is slow to develop
political changes, and as she has now
firmly perched on the democratic ban
ner it is safe to calculate that sho will
remain there some forty or fifty years,
or will at least be the last to "coino oif
the perch." The Hag of prohibition
now floats over the domain of Iowa,
and while it receives many a hiss and
:.,. i ! i. i :..r i ii. ..
I J" "'" 1 "vuu imwiiiiuu null.
j there aro thirty-nine places in Iowa
! (,i,-v whm whUkey can bo procured,
1 1 a,n -vot Wfa'Hfcimt of the fact that,
! thar0 nro thoM5 wll r0 ever ready to
misrepresent and malign tho results of
I u".v "ttempted reform, and my own
' judgment would lead me to ptonounoo
j il ,10t tho embodiment of reform as
concerns tho liquor question, but tho
trunk of a tree from which strong
branches must grow and good fruit
must, as a natural consequence, bo
the result.
As f write a big double-listed coiuriu
of mine, named Theodore Kirkpatriok,
who has lived with Henry Walker
sinco ho was a boy of seven years,
conies strolling in, in his good-natured,
careless way, which suggests to me an
ioiit oi .somnambulism m lus life
j of tg ! frightful naturo which
1 will hero relate
Several years ago while sleeping in
tho third story of this house ono night,
he dreamed ho had a personal encoun
ter with John L. Sullivan, and realiz
ing that ho had somewhat over
matched himself and that John was
about to "do" him ho began .eeking a
moans of escape. He raised tho win
dow at the south end of his room and
leaped out, awakening to a sudden
realization of what ho had dono just as
ho made tho almost fatal leap. It was
several hours after that boforo ho
realized who and where ho was, and
several months before ho could walk
out. Ho has ono game leg as a forci
ble reminder of that escapo from a
visionary foo into the jaws of stern
reality.
I havo not yet visited tho old home
stead of my parents where I first
learned to lisp the words so dear to all,
hut will probably do so boforo taking
my leave. From hero I expect to go
ty Esbron, Kansas, and after a short
; visit to a brother, John II. .McComas,
; I shall return to tho homo of my
adoption. I think my disposition to
ramblo has been sulliciently appeased
by what little I havo seen and experi
enced and I can bo content in tho
knowledge that Oregon is hard to beat.
W. II. MoCOMAS.
JIBIMIE CREEK.
Tho prospects of having a school
j hero this summer are not very flattor
j ing. Tho district contained 10 pupils
I last summer, but now it contains only
I 8. Thov seem to bo toinir out faster
than they aro coining in.
Mrs. E. E. Newman of Ladd canyon,
has boon quite sick for about a month
or more.
Tho following named persona that
wcto on tho sick list about two weeks
ago, havo recovered Mrs. W. H.
Stafford of Hog valley; Mr. S. F. Cu
sick of Jimmio crock; Mr. G. E. Allen,
Thos. Shaw and J. H. Stevens of
Clovor creek,
Tho snow drifts wore deopor horo
this winter than thoy havo been for
four years, and in consequence tho
prospects for a good crop next summor
aro better than last. Tho wind has
mado tho hills bare in somo places
which is a good thing for stock.
' On tho '1th inst, wo had tho biggest
chinook that has been hero for 11 vo
years. About two thirds tho ground
here is baro and tho other third
will bo if it rains much longer.
Grass is good on tho hills for this timo
of the year.
Mr. 8. F. Cusick lost a valuable
horso tho othor day. Death was caused
by distemper.
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Bores, Tetter, Chapped Ilaiiih, Chilblains,
Corns, and ull Bkln Kruptlous, mid posl
alvcly cures 1'llcs, or no pay required, It
Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded, l'rlco 2f cents per
box. For sale at Ilrown's drug store.
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SO.
HUnMUJIU lll,IUUtl7n.TUIBUH
SCHOOL MATTERS.
, A Timely Art iole by an Old
Teacher.
SOME VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.
Old and New Methods Tho Assistance of
Farants Kequired.
Editou Okkook Scoot:
Havo you room in your columns for
a few thoughts concerning the mutual
relations existing between our public
schools and tho communities in which
they aro located? Tho teachers of our
state arc striving to bring the common
wealth to a higher plane in education
al matters and, thanks to the ellicient
leaders wo havo had, no small progress
has boon made. But we need other
help beside th.it of our statu and coun
ty supointendents, wo need the. co-operation
of tho fathers and mothers of
pupils and particularly those who servo
in tho capacity of directors. Upon
those last dopond in no small degree
the general advance of education. Wo
aro too much accustomed to think tho
schools of our country districts, because
the attendanco is small and the course
of study limited, aro insignificant when
compared to the educational institution
of tho town. But it is not necessarily
so. That it is so in any degree is a
fault, not a misfortuno alone. It is a.
misfortuno to tho pupil who desires
and needs the best educational advan
tages to bo obtained, but it is the fault
of thoso who havo charge of the school
work.
Tho city school has advantages in
tho first placo bocauso of its superior
teachers. But is it necessary that tho
country school should employ tho
scurf and rcsiduo because tho city
school has an ellicient corps of teach
ers? Nearly all teachers who aro wor
thy of tho name, look forward to a po
sition in a city school for two reasons,
which, if thoy could bo obtained in
district schools would servo to draw
tho higher grado of teachors to them
as well. First, becauso the city school
is a graded institution with a specific
line of study in each department, it
entails loss of difficulty upon tho in
structor. In truth tho greatest dis
advantage under which tho district
scoool labors is its lack of systematic
study. But this may bo, and is being
overcome. At our annual institute
last fall, a committee was appointed to
form a plan of systematic grading for
our country schools. This system,
uphold by a good corps of teachers
will romovo tho great disadvantage of
having a mass of pupils without ro
sped to respective standing in class
work. Another thing which we, as
teachors, may follow which will provo
of valuo to tho school aud a source
of assistance to tho succeeding teacher,
is tho making a record of classes and
members thereof at tho close of tho
term. This (will enable the samo
classification, substantially, in suo
ccedingtorms and will bo a material
benefit to tho pupils.
And this thought of district gradation
brings mo to tho second point tho
efficiency of tho teacher. A poor teach
er will bo unablo to fulfill tho condi
tions necessary to retain this classi
fication when mado. It moans advan
ced methods, it moans moro systematic
toil, moro scientific, artistic labor.
Tho toachor as well as tho school must
grow, energetically. It is bocauso of
the intermittent lino of careless or se
cond quality teacher, so rapidly chan
ging, which distracts from tho apparent
value of tho training under thu ellicient
teacher, that adds a third reason for .
tho slow progress of country schools
as compared to their city cousins.
Evou tho common practice of chan
ging teachers overy term or so is a
great evil, but whon one adds to this
tho detrimental inlluunco of tho care
less or unqualified successor of a thor
ough toachor tho evil is aggravated.
And much of this lies directly chargo
nblo to tho district aud its officers. Most
good teachors aro not inclined to ap
ply for a school a second time, beliov
ing that tho term already taught is
their rocommendatiou for future em
ployment and that it is not thoir
placo to add to this reputation. But,
as tho board do not trouble themselves
Continued vn hit puye.
Gardner & Co's.