THE OREGON SCOUT.
AMOS K. JONES
KDITOK,
City and County Official Paper.
Thursday, Febr'y. 27, 1890.
MnnmRaasmminnnaBii
i:niToitTAi, notus.
Tiik meeting of tlio Democratic
State Central Committee lias been
called for March 19, at Kalem.
Chicago 1ms been selected ns the
site for tho worlds fair in 1892. The
porker gets there occasionally.
Ucforo another year has rolled around
one-half tho business men of La Grande
will havo moved their establishment!)
to Summervillc and Elgin. .Such is
tho irony of fate, tho reward of self
ishness and cupidity, tho cfl'ccL of
county teat agitations and railroad
building.
TnintK was a time in the history of
tho world when almost all pen-ons
thought alike on nearly all questions
concerning which tho minds of men
arc now divided. If a bold and origi
nal man appeared who disputed what
the rest believed ho was put to death.
It was during this period thai the
common law was evolved and trial by
jury instituted.
Tun town of IMakeman, in Jlnwlinu
county, Kas., is ambitious to becomo
tho county seat, and the peoplo havo
adopted tho original plan of buying all
the houses in their chief rival town
and moving Uioni into Hlakcnian.
The plan might not be a bad one for
Union in tlie present emergency, unless
it is thought that tho shells doing duty
for houses in La Grande will gravitate
down to Summervillo and Elgin of
their own accord.
Tin: I'ondloton Oregonian is an able
ally of the La Grande papers when it
conies to misrepresenting Mr. Hunt
and everything connected with his
roads. It is the boss when it comes to
hunting up "rumors" but not so fly
when loliable news is wanted. Its
latest effort in this direction is to the
eH'ee that "a number of surveys will
havo to bo mado before a pass is deci
ded upon. "Tho fact is that a perma
nent survey has been made, by way of
Elgin, across tho mountains, which is
an easy and praetielo routo, coming
out of the mountains on tho other side
Komewhero near Weston, although it is
not now known whether tho lino will
terminate at Athena or Walla Walla.
It is also a fact that the work of grad
ing on this line is in active progress
but then tho East Oregonian will, prob
ably not find this our for some time
yot.
Tin: Sunimervillo Annotator, speak
ing of the coming campaign, says,
"both political parties are represented
with a list of aspirants long enough to
reach from Union to La Grando and
still they keep 'a bobbing up.' " Tho
eagle optic of Tin: Scout has been un
able to ferret out but very few who
declare themselves as willing to servo
tho people. In fact we had about
concluded that tho candidates were
nuver so backward about coming for
ward. So far, howovor, as tho political
phase of it is concerned Tin: Scorr
cares hut very little. Wo do not think
that polities will cut much of a llguro
in the coming contest. Local issues
will and should suporsedo all others.
Tho light will bo made by Union and
the taxpayers on one side and La
Grando and boodle on tho other side.
That sums tho whole thing up in a nut
ahull. Tin: Scorr will not support
any man who favors tho outrage pro
potod by La Grande, and in summing
up tho qualifications of tho candidates,
solectud by the tax-payers, will not take
into consideration their politics.
I'OKTI.ANI) ANI T1IH HUN I' UOAI1S.
For a year or so past the Portland
Oregonian, which is recognized as tho
inouth-pieco of that city, hns been op
posed to the Hunt railway system and
hns thrown ns much dirt as it was ca
llable of, but now seeing that tho busi
ness prestige of that city depends, not
on warfare with tho Hunt system, but
in conciliating and making a tributary
of it, if possible, wo see by some of our
exchanges that it has changed its tune
and pipes ns follows:
"Tho Hunt railway system is an im
portant factor in business of Eastern
Oregon and Eastern Washington, and
undoubtedly will have further ox ten
sion there. Its connection now is
with the Northern Paoillo, but persons
who profess to know say that it is not
controlled by tho Northern. Itecentlv
thositggestionhasboenni.ulotW;itlhelfriolullj ou lu mtMo lim CJUliiy
limit sysujui iiugiik ou omcuuuu 10
Portland, if Portland would tako nu
active, interest in tho projeut, and do
what situ might do to promote it.
!, Conslructionof a lino
from Hunt's
to Portland,
juuuuou auovu trmiutii
either along tho north bank of the Col
umbia river, or through tho Yakima
nnd Klickitat valleys, crossing the Col
umbia at a suitable point, would niako
Portland the terminal point of the
Hunt roads, and would afford our city
nnother system of railways iuforior to
no other in local advantage; and very
probable it would be the basis of still
another transcontinental line."
Some of tho leading citizens of
Portland having made overtures to
Mr. Hunt ho met them last week nnd
a proposition to the oiled that he
would extend his line to Hint city from
Wnllula Junction in consideration of
the subscription by the citizens of the
city of two million dollars of first mort
gage bonds bearing six per cent, inter
est. The proposition was favorably re
ceived, nnd from latest advices we aro
certain that it will be accepted.
Portland is making a move in the
right direction now and will act wisely
in securing the Hunt road which is
destined to do four-fifths of the carry
ing tnific of Eastern Oregon. The
people of this part of the state havo no
love for Portland and its pot road built
by tho 0. It. fc N. Co. The latter con
structed without regard to the conven
ience and welfare of tho country
through which it passes, has continu
ally imposed upon and robbed the peo
ple until they havo justly come to look
upon it as their enemy. Its time is
now up, and it must curb its arro
gance and change its route in ninny
places in order to rotain even a small
portion of the trade. The city of
Portland, however being the metropo
lis of tho state, may hopo, by securing
connection with the Hunt line, to rein
state herself in the good graces of tho
peoplo and regain in a meastiro the
trade she has already lost and hold
much moro that she will lose if her
present tohemo is unsucossful.
The Oregonian may well say in re
gard to tho Portland extension that
"it is very probable it would be tho
basis of still another transcontinental
line." Tho Hunt road will without
doubt be extended in a very short time
from Union through tho vast farming
and mining regions of Union county,
across Snake river, through the Sevon
Devils mining district and into Idaho
there to connect with the Chicago
Northwestern or some other road
which will make it tho shortest,
best and most profitable transconti
nental road now constructed or in con
templation. A SI'KCIMHS Ol' TIII5IK AltOUMKNT.
The following brilliant cll'nsion
.appeared in last week's issue of tho
La Grande Journal.
If tho Journal mistake not tho Union
papers have been sotting out in glowing
terms the fine county buildings owned
by tho county, and have been using
the old traps as an argument against
the removal of the county seat. Kighl
on top of tho argument comes word
that two prisoners who were confined
in the old rickety county jail had
become tired of their impnsomcnt and
by tho simply twisting oil' a bar or two
had inarched out to liberty. Their
Ofcnpo isn't very good backing for the
Union papers argument as to tho
security of the county buildings.
What applies to the jail is also truo of
tho ollleers, for it two unsoiistioated
prisoners can walk out of the county
jail and escape, what is there to pruvont
thieves from sacking tho court houeo
and carrying oil' tho valuables of tho
county. The facts aro tho old county
buildings aro unlit lor the purposes
they are being used for, and this oootipo
of two prisoners will convince many
taxpayers of tho condition of aftairs.
What do tho Union papers now think
about tho safe condition of the jail and
court house?"
The above is a fair sample of the
arguments now being advanced by
tho La Grando papers why the county
seat should be moved and moio sub
stantial county building erected in La
Grande. To tho old residents of the
county, who aro cognisant of tho true
state of n I l'u i is, the babbling of the
recently arrived eastern tenderfoot who
edits tho Journal and can only report,
parrot-like, what ho is told to say, will
bo taken for what it is worth, but his
lying may inllueuco muuo new comors
who know nothing about the condition
of things.
The Union county jail was but
recently built, on the latest and most
improved plans, ami whilo not so large
as some others, is, perhaps, the strong
est, safest and most substantial county
jail in the state.
It is true that during tho past year
two escapes have boon iimda by
prisonors oonlinod thoro not by reason
of any defect in tho jail hut solely on
account of tho oarultMtsuow of tho
shoriir and his aiaUnts. When
prisoners under sentence to tho peni
tentiary, instead of being confined in
tho steel colls, are Mllowod to room
ttvnmiil in llin iiirriilftr nfllin nil. wliorw
cuminunionto with them if they so
detir'. and are jxmutti'd the poeMon
of 'UM' kmvc and fiinilar implements.
it If not to le wondered at that they
j occasionally escape. While it is not
generally known at the time, the
' prisoners that escaped last summer
were gone some 12 or lf hours before
tho officers were aware of the fact.
Two of them were cnptuicd at an
expense of severnl hundred dollars to
the county, while the other has not
been heard of to this day.
Luckily the prieoners that escaped
last week were captured a few days
after. We do not know whether the
county court intends to defray tho
expense incurred, ns it did in the
former case, or not, but if it does Tiik
Scout will certainly protest. The
carelessness of oflieals should not be
paid for by the people. It would,
simply, be impossible for prisoners to
escape from our county jail, if confined
in tho steel cell, or from the corridor,
if the iron shutters to the iron doors
wcro closed on the outside and locked
Tho court house, while an older
structurs, is a good substantial
building, mi flic tent for all county
purposes for many years to come.
An aHidavit to the effect was made by
a numbor of the best citizin of the
county, a shorl time ago, and the truth
fullness of their statement will not be
questioned. When the court house
is "blown down by the wind" as the
La Grander protend to think it will
be, the breeze will be sufficient to
demolish tho ballnnce of the town. As
tho wind generally blows from here
towards La Grande. A catastrophe of
that kind is without doubt a consuma
lion they moat devoutly wish.
CSTUAY NOTICH.
Taken up by tliu undersigned, living
about B luilcs cast of KlIn, Indian valley
precinct, Union county. Oregon, one small
red heifer, 2 years old, branded on right
hip.
The nlwvo deserlbod nnininl wns appraised
at ?15 by J. 11 Johnson. J. 1
J. II. MORTON,
2-27. Klgin, Oregon.
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