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Oregon
Scout
VOL. VI.
"The Oregon scout,
An independent weekly Journal. Nued ev
ery Thursday morning by
JONES & CIIAXCEY,
Publishers and Proprietor.
A. K. .Ionks, i
Editor. )
I 15. CltANCKY,
t Foreman.
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Sabbath school at 10 a. m; prayer meeting
Wednesdav. at 8 l. m. The Ladies' Mis
;' prayer meeting
sionary Society meets on the fourth Friday
of every month at 2 :J!0 p. m. All cordially
invited. It. II. l'AUICKK. Pastor
rnoi'i:s:sioxAi,.
-yyM. Koisxiu.
Architect and Builder,
COVE, OREGON.
Drafts, Plans and Designs for Dwellings,
and Bridges furnished on application.
I.
N. CROMWELL, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office, ono door outh of J. H. Eaton's
store, Union, Oregon.
II. CHAWFOllD,
Attorney at Law,
Union, Oregon.
Oflice, one door south of Centennial ho
tel. JOHN It. CRITES,
Attorney at Law.
Collecting and probate practice special
tios. Ollice, two doors south of post-otlice,
Union, Oregon.
J. "W. SlIEI.TON.
J. M. Cakuoll.
Q HELTON ,fc CARROLL.
Attorneys at Law.
Oflice : Two doors south of post-cilice, Un
ion, Oregon.
Special attention given all business en
trusted to us.
It. Eakin,
J. A. Eaki.v,
Notary Public.
J EAKIN, & BROTHER,
Attorneys at Law,
Union, Oregon.
JSPrompt Attention Paid to Collect. ons.
A.
L. DA NFOltTII, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon
North Powder, Oregon.
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Q II. DAY, M. D.,
IIOMEPATIIIO
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Oflice adjoining Jones Hro's store. Can
he found nights at residence in South
west Union.
H. F. Wilso.v.
Notarv Public,
A,
J. Hacki:tt,
Notary Public.
W
ILSON & HACKETT,
Attorneys at Law.
Collections and all other business entrus
ted to us will receive prompt attention.
A complete abstract of tho land of Union
county in our ollice,
Managers of tho UNION REAL ESTATE
ASSOCIATION.
OFFICE: UNION, OH.
Shingles For Sale!
An unlimited amount of No. 1 shingles
constantly on hum! and for sale cheap.
Orders from all parts of tho country so
licited. S. H. HUKHOrC.IIS,
3-1 1 tf Cove, Oregon.
City - Meat-- larlcet.
Main Street. Union, Oregon,
BENSON liKOS. rilOI'KJETORS.
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BEEF. POHK- VEAL, MUTTON, 1
SAUSAGE, HAMS, LAUD. ETC.
Fine Line of Watch
Written for Tun ScotT.
PIONEER EMIGRANTS.
With friends they hook theprolVered hand
To kindred bade farwell;
And hoped upon Mme distant land
In happv homes to dwell.
! And ninny wishes for success
Ild h lends on them bestow;
i And hoped thev'd meet with no distress
Mid scenes they must pas" through.
They left the scenes where loiijr had been
The ties of youthful days;
Where first their infant eves had seen,
And learned their childhood ways.
Hut now a dreary march have they,
Across a trackless plain;
Yet on and on they wend their way
And mile on mile they gain.
They travel 'neath a blazing sun
Where grass Is crisp and dry,
And while thev travel on and on
No cloud doth veil the sky.
Around they gaze across the plain
Some oasis to spy;
j Tho nMintl is lurched want of rain,
vii uniuMvm nun ait; ur.
j The jaded teams with weary tread
Move solemnly and slow;
With weary steps and drooping head,
j Can further hardly go.
i The sun has sunk low in the west,
j While darkness spreads around;
They now inu"t strive to seek some rest
I'pon the heated ground.
Some seek their rest, whil'st others stand
As sentinels to bear
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-Mint may be lurking near.
'Pis dark! Hut 'way across the plain
A glimmering light is been ;
Full soon by breeze it spreads amain,
With bright terrific sheen.
Alarm is spread. With dread amaze
All spring upon their feet.
Above their heads u smoky haze
On comes the blazing sheet.
In haste they start a fire near by,
And send it back to greet
The coming llame. And now both die
In one vast blinding sheet.
As morning breaks upon the scene,
They ready are to move;
Far in the distance now is seen
A semblance of a grove.
With hope renewed they onward go
EAeros.s the blackened plain;
At length 'tis but a mile or so
Till woodland they will gain.
They soon arrive beside a stream
Meandering through a glade.
i They feel relieved, and all now seem
Itefieshed beneath the shade.
The sun ere long sinks down behind
The mountains of the west;
And all much tired are now inclined
To have a night of rest.
They sleep. And as they sleep, they dream
Of homes they've left behind.
Their by-gone joys and pleasures seem
Oneo more before tho mind.
Hut midst their dreams a demon yell
Awakes them in alarm;
They sieze their arms and strive to quell
Tho foes that 'round them swarm.
Now hand to hand in battle's fray
They strive, yet strive in vam;
And ere the dawning of the day
The little band U slain.
They struggled hard, and valiant fell
Where earth with blood was damp;
No one was left tho tale to tell,
nf all within that camp.
Hut years have come, and years havegone,
And emigrating trains
Have found where bloody deeds were done
Hy bones strewn on the plains.
NOTES FROM WALLA WALLA COUNTY.
Toucitirr, Walla Walla County, Feb. 21
Editor Oimxion Scorn
It snowed hero on tho 16th of this
mouth S inches deep. Horses and cat
tle are dying on tho rnngo now. If
this weather lasts two weeks there will
ho 50 per cent, loss on the range,
Edward Byrnes and J. E. Byrnes are
tho heaviest losers m this vicinity.
Tho hay is all bought up by Bheep
men in this neighborhood. Sheep
huvu done verv well so far. Tho loss is
light.
There is long faces on the stock men
that haven't any feed.
William McAlistcr sold $2000 worth
of hay this winter.
Rom. To tho wife of Woodson
Cummins, Feb. 17th, a daughter.
Mother and child aro reported to be
doing well.
Eupepsy.
This Is what you ought to have, In fact,
you must huvu it, to fully enjoy life.
Thousands aro searching for itdnily, and
mourning becuusethey find it not. Thous
ands upon thousands of dollars are spent
an mi oily by our people in tho hope that
thoy may attain this boon, And yet It
may bo had by all. Wo guarantee that
Hli ctric Hitters, if med according to direc
tioiiM and the use persisted In, will br ng
you Good Digestion and oust the demon
Dypupia and install instead Kupepny.
We recommend Klectric Hitters for Dys-
pepia and all diseases of the Liver, Stoui-
ui - li and Kidneys. Hold at 60c. and $1 per
bottle by K. II. Hrown, the druggist.
-es, Clocks, Jewelry,
UNION. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH
WASHINGTON.
An Interesting Letter from Our Regular
Correspondent at the Capital.
1 Washington, (p. C.) Feb.
tsrv.
! Eihtoii Okkoo.n Scorn
i The investigation of tho workings
of tho Civil Service Commission thus
far only afl'eets the conduct of Mr.
Lyman, while ho was tho only com
missioner in ollice and while ho was
in oflice with Mr. Oberly. Tho story
was told by him to tho committee on
Wednesday, and viewed in any light,
his halting, reluctant admissions place
him in contennu with the truo friends
of civil service who so loin: trusted
him. Ho adtnitsin his testimony that
one Campbell, a clerk, and his brother -
in-law furnished lists of questions to
persons outside tho commission, for
which money was paid, and that "ho
was merely ronriiimnded for this breach
of discipline". Ho admits that after
the limit as to ago had been raised
from eighteen to twenty years, anil ho
was sole commissioner, ho had his
daughter under nineteen years of ago,
examined on the ground that she had
applied for a position befo're the law
went into effect, although the law
refers entirely to qualification necessary
to examination and appointment.
He acknowledged that instances have
occurod in which candidates sent sub
stitutes to thoir examination, who
passed it for them. The carelessness
of a system that never oven compares
hand-writing in the application with
that in the examination papers can bo
imagined.
Thus far tho other commissioners
are not smirched by the investigation,
and tho result will probably promote
the cause of civil servico reform by
renewed vigilance in guarding the
avenues to appointment
The icsigiia -
tion of Lyman should be immediately I ons clerk. The directors were instruc
requested. He offers no defence and ted to hold a threo months term dur
can offer none, lie retained Campbell I iug tho suinmor. Hereafter tho rate
in office after his confession of dis
honest', where another commissioner
would probably have exhausted every
possible means of bringing him to
justice, let alone discharging him. A
great cry was raised by Lyman and
his friends against the Washington
Post's attacks on his administration,
and now ho simply goes on tho witness
stand and confesses tho truth of tho j
charges. j
Despite the fact that many Senate
committees considered hitherto as of ,
vastly mote importance than that on
woman suffrage, aro without rooms
to moot in, mo zeaious enorts oi -miss j
Anthony and Mrs Stanton have re
sulted in tho assignment of an apart
ment for tho exclusive use of their
commitiec. Jiism tno ousemciu ami
not a very imposing room, but tho
only sign on tho door is "Woman
Suffrage," and that means that it is
not to bo shared by threo or four
committees, as most of the rooms are.
In tho walls aro to be placed ciayons
and oil portraits of tho leaders of the
movement, and there is a library of
work on female suffrage to bosupplicd.
Miss Anthony is especially proud of
tho victory, as sho calls it, and tho
threo scoroand ten years she celebrated
thc other day aro half of them lost in
her enthusiasm.
With a breezy disregard of tho
authorities quite surprising, Hcnninio
Theibault, Silcott's companion in his
flight from Washington after having
broken Congressional hearts, came to
town this week, and vanished during
tho same day. It is currontlly rumord
that a detective follwed her into
oblivion in tho hopes of finding tho
whereabouts of Silcott. Humor
equally authoritativo locates Silcott in
Victoria, wltero ho was last Keen
purchasing a ticket for China. Ex-
Scrgcant-at-arms Lcedom on discover
ing tho presonco of tho Theibault
woman in the city, attempted to have
her arrested, but could find no charge
to put against her. Lcedom still says
that he is hopeful of catching Silcott,
He devotes most of his time to bewail.
ing his misplaced confidence in the
wit uiciK. nu iui ua imwii inu
confidence of others as ho once had,
Lcedom is bankrupt. I lis carelessness j
in allowing his own and tho public j
money to remain under tho control of i
a man ho knew to bo a gambler, and a
losint? ono at that, condomns his ,
judgment. I doubt whether U'edom I
could bo elected to tho position ol
: - i ! i:. .
constable in a begging district.
Silverware, Guns
The Thoibault is said to have stated
while hero that Silcott had been ruined
by borrowing Congressmen and
unlucky racing ventures. What factor
she was in the general smash, the frail
creature does not add. It may well
be behoved that a lnrge amount of the
money went into the hands of local
bookmakers, of which IhhhIoiii, from
his notorious fieiiuency of that elans
of places, should have been well aware
at tho time. Tho effect of tho Silcott
affair upon the pool rooms has leen
most disiistious. A bill is now nend-
ing before Congress suppressing them !
in tho District, of Columbia, and their ,
misiness ior some reason lias strangely'
' Jocreapctl. This class of gambling is
:' I't'iuMve to the owner of the game !
(lmt hiH l'otnge of advantage must
1 bo enormous to enable him to keep
l,un- 1Iis customers are day after :
1 "'0 1110 " ". ill(l " tno -'
tho expenses eat up all concerned.
Tho Western Union Tologninh
Company absorb all alike, and thus
gambling, like virtue, is "it own re-1
ward". j
Tho unlucky Congressmen whoso '
I salaries disappeared with Silcott, aro
not void of hope. 1 hev look with
interest to tho test cases brought before
tho Court of Claims to compel the
government to reimburse for all losses
and which will be heard March 1.
Upon tho result of these suits rests
thoir only hope of obtaining their
money, for tho introduction of a bill
to reimburse, after a failure in court,
would bo suicidal to tho projectors.
.1. 11. C.
COVE CULLINGS.
Covi:, March r, 1S0O.
At the annual school meeting in tho
Cove district, Monday, M. 15. Uces was
! re-elected director anil .laspor G. Stov-
of tuition to outside scholars will bo 2
per month in tho higher department
and !fl fiO per month in tho primary
department.
Mrs. S. A. Iiridgos, of Fort Atkin
son, Wisconsin, is in Cove visiting her
son, Guy Bridges, and othor relatives.
The pleasures of Mrs. 15's trip were con
siderably marred by being caught in a
blockade.
Messrs. A. G. Conklin and W. II.
Wright, horso dealers, have returned
from Iowa where thev shinned a ear-
loa(1 o horfc(W mmo Um0 Th(jy
; rt thc k t t u
In Shanghai school district, at tho
annual mooting, II. A. Mitchell and
If. j. Dmiirhnrtv worn nlnctnd ilini'.lfir.
I niwl SI ir.,.i ii l.'iit. il.ii'l.-
Scaled bids for the renting of tho E,
L. Cochran farm east of town will bo
received by .1. W. Hholton until 12 in.
to-day. Sovoral residents of tho Covo
aro bidders.
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Campbell have re
turned homo after passing most of tho
winter in California; at least that was
their conviction until they reached
j Grando a few days ago.
A fov geoso aro coining in, a sure
indication that tho coldest woathor has
passed.
A majority of Covo instructors will
attend tho teachers institute this week
in Union, and aro anticipating a pleas
ant timo.
It is said that Union has organized a
sporting club and the Covo boys aro
much pleased at llioir action. As a
starter of tho fun tho Covo shootors
hereby challenge Union to a rifle match
galloy range (sixty foat) 22 calibre ri
fles, open sights, no sot triggers, ring
targot with boll, six men on a side, tho
losers to by the wiunors 1000 rounds of
ammunition,
Geo, Stewart and Goo. Follows havo
routed tho Thomas placo and havo
moved thereon. Thoy will turn thoir
attention principally to butter-making.
Tho Covo Dairy Co. expect to open
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price of milk yet,
Edwaid Fuller and Lynn Winslow
havo gone to Seiittla to took thoir for
tunes. Covo wears too much of a
bubducd air for thoin.
Fororuunors of tho myriads of ground ;
squirrel aro out of tho snow. Hun
1,rcil ? boU!0.8 of utryolmino are tued
firitiiuilli. nil. I in i f..ti vim ra lfitiimr Mm
fris, ,iu,0 m1 wiH ,)(J txmOMl ox.
. . ft i
j terminated.
land Amunition Just!
:, 185)0.
x.wnrirBMjmgiiiLi'.i'
OUtt TRAVELER.
VlvM Description of Socio Grand anil
Enchanting Scenery.
co.s-Tinri:i nso.M last whkk.
Salt Lake is 12(5 miles long and lo
wide and is not known to have an
outlet. Tho water is now four feet
higher than it was twenty years ago.
Fences enclosing land by tho lake in
1S70 are just now peeping above tho
Hood which is making a sine and
steady rise.
Salt Lake City has a population of
.'i.'i.OOD. It is one of the most beautiful
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i nun pieasautiy located oi cities. It is
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.-mi. urn .it uii: mm, in ;i spur oi lliu
1
Wasatch mountains
Tho streets aro
feet wide ineludinir sidewalks 'JO
feet wide, bordered with shade trees.
, On the sides of all the streets runs a
I clear, cold stream of water from the
j mountain canyons, giving the city an
I air of coolness, comfort and repose.
' I thus four railroads, six banks, seven -
teen hotels, three daily .mil f.vn wooklv
newsnanors. The wholesale iobbinir
lino in tho oitv has several houses that
-
would do credit, to any city in tho un-
ion, especially the Z. C. M. !., as it is
called for short Zions' Co-operative
Meicantile Institution. This is owned
and conducted by the most wealthy
I men belonging to tho Mormon church.
It has branches in every Mormon city,
town and village in Utah. This con- 1 i;umium,,g I'oaco u neeus, it cannot
corn manufactures or deals in almost ' 1)0 "Vtsrlnatiue. Monnonis.n has ac
ovorvthing imaginable, and what j eo,nl)llshu(I much b-v ""try and
thev haven't got von need not look for 1'oraovoronco m reclaiming Utah'.s
in Utah. The (....minis ns.mllv tlm w,l8to ,um,H 11,1,1 'non plains. It has
first object of interest the traveler
looks for on arriving here. It is lift
feet high, but is not yet completed.
The foundation is 1 80x98 feet. The
building is of white granite from tho
Little Cottonwood canyon, and was
commenced on Feb. I I, lSG.r, and will,
when 'completed cost not less than
.1510,000,000. The Taborimolo building
was completed October (5, 1.S07. It is
2o0 feet long by InO wide and SO feet
high. The roof is a bimplo lattice
work of timbers resting on -1(5 pillars
of red sandstone. Over a million feet l
of lumber is used in its construction.
Its total seating capacity ts l!5,'l.r)2. It
has tho largest roof in tho world, built
entirely of wood, which can bo cleaned
in seven minutes. The organ is tho
finest in the world and has threo thous
and pipes. Beyond tho limits of the
city tho uniform character of .Mormon
families is of exceedingly plain ways
of living, and some aro ovon poor.
What the better families havo gained
has been by tho hardest apd most per
sistent labor. Wo were told by a
Mormon Bishop to-day that when tho
city was first settled there was not
found over $ 1,000 in cash for tho wholo
community, and for a long series of
years thorenftor money was little used,
and tho people lived and paid for thoir
wants by barters. For instance, a far
mer wishes to purchuso a pair of shoes
for his wifo, ho consults tho shoemaker
who avers his willingnoss to furnish
the same for ono load of wood. lie
has no wood but sells a calf for an
order on tho merchant payable in
goods, and tho ordor for a load of
wood, and straightway tho matron is
shod, Seven watermelons purchuso
the prico of n ticket to tho theatre.
Tho tuition of a child at school, 7f
cabbages per quarter. Tho dressmaker
received for her services four squashes
per day. Ilesottled his church duos
in sorghum molasses. Two loads of
pumpkins paid his annual subscrip
tion to tho newspaper. Ho bought a
Treaties on Celostial Marriages for a
load of gravel, and a bottle of soothing
syrup for tho baby with a bushel of
string beans. In this way, beforo tho
advent of tho railroad, fully uino-teuths
of the business was conducted in this
way. Thoy now havo tho actual circu
lation of money.
In tho church sorvicefluo ono knows
until tho speaker arises who is to
preach from tho pulpit, or what may
bo the subject. Tho subjects of ser
mons, addresses, and oxortations aro as
wide as there aro books in tho great
Tabernacle. Ono will hoar sermons
or advice on tho culture of sorghum,
infant baptism, the best manure for
cabbage, tho porsorvoranco of tho
saints, tho wickedness of skimming
,jik iJeforo jtH H.,iCi cleaning water
ditchos, bed bug poison, teething in
children, the martyrs and persecutions
of the church, olive oil as a euro for
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tho moasels, worms in dried apples
Received at A. N. ;
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and peaches, bustles and chignons,
twenty-five-yard dresses, plural mar
riages, the character of .Melchisedec,
etc. Portions of this may be extravi
gance of humor, yet it is true that ev
ery possible thing, secular or spiritual,
is discussed from the pulpit, which
the president thinks necessary for the
instruction of the Hock. The Mor
mons aro fond of tho theatre and dan
cing, and as justifying those amuse
ments, the saints say dancing is a di
version for which all men and women
have a natural fondness. Dancing
parties, therefore, aro quite frequent,
and the most religious man is tho best
entitled to tho largest amount of fun
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, "u" "B eui gets mm.
I. ti.: . . i..n
,s foroughly and implicitly have
lhu ll,nssoa of tho 'Mor1011 1'coplo been
lccl by ,huir ,cn,,urrt Umt ,U) onu must
,m 8rl'nsl to find that they aro linn
! bul,UV0IS 11,1,1 obedient servants to all
' "l0 l'oc',r"ls aml orders of tho church.
, Tl,oy bdiovo j"1 na hoy aro tol,L
! Whntevor, therefore, there is in this
! lifc' cl"lr, l"shuss, industry and
onll'rl'iso that is good and praiswor-
.1 ... !..:. x- .i i i .
thy to Brigam Young, their dead Ica-
! dor, belongs tho credit, and whatever
is lacking in good, belongs tho fearful
responsibility. If in all its doctrines,
' services, sermons, prayers, praiso and
; church work, it fails to give tho soul
that seoks after rest, tho refreshing,
opened a country which is now teem
ing with riches inexhaustible. Wo
give to tho Mormons every praiso for
thoir frugality, temperanco and hard
labor. No other class of people would
have settled hero. By patience they
have reclaimed a desert, peopled a
waste, grown in thrift, and their lives
bear witness to their forbearance,
complete trust and faith.
Tho system of polygamy is now tho
only great question which affects tho
future of Utah. More than all things
olso it is tho power of tho rulers of tho
i Mormon church. Secret oly and stub
bornly thoy adhere to all their plural
doctrines, and tho women aro tho most
earnest and staunch believers and sup
porters of tho dominant faith. A truo
religion wins admiration from ovon its
enemies, but Mornionisin seems novor
to havo niado a friend of an enemy,
and only returns oven deeper resent
ment. A religion which does not do
as Christ said : Pray for thorn which
persecute you less and curse not, but
treasures its resentments, can it bo
any religion at all? Tho leading mem
bers of tho Mormon church wo met
during our stay wcro gentlemen, and
treated us vory courteously and ap
parently offered us every facility for
I obtainff formation, and they will
treat, an strangers in tno same way.
Wo fool under special obligations to
many of them for thoir kindnosn and
courtesy, and wo aro greatly niistakon
if thoy do not respect any ono for n
frco, manly and frank expression of
opinion concerning thorn and thoir
institutions, moro than they would a
fawning sycophant or gushing twad
dler. Noithcr their institutions or
thoir practices aro thrust into tho
faces of travolors. If knowledge con
cerning them or their customs is do
sired it must bo sought after.
Tho improvement of Salt Lake City
has uot boon very rapid, owing to tho
Mormons boing persecuted by Undo
Sam. Tho onco famous Ann Eliza
tho nineteenth wifo of Brigam Young,
tho Mormon prophet, is now tho wifo
of a Chicago railroad man and is living
a happy life.
Promptly at six in tho morning all
tho snow bound passengers aro to bo
at tho depot. Ah wo arrivo tho word
is shouted, "All aboard for Ogdon and
Oregon I" At Ogdon, wo loam to our
dismay that tho narrow gaguo to Poca
tollo on tho O. S. L. is hopelessly
blockaded, but tho gentlemanly mana
gers of tho Denver it Hio Grand camo
to our relief and ordered a special train
run east over tho U. P. to Green Hivor,
170 miles, to tho terminus of tho Short
Lino. Wo soon hear tho familiar,
"All aboard," which moana farowoll to
Utah. Wo now double- tho road back
to Green Hivcr, reviewing all tho grand
handiwork of nature wo passed two
dayH ago. Wo havo two heavy cn
i'inoa on to gain tho summit at Echo
Cvntimicd w fait page.
Gardner & Cos.
NO.