Tl Orego Aft VOL. VI. The Oregon Scout. An Independent wekly Journal, lsucl ev ery Thursdav moraine bv JOXES & OIIAXCEY, J'ublhhers and Proprietors. A. K. Jo.nks, I Editor. . t i. 11. CllANOltY, l'oremau. KATKS OF SUUSCItll'TIOXi One copy, one year $1.50 ' " Six months 1.00 " ' Three nio:.to3 "5 luvnrlably Cnsli tn Aitvnnro. If hi chance subset 'itims re not paid till end of year, two dollars wilt oe chunjikl. Hates of advertlslni,' mad c known on ap plication. t37"Correponilcncc from all parts of the country solicited. Ailress all communications to theOnnGON Scout, Union Orei'im. PRUSKYTKIUAN OIIUltCH. Services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m; Sabbath school at 10 a. m : prayer meetiiiK "Wednesday, at 8 p, in. The Ladies; MI nionar,' Socletv meets on the fourth bridav of every month at 12:;S0 p. m. All cordially invited. It. H. l'AKKEU. Vaster I'KOl'fc-iSION'Al, -yyM. KOENIU. Architect and Builder, COVE, OREGON. Drafts, Plans and Designs :or Dwellings, . and Dridges furnished on application. J N. CROMWELL. M. D. , .Physician mid Surgeon. i Office, one dYr outh of J. 15. Eaton's store, Union, Oregon. JOHN It; CRITES, Attorney at Law. Collecting and probate practice special ties. Olllce, two door s. soutu of post-othce, "Union, Oregon. J. W. SlIELT-ON. VJ. M. CARItOLL. gHKLTON & CARROLL Attorneys at Law. Ofllce: Two doors south of post-v'Hce, Un ion, Oregon. Special attention given all business en trusted to us. Eakin, .1. A. Eakijj, NotaryJ'ublic. J E AKIN, Ss BROTHER, Attorneys at Law, Union. Oregon. JSTPronipt Attention Putd to Collect.ons. L. DA NEORTH, X D., Physician ami Surgeon North l'owdei , Oregon, n i a k a s i : s o k w o m k X a s i e c i a l t y. Calls attended to at all hours. Q II DAY, M. D., IIOMEPATIIIO Physician ami Surgeon. AU CALLS FROMFTLY ATTENDED TO. Oflicc adjoining Jones Bro's store. Can be found nights at residence in South west Union. . B. F. Wiijros. Notarv Public. A .T. IIackktt, Notary Public. -yyiLSON .t I1ACKETT, Attorneys atjLaw. Collections'Und all other business entrus ted to us will receive prompt attention. A complete abstract of the land of Union countv in our office, Managers of the UNION REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION. OFFICE: UNION, OR. City - Meat - MarM Main Street. Union, Oregon, , BENSON BROS. - PROPRIETORS. Keep constantly on hand BEEF, PORK- VEAL, MUTTON, SAUSAGE, HAMS, LARD. Etc. C. C. CQFFINBERRY, Dealer in all kinds of- Farm IWachinery, UNION, .OREGON. For reasonable tgrms mid low prioes call on me and I will satisfy yon. :i-27-tf. Fine Line of Watch ' MM CITY HOTEL (Oppoxite the Court House.). UNION. : : : OREGON. Now in charge of L. J. Booth i:. Tlin hotel has been newly fitted up. The best cooks and the- best table waiters havo been employed. MEALS AT ALL llO'UKS. Fresh bread for sale, constantly on hand. Mcnls and Bods 2" Cents. Public Patronage Solicited. Leaves Union daily at 2 p. in, arrives at Cove at 3 :;'. p. in. Leaves Cove at S a. in., arrives at Union atl;30 a. m. Connections made with Elliott's coache, running to the depot, carrying passengers for east and west bound trains. KATKS for PASSHN'OUKS, r.lKIOAOK ami l'KHU'HT, KKASOXAIILK. ROBINSON ,t LAYNE. Proprietors. A NORTHERN FAMILY SOUTH, Has charge of the PINE BLUFF COT TAGE when; those who wish to escape the cold Northern Win ters can get Board at Mol'EKATK PlUCKS. AMID TH& PBWES. HEALTHIEST SPOT IX AMERICA! ll'iHtl'S- . - COTTAG E liESOKT, Pink Bui t, Mooiu: Co., N. C. im mm ' SUMMER VILLE, OR. J. W. RiiOAD.-!, - - Proprietor. Mcnls at all hours. Board by the Ldav or week at reasonable rates. Doney fc May, proprietors, Cove, Union County, Oregon. A full supply of .trees and shrubbery con stantly on hand and for sale at Reasonable Rates. Trees on Sale at La Grande. :5-27-m2 Orders Solicited.- R. A. M. MUSSER, DENTIST, . Graduate of Pennsylvania Dental College, is at tho Centennial hotel, and is prepared, to do all kinds of den tal work painlessly. UNION Tonsonal Parlors GEORGE BAIRD, Propr. Shaving, Hair-cutting and Sham pooing, in the Latest style of the Art, Shop two doors south of Centennial hotel. (JIVE ME a CALL. 9-2S-tf. v FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOUTH A d dress' with S t a m p , The Official Immigration Department - OK HFTl-KN SOUTHERN STATUS. CARL ROBINSON, Skc'v. Raleigh, N. C. rji MoNA UG I ITON, M. D "" " Ppysician & Surgeon, ELGIN, OREGON, All calls promptly attended to day or night. .27-tf. "Yy T. CI I A P.MAN, Real Estate Agent, AND CONVEYANCER. Parties desiring to invest in Elgin town , property or in fanning lands should call on or address mo at Elgin, Oregon. i-17tf. JQH. E. N. NORTH, Den t ist. . Teeth Extracted Without Pain by tho Successful Now Method. Oilier: B Streot, Union, Oregon. es, Clocks, Jewelry, Stan Lbs is hi m mm, UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL-24, Written forTnr. Scokt. "SENDIK' HIM OUT If THE WORLD." "Wiin.nn," the brown haired matron said, I As she stood in the kitchen door. I ThereiiA vacant chair by the table to-night, I Thats never been vacant before.' She wiped a tear from her hazel eye, And turned to walk awav "Katie," he said, ' tho baby von know Must be a man some day." That tnorniim the boy of their happy venrs Had none from the farm houe door. To try his hand in the world's broad Held, And double his talents o'er. For yearhe had lived and loved with them, And lifted each load by the way But brothers were there, andj'the baby you know," Must be a man pome day." So they tied his clothes with a tender care. And' brushed back the hair that curled The mother wept, as she whispered low 'Seiidlu' him out in the world.'' 'Tis- a solemn thought for a mother to think, As she watches the baby grow Some dav these hands shall till and toil, When life's dull hopes are low. Some day these dimpled, dainty cheeks Shall brown in the buniiim sun, As faraway from a mother's care His duties must be done! Some day when inahood's hish estate Coinei'on with tlas unfurled, The mother will sil as sbesweetlv thinks 'Sendin' him out in the world." HUUtW. Hl'KKMlN. Si'OKA.m: F.M.i.s, Wash., April S, 1MH3. A BIG. RAILWAY SCHEME. A Proposed Railroad From Salt Lake City to Traverse Snako River, and Boise Valleys, Connecting with the Hunt Road. There has been considerable talk in Salt Lako recently, says the Shoshone Journal, concerning the reorganization of the Wyoming, Salt Lake it California Railway, and steps are being taken to secure tho capital necessary to con struct tho first 250 to .'500 miles. A prominent railroad builder from the East has been quietly investigating the resources and traflic prospects of this line, and it has also been stated that n movement has been started by at least two syndicates who are trying to get control of the stock and fran chises. Tho most valuable coal fields aurroud ing Salt Lako City in the Chalk Creek district and vicinity, are owned by this railway company. Tho lino starts from Evanston, on the "U. P. Railway, and runs westerly through theso coal fields to a point near the important mining camp of Park city, which will bo reached by a spur seven miles in length, nnd from this junction the lino as surveyed extends through Emigration Canyon into Salt Lako City, the maximum grades notexeceding percent. From Salt Lako westerly the road takes an air lino to Saltair and Garfield an the" Lako shore passing through Grants ville, and is intended to strike the Nevada line at tho Deep Creek min ing district, ono of tho largest low grade camps in that Territory. ' Among tho now projects connected with this enterprise, it is contemplated bv tho new company to incorporate a lino to be extended from a point on this road and built almost duo north on tho west sido of tho Great Salt Lako; cross ing tho Central Pacific road test of Kelton and extending through Oussia county, Idaho, into great Snako River Valley, whero a crossing will probably bo made at or abovo Shoshono Falls and crossing tho Orogon Short Lino at Shoshono Junction, taking an air line up the Big Wood River Valley to tho great ore-producing camps of Bcllevue and Hauoy; tapping au extensive gold belt of low-grade ores, together with tho Smoky and other mining districts further west; and it is presumed the plans of tho company also contour plate u lino through Camas Prairio clown tho Boiso Valley close to a great timber belt in tho Sawtooth Mountains and reaching tho important mining camps of Rocky Bur, Pine Grove, Atlan ta and Neal, to lioiso City, nnd thenco to a connection on Snako River, after pass ing through Boise, Payotto and Wciscr valley via tho mining camps of Mineral City and boven Devils, to a liinction with tho Hunt or Northern Pacific sys tem of branch lines now being construct cd to that point. It is stated upon good authority that tho truthc alone of tho gold and silver-bearing high grado cop per ores of tho Seven Dovils, together with thu antimonial silver ores of tho Mineral'district near by, will pay inter est upon tho entire lino from Salt Lako to that point. This is tho richest copper district over developed in tho U.nited Statcs.judging from tho surfauo depos its. It is stated by somo that not less than 1,000,000 tons of copper oro car rying a considerable percentage of other precious metals, especially gold and sil ver, are in sight simply us superficial deposits. Tho timber supply reached by this lino of road through Central Idaho would furnish enough lumber and building material for the numer ous mining camps, agricultural dis tricts and towntMilong th(liuc of this road for a hundred yeifr?. Tho traffic in ores, machinery, merchandise and tho products of tho country, as an in terclmngo botweon Salt Lako and Idaho, would givo a substantial and constantly increasing traffic. Tho lino would open up not only an immense coal field in close proximity to Salt Lako ittolf, it would also supply a great va riety of building stone, sandstone, limo, and granite and marble, tho demand Silverware;. Guns for which in Salt Iako becoming such a great factor; but it would alo enable this line to secmethe principal part of the coal traffic of this impor tant section of count rv upon both sddos of the Snake River Va-ik:. In addition to this thp lino would furnish tho only direct rouf toViat tare's great scientific ;4tractioii f thu Xdrtl. west magnificent" V.itcracts of Sho shone. The plan of re-or j'.miy. itior of tho Wyoming, Salt Lake & California Railway contomplatc the incorpora tion of this Idaho branch and a con nection with the N. P. syste m at fome point as indicated alovi Our informant also state that the well-known railroad builder, Geo. W. Hunt, who is well posn-d on the re sources 'of this route, has begun to in vestigate tho advantages which such an extension ' would be to his present system. It is also stated that tho ba sis of negotiations upon which Mr. Hunt was induced to' entertain the I proposition to construct this lint was as follows: That the Chamber of Com- j meroo and the city of Salt Lako would undertake to guarantee the itver'st on two million dollars bonds of tho new i company, these bonds to be based up- on a security composed of valuable coal lands, stone quarries for building and paving tho City of Salt Lako, to gether with the rights-of-way and lands for townsito purposes, and additional guarantee of traflic by tho merchants and manufactuvers of Salt Like City and the various mining enterprise. whoso properties this lino would de velop. This amount of bonds it is intended will.build the first two hundred miles of road and develop an immeium coal mining, stono quarrying and low-grudo oro business which will be concentrated in the city of Salt Lake. There are indications that this enter prise lias other and far-reaching plans not only to develop these most impor tant mining districts of the Northwest, but to concentrate tho dry ores of east ern Nevada with tho iluxing ores of Idaho and Utah in the citv of Salt Lake. It is not iniprobablo that should this lino be extended from tho Wyoming coal fields to tho dry ore camps of Ne vada that this northern extension or Idaho lino may bo extended south through central and western Utah, in order to open up those extensive iron and coking fields, and tho great nsphal turn beds and mountains of sulphur, together with tho numerous valuable deposits of other minerals which nro known to exist in that direction. This would give a main lino from Evanston, Wyoming, through Salt Lako to u point from sixty-livo to one hundred miles west of Salt Lako City, at which point tho north and Houth lino men tioned abovo are intended to diverge. A movement lias been mentioned to bccuru the co-operation of th' Hoards of Trado and town authorities of Roiso City, Caldwell, Payette, Weiser, Shoshone, Hailey, Bcllevue, and tho Chamber of Commerce of Salt Lake to inaugurate or incorporate these enter prises. Tho object of this inovomnt evidently is intended to secure the co operation of tho people -and .commu nities to bo benefited by this railway enterprise. THE COVE. April 2:,, ISfJO, Mr. Peter Coffin, of Union, lot pocket book in Covo last week. a .It contained papers valuable only to owner who would bo pleased to tho soo his stray wallet again. Air. V. Stvaiu is getting roudy to move to tho Harney country, where ho will probably engago in tho stock busi ness. Messrs. A. J. Ilackett and J. W. Stearns were in Covo last week. Thoy had an overabundance of Gray's Har bor proporty on hand and wore un loading it to confiding victims. Mr. Judd Geor returned from J''air havon, Saturday. He had obtained remunerative employment, but, damp weather caused an attack of pnounio niivand ho decided to return to tho land of health. Mrs. Ximenia Stovona is visiting at hor father's, Judge Sanborn. Mr. Ste vens with his partner, is on tho Sound looking fox a business location. Davo Layno has turned over tho ribbons of tho stage to Mr. Robinson and will dovojp Jiis entire time to tho hardware business. Davo will no doubt bo an expert tinner in a short time. Mr. Jowell, road suporvibor, has put milo boards at Phy's point, something i needed for a long tune, Supervisors all over tho county should do likewise, inthoir respective districts. Miss Sarah Chrismnu is visiting at licr sisters, Mrs. Jus. Bloom. She will commence a term of school in Indian valley next Monday. Covo irls number thoir accomplish-inentH- by" tho dozou. ThiH week a young ludy with no assistance painted a buggy and it was a shining, dazzling Bticcess too. Born, U) tho wife of Rev. W. R Powell, April 18th, .a twelve pound sou. Anyone hearing the reverent j gentlumaus joyotiK-histle would know that ho was supremely huppy over the event. and Amunition Just 1890. I r. rigcvni nwii i iii"iiiininiig EISIl- KCJIOKS. itewt Kot3 From IadUn VrJley's Boom ing Yonus City. April 21st. Keep your eyo on Elgin. . . Fur-infra will be late getting in their crops this spring. Therein a probati'sity of two new drug stores in town in the near futtiie. Mai ion Jones has lieen very sick with pneumonia tho pastwctkT "Hois now tonvalesont. Uncle Henry Ilreshears of Elgin, nnd Mrs. Freeman of Missouri were j married last Thursday by Elder Wea- j ver. Thev did not .waste anv time in I taking a wedding tour, but went to housekeeping immediately. J. M. Church, and V. S. fvanhne, of Enterprise were in the city last Thurs day. Work on the railroad is progressing steadily and this end of the grado will soon bo finished. Mr. Payne, formerly in tho hard ware business bore, has-iontod Gallo way's new building and will put in a stock of furniture. J O. A. Rinehart opened his hotel last 1 week. There are plenty of carpenters, but work is sa'newhat impeded by the scarcity of lumber. Tho farmers aro setting out quite a large number of fruit trees this spring which is a stop in tho right direction, This is a good section of country for fruit anil fanners should givo more attention to il. Itk.mi.hh. FLAK CULTURE. Are the Lands of Union and Bakar Coun ties Suitable lor Flax Culture? A Far mers Views on tho 3uuject. Editor Ohr;'u. Scorn What a contrast there is in tho mode of farmiuj; in Union and linker coun ty, and tht! way they farm and do business in the Palotise country. Here, a farmer takes up a piece of land and it is years before if is fenced and in cultivation. His laud lays idle for a number of years, producing nothing. In the Palouso country around Oaks dale, Rosalie and Garfield, settlors came in and bought land of tho North ern Pacific railroad company on ten year's time, paying from $2.fi() to $10 per aero. Thoy pay the company so much every year for these lands until paid. Thoy did not fonoo for somo timo after settlement and thou only with posts thirty foot apart, upon which was stretched two, wires; but thoy broke up largo quantities of land the first year. They had an income from tho start and that is ono of the many reasons that Washington is growing so-much faster than Oregon. Here, a new settler, for some timo af ter settlement, is nioney out and noth ing coming in. Over there tho mer chants help now settlors and carry them through until after harvest. The 2'orlhorn Pacific railroad compa ny helps settlers to locate on their lands, knowing that tho faster their lands aro settled iu"the nioro business they will havo fcHHieir road. I see in the Spokane Iloview that, tho merch ants are buying seed grain for tho farmers that raised no crops last year on account of drought, and will take their elevator receipts this'fall for what may bo owing them. A receipt for grain delivered at tho elevators is as good as a bank clTeok ovor there. It will bo tho same horo after tho Hunt road is built, then theto will bo eleva tors in all tlfb towns, saving tho farm ers tho price of sacks. Tho O. 11. it N. railroad did not build elevators in th'e Palouso country until tho Northern Pacific built tho Spokano it Palouso railroad jmd constructed elevatorH in every town along its line, compelling tho O. It. & N. to do likewise or lose its trade. Why do not fanners on dry, rich, warm land rais.o flax? Thoy raise thousands of acres of flax in tho Pa louse country. Tho climate is tho sumo bore as over there. Thoy re ceive from $1 to $1.50 a bushol for flax nover loss than $ 1. I cut flax for a farmer near Col ton last summer, llo had in .two hundred acres and it brought him, delivered at tho ware house, six thousand somo odd dollars cash. It averaged nhout twenty bush els to the acre, In the next field to me on the saino sort of laud wheat was all dried up unfit to cut. Flax, over thero, stands tho drought bettor than grain. Tho straw makes splen did winter feed for stock. Thoy bow flax thero the first of May. You must not sow too early. It will not shatter out like grain after it is, ripe. I bo lievc that in Antelope and Euglo val leys whero they do not havo lato frosts, the lauds will produce flue flax crops, witli proper funning. It is a very profitable crop. Try it somo your, Antolopo farmers. Send over to Col fax, Washington, for a few pounds of seed. I believe thoy sow ubout teif pounds to the acre, but am not sure f y0tIr fiirmH will j)rodiico good flax) you wjn (, tlmt yoll mvo tho crack funis'' of tho country. Wet, cold Vindt. will not do for flax. A flax ma- chine is almost like a reaper, except it has eight rakes instead of four; and a man iu on the platform and tics tho bundles as tho reapor cuts them. Received at A. N? NO. 44. When tho flax is in bloom tho hillsides present a magnificent sight. In tho Palouso country thoy raiso flax for the seed alone, but if the crop is desired more for lint than seed, he seed must bo thicker nnd thicker as tlm fineness of tho lint is required. "For the verv finest of linen thread I T"luVo been informed that seven bushels of sueit lffis btHn sown to tho acre, in Em ope, imd the flax pulled while in Lhlossoin.The Puknise farmers, as a rule, clear from twolvo to fifteen hun-dred-Uijllars on one hundred acres of flax, besides their straw, which is very nutritious for stock. After three or four years the land must boused for other grain for a time, as it will not do well if there is too many weeds. Flax cloth has an antiquity greater than Moses' account of it, for the old est Mummy wrappings in Egypt have been proved by mycroscopio examina tions to bo made of linen, instead of cotton or any other fibre. Flax was ono of tho necessities of cultivation by our pilgrim fathers and otjier immi grants into North America, for the lint with 'which their families have been clothed. Up to tho present cen tury almost every Now England fann er cultivated a piece of land in flax, in summer, and dreascd it out by hand in tho barn, during tho winter, and the family manufactured it into a va riety of articles of domestic use. Be careful in the selection of your seed until you raiso your own. Very old seed will not do well, and somo farmers investing thoir lands for flax, have not raised much and concluded their lands were not fit for flax, when it was not tho fault of the land or cli mate, but poor seed or their own mis management. Sow very light if you want it for seed, but very heavy if you want it for its fibre. I fully believe that flax culture in time will bo a suc cessful industry in parts of Uhion and Baker counties C. E. Hincki.ky. A Tariff Poom. Ho Fat in his door at noonday, lonely, gloomy and sad; brooding over tho price of his corn crop, and figuring how much fie had. He bad -worked from early springtime, early and lato and hard, and he was counting his assets and figuring out his reward. Ho figured that it took two acres tc buy his two boys now boots, and ten acres more on top of this to fit them out with now suits. To buy his wife a protected dress took a 100 bushel more, while fivo acres wont in a single lump for tho carpet on tho floor. His taxes and his grocery bill absorbed his crop of oats, while tho interest on his farm mortgage took all his fattened shouts. The shingles on his cowshed and tho lumber for his barn had eaten up his beef-steers and tho balance of his corn. So ho sat in his door at noonday, lonely and gloomy and sore, its ho figured up his wealth a littlo less than it was the year bofore. "By gum" thoy say I'm protected, but I know there's tomothing wrong, I'vo been deceived and gulled and hoodwinked by this protection song. Thoy told of rebellious traitors, and hold up tho bloody rag, and I followed alofig liko a pumpkin, and now 1 am 'holding the bag. Hut from this timo 1m I'll inves tigate, and get to tho bottom of facts, and I'll hot $4 to begin with that tho tariff is a tax. KUQENE' ITEMS. Tho students of tho University aro -now haviug a week's vacation. Oh 1 the frogs, tho molodiourf frogs. Eugono can boast of ono of tho finest Odd Fellow's buildings on tho coast. Tho" oloctrio light company aro erectiug tho poles that will carry tho ' wires for tho arc lights. Wo hear of ilgood many cattle dying in tho Willumetto during tho winter. A correspondent writing to thu Eugono Guard from Eastern Oregon eayti: "While tho peoplo of Western Oregon have boon enjoying sunshine and showers. Tho people of Eastern Oregon h tvo been battling 'with the elements." Wo admit that wo have been enjoying(?) tho showers, but we havo failed to sco but very littlo sun shino since tho middle of October, but wo becamovory proficiont during win tor, in walking on-floating sidewalks. Zl.MHI. Boom! Boomtl Boomtll Bo quick if you want a first class bargain in city or country proporty (We'll loan you inonoy to buy, with.) Now is tho timo. Get thero "Eli."' You'll doublo your money tho first mouth. Call on Wilson it lIuckottr managers Union Real Estato Associa tion. . Tho "EK" gets thoro every timo, distancing all' competitors, and while "EX" g tti i Havana Press Drill anil Jg-Hag stcolo harrow can't got thore . "tuw thc.v alwayH got thero in a very satis actcht .manner. Call on Frank Bros, inplomcnt Co. at La Grando or Island City and Corwin O. Colli nberry Union. FOR SALS. I fi( ACKKS tfF TIMUKU LAND near 1 UU Hiuiiinurvlllo. Both residence uud busincs-i property hi the cities of Union unci I.uGrunue, cheaper than tho cheapest, 3-aO-tf. J. U. OllITKa. Gardner & Co's.