t THE PARK.
The First White Woman to
Visit Eagle Greek Falls.
RECORD OF RECENT HAPPENINGS
The Farming Outlook A Question Tho
Saw Mill to be Started.
Health generally good.
Hay all up in the stack.
Weather line, sonic clouds.
Grain is a very good crop this sea
eon. Sir. Martin's boys arm is nearly
well.
Fine crop of Hies and yellow jackets
with some hornets.
Monday week is tho time set to start
the threshing machine.
Grain nearly all cut. Joo and Sam
V. have some to cut yet.
Miss Carrie-' liutledgc has had, for
Eome time, a very sore throat.
Huckleberry parties are things of
the past. Sorry but can't help it.
The mill will bo started soon to saw
out some bills for the largo brick house
in Union.
Mr. Ezra Van is left a wid. His
wife has gone home with her mother
for a few weeks.
Every one is feeling happy to think
they have got plenty of feed for their
Block this winter.
Mrs. Rutledge expects to go to Eagle
valley soon to see her husband and get
some fruit, and see the place.
Mrs. Jos. Truesdale and Miss Jennie
Graham of La Grande aro hero on a
visit, and are going on to Pine valley
on a pleasure trip.
It. M. South and wife went to Union
recently to get some teeth pulled and
Tilled. She got one tooth filled with
two others to wait their turn.
George South owns tho bear now, he
having bought Mead out. It is getting
fat and nice. Bruin is for sale. Some
one needs him to train their dogs.
Mose Van and Wm. Mead went up
tho north fork of Catherine creek a
few days ago on a lishing spree and
caught 220 trout and returned alive
and well.
There aro two weeks of school yet.
Several of tho scholars have had to
stay out of ecliooi to help harvest. My
olive branch must not be made to mind,
is the idea.
In the beginning the word was with
God and tho word was God. Question :
Is Jesus the word? If he be the word,
did ho eminate from God in time or
before time?
J. Wisdom has bought the Widow
Vandevanter's claim in the Park and
she has gone to Cornwall, Idaho, to
her son's. Moo went to take her out
there. Ho will be back in a week or
60.
Indians are in tho woods to sot the
fire going and kill tho game. They
are honored above the whites. They
can kill game at any and at all times
and tho wli.ies only have tlirco months
to hunt in.
A. Van and wife, Wm. Mead and W.
South took a trip to tho Meadows on
Eagle creek some timo ago and wero
within a short distance of tho falls
on Eagle. Mrs. Van claims that she
lias been nearer tho falls than any white
woman. She will hold the claim un
til some one proves a prior claim. She
lias n.tnied them tho Ida Falls.
Can a man in Oregon atfirm instead
of taking tho oath? Will some ono
answer through Tuk Scout? I see
in tome states in the union a man
must tako tho oath or lose his case.
Now I want (o know if that is God's
law or is it man's? Christ said:
"Swear not at all, but let your answer
be yea or nay." It looks like man's
work is sub.-tituted a good many times
for God's work. I think when tho six
daj's disMus on at Sumniervilloisover
Homo of man's works will bo shown
out so that the people can see how
tho tl.ing i lands. I read of a man
by the namo of Iteid being arrested for
a fraud who was not allowed to pro
dues any iduncu in his own favor.
The Judg.-'s ruling was in these in
famous words: "It is prima facia
evidence of fraud and requires no proof.
There am nmo tilings fo absurd that
Urn cour. will not stultify itself by
taking timiiiiony thereon." Justice,
trfou art a jwol, and a vary r.iro one. j
When Ctuii-iucl:, Wannuniakor fc Co.
get a hold iinyont, he uotw to tliu
penitentiiirv whether n U justioa or.
or nut. Have wo got p.ut the dark'
ages yet?
MOIKK.
Fine Line of Watch 1
HAINES.
A Boy Kua Over and Killed -Death of Mra.
Eliza W. Hunstack.
August 25, 1S90.
Joseph, a son of Wm. Green, living
near here, was run over by a wagon
loaded with lumber, on Saturday last,
dying from tho effects about three
hours afterwards. He had been en
gaged in hauling lumber from the
mills to town, some live miles, for tho
past month, and no harm was antici
pated, as he was driving a gentle team
and had had considerable experience
in handling horses, being raised on a
farm ; yet in driving into town with
about 1500 feet of lumber on his wagon
and passing down the incline from the
railroad grade, one of the animals shied
and broke the fastening of a singletree,
pitching him forwad in front of the
wagon, both wheels passing over his
body. Ono leg was found to be frac
tured besides one arm in two or three
places, but the probable fatal injury
consisted in a fracture of the spinal
column. He was immediately par
alyzed from the seat of injury down
wards and suiTorcd but little pain, be
sides retaining consciousness until the
last moment.
Mrs. Eliza W. Hnnstack, niothcr-in-law
of Hon. A. H. Brown, of Rock
creek, died last evening after a gradual
failing of health for the past six months,
at tho ripe old age of eighty-three years.
She leaves a large family of grown
sons and daughters. Mr. James Hun
stack, a son, took the remains to Sa
lum for burial, by train to-day, whero
it will be interred by the side of tho
husband who died and was buried there
several years ago.
"GlJIllEltNAT."
MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS.
A Special Investigation of -Real Estate
Mortgage Indebtedness Ordered.
The following letter from Mr. Potter,
superintendent of the census, explains
itself:)
DKrAUTJir.NT or Tim Inti:kiou, Census)
Omen, Washington. I). C, lfeOO. f
Editor Oukoon Scout :
Tho counties of Union and Umatilla
in the state of Oregon, have been se
lected for the purpose of "making a
special investigation of real estate
mortgage indebtedness. Inquiries will
bo addressed to the owners of mort
gaged real estate, and in some cases to
the holder of mortgages, to ascertain
the amounts unpaid and the reasons
for incurring the debts. Tho answers
will be strictly confidential, and in no
cass will be revealed to any private
person or public officer outside of tho
Census Office, whose employes aro all
sworn to preserve tho secrecy of the
information. It is hoped that tho in
terest in the mortgage question, which
prevails everywhere throughout this
country, will enlist tho co-operation of
every one to whom the requests aro
made. This investigation is authorized
by act of Congress in response to a
goneral demand on tho part of the
people that it be made, and it now
rests upon tho peoplo to mako some
necessary contributions to its success.
Very Respectfully,
ItOBEItT P. PORTER,
Superintendent of Census.
Mr. James W. Siler, special agent
sent out by the department, is now in
Union for the purposo of prosecuting
this work.
Irrigating Powder River Valley.
The proposed irrigation schemo, if
successfully carried out, says the Blade,
will mako Powder river valley bloom
like tho Garden of Eden. Any person
at all familiar with tho results of water
on sagebrush land knows that it re
sults in ono of the most wonderful
changes imaginable. Lands that look
as if they would not produco anything
will raise fifty orsixty bushels of wheat
to the aero as soon as irrigated. There
aro many thousands of acres of land in
this valley that will return millions of
Imsliols of golden grain if tho irrigation
project is successful.
Epoch.
Tho transition from Ions,', lingering and
painful Mcknoiis to robust health marks an
epoch in th life of the individual. Such a
remarkable event is treasured in tho memo
ry and tno ;igoney whereby tho good health
has been attained is gratefully blessed.
Hcnco It Is that eo much is heard in praiho
of Klectric Hitters. So many feel they owo
their restoration to health, to tho use of tho
Great Altorativo and Tonic. If you aro
troubled with any dUoaso of Kidneys, Liv
er or Stomach, of lony or short standing,
you wiltsurtily find relief by use of Klectric
liittoM. Sold at 50c. undfl pur bottlu at
llrown'a driijjutore. Union, Oregon.
A Pointer For Vou.
If you want to mako ovory dollar do
full duty, catch on to somo of tho cheap
bargains in farm or city proporty now
offered by Wilson & Ilackett, mana
gers Union Real Estate Association.
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OREGON EDITORS.
Meeting of the Press Asso
ciation in Portland.
A BRIEF RECORD OF THE WORK.
! A Royal Wclcomo; Extended by the Citi
zens of thai City.
The meeting of tho Oregon Press
Association at Portland on the 11th,
loth and Kith of this month, was at
tended by about one hundred editors,
many of them accompanied by their
wives, and was a most enjoyable afl'air.
The people of Portland extended to the
editors tho most cordial hospitality,
and seemed to never tiro in acts of
kindness. That these wero fully ap
preciated goes without saying, and tho
editors return to their homes, in every
part of the state, with a warm feeling
in their hearts for tho city of Portland
and its generous and open-handed citi
zens. Tho West Shore ollicc was the head
quarters of the association, and there
the members received their badges etc.
after which they assembled at the
Marquam Grand wero a business
meeting was held. At noon they took
dinner at the grandest hotel of tho
West, the Portland, at which they stop
ped during their three days stay.
After dinner they" were taken by the
Cable Line cars to Portland heights
where they had a line view of the city
and its surroundings. Returning to
the city, they were then taken by tho
Electric Motor line over tho entire
length of its road. At the terminus
of tho road tho members wero taken
in carriages to River View Cemetery,
and after viewing "the city of the dead,"
they were driven ';to City View Park.
These two places aro on tho heights
south and west of the city and arc very
beautiful and in a few years moro if
improvements continue will look more
like Paradise than portions of this
terrestiial globe, and a visit to Port
land will be considered incomplete
without seeing thenii Returning from
the park a drive was taken through
the residence portion of the city.
This drive was a surprise and a revela
tion to us. Wo had no idea of tho
magnificence of this portion of Port
land. Wo wero driven past ono pal
ace after another, and thero aro hun
dreds of them, each seeming to sur
pass in architectural design and beauty
of surroundings, the ono that was seon
before. Lato in the afternoon the
party wero driven to the Chamber of
Commerce and tho ladies being sent
on to the hotel tho editors held a very
pleasant meeting with the business
men of Portland. A number of speech
es wero made and a feeling of friend
ship was engendered and strengthened.
Plans for mutual work wero discussed,
which will no doubt result in great
benefit to tho entire stato. In tho ov
ening tho members of the press atten
ded tho Marquam Grand Theatro and
witnessed tho "Old Homestead," one
of tho most amusing plays now on tho
stage.
Early next morning about forty
members of tho association took a
special train provided by the Union
Pacific Railroad, for Troutdale, but
failed to reach that point on account of
their train running into a froight that
was left standing upon tho main line.
This caused a delay of three hours and
when the party returned to tho city tho
balance of tho members had gone on a
steamboat oxcursion up the Columbia
river. Not to bo outdono, Mr. Ed. Ca
sey who had charge of tho wrecked
party secured a steamer and at once
started to follow tho others. After go
ing several miles up the Columbia tho
first party were sighted on their return
and their boat was signaled to lay
alongside, which sho did and received
tho belated party on board amid cheers
and waving of hats and handkerchiefs.
On tho way back a business meeting
was held. At night tho association at
tended Cordray'a Theatro and wit
nessed tho thrilling play of "Monto
Christo," which was rendered in a
superb manner.
Saturday morning an excursion was
taken on tho motor lino to St. John's
which is situated on the peninsula
formed by tho Willamette and Colum
bia rivers. This would seem to bo a
more advantageous location for a city
than whero Portland now is, and in tho
future, when Portland has assumed
the proportions it must surely attain
to, tho center of tho vast metropolis
will perhaps bo located here. At least
' our old schoolmate and friend, Mr.
! Win. Killiugsworth thinks so, and
never tires of picturing in glowing
words tho possibilities of tho future.
Hero, though somewhat distant now
Silverware, Guns
from theccnter of trallic, Mr. Killings
worth is building a palace for his homo,
firm in tho faith thatj before many
years it will bo surrounded by a city
populated by prosperous thousands.
Returning to Portland the associa
tion went aboard tho elegant steamer,
Undine and were soon on their way
for a visit to Oregon City and the falls
of the Willamette. A stop was made
j at the Oswego Iron Foundry whero
was witnessed a sight mat was new to
all. It was the run of thirty-five tons
of molten iron through the sand trench
es and into the sand reccpticlcs where
it was to remain until cool. This
foundry is ono of tho most important
of the enterprises of Portland.
Oregon City a grand ovation was
awaiting the editors. At the landirg
tho association was met by tho Oregon
City boaul of trado and the cornet
band, and escorted down Main, street
past tho immense woolen mills and
across the suspension bridge to a beau
tiful grove on tho bluffs opposito the
city where four long tablesvcre groan
ing beneath the loads of well cooked
and palatable food provided by the
good people of Oregon City. After
all had been seated, Hon. .1. T. Apper
son, president of the board of trade,
dolivered an address, in which ho bade
tho nowspapcr men welcome. Ho
spoko of theHpromise of the newspapers
in educating the peoplo ; that it edu
cates the people to tho great advantage
of tho whole state, and now as thoy
look about them that they 'may seo
tho many advantages enjoyed by Ore
gon City and tho immense water pow
er. That lie felt it an honor to receive
this assembly of newspaper men, and
tho occasion would bo ono long to bo
remembered.
Judge M. L. Pipes responded in a
very pleasing manner, after which im
promptu remarks were mado by E.
Hofer, of tho Salem Journal, H. S.
Harcourt, of tho Mercury, and others.
Tho remarks by J. B. Eddy, lately of
tho Pendleton Tribune, wero eloquent
in the extreme, full of pathos and pe
culiarly appropriate.
Tho repast that was then partaken
of by the editors and their ladies in
company with the citizons of gOregon
City, and tho feelings engendered ;by
the occasion and surroundings, will
never bo forgotten. Oregon City will
over bo associated in our minds with
ono of tho pleasantcst episodes of life.
The table was" supplied with cvorytdel
icacy. Tho weather was perfect. A
light breeze Hilled the leafy canopy
overhead while beneath our feet
throbbed and beat the mighty falls
whero tho beautiful AVillainotto pours
its waters down to bo utilized by tho
mills and factories of this western
Lowell. Across tho river nestled tho
romantic city at tho foot ofprecipi
tous vino clad clifl's which uphold tho
palaces of her wealthy citizens, uniquo
in architectural beauty and design and
picturesquo in their surroundings as
tho ivy clad castles that enchain
tho eyes of wayfaring men on tho
shores of tho legended Rhino. Tho
ladies of tho city presented each of tho
visitors with a dolicato button-holo
boquctas a souvonir of tho occasion.
It needed nothing of that kind, how
ever, to keep thorn in rcmemberance.
Tho generous hospitality of Oregon
City will be remembered by every editor
present, who in futuro years will deem
it a pleasuro as well as a duty to pay
an occasional tribute to tho beauty of
her daughters and tho spirit and ener
gy of her enterprising sons. ThoLrcad
they havo cast upon tho waters will re
turn in moro ways than ono.
After dinner tho pulp and paper
mills, tho locks and other points wero
visited and viowed with much interest.
All then went aboard tho Undino which
turned her bow toward Portland amid
tho shouts of tho assembled citizons on
tho shore. Tho Oregon City band ac
companied tho party to Portland and
enlivened tho trip with most excellent
music. A business meeting was hold
on tho way down and tho association
formally adjourned till its next annual
meeting to bo held at Astoria in Sep
tember 1891. Arriving at tho wharf
threo cheers wore given for tho Oregon
City cornet band, and three cheers for
tho city of Portland. Thus ended tho
fourth annual session of tho Oregon
Press Association.
Wo havo given our readers an ac
count of only tho social ovents of
tho meeting. Much business was
transacted which to oven give a synop
sis of would require too much space,
and would only bo of interest to
newspaper men who aro already ac
quainted with the proceedings of tho
meeting. Tho association h doing
good work and tho fact that nearly
every editor in tho stato belongs to it
is an uvidenco of its worth.
Officers for tho ensuing term wero
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