The Oregon scout., January 29, 1891, Image 7

EAGLE VALLEY.
The Work of Circulating;
Petitions Goes on.
INJURED BY A RUNAWAY TEAM
Fine ;Vinter Weather And still
Dance Personal NoUs.
they
Nkw Uriikie. .Inn. 22, 1801.
Miss Ehbio Bennehofl is still very
sick.
There is some lmv in the valley for
salo yet.
Ben Lonclov lias aided some now
buildings to his premises.
C. T. Wise started for the onst on a
visit to his mother, on the 22nd inst.
There is sonic stock on the range
yet, which are doing very well for win
ter rustling.
After about seven weeks of illness,
It. 13. Gibson is able to work in his
blacksmith shop again.
A social dance was had at Fred Si
monis' residence Jan. 1(5. Although
the crowd was small, a gocd time was
had.
Dancing is still in practice, with oc
casionally a pugilist getting on the
war path, hut doing no damage what
ever. D. J. Sanders, our shoemaker, will
in a few days have on a new supply of
leather. He expects to niovo his shop
in to the blacksmith building.
Oscar Kendall will soon close a long
Himnnssfiil and wcll-nianaccd term of
school in the Middle district, lie is
a good teacher and has given splendid
satisfaction.
Tom Bashaw, our noted carpenter,
has been doing some very creditable
work, making pickets for the gravoyaid
fence. The work will be completed
early in the spring.
"Wo have been having nice weather
for this timo of year. Who ever saw
a better winter for feeding stock? No
snow in the valley, but lots of fog on
Mm Know-canned hills around the val-
ey.
Ben Longley and George MeGowen,
ur noted stockmen, have shipped sev
eral car loads of beof cattle to the Port
land market. These cattle were fat
tened on alfalfa hay and were in good
condition for shipping.
Mr. E. Samis, while hauling a load
of hay recently, his team became un
manageable and ran -iway, throwing
him from the load on the frozen
ground, sustaining severe injuries oi
the right arm, jaw and hip. Although
his elbow is badly bruised, it is believed
that no bones were broken.
The following is a list of work done
by our road supervisor, Chas. Howell:
Ono bridge, 12 ft. span; 1 bridge, 1G ft.
span ; 4 bridges, 8 ft. span and 14 cul
verts, making in all G bridges, 14 cul
verts built and one-half mile of now
road graded, besides working 23 miles
of old load. Charley has madea good
supervisor.
If Bakor City wants to be so good to
this valley let them build a wagon road
down Powdei river to us. They get
most of our trade and would get more
if they would do us a favor occasion
ally; but instead of doing us a favor
they do us an injury by trying to get
the right of way through our ranches
to build a railroad(?) for the small sum
of noihiiiL' Such an lnniry is not
c
very easily overlooked by our people
Charles Duncan, of Baker City, has
hnnn cireulatinir a petition hero to
liavo Eagle and Pino valleys annoxod
to Baker county. What has Baker
Citv dono for us? Nothing, only inju
ry, and they aro still trying to do us
more, and will if our citizens do not
wake up anil remonstrate against their
scheme. Thoysay they will build u
better roads it wo will go to their coun
ty, but why haven't they dono this be
fore now? Because they thought they
would get us in their county and thon
wo could build our own roads or go
without. Union county had better
get in and rustic or wo may full under
tho blow.
Nhwtq.v Bruni'oui).
FROM ALBANY.
A Newiy Lottor From an Occasional Cor
respondent. A i.ban v. Ore,,.Im. 18. 1801.
Editou Ohkoon Scorr:
The Slate lugUUture ii now nil tin
talk. Knoll ! is pookeu
of "bill-," mostly for appropriation ol
ono kind und auotlnr. Wo h.j ill
may not all pa-
The "Wm. M. Hoas" wn. the ut
river tU'Riinr to fiimo to Albany ih
winter, h'!-- i .t---J down Fii'.
bound for 1'". ti n"'. Wo see n J' -son
why w f ' ! '" ' l'iVl' rt'' ''. '
river ut let-t hai. ( iif yea', if i ;1
tho your.
Albany's charter will be presented to
the legislature for amendment. The
amendment will give our city fathers
poino chance to do city improvements,
issue 175,000 bonds to build sewers
and a steel bridge across the Willamette
river at this city.
There has been no snow in this t-oe- j
tion this winter and the coldest weath
er wo had would hardly freeio potatoes.
Of course, wo can have lots of bad
weather yet, but the backbone of
weather is broken for tho Willamette
valloy this season.
The editor of the Ualsey News, a
brother of your's truly, has a new
"devil" at his establishment. We have
not yet enjoyed the pleasure ot gazing
on his majesty, but from all accounts
he "look just like his daily." His ap
prenticeship began on tho IGth inst
and bids fair to be an honor to the
fraternity as well as mankind goner-
ally.
Your correspondent notes with a
groat deal of pleasure the, in the lan
guage of the "Democrat," squally
weather predictions of the past few
days. "Baby's got a tooth" will soon
be the pleasant gieeting the numerous
papas will recieve on returning from
their daily vocations. Let tho good
work go on forever.
The G. A. K. post of this city gave
"The Veteran of 1S12," to a good house
on both Friday and Saturday evenings.
I'liis is a strong military drama with
some lino acting and most excellent
tableaux. The proceeds go into the
fund of the post for relieving tho sick
ind 1'iifebled members who need as
sistance. We were pleased to sec so
large an audianco each evening.
The bill boards announce for the
20th the Goodyear, Elitch, & Shilling
company and for the 21st tho llild
Park Concert Company. Both play in
other towns and Portland to largo
hcuses. Tho enterprising lessors of
tho opera house, Messrs. Warner &
Cranor, have been associated with
traveling troups and being well ac
quainted will spare no pains to give
Albany her share of tho best shows on
the road at all seasons.
We are enjoying a groat deal of good
whole-sould religious work in our city.
The Baptist, Methodist, United Pres
byterian and Young Men's Christian
Aassoeiation, aro all holding services
on week days, and it is pleasing to
noto that all are doing some good
work. Wo don't think there can bo
too much of this kind of work done.
The present is a very wicked, sinful
time, and wo only liopo that every
one may bo led to take up the cross
and bo a pure-in-heart Christian. Let
us all hopo that everyone who has not
confessed Christ may bo led by some
of the noblo workers in the cause to do
so.
THE COVE.
Items of Interent From Our Regular Cor
respondent. Covn. Or., Jan. 2S, 1S91.
The measles still linger with us, but
hcom to be, latoly, in a rather milder
form.
v Jack Thomas expressed his deer to
Iowa friends Sunday. Tho expressago
was tho trifling sum of forty dollars.
Mr. J. II. Fishor is preparing to
build a dwolling house on his land in
East Cove, for his own accomodation.
Mr. John Chad wick had a barrel of
hickory-nuts .arrive direct from old
Wisconsin last week. If you show
proper ro&pect he may givo you a hand
ful. Eddie Payne, who has been attend
ing ehool over at Walla Walla, last
Thursday, slipped while jumping, and
sutl'ercd a fracture of his left wrist.
His mother will go over this week.
Mr. H. W. Slovens arrived from
"Wobfoot," Oregon, a fow days since
anil in company with his wifo and
child, who have been visiting in Cove,
left fur Chillicothe, Mo., where Mr.
Stevens intends engaging in the mer
cantile business with his brother.
Cove Literary Society will meet as
usual at tho Morrison building next
Friday evening. The question for de
bate ii, "Kufolved that In assessing, in
debtedness should be deducted"; lead
er on the allinnativo, Albert Conklin ;
colleagues, O. Eckerfcley, J. E. Hough
and others; negative, Prof, Horner,
of Frosty school, with colleagues M. B.
Beoto, M. W. Mitchell ut nl. Besides
tho rogular debate, music, declama
tions, etc., will be on the programme.
1I0TICE.
Uod's Weaning to Humanity So bays an
Oregon Pioneer, Ninety Yours Old.
KoiliOT (jbovr, Or.. Ma ruh Id. I have
ui.l the OllEUON KIJJ.VICY TKA and
obtained ltuinediU rriief. It It God's
blessing to Immunity. I take ploasuro in
rrioiiimemliiiK it to the aiillctod. I am
now nearly ninety years old, tamo to Ore
on in 1M2 in the employ at ilio Hudson
i'.:iv ( omwaiiy. mi l Mnco I began using tlio
oiiKHO.N KIDNEY TKA I enjoy good
hwlth. DAVID MUNKOn.
OUR FARMERS.
The Cause of Thoir Finan
cial Embarassments.
THE WAY FOR THEM TO PROSPER
DUconnog oa tie Condi'lsn cf
"Homo"
The Tillers of tUe Sol!.
Eniron OiiHfiox Scout:
In tho last issue of TliK Scotrr, J. J.
Blevans, of Three Buck, Wallowa
county, gave a graphic account of tho
deplorable condition of the farmers'
condition there, and fiom what infor
mation I have from sources worthy of
credit, 1 find that the majority of the
farmers of Union county are borrowers
rather than depositors in our banks.
Considering the quality of our soil
and tho favorable seasons, the reverse
ought to bo true. Our farmers ought
largely to bo depositors in the banks,
or at least ought to have sums of mon
ey, more or less, laid aside. That
they havo not, can only be accounted
for by something ailecting them being
radically wiong. Now whv is this so?
This is a very pertinent question, in
fact there are few questions more per
tinent. The farming community of
any country is its most important class,
and from their condition can be judged
pretty clearly what tho country itself
is. If tlic fanners are poor, the coun
try is poor. If they aro rich the
country will bo rich ; moreover they
are the best distributors of its wealth,
and when they arc prosperous wo no?d
have no fear as to tho amount of mon
ey needed to carry on the businoss of
tho country. Furthermore, a rich
farming class is the best preventative
against the power of the Wall street
kings to lluctuatc the money market
to tho serious detriment of tho conn
try. Wo know when tho farmers havo
plenty of money they spend it freely,
and the towns and cities and all de
pendent on them will feel the bene
ficial results. Thcso conclusions can
not very well be denied, and thoso
who have seriously studied tho matter
will at once admit this truth.
Three things to my mind are re
quired to make farinors prosperous,
whose lands arc as good as thoso in
Union county. First, their own in
dustry. Second, a ready market for
the sale of the products raised on the
farm. Third, the purchase, at their
normal value, of thoso things which
they are necessitated to buy. Without
tho first it is idle to talk about what
is or is not beneficial, not only to the
farmer, but to anyone else. Industry
is the first condition for success of any
kind, and the fanner must havo a
ready market where ho can soli tho
productions of his labor without let or
hindrance. If it is otherwise ho might
as well bo idle. If his markets aro
subject to partisan legislation his goods
can never bo relied upon to bring their
normal prico or to pay him for his
labor. At present, with our farms
yielding a greater supply than the de
mands of homo consumption, it is of
as much importance to nurse and euro
for the foreign markets as tho homo.
If the surplus products cannot find a
a foreign market the farmer had bet
tor bo resting himself, rather than
wasting his energy in raising them.
On thoso two first points thero does
not seem to bo much discrepancy of
opinion. Tho third is tho bono of
contention between the politicians and
tho political parties, yet there ought
to be no more discrepancy of opinion
on this than on tho other two, for no
matter how industrious a man may
be, no matter how readily ho may get
a normal or a good prico for tho pro
duct of his labor, still if ho has to givo
two or moro prices for tho things ho
must buy, so far his industry is gono
for nothing. Tho extra prico or two
which ho has to pay robs him of that
which is his and transfers it to tho
pocket of another. Thus the robbery
makes him poorer and tho other rich
or. Now this is exactly why so many
farmers are in distressed circumstances.
They havo to givo two, and ofttitnos
more, prices for tho things they havo
to buy. Take as an example, hats,
stifl or soft, which thoy or thoir boys
usually woar. Tho common prico for
them is 2 to apiece. Thoso huts
are made for about 18 cents apiece and
can therefore bo sold for a good brofit
at 25 cents each, and for an enormous
profit at 50 cents each. Anyone can
see this for himself by weighing ono of
thorn, then tho truth of my assortion
will at once appear. It will bo still
moro plainly soon by comparing
tho work oxpouded on these hats with
tho work oxponded on shoos sold for
$1 or .f 1.50 u pair. Thoso hats ronllzo
I a profit of about tenor twelve hundred
por cent. Who gets this, it is not no
cessary to stop to find out. All that
concerns tho farmer and other con
sinners in tho transaction is that they
hnvo to foot tho whole bill. It is al
most as bad with the great mnjority of
things the farmer has to, buy. His
walking plow?, 1 am told, cost him
about f 14 each. They aro intulo for
about !?! or $.". His hay forks aro
made for 20 or 2f cents and ho buvs
I thorn for In cents. Tho farmer can set
5t lown a pretty near tho truth that
he pays an average of H00 por cent, on
everything ho has to buy, some very
few things excepted. How, therefore,
can ho be otherwise than in closo cir
cumstances? There is one thing that
tho average por cent, of profit cannot
as yet be known. That is on the pro
duct of the American Harvester Co.,
but the fanner will soon know it. If.
j
iwevor, they are wise and energetic,
they can easily cope with that gigantic
and deliberate robbery. First, let
them have the government subsidise
or givo a bonus to four or five com
petitive factories as it has already done
in favor of sugar refiners. Hut the
granger, wi'h hay seed in his hair, we
are glad to note, is waking up and
making demands and asking why aro
we left thus. Ho is going to bo rep
resented moro fully in the halls of
congiess and state legislatures. Ilis
interests havo not been looked after,
only to his detriment.
Tho retail merchant is botweon two
millstoucs tho wholesale houses and
a score of worthless customers and
some of our laws seom to bo so framed
as to make it as easy as possible for a
man to get out of paying his honest
debts. Tt is about time some good law
was being framed to enable every man
in business, or otherwise, to collect
what is justly duo him. For every
houost man who wants to pay his debts,
but cannot, thero aro six dead beats
who would not if they could, and the
merchants will bear mo out in this.
There is no fair-minded business man
but what will givo an honest man
plenty of timo on his account, but a
dead beat, from principal, noither de
serves, nor should ho receive aid or
sympathy from tho law.
HOMO.
JOSEPH JOTTINGS.
W. M. Ncwby has returned from tho
hills, where he has been looking after
stock for seroral days past.
Miss Julia Ellis has gono to Elgin to
visit her sister, Mrs. Goblc.
A great many eastern made sleighs
aro being used in this valley.
Bert Colo and Will Wurzweiler took
a dying trip to Enterprise today.
A grand ball will bo given at Jossph
on tho evening of February l.'Uh.
I'rof. Dunnigan is teaching a good
singing school at Aldor this winter.
If. 11.
oad to Mill
Canno! bo gucc safully traveled with
out r.sod hcaKh. To reach wealth or any
co veto :1 posuiori In ll'a requires tlio full
poscccclcn and operation of oil tho fac
uttlos lc!r.(S nature has endovted us with.
Thcso conditions cannot exist unless tho
phyclcat being Is In perfect working
order, end this Is Imposslblo whon tho
liver and cplcen oro torpid, thusobstruct
Ing tha eccretlons, causing Indigestion
end d)pcps!a, with all ot thoir accom
panying horrors.
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P
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excites It to healthy action, resoltcs Its
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living,
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J tho undersigned, udininiHtrntri.v and
administrator of tlio t'Mtale of Nathaniel
Swlger, deceased, will receive bids for tlio
rentniK of the place for tlio year 18!H, pur
chased bv Haid deceased prior to his death
from II. P. Stewart. Scaled bids will he re
ceived by naid parlies tip to February 7th.
1S!)1. Said administrator und admiiilxtni
trix reserving iho right to reject any or all
bid?. Terms of renting, ciihIi or secured
notes. ruiiiiV KWKJKit. A'lm.v,
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