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lite itnott toitt Gf?e Oregor? Scout Is recognized as the leading paper of Union county. Gfye Oregon (cout 7rs double the circulation of any paper in the county. Hero Will the Ptohh tho People's KlRlitH Miilmntn. VOL VIII. UNION, OltEGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 185)1. NO. 8. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. V. .SUMTON. J. M. CAltttOLL, S HELTON & CARROLL, Attorneys at Law, UNION, OREGON. Special attention given to nil business entrusted to us. Oillce two doors! south of bank. R. EAKIN, Attorney at Law, rsiox OltEGON. Prompt attention paid to all business cu trusted to me Ofllce one door south of store of Summers & Layne. (hardware I. N. CROMWELI M. I)., Physician and Surgeon, ITNION OREGON. All calls promptly at' ended to, day or night. Ofllce one dour south of the hardware store of Summers fc Layne. Residence on A St., four Hi house wes't o' Wright's store. E. BROOKS, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ISLAND CITY, OREGON. Prompt attention given to all profes sional calls, day or night. T. McNAUGHTON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, ELGIN, OltEGON. S3!A11 calls promptly attended to, day or night. W. II. EWIN, M. D Physician and Surgeon, COVE, OREGON, All Calls attended to day or night. MRS. A. M. PELIIAM, M. D. 3 1 omocpathic Physician, Diseases of Children a Specialty. Can be found at the residence of G. W, Ames, north of town. City Meat Market, PSION, OUKGON, BENSON BROS. PROPRIETORS. Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Hams Lard, Etc,, KEPT t 'O N.STAN TLY ON HAND. Cornucopia Saloon, PNION, OUKGON. WILLIAM WILSON, PROPRIETOR. Finest of nies, Liquors and Ci gars Kept in Stock. apLi(Hiors for medicinal purposes a specialty. Good billiard table. Drop in and be so ciable, LUMBER for SALE at tho High Valley Saw Mill. All kinds of lumber constantly on hand or furnished on short notice. Prices cheap as the cheapest. Patronage - Solicited. 6-30tf WM. WILKINSON & SON. DIM CITY HOTEL, L. J. BoCTHK, 1'njpr. Onp site tlx Court House, I'liinn. 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OKI AH CO., J S-eir Sa em, N. 0. Drip andMedic BlacKsiii WASHINGTON. News of the Week From Our Regular Cor respondent at the Capital. Washi.nhtox, July ;il, ISiil. Editor Orkoon Scout: Washington has not had such a live ly week, politically speaking, for months as the present ono has bean, nnd if outward indications count for anything tho Blaine boom has sudden ly grown into such proportions as to completely overshadow the Harrison boom, which has up to this week up- parcntly had the right of way on tho republican track, and the prediction is being freely made that it is only a ques tion of time when Mr. Harrison will formally announce tho withdrawal of his name. What has brought about this change? Well opinions dill'er; the prominent republicans here, members of the National Executive coinmittco and others attracted hero by ilie meet ing of that committee, held Wednesday evening, say mat mere lias been no change and that the present situation is the logical outcome of the almost uni versal demand of the rank and illo of the republican party that Blaine bo the nominee; others say that the action of certain republicans favorable to Mr. Harrison in helping to spread misrep resentations of Mr. Blaine's actions and health has done the work. I can not say which, if cither, of these opin ions are correct ; but the fact remains that while Mr. Blaine, according to those who are certainly in a position to speak for him, will not bo a candi date, he will do nothing to prevent his being nominated and if the nomination comes to him without effort on his part he will accept it. That is all his friends wanted, and those republicans hero this week, including the national executive committee, appear to be all his friends and all certain that he will be the nominee. Well, we shall see, Statistics arc not usually interesting to tho average reader, but tho state ments made this week by the Treas ury Bureau of Statistics of the foreign commerce and immigration of the Uni ted States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, contains figures that should intcrestevery intelligent person. The total value of our foreign com merce waa $l,72U,:i30,89(J, a much larger amount than it ever reached before in a single year. Wo imported merchandise to tho amount of $814,905,- 491, and exported $844,425,105, worth. Tho McKinlcy tariff law went into effect on October 0, 1890, and from that time until June 30, 1891, a few days less than nine months, wo import ed merchandise to the value of $030,- 200,005, against $598,709,905, during a corresponding period in the preced ing fiscal year.. During tho same period the value of goods admitted free of duty was $295,903,0G5, against $208,983,873, during the same timo in 'the preceding fiscal year. More gold was exported during tho lust fiscal year than in any single year of our history. Here are tho figures: Export ed $86,303.022 ; imported $18,240,512. The total immigration into tho United States during tho fiscal year was 555,490, against 451,215 tho pre ceding year, tho increaBO being large ly from the following countrios : Italy, 23,354; Austria-Hungary, 14,801; Germany, 21,122, and Russia, includ ing Toland, 28,245. Stop and think a moment over these figures ; it will en Urge your ideas of the immensity of this country. Secretary Foster lias quietly ignored the letter recently written by Commis sioner Owen to Representative Neid ringhaus taking the ground that Welch tin-plate workers can be legally brought to this country under contract, and has written another letter stating that th Treasury department cannot undertake to determine in advance of the importation of tin-plato workers the legality of bringing them. It is said that the secretary was very much put out by what he considers Commis sioner Owen's bad break, and that ho intimated to that gentleman very plainly that a letter of such importance should not have been sent without first being submitted to him. Tho outcome of tho mutter is to be a series of regulations, supposed to cover every thing coming under the alien contract law, which, it is stated, are soon to bo issued by the Treasury department. Two other subordinates of Secretary Foster have been overruled by him in a little matter upon which thoy had sot their hearts. Assistant Secretary Crounse and Treasurer Nebeker it seems found the pleasuro of holding oflicc so great that they wished their respective sons to get n share of it, so each of them appointed his son to ho his privnto secretary. When the ap pointments reached the secretary, he refused to confirm them. Then the two gentleman put their heads together and tho result was that Mr. Crounso appointed Mr. Nebeker's son to be his private secretary nnd Mr. Nebeker rc- ciprocated by appointing .Air. Crounse's son to be his private secretary, but i Secretary Foster wasn't to bo caught by any such deal as that, and ho again vetoed tho two appointments. A reciprocity treaty with San Domingo has been agreed upon, and will go into effect September 1. The resignations of Senator Quay, chairman, and Col. W. V. Dudley, treasurer, of the republican national coniinitteo, were accepted by the ex ecutive committee and Mr. J. S. Clarkson was elected chairman and instructed to appoint a treasurer. Mr. Quay has also resigned his placoon the national committee, which rem oven him from national polities entirely. J. H. C. Crop-Weather Bulletin, No. 22. The observer of tho Oregon Weather Bureau, of Portland, Oregon, has is sued tho bulletin for tho week ending Saturday, Aug. 8, 1891, tho same be ing based upon reports received from 147 correspondents, which is as follows : WKSTKKN OKKCO.V. Weather. Tho temperature lias been from 2 to 5 degrees a day below tho average for tho week. On Tuesday and Wednesday thunder storms were quite general and rain fell, especially in the Willamette valley and along the coast; rain also fell on Thursday and Friday, while today is clearing weather and warmer. The rain fall was heavi est in Multnomah and Columbia counties and gradually decreased to the south, especially south of Marion county ; south of tho Calapooia moun tains less than .15 of an inch of rain fell. In the northern part of Willam etto valley about .75 of an inch of rai 1 fell; in a few sections hail fell on die 5th. Crops. Tho rain did no material damage to tho wheat crop; much of tho fall wheat was cut and in shock, ready for tho thresher, and about nil tho damago done was the delay which will crowd fall wheat threshing mid spring wheat cutting close together. There are a few roportsof wheat having fallen, but this is practically nothing. A continuation of the rain would hnvu caused tho wheat to sprout; tho clear ing weather was most timely. Threshed wheat in Polk and Yamhill counties has been averaging from 25 to 10 bushels per aero ; oats also yoilded well. In some sections plowing for summer-fallowing is in progress. Tho rains were of great benefit to root crops, garden, pasturage and young orchards, and had a tendency to destroy and causo a cessation of tho ravages made by tho hop louso and codlin moth. The four days rain was most unusual this season of tho year, but fortunatoly, no damago was dono and good results from it aro expected. KAHTEHN OJIEOON. Weather. Tho tcmporaturo lias been consideraby below the aycrago for this season of the year. Tho weath er has been cloudy or partly cloudy and general showers prevailed on Thursday and Friday, ranging from .04 of an inch at The Dalles, .07 of an inch at Heppncr to .33 of an inch at Baker City. In tho Bluo mountains in Union, Wallowa and Baker counties snow fell on the night of the 5th. Tho temporaturo was so cool that fires wero necessary in tho houso for comfort. Crops. Tho rains delayed harvest ing and threshing two days; no damago was dono to tho wheat by tho rain, though it did somo damago to tho hay crop east and south of tho Bluo moun tains, In Wasco county from Dufur to The Dalles tho wheat is shrunken and tho yield is poor; some smut is to be found ; in other sections tho wheat yield is good. In Gilliam county thoro is some rust. In Morrow county tho wheat is yielding oven better than was expected. In Umatilla county tho yield is better than for many yours. Wallowa, Union, Baker, Crook, Grant and othor interior counties havo excel- out prospects. B. S. l'AGUE, OUorvor, U. 8. Wcathor Bureau. BIBMCAL QUESTIONS. "Porus" Presents Further Proof That a Flood Did Exist. Knrroit Oitiiiio.v Scout: In Thk Scout of July 10th, It. C. Kmcry has an article untitled "Reply to a I'cw educations," but in that arti cle he does not attempt to answer a single question I asked. Ho quotes the 0th, 7th nnd 8th verses of tho UHtli I'miIid and then tries to explain them, but it. is evident to anyone that ho lias twisted them around to suit, his opiu- ion. Now any schoolboy can como a great deal uotuer giving tho meaning of those verses than he has done; further, ho fails to quote tho 9th verse, intentionally I snppu.-e, lor it would have placed his explanation of the oilier verses' in a bad light. The 9th ver.-e leudu: "Thou Iimm hH a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn nut again to cover the earth." 1 would like for him to explain this 'i ie m lhat it would agree with his explanation of the others. Is it a sei eniilie trit t It that a bound must be set li the clouds so they will not again cover the earth? He asks, "Does sci ence teach that water runs up hills and mountains to seek its lovel?" Tlii que-lion will be answered in tho following pioofs. In conclusion ho says, "I will still hold to my first state ment until more positive proof is pro tlttccd than the old Psalmist David." lli ,-tatcment was a denial of the possibility of a Hood as recorded by the isihlc. As to tne llooil story we will notice first the Hood-legend, ono lorm of which has come down through Burosus and .loscphus, but which ac quires much more certain antiquity and greater grandeur from tho lnscrip tions. Their account, says Hchrader, whoso bias cannot, I think, bo con sidered as friendly toward tho Hebrew record, "brings tho Biblical narrative into much closer relation witli the Chaldean Hood-legend than could bo assumed on the basis of tradition in Berostis." It. forms part of tho Idu bar legends discovered by Georgo Smith, who published his account of them in 1872, and who assigns to them a date anterior to 2000 years B. C, under tho early Babylonian empire. (See "Assyrian Discoveries," p.ige 100.) The Biblo story of the Hood derives corroboration from' the Babylonian record, inasmuch as it is thus carried back by an independent testimony to a very great antiquity. That record, composed, as Smith thinks, not long after tho timo of Izdubar or Nimrod, gives us tho tradition of a il'od which was a divino punishment of tho wick edness of the world, and of a holy man who built an atk and escaped tho de struction. Tho voice of natural sci ence has not been, and probably is not at present, uniform on this subject. Tho negative has just been presented to tho world by Professor Huxley. Ho conceives that Christian theology must stand or full with the historical trust worthiness of the Jewish Scriptures. (Nineteenth Century, July, 1890; pago 8.) I may bo bold enough to mention that, whilo Mr. Huxley is speaking in tho numo of science at largo, somo votaries of scionco hold an entirely different opinion. Moreover, that tho idea of a flood was not dismissed by tho luminaries of tho scientific world antorior to tho present day ; and that tho grounds of this dismissal are not of recent discovery, hut wero fully open to tho geologist of tho last gener ation. Quito rccontly tho doctrino of a dolugo has been maintained by Sir. J, Dawson, ("Modom Scionco in Biblo Lands," pago 252.) by Air. Howorth, and by tho Duko of Argyll, (Tho Scott ish Geographical Magazine, April, 1890.) all of whom aro suroly to bo considered as serious scientific inquir erB. Mr. Howorth, in his learned and laborious work on "Tho Mammoth and tho Flood," is not bound by any super stitious reverence of tho mere toxt of the Book of Genesis, for, in his pref ace, he casts asidoas null its traditions respecting all that precedes tho crea tion of man. He collects not only tho diluvial traditions of so many races and countries, but an immonso muss of palicontological ovidonco, and hav ing laid this wide ground for his in duction ho declares that, in his judg ment, tho wholo points unmistakably "to a wido spread calamity, involving a flood on a groat scale." "I do net se how the historian, tho archteolo- gist and tho p.iltcontologist can avoid making this c.onehnion in future a prime factor in their discussions, and I venture to think that before long it will bo accepted as unanswerable." I quoto in conclusion the following passage from I.anormant, which fol lows a copious collection of testimonies to the erudition of a deluge in almost all lauds: "Tho long review, to which wo havo just applied ourselves, war rants our ulfirining that the tale of tho deluge is a universal tradition among all branches of tho human family, excepting, however, the blacks. But a lvmom bianco prevailing everywhere, so precise and so concordant, cannot be that of a myth arbitrarily invented. No religious or ensmugnric myth pre sents such a character of universality. It must of necessity be a recollection of a great and terrible occurrence which impressed the imagination of the ancestors of our race so profoundly as never to havo been forgotten by their descendants." (Second edition, ISSO.) Pottu.s. STARKLY STRIKES. Stahkkv, Oregon, August 7, 1S!)I. Iiverybody is busy haying between showers. School closed on the 24th for a two weeks vacation. Several Uinutilluites are in tho mountains httcklebenying. Last Thursday tho high hills wero covered with snow. Mr. Prank Ohovott made a Hying trip to Pendleton lust week. Charley Thompkius and Henry SohaHbr arc engaged repairing tho school house during vacation. A hail storm visited this vicinity on the 10th tilt., doing considerable dam age to crops. Pat. Loft us finished stacking his hay on tho Alden place on the 4th, James Ilatidahau superintending tho job. Mr. J. F. Adams and family, who havo been rusticating hero for tho past week, returned to their homo in Uma tilla county on tho 4th. Tho French Bros, arrived with their threshing machine on the 1st, and tho ranchers will havo an opportunity to test the yield of Ihoir crops. Every body is saving some grain to thresh instead of cutting all for hay as has been the ease heretofore. A special correspondent of tho Pen dleton Tribune passed through Star key last week. Ho was surprised at liodiiiL' a settlement so far back in tho mountains. Ho says thoro is 11s good grain hero as ho has seen unywhero, and wo will no doubt got a puff from the Tribuno. Old Socks. Now and Kovol. Tulare, California, proposes to fur nish a very novel oxhibit for tho fair. From a giguntio redwood tree, 390 fcot high and 20 feet in diameter, will bo cut two lengths forty-fivo feet long and these will be trunsfomcd into full-sized railway coaches by hollowing out tho interior. Tho rough bark of tho trco will bo left on tho top of tho roof and on tho sides and ends the natural wood will bo left unpolished. Tho in terior will bo finished after tho stylo of tho Pullman cars. Ono will bo a buffet dining car, with bath, barber-shop and kitchen, and the other a slcepor with observation room. Ordinary car trucks will bo put underneath, and tho men of Tulare, with thoir wives and children, will make thoir trip to Chicago in those straugo coaches and livo in thorn whilo thoro. 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