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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1891)
Entcrcrt nt the Tostolllco nt I'nlon, Oregon, ni Second-class Mnll Miittcr. B. Chanoey, Editor and Proprietor iiATF.v of (.uiicnnnos: Olio copy, one cur. ... n.t.. mmv' mIv mntitliM ti no 1 oo Out! copy, three months CASH IN AllVAXOn. Jfliv chnuco Milnrrttitlons nre not iIl till end ol yjw, H-J.oo will lie elinnrwl. IlHtPK of AilvvrtMtiff and Job l'rliitlii made known on itpvllciillon. CorrwtK)iii1eiiPo from nil parti of the country tolicttod. THURSDAY. OCT. 22, 180J. A. Word to Our Patrons. Ever Ann- tit" vi tb!ilimeM of TUB Bowt him- Ihhii x'iy K-nlcnt with our Mioecrlbi'tx, relyluRon them to pay hcn mot convenient to thcmwlvcH, and we arc plciwwt to cny u nm Jorltyof litem ltae re"Jlel very regularly every i-ur. lly thin mcnim wo hnvo lwii en abled to iirry on our buMueim without any IMirtlrulat trouble, but thero nrc a number who fldom. if uer, rcpoud to the numerous call which have lieeii imwlc through thcue eolumtiN for the iiccemtary "ntuff" litonoywlileh 1 my ciMitlal In conducting tho iimi"I"'i " well an any other lctrltlmatt hunltiean-a fact which muo aecm to forget. TllE Scorr la not a charitable Institution and only aslte of Its imtrniM what In uonwtly due It tipon aubacrlptlon and wlvortlaiiiK account and thlf wc innut have. To thoo who have rc-i tpottdoil rennlurlywe arc ttreatly obliged; but why bhonld other equally able to pay Ia(t behind? You have received thti paper regularly from year to year and we trust you hnvo been plesued with Hk weekly visltH. Wo now call upon you to remunerate uh for tlmo and money oxixmilol In thua furnUhiiiK you with tho pil lar und trunt you will rescind without further notice 'and trouble on our part. If you arerev celvliiB the paier and aro not catltillcd that It Is worth fl.fr u year to you, plciuo inform us of the fact and we will utop KcudliiB it. We havo endeavored Jo publish n paper worthy of the public patromiKC, and have furnished It to you nt n verv low nrice. It now only rcmaliiH for youtoMiow your appreciation of our ellbrts by rcsK)mlliik' at ouee. We will place thu limit for which thoo ac count must be settled at November lt, and all partlet who are owing uh on advertising, or one jciir'a Riilxwlptlon, must nettle by that date, if tho accountH are not paid they will be placed In the handH of mi attorney for Immediate col lection. Thanking our piitroiin for pat hnors, and solicItinK a cnntluuaiice of the mine, wo remain Youth Most ltopcctfully, Tiik l'tjni.ibllKU. H. L. Mokkukai) hits revived tho Junction City Pilot under tho name of tho Titncs. Wo wish tho new paper success. EvKitY ahot fiotn u big gun con biiines ouo thousand dollars. At lliia rate, war has becoiuo a very expensive luxury. Sayk Tlio Dalles Chronicle: Tho same judge who sentenced Sandy Olds to ono year in tho penitentiary for tho doliberato murder of a human being gave a man three years tho othor day in the same place of punishment, for stealing two salmon. Is it any won der tho fannors' alliance want to run tho government machine awhile? Tiik mines of Tolocaset arc attract ing considoinblo attention and in consequence tho whole country is being prospected. Sovor.il now dis coveries havo been made and located within tho past week. Tho whole 'country south of Tolocasot and along cither sido of Powder river seems to bo u quartz bearing tlistrict. It only re quires investigation to prove that wo havo some very tiuh mines right hero at home. The initios of this district, Cornucopia, Sanger, Eagle crook, Sparta and Catherine orcok uu all tributary to Union. Our business men should lend assistance to these districts, in the way of constructing good roads, etc., and reach out for their trade. ... Tiiiiiti: are a number of schemes starting up all over tho United States for taking visitors for a small weekly subscription to tho World's Columbia Exposition freo of further expense. Persons proposing to bucomo members of such asiouiatiou aro asked to con tribute ono dollar a wool; or po, from now until Wo look upon all such schetnos with groat distrust, and havo no more faith in thorn than in tho numorous so-called beneficial so cieties which proposed to take (ho placo of regular Life Insurance com panies and almost invariably proved to ba insolvent when a few of their policies fell duo and in .many ease woro then discovoiod to havo boon deliberately established with fraudu lent intent. Some of those proposed Chicago Excursion At&ooiations may bo honest schemes guaranteed by men of clmraotor and responsibility, but when the time comes to furnish trans portation and free onterttuuiuent, it will bo found that ino&t of tho olllces have been deserted, tho oillcers "gone to tho springs," and tho money gone with them. A dollar or two it week placed in a savings bank will bo secure and will bo protected by tho lawn of the ttutu. In tho other fuse the money will mot likely Imvo boon placed iu the bunds of confident') uion Ami might mm wall Imvo mn thrown Into the Uy for miy god it will do the iVtOf, STILL ON TIIK INCKEASK. In the spring of 1881 when tho present proprietor of The Scout in company with its former editor, A. K. Jones, and E. II. Clingan, conceived tho idea of starting a newspaper and job ollico in Union, neither of us had tho remotest idea that tho business would grow to such proportions as Tiik Scout today boasts. In fact the papor was started more as a source of amusement and paslimc for tho pro prietors than anything else. A job press and a small amount of material was purchased and on Juno 21, 1881, the first issue of the Somi-wookly Scout, a small, four-colump folio pa por, was printed ami sent out to near ly overy household iu the county for inspection. Hut few subscribers wore added to bur lift outside of the imme diate vicinity and the outlook was not very encouraging, but tho business mon of the town patronized the paper very wqll in the way of advertising and job work and the publication was continued in this form for ono year nt considerable loss. During all this time, however, wo were working under very favorable circumstances. Our contemporary, the Mountain Sentinel, was constantly changing hands and gradually going down. Realizing this fact, Mr. Jones and myself assumed full control of Tin: Scout and immediately enlarged it to the present size, printing two pages at home on an army press. Our efforts were soon rewarded and subscribers began to poor in far be yond our expectations wo had re duced tho subscription price to $1,130 a year while other papers wero charg ing from $2.r0 to $1.00 and Tin: Scout was soon placed on a paying basis, and by tho end of tho first year tho business had grown until it was necessary to havo better presses and moro room for homo matter. A largo hand cylinder press, capable of print ing four pages of our papor at a time, was purchased in Chicago, when wo began the publication of The Scout in the present form. At this time we thought wo had made ample prepara tions for all time to come in the way of press facilities, but for the past two or throe years wo have been greatly in need of a faster press on which to print Tin: Scout. Tho tmlhorintion list has been gradually increasing from tho first day of tho existence of tho paper, and wo aro again compelled to increase our press facilities. Today The Scout is printed from ono of tho latest improved country cylinder press es, tho largest and finest to bo found in Eastern Oregon. The Scout has always been in the lead and is recognized as tho be.t papor published in Union county. It is truly entitled to this distinction and wo propose that it shall always remain so. We lead; others vainly attempt to follow. The Scout is not only supplied with tho finest newspaper press and materi al in tho county, but is equipped with a first-class job office where we aro prepared to do all kinds of printing, from a visiting card to a full sheet poster. Our plant has cost a great amount of money, but wo havo confidence in tho future prosperity and growth of Union. Tin: Scour in tho futuro, as iu tho past, will always bo found ahead of tho growth of tho town. We hnvo built up a legitimate business heie on a solid foundation, and wo think wo aro deserving of tho support of tho business mon of tho town. If tho cir culation of a paper counts for any thing iu the way of an advertising medium, wo certainly aro. mi: i'ahmi;i: r.vvs tiik it.kuuit. Wo will bond abroad 2f0,000,000 bushels of wheat. For it wo will ro eoive nay $250,000,000. This will bo investtHl in clothing, iu oarpotd, in linens, in furniture, in ohinaware, iu tinware, iu hardwaro, oto oto. When those cargoes rwioh Now York they aro seined by Fodornl ollioors. Thoy aro weighed and moavurcd and valuud, and tho owners are compelled to pay iu dulios f0 por cent of tho value of tho cargoes. This will bo a tax of $125,000,000. Iu othor woids, tho farmers must sond abroad three bushels of wheat in order to got iu return tho exchange value of two. Last year tho exports of cotton amounted to f,800,000 bales. Ono third of tho return cargoes wero con fiscated under tho plea of protection. Of last year's cottou crop two-thirds wero exported, one-third was consumed at homo. It required all tho cotton sold to Amorican tuilU to pay the duties on tho return curioe taken in exchange for the 6,000,000 Imltu kohl ubtoud. Here wo hvo mm object leon illua Imtlnf the injiutlou mid the opprc- sion of our whole system, so-called. The farmer, he pays tho freight ; ho pays the tax ; he pays the pensions. To do this lie has to cultivate three acres in order to have for his own use the product of two. It is the most stupendous system of iniquity and oppression to which any freo people ever submitted, and yet tho farmer who works three days for two days' wages is expected to walk up to the noils in Pennsylvania, in Ohio I and in tho Great 2Corthwost and vote j for McKinley and protection. Down with the war tarifl'l Courior Journal. NOT 11V I'KOTKCriOJf. There is no economic fact that is made to do moro constant and persist ent duty than tho reduction in the price of steel rails during tho operation of tho protective system. It is sono riously proclaimed thnt thoy were at ono time as high as ff 150 a ton. Then the duties wero made so high as to virtually exclude the foreign article, and tho home industry grew and pos sessed tho homo field, competition arose, and undor it the price of tho rails has gone down -to $30 a ton. That seems conclusive and a happy illustration of tho operation of tho pro tective theory, to the superficial par tisan. Hut tho fabric is shown in its true light when it is nbsorved that while steel rails havo fallen greatly iu price in this country thoy have fallen more in freo trade England. Thoy aro now $5 a ton cheaper than iu the United States. Tho price of tho rails in this country has been forced down by the reduction abroad, and not by the competition of homo manufactures fostered by tho tarifi. The cost of production has Icon cheapened by the perfection of processes, and espo cially now inventions. These have been substantially all made in Eng land, und in no wise the effect of tho tarifi' of this country. Without the present tarifi", or a comparatively low ono, the consumers of rails would get them cheaper, tho manufacturers would have ample profit, and the work men sufl'er no loss in wages. It is, then, either gross ignorance or an at tempt to deceive when protection ad vocates cite the steol rails industry as the cheapening effects of a high tariff. St. Paul Globe. In a paper on "Agricultural De pression and Waste of Time," in tho October Forum, President David Starr Jordan, of tho Loland Stanford Junior University, maintains that agricultural depression in this country is due chielly to tho idle habits of most of our farmers. He cites as an illustra tion of this theory his experience one day when tho train in which ho was traveling stopped at a little town in Indiana, called Cloverdalo: "A com mercial traveler, dealing in groceries and tobacco, got off; a crato of live chickens was put on, and tho cars started again. Tho stopping of tho train was no rare sight in that village, for it happons two or three times every day. Tho people had no wolcomo for tho commercial traveler, no tears wero shed over tho doparturo of tho chick ens; yet on tho station stops 1 counted forty men and boys who wore thero when the train camo in farm boys, who might have been doing something somewhere, overy interest of econom ics and losthotics aliko calling them away from tho village, and off to tho farms. Two men attended to all the businoss of tho station. Tho solitary passenger went his own way. Tho rost woro thoro because thoy had not tho moral strength to go anywhere olso. Thoy stood thero on tho station stops, embodied ghosts, dead to all life and hope, with only force enough to stand ami gape." Preaidont Jordan regards this state of nil airs as typical of that which very generally prevails iu thoio farming district where "de pression" exists. Ho finds only ouo remedy fur it, and that is industry. The farmers aro at tho foro, and thoy aio determined to do omething for their own salvation. Their meas ures ate orudo and will havo to bo greatly modified to mako some of them practicable, but iu tho end thoy will accomplish much. They will find iu thodumoeratio party much of tho relief thoy demand, and this thoy will toon discover. But thoy aro engaged in a righteous movement, and wo wish them all tho success thoy deserve. Tivko it Before Breakfait. The sreat appctltcr. toule ami liver rexulutor lu uo for more thau .'O year lu KiiKlaml. i'otl thOiH.-clllc for liver rouiplalut- Had Ute iu tho mouth nu arUlUK lu tho morulas, dull liu lu lh )ird aud Utrk of tho e, tlrrU Iwllug, tiUiluot, Uuuor-)tuptom ol liver coin pUlut, Kmody-ur. Ilvatar' Kuillih IHuiO' jlou Toulf. HIW w cotutltlou, kharptiu tb ppvtllo auJ lout up llta rutlta )ritw, dot tat gtuulu froa jour druci Ul fw II, ui Uk cf4luf to dlrtli. Badly in Debt. According to reports recently pub lished in the papers at Baker City, that county and city is very badly in debt. The Blade claims the net indebtedness of the city to have l)cen $87,845.0(5 on the 11th of last May. The seini-annual report of the clerk shows the total liabil ities of the county to be SNW.Oo'J.T:); resources $77,897.5.'!. The Democrat in' comnicnting on the situation, editori ally, says: "A perusal of the statement made by the clerk ought to be sufficient to call for immediate action on the part of the tax-payers of Baker county to remedy the condition of affairs. The people have been blind to what was goinp; on. No wonder taxes an? high and the farm er is rmnd down to the water's edge. No w mder capital doe not seek invest ment in Baker county when it takes all the profits of such investment to pay taxes. "It behooves the tax-payers to ponder a little over the condition that confronts them and ask themselves if this thing shall continue until the whole county is swamped out of sight." Mrs. Allen a. Thurninsn Dead. A Columbus, O., dispatch of Oct. 17, says Mrs. Allen G. Thnrniau died late this afternoon. Her condition changed for the worse last night. During most of the week she has been in an uncon cious state. She was a victim of la grippe during the winter and never re covered from the attack. Her advanced age prevented her from regaining her strength. Judgo Thurman is much en feebled and it is feared by his friends he will not long survive his wife. Mrs. Thurman was born in Chillicothe in 1811. Her maiden name was Mary Dun. While she was it child her father moved to Lexington, Ky. There she married Mr Tompkins. He died in a few years. She was married to Judge Thurman in November, 184-1, and has been his constant coippanion and help mate during his long professional and public career. Salmaccda Hot Dad. A Cincinnati dispatch of Oct. 10, says Dr. Francis Bivers and Signor Carlos del Bio, late of the military staff of President Balmaceda of Chili, arrived here yesterday, enrouto for New York. They said that Balmaceda is not dead, all reports of his suicide to the con trary notwithstanding, and that they expect to meet him either in New York or in Europe. Happy Hooslers. Win. 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(Mt, Summers HETAILEKS OF M Hardware, Cutlery, Farmers' Steel Goods, Pumps, Saws, Wedges, Sledges, etc, I w A FuirEaulDoed WHOP is ggjWe make a Specialty of this Line. Call and pee ns. SUMMERS & LAYKK. on- door south of J.icvx's store, Union, Or. ! " DEALER IN m. sii'l I f 1 -"rT?T Latest Styles. Just Received, Direot from the E.ist, a Large Invoice of LADIES' and MISSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, the Rest Ever brought to this Market. Also a Fine Assortment of GENT'S -:- FURNISHING -:- GOODS. My Prices will suit the times. Drop in and see me. C. VINCENT, Main Street, Union, Or. GEO. ZB -Dealer in- sT.A.Tioisrsirr, Tobacco, Clears il 111 Kinds of Candies, Nuts, Novels, Fishing Tackle, etc. BARBER SHOP In Connection. l-30-tf. First door north Centennial hotel, Union, Or. ATTENTION:- I have just received an FURN TURE Comprising everything of the latest style and pattern in that line, also Carpets, Window Shades, Mats, Rugs, Mirrors, Picture Frames, Reed and Rattan Goods, Upholstered.Rochers, Easy Chairs, etc, of all descriptions, jgjSF$QW is the timo to get your Furniture, whilo you can be suited, in style, design and price. Constantly on hand, a tull stock of SASH XDOOS. 8. C. ffiHLLER, - Umon9 Oregon. BR m m m u D -say yw " 7 Carries a full lice of all kinds of Harvesting Machinery and Agricultural Implements, Traction Engines and Vibrator Threshers. will sell as cheap as any dealer in tho valley. 3-S2G-tf The Centennial Hotel, A. J. ! Recognized by all us tho Leading Hotel of Eastern Oregon! FI.VK WUOl! SAMPI.U KOO.MS For tl.o Acc,0,,atlo of Commercial Traveler CHANGES REASONABLE. SOHirahtiFEEDmill. (OPPOSITE CENTENNIAL HOTEL.) Wm. E. Bowker, - Proprietor. firerythlnK Firt Clan. Term Very Heaioiuble. Bus to aud Rom the Depot Making Connection with all Pass. sender Trains. Lap, run in Connection with our Store. All Kinds - A - IIEID, It immense shipment of Fru Union, Oregon. y DBRODp - Proprietor.