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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1891)
te top Jtotl Entered nt the ltonico nt Union, Oregon, us Socoml-ClHfs Mall Mutter. B. Chancey, Editor and PnoPRiETon $1 no . 1 00 RATES or t-UD.'CKUTlON: One copy, ono yenr. Ono rnnv. 1 lllOlltllf One copy, tlirco months CASH IS ADVANCK. Hbv clinnoc BtibcrrllitloiiB lire not piill till end o? jenr, S8.00 will be charged. Itntes of Advertising nnd Job 1'rlntltig made known on application. Correspondence from nil parts of the country FOMCllt'd. Tick new Auatrnlinn ballot law re cently passed in this state will receive its first general trial at the elections next June. The first experience will be rather an awkward ono perhaps to many. There are many little details which, while they may be simplo enough after a littlo practice, may seem quite complicated at the first trial. WHY IS IT? THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 1891. A Word to our Patrons. Kver ulnee tho establishment of Tiik Hcout wo hAVO been very lenient with our subscribers, relying on them to pny when most convenient to themselves, and wo arc pleased to say a mil Jority.of them have responded very regularly every year. Ily this menu wo nave neon eu nblcd to carry on our business without any particular trouble, but there are a number who fchlom, if ever, resond to the numerous cans which linvobccn made through these columns for the necessary "stuH" money which is ery essential in conducting the newspaper, tis well as any other legitimate business-n fuct which tome seem to forget. Tiik Scout is not a charitable institution and enly akKofits patrons what is honestly duo it upon subscription and advertising accounts and this we must have. To those who have re-, (ponded regularly we lire greatly obliged: but why should others equally able to pay lag behind? You have received tho paper regularly from year to year and wo trust you have been pleased with Its weekly visits. Wo now call upon you to remuueratu us for time and money oxicnded lu thus furnishing you with tho pu er and trust you will lespond without further notico and trouble on our part. If you are re reiving the paper ami arc not satisllcd that it is worth fl.ro n year to you, please inform its of the fact and wo will stop sending It. Wo have endeavored to publish a paper worthy of the public putronage, and have fitrnlhhed it to you iitn very low price. It now only remains fori you to show your appreciation of our olI'ortH by rcsKuding at (nice. We will placu tho limit for which these ac counts must Ik) suttlod nt November 1st, and all partlen who nre owing us ou advertising, or one year's subscription, must settle by that date, if tho accounts nre not paid thuy will bo placed In the hands of mi attorney for immediate col lection. Thanking our patrons for past favori, and soliciting a continuance of the same, we remain Yours Most Respectfully, Tim: l'lnu.isitnu. Tin: citizens of western Kansas arc about closing a contract with Professor Melbourne to water some 2,000,000 acres of farms at 10 cents an acre for the sea on. This is cheap enough, surely, and at the satno time it is very remunerative to Mr. Melbourne; but how arc they going to decide whether it is tho professor or Jupiter Fluvius that docs tho watering? "lv there is a man in this audience," exclaimed Gov. Campbell, "whoso wages have been increased by the McKinlcy bill, let him stand up And no man stood. There is no such man in the United Stales of America. Out of G3,000,000 people there is not one man who has realized the promises of McKinlcy in one cunt's addition to the wages he is receiving, though millions of dollars have been added to tho cost of tho necessaries of life. Nashville American. Tiik assessor of Astoria returns Spll, 000,000 more property in that city alone than tho county assessor returns for tho citv and countv combined. It is said President Harrison coh tributed tfiiOO to the republican cam paign fund in Now York. Ho is evi dently of tho opinion that it is a use less expenditure. TiCKCtK was taken to tho insane asylum tit Salem Thursday evening, says the East Orcgonian, Mrs. K. G. Patten, from Sunnyside. Her hus band is filso crazy, and was taken there with her. He has been trying to work tho mind cure on hci, and as a result the reason of both has been dethroned Tho ttato asylum, which already consumes half of the revenue of the state, is daily increasing its number of patients, thoro being today over 720, more than at any provious time.. Democratic clubs. bhotild bo organ ized in this county. ,Thoy aro spring ing up all over the State, and through them the proper organization of tho party for tho coming campaign can be made. Tin: Riverside Press and the Sun Eranciseo Bulletin, both republican papers, have discovered, by sending correspondents to the Tomescal mine, that it is not being worked at all, and that litis is in order to raise the price of foreign tin. s tho city election in Indianapolis, (Harrison's home) last week, tho dem ocrats gained a sweeping victory, electing tho whole ticket by from IfiOO to !1000 mojoiity. This is tho second time tho democrats havo curried tho city in twenty-live years, and is significant. Tiik lloston Journal thinks that with tho large democratic majority in the next House, "it is certain that thoro will be continuous and colossal blundering." That may bo so. Hut if it is more colossal than the blunder ing of Mr. Heed's majority in tho last congrcsB, which caused tho unprece dented overturn of last November, it will bo a marvel, indeed, Wcckn an olibostablised woekly newspaper in Delawaro was absorbed by n rival, a few years ago, it was dis covered that a family of Scotch Pres byterian farmers, named liankin, had boon taking tho newspaper continu ously for ono hundred years. Tho llnnkins were a hit nonplused at tho change, but tho head of tho family promptly subscribed for tho victorious rival, and is probably still taking it. "Tho Scout has purchased tho linker Iteveillo'a old cylinder printing press." ltopublicau, Tho above paragraph is self explan atory, Tho ltopublicau is evidently worrieil ou account of Tun Soour'H improvements and tries to infer that tho press which wo recently put in is an old concern and does not amount to much. Tho fact is tho pres ha not been In use any longer than the Hepubliean pi ess and coot now about three times a much. It is (ho llncut wild moot contly press thU ldu of tho JJlue mountain, Tho thing iihii which the Itepiihllcun ii printed would mi be eUwkl it printing prew nloiig. Aktf j(, It is not to bo wondered at that Baker county is continually attempt ing to steal a large slice of Union county's territory. Tho state is going to sue that county for delinquent taxes some of which have been due wince 187JJ. Tho amount duoia i?12,2 1 5.19. In no year since I87IJ has sho paid her tuxes in full and it is no wonder that sho wants to acquire more taxable property. We aro of the opinion, however, that it will bo a cold day when linker county becomes possessor of tho southern end of this countv. Elgin Heeorder. An eastern writer in speaking of "tho prospect of a good price in pota toes suy.s that next spring will proba bly bring a demand for western potatoes that hits not been felt for soveml years. Potatoes should there fore bo well housed and kept ready for an emergency. This is all right ; the east can pay just as hign a price as it wishes for potatoes, and if it wants good ones the place to get thorn is right hero in Orogon and Washing ton. Tho .'armors of these two states would just as goon get .$1 oriJUoO per bashel for their potatoes next spring as to sell them this fall for from 25 to 00 cents. In loss than two weeks tho Novem ber elections will have taken place and tho results thereof he known. A great contest is being waged by the democracy in Ohio, Iowa, Massachu setts and Pennsylvania, though against tremendous odds, especially as the re publicans are straining every nerve ami spending millons ol dollars to bo successful. All are hitherto reliable republican states in presidential years, but many predict n democratic victory in some of them. The Times is not so sanguine, however, If tho democ racy carries any of them it will bo just so much of a gain, and a big one, too. It has everything to win and nothing to lose in those states. Jacksonville Times. vhi:at l'ltunuoTiON. Among the groat wheat-ruising stares as given in the advance sheets of the monthly report of the agricultural department, Oregon and Washington stand at the top notch. In the yield per aero for wheat Ore gon and Washington stand two and one-half and three bushels per acre above tho general average, it being fifteen bushels. This fifteen bushels is three bushels abovo the average for tho years from 1SS0 to 1SU0 inohuive, making Oregon's yield of tho country per acre, and Washington's still fur tlier above. Tho averuRO of Oregon per nero for wheat U seventeen and uuu-hulf Lin.li' eU per aero, or two and one-half Inuh uU above the general average. The average of Washington U eighteen biuliuW or thr'o IhuIioU abovo the country in gtfiwftl, There seems to be a persistant de siro ou the part of a few individuals of this city to keep up a constant talk and ill feeling in regard to the Sum mers affair, and sotno go so far as to intimate that Mrs. Summers met her death by foul means. Such parties are too cowardly to come out and plain ly state by whose hands and by what means the lady met her death. The fact is they have no ground for think ing that she camo to her death by any other means than tho facts brought out by tho coroners jury. The con tinued talk and newspaper comments in regard to tho affair is only for tho purpose of creating an ill feeling nnd injuring certain parties in business hero. It is not natural for a paper like the Orcgonian, printed three hundred miles from here and wholly unac quainted with the facts, to be continu ally stirring up the matter and urging the grand jury to investigate tho case at the next term of court, unless aided and urged to do so by parties from this section. Such reports and comments are an insult to tho coroner's jury and the physicians who investigated the matter. Tick Scout would not attempt to question the finding of a jury who was in session about two days giving a thorough investigation of tho cause of the dcatli of Mrs. Summers or any one else. They were sworn to do their duty, and surely did not sign a docu ment against their will. Besides the verdict of the jury was corroborated by two competant physicians who also made a thorough examination of tho dead body. One of tho proprietors of tho Pepublican was a member of the Coroner's jury nnd signed tho verdict, yet it can be plainty seen that that paper is trying to create an ill feeling in regard to the matter. Tho linker City Democrat of Oct., 2Urd. says: Persons who have recently visited Union say that there is a general feeling in the community that the deatli of Mis. Summers has not been properly investigated and many are outspoken in tlieir belief that the ladv was tho vic tim of foul plnv. The newspapers of tho town havo beon entirely too reti cent on the subject and if there is evi dence showing that the woman did not commit suicide and that suspicion falls upon any person as her murderer they should make every effort to bring tin? guilty to justice. The liepublican intimates that all is not right in the following: "Nearly over paper in tho northwest has commented upon tho mysterious death of Mrs. Summers and almost without oxception Uko issue with the coroner's jury roport. They think tho matter should be investigated by the grand jury." So far as Tiu: Scout being "entirely too roticont" is coneorned, it is not our desire to keep the matter contin ually before the people. Wo have too much respect for tho romaining family and friends of the deceased to keep the matter constantly before them. We think they have already had enough burden to bear without boing harranged with newspaper comments every week in regard to the sad a flair, and wo would not now mention it only in justice to them, their friends and the coroner's jury who investigated tho matter. If M. 1 Davis or any other member of tho coroner's jury was not satisfied witli tho investigation, he had no business to sign tho verdict If ho is satisfied with the verdict ho should hereaftor refrain from from publishing such items as is referred to above by the Domocrat. Tho mon comprimising tho coroner's jury aro honorable and respected citi zons of Union, who were sworn to do thoir duty, and after a thorough in vestigation aro cortainly better ablo to judgo than tho Orcgonian or any other outsido papor. Besides this, Chas. F. Hyde, district attorney, was present with his deputy, H. J. Slater, both competent and honorable officials, and there for tho purposo of scoiug and undertaking to find out if a crime had been com mitted and after investigating tho caso to that extent that all of the evidence surrounding the caso had been ex hausted, they with tho coroner's jury said, it is 81MCIDK. Let tho grand jury investigate tho matter, Let them sift and sever. It is something that those most inter ested desire to have done. Tho unfortunate death is lamented by all; but that spirit that would lay murder at tho door of an innocent party and one most bereaved, without cause, is treading upon dangerous ground. To tay that tho press of Eastern Oregon, as the Orcgonian has said, are too reticent upon tho matter, is to say that Eastern Oregon is made up of criminals or those that would hide and conceal the perpetration of crime and endorse tho same by silence. If tho oiiouiiistancos in this ease, which huvo been closely wutohed and looked after by Wmo fcprennllng Tiik Hiroirr, shown (ho leant cuiue or provo tuition (or lurthrr Investigation, it would havo eaid so. j As it is, knowing the circumstances, i knowing tho coroner's jury, knowing i the strict investigation had, and all J other circumstances surrounding tho caso we only havo to say: That what i could have been done has been done, j Unprejudiced minds arc satisfied. ItUILI) GOOD JtOAIlfe, The farmers complain of the amount of their taxes, but they seldom complain of tho bad roads in the vi cinity of their farms. They think their taxes arc burdensome, but it sel dom occurs to them that bad roads nre more burdensome. A farmer who pays taxes to the amount of $100 pays as a rule, twice that sum, aunu ally for repairs of damages to harness and farm vehicles and for extra feed for his mules and horses. Horses and mules which pull heavy loads over bad roads require much more feed than those which are in use where roads aro good, and they become worn out much sooner. A horse in con stant use on good roads will bo service able several years longer than one used on bad roads. The fanners seldom think of tho cost of bad roads to them, but if asked to work a few days on tho roads thev grumble. Most of them regard work on roads as time thrown away. The reason they do not appreciate how great the loss is which they sufi'er on account of roads is that it is b'o gradual that they do not notice it. But they sufler tho loss nevertheless. Good roads are a fair indication of the prosperity of a community. It is worthy of notice that thrifty and pros perous people live along the line of good roads, and their homes have a comfortable appearance. As a rule they are people who buy newspapers and tho latest books. Good roads are such a help to them in ueltint: their productions to market nnd cnabl them to efl'ect such a saving in horse flesh and in repairs to wagons and har ness that they can a fiord many little luxuries. ItETAILERS OF Shelf Hardware, Cutlery, Farmers' Steel Goods, Pumps, Saws, Wedges, Sledges, etc, Agent for Charter Oak Stoves. A FullIEquipped TINISHOP is run in Connection with our Store. BWe make a Specialty of this Line. Call and see us. SUMMERS fc LAYNE. one door south of Jaxcox's store, Union, Or. -DEALER IN- All Kinds Latest Styles. Just Received, Direct from the East, a Large Invoice of LADIES' and MISSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, tho Best Ever brought to this Market. Also a Fine Assortment of GENT'S -:- FURNISHING -:- GOODS. My Prices ivill suit the times. Drop in and see me. C. VINCENT, Main Street, Union, Or. G-jSO. IB-A-IIRD, Dealer in All the money lost and won by grain gamblers in tlieir "operations" comes at last out of the grain-growers ami bread-eaters. e i$ i3 . bp i I A Good Showing. Sheriff Holies made his settlement with the treasurer Tuesday, on the delinquint tax list for 1890. Follow ing aro tho figures. Tobacco, Cigars eil ill Kiinls of Fruit Candies, Nuts, Novels, Fishing Tackle, etc. BARBER SHOP In Connection. l-30-tf. First door north Centennial hotel, Union, Or. To taxes rfiiirgcd T(l hhurllPN llK"lKHllK'iltS Total Ily nmouut Collected. . . Ily mnouat delinquent.. H7 Ml S2 W 10 ..$14 .WJ fit . . I! 'JUS TO 117 S91 31 ATTENTION:- Total 17 Ml ,11 Ily treasurer' receipts $12 SS2 17 Ily sliurilPs credits 1 710 II Ily amount (lellnijueut 3 sus 70 Total 17 S91 31 According to the abovo figures it will bo seen that there is but :?,29S,70 roinining uncollected, which is a most creditable showing. Of this amount something over ono thousand is upon mortgages, upon which the county has a lien, and thoro is a great amount charged to uon icsidcuts and transient which can never bo collected, which goes to show that Mr. Holies has col lected up pretty close. I have just received an immenso shipment of K BILL! I 1 ''.l-l A Crnud Hall will bo kIvcu by tho 1'nlon Hook A; IjuIiUt Company on THANKSGIVING NIGHT. Buppcr will be t-erveil by the Ladle Guild of thu FpUcopal church. Tills makes It certain that a FINE SUPPER will be served. JW-THK MTSIC will be the lwt that can be procured. Watch this ad. for lurtlmr lHUtluulars. Ily order of the committee. DR. MILES' NEW cunt ron thi HEART. It a ufe and relia ble remedy furled piution of Heart, Win inSiiic. AuV mi, Short HicalU, Fluttenne.Dropfy. Oweutoii, Wind In btomicli, Itirt uUr I'uUe. Chut. ih ben.Jliwi m Threat. 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