Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-06-05
L9CAL INTELLIGENCE.
Circuit coart has adjourned.

Circuit coart has adjourned.
-Peudleton will celebrate the Fourth
Of July.
Our Barbecue premises to bs a
grand affair.
-Alki's letter came tso late for last
weeks issue.
Now the voice of the mower is
heard ia the land.
Mr.. Jno. Mclaughlin is dawn at
his Cold Spring ranch.
If the water in stream is not fit
to drink, the trout caught in it cannot
be very wholesome diet.
| Mrs. Rogers who lives about one
mile west Of town is putting up very
large barn-another evidence Of an an
ticipated big harvest.
The words Marshall House loom
up Oh the new hotel in letters SO high
and prominent that the way-farins man
may net mistake them.
Prof. Geo. E. Owen and family
weat over to La Grande last Saturday
on visit. Prof. will be back in time
for the Normal Institute.
The Columbia Indians, on Rock
creek, Morrow county, are incensed
over the killing of tive Indian hsrse
thieves, and trouble is anticipated.
Frank Knewlton has taken his
milch csws up to the Umatilla and will
keep them there until after harvest.
Frank is ''camped" at the site OF the
old toll gate and it is said has put
fish wheel in the river at that point.
This is net sportsmanlike method of
catching trout and besides it is perhaps
unlawful.
-Cass Proebstel has had great trouble
with his calves. They ran away and
of course they went towards the Reser-
walton. Cass had to hunt fer thase
calves, and Of course he had to so to
the Reseryation-not only once, but
many times, for those calves were hard
to find. 1t is wonderful how persist
emily he bunted for them. He would
be gone ali day and come home at night
with his horse as fresh as daisy. But
then Cass is lisAt and easy On horse.
He always took the same route. 1t was
the surest way TO End them. They
were sure to come to Spring Hollow
sometime. Did you ever hunt for a
r,an in busy town? Well you know
you may tramp all day and not find
him, bat if you staad OIL some street
corEer ysu will be almost sure to catch
him, if you wait lorg enough. Well,
Cass acted on this same principle. He
found good position on the Reserva-
tion AID waited for those calves to
COME.
That peculiar product of civiliza.
ton, the tramp, is becoming quite com.
mon i'll our midst. 4 few years age he
was encountered only i'll priat. Now
> he is here a living presence. He is here
toe often and too numerous. And wh,
> pccsiiar fellow he is. He tolls not
L neither does he spin and his raiment l.
Q more varied than picturesque. He is
}. queer compound OF i..pudence, COW
3 ard:ce and cunHirg. His daily cut doe
:. exercise gives Ei:a a glorious appetite
:: and it is part Of his disease to dislk,
j labor. He has one great redeenain:
Is quality: lie is never dude. He hs
20 lao much sense for that. He loYes lib
erty, aad tight pants would not sui
- iiiu. lie prefers loose habits and adopt
that style of dress and ideas most i
r. aecpinS with his life of freedom. It
sometimes objected to that lie carrie
his ideas "f freedom toe far, and that h
has weakness for chickens and othe
peoples portable property. Force c
hunger must be pleaded i'll cxtenuatiar
D for the genuine tramp waa!d rather be
= taan steal. 1t is toe much trouble
rob hen roost unnecessarily, and is a
tended with some danger. The tram
does not like trouble Of any kind, al
it is only when an unsynlpathetic pee
pie refuse to supply him with the necei
saries of life that lac cxerts himself t
" liye. He hates exertion, If he can e
- up enough energy to hate anythin!
Perhaps the tramp was originally
harmless individual, leading an aimles
:, existence with the one idea that I'll
world owed him living, an idea L.
confined to tranps by any means,
.. kind Of ca an.iable nuisance. Perhal
h. he was net cunning and deceitful Uut
at these lad traits were developed by II
IS dstr1st AID iHhospitality of those wit
waoln he came in contact Perhaps
was not cswardly and brutal until /
Was made so by tie kicks and curs
OF an ungenerous world. Beneath ii
loose and airy costume OF TIE tramp the
may beat warm aud generous hea
at that needs only the quickening tou'
p al human sympathy to respond to Il
L. nob!est aspirations Of which man is c
~, paole. Bat take any man, With who
q. fortune has dealt unkindly, and she
of by your every look aad action that Y,
50 distfust and dsspise him, treat his di
pr dsinfuily, housd him off yoar pren,se
to reprcach him for his rags ard shift!e.
or ness, tell him to 20 to work but gi
'es him none, make him understand tt
you believe lie is Il thief and liar, a
what will the outcome be: The tral