, 1877-12-01

Frsm Daily Of ,iday.
SINGULAR SToRY.--The La Grande
Gazette relates the following: "Or
last Saturday evening. about s
O'Clock, and old woman, in company
with her foolish son, came walking
through the mud into our town, car.
rying their bedding and other cloth
ing of about IS pounds. She was
30 and her son 20 years old. They
started from Indiana last March, and
have walked all the way except some
little short rides with teamsters.
They were on their way to Portland
where, she says, she has farm left
her by the death of her father. She
has $14 which the good people of
Baker City gave her as she passed
through that place. They put up at
the Blue Mountain House, where
they partook of the hospitalities of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dickey, witout money
and without price. Sunday morn
ing they were intending to continue
their tedious journey on foot to their
destination. But to the great and
pleasing disappointment of the old
woman, just as she was about to
start out in the rain and mud, on her
last three hundred miles, L. Baer,
our gentlemaniy and humane towns
man, and agent of the Northwestern
Stage Co., at this place, gave her a
free pass on the stage to Umatilla,
with letter to the agent of the O..
S. N. Co. to pass her down the
river free; for which the poor old
woman seemed almost overcome
with gratitude.
JUST So. = Yesterday. at the
Thanksgiving services in the Press
byterian Church, DIR. Dillons re-
marked that when he was a school
boy his teacher often stated when
looking over the map of the world.
that some day the largest city in the
world would be built on Puget
Sound. His calculations were taken
from the geographical location of
this, finest of harbors. Other peo-
pie, including some of our ablest
statesmen, have had the same opin-
ion as the schoolmaster, and that
too from our facilities as CONNER
cial centre. But add to these ad-
vantages our abundant supply of
timber and unsurpassed mineral
wealth, then take into account the
value of our fisheries, and one can
readily see that if there was any de-
sign in the creation of the world, a
city more wealthy and populous
than any heretofore built is des-
tined to exist on Elliott Bay.
CHICKEN THIEVES. There have
been many complaints of late from
persons whose fowls are mysterious
ly been disappearing. Last Satur-
day night quite haul was made by
the purloiners. and at diffe, ent times
this week. The chicken owners had
thought some persons lacking these
necessary helps for celebrating
Thanksgiving, were only providing
for a proper observance of that holi-
day; but when one of our citizens
awoke this morning to find a pair
of his choice fowls gone, he conclud-
ed that Cinnamon, who had no re-
gard for the Mclean" custom of
observing Thanksgiving were the
illustrators. Now all will agree that
Cinnamon are natural born thieves,
but as the most of these losses occur
near the vagabond location portion
OF our city, it may be that some of
our white population without visi-
BILE means of support are living on
chickens these days.
l. O. 0. FAT the regular
meeting of Seattle Lodge No.
Z last Tuesday evening the fol-
lowing officers were elected for
the ensuing term: E. L. Hall,
N. G.; E. 2. Buck, V. G.; G. P.
Farrer, r. S.; Chas. Chilberg,
Per. S.; J. P. Chllberg, Treas. !;
G. W. Wittenmeyer, F. W. Wald,
W. N. Bell, Trustees. The of
ficers elected by Olive Branch
Lodge No. 4, at their regular
meeting last Wednesday evening
for the new term are J. Wenz-
Ter, n. g.; O. F. Cosper, V. G.;
Geo. w. Tibbetts, r. S.; G. W.
Hall, Treas. C. II. Burnett, J.
C. Lipsky, c. W. Moore, Trus-
tees.
OUR Misunderstanding to the
latest official reports there are in
this Territory troops as follows: At
Fort Colville, one company of the
First Cavalry; at Fort Townsend,
one company of the Fourth Artil-
lery and one company of the First
Infantry; at Fort Vancouver, the
headquarters, are four companies of
the Twenty-first Infantry; at Fort
Walla Walla, the headquarters, are
four companies of the Twenty first
Infantry and three companies of the
First Cavalry.
Mac, the well known teamster,
while coming down the other morn
ing, slipped on the frosty pavement
and sustained heavy fall, severely
spraining his right ankle. Although
able to limp around. he is incapaci-