, 1881-10-29
LOCAL RELIEF FUND.
Collections Aade BY Reporters
OF ''The Statesman for a
Suffering Public.
And Dealt out to them by the Hand
Of the Local Topican.

1t looks very much as if We were going Il
have Indian summer.
We hear it rumored that Walla Walla i,
soon to have another paper.
David Sires, the special police officer who
Was shot by Payne at Seattle short tim.
ago. is dead.
Our exchanges are coming in filed with
accounts of snow with which their vicinity
has been blessed.
Judge ID. c. Lewis, OF Cheney. is in the
city. The Judge will be remembered as the
n. P. h. RS general agent
The annual meeting Of the WalIa W,lIa
Bible Society has been postponed until the
10Th and 18th of November.
This is a good time to lay in the winter
tore Of the starchy potato. Wagon loads
Of that fruit are sold Oh the streets daily.
Rubt. McCalley who went below for the
benefit Of his health, is reported as being
quite i'll with intermittent fever at Port.
land
The United Brethren Conference couyenss
at Huntsville on Saturday next AMI lasts
over Sunday. There promises to be large
attendance.
DIR. Marion reports that his patient ii.
C. Griiliths, at the pest house is getting
along nicely, and is in fair way for re-
coyery.
A new towl adorns the nail in the CON-
posing room Of the STATESMAN Office now,
and the Loys have ceased to wipe on the
place where the Old ones used to hang.
The following We find in the Nortlnest
TriJuns:
Wanted by young man IN Cheney wife.
He has good farm about THREE miles from
town and owing to his lonely situation is
willing to branch out on matrimonial ven
ture. She must lie young and pretty and
not afraid Of work For particulars, inquire
at the ''Blne Front
A certain town In Nebraska had murder
4 Iynching, free fight and tornado the
same day. 1t was the only tim0 for seven
years that anything of the kind had occurred
there hut it would be impossible to con-
vince the strangers Ill town that day that it
wasn't the tougnes. place on earth.
1t Is about time for the yOung fellows in
the city who imagine they are ''giited ora
speaking of this matter would it not be a
GOOD idea to organize third house" here
in Walla Walla, and see if tine Legisla.
ture at Olympia cannot be discounted A
Legislature in the Estate of Walls Walla'
would be rich thing. Who will start it,
John Cheetham went into the First Nat
ional bank at Walla Walla TO deposit sixty
dollars. and while he had his hack turned a
sneak the got away with the sixty dollars.
-PGiOuse Gdzette.
Another case wherein a man has to 60
away from home to learn the news. If
Cheetham lost sixty dollars that way he GER
tainly kept very qniet about it. The First
National>Lank knows nothing of the affair,
nor does our efficient city marhal Guess
Cheetham must have had the jim-jams, and
imagined all that.
Ocean vrssels are getting s" now that they
dare not attempt to reach Portland. vii
lamette Creek is certainly having dry
sped, and we shall not he surprised to hear
of the Portland daili.s advertising for All
appropriation to buy 4 force pump so that
water may be thrown over there, by means
Of n hose, from the Columbia.
We are H. receipt of Il copy OF an appeal
IT, III tie Garfield Monument Association OF
san Franei>ca, with request to publish.
Ii is proposed to erect suitable monument
someu here IN San Francisco: the exact spot
not YET designated. The appeal is too
lcugthy to publish entire. Wells, Fargo X
Co.'S agent in this city is authorized to re-
coivc subscriptions.
4 man came into an EDITORS room with a
large roll Of manuscript under his arm, and
sail, v,ly politely: 81 have triae here
i about the beautiful sunset yesterday, which
was lashed off 10y friend Of nine, which L
wouM like In,ert.l if you have room
'sPl-u;y Of r"o:n Jast i.sert If yourself,
r,plr ,h. eLr or, gen,Iy pushing the waste
Pap ! hisle. .ewsr. HIM.
W. clir The follow IN fran III. Ne frrce
Hr~s
To the P,nr.E aF Moscow Il am au-
I.izel Ia Innniinc.. iIGn telegram JUS.
! receive lay mrr iium Mr John Mar, senern
| freight and PASSENGER a.:rnt 0i he v. Ia " ~
| Co, who has jIst reLurir'i IT, Portland from
Il thorough examination of railroad construc-
! tion progress that the line will be at Moscow
| in time to carry next years crop st rate
not 10 exceed forty cents per hundred pounds
| un wheat. This will make it eight dollars
Ter ton, or the same as is now charged lroni
| all points ON Snake river, Dayton and Waiia
| Walla JSo. T. VoLMEk,
! Agt. O. r. & N Co.
! Lewiston, Oct. II, lSSl.
We arc in receipt of fve or SIX letters
every day from parties who desire copy
Of the paper" They enclose no stamp 70
even pay the postage on the copy they want
] and hence do not receive it. 1t casts money
TO run a newspaper, however much other
( feople may think to the contrary. Were We
As fortunate As the fellox in Texas who steals
his ink and has his paper given to him hy
the Young Mems Christian Assoclatioh'
while he beats his printers out of their wages
every Saturday night playing seven up we
might send tie STATESMAN around gra'i1'
Is II is. those who desire specimen copies
will piease remit the money with theif
! Or,irrS.
The Boise Statesman says: Inc panes
and Walla Walla papers seem to think Ihat ,,
| ii the Cascade Locks are only buit tney CI cn.
be free from the bngbear OF a.onoPo'y: o"l
! experience is of different nature we oai, can
remember when steamboat enald i"ah lE' !.
tons Of freight at San francesca and run q.
rect to Red Bluff. distance oi l'n h'i,sns nS'
hut that availed the people nothing;
great corporation Of that ira, the Cani"a" -
Steam Navigation Co, held full eontroi "
the river from 1854 to 1863, and no opP'a,
ton boat could last ON that river Tor iou'
mouths In will he the same on the Coluu'-