Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-21
4 TRIP TO wALLa wALLA.
IN. PosT-IsrELLIeEscEg:

Ed. PosT-IsTELLIGExcEg:
Leaving Seattle on a quiet Sunday af-
ternoon started for the upper Ce.urn-
bia country, via Portland. In few
hours we reached the Puget Sound ter
minus Of the Northern Pacific railroad.
a city remarkable for small lots and
narrow sidewalks, good food and poor
whisky.
Leaving the terminus next morning
We arrived at Kalama at mid day. and
had the pleasure of viewing vast fields
of water dotted here and there with the
tops OF picket fences. To dusty tray
slsr tbs sieht was indeed refreshing.
ChanQ1oQ to . steamboat ve con-
mencsd the aseant ok. the Columbia
stopping at ssvseal bamlstA Nhese We
found fhe people upstsi1l Why1 they
would not tell. I suppose thew wsnted
to live high. That puts me in mind OF
a little episode-on the way to kAlana
q citizen of Seattle, no. satisfied with
what he had On the cars, stopped at a
Wv station to taste the country, but
before he could got it down, the train
started. leaving him on the landing
gazing wistfulIy after the friends he had
ucserIed; No rendered him all tho as
sistance We were able, by waving our
busters and exclaiming Fare You well,
Bro. Watkins, shs' Arriving at Port
land We found tho merchants on Front
street sending their goods up stairs. !
told them they need not be afraid OF
Us for, if we did come from Page:
Sound, we did not want either to make
raid on this goods or steal. bnt despite
all my endsavors to persuade them 10
desist, they persisted in moving the
goods where we could not get our hands
on them. The cooks in Portland seem
to be the especial care of the CITY: each
restaurant cellar is filled with water III
which the cork can swim, wash potatoes
and clean the kettles, and yet the,
9rumbie: truly this is - qneer world
Among the things to be visited at Port
/; is the Mariners Home, an estab
Iishment under the charge of Chaplain
otubbs. of the Seaman's Bethel. Here
you can get meal for five cents, ten
cents or more, and board and lodging al
the way from nothing to six dollars PEI
week. / can say truly Of this hotel that
for appointments and cleanliness, 1t will
stand unrivaled today in the city OF
Portland and yet allow the others to bt
! first-cIass houses. forgo. to tell yOu
that we arrived in Portland just in time
| to DO too late to vote. And IN every
| corner you would meet honest men who
told you that parties tried TO buy theii
vote, but sir, it could not be bought
no. not for two and q half. Say, Gen
| sral, won't you give me fifty cents to go;
| taste of tho country"
Leaving Portland in the morning We
| arrived in the Dalles at shutdown, where
We had thirty minutes for supper. The
views on the upper Columbia are worth
going TO gee. As you ascend, you grad
ually leave the timber and ply your way
between high hills, and here and there
! find a farmer cutting his oats, In boat
Il suppose he saves fodder by not US
ing horses. At Bonneville we race to
secure berth in the sleeper and have
| The solid satisfaction Of seeing the slow
ones looking disappointed when they
are told "all taken sir" and then you
mi when you see him jammed in the
other car where little girl is crying
About ten o'clock the gentlemen 90 on,
on the platform to disrObe, and directly
| they make dive, bat too late; 2hey are
seen, and then you smile again. The
ladies there 1 do not know, but Dc
know they went to bed. In the morning
you find your shoes neatly cleaned and
you feel satisfied that these bloatsd
monOpolies are not SO bad after all
Just then you are stunned by waiter
informing you that you owe him 'two
bits" and then you curse monopolies.
Close to Walla Walla was shown a
hill behind which Mr.. Whitman was
murdered. l asked if that mound was
erected to his memory, and they told
me no, it existed before tho murder
this surprised me.
Walla Walla is remarkable for its
broad streets, quiet, and lack Of rooms
for travellers. Its homes are pleasantly
located. and when it has communication
with Seattle by rail it will wake to new
life and bs the center of eastern capital