, 1883-06-30

The children will have comfortable
quarters in which to conduct their studies
next winter.
Work on the warehouse at the corner Of
Riverside avenue and Stevens street is
about completed.
Persons now shouting over the heat will
be hungry for a touch Of June weather
about next January.
The new pool and billiard tables at the
California house gives the boys a chance
to exhibit their skill.
A number Of horse owners have signi-
fed their intention to put fast animals on
the track next Wednesday.
Do not send your job work to Portland
or other places while you have two good
job Offices in Spokane Falls.
Harrison 4 Townsend talked real estate
to the people OF Portland, last Saturday,
through the press Of that city.
The train eastward boun6SuDhay morn
ing struck man at the Idaho line, caus-
ing injuries from which he died the next
day.
Spokane is to have a new carriage fac
tory. That is what is wanted. Factories
build towns, and there is room for plenty
more.
Bathing in the river has become popular
since the heat hit the country, and yet the
water don't feel as though it had been
cooked.
The Palouse Baptist Association will
gather at the river, the beautiful, the beau
tiful Spokane river, just at this point, next
Thursday.
II the house builders do not stop. throw
ing dirt into that gulch to the west of Can
mons building, that indention will soon
be out Of sight.
There is a great deal Of power running
to waste in this neighborhood, judging
from the exhibition OF affection we noticed
one evening this week.
A party Of workmen were cleaning the
grass from the race track this week, and
the horses have a clear shoot before them.
The races will be red hot.
Locomotives on the road have been
wearing the sombre signs OF woe in the
shape of Grape since the death Of the engi-
neer in the Saturday accident.
We hope full force of policemen will
be appointed to act on the 4th Of July. II
any trouble does show up there should be
some one on hand to squelch it at the out
set.
Several forest fires have been rubbing
out timber about the city this week, and
fringe Of smoke has hung about the
horizon as thick as the tongue Of an
inebriate.
Wilson & Drumheller are always to the
front with tho best meats the country
affords. They purchased large drove Of
fine look1g beef cattle this week for this
market.
The boys are preparing a 4th Of July
calithumpian reserve that promise to
make the ghost Of Hamlet laugh IL it
should happen to be loafing around these
parts on that date.
Harry Hayward was looking as happy
as a man just fallen heir to a fortune Fri
day morning, and it was all on account Of
a new arrival at his house in the shape Of
boarder Of the male persuasion.
1t is generally supposed that a reporter
is impervious to the weather, but the tor
rid streak OF the tail end OF the week has
knocked some Of the energy out Of the
scribe over on this side Of the street.
In putting down culverts in the city
stone should be substituted for wood. 1t
is almost as cheap as wood and will endure
forever, while wooden culverts cannot be
depended on for any length Of time.
The change in the money-order system
after next Monday will be interesting to
those possessed Of sufficient money to pay
their debts. Printers will continue to hang
on to the time honored custom Of paying
in nickel installments and promises.
The Union, Central and other blocks
about to be constructed, will be furnished
throughout with water pipes, so that when
water is introduced into the city-and may
the time be early-everything will be
ready Just to connect on to the mains.
A little postal card is finding its way
through the mail to our citizens inviting
them to shoulder a shovel and go to work
on the roads, with Street Commissioner
E. B. Hyde's name hung to the bottom.
1t is call that few are in any hurry to
respond to.
The first through tickets from Helena to
Portland were taken up on the passenger
train going west Friday evening Of last
week. They were numbered 0 and l, and
were presented by a gentleman and his
wife en- route to the great nt'to-be-sup-
posed seaport.
We have had a glimpse at the plans of
Central block, spread on paper by that
expert draughtsman, II. Preusse, and can
say that II the said plans are carried out to
the letter, and we have every reason for
believing they will be, that block will be
a perfect beauty in every respect.
Travel has increased so rapidly that
Warner & Roe now run their stage line
daily between this place and Medical
Lake. Both points are gamers by the
enterprise the gentlemen have shown in
putting on this line Of stages, and we hope
the proprietors may reap goodly reward
from that source.
Noticing an item to the effect that Colfax
has just invested in a steam fire engine
reminds us that Spokane Falls is literally
without protection against fires. Frame
buildings will burn, and after the drying
they have had a spark would be sufficient
to set them going. Would II not be well
TO cogitate on this matter7
Tho store room about completed by
Kohlhoff 4 Abel, on Howard street, two