Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-06-07
A TRIP NORTH.

DuFlng the past week we nau OCCASION
to take hasty trip. north, as far as Pine
Greek. We visited Gcncsee, Moscow,
Four Mile, Palouse City, Pennington,
Deep Greek, The Cove, Palouse Bridge
and the country intervening We no.
ticed many changes for the better in all
the towns and decided improvement
upon many Of the ranches of farmers,
since We passed through mos, Of the same
section of country last year. Moscow,
Four Mile and Viola adjacent. Palouse
City and Pennington, as towns, had made
good addition to their number of build
ings and all indicated that they felt con-
fdcnt and hopeful that each was bound
TO grow and thrive as towns where their
business, derived from the immediate dis
trict Of each, would be ample to make
each thrive from their own district to
maintain lively and steady t.adc for
years to come, while some of them seemed
to entertain strong hopes that they would
soon absorb such an excess of trade that
they would, causc the others soon to dwindlc
to such insignifcance as to unable them to
soon annihilate the others and leave them
only as agricultural ranches Several days
before we reached these towns VIC found
the Moscow people had for long time
before, been pcrmeating these northern
districts, both by button holing and pub
lie speaking on the question of the re-
movsl of the county seat, and had made
great many highly colored and false
statements in regard to the people of Lew
iston, and the situation and claims of
Moscow to county scat at the present,
and by these Misrepresentation uncontra-
dictcd, as no one from Lewiston was
there to contradict them, many had come
to the conclusion that the charges against
Lewiston must be true. We went out to
gather the gist of those and to defend
the right and, if possible, disabuse the
public mind of the falschoods which had
been scattered broadcast among the peo
pie north of the Seven Mile mountain,
We met the people in five places one
each day, at Z pm. and with the little
time we had discourscd to them upon
the question of relocation; its origin, his
tory and facts. On each of the same
evenings Mr. circuit, of the Boomerang,
assisted us, and Mr.. McKcrn, of Moscow,
spoke against our position and for ought,
we could apprehend, sought to justify
the allegations which had been made
against thepcoplc of Lewiston, and whined
much because the other speakers would
not, as he afirms, suffer him to occupy
as much time Of the meeting as each of
the other speakers had, Notwithstanding
tho Moscow men had previously occupied
the field and had given no notice to Lew
iston that they were to meet the people
publicly and discuss the question. We
explained the situation fully, and still
he whincd and complained of abuse and
want ofcourtsey. But the people did not
see it in that light and permitted Lewis
ton advocates to take what time they
wanted. But this with what Mr.. Nc
Kern absorbed each evening, detained
the people at each place of speaking till
from II to | o'clock each night. The
result will show with what effect the can.
vass was made upon each side of the issue
We returned to Genescc and there re-
manned through election day and took an
active part in more private and indi-
vidual manner, with others Of Lewiston,
to aid US in endeavoriug to present the
claims Of Lewiston and the reasons why
the county seat should remain where It
now is, and we then came home satisfied
with the result.