, 1884-02-02
rewA AND CoUSTRI.
Philip Ritz is home again
Are You going TO the mines,

Philip Ritz Is home again
Are You going to the mines>
| Whitman county has "A school districts-
The Olymyia city council arc asisatsnsa
/ high license.
| There are a large number Of tough looking
4 citizens in town
The Tacoma Ledger erects Mr. Willard IS
frIgh,fu! example.
Allison, of Iowa, is reelected to the United
States senate
This is the predicted year of Democratic
triumph. Mind that
An. Dennison has returned from his pIo-
tracted visit to the lower country.
Seed time comerh and the wise man will
keep Geo. Starrett's name in his mind.
Two drummes for Chicago houses are IN
town and are meeting with fair success.
S,me of our hard cases have an idea that
Walla Wsila is home for tired men,
Twenty FIVE hundred dollars reward Is offered
for the arrest of the Dayton FIRE bugs
Gen. Tannatt, mayor of Walls Wa,la, Ore
gon, has dog tha. cts pins vorscioas!y-N.
T. San.
The senate committee On public lands will
report that the timber culture act should be
repealed
A letter from Weston informs US that five
brick business houses will be erected there
this spring.
An oculist tells Boston reporter that every
yard OF dotted veil that is sold is at lesst so
in the pockets of his brethren.
Some Of our young men are agitating the
idea of organising joint stock company to
build skating rink for next winter.
Tie handsomest sign in town is that dis
played over Columbus Walkers new head
quarters. Givo it glance - you pass that
way.
We hear of a splendid sheet Of ice one mile
in diameter &. Wallula, If the distance is not
too great for our skaters TO go, it will afford
fine enjoyment.
There is nothing new regarding rsilroadcon-
struction in the PAlouse country. The ques-
ton is as Uncertain as it was the day work
was ordered stopped.
Il is estimated that it costs 8. 600. 900 year
to support the churches of New York City.
while the revenue of the theatres is set down
at 81 600 600 per annum.
The London Daily Telegraph boasts an
average circulation of 24l. sol copies per day
''ao excess of between 81. 900 copies over any
other morning newspaper"
1t has been suggested that the public are
surfeited with the Ladies' Relief Society i'm
hroglio, and We therefore beg to decline fur.
| ther communications on that subject.
John Albeit received letter from Bess-
erer last week dated Philadelphia. He viii
proceed to Washington and after = short So
j1urn there will so to Southern California.
The delinquent tar list amounting to SlE,-
5SI 25 is now in the hands of the sheriff and
those who do not pay up immediately will be
sa idlsd with the usual delinquent per centase.
We hear of several parties who will start for
the mines in the next two weeks. but If they
will take the advice Of one who knows, they
will give the camp wide berth for the next
two months.
The Asotin Mills are not running at present
aud parties bringing whea. to the mill during
the week for exchange were refused storage.
! This indicates that the mill is shut down for
an Indefinite length of time.
Fears were entertained that the fruit trees,
which started to bud in the last chinook,
would be killed by the prevailing frosty wealth
er, bat so far the cold mas not been severe
enough to affect the trees.
We call tire attention OF our readers TO the
new az of George Starrett, the well known
seedsman of this city. Mr.. Starrett's trade
| now extends all over the interisr, and those
who want good seeds or trees will do well to
| purchase o: him.
! Leap year is knocking at the door,
And Sam or Jack or Fred or Thomas,
| Can claim hearing ON the floor
County Jailer Bloodworth, in q quarrel at
| he Dali es on Thursday night, shot at l. JohE-
son and hit man named LAnke in the abdo-
men. The wound is supposed 70 be fatal.
Weston is in the thrnes of an old fashioned
revival. We presume the chiefsst sinners will
have to be baptised in the Columbia, for there
is not sufficient water in Pine creek to wash
their sins away.
By private letters from Omaha we learn that
| the surveyors who made the survey Of Snake
river for the Oregon Short Line, have been
ordered to continue the survey from Lewiston
! down the river.
| c. A Gay, of Lewiston. dentist, has eloped
with Miss Shonkwiler, girl in short dresses,
whose parents reside in Pomeroy. That Gay
! is sleek and lazy rascal and E rad egg on gen
eral principles.
No arrests, no drunkennses, NJ fghts, no
runaway, 10 nothing going on, and ye. the
| strests are alive with people. Either the
mile mum is 1t hand or our police force ere
vigilant enough to nip all disturbances in the
| bud.
We caution people going 70 the niaes to take
! no stock in the Trout creek trail for . tire.
| The route tor the lrst fifteen miles 10 good,
| but the divide between It and the head Of
Eagle creek Is about the loftiest in the camp
| and its passage il attended with considerable
danger at this season. The route by way OF
Fort Ceur TAlene and the Old Mission is
| always opea- >.
J. Lutcher, who lost both legs and par. OF
| his hands through being frozen, and Who also
| lost heavily by the fire opposite the cour.
house, nox has little store opposite Sam
Lesser's, where ne keeps for sale good stock
Of cigars. tobacco. candy, notions. etc. As he
has family 20 support and is deserving man
ws hope :ha. passers by Who have dime or
quar-; sr to inves. in cigars. ETC., viii give Mr.
| Lat hec call
Henry B. Payne Of Cleveland, the new
senator from Ohio, ia small slender. refined
looking gsntlemal, some 74 year, OF age.
He has what would be called highly ner-
vous organization, and is quick In msLtal
and physical action. He ia alert impres-