, 1886-07-08
With Our Exchanges.


Puget Soaud hop growers are taking
courage. Prices are looking up.
Coon l land stake light, Willametf,
river, IS no@ shown from its regula,
stake.
The grand ledge, A. o. Q. W, vii
meet in Portland on Wednesday, the
l4th inst.
1t is said that Judge Burke, of Seattle
may be appointed to Judge Greene.
place as chief justice.
Saw logs are still selling at Sc. and
upwards. per thousand. LAUNDERING
business always boon5 with such prices
It must be real easy to write poetry il
Chinese. They say you eau make mCst
any word rhyme with a saw buck or 4
rail fence.
rom Washington 10 Arthur a record
is found OF 100 presidential vetces
President Cleveland has already uscd
the veto seventy-three times.
A cousin OF Mrs. Cleveland. Miss
Amelia Folsom. was the sixteenth wife tf
Brigham Young. What famous moItals
we Americans are getting to be!
Some convicted New York boycotters
have been sentenced to terms in the peni
tentlary ranging from one year aud half
to three yeaIs aud eight months.
Judge Greene, it is said, will net hold
a term OF the supreme court this month,
but will rusticate on farm till fall in
hopes OF regaining his health fully.
There are, according to careful e.tI-
mates, 600 tons of wheat in sight along
the Snake river. The Riparia branch is
handling about LOCO tons of wheat at
the present time,
Seattle is again in the throes of local
u2heaVal. Politics will be red hot in
their municipal contest till after the city
election next Monday. Seattle is always
having lots of fun.
Congress" says the Chicago Inter
ocean, SHOULD vote rubber stamp to
the White house. There is no use OF
working man to death signing his
name under No"
The Northern Pacific has surveyed
two routes between Rathdrum and Fort
Ceur d'Alene. They will run u line
from Warduer to the Palhouse branch
during the coming week.
Shoshone is fourth in the list OF Idaho's
gold producing counties. Her last years
output in gold was S300,965 Most of
this came from The Coeur d'Alenes,
This year the silver output will be very
large.
The river and harbor bill, it is sup
posed, will go to the president this week
The sums appropriated will aggregate
over SIS, ,0G0,000, and may reach $20,000,-
eco. and it is highly probable that the
president will veto it.
President Cleveland is said to have
sailed beyond the jurisdiction of the
United States on sunday, leaving Score
terry Bayard president for short time.
Happily Mr. Bayard did not find it out
IN time to do any mischief.
TIE United States senate has passed
the joint resolution for the consideration
by the states Of constitutional amend
ment extending the Presidents term
from March to April SO aud extending
the congressional term to the same
extent.
There is nothing he matter with the
yield of grain in Uma,ilIa county this
year, says the East OregOnidn, but there
is something wrong with the prica per
bushel aud the rates OF freight to Port
land, Ihe farmer does ali the work AID
the speculator and corporation wants all
of the profit.
Frank Dallam, publisher OF the Spc-
kane Falls Morning Revie,c, has sold
half interest in the property to II 7.
Brown, lately OF Butte City. The daily
Recie1c will be enlarged to seven columns
and have the associated press dispatches.
Spokane Falls will do well to patronize
the RerietC literally.
The following statement shows the
OF the presidential postolfces IN
Washington, as arranged for the next
fiscal year: Cheney, Sll00; Colfax, S1500i
S1400; Olympia, $500; Port
Sl300; Seattle, S2iOO; Spo-
kane Falls, $500; Sprague, Sl1O0; Ia
coma, S2l00; Vancouver, Sl20O; Waila
Walla, S2100.
The Seattle P.-I., Of yesterday morn
ing, published document promulgated
the other day-as late, IN fact, as 1l0
years ago by some American colonies,
called declaration of Independence. 1t
is said to have created quite stir, and
may provoke King George OF England
to wrath. The P.-I. deserves great
credit for its enterprise in securing the
news so fresh for its readers.
The Portland Meas does not endorse
all that the managers OF the Northern
Pacific road have done. In some par
ticu!ars they have not complied with
the terms upon which their land grant
is based. But, says the NelcS, this does
not blind us to the fact that the people
of the Northwest are anxious for the
early completion of the Cascade branch,
and that they are opposed to throwing
any obstacles in the way.
The celebration at Tacoma was grand
success. The Grafton was by ex-GoV.
Newell, on the Iesources, topograpy'
commerce and future of Puget Sound.
The Declaration OF Independence was
finely rendered by Miss Rosa Slanus:
In attendance weIe large number OF
Puyallup Indians, with their families,
and band. Iu the tournament OF IRE
companies between Seattle aud Tacoma,
the latter won the first prize for hose
carriage work, and the former won tie
hook and ladder prize. There was an
immense cOncourse.
WOMAN SUFFRAeE-To show what
silly spectacle some people make over
our Washington territory equal suffrage
bugaboo, it is only necessary to quote
the following from the Lexingto Mass
Re1fsfer: ''It is said there is a colony
forming in this county for the purpose
Of settling in Washington territory In
that country women suffrage and women
Jury duty are in vogue. Women are
called away from their families to go tG
other towns to serve on grand and petl'
iurieg, and be gone for days or ever
weeks. Promiscuous juries OF men aud
woman are Iia6!e to be locked up TO
gether over night. We advise our peo
pie TO think twice, and they will not &c
where their women folks are to be SUB
iected to such treatment as that
Ayers SarsaparilIa operates radically