, 1888-04-26


bis head. He is dangerously wounded
and is not expected to live.
A CHARMING COUNTRY.
WHAT A REVIEW CORRESPONDENT SAW IN HIS
JOURNEY Down THE PALoUsE BRANCH
PROSPEROUS TOWNS, A RrcH COUNTRY AND A
THRIFTY PKoPLE.
Especial Correspondence OF the REvIEw)
Three o'clock and all aboard! The Spo.
kane & Palouse train pulled out OF the city
filled with passengers. Take look at
them-.it Is little world on wheels you
have entered. Pass down the aisle and
catch O snatch Of the conversation going
oh by twos and threes and tours. You only
hear sentence or u part Of a sentence and
guess the rest, ,as well as the business of the
travellers; his character, too, crops out.
Listen: 81 paid thirty-Gve dollars for nay
COW. Now that cow "rhey take the
retail price Of flour and the wholesale price
of wheat and then take the best titnc of the
year and average up to that II WAS in
one vote of the nomination but my best
friend went back on me'- II got that
piece of property cheap 81 got let
ter "She has left her bnsband'- and
so on to the end of the chapter.
1t Is pretty warm on the train but not
single straw hat to be seen among the pas.
sengers.
Now we have reached the town of
MARSHALL JUNCTION,
having passed through much fine pine tim
Der. Here we switch Oft from the main
line and head directly for the Pslouse
country. As we emerge from the timber,
nine miles from the junction, the magnif-
cent scenery of the C9ur Alene mountains
rises upon the left, and upon the right. like
q picture set in verdure. The town of
srAsGLR
greets the eye and charms the heart of an
enthusiastic traveller In the front Of the
coach, as he breaks involuntarily into the
song. "All the World seems Young and
Gay, etc" Spangle is thriving. prosper
GUS town, with population estimated any
where from four to six hundred. lying in a
section whose fertility is unrivalled, and
which abouuds in we'll cultivated farms.
The town gives many evidences of thrift
and enterprise, many new buildings are 20.
ing up and trade is lively. A newsboy furn-
ished US a copy ofthe spsngle Record, an
journal from which we learned, among 9TH
er interesting news items that contracts
have been let for the erection Of u 5000
building on the famous Steptoe Butte as q
resort for tourists In search OF scenery and
fine views
Out of Spangle we 60. Our backs are to
the setting sun and we are facing the great
grainery of the Pacific Northwest. Up Pine
creek, just fast enough to catch the grateful
breeze as 1t comes over grassy slopes
past rolling prairies, past singing meadow
larks, past the tinkling OF the bells Of the
herds upon thousand hills" into
RosALIA,
with her three grain elevators and her bran
new town charter. The watcb-word all
along tho line Is ''inco rporate." No liquors
can be sold in Whitman county, unless in
ever and whenever two or three are gath.
cred together, not in the name of the Lord.
but for the stomach sake, the cry goes up
to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS!
Rosalia has about one hundred and fifty
inhabitants, a fine back country and is, so
far, the heaviest grain shipping point on
the line.
This Pine creek valley is daisy! How
black and rich the soil as 1t turns its greasy
clods to the kiss Of the parting sun.
Anoter turn among the passengers and
the discovery is made that there are Just
four of them reading the newspapers, one
the Oregunian, one the Christian advocate
and two the MORNING REVIEW, while all
the rest are chatting away costly. The ac-
commodatinH conductor, Mr.. /. IL. Bro
haska. informs your correspondent that
there is more grain along the road than one
train can handle no that extras are put
OIL from time to time.
Leaving Rosal,a, for . distance Of ten
miles over gently rolling country we see
on all sides evidences Of growth and pro-
gress In farming. in farm houses and barns,
and farm cultivation. The season is well
advanced and the seeding nearly oyer; but
here We are at
oAKsDALE,
named for the vice. president Of the N. p.
r. X. and containing three hundred inhab.
ha
town IL all exceedingly imposing two story
school building, and judgiHg from a hasty
glance over the town 1t is not too much to
say that ifa few more copies Of the REVIEW
abreast OF the age Between Oaksdale and
Belmont your correspondent run across a
piece OF
VERY GOOD NEWS.
and news, too, that has q big bearing Oh
the future OF spokane. Mr.. T. +. Powen
one Of Portlands humanitarians and rep.
resentative business man who is we'll
known In Spokane, said to your CORE.
spondent: Neither Portland nor Tacoma
nor Seattle can sell any more goods to Spo.
kane because of tho reduction OF freights
on the Northern Pacific. Spokane can,
since April lst, get goods by the carload
from the east as cheap as Portland, aud the
freight from Portland back to Spokane is
nearly as much as the original freight over
the continent" This is good news indeed.
and means that Spokane is going 70 secure
in the immedia future all the trade of this
wonderful country.
From Osksdale to Belmont the run IL
eighteen minutes through valleys of ver-
dure and by hillsides whose tops are black
with this years plowing, and along mead
ows rich In their sweetness and their fresh
ness.
BELMONT,
for so long the terminus of the road, is the
end Of the days ride. IL has been COM
Portable and refreshing after the glare of
the electric light and the crowded thor
ougbfares of your city. Tomorrow the
train leaves here Tor Genessee. the present