, 1888-11-29
Editorial Notes.

Editorial Notes,
Seattle Is probably the busiest city
on the coast except San Francisco.
Dakota people want the Territory
divided, and two States admitted at
olce.
Why was Cleveland like Horace
Greeley Because he said: go,
West"
Portland is beginning to feel not a
little alarmed over the smallpox
scourge.
Many worldwide tourists have said |
that Port Townsend scenery is un-
surpassed.
After Washington has been made |
State there is a probability that
Oregon and Washington will be con-
stituted federal court circuit
Freight on wheat from the Palouse
country to Tacoma is 20 cents a |
bushel. From Yakima it is 10 cents.
The Yakima people are naturally in
dignant.
General Harrison believes in the
Christian Sabbath, and in observing
it not only as a rest day but as no
ly day. One of his recent orders is
that no mail shall be delivered at his
house on Sunday.
The people at the Dalles in Oregon
are getting tired of the slow work on
the part of the government in i'm
proving the Cascade locks, and there
is probability of the State taking
hold and pushing things.
California people who were here
last summer were delighted with our
climate. There is no doubt that Port
Townsend will after time be a pop
ular resort in the summer season for
the people of the South Pacific coast.
Pension vetoes will be few under
the next administration. General
Harrison is the friend of the soldier;
and he is not man who will without
investigation veto bills passed after
thorough consideration on the part
of Congress.
In all probability North Yakima
will be side-tracked ere long by the
Northern Pacific. That Is, the main
line of the road is to be the one run
ming from Cheney to Ellensburg, or
to some point even further north
than the place last named.
1t has been suggested that one of
the States to be made out of Dakota
be called Harrison The people of
Dakota think great deal of Harri-
son because OF the gallant fight made
by him for the statehood of that Ter
ritory when he was in the senate.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, says
that he at one time favored the an
nsxation of the panhandle of Idaho
to Washington, but that he has
changed his mind. He wants as
many States west as possible, so that
the West may be able to contend po-
litically with the East and the South.
Lord Sackville has attained no.
toriety and accumulated shekels at
the same time His old duds, and
even worthless broken crockery
brought fabulous prices at auction
in Washington the other day. A lot
of unusually enthusiastic angloman-
iacs wanted something English, you
know.
The Headlight has commenced to
speak of Pasco as "the city" This
is not little, but q great deal pre-
mature. However there are good
reasons for the belief that there will
sometime be town of no mean pro-
portions at that point on the Colum-
bia. They have the sand at Pasco-
acres of it.
Great expectations are entertained
at Anacortes on Fidalgo island these
days. One man last week refused
$1,000 for five acres of land. Anoth-
er sold nine acres near the school
house for $780, Four miles of the
right of way secured for the railroad
have been slashed and the work of
grading is going on rapidly.
British Columbia Gamers are en-
deavoring to overcome the prejudice
against white salmon. aud are pIac-
ing them on the market. The white
and the pink kind are OF the same
species, and the difference in the
color of the flesh is supposed to he
due to the fact that the former does
not go as far out to sea as the latter.