, 1889-02-14
GRABLETS

Mr.. Allen Weir recently sold the
Port Townsend ARGUS, a paper he
founded twelve years ago, and had
carried on ever since, to AIR. William
L. Newell, of Walla Walla. Mr.
Weir succeeded wonderfully in build
ing up paper in a small field, and
now the field is expanding rapidly,
and his successor is at work in it with
an industry that promises results
equal to larger opportunities.-Ore
gOnidn.
Times must be rocky in Mono Co,
California. The Mononians have tel
egraphed to the governors of Cali
fornia and Nevada that there is an
Indian uprising" there. Time was
when the boys could always make
S25, 900 or $50, 1000 on an Indian ups
rising" over that way, but those times
are gone. The Piutes don't ''uprise"
worth a cent any more, and cne Ne
yadian armed with a pick handle
could put every Indian on the base
range 10 flight Still, the Mono folks
may be able to tap the state treasurer
for modicum.
The suburban car and Il freight
car attached to a small locomotive
took an involuntary bath in Salmon
bay yester lay afternoon. The cars
were going across the trestle work
towards Ross station, when some OF
the piling gave way beneath the
cars, the coupling snapped and the
two cars We're plunged into the waters
beneath. Fortunately it was low tide
and the twelve passengers in the su-
burban got out with no other in
jury than a little wetting. Had the
accident happened at high water,
nothing but miracle would have
prevented several deaths. - Seattle
Times.
The printing press has made
presidents, killed poets, furnished
bustles for beauties and polished
genius with criticism. 1t has set the
price of bushel and has made the
county postoffice the goal Of the rur>
al scribe. 1t has curtailed ths pow
er of kings, graced the pantry
shelves and busted. 1t has converts
ed bankers into paupers and made
lawyers out of college presidents; it
has educated the homeless and
robbed the philosopher of his reason.
1t smiles and kicks aud dies, but it
cannot be run to suit every body and
the editor is a fool who tries
Downs Chief.
James Dewitt, a miner from Silver
City, Idaho, found his wife at Butte in
a rather sensational way one evening
this week. He arrived on the even
ing train and went down to the
Comique to have a little time and
was astonished to find his wife one
Of the inmates of the place A scene
ensued, and he will apply for di-
vorce. The woman is young anG
good looking, and has two children
DiVett sent her to Seattle to visit bel
mother and supposed all along sht
WAS still there. Her letters were
forwarded through a friend, who
mailed them in Seattle, and she go
her husbands in the same way.
Sheriff Bowles, of Walla Wallt
county, sold the other day forty lott
in old Wallula for $3.50, an averag,
of 4S cents each. This is low pric,
. for lots in a town which in early day
promised to be metropolis of East
ern Washington. Old Wallula live
now only in memory; yet it is tn
most ancient town east of the noun
tains. Long years ago, under tA
: patronage of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, it WAS the supply point for til
: country reaching out hundreds c
l miles in every direction, and the oil
adobe buildings in partial state {
p preservation are still there. The
were used for the company's sto1
houses and forts, and were of strou
enough build to resist any Indian Il
S tack.