, 1889-04-25
OAKEsDALE ITEMS.
improvements Progressing aud Real Es-
tate Rapidly Changing Hands.

tate Rapidly Changing Hands.
OAKEsALE, April %, Correspondence
We had a cloudy blistering Easter with
little rain.
Farmers are still busy putting out the
large crop of grain, although some have
finished seeding and others will not get
through under two weeks.
The mammoth elevator will soon be
completed 1t makes a very conspicuous
appearance.
Comegys & McHued have moved their
loan and real estate office into the Miller
building on Front street.
FL. II. kitriRe, the banker, is now 10.
Gated in the McDuval building on Steptoe
avenue; also the Oakdale Sun in the ad-
joining room, where 1t will cast its gaze
upon the just and unjust.
Buildings are still going up in every
direction, and not day passes but lots
are sold and at three times the prices that
they solo at year ago.
Rhoades Il kilson have located in the
real estate business on the east side of
have sold about all the residence lots in
the Henry Mccoy addition.
Thomas Secrist has laid off twenty-five
acres adjoining the Mccoy addition, east
of town. This will make some of the
incest residence lots in town, as it gives a
fine view over the town and for miles
around.
Ten delegates went from here to the
anti courthouse meeting at Palouse City,
where they found large representation
from other points, all with u determina-
tion to defeat the building of the court
house until the county is divided, and we
think the way that things look it will not
stop short OF three counties, making one
countyseat at or near this point Palouse
City or Pullman another, and Endicot or
near there another. The people feel
themselves very much outraged on ac-
count of the way Colfax and the
county commissioners have done and
are determined that about dozen Col
faxites and two county commissioners
/ shall not put such tax upon them with
out their consent.
We have been trying to keep Oakesdale
from getting boom, but like Spokane
Falls almost everyone that stops here sees
at a glance that Oakesdale has a bright
future and is the coming town of the great
Palouse country. and at once concludes to
cast their lot with us. and of course we
will not order them off in order to keep
down boom, but on the other hand we
extend them the hand of fellowship and q
share of our glorious country.
| DR. Mosier has permanently located
| Win us anu VIII at OHCt open MS OIIlcS on
| Front street.
John Howard of Spokane Falls has
opened a barber shop adjoining DR.. Ba-
ker' g drug store on Bartlett street.
! Ed Doreen of Carson City, Nevada, is
here to open gents furnishing estab-
lishment.
Thomson 4 Rooney have commenced
work on the foundation of the brick build
ing, and as soon as teams can be obtained
to haul the stone work will be pushed as
fast as possible.
There are no idle hands in or around
Oakesdale and at times there are not
enough to supply the demand.
ID. b. Conrad, organizer of subordinate
farmers alliances, has been organizing
lodges in Whitman and Spokane counties
at rapid rate the past five or six weeks
and no doubt this organization will prove
to be power in Washington in short
time.
! Everybody down this way are now
talking no fence law when our next Leg
islature meets. They can not see the ne.
cessity of fencing their stock and then
their grain at great expense for wire
and then see that money all leave the
country.