Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-27
Saws the Farmington Register: \

Says the Harrington Register: we
learn from gentleman who has just re-
turned from the eastern portion of the
county that the Northern Pacific compa-
ny have had men out looking over the
ground between Sprague and Pullman,
and if they return favorable report
surveyors will be Immediately placed in
the field to work on a branch road be-
tween these two points, to be completed
this year.
Lake Caur dAlene, according to
the Pennington Register, is fast becom-
ing the main summer resort of Eastern
Washington. Hundreds of families from
the Palouse country and from Spokane
county pitch their tents on the shores of
this lake during the warm months and
amuse themselves through the day IN
fishing for the fve-pound trout, and at
eve watching him flap his silver tail on
the surface of the ripping, sky-blue wa
ters, while the sun sinks slowly from
sight behind the golden-ledgsd noun
tains of the Cnur d'Alene.
The Gazette account of the Palouse
meeting is rather laughable to those
who know the facts. It states, for in
stance, that Logan's arguments IN favor
of building a courthouse were unan-
swerable! Did the Gazette know that
Logan said he was NOT in favor of the
$4,000 courthouse, and didn't know
whether he was in favor of any court
house? That if the citizens of Colfax
would contribute toward the buildings
he would favor small outlay on the
part of the county? Did the Gazette
really know how much of a laughing
stock Logan made of himself, anyhow?
We wish our Dakota friends, or any
other Eastern people who are used to
farming entirely level lands, could see
the work of the pillow that is being done
on the high hills southwest Of town by
Mr.. Samuel Rossiter. To the uninitiated
these hills would seem to be barrier to
successful agriculture, yet they produce
the best and largest of crops under the
most ordinary cultivation and are easily
reaped by modern machines. Mr.. Ros-
siter's plows are running at an angle of
perhaps 40 degrees to the mile an ex-
ceptional case in this locality, however,,
and yet he employs but three horses to
each pillow. The ground is rich and
mellow, and the recent heavy rains have
put it in first-clGss condition for work
ing. What a crop he will harvest from
that picturesque hillside!
The Colfax papers claim that the
convention at Palouse City was not
representative meeting, and that but
five out of 80 precincts were on hand
that the delegates did not represent the
real taxpayers of the county. Now, if
Colfax is so certain that she has the ma
iority in her favor why does she hesitate
to favor submitting the court house mat
ter to the people? But if only few pre-
cincts have openly declared themselves
against this scheme, how many have de-
clared themselves in its favor? Not one.
Who is in favor of it? Even Commits
sioner Logan says he is not NOW favofa-
BILE to it. In fact, the two Colfax papers
appear to have been ashamed of it, as
they have kept very quiet on the sub
ject-until the handwriting appears on
the wall. The Commoner's position is
simply that the people have no rights
that Colfax is bound to respect.
-Asotin, on the Snake river, just
above Lewiston, is one of the neatest
little towns (outside of Pullman, Of
course) that the HERALD man has seen
for some time. Isolated somewhat from
the buster world, at present, the town
nestles at the foot of the noble hills that
line the river and creek-a little gem in
a park of sloping green landscape, with
handsome residences, yards filed with
flowers and fruit trees, wide and we'll
kept business street, fine hotel, good
business blocks, and population of
hospitable people. Such was the glimpse
our fishing party had of Asotin taken
on the fly" SO to speak, as we were in
a hurry to reach Lewiston that evening
and Doc. Kirkwood's radical fishing
propensities lad made us late in leaving
the headwaters of Asotin creek. The
town has fine location and will "crowd "
Lewiston, in business sense, one of
these days. We didn't see Bro. Waldrip,
of the Sentinel, that trip, but hope to
agitate his digits in the near future.
InaUpuraI Celebration.