, 1889-10-24
SPIRIT OF THE HOME PRESS.
PASS THE CAKE TO RosALrA.


Admitting that Pasco will be good
sized town n century hence yet it will
bo buta small hamlet, says the Rosalia
Rustler, compared with Rosalia, the
magical mascot of this great common
wealth. Our city limits will scale the
base of the Cascade mountains on the
west; the Canadian Pacific on tho north !;
Idaho on the east and Oregon on the
south. She will have population of
900 900 900 souls; have all the latest
modern improven ents in street rail
ways; 100 First National banks; steam
boats will traverse Pine creek; it will
have more different lines OF railroad
than have Chicago. New York, San Fran
cisco and Portland. The Rustler will be
a thirty.two page daily with half u mill
ion circulation. Such is Western pro-
gress.
If the night of Monday October 2s,
chances to be one of those clear and cool
nights peculiar to October, it will repay
star-gazers to keep their Dyes open, for
then they will witness vision of rare
beauty. The new moon for this month
will appear on the oath inst, and make
her first quarter on the 31st. On the 2Sth
there will he conjunction with Jupiter,
and the conjunction is extremely close
and the picture of the star and the cres-
cent will be one of rare beauty. The
conjunctions for the rest of this month
will be with Neptune on the 10Th, Mars
on the 2lst, Vcnus on the 22d and Mer.
curry ON the 23d. The watchers of the
skies, providing the weather is clear,
can enjoy these celestial phenomena. If
they have no telescopes, powerful field,
or what Is better, night glasses, will aid
them greatly in their observations.
The commissioners who were appoint.
ed to confer with Chief Saltice in regard
to obtaining right.of.way through the
reservation from st. Mary's road, report
having short talk with Salticc in re.
gard to the road, and gained his consent
without difficulty. The chief asks that
two roads be built, instead of one, so
that the Indians may have shorter
route between their homes and Farm.
ington. Tho Pennington Register
thinks Soltice is about right, as the In
dian trade amounts to over 5000 n
year.
A gentleman Just from the East, while
in conversation with the editor of the Te-
koa paper, said:
"Our country back there has gone to
the devil. All the enterprising men that
can arc leaving and coming West, They
won't stay there, where everything is go
ing backward rather than forward. AS
soon as the boys grow up, and get IN oncy
enough, they bid good bye to the old
homes and turn their faces toward the
setting sun, and after once being accli-
mated to the West, will never come back
to stay. The Northwest states are at
tractimg more people from our section
than any other part of the West i can
name at least twenty men, among them
some of our most solid business men,
who will come to Washington next
spring. Washington is without ques
ton the best and greatest state / have
ever been in and when go home in
tend opening the eyes OF some of my
neighbors by telling them what saw in
the Northwest corner state.
A gentleman was here recently says
the Waitsburg Times, to organize a
branch building and loan association.
He succeeded in collecting about 800.
He and the money have disappeared and
the general agent ut Spokane Falls had
TO make good the deficit from his own
pocket He has also spent another 500
in trying to arrest the en- bezzler. The
culprit was formerly In business in this
city. 1t is said that he gambled away
the building and loan funds here as fast
as he collected them.
In Spokane Falls we should hardly
call such scrub gentleman, "But
they do things differently in Paris"
The Indians are bringing in their
wheat and oats at the rate of from ten
to fifteen loads per day, says the Tekoa
Globe. There is probably no tribe of In
dians in the Northwest who are so far
advanced in the white mans method of
farming as the Cnur d Alene. They are
well provided with farm implements of
all kinds, and raise some splendid crops.
The trade that comes to this city from
the reservation amounts to no small
figure, and 1t Is safe 10 say that In the
next year the entire products of this
vast area Of farming lands will be mar
keted at Tekoa.
Waitsburg Times: Have you ever no.
ticed ID. Il. Martins bob-tailed dog9
That dogs father had bob tail and,
strange to say, in one litter there were
two bob.tailed pups and two with long
tails