, 1890-07-10

fOWrln, sNlu inc W Nllh Nhih JOuIhh'
A great many have an idea that the
Fourth is the day on which Christ came
10 America,
osburn. Idaho, has hnlf-mile track,
said to bo the finest straight race track
In the Crur d'Aenes.
The Walla Walla Union celebrated the
Fourth by publishing the Declaration Of
lndependence-n good idea.
Mrs. Brown, waiter in the Washing
ton hotel at Walla Walla, entered n
brewery, where several men were drink
ing aud coolly drew from hand satch bel
a diminutive pistol. which she lovelcd At
tho breast OF one OF the disciples of Dac-
chus. She was quickly disarmed and
the man He'd. She explained that he had
talked about her.
Senator Watson &. Squire writes in
LippinCotts for this month that Wash.
ington, the new state, grows the best
hops known to commerce, and that the
state is getting a very large immigration
from Iowa.
The idea that q Western city can not
get along without Cinnamon Is dis
proved by Tacoma's experience. There
are no better hotels, restaurants, and
laundries in the world than in that city,
Notwithstanding there is not China
man within Its borders or in the county
In which it is situated. The Globe oh.
serves. san Francisco has 2i,OoO
Cinnamon. Tacoma has not one. This
city wants big population, and Is OBJ
tanning 1t with rapidity that is as
tonishing tue world, but 1t proposes to
try aud get along somehow without the
Heather Chinee,
Gradually the ruthless hand OF ciyili-
lntion Is performing Its work Of dosiruc-
ton, and one 10y one new.fangled no
tions from the East are supplanting the
old Western customs. The graveyard
in the center of Main street, in the town
OF ofElkhorn, Montana has been abolished,
and the dead have been disinterred and
removed. In the early days 1t was Gus
iomary to bury the man wherever he
happened to DO shot, but hereafter
cemetery will be established outside OF
the city limits,
The Post Falls Post of July was
printed on white paper, with red and
blue ink, In celebration of Independence
day and the admission OF Idaho 10 the
Union.
The Oregon Statesman pa,hetically
This is our one hundred and
anniversary. Just compare
Salem then and now. She didn't have
seven bands and 5000 people at her
then. Verify, times change"
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ID. NJ. Morris, OF Turner. Oregon, has
clock that for the last six years has
stopped every 2d OF July, tho anniysrsa-
ry Of the shooting Of President Garfield.
II positively refuses to work during thc
month Of July, bu, keeps excellent time
the balance of the year.
The Flandrau Is. d. Herald, having
referred to the editor OF the Sedro
Wash. Press as 'an intellectual homeless
wonder" the latter rctort~; "The above
comes 10 us from Flnndrnu, 5. D., hay
ing been published in puny, wocbe-
gone sheet, distinguished from real
newspapers by tho appellation, Flnndrnu
Herald. All +. T. Whitman, who bears
the unenyiable reputation OF talking
more and saying less than any other
member Of the South Dakota craft, Is It's
editor His paper Is long since dead,
but funeral expenses are saved by con
tinuing Its publication"
Councilman Adler, OF BAKER City, Or,
according to the Rovellc, wadded up
81, 500 in rebel money this morning with
his regular deposit ut the First National
bank and came near passing IL In for
good money, but the eagle eye of Cashier
Parker detected the bogus bills and tho
joke tell on Mr., Adler. The bills were
registered in 1855 by the treasurer and
ought to represent neat little sum in
interest by this lime.
Cliff NJ, Wilson, of North Palousc. has
presented 10 the editor Of the Moscow
Mirror portion of u masto1on's tusk,
'NN'' oh sHo ASOtln.
The tusk was seven feet long and eight
inches in diameter.
Mr.. q. T. Hamill, of Boise, Idaho, up
piled To the Orphans home at Portland
Tor two little girls, for adoption. Tho
children were started, on the through
train, and on the wny the younger
child grew weary and began to cry. An
oldery woman volunteered to take her
into the sleeper and put her to bed. That
was the last seen or heard of the child.
1t looks like case Of kidnapping.
sprngue has bad Chinaman by the
name OF Maloney, who refuses to pay his
debts and shows fight when other China
men dun him.
A team OF horses driven by John Red.
mond, were prostratcd by contact with
telephone wire that haa fallen across an
electric Railway wire, In Salem. OR.
he horses were In great agony for II
long time, but finally recovered.
Col. VIII l.. Visscher has arrived Mt
tho conclusion that the nth of Juiv
isn't much of day, at best.
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