, 1890-07-10
LIFE IN THE WEST.
A Few of the Unusual Incl
dents Recorded.
SHORT STORIES TERSELY RETOLD
Cream of the News Cleaned From
Exchanges, With Passing
Comment.

The Miner, of Nelson, b. O., stigma.
tizcs the prosecuting attorney OF spo.
kane county as "a stick"
At Idnho's capital the patriotic citi-
zens rang out the old and rang in the
new In most impressive manner. The
Statesman says 'lt was graceful
thought on yesterday to first toll with
measured stroke the great fire bell of the
city in memory OF the departed territory
OF Idaho ere the glad tidings Of the birth
of the new state was published to our
citizens by the joyful peals of all the
Ginning brozen. .throated tocsins in
every steeple and town."
There is greater rejoicing in Idaho
than has ever before been manifested
upon the birth of state. Among many
touching observations OF the press Is the
following from tho Idaho Statesman, Of
Boise: "Old Idaho we love you still,
With you we have lived for almost q
third OF u century. Though there's a
smile ON our face there's q tear in our
heart as you disappear. Make way,
Hats oil. Hands oil, HIRE comes an-
other we have longed for, 10. these many
years. Three cheers, gentlemen, for the
new STATE OF IDAHO"
The editor of the Walla walla Journal
displays the pastoral streak in his
nature when lie says; The census
crop Is y failure this year, and won't
even make good hay"
Ritzville offers block of land, $1,000
cash and large supply Of wheat as II
bonus for grist mill. The Adams
county oat crop will average seventy
bushels to the acre this year
The Walla Walla Journal AYERS that
"Walla Walla supports more non
producers, that is men that don't do
lick of work for living, and yet live
well, than any other city on the coast of
its size" still Walla walla is vigor-
ously pushing ahead to fortune, and will
soon be in condition to oNpel the dronos
and dead-beats,
Professors Louis Scholl, a Ritzville
~ " b' hNltNlf
that Adams county is the banner county
for growing wheat, barley aud rye this
year. "Why," said he, "thcre are not
men enough in the country to do our
harvesting. Some of our rye is over
seven feet tall, and our wheat stands 20
thick that you can throw your hat on II
anywhere and It will stay right on top,
even with IA brick In II"
A short distance east of Colville, says
the Baltimore Journal of Commerce,
deposit of pure white silica, the fourth of
its kind in the world and the third In
the United States, has been discovered.
The deposit is said TO be ineIhaustble
and OF the Same character as, and of
equal hardness with, the whito sand
found near Paris, which is soextenslvely so
used in the manufacture Of French plate
glass.
So far as Is known. the only lady
enumeraior employed In taking the
eleventh census of Washington, II not
the only one employed in the United
Sta,es, did her work in the Seattle dis
trict.
The largest tree stump in the state of
Washington Is said to bo located near
Snohomish City. 1t is u big cedar,
twenty feet in diameter, with surface
on which 1t is possible for iorty men to
stand.
Hitherto all the cigars manufactured
in Washington woro sold in North
Yakima. near which town Is located a
large tobacco fnrm. The acreage OF the
weed at this plantation has been greatly
increased, and North Yakimas cigar
trade is being extended all over the
state.
President Adams, of the Union Pacific
railroad, says; "1he beauty Of Wash
ington, in the eyes OF the long-hcnded
railroad man, is that from the eastern
line Of the state until the deep hurDor-
age of Elliott bay at Seattle is reached,
there is not mile of waste territory,
Every foot Of the way otiers IA profitable
and growing business"
The usually pacific editor of the
w usulilpLOH vi
came out this week with his fighting
clothes Oh. Hear him; "Thc skow-eyed
donkey and sly thief who should be in
the pen tho't he was iniuring the busI-
ness of this paper tho pastlweck with his
dirty, ,cowardlyiying to the advance agent
of the show to appear here on the 7th.
The dirty, thieving wheip should attend
to his stealing methods and let the bust
ness of this Office alone when he ap.
proaches strangers in his hyena eager.
ness to do us an injury"
Robert Slnto, OF Garfield county,
marketed n turnip this week that meas
ured 25Is inches In circumference. The
seed was sown just a month ago.
There are two sides of the story of tho
assault upon Rev. f. u. Sutton, at AL
mira. 1t is claimed that his doctrine
had nothing to do with precipitating tho
disturbance, but he was whipped Tor in
sulting lady.
Lincoln county is in the midst of n
desperate county scat contest The Al
mira Journal strongly iavors Davenport.
A Colfax firm has filled m order for
100 pounds of seed club wheat, to bo
ahipnal IN Gernanv