The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-13


soon think of shooting one of your own
bridesmaids at the altar. and yet this is
game bird and hard to kill. but very
delicious when cooked. | ordered one
cold for lunch at R~oseburg. but finally
took a cold sausage with leaf lard a la
Fairbanks instead.
Two Chinese ~pheasants We're planted
at the foot of a lone hill heal us seven
years ago, and nov there are many mil
lions of them. They multiply here and
then divide. You find each bird focking
by himself. saw eight between Rose
burg and Eugene, Il no two together.
They eat the farmers wheat and are GO
ing to be as bad as the English sparrow
some day. they say. The English spar
row and younger son seem TO twitter
along together toward the west. The
sparrow does not move in good society.
but he Is self supporting. He does not
&c to dinner and eat his custard pie with
a pair of leggings. He may use his crep,
but that Is different.
Vancouver is IA good place to meet this
class of people, They 90 on board the
steamer for Japan. carrying their crops.
They cannCt converse without one any
more HAT the Ohio boy could stand mt
the head OF his class after an enemy had
removed the knethole i'll the floor whicl.
the top boy used tesfiek lis great Aneri-
can toe III while lie considered.
As we 20 LDrthward we miss the pe,Iuer
tree, the catnplIor tree. the baobab tree.
the eucalyptus tree aud the family tree
Oregon has few tropical plants, but is a
CONSERVATIVE state. II never had a boom.
but rather Il steady. healthful growth.
The mossback has been all the time re-
preached by the Younger and more pro-
gressive business man. In Roseburs a
Maine man said that unless the moss
back cemetery showed more enterprise
the ice crop around Bath, Me-. would
soon be worth more thar the entire prod
ucts of southern Oregon
Still ne may have been a pesslmist.
Oregon, however. is undoubtedly a re-
markably good state as regards resources, |
D u a slight shower continuing from the
last of August to May / keeps a great
many people indoors. The patter of the
raindrop on the roof is a feature Of life
on the Pacific coast, and especially of
Oregon and the sound. People have a
more aquatic appearance. and their bills
are Longer. especially at hotels.
Portland is one Of the most stable cities
of the west and is growing rapidly. That
Is, it is a healthy growth. of course
nothing in the nature of a boom. She
has a good hotel. which she did not have
when l visited her eight years ago under
the able management of "A dramatic i'm
presario and mule sheer of Walla Walla.
An interesting feature of the younger
towns is the board of trade.
The proceedings of the Puyallup pro
nounced Poo-yal-lup) board of trade
makes interesting reading. As a DELHI
crate body it marks an era in our civili-
cation.
The board meets pursuant to adjourn
ment and proceeds to deliberate. Moved
that we ask the Pennsylvania railroad to
construct its line to Puyallup and CON-
Iete with Vancouver for the Chinese and
Japanese traie. Adopted.
Moved that this motion be spread upon
the pages of the proceedings and become
q part Of the moments of this body: also
that It be published in the Puyaliup
Yelper.
Moved that Mr.. Depew be asked also
during the rainy season to cosne and be
entertained by means of a buggy ride
and tutti fruit ice cream II order 70 tive