Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-12-25
FROM GEORGE HEAD.
He Is Now in a Popocrat State
News of AcQuaint-
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George Head this week wrote the
following letter to the MORRISON
County Democrat: Il
SNoHOM1sn., Wash, Dec. 6, 1896.
EDITOR DEMoCRAT;- Perhaps a
word from the popocratic strong hold or
the Pacific coast would be of interest 10
many of your readers. We will en-
deavor to favor your columns with .
short communication in order that our
old-time friends may not entirely forget
that we live, move and have our being.
Yes, Mr.. Democrat, the fair-or once
fair-youmg state of Washington as
sumed populistic proceivities and some
what change her relations with the
world at large. Please excuse us as
we do not wish to tread on the toes OF
We editor, and then ask for space IN
your columns for our communications.
We will say. however, that Snohmlsh
took some of the curse off of the rest OF
the state by giving Mckinley two ma
jority, and we sent our Presbyterian
minister to Ohio at once, in order that
he might be able to secure the post Office
at this place.
Times are not so prosperous in WASH
ington as they once were and many OF
US would be glad to unload town lots at
40 cents on the dollar if we could only
succeed in getting them off our hands.
Wages very low and employment scarce
in Western Washington. There are
a great many shingle mills running in
this county, but unless there is raise
in the price of shingles in the east,
many of them will be compelled to close
down, as they are row putting shingles
on boad of the cars for less than $l.O
per thousand.
Everything is down to bedwork III
this country. Hay and all kinds of
grian in this state is lower than ever
before. First class timothy hay is a
drag on the market at $500 per ton.
Our winter has been little peculiar
so far. No doubt it means we'll but it
is not as pleasant as it might be. The
month of October was dry and pleasant;
November started in with little of the
''Oregon mist-that is it missed Ore
gon and came down in good shape in
Washington until about the 18th of the
month when the atmosphere began to
take on Minnesota clothing and our
rain turned to snow, and for two
weeks the ground was covered with
about 6 inches of the "beautiful." AT
length our chinook winds set III and
made quick work of all the snow with
which it came in contact
We have had two good sized flood;
the first one raised the river at this
point "a feet above low water mark,
and the big cedars which the Democrat
man, John P. Smith Frank Hardy and
your humble sevant viewed in the year
of '9O-were surrounded by water to a
depth of at least, four feet. There is
also this fragments of food hanging
over the bottom lands at the present
time which came within three feet of
the former flood, only yesterday the
waters started to subside and the set
tiers on the low land can begin to
breath some what easier.
J.P. Smith, attorney at law and JUS
tic of the peace, we'll know to the people
of Little Falls, is still resident of this
city, but he, like the state of Washing
ton. went Demopop kersmash.
John Moran, better known around
Little Falls, as "Canada jack" is still
here at Snohomish but is not entirely
satisfied with this country. He is a
firm believer that there is just as good
places farther east.
In conclusion we wish to remark
that we were glad to lean that Nor
rison county was in the Mckinley band
wagon.
Very Respectfully
Geo. w. Head.