Year: 1879

SPANISH PRAIRIE, near Colyille, Nav IL
EDTroR STATESMAN :-Colvilles letter in
your issue of the 10th, was base SANDER
on not only the postothce department but
also on our Colyille girls. We have our tn
weekly mail after all. arriving every Sun
day, Tuesday and Thursday, aud We yet our
weekly. semi-weekly and daily papers much
sooner than heretofore, as the postmasters
at the small stations do not have as much
time TO read them.


FINE FEET


John Henry, whom your correspondent
said would not sign the petition, committed
sew-i-side. bekase (as he saiil his girl went
back on him. She said she didn't wear
high -heeled boots or anything of the sort.
Now We did not know anything about that,
all We ever saw Of her feet was an impress
sion in the snow last winter, but great scott
what an impression it was not much bigger
than Canadian snow-shoe mark, and beats
the Chicago girls all hollow. And as for
wearing high -heeled boots, no such thing.
They send their little brothers around the
blacksmith shops to pick up old horse shoes
to put on their boot heels; they Just fit, and
are everlasting wear. Some of our girls
wear moccasins-niee raoccasins too, "and
don't you forget it.


HIGH OLD TIME


We had fine ball in the valley short
time ago, and had "a way up time. The
only drawback to our complete happiness
was that next morning there was not enough
whisky left to make 4 cocktail, this being
rather hard on some of the fellows who
didn't take much during the evening and
naturally felt thirsty III the morning, but for
all that it was the grandcSt atfair OF the sea
son. Miss Soop So-chop-kil was the belle
of the evening, and all hands unanimously
pronounced her hy-aS-clOse. She Wore 4
garment of beautiful buckskin trimmed with
Spangles cut on the bias, or on the half SHE'LL
L don't remember which, but | know she got
the patterns from Harpers Bazar or the
Days Dolngs.


WHISKY AND WANTS.


Everything looks blooming in the valley
and the city is fast improving; one new
house is already up and vacant lots are IN
demand Ever since the advent from Fort
Coeur d'Alene property has riz and is still
rizen', but whisky is on the downward ten
dency. We manufacture good article here
free of duty We have plenty of water and
other ingredients to put up good article
warranted to kill at short range and make
bulls-eye every pop; 1t is very good saw
mill. and turns out very good lumber also.
All We want up here is plenty of emigration
and money, a railroad, a telegraph line, and
somebody TO pay US high prices for our pro-
duce, and We will be set up. We only get
now from % to so cents per pound for our
bacon, 50 cents for our butter and eggs, 4
dollar bushel for potatoes, and two bits
drink for corn juice How is it possible for
farmers to live on such prices as these ut
terly impossible Everybody in town is
short of ready money, in fact we are always
short. We never seem to realize IN cash ex-
cept we can ''rope In" some OF the soldiers
after pay day. Then We can be generous
and puff up the honorable profession of arms
and .hen their tin is quietly in our pocket
we call them all kinds of disagreeable names;
bat as l said money is very short, for the
army here have not been paid for four or five
months, and everybody In town begin to
think tina. congress has actually stopped
paying the soldiers. The mayer OF the city
says That lie has it from gOod authority that
the army vii be mustered out tins year, and
If that's so oar city Is doomed we could not
survive week. The whole fabrication OF
our beautiful and sublime anticipations Will
fall as surely as the sun rises, AMI the destl-
MES of a people whose future had bright
and brilliant prospect will he forever barred
in oblivion. THAT last phrase w&s too good
to lose heard the professor use 1t the
other day and just dotted it down TO put IN
on any and all occasions.l But then II they
muster out the army what gong 70 become
of us, Are we to be killed and sGalped by
those thieving indians: We can't hight
them and We wont fight them. We VIII see
them all cSJlectively and individually ID
first. We will burst up oar peanut stani
and emigrate to Yakima, where We can set
some of the fellows there to 30 our fIShtinS
for u.s.


FOURTH OF JULY


The glorious anniversary OF our independ-
ence is fas. approaching and not red to buy
cracker with. Our people can enthuse
as they should Everybody works out his
own road tax and We can't get job even
mending roads. and if fellow steals horse
and sells it, the trees are too plentiful to be
healthy. What is poor devii to do. Ii
Walla Walla is short of business perhaps
some of us VIII try that climate for while
T. LOoNER.