June.
THE IDAHO INDIAN WAR.
For the information of our readers at
home, as well as intending immi
grants, who may be led by sensational
newspaper reports to believe that we
are having an Indian war in Oregon,
we have prepared a very correct map
of the seat of war and surroundings.
There are no hostile Indians north or
west of Snake river, so that the entire
disturbance is in Idaho Territory.
Lewiston, in Idaho, is the nearest town
to the Washington Territory line, and
people there have been arming them
selves, so that they should be prepared
In case of the Indians making a sudden
tlescent on them for ammunition.
Otherwise no alarm need be appre
hended. It is not at all likely that the
Indians without being whipped out will
come out of the mountainous districts,
where they are now congregated in the
sections lying between Salmon river,
Mt Idaho and White Bird creek. Mt.
idaho is the most exposed of any of the
towns. The settlers in that locality
who were not murdered at the first
outbreak have all come in to places of
safety, and a prompt and liberal appli
cation of powder and bullets will soon
cure these festive redskins of their ma
rauding inclinations. We have correct-
ly placed all the towns, streams and fer
ries in the Walla Walla valley on our
map, for although they really do not
constitute u the seat of war," some of
them may be, owing to their proximity
mentioned in some of the sensational
"special" dispatches to our "live dailies."
Our readers will do well to save this
map for future use, and to intending im
migrants can say : come right along, as
here in Oregon and Washington we
are as safe from Indians as are the in
habitants of any portion of New York
or Pennsylvania.
W.A. Livcrmore, Esq., from Dallas,
Polk county, says :
I think your paper superexccllent,
and being the first and only illustrated
paper in Oregon, devoted to the inter
ests of Oregon and Washington Terri
tory, and giving correct pictures of our
wonderful and picturesque scencrv, all,
together with the enterprise of its pub
lisher, make it fully worthy of patron
age ; therefore send it along for anoth
er year.
Mr. I. A. Clark writes to us from
Oysterville :
I think your paper a grand success.
It should he patronised by every one
interested in the welfare of the Sorth
west. I had it last year, and must have
it again this year, therefore send for one
year one copy to my address, and one
each to the three addresses of my friends
in the East mentioned below.
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THE WEST SHORE.
" Keep your money at home by pat
ronizing home industries. " This sen
tence has before this appeared in The
West Shore. It is one, however,
that cannot be too often impressed on
the minds of our readers. It is only by
stopping the continual drain on our
money coflers for substantial and lux
uries that we can ever hope to rank as
a wealthy State. An article is no better
because it bears the Parisian or New
York trade mark. The folly of buying
imported goods is illustrated in cloths.
Oregon raises the best wools in the
world. Eastern manufacturer! pm
chase it and ship it back as French
cloth. For this privilege we pay very
handsomely. On the other hand, we
have a splendid woolen-mill at, Oregon
City, which gives employment to a
large number of hands, and those in
turn again keep up other industries.
In fact, it has often been asserted that
Oregon City would soon pass out of
existence if the wool and flourlng-mUla
there were to shut down. Since our
residence in Oregon, for six veal's, we
have given Oregon manufactures a
thorough trial, and have made it a rule
in the office as well as in our household
affairs, never to purchase an article, be
it ever so small, from abroad if a simi-
THE SEAT OP WAR IN IDAHO AND
lar article is being made at home : and
we speak knowingly when we say that
Oregon manufactures in nearly every
instance have proved to be of superior
quality. A visit to the establishment
of Jacobs Itros. & Co., the agents of the
Oregon City Woolen Mills, and an ex
amination of their beautiful cloths and
flannels, will convince any judge of the
article that Oregon can manufacture
tine cloths and cashmeres. The same
might be said of our furniture. The
Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Co.
make up as rich and elegant furniture
as can be purchased any where, yet
some of our M noddies" will persist in
sending abroad simply to have furni
ture from San Francisco or New York
not that it is any better or cheaper ;
no, bless you, but it does look so grand,
you know, to have furuiture from New
York even if it does kill home indus
tries This list might be extended to
wagons, stoves, and even soap, of
which a much better article is being
made here by Irving tV Co. than any
that is brought from San Francisco, but
the above will suffice. Let us all com
bine to give home manufactures the
preference over imported goods, anil
Oregon would soon be what she was by
nature designed, " the richest State in
the I'nion."
The only victory over love is flight.
COMB TO OREGON AND WASHINGTON,
We bear complaints from California
that hundreds of immigrants are re
turning home after viewing that
parched up and desert State, imagining
all the Pacific coast to be the same wav,
Califoruians, ever jealous of Oregon
and Washington, dare not tell these
immigrants that north of California
lies a land where crops never fail, where
droughtf chinchbugs, grasshoppers and
hard winters are unknown ; where fish
and game arc plentiful ; where the
summers, fanned by the gentle sea
breezes, anil the winters, protected by
the Cascade and Coast Range of
mountains, create such an agreeable
climate as to make life a continual
round of pleasure ; where the industri
ous always thrive, but where there is
no room for sluggards and drones
such a land lies within two days1 trav
el of the disappointed immigrant! to
California, and yet rather than that
Oregon should have this accession to
her population, Califoruians induce
these immigrants to return to their own
homes, which arc either grasshopper
cursed in summer or frozen up in win
ter. As immigrants can procure half
fare tickets from San Francisco to Or
egon, which would make the expense
ADJOININlJ WALLA WALLA VALLEY.
very light indeed, we would advise
them, regardless of what Califoruians
may say of us, that they should pay this
State a visit, and they will never regret
the time or money expended in making
the trip.
La Oninde is situated near the foot
of the Blue mountains, in the fertile
valley of (iraude Ronde, one of the
garden spots of famous Eastern Ore
gon It is distant from Portland about
three hundred miles, and is on the
stage road leading from points on the
Columbia river and Walla Walla to the
different mining districts in that section
of the State and Idaho Territory. It is
a very flourishing place. I'nion coun
ty, ot which La Grande is one of the
principal towns, has an agreeable cli
mate, the winters being dry and the
summers very pleasant. Numerous
small streams besides the (iraude
Ronde river run throughout the valley.
A railroad has been talked of to con
nect Grande Ronde with the Columbia
river.
Isaac GlbtOfl, Esq., a prominent law
yer of Ludlngton, Michigan, writes :
I am much pleased with your paper.
It certainly surpasses anything of the
kind that I expected to sec from the
State of Oregon, and speaks well for
the enterprise of the proprietor and the
wealth and intelligence of the people of
your State.
181
OUR NATIONAL BIRTHDAY.
Before another issue of this paper we
shall have entered on the one hundred
and second year of our national inde
pendence. Most all cities in Oregon
and Washington arc making prepara
tions to celebrate on a grand scale, ex
cept Portland. Our celebration here
last year was largely attended by all
towns of Oregon and the neighboring
Territories, and lasted all the week.
Portlanden desiring to return the com
pliment have decided not to have a
celebration of their own, but help our
sister cities to observe the 4th at their
homes in a becoming manner. Fire
works are to be set oil" on the night of
the th from the top of Mount Hood.
We very much doubt if it will be at
tended w ith any degree of success.
However, it is an experiment worth
trying. We wish our readers a pleas
ant time, and if nothing happens to in
terfere expect to have a good time out
sell", "down by the sounding sea."
Tygh valley, in Wasco county, is fill
ing up rapidly, and it is expected that
thousands of acres will be opened there
for settlement this fall by the comple
tion of the Woinack ditch to Oak tirove
Plains.
AN OREGON INVENTION,
In the spring of 1S72 W. F. McCra
ry, then postmaster at Raker City, in
vented and patented an envelope. He
fore it was ready to be placed in the
market Mr. McCrary died, ami the
patent went to Ins heirs, who have
never made any attempt to do anything
with it. During a recent visit to Ma
ker City we were shown some of these
envelopes, and feel fully convinced that
an immense fortune awaits the person
who will place them on the market.
In general appearance and sie it is like
the ordinary envelope, except that the
lower lap forms a small pocket into
which messages can be placed and
sealed without destroying the cnvcloe,
as would be the case with the present
style, in case anything shauld have to
be addeil to the original letter. We
have been u-ing the McCrary envelope
in our business correspondence for the
past four weeks, and we must say they
are a great convenience and saving in
time and money.
The reason for the favor which Ore
gon wool meets in the markets of the
world is that it is almost universally of
unusual evenness of fiber. This is
mostly owing to mild winters and
abundance of feed, keeping sheep in
good condition, so that the wool never
stops growing.