the West shore. Vol. 10. Portland, Oregon, October, 1884. No. 10. ESTABLISHED 1876. TIITC WEST SIIOUE. An Hluttrated Journal nf Urntrnl Information, devnfrrf to the oVtWofiitirnf o Me Omit Ifeif. Subscription prion, per annum m To foreign countries, including pontage ".!!"! 3 H, Hinnle copies !....""."!!!!! Subscription can be forwarded h registered loiter or postal order at our rink. rutmattin and News Agent will reouire auusoriptioiia at aboo rates. (leneral Traveling Agent Craigie Sharp, Jr. I.. SAMUEL, l'ubllsher, 1411 Front HU, cor. Washington, Portland, Or. TABLE OF1 CONTKNTW. An Unmixed Evil 3n7 Ben Wright Miuteuore 814 Hniiiliiin Diumond Minoa KI2 Chronology of Event KIN Kditorial..., F.leetricity Ubiquitous KSH FiroplnoeOrnnmeiita.,'. r. Ill Flint bnw Milla HIV Found in a Wagon Hoi .T (tcxwe AreFrotitnble 831 I loose Lake Valley. Oregon KIJ Marvelous (intranla KM Miaaouia Gold Minea 8U5 Pane NewKiiaiwr Hyperliole HI! Notn of the Northwest KM Oregon Dairy Product Kilt Our lllualrutioita (Descriptive of the nutneroua Kiigravinga) Km Secret of Strange Noiaee tl'JT Nomething About Canals ill Stolen Public lmta. KM Tame Hnukea: A True Htory Kll The I'otst , Too Much Finggerntion tM What Damp Feet Mean 8 J .LUSTRATIONS. Alaska Tlie lilitho in Glacier Bay Ill llritiah Columbia Along the Fraeer 824 Across the Ukuuy U California McLeod River Fnlla Ill Columbia Hirer IronTranafor Boat Taeoma RSl Crossing of Eugle Creek Hi) Hook Bluff JV Dnkota l)ul Lands, Mauraiaea Terree.... 880 Idnlm Fort Cur d'Alene lit Oregon Linkvill Kl Link Kiver Kit Mount Hood la Montana ltorky Cnnyon, near Boieman . . . , KXi Washington Fori Ciinliv lift Mount Adams IT.'.' Mount Ht, Helena tit Indian Knoninptnont t A blue X on this paragraph Indicates that your anlrrlitliin e plres with tills numlxtr. I'leasa renew at once. The Oregon State Fair was a disastrous failure, owing partially to a waning interest in these anuual exhibitions. The people were far more interested in saving the large portion of their crops from threatened destruction than they were in exhibiting the small portion already liar vested Besides this, the directors seemed to lalmr under the impression that it was their duty to keep the fact that a fair was to be held a profound secret, and no one can accuse them of being unfaithful to their convictions. We need and can support a good State Fair, and Sulera is the only proper place to hold it, but the directors muHt manage it in a more thorough and business-like manner to make it a success. Theke have been rich discoveries of placer diggings in the Little Rockies, a range of mountains in Choteau County, Montana, and there Boems to be a disposition disployed by certain newspapers of the Territory to work up a boom similar to the Ceur d'Alene stampede which cursed this country but a few months ago. We adviso them to go very slow in this matter, even if absolutely certain as they by no means are of the value and extent of the now diggings. Otherwise they 'may have the sin upon their souls which now oppresses or should if it does not several over tealous tmpers of the Ca-ur d'Alene stripe. Such Btampede as was witnessed at the latter place would do Benton vastly more harm than good, and her citizens should not recklessly create it AN UNMIXED EVIL. A pamphlet, from the cn of Mr. C. 11. Carlisle, him recently boon issued undo the title, "What Roadost Thou?" calling the attention of thinking men and women to the corrupting and debasing influence upon the rising generation exerted by tho immoral and pernicious litera ture which covers tho counters of our news dealers. Nothing in Mr. Carlisle's long career as a journalist has given him so extended a reputation, and brought him into such favorable notice among the liotter class of our citizens, as his efforts to cleanse the filthy stream flowing into the lunula of the youth of our land. Urn pamphlet should have the widest circulation, and receive the thoughtful consideration of all fathers and mothers who would remove the snares Bet for the feet of their children. Do wliat they may, parents cannot wholly remove their children from theso contaminating influences so long as the flaming pictures are posted up to catch the public eye, and tho paorB, with their Kiisonous contents, are hawked about the streets, thrust liefore the face of virtu ous women and innocent children in railway cars, left lying on the ground or uhiu chairs and tables in private offices and places of public resort Nothing but tho almo lute prohibition by the Legislature of tho printing and sale of such r. class of publications, with a penalty suffi cient to render the statute effective, can bo of avail to check this growing evil. The mutter has 1eon taken hold of vigorously in several States on tho Atlantic Coast, and will bo urged Uon the Legislatures of Oregon and Washington during the next session of those bodies. Every journalist who believes that tho jiooplo, and espe cially the young, whose mind are as plastic clay, receiv ing lasting impressions from everything with which they come in contact, should bo supplied with clean and wholesome reading, should do his part in arousing the community in which he lives to the deep gravity of this subject Mr. Carlisle says: Unless yon ban nsrrowed ia jmar ova menu! activities, an lew yoa bars lost interest in tlie welfare and ai-bulhllng of lbs rasa, yoa ess nut remala aa apaUietlo spectator in the pressor of such monstrous ariL Whs yoa ban, as yoa mast Id any Investigation of the euhjeet, what fast of Impart thought an running beneath nur aortal Ufa, bow mark of tlie morally polsuaoa gases these sewsra ais emitting Into oar bums, your Intel lent aal and moral sMiet will be outraged. When yoa Cms la realise that lb yualb of lb laadl youth of both sesest tbose la the formalin period of llfsi those who srs aomlag on to bumiM opinion and sentiment, an nun Is lb abbs! objeelln puiul of attark. well may yoa lie alarmed. When yna kanw Ul Ibresgh IU Inlueaee of IhM eril agencies hamlmls and UwraaamU ban goe oWa trnm tba eoronsi summlls of a mablso'e pars4isartelneas to the basilar depths, wbera la lb Mullns gloom and anliftlng miasm of a polluted life no pan thlag Uess, ia M out ewiugh lo Irs tbe baart of ersry ratloaal being easiest the mea bo la Ibla way an ooining soals Into dollars and aente, wbo an patting aoaor and taau, eenee ander the m Inllng die Sbould It But be anoagb to make sr desaat maa sa anreWUnlng. untiring enemy of tbeea moral Amies 1 It la the eoluessj t Ulalny of Ibla day. 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