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THE WEST SHORE.
Now that the cmmilUo in charge of the erection of
the Skidmore Fountain is moving in the matter, it is not
out of place to suggest that it consider the merit of
White Bronx, which is being bo extensively uwxl fur
memorial monuments, statuary find fnutititiiiH in the
Eaat It in highly recommended for durability and
general beauty of apiearance, and can bo fashioned into
moat graceful dtwigus. The subject should be examined
by the oommithw before deciding ujxm the material to
be lined in the promised fi-untaiu.
Ht. Paul is luxuriating in her Ice Palace ami Carni
val at a season when the fruit tree of thin region are
building, the flower gardens and green lawns recoiving
the gardener's earn, and the winter grain in growing
rankly in tho fields. If they enjoy their icy sjxirta aa
well aa we our glorioua Hiring weather, our congratula
tion aro given them freely and heartily. In the one
we can never hw to rival them, nor they us in tho
other. If ice block of sufllcient dimensions could ever
be procured iu Portland, the palace would lie a gooao
poml within twenty-four hours after tho warm breath of
the ChiniHik touched it We will have to build our ice
jNilaoa of wood and paint it
Tlllt benefit the Oregon Pacific' Ynquinn Route is
conferring Umu tho Willamette Valley are leooining
better appreciated daily. Aa a Mute from the Valley
to Kan Francisco, both for freight and iasscrigers, it is
liocoming no well known and well patronized that an
other aUiamer will soon lie put on to run alternate trips
with the 'miW Tho mad will soon be extended
from Corvallis to Albany, which will oien to the route
much larger Held than it now oovein, which will prob
ably be further iucreaaed by other oxtcusiona. The
Oregon Pacific l doing good work for the producers of
tho Willamette Valley.
NoTwmimsniso the failure of tho lledrock Flume
Company, tho Gteur d'Aleuo minera are highly elated
over the prtwqiecU of the various district in that region.
The quarU ledges of tho South Fork, CarUm Center,
IWor Crw-k, Priehard Creek and Eaglo Creek districts
promise grand result, such aa will make Cuur d'Alene
one of the leading mining regions of the West A mass
meeting was held at Murray a few days ago, for the pur
pose of (ending memorial to Congress, asking that all
of the Idaho Pan-handle lying north of tho Clearwater
Divide 1m annexed to Montana instead of Washington.
As a rau for this it la urged that the business inter
est of that region are iu MonUna rather than Waahing.
ton, Uiat the former Territory is a mining country and
the Utter an agricultural oua, the Clearwater Divide
forming natural line of division lietween thoae two
forms of iuduatry in the Pan-handla, and that the miners
of Cumr d'Alene are chiefly former cititens of Montana,
who would prefer to become again couuoctad with that
Territory.
Mehhiis. R. L. Polk & Co. have just issued a new di
rectory of the City of Portland, East Portland, Albino,
Vancouver, LaCamas, and minor suburbs, which ia com
plete and neenrnte in-onwtants and a splendid specimen
of work. In every respect it is an improvement upon
the directory of 1885, which was fur superior to any
previously issued in Portland. It should be in every
business office in the city.
The lectures, or essays, of the Social Science Course
should receive more attention than they do from our
people. They are given in the chapel of the Church of
Our Father, corner of Yamhill and Seventh. The price
of single admissions is twenty-five cents, while course
tickets for the entire five lectures are sold at seventy-five
conts. The series for 188C embraces essays by Miss
Kate N. Tupjier, Rev. R. W. Hill, Archbishop W. H.
Gross, Prof. J. B. Grossman and Mrs. G. W. Chandler.
These lectures administer to the intellectual wants of
our jioople and should be well attended.
The Washington Improvement Company has lot a
contract for tho construction of a cut and tunnel to con
nect Lake Washington with Lake Union, just north of
Seattle. The cut will be five hundred and fifty feot
long, and tho tunnel elovon hundred feet The present
object of tho company is to float logs from Lake Wash
ington to the Sound; but it is tho intention soon to con
vert tho connection into a canal, by washing out the
earth, which can easily bo done, as Lake Washington is
fourteen feet higher than Lake Union, and the distance
between thorn only a quarter of a mile. This will en
able vessels to entor Lake Washington, which will then
bo tho best location for a sheltered inland navy yard the
United Status can find Wood, ship timber, coal and
iron abound in the vioiuity. Its superiority over the
Mare Island location, in every detail, ia evident
There are a few apparently respectable men who
are either actively engaged in the anti-Chinese demon
titrations, or are lending the law-breakers moral support
in the form of approval of their acts, whenever they fall
short of actual riot There are not many of these, and
when their cases are considered critically it is found
they are but a squad of axe-eriuders. who think the ro
doing gixxl Mlitical work by making themselves "solid
with tho boys." In this they are greviously in error,
and were that all, no one would take the trouble to al
lude to them; but, unfortuuatoly, their connection with
the agitation misleads thoae not familiar with the exact
status of the movement, to believe that responsible citi
na are engaged in this lawless crusade. Such is far
from beiug the case, and our Eastern friends are as
sured that the business men, property holders, indus
trious and reliable working men and respectable citizens
generally, are almost unanimously opposed to every form
of violence, intimidation or unjust treatment of the
Chinese or any other foreign element in our midst