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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1889)
WKST S1I0UK. 3.1 NOTE AND COMMENT. Kllensburgh did nobly in entertaining tin- nvent ,, niocratic state convention. It wuh hardly to ! ex jK ctt'd that the city, which had sustained ho recent nnd dire an affliction n the grent tirt that destroyed the bus iness portion of the town on the night of the fourth of .lulv liiHt, wonld lie in n position to make a political con vention happy ho noon. Hut the enterprising! Kllens burghers had n will to make the occasion a pleasant unc for their visitor, and they readily found a way. The Hotel Holton strained a point for the accommo dation of the visitors, nnd, though it was not yet really open for the reception ot guests, it dispensed hospital it right royally, lty the way, that hostelrie ranks among the lcst in the new state, and is a decided credit to the city. The tnemlicrH, of the convention and the press representatives received every courtesy at the hands of the citizens. The festivities wound up with a surprise ball Tuesday evening, ami a little banquet, at which an opportunity was given the nominees to make felicitating socchcs. To Ik- sure, Klleushurgh was working for the capital, and the city wis meta phorically patted on the back by the members of the convention, but her course was hearty and it excited admiration. Not the least of the admirable features developed by the great lire in Seattle is the pluck exhibited by the newspapers of that city. Every one of her four daily papers wan burned out. The IU-lnl,Uijnm never missed an issue, though it was rather weak for a few days. Since the lire it has occupied a small rcsi- deuce, and the engine running its presses has 1 n out .f d.n.rs. A new web jH'rfeeting press has been secured and is als.ut to be set up in the line l.ricK muioing ing completed by Mr. Hunt. The other morning pa per, the Journal, led a rather shaky existence for a time, but has recently Urn rejuvinatcd by the infu-ion of new blood and is now on a solid basis. The pt.hI change in the editorial management of th" ! W, bv which two experienced newsp.ip r men take control" has made that the kst journal in the city f.-r loenl news. The Tim, was rendered the most .Mi tute by the lire, but it seems to Is- coming out ' tronbl'c in good hhn. When the papers get hnuly on their Art again and running sin.K.thly m th-ir new quarters we shall look for still brighter columns Nothing that President Harrison has done of late has given ho touch general satisfaction to -mm We im s the removal of "(WMral" Tanner from lb- "' -f the pension bureau. Tanner is a penpal- . rskite, meagrely endowed with brains and '"'l, n void of common sense and delicacy of Mir-P : "" ' whose occupation it was to pose as a martyr and tlaimt his patriotism Is-fore the public gate by invit ing attention to his mutilated limbs; who sought to Use the (i. A. It. us it stcnninij xtoiie. nnd whose con- I I n : duct, anil that of a few other demagogues in that body, lias liecn a reproach to the great mass or honest, noble, patriotic and unselfish men whocoinose that organi sation. The tl. A. K. has many men in its ranks who have no more legs than "t'orKiral" Tanner, hut who happily have more brains and a tatter sense of decen cy, nnd President Harrison w ill have no dilheiilty in Heeurini! a successor to the blatant Tanner who will do the order honor rather than cause it humiliation. It has always seemed to the thoughtful man that in a region so ntaiinding with coal measures as the the Cascade mountains have tacn know n to be, that the discovery of coal oil w as only question of time. Indeed, indications of the presence of petroleum have Urn noticed in a nuintar of places, and in the I'uv- atliip valley considerable m y was expended two vears ago in boring an unsuccessful well. New s now comes from Teanaway, on the eastern slope of the mountains, in Kittitas county, Washington, that p trolt'iim has tacn discovered there. It rm that for some time past the existence of a vein of good cnunel coal has Isrn know n to a man who refused to divulge its location, though he exhibited specimens of the eonl ; but a patient prospector has at last discovered the vein, oud, what is of equal, or greater, liiiNirtanee, an out ow of petroleum. If these diwWeries prove suf ficiently extensive they will ta of inestiinnblc value to the northwest. Vv. r since Mavr Wh.rlwrlght gave Taenia such rosy prominence in the eyes of matrimonially Inclined maidens of the feminine surfeited cast, then- has Un ,,. illltliry ns to whether such a slat.- of lorn hatchelordon'i actually cxi-ts in th- wet In on- plac it eertuinly .Ih-s At Wallula, an important railroad junction in Wa-liiiigt"", l" I"'1''1 proprietor lluds It j,pil,e to keep help for hi. dining room and chain rr work l'uru.g tlw la-l two years twelve girls hvr m,A conduet-.r. nnd cngin-i-rs, and l-lli of the girls be icw has are engaged and w ill -.n I arri.d Tma adverti-.. but Wallula .1-. the bu.ine.s it .,.,, The Wallula hotel is n..l nrntrim-nial agency, llltlll M.du.tr...us girl who.wants a hu.band may ,,1Iir,der tin- l-lh ""d and a wink if .he pur,f od nere d. lieiou- than Ink n.br.-ial mv , r ,). .,.1, qu illed on the bmw of Mt Olympus will , ' ,,. r, .long draughts the citi,ru. of l'ortTown-nd fr.m He nnbbr and 1-fH-r Olympus that j ...on v " ff '" ,,,v'"' ,m l" ,,"rr,