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,