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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1889)
WEST SHORE. MinneapoliB ministers have started on the warpath against Sunday papers, and are endeavoring to secure boycott pledges from members of their congregations. They even threaten to ostracise such ministers as do ( not agree with them either as to the evil of Sunday , papers or the advisability of applying their remedy. Boycotting is pretty mean business, but they are prob ably equal to it. When they get through they will feel like the boy who placed his head up against a mule's heels that they have gained much experience at the expense of their beauty. Sprague will present a far different appearance next summer from that of old. An electric light system is Mug introduced for both streets and build ings, and a splendid system of water works has been put in. Tho supply of pure water for domestic, fire and irrigating purposes is unlimited, and green grass, flowers and shade trees will show the effect. Twenty five fire hydrants afford ample facilities for combat ing the destroying element. The city is enjoying un precedented growth and prosperity. Another prize fighter has Ix'en beaten to a jelly in the ring and died of his injuries, and yet tho contest for securing the Sullivan-Jackson mill Btill goes on in communities that would object to being called lawless and degraded. There is yet to be heard a public pro test from tho presumably better class of people in any one of tho cities now struggling for that doubtful hon or. Is there a city that does not want to be a " pugi list's paradise " and has the courage to say so? One of the first acts of the free and independent ball players after breaking away from the league and setting up in business for themselves, was to adopt a rule giving two umpires to each game. Hitherto the entire eighteen players have Wen deprived of a full en joyinent of their inalienable rights by having but a single umpire to kick at, but now with only nine to a man they can givo free- wing to their fancy when they do not like the divisions. Another dexsit of tin ore is reported, this time in Ungell valley, Klamath county, Oregon. This makes three now known in tho I'nited States. One of these is now being worked in the Hlack hills, and tho other is a recent discovery in Washington. If the Oregon nd Washington dejHsits prove valuable, it will prob ably not be many years before the United States will cease to import that most valuable metal, and possibly begin f x porting it. Monday morning, the 10th, the eight democratic senators of Montana, who had been (erved with pro- cesses by the sergeant-at-arms, came into the senate chamber and took the oath of office. The senate ii now fully organized and the first step towards i straightening out of the legislative complication ha been taken. Organization of the house will be nextia order, but upon what basis it will be made no one am predict. Congress starts in with a thousand bills before the I holidays. As that is more than twice as many as will be passed, and as there are more where these came from, some one is doomed to disappointment. Tariff, irrigation, fortification, ballot protection and rivers and harbors will probably consume the bulk of the time of both houses, and on these questions many great speeches will undoubtedly be printed. The supreme court of Oregon is evidently anxious to " break the record " of courts of appeal in saving the necks of convicted criminals upon purely technic al and immaterial grounds. The grangers were right in voting against the .amendment to the constitution increasing the salary of supreme judges. They are over paid now. Let the money go toward paying the expenses of new trials they decree. Governor Toole, of Montana, could not stand it any j longer to have his maiden message bottled up, and so ! he blazed away with it at the unorganized legislature. ' The message was not sufficiently anticeplicized to keep, and he was compelled to get rid of it for fear it would spoil on his hands. Now that it is learned that Treasurer Hurke mad way with $8(X),0(X) of the Lousiana state funds, the Lousiana lottery will have to take another hitch in its pants and buckle down to business to help the Btate out. The Canadian climate has lost some of its charm since the new extradition treaty was sent to the sen ate, and the dominion will probably in future not re ceive as many of our shrewd financiers as formerly. Talnmge's church will soon have a new organ with a bass drum attachment. Talmago seems to have tak en other inters from the salvation army Iwides tht of making a monkey of himself in the pulpit Senator Manderson has introduced a woman suf frage bill, and congress will be given a chance to wres tle with that question if it ever gets out of the com mittee's) hands.