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Show THC 1 JCKU1TOHIE4. Idaho had a meteor a few nights airo that had a tail resembling a silver mis. Cattle are offered cheap at TValla Walla, according to the Union. Cow; sell at $i0 and $-5 per head. A hard times ball was given at Walla Walla recently. Tickets were written ou coarse brown paper, and the guests wore their poorest clothes. hen young people get married in Montana, the old folks give them "sensible presents" cows, chickens, pigs and "sich." The Seaule people are just now extensively ex-tensively exercised over the attempted enforcement of the law forbidding drinking saloons being kept open on Sundays. Fifteen hundred head of hogs were butchered last winter between Waits-burg Waits-burg and Dayton, Washington Territory. Terri-tory. Tho hog crop all ovdr the valley is greaily in excess ot any previous year. The new woolen mill at Dayton, Washington Territory, is progressing finely, and with its completion and successful operation it is expected that the town will rapidly advance in wealth and populatior. The Walla Walla Union says: The company is about to commenoe work on the railway between this place and Wallula. A beginning has already been mado. As soon as the weather settles, we learn, they expect to push things along as rapidly as possible. From all parts of the upper Columbia Colum-bia country there are reports of very' deep snows in the mountains. There seems to bavo b?en an unusual snow-1 fall during the winter, and it has not been melting much; nearly all that has : (alien still remains. It is believed; that the Columbia river will be higher than usual. |