The railroad bridge in Pine City, Wash., is the graffiti target of two rival high schools. Students from St. John-Endicott marked it Eagle Country after its school mascot. Students from Rosalia responded. They painted a B in front of Eagle. Now it's Beagle Country. Pine City, a virtual ghost town in the Palouse wheatlands, is otherwise a peaceful place. When I stopped here all I heard were songbirds. Lots of them. Then I met a retired couple, and their son who works in the town's only operating business, a grain elevator. And they were charming. When I asked who owns the Uncle Sam mailbox down the street, the wife blurts, "That's ours! I need to give it a fresh coat of paint." The stone church is more than 100 years old.