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The Yakima Herald.
Volume I.
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conrta ol the territory. 1.
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tory. OSies on rimt Street, oppoulte the Court
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pecial attention to Collection*.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Fire Wood & Draying.
I bare a large quantity of excellent nine and
fir cord wood ana fir slab wood for aale cheap.
I also mu two drsrs. and am prepared to do
hauling at reasonable figures. A^pT^n^^^
J. M. STOUT,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION.
handling of Yakima Produce for
PageTSound Markets a Specialty.
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Block B. North Yakima. 011-ly
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Contractor and Builder,
NORTH YAKIMA, U. T.,
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Buildings, either Brick, Stone. Concrete, or
Wood, ana will complete the work honestly
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NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, THURSDAY, March 2l, 1889.
THE LATEST COICEITS.
FaiUm Eicr Ckughg Putin b nl Oil
*f tht Hunt.
Ktruaquc, a brownish red, is a new
color greatly admired.
The high coiffure in head-dress contin
ues to be the mO*t fashionable.
Kemarkably stylish DiroCtolro cloaks
are of faired cloth, opening over a vest.
The wools that show Persian borders in
cashmere broebe figures And great favor.
School girls wear kilted or box-plaited
skirts, with pretty blouse waists of Jersey
wool.
Wide sashes, or half bolts, are used on
many basques to give the popular Em
pire effect.
Veronese red, French gray, the dull
copper red and scarlet will be popular col
or* for children.
Brocaded ribbons in cashmere colon
come in widths for sashes, and also in
narrow widths lor millinery.
Empire dresses are becoming to alight,
youthful figures, but the Directolre styles
are well suited to matrons.
The sashes worn with Empire dresses
are not drawn snugly around the figure,
but are arranged in soft, easy folds.
Rosseau, or reed-green, gazon or turf
green, also the dark moss, myrtle and
cypress tints, are extremely popular.
Liner collars with turn-over points are
gradually gaining favor, but the plain,
round collars still have many votaries.
Ostrich plumes, so fashionable this sea
son, are not confined to bead covers, but
may be used on other parts of the toilet.
Astrakahn is extensively used on chil
dren’s outside garments, either for the
shoulder cape, or for reverse collar and
cuffs.
Wide black watered ribbon is used to
trim the new French and English walk
ing hats, whether the hat be black, red
or brown.
The “jacket wrap” is a favorite design:
it fits the shoulder closely and has flowing
shoulder pieces, which fall over tight-fit
ting sleeves.
Black Brussels net, embroidered with
gay rosebuds, vines, leaves and flowers,
is a novelty especially designed for dressy
evening wear.
A novelty are ribbon toques composed
of two kinds of ribbon; the crowns are
long, and a full puff of velvet is placed
around the brim.
Rose ami green are the very latest color
combination. Pumpkin yellow is the
name of a new gorgeous golden shade of
color that stands unrivalled.
Almost ever}’ new and elegant toilet is
now accompanied by a kerchief, reticule,
or sachet bag, made of the materials com
posing the dress, or in contrasting colors;
fur insunce, with a terra cotta dress the
bag is of blue velvet lined or faced with
terra cotta is a light shade of china silk.
The hag is fancifully embroidered in col
ors and gold, and slightly perfumed with
sachet powder.
The hair is %-orn both high and low
with evening dresses, and is held in place
by small fanciful combs of shell, with
jewels of gold or pearls in them, by side
combs, with a row of pearls or brilliant
stones, and by several jeweled pins. For
covering the head when leave ig the ball,
lace hoods, made op over silk and fin
ished with a long boa or fichu-like ends.
Bracelets and bangles are worn in great
numbers; the smallest necklace, a mere
thread of gold, may hold a very large
pendant of jewels, and the corsage is re
splendent with all the jeweled pins in the
wearer’s possession, stock in at her own
sweet will.
Antagonism of Chinese to Foreigners.
Rev. Dr. Nevius gives us an extract
from a recent letter from his brother, Rev.
I. L. Nevius, D. D., a missionary in China
for thirty years, the same from whom an
interesting letter on the foreigner in north
China was given in the Oregonian of last
month. It will be interesting in connec
tion with the news of the late mob in one
of the provinces of China and the de
struction of the English consulate. Dr.
Nevius says:
Even here changes are taking place
with accelerated rapidity. One change is
becoming perceptible, in my opinion,
which is ominous. The Chinese people,
as a whole, are developing a spirit of in
dependence, self-confidence and antago-
nism to foreigners. This is doe, I think,
to a strong conviction that they have suf
fered wrongs from foreigners in the past;
to a growing consciousness of power, and
their resentment of the injuries which
th 4r people have recently suffered, and
the invideous and exclusive policy recently
adopted toward China by the United
States of America and Australia. It
seems as if the policy of retaliation had
begun. The hostility to foreigners in the
interior is greater than it was ten years
ago, and it is more difficult lor foreigners
to acquire and hold property. Hiasaion
aries are attacked and beaten and their
property destroyed, and it is more diffi
cult to obtain redresa and reparation than
it has been formerly.
In the meantime, while the introduc
tion of foreign military drill and fire
arms, and the telegraph and a formidable
navy, are giving strength and stability to
the empire, it is suffering fearfully from
famine. The innndaUooa of the Yellow
Kiver have well nigh depopulated large
portions of four provinces, and drought
in one section and floods in other* contig
uous to them, have brought many mil
lions of the inhabitants to the very verge
of starvation. We cannot foresee the end
of these things.
This letter is dated Dec. 29, 1888. Since
then we have heard of the disorders
above mentioned.
The missionaries are very active in dis
tributing relief to the extent to which
private means and the benefactions of
Christian people in Europe and America
will permit. But they can reach only
very few of the villages and cities of a
vast region in which ten yearn ago, or
more, 4,000,000 of people perished in a
famine, which resulted from a failure of
crops for three successive years.
At that time the efforts ol the mission
aries led to great favor from the district
which they were able to cover with their
lienefactions, say about 59 to 100 miles
around a few centres of occupation. But
this was but as a drop in a bucket com
pared with the great need, and the nation
as such could hardly have been conscious
of the aid rendered. The former famine
was chiefly confined to one ol the prov
inces of Bhang*tun; now it reaches over
porta of four. There are eighteen prov
ince* in China, and 400,000,000 popula
tion, and what the devoted missionaries
and benevolent foreigners may do in a
necessarily confined region cannot be
recognized as a compensation for the
wrongs and indignities of the whole na
tion bears which their own people suffer
in foreign lands. These are bad enough,
in fact, but are undoubtedly exaggerated
as they are reported in China; and it is
fearful to think what may be their results
not only upon onr national relations, but
upon American residents in China, who
may be made to suffer beyond belief lie
fore any power capable of protecting them
may move to their assistance.
Tk* Ssccrnf*l Skeen Mas.
The question is often asked what con
stitutes a successful sheep man. Differ
ent individuals give different snswers.
To one sheep man success means the con
stant improvement of his flock. To an
other, an increase of bis bank account.
To another, fat sheep the year round, re
gardless of whose grass they may get fat
on or what the publio may think of him.
A looker-on would say there is a success
ful sheep man; see his sheep, they are
always fat, and he makes lota of money.
Yes; but to follow that man with his
sheep for a season. You will find he has
made men his enemies wherever be went
by encroaching upon the moral If not law
ful rights of others by feeding off the
range around another* premises that he
was depending upon for his few head of
cows or homes, as the case may be; and
in fact, feeding on any range he finds, re
gardless of prior claims. This principle
is manifest in the greater number of what
may be termed floating sheep men, those
who do not stay at home or any place
else any great length of time. Not that
all men with fat sheep are thus, for there
are as good men in the sheep business as in
any other legitimate undertaking. Then
there are men who do not seem to know
what success means. A sheep man to be
successful in life must improve his mind
as well as his flock. He must remember
that he is dependent upon others as others
are upon him. He must remember that
he is a citisen and should be public-spir
ited. If a man reaches the top of the lad
der by pulling others down we can hardly
call his effort* a success. So if the sheep
man has grown rich by intruding upon
others and making them poorer he cannot
be classed with the successful sheep man.
Success in life means intelligence, hon
esty, generosity and a desire to do right.
O. L. Cuxs.
Tsffipics Talas.
Tampico, March 14,1889.
Eottob Herald The whistle of the
locomotive engine has not disturbed the
quiet of Tampico yet, but we are begin
ning to have hopes. The Vancouver A
Yakima railroad has not made its appear
ance this aide of the mountains, but
the Tampico sages confidently predict
that when it does come it will go a-w hoop
ing right through Tampico, and then we
•citt be somebody. Our section has been
so isolated that improvement has been
necessarily slow, but we have some re
sources that will make this, in time, one
of the brightest spots of Yakima county.
The culture of fruit and the raising of
hope are the leading industries of the peo
ple here. Hops are a sure thing almost
any where; fruit only in Tampico. Fruit
never fails here for the reason that our
springs are from two weeks to a month
later than at North Yakima and the late
frosts are gone before the blooms begin to
annear.
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Mr. J. H. Conrad has Just added 600
trees to his already large orchard and
many others are planting orchards.
Mrs. Col. J. R. Wolcott, of Seattle, who
has been visiting with the family of her
brother, E. A. Bhannalelt, took her de
parture last Thursday.
Tampico Sunday school wr favored
with a visit last Sunday from Deacon O.
R. Andrus, of Cheney, superintendent of
Congregational Sunday school work for
Eastern Washington, who gave some help
ful hints on the conduct of Sunday schools,
and then in the evening preached to the
people. We have a lively Sunday school,
which is a sure and pleasant indication of
advancement, in connection with which
is a Young Peoples’ Society of Christian
Endeavor, and there is also some talk of
a church organisation. 8.
HORSE HEAVEN COUNTRY.
A District Tbit Will Be Hade to Blossom
as tha Rose.
A Paradis* far farsurt-Whcre the
■taachgraie N*w Unwa. fields *f
Wheat Will Nssa he Wavlaf.
Much haa licen said concerning the
country lying west of the Columbia river,
known as Horse Heaven. This country
is already earning a wide spread popular
ity as sn agricultural region.
Starting from the west side of the Colum
bia river a gradual ascent is commenced,
which reaches some six or seven miles
back where a plateau Sbreached, but some
what broken in spots by small canyons.
The nearer the summit of these hills is
reached the soil becomes more dark and
leas sage-brash is seen. On the summit the
soil is very dork, the best calculated for
the growing of wheat, and on this same
land trees are produced in abumUnce.
This broken range extends west for over
twenty miles to what is called Badger
springs. The eastern and western portion
of the Horse Heaven country is becoming
populated quite rapidly but the middle
portion is sparsely settled.
The climate of this region is mild and
even. The winters are mild compared to
those ol the east, the mercury scarcely
touched fifteen Mow- zero. Last winter
during theseverist weather the thermome
ter registered ten degrees aliove. The
average depth of snow is about eighteen
inches and remains on the ground from
two to three weeks. The heat of the sum
mer is not excessive, with the exception
of a few weeks,which are quite wa/m. The
rainy seasons are in the fall and apring.
Deeded land in this section ranges from
$5 to $lO per acre. Railroad land ranges
from f3 to |5 per acre. Government land
is plentiful.
The Horse Heaven country is about 70
miles long and 20 miles wide, and com
prises over 90,000 acres of good arable
land, capable of producing over a million
and a half bushels of wheat yearly.
EASTERN PORTION.
The soil of the eastern part of this
region is similar to that of the western
part. It is capable of producing wheat,
rye, barley, oats, corn, and all small
grain produced in tbe northwest, some
producing better than others. Corn pro
duces very well, yielding on an average
of twenty bushels per acre on new land.
The blue stem wheat is considered by a
majority of the farmers as the most pro
ductive, yielding a much larger crop than
the club. Vegetation in this part of Horse
Heaven is considerably in advance of that
in the western part; the hills are clothed
with a luxuriant growth of bunch grass
and wild flowers blooming forth. The
green grass is already three inches high.
Fall sown grain bids fair to yield a boun
tiful crop, and the late rains will prove a
boon to spring grain.
One great disadvantage the farmers of
this community are laboring under is the
scarcity of water. The greater portion of
them are compelled to haul water, but we
think this difficulty will be overcome in
the near future. Owing to the many
springs seeping from the ground in the
ravines, it stands to reason that water is
in the ground, but what depth will have
to be gone before it can be reached is yet
to be determined, as but few have yet
sunken wells. It is our opinion water con
be reached at no great depth.
Six miles west of Wallula is the place
of Capt. Thos. Perkins. He has 480 acres
of as fine laying land as one would wish
to gate upon. The crop of wheat that be
has sown shows every indication of pro
ducing abundantly. The finest timber
culture in the Horse Heaven country,
either in the eastern or western potion, is
owned by Mr. Perkins. The trees are in
a thriving condition, and average from
one to eight inches in diameter, grown
from seed planted six years ago. Among
his trees he has one, locust, that meas
ures twenty-four inches in circumference
at the butt, and two feet »Wwe the ground
its circumference Is eighteen inches.
Among his trees he has locust, maple,
box elder and mulberry, and all are in a
thriving condition. He is planting out
0000 young trees this spring.
One mile and a half west of Capt. Per
kins is the farm of the Kelso brothers.
These gentlemen are fanning on an ex
tensive scale. They have in this year
near 2400 acres of wheat, a portion of it
being sown last fall and the remainder
this spring, and it all bears indications of
producing an abundant crop. They are
making preparations to break 1000 acres
of sod this spring, which will be put in
wheat next fall. They have timber cul
tures that look fine; trees that are but
three years old, planted after the first day
of May, now measure from three to four
inches in circumference. Some of these
trees have grown six feet in one year,
which speaks well for this portion of the
country. Last year they had in a small
acreage of grain, the greater part of their
land being summer fallowed. They have
had in operation this spring tour seeders,
three harrow teams and three gang plows;
have all their own machinery, including
three headers, threshers, etc. They have
a number of farms in the Horse Heaven
country rangfaffrom seven to twenty-five
miles from Wallula; located in this coun
try seven years ago, and have been stir
ring. wide awake farmers since their first
settlement.
The settlement continues back for some
distance when it becomes leas populated.
In the northern part of this region there
is a strip extending along the foot bills,
the soil Mug of a lighter grade than that
of the upland, but is well adapted to the
growing of wheat. The eastern portion
of this strip is principally all under fence
and the greater (Million under cultivation.
This land is quite level and haa more sage
brush growing over it than the bill land,
still it is lino agricultural land and is being
rapidly settled. Tiie central part of this
region yet lies vacent and only awaits the
enterprising farmer to bring it forth from
its wild state to productiveness.
WRHTKBN PORTION.
There is some difference between the east
ern and western parts of Horse Heaven;
one portion being slightly broken while
the other is level with scarcely a broken
spot to be seen.
From Badger canyon you emerge upon an
open plain; here a grand and picturesque
view is presented to the eye. For sixty
miles to the west the eye rests upon a
level plateau, which gradually slopea to
the Columbia river to the south. Your
gaze can wander over thia vast area of
country and nothing can be seen bat the
tall, waving bunch grass and the settle
ment in the distance. Away in the dis
tance, looming up in the horizon like three
giants, Mts. Hood, Adorns, and Ranier
can be plainly seen.
The soil in this locality is the same as
that of the eastern pert, and produces
wheat, corn, barley, rye, oats, etc.
Broom corn thrives well in this locality
and the straw is of excellent quality. Hops
also are grown in this section and yield
exceedingly well; enormous crops of pota
toes are produced and of good size. The
average per acre of wheat on new ground
is twenty bushels; on old ground the
yield is mnch larger. The country is yet
new, the first settlement being made about
six years ago. Water is scarce, but like
the eastern part springs are numerous,
some few having wells,w ater being reached
from twenty to eighty feet. Tree* in thia
section do well. Mr. Travis has on
his farm trees that have made an enor
mous grow th in a short space of time; Mr.
Dennis has tree* that have grown seven
feet in one year, which speaks volumes
for land supposed by many to be ao dry.
In the southern portion of this section,
extending back ten miles from the Colum
bia river, the soil is more sandy and vege
tation appears earlier than that farther
north. The slope of the country is to the
south to the Columbia river and is suffi
ciently rolling to give excellent drainage.
The farmers in this vicinity are not over
run with stock, and do not have to labor
under tbe difficulty that many settlers do
in settling a new country, and that is
herding stock from their crops until fences
can be built. Crops can be put in and
harvested without a shadow of a fence
surrounding H. Bh'ngh lumber can be
bad at Cleveland, 40 miles distant, for |7
and |8 per M, and at Prosser for sl4 per
M. Wood is worth (4 per cord; coal
$6.75 per ton.
The pioneer of this country it 8. M.
Webber. He settled in this section in
April, 1883, and had the choice of the
country; he laid out the first road from
Wallulato Prosser; has 320 acres of as
fine land as can lie found in Horse Heav
cn, and he can see every acre of his farm
from any spot on his place. Mr. Webber
has done much toward the advancing and
settling up of the country, and feels en
thusiastic and speaks in glowing terms of
its future prospects.
This whole region lying between Pros
ser and Wallula will at no distant day be
chronicled on the pages of history as one
of the finest agricultural countries on the
Pacific coast. Where the bunch grass now
grows, and the cayote’s unearthly yells
are heard, will be covered with waving
grain and sweet smelling orchards; a net
work of railroads will be formed through
it, and the farmers will prosper. The
influ of immigration that will seek Wash
ington territory this year will populate the
Horse Heaven country and make it blos
som as the rose, and its fame as a wheat
producing country will be proclaimed to
the world. All difficulties now standing
in the path of progress sill be overcome,
and the farmers now struggling to improve
their farms and build op their homes will
be prosperous and happy. The people of
the overcrowded east are seeking new
homes, and Washington territory is des
tined to be the home of the home seeker,
and Horse Heaven, with its thousands of
acres of yet vacant land, will receive its
share of this great rush. On to Wash
ington ! On to Horse Heaven!— Wallula
Herald.
light live Bcca Wer*.
George Brown and William Ker, of the
Moxee company of North Yakima, had
a narrow escape from serious if not fatal
injury last Saturday evening on Pacific
avenue. They were driving along the
avenue near the depot in a dog-cart when
the horse became frightened at a passing
locomotive and sudenly shied and started
to run. Both, Mr. Brown and Mr. Ker,
were pitched from the cart and precipitated
to the ground with great force. They
were hadly shaken up and received a
number of bruises. Luckily this was the
extent of the injuries received in the ac
cident— Tacoma Ledger.
Handsome suits for the promenade
are made of striped cloth, combined with
plain cloth.'
—That tired, debilitated feeling, so pe
culiar to spring, indicates depraved blood.
Now is the time to prove the beneficial
effects of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It cleanses
the system, restores physical energy, and
infuses new life and vigor into every fibre
of the body. •
The Hotel Yakima.
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uS SUtt—Unniptiu #f Ik SuMtaf.
The growing population of Yakima and
the great travel through thia country gave
evidence long ago of the inadequacy of
the hotel accommodations and the citi
zens of this place started in to devise
means to remedy the deficiency. Finally
Mr. David Wilson of Tacoma was pre
vailed upon to carry out the project and
build an hotel to cost not leas than 120.000.
A site was selected on the southwest cor
ner of Yakima avenue and Third street
and work immediately commenced. To
day the building la all enclosed, the plas
tering and finishing work being done add
arrangements in progress for opening the
hotel to the public in May.
Although the original intention of Mr.
Wilson was to have tha building cost $20,-
000 be has already expended much in ex
cees of that sum and by the time it is fin
ished the coat wUI be nearer $30,000 than
the first named figure*.
It will be the beat constructed hotel in
Washington territory, outside of The Ta
coma and The Fire of Tacoma and the
Occidental of Seattle, and better than any
hotel on the Pacific coast in cities of the
population of Yakima. Architecturally
the building ia constructed on the south
ern plan, being two stories in height with
a twelve foot veranda the full length ol
both fronts. The veranda alone, which
is built In the strongest way and capable
of sustaining any number of people that
can crowd on it, cost S2OOO. It famishes
a promenade 210 feet long.
The hotel has a frontage of 100 feet on
Yakima avenue and 110 feet on Third
street. On the corner is the tower, ex
tending fifteen feet above the cornice.
The building is to bo painted terra cotta
and when finished will make an imposing
and attractive appearance and above all
will carry out the design of the builder
and the architects in being as comfortable
an hotel as can be found anywhere.
The main entrance to the hotel is on the
comer, and leads to the office, which is
26x30 feet The desk for the clerk is in
the rear of this room, and is a handsome
piece of furniture, built of cedar and ash.
Here is the electric annunciator connect
ing with every room in the building. The
main stairway, which is built of hard
wood, leads from this room.
Back of the office is the ladies’ entrance,
from Third strecft, and private stairway.
Then comes the dining room, which is
80x46 feet, and opening from the dining
room is the kitchen.
Adjoining the office to the went is the
bar and billiard room, 26x50 feet; next,
the barber shop, with three bath rooma.
12x60 feet, and then a magnificent atore
room 30x100 feet. The building Issocon
atructed with a view to light that there ia
a coart 32x60 feet in the rear, where will
be located the general toilet rooma.
On the second floor are 37 rooma be
sides the linen room, the ladies’ bath
rooms and parlor. The latter is 20x30
feet, and leads through a bay window on
to the veranda. A number of the rooms
—in fact all with a frontage on Yakima
avenue—are arranged in suits for family
occupation. The rooms are well designed
with regard to light, there being upwards
of a hundred windows in the building,
and the glazing must have cost a large
sum, as plate, ground, and cathedral glass
have been almost wholly used.
The building of the hotel, from the ma
sonry work down to the patting in of the
electric call bells and gas fixtures, has
been done by contract, and well done, 100.
Kremer A Renfro were awarded the con
tract for the brick and masonry work and
Robert Scott the balance. Mr. Scott is
an excellent and conscientious workman,
and when he is ready to turn over the
hotel to Mr. Wilson, the latter can de
pend upon it that be has bad value re
ceived and that no detail of the work has
been slighted.
Hi Big tar.
Leading Journals throughout the coun
try are engaged in making comparisons
between the big four—Washington, Mon
tana, North and Sooth Dakota—and
those most familiar with them give
Washington first place. Tbs following
from the Salt Lake Tribune is interesting
reading:
"Washington, with its wealth of tim
ber, of iron and coal, and mineo of prec
ious metals, and its mighty areas of rich
agricultural land; its margin on the sea,
with its magnificent bays and
all under a benign climate. Sooth Da
kota no more compares to Washington
than the steppes of Russia compare with
fair France. Then, outside of Washing
ton, her domain over the sea gives to her
fishing grounds, which are of themselves
an dement of wenltb equal to all the pro
ducts of an eastern state. The Chicago
papers do not appreciate the far west and
the empire that is Just beginning its
mighty expansion on the border of British
Columbia. These four states to be ad
mitted la the autumn add much to the
splendor of tbs union, and they ore
clothed with a reserve power of which the
men of the east have no conception. Fifty
years hence, la case our country shall be
assailed by any foreign power, or any
combination of foreign powers, it will be
found that along our northsrn border there
will be a wealth of money, u wealth of
patriotism and manhood, and a capacity
for food production that will be found no
where else in the republic. The climate
is Just bracing enough to make the spend
ing of the long winter evenings at home a
necessity; the soil and the mines will ia-
Number 8.
•ure prosperity to >ll the people- with
good home* and prosperity there will be
contentment; the schools will make the
people intelligent; contentment, prosper
ity end education are ante to make citi
sens believe that home is the sweetest
spot on earth; that feeling expanded
makes patriotism, and each a people are
aimply invincible. The present thirty
eight sates can well afford to lake off
their bats respectfully, when the gates
swing back to receive the fonr glorified
sisters that are to come in under next
harvest moon. 1 '
Ma “Ttt Mia’ hr «!■!*.”
It is Hr. BlumenthaTs deal, sod Hr.
Cohen flashes his glances hurriedly with
a view to making a careful surrey of the
shuffle.
Hr. BlumenthaTs friend, Hr. Denkle
stein, thinks it an appropriate occasion
for a remark.
“Mr. Cohen, I heart you vas a fool
chodch of dianionta. Vill you gindly
look at dia chenuv'.ne blae-vite seven
carat—"
“Oxgnae me." repliea Mr. Cohen, with
out removing his eyes from the pack, “I
giffa no addention to diamonta on Sbakey
Blumenthal’a deal—l vaa lookin' for
globs.”
Paul Schulze Wounded.
Paul Schulze, general land agent of the
Northern Pacific, bad a narrow escape
from fatal injury yesterday morning. Mr.
Schulze waa walking along in front of
the Tacoma hotel with a party of gentle
men about 11.45 o’clock. A pistol shot
waa heard by one of the party, and al
most instantly Mr. Schnlse felt a stinging
sensation in hia left foot. He looked
down, and there at bis feet lay a vicious
looking ball of lead. Mr. Schulze’s foot
became painful, and he at once went
home. The ball did not penetrate the
leather of his shoe, but the blow made a
a severe bruise on his foot liberal ap
plications of arnica reduced the swelling,
and Mr. Schulze’s foot is now convales
cent.
Where the ball came from is a mystery.
Though the report of the revolver was
distinctly beard, not one of the party wu
able to locate the direction of the sound.
The shot is looked upon as entirely acci
dental. Had not the force of the ball
been almost spent, the accident might
have resulted very seriously.— Tacoma
Ledger, March It.
The rule of Money.
No wonder Levi P. Morton is vice-pres
ident of the United States. He has “paid
the fiddler” liberally since 1872. Herein
a list of contributions for political pur
poses in the last sixteen yean:
1872. Grant, preaident $ 60,000
1873. Mayer, secretary of state .. 5,000
1874. Dix, governor 60,000
1875. Seward, sec. of state 16,000
1876. Hayea, president 60,000
1876. Morton, congress (defeated) 75,000
1877. Churchill, sec. of state— 60,000
1878. Morton, congress (elected) 126,000
1879. Cornell, governor 60,000
1880. Garfield, president 250,000
1880. Morton, congress (elected). 160,000
1880. Collected 700,000
1881. Carr, see. of state 6,000
1882. Folger, governor 20,000
1883. Carr, see. of state 6,000
1884. Blaine, president 76,000
1886. Da van port, governor 10,000
1886. Morton. U. 8. senate (de
feated) 10,000
1886. Daniels, court of appeals.. 6,000
1887. Grant, sec. of state 10,000
1888. Harrison, president, and
Morton, vice-president. ..430,000
1888. Collected 660,000
Do not the people see in this enormous
amount, $2,766,000, Mr. Morton’s power
in politics? Is it not plain why he re
ceived the nomination for vice-president
of the United States, and the cause of his
election? If money is to give men high
positions, is there not danger of this gov
ernment becoming a plutocratic one, in
stead of a government of the people and
by the people?— En Oregonian.
NKlilikliui UCATM.
ta liffjf fitnttn ■ the fifat if hit
Kaflvaj ratio.
The valley in which tht city of North
Yakima is situated is the center of a series
of very fertile valleys which open into it
and have grown famous for their products.
Probably no prettier stretch of farming
country, nor no more beautiful pastoral
scene is to be found anywhere in the ter
ritory than standing at the highest point
of the slight rise back of the city and look
ing up the Ahtanum valley or, in the op
posite direction, looking over the culti
vated acres of the Moxee. These valleys,
many of them, are highways through the
mountains and are being taken advantage
of by railway companies to traverse that
broken part of the territory. So that it is
confidently expected that North Yakima
will be the center of a net work of rail
ways. To reach the Columbia river from
central Washington has become a most
important problem and the Moxee valley
is said to offer the best if not the only
solution. The grade to the river from
North Yakima is only eighty lest to the
mile at its highest, while at KUensburgh,
a little further north, His 186 last The
most feasible route from the east to the
Sound, south of tbs Stampede pass, is
through North Yakima, the Natchez val
ley and the Notches pom. Therefore,
with a splendid agricultural country sur
rounding it and the peculiar advantages
of its location for railroad approaches
North Yakima cannot hot figure fas the
future brilliantly.— Tacoma Uigtr.
-Who are Solomon A Gould? The
Climax Barbara, opposite Hotel Steiner. 21