| rOL. V.
J« PKOFESSIOSAI. CARDS.
J OHN A. BROWN"!
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
' tteatabllihrd a In offlr* Id the Eatielman
• lldlng. Will t>rrcti<-e lv all coaru of the Mate.
» £ J. SNIVELY,
, ATTORNEY AT LAW.
— •■oUri' ovf r Yakltna National Rank. North
tv iklraa. Will practice In all t bar>mirts of tb*
,j •" and V I laud ofllCM.
to JKAVIS A MILROY, .> « «*»»
\ I 1,1, MILROY
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
a*-\un |.r«.'i ■..- In all OMi of the mat*,
wrlal attention «lven to all r ». land offlcc
nilnen. North Yakima, Wub.
' .L. johi». j a. MMM,
' ONES a NEWMAN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ooms 4A 5 over First National Hank
IVHITS(>N4PAUKER| «■""> "»"»o»
TV I ram nttm
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
9ap»Offlce lv Flrnt National Hank Building.
' S} § O. MORFORD,
t ATTORNEY AT LAW.
ractleei In all Cnnrta In the Blair Kn*rlal
ttentlnn to Collection*. orßre nn italn. Yak
ma National Bank Bulldinf.
P M. VANCE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office over Kir-t National Bunk. Ppeclal at
entlon given to I .ami Office business.
jjTRED MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Orricr with H. J. Rnivily.
Liited States Land Office Praetiet a Spedaltj.
[RA M. KRUTJS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Formerly Rculxar of the 11. 8. 1.an,1 Office at
Korth Yakima. OBtce, Ward Block.
D. «. MACEINNOK C. >. NI'aAKK
"MACKINNON A MURANE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Rooms 1 and 1 Lowe Bl'k, North Yakima, Waah.
gAMUEL BTORROW,
CIVIL ENGINEER,
U. S. DEPUTY MINERAL SURVEYOR.
Office with Fred It. Reed 4 Co., Dudley Block.
gAVAGE A McCORMICK,
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS.
Office up main In the Kshelman Building, Yak
ima Avenue. Dr. McCormlek'a residence is at
hit office where he cau be found at any time
during the night. ML
"YY A. HASTINGS, D. V. S.
SURGEON DENTIST.
A^^ofltre hours: 8 to lVa.ni,, 1 to 5 p.m.,
Fred It Reel Block. North Vakima.
W. L. DOUGLAS
83 BHOE hWUip.
0* jtm wair Hum? Whan Mxt In need try • pair, j
■eat In the world.
$2.00 _, ■Jo^^9^ k I 75
If you wants tins DRESS SHOE, mad* Inthelatsrt
•tylss. don't p«j $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or
$5 Shot. They It equal to custom mad* and look and
mar limit. IfjfOi wUhtotconomlzolnywrfootwaar,
do wby purchasing W. I. Douglas Shoes. Nam* and
prtc* ttamped on the bottom, look for It when you buy
W. I_ DOUGLAS. Br.ckton, Mmi. Sold bj
LEE'S SHOE STORE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of North Yakima.
MMgTCMi
J. tv.'^«iii. Theo. B. Wlloox, Chap. Carpenter,
A. W. EriKle, 11. B. Scudaer.
Capital, a 100,000
Mll rp 1 v., Bit,ooO
A. W. ENiil.l. CHAR. CAM-INTER,
President. Vice rreiildent.
W. L. BTIIXWIO, Cashier.
:o:
DOBS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Baji »nd Selli Eiekange at Rasonable Satts.
PAYS INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS.
13. 13. WHITE,
ZFiar n.it"ULr c!
Undertaker!
Special Miciint for Casl
FINEST HEARSE IN THE CITY
Bids for City Printing.
Notice Is taerebv given that, to accordance
with an order made by the rlty t ■..iin.il of the
« its of North Vaklma, Wash . blJt will be re
celveri at the ortire of city rierk until ."> o'clock
f>. m Munday, Nor. 6tb. |vi , for cootractlox
or Cllv Vi iittnir un to Aug. 1. Ixo4. TheCltr
council reserve! the right 10 reject any and all
bid.
Uat*d and wild atrityClerk'ioffloe thii loth
[aiALj day ul October", A. L> IBM.
JOB. BAKTHOLET, J»..
The Yakima Herald.
ER| CRADICATtS BLOOO POL
■>—■»»» SON AND BLOOD TAINT.
•—
CiYi«»i bnttln of Swift's S pacific (S.S. <l.)
*f •jtiwlT cleantx) my system of r—litis—
Mood potion ol Dm my wont type.
Wit. S. Loom*, Saimpott, La.
•
KJfjKJ cunts scnoruuk kvcn
>»>»»*»» IN ITS WORST FORMS.
•—
f BAD scsorru In IBM and cteaawd an
*«rys»m entirely from It by t»kin» tens
bottlis of S. S. S. 1 ban not Vad any syaaa.
tmaslaca. C. W. Witcox.
Spanaabiit(,S.C
•
Rn HAS CURED HUNDRtDSOf
CASES OF SKIN CANCCd.
Tnatiw on Blood and BUn DiMam malM
bm. Swirr&raciFicCo.Ailaßia,G«>
I ) (I
I I
LADIES
Like Bargains
AND SO WE ALWAYS MANAGE
TO HAVE SOMETHING
At Specially Low Prices!
WE WILL SELL ANY OK OUR
SitirS Waists, Jackets
AT
$1.50 EACH!
YOUK SELECTION FROM OUR
ENTIRE STOCK.
Sciianno 5 Chapman.
11
(i (i
Warming Up.
A Talk on Stoves.
WINTER IS R.vriDLY COMING ON
and we desire to call your attention to
the fact that we sell stoves—heaters and
cook moves of the very bpst makes. We
have a verj large stock of
COOK STO7ES AND RANGES!
which we are selling at very reasonable
ti.'urcs. Our stoves and ranges are of
eastern make and guaranteed to give
satisfaction. Your attention is also call
ed to our cli gant line of
Heating Stoves
of new designs and superior workman
ship and finish. If your need a beater,
either coal or wood, call and examine our
stock before making your purchase else
where.
We Maie a Specialty of Pinning
in all its branches; also Sheet Iron work.
We carry everything to be found in a
first-class hardware store, us Farm Im
plements and Machinery, Tinware, Cut
lery, etc. Call and see us.
Walton k Atherton
YAKIMA AVK. AND FIRST ST.
Do Yon Want Water?
ContrarU made for itirface welli under irrlra
tion ctuali.
w. a. imih a en.,
>*-"« North Y*klm*. W««h
McDERMID BROS.,
Contractors M Builders.
lUlmmi fsmiibcd. {Upalrlnc and tanUaa
NOKTII YAKIMA, WASHINGTON, Tliri.slUY, NOVEMBEB >, 1893.
A WHOLE WORLD BEATEN.
Some Things Tbat Will be Remembered
After (be Fair.
A FEW POINTS OP EXCELLEHCE.
Tkr ■MM lip »n win v,, 01 , „,,
Ints lll.tnri . But the l.omi Rrinlis
Will I !..». I ..»% ,,1, \« n.liinul .i.
tor Iran to Came.
Special Correspondence.
The great Columbian exposition is draw
inK to a close ami will toon he a matter of
hiatory. The results ol the exposition in
the development of the country's re
sources and in the expansion of the
nation's influence amontt the powers aj
earth will probably never lie fully realised
because of the subtle manner in which
such results are always tnanifeHted after
the occurrence of such overshadowing
events. It is (rue that, while the United
Stales has been the hostess, her people
have also been the quests. There will
urobably be a little over 20,000,(JU0 paid
ad niahions recorded by the close of the
exposition, and it is safe to estimate that
fully 18,000,00;) of these are citizen* ol the
United Slate*. But such foreigners uh
have Htlended, have frequently given ex
pression nf the t!N':iti-M appreciation of
America's progress and advancement in
civilization. To amass and display all
this interesting evidence has required the
expenditure of many millions of money
and many hours of labor by armies of
men and women. The nation ami its in
tegral parts, the commonwealths have all
striven to achieve a memorable success
and the vfrdict of anproval is already an
nounced in thoußandß of ways.
The natural desire of the people of any
particular state is to hear and to talk
about the part played in the great exposi
tion by their own state. Many people
have visited the fair from the Pacific
coast, ami :iU,nt 20,000 of these have
come from the state of Washington. This
state has been talked about, at home and
abroad, as much, if not more, than any
other state in the Union. But the next
question is: What will all this result in
for the state?
We know now to a certainty that the
results to Washington will be many times
greater than what the state has expended.
Over seven thousand people have declared
their intentions of locating in Washing
ton, all, or nearly all, the direct result of
w hat they have seen from the slate here
at the exposition. Supi>oße these people
bring to Washington an average of ifllW
each ; and it would be fairer to suppose
ten times that amount, you see it means
at that very low figure, over $700,000.
These seven thousand addresses are only
a small portion of the tide of people that
is turned toward Washington by this ex
position.
Besides the people and investing capital
that is interested, the exhibits are attract
ing a great deal of business, especially in
the lines of shingles, lumber, fish ami
fruits.
Among the many favorable newspaper
articles that have been published about
the exhibits of the state of Washington,
is the following paragraph taken from an
extensive article in American Tid Bits,
published here i.i Chicago:
"When anyone begins to brag about
beating the whole worlil, he U at once
looked upon with suspicion, for this world
is a h'x place, and proofs must be submit-
Ud before such statements are credited.
Hut the people of Washington claim to be
•world tieaters' in many of their exhibits.
Tor example, they say their Hug stall' is
llio tallest id the world. There is a red
cedar vase, six feet high and four feet
across the top, turned from a single block
of red cedar, which is said to be the
largest piece of wood turning in the world,
certainly there is nothing equal to it for
size on the fuir grounds. The skeleton of
a mammoth, which wan found near Spo
kane, Wash., and purchased by the Chi
cago Academy of Science, who loaned it
to the WaxhinKton commissioners, is 13
feet hitfh, and is the largest skeleton of the
kind yet unearthed. There is in this
state Imildint! a single block of coal
weighing over 50,000 pounds, which has
never had its equal taken from any mine
in the world. There are two unequalled
and phenotmnal yield* of grain shown in
this building. One is of wheat, 101 bush
els from a single acre, and the other is
of oatH, 156 bushels from a single acre.
Both of these wonderful yields are backed
by the strongest kind of am'davits. So it
is seen that the new state of Wa«hin»ton,
in making her bow to the world at this
treat exposition, can afford to take her
place among the front ranks with no fear
of being called too impudent for one so
young."
This is only one of hundreds of articles
praising Washington. The large lump of
coal referred to came from the Roslyn
mine, at Roslyn, in Kitlitas county, and
it has certainly been the wonder of all
visitors ai the fair, especially those who
have l>een at all familiar with coal min
ing. I'robably no result from this fair, as
far as Washington is concerned, will be
more enduring than the attention at
tracted by the state building, and the fact
that Washington, little known as a coal
state, took the premium on i's collective
exhibit of coal mm! rr.lce.
Ehmonu S. Meamv.
(AKTER IMKIiIMiVN Millllll
A I nmiilr. < raird by Dlnnppolnt-
nirni. Kill* a Urtal Han.
Captain Eupene Premier^st, a mono
iimniiu- on tlie subject of reform, went to
Mayor Carter Harrison's residence on
Satnrday and, calling for the mayor who
■net him in th« hall, shot him three times.
I Mayor Harrison died within twenty min
uteo. The axsassin went immediately to
police headquarters, gave himself up and
cod (eased his crime. He is now in secret
custody.
It is realized that the parallel which
i vw tbe Bret drawn between tbe mmwui
ali.,n nf President (iarflpld by (iiiitrao
mul the present murder is not true, (iui
lemi was ■ disappointed office-seeker,
w!io had some (justifications and sonit
laims to office. He was a monomaniac.
It it true that he was, undoubtedly re
sponsible for his action!. I'rendergsM.
however, is undoubtedly ■ lunatic, pure
aid simple. He had studied and read
■ r.iiikv eroanmic theories vi.til his mind
gateway. He ImajciMd that he was a
reformer. He had scheme* for the better
ment of mankind.
At last he determined to demand
from ihe mayor himself satisfaction for
his iiimgiiary BflMft, Up had now
reached a homicidal slaife. Hi> liought I
cheap second-hand revolver and called at
'.be mayor's residence. Mr. Ilnrrison,
accustomed to the vagaries of all tort* of
cranks, treated his tfpßßßslsj ligln y.
I'reiulergast killed him and that is tbe
story ol the crime.
While the assassin ml lied, the father
chattered with his children and told the
story of his journey that day through the
White City. He was feeling particularly
happy at the prospect of his approachin*
tiißrri»ge. His betrothed, Miss Annii
Howard, was at his sen's house, a few
pacts away, ami he spoke several time*
to his son and daughter about her. Aftei
dinner l'rexton Harrison went upstairs
to his room, while Miss Harrison went
around to her brother's house on Marsh
Held uvenue. The mayor declared that
he would rest in the diuin< room for a
while, and soon had fallen into a light
slumber. The table had been cleared and
Ihe servants closed the kitchen dixirao
that the household clatter might not dis
turb the sleeping mayor. Aboifl ten
minutes to 8 o'clock the assassin left hit
post of observation and walked quickly
towanl the entrance gates. He rang the
bell slowly and ilelil>erntely, without thai
nervous ring which denotes a man in
haste. He staggered a Httfc) as the 11..0.1
of light from within revealed him to th t
servant as she opened the door. In a
hesitating way he asked if the mayor was
at home.
"Yes," answered the girl.
"1 want to see him," said l'rendergast.
Hearing the noixe, the mayor awoke
and was on his feet in an instant. He
talked through the door leading from the
dining room into the hallway and caught
a glimpse of the man who wanted to see
him.
"Well, what do you want with me?"
asked the mayor, in his Mull' and hearty
way.
Without a word the assassin stepped
forward toward the mayor. Tim only
warning of death received by Mr. Harri
son was the gleam of a revolver as l'ren
dergast pulled it out of bis pocket. Death
came swiftly.
Leveling the weapon at the mayor as
he adv.inced, the assassin fired. The
mayor clutched at his breast and tried to
pluck out the biting pain, which seemed
to paralyze his heart. Staggering back
he grasped at the wall for support.
Prendergast followed Ilie tottering man.
He bfOUfht the hammer down again and
the bullit plowed through the stomach of
the mayor. The First missile hud passed
through the right breast and penetrated
the lungs. Retreating still before the
murderer, the mayor staggered into the
dining room.
I'r, ml. r^iKt still followed the now dv
ink! man. The mayor's face was con
vulsed with pain, and blood wax flowing
from the wound in the stomach; the
agony of death was on the mayor, as he
vainly lrie.l to clutch the wounded spot
on his breast.
With liis face aflame with hate, re
venge and insanity Prendergast was still
unsatisfied in his lust for blood. For the
third time he raised his revolver. The
old man, bleeding and dying, turned to
wards the murder as the hammer came
do vu attain. The strength left in him
impelled the mayor to throw up his left
hand to stop the bullet. Death had al
ready claimed him. His li e-blood was
ebbing a»ay, yet the instinct of self
preservation and the strong desire for life
made the brave old man thrust out his
weakened arm. His left hand almost
grasped the barrel of the revolver. An
other Hash, a loud report and the bullet
ploughed its way through his hand, al
most shattering the little finger. The
missile buried itself in the wall. As the
latter shattered Mr. Harrison's hand, a
terrible cry broke out. The servants
screamed and tried to get out of the back
door. Preston Harrison, who had been
reading In his room upstairs, came bound
ing down the stairs. Before he could get
near his father the coachman, Charles
l'.irili, had dashed from the servants'
dining-ioom into the private dining-room.
I'rendrengast fired at the coachman, but
missed him. The murderer then left the
house. The coachman rushed to the
barn, got his revolver and gave chase to
the murderer.
I'reudergast continued big way to Des
plaines street. At (he house of death the
mayor lay breathing heavily and calling
for his future bride. Preston Harrison
had heard the report* of the shots, which
he thought were like explosions. Instinct
ively he ran to [he patrul alarm and rang
it. Hearing hi* father's groans he ran
into the dining room.
"I'm s^ot, Willie," murmured the dy
ing man. "This is death. I feel it.
Bring a doctor; bring Annie, bring An
nie, Annie."
Away went the son, flying for a doctor.
Some neighbors who had heard the Bhots
rushed toward the house. They found the
front door wide o;>en. Everything seemed
to he deserted. All was silent.
"I am dying," muttered the mayor,
looking toward his son. "Bring Annie."
liut Miss Howard did not arrive until
after the mayor ha.l breathed his last.
Bleeding internally from the wound in
hi* breust and bleeding externally from
the other wounds, the mayor lay still in
his agony, occasionally looking at his son
and those about him. He remained con
»< ions for ten minutes and then relapsed.
Ilia pulse became «lo*er and slower, and
the muwlfs quivered as death gripped
them. Within twemv minutes after the
shooting had taken place the rattle in hit
I throa! made the hearers shudder and the j
\ major died. j
PIONEER EXPERIENCES.
ffbat tbe Brave Boys of Earl; Days
Had to Encounter.
INCIDENTS OF THE INDIAN WAR.
t'rw 11.m1ncr,,.,, nl 1 ran 111 r ill,
»Mi»l.« 11.. BjSjlfß llrd.hln, nnrt
HiioKr, Hrasls af < 1.. lnrr.lt
>uml>. r af I «lr. af l.ltrmurr.
Mlltmrn (i. Will, lv Tacnma 1 i-lavr
North Yakima, April 4.— ln 1852, my
lather, James Willg, left Burlington, la..
md made the journey across the country
to Yreka, Cal., with an ox team. In the
year following, on notification to join him.
I, together with my mother, two brother!
md two sifters, started on the journey,
/oing from Burlington to St. Louis and
ihenceupthe Missouri river to St. Joe.
We organized what was called the "Shel
'nn-Wfd<lle fain," consisting* of about
iixty wagons drawn by brawny oxen. On
the 4th of May, ltC>3, we crossed the Mis
souri river and entered immediately upon
the hardships of a trip that was destined
'o occupy more than four months. Krom
the standpoint of the usual experiences of
(hose having eros-ed the plains, our trip
was uneventful, though it was sufficient!}
spiced with incidents, and had hardships
enough to make it thoroughly interesting.
I was then a mere boy of lti, and did not
fully appreciate the dangers to which our
train was subjected. We had no actual
engagements with the Indians, our com
pany being sufficiently large to keep a
iheck upon them, where smaller trains
u'oing over the same route a few day?
previous had suffered a great lost of live
.stock and very frequently some member*
•if their parlies. On September 10, 1853,
we arrived at what was known as "Kos
ter's," at the foot of the Cascades, in the
Willamette valley, and finally located 00
'Dickey's l'rairie," on the Molalla river,
Klackamas county, near Oregon City, the
then capital of Oregon territory, which
embraced at that time the whole of what
is now the state of Washington. My
father then proceeded to make a home on
a half section of land, taken up under
the "donation act," a grant made espe
cially for the benefit of early settlers.
I recall an incident tbat, I think, oc
curred in '.he spring of 1858. A mis
sionary—l think his name was (ieorge
Miller—settled in our neighborhood and
began making a In ■me.
He had a wife, and one child about 3
years old. The wife told her husband
that on several occasions when he was
absent, a big dog came around the house,
and she wanted him to kill it.
So one day he was working near the
house and took his rifle to watch for the
dog. Tbe woman was washing near the
house, and the child started for the place
where its father waß at work, when all at
once the woman cried : "Ueoree, there
is that dog, shoot him." Just then the
cougar, for such it was, sprang upon the
child, catching it in the clothing at the
bark, and ran for the bushes, about fifty
yards distant.
The father was paralyzed, momentarily,
but suddenly grasped his gun and fired at
the animal as it was making its last
spring into the bushes with the child.
I'rovidence must have guided that bullet,
for the animal fell dead in its tracks, and
not a scratch was left upon the baby.
On one occasion, in the spring of 1865,
William Bunton and myself went elk
hunting on the Molalla river. We found
no elk, but killed five or six deer, and
started to return to our houses. Resticg
by a big tree by the wayside, we found
in it a large hollow and Bunion inserted
his gun and poked around in the "iivity,
when we were both greatly startled to
hear a HHva^c roar, and next to see the
head and shoulders of a tremendous bear
which had been disturbed in its winter
quarter, liunton dropped his gun and
made a spring that would have done
credit to an athlete. The hear went back
to bed but we wero determined to route
him out. We figured around considerably
before securing the lost gun, hut finally
drew It away from the bole with a forked
■tick ; then liunton took iiis stand and I
threw rocks into the hole until old bruin
■honed his head, when he got a chunk
iif lead that did the business for him. On
finding out for a certainty that the bear
was defunct, we tried to pull him out of
his lair, but our united strength could not
budge him. Finally Runtoo went nnd
ft his horse, and putting a rope around
the neck and shoulders of his bearship,
climbed upon his horse, and with a half
hitch around the horn of hlx saddle he
put spurs to the animal, and the bear
came out, but the way that horse bucked
and snorted when he saw what he had
Ik-it pulling on would have tried the skill
of the l>est Mexican vnqneros. The bear
pulled down the scales at MX) pounds, net
weigh..
Karly in the fall of 1855 the Indians in
the northwest began a series of depreda
tions upon the settlers in thespartiely set
tled regions of Oregon. About the middle
of October of tbnt ypar, Governor George
L Curry determined to try to subdue
the savage cohorts, and to that end issued
a call for volunteers. A large number
responded, and ninety-three of us from
Klackamas county enrolled our names
under Captain James J. Kelly, Company
C, First regiment, Oregon militia volun
teers. We started upon our campaign
October IS, I&m, an 1 after leaving The
Dalles, it was found necessary to elect a
new captain, as James Kelly had been
promoted to colonel. Samuel B. Stafford
was chosen and Charles Cutting flag
bearer, the oth»r officers being, I). B.
Hannah firs! lieutenant and James Pow
ell second lieutenant.
The organization being completed, we
took to the tield, arriving at Klickitat
valley November 0, 1855. We had seen
I no fiesh meat since leaving P rt land, and
. the killing of a fine fat cow by one of our
I party wtM hailed with UeUybt by sit.
The Klic kitat whs then 11 v< ritsblr p.ir
adise for the little stork then running at
large. The gnu* «>• over six feet tal
and very dense. Striking camp the next
lay we croorfd the Sinvoe mountain
md came to Ihe hoautifu! Simcoe valley
now embraced in the Yakima reservation.
)n November '.' we made our way in the
■oils through which flows the Yaki.,.i.
river, then known as the "Two Unties '
Here the first active <-ngagement of our
. nmpaign against the *Ilv and wicked
children of the forest occurred. Our ad
vance guards, consisting of enmpanx*
commanded by Captaius Cornelius, Hem
brie k'il Bennett, drove the Indians from
their ambush in the brush along the
rirer.
The savant* numbered about 3 XI, and
were disposed to be ugly.
Being driven from their valley, they
intrenched themselves in their rude forli
lications upon the buttes. A howitzer
was used in our first attempt to dislodn>
them, but the shots fell short and a
rtinrgp was ino.lt- ii|>oii the enemy by the
commands under Major duller and Cap
tain Augur, aasisteil by a corps of volun
teers, who chargtit up the rugged face of
the mountain, forcing the Indians from
their position and compelling them to flee
down the opposite side of the butte in hot
haste.
Finding tbat the whites were deter
mined to force the fighting at short range,
if possible, the Indians made no effort to
assist the culmination, and kept a safe
distance out of range.
That night we camped at the base of
the buttes, near the river, and the first
dawn of Mie next day disclosed the unwel
come sight of numerous Indians lurking
about from place to place upon the butte,
and to emphasize their presence they oc
casionally sent a stray bullet into our
camp. An order was at once given to
drive them from their vantage ground,
and our command separated, one com
pany going up the face of the hill and the
remainder coming through the canyon
between the two buttes.
Just as we reached the north side an
Indian on horseback came at breakneck
speed around the hint! within fifty yards
of us, and as be passed, Lieutenant D. B.
Hannah juni[ied from hi* horse and,
taking good aim with bis rifle, made an
angel of that noble red man in less time
than it takes to nII it. It was near llm
same place, on the side of the mountain,
that I made the first notch on my trusty
rifle by swelling the number of good In
dians in the happy hunting grounds.
A parly of us vent out, contrary to
orders, to ccc if we could not have some
fun and reduce the number of our foes at
the same time, Cioing to the top of the
mountain, we were greatly annoyed by
an Indian who, from the shelter of a large
rock in the gulch below üb, was trying to
play a hand at our game. He would step
out in full view and-fire at us, and before
we could bring to bear on him he wub
safely ensconsed behind his natural
breastworks. Watching my opportunity,
I slipped away from theimwd nnd rapid
ly made my way around the hill, out of
sight of (in 1 pesky redskin. Unsuspicious
of danger, he stepped out to try another
shot at my comrades, but before he could
get his gun in position I let him have one
in the ribs and, throning his arms above
hia head, with v wild yell he gently
passed into the spirit land. Years after
wards his skull waß found by 11 11.
Adkins, who died recently at Yakima
City, and it is now iv my possession.
Having run the Indiuns from the hills,
we started on the luth of November to
follow them up the AhtHnum valley and,
in company with Joseph I'.ull and an In
dian guide known as "Cut-Mouth-Jobu,"
I separated from the main body of our
command and started around the moun
tains. We had not proceeded a great dis
tanc« when our Uuiatilla called our
attention to an Indian who was coming
full tilt iv ourdirection. The ftiwush rode
rapidly towards us, and an I pulled the
trigger of my gun, the horse I rode gave a
sudden spring, throw ing the muzzle of my
gun in the air, where it was discharged.
Mr. Indian came up within a few feet of
me, snapuing au old Hudson Kay com
pany's pistol, about two feet long, right
at me, but it failed to go off, and our
dusky foe went whizzing by, followed by
my saddle animal and Cut-Mouth-John
close behind. Our guide was riding a
good horse and soon overtook the fleeing
savage. Placing the muzzle of his gun
directly between the shoulders of the In
dian, our John pulled the tiigger and
blew a hole through that redskin that
a cat could crawl through.
Twenty-seven years after the event re
corded I met < 'iit-Alouth-J.-iliii in Pendle
ton, Or., and we nad a ureat "wahwah"
about our campaign in the Yakima val
ley. Catching my own and the Indian's
horse, and allowing Cut-Mouth-Johu to
relieve the Indian of his scalp, we returned
to the command. Our next stop was
within two miles of the Catholic mission,
in the Ahtanutn valley. Several of our
men, myself among the number, went up
to the old mission and, arriving there, we
found that some one had preceded at A
lot of devilment had been dour, by whom
it was never ascertained, and the place
was deserted. Candles, crucifixes, beads
ami other Romish emblems were scattered
in ruthless chaos all around, and vandal
hands had worked irreparable injury to
beautiful paintings and other decorations.
A serious effort was made by our officers
to discover the author of these impious
outrages, and it would have fared badly
with the offenders had they been discov
ered. We found about a too of flour and
a lot of dried camas and berries cached
away and, aa we were then on half rations,
these came in \ery gratefully to tha Web
foot boys, who had learned to eat that
sort of grub before leaving home.
On November 12, while still camped on
the Ahtanutn, sixteen inches of snow fell,
and on the following day quite a band of
Indian horses were rounded up. The
officers ordered the animals killed, and
the mandates were obeyed.
Continued next week.
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FBE MAGIC OF WATER.
What Irrigation is Doing for tbe Great
Yaklma Country.
HO BUSINESS TROUBLES HERF.
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1 mill, far ikr ImaalstraMi*.
"A visit totheSunnyside district, be
low North Yakima," writes P. B. Petten
gill in the Post-Intelligencer, "impressed
me strongly with tbe importance and
value of reclaiming the arid lands of the
state. I visited one farm under the Snn
nyside canal which will turn off this year
more thao f3),000 worth of products,
more than two-third* of which is net
profit On this farm were eighty acres ol
hops, seventy-five acres of corn, tome
wheat, oats, barley and alfalfa, but no
fruit. There were also 100 hogs. It waa
relreshing to meet a man who had no oc
casion to talk about hard times. The
same ai»»of prosperity spread over tbe en
tire settlement of the Yakima valley. The
hops had yielded well, as they always do
on those land*, and were selling at 19
rents a pound when I waa there, the last
day of September. All crops had done
well and the people were happy and con
tented. The condition of the valley waa
reflected in the town of North Yakima,
where houses for residence and business
are in great demand and several new
brick buildings are going up. Instead of
stagnation there were the life and stir of
a growing community. And yet it had
been an exceptionally inclement year. A
late spring followed an unusually cold
winter. The summer had been unusually
cool, hut no crop except peaches had
failed to yield the customary product.
The lice had done no injury to the hops,
an assurance that the climate of the val
ley is a sure protection against them.
No previous season bad aflorded so con
clusive evidence that this hot, dry climate
will not permit them to ravage the vines.
A great variety of crops have been culti
vated with unvarying success for more
than twenty years, and it is now settled
beyond a doubt or apprehension that
agriculture in its most diversified forms
may be prosecuted with large profits by
irrigation throughout this great valley
and Milord support to a dense population.
While there are several large ranches the
tendency is, as it everywhere is under
iirigation, to small farms and a close set
tlement of the people, and consequently
mi proved social conditions. Kural life la
thus relieved of the loneliness wh eh so
oppress the women especially. Neigh
bors are not located by the cheerful smoke
rising in a distant horizon, but live with
in call of each other. The density of
population makes the land more valuable
also, as it is in the suburbs of a city. The
social as well as the economic outcome of
irrigation is attracting attention, as it
deserves to do; for the Southern Cali
fornia settlements and other reclaimed
wastes give the assurance that the high
social, educational, religious and political
advantages of the old New Englaud town
system are to be repeated throughout
arid America.
"At the present time, and on account
of the general condition of this state and
the I'liinn, I look upon the Yakiina
valley as the land of bent and most im
mediate promise for us as ;i state. It is
on the raMroad, which wives it a good out
let to markets east «nd west, and is cap
able of supplying the great commercial,
manufacturing and maritime interests on
Puget Sound, the wheat market of East
ern Washington, and the mining districts
of the northwest with the agricultural
products which are now obtained largely
from distant states. The reclamation and
settlement of this valley and other irrig
able sections of the state are matters of
public interest which Bhould be made
prominent and encouraged at thia time.
It is the moot available form of develop
ment we now liavt. , The Sunnyside can
al is complete to cover about 75,000 acres
of choice land. With fortyapres for each
tamily, which Is more than the average
will he, when the whole tract is occupied,
there is an opportunity under this canal
for more than 10,000 people to engage in
diversilied and intensive farming. This
is immediately available, and besides
there are many other and large oppor
tunities for settlement under other
canals and artesian wells in the valley.
A moment's reflection will show
what such an addition of
self-supp>rting and money making
people would mean to all interests in the
state —that it would stimulate all branches
of trade, increase the demand for lumber
and coal, and in a short time, by furnish
ing meats, fruits, vegetuhles, butter ami
eggs, result in keepiag within the state
the money that now goes out of it for such
supplies. The state will not begin to ac
cumulate money until this and other por
tions of it are developed so that it can be,
in a great measure, self-supporting. At
soon as that point is in a fair degree real
ized our great resources of raw material,
such as lumber, coal and other minerals,
our maritime interests, including fisher
ies, will yield us vast amounts of money
which will stay with us as capital. It is
a time when the state should put its best
foot foremost. Public attention should be
directed by the press of -the state to thl
most valuable opportunities for settle
ment. We should offer our strongest at
tractions to immigrants. At this time
wide attention is turned to agriculture.
The old abandoned farms of New En
gland are being re-occupied by people
who are crowded out of the towns and
cities. The pressing question with great
numbers, after every such strain as the
country has suffered this year, is that of
a home and daily food, and then many
return to the land, the mother earth, tor
their living. It is this tendency of popu
lation that uconwied action ribOuH tar
NO. 41.
■k*n in this state to turn hither, and I
unnot help regarding it as a great timely
•uhlie «'iv«ntai{» that so large an area of
nviting lanri is open to settlement In the
Yaklma valley.
"It was not my intention in this writ
ing to advertise any particular portion of
ihisvailry. It is all good so f« as re
laimed, and wherever water is fupplied
profitable crops are certain. The whole
section is very favorably nituated with
reference to markets and transportation,
and susceptible of nighly varied and prof
itable rultivttion, which will not exhaust.
t»ut rather improve (be land, so that it
will be growing better and more valuable
from year to year. Here the farmer may
regulate ihe growth of his crops by con
trol of the water and in a troe hum be
lord of his acres, few or many. I think
no intelligent man coold go through this
valley and see how it may be transformed
by irrigation, how inviting a large por
tion of it now is to the land hungry of
i his and other states, without recognitlng
the public value of the Sunnvside canal,
which ban been carried to completion
•since It began to be difficult te obtain
money for schemes of development in the
west. It is only ju«t that M>. Paul
Schulze should be named in this connec
tion as the organising and directing bead
of this great enterprize, the largest and
most valuable public Improvement, next
to the railroads, ever accomplished in the
state. At the present price of land it re
deems it has added $4,000,000 to the com
monwealth, though this is a small put
of the value its settlements will create."
MORTALITY A!H)\G CODS.
Thatr'a llnniiurr I* Mlnu.nd Urn.
1101. ■ ■ Vslccleaa n* Ihr nrMni.
In that raat cemetery, called the past,
■re mi.si of the religions of men, and
there, too, are nearly all their god*. The
■acred temples of India were ruins long
ago. Over column and cornice, over the
painted and pictured walls, cling and
creep the trailing vine*. Brcbma, the
Kolden, with four heads and four arms;
Vishnu, the sombre, the punisherof the
wicked, with bis three eyes, his crescent,
and his necklace of skulls; Siva, the de
«tn>*er, red with seas of blood, Kali, tbe
Goddess; Hraupadi, the white armed, and
Christina, the Christ—all pat«*d away
and left tbe thrones of heaven desolate.
Along the imnka of the sacred Nile, Isis
no longer wnnderiog weeps, searching for
the dead Osiris. The thadow of Typhon's
scowl falls no more upon tbe wares. Tbe
sun rises as of yore, and his golden beams
still smite the lips of Memnon, but Mem
non is as voiceless as a sphinx. The
sacred faces are lost in the desert sands;
the dusty mummies are still waiting for
the resurrection promised by their priests,
and the old beliefs, wrought it. curiously
sculptured stone, sleep in the mystery of
a language lost and dead. Odin, the
author of life and ,onl— Vili and Ye -and
the mighty plant, Yinir, strode long ago
from the icy halls of the north; and Thor,
with iron glove and glittering hammer,
dashes mountains to tbe earth no more.
Broken are the circles and cromlechs of
the ancient Druids; fallen upon the sum
mit of the hills, and covered with the cen
turies' moss, are the sacred cairns. Th«
divine tires of Persia and of tbe Aztecs
have died out in the ashes of the past,
and there it none to rekindle and none to
feed the holy flames. Tbe harp of Orphe
us is still; the drained cup of Bacchus
has been thrown aside; Venus lies dead
in stone and her white bosom heaves no
more with love. Tbe streams still mur
mur, but no naiads bathe; the trees still
wave, but in tbe forest aisles no dryads
dance. Tbe gods have flown from bigb
Olympus—not even the beauiiful women
can lure them back; the Dane lies un
noticed, naked to the stars. Hushed for
ever are the thunders of Sinai; lost are
the voices of tbe prophets, end the land
once flowing with milk and honey is a
desert waste. One by one tbe myths have
faded from the clouds; one by one tbe
phantom host has disappeared, sad on*
by one facts, truths and realities have
taken their places. The supernatural hat
almost gone, but the natural remains.
The gods have fled, but man is here.—
Ingersoll's last lecture.
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dyspepsia, torpid liver, yellow skin or
kidney trouble. It is guaranteed to giva
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H. Chapman, druggist. 3-ly
John Sawbridge has a large variety of
heating stoves which he will dispose of
at popular prices. ,'iStf
Teas—A direct importation of fine Jap
an and China teas just in at Cof n Bros.
Sheet music 10 cents at Schindeler's
jewelry store, Second street, first door
south of Farmar's Co-op. Mora. ISM
C. W. Luther, the popular grocer, will
receive in a few days the largest consign
ment of fancy and staple groceries ever
shipped to North Yakima. Wait till
these goods arrive and then purchaa*
your winter's supply.
Before purchasing dry goods get price!
and see styles at Ditter Bros. ->--tf
You can buy a genuine Walthain or
Elgin watch for $8 at H. J. Kuechler's,
warranted to be good time-keepers. tf
Prices lower than ever on Rolled Bar*
ley, Oats, Chicken Wbest and Mill Feed
at North Yakima Flour Mill.
Urlps f«r Uard Times.
Christmas presents for nothing—hand
some and valuable ones, too.
This sounds good them hard times and
the problem seems to have been solved by
the Weekly PioLoer Press, of St. Paul,
Minn. An examination of their extensive
premium supplement, just issued, show*
a large and tempting assortment of ele
gant premiums offered to subscribers.
The premiums are all sent post-paid
and are guaranteed to be as reorssented.
The Pioneer Press is one of the beat
weekly papers in the country and has •
large circulation.
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