The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-05-30
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Wlr1--Wh1t The World At LaFgt Is DOiRg.


| The Seattle PSsI-InisHigsnctr is advo
ealing Judge John r. Hoyt for presiien
Of the constitutional convention.
Dr.. Tanner, the famous faster, expect
to have all ARRANGEMENTS perfected in 1
few days whereby he will be buried alive
and at the end Of four weeks taken ~
and resusciiated. ra
William o'COnnor, Henry Peterson,
Albert Hamm and Geo. W. Lee, the pro.
fessional oarsmen, will Try and beat .thG
three mile record Of 20 minutes, ~ sec
onds, on Lake Washington to-day.
British India has an area less than one,
third that Of the arid region Of the United
States, and yet Il supports population
Of 2JO,OOO.OOJ Of the most oppressively
taxed people in the world. and mainly by
irrigation.
A French scientist says that allowing
Eve acres for each inhabitant, Europe has
room for 700 more people, Africa
for l,SS6, 900 900, Asia for l,4I2, zoo, 900,
Oceaniea for SIS, co., 6O1, and America for
ZOO, 0OO, 900.
Laura Bridgeman, deaf, dumb, blind
and without tbs sense Of smell, who
through her wonderful intelligence was
made famous by Charles Dickens In his
American Notes." died at Boston. May
"a, aged 30 years.
Onwelnesday Of last week three whales
swan leisurely INFO the harbor at Seattle.
one Of Whirh came within 100 feet Of the
Seattle, lake Shore & Eastern trestles.
They were plainly seen by many Of the
resideRtsOf the Queen city. .a
The Canadian government proposes to
TO iortily Esquimalt on the straits Of San
Juan de Fuca, thus commanding the en-
trance Of Puget Sound. These fortlRca-
tons are not needed for the protection Of
British interests but 10 menace and for
service against the United States.
Firebugs attempted to burn the hand
some residences Of Geo. Browne and 7,
y. Old, at Tacoma, the other day. A
thousand dollars reward has been offered
for their arrest The citizens are aroused
over the condition Of affairs and eleven
additional policemen have been employed
TO guard the city, six Of whom are paid
by the residents Of the first ward.
The total imports into this country in
1889 aggregated s23,OOO,0OO in value,
against 1913 ,5oO,OJO for the past twelve
months, while the exports were "a. OlO,- |
OOJ and t72S, 500, 900 respectively. Great
Britain furnished the bulk Of the imports
and received most Of the exports, the
latter reaching q, sss, 97s in 1850, in COM
parison with t3SS, IN, COO in 1888.
The American Meat Company has been |
organized, with Warner Miller as presi.
dent and ex-Congressman J.. J. Belden,
Of Syracuse, n. Y, as one Of the direc-
tors. This is the company with SIS ,0sJ,.
900 capital, which intends to become
rival Of the big -Four" dressed beef com
blnstioa, Ii win control ranches IN The
west and Stockyard facilities at Kansas
City.
On Saturday last smooth ioroer
named w. NJ White raised n chocL "a
al 10 asOO0 and n was c,sbsd Nv the
Puget sound National bank AZ Seattle
and a cbeck a Sai IN I25. n vbirh w.s
casbed bv the F;,'t National bonL az Inc
saye p,acr Al soon as the forgery Was
de,erted the polioe we're Do,ised and he
was arrested tbs, evening A. Snobomisb
and ali a The monsv recovered : IS
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