The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-09-18
TIMELY TOPICS.

Puyallup suffered from 4 SO, 600 fire
Tuesday. The town was entirely with
out fire apparatus. J. 2. Stewart Is the
heaviest loser.
The First National bank Of The DalleS
was burglariEed last Tuesday Of 10000.
Professionals did the work, and tunneled
under the building to the vault. There
is no clue as yet.
The bill to repeal the timber culture
law has passed the senate and in such
form that it will probably pass the house.
It allows claimants under this act to COM
mute after having occupied the lands for
four years.
While large force Of men were en-
gagged at rock work in the Northern Pa
cific yards at Spokane Falls on the 9th
inst. a premature explosion occurred, in
which fifteen Of the laborers were killed
and many more seriously injured.
A remarkable spectacle was presented
Wednesday morning at the Spokane Falls
exposition building. Two hundred union
carpenters struck work because the board
Of directors found it necessary to use
small quantity Of lumber from q boy
cotted mill, being unable to get 1t else
where. Public indignation was at once
aroused, and prominent citizens, bankers,
merchants and councilmen, with ham
mers in their hands, went to the building
and engaged in the work Of laying the
shingles on the immense roof. Among
those who went to work were J. ]. Brown
and A. NJ. Cannon, both millionaires;
W. H. Tyler, president Of the board Of
trade, and Mayor Clough.
The Mckinley tariff bill is doubtless
going to become law practically as it
came from the house, with q reciprocity
clause tackled on. The reciprocity feature
puts in the hands Of the president the
power to enforce discriminating duties on
sugar, tea, coffee and hides against coun-
tries which refuse TO admit our products
free, and TO admit those articles from
other countries; in other words, he is
given the power to grant or refuse free
trade as to certain articles, as he may
determine. This is not exactly the Blaine
idea, but 1t is a concession to it, and Is
the result Of the party managers having
seen the growing restlessness Of the people
under the tariff burden and are attempt
ing to stave of defeat at the polls in '92.
The Chehalis correspondent Of the Post
IRteli0encer writes: TIE United Rail-
roads Of Washington, which constitute
portion Of the Northern Pacific system,
were mortgaged TO the Farmers Loan &
Trust company Of New York, and the
deed fled last week, the instrument be-
ing the longest Of the kind ever recorded
in Lewis county. They consist Of the fol-
lowing proposed lines in the western por-
ton Of the state: From North Yakima via
Natcheez river at or near Cascade pass,
down the Cowlitz river to or near Che
halls; between Chehalis and South Bend,
on Shoalwater bay; between South Bend
and Gray's Harbor; from South Bend to
the Columbia river opposite Astoria
down the river to the Pacific ocean and
along the spit Of land to Leadbetter point
from some point on the Northern Pacific
railway down the Chehalis river to the
south side of Gray's harbor; between
some point in Pierce county and Monte
sano, by way Of Olympia and Black river
twenty-five miles up to Hoquiam, the
Wishakee, and the Wynochee rivers, and
fifty miles up the Huptulip river.