The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-01-29
SHALL SLICES Or LOCAL NEWS.
Items Gathered in and About AOrth Yakima for
The PaaSal q Herald Subscriber.

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Lawyers are grunting many disguised
gTunt over the new cash system inaugu-
rated In the clerks Office. Under the
former practice in vogue an attorney
might file q paper in Q case and the costs
would be charged upon the docket to be
paid at the conclusion Of the cause, and
oftsntimes not ct all. As q result, ex-
Clerk StFobach has about three thousand
dollars that Is like Christmas; but now
the clerk Is q salaried officer, aAd all fees
must be paid In advance, for they are
turned into the county treasury. It costs
t2.35 10 have q case entered, as follows: :
Appearance and docketing. so cents; cal
endar fee, 50 cents; filing complaint and
praecipe for summons, 20 cents; issuing
summons, 81; filing summons and enter
ing return, 50 cents.
W. H. Minner does not think there
need be much fear regarding crops for the
coming season. He says there has been
little wind during the past eight months,
the skies have been more than usually
cloudy, and the earth has absorbed all
the moisture that has fallen. The recent
rain was Of more benefit, in his opinion,
than two feet Of snowfall when the
ground is frozen. He says he found It
necessary to wear coat but three times
during the winter Of 1876, and there was
not sufficient snow on the ground at any
one time to track jack rabbit; yet he
raised IS bushels Of wheat to the acre-a
result that he hasn't since attained, no
matter how much snow.
The lines Of Fred Higgins have fallen
into pleasant places. Higgins is q jour.
neyman painter, who has been living in
Yakima for some months past, but who
failed to strike q pay lead at his trade,
Last week he received a fat draft from
his brother, who is private secretary To
Governor Markham, Of California, urging
him to pack up and leave for the Golden
state, where q very comfortable position
awaits him for the ensuing four years,
Higgins did not tarry, but left YakimS
on the day following the receipt Of the
DRAFT.
George W. Rodman had an encounter
with foot-pads on Thursday night Of last
week. He was vending his way homC
when two tough looking roustabouts sud
denly rose up before him. Mr.. RodmaT
jumped back, and, placing his hand OF
that portion Of his anatomy where a re
volver Is usually supposed to rest, com
manded the strangers to make themselves
scarce, which they did with very poo
grace. A young man was held up in tn,
same neighborhood few nights previoul
and relieved Of ".
Heretofore the Northern Pacific hal
made no charge for the return Of pack
ages in which produce has been sent +,
the various markets, but last week al
order ives received putting tariff on sucl
returned packages. This is q hard blow
at our infant industries, and one which
will be severely felt by the dairymen
market gardeners and fruit growers Of tn
Yakima valley.
Representative John Davis, who die
ct EllensburEh on the 18th inst, was on
Of the volunteers who came to the YAK
ina valley in 1856 to subdue hostile In
dams. In 1895 he moved with his famil
and settled near this city and helpe,
organize Yakima county, Of which he wa
the first probate judge elected. He wa
81 years Of age at the time Of his death
George Donald passed through the cit,
Saturday on business trip to Portland
He reports that bis railroad contract worl
10 getting along nicely considering tn
winter weather and the mud. Mr.. Donal
has q favorable contract, and his man,
friends hope that he will make q barre
Of money out Of It.
The Northern Pacific has found tn
sidetracks ct this point inadequate to 1t
constantly growing business. A yer
short time ago q material addition wa
made 10 its trackage facilities ct Mort
Yakima, and now another side-tTack 100
feet in length is being built to meet th
requirements.
A. Durgin, Of Ellensburgh, has locate,
in Yakima and proposes to 60 into tn
chicken business on o somewhat extend
ed scale. He has fitted up his place eigh
miles west Of the city with coops, runl
etc., and has started in with Q hundre
chickens and a quantity Of ducks an
turkeys.
Senator Watson G. Squire passe
through Yakima Saturday on his Tetur
to Washington. He aired himself on tn
platform while the train was stoppin
and remarked that yakima is q mic
town" Thanks, awfully, senator.
Yakima has q dog tax law, but tn
only dog among several hundred on whic
. tax IL paid Is "Curly," the venerabl
and toothless canine that claims Marshs
McMurty for o master.
Capt. J. H. Thomas is again plannin