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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04
DESERT LAND PRICES DROP.
The Secretary II The htGior Holds That the
Price Of All Desert Lands is
$l.25 Per Acre.

Heretofore all desert lands within the
railroad limits have been held at $3.50
per acre, and those filing have been
Obliged to make an initial payment Of 80
cents per acre, although in the majority
Of cases this payment has been made
under protest, those fling claiming that
the lands were not double minimum lands
and that the railroad grants did not affect
desert lands. On June 20, 1891, W. l..
Stelnweg, A. K. Hiscock, H. B. Scudder,
Fred r. Reed and others made applica-
tons to file on lands Of this character
located on the Mckee. They made a
tender Of % cents an acre, which was re-
jected, but an appeal was taken and il
was carried up before the secretary.
A few days ago the local land officers
received q letter from the department,
under date Of Jan. Is, 1892, in which the
honorable secretary sums up as follows:
"After q careful consideration Of the mat
ter, have concluded that the amount Of
money to be paid in acquiring title to
desert lands under the act Of March 8,
1877, as amended by the act Of March 3,
1891, is one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre without regard to the situation
Of the land In relation to the limits Of
railroad gTants."
Assistant Commissioner Stone notifies
the register and receiver that they will be
governed by these instructions, but does
not say what action shall be taken re-
garding those who have previously filed,
or whether the excess payment shall or
shall not be allowed on future payments.
Receiver Hare, when INTERCEPTED on this
matter, gave Il a. his opinion that II
would require an act Of congress before
the excess payments would be refunded,
and that without further instructions he
would be inclined to hold that the old
rates Of payments would be required from
those who had fled previous to the secre-
tary's ruling.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04
TUE COUKCILMEI II SESSION.
The Sewerage System 10 be EItsRdsd-.Yakima
kOW Has a New Aanhal...Othef
Business transacted.

The council met in regular session Mon
day night with the mayor and all mem
bers present excepting Schorn. The COM
mittee on sewers made q report recon-
mendine the extension Of the sewerage
system 5S5 feet, so as to make the Outfall
at the main channel Of the river. The re-
port was adopted and the committee, in
conjunction with the engineer, was in
structed to confer with the contractor and
ascertain the cost Of the work.
The following bills passed upon by the
finance committee were approved and
warrants ordered drawn for the respective
amounts: X. Schmidt, $2,SlO.3O; Yak
ina Water, Light & Power Co.. &, $40. so /;
McLane & Tucker, 1910; c. W. Henry,
tl3.Ss; Frank Rudkin, $40; John Reed,
$2s; G. W. Rodman, $6.l5; Stone &
Greene, 81.
The monthly pay roll Of the city officers
was also approved and passed; Sawyer
4 Pennington's bill disallowed, and the
bills for sewerage advertising referred to
the committee on printing.
Street Commissioner Leach made q re-
port regarding sidewalks and recommend
ed that walks, to make connection with
those already built, be ordered laid as
follows: East b street, lot l, block So,
and lot l6, block So; Chestnut street, lot
/, block II; West B street, lot 8, block
200, lot 8, block 229, and lot 0, block 249 ;
Selah street, lot 8, block 2O9, and lots Q
and 8, block 2lO. The council approved
OF the recommendation and ordered adj
vertising for bids 10 be published in The
HERALD.
A communication was received from
the secretary Of the Salt Lake Irrigation
convention asking the council to adopt
resolutions indorsing the platform Of the
convention, which petitions congress to
grant in trust to state and territories need
full Of irrigation all non-minerAl govern
ment lands for the purpose Of developing
irrigation 30 as to render lands now arid
fertile and capable Of supporting q popu-
lation. The council appointed Mayor
Weed and Clerk Rodman q committee to
prepare the resolutions.
Under the head oil unfinished business
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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04
LocAL nREvIrIEs.


wife Of Nick SCHUYLER, Of the Natcheez, Q
I2-B boy.
Tho First Baptist church Of this city
has 6led articles Of incorporation with the
secretary Of state.
Wash Jewell IL building q cottage on
the corner Of Front and G streets, which
will be occupied by John sinsel.
The case Of the State vs. lowering,
for forgery has been continued until the
next term Of court, and the bail reduced
to $1,000.
Born, in Parker Bottom, Feb. 2, to
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Bowen, a daughter.
weight 81 pounds. Mother aud child
are doing well
Albert J. LotE, Of the Sound country,
was married on Thursday, Feb. 4, to Miss
Alice Longmire, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. David Longmire.
Rev. Victor Garland arrived here
from Seattle the first Of the week and on
Tuesday morning received the last solemn
VOWS Of Rev. A. Laure In St. Joseph's
church.
I'm the superior court Frank NagleT
pleaded guilty to the charge Of allowing q
minor to play cards in bis cigar store, and
James Allen, the pugilist, was found
guilty Of jail-breaking.
Banker Moffat, Of Denver, an uncle
Of the owner Of the Hotel Horton, Ellens-
burgh, has struck It rich in the "Holy
Moses" mine at Creole, COL, and has
been offered million dollars for his find.
Richard strobach is most ingenius in
his deductions. he having come to the
conclusion that N. p. locomotive No. 57I
is "hoodoo," because the numbers s, 7
and added together result 10 the I'M
lucky Is.
y. L. Smith returned from Tacoma
Thursday, and reports that the ditch work
is moving along very smoothly, and that
the 25-mile contract will be completed
and ready for turning in the water by the
10Th oil March,
Col. L. 6. Hewlett was confirmed az
register Of the land Office on Thursday.
The good news was teleRraphed the colonel
by his old newspaper associates, who
heartily congratulated him upon his sue
cess. Col. Hewlett expecta To enter unon
the duties Of his Office March LIST.
Attention ia called IN the new adver.
tisement of the enterprisine agricultural
implement firm Of Fawcett Broa. who
now have on the road a car load Of Utah
alfalfa seed and n car load Of the cele-
bra,ed Rice coil-sprinR bugRies, on which
an absolute guarantee is given.
IT,. ,r
T~Ss VI ','e o'AS0 w. n''en SAT
Of another Indian in the hop-felds last
summer, is now being heard before Judge
Graves. Rockford and Newman are for
the prosecution and ]. G, Bowie for the
defense. Twenty.three witnesses have
been subpenaed
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'~N1 1 i'oeuse' lssueu IN isNihA county
number. The girls had better stir them.
selves II they want to make A GOOD record.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04
e ROSS
SPACE.

Our former Bargain List proved such profit
able mode Of Advertising, that we have decided
to again place it in these columns, and we re-
spectfully ask a careful perusal Of the same.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04

Hyou want the news read The HERALr
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04
ADVERTISED Letter LIsG.

Letters uncalled for At the postoiice d
Yakima City for the week ending Feb,
2, 1892:
Autenlisth, Jacob Arson, John
Batter, g L Besp Master, Dick
Bates, Walter Church, Geo Z
Eshelm, Jacob Halloran, JeFTyT
Jessie, Miss Maggie Kussmaul, John
johnson, H Lesson, John
Murphy, Miss NJ G Moon, g
Millican, Lee (2) Needles, g
Frenbnen, Henry John, Pell
Singleton, Miss Jennie.
Persons calling for any Of the above
letters please give the date on which ad-
vertised. z. LoUDoN, P. NJ.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04

OBEAP MONEY TO LOAN oNFARM LANDS
- When you want q loan call aud see Us
Nhltson 4 Parker.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04

II you think Of investing, drop in and
20 over our large list.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04

HoRsES-BEST TEAM IN THE COUNTY,
II cheap. Also 1ne saddle mare. VIII trade
for land. B. Puguley.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04

BARGAIN NO. l.
Al ACRES in Mckee Valley, with water
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04
Farmers & THadGlS' CO:OD.StOHG
UNGER, MULLIGAN & co.

We return to our Patrons and friends
many, many thanks for the liberal patronage
extended to us within the past year, and we
trust that we will be remembered in the year
just commenced, assuring one and all that we
will not forget to deal with you in the future
as literally as we have in the past,
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-02-04
BARGAIN NO. g


A NEW tWo.GtoFy hard-hniShsd House., with
"A two lots, nicely improved; S110o TERM
easy.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
Hay Leaders.

At meeting of Iowa farmers the hay
loader question was discussed. One farm
er said that he had found that hay was
sometimes injured by the loader. Posi-
bly, this may be the case, but not often,
says The Farmers Review, in which is
also expressed the opinion that the loader
and its contemporary inventions for
speedy work in the hay field have proved
of inestimable value to the farmers. E.
9. Bennett, commenting on this subject,
expresses it as his opinion that the ac-
cusation of injury may apply to the swath
loader, because big patch has to be cut
down before any can be hauled, and in
bad weather considerable hay is dried
long before the last mown grass is ready
for hauling. Although this is the case,
we feel sure that very few of those that
use them will take kindly to hand pitch
ing.
Theoretically the hay loader is the link
needed to make perfect chain in haying
operations. But it must be a swath
loader. says the journal quoted, or else
there must be side delivery horse rake.
Green grass is not materially injured by
a shower. If only that which has not
dried is caught in shower the farmer
properly congratulates himself on his
luck. Well, in following the mower just
far enough in the rear to take the hay as
fast as dry enough and running right
around the field, practically no dry hay
is exposed to the weather But if enough
must be moved to make windows cross
wise before commencing to stack, then
considerable dry hay runs its chances of
the weather
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
Land for the People,

- A gentleman who likes to amuse him.
self by thinking ont what humanity
might do to better its condition mate
rally suggests that common people
themselves go in for some of the ''un.
earned increment" of land values.
Instead of letting rich men buy up all
the suburban acres around cities and
holding them till they rise in value, then
squeezing dollars out of people who
want homes, this philanthropist suggests
that the people themselves club together
and secure these lands.
Take tract of say twenty acres. One
hundred people could easily put by one
dollar week, which would be 800 per
week. If the twenty acres cost $40, 900
the association would pay for an acre of
ground every five weeks, and in less
than two years they would be owners of
the land with all its ''unearned incre-
ment," just like the bloated monopolist
They could get the money from loan
and building association in a lump and
nav cash.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
When People Are Civilized.

When people are civilized mankind
will live in the country. The cities will
be centers of business and commercial
exchange. Men will go to them as they
now go to their stores, factories or of.
fees. They will do their days work
there, but they will not think of living
there any more than they now think OF
sleeping in their shops or counting
rooms. Great tenement houses will be
done away. Long, solid city blocks,
each house containing several dark
rooms, will be done away. Mankind
will have developed sense enough tc
make their houses all light, so that none
will be obliged to spend even the bust
ness hours of the day in dark dens like
rats in hole.
But the real life for rich and poor will
be in the country, the blessed country.
Rapid transit will have solved one prob,
lem of existence and helped to make life
worth living, Lightning trains will
shoot men in from the beautiful country
towns at the rate Of hundred miles an
hour. Transportation will be so low
that it will be within the power of every
man to have house and garden all his
own. His children will play outdoors
all day long and grow beautiful and
strong. Flowers will bloom and vege.
tables will grow in his garden, so that
home to him will be bit of paradise.
The land grabbers will be all dead then.
Common people will have learned out
of their own brains how to circumvent
them
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
The Ideals Of Our Youth

Chauncey NJ. Depew, in a recent ad-
dress to the New York Womans Press
club, said finer thing than even Mr..
Depew often utters. He told his audi
ence that the best way to find happiness
was to be true to the ideals of their
youth. After wealth, love, fame and
all else had failed, that still remained.
This is as true as beautiful. If, as the
old belief was, children were souls born
into the world out of heaven, then nat
urally young people would have with
them still some lingering memory of the
spheres they had left, some traces of the
loyalty, the high endeavor, the brotherly
kindness. xhe artistic beauty and per-
lection of the vanished realm would
haunt them in dreams and ideals of
work to be accomplished here, where the
crude material lies all about them.
The most nearly mortals could realize
these dreams would be in fidelity to the
ideals of youth. All mankind have
them at first, generous and high and
honest. He who can hold fast to them,
who can go down to old age knowing
that men are not all selfish and brutal,
and who is still striving to produce in
perfection the work he set his heart on
in young manhood, this mortal is not all
unhappy.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04

lected and greatly despised mines lit
orally TEEN with pay dirt" has brought
forth smiles of incredulous derision from
the theater goers of two generations.
He has been ridiculed because "such
things do not happen in real life" it is
claimed. Yet the case of Deneen is
really as remarkable and apparently i'm
probable as that Of the average hero of
the sensational drama, ..
Harry Oelrichs, brother Of Herman
Oelrichs, owned large cattle ranch in
Wyoming. Deneen was his superintend-
ent in 1885. One of the most frequent
visitors to the ranch house was an old
man known as Billy Thompson Thomp-
son was an experienced prospector, and
much Of the time spent by him with
Deneen was devoted to sounding the
praises of the Wood river mining dis.
trict, about 800 miles north Of Oelrichs
ranch. He never tired Of asserting
with an air of conviction that "Thar's
FORUM in that deestrict." Thompson
was debarred from partaking of the
supposititious fortune by the lack Of
sufficient funds for stake"
One day Deneen, out of sheer pity, and
partly for the adventure that the trir
promised, informed Thompson that he
should have his stake" and that he would
also accompany him on the prospecting
tour. After exacting a promise from
Deneen that he should receive half Of
any profits that might accrue, Thompson
accepted the offer, and the friends
started off together. A great many
claims were located by the experienced
Thompson, but the expense of holding
them was SO great that the least promis.
ing were abandoned and only six were
held. These have just been bonded by
an English syndicate for nearly g.
100000.
Deneen admits that the claims were
originally located by him more as lark
than with any previous idea that they
would ever be Of any value. He was
once offered 5000 for his share, and
while he refused it on the general prin.
ciple that the claim was worth as much
to him as to any one else, he does not
hesitate to say that if the amount had
been doubled he would have snapped it
up eagerly.
Thus once more is the old adage yeri.
fed, "Tis better to be born lucky than
rich"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
Ammonia In Manure,

The prevalent idea that manure con-
tains much ammonia is pronounced by
an English authority as without founda-
ton. 1t is explained that the elements
of which ammonia is formed during de-
composition, viz, nitrogen and hydro
gen, are to he found in manure, but as
decomposition is very slow process the
ammonia is very slowly evolved. As it
is produced it is in the form of gas, which
is dissolved in the water existing in the
manure, or it combines with the abun-
dant carbonic acid evolved during the de-
composition and forms carbonate of am-
monia. 1t is very rare that any ammonia
can be detected escaping from manure
heap. The fetid odor of manure pile
is not caused by ammonia, but by CON-
pounds of sulphur and carbon, the same
as those evolved by decaying eggs and
rotten cabbages. The ammonia of ma
nure is very slowly disengaged. requir-
ing a year or more before it is all pro-
duced and evolved, and as the soil absorbs
it freely there is scarcely any danger of
any loss of this valuable part of the ma
nure as it is commonly used. The pun
gent odor of a horse stable is caused by
the escaping of ammonia, and farmers
lose more of this element of manure in
this way in one warm night from an un-
clean horse stable than from their ma
nure heaps in year. A pound of am.
monia in manure is worth seventeen
cents, and ton of manure produces in
all only twelve pounds of it, according
to the authority quoted.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
Hot Water Treatment for Smut.


The hot water treatment for smut in
oats consists in immersing the seed that
is infected with smut for few minutes
in scalding water The temperature
must be such as to kill the smut spores
and the immersion must not be so pro-
longed that the heat will injure the germ
of the seed. AS practiced and recon-
mended by the Kansas station, the tenn
perature of the water must be allowed to
vary but little from 1929 degs.. in no
case rising higher than 1876 degs.. nor
falling lower than 100 dogs. The plan
suggested is to provide two kettles over
a fire or two boilers on cook stove, one
containing warm water, say no 100, the
other 1925 degs The first is for the pur-
pose of warming the seed preparatory to
dipping it into the second, otherwise it
will be difficult to keep the water in the
second vessel at proper temperature.
The seed is confined in a wire basket
that will allow the hot water to pass in
and out readily as the basket is lowered
and lifted, which should be done eight
or ten times during the immersion, which
should be continued fifteen minutes. At
the end of that time cold water is dashed
over the seed or it is dipped into vessel
of cold water and then spread out to dry
Other portions of the seed are treated in
the same way. The temperature of 1925
dogs. is maintained by adding hot or cold
water as may be required
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04

A funny discovery has been made by
French scientific traveler-at least
he says he made it-that in the Canary
islands the natives have whistling
language. They whistle instead of talk
and the performance is accomplished by
putting two fingers inside the mouth
and then blowing. The language is
much like the Spanish, though how NJ.
Lajard can know that is hard to say. II
is as if one should put two fingers in his
mouth and whistle the words, Hello,
Jones!' instead of speaking them in the
ordinary way. But why the Canary in.
habitants should take all that trouble,
especially when they were in a place
where they could not wash their hands,
is not clear. They would convey all the
disease microbes in the universe into
their bodies. The whole story has a
mixed up look somehow.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
Sowing Wheat.

Professor Blount, after ten years ex-
periments in thick sowing of wheat,
says: I'm all cases and under all condi-
tons, except late sowing, it has been
found that thirty pounds of good, sound
and pure wheat is enough for an acre,
drilled or broadcast. In bushel of COM
mon sized wheat there are in round
numbers $4,000 kernels, half of which,
if sown evenly upon an acre, would place
them less than four inches apart each
way, giving each kernel about twelve
square inches on which to grow and de-
velop. If sown early and the conditions
of the soil are favorable, such thin SOW
ing, it will be found, will produce more
and better grain than the larger quanti-
ty, because there will be room for each
kernel to grow unobstructed."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04
Overrun by Mice.

The gamekeepers of the large estates
on the borders of Scotland have waged
so vigorous war upon the weasel, the
hawk, the magpie and the owl that the
field mice have increased to an unprece-
denied degree. These enemies of the
partridge and pheasant also feed upon
mice and usually keep this vermin
within normal numbers. Under the
changed conditions the mice have be-
come SO numerous that they have eaten
nearly all the heritage in sight, and
there is not vestige of green to be seen
in many places. At least two-thirds of
the sheep on the affected farms have
had to be removed and the field mice
have become serious plague.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-04

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