The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-10-12
A MENACING OUTRAGE.
Drunken Indians and Snsakins Boot
lesstrS Receiving Attention.
CITIZENS WILL APPLY A REMEDY.
The Indian war Veterans, Petition.
The school Teachers Organize an
Associatton- humping River Ore
Court Netes-Iiop News.

A SERIOUS MESAcE.-Indian drunken
ness and riotous debauchery In thi,
county is becoming serious menace Il
life and property. Severe measures will
certainly have to be adopted to prevent
1t, or the consequences will soon produce
conditions that will prompt the citizens
to take the matter in their own hands
and apply summary and lasting rem
edy. Even now there is talk Of forming
a committee, composed OF some OF the
leading citizens of the county, to deal
with this matter, and the writer has rea.
son to believe that an effort at organiza.
ton has already been made. Should
this committee find IL necessary to deal
with this question. courts OF Justice viii
be spared much annoyance and the state
saved great expense. The murderou:
Indians and their thieving HOBO cohorts
will confront fate that they now well
deserve.
Marshal Mcguire and his watchful dep.
uties have arrested forty or fifty OF these
lousy criminals. Their work has driven
the incorrigibe bootleggers into remote
communities and secret hiding places
from which they are now plying their
unholy trade with desperate vigor. From
old town to Zillab the brush and foot
hills are full Of these snea ing whelps
and their drunken, carousing, savage and
bloodthirsty patrons. Marshal Mcguire
and Deouty Wills were called to old
town yesterday to protect the lives OF
travellers on the big road in the vicinity
OF the Yakima bridge. They secured one
of the offenders, but they got evidence
that there we're nine of them in that
neighborhood. They also found twenty.
five Indians about the Ahtanum bridge
acd near both approaches Of the Yakima
bridge, all in state Of beastly intoxica.
ton and fighting AMI yelling like I'M
tanned savages. They were all besneared
with blood from head to foot and appar.
emily thirsting for more. Passers-by
were terrorzed and many turned back,
fearing to hazard their lives in an effort
to pass them. The siwasnes had already
held up several who had attempted to
pass and one man they robbed. Night
fall was near and the officers could do
nothing at that late hour to relieve the
situation. They brought their man to
town and left him in Sheriff Simmon' g
custody.
Is it possible that such disgraceiul and
dangerous debauchery as this will be
permi ted on the public highways of this
county? No wonder a vigilance com
mlttee is in process of formation. No
mercy should be shown these low-souled
offenders; they should be tethered to the
whipping-post and dashed within an inch
OF their lives. Every lover of peace and
decency in the county should lend a
hand, If necessary, to suppress them and
destroy their hellish traffic. Life Of trav-
elers on the highway from Yakima City
to Zillah is in absolute peril in the pres.
ence of these besotted savages.
II the law, IA it EXIST, cannot reac h
the saloon men who sell the liquor in
quantities to hobos, then the people
should summary supply the defect.
This terrible condition must be rene
died, even though it cost the scalp OF
every siwash and hobo in the county.
Minner, of the Ahtanum valley, returned
a few days ago from trip into the min.
eral region OF the Dumping river country,
whittier he went with friend to look
after mining interests. lie is very en-
thusiastic over the results of his ex-
ploration and buoyant with satisfaction
over the conditions which have recently
developed in his claims. In one claim
in which Mr.. Minner has considerable
interest they succeeded in reaching a
depth of thirteen feet only, but he says he
took out some of the finest specimens OF
gold and silver quartz he ever saw and
he Is willing to stake his reputation on
the guess that nothing like them was
ever before taken from the mineral lodges
OF Eastern Washington. This is an EN-.
phatic statement, but the general report
Of the richness Of that region in precious
metals gives support to Mr.. MINER
comparison. He says he has been offer.
ed 81 900 for a seventh interest in one oil
the claims. He brought in sixty pounds
OF specimen mineral rock and those " b
have examined it pronounce it very rich.
Much prospecting will be done in that
region next year. 1t is about IS miles
from this city. Mr. NJ. says he never
before saw such snow storms as swept
through that section while he was there
on this trip. Snow fell to depth Of four
feet and the storm was still raging when
he left.
HOP EorEs.-But little change is noted
in prices. The market is quiet.
A. C. Campbell & Son shipped SOC
bales OF hops from the Mckee farm this
week.
Those who went to the Sound yards to
pick have returned. They report the
same conditions there, generally, thst
produced dissatisfaction among the pick
ers here.
Ezra Meeker says that the rains OF the
past two weeks in the Sound country did
not injure the hops in the field.
Mrs. |. NJ. Woolsey. of the Ahtanum,
in contradiction OF the complaint that
pickers could make nothing this year,
says that she, her l3-year-old boy and
her daughter, with occasional assistance
by her husband averaged $3.50 day
during the entire picking season. This
is certainly fair average. Mrs. Wool
sey insists that those who worked made
fair wages, but those who devoted most
nj thaiy time tn nrofitlesa romnlaini