The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-02-23


associates, have filed claim for the ex
elusive riparian right to 1000 cubic fee,
OF water per second from Big Lake, other
wise known as Lake Colville, situate G
few miles from Sprague. The project /.
to build reservoir at Big Lake for stor-
ing water to be used in irrigating the arid
lands Of Franklin county. Cow creek
and the Pslouse river are to furnish an
outlet to a certain point where ditch
will be constructed to carry the water di
rectly to the vicinity of parched Pasco
The length of the canal will be about sc
miles and it is estimated that over a mil.
lion dollars will be required for its con.
struction. 1t is claimed that DR.. Blalock
has interested eastern capitalists in the
scheme and has secured sufficient funds
to push the work ahead
Spokane is not over well pleased with
the new adjustment of railroad tariffs
and fears the loss Of the jobbing trade Of
the Palouse, Ceur d'Alene and Big Bend
countries. When Jim Hill was working
up his free right-of-way scheme through
Spokane the ReUiew was strongly con-
demned for declaring that at Saying one
thing and conveying different meaning
Mr.. Hill was an adept" Now Spokan-
ties are coming around to the opinion
that the Regiew was about right and to
show the disfavor in which Hill has fallen
the merchants are cancelling orders for
shipments by the Great Northern and are
giving the transportation to the Union
Pacific.
Captain j. T. Kingsbury is now the
chief engineer OF the Palouse Irrigation
company, which recently fioated $50, 900
worth OF bonds in the east. The COM
pany is building ditch to irrigate 49,
600 acres of land in Whitman, Franklin
and Adams counties. The water is taken
from dam at Hooper, on the Palouse
river, and follows the line OF the. Union
Pacific railway, and within a half milo
OF it, for distance of 80 miles, ending in
Sulphur lake. The ditch is 80 feet in
width, feet deep and is to be finished
and in operation by May /. Joshua
Pierce, of Tacoma, is president of the
| company.
The proclamation setting aside for pub
lie park purposes vast reservation
around and including Mt. Tacoma, is all
ready to be issued as soon as a name has
been agreed upon. Senator Squire and
Representatives Doolittle and Wilson
favor settlement of the Rainier-Tacoms
dispute by calling it the Cascade Forestry
Reserve, bnt John II. Bryant, OF Wash
ington, d. c., is showing his long-head
edness, If our readers will pardon us the
expression, by stoutly urging that it be
christened the Yakima Park. More thar
half of the reserve is in this county.
The so-called green goods" men are
again flooding the country with their
confidential" circulars. No one escapes
| from their opportunities and among the
more recent who have been invited to
visit New York and give up his good
money in exchange for box Of sawdust,
blank paper or something equally worth
less is Sam Cameron. Mr.. Cameron is OF
the opinion that he can manage to struggle
along, with sheep at S. so per head, with
out biting at this oft exposed fraud.
p. ]. Flint has $500 peach trees in his
orchard, in the Homework district,
which will come into bearing this season.
He has $1,000 trees all told, most OF
which are peaches and prunes, with
some apple, pear and cherry trees. These
cover los acres and Mr.. Flint has prepar-
ed the ground and will plant this spring
twenty additional acres to Italian prunes.
In speaking OF Ellensburgh's failure to
receive or invite the Illinois excursionists
to stop at that town the Capital says
''The Yakima people, with their usual
progressiveness and energy, met the party,
entertained them, and three out of the
crowd will locate there. Insects do moi
abound on the Yakima people"
According to the second annual report
of the commissioner OF school lands
for this state the sales of school lands in
Yakima county have amounted to 1905.
81 acres and the consideration $164 ,487 .95.
sum greater than that realized from
any of the other counties excepting skagit
and Walla Walla.
Attorney Frost and Perry Cleman, oil
Ellensburgb, were in the city the first
part of the week. Mr.. Frost has the
reputation of being the poorest marksman
with pistol in the state 1t was he who
took shot at that most easy target, At.
torney Slemmons, and hit the sidewalk
Kerosene will take iron rust and fruit
stains from almost every kind of goods
without injuring the fabric. Wash the
soiled spot in kerosene as you would in
the water. The spots must be washed in
the kerosene before they have been put
into soap and water.
Counterfeit silver dollars are now being
manufactured with as pure silver and the
same weight as the legal article. They
contain 60 cents worth of silver and can
be manufactured for cents each, leav-
ing a profit of 80 cents ON the dollar.
This is an object lesson for the free silver
advocates.
The legislature has passed bill, which
has been approved by the governor, ex-