The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-12-21

ton, however, resulted in-ayes, Lince
Allen, Redmon and Carpenter; noes,
Kings bury and Kuechl,r.
President whitson, Of the Light and
Water company, submitted proposition
by communication to the effect that he
would furnish four arc lights free TO the
city from January I, 1894, to January ],
1895. Referred 10 q special committee,
with power TO act by January /, 1894.
Kingsbury, Lince and Allen constitute
the special committee.
A SPLENDID REcoRp. Deputy U. S.
Marshal A. II. Mcguire returned yester-
day from the Sound where he and his
deputies had gone with 6s prisoners for
McNeil's Islanl penitentiary. Mac is
justly proud OF the record made in his
district during the past three months.
Out of 20 arrests there were 6S convic-
tons. one case dismissed and one on
which the jury disagreed. Such secord
was never before made in this or any
other section OF the district, and it is
doubtful il it were ever equalled in the
same line anywhere. But Of this great
number OF culprits not more than ten or
dozen were actual residents Of Yakima
county; the remainder being tramps Of a
very criminal class. Evidently that ele-
ment will give this place wide berth here
after-for sometime at least. However,
there are few left in this neighborhood
who still have the hardihood to pursue
that neiarious business, for the Indians
cor tinue to get drunk occasionally.
Deputy Mcguire and two or three Of his
assistants had very narrow escape from
tragic experience on their return from
the island last Monday evening, after
having delivered their prisoners. They
were in a small boat. A storm was in
progress and the angry waves were DASH
ing about them madly. When within a
hundred yards or so of the shore the boat
was swsmped by heavy pillows and its
occupants .precipitated into the cold surf
where they plunged and struggled until
finally the shore was reached without
serious results. The boys we're not unfa-
miliar with experience In the surf, but
they aver that this was the coolest and
probably the most informal bath they
ever had.
Deputy Mcguire will leave in q few
days for visit to his old home in New
York.
FORCE OF HABT.-"When we we're at
Walla Walla," said a member OF the
party that lately accompanied the gang
OF Illicit whiskey dealers, 81 was amused
at the manner in which Deputy Wills
proved to the grand jury that the charge
Of joboery in the arrest of so many men
was false and unnecessary. He was
sitting inthe hotel lobby conversing with
a member of the jury about matters and
things when suddenly he excused him
self and quickly stepped into the street.
Across the street from the hotel were an
Indian and white man. Stepping up to
the white man, Wills said: Consider
yourself under arrest, sir, for selling that
Indian bottle Of whiskey.' The jury
man had meantime approached and was
amazed at the manner in which the lob
was done, but Il wac not 80. completed.
Qniie crowd had gathered by this time.
They followed Wills and his catch a
block OF 30 when the eagle-eyed deputy
overlook the Indian. who was getting
away with his purchase. Wills took the
bottle away from him, sampled it, saw il
was genuine and Immediately directed
the attention of the juryman to the man.
ner in which the job was executed; that
If such business were jobbery, then he be-
lieved the people interested in the destruc-
ton of that traffic desired to have more Of
it done; that he happened to see the
transaction without any previous knowl.
edge of either Of the parties to it; that, be-
ing familiar with the manner in which
the business was done between the In
dams and their hobo frien DIS, he saw at a
glance that these two were offending the
law and in his usual way he made the
arrest. Call it jobbery or anything else,
said Wills, but it's my duty and shall
have no hesitancy in performing it at
home or in Walla Walla.' The 'iobbery'
question was not again made prominent
during our stay in the shadow Of the
penitentiary."
DEATH OF PIONEERs.--On Monday nigh
at II o'clock Mrs. Nancy Tenbrook, of the
Natcheez, aged "a years, passed away
after brief illness with la grippe; and on
Tuesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock Judge J.
B. Nelson, aged II, OF whom Mrs. Ten
brook was sister, also passed to that
bourne whence no traveller returns. Each
had been i'll but few days, but, infirm
with age and enfeebled with the cares OIL
a long and useful life, neither offered
much resistance to the sudden summons
to the world beyond, both yielding peace
fully TO the sleep that knows no waking.
Judge Nelson was one of the first set
| tiers in this county and has been promi-
nent in business and political life for
many years. Early in the eighties he
was probate judge Of Yakima county. in
which official capacity he served the
public faithfully and we'll.
On the 10Th day of last July Mrs.
Nelson died in her 10th year. since
which time Judge Nelson appears to
have been waiting patiently for the sum-
mons that should call him to rest. Judge
Nelson and family crossed the plains in
1916, locating in Oregon. In 1859 they re-
moved to Klickitat county, this state, from
which pla ;e, after two-yesrs' residence,
they located in this county where they
have since resided.
Judge Nelson was the father of eleven
children, ten of whom are residents OF
Yakima county. Nine of these ten are
married.
During his long residence here the
judge, by careful and constant applca-