The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-09-07
NATTER FOX THH MASSES
Interesting Information Relating to
Current Events.
POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND GENERAL.
Condensed News From the Hurry
ing world Absus Us-Prcparcd for
Those who Read As They Hun
miscellaneous Matter.

miscellaneous Matter.
The normal and public schools opened
in Ellensburgh on Monday last.
The whale that recently drifted ashore
in Pacific county was 986 years old,
weighed ffty-seven tons and was worth
slo,e65.
Reports from the storm-stricken dis
tricts in South Carolina increase in hor.
ror. Fully 1000 lives were lost, and the
living are begging for bread.
Complaint is made concerning the van
ton destruction of fine trees in the nat
ional park on Mt. Tacoma Effort will
be made to apprehend and punish future
offenders.
Asistic cholera in Jersey City, New
Jersey, has caused the authorities TO
quarantine the place. Its presence in
virulent form has created much confu-
sion in that section Of the east.
E. w. Dugan has started paper at
Tekoa called The Torpedo. Dugan will
be with it when it explodes. He is
destructive fellow anyway, and is usually
in the midst of his own wreckage.
The wheat yield Of this state this
year will be 10000, 900, requiring S,000,-
900 sacks. II is believed that the peni-
Tertiary win supply 100000. II turns
out 1000 sacks day. The steamer Cal
cutta has arrived with 6,0Uo,oOo sacks for
Washington.
A pretty young woman of Port Town
send was arrested the other day for
smuggling opium. Under her skirts she
wore trousers with big pockets in them
10 which to conceal the dope. Officers In
the new customs service are vigilant fell
lows, to be sure.
The Tacoma city officers and the Light
and Water Company are having sort OF
monkey-and- parrot time over recent
deal, with the result that the mayor and
few of his henchmen have been sued
for 1000 damages and arrested for
grand larceny besides.
Mayor Ronald has submitted to the
Seattle city government the proposition
that the new administration be begun at
once by the abolition Of the superduous
house Of delegates. This is certainly an
expensive, but worthless, adjunct Of the
municipal running gear Of that city. Its
business seemed to be to corner all the
big contracts and put up jobs for which
the taxpayers were heavily taxed to pay
White laborers in California, in the
vicinity Of Redlands, have determined
that the Chinese must go and their or
ganization to drive them out prompted
the authorities to call out the militia.
The coolies are an unqualified curse to
California and it is only q question OF
time when no force will I've strong enough
to prevent destructive upheaval against
them by the whites ii no milder method
is employed by the authorities.
DIR. Thatcher Graves, who, II is alleged,
murdered Mrs. Barnaby to conceal his
defalcations as manager of her large
estate, committed suicide in his cell at
Denver on Saturday. In letter to the
public he explained that he was tired OF
being prosecuted and would make no
further inroads upon his fortune in an
effort at self-defence. He repeated his
oath that he was innocent OF any COM
plicity in the cause Of the death of Mrs.
Barnaby.
1t is published that the Chinese gov
eminent has officially declared that II
will not protect Americans in the outside
districts from the violence of murderous
coolies who desire to drive the whites
out Of the country by way of retaliating,
should the Geary law be enforced in this
country. The report is probably false,
but if it be true the best thing for the
whites to do is to pack up and get out.
The United States government cannot
afford TO imperil the future existence Of
the white laborer in this country simply
because few venturesome Americans
desire to live in China.
Ethel Barker, formerly of Olympia,
whom the Ledger deacribes as ga beauty,
worth 100000, in Frisco variety the
alter as bright particular STAR" is
neither. There is an estate OF 500, 600,
in which she has fifth interest Her
$4,000 will dwindle to mere suggestion
when the attorneys shall have finished
with it. She is an ugly, ungainly, repul-
sive, foul-mouthed box-rustler. She is
uneducated, with natural pfoneness to
vulgar dissipation and a cultivated ten
dency to crime. Olympia lost nothing in
her departure, save the worst specimen
OF reckless womankind ia the northwest.
Floquet, formerly president of the
chamber Of deputies in France, was de-
ieated in the election, on Saturday last,
by q socialist. Clemenceau was alse de-
feaied. Their participation in the Pana-
ma canal scandal killed them politically.
Under the heading Republicans" in
France are classed radicals, socialists and
all who oppose the monarchy. Floquet
has for years been one of the foremost
statesmen Of France. 1t was no who
slashed General Boulangers throat in a
duel. The Panama scandals ruined him.
Clemenceau was also mixed up in the
Panama scandals. After the death of
Gambetta he was the most powerful man
in France. He led the radicals in the
chamber, and always refused office. No
ministry was able to stand without his
support. He married an American girl,
who left him because Of his amours with
other women.
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