The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-11-22
VICISSIHUDES OF love
The Story Of a Terrible Battle for the
Possession Of a DuSky Bride.
COL. WALKER ON ZILLAH'S VOTE
He Thinks the Ballet box IL of
Pristine Purity-The Government
TO Issue New Postage stamps.
Some Of the Changes Contemplated

In the South American republics the
people, whether white, Indian, mulatto,
or Zambo, exhibit the quick, effervescent
spirit common to champagne and the
Latin race. Life is held by no means
dear. Honor, fanatic or real, or the vol
canic desire Of the moment are vastly
more important. Under the domination
of easily reused passion, friend takes the
life of friend, with bright, cheerful, win.
ming readiness, which we colder north
erners are disposed to consider rather
brutal.
An Englishman, travelling in Venezu-
ella, told the following story to YAKIMA
HERALD representative. He became
guest at one of President Crespa's cattle
ranches and enjoyed the life. as most
healthy young men do, till one day he
was witness OF scene for which temper
mentally he was hardly prepared, and
overcast the rose colored light in which
he had viewed his surroundings with a
sickly, electrical pallor which lent to
things much less pleasing appearance.
i He related the little incident very graph
ically.
1t happened that two vaqueros, or COW.
boys, suddenly discovered that they were
both enamored Of the same little dark
eyed Indian girl Of the Oronoco plains.
The difficulty was apparent, and the So
luton was clear. They decided to settle
which of them should take the maiden by
duel with the lasso. The preliminaries
were quickly settled. A dozen fellow
vaqueros assembled to witness the fray
and the lovers, each mounted on his met
tlesome mustang, and with his long,
tough, cowhide lariat coiled, took their
positions. They were both experts, and
their horsemanship was marvel. Slow
ly they approached to within forty or
| fifty yards OF each other, and then began
to maneuver for decisive cast. After
several feints the lariat of the younger of
the rivals, handsome, sunbronzed fell
| low from Carabolio, went whizzing
through the air so swiftly that the eye
could scarcely follow it. The other sank
his spurs deep into his mustang, which
sprang forward just in time to save his
master from the deadly moose. Quick as
a thought the others lasso rose in the air
and settled round the shoulders of the
man who missed, pinning his arms to his
sides as in wise. He was jerked head
| long from his saddle to the ground His
successful rival drew him along, hand
over hand, and half lifting him from the
ground by the tenacious throng, put
bullet square between his eyes. He then
turned and rode directly to the camp
where lived the dark but comely cause of
the barbaric scene. Proudly she mount.
ed behind him, and he came gallopipg
back, triumphantly swinging his SOM
brero, and accepting the plaudts Of the
common friends Of himself and the
corpse.
While this method of settling the diff
Guilty may seem crude, it was certainly
| effective. The defeated candidate quickly
ceased from troubling, and left no feeling
| in the minds of his friends save one of
tender regret, which Was far from being
unpleasant.
ZiIiah,s vste Was All Right.
Col Amasa Walker Indignantly con
tests the claim that there was fraudulent
voting at Zillah. When he denied the
charge his eyes flashed and his breath
came in short bloomers, for while the
colonel doesn't exactly think that Zillsh
is as pure as the driven snow he says
ttvfe was no show for running in illegal
republican votes for those old line demo-
Gratis, John Egan, Jerry George and +.
J. Jaeger, we're guarding the polls all day
long and that astute democrat, Dan A.
Mcdonald, was judge OF the election
board and kept his eagle eve on every
ballot that was dropped into the box.
''There were but two votes" asserted the
colonel, "as to which there can be any
question, and both of those were deposit
ed under oath. Zillah might have done
| some crooked work, but the opportunity
wasn't there"
New issue of u. n. stamps.
The new issue OF postage stamps will
differ from the current issue in several par.
ticulars Its denominations, for example,
one, two. three, four, five, six, eight, ten,
fifteen and fifty cents; and 81, 50 and S..
The regular current issue-that OF 1890
has no eight cent stamp, for that became
necessary only with the change of the
registry fee from ten to eight cents.
Neither has the issue OF 1890 any fifty
cent stamp, or any of the series from 81
upward. The coming issue will drop out
the thirty and ninety cent stamps. The
postmaster general in looking over the
series found portraits of Washington,
Jefferson, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln,
Grant and Garfield, representing the ex-
ecutive branch of the civil government,
Sherman representing the army and
Perry the navy, and Webster and Clay
the legislative branch. But the judicial
branch was persistently ignored in the
stamp portraits from the foundation of
the government till now, so John Mar
shall and James Madison are to appear