The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-03-08
CHIEFLY IN THE State.
Entertaining Items From Divers and
Sundry Sources.
WHAT MANY EXCHANGES TELL Us.
4 Hurried survey OF Active Fields
In This Great Common wealth.
Movements and Methods OF Busi.
ness People Generally.
WHAT MANY EXCHANGES TELL Us.


Ferry postoffice.
Garfield Thermometers have been regis
tering as low as 20 below.
Five cents lie all 1t costs to attend Puy-
allup entertainments these hard times.
A Walla walla exchange reports cherry
trees in bloom on Washington's birthday.
The Pullman Tribune tells Of fat hog
bought by j. r. Ripley. the butcher,
last week, which weighed 755 pounds
dressed. the result OF feeding wet Palouse
wheat.
Francis NJ. Cook, OF Spokane, is at
Chelan endeavoring to secure subsidies
sufficient to warrant the building Of a
narrow gague railroad from the Colum.
bia river to Lake Chelan.
The man with the finest whiskers in
Spokane, in an evil hour. allowed him
self to be cast for the part Of Gaapsrd.
The opera was produced Monday night
and the whiskers had to 90.
Jacob and Joseph Fletcher have COM
pleted quite an engineering feat in the
shape of bridge across canyon at Os-
trsnder. The bridge is go feet high in
the center and 1875 feet long, and was
made by raising bents Of hewn cedar.
Joel Wood, Of Waitsburg, seems to be
providentially favored during these hard
times. In his family are nine children,
and recently kind neighbor drove into
his corral, fresh mich COW, which, on
examination, he found had nine teats.
A funny parsgrapher of Tacoma has
got his pa Der into trouble by stating that
Corbett and Jackson were looking for q
mllsite on the Sound. All the real estate
men in the stste are writing letters de-
scribing their saw and shingle mill loca-
tons.
How would it do for the state legisla-
ture at it's next session to pass a law to
come in force in one year after the adop-
ton, absolutely forbidding every countv
or municipal corporation from mourning
a single dollar Of Indebtedness without q
vote Of the people to authorize it7 There
is not single valid reason why such cor
porations should 70 in debt for current
expenditures. Let them assess for what
money they need and keep expenses alb.
soluiely within the income Seattle Tel
egrsph.
The Alaskan Yukon mining party,
with Louis and Willie Mass and w. Z.
Geiger at the head, was to leave Port
Townsend yesterday on the Mexico for
the north. They expect TO be gone over
year at least, and will bring out pack.
train loaded with nuggets Of gold.
Henry Keeling, secretary OF the Walla
Walla board Of trade, has received let
ter from the commissioners of the Cali
fornia Midwinter fair soliciting an ex-
hibit from the Walla Walla valley and
offering space free of charge. The invi.
tation will be submitted to the board of
trade.
\ county farmers institute will be held
at Occur d'Alene March 20 and 20. 1t is
expected that the st. Joe, Occur d'Alene
and Kootenai valleys, and also the prairie
sections OF the county, will send large
delegations TO the institute. Other coun-
ties in the state and in Washington will
also be represented.
The Neah Bay Indians are one OF the
most thrifty tribes under the government
charge. They have feet Of 10 schooners
and are engaged in profitable business
of sealing, whaling and other fishing.
Most Of the feet is now being fitted out
for the seasons work, and as seals are
said to be unusually plentiful off the cape
this year, the Indians will probably make
good deal of money. So far this year
the weather has been 50 stormy that only
two days sealing was tried by three yes.
sells and 14O seals taken in all.
Word has reached Wbatcom that the
dogcatcher who was in that city's employ
last summer and fall is reported as dying
in the hospital at Eugene, o.. OF hydro
phobia. He raves violently. having all
the symptoms OF the disease, biting at the
attendants like dog with the rabies. He
was bitten at Whatcom by dog last sea-
son, when plying his vocation. 1t is said
that an effort is being made to have the
case treated by the Pasteur cure at New
York, but that there is lack of funds,
and the case is probably too far gone.
John Lewis, colored bootblack of
Olympia, is said to have fallen into a rich
estate. An old lady who adopted him as
her servant years ago recently died in
Canada without leaving any natural
heirs, and willed her fo.tune to the col
ored boy who was so kind to her in years
gone by, but she had lost his address.
Upon receiving this intelligence Lewis
departed for Canada to prove his identity
and claim his fortune. The lucky negro
is about 80 years old, and has been earn
ing his living by blscking boots on Per
cival's dock, sleeping there nights.
Ollie. the l2-year-old daughter OF John
Flock. an Asotin farmer, narrowly es-
caped attack from mountain lion. AT
sharp turn in the trail the girl came in
full view Of a large and ugly looking lion.
1t slowly advanced toward her, when she
called for her dog. The dog appeared
npon the scene and made for the lion,
but kept out OF reach Of the animals
sharp claws. The dog kept worrying
and tormenting the beast to attract its at.
tention from the child until the little girl
was out OF harms way, when 1t, too,