The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-07-04

Monday sverted by Joseph Stephenson,
Of the board Of county commiss toner's
The Law especially provides that the com
missioners shall meet "+ the first
Monday in July" etc. However, Com.
missioner Handle says he had conferred
with Auditor Hall, and both Of them
were Of the opinion-by what process Of
reasoning THE HERALD is not informed
that II the board were called on Tues.
day the law would not have been vic.
lated. Auditor Hall and Commissioners
Stephenson held q long controversy on
Monday, the latter gentleman being the
only member Of the board in the city.
The assistance Of Prosecutor Englehart
being demanded, he seconded the com
missioner, and a meeting was therefore
called as late as p. IN. and Immediately
adjourned "for want of a quorum" II
is hoped that such action will overcome
any possible illegal feature OF the present
session. Had it not been done, some
body'might have raised a point that the
entire acts of the board for the July term
were illegal because of noncompliance
with the law in the matter of thus prop
erly assembling.
Considerable complaint is being made
by the members of the city rod and gun
club because a member Of Seattle or
ganization Of like nature recently visited
Yakima, and together with one or two
members OF the local club, went out
hunting for grouse in violation OF the
game laws-bagging thirty or forty birds
not yet full-hedged. The HERALD is 10th
to believe any true sportsman would be
guilty OF such wanton cruelty, much
less that any members OF an association
formed for the purpose OF protecting
game would so far forget their duty as to
thus stultify themselves. The offense is
punishable one, heavy fine being usu-
ally assessed upon offenders and half of
it going to the informer. The close sea-
son for grouse does not end until August,
and it is rumored that the next offender
before that time will not be permitted to
get away with his hardly-feathered birds
without paying dearly for them.
The lawyers and the doctors have each
INDUCED in several "prsctice" games of
ball this week, in anticipation OF the
fateful contest to be decided tomorrow
afternoon, near the residence of John ID.
Cornett, between the followers of the
above-named professions. A good deal
OF friendly chatting is being INDUCED 10
regarding this match; some of it being
to the effect that if the lawyers win the
doctors are to attend them as occasion
requires grstuitously for a year, while il
the doctors win, the attorneys are to pros
ecute without pay all claims for profess
sional services rendered by the disciples
of Esculspius during the same time.
The odds at this time seem to be in favor
of the attorneys. They have about twice
as many from which to choose as their
opponents.
A. L. Slemmons writes Register SMELL
ing from Niagara Falls, N. Y, that he
will be home either tomorrow or Satur-
day. He states that he ia having glo-
rious time, as any one might gather
when it is noted that the hotel notehead
he used in writing bears the phrase,
"strictly temperance"
DR.. Power, Of Ellensburg, was in the
city Monday on business connected with
the receivership OF Ben E. Snipes' affairs
and the trial now in progress in which
some of the stock in the Parker Bottom
Snipes & Allen ranch has become in
volved in litigation in the suit brought
by Bounds & Meyer.
Jesse White, an old offender who has
given the police and United States dep
uty marshals no end OF trouble, was ar
rested on Saturday for selling liquor to
Indians. The probabilities are that he
will go over the road, as the whisky and
siwash witnesses were taken into GUS
tody.
Lawyer John A. Brown returned from
Oregon on Sunday last aud vigorously
denies the report printed in one OF the To-
cal papers, which intimated that he is the
]. A. Brown who bought several thousand
head of sheep in Klickitat county and
paid for them with worthless checks.
A st. Paul paper publishes the rumor
that Assistant General Superintendent
OF the Northern Pacific, and
McCabe, OF the Cascade
division, are about to resign. The report
cannot be verified.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" was presented
under canvass to a small and very dis
gusted audience on Thursday evening Of
last week. 1t was probably the poorest
performance that Yakima has ever been
afflicted with.
1t is reported that Arthur Sharpstein,
formerly mayor of Anacortes. who is
well known throughout central Washing
ton on account OF his connection with
the Roslyn coal land contests, is very
low with consumption.
Special Agent Marsh Atkisson, OF the
interior department, is in the city for the
purpose of continuing the investigation
of the alleged land frauds along the Co