The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-09-02
Monday, September 9th, will be Labor

Day.
Gov Rogers has removed Fish Com.
missioner Crawford for misconduct in
office and appointed A. c. Little, of Aber-
deem to fill the vacancy.
Nebraska's wheat crop is threshed and
yields an aggregate OF 10 900, 900 bushels.
The corn yield is estimated at $50 200, 900
bushels, or so bushels to the acre.
Large buys OF grain have been made
in this country by Italy, Austria, France
and Egypt, countries which have rarely
before bought cereals in the United
States.
The board of inquiry into the wrecking
of the steamship Mexico in Dxon's En-
trance, Alaska, has censured the captain
and pilot for the accident. Capt. Thorn
as license has been revoked and Pilot
Connell has been suspended for 60 days.
The government of Peru has ordered
its postage stamps made in the United
States. An order for one million scent
stamps has been given to the American
Bank Note Company, and another for
two million stamps OF other denomina-
tions will follow.
The Island county horticultural society
has met and decided to hold fair about
the middle OF September at Coupevlle.
The executive committee is busy select
ing premiums. 1t is reported that the
fair will be larger and of longer duration
than that of last year.
The French method of administering
oil to ailing children is characteristic.
crate fire, an egg broken into it and the
mixture well stirred. The omelette thus
made is served with little salt, sugar,
or a spoonful of currant Jelly.
The injection OF morphine is habit
that is on the increase in France, es-
pecally among the middle classes On
statistics furnished by the pharmacists it
is estimated that there are in Paris at
least $4,000 victims of the morphine
habit, the majority OF whom are women.
Orders have been issued to the police
OF Spokane to strictly enforce the law
prohibiting the carrying of concealed
weapons. The order is the result of a
recent shooting. A large proportion of
the homicdes in that city have been due
to the general carrying of revolvers, and
strong effort is to be made to stamp out
the practice.
The date for holding the Whitman
county fair has been set for September
90, 80, 80, and October ! and =. This
date is rather early, and will be in the
busy season, but it is desired to hold the
fair long enough in advance of the Spo-
kane fruit fair 30 that the exhibit can be
packed and shipped to Spokane and ex.
hibted at the fair there.
There has been recently deposited in
the British museum what is probably the
most venerable piece of furniture in ex-
istence. 1t is the throne OF Queen Hata
su, who reigned in the Nile valley some
1000 years before Moses. This now di
lapidated object seems to be of lignum
vitae, the carving of the legs being inaid
with gold and that of the back with sill
yer.
The statistics Of the department of az.
riculture are more than ever discredited
this year. The last report estimated the
yield of wheat at 450,00O,000 bushels
More trustworthy commercial estimates
make it 550, 100000 to 00,000,000 bush
els. The department gathers its informa
ton from stupid persons who think they
can put up prices by lying about the
crop.
A remarkable instance of feline sagaci.
ty is reported from Bristol, where two
brothers owed their lives to the warning
OF their house cat. One of them was
asleep in the front room, when the ami
NAL came to the door and mewed pite-
SuSIy. bc "aiJ COuNlHNtu tndl cOlHt
thing was wrong, opened the door, and
then found the staircase in flames. He
and his brother rushed to the window
and gave an alarm. Ladders were
brought, and they and the cat were res
cued.
Beerbohn, the noted English grain
statistician, estimates that Europe will
call upon the United States this year fol-
1S5,000,000 bushels of wheat. He il
usually pretty close to the mark. This
demand is unprecedented. The high
mark OF United States exports of wheat
was reached in 1912, when our exports
to all countries were 1877 ,2S0, 32l bushels
These unusual exports followed an un.
precedented wheat harvest of 1891, when
the yield was Gil 100000 bushels. From
the best sources of information it is esti.
mated that the wheat harvest this year
will approximate that Of 1891, but will
not equal it by about 100000 bushels
At a meeting in New York City of the
Independent Order OF Free Sons of Is.
rael the grand master said OF PROPOSE.
ton to secure enough Jewish emigrants
to Palestine to form a separate state I'M
der Jewish control: This project is
cbimeyioaI and will pavay cou,a 70 Iifa