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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
Affairs of the Y. I. Co.

In the United States court at Tacoma
on Tuesday, according to dispatch, the
receiver of the Yakima Investment COM
pany applied for leave to enter into con-
tract with the Northern Pacific Railway
company for the sale of an mmence tract
OF land lying adjacent to the Yakima ir-
rigating ditch, in the Yakima valley.
The railroad agrees to give $50 an acre
for the land. and if the contract is made
will advertise the lands with a special
exhibit car, which will be carried
throughout the Eastern states.
The San Francisco Safe Deposit com
pany and the London 4 San Francisco
bank, both bond holders of the insolven,
company, oppose the proposed deal. All
parties concerned we're represented in
court at the hearing. At the conclusion
OF argument the matter was taken under
adyisement.
The contract, if permitted to be made
by the court, will be closed through the
Northern Pacific land department, and it
is claimed by the petitioners will result
in great benefit to the Yakima country
and the irrigatng canal projectors, as
the land company believes it will be able
to locate buyers on 10000 acres within a
comparatively short period. A decision
is expected in few days.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15

Our school board has called a special
election to be held at the Central school
building next Friday, July 23d, from one
O'Clock till eight O'Clock p. ~, for the
purpose OF submitting to the voters OF
this district the question as to whether
the schools shall be kept open during the
coming year. This action is made neces
sary by the fact that the district is in
debt up to its legal limit. The board has
asked permission to spend $4,000; of this
amount 1920 will be paid as interest on
bonded Indebtedness, and as the board
has authority to levy a special ia, and
pay this without vote OF the district,
the question at issue really has to do only
with the balance, about 5000, which is
required to maintain the schools for a
year. Under the new law this district
will receive no share of school money
unless the schools are kept open. Here
after the apportionment will be based on
the actual attendance OF pupils in school,
and mo school" means that the school
tax, which We must all pay, will be sent
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
JiPAN'S PROTEST.

Oregonian: We take with many grains
OF salt the apnuncistion that Japan is
about to seize the Hawaiian islands. She
must know that it would be necessary to
abandon them very quickly or accept war
with the United States. A treaty is
pending for annexation of the islands to
the United States, and seizure of them
by any other country would not be borne.
Yet Japan, because she got an advan-
tage over poor, old moribund China, ever
since has had symptoms of the bighead,
which she may not recover from till she
gets a drubbing in turn. This "cocky"
strut invites thrashing, which she will
surely get at some nations hands. Pos
sibly Japan may think she would get an
advantage by seizure of the islands and
by fortiiyiDg their few ports, so that We
could not land force there; but We
should find way to land force, not
only there, but in Japan, if necessary.
At first it would be an affair OF fleets.
That ended, if this little yellow braggart
had not come to his senses, an army
corps, landed on Nippon, would give him
the supplementary lesson; for single
army corps Of any civilized nation would
scatter like sheep all the military forces
Of Japan.
This country is not out on hunt for
war, but upon just cause it will fight. 1t
will allow no interruption by Japan or
any other nation of the progress of its
treaty with Hawaii. Japan's protest il
meddlesome and ridiculous; so much 30
that it almost prepares the way ior belief
tn at she may 90 further. II We are to
have war, we should find compensations
in it. 1t would recall our people to SER
iousness and soberness; it would re-
awaken patriotism; it would clear the
air of blatsncy, and concentrate attention
on work of real importance. 1t is a
serious question whether evils now
affecting the country are not worse than
war, and il is certain that war would re-
lieve the country of the worst of them.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
Tacoma Must Walk IN Darkness.

BY reason Of the breaking of a connect
ing rod attached to the governor, the fly
wheel of one Of the pair OF Corliss tandem
compound engines of the Tacoma Rail.
wav company, Tacoma, went to pieces
Sunday afternoon. completely wrecking
the plant and building. The engineer
and two oilers were in the house. Super.
intendent u. 7. Mitchell and Accountant
Thompson were in the office, but none
received injuries. The immense fly
wheel, weighing 40 tons, tore its way
stroying everything in its course.
The engineer made an effort to shut
down the machine when the accident oc-
cured, but the rotary throttle became
jammed and he left it to escape. The
wreck means a total discontinuanace of
all of Tacoma's street car traffic for sew
eral days, perhaps weeks, excepting the
Park and Edison lines, which have plants
OF their own. Although Oiler Funk stood
within 20 feet Of the immense fy-wheel
when it went to pieces lie escaped I'M
hurt. The huge pieces of the wheel did
no end of damage to the building, and
other machinery. One piece weighing
two tons fell on the twin engine aud
damaged it fully as much as the engine
on which the wheel belonged. Several
pieces OF the fly.wheel passed through the
roof and dropped in the bay thousand
feet away. The power furnished by the
plant to the city for lighting purposes
will be discontinued temporarily. Street
cars in all parts of the city were left
standing on the tracks and cannot now
be brought back to the roundhouse. The
damage is estimated at $4,000.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
Dude Lewis and ear Reed.

Washington Correspondence San Fran
cisco Chronicle: James Hamilton Lewis
OF Washington, the fr>ion congressman,
whose cress attracted so much attention
at first, joined the group. Lewis is pc
culiar only in dress His mind is one of
the best in the house, and while he has
fought the speaker. his opposition has
been done on purely legal lines, at no
time assuming any of that personally
abusive flavor which Jerry Simpson al
ways injects into anything he says con
corning the presiding officer. Mr. Reed
realizes this, for recently he said to one
one of the republican leaders, during a
talk concerning new members:
"When | was out in Washington some
Of his political enemies told me Lewis
was nothing but populist palaver above
and pants below, but they were mistaken,
worth it"
Well, soon after Lewis came up Mr.
Reed moved over toward him, and after
little greeting, remarked:
"Well, Lewis, Pm not as bad rs look
am II"
mo, indeed, Mr.. Speaker" was the
quick reply. That, | think, is imposs
ble."
Reed got a little red in the face, hut
began to laugh in moment and then
joined heartily in the peal which marked
the breaking up of the crowd.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
Wagner and schumann.

Wagner. writing in 1S46, said Of
schumann HE is highly gifted mu.
sician, but an impossible man. When !
came from Paris. went to see him. ]
told him Of my Partisan experiences.
spoke of the state of music in France.
then Of that in Germany. spoke of liter
allure and politics. but he remained as
good as dumb for nearly an hour. One
cannot 60 on talking quite alone. An
impossible MANI Schumann gave an
account Of this interview which practi-
oally agrees with that Of Wagner. 81
have seldom met Wagner" he said,
"but he is man of education and spirit
He talks. however, increasingly, and that
one cannot endure for long together.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15

on as usual to the state treasurer for die.
tribution over the state, but when this
distribution is made our share will be
divided among those districts that keep
their schools open. II We maintain our
school, our share Of school money at ~
cents per day per pupil, according to the
past years attendance, which is the basis,
will be more than enough to meet ex.
penses, and at the end of the year the
district will be in no worse condition.
Finally then, our boys and girls will
have had the advantage of years
schooling. II we close our schools, our
children suffer great loss, our city takes
long backward step. our hard earned
money paid in as taxes into the general
school fund is handed over to other dis
tricts, and our debt remains the same.
1t is hardly necessary to add that every
vote ought to be cast for open schools
next Friday.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.

In the Superior Court of the state of Washing.
ton, for the County Of Yakima.
Charles Bowman, Plaintiff, VS.. Dora Crandall
and Dwight Crandal1 her husband; X l.. sab.
in; Harry Block and Leo Block, co partners
under the name OF II. 4 l.. Block: and Will
liam G. lmbrie, Defendants.
The state of Washington to the said Dora Gran
dali and Dwight tfannall, her husband: K l..
Sabin: Harry Block aud Leo Block, co-part.
ners under the name OF H. Il L. Block; aud
William G. Imbrie, defendants:
Hou are hereby summoned to appear within
Sixty days after the date of the first publication
Of this summons, to wit: with sixty DAYS al
ter the LIST day OF July, 1897, ana defend the
above entitled action in the above entitled
Court and answerthe complaint OF the plaintiff,
and serve n copy of your answer upon the under
signed attorneys for plainih, at their office be
low stated; aud in case OF your failure so To do,
judgment will be rendered against you accord
Ing to the demand of the complaint, which has
been filed with the CLERK Of said Court.
The object of said action is to recover juig-
ment against Dora Crandall and Dwight Gran
dali, her husband, for $4,000 with interest
thereon from date of fliug this complaint in
this action at the rate of ~ per cent per annum;
also for the sum of SO 90 with interest thereon
from January 2itb, 1881, at the rate of II per
cent per aunum also for 10 per cent of amount
found due to plaintiff rs attorneys fees herciu,
and for costs, claimed by plaintiff upon prom
isory note made by Dora Crandall and Dwight
cTandall to plaintin, said note bearing date
January 2ih, 1925, for $500 TO. and to fnreclnse
mortgage upon the following described real
estate in the county OF Yak ma, state of Wash
lHgloI, 'oNll' DHWhs SiAIctn tlb),
Seventeen az, Eighteen u.s., Nineteen (l9l,
Twenty (20l, Twenty-one IN, ana the south
half tSl2 OF blocks numbered Twenty-Five (22).
Twenty three (23I and Twenty four "a, of Mil
rows plat Same being the Northwest quarter
LNWl4 of the southwest quarter ISwi, OF see
ton Twenty four C2il, Township Thirteen Ll3l,
North of Range Eighteen-lS-, East william
cite meridian. Less blocks Thirtecu-l3--.F Four
teen-li-and Fifteen ID, of said Milroy's
plat, containing Thrty-3o- more or less,
In Yakima county, Washington; also all right,
title ana interest in and to ifteeu-1j-inches OF
water Of miners measure in the K. Struhach IT.
rigating Canal Company. said mortgage being
given to secure said note; aud to foreclosure a
pledge OF a certificate for one aud one half
ll2-shares OF the capital stock issued ON May
9th, 1898 by Natchcz Il Cowychee Ditch Com
pany to Sidney G. Craudall, and endorsed in
blank by said CrAndall. said certificate being
pledged to plaintiff by said Dora aud Dwight
Crandall AS additional security for said above
described note.
The date of the first publication OF this sum
mons is list day OF July, 1877.
BOGLF e RIGG,
2I1 Attorneys Tor Plaintiff,
Once aud p. o. Address, Yakima National Bank
building, North Yakima, Washington.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS.

THE HERALD has several hundred sub.
scribers who are delinquent one, two
three and four years while there are q
few who have never paid a cent since the
paper started, over eight years ago. The
aggregate Indebtedness is very large, in
fact larger than can longer be carried, fol
the leHiency of the management has re
suited in obligations which must now bt
met. 1t is to be hoped that this notifica
tion will be sufficient to cause those
knowing themselves indebted to the pa
per to come forward and make settlement
+. NJ. REED, Manager.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15

The coal miners strike which started
in Ohio has reached into nearly every
coal producing section east of the Missis-
sippi. The coal miners are asking that
they be allowed sufficient wages on
which to maintain themselves and fami-
lies; they refuse to work for less, but
this the operators refuse to grant, and in
places have elected the assistance of the
state to back up their refusal, and indca.
tions are that the operators in some
states at least will be granted what they
ask. The strikers have not shown dis
position to modest the property of opera
tors, nor have they been rotous. All
they have done is to refuse to work for
starvation wages.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
He Gave His Life.

The author of "Tales of an Engineer"
pays a tribute to the memory of man
of his own craft who stuck to his
engine, knowing that his death alone
could lessen the danger of those in his
charge.
The train had crossed a bridge and
was approaching a tunnel, which, being
on the shadow side Of the hill, looked
like great hole in the night. Nearer
the engine the engineer saw a number
Of dark objects scattered about. In an
other second he discerued what these
were and realized an awful danger.
As he reversed the engine and applied
the airbrakes he shouted to the fireman
to jump. He might have jumped him.
self, for he saw the danger first, but no
such thought came to him. In another
second the pilot was blowing through a
herd of cattle asleep Oh the track.
If they had all been standing, he
would have opened the throttle and sent
Them flying into the river with less risk
to his train.
But they were lying down, and rs
they rolled under the wheels they lifted
the great engine from the rails and
threw her down the dump at the very
edge Of the river.
But SO well had the faithful engineer
performed his work that the train was
stopped without wrecking a car. Many
of the passengers were not awakened.
The trainmen came forward and
found the engineer. He was able to
speak to them. He hSw that he had
but few minutes to live and left a low.
ing message for his wife. Then, as if b7
had nothing more to say or do, he closed
his eyes, folded his hands over his brave
heart and without murmur, apparently
without pain, died.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
WEST & TRUAX,
Cong freshman Lewis --latest Hon Mot

Stories about Congressman James
Hamilton Lewis are frequently to he seen
in eastern papers. TIE following ap-
peared in the Pittsburg Dispatch re-
Gently:
The harsh criticisms of the metropoli-
tan press upon the Inconsistency of Mr..
Simpson in having a tooth filled with
gold" says Representative Lewis of
Washington, "are wholly undeserved.
1t is trne that my guide, counsellor and
friend has had one OF his incisors topped
with gold, but far from being inconsistent
he has been r model of consistency. |
am reliably informed that this is the only
gold filled tooth he has, while he has 10
other teeth, each one of which has been
been filled with silver"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
How Nails Are Named.

Two accounts are given of the origin of
the term ''sixpenny,' eightpenny,"
"tenpenny," and so on, as applied to the
various sizes OF nails. According to one
statement, when nails were made by
han !, the penny WAS taken as a standard
OF weight, and six were made to equal
the weight of a copper penny. This ex-
PLANTATION is open to criticism on account
OF the very small size of the nails of
which were needed to balance even the
large sized old-fashioned copper penny.
Others are much more probable. One
explanation holds that tenpenny nails
originally sold for tenpence a hundred
sixpenny nails for sixpence a hundred I,
and so on, the smaller nails selling for
the lower price. Another explanation is
that 1000 nails of the tenpenny size used
to weigh ten pounds and 80 on tor other
sizes. OF the ordinary sixpenny nails
there are eighty to the pound; of the
eightpenny there are fifty; tenpenny,
thirty-four; twelvepenny, twenty-nine.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
Louis Napoleon'a Plot.

Sir William Fraser states, in volume
Of "reminiscences which has just been
published, that Napoleon III, while in
exile at Chiselhurst, matured plan 10
restore himself to the throne. A private
yacht, Of which the late Mr.. James Al
bury was owner, had been actually
chartered for the purpose of landing the
former emperor on the French coast.
whence he was to repair in disguise to
Chalons, where an army corps was en-
gagged in maneuvers, there throw off his
incognito and lead the troops into Paris
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15


1t is estimated that the wheat crop Of
Washington this year will be the largest
in its history and will probably amount
to 20.000,00 bushels, an excess of $780,.
900 bushels over the largest preceding
crop. With the present assurance that
the price will not open below so cents
this means ten millions Of dollars to be
distributed among the farmers of the
state. This should 60 long ways to
wards relieving the financial tension now
existing, it, in fact, it does not give us
strong boost towards that era OF prosper
ity, for which We have long been waiting
and so often been disappointed. As the
farmer is benefited so is the merchant,
the manufacturer and the business man
in general, and while Yakima can hardly
be classed as a grain producing district
no section of the state can well prosper
without this one reaping of the benefits,
for it means increased consumption and
better prices for those products which
have made the gardens and orchards and
fields OF Yakima famed throughout the
northwest and even far beyond.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
Slavery In Great Britain.

Slavery survived in England much
later than is generally supposed. The
word bondage" in Northumberland
still means female farm servant The
coolies and salters-i. e.. salt miners-ot
East Lothian were actually slaves till
i775. II they deserted their service. any
one harboring them was liable to PEN
atty Of Go il he did not restore them in
81 hours. The last slave in England
was not freed until 1899. and in ls42
there was a cody living who, as well
as his father and grandfather, had work
cd as slave in pit at MusselburG
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15

Mrs. Browning says:

- We get no good
By being ungenerous, even to book
And calculating profits, SO much help
By so much reading. 1t is rather when
We Rloriously forget ourselves and plunge
Soul forward, headlong into books profound.
lmpassioned for its beauty and salt Of truth
TITS then we get the right good from book.
1t must be remembered that the wom-
an who wrote this was profound
scholar, one who delighted in hard study
and who was educated far beyond most
women Of her day. She was able to
"plunge soul forward" into many books
besides sensational novels. The rule does
not apply to those who find everything
which is not exciting bore. Brooklyn
EAGLE
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
IMPURE

blood, to take Hoods Sarsaparilla. and
prevent such eruptions and suffering.
~ had a dreadful carbuncle abscess,
red, fiery, fierce and sore. The doctor at
tended me over seven weeks. When the
abscess broke, the pains were terrible, and
Thought / should not live through it. l
heard and read so much about Hoods
Ssrsaparilla, that decided to take it, and
my husband, who was suffering with
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
Notice tor Publication.
LAND OFFICE AT NORTH YAKIMA, WASH,

LAND OFFICE AT NORTH YAKIMA. WASH,
bJuly :. 1897 I
Notice IL hereby given that the follow ing
named settler has filed notice of his Intention
to make final proof In support of his claim. and
that said proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver nj North Yakima, ON August 2Oth
lsg7, viz: Samuel +. Hoffman. II. 4. No Is7g.
for the Lot No. :, of sec. -, I. II, y, X. 25E.
He names the following witnesses To prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
OF, said land. viz: J. :. Harrison, r. Craig, An
ell Ogg, j. j. Muir, all of Pasco, Wash.
ANY person who desires to protest against the
allowance OF such proof, or who knows Of any
substantial reason, under the laws and regula-
tons of the interior department, why such
proof should not be allowed. viii be given an
opportunity at the above mentioned time and
place TO eross-examine the witnesses of said
claimant, aud to offer evidence in rebuttal of
that submitted by claimant
July s.Aug IL AT. SMELLING, Register,
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15

The director of the U. S. mint has
agreed to locate an assay office at Seattle
if the citizens will give suitable build
ing and the grounds. 1t look as though
the bonus business had taken such hold
on the people that even the government
is extending its large.sized nit upon
every possible occasion when the uesf
Wants anything.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In Re Estate of Mary +. Miller, deceased
Notice is hereby given, by the undersigned,
executor of the last viii and testament of Mary
T.. Miller deceased. to the creditors of, and all
persons having claims against said deceased to
present them with the necessary vouchers with
in one year after date Of this notice to Nathaniel
Miller. the said executor, AZ the office of his at
torneys, Graves Il Englehart. in the First Ma
tioual bank building mt North Yakima, Yakima
county, Washington, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business of the said
estate in said county and state
Dated at North Yakima, Washington, this 9Th
day OF July, is97.
NATHANIEL MILLER,
Executor of the last will and testament Of Mary
+. Miller, deceased 2j-bt
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15

There is only a slight difference be.
tween being frozen and fricasseed-about
q couple of weeks if we remember Alright
and vet we kicked before and are still
kicking at the weather. The human
family seems to be very hard to please.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
A Funny Misprint.

One Of the most ludicrous announce
ments that ever appeared perhaps was
made by a London newspaper in the
earlier half of the present century to the
effect that Sir Robert Peel land party
Of flends were shooting peasants in Ire
land" The words misprinted, Of course,
were friends" and "pheasants.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15
An IrresistIble bargain.

Mrs. Newwife-I bought a lovely
bottle Of medicine today. warranted to
cure st. Vitus' dance. only paid SO
cents for 1t.
Her Hubby-But neither Of us has
that disease.
II know, but it was marked down
from 80 cents. "-Philadelphia Record.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-07-15

The Roman pen, or stylus. was an
iron implement. sharp at one end like
an awl and fiat at the other like paper
cutter. 1t was used for writing on tab
let's of wood or ivory covered with wax.
The sharp end was employed for writing
and the fiat for erasing or correcting
what was written.