The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-04-26

slider financially responsible At any
rate the decision was made by the Nor.
thern Pacific board OF directors author
izing the plating OF North Yakima and
the establishment OF the only depot be.
tween the Union and the Natchez gaps.
This raised great rumpus and the mat
ter was taken into the courts and ex-
plotted in many Of the newspapers of the
country.
1t also cut quite a figure in the pol
itical campaigns Of the early days, being
known as the Yakima outrage" but it
was number of years afterwards when
Yakima City succeeded in securing an
order forcing the Northern Pacific to To-
cate station there or even stop the pas
senger trains at crossing.
After the plating OF the new town the
Northern Pacific offered lots to all who
would build or who would move their
houses from the old town. The first
house put up was the Lille Hotel, which
was considered rather pretentious
structure in those days. J. w. Shull
was running boarding tent on lower
Front street where he looked after the
wants of the railroad men. At first
people were slow in settling here, but
f, Judge Navarro, Schulze, Tom Cavan-
angh, NJ. 3. Y. Stacy, w. d. Inverari ty
Ed Whitson and Judge Lewis, all of
whom were more or less interested in the
townste, were active and effective
boomers and soon North Yakima was a
well advertised place throughout the
land. David Guilland started his hotel
up from the Old Town the latter part of
February. 1t was month on the road
but his guests stayed right with him and
got their meals on schedule time. Mr..
Guilland had to have two men to guard
his property from fire, and even then he
was obliged to use a gun IN a threatening
manner on two occasions. Hotels and
saloons are usually the forerunners of
town booms and this one was no excep.
ton. BY the last of April there were
sixteen saloons here, with music and
gambling in nearly every one OF them.
With the tough element here a provis.
ional government was found necessary
and Bruce Milroy was selected as the ex-
ecutive head and COL Henry d. Cock as
marshal. The expenses of government
were met by public subscription and a
fairly orderly town was maintained, for
Col. Cock was terror to toughs and
, tramps.
All this time the citizens OF Old Town
we're protesting against the COURAGE"
and ridiculing the pref sntons Of the ne W.
A copy of the Yakima Sun dated Febru-
airy II. 1885, which, by the way. was the
only number ever issued contained
statements from P. J. Flint, f. w. Dixon,
ID. W. Stair. F. T. Parker, Hoscheid,
Bartholet 4 Co. and others. setting forth
their views, condemning the railroad
company and saying it would be folly to
leave their beautiful homes and lawns to
| go to such barren waste as North Yak
ina. The sheet also announced that
while the Guilland House is being
moved. arrangements are being made by
DIR. c. j. Taft for three story, 50x7O
feet, modern hotel building in the old
town. The break soon began, no viewer,
and one by one the householders al d
storekeepers travelled to this city and
treated for terms of capitulation. In
May the final rush took place and many
who had been most obdurate visited Mr..
Schulze in a body and selected their
lots.
North Yakima wasn't a very attrac-
tive spot at that time. Every thing was
hustle and confusion. The railroad track
had been built to this point but there
was no depot-unless you could call a
box car, that had been taken from its
wheels, one. Here Agent Cooper reigned
supreme. The only train by which one
could come or 60 was of mixed passen-
ger, freight and construction character,