The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1901-05-09
/ WHAT PEOPLE SAY !


Jay Lynch of the Reservation-We
have not yet been able to discover the
murderer or murderers of Tennewashe,
but have hopes of arresting them soon.
One thing that makes it difficult to ar
rest an Indian on the charge Of shooting
medicine man is that the Indians are
all of one opinion in the matter and that
the act is such good thing that even
murder does not seem to them put a
righteous thing to do. No one will tell
on the other. They keep their own
secrets, and even If arrests are made it
will be difficult matter to get witnesses.
We have our suspicion as to who COM
mitted the crime, but there is no evil
dence that we can sustain against them.
Still we are working on the case and as
soon as possible will bring some one to
an accounting for the crime.
d. b. Shelter, forest reserve superin-
tendent.-You ask me for an opinion on
the water question and the effect sheep
grazing on the reserves has on the water
sheds. can say this, that in my opin-
ion so far there has been very little if
any damage done to the water sheds of
the streams tributary to the Yakima
valley. l have been over the country
where the sheep are permitted to Craze
and find that the grazing affected the
land very little, and all this talk about
endangering the water supply is a little
premature. Though | will say in fair
ness to all those who look at it in diff
ferent light that continuous grazing for
long time might do some injury. This
year the whole number of sheep on the
reserve has been reduced 2Sia per cent.
of what it was last year, thus lessening
the possibility OF harm, and that grazing
will be confined to certain districts, and
not in the draws where springs have
their source or in the wooded places
around the heads of streams. Closer
watch will be kept on the herding OF
sheep than was the case last year and
anyone found violating the rules laid
down will be forthwith ousted.
L. G.. Peck.-Now that the city coun.
Gil has passed the ordinance licensing the
wheelmen and providing for the building
OF bicycle paths, it is the duty of the
wheelmen OF the city to get together and
organize that the work begun may be
carried on successfully 1t will be few
weeks yet before the ordinance takes eff
feet, but that should not prevent us from
getting down to work at once and organ
izing. There are a number OF things to
consider in connection with building BIZ
cycle paths that perhaps does not strike
the average rider as being worthy of con-
sideration- First, before the city can do
anything, at least before they ought to
do anything, they should know just what
we want, and before they can know this
the wheelmen must know what they
want. The city clerk can go ahead, order
the tags, collect the license and put the
money in the special fund for the pur-
pose it is to be applied, and then wait.
Now that all the wheelmen may know
what is going on and that the council
may know our desires in this respect, we
should get together and make plans be-
fore beginning actual work. This can be
easily done if the cyclers will only take
heed. The council will not feel disposed
to act or possibly may not want to act
until the wheelmen have been given a
chance to lay their plans before them,
and this is why advocate a meeting of
the wheelmen and an organization. By
so doing no one person can be said to
usurp power belonging to anyone else in
debating what shall be done. As to
building the paths and where they should
be located will have to be determined on
too. We do not need them SO much now
as in the winter when the roads are bad.
| believe we should have for the first
year path in the most thickly settled
part OF the city and leading away toward
Mob Hill or Fruitvale or Mckee. The
law is such that these paths can be con-
structed into the country outside OF the
city limits without getting permission
from the county authorities, and there
fore | believe it would be the best plan
to construct the first path from this city
to Mob Hill and then each succeeding
year radiate to other points OF the coun-
try about the city. To facilitate work in
this direction let us get together and or