The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-12-19

receipt of your letter regarding rate
on guinea pigs between Franklin and
Westcote, addressed to the president
of this company. All claims for
overcharge should be addressed to
the claims department"
Mr.. Morehouse wrote to the claims
department. He wrote six pages of
choice sarcasm, vituperation and ar
gument, and sent them to the claims
department.
A few weeks later he received a re-
ply from the claims department. At
tached to it was his last letter.
Dear Sir" said the reply. "Your
letter of the 10th. addressed to this
department, subject rate on guinea
pigs from Franklin to Westcote. re-
ceived. We have taken up the mat
/ ter with our agent at Westcote, and
his reply is attached herewith. He
| informs us that you refused to re-
ceive the consignment or to pay the
| charges. You have therefore no
claim against this company, and your
letter regarding the proper rate on
the consignment should be addressed
to our tariff department.
Mr.. Morehouse wrote to the tariff
department. He stated his case
clearly and gave his arguments in
full, quoting page or two from the
encyclopedia to prove that guinea
pigs were not common pigs.
With the care that characterizes
| corporations when they are syste-
matically conducted, Mr.. Warehouses;
letter was numbered. o. KID and
started through the regular channels.
Duplicate copies of the bill of lad
| ing. manifest. Flannery's receipt for
the package and several other peril
| nent papers We're pinned to the let
ter, and they We're passed to the head
of the tariff department
The head of the tariff department
put his feet on his desk and yawned.
He looked through the papers care
lessly.
Miss Kane he said to his stem
ographer. take this letter. Agent
Westcote. y. j. Please advise why
consignment referred to in attached
papers was refused domestic pet
rates.
Miss Kane made series of
curves and angles on her note book
and waited with pencil poised. The
head of the department looked at the
papers again.
"Huh, Guinea pigs," he said
"Probably starved TO death by this
time, Add this to that letter: Give
condition of consignment at pres
emit y
He tossed the papers on to the
| stenograhper's desk. took his feet
from his own desk and went out to
lunch.
When Mike Flannery received
the letter he scratched his head.
Give prisint condition." he re-
peated thoughtfully Now. what do
thin clerks be wantin' to know, |
wonder, Prisint condition. is ut?
Thin pigs. praise ST. Patrick, do be
in good health. so far as I know, but
| niver was no veterinary surgeon to
dago pigs. Mebbe thin clerks wants
me to call in the pig docther an have
their pulses took. Wan thing I do
know. however, which is they've glo-
rious appetites for pigs of their
soize. Ate. They'd ate the brass
| padlocks off of a barn door. 1t the
! paddy pig, by the same taken, ate
! as hearty as these dago pigs do,
| there'd be famine in Ireland
| To assure himself that his report
! would be up to date, Flannery went
to the rear office and looked into
! the cage. The pigs had been trans
\ ferred to larger box-a dry goods
box
"Wan-two-t'ree- four-foive-
/ iX-siyin-eight!" he counted
Swim spotted an wan all black. All
\ well an hearty an all eatin' loike