The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-19

The council granted Mr.. Donald his
franchise for the Mckee branch of his
North Yakima & Valley railroad on G.
street. An amendent to the license
ordinance was also passed by which
the number of saloons in the city was
increased from % to 90, thereby al
lowing Jim Jefferson a license for his
(colored) saloon on South First street
although a resolution was previously
passed several months ago limiting
the number of saloons to 90.
Messrs. Donald and Jefferson seem
to be councilmanic favorites.
Some Amendments.
For several days it has been almost
a settled fact that the franchise
would pass the council but several
amendments were added which ma
terially change it's obnoxious features.
One of these amendments permits any
railroad to cross the tracks on G
street at any point. This will prevent
the new road from bottling up the
Cascade mill to shut off all competi-
ton. Another amendment permits
other roads to run cars in on the
sidings that may be constructed
which will allow competition to all
ware houses that may be afterward
constructed along it's right of way.
The vote on the franchise was as
follows: Yeas: Schorn, Miller, Meigs,
Null and Shaw Nays: Smith and
Wight.
Attorney H. J. Snively made one
further protest against the passage
of the franchise on the ground that
the line unnecessarily injured prop
erty in that section of the city and
that the same interests might be SER
we'd by another route to just as good
purpose. No protest of an extensive
order was made by the property own
erns, and as one man expressed it,
"What was the use? The cards were
stacked"
Another Saloon.
Jim Jefferson is the enterprising
colored politician of the fifth ward
and precinct committeeman. He has
been conducting what is termed the
colored club on south Front street. He
has convinced the council that the
of their own where they can go and
associate together and he proposes to
run that place. The place that he is
fitting up and for which he has receiv-
ed license is located on south First
street near the"Noodle joint
Junketing Trip
The plans for the new city hall
which were submitted in voluminous
array to the council received scant at
tention Monday night, one set calling
for an expenditure of $4,000 and an
other for an expenditure of $4,000
while others were not looked at but
laid over until some future time.
Upon motion of Councilman Meigs
seconded by Councilman Miller the
council decided to sell the present site
on north Front street and Mayor
Armbruster will name a committee to
negotiate for this sale. In the mean
time the mayor will appoint another
committee of which Fire Chief Daw-
son will be member, to journey to
Walla Walla and inspect that city's
new city hall and fire station which
are represented to be the finest of any
of their kind in the northwest
Councilman Smith protested again
st the "junketng-trip" recalling the
instance when the councilmen went
to the sound and to Portland to in
spect paving their report being re-
commentator for asphalt but the
council adopted brick instead.
Dray License Amended.
The license ordinance which was
passed at the request of the business
men over a year ago was amended
Monday night as affecting drayme en-,
the license fee for drays according to
the old ordinance being s25. This
was reduced to $40. The franchise
for the conduits of the Central Heat
ing system which is being planned
was referred to the city attorney and
the franchise committee.
A batch of routine business occu-
pied the attention of the council until
nearly midnight