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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
2
North Yakima considers a citywide fire protection system to cut insurance costs and prevent costly fires. The Fire Association cites a potential 5 to 10 percent insurance reduction, with annual premiums from local businessmen around 25000 and system cost near 5000. Savings could repay the investment within four to six years.
The passage hints at a surge of interest and speculation around gas, eclipsing traditional oil excitement in the state, reflecting shifting energy fortunes and public attention.
The remark notes a shift in newspaper space away from lynching reports in the north, implying trivialization of southern events as editors fill pages with other topics. It highlights regional differences in attention to racial violence.
Amid trumpet blasts and grand ceremony William McKinley is inaugurated for a second time as president. Officials and crowds gather as the new term begins with hopeful wishes for a glorious reign.
North Yakima urged to fund a special exhibit to advertise the valley’s resources at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo this summer while the legislature will not act. Each section should take the lead in making the representation.
The text argues that for two more years Olympia will remain the capital amid forbearance and curiosity about why lawmaking sits in a backwoods town. It suggests politicians aim to relocate the capital to a more suitable site and voters debate sending representatives to Olympia versus following ancient statutes.
The speaker predicts that in two years the public will forget the 1901 legislative meeting and vote along party lines rather than by candidate. The remark emphasizes party loyalty over individual leaders.
Public urged to support Red Cross effort to build a memorial drinking fountain for Company E. The fountain would honor the brave soldiers and serve as a lasting, useful city landmark, ensuring future generations recall local service.
The county division measure is defeated for this session due to technicalities. Voters can rest two years longer, and Prosser office seekers may remain untroubled. The Herace notes the defeat, while warning divisionists to stay steady and implying Republicans may skip nominating a representative from the lower county next cycle.
The wedding of Ernest Matthews and Grace Ross was held Friday evening at the Rand home on Natchez avenue with Rev. R A Thomson officiating. Ivy decor and a canopy framed the bridal party. a wedding supper followed and the couple proceeded to housekeeping at the Darling house.
The Ed F. Davis colossal production of Uncle Tom's Cabin is booked for Larson's Theater on Thursday March 14. Popular prices apply with balcony at 25 cents and lower floor at 75 cents.
A new smallpox case has developed at Jon Nob Hill with Bert Allen as the patient. The home is quarantined by officials and the Bounds case is closely watched with expectations of no further spread. Kinsey & Co. advertises stoneware and jugs in sizes from 1 quart to 2 gallons at low prices.
Sam Ching a well known Chinese cook in North Yakima was ordered deported by U S Commissioner Howlett on grounds he is a laborer without registration papers. The case centers on a missing 1893 registration and pawned papers with Portland authorities appealing for a re issue. Attorney Inglehart appeals to the U S district court and Ching remains in marshal custody.
The Local Round-Up reports Mrs. Cary selling attractive street hats and a Red Men grand ball planned for April 8. It notes Elder J G Smith preaching next Saturday at 11 am, ditch cleaning before summer water, travel mentions, new frame cottages on Sixth and Walnut, and Rev J H Wood’s illness. It covers a Tacoma visit by W W Sprague about telephone lines to Moxee Parker Bottom and Sunnyside, a $2.50 monthly farmer phone rate, a whist party at Miss Mattie Thomas’s with prizes won, and a marriage between John B Tracy and Bertha Versey amid parental opposition.
The Red Cross starts a fund for a Co. E memorial in the form of a city fountain. Subscription books are with Lieut. Lemon at Dills' clothing house and in boxes at Schott Co., Ditter Bros., and Coffin Bros. The collected total will be published next week.
An old advertisement extols August Flower as the largest medicine sale in the civilized world. It claims it treats indigestion biliousness and general malaise, boosts liver and nervous system function, and reassures readers a few doses prove nothing serious is wrong. The note promotes Green's August Flower and the North Yakima Drug Store.
Sale offers twenty acres of improved land one mile west of the city in five or ten acre tracts. Inquire of J M Curry at Curry's tailor shop on Yakima avenue.
Forty acres four miles west of North Yakima with a plastered house stable out-buildings cistern and fruit land. 25 acres in Alfelfa balance plow land. Apply to A W Swartze Yakima City or D L Druse Nob Hill. Furnished room for rent Mrs Carpenter over Herald office. 711 A line of all wool suitings 60c per yard. Coffin Bros. Carbolic Compound for spraying Yakima Hardware Co. Will trade brick building for ten acres of land near city. Store rents 40 monthly under a three year lease E K Current North Yakima. Wanted Hides and Furs Coffin Pros. Ry cows for sale R N Harrison. Twenty acres Moxee land for sale Partially improved. Poultry food from Kleis & Cinama. McConnell's St Louis ranges the best.
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