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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1903
Page
1
Three masked men robbed Nick Beckner's Mabton store at gunpoint Monday evening, taking over $200. A suspect was jailed Tuesday after admitting witnessing the crime. witnesses say one guarded the door while two forced the safe. Traces were found on the road to Prosser as Sheriff Grant pursues leads.
Captain Dulin of Company E secures land for a rifle range on school section sixteen shore. A $110 appropriation funds three new targets and state firing regulations update the team to the bullseye target. The unit aims to send marksmen to the President’s match in New Jersey with strict qualification standards at multiple yardages.
The Andrew W. Lynch damage suit for 11000 faced a Monday morning de murrer before Judge Rudkin. The city filed a general demurrer to both causes of action. The court sustained the demurrer on one count and the other about injuries from a horse kick was taken under advisement with the defendant to prepare an answer.
At the Monday session of School District No. 7 directors Prof. Barge and Judge Nichols attended. Bills were reviewed, some paid and some rejected. A discipline case from Second Street School was sustained, with final termination held in abeyance. The board warns pupils that tobacco use on school property can lead to expulsion.
At the upcoming county commissioners meeting leading citizens plan to push for immediate action on a new court house. The current building is described as inadequate unsafe and an eyesore with unsafe jail facilities. They seek bonds to fund a combined court house county offices and jail on the present site for the county’s growing needs.
City leaders push a toll road from Natchez foot to the Gold Hill mining area after Governor McBride vetoed state road appropriations. The piece urges self-reliance and notes storage reservoirs for the Yakima watershed as a lasting solution against water theft by speculation.
The undersigned, Ernest McCullough, C. FE, offers to construct water-tight basement walls and floors using a perfected method with a patent applied for. The system has been successfully used in springy, marshy, and tidally affected sites including land with sub-irrigation and sea-coast cities with daily tide rise.
Utah alfalfa clover timothy and seed grain now in stock at the North Yakima Milling Co. warehouse west of the depot. State registration and pricing details not provided.
Al Gibson of Rossland British Columbia arrives in the city and begins practicing with the Hoppickers. He has been engaged for the summer and will play in next Sunday's game against the Spokane league team. See the new Iron Age garden tools at the Yakima Hardware Company.
D R Barton operates a hardware business at 15 South Front Street, offering general hardware goods to local customers.
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