History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. I, Part 47

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1134

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the annexed plat thereof to be made and that the width of all streets, avenues and alleys thereon and the sizes of all lots and blocks are as shown on the annexed plat by figures indicating feet and decimals of a foot and that all the streets running parallel with the railroad are one hundred (100) feet wide ex- cept Selah street which is sixty (60) feet wide from West Pine Street to West A Street to West D Street, and excepting also Front Street which is sixty (60) feet wide, and Natches Avenue which is one hundred and forty (140) feet wide.

All other streets are eighty (80) feet wide, excepting Yakima Avenue, which is one hundred (100) feet wide. Alleys are all twenty (20) feet in width. All regular blocks are three hundred by four hundred (300 x 400) feet.

Blocks A, B and C are each one hundred and eighty by four hundred (180 x 400) feet.

Lots are 25 x 130 or 25 x 140 or 50 x 130 or 50 x 140 or 50 x 180 feet as indicated on the annexed plat.

In testimony whereof the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company has caused these presents to be signed by its president and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed attested by its secretary, the fourteenth day of January, A. D. 1885.

NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R. Co. By Robert Harris, President.

Attest :

SAM P. WILKESON, Secretary.

State of New York, City and County of New York, ss :

Be it remembered that on the fourteenth of January, A. D., 1885, before me personally appeared Robert Harris, with whom I am personally acquainted and who is known to me to be the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the corporation that is described in, and that executed the foregoing instrument, and who being by me duly sworn, said that he knows the corporate seal of said company; that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument as such is said corporate seal; that the same was affixed to the foregoing instrument by authority of the board of directors of said company, and he signed the said instrument by like authority. And the said Robert Harris at the same time acknowledge the foregoing instrument to be the act and deed of the said North- ern Pacific Railroad Company, and that the said company executed the same freely and voluntarily for the uses and purposes therein cxpressed.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at my office in the city of New York the day and year last aforesaid.

I .. R. KIDDER, Commissioner of Deeds in New York for Territory of Washington.

[SEAL]

I, Paul Schulze, of Portland, Oregon, trustee, hereby certify that I am the owner in trust of the following-named parcels of land, towit:

The (E1/2 of NE14) east half of the northeast quarter, the east half of southeast quarter (E2 SE14) and southwest quarter of northeast quarter

EPEEE

MILLER BUILDING, YAKIMA

CORNER OF SECOND STREET AND YAKIMA AVENUE VAKTMA. IN 1996, SHOWING PRESENT LOCATION OF MILLER BUILDING

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(SW1/4 NE1/4) of section twenty-four (24) of township thirteen (13), north of range eighteen (18), and the south half of the northwest quarter (S1/2 NW1/4) and southwest quarter (SW1/4) of section eighteen (18), and the north half of northwest quarter (N12 NW1/4), and southeast quarter of northwest quarter (SE1/4 NW1/4) of section nineteen (19), township thirteen (13), north of range nineteen (19), all east of the Willamette Meridian, in Yakima County, Washington Territory : and that I have caused portions of the same, together with the parcels of land specified in the foregoing certificate, to be surveyed as the town of North Yakima, and the annexed plat thereof to be made, and that the widths of all streets, avenues and alleys thereon, and the sizes of all lots and blocks are as shown on the annexed plat by figures indicating feet and decimals o fa foot ; and as stated in the foregoing of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- pany.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 31st day of January, A. D., 1885.

PAUL SCHULZE, Trustee.

[SEAL]

Witnesses :

GEORGE P. EATON, JOHN G. RUSK.

State of Oregon, County of Multnomah, ss :

Be it remembered, that on this 31st day of January, A. D., 1885, before me personally appeared Paul Schulze, trustee, to me personally known, and known to me to be the person who executed the foregoing instrument ; and he acknowl- edged that he executed the same. freely and voluntarily for the uses and pur- poses therein set forth.

R. W. MITCHELL, Commissioner of Deeds in Oregon for Washington Territory.

[SEAL]

Filed for record February 4th, 1885, and recorded February 29th, 1885. KATE W. FEURBACH, County Auditor.

TRUSTEE PROPERTY, NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON-RATIFICATION OF TRUSTEE ACTS

Northern Pacific Railway Company.

Know All Men by These Presents :- That whereas, by certain indentures, in the nature of deeds of trust, there was conveyed to Paul Schulze, city of Portland, county of Multnomah and state of Oregon, as trustee, his assigns and successors, certain real estate situate in the county of Yakima and state of Washington, said indentures and real estate being more particularly described as follows :

FIRST. A Deed of Trust dated December 16, 1884, and recorded on December 16, 1884, and recorded on December 18, 1884, in Book "D" of Deed Records, page 10, in the office of the auditor of said county of Yakima, by

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Edward Whitson to Paul Schulze as trustee, aforesaid, conveying the south half of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter (S1/2 of SW1/4 of SW1/4) of section eighteen (18), and the north half of the northwest quarter (N.1/2 of NW1/4) of section nineteen (19) both in township (13), north of range nine- teen (19) east of the Willamette principal meridian, containing one hundred (100) acres, more or less, according to Government survey.

SECOND. A Deed of Trust dated December 13, 1884, and recorded Feb- ruary 11, 1885, in Book "D" of Deed Records, page 57, in the office of the auditor for said Yakima County by Walter J. Reed and Barbara A. Reed, his wife, to said Schulze as trustee, aforesaid, conveying the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter (NE14 of NE1/4) of section twenty-four (24) in town- ship thirteen (13), north of range eighteen (18) east Willamette meridian, con- taining forty (40) acres, more or less, according to Government survey.

THIRD. A Deed of Trust dated December 31, 1884, and recorded Jan- uary 2, 1885, in Book "D" of Deed Records, page 31, in the office of the auditor for said Yakima County, by L. A. Navarre and E. E. Navarre, his wife, to said Schulze, as trustee, aforesaid, conveying the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter (NW1/4 of NE14) and the north half of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter (N1/2 of NE1/4 of NW1/4) of section thirty (30), in township thirteen (13), north of range nineteen (19), east Willamette meridian, contain- ing sixty (60) acres more or less, according to Government survey.

FOURTH. A Deed of Trust, dated December 17, 1884, and recorded December 20, 1884, in Book "D" of Deed Records, page 21, in the office of the auditor for said Yakima County, by Rosalind H. M. Inverarity and William D. Inverarity, her husband, to said Schulze as trustee aforesaid, conveying the north half of the southwest quarter (N1/2 of SW14) and the west half of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter (W1/2 of NW14 of SE14) of section eighteen (18), the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter (SE1/4 of NW:4) of section nineteen (19), and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter (NE14 of NE14) of section thirty (30), all in township thirteen (13), north of range nineteen (19) east Willamette meridian, containing one hundred and seventy-seven and 50-100 (177.50) acres, more or less, according to Government survey.

FIFTH. A Deed of Trust dated December 17, 1884, and recorded De- cember 20, 1884, in Book "D" of Deed Records, page 16, in the office of the auditor for said Yakima County by William D. Inverarity and Rosalind H. M. Inverarity, his wife, to said Paul Schultze, as trustee aforesaid, conveying the south half of the northeast quarter (S1/2 of NE1/4), the north half of the north- west quarter (N1/2 of NW14) the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter (SE14 of NW14) and the east half of the southeast quarter (E}/2 of SE14) of section twenty-four (24) in township thirteen (13) north of range eighteen (18) east of Willamette meridian, containing two hundred and eighty (280) acres, more or less, according to Government survey ; and each of said five (5) Deeds of Trust containing the following terms and conditions, towit :

That whenever said Paul Schulze shall receive satisfactory assurances from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company of its intention to construct its

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railroad through and over said section nineteen (19), in township thirteen (13) north of range eighteen (18), east of the Willamette meridian, and to establish a station on said section, he shall lay out and plat into lots and blocks such por- tions of said premises, and in such manner as shall be approved by the land commissioner of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and he shall convey by good and sufficient deed or deeds one-half of the land so platted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company or to such person or corporation as the land commissioner of said railroad company shall direct, and the remaining one-half of such lots to the respective grantors, and in such case any portions of said lands are not platted in lots and blocks, a division thereof shall be made by said Schultze, and said trustee shall convey by good and sufficient deed or deeds, one-half of said lands to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, or to such persons or corporation as the land commissioner of said company may designate, and the remaining one-half of all such tracts of unplatted lands to the respective grantors.

And whereas, All of the conditions of said trust imposed upon the grantee hereunder, were in due course fully executed and performed by the said Paul Schulze, as trustee, and the respective grantors aforesaid have heretofore duly acknowledged the full execution and performance thereof, by said Schulze as far as to them related.

And Whereas, One Thomas Cooper, of Tacoma, Pierce County, and state Northern Pacific Railroad Company, or of the receivers of said company from the date or dates that aforesaid real estate was conveyed to him continuously until his death, which occurred in the month of April, 1895.

And Whereas, One Thomas Cooper, of Tacoma, Pierce County, and state of Washington, after the demise of said Paul Schulze did become his successor in office as the land agent of the receiver, or receivers, of said company, with the title of western land agent.

And Whereas, Thomas Cooper, after his appointment as said western land agent, by order and decree entered on the 11th day of November, A. D., 1895, in the Superior Court of the state of Washington, in and for Yakima County, upon the petition of Andrew F. Burleigh, as receiver of the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and a certified copy of said order and ciecree being filed for record in the office of the auditor for said county on the 21st day of November, 1895, and recorded in Volume "U" of Deed Records, page 30, was duly ap- pointed as trustee, and legal successor of said Paul Schulze, deceased, trustee, and was duly vested with the same rights and all of the powers as to making conveyances of any and all of said lands as were vested in said Paul Schulze, trustee, in and by said indentures and conveyances and not exercised by said Schulze prior to the time of his death.

And Whereas, the said Thomas Cooper, after his appointment as the legal successor of said Paul Schulze, trustee, and said Paul Schulze after the con- veyance to him of said real estate from time to time up to the date of his death aforesaid, had made and executed and did make and execute, as such trustee, respectively, certain indentures thereby conveying to a number of different individuals or concerns, respectively, certain portions of the lands described in

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said deeds of trust, either as broad acres or in lots and blocks, of the plat of the town of North Yakima.

And Whereas, any and all conveyances made by said Paul Schulze, as such trustee, and by said Thomas Cooper, as such trustee, of any portion or portions of the said real estate were made under and by virtue of the direction or direc- tions of the land commissioner, for the time being, of the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company, or of its receiver or receivers, and said conveyances were made with the knowledge, consent, acquiescence and approval of the land com- missioner aforesaid

And Whereas, no formal instrument has been placed of record in the audi- tor's office, for said county of Yakima, showing the approval and acquiescence by the land commissioner aforesaid, of the conveyances made by said trustees, as aforesaid.

And Whereas, by certain deed dated the 18th day of August, 1896, and recorded in the office of the auditor for said county of Yakima, Alfred L. Cary, as special master, did convey to the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a cor- poration, duly incorporated under the laws of the state of Wisconsin, all of the right, title and interest of the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in and to aforesaid real estate and also certain deeds were recorded in the office of the auditor for said county of Yakima, having for their object the conveyance of all property of said Northern Pacific Railroad Company to said Northern Pacific Railway Company.

Now Therefore, This Indenture Witnesseth, That in consideration of the premises the said Northern Pacific Railway Company, a corporation duly in- corporated under the laws of the state of Wisconsin, as the legal successor and present owner of all the right and title, both legal and equitable, heretofore vested in Paul Schulze as trustee, and Thomas Cooper, as trustee, and the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company, which was acquired by virtue of the afore- said conveyances to Paul Schulze, as trustee, does hereby ratify, approve and confirm the making of each and all of said conveyances of said premises, or any portion or portions thereof, by the said Paul Schulz as such trustee, and the said Thomas Cooper as such trustee.

In Witness Whereof. The said Northern Pacific Railway Company has caused these presents to be sealed with its corporate seal and signed by its president, on this the twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. C. S. MELLEN, President.

Attest :

W. H. GIMMELL, Assistant Secretary.

[CORPORATE SEAL]

Sealed and delivered in the presence of

RICHARD B. JONES.

HARRY A. FABIAN.

(I. R. S. 10 cts.)

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State of Minnesota, County of Ramsey, ss :

On this thirteenth day of October, 1898, before me personally appeared C. S. Mellen, to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn, did say that he is the president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the corpora- tion, which executed the foregoing instrument, and that the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its board of directors, and said C. S. Mellen acknowledged said instrument to be free act and deed of said corporation.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in the city of St. Paul, the day and year last aforesaid.

P. W. CORBETT, Notary Public, Ramsey County, Minnesota. A. B. FLINT, County Auditor.

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Deeds on page 616.

It appears from the history derived from several prominent citizens of Yakima of the present date who were of the immigrants from Yakima City to North Yakima thirty-three years ago, that the chief agents in planning and executing the removal were Robert Harris, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Paul Schulze, manager of the land system of the company, and Martin Van Buren Stacy. It is a curious fact that of the three men who engineered the founding of North Yakima one (Mr. Stacy) died in an insane asylum, and another, Mr. Schulze, died by his own hand.

But during the first years of their activity in the "New Town" they pushed matters with great energy and rapidity. H. K. Owens, of Seattle was employed as an engineer to lay out the new town. This work was accomplished in 1885. A ditch was constructed to convey water from the river to the streets of the city. Whatever may have been true of Mr. Schulze morally, he had an artistic eye and a clear conception of how a town should be built. The new Yakima was laid out somewhat on the general plan of Mr. Schulze's native Baden-Baden. Naches Avenue, now regarded by tourists as one in the front rank of residence streets in American cities, was laid out after the pattern of the Unter den Linden in that beautiful German city.

But founding of the New Town was one thing. Moving the Old Town was another. The railroad company offered lots to all who would move. That seemed a fair proposal, but with characteristic pioneer spunk the old town people-many of them-repudiated that indirect manner of bribing them to throw up their hands. Judge R. B. Milroy, who was there at the time, describes to us something of the excited meetings and discussions which occurred. He speaks particularly of one public meeting addressed by Mr. P. J. Flint and others, at which the war sentiment was at fever heat. But following this was another meeting somewhat milder, at which the proposal was adopted that a committee of three men go to New York to lay the whole matter before the directors of the railroad company. J. B. Reavis, J. M. Adams and A. B. Weed

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were appointed on this commission, and they seem to have executed it with success. At any rate they induced the company to meet the expense of moving such residents of the old town as were willing to accept the former offer of a lot in the new town in lieu of their former holdings in the old. This offer on the part of the company seems as liberal as any could be, if they were going to move at all. The process of moving went on rapidly during the Summer and Fall of 1885. Very entertaining and sometimes amusing accounts are given by the old-timers of scenes on the four-mile highway while the process of moving was in progress. Business was carried on as usual while the buildings were on the move. A farmer wishing to buy something at a store would hitch his team to the latter end of a moving building, transact his business, come out with his purchases, load his wagon, while the team followed slowly along with the build- ing. The Guilland Hotel, owned by David Guilland, was the first structure to take the journey. Much bitterness was felt that Mr. Guilland should have given up the fight and taken the journey. It is reported that some threats were made and that he deemed it wise to have a guard over his migratory property. Never- theless his boarders took their regular meals en route in quiet. The First National Bank building went soon, and a regular procession followed.

As to the first buildings established in their new home, and as to the first ones erected in North Yakima, there does not seem to be perfect unanimity. It is said that Weed and Rowe started a building on the site of the present Yakima National Bank, soon after the filing of the town-plat and had it ready for use by April 1st. Allen and Chapman opened a drug store in the same month on the northwest corner of Yakima Avenue and Second Street. It is stated that Mr. C. E. McEwen was the first of all now living in Yakima to enter business in the new town. He had come to Yakima City in 1872. He was among the vrst to move to the new town and established a harness and saddle business in 1883 at the present location of the Dean dry goods store. There he remained until June 1, 1903, when he came to his present location. Among the other earliest business places established during that first year of North Yakima's existence may be named the following : Henry Ditter & Sons, T. G. V. Clark, Hymen Harris, McCrimmon, Needham and Masters, and G. W. Cary, general merchandise stores; Ward Brothers, grocery and shoe store; S. J. Lowe, hard- ware; Schisthl and Schorn, blacksmithing.

PRESENT RESIDENTS WHO MOVED

By the kind assistance of Mr. Fred Parker we are able to give here a list of those now living in Yakima who moved from the old town to the new.

Charles M. Adkins.

Mrs. Dora Churchill.

Frank Bartholet.

James R. Coe.

Mrs. Mary C. Bartholet

Joseph E. Ditter.

Irvin Bounds

Henry Ditter.

P. A. Bounds.

Phil A. Ditter

Mrs. Lou Goodwin Butt

Purdy J. Flint.

Mrs. Emily J. Chambers.

Mrs. Katie A. Gervais.

T. J. V. CLARK WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SUPPLY STORE

GROCERIES. PROVISIONS

FORWARDING AND COMMIS ION.

STORE OF T. J. V. CLARK ON FRONT STREET, YAKIMA, IN 1885

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Wesley F. Jones.

A. B. Weed. Mrs. Meta Redfield.

John A. Leach.

S. J. Lowe.

Richard Strobach

Mrs. Emma P. Mabry.

Martin Schisthl

Elisha McDaniel.

Michael Schorn and wife.

C. E. McEwen.

Frank B. Shardlow.

R. B. Milroy.

Jennie P. Shardlow.

Fred Parker.

Mrs. Mary E. Stephenson.

A. J. Pratt.

In 1885 North Yakima was made the terminus of the railroad. Trains did not stop at the old town. This action was very unsatisfactory to the recal- citrant old residents who had refused to move, and litigation resulted.

The suit to compel the railroad to make stops at Yakima City finally went to the Supreme Court and in 1892 that august tribunal issued a decree granting an injunction to that effect.

The new town grew rapidly. It is estimated that by January 1, 1886, there were about 1,200 people in the place.

A TOUGH PLACE AT FIRST

The ragged, dusty Yakima of 1886 and onward for a few years was very different from the elegant and high-class metropolis of 1918. It was by no means a dry town. There were many consuming thirsts and the facilities of gratifying them were not limited either by law or usage. The roulette wheel was a prominent industry, and money changed hands with no very great regard to the moral law or court judgment. There was talk of a vigilance committee, such as had proved quite efficient in Walla Walla twenty years earlier. But as a result of a mass meeting a provisional government became established, for the financial support of which various citizens pledged various sums, the aim of which was to maintain law and order until such time as a legal government could be established. Col. H. D. Cock, one of the best known of the early comers, having been in the Yakma country during the period of Indian wars thirty years before, became the first marshal, and he proved very efficient, quell- ing the law-breakers with a strong hand and laying a foundation of good gov- ernment which stood the raw young city in good stead. It is remembered by old-timers that Colonel Cock set out most of the trees on Naches Avenue and otherwise improved that well conceived avenue, making the necessary basis for what has become such an ornament to the modern Yakima.

THE CITY CHARTER

It having become clear to the citizens of the ambitious young town that there was sure to be a city, and also the railroad company having fostered the plat and plan which appear in the abstract in earlier pages, it was clear that the next important stage in growth would be a charter and a municipal govern- ment. Steps were taken to secure such an organization at a public meeting in the Fall of 1885.

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As the outcome of the meeting a constitution was drafted by Edward Whit- son and Judge Graves. This was granted by the Legislature of 1886. The bill providing it was passed on January 27th of that year. By it North Yakima was duly chartered as a city of the second class. Although that first charter has been superseded, it presents so much of permanent interest that we incorporate a considerable part of it into our story at this stage.

TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF NORTH YAKIMA AND TO PARTICULARLY DEFINE THE POWERS THEREOF

CHAPTER I

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington : SEC. 1. That the corporate limits of the city of North Yakima shall in- clude the following legal subdivisions of land, towit: All of section nineteen (19), township thirteen (13) north, range nineteen (19) east, save and except the east half of the northeast quarter of said section nineteen (19) and all of the southwest quarter and the south half of the northwest quarter of section eighteen (18), township thirteen (13) north, range nineteen (19) east, and all of the southeast quarter of section thirteen (13), township thirteen (13) north, range eighteen (18) east, and all of the east half of section twenty-four (24), township thirteen (13) north, range eighteen (18) east.

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History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. I, Part 47

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920 Publication date: 1919 Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke Number of Pages: 1134

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1134