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CHAPTER XII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SEC. 93. The city of North Yakima is not bound by any contract, or in any way liable thereon, unless the same is authorized by a city ordinance and made in writing by order of the council, signed by the clerk or some other person on behalf of the city. But an ordinance may authorize any officer or agent of the city, naming him, to bind the city without a contract in writing for the pay- ment of any sum of money not exceeding one hundred dollars.
SEC. 94. No money shall be drawn from the city treasury but in pursu- ance of an appropriation for that purpose, made by an ordinance ; and an ordi- nance making an appropriation of money must not contain a provision upon any other subject : Provided always, That when a fund has been created to be expended for a certain purpose, the council may, from time to time, direct pay- ments to be made therefrom for such purposes without ordinance.
SEC. 95. The fiscal year of the city shall commence on the first day of May and end on the last day of April of each year.
SEC. 96. In any action, suit or proceedings in any court, concerning any assessment of property or levy of taxes authorized by this act or the collection of any such tax, or proceeding consequent thereon, such assessment, levy, con- sequent proceeding and all proceedings connected therewith shall be presumed to be regular and duly taken until the contrary is shown; and when any pro- ceeding, matter or thing is by this act committed or left to the discretion of the council, such discretion or judgment, when exercised, or declared, is final and cannot be reviewed or called in question elsewhere.
SEC. 97. The city council may divide the city into not less than three nor more than seven wards, and shall apportion the members of the city council to be elected in each, and provide places for holding elections in each and appoint officers for conducting the same.
SEC. 98. When the grade or boundaries of any strect has been once legal- ly established, such grade or boundary shall not be changed without indemnify- ing each person injured by such change, and the amount of compensation shall be determined as in other cases when private property is taken for the use of the city, and the city of North Yakima may exercise the right of eminent do- main, to take any private property for any use of the city, embraced within any of the objects or purposes of this act.
SEC. 99. In all cases where private property is condemned or taken for public use, by authority of this act, the city shall pay a fair compensation there- for to the owners of such property, and when such owners and the city council are unable to agree as to the amount of such compensation, the same shall be assessed and determined in the manner provided by the general laws of this Territory, relating to the mode of proceeding to appropriate lands by private corporations.
SEC. 100. This act is hereby declared a public act.
SEC. 101. Whenever an addition to said city shall be platted and recorded' in the office of the county auditor of Yakima County as required by law, then!
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and in that case the city of North Yakima shall have power by ordinance to in- clude such addition within the corporate limits thereof : Provided always, That such addition is joined to the already established boundaries of said city.
SEC. 102. The limit of indebtedness of the city of North Yakima is hereby fixed at ($10,000) ten thousand dollars.
SEC. 103. This act is to take effect from and after its passage and ap- proval.
Approved January 27, 1886.
SOME STEPS IN MUNICIPAL LIFE
Out of the vast mass of history available in the files of the local press and in the memories of citizens, we shall try to give in the remainder of this chap- ter, a few of the leading steps. We have seen already the generous scale on which the city was laid out. Water was running in the canals on each side of the principal streets, a beginning of planting of shade trees was made, and by 1888 North Yakima was already beginning to forecast something of the beauty which now is her deserving portion.
An article taken from a local paper in 1910 gives a view of the buildings existing at that date which were put up in the year of the birth of the city twenty-five years before. We are sure that many readers will be glad to see this, and we incorporate it here.
MANY PIONEER BUILDINGS LEFT-THOUGH NORTH YAKIMA HAS NOW ATTAINED
ITS TWENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY-EARLY-DAY STRUCTURES SHOULD BE PLACARDED-RESIDENCE OF W. L. LEMON WAS ON THE
GROUND BEFORE THIS CITY HAD AN EXISTENCE OR A PEOPLE
The famous First National Bank building which came up from old town twenty-five years ago, doing business all the way, still exists to take part in the celebration today. It has either gone up or down in the social scale, as one judges from a commercial or an artistic standpoint. It is doing present duty as the Ideal Theatre. It stood on the corner of Yakima and Second until 1888 when it was moved to make way for the present bank building.
The frame building squeezed in between more pretentious brick and stone structures, occupied by T. G. Redfield in the first block east on the avenue, is as much a pioneer as its occupant. The house between Fourth and Naches, occupied by C. M. Hauser, was the St. Elizabeth's Hospital of the early days. The old Guilland Hotel, which was one of the buildings to make the exodus, has disappeared and given place to the Mullins Building.
OLD CHURCHES
The old Presbyterian Church, now tacked on to the stone edifice which has replaced it, the old Christian Church, now the armory, and the old Catholic Church, latterly used as a boys' school and now being torn down that the Mar- quette College is completed, came up from old town.
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The house now occupied by Postmaster W. L. Lemon is on the site of the Robert Beck homestead which covered a good part of the present North Yakima and was here before North Yakima existed. The kitchen and the servant's bedroom of the Lemon house comprised the original shack. Mr. Lemon says that he has heard Robert Beck tell that there used to be a sheep corral across the road from his place, where the herders would put their sheep for the night, coming in from the hills. The cookstove in the Beck shack was a hospitable one and the herders used to fry their bacon and boil their coffee there. Mr. Beck used to tell how the dogs would howl and yelp all night because the coyotes were trying to get at the sheep.
TO KEEP OPEN HOUSE
Mr. Lemon says that owing to the historical interest attaching to his home, he will keep open house, so that all who wish may see the old kitchen. Judge Edward Whitson lived in the place for some years.
It has been suggested that it would be a matter of interest, especially to the many newcomers here, if the people occupying the houses or buildings which came up from Old Town when North Yakima was started, 'placard them for the day so that all who run may recognize them as pioneer buildings.
The house directly back of the present Catholic Church is an old-timer. It used to belong to Mr. Chapell who moved up from old town one of the first grocery stores. A partnership in this store was bought by Mr. Cox, who came into North Yakima on the first train. At that time the road was built only to Ellensburg. Shortly after a switchback over the mountains was constructed and used until the construction of the Stampede Tunnel. The home of Mr. Cox at Third and B streets was moved up by George Cary. Other old houses are the Pleasant Bounds house, now occupied by Mrs. A. J. Shaw and family ; the old Lilly house, back of the Hotel Guilland site, now fallen on evil days, the home of A. B. Pearson, which until a few years ago belonged to A. B. Weed ; the home of Miss Lucy Nichols ; the old Purdy Flint house two or three doors below the avenue, on Naches. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strobach originally belonged to J. P. Mattoon, one of the pioneers.
George Donald, twenty-five years ago, instead of living in the handsomest house in the Yakima Valley, was residing in a portion of one of the Northern Pacific warehouses.
FIRST DRUG STORE
The first drug store in North Yakima belonged to a inan named Bushnell. The first dry goods store was that of Ditter Brothers, formerly of Old Town. The first three-story brick block was the Syndicate Building, now the Republic office. The Lewis-Engel Building, formerly so long occupied by Lombard & Horsley, went up about the same time. The old postoffice used to be on the avenue, about where Lecky's store is now.
It is not to be understood that these houses could be located by streets in those early years for the streets of those days were mainly paths through the sage.
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A long frame building which disappeared a few months ago when the Eagles put up their building was a double house occupied at one time by the families of A. B. Weed and W. L. Steinweg. Mr. Weed brought his hardware business, now the Yakima Hardware Company, up from old town. Mr. Stein- weg was not a first settler. He did not arrive until 1886, when the town was a year old.
TWO FACTIONS
Even in those early days, there was an east and a west side faction. The east side was stronger, but the late Capt. C. M. Holton, the most aggressive west sider, had sufficient influence to get the Congregational Church, as well as a number of houses, on the other side of the tracks. Captain Holton, who founded the Republic, owned th epresent Congdon place, and the old Holton house is the one with a queer upper porch this side of the Congdon home, now occupied by the Baedker family.
The county seat was moved by the legislature in January, 1886. This act has permanent interest and is given here.
AN ACT
TO REMOVE THE COUNTY SEAT OF YAKIMA COUNTY FROM YAKIMA CITY TO NORTH YAKIMA
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington :
SEC. 1. That the county seat of Yakima County in Washington Territory, be and the same is hereby removed from Yakima City to North Yakima, in said county, and said county seat is hereby located at North Yakima.
SEC. 2. All the county officers of said county are hereby directed to re- move to and hereafter held their offices at North Yakima.
SEC. 3. The county commissioners of said county shall cause to be re- moved from Yakima City to North Yakima the court house of said county, and may remove any other county buildings or property by them deemed of suffi- cient value.
SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its pass- age and approval.
Approved January 9, 1886.
The courthouse was moved to the new town in 1887, and with its establish- ment it may be said that North Yakima had its full official station.
The contemporary newspapers and advertisements of any growing commu- nity are usually the best index of its development.
We find the first number of the "Yakima Herald," February 2, 1889, to contain a very interesting group of advertisements, and in its salutatory we find matter worthy of preservation in these pages.
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ADVERTISEMENTS FROM "HERALD" THE YAKIMA HERALD REED & COE - Proprietors
ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY
$2.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE ADVERTISING RATES UPON APPLICATION E. M. REED, EDITOR AND BUSINESS MANAGER *
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
W. H. White H. J. Snively
U. S. ATTORNEY WHITE & SNIVELY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Will Practice inn All Courts of the Territory. Office with County Treasurer, at the Court House
N. T. Caton Sprague
I. C. Parrish North Yakima
CATON & PARRISH ATTORNEYS AT LAW Will Practice in All the Courts of the Territory. Office on First Street, Opposite the Court House, North Yakima, W. T.
JOHN G. BOYLE ATTORNEY AT LAW Will Practice in All the Courts of the Territory. Office in First National Bank Building, North Yakima, W. T.
J. B. Reavis A. Mires C. B. Graves REAVIS, MIRES & GRAVES ATTORNEYS AT LAW Will Practice in All Courts of the Territory. Special Attention Given to All U. S. Land Office Business. Offices at North Yakima and Ellensburgh, W. T.
Edward Whitson John B. Allen Walla Walla
Fred Parker
North Yakima
ALLEN, WHITSON & PARKER ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office in First National Bank Building, North Yakima, W. T.
POST OFFICE BUILDING.
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NORTH FIRST STREET, YAKIMA, IN 1885, SHOWING FIRST POSTOFFICE AND LAW OFFICES OF MILROY BROTHERS
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DAVID ROSSER, M. D.
Having been in active practice for a number of years, now offers his services to the citizens of North Yakima and community. All calls answered promptly and he hopes by diligent attention to business to merit a liberal patronage. Office over C. B. Bushnell's drug store.
T. B. GUNN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in First National Bank, First Door Up Stairs Refers to W. A. Cox and Eshelman Bros .; also, to any citizen of Memphis, Mo.
MISCELLANEOUS
J. M. STOUT FORWARDING AND COMMISSION The Handling of Yakima Produce for Puget Sound Markets a Specialty Warehouse West of Railroad Track, No. 8, Block B, North Yakima, W. T.
FIRE WOOD AND DRAYING
I have a large quantity of excellent pine and fir cord wood and fir slab wood for sale cheap. I also run two drays and am prepared to do hauling at reason- able figures. Apply to
JOHN REED North Yakima, W. T.
NORTH YAKIMA NURSERY NORTH YAKIMA, W. T. All Kinds of FINE FRUIT TREES At Moderate Prices. SHADE TREES A SPECIALTY E. R. LEAMING PROP.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF NORTH YAKIMA
Directors
J. R. Lewis
Wm. Ker
Chas. Carpenter
A. W. Engle
Edward Whitson
CAPITAL
$65,000
SURPLUS
15,000
J. R. LEWIS President
EDWARD WHITSON Vice-President
W. L. STEINWEG Cashier
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS BUYS AND SELLS EXCHANGE AT REASONABLE RATES (27)
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JOS. J. APPEL, -Dealer in- FINE WINES AND LIQUORS The Best Brands of IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC CIGARS South Side Yakima Avenue
FIELD & MEYER CITY MEAT MARKET WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BUTCHERS AND PACKERS North Yakima, Washington T. Also Proprietors of the Washington Market, Seattle, Washington T.
TO THE READING PUBLIC.
The HERALD puts its initial issue of five thousand copies before the public. It will be sent broadcast over the country, and placed in every hotel and read- ing room in the Territory. A request is made that all individuals receiving this number, who desire its continuance as a weekly visitor, will please send in their names, accompanied by the subscription price of two dollars per year.
GREETING
THE "YAKIM'A HERALD" MAKES ITS OBEISANCE TO THE PUBLIC
The HERALD has its being not from any special desire of its publishers to again enter the newspaper field; not from love of the unremitting labor which is engendered by the publication of a live newspaper, even if it be a weekly, but on account of a hearty and generous call made by the Board of Trade, and by citizens outside of the board, who in their liberal pledges of business have made the undertaking an assured success financially, as we trust it will be in point of merit. There are already two papers published in this little city ; but Yakima is a favored spot, and, with her growth and prosperity, the HERALD hopes to grow and prosper. Yakima is favored in geographical location ; in unsurpassed climate ; in water power sufficient for dozens of large factories; in soil capable of varied and extensive agricultural development ; in wheat fields that are inexhaustible granaries ; in fruit lands that have boundless capacity of produc- tion; in lands that will grow the best of hops, which are never troubled by those blights and pests which often destroy the hops of other countries ; in vast ranges where tens of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep multiply and grow fat; in lands that yield large and excellent crops of tobacco, the choicest of vegetables, broom corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and other products valuable for shipment abroad as well as home consumption. There are among the reasons which have induced the HERALD publishers to select this point. There is another leading reason, and that is the location of North Yakima with regard to railway
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transportation facilities. It is on the main line of a great transcontinental rail- road, and several other lines are projected or actually building this way. This transcontinental road gives Yakima an excellent market on the Sound for any or all of its produce; a market in the Cle-Ellum country, with its wealth of metals and coals, but whose agricultural capacities can not afford supply to the local demand; a market to the east as far as Helena, to which point or inter- mediate points large shipments of fruits and vegetables are made during the year.
Are these not reasons enough, and they are but a few of them, to believe that North Yakima will be a point of much importance, and reasons sufficient to believe that there is an opening here for the HERALD? We think so; and, as a sequence, the HERALD is before you, asking for your good will and liberal support. The policy of the paper will be one of main devotion to Yakima and the territory at large. In politics it will be strictly independent. This outline is not extensive, but it is sufficient. It answers every purpose as well as had it been strung out a yard, for it will be maintained to the letter.
The HERALD does not wear all of the becoming plumage in which it expects soon to be decked; but its plant is new and capable of good work, and before long the rough edges will be taken off and it will move along in the even tenor of its way, with the smoothness of well oiled cogs, laboring faithfully for the interests of the growing city of North Yakima, the large and fertile county of Yakima, and the great state of Washington.
That the social side was not lacking appears from sundry announcements, one of which, having connected with it some well-known names of the pres- ent day, will awaken responsive echoes in the memories of some old-timers.
INVITATION PARTY
The HERALD has turned out this week invitation cards for a social party to be given at the Opera House, Thursday evening, February 7, 1889. The following committees have been selected :
Arrangements-W. J. Roaf, F. R. Reed, H. C. Humphrey, G. J. Gardiner, David Guilland and O. A. Fechter.
Reception-J. B. Hugsley, M. H. Ellis, E. M. Reed, Joe Bartholet, W. L. Steinweg and F. T. Parker.
Floor-Fred Rowe, W. H. Chapman, Wayne Field, W. J. Milroy, Edward Whitson and E. S. Robertson.
An excellent contemporary view of the North Yakima of the close of the decade of the eighties is given here.
NORTH YAKIMA
RAPID GROWTH AND GREAT RESOURCES OF THE JEWEL CITY OF CENTRAL
WASHINGTON
(From the Portland Oregonian of January 1, 1889.)
Evidence of what the Yakima Valley grows and sells-many advantages in town and country.
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There are sixty-two business houses in the city of North Yakima, and all of them generally occupied by every known branch of commerce and trade -from two national banks, whose daily deposits average from $8,000 to $15,000 per day,-some days the deposits have reached $60,000,-while the average deposit balance will equal $150,000, also from the dealer in general merchandise down to the laundry. In the general sales for the past year, including lumber, coal and the products of two flouring mills, both of the latest improved roller process, also the sales of merchandise, the city of North Yakima, with its 2,000 to 2,200 inhabitants, has sold in 1888 about two and one-half million dollars. Probably as good an indication of the local business can be arrived at by the shipments of products from the Northern Pacific Railway station here as from any other source. It must be remembered that these shipments are those of the surplus, or unused products here at home. The population of the county is variously estimated at from 4,850 to 6,000. The last census-an inaccurate one, rather under than over-placed the pop- ulation at 4,000 about a year ago. The influx in population since then has really been marvelous, yet no accurate means are at hand to estimate the number of that increase. It would be extremely conservative to place it at 25 per cent., and none of this increase participated in the producing of crops in 1888. The result of 1889 will show more than 25 per cent. increase in these shipments. For the information of the reader we have secured the total business by carloads shipped from this station. Possibly one-fourth as much more has been shipped from here in quantities less than carload lots, and these should be included. It should also be borne in mind that not until the advent of the railway, some four years ago or thereabouts, did these farmers endeavor to raise anything more than they needed for home use, as no market existed. In addition, fully two-thirds of these farmers have come here since the railroad came. The total earnings of this station were $168,000 for 1888. The principal shipments were 22,000 bales of hops, 260 carloads of hay, 298 carloads of live stock, cattle, 19 carloads of horses, shipped East, 8 carloads of sheep, 62 carloads of vegetables, 27 carloads of potatoes, 21 carloads of melons, 2 carloads of wool and 7 cases of leaf tobacco, 4,000 pounds shipped to New York. Not over one-sixth of the available acreage is under cultivation, and ten times as much as is now supplied with water is here awaiting the creation of irrigating ditches and canals. These figures should suggest the possibilities of this valley. Its market is the Sound and coast cities, the markets of the world, also, via the Sound and Pacific Ocean ; and it has the towns and country to the east clear to and including St. Paul and Chicago. There is no just reason why this city and county, when they shall have reached their maximum in population, should not have in the city from 15,000 to 25,000, and the county. 40,000 to 50,000. Neither is there any good reason why they should not be eventually among the very wealthiest towns and counties in Washington Territory. For instance, the geographical center of Illinois is Springfield. This Illinois city is wholly supported by agri- culture, while the tributary country has not over half the yielding capacity of this county of Yakima. Springfield is over forty years old, and Yakima
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three to four since its existence was really acknowledged or known. 'Tis true that Springfield is the capital of Illinois. Who knows but that North Yakima may be the capital of Washington? Today the location of the capi- tal, by common consent, is conceded to this central Washington, and one of two towns must get it-each with apparently equal chances. If a neighboring locality should secure the capital, why should not this city be at least the equal of Jacksonville, Illinois, a neighboring town to Springfield? Jacksonville is a city of 12,000, and a very wealthy city. It is a seat of learning with five or six colleges and academies. Has not this city a parallel opportunity to the cities named? Nowadays cities reach their maximum population in from five to ten years. If this city should have the same experience then in five to seven years hence North Yakima will have her 15,000 to 20,000 people and property here, now so very cheap, will then have advanced 1,000 per cent. All the material elements that go to make a big and prosperous city are here. This people are the equal of any city in the universe in point of morals, educa- tion, stability, energy, economy and application. They are distinctively a pro- gressive people who value educational opportunities. The handsome two- story brick school house now here, a fifteen thousand dollar building when entirely completed and extremely modern, is evidence of their intentions and desires in this direction. Another building even better than this one, will soon be erected, as the need for it now exists. There are sixteen organized districts or townships in Yakima County today. The area of the county covers about 7,000 square miles, or the equivalent of 70x100 miles. There are twenty-six school districts in the county in each of which some kind of a school building exists. The class of teachers employed are among the best-the system of examination enforcing proper capacity and character-all of which explain the character of this people. The school indebtedness of the county is nominal or trivial, the total county indebtedness being only about $100,000. This sum has been required for the construction of bridges chiefly. So many valued and de- sirable streams-the main life and sustenance of the county-require frequent bridging to enable the farmers to get into the town, and the people are not penurious in their own interests. These county bonds were most readily sold at par-with 6 per cent. interest running thirty years-with the privilege of re- demption at the end of twenty years. Yakima County presents one marvelous and most attractive feature, viz .: The total taxation of the county is only 13 4-5 mills, which includes the total tax, territorial added. It is divided as follows :
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