History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. I, Part 82

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

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I call your attention to the fact that although there has already been quite an amount of money and labor expended upon our streets, yet they are suscep- tible of great improvement. Main and Third Streets, especially, should be graded and guttered at the very earliest moment.

It is a matter of congratulation that since our organization our city has not been visited by a single fire and this in face of the fact that building and improve- ments of various kinds have been continually going on. How much good fortune in this direction we owe to the sensible and vigorous measures taken at the early existence of the old council against the maintenance of stove pipes, cannot be told. At present I believe there is not a stove pipe passing through roof or wall within the business portion of our city. Notwithstanding our good fortune in the past the rapid building up of our city with wooden buildings makes it im- perative with you to provide against danger from fire in the future. It is high time to consummate the organization of a well equipped fire department. The city has already 1,200 feet of hose, which will be sufficient for the present, and a hand engine has been ordered, which should have been here ere this. I urge upon you the necessity of procuring a hose cart at once, and of providing a building suitable for the storage of your fire apparatus. We cannot expect to put in extensive water works at present, but we should make all possible prep- arations against fire, and to that end I recommend the immediate sinking of three or more good wells or cisterns available to the business portion of the city to answer until more elaborate preparations can be made.

The city has already made some provision for lighting the streets. Some eight lamps are in position, but more will be required. There should be at least two lamps at appropriate points on Fourth Street, between Pine Street and the Academy Building, and an equal number on Third Street, between Pine Street and the new schoolhouse.

While we have never as yet been visited with an epidemic of any magni- tude, the immediate future health and comfort of our city demands your earnest attention. I urge upon you the necessity of providing a system of sewerage at as early a date as the condition of affairs will permit.

Our charter gives the city power to levy and collect each year a road poll tax of not less than $4 nor more than $6 on every male inhabitant of the city, between the ages of 21 and 50 years, except active or exempt firemen and per- sons who are a public charge.

The city has provided in ordinance No. 4 for the levy and collection of this tax but it seems to me the ordinance is either deficient or the proper officers have failed to perform their duties under the same; for not only has there been no money paid into this fund, but moreover only ninety persons are reported as having worked out their tax in accordance with the provisions of the ordinance. I call attention to this fact and recommend an amendment to the ordinance so that the tax may be properly collected in money. I am of the opinion that the

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amount of the assessment for any year, properly expended in money on contract, would have more than double the effect in street improvements than it would by allowing each one the privilege of working out his tax. The ordinance should be amended so as to compel floating inhabitants to pay their taxes and in all ways bear their just share of the expenses of government.

It seems to me that there exists some deficiency in our vagrant law ; too many persons are on our streets from day to day who follow no laudable calling -too many who pursue no visible calling whatever. These classes add nothing to the funds of the city, contribute nothing to its good order or good morals. I therefore call your attention to our city ordinance defining and punishing vagrants. If it is inadequate amend it : if the fault is in the lack of its vigorous enforce- ment by our police officers, then take such steps as will cause a strict perform- ance of duty in this regard, and if possible rid the city of this growing evil.

Gentlemen, these are all the communications or recommendations that I have to submit to you at the present time. With the admonition that the future welfare of our city depends upon the enactment and vigorous enforcement of laws in the interest of good order, morality and substantial improvements, and feeling confident that you will weigh well the capacity in which you have been called to labor by your fellow citizens, and that you will study assiduously to perform your duty as councilmen without fear of censure from the disaffected or hope of any other reward than the approval of your own consciences, I re- spectfully submit to you this message.

A. MIRES, Mayor.

MAYORS AND CLERKS, 1886 TO 1918

The records of the succeeding councils and appointive officers do not seem to be complete, but through the kindness of B. L. Titus, city clerk, we are able to give at this point an unbroken list of the mayors and clerks to the present date.

MAYORS

1886-Austin Mires

1903-J. H. Smithson 1904-M. E. Flynn

1887-Austin Mires

1888-O. P. Jackson

1905-A. M. Wright

1889-W. R. Abrams

1906-M. Bartholet

1890-John B. Davidson

1907-J. H. Morgan 1908-W. J. Peed

1891-John A. Shoudy 1892-H. M. Baldwin 1893-H. L. Stowell 1894-J. H. Smithson

1909-W. J. Peed

1910-F. E. Craig

1895-J. W. Bean

1912-J. A. Mahan

1897-P. P. Gray

1913-J. A. Mahan 1914-J. A. Mahan 1915-Samuel Kreidel

1898-P. P. Gray 1899-J. C. McCauley

1916-Samuel Kreidel 1917-Samuel Kreidel

1900-J. C. McCauley 1901-J. C. McCauley 1902-J. H. Smithson

1911-F. E. Craig

1896-J. W. Bean

1918-Samuel Kreidel

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CLERKS

S. L. Blumauer

George Sayles

S. L. Blumauer

George Sayles

J. R. Wallace

George Sayles

J. R. Wallace

Louis H. Bloomfield

J. R. Wallace

J. J. Poyser

J. R. Wallace

J. J. Poyser to June 7th-resigned

James G. Boyle

John A. Shoudy from June 7th

James G. Boyle

John A. Shoudy

James G. Boyle

John A. Shoudy to October 4th, resigned

James G. Boyle

J. A. Crimp from October 4th

James G. Boyle

J. A. Crimp

Fred W. Agatz

Fred T. Hofmann

W. H. Greenhow

Fred T. Hofmann

James G. Boyle

.F' Reuben Crimp Reuben Crimp

James G. Boyle

George Sayles

Reuben Crimp

George Sayles

Reuben Crimp to May 6th

George Sayles

B. L. Titus from May 6th

The complete list of officers at present is as follows: Samuel Kreidel, mayor : B. L. Titus, clerk; Mrs. Bessie Nesbit, treasurer ; E. J. Lindberg, city attorney ; E. L. Butler, superintendent light and water department; A. F. Ed- wards, city engineer.

On November 5, 1918, a preliminary caucus was held for city officers, which under the conditions was equivalent to election. The report in the "Eve- ning Record" of November 6th is therefore worthy of preservation here :

Despite the influenza quarantine, a caucus was held at the city hall yester- day and placed a complete ticket in the field for the city election in December. The ticket is headed by Mayor Kreidel, who has consented to again act as mayor for another two year term. B. L. Titus is renominated for clerk and Mrs. Bessie Nesbit renominated for treasurer. Harry W. Hale, who had previously served as city attorney, became a candidate for that position, E. J. Lind- berg refusing to again be a candidate. Mr. Hale died in February, 1919, and F. A. Kern succeeded him.

The first ward councilmanic candidates are to be C. H. Flummerfelt for the four year term and C. W. Fulton for the two year term. Mr. Flummer- felt has served as councilman previously while Mr. Fulton was recently elected temporary councilman by the city council to replace Jesse Waters, who left the city.

A. C. Busby, well known blacksmith, is to be the new councilman from the second ward for the two year term in place of Walter Schmid, who resigned because of the McAdoo order asking all railroad men to give up all political offices.

In the third ward the candidates nominated are M. L. Bridgham and Peter Garvey, both for four year terms. Mr. Garvey has been a member of the

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council for years, being the senior of all city officers in term of service. Mr. Bridgham, an undertaker and county coroner, was recently shot by an unknown assassin and A. T. Gregory was appointed coroner.

John Killmore, who has served several terms as councilman, is the candi- date for councilman at large for the two year term.

There were seven men present at the caucus with C. C. Churchill as chair- man and H. B. Carroll as secretary of the meeting. The others present were C. R. Hadley, E. J. Lindberg, R. Crimp, W. F. Webster and B. L. Titus.

CHAPTER IV

SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES OF ELLENSBURG

THE SCHOOLS-DISTRICTS-KITTITAS COUNTY TEACHERS-SCHOOL BOARD-TEACHERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS-CLE ELUM SCHOOLS-STATE NORMAL SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES-STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION-ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF-FACULTY FOR 1918-19-CHURCHES OF ELLENSBURG INTO THE HOSTILE CAMP-FRA- TERNAL AND MISCELLANEOUS SOCIETIES-THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE : CON- STITUTION AND BY-LAWS-OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES-KITTITAS COUNTY IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR-CITY LIBRARY OF ELLENSBURG

It is scarcely necessary or possible to enlarge upon the vital value of the institutions which compose the heading of this chapter. If it be true that the natural environment and the industries of farm, mine, mill, and orchard which we have presented in the chapter on county history provide the tangible and material necessities of life, and if it also be true that the business instrumen- talities which appear in the history of the town be essential to the proper ex- change and organizing of those commodities, it is no less true that the intel- lectual and moral and social instrumentalities are essential to the proper use of those material things. If production and business furnish the materials of life, the school, the church, the social or fraternal organization, the club or the music hall, teach people what to do with those materials. Without these ameliorating and refining agencies, the products of industry would be simply piles of matter, with no significance beyond mere "food."

THE SCHOOLS

It has been said so many times as to be a tedious truism, but it is none the less true, that the public schools of the United States form the very cornerstone of her life. And this is true not only, not even mainly, for the knowledge acquired there, but for the lessons of essential democracy-Liberty, Equality, Fraternity-imparted in the classroom and on the playground, the A. B. C. of that great social entity which we call Americanism, the present hope of a world wrecked and all but ruined by the reign of kings.

The public school is even more a political and social than an educational fact.

In the counties with which we are dealing in this history we find the usual American pride and interest in the schools. While this interest is common all over the American Union many observers think that the schools of the Pacific Coast surpass even those of the older states in the outlay and attention given to them. Some years ago the Russell Sage Foundation stated in its educa- tional report that for "all-round efficiency the public school system of Washing- ton surpassed that of any other state in the Union."

We expect to find and do find that for high standards of education the schools of Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton counties are in the forefront in this

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forefront state. In some measure this high standard has been produced by the presence at Ellensburg of the State Normal School, an institution whose in- fluence has extended beyond the bounds of the county in which it is located, but which in the nature of things has been especially marked in the counties which compose the Yakima Valley.

The public schools of the valley began in the year 1868 at Yakima City, then the county seat and the only town between Walla Walla and Seattle. The first record of school organization is of the same interest to the Kittitas reader as to the Yakima reader. We find in the county superintendent's office at Yakima the first book of records of the first superintendent, George W. Par- rish. His first record is this :- "I was appointed school superintendent by the county commissioners on the first Monday of February, 1868. I had no prede- cessor, consequently no records or precedents in the county by which to act. The settlements were few and far apart. It became my duty to divide the county into school districts ; which I did, making most of them large, contem- plating their subdivision as the public welfare might require. The following is a statement of the boundaries and numbers of the several districts of Yakima County, Washington Territory, to-wit :- *

In pursuance of this purpose Superintendent Parrish laid out seven dis- tricts. Districts 6 and 7 as outlined here were never organized, and the perma- nent Number 6 appears in subsequent reports with new boundaries as organ- ized July 4, 1869.

The initial boundaries of February, 1868, given in the report are as follows:

DISTRICT NO. ONE

Application for its formation was made by Mr. F. M. Thorp. A notice of its boundaries was sent to him on the 28th of June, 1868. It is bounded as follows: Commencing on Yakima River, two miles south of the Third Standard Parrellel, thence due east to Columbia River, thence up said river to the Fourth Standard Parallel line, thence west along said line to Range 20 east, thence due south to Township 13 north on said range, thence due west to Yakima River, thence down said river to place of beginning.

DISTRICT NO. TWO

By application notice was sent to Mr. Walter Lindsey on the 28th day of June, 1868. It is bounded: Commencing on Ahtanum River at the crossing of the line between Ranges 17 and 18 east; thence north along said line to Natches River ; thence down said river to Yakima River; thence down said river to Ahtanum River: thence up Ahtanum River to the place of beginning.

DISTRICT NO. THREE

Notice was sent too Mr. oJseph Bowzer on the 28th of June, 1868. It is bounded so as to include all that part of the county between Natches and Ahtanum rivers west of the line between Ranges 17 and 18.

PUBLIC SCHOOL, ELLENSBURG

NEW HIGH SCHOOL, ELLENSBURG

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DISTRICT NO. FOUR

Notice for the creation of District No. Four was sent to G. S. Taylor on June 28, 1868. It began at the mouth of the Natches and went to the summit of the Cascade Mountains and along the range to the divide between Wenas and Umptanum creeks.

DISTRICT NO. FIVE

Notice of the formation of District No. Five was given to E. French on October 16, 1868, and included all the county north and east of Yakima River south of District No. One.

Since Districts Nos. 6 and 7 were not organized, though laid out to include all the rest of the county, we may regard the first five as including the "Charter Districts" of the old Yakima County. Inspection of a map shows that No. 1 included the larger part of the present Kittitas County and quite a piece of Benton. The only settlement in the whole vast area was that of the Moxee, for the sake of which the district was laid out.

The second superintendent was C. P. Cooke, who later became one of the first settlers on the Kittitas, known as one of the best educated men in the new county, as he had been in the old. Mrs. Cooke still lives at the date of this publication on the home place on Cooke Creek ten miles north of Ellens- burgh. The number of pupils in the report of 1868 was as follows No. 1, 15; No. 2, 31; No. 3, 24; No. 4, 23; No. 5, 23; total, 116. There was a total of 130 in the report of 1869. The amount of school tax for 1867 was zero; for 1868, $275.64; for 1869, $407.76. In 1874, the tax had reached $1,408.46, and in the next year it was $1,653.06.

County division came in 1883, and hence the statistics which we are giving here belong properly to the old Yakima County.

The preceding part of the present chapter is a repetition of the earliest part of the chapter dealing with the Yakima County school history. We have, however, reached a stage where we may center our attention on the Kittitas history, even some years in advance of county division. It may be noted that for the sake of unity the public schools of Kittitas County, as well as of Ellens- burg, are included in the succeeding pages.

According to the information derived from Mr. d'Ablaing, to whom we have so many times made acknowledgments, Charles Splawn was the first teacher in the county, or rather in the region which is now Kittitas County. The school was near Mr. Splawn's place on the Taneum, the time was 1874, the pupils were twelve in number, all Indians. In the same place, known as District No. 10, the successive terms following the first had teachers as follows : The second term was taught by Mrs. Yocum, the third by Louisa Yocum, after- wards Mrs. Edward Cooke, the fourth by Mr. Charles Splawn again.

Mrs. William Taylor, now living in Ellensburg, was the first teacher in the Denmark School in 1876. J. P. Marks was at that time superintendent of the county.

The number of districts and schools increased rapidly after 1875. In 1880 (45)

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there were twenty-three in the old county, and in 1883, just prior to division, the number was thirty-two.

The regular succession of superintendents appears in the records of county officers in the second chapter of this part. We shall not endeavor to give statistics of all the different years, but will regard a few typical years as sufficiently illustrating the progress of the school system. A report by Super- intendent J. H. Morgan for the year ending June 30, 1891, will indicate condi- tions at a point about midway between the formation of the county and the opening of the new century. According to that report the children of school age included 1,231 boys and 1,188 girls, a total of 2,419. The school records showed an attendance of 909 boys and 861 girls, rather a poor percentage of attendance. There were at that date thirty-six districts and forty-four teachers. The average monthly salary paid the male teachers was $57.90; the female, $49.70. The total expense of maintaining the schools during the year covered by the report was $69,924.52. Of that amount the salary expenditure amounted to $14,595.31. The expense of purchasing new locations, erecting new build- ings, and providing furniture and apparatus was $55,329.21. There were at that date no high schools, though there were two graded schools, one at Ellens- burg and one at Roslyn.

Passing on over another period of twelve years we find the report of Super- intendent H. F. Blair to give the following figures: The school population was 3,120, with an enrollment of 2,975. There were then thirty-seven districts with seventy-two teachers. The estimated value of school property, including grounds, buildings, furniture, books and apparatus, totalled $100,665.00. There had been a marked increase in teachers' salaries, the monthly wages for male teachers being $71.13, and that for female teachers being $55.20. At that time there were no four year high schools, but the Ellensburg schools had eleven grades, the Roslyn schools had ten grades, and the Cle Elum schools had nine. In the year following, 1904. Ellensburg inaugurated her high school.

In the year closing June 30, 1918, we find the report by Superintendent S. A. Bartlett to embrace the following directory of teachers and general statistics:

District 1-Amy Skone, Ellensburg.

District 2-Ruth McClanahan, Ellensburg.

District 3-Evelyn I. Platner, Ellensburg.

High-Mildred C. Struble, Ellensburg: Clara Burch, Ellensburg ; Linden Mccullough, Ellensburg ; J. C. Stauffer, Ellensburg; F. M. Lash, Ellensburg ; Mary A. Boedcher, Ellensburg; Olea M. Sands, Ellensburg; G. W. Callendar, Ellensburg : F. B. Daily, Ellensburg ; A. J. Dunnington, Ellensburg ; J. H. Mor- gan, Ellensburg ; Elsie M. Cody, Ellensburg : Ethel Calhoun, Ellensburg ; Cora B. Weaver, Ellensburg; Lena Bozorth, Ellensburg: Elise Luff, Ellensburg ; Mabel Garvey, Ellensburg : Lilly Garvey, Ellensburg : Frances Charlton, Ellens- burg : Juanita Dixon, Ellensburg ; Helen Winslow, Ellensburg: Ora Davis, Ellensburg; Olive Jenkins, Ellensburg; Ruth Jones, Ellensburg, Johnson Sher- rick, Ellensburg.

District 4-Gertrude Mosier, Ellensburg, R. 3.

District 5-Katherine Burroughs, Ellensburg, R. 2.

District 6-Florence Foster, Ellensburg, R. 2.

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District 7-Charles A. Barker, Ellensburg, R. 1; Bessie Whittendale, Ellensburg, R. 1.

District 8-Margaret Gallagher, Ellensburg, R. 4.

District 9-Pauline Rollinger, Cle Elum.

District 11-Helen Pebbles, Ellensburg, R. 1.

District 12-C. M. Armstrong, Ellensburg, R. 2; Anna Pederson, Ellens- burg, R. 2; Tollie Tooker, Ellensburg, R. 2, Badger Pocket; Margaret Taylor, Beverly; Carimme Whitlow, Yakima, Squaw Creek.

District 13-Florence Foltz, Ellensburg, R. 4; Elizabeth Richards, Ellens- burg, R. 4.

District 14-Erie Gates, Ellensburg, R. 3; Grace McInnis, Kittitas, Whisky Dick.

District 15-Mrs. Leila Thomas, Cle Elum.

District 17-Mrs. Daisy Fish, Cle Elum.

District 18-Lillian Nylen, Ellensburg, R. 3.

District 19-Ellen Spaulding, Malaga.

District 20-Madge Charlton, Ellensburg, R. 3.

District 21-Elizabeth Dixon, Boylston.

District 22-WV. T. Martin, South Cle Elum; Elma E. Mooney, South Cle Elum; Sara E. Baldwin, South Cle Elum.

District 23-Winifred Sanders, Easton.

District 24, High School-Wilmot G. Whitfield, Roslyn; Willie Hogarty, Roslyn : Verne Hall, Roslyn : Lottie Trencholme, Roslyn ; Beatrice Kittrell, Ros- lyn : Ethel Shirls, Roslyn ; Grace E. Uhl, Roslyn ; E. C. Cavey, Roslyn ; Millie M. Pritchard, Roslyn : Martha Simpson, Roslyn : Elsie Randolph, Roslyn : Cornelia Hooper, Roslyn : Hazel Gilkey, Roslyn ; Elizabeth Manning. Roslyn : Emmlie Mills, Roslyn : Evelyn Driese, Roslyn : Florence L. Wharton, Roslyn ; Ina DeCann, Roslyn : I. A. Johnson, Roslyn: Lavonda Matthews, Roslyn: Esther S. Perine, Roslyn ; Edwina Rase, Roslyn : Helena Jenkins, Roslyn; Marie Grundy, Roslyn; Ina Back, Roslyn; Bessie McCandless, Roslyn ; Elizabeth D. Schmidt, Roslyn; Corine Saindon, Roslyn ; Selma Holland, Roslyn.

District High 25-G. I. Wilson, Cle Elum: H. E. Studebaker, Cle Elum; Alice T. Stach, Cle Elum : Dora E. Knapp, Cle Elum; Mabel McMillen, Cle Elum : Myrtle Schmitkin, Cle Elum ; Blanche E. Kleeb, Cle Elum : Katharine V. Hoag, Cle Elum ; Wm. C. Will, Cle Elum ; Theresa Moore, Cle Elum ; Carolyn Conlee, Cle Elum ; Johannes C. Bergman, Cle Elum ; Hildore Carlson, Cle Elum; Mand Filmore. Cle Elum ; Edna M. Avery, Cle Elum ; Nell Davnie, Cle Elum ; Hazel A. Wood, Cle Elum : Eva Buckler, Cle Elum : Ida Mitchell, Cle Elum ; Rebecca Flynn, Cle Elum: Eva Buckler, Cle Elum: Ida Mitchell, Cle Elum; Mary Hutter. Cle Elum : Kathryn Flynn, Cle Elum; J. N. Spicer, Cle Elum; Effie A. Olson, Cle Elum; Monica Brain, Cle Elum; Helen Sargent, Cle Elum.

District 26-May M. Maxwell, Cle Elum : Mrs. G. L. Barkley, Ellensburg.

District High 45-G. C. Shrader, Thorp; Fern Burns, Thorp: Dorothy Wade, Thorp ; Glenn Osborn, Thorp; Eva Wakelee, Thorp; Bessie Hicks, Thorp; Ethel A. Anderson, Thorp; Rhea Hogue, Thorp; Mrs. Edna Betts Shrader, Thorp.

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District 28-Lynn Markey, Easton; Mrs. H. J. Oliphant, Easton; Cather- ine M. Ryan, Easton; Mabel Anderson, Keechelus.

District 29-Inez Webber, Thorp; Grace Anderson, Thorp.

District 30-Alice Donahue, Thorp.

District 31-Mrs. Elma S. Morgan, Ellensburg, R. 3.

District 32-Henry S. Gibson, Cle Elum.

District 33-Kate Stroud, Wymer.

District 34-C. H. Barton, Ronald ; Alice Pickering, Ronald ; Ruby Mitchell, Ronald ; Bernice Whitaker, Ronald; Annie Laura Jones, Ronald; Birdie Esther Mitchell, Ronald : Angelina Fera, Ronald; Odell Erb, Ronald.

District 35-Howard Barnes, Ellensburg, R. 1: Daisy P. Weaver, Ellens- burg, R. 1.

District 36-Elma Wilson, Ellensburg. R. 2.

District 37-Kathleen O'Neil, Trinidad; Mae Currier, Trinidad.

District 38-George Bowers, Kittitas: Bertha E. Meinecke, Kittitas; Cora McEwen, Kittitas.

District 39-Mildred Chapman, Kittitas, R. 1; Edith Meyer, Kittitas, R. 1.

District 40-Francis Keefe, Cle Elum; Elsie J. Matterson, Cle Elum.

District 43-Mary Underwood, Ellensburg, R. 4.

District 44-Mabel Cornwall, Liberty.

District 47-Ruth Mullin, Cle Elum ; Clara M. Roseburg, Cle Elum. District 49-Manra Shelton, Roza.

District High 200-A. D. Foster, Kittitas; Ivy Peterson, Kittitas; Minnie Gerriets, Kittitas; Vern Lathrop, Kittitas.

To the above directory of the teachers of Kittitas County, we are append- ing a summary of property valuations and other general data of the county schools :

Value of grounds and buildings $341,245

Value of apparatus, furniture and books 69,857

Number of books in school libraries 10,797

Number of free text books 19,350

Census of children of school age

5,389

Enrollment in the schools 4,523

Number of school buildings 58

Seating capacity 5,489

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History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. I, Part 82

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