The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-08-29
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sheep to the Sound Tuesday.
~. A. Thomas will ship nineteen car
loads Of sheep to Chicago on Monday.
Days stable Of race horses passed
through Yakima Monday. bound for CAL
hOrnla.
-Ex-Postmaster ]. J. Mueller, Of e.
lensburgh, died at that place on Monday
Of last week.
Call at the G. and N. W. photo tent
and get q nfe-size portrait Of yourself,
free Of charge.
IS. J. Lowe exhibited this week .
Persian or Kassaba melon raised by him
which weighed % pounds.
Tho largest holdings Of the Ontario
Land Company in this territory are at
Yakima and GTay's Harbor.
Among the shippers this season have
been s. J. Lowe with four car loads Of
melons and Henry Kampeter with Eve.
The baby daughter Of Hugh B. Pur-
den, Of the Ahtanum valley, died Wednes-
morning, and Mrs. Purden is dangerously
III.
-Myron H. Ellis reports business tip
top and says that he IL now receiving
his fall stock, which embraces the best
goods sold in the market.
There are three corps Of engineers
working in the Cascade mountains on the
line projected from Portland through Van
couver and Yakima to Spokane Falls.
Tho ladies Of the NJ. E. church will
give a melon social at the Methodist hall
on First street, Friday, September 6.
Everybody come, eat melon and get &C
quainted.
Two hundred boxes Of Yakima
peaches were shipped to Tacoma Wednes-
day. They will give the people Of the
Sound an idea Of the superiority Of Yak
lima fruit over that grown in California.
General Manager W. S. Mellen, Of
the Northern Pacific, accompanied by .
large party Of officials, passed through
the city Sunday, westward bound. This
was Mr.. Mellen's first Official trip over
TIE road.
The North Yakima steam laundry
will be ready for operations on Monday,
September 2nd. All work executed
promptly, reasonably and in good shape.
Wagons will call for clothes when ordered.
Oplistil 4 Garrecht. 1t
-Mn.M.w.w Wallace will begin teaching
class in stenography shortly and persons
desirous Of taking lessons should apply at
once at her residence, corner Of Natcheez
avenue and A street. Mrs. Wallace is
agent Of the Remington Standard type
writer. q
On Thursday last Judge W. H. Cal.
kins in chambers heard arguments in the
Ahtanum water case Of Sampson vs.
Harry Roberts, ct al, and granted .
temporary injunction restraining tie
defendants from taking more than one
third Of the water and from wasting the
same.
Dan Plan-o-ple-o-pike, the Indian
who was sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary for killing an Indian doctor
on the Yakima reserve, 10 again at liberty,
bis time having expired. Dick Wyneco,
who was sentenced at the same time for
similar crime, died in prison q few
weeks since.
On Monday there were four car loads
Of stock, three Of hay, two Of melons and
. car load Of hops shipped from Yakima.
Agent Humphrey says that the shipment
Of products from this place average Eve
or six car loads daily. Is it any wender
that the people have faith in Yakima,
and this Is only an indication Of what is
in store for the future when our fertile
lands are more fully improved.
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RAILROAD RUMoRs. RumoFs are multi
plying regarding the building Of q rail-
road from the east through Yakima to
Gray's Harbor, but nothing definite Is
known as to what company II Is. It IL
known though that party Of engineers
are in the Cascade mountains working in
this direction and that they have run
lines from Chehalis to GTay's Harbor and
are now working from Chehalis toward
the Natcheez pass. The rumor most cur.
rent Is that Il Is the Manitoba company
and recent remarks made by General
Samuel Thomas OF that company gives
strong coloring to this belief.
GRANTED TEACHERS CEErEIcATEs.-At
the recent examination Of applicants for
teachers certificates, Miss Lon Monroe
was granted q first grade certificate on the
strength Of q diploma from the territorial
university, Lewis G. Parrish and Miss
Annie Hicenbotham second grade certif-
Gates, and Miss Mollie Giezentanner
third grade certificate. There were four
other applicants, but they failed to come
up to the required standard.
DIED. AT North Yakima, Sunday,