The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-02-27
NEWS NOTES.

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Governor Ferry has appointed Platt A.
Preston, F. W. Paine and Frank Loudon,
Of Walla Walla, penitentiary commission
ers. and the state senate has confirmed
the appointments.
The New York World claims that the
Louisiana Lottery crowd furnished $780,
900 TO the campaign fund used by the
republicans to carry the new states and
that 10000 Of this amount was used in
Washington.
Silcott the Astounding cashier Of the
house Of representatives is supposed to be
somewhere in this state. He is 81 year
old, height five feet seven inches, weight
1876 lbs, corpulent, STOPPING shoulders,
protruding stomach, ruddy complexion,
blue eyes, gray hair, bald on top Of head
and has scar extending from eyebrows
to nose.
Citizen George Francis Train proposes
to beat the record Of Nellie BY as globe
trotter by twelve days. He will start
from Tacoma March 18th, being guaran-
teed expenses by the Tacoma Ledger, and
expects to aga n be in Tacoma, travelling
via Yokohama, Hong Kong, Singapore,
suez canal, England and New York, by
May 18th.
John Jacob Astor, the grandson Of the
founder Of the fortunes Of the family who
bore the same name, died at New York
on Washington's birthday Of heart fail
ure, aged IS years. He leaves an estate
valued at two hundred millions Of dollars,
which will mainly go to his son, William
Waldorf Astor, who was minister to Italy
some years ago.
John LeaTy has purchased the Stacey
mansion ct Seattle which cost $50, 900.
The lot is also valued at $4,000. The
house was built Eve years ago by NJ. v.
B. Stacey but was never occupied an hour
after It's completion. Stacey got into
financial troubles and the house was
closed. It will now be used as the cham
General Benjamin Butler submitted to
an operation upon the dropping eyelid,
which has been 50 prominent feature
for caricaturists. OF late years IL has
grown more and more troublesome, and
recently hung 90 far over the eyeball as
to practically destroy the sight, while Il
caused great deal Of pain. The opera.
ton was successful, part Of the lid be.
ing cut away.
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will report favorably q bill to repeal the
timber culture law. 1t will allow those
who have held land for four years under
the timber culture act, and have com.
piled with the law, the right to commute
and pay $l.25 or $3.50 per acre, the same
as for pre-emption, or they may take
the land under the homestead act and
prove up. Where entries have been
made Of q recent date, the claimants must
continue holding Il for four years.
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