The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-01-22
ZOCAL BREvITIEs.


Deet ctntle 10 0ease'S
Chinatown is growing; 10 more
buildings were added to Ne district this
week.
-DealeTs are already offering to con-
tract for 1891 Yakima hops at Is cents per
pound.
Born, at North Yakima, Saturday,
January 10th, 70 the wife Of T. R. Fisher,
a daughter.
Born, at Fort Simcoe, Saturday, jan
uAry 18th, to the wife Of Rev. Thomas
Pearne, q daughter.
Phil Stanton has sold his trucks and
trucking business to his drivers, Doc
Myers and James McMurray.
Read the synopsis Of the "Blackville
Twins" in the Hyers Sisters advertise
ment and be sure and attend the perform
ance Tuesday evening.
To-day. January 22nd, is the fifteenth
birthday Of Charles McEwen's daughter,
and her father and mother presented her
with handsome upright Estey piano.
"A handsome electric light chandelier
now decorates the council chamber. The
cOuncilmen intend that plenty Of light
shall be thrown on all attempts to foster
jobs on the city.
e. P. Caldwell, whose realty opera
tons in Ellensburgh and Yakima were
on such a gigantic scale, considering his
limited capital, is now practicing law in
Helena, Montana.
Hon. John Davis, representative from
Kittitas county, died at his home in
Ellensburgh January 18th Of enlargement
Of the heart. He was So years Of age and
prominent Mason.
sam Wo, or big Sam as he is more
generally known, was one OF the sufferers
by the failure Of the Hussey bank at Spo-
kane Falls. He had several hundred dol
lars on deposit there.
w. H. Chapman has rented the store
room in the Lewis-Engle building vacated
by Reynolds and has made arrangements
to open with q complete stock of drugs
and all Of those goods usually carried in
q drug store.
y. L. Rosenfeld shipped carload Of
hides to Chicago Tuesday. They made
the atmosphere about the depot anything
but fragrant for 4 day, and Agent
Humphrey hasn't been able to get his
nose down yet.
Born, in Yakima county, Sunday,
January 18th, 1891: to the wife Of S. O.
Moriord, daughter. Judge Morford was
able to put in an appearance on the streets
the following day, though looking as il
the ordeal had been trying one.
Yakima is to have a new band under
the leadership Of that accomplished cor
netist, L. G. Read. The first meeting was
held in the room over Golden & STATIONS
last Saturday evening and gave promise
that the issue would be success.
Robert Wilson this week sold to H.
F. Rock and others his 100 acre farm
south Of the city. The consideration was
in the neighborhood Of $1,000. The farm
will be divided into 20 acre tracts and
thoroughly cultivated by the new owners.
The warm weather Of the past week
frightened the fruit growers, but the low
ering Of the mercury has dissipated their
fears, and orchardists claim that no in
jury has resulted to date. With q heavy
snowfall now big crops Of all kinds are
assured.
Another ton and half Of paper was
received by The HERALD this week. The
presses consume paper stock with a
voracity that is simply appalling when
the publishers remember the backward
ness with which subscribers are coming
to the front.
Football by electric light is one Of
the novelties Of Yakima, and is partici-
pated in by the young people Of both
sex; that is, the young men kick the
ball and the young ladies stand on the
sidewalk and kick at everything not to
their liking.
-Goldendale, which has not had q
saloon for about nine years, has just
passed an ordinance permitting them to
exist and providing license Of 500 per
annum. 1t is claimed that Mayor Bone
brake will veto the ordinance and that it
cannot be passed over his head.
Charles Carpenter reports that the
hop market is strengthening and that he
is authorized to pay thirty cents, but he
does not believe any holder will sell at
that figure. There still remain over four
hundred bales Of hops in the county, of
which the Mckee company holds 2O4
bales.
Some heavy sales Of lands have been
negotiated lately and irrigation plans
formulated, but the details are not quite
ready for the public yet. Our readers
may be assured that they will get the first
news Of the transfers and the projected
irrigation enterprises through The
HERALD.
-Tm HERALD is just completing a