The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-11-17

clair's handsome chestnut-sorrel horse
"King."
Mrs. Burnett. daughter Of ]. NJ. Kin.
caid, arrived from the Willamette valley
Tuesday on visit.
Dell Hiscock left on Tuesday for syria.
cuse, New York, where he will spend the
holidays with his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. X. Hiscock, Of Ia.
coma, spent several days in Yakima
during the past week, returning home
Tuesday.
Mrs. J. c. Leach and child left for Min.
nesota, Tuesday, on q visit to Mrs.
Leach's parents. They will not return
until spring.
The NJ. NJ. Club, 4 recently organised
social club, Of which George s. Vance is
secretary, will give dance at tine opera
house Friday evening. Dancing will
begin at 8 80 and cease at a. IN. ; lunch
served at II: 80. Eighty invitations were
issued.
Judge GeorgelT Turner, Of Spokane, was
Yakima visitor on Monday and Tues
day. z The judge Is figuring on the
chances Of supplanting John b. Allen in
the U. s. senate, and the impression pre-
walls that he has some reason for feeling
sanguine.
Sol Smith defeated Hi Dustin for
superior judge Of Klickitat county. 1t is
said Dustin, who is very popular. would
have been elected. hut his was the only
name on the democratic ticket, and the
populists, who wanted to vote for him,
overlooked him like q white chip.
School facilities proving inadequate to
the demands Of increased population, a
new room has been fitted up in the Cen
trail building, and Miss B. Wayne en-
gagged as teacher. TO commence next week.
From present indications another room
must soon be added, making six rooms
in Central and five in Columbia.
An important sale Of real estate was ef-
iected on Saturday last, through the
agency Of Fred R. Reed & Co., by which
the Barrett ranch Of 100 acres on the
Mckee became the property Of A. K.
Hiscock, Of Tacoma, and Robert Nc
Cook, Of New York. The consideration
was Sl2, 900, and the entire body Of land
will he planted to fruit and hops.
J. R. Goes experience with politics has
been anything but fruitful Of good results.
He not only suffered defeat at the polls,
but his left arm was dislocated at the
shoulder through an accident by which
be was thrown over an embankment,
while driving in the dark from Parker
Bottom towards home. The mishap now
promises to prove Of a serious nature.
The arm has been repeatedly set but re-
fuses to remain in place, and the muscles
are forcing themselves into the socket.
Mr.. Coe expects to visit Seattle soon, &C.
companied by his brother, the doctor,
where medical consultation will be held
and such steps taken as are necessary to
save the usefulness Of the arm.
s. D. Macdonald arrived from the
Mckee, on Saturday, where the rotary
well machine has been at work, and re-
ported that by going down fifty feet fur
ther the volume Of flowing water was
doubled. This additional depth also gave
evidence corroboratiVe Of DR.. W. F. Nor
Hison's theory that the Mckee country is
undeTlaid with coal, for in going through
the last strata the drill brought up for
nation Of shale, and when the vein of
water was struck It carried with it an oily
substance, said to be petroleum. The
flowing water is coated with this oil for q
time, and then it appears to give out,
only to be renewed after an interval OF
ten or fifteen minutes.
Hon. Gardner G. Hubbard, Of Wash
ingtOn, D. c., and Major Powell, director
Of U. s. geological surveys. will arrive in
Yakima on Wednesday or Thursday Of
next week. Major Powell, It will be re-
membered, won added laurels by being
one Of the three who made the famous
and only known journey down the $50
mile canyon Of the Colorado river. There
were nine Of the party who started on the
voyage Of discovery. Four turned back
owing to the difficulties that presented;
two were drowned; but Major Powell and
two companions braved every danger and
surmounted every difficulty, and finally
pulled through all right. Mr.. Hubbard,
o. The HERALD readers generally know,
IL largely interested IL the Bell telephone.
and IL the principal stockholder Of the
Mckee company.
j.. J. R. Short, Of the firm Of Thomas
& Short, hop factors Of London, was in
the city Tuesday endeavoring to effect
arrangements by which his house could
handle Yakima hops. MesFs. Thomas &
Short lay claim to being the first import
ers Of Pacific coast hops, having COM
menced to handle these goods" thirty
years ago. Mr.. Short is Of the opinion
that he also handled the first hops sent to
London from this state, being the crop Of
Ezra Meeker, Of Puyallup. He says he
is beginning to realize the importance
Yakima will cut in the bop world, and
expects before long to see "Yakimas"