The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-05-18
YAKIMA And THE STATE.
Interesting Items Of News from Yakima
and Its Suburbs.
Bits OF Gossip, Facts, Fancies, Per-
sonhis, and N Hodgc-Podgc Of
Paragraphs of Every
Description.

m aster at Roslyn.
j. II. Carpenter made a business trit
to Tacoma last week.
George M. Cosgrove, Of Yakima, was
registered at the Worlds fair on the 10th
| instant.
The annual meeting of the state board
of education viii be held at Olympia on
Tuesday, June 6.
The next meeting of the regents of the
state agricultural college will be held in
this city on Monday.
NJ. q. Wills returned Friday of last
week from an extended business trip
through eastern Oregon.
Residents in the north end are COM
planning because some miscreants have
taken to milking their cows at night.
The Harris Bros. Company, commits
SION merchants OF Tacoma, have made
arrangements to handle 20 cars OF Yak
ina potatoes this season.
The citizens of RQslyn on May 10 OBJ
served the first anniversary of the terri.
BILE slope disaster. The graves of the
dead we're decorated and appropriate SER
vices held.
Theodore Lee. an armless fruit and
tobacco merchant of Tacoma, has gone to
New York, where an experiment will be
made in grating arms of flesh and blood
upon the unfortunate man.
Chales VanBuskirk, formerly of this
city but now Of Ellensburgh, is happy in
the consciousness OF being the father Of
a l0-pound boy, who made his debut on
this mundane sphere May 9TH.
The Yakima Hop company have forty
acres set to hops and their Mckee farm is
in excellent condition. The warm weather
Of the past two weeks has caused the
vines to shoot up with great rapidity.
In the new deal of the agricultural col
| lege Prof. Watt, who has been filling the
chair of chemistry, has been rendered
the principalship OF the preparatory de.
partment. 1t is thought he will not &C.
cept this lower grade position.
The trial of Christensen and Mccarthy
the men accused of robbing the Roslyn
bank, has been set for Monday next, al
| Ellensburg. The trial OF Ursula Unfune
Boyd, for the murder OF Thomas Hender.
son Boyd, will begin at Seattle on the
same date.
Beggars and fakirs are numerous in the
city and have secured considerable money
OF late by false representations and the
exhibition of shoddy goods. The latest
fake is the, prayer peddler, who claims tc
be an agent for the Catholic missionary
society.
John Wyanno, the Yakima Indian who
killed his brother, Teniana Kotieana, last
fall, by beating him over the head with a
rock tied up in handkerchief, was
found guilty by the U. S. court at Walla
Walla, and sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary.
"A Cle-Elum youth, who is advised tc
consult an optician, evidently intends
carrying off a Yakima maiden, judging
from the following paragraph in the Tri
bune: "Will Lanigan gazed with love
lit eye upon fair-ha lass at North
Yakima, this week"
Among the advantages that Yakima
has over other subdivisions OF the state
is that it is practically free from the
squirrel pest, for these annoying and de-
stroying rodents can get no substantial
foothold in an irrigated country. Over
in Garfield county the commissioners
paid $2400 10 bounties for squirrel scalps
for April and the estimate for May is
$4,000. Two cents scalp is paid, and the
number turned in last month was 120, 900.
The mining towns on Kootenai lake are
to have departure in the national bank.
ing business which is somewhat new and
novel. Colonel N. E. Lindsey, an old
miner and capitalist of Spokane, has ap'
piled for charter, and is now construct
ing large barge fitted out with an iron
clad cabin and immense vault, which
will contain his place of business. Week
ly trips will be made to all the mining
towns bordering on the lake, thus accom-
modating each for one day The scheme
is thought to be good one, as these
towns are very badly in need of banking
facilities, though too small to support one
at each point.
The election of officers in the grand
lodge, /. o. o. +. of Washington resulted
as follows: Grand master, James c. Nit
chelI, No. 4, Seattle; deputy grand mas
ter, Willis L. Ames, No. 7, Seattle; grand
Warden, A. &. Ansell, No. So, Spokane
grand secretary, lie F. A. Shaw, No. 10.
Walla Walla (re.elected); grand treas,
urer, &. W. Hall, No. 4, Seattle IRE
elected; grand representative, o. G.
White, Olympia. A committee, consist
ing of ]. Michael, of Seattle; ii. ii
Champion, of Walla Walla; j. n. Mount
of New whatcom Joseph Smith, o.
Kalama, and W. F. Mckay, of Spokane