The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-05-11
YAKIMA and THE STATE.
Interesting Items Of News from Yakima
and Its Suburbs.
Bits of Gossip, Facts, Fanctes, Per.
sonnis, aud n Hodge-Podge OF
Paragraphs OF Every
Description.

ii. ]. Bicknell returned from q trip to
the Sound on Saturday.
w. B. Williams has had 60 acres of his
Sunnyside ranch planted to alfalfa.
Henry and Charles Lombard are now
in Chicago taking in the sights of the
Worlds Fair.
The alfalfa patch in S. Lauber's yard,
near Yakima City, is said to have been
the first planted in Yakima county.
Miss Leadbetter, daughter Of G.. II.
Leadbetter, is home from Whitman col
lege, Walla Walla, where she has been
attending school.
DR.. w. II. Hare returned from Tacoma,
Friday night, where he was in attend
ence upon the convention of the State
Dental association.
OF the cinnamon arrested for opium
smoking one was discharged and the
other five fined S. and costs each. The
defense was conducted by r. B. Milroy.
+. A. Brown, ofIcicle, Kittitas county,
arrived in the city last week and expects
to remain for a couple Of weeks. Mr..
Brown is brother of Yakima's county
clerk.
w. f. Thornton returned on Friday
last from trip to Seattle, Portland and
the Willamette valley. He says 1t rained
continuously during the two weeks he
was absent.
Ed. A. Lyons left Saturday on visit
to his mother, who lives on the Isle OF
Man. Mr.. Lyons expects to be gone
about three months and to engage in
business upon his own account when he
returns.
On Friday last, while Frank Spain was
operating Curtis Greene's bicycle, he col
lided with wagon belonging to Mrs.
Bates, and the wagon being considerably
the strongest the bicycle collapsed into
several pieces.
Capt. P. G. Harper returned from the
mountains, Saturday, where he was
showed in for three months and unable to
move. The Captain is somewhat dis
couraged over his mining prospects and
will probably not put in any more time
on the claims.
TIE change in train time of the North
ern Pacific, which usually goes into effect
about the first of May, has been post
poned until the 2Sth. The backwardness
of spring has prevented the placing of the
road-bed in the condition necessary for
the fast trains.
The excitement over the gold finds
along the Columbia river, below Wal
lula, still continues. There are over q
hundred claims taken and some of the
nuggets found are valued as high as $50
Harry Garrett, of Zillah, is among those
who have taken up and are working
claims.
DR.. w. F. Morrison proposes to have
one of the model farms of the country
He has % acres of hops trained to trel.
Uses; 80 acres of alfalfa; 800 vines Of
grapes and number of acres each Of
musk and water melons. He is now ar.
ranging to have built two hop houses on
the most approved plans.
Ellensburgh Localizer: A scheme il
talked of for dividing Yakima county,
We douot very much if the southern div.
ision has the requisite number, 1000, to
take upon itself the burden of maintain
ing county government. We think the
scheme premature and not likely to ma
ture for some years to come.
Joshua Pierce, of Tacoma, who largely
interested in irrigation, says that "Mr.
Schulze has just issued a circular letter
that no water rights will be sold under
the Sunnyside ditch for less than $25 per
acre, cash, or $50 in five annual install
ments and that no water rights will be
sold in exchange for lands
In the yard of ]. r. Coe are two peach
trees Of the same variety and age, one OIL
which has neither bud nor blossom on
it, while the other is a solid bouquet Of
| flowers. This seems characteristic of the
peach crop in general of this section
Some orchards will have scarcely any
peaches while another orchard but short
distance away will produce fair crop
The early peaches are mainly killed but
there will be a good showing of lemon
clingstones and like varieties.
The Great Northern's cantilever bridge
across the Columbia, nine miles below
Wenatchee is now practically finished
The bridge exclusive of approaches ii
926h feet in length and is composed OF 1
framework of iron and steel. There ar,
three spans the first extending from /,
bluff ON the west side $50 feet to th,
water line; the second or main span il
4l615 feet in length, extending over thu
main channel to an island, it weighs S5t
tons and is "a feet from top to bottom a
the center; the third and last extends
from the island $50 feet to the east bank
The bridge is 100 feet above low water
but during the great freshets accompany
/ inu the melting of snnwa in Juna = Ia " OF o.