The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-01-12
HERALDINGS.
Sheriff Mcfarland, Of Walla Walla,
spent Sunday.in Yakima.

sherih mcfarland, oil Walia Walla,
spent Sunday.in Yakima.
Representative A. B. Weed will vote
for John b. Allen for senator.
A. B. Ross has succeeded O. A. Fech-
ter as manager OF the opera house for the
current year.
The Yakima Irrigating and Improve
ment company has a new ditcbing ma
chine which will be given trial in few
days.
Marion j. Meeker, buyer for the hop
irm Of Z. Meeker & Co., Of Puyallup,
spent Friday and Saturday in the city,
but it is not probable that he secured any
hops.
The store of Peter Gervais, at Yakima
City, was burglarized Monday evening.
Thei.till was rifiled OF about $24 in
change, and goods to the value Of 500
were carried off.
w. s. Davidson's team started for the
old town Monday, after the sleigh. which
the horses were pulling, had collided
with an ice wagon. No particular dam
age resulted beyond broken pole.
Walter j. Milroy was a candidate for
sergeant-at arms OF the lower house of
legislature. He received thirty-two votes
to thirty-eight for Ward, the successful
man. Mr.. Milroy was then elected as
sistant sergeant-at-arms.
While the North Yakima Touring mill
is not running at the present time, in ac-
cordance with the usual custom at this
period Of the year, it is supplied with
large stock of -four, mill feed and rolled
barley, and can fill all orders promptly.
There is report current that the
Northern Pacific will soon transfer its
round house, repair shops and terminal
yards from Pasco to Kennewick. The
report cannot be verified, but Kennewick
is evidently looking forward to move in
the spring, and will be prepared for most
any turn with her big SIC, 900 hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. b. Kelly have given
a favorable response to the invitation of
the house committee to present two
act farce in the reception room of the
Yakima club at an early date. The time
has not been definitely set, but it will
probably be one week following the dance
OF Thursday next.
On Friday last Professor Watt was pre-
scented by the teachers OF the public
schools with handsome gold-headed
cane, appropriately inscribed, as a token
OF their appreciation of his worth and
the loss sustained by his friends and the
educational intere SITS OF this city through
his appointment to the chair of chemistry
of the state agricultural college.
David Mum called at THE HERALD
office on Saturday last, and, after paying
his respects to the rapidly growing sub
scrjption list, remarked that all fear re-
garding an abundance of water for irri-
CATION purposes for the coming season
was at an end, as the mountains were
deeply covered with snow, which was an
assurance that litigation under this head
would be uncalled for this year.
Z. j. Jaeger, of the firm of Harvey &
Jaeger, merchants of Zillah, spent sew
eral days in this city during the past
week, his family having arrived from Ia
coma on Saturday last and joined him
here. Mr.. Jaeger states that business
has exceeded his expectations, and he
showed his good feeling toward THE
HERALD by adding one more name to our
rapidly growing Zillah list Of subscribers.
Mrs. Martha j. Lamb, editress of the
Magazine of american History, who died
in New York on January Sd, Of ppeu-
monia, was the aunt of Fred r., Frank
and E. M. Reed, of this city. Mrs. Lamb
was prominent as q writer of history and
fiction, and was distinguished as being
the first woman who was admitted as a
member of the New York Historical
Society.
The records OF the land Office for the
year 1892 show thirty-eight homestead
proofs 100 homestead entries; thirty-one
COMMITTED homesteads, timber cultures
and pre-emptions; l02 desert land filings,
and seven proofs under the act. The
number of contests instituted was sew
enty. The filings under the desert land
law amounted to 22;4SS acres, which,
multiplied by three, will give about the
number OF acres OF land under irrigation
canals begun in the same year.
The Yakima Hop Company, which
was recently organized in this city by
twenty young men, held a meeting on
Friday evening of last week and elected
J. M. Brown, president; s. O. Henton,
vice president; George Donald, treasurer;
o. A. Fechter, secretary, and A. b. Ross,
general manager. Tie company will
plant forty acres OF land on the Mckee to
hops, and ten to alfalfa, as early as the
weather will admit. Orders have been
sent to Puyallup for two car loads of hop
roots.
Olympia Tribune: Senator Eshelman
is a preacher as we'll as statesman. He
will occupy the pulpit of the Christian
church tomorrow night. Mr.. Eshelman