The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-03-02
HER LDINGS.

on Tuesdays train.
Born, Wednesday, March l, to the wife
Of Morris Sisk, a son.
Born, Tuesday, February %, to the
wife of j. ]. Backer, a son.
Born. Thursday, March 2, to the wife
of Thomas Wheeler, a son.
Born, Sunday, February 26, to the wife
of G. r. Harris, a daughter.
o. A. Fechter made business trip to
Walla Walla this week
+. T.. Thompson and bride arrived from
Sumner on Saturday last.
f. l.. Kinney, former resident OF Yak
ina, is over from Seattle this week.
Another of the firemen's pleasant par
ties will be given at the opera house Sat
urdsy evening.
Frank M. Williams, of Ellensburgh,
was the guest OF DIR. W. II. Hare on Mon
day and Tuesday.
Postmaster Dunn has received the news
of the death of Mrs Robert G. Duncan,
which occurred recently in Nova Scotia.
The cigarette bill, which passed the
legislature and is about to become law,
is condemned by some as an act Of cruelty
TO dudes.
Miss Hattie Alger is recent arrival
from the sound country, and will make
her home in the future with Mrs. G.. W..
McClan.
According to bill passed by the egis-
SLlature, and signed by the governor, thirty
two pounds of oats are now bushel in
stead of thirty-six.
A new vault is to be placed in the court
house for the security of county records,
and Auditor Ellis has been directed to
advertise for bids for the same.
I'll. Thompson, of the Puget Sound
Hardware Co., is in the city this week
arranging to plant his land in the Sun
nyside district to hops and fruit.
b. ]. Wyncoop, C. l.. Underwood and
F. NJ. Harsburger, of Puyallup, have in
corporated the Anchor Hop & Fruit Co.,
with Yakima county as the basis OF
operations.
I,W, Dudley, of the Yakima Irrigation
& Improvement company, was in the
city on Monday from Kennewick, accom-
panied by his brother, G. G. Dudley, Of
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
A ton and half OF print paper received
at THE HERALD office this week. Sub.
scfibers who are delinquent should re-
member that paper costs money and that
wages OF employees must be met every
week.
The legal rate of interest for this state,
according to law just passed, is eight
per cent per annum. State, county, city,
school or other warrants drawn on pub
lie funds, as well as judgments, shall not
bear more than this interest.
H. H.'Allen reports that many cattle
have died at the feed yard, owing to the
long winter, and that ne expects to lose
few more. He estimates the loss at
from eight tg>ten per cent, but says that
it will not 20 over the latter figure.
Last week Frank Pierpont, a well
known settler and stockman OF the Big
Bend, was found frozen to death on the
prairie about three miles from his ranch.
He had left Coulee City in snow storm
on the 9th of February with mail for his
neighbors and that was the last seen OF
him alive.
II. c. Humphrey is endeavoring to
make arrangements for putting up two
story brick building on First street, adj
joining Kershaw's meat market. He
owns two lots, the sale OF one of which
he is now negotiating to a gentleman,
who expects to join him in fifty-foot
front building.
Kennewick is to have a newspaper.
Winfield Harper, who has established
papers at Pasco, New Whatcom, Juliette,
and probably other places within as many
years, will push the quill He will have
to move the types also if he expects to
make O financial success of the paper
business in the embryotic metropolis OF
the lower Yakima.
bad break in the water company
ditch on Sunday last made drinking water
scarcity for several days this week and
left us in darkness for one night. MIR.
Whitson says this winter has given him
an extensive but costly experience, and
that before another winter rolls around he
will have perfected plans which he has
in view whereby he confidently believes
there will be no further trouble.
Most anybody can edit a newspaper
enc week and make it interesting, says
an exchange. Some people can keep up
the interest for month or two without
tagging, but it takes a natural born quill
driver and hard worker to grind out an
interesting batch of local and editorial
items week after week for a term OF years.
There is no profession that is as exhaust
ing and less remunerative for the work
than the editorial or journalistic profes-
sion, but how few there are who believe
this.