The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-04-27
YAKIMA and THE STATE.
Interesting Items Of News from Yakima
and It's Suburbs.
Bits OF Gossip. Facts, Faucies, Per-
sonais, and IA Hodge-Podge of
Paragraphs OF Every
Description.

trip to the Sound.
Over $50 carloads OF hop poles have
been unloaded here, up to date, this sea
son.
T. NJ. Vance returned from flying
visit to Tacoma, Seattle and Olympia,
Monday.
Oscar James, of Roslyn, was in the city
Monday, on business connected with the
land Office.
Charles Hare returned from Astoria on
Friday last, and reports having had a
pleasant trip.
Jesse n. Day, pioneer and city father
of Dayton, died, April 20, of heart disease.
He located at Dayton in 1859.
4 Tom Carroll and wife passed through
Yakima, Sunday, en- route for Chicago,
Philadelphia and Washington.
Fred Bullinger, OF Puyallup. was va
kima visitor this week and passed the
time while here in looking after the inn
provement OF his ranch.
Mr.. Fredenburg and two sons, Miss
Lucy Schaffner and Miss Lizzie Mason
were baptized by Rev. X. Warner, of the
Methodist church, in the Yakima river on
Sunday.
Mrs. Eelie, OF North Yakima, is an
nounced to give some recitations at the
entertainment for the benefit Of the st.
Elizabeth Guild, Of Tacoma, to be held
shortly in that city.
The Society of Christian Endeavor for
this state will hold convention at Ia
coma next week. Rev's. Cornett, Of Spo-
kane, and Eshelman, of this city will be
among the speakers.
The novelty having worn off Of the
Worlds Fair souvenir coins they are a
drug on the market except at their face
value. Only about one-fourth of the
number issued have been sold
S. W. Beall, justice of the peace, no.
tary public, eonveyancer and real estate
agent, of Kalams, advertises among other
features appertaining to his Office, as fol-
lows: "The marriage ceremony per-
formed at all hours of the day or night,
in graceful and impressive manner"
Tie trees along the streets of Yakima
are now in foliage and the field violets
make a sweet scented halo around the
city. Spring after getting nearly chilled
to death in the lap of winter has transfer
red her affection and is now making low
ing overtures TO warm hearted summer
G.. ]. De Cordova and Alma Grozier,
the two boys charged with being impli-
Gated in the assault on Storekeeper John
Peterson, at Palmer, March 81, which led
to the killing OF Robert F. Calhoun, were
discharged at the preliminary examina-
ton, on the ground that the Identification
was insufficient.
There is little use Disgusting the fact
that the peach crop OF Yakima will be
limited this year. All the peach orchards
are damaged, and o. Halsted, who with
John S. Baker, purchased the Bicknell
ranch, reports that he has few peach buds
not killed, while like condition exists in
Fred Thompson's orchard. All of the
other fruit in the county is all right, even
to cherries and apricots. There will be
some peaches, however, but not enough
to cut much of figure in shipments.
Near Orc, in the Big Bend country, are
several bands of wild horses. Most oil
them are small, but some are good horses.
The ancestors OF this band were part oil
Okanogan Smiths best horses and cay
uses from the reserve. Tie horses when
caught are hard to break, and when
turned loose, Immediately rejoin the band
taking few tame horses along for com.
pany. All the stockmen in the country,
on both sides OF the line, have contribu'
ted to the band, which will eventually
have to be shot.
Colfax experienced an expensive FIRE on
Saturday last, by which an entire block
of property, valued at $4,000, went up
in smoke. The fire was started through
a Chinese cook using kerosene in the
stove. The Baldwin hotel was destroyed
and Mitchell, Lewis & Staver lost $21 200
worth of agricultural implements. The
burnt district extends from the Colfax
National bank to the Pearl bakery, on the
north side OF Main street. Two buildings
were also burned on the west side Of
Main street.
Seattle Press Times: Over at Yakima
the other evening, Julia Mccartney, an
Irish lassie, was in a casket surrounded
by weeping friends, the occasion beins
her "wske." Some careful mourner flip
ped drop or two Of hot tallow from on'
of the candles upon the waxen face o
Julia and she bounced out of the caske
with howl that completely robbed thu
wake of its solemnity, and refused to re
turn. 1t is seldom that the chief figur'
at one of these ceremonies gets chance
to participate actively in the proceeding
that Julia's experience is really worth.
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