The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-03-09
THE LOCAL NEWS BASKET.
Interesting Items Of News from Yakima
and Its Suburbs.
hits OF Gossip, Facts, Fancies, Per-
sonnis, and n Hodge-Podge of
Paragraphs Of Every
Description.

Description.
Mrs. w. A. Hall leaves to-day for Port
land on q visi. 70 her SON.
Henry w. Duguid left Friday for brief
business and pleasure trip to San Fran
cisco.
/ II. j. Mackison came down from We
natchee on Saturday last and reports the
road over the mountain in splendid con-
dition.
Mrs. Clark, mother Of w. s. Clark,
died on Friday, March 3, and the funeral
was held on Sunday from the Methodist
church.
Robert Douglass left Sunday for
Hoquiam on a visit to his mother and to
give some required attention to govern
ment land claim which he has filed upon
in that vicinity.
Bishop Wells will be here on Sunday,
March IL, and conduct morning service
at the Episcopal church. A cordial in
vitation is extended TO the public to be
present.
L. G.. Donaldson, recent arrival from
central New York, is now located in the
Sunuyside country. He Is the father of
Rev. Donaldson, who lectured at the
Presbyterian church last November on
the Orient.
! b. b. White, the undertaken and dealer
in furniture, has purchased from the
Adams estate lot on Yakima avenue
opposite the Fred X. Reed block and ex-
poets to begin work on two-story 25xl00-
foot brick store building within the next
ninety days
1t is reported that rabbits are doing
much damage to some young orchards
hereabouts. Another rabbit drive might
have a good effect, but the managers should
guard against too many bow-legged men
taking part. The last one held in Yak
ina was failure on that account
The city council Of Roslyn has ordered
all the saloons closed Mt II p. IN. and has
directed the inarslrnl to strictly enforce
the ordinance against gambling. The
merchants rlaim that when open gam
bling is permitted many OF the men fail
to meet their monthly bills. giving their
money to the gamblers instead.
Cle-Elum Tribune: T.. T. Gassman
came down from The Fish lake district
Wednesday, where he and james Grieye
have been a. work I'll winter. Iereports
the striking OF five loot ledge in the Sill
yer Bull, a claim on which they have
been working industriously for the past
two years. The ledge is solid and lays
fine, and the rock assays $50 tosthe ton.
Senator Eshelmans bill TO provide an
additional superior judge for Yakima
and Kittitas counties has come to an
ignoble end. II encountered d motion to
indefinitely postpone, and fell with what
green reporters call .'dull, sckeniAg
thud." In the language of our esteemed
and efferveseent contemporary, the meas
ure was mot in touch" with the legis.
lators.
Joseph NJ. Baxter returned from the
lower Yakima on Saturday last, and con-
firms ii. II. Aliens estimate OF the loss
OF ten per cent OF cattle 10 the feed yards
this winter. MIR. Baxter places the loss
on the range at fifty per cent. He says
that the green grass has made its appear
ance in the lower part OF the county and
that stock turned out on the range are
doing nicely.
J. G. Campbell, David Longmire and
Fred Parker have received returns from
the assay Of groupings from the Galena
Lode, located near Mount Tacoma, show
ing ninety cents in silver. The Sedge
mine, at depth OF thirty-one feet, assays
IS. 40 in gold and $50 in silver, and as the
groupings assayed only $3.50, Mr.. Camp
bell and his associates feel rather well
over the returns and will start to tunnel
ing as soon as the snow disappears.
Postmaster Howard, OF Goldendale, has
set good example for federal ofiice-hold-
ers who are republicans by announcing
bis resignation, 10 take effect as soon as
his successor can be appointed. This is
r the first instance in the state in which
the avowed intention of federal officers to
resign, when Cleveland assumed the reins
of government, has been fulfilled. The
fact is that republicans have been so in.
ured to federal pap that the weaving
! process is liable to prove a great hard
ship.