The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-09-28


vancouver's district court calendar in.
cludes IL divorce cases.
The public school library has started
at sprague with rs volumes.
An effort 10 being made to organize an
association Of Indian war veterans in
western Washington.
A direct telegraph cable line between
Australia and Canada is expected to be
completed in two years.
10 . weIl-regulated family the olive
branch Of peace Is sometimes sto1i
hickory sprout.--Dollas News.
Messrs. J. F. Butcher and d. B. South.
ern are preparing to take trip to the
valley lands about Mt. Adams. Their
purpose is to explore that region pretty
thoroughly in search of desirable land,
Mr.. Mcleod, who is placer mining on
the Wenatchee, has given orders for the
Chinese to go, and in the absence Of
assistance eniorces his own orders, sue.
cessfully clearing the camp OF the celes
tials.
The Olympian-Tribune says that ther,
is market for O,000,00O pounds o
dried prunes in this country every year
Of which three-quarters are imported
and wisely concludes that 1t is safe t.
plant prune orchards.
1t is reported that Bismarck is seriously
I'LL, his trouble being sciatica. Having
lost the use Of both hands, he has also
been striken with paralysis, and his con-
dition is the subject Of great apprehen-
sion throughout the nation.
An editor out west who sends his pape,
Quito "time subscribers" sends bill each
year. When second bill is sent anc
there's no response he takes il for granted
that the subscriber is dead, and publishe,
an obituary notice" In his columns.
A shipment Of 200 doz. frogs arrived
at New Whatcom Sunday over the &. P
from Pitt river, B. G. The frogs wer,
destined for San Francisco, and were al
alive and kicking vigorously They wert
all singing contentedly when they arrived
on the Sehome dock.
The North China Herald of August IL
brings further details Of the great food
which 1t pronounces the worst since 1888 l.
No less than / 400 villages have bee,
destroyed In the metropolitan perfectur
ofShuntienfu alone. and 900 lives hav,
been lost in Kiang Tung.
An English epitaph reads: "Ann Z.
wife Of Jeremiah Walters, died Novem.
Der 16. 1868. aged SO years 5 months
She was true and faithful wife s
each Of the following persons: Enocf
Francis, John Sherman, w. Nassen, ].
Walters Successfully, probably.
Bill Nye's income is probably the larg.
est Of any humorist alive, for besides tn,
immense amount be realizes from hi,
annual tours, he has q yearly income
from his books Of over twenty Thousand
dollars--his full income being estimated
at fifty thousand dollars.
The charge on which ex-City Treasurer
Isepsee was for the second time arrested
at New Whatcom was misdemeanor, and
the penalty provided by law is imprison
ment not exceeding one year, nor less
than one month in the county Jail, or i
iine not exceeding 5000, or both.
An action has been brought in the supe
rior court at Spokane by w. B. Roberts
- receiver Of the Washington savings
bank against the Washington national
bank to recover possession of s35, 900 in
notes and securities, and for an addition.
al judgment Of $4,000, and charging the
officers Of the bank with fraud.
A Young printer in country news
paper Office fell in love with a clergy
mans daughter who did not seem to re-
ciprocate his affections. The next time
he went to church he was rather taken
aback when the minister announced the
text: my daughter is previously tor
mented with a devil. THE Newspapsr
Man.
John III. Haynes has fled suit for
$4,000 against the Spokane Chronicle for
libel, On account Of a sensational article
headed Found His Bones" and relating
how Haynes murdered man in Peaceful
valley and buried his body. Haynes says
be Is not a murderer and that his reputa,
ton has suffered as consequence of the
publication.
An editor OF q country paper, who Is
unmarried and dwells in single blessed.
ness. made the proposition to send his
paper free Of charge for one year to every
maiden who would send her address and
lock Of her hair beiorssJ an. /. 1890. He
has how the largest circulation in the
neighborhood and enough hair to stuff q
mattress. Roslya News.
Sensational Developments have come
out Of the arrest of Henderson for cattle
stealing ct Coulie City. Henderson, in
turning states evidence, implicated Q
number of well-known stock men around
Waterville and Foster Greek. Warrant.
were sworn ont for John Ryookhonsa /,
Cold Spring basin, James and Thoma,
Pearson, brothers, residing at Fostel
Creek. and Young Minton. south o
Badger mountain.
frank Crikeliar OF Green Bay, Wis.
thus tells Us how Chicago derived 1t,
name: 81 win tell you the story Of tn.
christening be said as he stood in {
group Of men and women. "While seat
ed around camp FIRE in a tepee In 1885,
an old Monominee squaw told me thai