The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-05-18
Hotel Yakima and proved most enjoy
able affair

Hotel Yakima and proved q most enjoy
able affair.
REPORT OF O. x. OF RECORDS AND SEAL.
The grand keeper Of records and seal
has made his report from which the fol-
lowing extracts are made:
The increase In number Of lodges dur
ing the past year was S; in membership.
555. This increase. however, is net, after
the withdrawal Of IL Idaho lodges with
800 members to form the grand jurisdic-
ton Of Idaho.
The subordinate lodges show cash on
hand Of s3S. lsl.03. The receipts Of 1892
were $73,345.50: disbursements were
81, 40913.
Seventeen new lodges were instituted
during the past year and one thus far in
1893.
The grand lodge receipts during the
past year were as follows: Per capita
tax, *6,72s.O2; supplies. sl,sl7.30; char
tiers, 81 500; special dispensations, $3.50;
grand lodge cards, "a; interest on Pyth-
ian Home fund, 1854. Total receipts
for term, $l0,254.23. Disbursements
were: Supplies, s2,996l5; milagc and
per diem, $2,25s.63; salary. sl,i5o; sta
tionery and postage, $246.50; expenses
Grand Chancellor 1892, 800; incident
ais, $l63.26; relief of Roslyn sufferers,
$252; supreme lodge tax, $500; grand
lodge prize drill, $500; Johnstown relief
contributions refunded lodges 2, z, 80,
80 and Al, $3.50; total, $7,796.29.
The entire assets OF the grand lodge are
as follows: Cash on hand, 81, 740.49 /;
bills receivable, $233,s0; office furniture,
$500; supplies, 1866; total, $12,674.94.
THE PITH OF PYTHIAN NEWS.
The Portland printing house that fur
nished the badges and lithographing is
getting rounding-up tor the character Of
work supplied. Had the committee
secured the work through local publishers
who understand that kind OF business
there would probably he no occasion for
growl.
T. d. S. Hart, city editor Of the Walla
Walla Union Journal, was among the
number Of visiting Knights.
Fred Page, auditor Of Skagit county,
and J. II. Woolery, sheriff of King
county, were among the prominent
visitors.
Morris Koch, of the printing house Of
Koch & Oakley, of Seattle, was delegate
to the grand lodge.
Among the members OF the Seattle
division present was Thomas ]. Gordon,
clerk Of King county.
Col. E. B. Pike, of GolIendale, and
Major E. E. Hall, Of Colfax, both officers
of the national guards, are in attendance
upon the conclave of Knights.
ID. W. King, editor of the the Tekoa
Globe; c. A. Gwinn, editor of the Gar
field Enterprise, and Otis NJ. Moore, editor
OF the Hoquiam Washingtonian, are rep
resenting newspaperdom in the city.
Yakima's Knightly guests seem we'll
pleased with the entertainment afforded
them and give mucn credit to the efforts
of the citizens to make their stay agree
able.
w. II. Chapman showed his usual ex-
cellent decorative skill in the embellish-
ment Of his drug store in honor of the
visiting Knights.
The tents at camp Bigelow were taken
down to-day.
Every Knight should attend the benefit
of Mr.. and Mrs. f. B. Kelly at the opera
house Saturday night.
Fred Reeds decorated road wagon was
one of the novelties OF the Pythian week.
The ball at Switzer's opera house last
evening was a success in every particular.
The music was excellent, the arrange
ments perfect and the number present
was the largest ever gathered at any SIM
liar entertainment in the history of
Yakima.
KNIGHTLY ROSTER.
I'd Heart, Walla Walla; Capt. C. Z.
Coonvalt, S w Laming, L Bailor, Oaks
dale; G w Starkey, Pennington; G +
Miller, w w Ward, II N Pringle, Lars
Nilsson, S s Moritz, Dayton; G A Sexton,
Sprague; ] J Dixon, Pasco; G A Fellows,
Cheney; A H Greene, Ritzville; f r
Pickrell, Palouse;J B Caldwell, Waits
burg; F Lambert, Walla Waila; L H
Stogdill, Pasco; M M Goodman. Dayton
j w Dorscel, Aberdeen; Capt w E Will
der, Fort Walla Walla; w ] Mallett, J G
McMullen, Carbonate; P Frank, Puyal-
lup; A Beager, r G Parks. Walla Walla
E A Kasson, Tacoma; Edward Edsen,
F Miller, E Morganstein, W H Snyder, F
Bories, Seattle; J J Weisenburger, What
com; ] E Longfellow, ] T Mitchell, F
lick, J Fl Cannon, Seattle; III Liver
more, Port Townsend; G s Sennant, Port
Blakely; II r Jackson, Lowell; l B
Knickerbocker, Auburn; G w Slim, Cas-
tie; G II Watson, Fairhaven; T r Jones,
jr, Port Gamble; A H Boyd, Auburn L
r Sohns, Vancouver; o N Moore, Hoqui-
am; G D Schofeld. Montesano; Dor
ris, Utsalady; H W Leake, l. Parrish,
Kirkland; q E Reinsburg, VIM Murphy,
Thos Bell, B R Shaw, ] G Storey, H A
Bigelow, A G Bowman, VIM Kerski, Sc
attic; n E Liebeg, South Prairie; VIM
Sandribruch, Blaine; G S Croker, A
Johnson; B d Markley, II Smith, Ly-
man. L Z ua,dpoLy No,, WL..oo n