The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-08-02
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". l. SteinEis Strikes Water at 1870
Feet Depth.
DEMOCRATS TO COME TO YAKIMA.
Bsrthoiet Heirs secure Finmt re.
ceipts for Government Lamd-New
Telephone Line-PostoffIce want.
ed ut Burge.

Another sprinkler has been ordered
constructed by the state fair commission
Tor use on he fair grounds.
The city council will meet for its first
regular session Monday evening, and
among other duties will elect city sur
veyor, sexton, ditch tenders, park tender,
two policemen and justice Of the peace.
A f::it evsporator. with capacity of
1900 pounds per day, has been ordered
and will be located in this city. Those
interested in the evaporator are anxious
for its arrival before the early Crawford
season.
A young man named Smith, residing
m the north fork OF the Cogychee,
started in to capture cub bear the other
LAY, when the mother and another bear
put IN an appearance and tried to cap
ture Smith. 1t took eight shots from his
rifle before the hunter was free from their
pressing attentions.
In the famous contest case OF Thomp-
son vs.. the Bartholet heirs, the commits
sioner has denied the motion OF Viola
Thompson to contest and ordered final
receipts to issue to the heirs OF Anna
Maria Bartholet upon payment OF the
necessary sum. This has been done and
receipts issued, thus irrevocably settling
a hsrd fought contest.
The Ledger Of yesterday had the fol.
lowing OF great interest here: "Chair-
man Harry Drum, of the democratic
state central committee, will issue the
call today for the state convention.
Prominent democrats expected last night
that the convention would be called to
meet some time between August Is and
~ at North Yakima. Mr.. Drum was not
in the city"
Mr.. C. b. Hopkins, general manager OF
the Inland Telephone Company, is IN
the city from Spokane. Today he drove
to Parker Bottom, in company with Le.
cal Manager Wohlfort, and the wise ones
are saving: Look soon for a telephone
from North Yakima, through the Mckee
and Parker Bottom to connect the ~ p.
Y. & G. |. Co. g line to Zillah and Sunny
side.
The local brethren of the far-famed
Duke of Argyle propose tripping the
light fantastic in anything from a high
land fling down to something more Sc
date, at Roberts hall, Tampico. August
IL. Only Scotchmen are invited, and
they are earnestly requested to attend.
Great preparations have been made, and
the canny boys of the local highlands
seud greeting to the Scots on the low
lands to ''come an bide Vice."
Examinations of applicants for state
certificates and life diplomas before the
state board of education will be held at
the following times and Places At Spo-
kane August 81; at Olympia August 2s
at Everett during the session of the state
teachers association. The last examine
nation will be held for the purpose Of al
lowing applicants to complete the work
begun at previous examination within
the year.
THE HERALD takes pleasure in announ-
cling another flow of artesian water in the
Mckee, and again W. l.. Steinweg is the
fortunate finder. The new stream was
struck on Wednesday night, at depth of
about $50 feet, after the drills had been
boring away through formation almost
as hard as flint. The details regarding
the we'll are meagre but Mr., Steinweg is
confident that the new strike will prove
the biggest that has yet been made az it
will be trimmed ont to eight inches in di-
ameter.
County Commissioner Frank Handle.
Who was Yakima visitor on Wednesday,
reports everything quiet on the Wenas
save for some agitation looking to the es
Enlistment of postoffice at Burge. 1t
is fully twenty-six miles to Handles
ranch, and the county is pretty thickly
settled for five miles beyond him. Some
ranciers there drive fourteen miles for
| lD6lI anu tHcf ScbtiuE tittu W
it. There was once rostofiice at Burge,
but it was discontinued. There seems to
be necessity for it now.
The secretary of the interior, in a de-
cisioE in the review case Of the Northern
Pacific railroad against Jennie l.. Davis,
rendered July %, holds that under the
graft to the Northern Pacific the Secre-
tary OF the Interior had no power to make
a withdrawal Of indemnity lands for the
benefit OF the company. The question
involved is the same as that in the cele-
brated case OF the Northern Pacific
against Guilford Miller, decided in 1888
by Secretary Villas. whose ruling is sus-
tanned by Secretary Smith. This decision
affects title to the homes of hundreds of
settlers throughout Washington, but is
not OF strict local interest, as the land in
controversy belongs TO the Walla Walla
district rather than to the Yakima.