The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-05-31
PIqHY LOCAL POINTERS
Yakima as II Is Seen BY The Hsrald's
Ubiquitous ParaSnphefs.
BIyORS OF MORE NEWSPAPERS.
death of OLD Pioneers-The wheeler
Irrigation Pump a success - A
Tournament for Indians ut the
state Fair.

Miss Jessie Bailey returned on Sunday
from Portland.
Miss Ada Emmerson left on Tuesday
for q visit to Goldendale.
Merchants report business as showing
visible signs Of improvement.
Fred LaYSnce and Chester Walton are
home from Seattle, where they have been
10 attendance upon the state university.
Mary Umatilla, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. Il. Geddis, OF EIlensburgh, died
in that city on the oath inst. after long
illness.
Mr.. Whitson states that the power
house will soon be frightened by paint
and that the grounds will be made attrac-
tive to the sightseer.
J. +. Mulligan made his appearance on
the street Monday after long siege with
fever. He dropped forty pounds from his
erstwhile vigorous frame.
Subscribers who are long ways in ar
rears must either pay up or their names
will be dropped and the accounts placed
in the hands OF attorneys.
Fred Parker left Sunday to finish up
his seasons work of mail contracting. He
goes to Boise City, Idaho, by rail, thence
through the Malheur country on horse
back.
]. II. CARPENTER is building handsome
eight-room residence on Selah avenue.
This will be the best residence on the fiat
west OF the track, section which is i'm
proving very rapidly.
Jack Lyons two story saloon at Ellens-
burgh was nearly destroyed by FIRE early
Sunday morning. The stock of liquors
was total loss. Lyons carried an in
surance OF $4,000, which will only par
TALLY indemnify him.
C. h. YouDkin, one OF the oldest set
tiers Of the Wenas, died at the hospital
Monday and was buried Tuesday under
the auspices OF the Masons, Of which or
ganization he was among the first mem
bers. The deceased was 50 years OF age.
As there is no graduating class this
year in the public schools OF North Yaki.
ma the main closing exercises will be
held by the High School society at Ma
1sH,'s opera house. Friday evening, June
I5. The lower classes will hold their ex-
ercises in the afternoon in their respec-
tive rooms. Next year." says Prof.
Heiney, 1--WE will have graduating class
oftwelve which will have no superior in
the state"
Henry W. Newly, the special agent Of
the general land office, who recently
completed reviewing the surveys Of the
reservation, has left for Olympia but ex-
poets to return in short time to remain
until July. Mr.. Newly informed The
HERALD that he had found the work Of
George G. Mills Extremely satisfactory"
in fact, he lad never passed upon any
engineering work that was more COM
plete in all details.
The Wheeler irrigation pump is now in
daily operate near the Mckenzie planning
mill, and is working to the great satisfac-
ton Of the inventor and builder. A larger
air com oressor would make the service
stronger, and this has been sent for, but
the success of the pump has been fully
deponstrated. Mr.. Schchtl and Mr..
Schorn are both highly pleased and be-
lieve it will result in building up great
manufacturing industry in Yakima.
Driver Pike undertook to accustom his
black stallion to the passing OF trains, on
Saturday last, but the animal did not
take kindly to the putting and snorting
of the locomotive, and Pike suddenly
found himself blowing the ground with
his head, having been thrown from the
cart distance of thirty feet. He was
taken to the hospital where his injuries,
consisting Of scalp wounds, were dressed,
and now he is again around assuring his
acquaintance that he will have the horse
train broken before he is much older.
Hon. l.. F. Thompson, of Sumner, died
at the residence of his son, Fred E.
Thompson, of Parker Bottom, on Sunday,
May 81, aged 81 years. The deceased was
well known throughout the state and was
formerly a member of the state senate.
He was pioneer of that representative
character that embraces Ezra Meeker, A.
G. Campbell and others whose names are
prominent ia the history of Washington.
His death was the result of general
breaking down Of health, due, to some
extent, to business troubles. He leaves
three children, Fred 4. Thompson. of
this county; Mrs. W. ]. Fife, of Tacoma,
and William Thompson, OF Sumner. The
remains were taken to the Sound on Mon
day, and were accompanied by Col. w. j.
Fife and DR.. J. w. Hickman. who ar
rived from Tacoma as soon as they
learned of Mr.. Thompson's dangerous
illness.
There are rumors and rumors of more
newspapers for Yakima, but they all
point in the direction of populism. One
heport is that L. r. Freeman will come
here and put in an organ for the popu-
lists, il he can get bonus; and the other
is that Editor Norton, OF the Roslyn
Courier, has his eyes lovingly locked on
Yakima as a fertile field for his print
shop and paste pot. With view to
gaining some insight on the subject The
HERALD representative interviewed Pop
ulist James Beck, who stated that he had
held close communion with Freeman,