The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-07-26
THE LOCAL MAELSFROM
II Catches Many Interesting Items Of
Yakima News.
PERSONAL, POLITICAL And OTHERWISE
a Column st spicy Paragraphs
About People We All know
and the Happenings IA the city
and Country.

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Clerk Banks, OF the reservation, was
an over-Sunday visitor in Yakima.
Louis Lachmund, representing Horst
Bros, New York. is in the city on hop
buying trip.
John Barrett, member OF the G. A.
r., left on Friday last for California,
where he will enter the National Soldiers
home.
Prof. A. L. Francis and family left on
Friday last for Victoria, B. G. They ex-
pect TO return and make North Yakima
their home at a later date.
Miss Estelle Wyckoff, who has been
visiting friends in this city for the past
two weeks, returned to Seattle on the
special Thursday morning.
Alfred Chase is making constant ship
ments OF fruits and vegetables from his
slightly ranch on Mob Hill and on Satur-
day last forwarded 60 dozen green corn to
Tacoma.
r. +. M. Strickland, OF Spokane, who
succeeded ]. j. Browne Of the same city
as regent of the state university, was
visitor in Yakima this week, leaving on
Tuesday.
A. b. Weed received advices July 20
that the Enligh and German hop yards
are looking unusually thrifty, and as
result the outlook for prices can hardly
be said to be improving.
Sundays train from the Sound brought
home large number of Yakima people
including L. f. Benson, ]. b. Reavis, A.
X. Hlscock, II. J. Snively, A. Saylor, d.
+. Lesh, s. G. Crandall and ID. w. Sim
mons.
Col Henry Cock, Jason Carpenter,
Prof. Watt and Willie Wilcox will left on
July 10 for Milk creek, which has the rep
utation of being one of the best trout
streams in the northwest, to remain about
month.
Parties contemplating n trip to the
Springs would do well, if all accounts be
true, to take hay with them for their
horses. The pasture at the famous sum
mer resort is very poor, and no hay is to
be had in the immediate vicinity.
Sylvin Bergevin arrived from Mime
sofa July 10 with his eleven children
with the intention Of making Yakima his
home and engaging in farming. He says
there are six families from his former
home who are now on their way here in
wagons.
viii Greene, the eolored Yakima boot
black. who was sentenced bv Judge Han
ford, in Seattle. for completely in the
commonweal army riot In this city, rode
in on freight July 10. His sixty days
weren't the most happy of his life, he
says, because he was innocent of any
wrong doing and therefore did not deserve
punishment.
Billy MacGraw, of Tacoma, mot related
to Governor Johnnie, however; Billy is a
staunch democrat; is in the city for
day or So He purchased 100 acres in
the lower part OF the county two years
ago with six month s. wages and has just
been down to see it for the first time. II
was an insight unseen investment, but
Mac says he wouldn't take four years
wages for it now.
Miss Lydia Jaquett writes that the
snake story recently published IN this
paper was mistake, at least as applica-
BILE to herself, and that she does not set
herself up as a professional snake killer
by any means. She admits having
made five or six rattlers bite the dust,
but says that her brothers are responsible
for the slaughter of the great number
mentioned in the item.
One of the trains on July 10 con-
tanned sporting" aggregation from
Portland, enroute Montana-ward to play
the races. The train was made up OF
three Pullmans, which carried some forty
passengers-men, women and children,
the former being bookmakers and horse
owners and ten cars of horses, among
them the locally famous Kittitas Ranger,
of Ellensburg. Prince Almont, the horse
that Savage had here to race against
Sleepy Tom, was loaded upon the train
at this point.
John Reed returned July 10 from his
visit to Olympia, where he interviewed
all OF the members OF the emergency
board save w. C. Jones, OF Spokane, at
torney general. Mr.. Reed states that all
members of the board are agreed to have
a meeting upon some day this week, at
which time that long-waited for $500 or
$4,000 will be given us for fair purposes.
The hustling secretary ordered 250O prem
ium lists aud programs, 1000 tickets, 300
grand stand tickets, 500 passes-and other
material in proportion. These the state
donates. They will be rushed from the
state printing Office and Immediately dis
trbuted over the state, and the work OF
the "a fair will have been at last posi-
lively begun.