The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-10-25
= A Feast Of NeWSy Notes Condensed For
The Herald'S Many Readers.
HOME TALES ENTERTAINMENT TOLD
The Ctty ana County Have Been
R4ksd ana Scraped for Paragraph
which give Promise OF Proving Of
More Than Passing interest.

harry C0onse died on Wednesday, Octo-
Der oath.
Mr.. II. Hawkins, OF the Cowychee, has
purchased city property and removed to
North Yakima.
Win Bushnell, former Yakimite, ar
rived in the city Wednesday from Port
land, where he is now living.
Two women of the town were arrested
Wednesday night for refusing to pay the
"blood.money" fines imposed by the city
Will q. Falkner, of Klickitat county
and Miss Lettie NJ. Mason, of Yakima,
were married in this city on Wednesday
by the Rev Robert Warner.
Mr.. Sam Chappell is building the finest
barn in Yakima county. The ground di
mansions are 22x3S feet and it will be 90
feet from the stone foundation to the
weathervane.
Mr.. Henry Teal left for Portland on
Tuesday to be present at the marriage Of
his brother, Joseph Teal, to Miss Thomp-
son, the daughter of one of Portland's
most wealthy and prominent citizens.
DIR. J. Jay Chambers, formerly mem
Der OF the North Yakima city council, but
now resident OF Custer county, Idaho
and the populst candidate for lieutenant
governor of that state is In the city greet
ing old friends.
w. II. Chapman, Col. Albert Whyte,
W. S. Clark and Emil Schanno spent q
couple of days in the vicinity of Cold
creek, this week, and brought home 70
prairie chickens. Mr.. SchaDno killed the
most birds of any one in the party.
On the 9th day of September 100 cords
of frewood cut for A. n. Cook, were
started down the Natcheez river. The
advance sections of the drive reached
North Yakima this week and the wood is
being taken from the river and piled at
, Cooks yard. The rear end of the drive
is now at the Nelson bridge.
A. B. Weed says that while there is no
change In the price of hops here that Ger
many's crop was way below expectations
and not sufficient for home consumption
and the crop of the world falls consid-
erably short OF the estimates. Mr.. Weed
is OF the opinion that the price will reach
=. 10 cents, or better by the LIST of January
Even the great Burlington railway can
not escape from the envy of irreverent
rivals. Somebody has dubbed the new
Montana line the Billings gate route, I"
for no other reason than that line has
just reached Billings. The agents OF the
Burlington were in Yakima last week
endeavoring to get for that road share OF
Yakima's hop shipments to the east.
The Washington Colonization company
has been incorporated by we'll known
citizens for the purpose of settling lands
with colonies from the eastern and mid
die states, and for the promotion of other
industrial enterprises. The first excur-
sion under the auspices of this company
will arrive here in the latter part of No-
vember and will be made up mainly of
well to-do citizens OF the Mississippi val
ley.
Hon. Is. +. Houston, the democratic
candidate for congress, will address the
citizens OF Yakima at Mason's opera
house ON Friday evening, Oct. 26. He
should be greeted by the largest audience
OF the campaign for he is one of the COM
ing men OF the state, and few people of
the northwest have given as much intel
ligent thought or are as well qualified to
talk on the subject of tariff as Benjamin
Franklin Houston.
At Chapman's can be found that latest
and most noted novel OF the day. Esther
Waters" 1t is from the pen of George
Moore and OF it the London Speaker says
I'm Esther Waters We have the most ar
tistic, the most complete, and the most
plain spoken work of fiction that has been
written in England for at least two
years." In view OF its large sale else
where and the probable demand here,
Mr.. Chapman made his order unusually
heavy.
Judge s. G. Henton is building a fine
residence on a quarter block of land on
the corner OF Yakima avenue and Eighth
street. The architect is Mr.. Billiard, of
Tacoma, and the style is that OF the colon
ial period. There are nine rooms besides
cellar, closets, bath rooms, pantrys and
store rooms, and the house is fitted with
electric lights, city water, furnace and all
other modern appliances. When finish
ed it will be one of the most complete
residences in Yakima.
The republican convention was one Of
the biggest pieces Of political jobbery /
psver saw perpetrated," said member of
that party to a HERALD reporter on We'd
nasday, land the better element of the
republicans are not saying much, but
they intended to show their disapproval
at the polls We recognize that there
has been and is court house ring, and
the people have had to foot the bills, and
the effort to quietly change this thing in
convention failed for DlIey and Simmons
packed the primaries with FOUNDERS and
the subtle hand of Dan Lesh directed the
nominations. We are heartily tired of
these machine politics and something is