The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-06-14

Prosser will celebrate on the Fourth OF
July.
J. II. Bradford returned from Tacoma
on Saturday last.
Charley Carpenter is arranging to es-
tabish Q general store at Kiona.
All the irrigation wheels along the Co.
lumbia were swept away by the high
water.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Wesley, of Prosser,
have moved to North Yakima for the
summer.
Mrs. ]. G. Berry and child were up
from Prosser this week, visiting friends
and relatives.
A. K. Hiscock, OF Tacoma, Is in the
city this week looking after his Yakima
Investments.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lachmund, Of
Puyallup, are in the city this week, hav-
ing arrived on Monday.
Thomas Dingle and Miss Myrtle
Dooley, Of Prosser, were married at
Puyallup on the 30th Of May.
Every man having beard should keep
it an even and natural color, and il it is
not so already, use Buckingham's Dye
and appear tidy.
Fifteen bales of hops shipped from
Puyallup were practically ruined through
contact with the slough water in the re-
cent wreck near Toppenish.
Charles A. Foster, clerk OF the Hotel
Yakima, received the news on Thursday
Of last week that his wife had given
birth to baby boy at Puyallup.
Louis Snyder, of Fowler, Ind, is visit
ing his brother, Vestal Snyder, Of the
firm Of Snyder & Brown. He is 80 well
pleased with Yakima that he contem-
plates remaining.
The strawberry festival given by the
B. Y. 2. U. at MIR. Kinney's residence on
Friday last was an enjoyable and sue
cessful affair. 500 being added to the
funds Of the society.
The Demorest gold medal contest will
be held at the opera house. Saturday,
June 80. Only those holding silver
medals se eligible to contest for this
more valuable prize.
James M. Gilbert, Nelson Rich, ]. r.
Patton and J. NJ. Baxter are frequently
mentioned as available and excellent
timber from which to create the next
board of county commissioners.
band of horses was caught on an
island at the mouth OF the Yakima river,
by the flood, and were compelled to stand
in water for 200 hours before they were
taken off by boat. All OF the colts were
drowned
There will be a mass meeting at
Mason's opera house on Sunday, June
"a, at 8 p. M, to take steps for organizing
a Young Mems Christian association in
North Yakima. WelI-known citizens
will make addresses and all interested
are requested to be present.
Every hop grower in Yakima should
attend the association meeting at Mason's
opera house on Saturday afternoon Of
this week. Those who fail to become
members Of the association are liable to
find themselves out in the cold about
picking time.
John Ward. the father Of Mrs. Naylor,
Mrs. Faltemeyer and Miss Katie Ward,
left on Friday last for Walla Walla, at
which point he will outfit for prospect
ing trip to the mineral country of north.
ern Idaho. Mr.. Ward is an old miner
and once made ten strike in this same
locality.
Pulley & Higgins, Of Bucoda, Wash.
have decided to move their mercantile
business to North Yakima and have
leased the store room in the Hewlett
building, opposite THE HERALD Office.
W. C. Pulley. the senior member OF the
firm, was Yakima visitor last week, re-
turning to Bucoda on Thursday
The sale OF the 500, 900 bond issue OF
the Middle Kittitas Irrigation district to
Clough & Graves. OF Spokane, was made
on basis OF 30 per cent, the district to
receive $4,000 for the issue. Cloueh &
Graves were the only bidders, and they
accompanied their proposal with a GER
titled check for $1,000 as an evidence OF
good faith. These are the first irrigation
district bonds ever sold in this state.
There has been considerable grumb-
ling about the recent conglomeration of
disagreeable weather in this section, but
we can congratulate ourselves over the
fact that it hasn't been nearly as bad
here as elsewhere. The storm OF June
reached the dimensions of a full-grown
cyclone in Fox valley, Grant county, Ore
gon, and James Parrish, wife and child,
who lived in the path of the storm, met
With violent death in the ruins of their
home. The cyclone was accompanied by
a terrible hail storm. some OF the hail.
stones measuring seven and one-half
inches in circumference, and the average
size being Ave and one-half inches. The
loss OF live stock was considerable,
horses and cattle being lifted bodily from
the ground by the force of the wind and
hurled for quite a distance through the
air, killing them almost instantly.
The Prosser americans account Of the
great storms OF June second and third