The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-11-07

F. c. Shsrkey shipped seven carloads
Of sheep to the sound last night.
The wife of A. ]. Shaw is seriously sick
with material fever at her home in Tam.
pico.
DR.. Lyon, OF Roslyn, is in the city
buying fruit trees for his ranch near Ken
newick.
Married at Toppinish, Wednesday,
Nov. 9, Horace f. Parton to Miss Naomi
Polly, daughter OF the late John Polly.
An adjourned meeting of the Elks will
be held on Thursday evening next, Nov.
Ia, at which time initiation work will be
performed.
Miss Irene Smith, daughter of r.
Smith, of Yakima City, died at her home
on Thursday, Nov. Z, after long struggle
against consumption.
Z. G. Burlingame returned to Walls
Wslla last night, where he is the con-
tractor on an irrigation ditch calculated
to reclaim 1900 acres Of land.
Owing to the engagement Of Prosecu.
ting Attorney Engehart in the superior
court yesterday, the hearing Of the Sun
day closing cases before Justice Rodman
h..
Company E will give farewell ball at
the opera house on Thanksgiving night.
The committee Of arrangements is leav-
ing nothing undone which will add to
the pleasure of the occasion.
The Misses Sherwood, Stuart, Dixon
and Weikel have returned from Portland,
where they had recently gone to take
a professional course in nursing, having
found the conditions different from what
they had been represented.
The fremen decided last night to give
ball on Christmas eve, and committee
was appointed to secure hall for the
occasion. The probabilities are that the
ball will be masquerade, as many Of
the members favor that character of an
entertainment.
There were only 6 births recorded at
the auditors Office for October five OF them
being girls and only one boy. The prize
parents were Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton Gle
man to whom daughter and the 18th
child was born on October 10th. The
number OF births reported was a tie with
the number OF deaths.
Lester Coffin arrived the first OF the
week from Lewiston Idaho, where he has
been doing thriving mercantile business.
Mrs. Coffin is at present visiting relatives
in Portland but will join her husband here
next week and after a short stay return to
Lewiston where Coffin Bros. have estab-
lished permanent branch of the North
Yakima house.
A telegram was received here to-day
that William McKinstry, brother of Mrs.
G. P. Wilcox, had died Wednesday even
ing, at his home in Fargo, N, D., Of heart
failure. The deceased was interested in
Yakima property and had paid one or
two visits to this city. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilcox leave on the eaSt bound Northern
Pacific tonight to attend the funeral.
N MnAil xxhn tho Ennl-
mercial club in the distribution Of blanks
to ascertain the acreage OF the various
varieties OF fruit grown in Yakima coun-
ty, announces that the blanks can be
had in the several districts as follows
Parker Bottom, F. f. Thompson; Zillah.
f. J. Jaeger; Sunnyside, W. Fl. Cline
Msbton and Belma, Guy Smith Prosser.
F. w. Roach; Kiona, W. B. Bowers
Tampico, Harry Roberts.
Harry Roberts, postmaster at Tampico,
returned to-day from Walla Walla, where
he appeared TO answer the charge IN the
United States court, Of re-issuing can
celled postage stamps. The testimony
against him was OF such flimsy charac-
ter that the grand jury promptly dis
missed the case. There seems to be little
doubt that the arrest was the result of
petty differences in the Tampico commu-
nifty, and mainly due to righteousness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Chappell re-
turned on Sunday last from Fort Simcoe
where they spent the preceding ten days
most pleasantly. Mr.. Chappell says he
visited the school, the saw mill and other
institutions on the reservation and he
found the work being conducted in q
thorough, intelligent and businesslike
manner, which speaks in the highest
terms for the administration OF Agent
Erwin and his assistants. Mr.. Chappell
has been familiar with the conduct of
affairs on the reservation for many years
past and he is satisfied that the executive
duties have never been better performed
than at present.
Somebody has been loading up the en-
terprising reporter of the daily Times
with the statement that Judge Graves. in
passing sentence upon McGonigle, asked
the prisoner II he had any preference as
to the character of the work to be as
signed him in the penitentiary, and the
reply was that he had a desire TO become
ian electrician" As the judge did not
ask the prisoner his preference, and has