The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-04-04
A REPORTER'S NOTE BOOK
Entertaining Bits Of Information Which
Were Found Within.
PEN PICTURES OF YAKIMA LIFE
All sorts OF Paragraphs Gathered
I'm the Metropolis of Central W ASH
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Fertile Country Surrounding Nc.

Wallace Atherton talks OF going to
Alaska and opening hotel in Juneau.
The Watson job-printing outfit is being
loaded on car for shipment to Seattle
The Mozart Symphony Concert COM
pany has arranged flor appearing at
Mason's opera house April 30th.
! VIM. C. Neil, of the lower end OF the
couHty was in the city Tuesday making
proof at the land office on his homestead
Mr.. C. NJ. Hauser leaves on Monday
for Olympia, he being the representative of
the local lodge A. o. U. W, at the grand
lodge session, meeting in Olympia next
| week.
THE HERALD was in error when it
named next Friday as Arbor day. The
date is Friday, April 18th and the pro-
gram of the exercises by the public school
children will not be ready for publication
until next week.
II. L. Tucker and wife leave on Mon
day next for the sound Mrs. Tucker
will represent the local Degree OF Honor
lodge, the state conclave OF which is held
in Olympia next week. Mr.. Tucker will
make weeks business visit in the Grays
Harbor country.
A. A. Lindsey, ex-state treasurer, who
has been in Yakima for the past six
weeks suffering from severe seige of
rheumatism, left this morning for visit
with his mother, in Portland. The i'm
provement in his condition has been quite
marked of late.
Grand Master Workman +. NJ. Spain
leaves on Sunday morning for the session
of the grand lodge of the A. o. U. w,
which convenes in Olympia next week.
Mr.. Spain speaks in Seattle, and on We'd
nesday evening in Olympia, before the
grand lodge. Mrs. Spain, who holds the
title Of past grand chief of honor. of the
auxiliary order OF Degree of Honor. ac-
companies her husband. Mr. Spain in
stitntes new lodge at Ellensburg to-
night.
Again there has been a change in the
personale OF the officers OF the Salvation
Army and Captain Tilden has been trans
ferred to Walla Walla, and Lieutenant A.
johnson to Snohomish. farewell sup
per, which was largely attended, was
given at the barracks on Saturday even
ing last and on the following evening the
farewell glory" meeting proved OF ex-
ceptional interest. The new officers Of
the corps are Captain Waechter from
Puyallup and Lieutenant Salisbury from
Everett.
State Senator G. w. Ide is in the city
on business connected with the reserva-
ton ditch project. With him was Mr.. NJ.
b. Smith, well known over the state as
Mason and Pythian adherent, and thor.
ough hustler and good fellow. Senator
lde states that some work will be done
on ditch construction this spring. or at
least as soon as the maps OF definite loca-
ton OF route have been returned from
Washington, ID. G. Senator John L.
Wilson had intended accompanying Sem
ator Ide to Yakima, but business pre-
vented it. He will, however, be in this
city within the next week.
Col. A. G. Walker is up from Zillah
this week, having been summoned on the
jury. By the way, the colonel is APP
preaching the three-score mark--although
you'd never guess it--yet in all OF his
long and active business and private life,
| he has never been in q court room as a
witness and never sat upon jury. That's
good, clean record. A man who has
never been mixed up in court affairs is
one whose life must have been singularly
free from business entanglements and
whose immediate neighbors, as we'll, must
have possessed synonymous characters
tics. A good man for the jury box is the
| colonel. He'll find for verdicts under the
law, construed by common sense--if not
challenged by the attorneys who, as a
rule, seem to desire to avoid this result.
Mr.. d. c. STAN, OF Tacoma, is one Of
that city's breezy, rustling citizens now
in Yakima engaged in finding out all
about us--and that Mr.. STAN will make
a successful campaign OF education no
man who has talked for five minutes
with him will doubt. He has been for
years the manager Of the entire real es-
tate department OF Allen G. Mason's
agency offices in the City Of Destiny, and
his position has been made burdens ONE
to him for one sole reason, i. e., his ina
bility to properly and understandingly
answer the numerous queries regarding
the Yakima country. He is in the City
of Sunshine for an indefinite period, and
when he returns he will carry with him
some OF our home grown cannon balls
resultant from buckshot sowing-aud 8
fund OF information OF all kinds relative
to the most progressive section and pic
turesque garden spot of Washington.
While Mr.. STAN would like to see the
Seiah valley, particularly, settled by new
J arrivals, he has yet found out, he SAYS
that these prospective settlers should bu,
Sunuyside, Mckee. Wide Hollow, or an,
other valley lands that particularly pleas