The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-04-04


The w. G. 7. u. will meet at the Pres
byterian church on Tuesday, April 8, at
O'Clock p. IN.
Mrs. G. z. Cheney, of the Mckee, and
her daughter, Mrs. Turnbull, expect to
leave on Sunday for Kentucky on a three
months visit.
Mrs. j. Nj. Adams returned on Tuesday
from Spokane where she has been visit
ing her daughter Edith, who is attending
school in that city.
Engineer j. B. Rogers came up from
Sunnyside Tuesday to make his yearly
desert proof before the land office, and to
look up claims for Tacoma friends.
doc" Coe and Will Feamster returned
from their horseback trip to Baker City
on Sunday last. They say it was hard
trip, made especially so by the backs OF
their horses becoming sore.
Born. on Tuesday, April 2, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward +. White, of this city, a
son. And therein Mr.. White puts black
eye upon an old song which proclaims !:
at takes nine talors'-but everybody
knows the rest.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Kennedy, whose
marital trials and tribulations were re-
Gently the subject of newspaper comment
have made up their differences and are
again dwelling together in all the har-
mony of youthful lovers.
County Commissioner Nelson Rich
who arrived in the city on Monday, says
that business at Prosser is now better
than it has been for many months and
he people have strong faith that the i'm
provement will become permanent.
Receiver George Donald, OF the Yakima
Investment company, returned on Tues
lay from Tacoma--where there were sew
raj meetings OF the receivers held to CON
der plans for the welfare of the Sunny
side canal property. Secretary J. l..
Smith still fingers in the City OF Destiny.
Good Friday comes next week, April
18th, at which time the heavenly bodies
will gravitate around the sun in exactly
the same position they occupied in the
armament the day Christ died on the
cross. 1t will be the first time such n
thing has occurred since that great day
1862 years ago.
Messrs. husband & Napier, OF the Mas
cot saloon, are arranging to open small
saloon at Mabton. A petition signed by
twenty or more residents of Mabton and
praying that license be granted, was
presented the county commissioners on
Tuesday. 1t will be acted upon during
the present session.
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Allen, of Prosser,
arrived in Yakima on Tuesday for a visit
IF week with friends. Mr.. Allen is a
we'll known contractor. He built much
Of the Sunnyside canal, the Prosser canal
and the Middle Kittitas ditch. On the
latter he lost some $4,000 or more, on ac-
count of the failure to float bonds.
According to the meteorological report
for March, taken on the Mckee by vOlun-
Ieer observer Henry B. Scudder, the mean
temperature was AZ l3 deg; precipitation
,O2 inches; clear days, IA, partly cloudy,
d; cloudy IL no frosts; hail on the 18th
and % insts; maximum temperature 70
'ieg. on the 9th; minimum temperature
II deg. on the l4th inst.
Dick Case, of this city, who is sparrng
under the title of the yakima Kid, mad
a battle at Spokane on Sunday with
Mortimer Freeman. the mddleweight
iavorite of that place. Freeman went
down to defeat before the sledge hammer
blows of Case in the fifth round the
knockout blow being a left uppercut
swing. The fight was for small purse
md gait receipts-only $25 all told.
That is an attractive advertisement, in
another column, which the Selah Valley
Irrigation company presents to HERALD
readers. This company has bona fide
proposition, free from many of the en-
tangiements with which some kindred
associations were afflicted, and Its lands
lie near the markets afforded by the city
OF North Yakima. Intending investors
and farmers would do well to call upon
the agency in this city, before locating.
The company shows that its lands are
bargains, by not being afraid to advertise
them.
The gratitude of railroad corporations
j. proverbial To be sure it is OF most
lnarrow-congealing character but they
seldom neglect to show 1t. The latest
instance came to light through an order
issued which took effect on April l. Pend
ing the contest in the legislature over the
Helm railroad bill for the reduction Of
freiGhts and fares the employees OF the
Northern Pacific, from the lowest position
to the highest, were induced to sign a
protest against the passage of the measure
under the threat that the success of the
bill would result in a reduction of their
wages and salaries. The bill was killed
in the senate, probably at considerable
cost to the company, and now the graft
tude for the assistance OF the employees is
being shown by general wage cutting.
Section men are Obliged to stand 10 per