The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-06-20

II. K. Owens was Seattle visitor this
week.
Mrs. /. A. Nadesu, of Seattle, is in the
city the guest Of Mrs. II. X. Owens.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. p. Zindorf and Miss
Lander left on Tuesday for Seattle to re-
main.
Miss Maud Lindsey returned on Sun
day from q month"; visit with relatives
in Gle Elum.
&C. Teal, Of Moscow, Idaho, arrived
in the city ON Saturday ard spent
couple of days with bis BROTHER. Henry.
Miss Power, OF Ellensburg, arrived here
on Thursday last. and accompanied J.
l.. Banks to Fort Simcoe for visit with
his family.
Frank Spain will return next week
from Chicago, where be went three weeks
since to attend the supreme lodge A. o.
U. w. session.
Miss Marie Haas, of Spokane, arrived
in the city this morning for visit Of two
or three months with her sister, Mrs.
Frank Bartholet.
Miss Swindlehunt, sister Of the popu-
lar postoffice delivery clerk, arrived here
on Wednesday from Minnesota and will
remain about a week before continuing
on her journey to Portland.
A trainload of 30 cars Of tea passed
through the city Tuesday bound for the
east. There will be three more train
loads before the steamship Tacoma will
have distributed her freight.
Only four women voted at the Ellens-
burg school election. This is in quite q
contrast with the interest displayed by
the sex in North Yakima, where several
hundred used their voting prerogativs.
X. L. Purdin has returned from the
mines Of Slate creek and Methow and
states that the expected boom did not
strike those sections this year and that
the hard times are as impressive there as
elsewhere.
III. J. Anderson, of Portland, writes
that through the efforts Of THE HERALD
Mrs. Mary Erickson and her four chill
dren have been united to missing hus-
band and father at Prosser; that Mr..
Erickson has work and that all are happy.
Messrs. Wheeler. Campbell, Cole and
McGhee came down from Ellensburg
Tuesday on their bicycles, making the
trip in five hours. Mr.. McGhee returned
on his wheel, but the other members Of
the party took the afternoon freight for
home.
Farmers of the Wide Hollow and Mob
Hill are complaining that their hen
houses and chicken coops have been sys-
tematically rsided several times within
the past week. eggs and pullets both dis
appearing. Summary vengeance will be
taken should the thief or thieves be
caught.
Matt Bartholet, Bert Churchill, II. A.
Griffin and T. H. Fisher showed their
skill attrap shooting Sunday afternoon, but
Churchill made record seldom equaled.
Live birds were used; there was q good
breeze, and the pigeons we're strong fly
ers, but Churchill knocked over eleven
in succession.
Frank Aldrich, deputy supreme COM
mander of the Knights of the Maccabees,
is q Yakima visitor this week, for the
purpose OF organizing "tent" OF that
order here. He reports that he is meet
ing with considerable success, and that
he will be followed in the fall by one OF
the gentle sex, who will organize "hive"
of The Ladies of the Maccabees, an aux
Hilary branch of the order.
THE HERALD was misinformed 90 to an
item appearing in these columns last
week, relative to a suit for divorce insti-
tuted by Julia Elliott against Frank Eli.
oft. This paper stated that the Mrs.
Elliott in question was seamstress.
whose husband had been waiter at the
Hotel Atherton-an error arising from o
similarity OF names, and which had it's
origin at the court house. She who sues
for divorce lie not the seamstress. The
latter has no desire to part from her
husband.
The frosts which touched Yakima last
week have, as near as can be learned,
been general throughout the coast-and
were but factor that went to make up
an exceptionally backward and disa-
greeable season. The damage done was
slight, the frost being very cratic in its
work, running along in streaks or biting
field and then jumping many miles to
another. Some vegetable gardens in the
Selah and Natcheez, corn fields in the
upper Ahtanum and potato patches here
and there were damaged somewhat, but
the loss is small. The hops and vegeta-
ton generally give pro mise of bounti-
full harvest.
The Current party, of Goldendale, re-
turned from the Gold Hill mining dis
trict on Tuesday, looking as il their trip
had been anything but q pleasant one.
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