The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-06-13

John Sswbridge left this morning for
Ellensburg for few days business visit.
Thomas Carstens, the Seattle live stock
dealer. is in the city looking for beef
cattle.
Mrs. Matt Bartholet left on Tuesday
morning for visit with relatives at e.
lensburg.
Chris Miller is to occupy the new Dite-
man store room in the stone building on
Yakima avenue near the, depot.
And now the Presbyterian parsonage is
to profit by the improvement boom, in
the way Of being decorated with coat Of
paint.
Fred Parker left on Tuesday evening
for business trip to Prosser. Pasco and
other points near the Columbia. He re-
turned to-day.
Excavation and foundation laying is in
progress on the new stone business build
ing Of f. F. Messenger, on Second street,
near Lombard & Horsley.
Ex-Governor Dickey, Of South Dakota,
il visitor in Yakima this week, in the
interest of the Union Central Life Insur-
snce company, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Mission band will give an enter
tainment at the Christian church Sunday
night, June 10, consisting Of Rotations
and songs. A pleasant time is antici-
pated. All are invited.
Mrs. Aiken and Miss Sallie May Aiken,
the mother and sister of Mrs. L. +. Err
win, arrived in the city on Tuesday
evening from Cartersville, Ga, and will
spend the summer at Fort Simcoe.
Messrs. J. X. Ward, for the q. A. R.,
w. L. Jones, John NJ. Newman and
Frank Jordan, for the S. Of ", and Mrs.
J. E. Schwartze, for the w. r. c., left
on Tuesday evening for Spokane to attend
the state encampment of the above orders
now in session in that city.
Charles Schaer was up from Sunnyside
on Wednesday and renewed his all egiance
to THE HERALD. He says the crops Of
that section are looking fairly we'll; but
from what he can learn, the drouth and
hot winds will cut down the yield of the
Horse Heaven district by q half.
The excavation for the building of the
Puget Sound Brewing company, on Front
street, Ia progressing rapidly and will be
finished this week. The contract for the
entire structure has been let to Mr..
Brenner, who has orders to push the work
to completion as quickly as possible.
Since June / Auditor Hall has granted
the following couples permission to en-
tangle themselves with knots hardly
synonymous with the Gordian-because
that couldn't be united G. w. Storey
and Eva NJ. Rowland; Archie Hughs
and Callie Best; Elias G. spofford and
Hannah Woold.
Messrs. A. B. Weed,J. d. Cornett,
Frank Horsley and r. X. Nichols left
this morning for the Ahtsnum, in the
hope Of tempting the fish of that stream
let to metamorphose themselves from
trout to suckers-that they might become
entsngled on some barb which they in
advertently rubbed against.
Miss Sarah NJ. Engle, a sister of the
late Mrs. w. L. Steinweg, and who will
be remembered by many Yakima ladies
whom she met during her visit here last
winter. died at her home in Philadelphia
on the 18th inst, very suddenly. She
was the only surviving sister A. w. En-
gle, Of Seattle, one OF the largest stock
holders of the First National bank Of this
city.
A difficulty experienced here in the
shipment of berries is that there are no
middlemen who will buy and arrange for
the shipment OF small fruits in carload
lots. The east presents an especially at
tractive market this year. and we have
the fruit that Is going to waste or selling
for song, for there is no one grower who
can load q car, although the Northern
Pacific has made the exceptionally low
rate to Minneapolis and st. Paul of "a
cents per hundred. The company agrees
to provids special refrigerator car serv-
ice for such shipments.
The Mob Hill school entertainment OF
Thursday evening last was most enjoy
able one. Among the features were an
address by Mr.. A. B. Wyckoff; recita-
tons by Miss Henderson, Miss Miles, w.
s. Wallace and John Kingsbury; a vocal
solo by Mrs. James NJ. Gilbert. The
chorus work OF the evening was rendered
by Miss Cary, MISS Effie Cary, Mrs.
Louis Lesh, Messrs. G. S. Vance, A. G.
swindlehurst. VIM. B. Dudley and Henry
= Teal. The house was crowded, and the
receipts of the evening. about s25. will be
devoted to the purchase Of school house
bell. Many Yakima residents attended.
1t has now developed that the burglary
of the postoffice at Yakima City, which
was reported exclusively by THE HERALD,
was committed by the sons of two prom
inent citizens of that town. The lads
have confessed the crime, and among the
plumber recovered were numerous articles