The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-08-01
A REPORTERS NOTE BOOK
Entertaining Bits Of Information Which
Were Found Within.
Pen PICTURES OF YAKIMA LIFE
All Sorts Of Paragraphs Gathered
In the Metropolis of Central w ash.
ington aud from the Great and
Fertile Country Surrounding u.

Mrs. J. Z. Waters, a daughter.
Mrs. Mary +. Fletcher and grandson,
Marvin Thornton, left on Wednesday, by
wagon, for visit Of several weeks with
relatives at Tacoma.
Mr.. p. j. Flint has shipped this season
1000 boxes OF early peaches. He ex-
poets to market 5000 boxes of Crawfords
during August and September.
A. d. Eglin, one OF the leading hop
growers and farmers of the Ahtanum,
was in the city Monday for the first time
after several weeks confinement from in.
flammatory rheumatism.
Deputy Marshal Sam Vinson was here
from Spokane on Sunday, having been
called over owing to a fight being made
upon him before the department of JUS
tice on account OF local Indebtedness.
Anthony Stevenson, Washington, D..
c., is registered at the Yakima. Mr..
Stevenson is special agent of the de-
partment of justice, and is here checking
up United States business coming within
his province.
Invitations are out for the marriage
ceremony Of Frank S. Davis and Mrs.
Alice V. Pratt, at the residence Of the
latter, First street, between Yakima ave-
nue. and Chestnut, on Wednesday, Au-
gust z, at 8 p. m.
D. w. Simmons last week sold some OF
the best lots left in the big purchase he
not long ago made OF original railroad
company holdings. The lots in question
we're numbers IL, IL, - and Ia, in block
q, just south of the residence of Colonel
Prosser. They sold for $1,000 to Mr.. N.
Hartung.
II. H. Lombard on Tuesday received
telegram announcing the death of his
brother, g. H. Lombard, in Whittier, a
suburb of Los Angeles. G. II. Lombard
and Miss Lombard, the latter of Des
Moines, Iowa, where Mrs. Frank Hors-
ley. another sister. is visiting were pres
ent ut the funeral.
G. A. Bailey returned on Friday last
from Harrington, Washington, in the
Crab creek country. He will now locate
again here, as he feels that yakima is a
good enough place for anyb body to be in"
He states that the borse-raising business
does not pay, as 5000 head recently sold
in that neighborhood at So so each.
Reports from the upper Natcheez tend
to show that the all the grouse and other
game birds there have been ruthlessly
slaughtered during the close season.
But little game is left, although "spot-
ter" has been scouting round during the
past two weeks. He should have been
there month ago. Some of the young
birds are not yet fully feathered.
The executive committee of the Yak
ina fair, in working on the premium list,
proposed to include csyuses, but the
only classes that could be recalled were
spotted csyuses, mean cayuses and buck
ing cayuses, so this department was
passed for the time being. They had
better hang their purses for tn ese or else
pass them altogether, for they named the
whole category.
A. b. Niles, the genial Walla Walla
monument manufacturer, was a visitor
in the city yesterday. He does fair
in h,xf ha
only "fsir"-thst branch house estab-
lished here would 20 to the wall in six
months, because the city is too healthy.
All of this is pleasant for Yakima, If
rather hard on Mr.. Niles.
Mr.. George Vance has received letter
from the Prosser base ball club asking
what inducements the club had to visit
Yakima and Mr.. Vance replied that $25
would be provided for the expenses Of
the visiting club. Ellensburg offers
Yakima 70 per cent. of the gate receipts
for return game, but the probabilities
are that there will not be much ball
PLAYED until the camping season is over.
Probably Yakima will witness a series OF
good games during the fair.
A. S. Dodge, of Cleveland, Klickitst
county, drove over from that village on
Monday. This was his first trip across
the reservation. and his visit was for the
purpose of purchasing goods and seeing
the land soon to be covered by the Will
snn-Ide ditch. He stated that Weddle,
the man now awaiting the action of the
superior court on q charge OF cattle steal
ing, was In his store at Cleveland on last
Tuesday or Wednesday, and that he rode
horse belonging to A. III. McCreadis
away during that night. Mr.. McCreadie
got his horse on Sunday.
Farmers should begin Immediately to
save their best samples OF grain and other
produce for display at the fair in October
II this matter is postponed the best OF the
produce may not be brought in. The
executive committee OF the fair report
that there is probability of securing the
st. Psul-Detroit combination for one OF
two games of base ball on the grounds
during the fair. The teams are working
westward. and have made inquiry az "a
the possibility of making expenses should
they stop here. The premium list will
be ready for distribution next week