The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-07-18


w. II. Peterson, Of Ellensburg, is in
the city to-day.
J. c. Lloyd, the Ellensburg attorney
is in the city on business to-day.
j. l.. Smith returned this morning
from a short business trip to Spokane.
Transient traffic is again picking up.
The Hotel Yakima register showed thirty
guests yesterday.
Prof. J. G. Lawrence left early in the
week for business trip to Illinois. He
will be gone for lengthy period.
Miss Dent, of Portland. arrived in the
city last night for visit with the family
of her uncle, Capt. ]. T. Kingsbury.
DIR. A. Plummer is in the city from
Walla Walla for the purpose of buying
horses for govern ment use in Montana.
Prof. N. P. Hull. late OF the Ahtanum
academy, left on Tuesday morning for
his home in Wisconsin, to remain indefi.
nitely.
j.. b. Pugsley and family, Vestal shy.
der and wife and Miss King left this
morning for Soda springs for an outing oil
two months.
l. II. Dills and w. o. Knox contem.
plate leaving on Saturday night for an
outing of several days near the summit
of the Cascades.
Mr.. James Richards, of Whatcom,
Wash, is a Yakima visitor this week.
He is here for the purpose of securing
some farming lands in this valley, IL
possible at his figures.
Miss II. Swindlehurst, sister of A. G.
Swindlehurst, who has been visiting rel
atives in Victoria, Tacoma and Seattle,
returned to this city last night. She will
leave tomorrow for her home in MINNIE.
apolis.
The members of the Regular Mission
airy Baptist Sunday school are holding q
picnic at the state fair grounds to-day.
By the way, the grove on these handsome
grounds seems to be particularly adapted
to picnics.
A half-decayed tree in front of the court
house was blown down by the high wind
of Sunday last. 1t is still allowed to
stand, although the upper half of heavy
branches is trailing on the ground and
blocking up the small ditch near the
sidewalk.
Mark E. Reed, of Olympia, associate
grand patron, o. f. s., was expected in
the city to-day to constitute the
local lodge, syringia chapter, order OF
Eastern Star. at Masonic hall, allowing
that body it's charter. 1t has heretofore
been working under dispensation.
There is q pool OF water so feet wide
and 100 feet long near the snow line OF
Mount Adams that seems to have no out
let nor bottom. Ira Garner, OF The
Dalles, was recently drowned in this pool
while bathing, but every fort has failed
to reveal any boundaries OF this wonder.
full little lake except those OF the surface.
A report was current upon the street
this morning, coming from Ellensburg,
that q prominent merchant of this city
had, one day this week, made an assign
ment. A HERALD reporter found that
the rumor was absolutely without foun-
dation or cause. There is not the slight
est reason for the assignment of the gem
tleman in question.
Seattle Times: A Seattle man who
returned from North Yakima Monday
said he ate peaches while over there till
he no longer cared to look at one when
he left. They are most delicious fruit =,
according to him. Full of juice, almost
as watermelon, and with an ar brosial
sweetness and favor that cannot be ex-
celled. There are several hundred acres
coming into market.
The local land Office has this week
been engaged in listening to the testi-
mony in the contest case Of G. o. Swain
vs. Mary Z. Kearney, both of whom
filed upon coal land near Roslyn; the
oft-tried contest OF the Northern Pacific
vs.. E. r. Leaning; and the new hearing
of the settlers or claimants OF lands
along the Columbia, which were attempt
ed to be reclaimed by the use OF pumps.
The latter cases will not be ended this
week.
Dalles Tunes ountdineer: Mr.. J..
Taylor, of Yakima, in attempting to get
on board the east bound train Sunday
morning, fell over the railroad bridge to
the ground suffering the fracture OF the
right leg. He was not acquainted with
the board walk on the bridge, and ran
down it to catch the moving train until
he came to the place where the railing