The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-01-10

club devoted itself almost exclusively to
preparations for the annual election on
Tuesday, January 20. The polls will he
open from q to 8 p. m, and the following
positions must be filled President, to
succeed VIM. +. Prosser; LIST vice presi.
dent, vice George Donald; md vice presi.
dent, vice w. II. Hare; treasurer, vice
w. l. Lince; five members OF the govern.
| ing board to succeed o. A. Fechter, w. W.
Leeper, L. +. Benson, Frank Horsley and
F. X. Reed; five trustees to succeed A. b..
Weed, +. +. Benson, Edward Whitson,
II. Kuechler and w. +. Prosser. On
Saturday night the governing board
named three committees to name each q
ticket to be voted for at the election.
| These committees are of three mem bers
each. as follows: III. b. Scudder, Ed
ward Whitson, g. G. Mills; w. l.. Stein
veg. ]. d. Medill, II. II. Lombard; q.
A. Graham, &. S. Vance, f. X. Hiscock.
A full attendance of the club is desired
on election night.
The violent death OF David Seaman,
who was killed in July while assaulting
q citizen in the Caldwell block, is recalled
by letter from q woman signing herself
Mrs. Josephine Seaman, and writing from
LsDue, Henry county, Missouri, who says
and the father of six children, whom he
| left to take a woman from the street and
with whom he was living when he was
killed. The abandoned wife says that
Seaman never had divorce from her
and that previous to leaving LaDue he
did not drink liquor of any kind. She
asks as to property he may have left and
whether the putative wife with whom he
was living before his death was drawing
the pension granted him by the govern
ment. The widow says she is support
ing her children by taking in washing"
The stockholders of the Yakima Ma
tional bank held their annual meeting in
the bank parlors on Tuesday. w. l.
Lince was elected president, p. A. Bounds
vice president, ]. d. Cornett cashier,
Frank Bartholet assistant cashier. The
Old hoard OF directors was retained in its
entirety. The bank declared its usual
dividend, and placed an additional $4,000
to its surplus. Mr. Donald, the ex.presi-
dent. will devote his time entirely to the
receivership business of the Yakima In
vestment company. The bank is in q
most prosperous shape. as its statement
of condition. published in The HERALD
two weeks since, pertinently demonstrst.
ed.
Thomas Cooper, the general sales agent
OF the Northern Pacific Coal Co., writes
Mr.. John Reed, the local agent, as fol-
lows: THE reduction in price was not
made with the idea of hurting the Gle
Elum Coal Co., but was done to protect
our business in the Palouse country and
at other points where we have to compete
with the Wyoming coal and the Canadian
COAL and also to meet the competition of
wood at all points. This cut we have
been contemplating for some time, in
fact before the Gle Elum Coal Co. COM
menced to make shipments at ALL"
OF all the Chinese lilies now blooming
in town but two of them are of the dou-
BILE variety and the celestials are conse-
quently greatly cast down, as they pin
much of their faith in happiness and
business success upon the blossom of the
national flower. Kay, of the firm OF Kay,
Fay Young, when questioned on the
subject, said the flowers were In mourn
ing on account of the war now in pro-
gress.
Lynde Palmer, of the st. Paul & Ia
coma Lumber company, of this city, is
receiver for the Tacoma wooden mill
plant. This week he visited Tacoma and
sold the plant, machinery and thirteen
lots, for the magnificent sum of 81. The
court approved the sale.
The Young Peoples society will give a
cobweb social at the Christian church on
Wednesday evening next. An interest
ing program has been arranged and light
refreshments will be served. A l0-cent
{ admission will be charged at the door.
Engle Stenweg, who returned to col
lege at Pullman last week, writes his
father that l3 inches OF snow fell in that
city on Sunday-something rather un-
usual-but that chinook made very
sticky mud Of it by Monday night.
The Northern Pacific reports show that
80 inches of snow have fallen during the
season to date at Martin, the first station
this side of the Stampede tunnel At the
west end of the tunnel the snowfall has
aggregated 20 inches.
Advance Agent Wilbur, for Katie Put
nam, was in the city on Sunday to fix
dates for the appearance of that actress
and her company at Yakima; but owing
to other attractions near the date desired
Katie was not booked.
II is rum ored that Yakima is soon to
have another lumber yard, the timber 10
furnish or supply which grows on this
side of the Cascade range. Articles OF in
corporation will probably be filed next
week.
DR.. Wintermute, Ii. X. Owens and
George Guilland have issued invitations
for social dance, to take place at Ma.