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

week.
Judge Graves returned to Ellensburg
yesterday.
w. II. Cline, Of sunnyside, is visiting
friends in Tacoma.
w. N. Granger and ]. B. Reavis were
Seattle visitors last week.
Mrs. T. F. Maher left yesterday for q
visit with her daughter, Mrs. o. NJ. Lati-
mer, in Ellensburg.
l. w. Dudley, Of Kennewick, was in
the city on business connected with the
Y. I. & I. company on Tuesday.
Members of the Presbyterian church
Sunday school enjoyed 3 picnic in the
grove at the state fair grounds yesterday.
c. E. Moulton, of Tacoma, an attor-
ney OF the Northern Pacific, was in the
city yesterday on business before the 10.
cal land office.
Col. w. F. Prosser and family con-
template leaving early in the coming
week for their summer outing at Long
Beach, on the ocean.
AL Lille arrived in the city this week
from Toppenish to undergo medical treat
ment for partial paralysis, from which he
has long been sufferer.
State Auditor Grimes, OF Olympia, was
in the city on private business on Tues
day and Wednesday of this week. He
returned to the Sound this morning.
Messrs. A. B. Weed, r. X. Nichols,
Frank Horsley and George H. Watt con.
template ten days trip to the head Of
the Tietan, and hope to leave tomorrow.
Judge Carroll B. Graves arrived in the
city on Monday evening, and on Tuesday
presided over session OF the superior
court in the way of hearing motions, etc.
The cases were mostly equity contentious.
The city is at present remarkably clear
of tramps, beggars and toughs. Front
street saloons at night are almost desert
ed, q sure indication that the festive
hobo is not alarmingly numerous within
the city limits.
"Chipps," OF late one of the adherents
of the Salvation army in this city, but
who went to Portland to enter the train
ing barracks. returned from that city this
week seriously Ill. His voice has been
affected by his sickness, he having al
most lost it.
Harvey Barton, a brother-in-law OF d.
w. Simmons, arrived yesterday morning
from Arizona and will lain some time
to enjoy the Yakima climate. He left
Ellensburg about year ago for Arizona
for his health. and now comes to Yakima
to see If he cannot recuperate his
strength in this valley.
Rev. Keller, pastor Of the Mason
chapel, Tacoma, was Yakima visitor on
Tuesday and Wednesday. He came over
to see an irrigated farm, never before
having had that pleasure. He was
highly gratified and delighted with his
drives around the country, and greatly
surprised that irrigation can do so much
in the reclamation of desert lands. He
returned to Tacoma this morning.
Bob Douglass, who had been missing
from Saturday morning until Tuesday,
being ostensibly on the lookout for q
friend to pay the s. and costs which he
. was fined for disturbing the peace last
week, Showed up" on Tuesday evening
after Marshal Lille had come to the con-
clusion he had left the country. He was
promptly incarcerated, and will dole out
his fine and costs at the usual rate.
F. II. Payne, OF the Seattle Times, and
H. B. Craig, of Portland, q representa-
tive Of the Wheelmen's Protective asso.
citation, were visitors in Yakima on Tues.
day. Mr.. Payne was here in the interest
Of his paper, while Mr.. Craig was desir-
GUS of establishing an agency for the in
surfing Of bicycles. Both gentlemen are
touring the state on wheels. They left
this city en- route to Spokane on Tuesday
evening.
Puyallup growers are using salmon for
hop yard fertilizer, though some OF
them say its use imparts salmon flavor
to the hops. The best tended yards over
there show very inferior hops, compared
with last season; and there are mum Der
of yards that were carefully cultivated
early this year which have now been
abandoned to the ravsges of the lice
The California hop worm has made its
appearance in Puyallup hop yards. and
the usual spraying solutions do not seem
to destroy it.
Whether or no it may be criterion is
hard to say, but certain it is that an offer
was made by buyer on Saturday which
would indicate that the hop market is
soon to open up. 1t was q bona fide
proposition to contract at 10 cents all the
growers '95 crop, and the grower re-
fused, stating that he expected at least
IL cents. Now, 10 cents Is good money
for '95 hops, ON the opening, and The
HERALD is glad to see the prospects thus
Frightening. II the figures should be
raised as the weeks go by, 80 much the
better; but even at 10 cents the grower
this year will reap profit upon his out