The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-08-08
AREP0RFHR'S NOTE BOOK
Entertaining Bits Of Information Which
Were Found Within.
PEN PICTURES OF YAKIMA LIFE
All Sorts 81 Paragraphs Gathered
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Fertile Country Surrounding Ii.
w. S. Barnes, Of the Republic, is a Wis
itor on the Sound this week.
Mrs. L. j. May left on Saturday for a
two weeks visit in Portland with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Twitchell have
returned from their visit to Goldendale.
The Northern Pacific is proposing to
build . grain warehouse and depot at
Msbton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hackley, Of Col
dendale, are visiting friends in the city
this week.
Mrs. Fred E. Thompson aud daughter,
of Sunnyside. expect to leave shortly for
q visit with relatives and friends in Ia
coma.
NJ. v. Cochran, q wheat grower in the
vicinity Of Rattlesnake mountain, says
that his wheat will 20 80 bushels to the
acre. He will have an exhibit at the fair.
An agent has been appointed by the
Northern Pacific at Simcoe station, this
county, on account of the largely increas-
ed business being done. Hereafter freights
shipped to this point will not have to be
prepaid.
Col. A. G. Walker, DIR. Hare, j. f.
Ryan and E. M. Reed left on Sum
day to spend couple OF weeks in the
vicinity of Edgar Rock, where they will
be joined by Judge G. B. Graves.
Ellensburg Localiser: Mrs. Toby was
on the streets Thursday deploring the
loss Of her cayuse. perhaps the only one
she had, which she said had been capsu-
walled by cultus siwash, who had
stolen it and gone to Yakima.
1t Is reported that Miss Edith Allen,
who has been re-engaged to teach one of
the grades in the city schools, will not
return to Yakima this fall--leaving a
vacancy to be filled by the board of di-
rectors Of district No. z.
Il. Denton, A. L. Aiken, b. Wilkinson,
Scott Stevens and Alex Sinclair enjoyed
great sport on a grouse hunting trip
trip about rs miles up the Natcheez last
week. They returned on Saturday, and
reported great quantity OF grouse
bagged.
Nervous debility is a common COM
plant, especially among women. The
best medical treatment for this disorder
IL persistent course of Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla to cleanse and invigorate the blood.
This being accomplished, nature will do
the rest.
Among the exhibits which will be
made at the fair on October 9TH to 18th,
will be the curiosities and cabinets of w.
z. York and @. A. Dodge-both of which
are very valuable. They contain hum
dreds of specimens and curios OF every
variety, gathered from all parts of the
globe. That of Mr.. York is wor tn thou
sands OF dollars, although it is doubtful
If anybody have enough surplus coin
during these hard times to pay for it any
where near its full value. These cabinets
and cases are alone worth the price OF adj
mission to the fair. They will be artis-
tically arranged, and will be, undoubted-
iy, not the least OF the fairs many at
tractiye features.
A party Of Dnnkards or Amenities, from
interior Indiana, were visitors between
trains in Yakima on Saturday morning.
They are the advance guard Of a large
colony which will be implanted ut some
spot in Washington. They were under
the guidance of A. A. Jack, real estate
dealer of Detroit, Mich, and were on
their way to Vancouver and Portland, via
Posco. They stopped in Prosser on Sum
day, going on to Oregon the next day.
They will, however, return to Yakima and
look the country over some time during
the present week, it appearing that one
object of their trip was to see the Yakima
valley. The gentlemen in the party were
Messrs. Mullet, Schumacher, Wittee,
Hortsller and Burkholder They hail from
Indiana.
No decision has been rendered by the
local land officers in the case below cited,
although it might so appear from the
Post Intelligencer's account If it,; "Spec-
al Agent Marsh Atkisson ri the land
office has been in Yakima prosecuting
several cases before Register A. f. SHELL
ng, in which it was alleged there has
been an attempt to defraud the govern
ment by filing on and claiming desert
and along the Columbia river for agri-
cultural purposes that could not be irri-
gated, and in a number Of cases there
had been no attempt to irrigate it. As
he most of the entrymen had not been
able to make proper use OF the land they
mad fled upon. they relinquished their
claims, but several made hard fight,
G. M. Mckinney, Of North
Yakima, who produced a map in his
rial which, it turned out, was inaccurate
Ind worthless, as were the claims he
made for an irrigation pump OF which he
had proposed to transform the desert into
arms"