The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-07-30

Gle Elum mining district Tuesday. He
found the water too swift and the river
bed too full TO attempt placer mining.
Regarding quartz mining he thinks the
district very rich and that large fortunes
will be made there. Timothy Lynch
and sons and John Lynch are working
industriously on the three-stamp mill
they are erecting, while Walter Burbank
is hauling lumber for the same from Gle
Elum. The Lynch mine is three miles
up the mountain from the mill location
but very good trail has been made be-
tween them and the ore can be taken to
the mill without much trouble. Frank
Clemmer, who accompanied Mr.. Sher-
wood on the trip, will return the latter
part OF the week.
DIR. o. M. Graves returned on Friday
last from his mine. in the Swsuk district.
The stamp mill is in complete working
order and he expects to make sa.isfac-
tory cleanup when he returns in about
a week. He is satisfied the ore will run
from 81 to SIS to the ton and that it Is
fully as good as that Of the Flodine claim
where they are grinding out $50 day
with two arastres. An expert has told
DR.. Graves that he has the best quartz
claim in the district. The doctor has
contracted TO crush Eve tons OF the Brown
Bear ore, so as to give thorough test Of
the value Of that rock. and this will be
done within the next two weeks.
In small A tent, near the Schanno
ditch west OF the track, Is a rather good
looking oldish man who seems to dwell
in contentment with himself. Alongside
the tent is an old-fashioned gold rocker,
sitting high and dry. suggestive to every
pssser of nuggets and dust. Where the
old man rocked out his gold last or where
he will rock out the next nobody with
ordinary civility is likely to know, for he
and his rocker. and his black cat keep
their own councils. To see him sitting
on the shady eide OF his tent, sewing on
button or sharpening his tools, one can
not help fancying that he is getting ready
for something.
Jay Beighley and John Stuart arrived
in the city on Friday last having come
from Northport across country on horse
back. They had an exciting time in cross
ing the Columbia at White Bluffs and
came near losing their horses. The boys
attempted to cross in small row boat
and forced the horses to swim the river.
When near the middle of the stream the
horses showed signs Of weakening and
began to turn upon their sides, whereby
the boys were compelled TO pull them
along by their halter ropes, nearly cap
sizing the boat number of times. II
was an experience they are not likely to
forget soon or care to repeat.
Frank Wheeler returned on Tuesday
from ten days trip TO Seattle. He is
as happy as the oldtim boy was with his
red-topped boots. The cause of this Joy
must not be mentioned as The HERALD,
together with Mr.. Wheeler's numerous
other friends, has been cautioned in this
in saying that the happy event is expect
ed to take place some time this year and
that Mr.. Wheeler's parents are now here
A very popular young Yakima woman
when asked why Il was that her husband,
who before marriage. was wild and profit
gate, was now quite domesticated and
seemed to worship the ground she walk
ed upon, said the main reason was that
when her spouse did happen to slip a
cog she never heard him when be came
in late, had completely forgotten his in
discretion in the morning and never
remembered it afterwards.
A recent dispatch from Chicago states
that s. A. Perkins, Of Tacoma, chairman
OF the executive committee OF the Ameri-
can Republican College League and a
member of the executive committee OF
the National League will be made assis-
tant secretary of the national republican
campaign committee. Mr.. Perkins must
be a very important parsonage judging
from the dispatch but no one out here
seems to know who he is.
Any man ought to be able to End some
ticket to vote this fall. There are already
five presidential tickets in the field re.
publican, democratic, prohibition straight,
prohibition broad gauge and populist.
A gold democratic ticket and midde-of-
the-road populist ticket are yet to follow.
L. d. Lape, Of kiona, has just purchas-
ed monster combined harvester and
thresher which will be used in his big
Horse Heaven wheat field. 1t will re-
quire 80 horses to pull the machine,
which cuts 20-foot swath, threshing
and sacking the grain as it goes.
Vestal Snyder left on Monday for the
Swauk to look after the Brown Bear
mine, in which he is interested, and to
visit his wife who is spending the sum-
mer in the Swauk district. Mr.. Snyder
will return in time for the big rally of the
silver forces on Saturday.
The republicans held meeting in
the Mob Hill school house Tuesday even
ing. Miles Cannon apd R. X. Nichols
were the speakers and both are said to