The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-09-10

Born, sunday, sept. u, 10 MIR. ana mrs.
A. F. Smelling, a daughter.
Wallace Williams returned last week
from a short trip to Vancouver, b. G..
w. j. Milroy arrived in the city from
the Swauk to spend few days with
friends and relatives.
Mrs. ii. A. Wheeler, Of Seattle, arrived
In the city Monday for visit with Mr..
and Mrs. r. NJ. Spain.
Miss Minnie Spon and Ella Chambers
left last week for Ellensburg to attend
the state Normal school.
Miss Grace Mcmillan, OF Tacoma.
arrived IN the city Sunday to spend the
fall with the family Of John A. Stone.
Miss Treham, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
after pleasant visit with her sister at
Port Townsend, is again the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Lince.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nottingham, OF Syracuse,
N. Y. are in the city visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. J. M. Gilbert. They will make a
trip to the sound before returning east.
1t is said that the republicans are
arranging to have Judge N. I. Cation de-
liver campaign address In this city.
The judge is one OF the renegade demo-
Gratis.
Clarence Stair left this week for Ellens-
burg to attend the state Normal school.
Mrs. Stair expects to spend the winter
in Honolulu visiting her sister, Mrs.
Carter.
The average yield of wheat, as reported
by p. ]. Eschbach, who is running a
threshing machine, is 80 bushels to the
acre, while field OF IL acres, the prop
erty of j. B. Reynolds, of the Ahtanum,
yielded SO bushels.
The Bryan Rogers rally on the Mckee
was postponed for one week on account
of the school house being engaged for
other purposes. 1t will be held on
Saturday evening next without fail.
Good speakers will be present.
At the last session of the Elks, the
Exalted Ruler named the following COM
mittee to make arrangements for a stag
social to be given during fair week ::
George s. Vance, DR.. p. Frank, E. M.
Reed, ]. E. Ryan and j. B. Catron.
Mr.. William Wilson, who has been
visiting the Scudders and Mr.. Dell His
cock, on the Mckee, for some time past,
has forwarded his resignation as secretary
OF the commandment at Port Orchard and,
with his wife and child, will soon leave
for Colorado in hopes that his health will
be benefited by the change.
Treasurer Matt Bartholet, on Tuesday,
sold from the front door of the court
house all those pieces of property on
which the taxes were delinquent for the
year 1892. The sale was made under an
order issued by the superior court in
May. There were few people present
outside of the court house officials, and
the property was all bid in by the county.
On Saturday last road district No. "a
voted a tax OF one mill and elected
Conrad Mooter supervisor. Under in
structions of the county commissioners,
the road from the state lair grounds TO
the city line is to be put in first-cIass
condition. The other districts also
elected supervisors and voted tax on
that day but the election returns have
not been opened.
JEFF Mcdaniel and VIM. Still arrived
last week from British Columbia, where
they have been spending the summer
prospecting. They staked out some prom
Using claims and expect to return next
year and work them. One by one the
boys are returning to Yakima, but as
near as THE HERALD is able to Judge,
none of them are much the richer for the
seasons work except in the matter of
health.
Twenty-seven mining claims in the
Gold Hill district which were owned by
Mrs. Emily Mcknight, have been sold to
]. M. Ashton, H. H. Warner, s. T. Arm.
strong and G. w. Dickinson, of Tacoma,
ID. T. Davies. of Carbonate, and Andrew
Burleigh, OF Seattle, who have organized
the Summit Mining & Reduction com
pany, with capitalization OF $4,000, 900.
The articles are broad enough to cover
almost every known industry. They
state that the company proposes to own,
operate and conduct sawmills, mines,
railways, stampmills, a smelter and
everything else necessary for the conduct
OF a big mining company.
DIR. ]. Jay Chambers, formerly a mem.
Der OF the city council and at one time
candidate for mayor, is now seeking for
tune in Alaska, where, according to I. FL.
Dills, he recently had a narrow escape
for his life. While at Lake Tagish, en-
route for Forty Mile creek, his fame as
medicine man spread among the Indians.
One of their number was seriously sick
and they applied to the doctor to cure
him. The follower of Esculapius. think
ing to scare the Siwashes off. said bis
charges would be $40. This amount was
raised after an effort and the doctor pre-
scribed for the sick man, who died the