The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-04-23
SNAP SLOTS At YAKIMA
The Herald" Reporter Takes Photo
graphs Of Local Events.
PIN PICTURES OF YAKIMA LIFE
All Sorts of Paragraphs Gathered
fn the Metropolis OF Central Wash.
ington and from the Great and
Fertile Country surrounding 10.

the Gray's Harbor country.
J. ID. Clemmer made the trip to Roslyn
Sunday night, returning Tuesday.
Miss Florence Lince returned from
Portland last week considerably benefit.
ted in health by her trip
The dedication services at the new
Presbyterian church in Mckee will be
held next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
"Schott the Shoeman" will reduce his
stock $4,000 in the next two months and
it will pay you to call and see the reduc.
tons he is making.
Wallace Anterior has severed his con-
nection with the Hotel Bartholet and is
making preparations to 20 to the Colvile
country, where he is interested in some
mining property.
Frank l.. Wheeler is the happy pos
SCISSOR of new two seated hack. He
says it was required at the ranch, but his
friends insist that it was built expressly
for pic mic parties.
Register Smelling returned from Tacoma
on Tuesday, where he was called on
legal business, but as the case in which
he is interested was postponed for week
he will be obliged to go over again.
Mr.. Richard Olney, who has interested
many persons OF West Boylston, Mass,
in the Yakima valley to the extent OF
inducing delegation of representative
citizens to visit this country, is expected
home in few days.
County Clerk J. M. Brown passed his
S9th milestone in life on Saturday last
and was feeling quite happy over the ro-
bust condition of his health---a wonderful
change in comparatively few months,
when it looked as though la grippe was
surely getting away with him.
Ethan Morrison has joined his father
at Trail Creek, having pade the journey
overland driving six horses. DIR. Morri-
con is said to have secured some valuable
mining claims and to be doing well in his
profession. Mrs. Morrison will visit
Trail Creek later on in the season.
John Reed made the trip to Tacoma
Sunday to meet a brother whom he had
not seen for 10 years. The new conner
is a minister, but he has been engaged in
teaching school in California for some
time past. He is at present the guest OF
Walter Reed and family at Gle Elum.
Judge Erwin reports that work will be
commenced on the Wenatchee irrigation
ditch, which the government is to build
for the Indians, in about two weeks
Eighteen thousand dollars was appro.
priated for this purpose, and it is esti-
mated that 1000 acres Of land will be
reclaimed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Bartholet and Mrs.
NJ. A. Chapman left in the latter's sur
rey Wednesday for the Swauk mines, to
be absent about week. Mr.. Bartholet
and Mrs. Chapman are interested in a
mining property from which some very
rich rock has recently been taken, and
they were DESTROYS OF feasiing their eyes
upon it.
III. A. Griffin now takes much pride in
exhibiting the championship leather
medal for trap shooting, he having cap
tured it from Carl Cox on Saturday last
with score of II to 5. T. r. Fisher,
however, does not propose to allow Mr..
Griffin to enjoy his trophy in peace, for
he has challenged him to a clay pigeon
match, which Mr.. Griffin has accepted,
and which will be held on the Lewis
ranch Sunday afternoon.
Rev. V. G. Evers, d. D., of Walla
Walls, will lecture in the M. f. church
next Thursday evening, April 30th. Sub
iect, "Man Spirit" This lecture is the
fifth of the series given by the Epworth
League. Rev. Evers is plasing and
logical speaker and all who hear him on
this occasion will be highly entertained.
Tickets granting admission to both this
lecture and the last one of the series, by
Col. w. l.. Jones, will be sold for rs cents.
The old Jas. w. Young homestead near
Sunnyside which was successfully con-
tested several years ago by James Bill
lings, who failed to avail himself of bis
victory, has been awarded to John Reed
by the commissioner of the general land
Office, on later contest. Intervening be-
tween these contests there had been ap
plications to enter the land by James
Emerson aud James r. Banks. This
was one OF the most complicated cases
ever in the Yakima land office and in de.
Gliding for Mr.. Reed the commissioner re
verses the decision of the local officers
The claim is said to be valuable one.
Judge L. T. Erwin returned from We
natchee on Wednesdays train. He sayG
that the band of horses stolen by Eugene
Helm and wife from Senator Helm mum
bered 80 head and that when Gene wal
captured by the officers he had disposed
of eight head. 1t is claimed that tn,
ex-Salvationist had previously sold horses
belonging to his brother, and that thu
last time he was in Yakima he sold twt
at the Old Town. On learning this tn,
senator made an effort to recover hi
property, but finding that he could no
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