The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-09-17
The Herald" Reporter Takes Photo
graphs Of Local EVsnts.
PEN PICTURES OF YAKIMA LIFE
All sorts OF Paragraphs Gathered
In the Metropolis Of Central W ASH
ipgsou and from the Great and
Fertile Country surrounding IL.

guest Of the Hotel Yakima.
Guy Allen left on Sunday to attend the
Lake View school, near Tacoma.
Born, on Tuesday last to Mr.. and Mrs.
Zenas Bolton, OF the wenas, daughter
N. N. Brown and Jas. Mabry are hunt
ing geese and ducks in the lower end Of
the county.
Mrs. Conrad Oar, of Sumner, is the
guest Of her sister, Mrs. s. o. Ewing,
having arrived on Friday last.
A marriage license was issued on Sat-
urday last to Grant Burgett OF the Wenas,
and Miss Grace Lewis of the Cowychee.
Report was brought to The HERALD
the other day that flock Of quail esti-
mated at 200, frequently seen on the
south side OF the Natchez.
J. B. Ingram. the newly elected princi.
pal Of the Columbia school, returned
from Spokane on Tuesday. The fall
term will begin on Monday next.
T. M. Vance and Vestal Snyder ad.
dressed large audience at Parker Tues
day evening, when Bryan and Rogers
club was organized with "a members.
Senator Watson G. Squire has accepted
an invitation to address the Veterans
Bryan club, which now numbers AZ
members. The date of the meeting has
not yet been set.
Mr.. and Mrs. SCHNEIDER left on Tues.
day for Ellensburg to attend the gold
en- wedding of Mrs. Schindeler's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Detmeyring, which was
celebrated yesterday.
Rev. Robert Warner, who was recently
appointed presiding elder for this district
by Bishop Cranston OF the NJ. L. church,
arrived in the city Monday with his fam
lily from Ellensburg, and left on Wednes.
day for his new home at The Dalles.
Attorney Frank Cushman Of Tacoma.
came over on Monday for few days
duck shooting in the vicinity Of Topper
ish. Mr.. Cushman is one of the repub.
lican state campaign orators and expects
to speak Ia this city in about two weeks.
DR.. w. II. Hare, president of the state
fair board, returned ON Tuesday from
Spokane. He found that city crowded
with people and business men in good
spirits. The doctor billed the town in
people who were calculating on visiting
Yakima at that time.
Rev. Salyer, chairman, and Robert
Perry, secretary, have issued call for
a county convention Of the prohibition
lists to meet at the court house on Mon
day, Sept. 2lst at O'Clock p. M, for the
purpose of nominating legislative ticket
and transacting such other business as
may be introduced.
E. w. Dovara, OF New York, arrived in
the city Monday on his return from BIZ
cycle trip around the world. He enter
tanned small audience at the court
house In the evening with stories of his
experience, the expenses of his trip being
paid in this way. Mr.. Dovara had been
out year and thirteen days and expect
ed to reach New York in As days.
A very serious accident was experience
ed by o. A. Fecbter on Monday evening
which will result in making him very
near helpless for some time to come.
While starting to descend from the hay
loft of his barn the upper rung of the
ladder broke and he fell to the platform
below, breaking both arms short dis
lance above the wrists. DIR. Gum was
summoned and reduced the fractures.
The dwelling house OF Fred Sperry, on
the west side of the track, near the Schan-
no ditch, was destroyed by FIRE early Tues
day morning. The house was unoccu-
pied at the time, Mr.. and Mrs. Sperry
and children being in the hop fields, and
the superstition is that the building was
fred either by tramps or Indians. The
loss is a severe one on Mr.. Sperry and a
subscription paper is being circulated for
his relief.
John Miehaels returned last week from
his mines near Nelson sidings and brings
a glowing account OF the development
work OF that district. The company to
whom he bonded one of his mines is
working day and night forces on a 400
foot tunnel, SO feet of which is already
completed. DWELL pleased are they that
they have agreed to pay the bond in ten
days. The ore is running as high as $5S
In gold to the ton.
What has become OF Hindoo John, the
sheep herder, is still mystery. A local
paper says that his body was found I'M
der the eleven hundred head belonging
to the Cameron Bros, which through the
herder's wilful neglect or carelessness
piled up in a canyon and we're smothered
TO death. Hindoo Johns horse was af-
forwards found, without hobbies, some
five miles from the camp. No one cares to
go within a long distance of the camp as
the stencil from the sheep is overpowering
and a stream OF grease a quarter of a
mile long can be traced down the noun
tain side. The superstition is that the