The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-05-28
SNAP SHOTS At YAKIMA
The Herald" Reporter Takes Photo
graphs Of Local Events.
PEN PICTURES or YAKIMA LIFE
All SORTS OF Paragraphs Gathered
In the Metropolis of Central WASH
ington and from the Great and
Fertile Country Surrounding IL.

Miss Edith Jones left on Saturday last
for her home in Seattle.
The Darn says there are no less than
100 tenantless houses in Elensburg.
Born, on Thursday, May 2lst, to Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Presley of the Wenas, a
daughter. Weight, 10 pounds.
Allen G. Mason was over from Tacoma
on Wednesday looking after his business
affairs and enjoying the glad sunshine.
Edgar Sinclair, who has been seriously
i'll the past three or four weeks is re-
ported as now able to sit up and is
steadily gaining in strength.
Harold w. Walton, son of Walter
Walton Of this city, graduated in the de-
partnent of pharmacy OF the University
of Washington at Seattle, last week.
The body OF Mr.. Peyton, who was
drowned in the Yakima river, near Kio-
ma, several weeks ago, was recovered on
Saturday last and given a Christian bur.
ial.
Rev. and Mrs. Evans left Tuesday
morning overland for The Dalles, from
whence Mrs. Evans will proceed by boat
to California where she goes in quest of
better health.
Chas. Haines, of the Mckee, who Sc
cured flowing well on his homestead
last month, is making preparations to
prove up in July, having lived on his
claim five years.
K. w. Dunlop was down from the
Swauk mines Monday and brought an
account of the richness developed in the
Yakima group that put all parties inter-
ested in the very best of ,humor.
A May day picnic, which was planned
to have taken place ON the LIST of the
month but postponed on account of the
inclemency of the weather, will be held
on the banks Of the Yakima next Sum
day.
5. b. Dusinberre, whose unfortunate
experience in the banking business is
well known, passed through the city this
week enroute for Plttsburg, where he has
secured employment as bookkeeper in a
commercial house.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. Ross are packing
mp their household effects preparatory to
leaving Yakima for the time being. Mrs.
Ross expects to start next week on visit
TO her former home in Ontario, Canada,
while Mr.. Ross will probably spend the
summer in Montana.
VIM. Bounds was arrested last week
charged with stealing sheep from the
slaughter house Of Rand Co., and sell
ing them to another butcher. He entered
a plea OF guilty before Justice Fulkerson
and was committed to Jail in default OF
ability to pay a fine OF 500 and costs.
Mr.. A. E. Kinsey returned on Sunday
from brief trip to the Sound cities. In
Seattle he visited his former partner,
Frank Ashcraft, who is very low with
consumption and the doctors can give no
encouragement to any hope that his life
tenure will be extended beyond a few
weeks.
Nicholas Mccoy, who left for the koo-
tenai country couple of weeks ago, in
company of JEFF Mcdaniel, returned on
Tuesday, looking much the worse for the
trip, his face being greatly intiamed and
swollen due to ringworm and poison. He
left Mr.. Mcdaniel at Virginia City from
which point he will continue his journey
north.
Mr.. j. A. Wise and Miss Coral K. Frost,
of Ellensburg, were married in the par
Tors of the Hotel Yakima on Saturday
evening of last week by Rev. N. Evans.
The groom is we'll known brakeman on
the Northern Pacific while the bride is a
sister of State Auditor Frost and favor
lite in the social circles of ElleDsburg in
which town they will make their home.
w. Ii. Reed, OF Tacoma, was Yaki-
ma visito; on Wednesday being enroute
home from Eastern Washington where he
has been looking after his property inter-
ests. He says the cold, backward spring
and unusual rainfall has caused the
weeds to spring up in many grain fields
TO an extent that threatens serious loss.
The rain fall of the Walla Walla country
has been 1.73 inches above the average
this spring.
Mrs. NJ. A. Chapman has sold her
news and stationery business to Moore &
Moore and is now taking an invoice OF
the goods preliminary to the two stocks
being consolidated in the quarters now
occupied by the purchaser. The store
room soon to be vacated by Mrs. Chap
man has been leased by the Wallace Co
burn Hardware Co., who will remove
thereto about June lst. Mrs. Chapman
expects to spend the greater part of the
summer 10 the Swauk district where her
mining properties are giving her every
reason for feeling highly elated as the de-
velopment work progresses.