The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-02-18
USUAL WEEKLY GRISq
Parasraphic Pencilinss f"Herald" Re.
porlerS In their Search for News.
MANY MATTERS or LOCAL MOMENT
Local Items Regarding Nlisceilane.
Gus Events which Have Trans.
PRED in and About North Yakima
During the Past Week.

J. l.. Banks returned on Sunday from
aweek's visit at Ellensburg.
Chas. Thompson returned on Monday
from brief business trip to California.
The Presbyterian pulpit will be filled
on Sunday next by Rev. T. W. Wardel, OF
Portland.
urer's office, returned on Monday from a
pleasant visit in Tacoma.
Another applicant for the position OF
agent of the Yakima Indians has bobbed
up in the person OF +. G. Suffer of Skagit
county.
q. G. Wallace, of the Wallsce-C oburn
Hardware company, returned on Monday
from visit to California, greatly improv.
ed in health.
Married, Sunday, Feb. 14th, at the
residence of the brides parents, by the
Rev. Mr.. Spoon, Miss Daisy V. Chsppell
to K. w. Hill.
G. NJ. Darr and family arrived last
week from Pierce county and will make
their home in Yakima. Mr.. Dsrr is a
brother-in-law of S. o. Ewing.
w. A. Cox returned on Sunday from
Olympia where he has been endesvoring
to secure from the governor the appoint
ment of warden of the penitentiary.
j. b. Catron left on Tuesday for Walla
Walla from which point he will return to
Olympia in his efforts to secure the ap-
pointment OF warden OF the penitentiary.
II. J. Putnam of Denver, representing
Crippen, Lawrence & Co., arrived in the
city last week to look after q number Of
foreclosure proceedings which the receiv-
er OF the loan company has instituted.
Dell Iiscock returned from New York
on Tuesday where he has been spending
"a couple OF the winter months with his
parents. He was passenger on one OF
the trains tried up in Dakota by the
blizzard.
All of the secret society lodges of the
city have entered into an arrangement by
which they are severally to occupy the
rooms in the third story of the Syndicate
block which were especially designed for
lodge purposes.
Justice of the Peace Garry II. Moulton
performed his first wedding ceremony on
Saturday, Feb. 18th, when he united in
marriage Miss Nette Longmire, daughter
of David Longmire of the Wenas, to
benjamin +. Small.
The claim is made that the Fife Bros,
have been offered and refused $l00,O
for the Blue Bell mine, in the Gold Hill
district, and that smelter is to be built
there this spring for the treatment of the
ore of this and the Heather Bell mine.
1t is reporte that the Prosser Ameri-
can. which for some time past has been
printed in this city, is about to cease
publication. Receiver Calkins of the
Prosser Falls Irrigation company, which
owns the paper, says he knows nothing
about the rumored suspension.
Rev. Geo. Waters returned to Topper.
ish last week from Lapwai, Idaho, where
he has been the past five weeks, conduct
ing revival services among the Nez Perez
Indians. He reports large number of
nd to hn oh,
OF which he is the pastor and to which
he expects to return next month.
Perfect harmony has not prevailed for
some time past between Leigh Freeman,
ST., and Leigh Freeman, Jr., Of the Farm
sr newspaper, and as a result the brains
and balance wheel of the concern has
left and the Red Horse candidate is COM
PEELED to pay wages for an assistant.
This must, indeed, he grinding on one
who most heartily dislikes to pay any
thing.
BALI Ker, son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Ker, of this city, won the first prize for
an original designed panel OF the Prodigal
Son. offered by the art league of Wash
ington, ID. G. Young Mr.. Ker's instruc-
tor complimented him with the statement
that the production was a remarkable
one and if he continued to improve as he
had in the past that he would make
noise in the world"
The home talent play to be given for
the benefit of the Yakima Athletic club
has been set for either the first or second
OF March, and is farcial comedy in two
acts, entitled Fool for Luck" The cast
will be made up of the following persons
Messrs. John kingsbury, f. Runyon,
Geo. Vance, Fred Chandler, Mrs. A. ].
Willis, Miss Lettie Kingsbury, and Miss
Maud Nash. The leading comedy CHI ar
acter is type of Englishman, the other
personages and the scenery being Ameri,
can. A number of specialties will be
introduced between the acts, which will
no doubt add to the attractiveness of the
entertainment.
The council met in regular session on
Monday evening and had great wa. wa
over the city park question and the pay.
ment of sewer time checks to the amount
OF 1897. These checks are mainly held
by spectators and the members of the