The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
REP0RpORIAL FANCIES
Brief Bits Of News Gathered From the
Highways and ByWays Of Life.
PERSONAL and IMPERSOSAL JOTTIEGS
"News" IL Something That IL Rot
Generally known and Here Read.
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Couple OF Colum INNS OF IL.
Watch Dills' window display.

WAUGH Dlllb WlnuOW ulSplSy.
The noted Fowler ranch in the Mckee
has been ioreclosed.
For nice Christmas present rall in
and see Otter & Mechtel
Council meets Friday night to canvas
the vote of the recent city election.
Dishes given awav with a can OF baking
powder bought of Otter & Mechte.
". A. Saylor and family will move to
Seattle about the first of the coming
year.
Dolls Dolls! Have you seen those
beautiful dolls at Thomas? Aud they
are SO cheap, too.
Mr. Fred Cline, Assistant Cashier Of
the First National Bank, will spend
Christmas with his brother in Seattle.
Don't fail to see those beautiful souve-
mir high school and bird's-eye views Of
North Yakima at Otter 3 Mechtel's.
Measles are bothersome in the upper
Nstchez school district, and many of the
scholars are at home from school in con.
sequence.
Otter & Mechtel will furnish you with
everything necessary in the line of fancy
goods with which to furnish your Christ
mas dinner table.
Walter Cornett left Sunday night for
Buffalo, where he has been offered good
position, and where he will make his
future headquarters.
A. G. Coburn, Jr., has been called to
Colorado, owing to the illness Of his
mother. Mr.. Coburn will probably re-
main at the old home over the holidays.
THE HERALD office is now "communi-
cado" with the outer world, brand new
telephone outfit having been put into the
business office on Tuesday. Ring up
No. a.
The contest case of N. II. Yeates
against VIM. T. Anderson for a tract of
land near the mouth of the Cowychte
Wao NOib lIpuileVu anu uIsIhleetu Ill Tie
local land office last Saturday.
A prominent citizen of North Yakima
is authority for the statement that the
Standard Oil Company owns 49-l00 of
the stock of the Post-Intelligencer. and
that Pullman, in his lifetime, had mort
gage of $50 900 on the same plant.
In the case of the Northern Pacific
Railway Company vs.. J. II. Needham ct
al, tried in the Superior Court of this
county in April last, verdict WAS rem
dered in favor OF defendants. The COM
pany filed motion for new trial, which
was granted, and the case is set down for
trial this week.
In the three-cornered fight over the
northwest quarter of section "a, township
10, north range % east, between J. L.
Banks, Charles Ebberson and John Reed,
the Secretary OF the Interior decides in
favor of John Reed. The land is valuable,
lying near the townsite of Sunnyside.
Judge Erwin left for Tacoma Monday.
and from there started on an Alaskan
trip that will occupy a month or six
weeks. He sails direct for Juneau and
goes in to the lakes via the Dyea trail
and returns via the Skaguay. His trip
is in connection with one of the Alaskan
transportation companies, with head.
quarters at Tacoma.
The very latest is the Klondike party,
and those who were present at the one
given by Miss Ethel Kinney at her home
Friday night were favored ones. A. d.
Sloan acted as auctioneer and did rush
ing business in Outfits" consisting Of
grub, sleds, hogs, clothes, etc. Games
we're played and a social time enjoyed by
everybody and at a late hour a supper
was served that was far ahead OF any
Klondike supper. Those present were
Misses Kinney and sister, Roher, Cary,
Nichols, Patton and Dills, and Messrs.
Sloan, Miller. Lombard, Dills, Lemon.
Wallace, Cline, Chandler and Walter
Cornett.