The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-04-08
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Brief Bits Of News Gathered From All
Parts Of the Local Arena.
YAKIMA ITEMS and CURRENT EVENTS
Two Column OF Interesting Matter
which should be Read By all Whs
Desire 10 Keep Posted on what
Is Going on In this World.

Born, March 10Th to Mr.. and Mrs. j.
+. Gard. a son.
Miss Winchell has resigned her posi-.
ton in the office of Whitson & Parker.
The consumption Of soap in India
reaches the modest amount OF one ounce
per lead.
Mrs. c. ID. Murane is conducting q
kindergarten school in the Syndicate
building.
A '97 Crawford bicycle was shipped by
Moore & Moore to Fort Simcoe, for Miss
Hale. on Monday.
Patents have been received at the U. s.
land office for Mrs. Phoebe d. Adams,
Carl A. Jensen aud VIM. NJ. Thomas.
Ezra Dursnd, OF organ fame, was con-
victed of forgery at Portland last week
and sentenced to IL years in the peni.
Tertiary.
John 5. Harrison, who has ranch on
the Columbia, in this county, lie going to
plant 40 acres of his place to peanuts and
sweet potatoes this spring.
Remember the "eggletaire" to be given
by the Girls Guild of st. Michael's
church on Easter Monday. Supper 25c
and your eggs cooked in any style re-
quired.
NJ. Schorn has sold II buggies, hacks
and carriages this year. In the four
years in which he has been in the bust
ness Mr.. Schorn says he has sold 800
vehicles including second hand rigs"
There seems to be something in the
nature of irony in Major Ballains's ap.
pointment of Frank T. Liggett to be a
lieutenant of military organization
which he disbands by the same general
order.
The total cost to kittitas county 10
witness, jurors and other fees OF the
Johnson murder case from the prelimin-
airy examination in the justice court up
to and including the March trial am cunt
ed to 1889 90.
f. ID. Cowan has started the Pioneer, q
mining and general newspaper at SLOGAN
City, b. G. Mr.. Cowan is a we'll known
newspaper man and republican politician
and has all the qualities required to make
his undertaking success.
II. NJ. Smith, formerly OF Illinois and
a recent arrival in Yakima, has leased
and is occupying the cottage on the
corner of Yakima avenue and Seventh
street, lately vacated by Mr.. and Geo. S.
Courier, who have taken the Episcopal
parsonage.
A Philadelphia widow has solved the
problem of how one in her bereaved state
may ride a bicycle by DOMINIC q COM
plete black costume, winding her handle
bars with Grape and attaching Grape
streamers to the same. 1t would seem
impossible to meet the exigencies OF the
situation better.
Glass bricks are made extensively in
Germany. They are blown with hol.
low center, containing rarifed air, and
they are said to be as strong and durable
as clay bricks. They freely admit light.
So Tar, the glass brick has only been used
in the construction of conservatories, and
has been voted success.
April lst opened in Nebraska with q
blizzard that lasted "a hours. Traffic
WAS stopped on the Burlington, Union
Pacific and Rock Island railroads and
business generally was practically sus.
pended. The storm extended into Wyo.
ming, Colorado and Kansas doing i'm.
mense damage to the cattle and sheep
industry, and at Laramie not even the
daily papers were published. II was the
worst storm known in that section of the
country in 20 years.
The graceful act of the authorities OF
the English church, in deciding 10 restore
to this country the original log of the
historic Mayflower, may prove to be one
OF those little incidents which have some
times changed the course OF important
events and affected the destiny OF nations.
Coming at a moment when the arbitra-
ton treaty is apparently in danger. it
may perhaps change the vote Of some
senator whose assent is necessary to the
treaty's success. A touch OF sentiment
is often more powerful than tons OF
logic.
The Oregonian states that . Mr.. Sea-
man, OF SunDyside, Wash, who recently
visited Portland, told q remarkable fish
story and offered to bet $500 that 1t was
true. The story was that in 1858 he Won
a wager OF $3.50 at Oregon City. by riding
a sturgeon across the Willamette river.
He claimed that he accomplished the feat
by tying an empty key to the head Of the
sturgeon. which weighed some 400
pounds, and another keg to it's tail, and
put a rope around its nose for . bride.
He then mounted the fish, and succeeded
in riding it safely across.