The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-04-01
PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS
Brief Bits Of News Gathered From All
Parts Of The L0ca! Arena.
YAKIMA ITEMS AND CURRENT EVENTS
Two Column OF Interesting Matter
which should be Read by all Who
Desire 10 Keep Posted on what
Is Going ON In this world.

Wednesday.
The passenger train from the west now
arrives at IL 20 p. m.
Attorney w. II. Boyle returned on
Sunday from a business trip to Tacoma.
Governor Rogers has appointed l.. A.
Mcdonald, a silver republican of Tacoma,
dairy commissioner.
W. r. Lyle and family, of Zillah, left
last week for Marseilles, H., where they
expect to reside in the future.
Harry Constantine, landlord OF the
Guilland House, has returned from trip
to Oregon where is interested in a band
OF sheep.
On March oath eight inches OF snow
fell in Chicago, the heaviest fall for the
month of March in the history of the
weather bureau.
Fred. Chandler spent Saturday ant
Sunday in Yakima, returning to his
duties on the reservation Monday. He
says bay is scarce and worth 81 per tor
at Fort Simcoe.
The street car lines in Tacoma, owned
by the Tacoma Railway and Motor CO.,
were sold under the hammer, on Friday
last, to the General Electric company of
Boston for 100000. The property was
bonded for 81 100000.
President Havemeyer of the sugar
trust thinks that the increase in the
price of sugar right after the trust was
formed was due entirely to an lnordinate
demand" This man is not budding
humorist; he is full blown.
II is said that member of Mr.. Cleve-
lands cabinet is to become counsel for
the Pullman company at a salary of $25 ).
600 year. There probably was nc
vacant position as porter; 80 he will
have to be content for a while with q
more moderate salary.
The W. G. T. u. is arranging TO give g
"silver gray" contest for the benefit o
the Armenians, although the exact time
and place. has not yet been settled upon
Mrs. Clara G. Hoffman, one OF the most
talented members of the Uaion is also
expected here this month to deliver q
lecture in the same cause.
Oregon wives are dangerous to foo
with as one Ed. Coats of Douglas county
learned to his pain. He was creating q
rumpus in the family when his spous,
pickedup gun loaded with hirdshot an,
discharged one barrel into his back and
the other into his legs. A physician ha,
been spending most of the past week il
picking out the lead.
Horses are valuable in Alaska. They
are driven up over the divide from tn,
Canadian plains and then have to b,
transported eight to Is miles by water
The freight on them for this distance il
40 cents pound, 30 that a 1000 pounc
horse gets to be worth 81 pound by tn,
time he nears place where he can be o.
good service A good strong dog is val
ued at S75.
Some people boot at the idea of Prof
Iiix being able to foretell the conditio nj
Of the weather month hence, but the,
must admit the old professors predic
tons for the month of March are pretty
accurate. He announced severe storm,
in the Middle West from the 22nd to tn,
Goth, and the storms that occurred from
Texas to Chicago on the oath were a full
filment OF his congratulations.
The rural mail carrier service goes into
effect today. Carriers Bailey and Lippin-
colt have made a careful canvass OF thei
districts and found but few who will moi
avail themselves of the new system. Mr..
Bailey reports that he had peculiar ex-
perience in going oyer his route. At one
farm he found l6 .year-old boy working
in the field, The lad told him he would
like to have his mail delivered but had
never received a letter in his life. When
questioned as to the christian names o
the various members Of his family hi
was ready enough until that of his mother
was reached when he stumbled, halted
scratched his head and finally acknowled
ged he didn't know.
On Thursday of last week, Victor
Huen, boy of 10 years residing with hi,
parents on farm near Thorp, Kittits,
county, committed suicide by swallowing
strychnine. Young Huen had previously
threatened to take his life unless hi:
father desisted from whipping him, and
after beating on Tuesday he informed
his parents that he had taken strychnine
Disbeleving the lad or thinking that b,
had not taken enough to prove danger
GUS the father again applied the strRI
and shortly after the boy fell over il
commissions and died. c0roner's jur,
investigated the death and found marks
of punishment on the body OF the de
ceased but made no charge in its verde
! against the father