The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-09-16
REPORPORIAL FANCIES
Brief Bits Of News Gathered From the
Highways and ByVayS Of Life.
PERSONAL and IMPERSOEAL JOTTINGS
"News,, IL Something That II Not
Generally known and Here Read.
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Couple OF Columns OF IL.

Geo. Aldrich has returned from the
Sound.
G. A. Graham is confined to his house
by illness.
Tim Lynch, jr., lie out and around once
more and says he'd rather be we'll than
sick.
Miss Florence Scow has just been en-.
joying ten days visit with friends in
Ellensburg.
J. W. Current sent over five new filings
on Summit district locations this week
for friends of his.
Dick Ball filed a mining claim when
be was down last week and has named
his new find the Yakima Boy.
Hiram Rock and the Viles boys have
completed their assessment on their
claims, and are home once more.
+. B. Shardlow hurt his leg on q re-
cent fishing trip up the Natchez, and is
now confined to the house with the in.
]ured member.
Mart Schichtl is still in the hop press
business. He is busy now making two
new presses, one for John Stone and the
other for Arson White.
EuIa Franks has filed a suit asking for
a divorce from Chss. A. Franks on the
grounds of failure to provide. They were
married in Reno, Nevada, in 1875 and
have five children.
The last big holdings OF wool in Yakima
county were disposed Of on Tuesday. Mr..
Carmichael purchasing from Robt. Ham
ilton, of Mabton, $1,000 pounds and of
J. F. Plat, Mabton, $4,000 pounds. The
price paid was So cents.
Last Sunday night two strange men
entered Arson Whites hop yard on the
Cowychee, and in the guise of officers
pretending to look for somebody, made q
pretty thorough search of the yard.
They didn't succeed in stealing anything.
Deputy Marshal Dilley left for Spokane
Thursday with five persons charged with
selling liquor to Indians. Among them
was the boy whom The HERALD has
mentioned before. He WAS treated very
leniently by the court and given only ten
days in the Spokane Jail.
Mr.. f. A. Davis, who is the Northern
Pacific agent at Drayton, North Dakota,
spent Saturday and Sunday, together
with his mother, visiting North Yakima
and vicinity. He said they had read a
good many things about this country,
but drive up the Natchez valley reveal
ed to him the fact that the half had not
been told.
Prof. NJ. F. Knox, of Seattle, is in the
city and will remain until next Thursday
delivering q lecture on phrenology each
evening, except Sunday, at the Christian
church. All are free except two and are
pronounced very able and instructive
lectures, each one being discussed from
an educational and scientific standpoint.
The first lecture OF the course will be
given tomorrow evening, and should be
heard by all.
John Sawbridge has an air tight coal
stove in his store that is q ecord-beater.
Saturday morning at six O'Clock be
charged 1t with SO pounds OF coal, less
than a hod full, and at six O'Clock on
Monday morning, As hours later, there
were live Goals still remaining in the
stove. 1t is arranged 80 that all the gas
in the stove is consumed, and as more
than 80 per cent. OF the soft coal is gas.
this is big item.
Alma Sinclair ia the daughter of Alex
Sinclair, aged 21a years, and she breaks
the record for her class. Her home ia
near the Columbia school building from
which place she strayed yesterday. An
hours anxious search discovered hel
playing near the residence OF Edward
Whitson, twelve blocks away! She had
not only toddled this distance alone hut
had crossed three railroad tracks and
passed; in among three engines. Young