The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-06-09
R[PORTOR|AL SHORTSIOPS
What is Going on Daily of Interest to
All Our People.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS NOTES
Items Of Personal and Local Mention Put
Into Condensed Form for The
ierald's" Busy
Readers
Mr. Mcmillan Of Fawcett Bros, is EN-.

nome by severe attack OF illness.
JOS. Rice, jr., leaves today tor Winfield
Kansas, his old home. where he expects
to remain.
Editor Bailey is taking a few weeks
leave of absence from newspaper duty in
order to take the school census
\ new transcontineDtal freight tariff
has been issued by the Northern Pacific,
to 90 into effect June %.
The ladies of the Christian church de-
sire to thank all those who 80 kindly
assisted in making the rose carnival a
success.
The capitalists noted in last week.
HERALD rs having become interested in
the Swauk mining district, have recently
negotiated for the purch ase OF the Bloom.
quist sawmill.
DR.. lIeg has resigned the captaincy of
one OF the local militia companies, and
Fred Miller has been elected To fill the
position.
gun carriage weighing several tons
passed through the city Tuesday, presum-
ably designed for coast defence at some
point on the sound.
Walter Houghton and wife, who have
been at the Hiscock ranch on the Mckee
the past few months, returned Wednes-
day night to their old home at Alto,
Mich.
DR.. Sloan and wife returned home to
ROsIyn Monday after pleasant visit with
Alex y. Sloan, Of the North Yakima drug
store. Mr.. Sloan carried with him Il
crate Of fancy Yakima strawberries.
f. Grover, an old time resident OF Yak
ina, but who has for the past ten years
been located in the Big Bend country, is
here paying visit to his brother, James
Grover, of the Mckee.
Sheriff Shaw and Deputy Howard are
feeling quite lonely these days, as they
now have but one boar1er, and he ex-
poets to shake the Jail Friday, when bis
sentence expires.
The fire department is making the nee
essary arrangements for the erection of a
l40 foo, flag pole, from the top of which
the emblem OF liberty will be flung to the
breeze. The flag will be 81 feet long.
About $50 has been raised toward the
project.
The Ladies Aid society of the Mckee
Presbyterian church, will have straw
berry festival at the Mckee school house
on Saturday evening, June 18th, to
which all are cordially invited.
Messrs. Calshan & Bearsley, OF St.
Paul, have been in the city for Il number
OF days, and have negotiated for $4,000
head of lambs for October delivery.
They will be made up from the bands of
James Wright, John Cleman and Pear
son Bros.
The warehouses are receiving daily
large quantities of wool, but there seems
to be no disposition on the part of growers
to let go of their product at the prices Of
fered-719@Sc per pound. There were
half dozen or more buyers in town last
week, who departed without making any
offers, after noting the situation carefully.
A rumor has been current on the streets
for some days to the effect that Dan Sim
mons is suffering intensely from rheu-
matism and that he is now being brought
out from Dawson City. Oney Brown.
who until recently has been engaged in
hauling supplies over the trail from Sksg-
way, says that at Lake Bennett it has
been the impression that Dan was not en-
joying the best OF health in the interior.
A hobo entered Dooley's saloon on Sat
urday evening and while no one was
looking proceeded to help himself to the
nickle-in-the-slot machine standing on
the counter. JEFF McDanieIs, who was
on DUTY at the time, noticed the disap-
pearing figure of Mr.. Hobo and suspect
ing all was not right, gave chase which
resulted in the return of the machine
and the capture of the purloiner. Mr..
McDaniels let the fellow 60 but Night
Marshal Smull fearing repetition of the
act arrested him the next evening. He
ia now in durance vile awaiting trial.