The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-02-02
WHAT PEOPLE SAY.

my Hist OF deputies and will not until
next week. | am trying to get men that
people want
Col. Howlett-I counted Captain In
variety as one of my warmest friends.
But he never would talk much about him.
self. He was decorated for bravery ut
Balaklava, though he Was too modest to
speak Of it.
w. l.. Stabler-A poor family living
near the Marks school house has been in
. very bad way with poverty and sick
ness. There vas difficulty in getting Q
physician until Ed Hsckett guaranteed
the payment. Some ladies procured $l4
for their relief by subscription 10 the
neiRhborhood.
John Cleman-It looked to me, while
at Olympia. that John l.. Wilson would
win out In the zen storial race.
DR.. Greene-I knew old man Bastisn
over forty wears ago on the sound and he
was then an old man. His son lives
there vet and though pretty old, lie called
"Youns Ike"
Ed Mnlligan-We have most, if not all
the hobos run out of town. They don't
stay long here before they are compelled
to hit the train and fee from Yakima.
Col. Fred MIller-Whie at Elensburg
last Friday attended select ball at
Masonic hall AMI danced tuentv.three
out of twenty -four sats TO the music of
the Yakima orchestra The ElIensbury-
ers never heard such fine dance music
before.
Doc Hare -Seua,or Baker introduced
bill at Olympia appropriating $4,000
for the state fair. Mr.. Eng lehart, who
by the way, is a very influential mem
Der as chairman OF committee on appro-
priations, will succeed in getting eight or
ten Thousand dollars by compromising
with other wants in the state.
r. N. Harrison-I want to give the
school children an odd apple problem:
Two men had 80 apples each; one sold
his 2 for a cent and the other 3 Tor a cent
The first got Is cents for his apples and
the other man received 10 cents and this
made rs cents. They took sick and
third man went to market with their
two baskets of apples, 80 in each. He
put them all in one basket and said to
himself, "Now if sell 2 apples for cent
and my friend sells three for cent, that
1t is the same thing rs selling five ap-
pies for 2 cents" When he had sold the
sixty apples he found he had only "a
cents, which was right, since there are
twelve fves in 60, and twice II is pa
But il the old men had been there and
sold the apples separately thev would
have received % cents. How is this ex-
planned?
Frank Oplistl-There was fellow here
a short time ago who passed his business
card around claiming, as f. w. Gibbs,
ne represented the Oxford Tailoring Co.,
OF Seattle, and that suit clubs was their
specially. | invested 81, in common
with about twenty-five others, in rattle
for a $50 suit OF clothes. | won. But
Gibbs disappeared and the company de-
MES any knowledge of the rascal.
J. NJ. Baxter-The democracy and |
other reform parties will nominate Dewey |
and Lee, and win next time. They are
afraid to make Dewey an admiral for !
fear people will continue to talk of him
for president.
Henry Pressey-My troubles, which |
have given me black eye, have resulted |
from carelessness but hope to clear ev-
erything up satisfactorily and retain the
esteem of my friends.
Mayor Fechter-The city is preparing
to bring suit against the city treasurer's
sureties and in the nature OF the thing
we cannot lose much.
w. II. Brownlow-I can't tell what the
losses of our Touring mill company by
the Presley mudde will be. But we
have been keeping pretty close to shore
and hence are not in very deep.