The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-06-21
! WHAT PEOPLE SAY. !

joved the busy air that city seems to have
at present. While the Nome and Alaska
trade was at its height many of the stores
were Obliged to close their doors in order
to catch up with their orders. One heavy
packer there said he had three shifts on
and for week at time he was unable
to 60 home, he having his meals brought
in and sleeping at night in his office.
Shipping to Alaska requires much extra
w2rk, especially in case of fruit and veg.
etable shipments, as every cabbage must
be carefully trimmed and every lemon
scrutinized and wrapped before they are
packed. Everything is put up in boxes,
for convenience sake as well as to permit
the free passage Of air. There are hum
dreds of men in Tacoma and Seattle
waiting to get the first news from Nome,
which if favorable will cause q rush for
passage and freight transportation even
greater than the first.
Walter Scott-While passing through
my brother In laws field on Mob Hill
last Saturday found specie OF fish
foundering up tiny irrigating ditch.
have visited many fish exhibits but can
not recollect OF having seen anything
like it before. l took it home and while
in town described it to several friends,
one Of whom was suspicious enough of
me to inquire the brand Of soda water l
had been INDUCING in. The curiosity
Ito mel proved to be Hamper eel" and
am told they are quite numerous in the
larger bitches. How this one ever got
SO far away from his regular haunts and
into wheat field is beyond my compre-
hension.
j. A. Orchard, ZillahrWe have fam
lily COW that perhaps would be hard to
beat in Yakima county. She is only an
Ordinary" as far as breeding goes, but
extraordinary in milking qualities. She
is ten years old, has brought US eight
calves, the first seven of them being
heifers, and she is today giving us SIX
gallons of milk, by weight, per day. As
a revenue getter she is veritable gold
mine.
Census Enumeration Carpenter-I shall
keep my books open until the 9th OF the
month, and all who have been overlooked
will have an opportunity to be enumer-
ated up to that date. If North Yakima
wants a showing made of the population
she has been figuring on every one
should try to recall residents who are
absent, or who are liable. from occups-
ton or habitation, to be missed by the
enumerators.
Walter j. Reed-Woods. the timber
land rascal, who was on trial in Seattle,
managed to escape from the clutches OF
the law once more. 1t is difficult to Sc
cure conviction for subornstion Of per.
jury. There are some other cases. how
ever, which may turn out differently.
and u S. Deputy Marshal Dilley is now
engaged in serving large batch OF pa
pers on people in the Olympia land dis.
trict under the charge OF making fraudu-
lent homestead entries. The government
is looking after these matters closer than
it ever did before.
Frank Williams-The crops in the
neighborhood Of Toppenish have never
been better. The grain has not been in
jured in the least and from present ap-
pearances of the market the farmers will
reap a harvest not only in quantity but
in price. The acreage this year is a
third larger than it was in 1899.
A. S. Dam-Company G will go to Ia
coma on the End or 3rd of July fifty
strong. The City Of Destiny pays all ex-