The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-07-19

under the conditions have been 30 favor
able that there will be little. if any, de.
crease In the crop. Fifteen Thousand
bales is very conservative estimate for
this year, and the hops never gave prom.
Use OF being OF better quality. About
seventeen hundred bales are under con.
tract. What prices will rule is problem
atical as the English Yards are not far
enough advanced TO warrant prediction
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4. w. Dooly left for Seattle Tuesday
on brief business trip.
n. NJ. TAYLOR and r. Hearle were
Walla Walla visitors last week.
Married. at the Methodist par sonage,
Sunday, July 18th. at 8 o'clock a. M,
James w. Tinker to Miss Mary E. Buff
Rev. j. H. Woods was the officiating
clergyman.
G. K. Hanchett left here on Friday
morning of last week to visit his former
home in Burlington, Vermont. A letter
received by o. V. Carpenter states that
he made the trip in four days and four
teen hours.
Jesse Null, we'll known tOnsorial
artist employed in the Ross barber shop,
was united in marriage, by the Rev. j
H. Woods, in the Methodist church,
Monday evening. A number of friends
were present TO wish the young couple
every form of happiness.
w. L. Shearer, the N. P. agent at Top
penish, accompanied bv his wife, Mrs
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drove up on Tuesday to attend the rati-
fication meeting. Major Frank A. Will
liams, of the Toppenish Trading com.
pany, was another prominent epresent
alive from that section.
Miss Jeanette Cooper. after visit Of
two years with her relatives, Mr.. and
Mrs. P. j. Flint, left on Tuesday for her
home in Sonoma, California. The eve-
ming previous she was agreeably sur
prised by the unexpected appearance of
some fifty or sixty of her friends and
very happy time was passed with vocal
and instrumental music, recitations and
a tempting lunch.
DR.. Albert Wilgus, who has been for
many years located at Fort Simcoe, has
secured an exchange and left on Monday
for Washington, D. c., where his trans
fer takes him into the department OF the
third assistant postmaster general. His
transportation carries him by the way OF
Pendleton, Oregon, where his family has
been visiting and where he will be Joined
by them in his journey to the east.
III. Nj. Gilbert returned to his extensive
ranch on the reservation Sunday. He
has a large area of land in melons, can
taloupes and watermelons, but as it is in
various patches does not know the exact
acreage, but estimates about sixty
twenty-five to cantaloupes and thirty-tive
to watermelons. The vines are thrifty
and bearing we'll, but the melons are not
as far advanced as some OF those growing
around North Yakima. He expects to
begin shipping csntaloupes about the 1st
OF August,
Thomas r. Fisher returned on Sunday
from a business trip to Portland. While
there he met Ed. Webster, formerly a
U. S. deputy marshal for this district,
who was visiting friends. Webster was
member of the U. S. geological survey
party which was lost for such long
time in the wilds of Alaska. They were
out eighteen months, during which time
their Indian guides deserted and for six
months they lived on fish diet. They
suffered untold hardships and when their
clothes gave out they were forced to
fashion new ones from horse blankets.
Webster is going back to Alaska, as he
claims to have found some rich mining
properties which will warrant further
trials of endurance. He may visit YAK
ina before going north and il he does he
promises to bring with him the horse
blanket clothes with which he came out
on the oath of June.