The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-05-03
REP)RIOR|AI SHORTSTOpS
Nhat Is Going on Daily of interest to
All Our People.
BRlEF Personal MEMS NOTES
ITEMS Of Personal and Local Mention Put
Into Condensed Form for THE
Herald's" BIsy
Readers.


the Sound this week 10 kin, after his va.
rie,. busines 81 Affairs.
Mrs. joseph Eschbach left on Thurs
day las for Minueso'D, being cal ed
there by The lin Ut a q ,us liter.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Sne, ere. OF Mob
Hill, are entertaining relatives who ar
rived here last week from Duluth.
W. II. Wroe left on Thursday last for
the Republic mining district TO look after
some claims in which he ADD other Yak
ina citizens are Interested
Mr.. Rathbun, Of Seattle, has bought
the brick cottage and four acres of land,
be, ond the Kremer place, from Samuel
Storrow. The price paid vas $3.50.
Mrs. G. j. Taft left las, week to accom-
her mother. Mrs Rugb, who has baen
spending the wiLtar here, to her home in
Baker City, Ore Mrs Taft expects to
be gone for m nth or two.
John Jacket who has been n resident
of klickiiat county for the past % years,
was a Yakima visitor early this week.
being interested in securing forestry
reserve range land for his sheep.
A. J. Shaw sold Is bales of hops to
Mr.. Hubbard on Monday for 4l1c per
pound. The Dinglcy 'arif, which was to
have been Of such great benefit 10 the
hop growers, appears to act very pecu-
LARRY.
Mayor Redman received, on Monday,
tie bills of In ling for the town clock
which is to be placed in the tower of
Larson's opera house. 1t will probably
be here by the last of this or the first of
xt week.
Mrs. Grace pra'er. who has been
spending the winter with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs joseph Steohenson, will
leave this week for her home ia juneau,
accompanied by her sister, Miss Kat 9
Stephenson
On the first Of the month the rooming
capacity Of the Hotel Yakima wac
largely increased by annexing AMI con-
Meeting the apartments over the stores of
Mnlhollan and Sawbridge This gives
the hotel about twenty additional rooms.
n n n ntt Of
v Carpenter and NJ N. Richards as
census enumerators for The county, Harry
Vanhorne and Ernest Douglas have been
named, the former for Kiona and the lat.
ter for Zilah. Other appointments are
to be made
The Commercial club at a recent meet
ing voted to present petition to the
council asking for the grading of Yakima
Avenue from the railroad track to Third
street. The movement met with con
opposition from a number of
members of the governing board and
only carried by bare majority
Assessor Robt. Scott reports that the
work of the deputy assessors has been
practically completed with the exception
Of the assessment Of personal property on
the Yakima reservation. J. NJ. Hall and
Harry Coonse have been looking after
the Office work but owing to the press of
work at this time Miss Allie Carpenter
was called to their assistance on Tuesday.
The fair commissioners have named
Sept. "a, %. 20, ~, % and 30 as the dates
for holding the state fair this year. The
Indian dances and races will be made an
especial feature and the other races will
be on the lines Of last year with the ex-
ception that there will be no race program
for the first dav. The former superin-
lendents of the various divisions have
been reappointed for this year.
Pedro Lemon the young Filipino
brought over by Lieut.. Will Lemon, has
a blow gun five and half feet long
which he uses most expertly. The gun
was orininslly feet in length but was
broken on ship board. He can hit
very small object at distance of twenty
or thirty feet. and speaks of the monkeys
he used to kill in Luzon by imbeddng
a knife blade in the ball of clay that he
blows from the gun. When asked why
he wanted to kill monkeys he answered,
con sometimes fifty, maybe hundred
monkeys will Jump on Won and then Won