The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-02-08
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stats have re.
turned from Portland, Ore.
The circle of Kings Daughters will
meet with the Misses Miller, No. . south
Sixth street, Tuesday afternoon, Febru.
airy IA.
During the absence of DR.. Hayden his
pulpit will be supplied by strong men,
so there will be no diminution of inter-
est in the work of the Presbyterian
churcn.
Justice Taggard yesterday held John
Lewis, charged with breaking into a
house belonging to G. B. Conklin and
taking therefrom a revolver and other
small articles, to the superior court in
$500 bonds.
Rev. George Armor Fair, who with
Rev. r. D. Nichols has been holding
successful revival at Ahtanum church,
will fiji the pulpit of the First Congre-
gational church next Sunday morning
and evening. Rev. Fair was at one time
pastor of the Baptist church in this city.
A runaway team belonging to an In
dian, livened Things up for while on
west Yakima avenue Monday afternoon
They narrowly missed several collisions
with other teams, and finally turned in
to an alley and brought up against a
telephone pole, without having done any
great amount of damage.
The Brotherhood of American Yeomen
will give pie social in the Odd Fellows
hall Saturday evening, February IL. to
which all Yeomen and families are kind
ly invited Ladies to bring pies. A
beautiful programme mas been arrang-
ed for the occasion.
A. b. Sweeney returned home Monday
from seven weeks sojourn in Calfor.
mia. He visited mis- brother at Santa
Cruz and also number Of the promi.
nent cities of California, and enjoyed his
stay there in spite of the fact that he
suffered from malaria large portion OF
the time.
Attorney L. p. Englehart has filed for
the Pasco Land and Irrigating company
a notice of appropriation of 500 cubic
feet per second of water from the Yak.
ina river, to be taken from the river
at the north end of the dam at Prosser
Falls. A portion of the water appropri
ated is to be used for power purposes.
The wind that blew in a perfect gale
for a while yesterday did little damage
in the city, although a number of signs,
billboards. etc, were blown over. A
window and transom in one of the porta-
BILE school buildings, presided over by
Mrs. Needham. were blown in and gave
the pupils scare. None of them were
hurt. however.
Lurenda A. Zaspell has been granted a
decree of divorce from Emil ZaspeIl on
the ground that he has been convicted of
a felony, for which he is now serving
time in the state prison. Zasp,ll was
O. nvicted last July of getting money I'M
der false pretenses. His attorney was T..
Is Preble, who was a'o the attorney
'or Mrs. Zaspell in the divorce proceed
ngs.
Next Sunday Rev. DR.. Hayden will
preach upon the following subjects
Morning, "The Meaning and Results of
Christian Fellowship;" evening, Gods
Descent into Mans Life" New mem
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vice. The evening sermon will be evan
gelistic in character. Everybody is in
vited. Next week DR.. Hayden goes to
the Coast, where he will spend time in
much needed rest.
Monday was motion day in superior
court, and the following were the pro-
ceedings: In the matter of +. R. Hatch
VS.. II. F. Thompson the demurrer was
overruled. Timothy Monahan vs.. J. w.
Pickett ct al; demurrer withdrawn
and five days allowed in which to file
answer. c. T. Hensell vs.. Bertha T.
johnson; argument for new trial set
for Wednesday; f. B. Moore VS.. George
II. Irish; judgment ordered filed. f. C.
Carter va. Washington Irrigation com.
pany; motion to deny demand for bill
of particulars sustained in part.
The county commissioners are in sos
sion this week. So far they have been
engaged mainly in the consideration of
bills and claims and other routine mat
tiers of little general interest The
board rejected all bids that mad been
submitted for the building of the bridge
over the Naches river to take the place
-of the Nelson bridge and decided to re.
advertise. The commissioners will con-
slider two petitions for the establishment:
of new drainage districts. one from Sun.
ryside and one from Outlook. The in
terests of the petitioners from the form
err locality were represented by W. H.
Cline and w. B. Bridgeman.