The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-03-10
Local News.

NJ. V. Burroughs of Hoquiam is in
the city on important business.
H. W Hughes and a party of
friends will leave this morning for
business trip to White Bluffs.
Vice President Levy of the North
ern Pacific railroad passed through
North Yakima Sunday on his way to
Tacoma.
John O'Hara has opened a real es-
tate Office at Il North First street.
He will make a speciality of renting
houses.
A plat of the second McQuesten
addition to the Toppenish townsite
was filed with the county auditor
Tuesday.
Bruce Wees of Parker was a
North Yakima visitor Monday. He
said he is pushing his ranch work
and expects to prove the value of
dwarf fruit trees.
Charles Reichert and family ar
rived Sunday from Wisconsin and
will remain, having bought a farm.
Mr.. Reichert was here last spring
and likes Yakima.
Claude Chamberlain and wife of
Olathe. Kas, are in North Yakima
visiting at the home of G. f. Wise.
They will make their home in this
part of Washington.
Miss Remy, who has been on the
teaching staff at the University of
Puget Sound, has returned to her
home at North Yakima and will
probably remain through the spring
and summer.
Mrs V. NJ. Persons of Orchard
Dale ranch, Mob Hill, suggests that
all Yakima visitors to the A-Y.-P
this summer wear little pennant
and emblem bearing the inscription,
"Follow Me to Yakima
William Horsley, the suspended
high school student who has been in
exile from his studies for the past
two weeks, has been reinstated and
took up his student duties again Mon
day All is calm and serene ~ the
high school at present
Messrs. Behrens and Grafton have
about completed their improvements
in the building formerly occupied by
the Orpheum theatre and will open
their proposed cigar stand later in
the week. Billiards and pool will be
added later.
Judge Preble on Tuesday decided
the action of Charles S. Simpson
against Ludlow C. Schaffer, declaring
that Schaffer must close an under
ground fume through the land of
Simpson and must not permit over
flow water to flood the land.
Arthur Brown. who has been In
the employ for the last six months
of the A, B. Pearson Co., has resign
ed his position with that concern and
has accepted position with the State
Floral Co. Mr.. Brown will be sue
ceeded by William Owens.
Edmund Vance Cook, the Ohio
poet. who will appear in the fifth
number of the Y. NJ. c. A. course
Friday evening, will talk to school
children only Friday afternoon in the
association building, the hour as
yet being unset A nominal fee will
be charged, probably 10 cents.
w. p. Sawyer of Parker was a
North Yakima visitor Monday. Mr.
Sawyer declines to make any state
ment regarding peaches, but says
that all other kinds of fruit are doing
splendidly. AS regards the peaches,
he expects to be better posted in an
other month or so. He is not, how
ever. overly hopeful
Regulations governing the require
ments and the conditions with regard
to land settlers have been issued by
the secretary of the interior and may
be had at the local land office. They
govern entries on lands under the
reclamation act. under private own
ership, also delinQuencies and the
matters regulating the operation of
sub-laterals.
A. b. Weed has purchased an au-
tOmobile. Last yer, at the Bank
ers' convention here, Mr.. Weed went
on the race track and proved himself
to be not only a good judge of good
horse but a skillful driver as we'll
He has changed his affections how
ever, and is daily expecting the ar