The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-05-05
LOCAL NEWS

e. G. Peck went to Seattle on No. !
Monday.
DIR. C. b. Alexander, of the Mabton
hospital, was a business visitor in the
city Monday.
Chester Congdon and family of Du-
luth arrived in North Yakima Tues
day.
Bob McComb of Wapato. editor of
the Independent, was North Yakima
visitor Tuesday.
BAND instruments for the Salvation
Army have been shipped from Chi
cago. The band will consist of IL
pieces and the instruments are declar-
ed to be exceptionally fine pieces OF
workmanship.
The matter of franchise for the
Yakima Transportation company
through Fruitvale has been deferred
by the county commissioners until
their June meeting.
Mrs. A. II. Tuesley returned the lat
ter part of the week from Omaha
where she spent the winter visiting
relatives.
w. C. Michaels Of the Gibson Fruit
company, Chicago, who was a North
Yakima visitor Monday has visited all
the northwest fruit sections. He says
there are no peaches at Wenatchee.
Yakima looks to him to have more
fruit than any district.
IL. Holden, Mrs. George B. Hol-
den and daughter Frances and MISS
Pearl Benjamin the family OF attor-
new George B. Holden have arrived
from New York and Michigan and ia
ken I'D their residence on north First.
street.
Bounties are to be paid on wild an
imals by the county auditor Of Yak
ina county until June II, under the
old system. After that date the
bounties are to be increased, but 1t
will be necessary to produce the en-
tire pelt and with it the bone of the
right foreleg. These pelts are then
confiscated by the county and destroy
ed.
<httoifity AuSllu MITES u EllonS-
burg, who was census supervisor in
this district when the census was ia
ken 10 years ago, is declared to be
in the field again for the position for
this year. Local politicians say there
is no great activity manifest among
Yakima people for the position though
it is understood that some strong rep
reservations have been made to Sena-
tor Jones.
Mrs. John w. HILL formerly of Spo-
kane but now of Tacoma expects to
leave the latter city next Tuesday for
North Yakima to join Mr.. Hill, who
has been east of the mountains since
the first of April. To bid Mrs. Hill
goodbye her associates of the First
M. E. church Foreign Missionary So
ciety gave an 'nformal tea Saturday
afternoon at Mrs. Ernest Listers, on
north Fifth street.-Spokane Chron-
icle.
c. F. Lott of this city. who has
planted an so acre orchard near Ken
newick and who proposes to plant
second, complains of the scarcity of
labor. Years ago he says more compe-
tent men could be engaged for less
than half that paid today for labor
whose work is inferior. In the old
days there We're fewer orchards.
June II is to be Yakima day at the
Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition and
September % will be Yakima valley
day. This arrangement has been
agreed to by the exposition manage
ment. In this connection it may be
said that Kennewick recently elected
to class itself as a part of the Column
bia river valley and not part of the
Yakima valley.
Travel westward has been unusually
heavy of late. No. s through North
Yakima Monday consisted of two sec
tons. One was of 10 cars and the
other of eight and both were loaded to
the guards, with westward bound ira
velers. number of those with them
whom n Herald reporter talked said
that they expected to get into business
openings for the summer, during the
fair, then to hunt up fruit Or agricul-
tural land and go to ranching They
said the fair is we'll advertised and
they expect very heavy travel west
ward this season.
w. II. Norman was Sunnyside
visitor Saturday. He brought with
him several branches of pear and ap-
pie trees which were loaded with
blossoms A careful examination of
the blossoms reveals the fact that
fully 40 per cent of the blossoms have
withstood the recent rrosts, which
nave been unusually severe. He at
tributes the large percentage of fruit
buds saved to the use of the petroleum
fire pots, and believes that there will
be full crop of apples-Sunnyside
Forum.
North Yakima's first nickel-in-the-
slot telephone has been installed and
is ready for business. The machine
mas been installed on the Thomson
popcorn stand just west of the tracks
and will be on duty whenever the