The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-10-27

A large number of Elks and their
wives journeyed to Ellensburg Tues
day where they were entertained Tues
day afternoon and evening.
Mrs A. NJ. Haynes, who has been
| in Seattle for the summer is in North
Yakima visiting her daughter Mrs. F..
b. Preble.
Mr. and Mrs. Kephart of Petoskey,
Mich, who have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. J. ID. Nicholas have started on
their return to Michigan.
Building Inspector Wise. who has
been quarantined because of the i'll
ness of his little daughter expects to
be on duty again today.
Major w l.. Lemon. postmaster,
was a passenger west on No. 16 last
night on his way to Spokane on a
business trip.
j. r. Handsaker was a passenger
west on No. Tuesday returning to
Seattle. where he is at present making
his home.
License to wed was granted by the
county auditor Tuesday to Henry
Charlie. aged % of Toppenish and
Nancy Marshall, aged IS of Pendle-
ton.
E. f. Streitz. cashier of the Yakima
Valley bank, has gone to Idaho to
prove up his title to a 100 acre claim
won by him in a Carey act drawing
two years ago.
Mrs. A. c. Stenman goes to Ellens-
burg today to attend the wedding of
Miss Lulu Craig to Mr. Correll, for
merly of the Standard Oil com pany in
China, now of Eugene, Ore.
Bide for riprapping the stretch of
roadway just west of the Mckee bridge
have been refused and the county au-
ditor asked to re advertise. The low
est bid was that of C. f.. Lum and was
for $2.4S.
Licenses to hunt have been issued
by the county auditor to the follow
ing: A. f.. Lyons, Joe Metzger, Root
Lusby, of North Yakima; j. W. Ander-
son and w. w. Cryder of Nile; Jesse
Piland, Ernest Piland, Wapato; A. H.
Maxwell, Granger; l.. f. Buscklin,
Mabton and r. j. Mclaughlin, Sunny
side.
j. j. Wiley, who came to North
Yakima Sunday from his home in the
Grande Ronde valley, Oregon, brought
with him collection of Oregon fruit,
onions, etc, to show what that county
can produce. Mr.. Miller says that
at PendletOn he met five Yakima men
on their way into Oregon to look up
land prospects.
Among the instruments recorded al
the office of the county auditor Tues
day was a deed transferring from
Duncan Campbell and wife for s27, 900
to the Otter Bartholet Investment
company, the northeast quarter of sec
tion 261319 and with it II shares of
the Selah- Mckee Canal company. A
mortgage for $4,000 on the property
held by the American Mortgage COM
pany of Scotland, is assumed by the
grantee.
Chicago according to the latest
circular received here from Messrs
Denney K company, was in receipt of
! Is cars of fruit for the week ending
October %. OF these "A cars were of
grapes. There were II cars of Jona-
than apples from Colorado. OF these
apples the report says some cars very
irregular in size, and wormy, others
were very good packing. and good
fruit; ranged from $15O to $2.25 and
averaged $3.50"
It's power transmission line will be
run by the Yakima Valley Power
M7bton. The line will probably carry
200 horse power and while that
amount will not be used from the out
set there is every prospect that it will
be taken up within the next year. This
power in that section will be an i'm
portant factor especially in the inter-
ests of those ranchers above the
bitches and those who are using water
from drilled wells.
Weenam, the dog that smokes like
man is lost and his master, Alex
Sloan, chairman of the Republican
county committee, is searching for
him in the wilds of Ellensburg. The
dog disappeared three weeks ago and
it was reported that he had been stol-
en- but as no trace of him could be
obtained there was no basis for arriv-
ing at any conclusion. Word reach
ed Mr.. Sloan "a day or two ago that
Weenam was at Ellensburg and he
went there Tuesday to see if he could
find the animal Weenam has the
finest sense of humor of any dog in
North Yakima and therefore has many
friends.
Its list of officers has been nied by
the Yakima Produce company with
tht tpuHly duultoI, JoIln bouTIeN Oh
Seattle is president and ). Il. Aumiller
of North Yakima is secretary treas
urer.
Albert Il. Lord, a prominent real
estate dealer of Seattle, together with
Fred r. Hussey and Ben Panchot,
members of his Office force are in the
city and will spend a week or two
here looking over the country and re-
cuperating.
workman on the new railroad
station was seriously hurt by a fall
Saturday He stepped on brace
which broke beneath him and ne fell
to the ground injuring his back The
man. who is the mason foreman. is no
longer young and the fall may have
serious results.
c. A. Childers ha, just completed a
mode rn 10 room bungalow equipped
I with lights and hot and cold water, on
his beautiful valley View" fruit
ranch in Wide Hollow. one-fourth mile
from the electric car line. Mr.. Chill
ders, his wife and son came here
j four years ago, from Memphis, Mo-,
and purchased this land when in pure
sage brush. Now they have 40 acres
all i'm fruit no. oil