The Yakima Herald

YAKIMA AND GENERAL Entertaining Items From City, County, State and Everywhere.
DEVOTED PRINCIPALLY TO LOCAL NEWS Paragraphs in Which all The Herald Readers are Interested.-A Cyclorama of the Events and Gossip of the Week,

As a bell without a clapper,
Useless and forgotten lies,
So doth the business of the man
Who will never advertise.

John D. Cornett was initiated into the order of the Elks on Thursday last.

D. E. Lesh was a passenger on the west bound train for Seattle Monday.

T. H. Shannon, the boniface of the Zillah hotel, was a Yakima visitor on Saturday last.

Wm. McMillan left on Saturday last to spend a week with his family at Cling and to visit the cities of the Sound.

Judge Erwin left on Tuesday for Wenatchee where he will look after the interests which the Yakima Indians have in that section.

Eggs are on a gold basis-eight cents per dozen. It hardly pays for the wear and tear of producing them, let alone the cost of maintenance of the fowls.

Geo. P. Eaton, secretary of the State Immigration Association, arrived in the city Monday to look after his property interests in the Sunnyside country.

Deputy Marshal J. B. Catron left for Spokane Monday to be present at the session of the Federal court. He expects to be absent for a week or ten days.

T. W. Moore and bride returned home from the Sound on Saturday last having cut their trip short on account of the continued rains on the west side of the mountains.

Robert Sterling, the popular young engineer of Sunnyside, spent Friday and Saturday of last week in the city greeting friends and attending to business before the U. S. land office.

Miss Emma Williams, after a pleasant visit of a week with the family of D. W. Simmons, returned to Ellensburg on Monday. Miss Williams was accompanied home by Mr. Simmons and his sister, Mrs. Barton.

Walter J. Reed of Cle Elum, was a Yakima visitor on Saturday last. Mr. Reed is greatly worried over the condition of his wife's health, she being in a very low state for some time past and at present in the hospital in Tacoma.

Mrs. Green, mother of Mrs. Ed. F. White, left on Thursday night of last week for Chicago. Mrs. Green has been a member of Mr. White's household for the past three years and of course the parting was one of sorrow for all members of the family.

Mr. and Mrs. Elwood and Mrs. Privett returned to Ellensburg on Tuesday after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Chappell and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cook. On Sunday the ladies visited their birthplace on the banks of the Yakima, near Zillah, under the escort of Mr. Cook.

U. S. Deputy Marshal Sam Vinson passed through the city on Monday with a couple of prisoners for McNeil's Island. Mr. Vinson is convinced that he has struck it rich in mining property and all of his friends hope that he will not be disappointed in the outcome.

Exalted Ruler W. H. Hare of the Elks, has named the following officers for the ensuing year: Esquire, S. C. Henton; chaplain: Ira P. Englebart; inside guard, E. M. Reed. Dr. G. J. Hill was elected to fill the vacancy in the board of trustees caused by the election of John Reed as tyler.

Spokane, Walla Walla, Lincoln and Franklin county delegations passed through the city on Monday bound for the state democratic convention at Tacoma. They were all standing on silver platforms excepting those from Walla Walla which were for gold and the administration. Walla Walla always was a good deal of a back number.

West Coast Trade: The land department of the Northern Pacific has commenced the work of appraisement of its lieu lands in eastern Washington and Idaho. These lands include about thirty-five townships and embrace some of the finest agricultural lands. Many settlers have located upon them and these will be given an opportunity to perfect titles on ten year contracts at low prices.

Prosser American: Mr. T. W. Moore and Miss Julia Smith of North Yakima were married in that city last Tuesday evening. The groom is the popular merchant who visited Prosser a short time ago and the bride has been one of the leaders in the best society in North Yakima for some time past. They have the best wishes of an unusually large number of friends in starting on their voyage over the sea of married life. After the ceremony they took the east bound evening train for Prosser, remaining here until the west bound train arrived and then departed for a visit on the Sound.
O. G. Labaree, who brought the first lot of Polled Angus and Hereford cattle to Yakima, in 1885, and who afterwards went to Ellensburg where he dropped $40,000 in the stock business, is now largely interested in the Josie mine, situated between the LeRoi and the War Eagle in the Trail Creek country. Labaree was a Canadian and he has a wealthy brother-in-law named Pope, who is a minister in the Canadian cabinet.

When Labaree settled in Kittitas county he took out citizen's papers. When he got broke he went back home and secured another stake of $25,000. With this he bought a heavy interest in the Josie mine, which being across the border, makes Labaree scratch his head and wonder how he can again-without getting the horse laugh-become a subject of the queen. It is said that Labaree has recently been offered $370,000 for his mining interests and, after telegraphic communication with Mr. Pope, was called back east without giving any definite answer.

J. L. Banks, clerk of the Yakima reservation, and one of the best fellows in the world, left on Monday for the Colville country for a month's vacation. "Chimmy," as his close friends are privileged to speak of him, has something aside from pleasure in his trip and it is to be hoped that he will strike it rich, for good and true boys are always entitled to the best that nature can provide and Mr. Banks covers this category.

Judge I. A. Navarre, formerly of Yakima but now of Okanogan county, has caught the prevailing mining fever and has purchased a half interest in a very promising claim on Squaw Creek and will at once begin work, running a one hundred foot drift in development of the property. The Judge's many friends in Yakima will wish him the greatest of success in his undertaking.

Big Bend Empire: Sheriff Valentine has been called to Lewiston to bring back Eugene Helm and fellow conspirators who are charged with driving off 200 head of horses from the range in the Crab Creek country. The party was overhauled by the Idaho officers. The stolen horses belong principally to Senator C. I. Helm, of Ellensburg, brother of Eugene.

Chas. Pond passed through the city Monday on his return to Ellensburg from Rossland, B. C. He says the rock in that section is the richest he has ever seen, and that Father Zeigler, of Spokane, is interested in a "grubstake" claim that assays $7000 to the ton. Mr. Pond expects to return to the Trail Creek country and build up his fortunes.

Nicholas McCoy, Jeff McDaniels and U. F. Diteman expect to leave in a few days for the Colville country where Mr. McCoy has some mineral grounds in view which appealed to his judgment as he passed over that rich section in the early days when the Indians were jealous of every encroachment of the whites.

March Atkisson, special agent of the Interior department, was a Yakima visitor on Monday. He is another of those who are severely afflicted with the mining fever and talks learnedly regarding his claims in the Colville country which are to place him on the list of money kings of the country.

The establishment of a wool scouring plant at Prosser will be delayed until fall by the death of the partner of Melville Stone, the Michigan man, who had arranged to engage in the business. Mr. Stone was on his way west when he was recalled by a dispatch informing him of the deplorable event.

Prosser American:
Letters received during the week from Fred R. Reed at Cripple Creek state that he is prospering and on the way to success again. In one of the letters he states that he is confident of clearing up $100,000 in the next 12 months.

The delegates to the republican national convention from Oregon are John W. Mildrum, Charles Hinton, R. A. Booth. Chas. H. Dodd, T. T. Greer, Jno. F. Caples, S. Yoran and E. L. Smith. They are all favorable to the single gold standard.

E. R. Welch, having leased his Ahtanum ranch to one of the colony of Hollanders, left on Saturday's train for a visit of a couple of months with his daughter at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho.

Mrs. Guy Sterling and child leave this week for Utah where Mr. Sterling is making a success of his patent barrel-stave flume pipe for irrigation and mining purposes.

The quarantine for diphtheria has been ordered off at Ellensburg, and the public schools were reopened on Monday last. There were four deaths from this disease.

The names of Bender and Barnes, two stations on the line of the Northern Pacific, below Prosser, have been changed respectively to Gibbon and Chandler.

The Oregon democrats have nominated Jefferson Myers, of Linn county, and A. O. Bennett of Wasco county, for congress.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Banks of Ft. Simcoe, were Yakima visitors on Saturday last, leaving the next day for Ellensburg.

It is reported at Roslyn that John Kangley is no longer connected with the N. P. Coal Co., as superintendent.

L. G. Spafford and family of Sunnyside, have gone to the Trail Creek country.