The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The frost has killed considerable cotton in
portions of Tennessee.
Ri. Rev. Michael Hesse was consecrated
archbishop of Milwaukee on Sunday.
Two thousand cases of smallpox have been
reported at Cincinnati since January l.
During March, 1867 immigrants left the
port of Hamburg for the United States.
Darwin, the dead scientist, will be buried
in Westminster Abbey, in close proximity to
Sir Isaac Newton's tomb.
Correspondence is still proceeding between
the United States and the British Government
regarding the imprisoned American suspects.
The U. s. circuit grand jury found 4S true
bills in Barnwell county, 5. c., for obstruct-
ing voters ut the election of November Sth,
1881
The Mormons are in much anxiety over the
appoin tment of the five commissioners who
are to reorganize the government OF that Ter
ritory
BY late improvements in the telephone, con-
versation has been easily carried on between
Boston and New York-a distance of 240
miles.
The mining season does not promise to be
so good in Eastern Oregon the coming sea-
son as last Many Of the mines are being
worked.
Chinese merchants in Hong Kong and
Shanghai have received dispatches from Cal
ifornia deprecating the arrival OF so many
Chinese passengers.
Track has been laid for distance of over
twenty miles between Umatilla and Pendle-
ton. The construction is pushing work for
ward as rapidly as possible.
The attempt to enforce the Sunday law in
California is pointed illustration of the fu-
tility of trying to carry out measures not sup
ported by public sentiment
The nurseries of Oregon have within the
past year sold more fruit trees to California
than to home people. Californians are be-
ginning to appreciate the value of fruit trees.
At a trial in Montana the other day wit
ness who was being bullyragged by cross
examining lawyer, called on the court for
protection. The Judge kindly loaned the wit
ness his revolver, and the bullyragging
ceased.
Col. Chas. Lambourn has been appointed
land commissioner of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, with his Office at St. Paul,
Minnesota. He enters on his duties May LIST,
and will visit the Pacific coast the first week
in June.
Scoville, in Withdrawing from the Guiteau
case sends to the Washington supreme court
a letter u column long, stating his reasons,
which are partly personal and partly because
he believes his client has not received fair ju-
dicial treatment
The bible used in the Senate for swearing
in Senators has been stolen. lthas been used
So years and every Senator admitted in that
period was sworn in on that bible and kissed
it. The suppositon is that it has been taken
by somebody as relic.
A tornado, which appeared to be black
funnel shaped cloud, struck Brownsville, Mo,
on the 10Th. Seven persons were instantly
killed, and it is believed fifty were injured.
Seventeen business places and forty-three
residences were demolished.
A special to the Citizen from Camp Thomas
says the chief of Police at San Carlos has
been killed by Indians, and fears are enter
tanned for all employees Colonel Schofield,
with two companies of the 9TH Cavalry, has
left for their rescue. Locos' band is on the
war-path,
1t is now evident that the Edmunds bill has
given quite damaging blow to polygamy
At the recent Mormon conference in Salt
Lake, where there were $4,000 Of the saints
gathered the church leaders announced that
they would "obey the laws of the country but
fight for their rights in the courts" The peo-
pie were commanded ito go home, live their
religion, mind their business and government
would protect them"