The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1889-06-29

rick. The frame work is heavy enough
for mill, and there is room enough for
whole crop of hay.
The road to the Glacier hotel will be
finished today. 1t has cost in the neigh
borhood OF 5000 and is as fine a noun
tain road as there is in the state.
The White Salmon country is coming
to the front rapidly as fruit raising
section, some of the finest fruit we have
seen this season coming from there.
Captain H. G. Coe left for Portland
and the Puget sound Monday. He will
be gone week or more, as he is looking
after matters connected with the steamer
Wascd,
The delay in finishing the hotel has
been caused by scarcity of teams to
handle the material, and this was caused
by mild form of epizootic which has
attacked the horses in this vicinity.
O. II. Rhodas left his team hitched to
a mower, in theI road few days ago,
when they took fright and ran away.
The mower is scattered over hall sec
ton of ground, but fortunately the
horses were not injured.
Last week fire brole out near Stod-
dard's mill, and burned over about two
hundred acres, but did little damage as
the ground had been cut over. The
smoke and heat, however, caused the
loggers to quit work for a short time.
Nj. John A. Wilson, while working
in the Glacier hotel. fell from q scatfold
and broke one OF his arms at the wrist,
and is now laid up at home. He is GER
tainly out of luck as not long ago he cut
his foot badly, and last year his boy iell
from the railroad bridge here and broke
| his arm.
Robert Husbands who has been work
ing at Latourelle Falls for some time,
met with a painful accident last Satur-
day. He got his foot caught by piece
of s by 10 timber sliding down the skids,
and SO badly bruised that he will be laid
up for week or two. He came home
Wednesday night.
Sheriff Herbert and family Of The
Dalles camped at Wyeth, Wednesday
lust in time to get the benefit OF tee rain.
They got thoroughly wet, most thor
oughly disguised, and all except Mr..
Herbert went home by the midnight
train. He waited until the morning
train, and when we saw him he was TAX
ing stock of baby carriages, baskets,
hampers, bedding and other plunder,
and when we said "Wyeth you silent
and sad George" he invited us to 60 to
-WYeth on wet day.
Wednesday evening an Italian with
tame cinnamon bear gave an open air
show in front of the postoffice, which
drew a large crowd. After taking up a
preliminary collection the bear was put
through his PAGES in fine shape and
showed careful training. He marched,
drilled, waltzed and performed numer-
GUS other tricks very well, and the show
wound up with wrestling match,
catch catch can, between the bear
and his owner, in which the bear won
all three falls.
On Tuesday d. A. Turner harvested
81 acres of rye that would be hard tc
beat. 1t all stood six and seven feet IN
height and was so heavy on the ground
that an object could scarcely be seen II
} II three feet distant The heads were
long and well filled and the yield pei
acre will be second to none in the world
HARRISON Bros. did the cutting witt
their new Mccormick "Daisy" reaper
which they purchased from j. II. Mid
dleton and thev are now ready to put i
on trial against any reaper on th'
market. 4r