The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1890-12-13
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A Very Large Wheat Blockade in
Eastern Washington.
SwinOmish Indians Preparing to Take Up
the Remaining Marsh Land on
Their Reservation.

The Idaho Legislature will be asked to
pass Sunday law.
The Tacoma Coal Company have just
made rich strike in their mine at Will
keson.
The work of the Northern Pacific in
Washington will not be interrupted by
any result of the recent financial furry
in New York.
Freight trains are now so heavy on the
Southern Pacific that an extra engine is
necessary to get over the Cow Greek and
Calapooia mountains.
Grading on the branch railroads from
the Southern Pacific to Jacksonville is
nearly finished, and the rails will be laid
as soon as they arrive.
General Carr, Commander at Fort
Wingate, N. NJ, has received orders to
get the Sixth Cavalry ready for trans
portation to Dakota in anticipation OF a
war with the Sioux Indians.
The Montana State Supreme Court
has affirmed the decision of the lower
court in making John A. Davis admins
traitor of his deceased brothers l,OOO,-
900 estate. The will contest is not yet
decided.
Bradstreet's mercantile agency reports
| fourteen failures in Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the past week, as
compared with thirteen for the previous
week and eleven for the corresponding
week of 1889.
Two members of the Spokane Falls
CITY Council have sent in their rcsigna-
tions as members of that body They
are Judge Bettis and Colonel John |.
Booge. Pressure of private business is
given as the cause for resignation.
The handsome building for the Reform
School, few miles south of Salem, is
fast assuming shape, and will soon be in
readiness for the erring youth OF Oregon.
The roof is now just about completed
and the inside work well under way.
Daniel Keueher, attorney for Dominic
Cecilia, the Fort Townsend murderer, has
received an order for stay OF all far
ther proceedings in the case, pending an
appeal. Cecilia was sentenced to death
and time fixed for his hanging December
10.
Captain Andrew Haggard, brother ot
Rider haggard, who is now at Victoria
B. c., says that the commander OF Stan
ley's rear guard, Major Barttelot, who
served under him in the Egyptian war
was remarkable then for cruelty and
want of consideration for all beneath
him.
Agent Andrew Andover of the Navajos
who is at Albuquerque, N. NJ, says there
is gold enough in the Carrizo mountains
on the Navajo reservation to make every
BODY rich. An effort is being made tC
give the Indians other lands in lieu o
the mountain country and open the golc
fields to the public.
A courier has reached Albuquerque
n. NJ, from Anton, small Mexican set
tlement twenty miles south of Las We
gas, bringing news of terrible running
fight between fifteen or twenty cowboy
and large number of Mexicans. Hun
dreds of shots were exchanged, and sew
eral dead and wounded are reported OF
both sides.
Rev. P. B. Champagne, the old Frencl
Canadian Catholic missionary, who ha
established a good many congregation
and built several Catholic churches il
Montana and Dakota, has lately beel
appointed by the Most Rev. Archbishop
Gross of Portland to the pastorate OF tn
Catholic missions OF Linkville, Lakeviey
and others in the surrounding counties
William Zeckendorf, Commissioner Q
the Worlds Fair for Arizona, has brough
suit against United States Marshal Pau
at Tucson for $685. 900 for refusing to per
NIT him to 60 to the polls on electlo
dav after he had voted. The Marsha
says he simply carried out the electio
requirements.
The cases against the Chinese at Sa
Rafael, CAL, for catching small fish wit
bag nets have been postponed until mex
March, owing to the exhaustion OF to
venire in obtaining a jury. The defent
, ants are conducting an enormous shrimp
fishing business at Point San Pedro /
Marin county, and should the case /
decided against them it will throw abou
800 Chinese out Of employment at tina
place.
s There is considerable talk of the gol
mines on the head of Sprague river
Lake county. The Gaylord Bros, erig
nal discoveries, have worked down tn
sides of the ledge, and have also mad
a tunnel into the hill. They expect
: commence active work on the ledge
in the spring, at which time numerol
prospectors will probably be found in tt
/ hills. Assays Of the quartz vary frol
+ $50 to $65 to the ton, according to II
b location in which the rcck was found.
Over $40.O00 of the amount needed
8 purchase union Pacific terminals at /
d coma has been subscribed. Charms
w. ]. Thompson of the committee hi
Z Z been notified by Engineer Bogue tn
only thirty-three instead of thirty-eigl
I acres will be needed, the Tacoma Lar
? Company having agreed to give the raj
road the right of way from the passeng
2 station to and along the water from Il
channel of the Puyallup river. Th
change will result in saving OF fro
sl2, 800 to $4,000 to the citizenrs Of ]
coGa,