The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-09-19
Kansas Farmers Paying
orr Mortgages.
PATRIOTIC SONS OF VETERANS
Have Refused to Expunge the Wore
white in Their Consti-
tution-Etc.

The fiat has gone forth that fve-cent
shaves in New York must go.
Chicago is about 10 erect an apartment
house which will contain 707 rooms.
The Texas Trunk railroad has been
turned over 10 the Southern Pacific.
The Wilmington Del $3.50, 900 post
office will probably be built Of cut gran
ite.
Baltimore is 10 have tin.plate factory
in operation in the course of three
months.
Spreckels says he il padding his own
canoe, and has no, nor will he join the
sugar trust.
The officials of the Auburn IN. "
prison have set the COnvicts at work
making pearl buttons.
The sanitary inspectors in Brooklyn
say that leprosy does not exist among
the Chinese residents there.
An effort 10 combine the various com
mcrcial organizations of the Kansas
Farmers Alliance has failed.
Eight hundred thousand acres OF land
in Eastern Oklahoma recently ceded by
Indians will soon be open TO settlement
The relief fund for the families OF
those who perished in the Park place
disaster at New York has reached 81, 200
1t Is said that there are more salmon
in the Merrimac river now than there
has been at any time during the last
forty years.
During the months Of May, June and
July OF this year 81 ,450, 900 Kansas farm
mortgages have been paid off. This is a
very good sign.
The annual report of the 81. Paul road
shows that after paying per cent. div
idend on preferred stock there is sur.
plus OF 5000, l6S.
Petroleum, which actually flows up
unaided through the rocks, has been dis
covered at Crows Nest in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains.
A special from Washington to the New
York Erening Post says it is believed
that ex-Governor Cheney will be Secre.
tary Proctor's successor.
During the past few weeks the exports
OF wheat have averaged 5,O00,000 bush
els weekly, an increase of nearly three
quarters over this time last year.
In the 5000, 600 letters that reached
the dead-letter office last year there was
money amounting TO $2S,6l and checks
and notes OF the value of Sl,47l,S7l.
Andrew Senscal, Superintendent of the
Canadian Dominion printing bureau,
has been dismissed. He was implicated
in the scandal which is being investi-
gated.
Work on the government jetties for
the deepening of Galveston harbor un-
der the SO, 100000 appropriation by the
last Congress is now beginning apparent
ly in earnest.
Two-thirds of the applicants for ad,
mission to West Point and Annapolis
according to DR.. Cheeseman of Chicago
are rejected because of the cigarette habit
and its results.
The emigration from Germany to
America during the first five months Of
the present year amounted to 1867, OF
nearly 10000 more than the largest total
during any five months of the last five
years.
The bureau of American Republics is
informed that the Brazilian Minister
of Finance has ordered the collection
OF all import duties in gold and has for.
hidden the sale of gold at the custom.
houses.
1t is great pleasure to learn that
there are to be no expensive side shows
at the Worlds Fair. The directory has
decided that the entrance fee shall en-
title the visitor to see everything within
the inclosure.
William f. Bear, the English statisti
clan, writes to BrddStreet'S that later in
formation leads him to mark up the
European deficiency of wheat from 28l =,
100000 bushels (his first figures) to 320,.
100000 bushels.
The Patriotic Sons of Veterans in ses
sion at Philadelphia refused to expungt
the word "white in their constitution
where it refers to those entitled to mem
bership. Lebanon, Pa, has been chosen
as the next place of meeting.
Ex-Assistant Cashier Lawrence of the
defunct Keystone Bank at Philadelphia
has made a canfession of the manner il
which the books of the concern were
doctored. 1t shows system of duplic
ity and thievery almost unparalleled.
Miss Frances Willard announces thai
she has already received $4,000 for the
worlds union fund. The money is to bt
used in various departments of women'l
work at the Columbian Exposition.
General Joe Shelby is thoroughly re
constructed ex-Confederate. No soldier
fought more bravely than he. He knows
he was wrong, and does not believe il
keeping up the memories of the war.
General Miles has put himself to un
necessary trouble in denying that he wa'
cruel to Jefferson Davis when he haC
that gentleman shut up in Fortress Mon
roe. The General is not built on tn,
petty tyrant plan.