The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-07-11
Frost Lays Low Potato
Vines in Nevada.
THE ARID LAND CONVENTION.
Southern California Counties Adopt a
Graduated Schedule for AS
sessing Fruit Trees.

A ten.milc pipe line TO Santa Monica
from the oil wells near Los Angeles is
| proposed.
The attendance OF school children at
Spokane this year is 1921, Last year it
WAS 2,7Gi.
lI0raethieyes are again committing
depredations in the eastern part Of
Washington.
More than 900 notares public have
been appointed since Washington be-
came State.
The Ashland Tidings says that $4,000
boxes Of peaches will be shipped from
that thriving locality this season.
Various counties in Oregon are issuing
bonds for required improvements, and
these in every instance are sold at pre-
MUM.
The schooner Premier has arrived at
San Francisco from Pirate Cove. The
vc.sel was reported wrecked, with total
loss OF the cargo.
j. NJ. Burke has won mis- suit against
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining
Company OF Wardncr, Idaho. ltinyolved
title to property valued at several milE~
ion dollars.
Governor Toole OF Nevada has APP
pointed thirty delegates 10 the Arid Land
Convention, which meets in Salt Lake
City September 10 to discuss the irriga-
ti0n question.
Workmen are employed in the Vir-
ginia and Truckee railroad shops night
and day on machinery for river mills,
which are now running at full blast on
Comstock ores.
Sixty men are at work on the Ilemet
reservoir in the San Jacinto Mountains
When completed it will create lake of
three square miles, with an average
depth of thrty.tive feet.
The Indians at Arriba, n. NJ, defy the
United States authorities, and strong
force with Ilotchkiss guns will probably
be sent TO make arrests of Indians who
have been doing damage and threaten
ing lives.
Warrants have been issued at San Di-
ego for the members OF the Seamen's
Union who assaulted the captain of the
steamer Hounslow and cruelty beat two
others who had assisted the captain in
securing q crew.
President Woodruff and George q.
Cannon of the Mormon Church in an
interview have defined the position of
the church in regard to politics, which
they say will no longer attempt to seek
power in that way.
San Diego is delighted over the fact
that Prof. Games OF Pittsburg, the we'll
known iron manufacturer, is prospecting
at the former place with the view OF es-
tablishing an iron plant there OF 100
tons daily capacity.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports twenty-seven failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as coGlpared with fifteen for the
previous week and sixteen for the cor
responding week OF 1890.
The proposition for an outfall to the
ocean of the sewerage of Los Angeles is
being discussed in the City Council OF
that city. 1t is believed that the propo
sition, although twice defeated at the
polls, will eventually be carried.
A 500, 900 endowment fund is being
raised for the Pacific Methodist College.
DR.. Kelly of Nashville, the newly elected
President, will take charge of the school.
provided the endowment is raised. Sew
eral Eastern professors have also been
engaged.
Three Piute Indians--one buck and
two squaws--conviCted in the District
Court at Winnemucca, New, of killing
the Indian witch, " have been sentenced
to ten years each in the State prison. 1t
is the first conviction in Nevada for such
an offense.
Southern California counties have
adopted a graduated schedule of rates
for assessing fruit trees, which they will
recommend to the Assessors of the State,
with the request that prior to the next
assessment the Assessors of fruit-pro-
ducing counties meet in convention to
discuss the same.
The San Antonio Electric Light and
Power Company has been formed to sup
ply Pomona with power for lighting and
manufacturing. Water wheels and gen
orators will be put in at the mouth of
San Antonio canyon, thirteen miles from
Pomona, whence power will be conveyed
over heavy copper wire.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Los Angeles Judge Ross in the two cases
of the United States against the South
ern Company, being suits to set aside
grants of land, has dismissed both bills
without costs. On motion of counsel for
the government an appeal was allowed
to the United States Supreme Court.
The "holy coat" which, it is alleged,
is the seamless coat worn by our Savior,
will be exhibited in August at Treves at
the Cathedral of st. Peter and st. Helen,
where it has been since l196. 1t is said
to have been discovered by the Empress
Helena during her memorable visit to
Palestine in the fourth century.