The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-09-12
EASTERN ITEMS.
Camel Coal Struck at
Bath, Maine.
WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS
Ontario Connscates Short Weight
Bread and Gives II 10 Chari-
table Institutions.

Opium-smoking is increasing in Phial-
delphia.
Only one Indian left in Illinois says
the census.
A vein Of camel coal has been struck
at Bath, Me.
The Peoples party in Kansas invites
penny contributions.
Mr.. Blaine thinks OF improving his
property at Bar Harbor.
The Mayor Of Philadelphia cannot be
elected 10 second term.
The owners OF apartment houses in
Boston propose 10 organize.
Separate cars for blacks and whites in
Texas have proven failure.
The assessed valuation OF real estate
! in Pennsylvania is $732, ,30O,s72.
The Wyoming legislature has passed
Il law taxing bachelors 81 a year.
General Butler is having some grim
enjoyment in reading his obituaries.
The Alliance speakers who are 10
stump Ohio will live on the farmers"
In Ontario short weight bread is con-
tlscated and given 10 charitable institu-
tions.
Doodle charges are now made in con-
nectiOn with the harbor works at To-
ronto.
Mr.. WaLamaker is thinking of intro
ducing pneumatic postal service in st.
Louis.
The Upper Mississippi is rapidly get
ting into an unsatisfactory low-water
condition.
Guatemala will probably reproduce at
the Chicago Fair one Of the old palaces
in antique.
The Francklyn cottage, where Presi-
dent Garfield died, has been bought by
the Trustees.
The farmers near Terre Haute, Ind,
want the $l05, 900 stallion Axtel assessed
at that figure instead OF 5000.
Connecticut is overrun with skunks
they even peregrinate into the cities and
cause many unpleasant incidents.
A cotton trust is forming in the South,
the object being to save the present large
crop from being sacrificed to low prices
Canadian authorities have prohibited
the circulation through the mails of that
country OF sixteen papers printed in
this country.
A leading hotel at Asbury Park, n. j.,
has been fined 800 for serving oleomar.
garne to its guests, who did not detect
the imposition.
Following the suggestion OF General
Booth in England, the Salvation Army
in this country is proposing to 20 about
the streets on bicycles.
The Prohibitionists of Nebraska have
placed Mrs. Ida NJ. Bittenbender, fe-
male lawyer OF Lincoln, in the field for
Supreme Judge of the State.
A new dry dock is proposed for the
Brooklyn navy yard, to be 600 feet long
and 146 feet wide, to be of wood and
concrete and to cost $600,000
The New York Press announces that
the old John Roach ship yard has re-
ceived the contract for an S,000-ton mail
steamer from the Pacific Mail Company.
Premier Abbott says the scandals un-
earthed by the investigations at Ottawa
are very serious, but he adds the govern
ment proposes to punish the guilty par
ties.
The citizens of Stevens county, Kan,
in which the county-seat question has
caused some boodshed, want an investi-
CATION of the finances by State author
tiles.
Boston has good evidence of the large
ness of the peach crop. The Transcript
says that already the Hub has received
more of the fruit than it sometimes gets
in an entire season.
A glut in the New York lemon market
has been brought on by immense impor-
tations. A week ago there were in port
three steamers with $4,000 boxes on
board, with no sale for any of them.
1t is said Claus Spreckels is to be pros
ecuted for engaging Austrians to come to
this country under contract to work in
his retineries. Two of the men reached
New York last week, and are to be re-
turned to their country.
A New Orleans dispatch says The
Texas Farmers Alliance is responsible |
for the injury to the trade of Galveston.
The Texas Railroad Commission, which |
has fixed cotton rates, and the Texas |
alien land are both the work of the ALI |
ance, and both are showing their hurtful
effects.
Indian lands in the Indian Territory
purchased during the past year by the |
government will be opened to settlement
by proclamation by the President Sep
tember 10. The knowledge of this fact |
has attracted many boomers already.
The Keeley cure for drunkenness made |
famous by the publicity given it by Ed
itor Medill of Chicago is not an unmixed |
blessing. 1t is claimed that bichloride |
of gold, which is the remedy, not only
removes the taste for liquor, but during
the period of active treatment paralyzes
the memory. Patients, they say, forget |
the names of their friends and theirown |,
names and the names OF places. ]