The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-03-14
EASTERN ITEMS.
SurctieS Of Arkansas Treasurer
Make Good His Shortage.
Wages Of the Illinois Steel COmpanys
WOrkmen to be Governed by
Price Of Steel Rails.

Alabama ~ building 0OO miles OF new
railway.
Boston unions oppose biennial State
elections.
The population Of st. Louis is officially
| place at 45l ,77O.
A Fourth Judicial district for Utah is
proposed in Congress.
Illinois proposes to compel fire insur-
ance policies to be paid in full.
Grand Master Workman PowdcrIy de-
mics the rumor that he has resigned.
In the Indiana Senate the Worlds
Fair bill passed with the appropriation
cut down to $2JO,0O0.
The revised official count Of the census
returns from Kentucky makes the pOpu-
lation Of the State / ,s5S,G34.
New York will elect Governor this
year; 80 will Iowa, Ohio, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and a few other States,
Kearney and the adjoining counties Of
Nebraska are now able to care Tor their
destitute residents without outside as
sistance.
Secretary Mohler of the Kansas Board
OF Agriculture, reports tkat winter wheat
looks much better now than it has at
any season for several years.
The Postoflice Department is anxious
for bids from responsible parties for
transporting maiIs from San Fran lsco
TO Sitka, Alaska, and way ports.
Koch's vm h did not Kill j b. Ellis,
Kansas City cunsnmplive, who had
been inoculnted An autopsy showed no
bad results from the use OF lymph.
Sir John Macdonald thinks he has un-
covered a conspiracy to force Canada
into annexation With the United States.
He is making a strong fight in this cam
paign.
The arkansas State Treasurer has re-
ported to the Legislature that eX-rrea-
! surer Woodruff 5 sure les have paid him
SGS 740, the full amount of Woodruff 5
shortage.
! James Dougherty, the insane lover Of
Mary Anderson, who shot and killed DR..
| LIovd Of the Fatbush Insane Asylum,
Fhns been sentenced TO Sing Sing State
Prison for life.
Agents have already been sent to Jap
an, China, Algiers, South America, Mex
leo, and to different countries in the
Orient to arrange for exhibits ut the
Wor d's Fair.
The Northern Pacific Directors have
declared Il regular quarterly dividend OF
| per cent. and have decided to resume
work on all projected extensions and
push them to completion.
The statement issued by the Census
Department for Alabama's population
gives the total as l ,6lS,0l7; OF this num-
her $50, ,796 are white, 6Sl ,42l are colored,
$50 are Indians and 40 are Chinese.
The following combinations have been
made: Lieutenant-C Colonel A. X. Arnold
to be Colonel of cavalry; George Stone
man, Lieutenant-Colonel (retired), to be
Colonel OF infantry; Edmund Wells,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Arizona.
The wages Of the workmen OF the Hi
nois Steel Company at Chicago will he
governed by the price of steel rails.
When the price goes up the wages of the
men will be increased, and when the
price goes down the wages will be de-
creased cores espondingly.
The census bureau has announced that
there are 1857 irrigated farms in Arizona,
having total area of ,%2l acres. The
average cost of the land, including pur-
chase price, fencing, plowing and water
right, is $l6 " an acre, of which S7.05
represents the cost of water right, and
the average valuation placed upon the
land by owners is $4S.6S per acre. This
includes the buildings. The average an
nual cost of water is $1.55 per acre, and
The average annual value of the products
is $l3 92 per acre, ranging from 1915 i'll
| Maricopa to $3l in IavapAi county.
The acreage now under irrigation APP
proaches the maximum possible with
the present water supply, and the meth
ods of utilization, but conversion OF flood
waters that now annually run to waste
would largely increase the area suscept-
ible of successful cultivation.
The opponents of the Pacific cable sub
sidv scheme have new weapon to use
| in their fight against the subsidy act.
! Another company has appeared which
PROPOSES to build a longer cable without
a subsidy. The Pacifc Gable Company
asks the government to give them $3,-
10000 to aid in laying the cable to Homo
/ lulu, distance of 1000 mile !; the other
company proposes to build to Sh nghai,
6,5 0 miles, and asks for nothing but a
revival of the charter granted to it by
Congress, August 10, 1875, and which
expired in 1879, no cable having been
laid This old company was formed by
Ceso Caesar Marino, and in it were SEN
ator Leland Stanford, j. G. Flood and
/ several other California millionaires
They were promised subsidy of 81 ,OO0,-
900 by the Hawaiian government as
soon as the cable was laid The capital
lists did not see sufficient and speedy
! return for their money, the scheme fell
! through and the charter llpsed. Marine
now represents to Congress that he
/ company is ready to go ahead without
a subsidy if the charter is revived
/ Opposition to the subsidy idea is very
strong, and TO defeat it an extension Of
the old cdmpnny's charter viii be urged,