The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-10-31
EASTERN ITEMS.
KioWa Wants It's Female
Mayor to Resign.
ARKANSAS C0L0RED PEOPLE
Emigrating to 0klahoma--The Case
Against Detective 0Malley
at New Orleans.
COL0RED PEOPLE

Cooperative Alliance stores are 10 be
established IN every county in Kansas.
The New York Central railroad will
help 10 enforce the alieRcontract. labor
! law.
The Buffalo Board OF Health has de-
clared the Barber asphalt works a nui-
sance.
At Davenport, Ia., the water in the
Mississippi river is lower than IL has
been since 1864.
Saratoga, n. Y, and Hartford, Dan
bury and Norwalk, Conn, are in great
danger Of water famine.
Southern cities are running themselves
into debt head over heels to get improve
ments in the way Of water, gas and elec-
tric lights.
/ King Bird, a negro convict in the
/ Frankfort penitentiary. deliberately am
/ putated his arm in order that he might
escape hard work.
The Boston Park Commissioners are
being urged 10 take steps to preserve
what il left of the earth-work iortifca-
I ton on Bunker Hill.
\ $l,0OO,0O0. .bniIding is TO e erected
in Chicago on the southeast corner OF
Washington and State streets 10 the
memory Of Columbus.
An English syndicate, which paid
100000 Tor a Baltimore beer brewery
($200,0O0 in CASH has offered to sell it
back for $4,000 cash.
A Pullman sleeping-ar conductor has
been arrested at Shreveport, La, for vi
olating the law by permitting a colored
passenger to ride on his car.
Several hundred Pittsburg people stood
in line for hours, jostling and pushing,
for the singular honor Of buying the first
stamp sold in the new postofiice.
| Negroes are leaving Arkansas by the
carload for the newly-opened lands in
/ Oklahoma, and farmers expect trouble
getting help to handle their crops.
The cotton worm is creating great de-
vastation in many counties in Missis-
sippi. One field of twenty-five acres
has been entirely stripped of its leaves.
Another claimant to the estate OF A.
T. Stewart, the dry goods millionaire of
/ New York, bobs up in Australia. His
name is Hunter, and he claims to be a
first cousin.
/ Dallas, Tex, is organizing scheme
for a supply plant which will furnish the
/ 5000 memters of the association with
all the beef, live and dressed, that they
may require.
Prof. Lee of the Bowdoin College ex-
! pedtion to Labrador says that the du-
plicates of the valuable relics secured by
the explorers will be sent to the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
The Mexican government has just
granted q concession for standard
gauge railway about $50 miles from the
/ City of Mexico TO town on the Pacific
Coast at Paizada Bay.
The Canadian government has notified
the steamship companies that it will
hold them responsible for the mainte-
nance of any destitute Russian Jews
who may land in Canada.
The examination of President Dill oil
the deiunct Clearfeld and Houtzdale
PA. Savings Banks is now in progress,
and facts showing he is guilty OF embez-
zing large sums are coming to light.
Members of the Boston Fruit and Pro.
duce EXCHANGE viii leave Boston in Feb
ruary for trip to the Pacific Coast. The
party will be gone n month, and will be
taken charge of by Raymond 4 Whit.
comb.
During the past week about forty mer
have been discharged from the employ
of the Wagner Palace Oar Company al
East Buffalo, N. Y, because they were
members of an organization of An.
archists.
At New Orleans the case against De
tective O'Malley has been nolle pressed
O'Malley was indicted. on a charge O.
bribing the jury which acquitted the
Italians accused of assassinating Chic
of Police Hennessy.
AS a matter of general convenience
the Secretary of the Treasury has de
cided that employees of the Treasury De
partment may receive their salaries il
weekly installments, instead OF only
semi-monthly as at present.
". n. SpFeCkelS, hutlOlpH CpTeCk6lS
j. Uhler,, Charles Watson, William 0
Hampstead and Louis Spreckels will
make application at Philadelphia mex
month for charter for a corporation tt
be known as the Spreckels Steamship
Company.
The total school nroliment for tn,
United States on JuIy l, this year, wa
about IA, ,220, 900. The total pubRe-schoo
enrolment, including about $4,000 il
universities, etc, was 1880, 900; in pri
private and parochial schools not ia
from 100000 each.
DR.. Dorchester, the Superintendent O
Indian Schools, in giving his estimate Q
the progress in christianizing the In
dians in the Dakotas says from tn
church authorities he learns that tn
Roman Catholic Church Indian popula
, tion in those States is 4,740, Will
from 10000 to II 900 are of other denom
nations.