The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-14
EASTERN ITEMS.
Chinese Are Coming in
From Mexico.
A MULATT0 TURNING PINK.
New York S Chief Justice Decides That
Buying of Poker Chips is a
Legal Transaction.
A MULATT0 TURNING PINK.
Chicago proposes a floating hotel.

Chicago proposes floating hotel.
A Baltimore mulatto is turning pink.
France will buy $4,000, 900 worth Of
our wheat.
New York Socialists have nominated
an Alderman.
Minnesota's new law provides for pri-
vate executions at night.
Detroit conductors are attempting to
enforce nO-smoking order.
There is less railroad building than at
any former period for many years.
Four dramatic companies in New York
are composed Of labor-union talent.
The constitution Of the United States
has been published in Hebrew for New
Workers.
Compulsory life insurance is the order
OF New York heating company to its
employees.
Timothy Hopkins counsel says there
is no thought of compromise in the
Searles will case.
Many Chinese are reported crossing
from Mexico into the United States near
Brownsville, Tex.
The Transmississippi Congress at
Omaha has adjourned, and will meet in
New Orleans in February.
The United States grand jury at Sioux
Falls has found eighteen indictments
against the Louisiana Lottery Company.
The defaulting ex-paying teller Garcia
OF the Louisiana National Bank at New
Orleans has been released on bonds Of
$25, 900.
Total exports of breadstuifs in Septem-
Der aggregated in value $31, ,462, ,02l,
against $780, ,34s in them same month
last year.
The Southern Pacific train robbers
were run down in Texas and captured,
ali but one, who killed himself after be,
ing wounded.
Forest fires in Oklahoma have COM
pletely wiped out Cimarron City, small
town, the residents escaping by jumping
into the river.
The new bounty and the necessary
regulations TO enforce the law have
caused deadlock at New Orleans in the
of sugar.
OF the Al 500 seal skins caught in the
Sea this season 24,0J0 were
taken by sixteen Nova Scotia schooners
fishing in that water.
Chancellor Snow of the Kansas Uni
versity proposes to kill the chinch bug
with a deadly parasite. Experiments
have been very successful.
Census returns show that Montana has
one liquor saloon to every sixty inhabi-
tants. Kansas one % every S23 popula-
ton, Iowa one to 465 and Maine one to
7Oa.
Camden's undertakers have combined
against those who refuse or neglect to
pay funeral expenses, and black list is
being prepared for their future guild,
ance.
A gun is being constructed at the Beth
lehem (Pa.) works for the United States
ship Destroyer, which will send 400
pounds OF nitro glycerine 900 feet un-
der water.
Eugene +. Garcia, the paying teller of
the Louisiana National Bank at New Or
leans, has been declared a defaulter in
the sum OF $3.50, 900. The banks capital
has been unimpaired.
The Boston Business Mems Executive
Association will request the Legislature
to prevent the issuing Of passes to legis-
lators, executive officers and the Judi
ciary of Massachusetts.
The owners Of one OF the finest busi-
ness corners in Chicago have decided to
erect 81 ,000,000 sixteen-story building,
to be called The Columbus in honor
of Americas discoverer.
The Presbyterian Synod at Watertown,
N. Y, adopted resolution urging Con-
gress not to lend $5,000,000 for Worlds
Fair purposes, unless it was agreed that
the fair be closed Sundays.
The Blood Indians and the Canadian
police have had fight near the bound
ary. The Bloods stole the horses of the
police, and the conflict was occasioned
in the pursuit of the thieves.
Eight thousand acres of pine land in
Sawyer county, Wis, were recently sold
to the Mississippi River Logging Com
pany for 100000. The 5000 acres will
cut 100, 100000 feet of timber.
Chief Justice Ehrlich of the New York
City Court has decided that the buying
of chips at a game of poker is legal
transaction, and that person buying
the same could not avoid payment on
the ground that it was gambling debt.
Rev. G. P. Reilly of Marion. Ind, is a
member OF the q. A. Il. and also of the
National Conference of the Wesleyan
Methodist Convention at Grand Rapids.
The conference opposes secret orders,
and he will have to quit it or the Grand
Army.
A convict in the Ohio penitentiary is
the latest long sleeper. He has been
sleeping steadily for a month, and can
only be aroused to take food by the APP
plication of paddles to the soles of his
feet. The doctors say he will sleep him
self to death.