The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-09
The British Tug Lorne
Seized and Fined.
OREGON SHEEP NOT FOR SALE.
New Sugar Refinery Started in San
Francisco in Opposition to the
Two Old Renneries.

Hop growers Of Washington are selling
this seasons crop ut 10 cents II pound,
Spokane's land office is crowded daily
with men seeking TO make homestead
entries.
Surveyors are locating telephone line
from Ellensburgh TO Selah, Burge and
Yakima.
Tacoma people are building steam
boat, which they claim will be the fast
est on the Sound.
A celebration of the discovery OF Gray =
harbor in 1892 is proposed to be held ut
Grays llarbor city on July 4.
British Columbia wants an increase in
the Chinese head tax. 1t Is now $50, and
Victoria wants it made 800.
Salem il beginning to realize the inn
portance of the fact that she has first
class stone quarry just outside her limits.
Twelve union miners ut Wellington,
b. c., are under arrest for beating non
union man until his life was despaired of.
The British tug Lorne has been seized
and fined 1914 at Port Angeles for towing
vessels from that port to other American
ports.
The Times says the expenditures in
Los Angeles this year for street railroads,
improvements and buildings will reach
$5,000,0O0.
II. Humason, q prominent cattle dealer
al spokane, convicted of cattle stealing,
has bSNn sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary.
President Fulda reported at n meeting
of the Directors of the California Ath-
letic Club at San Francisco the other
night that he had visited Peter Jackson S
quarters and found Peter feeling well
and able to walk about without crutches
or even cane. jackson assured Presi-
dent Fulda that he would be all right for
his match with Corbett in due time. He
is now suffering no pain from his recent
ly injured leg, and all inflammation has
disappeared.
Oregon agricultural experiment station
has issued its April bulletin, which will
be of more than usual interest to fruit
growers and farmers, as it contains an
account of practical work at the station
in experimenting on the codling moth
with paris green and with a combined
fungcide and insecticide; also an article
on the hop louise, giving history Of the
animal, remedies for it, etc. This bulle-
tin will be sent free to all residents Of
the State applying for it, and It'll worthy
of perusal by all who raise fruit or hops.
A meeting of representatives from
twenty irrigation districts of California
was held one day last week to take action
toward promoting the sale of irrigation
bonds. Isador Jacobs presided, and said
the San Francisco Chamber OF Commerce
would assist as far as possible in aid Of
the cause OF irrigation. He considered
the bonds issued under the Wright irriga-
tion law a good investment for capitalists,
they having been passed upon by the Su-
preme Court. Judge Hazen then read a
paper holding the name OF these bonds
should be made as we'll known as those
of other gilt-edge securities. Two hun
dred thousand dollars worth had been
bought by San Francisco bankers, and
some of them had been sold abroad. 1t
was decided to persuade the San Fran
cisco bankers to indorse the irrigation
bonds, 80 that market for them might
be found in the East.