The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-09-26
EASTERN ITEMS.
Coinage for the Month
Of August.
THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND.
Valentine Scrip Cannot Be Used in the
Location Of Tide Lands on
Puget Sound
THE SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND.

Indiana saloonkeepers are forming a
State union.
Chicago unveils her Grant monument
on October Z.
The Vermont Legislature voted Sl5 OOC
to the Worlds Fair.
Old Crow, Il Cheyenne chief, il trying
to set up a Messiah craze.
Mrs. Robert Ray IIamilton's theatrical
venture has gone TO pieces.
The North German Lloyd Company
VIII run line Of steamers between New
York and Genoa.
The Cincinnati tax commission is nm
carthing millions of securities not placed
on the tax duplicate.
Typhoid fever has broken out in the
State idiot asylum at Syracuse. Impure
water IL the cause for it.
Only 3 per cent, or lS, ,27O, of the total
immigration 10 this country during the
last fiscal year settled in the South.
II is estimated that %, 600 horse power
will he required for the eectric-lighting
plant OF the Columbian Exposition.
The Delaware fish commission has
placed 100000 shad in the Delaware
river at Bull Island during the present
year.
Additional instructions concerning the
smuggling of lottery tickets into the
United States from Mexico have been
issued.
The substitution of the cable for
horses on the Broadway and Third-ave-
nue. lines will throw 5000 horses out of
employment.
The Navy Department will at once
issue orders concerning the survey OF
the Pacitic-cable route. The Thetis will
probably do the work.
Some Of the roads in the Northwestern
blind passenger pool have been furnish
ing erroneous statements OF the business
to the Advisory Board.
An electrically illuminated cross is 10
be placed on the spire of a Methodist
church in Minneapolis. Fifty-two in
candescent lamps will be used.
The South Dakota people are so iubi-
liant over their big crops that they have
set about the work of raising a huge
grain palace in celebration thereof.
The land office refuses to restore San
Clemente Island on the southwest coast
of California to the public domain, ow-
ing TO its future availability as a naval
station.
The Secretary of the Interior decides |
that Valentine scrip cannot be used in |
the location OF lands lying between the |
high and low-water mark in Puget Sound |
district, Wash.
Already apprehensions are beginning
to be expressed at the possible fate of |
Peary in his Greenland explorations. |
There are fears that he and his party will
meet the fate of the Greedy party.
The Boston AdrsrtiSer gives the partic-
ulars involving 81 600, 900 worth of stock
OF the big Quincy copper mine in Mich
igan and serious allegations rejecting
upon the honesty OF the managers.
The census returns for Pennsylvania
show that the unfortunate city of Johns
town has increased in population since
1880 from $3.50 to q ,S05, a growth which
makes il now the thirteenth city in the
State.
Conservative estimates place the yield
Of Minnesota and the Dakotas at 1885,
100000 bushels of wheat, against 90, ,00O,-
200 last year. 1t is asserted that the
wheat crop of the three States would fill
a train 250 miles long.
Black ants threaten to take possession
Of Boston, and State street, the citadel
)f Boston's moneyed men, is literally
with them. They are on the
streets, on the sidewalks and crawling
lp the side of buildings.
A rumor has been published at Win
1ipeg that the Grand Trunk is about to
extend its line to Winnipeg via Sault '
Ste. Marie and Duluth, and that when
;he former city is reached the line will
De extended to the Pacific Coast.
The coinage Of the United States mints
Turing the month of August was Double
Eagles, 81 100000; eagles, 1929 1000; half
Eagles, $50 ,000 standard dollars, 81, $780,
100; dimes, 1854 1000; cents, $74, 200; l {
'ent, $4,000. Total coinage, s., lS,400.
The Tennessee Legislature has decided ]
hat it is unable to abrogate the present
ease OF convicts. The session was called \
or the purpose OF breaking the lease, s
md the call was necessitated by riots at d
he place where convicts were employed
II the mines.
All the reports received at the internal !
evenue bureau indicate that the pro- q
luction of sugar from beets, sorghum, :
maple syrup and cane will be up to the :
riginal estimates of the producers, un- :
Ter which the bounty was estimated at :
bout SIC, 100000 per year.
The local directory of the Worlds Fair \
las formally confirmed the nomination b
+ J. M. Samuels of Kentucky, chief of a
he horticultural department; L. w. v
robinson of the United States navy. y
hief of machinery, and H. S. Peabody 8
t Illinois, chief of the department of f,
Iberal arts. L