The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-23
Irish Heirs After A. T.
Stewards Millions.
LAND COMMISSIONER CARTER
Surprised That Surveyor-Generals of
the Coast Are Not Rushing the
Work Of State Surveys.

The Washington arch fund in New
York city amounts 10 $9S, $40, and $l7,-
80 are still needed to complete the work.
BY the voluntary act OF the officials Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad all the
trackmen on the line have been given an
increase Of wages.
G. T.. Huntington Is charged with dis
obeying u subpoena in New York court,
and may be placed in arrest when he
returns TO that city.
Notwithstanding the Mckinley bill
the exports from the Dominion Of Can
ada for the past nine months show an
increase Of over 100000.
The reported discovery Of twenty
acre gold field on Sage creek in the Bad
Lands near Rapid City, ;. D., is not be-
lieyed by the Black Hills miners.
Secretary Foster has fixed the maxi
mum number OF seals which the Com
mercial Company will be allowed to take
during the coming season at 10000
A Washington correspondent says the
President will probably give three or
! four Of the nine Judges 10 be appointed
TO the new Circuit Courts to the Demo
Crats.
About 100 society women of Memphis
have organized company, and will build
a free hospital for women and children,
10 he known az the Women's Hospital OF
| Memphis.
A Kansas authority says the total
amount OF farm mortgage Indebtedness
| in Kansas does not exceed $4,000, 900,
and it is being paid off at the rate of ST.
10000 month.
Owing to the action of the Legislature
/ in cutting down the State Worlds Fair
appropriation to 500 900, all the Wiscon-
| sin Commissioners and the Board of
Women Managers will resign.
4 disastrous split in the ranks of the
Farmers Alliance organization in Mis-
sissippi is reported Within the last few
months the membership in that State
has shrunk from 5000 10 5000.
After three successive failures at farm
ing the Winnebago Indians made up
their minds to abandon farming, and
will make no further effort to raise any
thing this year on their reservation.
The contest for the A. T. Stewart mill
ions is being renewed. Many heirs of
Stewart are reported to have turned up
in Belfast Notwithstanding Hilton's dep
osition that the deceased had no living
+ relatives.
The Chicago and Erie railroad refuses
to permit the Standard Oil Company to
parallel its pipe from Lima, o., to Chi
CagO, and the Standard has been put to
enormous expense securing right of way
off railroad territory.
Statistics furnished by the Iowa Board
of Health show that insanity is increas-
ing in that prohibition State at an alarm
ing rate, especially in the rural districts.
The total number of cases increased
from | 1928 in 1889 to l $40 in 1890.
The census bureau has issued a bulle-
tin on the subject of Horticulture through
out the country. California stands third
in the list of States in the total value of
plant sales, New York and Pennsylvania
alone excelling her in that particular.
Under the provisions of the Mckinley
tariff act all special taxes imposed upon
dealers in leaf tobacco dealers in manu-
factured tobacco, manufacturers of tS-
bacco and peddlers are repealed. The
law went into effect on the lst instant.
Acting Secretary Chandler has certi-
fed to the Secretary of the Treasury
that in compliance with the act of Con-
gress of August 80, 1890, $4,000 is due
to the State of Oregon to be used in the
maintenance of an agricultural college.
At the Agricultural Department at
! Washington there has been received
collection of animals, such as rats, liz
ards and the like, found by the agents
of the government sent to explore Death
Valley, Cal. 1t will be properly arranged
for exhibition.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding of the
Treasury Department has written to the
Collector of Customs at San Francisco,
requesting at the instance OF the Mica
raguan government that W. l.. Merry be
recognized there as Consul-General of
that government.
The members of the Italian colony at
New Orleans have quit quarreling with
the American population, and having in
measure recovered from the effect
caused by the summary action of the
citizens of that city, they have begun to
quarrel among themselves.
The architect of New York's Grant
monument will be John H. Duncan of
that city, who designed the soldiers and
sailors memorial arch in Brooklyn. The
Grant memorial will cost 100000, and
the mausoeum up to the first story may
be finished for half the sum.
Land Commissioner Carter is very
much surprised that the Surveyor-Gen-
erals of the Coast States are not rushing
the work of State surveys. The general
fund appropriated to be used for making
the various surveys, setting aside school
lands and sectionizingpub lands where
settlements have been made, was divid-
ed among the States by the Land Com
missioner according to the ratio the de-
mand would require.