The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-03-07
THE PACIFIC COAST.
AChineSe Exclusion Bill Before the
California Legislature.
The Contract let for the Building Of the
Soldiers Home at 0rtIng--
Other Coast News.

! san Diego IN talking about building II
railroad 20 Yuma
New Mexico il TO establish an insane
asylum at Las Vegas.
The capital stock OF the Spokane Street
| Railway Company has been increased
from $50, ,00l to 100000.
The North Yakima City Council has
sold $50. 900 worth of city bonds 10 II
firm OF Chicago bankers for 1000.
The Puyallup opera house, costing
| $50 900, has been completed and turned
over to the owners 10y the contractors.
Tacoma acknowledges that il has II
very corrupt police, and 1t IL striving for
renovation Of the police department.
The County Court Of Baker county,
Or, has discovered about 100000 acres
OF land that escaped taxation because
the deeds were not recorded.
The Seattle Board Of Aldermen has
defeated the proposition OF the Board Of
Delegates tn increase the liquor-license
fee from 5000 to $1,000 u year.
by arrangement completed few days
ago the san Francisco steamers will not
call at Victoria, Il. c., except when spe-
cial freight is awaiting shipment.
A decision against NJ. Harris, n mer-
chant OF Carson, New, who tried to avoid
paying his debts, is expected to have II
beneficial effect throughout the State.
The contract has been let for the con-
struction OF the Soldiers Home at Or
ting, WASH, and work will begin on IL
as soon as possible and be pushed to
completion.
Hundreds of houses are going up on
the government reservation near Port
Angeles, Wash, in anticipation OF Con-
gress passing Il lawing giving squatters
prior rights.
The seattle City Council has decided
to discard the use Of the name White
chapel in that city. Police officers are
not allowed TO use the word, and news
papers are asked to discard it also
The heirs OF persons killed and whose
property was swept away by the Walnut
Grove dam disaster near Phoenix, A. T.,
sued the reservoir company for damages,
but the company secured the verdict.
4 Salem capitalist has Il scheme to
build wooden railroad from that city
to the timber, about twenty-five miles
distant. He thinks n suitable road to
bring logs to The city can be constructed
for about 100000.
The Los Angeles Council has ordered
that the new City Hall be oyerhaulcd
and put in q safe condition. The Express
SAYS: San Francisco is not the only
place that has white, raw boned ele-
phant on its hands
Bradstreeps mercantile agency reports
twenty-five failures in Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with twcnty-six for the pre-
vious week aud nineteen for the corre-
spending week Of 1890.
The rains in the South and in Arizona
are very heavy, and the streams are get
ting in dangerous condition. In Ari-
zona the suspension bridge ut Clifton
has been swept away, and people living
near the river are fleeing.
A compromise has been effected be-
tween the San Diego Land and Town
Company and George Neale, by which
the company is enabled to take posses
sion Of all the Swcetwater reservoir and
thereby avoid any future waste OF water.
A number Of squatters on unsurveyed
lands on the Upper Skykomish, who To-
Gated upon what has since been ascer-
tanned to be school and railroad indem-
nifty lands, have abandoned their claims,
thinking that they would be unable to
obtain title to them.
Dan Bemmerly, who was convicted OIL
the murder OF Matt Faighl in Yolo coun-
ty, Cal, nearly two years ago, and who
was sentenced to seventeen years in the
State prison, has been admitted to bail
in the sum of S25 900, pending an APP
peal, by Judge Buchlero OF Soano county.
The people Of Woodland are dissatisfied
with the action of the Judge.
The Tacoma and Roche IIarbor Lime
Company OF San Juan county, Wash,
are shipping large quantities of lime to
San Francisco and Hawaiian Islands.
Heretofore the lime has been taken to
SchtUle anu ldCOnla IOT JTdlSSlllp plHenJ,
but arrangements have now been made
for steamers to come direct from San
Francisco and load at Roche Harbor.
A bill has been introduced in both
Houses of the Legislature to exclude
Chinese from California and compel
those who remain to register, so that it
may be known what becomes of them.
The bill is said to have sanction of the
Federal officials at Washington, and has
been passed upon as constitutional by
the Attorney-General Of the State. The
bill will come up within few days for
action by the Legislature.
The long-pending litigation between
the Bellingham Bay and Neoksack boom
companies has been settled. All suits
pro and con, pending in the Superior
Court of Whatcom county and the Su-
preme Court of the State of Washington
have been withdrawn, and the entire
stock and franchise of the Nooksack
boom company has passed to the owner
ship of the individual stockholders Of
the Bellingham Bay boom company.