The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-10-24
Meeting Of Superior Judges viii Be
Held In Seattle 10 Formulate
Uniform Rules.

works shipped 4, $50 barsof bullion, val
ucd ut 500, ,040, during September.
Tacoma's wheat receipts now average
100 cars daily, or about 5000 bushels;
Seattle, 30 cars daily, or about 24,0O0
bushels.
There In movement on foot to take
the eastern portion Of Ciallam and JEFF
ferson counties, separated from the
Sound by the Olympics, and form new
county OF them.
An adjustment OF the loss Of the Che.
ney Normal School, which was burned
recently, has been made by the State
Auditor and the companies, and ~ 900
has been paid in by the latter.
Silver Lake, one mile east Of Medical
Lake, IN becoming quite fishing resort,
the German carp put therein few years
ago having increased 10 fast that they
now furnish excellent sport for fisher.
men.
Articles of incorporation Of the Puget
Sound Vinegar and Pickle Company have
been filed by John Braun, George Trick
and +. w. Bergen as trustees. The cap
ital " $4,000. The company proposes
to manufacture yeast also.
Postmaster w. A. Rounds has received
official notification that the South Bend
postollice has been promoted 10 the third
clasa. The postmaster's report for the
quarter ended September 30 shows
$S23 S2 ~ the amount of stamps can
celed.
The Northern Pacific land department
is doing big business in the Clarke
county tract. The fears that the COM
pany will lose the land have about sub
sided, and much land is being sold.
Those who settled on their land prior TO
1882 get ii for $500 an acre.
The lumbermen who met at Tacoma
the other day TO prepare plans for secur-
ing Washington lumber for the State ex-
hibit building at the Columbian Worlds
Fair have decided to meet at Seattle
within thirty days for the purpose Of
perfecting an organization OF the State
Lumbermen's Association.
The projected ship canal to connect
Puget Sound with Lakes Union and
Washington at Seattle, If carried out,
will make Seattle one of the finest har-
bors in the world, having fresh water
dock large enough to accommodate the
commerce OF any port but, as the inn
provement would cost $1,000, 900, it is
scarcely probable that ii will be under
taken for many years.
A zine ledge Is the latest mineral dis
covery made in the vicinity OF Spokane.
| G, F. Carlin reports that he has discov-
cred iourteen-foot ledge of that min
eral, and recently took samples OF the
ore to Charles Fassett for assay. Mr.,
Fassett has made a number of assays,
and finds that the ore carries from 30 to
40 per cent. of the metal. The location
of the ledge is withheld.
A writ of error to the Supreme Court
of the United States has been ale we'd
| by Chief Justice Anders in the Sc
attic Valentine scrip case of Milton l..
Baer vs.. Moran Bros. Company. The
transcript must be filed at Washington
within sixty days. An attempt will be
made to advance the case on the ground
Of its great public importance, so that ii
may be heard next February.
Hoy Moya, a Seattle Chinaman, has
secured permit from the Health De-
partment of Tacoma to exhume the
bones of half.dozen Cinnamon who
were buried in the south part of the city
near Center street several years ago, be-
fore the Cinnamon were driven from the
city. Hoy Moya will work under the
protection of United States Marsha
Brown, and the bones exhumed will bt
sent to China.
|. J. Lichtenberg OF the Superior Court
of King county has issued call to al
Superior Judges of the State to meet al
the Courthouse in Seattle November 2,
for the purpose of formulating unifern
rules for the government of the Superior
Courts. Although wide diversity o
opinion is expressed concerning the oh
jects of the meeting, nineteen of th'
Judges give approval of having 1t. Eacl
Judge is expected to select member o
the bar from his county, and the attor
neys SO chosen will confer with tn,
Judges. 1t is expected that there will
be good attendance, and it is probabl,
the guests will be entertained by th,
Bar Association Of King county.
A California company has leased for
term of years a, coal mine near Kelso
about half mile from the Cowlitz rive
and three miles from the Columbia, i,
Cowlitz county, and is preparing to de
velop it. A tunnel has been'run in 20
feet on the upper vein, and from thi
point shaft has been sunk eighty feet
passing through five strata of coal. Th
first is seven feet in thickness, the sec
| ond two and one-half feet, the third fou
: and one-half feet, the fourth five an
| one-half feet and the fifth seven and one
I half feet. There is coal enough in th
upper stratum to last for a generation @
: so. Edward Kimball, an agent of th
3 company, has had working test of tn
coal made at the power-house of the cf
E ble-road company at Portland, whic
proved very satisfactory. It is goo
. quality of Ignite, hard and clean, carry
: ing 45 per cent. of fixed carbon, which
: little better than the best Washingto
local.