The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-13
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
The Chinese Renting Rooms in
the City Of Tacoma.
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oREG0N'S WHEAT CROP FOR 1892.
Fruit Men Of California In a Pleasant
Frame Of Mlnd-COmpOsltlon Of
Oregon Legislature.
OREGoNS WHEAT CROP FOR 1892.

Portland and San Bernardino have In
augurated war on dives and dance
houses.
The Utah Liberals have decided 10
nominate Il candidate for delegate TO
Congress.
Los Angeles is having an epidemic Of
burglaries Several expert crooks are
believed to be ut work.
The Sacramento Federated Trades has
begun crusade TO compel the Chinese
10 move outside the city limits.
The Umatilla reservation IL overrun
with large black orickets, which are
proving destructive to the grain fields.
Grasshoppers in swarms have appeared
in Williamson Valley, sixteen miles
north OF Prescott, A. T., and all vegeta-
ton is suffering.
The fruit men OF California were never
in better humor than at present. The
rise in prices for fruit has made delight
ful change in affairs.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sioners will soon be In San Francisco to
look into the alleged determinations on
Missouri river and Pacific Coast rates.
One hundred and fifty Japs have been
run out OF Nampa and Caldwell, Idaho,
and thore will probably be a further up
rising against them on the Oregon Short
Line.
The Temescal tin mine has been closed
to the public owing to the late pub
lished reports Of It's standing. No one
will be allowed on the premises except
employees.
Rev. j. A. Smith, the absconding
evangelist, has returned to Santa Cruz
from Seattle in company OF the Sheriff.
Bail was set at n, 900, in lieu OF which
he Is in Jail. He acknowledges his guilt.
The Wolney Canal Company, in Mari
copa county, A. T., Is working 800 men,
and the monster enterprise will be com
pleted by November /. The ditch is
over 90 miles in length and Is now near
Ing completion.
The San Luis and San Joaquin Rail-
road Company has been incorporated,
with capital stock OF 100000, to con-
struct a railroad northward from San
Luis Obispo to El Moro, distance Of
about ten miles.
At Phoenix, A. T., four member Of the
Philharmonic Band (Mexican) have
been arrested on a charge Of maintain
ing nuisance, in playing their instru-
ments between the hours OF 10 and IL
A. M. and late at night.
Judge Van Vleet has decided to re-
sign his position as Superior Judge at
Sacramento, to take effect within the
next few months. The Judge proposes
to resume the practice OF his profession
and will locate in San Francisco.
Rooms at Tacoma have been rented
through third parties, presum ably for
Twin Wo, OF Portland, for the use OF a
mercantile house. This is the first de-
cisive move to establish Chinese mer-
chants in connection with the Northern
Pacific Oriental Steamship Line.
The weeds on the monitor Monadnock,
which vessel has been lying for year
near the ferry-gate entrance to the Mare
Island dock yard, were found to be from
three to twelve inches in length, and it
required considerable labor to get them
Off the hull.
Articles OF incorporation of the Gran
ite and Greenhorn Consolidated Mining
and Milling Company of Granite, Grant
county, Or, were filed in the Office of
the Secretary of State by A. J.. Tabor,
Joseph N. Ditmars and G. N. Miller;
capital stock, $1,250,00O.
Dun's Commercial Agency has advices
from every wheat-growing county in
Oregon, showing that Oregon's wheat
crop for 1892 will be 2,800,0OO bushels
less than in 1891. The yield in the
State of Washington will, it is stated,
be considerably diminished.