The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-06-18
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Situation in the Cpur d'Alene
Mines Unsettled.
IDAHO AND NEVADA RIVERS HIGH.
Small. Sized Mexican Revolution Said TO
be llatchlng In the NelghbOr.
hood Of NOgaleS.
The Carson river is booming.

The Carson river Is booming.
The Sacramento river is falling slowly.
The Boise river In Idaho Is very high.
Truckee, CAL, is working for high
school.
Los Angeles is systematically worked
by burglars.
Vegetable trains from Southern Cak
fornia to Chicago are projected.
Numbers OF prospectors are following
the McCook exploring party into the
Navajo country.
The situation in the Cnur d'Alene
country Ia still unsettled. The mines
are closed, and thousands OF men are
idle.
IL is stated at NOgales, A. T., that q
small.sized Mexican revolution is being
Matched In that neighborhood. Horse
stealing on large scale Is said 10 be one
OF the indications.
The Southern Pacific Company by the
decision OF referee will now be COM
PEELED to accept the freight schedule
adopted by the Oregon Board OF Rail-
road Commissioners.
Southern Pacific surveyors are work.
ing their way easterly from Copperopolis,
Cal II Is believed that this Is an effort
10 secure the Big Tree route and head
off the Salt Lake railroad.
The crop outlook in the Salt River
Valley in Arizona is good, and the prices
expected to be realized are satisfactory
to the farmers. The alfalfa crop is one
half larger than last years.
II Ia confidently stated by those who
have studied the matter that in three
years the production In prunes and raj
sins in California will be enough TO sup
ply America and preclude importations
altogether.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry ia growing
worse mentally. Physically her condi-
tion is improved. She talks to herself,
and sings great deal, and Is careless
about her appearance. She is not vio'
lent, but noisy, and is permitted liberty
in the asylum grounds at Stockton with
other patients.
Evidence is accumulating that the Al
gadonas grant, which embraces the
choicest lands along the Colorado river
below Yuma, is forgery, and'the pros
pect that the land will before long be
thrown open to settlement is causing
would be locators to prepare for the
rush.
A highbinders' war broke out at Sac
ramento the other night, and the pistol
shots sounded like rattle OF musketry.
A passing electric car was in the line OF
the bullets, and was quickly vacated by
passengers and abandoned by the con-
ductor and motor man. Two dead Chi
namen and wounded one were found
after the battle.
The fact is stated at Fresno that new
route for a flume has been surveyed to
the timber region on the headwaters of
the San Joaquin. The terminus Of the
new fume will be at Pollasky on the
line of the Mountain railroad at the
rapids in the river. 1t is said extensive
mills and factories are planned for that
place, to be run by water power. The
fume is to be forty-iive miles long
A report from Phoenix, A. T., states
that 800 men have been put to work on
the Wolhey canal, and it will be COM
pleted as soon as possible. 1t will be 70
miles in length and the largest irri-
eating canal in America, opening to cul-
tivation 100000 acres of desert lands.
The water will be supplied from dam
in the Gila river, and for miles the canal
will run in the bed of the old Aztec ca
nal, so much written of.
General Manager E. Lyons of the
Northern Terminal Company has had
funds placed at his command and been
ordered to go ahead with twenty-stall
roundhouse and a freighthouse 800 feet
long for the Northern Pacific on the ter
minal grounds at Portland, Or. The
Bowers dredger is filing the lake for
these grounds at rapid rate, and work
on the grand union passenger station,
the finest west of Chicago, will be re-
sumed In short time.