The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-22
The Idaho MormOns Regain the
Rights Of Citizenship.
EXCESSIVE DRoUrH IN NEW MEXICO.
lllt Water to be Plp"d Into Every Bus!-
ness Block and Residence Of
Boise City, IdihO.

The Chinese in Idaho propose TO defy
the Six Companies and, will register.
over %, 900 tons OF sugar bects have
been harvested at Chico 30 lar this sea
son.
Work has been commenced upon n
new foundry building and power house
for Stanford University.
Much suffering in the southeastern
portion OF New Mexico IL reported,
caused by the excessive drouth.
Heavy swelIs have washed away the
fabin of the wrecked Wetmore, and the
vessel now looks from Marshtield ~ II
she had broken in two.
The Hudson Bay Company has closed
out its store at Yale, Il. O.. the trade
having decreased TO such an extent that
the store ia no longer necessary.
Applicants for electric power fran
chise at San Jose have been refused,
owing to the objection of the applicants
to put their wires under ground,
The old adobe Mt Santa Barbara, in
which General Fremont had his head
quarters In the early days when he had
his camp there, was burned the other
morning.
William Simmons, who lives ten mi es
from Salem, Or, has grown three acres
OF cranberries this year. They are choice,
aud are said to be fully equal to the Cape
Cod variety.
Spokane Indians have held a meeting
near Spokane. They are willing to 20
on the Cpur d'Alene lands, but want
money to spend for themselves. There
are about one hundred of them, home
less and landless vagabonds, but they
believe the government will give them
all they ask.
Some brute in human form has been
shooting valuab stock on Willow creek
Crook county, Or. A few weeks ago Joe
Hinkle found fine Hereford bull, which
had cost him $3.50, dead in his pasture,
with rifle bullet in his head, and few
days ago Perry Read discovered thor
oughbred Shorthorn belonging to his
herd that had been shot and will prob
ably die.
Colonel l.. w. Burr told the Kern
County Echo while discussing the scale
parasite that there was time last year
when the parasites were not noticeable,
but with the return Of spring they came
out in largely increased numbers and
began their work of destroying the scale.
Colonel Burr's theory is that they are
hidden away, possibly in the earth near
the tree, and that they will be on deck
again next spring.
Daniel IL. Ward, who shot and killed
John Looney last July in Gillian county,
Or, has been acquitted. After being
out two hours the jury returned a ver-
dict of "not guilty." The jury really
agreed upon this verdict five minutes
after retiring to the jury room, but
deemed it better form to deliberate an
hour or two before redering the verdict
1t was proven at the trial that Ward
acted in sefdefense.
Frank Leach, young tailor who mis-
appropriated suit OF clothes at Weston,
completed his sentence in the county
Jail at Pendleton recently. He was
searched on leaving, when it was discov-
cred, almost by chance, that he had
taken the mainspring from his watch
and lett it with the prisoners, to be used
as saw. They were compelled to dis
gorge, and Leach was rearrested and
will stay in Jail fifty days longer.
Prof. Edward s. Holden has sent an
open address to the San Jose Chamber
OF Commerce in answer to the action OF
that body in passing a resolution con-
demnatory OF the Professors aiministra
tion of the Lick observatory. He says
the Chamber should have consulted per-
sons familiar with the situat on of affairs
at the observatory and not have relied
so much on newspaper reports before
charging him with mismanagement. He
desires, he says, a full investigation by
any competent persons.