The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-10
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Superior Tea Grown and Cured
in South Carolina.
CHIEF OF THE CHICKASAWS ELECTED
Mr. BlaIne's Services as a Speaker In
Great Demand-New Method
Of Settling Damages.


week before last.
Broom-corn harvest is on In Kansas
now. The crop is large and fine.
Minnesota paid bounties TO the amount
Of $4,000 last year for wolf scalps.
The Chicago and Erie road is sinking
into marsh near Valparaiso, Ind.
Grasshoppers are doing an immense
amount Of damage TO the crops in HUI
ron, o.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail.
road wants 10 increase its stock by $751;
100000.
Kansas City street-car conductors un-
dertoOk TO form a union, and were dis
charged.
Boston's tax rate for 1892 will be $l2. 80
on 81 900, an increase Of 30 cents over
last year.
North Carolinians will erect monu-
ment 10 the memory Of the dead Con-
federates from that State.
More building is going on in Chicago
than in New York and Brooklyn to-
gether, says the New York Post.
The Jacinto silver mine at Aspen, Col,
has resumed work after three years idle
ness. The new find is said TO be very
rich.
The river coal miners at Pittsburg are
expected 10 strike against proposed re-
duction OF cents per bushel in their
wages.
Nebraska farmers are preparing for
another State-product train TO advertise
their agricultural resources throughout
the East.
G. Ii. Emerson OF Whitehall, N. Y,
has invented new motor power for air
ships, based ON the principle of the
boomerang"
! Woodville, Mich, built over the Stand
ard mine, which was flooded and desert
ed, il sinking, and the inhabitants are
greatly alarmed.
The New York Herald claims to have
secured proofs that green'goods place
has bsen running for years within a short
distance OF police station.
Chambers has broken out among the
horses in Nashville, Tenn. Stringent
measures are being taken by the health
department to stamp 1t out.
The pension agency in Topeka is the
largest in the country. 1t pays out an
nually $l5,000,000 to the veterans Of
Kansas, Missouri and Colorado.
In drilling gas we'll for DIR. Preston
in Anderson, Ind, recently the drill
went through vein OF iron at 375 feet,
tin at 450 leet and lead at 800 feet.
! A syndicate has secured controlling
interest in the Lynn and Boston railroad.
The deal represented an outlay of $2,-
100000, including the Naumkeag line.
Samples OF tea grown and cured at
Summerville, S. c., have been received
in Baltimore, which expert tea dealers
have pronounced superior to East India
tea.
The city liquor agency in Portland,
Me-, established under the provisions OF
the prohibitory law, sold last year over
$57, 900 worth of whisky for medicinal
purposes.
Judge Anthony of Chicago holds that
the title of a strip OF land along the lake
shore of Chicago, dedicated to that city
by Elisha Hundley of Virginia, rests
with the city.
Out of total of 1904 paupers in
almshouses in the United States in the
year covered by the eleventh census
9l.15 per cent. were white, and S.S5 pei
cent. were colored.
According to inside information the
Pullman Palace Car Company is now
earning about 20 per cent. per annum
and carrying more to surplus account
than it pays out in dividends.
Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde returned
from Europe on the steamer La Bretagne,
Willie Wilde remained in London. Mrs
Leslie says this climate does not agree
with him, being too stimulating"
The windows of the armory of the
Eighteenth Regiment at Pittsburg have
been broken with stone thrown by men
who made their escape. An attempt tc
steal the arms had been previously made.
The Chinese in Chicago refuse to take
out certificates, and test of the law
will be made before the courts. Until
the decision on the constitutionality ol
the law is obtained the Chinese will not
register.
JONAS WOll0, WuO utn Uoou oIoSoCu
Governor of the Chickasaw nation, is 6
iull- blooded Indian, and cannot speak
English. He is opposed to any legisla
ton which will tend to advance his peo
pie in civilization.
Mr.. Blaine's services as a public
speaker are in great demand this year
The people of Skowhegan, Me-, have
had the nerve to ask him to deliver az
oration upon the occasion of the tentf
!. anniversary of the opening of the shot
r factory.
) The Treasury officials state that thu
department has balance of $50, 900, 900
+ and the revenues, Notwithstanding tn,
loss of 100000, 600 on sugar, are increas
t ing at the rate of 81, 1,000,00 montl
| from the customs alone. This rate o
increase has been going on since March