The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-05
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Chinese Highbinder Murders a Boy
in Los Angeles.
HORSE THIEVES KILLED IN IDAHO.
German Shoemaker Breaks a Pitcher to
Pieces and Cuts His Throat With
the Fragments,
HORSE THIEVES KILLED IN IDAHO

Sacramento has voted 100000, in
bonds for levee improvements.
During the year 1891 there were 2,ll0
marriages and 4bS divorces in Oregon.
The City and Citizens Water Com
panies at Los Angeles have combined.
The Star group OF mines at HALEY,
Idaho, have been sold TO Salt Lake capl-
talists.
The grain warehouse OF the Pacific
Milling Company. Mt Tucson, A. T.. has
been destroyed by fire.
A mountain OF carbonate OF zinc has
been discovered near lliIlsboro, n. NJ, f,
the ore OF which is worth about $50 per
ton.
Silver salmon are now very plentiful
at Yaquina Bay, Or, and are being
caught W tn trolling lines in great num-
bers.
Dick Horn, alias "Fox," shot Joe
Lynch IN the stomach Mt Wellington,
New. The trouble was over game Of
cards.
The captain Of the clipper sealer Agnes
Macdonald at Victoria, b. O., has is-
sued challenge for race to the Sand
ch Islands. and back for $1,000.
sontag and Evans are believed TO have
located near Watts Valley, fifteen miles
north OF Sampson Flat, where provisions
for the winter have been sent into them.
Professor Barnard at the Lick Observ-
atory has discovered by the aid OF
photography faint comet. This is the
first discovery OF comet by this means.
The Supreme Court OF Idaho has unan-
imously sustained the consttutionality
OF the State test oath law. This will
prevent the Mormons from voting this
year.
Mill owners in Washington and.Ore-
gon, outside OF Portland, are organizing
ior mutual benefit and protection.
They claim they are making flour with
out profit,
Chung Yung, the supposed murderer
OF the Spanish boy, Fernando Quijada,
at Los Angeles, whose body was found
in cesspool, has been captured and
placed in prison.
A. Ruiz, Mexican rancher at San
Diego, attempted to get possession OF
his wile's property by swearing that she
was insane, but he landed in Jail on a
charge OF perjury.
The advance guard of Chief Engineer
Keunedy's corps has arrived at Palermo,
CAL, and will at once commence the pre-
liminary survey for the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake railroad.
About twenty shippers OF Seattle have
IN tro n tinn hurpQn tn
tect each other against unjust discrlmi-
nation by transportation companies and
for the protection and development ol
the shipping interests Of the city.
On opening the schoolhouse of the
Gallagher district, in Mason Valley,
New, after the summer vacation 1t was
discovered the bees had taken possession
of the children's desks, and about 30C
pounds of honey were taken from them
It is stated at Boise City, Idaho, that
posse of citizens exterminated band
of eight horse thieves in August in
Idaho county, the particulars Of which
are Just becoming known. After the
men were shot, their bodies were hanged
and left for the buzzards to feast upon
A German shoemaker named Ru-
doph Manz at Phoenix, A. T., during
the night broke pitcher to pieces, anC
with the jagged fragments cut his throat
With the blood flowing from him ir
streams he walked through the hall to
the porch, and deliberately precipitated
himself to the ground, sixteen feet be-
low. In spite OF the added injuries from
striking stump the man must have
been still conscious and intent on self
destruction, for ne reeled off to ditch
where he was found, in which he seems
to have Intentionally thrust and kept
his head until unconscious or dead.