The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-27
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Good Rains in Arizona Improve
the Stock Industry.
GRASS FIRES CAUSE MUCH LOSS
Editor Visits Tie Top Of Mount Shasta
Result Of Ant.DebrlS COnYen-
ton at Sacramento.
GRASS FIRES CAUSE MUCH LOSS

The eectr c tramway power-house at
Victoria, b. g., was burned. Loss, 800,
600.
The Boston will join the Charleston
nj Santa Cruz, and will alterward saiI
for Honolulu.
The hop vines In twenty-acre tract
neu Sacramento were laid Hat by Il
heavy south wind.
Charles Crew, OF Port Oxford, killed II
fine yea otter last week. He WAS offered
aud received $3.50 for the skin.
Good rains in Maricopa county, A. T.,
have improved the stock industry. A
rain famine has been threatened.
TIE progresso, the frat OF the Atlantic
aud Pacific Steamship Company's line
from New York, has arrived ut Redondo,
Cal.
The suslaw Railroad Company sent
ont engineers last week b cross-section
and set grade stakes on the first fifteen
miles ol the survey.
the seal hunters killed in the neigh
borhood OF 200 seaions ut Blanco reel
during the season, and made very
good seasons work OF It.
The remains of man, about fifty
years old, were found between Old Sau-
aaito aud Lime Point. The large toe
on the right loot had been cut off.
A considerable quantity OF Salmon
Mc"ntain quartz wa shipped by the
last steamer TO San Francisco for assay.
An extensive ledge has been discovered.
Considerable alarm exists at San
Diego over the smallpox cases at Chula
Vista, as proper measures to prevent
the spread OF the disease have not been
taken,
Benton comfy (Or.) householders and
others are in despair over the growth
and rapid spread of the thistle. It's
purple DIoss Jms are TO be seen every
where.
Extensive grass fires near Fresno
have caused much loss to hay, grass,
fencing ami exposed houses. The fire
will make iced scarce in that immediate
section.
The bounty upon coyote and squirrel
sea ps in Polk county, Or, expired Sat
urday. During the term of its validity,
from February |, there was paid out in
scrip upon the county the sum OF ST.
778.S5.
A dog owned by w. II. Haight, near
Traver, CAL, was bitten by rattlesnake
and the wound was bathed with coal
oil, Mr.. Haignt not having any known
remedy on hand. In about two hours
the dog was out OF danger.
Recently Victoria sloop landed q
dozen Chinese near Point Wilson, Wash.
and hastily sailed sway. The customs
officers captured four OF the Chinese in
the woods near Port Townsend and are
on the trail Of the others.
Tue farmers of Crook county, Or, are
fast getting in their hay harvest, and al
report good yield. Hay on the wild
meadows is not as tall as usual, but it il
much thicker on the ground, which
more than makes up for its lack o
height.
Game is eeen quite plentifully, accord
iTS to reports, up Ashland creek canyon
Two cinnamon bears came close to thu
camp the other day while only the
ladies' aud children were there, and {
panther was seen at distance by some
of the campers.
Ihe SlSson MGSc0t eulCor IlaS Deen
the top of Mount Shasta lately. HI
SAYS the government monument is ou
OF plumb, leaning to the southeast or
an angle OF 80 degrees. The force of thu
severe winter storms is probably tn,
cause of ts getting out of perpendicular
line.
Joe Wright, aged fifteen years, whil
smoking some bees out of a tree in orde
to get the honey, on the Llagas, eigh Jeel
miles from San Jose, GAL, accidental.
set the brush on fire and was so badl.
burned in his efforts to extinguish tn
flames that he will probably not recover