The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-11-19
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Discovery Of Valuable Coal Fields
in Eastern Oregon.
THE ORANGE AND OLIVE CROPS.
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Amended Articles Of Association, Incor-
pOratiOn and Consolidation of
thu Southern Pacific.
THE ORANGE AND OLIVE CROPS

Kingston, N. NJ, Is to have $5, 900
school house.
A serious utbreak among the Navajos
iH threatened.
Los Angeles Is 10 have an artificial
stone factory.
Rains in Southern Arizona have i'm.
proved the cattle industry.
Five hundred black baes have been
placed in the Willamette river above
Salem.
The orange and olive crops in the South
promise TO be large, while thaE of lemons
will be short.
Box cars are so scarce throughout East
ern Oregon that coal ours are used TO
carry wheat. Threshing Ia not com.
pleted in that section.
Phil Sheridan's cavalry saber, which
he used while at Fort Yamhill, is said
to be owned by an Indian on the Grand
Ronde reservation.
The perpetTator OF the many robberles
at Los Angeles has been captured. lie
gives the name OF Robert Williams. lie
is about twenty-three years old.
Sing High, Chinese laundryman,
left Boise City, Idaho, last week on his
way 10 China. lie took with him $l4,-
900 in money as a souvenir of his stay
in Idaho.
The line between Idaho and Washing
ton counties is being surveyed. The re-
cult Is being watched with interest, as it
will determine in which county in Idaho
the rich Seven Devils mining district be-
longs.
The business men of Salt Lake have
forced the railroads into concessions that
will be worth more than $l,000,000 a
year TO them. The suit before the Inter
state Commerce Commission is to be
withdrawn.
The discovery OF valuable coal fields
near Auburn, In Eastern Oregon, is re-
ported, and preparations are being made
to develop the property on large scale.
Heretofore no coal veins worth develop
ing have been found in that entire sec
tion.
In street fight at Los Angeles An
dreas Lugo shot Francisco Figueroa
through the lungs, when the latter
stabbed Lugo in the neck, killing him
instantly. Both men belonged to the
Oldest Spanish families in that part OF
the State.
Hattie J. Pound, administrators OF the
estate of her husband, William j Pound,
the fireman fatally hurt In an accident
on the Union Pacific below Pendleton,
has filed suit against the railroad COM
pany for $1,000 damages. Carelessness
and undue speed are alleged.
we'll known publisher, has been arrested
for the embezzlement of about $1,000 of
the funds OF the Boise Baptist Church.
Wilkie practically admits his guilt. He
is a leader in all the local religious move
ments. The church trustees had such
implicit faith in Wilkes honesty that
they required him to give no bonds.
Amended articles OF association, incor-
poration and consolidation of the South
ern Pacific Railway Company were filed
in the County Clerks office at San Fran
cisco the other day. The document sets
forth the names of the railroads in Cali
fornia, which consolidated in 1883, un-
der the name of the Southern Pacific
Railway Company, with an aggregate
capital of $l42, 100000, which was sub
sequently reduced to $90,000,00 Sep
tember " the board OF directors voted
to make certain amendments in the cor
poration, which are embodied in the
paper just filed. The names, length
and general direction OF the thirty-six
roads and branches included in the in
corporation are fully set forth. The en-
tire length OF the road and its branches
aggregate 3,391.S9 miles, and the dura-
tion of the corporation is fifty years
from May 4, 1883. The seven directors
are: Charles F. Croker, @. P. Hunt
ington, Charles Mayne, w. V. Hunting
ton, N. T. Smith, ]. L. Wilcutt and A.
N. Towne. The capital stock is 500, ,000,-
600, divided into 100000 shares.