The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-09-03
Portland Brings Suit Against Her
Ex.Chief of Police.
THE PURSUIT OF TRAIN ROBBERS.
The President Of the Miners Union In the
COeur dAlenes Gets Six Months
In the County Jail.
Bddie IL rebuilding.

Astoria has suppressed gambling.
Um,tilla, Or, claims to have an In
dian 100 years old.
Electricity will soon run all the street
railways in San Diego.
Work on portian i's magnificent pas
seng depot mas teen resumed.
EStsnsye coal fields have just been
discovered near Klamath Falls, Or.
The California hop crop promises 10
be- OF II tir-t-claye qudity. Picking Is
about To commence.
All plrsuera nf the Coils train rob
hers, the sheriff and posse and the Arr
ZIna trallers nave abandonel the search.
The surplus OF wheat in Oregon and
Washing on will be about the same as
last season, but the quality is superi r.
A party Of Pima4 Indians went into a
Phoenix GA. T.. store recently and pur
chased ten parlor chairs and two boxes
Of stove polish.
A. l.. Taylor, who dried his own april
cots this season, got $3.50 from l4S trees
on one and half acres in the south part
OF Pomona, Cal.
Thomas O'Brien, President OF the
Miners Union in the CDur d'Alenes,
has heen sentenced to six months in the
Shoshone county Jail.
Threats TO kill Graham sympathizers
arS made at Phoenix, A. T., by the
friends, 1t is supposed, OF Tewksbury,
who is charged with assaulting Graham.
An immense glacial field, covering
81. aa q that Of NhA
Alps, but not 30 thick, has been discov-
cred thirty-fve miles southwest Of
Shoup, Idaho.
A young man named Cooper robbed
the Superintendent OF the Idaho Sam
ping Mill Company at HALEY, Idaho,
OF $4,000 in county bonds, and left town
with the securities.
It is rumored in Salem that hop buy
ers in the vicinity of Lincoln were offer
ing to contract prime quality OF hops
at 35 cents. 1t Is known positively that
25 cents has been offered near Salem for
several days, but the 35-cent rumor is an
astonisher. Buyers concede that the
crop in England will be much shorter
than had been expected, and only a
small yield was counted on. Shortages
are also being reported from California,
where picking is already in progress.
A very large deposit of kaoln has been
found in the near vicinity of The Dalles
on the Oregon side of the Columbia.
This alkaline earth, when heated with
pure sand and potash or soda, forms
common glass. AS sand of the purest
quality ia abundant in this vicinity, and
the constituent alkaline earths are also
found in abundance, there is no reason,
says The Dalles Times Mountdineer, with
the amount of capital lying dormant in
The Dales, that glass factory should
not be inaugurated Immediately.
Arrangements are quietly progressing
which are likely to result IN carrying out
the proposed scheme of building motor
line to Waterloo from Albany. Several
capitalists of Portland, as we'll as AL.
bany, are willing to take stock in the
project, and have been looking after the
matter during the past few days. It is
proposed to run an electric motor line
via Lebanon and Sodaville to Waterloo,
and from the falls there to transmit
power for electric lights and motive
pnwer for the street-car system of Al
bany.
A report somes from Turner and other
places in The willamette Valley to the
effect that showers of the queer are work
ing in that neighborhood. In some places
they are using the old dodge by chang
ing two-dolIar to ten by pasting the
figure ten from cigar stamp on two
dollar bill. And in places they are pass
ing counterfeit silver dollars. The coun-
terfpit dollar is easily detected by the
sleek feeling, and is lighter in weight
than the genuine half-dollar. but the
two-do,l lar bill is hard to detect, unless
one is observing when receiving it.