The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-03
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
The Escheated Property of the
Mormon Church.
EVANS AND S0NTAG IN ENGLAND.
Two Indians and a Suspected MoOnshlner
Carried Over a Forty.FoOt Wa.
teriall In Idaho.
EVANS AND SONTAG IN ENGLAND.
Tucson's schools have 800 pupils.

Tucson's schools have 800 pupils.
Burglars have been reaping a harvest
at Sacramento.
The American ship Roma has been
seized ut Victoria, b. g., for not entering
and clearing under the revenue lave.
Martial law has been suspended in
Shoshone county, Idaho, and the civil
authorities will at once assume control.
A syndicate OF Chicago business men
is reported to be negotiating for the pur-
chase OF the cable system Mt Los Angeles.
The new mode Of logging with a wire
cable, thereby dispensing with the use
of oxen, is being tried by Captain Parker
in his logging camp on the Coquille
river.
A ledge Of tin ore, four feet in width,
has been discovered in Cassia county,
Idaho. The ore also contains both gold
and silver, but in what quantities is not
yet known.
The herds OF Eastern Oregon, particu.
larly in Wasco, Sherman and Grant
counties, are fast diminishing. The in
crease by no means equals the number
driven out OF the State or slaughtered.
Miss Lena Litchburn, an elocutionist
formerly OF Kansas City, now of Long
Beach, Los Angeles county, lost her
speech, and it is claimed that she has re-
gained IL after nine months through
prayer.
The citizens OF Phoebe, New, believing
the Shoshone Indian predictions of
hard winter, are procuring large supplies
OF wood for domestic uses, and are other
wiae preparing for an extra cold and
snowy season.
The Supreme Court OF Utah has ruled
that property of the Mormon Church
which had been declared as escheated to
the government must &C to the public
schools and to the repairs OF Mormon
places OF worship. The amount in dis.
pute is about $75O,000.
The preliminary surveys for the large
storage reservoirs and irrigation canals
TO be constructed on Indian creek, about
twenty miles from Boise, are now being
made. The three reservoirs to be built
viii! cover 200 acres of land each, and
about forty miles OF canal will be dug.
Thomas Quiddie and George Bassett,
two young men who held up the wife
and daughter of Joseph Workman
on November at Los Angeles and
robbed them of 500 in jewelry and
money, pleaded guilty and were SEN
fenced to ten years each in the peniten-
tiary.
The DeI.amar Nugget announces the
discovery OF valuable opal fields in Owy-
hee county, Idaho. Some of the stones
have been exhibited in DeLamar. Some
are fiery, others are dull white, and a
cut one has been pronounced by an ex-
pert as fine specimen of its size as he
ever saw.
Since the inauguration of the North
ern Pacific line to the Orient there has
been considerable falling off in both
passenger and freight business from the
Canadian Pacific Company, as evidenced
by the fact that that company has re.
Gently inaugurated monthly instead Of
semi-monthly service.
Thomas Butler, formerly an engineer
on the steamer Isabel, went hunting in
the vicinity OF Comox, B. c., short
time ago, and as he did not return, a
search party was sent after him. They
found his body. He had been caught by
the leg in bear trap and had died IRON
hunger and loss of blood.
Evans and Sontag are reported at
Fresno to have left the United States
and been traced to London, England.
An officer engaged in their pursuit is re-
ported as saying that Sontag took the
train at Truckee in disguise as a preacher
and Evans at Mojave as miner. The
two met at Baltimore, and took the
steamer for Europe. Parties from the
mountains state that the robbers are
thought to have left there early in Octo-
ber. No one substantiates the report to
a certainty.