The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-10
NEGROES ENGRAVING TO IDAHO.

United States troops have been Hent 10
Horse.
The fourth big log raft heT left Fort
Bragg Tor San Francisco. IL contains
100000 feet Of lumber.
The Governor OF Arizona has offered q
reward OF $1,000 for the death OF Kid,
the notorious Apache, and $500 for each
OF his companions.
A frs at Flagstaff, A. r., consumed al
the building, in the Central block and
Railroad avenue except Six, which we're
brick and withHtood the flames. The
fire originated in Knights saloon.
The court martial OF Captain Lambton
and stall Commander Bowden Of II. NJ.
S. Warepite, just closed at Victoria, B.
g., resulted in their being reprimanded
for not paying sufficient attention to Of
fetal notes on navigation.
The Pacific Gable Railway Company
Of San Francisco got verdict at Rutte,
Mont, in the United States Circuit
Court, against the Butte City Gable
Company for infringement of a patent
caOIe car brake owned by the plaintiff,
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
will cover 200 acres OF land each, and
about forty miles OF canal will be dug.
The Pataha Farmer states that the
opal onyx mines near that city have
been opened lor quarter OF q mile, and
several slabs valued at $500 each have
been taken out. As soon as dressing
mill Is erected the stone will undou bted-
ly come into general use in fine build
ings.
A man about 40 years OF age com
mitted suicide at Los Angeles. He was
we'll dressed and his face was pitted with
smallpox. He tried to eiface all traces
that could lead to his identity and left Il
statement OF sensational nature, the
truth OF which is generally discredited.
Colonel A. T. Isham of Sitka, aid on
Governor knapp's staff, who assisted
Ivan Petroff to take the census of Alaska,
believes that PetroH is thoroughly hon.
est. but that subordinate officers per-
mlJJS(l Illt tTIOIb bllOuNu
lie believes that Petrotf's mimi Is un-
balanced.
William Smith on farm near Mish-
awaka, Or, has produced an excellent
article of tobacco the leaves and flavor,
when properly cured, being i'll every way
equal to that grown in the Southern
States. He supplies the home market
in the Nehalem Valley, both ioG chewing
and smoking, at reasonable cost, and
saws that the soil Of Nehalem has all the
elements necessary for the production OF
the plant.
The,Shoshone Falls of the Snake river
OF Idaho. which have body OF water
900 feet wide with fall of 2l0 feet, are
to be used for developing electric power
for irrigating purposes. A large number
of water wheels will be put in, and
pumping stations operated by electric
motors of large capacity will be estab-
lished at suitable points. By this means
the water will be elevated to canals,
through which it will be distributed to
lands in the adjacent valleys.
An old trapper, who resides in the
Blue Mountains and knows every foot Of
the coun ry between the Union Pacific
railroad and Snake river, tells the Milton
Eagle that there is desperate band of
horsethieves, robbers and murderers
making their rendezvous between the
banks of the Umatilla and Walla Walla
rivers. There are secluded mountain
retreats in that section, where stock can
be successfully hidden until all search
on the part OF the owners is over, Then
the stock is run off and sold. Men who
have mysteriously disappeared are be-
lieved to have discovered the secrets of
this outlaw band, and their bones now
lie moldering in some isolated canyon.