The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-13
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
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Warm and Friendly Expressions of
International Good Will.
THE PRESIDENT AND KING HUMBERT
The Wheat Exports Of the United States
Last Year-The Canadians on
Canal Reprisals.

Cattle In Lyon county, Tex, are suf-
iering from Texas fever.
A Chicago dispatch says the whisky
trust 10 in danger Of disruption.
The Salvation Army slum workers In
New York say the sums Of that city are
AZ bad 40 those In London.
Cruiser No. l2, denominated hitherto
a. the Pirate, is TO be named the Colum-
bia by order ei Secretary Tracy.
DR.. +. l.. Sim, noted specialist on
nervous diseases, has declared Alice
Mitchell, who shot Freda Ward at Mem
phis, insane.
General Weaver was presented at Dem
yer with silver pen, with which TO sign
the free-coinage bill when he Is elected
President Of the United States.
Local capitalists, actiag with an out
side syndicate, have made offers for the
purchase OF some Of the street railways
OF New Orleans 80 as to consolidate them
all.
The people OF Louisiana have resolved
not to be drowned out again, and the
general levee system is to be raised three
feet above the height Of the recent
flood.
The United States exported last year
225, 900 900 bushels OF wheat, its largest
export, and Eastern grain men are OF
the opinion that next year will be still
larger.
The Secretary OF State is advised OF
the denuDciation by Salvador of the
treaty concluded in December 1870. The
treaty will, however, continue till May
30 next.
The Canadians on the question OF ca.
nal reprisals threaten TO return blow for
blow, and il the Americans want to light,
they can have as much of that article as
they want.
The most conservative estimates net
The wheat yield this year at 550. 900, 800
bushels and the corn yield at |, 200, ,.O0,-
900. THIS is falling off from 1894 on
both cereals.
A watch company in Canton, O., is
suing the American watch trust for dam
ages resulting from boycott instituted
by the trust TO force the company into
The organization.
Assistant Superintendent of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey Davidson will be
detailed to assist Colonel Mendell in pre-
pairing plan for system OF sewerage
for San Francisco.
OF total of S96 convicts in the Kan.
sas penitentiary but nineteen are fe-
males, showing that women possess only
a little more than per cent. OF the
cussedness found in men.
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
Mason in his report for the fiscal year
ended June 80 says: "The total collec-
tions of internal revenue were $l53, 3,s57,.
543, an increase OF $7,S22,l 1913 over the
previous year.
The newest innovation in cars is the
" whaleback I" freight car, made OF steel
and said to be superior to the ordinary
square built car. 1t is claimed that in
collision they will be able to Withstand
an enormous push.
A sensation has been created at Dem
yer by the arrest OF j. II. Cross and J.
McDaniels, who are charged with the
robbery OF President Moffatt Of the First
National Bank, which created such
sensation there years ago.
1t is expected that the cable road on
Third avenue, New York, will be in OPP
Grafton by next November. The road
will be divided into three sections, with
a separate cable for each section and
different speed for each cable.
A New York woman has been making
a good thing by having her teeth pulled
by BARRIERS and then informing on them.
The, fine for the unauthorized and irreg-
ularpulling OF tooth by any tonsorial
practitioner in that city is $50.
At one time there were $4,000, 200, 900
of United States bonds out, payable in
gold money or its equivalent. These
have been redeemed, except about $780,
000, 200, and most of these are held
against national bank currency.
st. Louis will have over six miles of
illuminated streets during the autumnal
festivities. There will not be less than
fifty arches and over rs, 900 electric lamps
and gas jets in each nights display.
The electric'light companies are putting
in engines and dynamos especially for
the occasion.
At Cincinnati last week was o gather
ing of leading capitalists to discuss a
proposition to organize steamship line
between New Orleans and South Ameri-
can ports. The sum of $4,000, 900 has
already been subscribed, and $4,000, 900
Is asked from Cincinnati and other cities
that will be benefited by the direct trade
with South American ports.
A letter has been received by Editor
Medill of the Chicago Tribune from the
Marquis de Mores, expressing disap-
proval of the way he has been treated in
the Tribune and asking if MIR. Medill as
sumed the responsibility. Mr.. Medill is
65 years of age. He looks ON the letter
as challenge, but says he is willing to
meet the Marquis in twenty.four-foot
ring in Jackson Park with gloves, mus
kets or anything suitable. The Tribune
treats the matter humorously.