The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-10-29
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Merchant Certificates Of Entry
Being Sold to Chinese.
A TRUCK FARMER IS HELD UP.
Fined for EyadIng Customs Officers
Poisonous Weed Causes Death
Among Utah Sheep.
A TRUCK FARMER IS HELD UP.

Dryenfurth's agents are in New Mex.
leo eudeayoring 10 produce rain.
The British Columbia sealing fleet has
brought down only l,27l skins.
Sacramento is to spend slO0, 900 in en-
largng and strengthening her levee sys-
tenn.
The owners of the IIalcyon have been
fined $500 at Victoria, h. O., for evading
the customs officers.
Hans Nelson and Juan Alvarez have
been captured At PhGnix, A. T., while
passing counterfeit money.
The Nez Perce reservation in Idaho,
very rich land section, will be open for
settlemen. in u few months.
The cattlemen in Southern New Mex
leo are moving off the ranges, the
drought having made them barren.
Silver salmon are now very plentiful
at iaquina Bay, and are being caught
with trolling llnesin great numbers.
The vintage is fully on in Napa Valley.
The wine-grape crop is two-thirds short,
and many large wineries are not crush
ing.
AANiN hi' hiili TNfNVh HNplln III Nv
tendance at the Oregon Deaf Mute
School this year, the highest number
ever present.
The High Court of California Foresters
concluded it's work at Bakersfield the
other day. Monterey was selected as
the next annual meeting place.
Another murder is reported by kid"
the Apache, in the Swisshelm Mount
aims. A woodchopper was shot and his
head beaten of with stones.
The opal fields on the Snake river near
Caldwell about thirty miles from Boise,
Idaho, are the cause of considerable ex-
citement among mining men.
BY ruling from Washington the
Nogales CA. r.) custom authorities are
authorized to permit the free entry into
the United States OF calves that were
born to cattle that had strayed into Mex
lean soil.
The contract for new county jill has
been let at San Diego by the "Solid
Three" OF the five Supervisors who re-
fused to submit the proposition to vote
of the people, on the ground that they
did not know what was good for them.
The British Pacific Construction Com.
pany, with a capital of $5,000,000, has
been incor porated at Victoria, B. c..
for the purpose of laying out, building
and equipping tne Canada Western rail-
way from Victoria to Yellowb cad Pass.
Matt lIndenter, who owns over $780,
900 worth Of real estate in Los Angeles,
has been detected stealing walnuts on
the Briswalter place. His coat and
trousers had their pockets extended for
the work. lie pleaded guilty, and was
fined $40.
Evans and Sontag when last heard
from we're in Sqnaw Valley, and were
seen the day after the alleged interview
with them which was printed in San
Francisco sensational newspaper. The
distance between the place where seen
and where the interviewer" talked with
them would require four days travel to
overcome.
There is company with headquarters
in Portland, Or. which furnishes China
man with merchant certificates of entry
into the United States, properly signed
aud sealed, bearing photograph of the
party desiring to enter at cost Of 800 a
head. These certificates are serlt from
Portland to agents at Vancouver. B. c.,
who have no difficulty in disposing of
them at the price stated.
The San Francisco lumbermen inter
ested in controlling the cargo output OF !
the Pacific Coast have prepared sched- |
ule of the amount OF lumber each mill |
may cut under the pool arrangements. |
The schedule is based upon the output OF |
1891, and is unsatisfactory to most of she |
small mill owners on Puget Sound, who
may be subsidized, although it is saio it |
is not the plan now to subsidize mills.