The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-12-24
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE

The great onyx quarries at Los Tules
Lower California, have been sold fol
100000. ELI Murray, Ex-Governor O
Utah, is one OF tho purchasers.
90 The Donahue estate IL suing for pos
eeesion OF land In South Westminster
h. c., valued at 81 o 600 The title wat
found IN Peter Donahue's posses sion AZ
ter his death.
There ls much feeling al San Diego
over the murder Of the boy, George r.
Male, 10y Captain Sam Smith and whose
boiy WAS thrown into the sea- A lynch,
ing party Ia discussed th earnestness
The smallpox scare at Marshfeld IL
about at an end. The town authorities
aided by the medical board, have re.
celved the thanks OF the community for
their eilic ent work In saving the town
from the disease.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re.
porte thirteen failures in the Pacific
Conat States and Territories for the past
week, ~ compared with thirteen for the
previous week and ten for the CORE.
spending week OF 1892.
Tacoma has received nearly five thou.
bushels, OF wheat during the past two
months. The indications are that the
receipta this year will reach $4,000
bushels, ae against 1900, 600 bushels last
season.
Juana Trimmer, the Mexican wife OF a
respectable German living at Japatul,
forty.two miles east OF San Diego, has
eloped wi h Il young ranch hand named
Eataguo. The woman ia 90 years old
and the mother OF marrlagable sons and
daughters.
Montana ball cranks are figuring on a
league for next year. 1t is possible that
Ogden aud Salt Lake will be asked 10
join in iorminga an inter-mountain league.
II this il doHe, Helena will be left out,
unless Missoua should come TO the front
with club.
The bank statistics OF Idaho issued re-
Gently show the individual deposits ol
the saving banks over $26 600 900, and in
the State banks to be $4,000 600. The
total OF cash assets OF both class of banks
IL nearly so, 100000 These figures are
surprising, and certainly very clear proof
oflhe States prosperity.
About one hundred species OF deep sea
fishes have been obtained by the Alba
tross in the depths OF the ocean off the
coast OF California. These creatures are
as rule very soft in body, almost black
in color and many OF them covered with
phosphorescent spots, by which they can
see their way in the darkness.
Success has at last crowned the effDrts
OF the railway company to obtain arte-
sian water on the desert, says the Yuma
Sentinel When the great well at Walter
Station, | q miles west OF Yuma, had
reached the depth OF 500 feet bountiful
stream OF excellent water was struck,
which instantly arose to and four feet
above the surface and ran off down the
desert AZ freely as il it had always done
go. Such was the flow OF water that the
company was obliged at once to protect
its roadbed from being washed away.
Charles Vandorn, who is interested in
the alleged diamond discovery on Snake
river, Idaho, tells the following story In
regard to the discovery and his connec-
ton with it In the COS he WAS at
Kimberly, South Africa, and became ac-
quainted with diamond mining. About
six years ago, after coming to Boise, a
prospector showed him a stone, which
he pronounced to be Kimberly dia-
mond, When the man told him that he
picked it mp on Snake river he ridiculed
the idea. subsequently he made an in
vestigation, and found that there was a
formation there similar to that at Kim
berly. He had II. Bratnoben, the widely
known mining man, look intoit, and that
gentleman told him to have the ground
prospected. He then took Mr.. Waters,
who was running ferry in the vicinity,
into his confidence, and the latter has
been quietly prospecting the country,
having recently found the alleged gems.
One or more of these stones was sent to
Tiffany Il Co who made favorable
report" Vandorn does not Say what
the report was, but states that he will
coon have one OF the stones that is being
cut. The party who has gone to the
fields is composed OF Engineer Yelling
ton and an assistant, three employees of
Vandorn, who are to take up additional
ground; l.. w. Weilan, an expert from
New York, and Mr.. Casscerout and
Mr.. Bullfnch, experts from Baltimore.
This ia the story of the diamond discov-
cry. What it will amount to only time
can tell. 1t should be stated that the
alleged fields are in that part of the
State which shows such great evidences
Of volcanic action, being on the border
of the famous lava flow which stretches
in cheerless desert for hundreds of
miles across the country