The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-08-06
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Rubies Worthy of Mention Found
Near Baker City, Or.
A MAP OF OAKLAND, CAL, MISSING
Number Of SealskIus Already Landed at
VIctOrla-Frult and Nursery
Firm Quits Business.

Duval x Son OF Grenile, France, pro.
pose to erect brewery at Ph@nix, A. 7.
Horse thieves operating In Southern
Arizona have robbed over twenty ranch.
ers.
A swindler with 81 bills raised TO $40
Is working Puget Sound towns with
some success.
There have been landed in Victoria
already 20B35 sealskins. The animals
were caught between California and
Alaska.
San Diego has decided 10 celebrate the
3b0th anniversary OF the discovery OF
San Diego Bay, which occurs September
% next.
An outbreak OF anthrax has occurred
six miles south Of Los Angeles on dairy
where forty cows are kept. Fourteen
have already died.
Additional pumps will at once be used
on the San Pedro wreck in front OF Vic
toria. B. c., and it is believed the yes.
eel will soon be off the rocks.
There are iiity.fve hop houses in
Polk county, Or. Each house is good
for handling nine acresof hops. AT this
rate the total acreage would be 405 acres,
Saint Teresa is still at Nogales, A. T.,
performing miraculous cures. The
stories that she had been shot by the
Governor OF Sonora never had any foun-
dation.
The Bradstreet Commercial Agency
reports IL failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week
as compared with IL for the correspond
ing week OF 1891.
II is stated at San Diego that j. NAL
coin Forbes, the Boston capitalist who
was recently married and took up his
residence at Coronado, is the purchaser
OF the Pacific Beach railroad.
A thorough search OF the public rec
ords at Sacramento has failed to reveal
the presence of a map of the town OF
Oakland, which was made in 1862 by
French engineer and was accepted as a
State record. 1t is believed the map has
been distracted.
A gentleman just in from the Bo-
zanza mine at Greenhorn Mountain,
near Baker City, Or, says that rubies
have been discovered near there which
are worthy Of mention. They have the
appearance of the genuine article in
color. and to all appearance are rubies.
lie said they were about the size OF
peas and have the octangular shape of
that stone. He has secured over 100 OF
the gems.
There is bit OF history connected
with the postolIice of Rickreall, Or,
commonly known as Dixie by the older
inhabitants of Polk county. The post
office was established back in the six
ties. The first name suggested was
"Dixie." But at that time the war feel
ing was at high pitch, and Colonel
Nesmith, as godfather of the new office,
advised dropping of the "South-down"-
sounding title and substituting the
name "La Creole" after the beautiful
stream on which it lies. An error was
made in spelling the word by its sound
in Washington, and the office went
officially upon record as "Rickreall" and
has remained that way ever since.
James O. Mason, formerly postmaster
at Tillamook, who was indicted by the
United States grand jury ior having
forged the name OF Johnson Erickson to
a money order and collected $l3 thereon,
was arraigned in the United States Dis
trict Court at Portland the other day,
and entered plea of guilty. United
States Attorney Mays recommended
that fine Of $500 be imposed, in de-
fault thereof the criminal to be sentenced
to term of imprisonment. Counsel for
Mason said the money could be raised
so sentence was deferred and prisoner
remanded to Jail. Mason stood we'll in
the community until this crime was
charged against him, and some now
think that he pleaded guilty to screen
some of his family who committed the
crime. He made good the amount of
the order some time ago.