The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-07-16
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Building and Loan Associations Of
the United States.
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THE MISSOURI CROP BULLETIN
aaassa
Great Drought in Northern Mexico and
Portions Of Texas - Chicago
River Swollen.
THE MISSOURI CROP BULLETIN

Harvest hands command 50 a day and
their keep" In Kansas this year.
The Cleveland street car strikers have
refused the compromise proposition.
Cut-worms are proving very destruct-
I've to tobacco in Henry county, Tenn.
The population OF the town OF Okar-
che, Oklahoma, grew 1900 in one nj sht
recently.
The Louisiana Legislature has re-
pealed the law creating the board OF
-four inspectors.
Great trouble Is experienced in ven
tilating the St. Clair tunnel, which was
opened last year.
A leather trust has been incorporated
in New Jersey. 1t will deal in all kinds
OF goods made from leather.
Building and loan associations OF the
United States are trying TO perfect a ma
tional organization at Chicago.
Because OF the enactment OF the sepa-
rate coach law, the negroes OF Kentucky
propose to boycott the railways.
About 1000 negroes in and around
Nashville, Tenn, are making ready to
emigrate TO Oklahoma In the fall.
Immigrants to the number OF 92,242
arrived in this country during May in
May, 1891, the number was 81, 5,94l.
The Missouri crop bulletin reports a
very good cond ton and yield in har-
vested grain, but with light acreage.
The great drought in Northern Mexico
and portions of Texas still continues,
and there is much suffering in conse-
quenee.
The defalcation of Treasurer Dahn OF
the Buffalo National Savings Bank will
probably reach between $4,000 and
$500, 900.
The English party composing the sym
dicate which owns the Black Hills tin
mines near Rapid City are to visit the
property.
The Sugar Trust has agreed to give the
wholesale grocers who maintain fixed
prices rebate OF one-eighth of cent
per pound.
1t has been estimated by high au-
thority that the country will have as
much wheat to export this year as it
had last year.
Iron has been discovered at Mulhall,
Kan, by man digging II well, who,
when down some seventy feet, struck
iron. A shaft is being sunk.
The elevator men at Chicago have
wired to their country correspondents to
stop shipping corn there till after July
10Th, as it is coming in such bad condi-
tion 1t will not grade.
Senator Gallinger is at the head of
movement to establish government San
itariums in the South. When these are
established his plan is to assist con-
sumptives to emigrate thither.
The New York State census shows
that there are about 1000 Indians living
on the several reservations in that State
who still maintain their tribal systems,
subject to State jurisdiction.
A clergyman of indianapolis, Ind. has
entered upon vigorous crusade against
church fairs, grab bags, raffies and all
other schemes to raise funds for church
purposes In illegitimate ways.
An eight-foot tunnel, extending four
miles out into Lake Michigan, has just
been completed at Chicago. 1t will sup
ply to the city 30,000,OO0 gallons OF wa
ter per day, and has cost over 81 900, 900.
The Broadway cable line in New York
City will be operated in October. Nearly
5000 horses are to be displaced. The
total cost OF the new road is $4,000, 900.
Cotton drive rope Is used to prevent
noise.
The Chicago river is swollen to such
an extent that nearly 1900 houses in
Ravenswood, a suburb OF Chicago, were
surrounded by water. The main sewers
In Chicago are clogged and Easements
flooded.
Following are the newly elected d.
rectors OF the Nicaraguan Mail, Steam
and Navigation Company: Albert D.
Cheney, SamuelC Miller, Louis Chable,
Warner Miller and George W. Davis, all
of New York.
There is a law on the Kansas statute
book which provides for the delivery OF
all letters for girls under 1S and boys
under 21 years of age to their parents
and guardians, but it would take the
militia to enforce it.
The Lighthouse Board has arranged
for series of experiments on Staten
Island, N. Y. of new magnesium
light, which is reported to have devel-
oped wonderful Illuminating powers at
recent observations in Germany.
Owing largely to the po luton of its
water by sewage, there were 1897 deaths
from typhoid fever in Chicago last year,
that being the highest known rate for a
great city and more than five times as
many az in New York.
In the Senate the other day Stewart
offered as a substitute for his free coin
age bill one providing that the owner OF
silver bullion may deposit the same at
any mint of the United States, to be
coined for his benefit, the coins to be
legal tender for all debts and dues.
Foreign silver, coin or bullion, is ex-