The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-03-18
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
SaIina Offers a Large Bonus for the
Capitol of Kansas.
TWO BORDER BANDITS CAPTURED.
Hard Times for Working People In New
YoIk--Bad Effect Of Graphic
Pulpit Picture Of Hell.

The mining town OF Creede, Col, nov
las Il population OF 5000.
A suicide club OF fifty members ha
been formed at Bridgeton, N. j.
II Is now denied that a sole leather
trust has been formed at Boston.
The pregent severe winter has been {
bonanza for the florida hotelkeepers.
The convict mining war troubles are
threatening 70 break out in Tennessee
Missouri Commissioners are ordered
to raise the figures Of railroad valuation.
Congress Is TO investigate the employ.
ment OF substitutes by department
clerks.
Ansonia, Conn, is TO have a sidewalk
made OF imperfect pins and pin scraps
rusted together.
A 81. Louis woman has applied for a
pa 'ent TO cover the processes Of making
sweet-potato -four"
Based on the recent school census
Connecticuts population is now 81 600
larger than il was in 1890.
Two more OF the followers OF Catarina
CARA have been captured by American
troops on the Texas border.
The Bethlehem Iron Works have been
awarded a contract for over 2,0OO, 900
worth OF heavy armorplate.
There has been unusual mortality
among the animals in the New York
Central Park "Zoo" this winter.
Not one Chinaman in Boston has reg
istered under the Geary act, and only
one in the State Of Massachusetts,.
Allen q. Thurman has proposed the
silver dollar for national bank note ba-
sis as a solution ot the currency question.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road will elevate all its tracks in Chicago
at the expense, 80 it is printed, OF $24,-
100000.
Strong anti.race meetings are being
held in New Jertey in opposition to the
bill passed by the Legislature legalizing
horee-racng.
A movement is on foot in Hoboken to
put the Catholic parochial schools of
that city under the Fairbault system of
Arch bishop Ireland.
The Sayre election bill, which disfran.
chises 10000 negroes in the State, has
passed the Alabama Senate and been
signed by the Governor.
The citizens OF Saina, Kan, have
pledged 100000 and twenty acres of
land to the State for the removal of the
State capital to that place.
The people of Norfolk, Va, are ar
ranging for great times during the rem
devious Of the navles of the world in |
Hampton Roads in April and May.
The Typographical survey OF Connect
cut just completed shows its area to be
b 5,OI4 square miles or $40 square miles
greater than & ven by some authorities.
The recent town elections in the State
OF New York show that both parties re.
tain practically their relative strength
Of last year in the Boards of Supervisors.
The dam across the Colorado at Aus
tin, Texas, will cost 81, AGO. 900, stand
sixty feet above low water, and will sup.
ply 14,50O-horse power, besides the
owns water.
kilograms have been sent to Speaker
Jrisp, asking that the government open
he Cherokee Strip or appropriate money
% teed the people who are starving
while waiting.
The colored teachers at Atlanta have
passed resolutions declaring their graft
icatlon because of the appointment OF
1oke Smith as member OF Mr.. Cleye-
and's Cabinet.
The Massachusetts Legislature has {
made fresh appropriation of $l65, 900
o be added to the considerable sum {
lready expended for the determination {
II the gypsy moth. 6
Suburbans find an argument for an {
Iexation to New York in the fact that {
ONE great money-lendlng corporations
re forbidden to invest in real estate out {
ide of New York city.
State Department officials at Washing.
on disclaim any knowledge of the re. {
orted defalcation in the office of Con-
ul-General New at London. They place
% reliance in the story.
Although they will cost 81 900 apiece.
quor licenses have been applied for by t
300 people in Philadel phia. It is esti- v
1ated that considerably less than one g
ali that number will be granted. i
Some of the unstable Worlds Fair s
oins have been bought by New York [
,weler and made up into various arti- Il
les. A few have been made to serve as a
DIS to little purses of silver mesh. 8
The Michigan Gas Company, engaged r
piping natural gas to Detroit, and the 9
etroit and Mutual Gas-light Company U
ere last week consolidated, the new U
'mpany having capital of $4,OOO,OO G
Last year generously disposed persons q q
! the United States contributed in sums Il
$4,000 and upward no less than $780, "a
81 1927 for purposes of education, char 4
y and popular entertainment in various h
rms. u
1t is hard times for working people in G.
ew York when potatoes are selling for ci
30 per hushel, while pork or other re
eats are one quarter higher than last d
inter. Wages continue low, and work N
very dull, in