The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-25
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
A Tacoma Man Falls Heir to a
Fortune in Texas.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORANGES.
Analyses Of the Body Of a Los Angeles
Married Woman Prove That
She Was Poisoned.
S0UTHt RN CALIFORNIA ORANGES.

Idaho has appropriated S3), 900 for the
Worlds Fair.
Sou hern California is shipping but
few oranges. 1t is waiting for the Flor
ida crop 10 become exhausted.
j. y. Rainey, ex.Chief OF the Fire De-
partment OF Tacoma, has fallen heir 10
fortune in Texas estimated at $500, 900.
In Eastern Oregon the intense cold,
together with the heavy enowlalls, is
causing great suffering among the stock
on the ranges.
Five women we're arrested and each
fined Al and costs at PhHnix, A. T., for
riding astride on horseback, dressed In
Mother llubbards.
Dolores Ochoa, a Mexican resident OF
Phoenix, A. T., and one OF the oldest
men in the country, Is dead, having
reached the age OF ll5 years.
The Stockton Association says there is
nothing in the story that Stamboul's b rec
ord o, :O7ls was obtained by fraud. The
whole matter is TO be thoroughly inves-
tigated.
The large irrigation ditch TO be con-
structed in Owyhee county, Idaho, will
be l5J miles long, and will irrigate $780,
coo acres of desert lands. Water will
be taken from the Snake.
The analyses 80 far OF the body Of Mrs.
Nordholt. Bentley at Los Angeles show
that che was poisoned. Bentley, ii Is
believed, had accomp plicea, and sensa-
tional trial is anticipated.
Tho court at Ph0nix, A. T., has de-
cided that a hall where drinks were sold
and music played by three women on a
stage, one OF whom was dressed In male
attire, is not variety show.
Sacramento's Chinatown is in fever
of excitement over the shooting by high
binders of a Chinaman while coming
out OF the Mission School and the stab
hing OF All Wing on the streets.
The Oregon State Democratic Commit
tee regrets the attitude OF Governor
Pennoyer toward Mr.. Cleveland, and
considers his utterances against the
President, elect as unwarranted and SEN
sational.
The Southern Californian Smelling
and Refining Company at Los Angeles
has begun the work of preparing ground
for a smelter, and expects to have the
machinery in place and ready for opera
ton early in April.
The owners of sealers and masters at
Victoria, b. c., have been notified that
they must have the names OF vessels
painted on both sides of the bow and at
the stern. On the latter there must also
be the home port or port OF register.
The Nevada lie lslature has before it
an irrigation pre- 'osltion, and an extra
ordinary effort will be made to pass 1t,
for many believe the salvation of the
State depends upon colonization and the
bringing under cultivation OF much OF
the now barren land.
Klamath county ia the latest seat of
gold excitement. A settler named Took,
on the south eide of the Klamath river
about one and one-half miles from Keno,
was digging q well, and at depth of
sixty feet he struck formation from
which he panned out $l.6O in gold with
an ordinary skillet. The gold was prob
ably from the stratum of blue gravel,
which underles a large portion OF the
lake and Klamath river country, and 1t
may lead to the development OF some
good drift mines there.
The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency re-
ports fourteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with fourteen for the
previous week and eleven for the corre-
spending week OF 1892. There were sew
enty failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories for the month of Janu-
ary, with assets OF $269,540 and liabili-
ties Of SAT- ,63o, as compared with eighty
two for the previous month, with assets
of $545, 1856 and liabilities of 1881 1858, and
eighty-six for the corresponding month
OF 1892, with assets of 1929, 456 and liza.
bilities of $6e7, ,6SS.