The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-12-30
EASTERN ITEMS.

Minnesota has passed law that all
substitutes for butter shall be colored
pink.
An anti-cigarette crusade has been or.
ganized in the public schools Of New
York.
Congressman Holman OF Indiana has
succeeded 10 the title Of Father Of the
House."
Oklahoma has now more population
than any other Territory, except per-
haps Utah.
At the present rate the Treasury deficit
by the end Of fiscal year will amount 10
$50, 100000.
Reading, Pa, is TO have a sewage
pumping station, with daily capacity
Of 100000 gallons.
For the first time in years book-mak-
ing on horse races is carried on at
present in Philadelphia.
An appropriation of 100000 will
be asked Of Congress to improve the
harbor Of Duluth, MINI.
Attorney-General A. G. Smith Of In
diana receives fees, it is said, to the
oAiOuhI VI fINbOOO n y sSdis
Under the new rules for the prevention
of forest fires New York did not have
any serious ones the past year.
A bill is to be introduced in the Ohio
Legislature looking TO the regulation, if
not the suppression OF football.
FIVE hundred and twenty Mississippi
convicts were hired out to cotton plant
ers at $3.50 per month per head.
The Cleveland (O.) street-railway
authorities give 500 to all conductors
who serve year without accident.
The Savannah News expresses the fear
that the large shipments Of oranges now
being made from that city may glut the
Eastern markets.
Next spring a newly organized COM
pany proposes to build and operate an
electric trolley railway between Buffalo
and Niagara Falls.
Revenues have come short of expendi-
lures about 100000 thus far this
fiscal year, and only five months of the
year have expired.
President Cleveland has summarily
removed from Office the Postmaster OF
Topeka, Kan. for kicking out seventeen
Republican letter carriers.
Boston's census of the unemployed
fixes their number at 10000, and her
| leading citizens are moving toward some
concerted action for their relief.
Ex-President Harrison has nearly
completed the lecture he is to deliver at
the Stanford University. He will leave
for California early in February.
Two new members OF the Aster family
have been discovered by New York's
State Botanist. This swels the Four
Hundred to Four Hundred and Two.
1t is estimated that $4,0OO,O0O worth of
the Wisconsin tobacco crop is " tied up"
in warehouses in that State, uncertainty
as to the tariff making buyers conserv-
ative.
A movement is on foot at Chicago to
erect monument to the memory OF
Mayor Harrison on the Administration
plaza, where the Columbian bell now
stands.
Rev. Mr.. White of Brooklyn, known
to fame as the marrying minister"
who never turned away loving couple,
10 uedu' LII LIS lllS ue lndIIleu 1t,OVV
people.
The "danse du ventre," which created
such sensation at the Chicago Fair,
has been suppressed in New York on
the ground that it is brutal and dis
gusting.
1t is said that the University of Chi
cago will publish magazine intended
to be rival of the Century and repre-
sentative of the thought and tendencies
of the West.
1t is estimated that damage to the
extent of at least s. 600, 900 has been
caused to the crops in the Northwest
during the present year by weed known
as the Russian thistle.
The old parish prison at New Orleans
has been sold for 81, 200. 1t was from
this building that eleven Italians,
charged with killing Chief of Police
Hennessy, were taken and lynched.
The gross receipts of the Yale Prince
ton football game at New York on
Thanksgiving day were SAL, 900; ex-
penses, $4,000; leaving $1,000 to be
equally divided between the colleges.
Commissioner Miller estimates that
$11 900, 900 will be necessary to pay the
bounty on this seasons sugar crop. A
California firm has filed a claim for
bounty on 100000 pounds of beet
sugar.
The Georgia Legislature has declared
for free coinage of silver and denied the
right of the national government to
interfere with, restrict or regulate the
issue of paper currency by authority OF
the State Legislature.
The New York Presbytery has adopted
a resolution declaring that in loyal COM
plance with the form of government
and with the action of the General AS
sembly the Presbytery recommends
that students for the ministry shall not
pursue studies in any seminary disap-
proved by the General Assembly.
The supervising architect OF the Treas
ury has written letter to Bankhead,
Chairman of the House Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds, stating
that it will cost $4,000 to pile the
Seventh and Mission streets site in San
Francisco in order to make it solid
foundation for postoffice building.
Representative Bowers of California
has introduced bill in the House to
prohibit officers and employees of ma
tional banks holding any office in any
savings bank, and to prohibit the loca-
tion of any national bank or its con-
tinuance in business in any building in
which the business of any savings bank
is conducted.