The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-01-07

ANOTHER CALIFORNIA RESERVATION.
The Strait Of Fuca Reported 10 be Stocked
With Diit LogS-An Editor
Acquitted Of Libel

Phoenix, A. T., has free delivery
postal system.
The National Bank OF Pocatello Idaho
has been authorized to DO business.
Los Angeles Council has voted to per,
init the building of u smelter inside the
city limits.
The diamond fields in Idaho are Great
ing intense excitement at Nampa and
neighborhood.
The iour.mast,d barkentine Jane l..
Stanford, the largest wooden sailing ves-
sci ever built in California, was euccets-
fully launched in Humboldt Bay recent
ly.
Turnkey French was attacked in the
Idaho penitentiary at Boise by Samuel
IIatton, desperate convict, and in self
defense French stabbed and killed Hat,
ton.
The Chamber OF Commerce at Los An.
geles by resolution has reques ed the
Governor TO recommend that branch
OF the State Treasury be established in
that city.
Citizens Of Florence, Or, desire that
that town shall be incorporated, and q
charter is now being prepared for sub
mission to this people before the Legis-
lature meets.
The Wolcott reports that in the recol-
lection Of sea-iaring men on the Coast
there has never been 30 many drift logs
In the Strait OF Fuca as Mt the present
time. Ike high freshets have swept
down the fallen logs OF ages and sent
them adriit TO the sea. Logs that have
been buried In the sand for years along
the beach below Port Crescent have been
waehed up, and in some places great dams
OF logs are formed, rendering it danger
ous Tor navigation.
The monster whale that came ashore
at Elk Greek alb mt mon h ago is rap
idly melting away over hot fires at Mr.
Logan's ranch A large force of men
are rendering the blubber, which is in
an excellent state OF preservation, and
the result will be nearly 100 barIesof ex-
Celent unreiined oil. The whale bone,
which averaged three feet in length. was
taken out some time ago, and foots up a
total weight OF about 300 pounds. The
skeleton, as soon as cleaned, will be set
up in front OF the Logan house ut Elk
Greek.
Articles OF incorporation OF the North
ern American Navigation Company were
filed the other day at San Francisco by
a number of the prominent residents of
that city. The corporation is formed
with capital stock of $4,000 900 and
for the purpose Of purchasing or build
ing vessels to carry on business as COM
mon carriers between San Francis CO and
Panama, and then to make connection
with the Panama Railroad Company's
lines or other agencies that afford com
munication with New York and another
Atlantic ports. The term OF the corpo-
ration is given as five years.
On charge of criminal libel at Port
land George II. Motfett, editor of the
Telegram, has been acquitted. The al
legged libel consisted in an article pub
lished prior to the city election last June,
charging numb OF persons with levy.
ing assessments on gambling houses and
the inmates of the houses OF i'll repute
to be used in carrying the election Tor
the Republican ticket. Judge Shattuck
instructed the jury that the levying of
of assessments to be used in a political
campaign was not crime. and that,
therefore, no libel had been committed.
The other night an individual called
at the residence of Father ORielly, a
Catholic priest of Cotton, San Bernar-
dino county, CAL, and asked him to
hurry with him to the bedside Of dy-
ing man beyond Cotton. The priest hur-
riedly made arrangements, and got into
the buggy of the stranger. After they
had passed Cotton the stranger, who was
a Mexican, overpowered the priest
robbed him of his watch and money and
then put him out in the middle of the
road, leaving him to find his way back
to Cotton. The robber was afterward
arrested.