The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-02
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.

The estimates for the cost 10 repair
the lInrlurt are placed S27i,73S by the
Washington investigating officials.
Work on san DicgoH harbor has been
allotted to Captain :. K. Smith OF Port
land, Or. and work will be begun soon.
The Sacramento chain-gang struck
for eight hours day. They have been
locked up, and will be fed on bread and
winter for awhile.
over 5000, 900 have boon spent trying
to raise the san Pedro from Brotchy
ledge, Now tho work will have 10 be
abandoned. The iron bottom is full Of
holes,
Charles Nickel, dudish young man
at Los Angeles, has been arrested for
stealing letters addressed 10 hotel guests,
and which contained money. He did
not conline himself TO any particular
hotel.
The citizens along the Southern Pacific
Coast line are indignant at the ccssa-
tiou Of work in the tunnels between
Santa Margurita and Elwood and the
consequent delay In giving them prom
iycd traffic relief.
4 rich strike was made at the Ocst
mine ut Silver City, New, Friday. The
average assay value wns $1,000 per ton.
The output OF the mine this month will
exceed 10000. 1t is operated by five
men,
The copper mines at Copperopolis,
CAMycras county, Cal, have closed
down. The mines are owned by Fred
cuck Amcs OF the Union Pacific rail
road, aud were part Of the estate OF
Oliver Amcs. About 800 men are forced
into idcness, many OF whom have
families and had built homes at Cop
pcropolls.
Orange growers in Southern California
claim the past season has been unprotit-
able. They propose to form co-opera-
tive association and handle most Of the
crop themselves hereafter. The ship
mcuts were 5000 carloads, 1000 above
the previous season.
The receivers inventory OF the Port
land lOr) Savings Bank shows that
the bank holds notes aggrcgatng $780,
O00 dated July Y, while the bank
closed its doors July 20. Most of .he
notes are against employees and officers
OF the bank and President Dekum's four
sons
Operations in the Utah Consolidated
mine on the Comstock have been sus-
pended. Explorations in that mine have
been in progress for the last twenty
years, and during that time assessments
were levied on the property aggregating
$420,0O0 Shareholders have at last re-
fused to pay assessments.
A regularly organized band of chicken
thieves has been at work for some time
in the ncighborhood OF Sacramento.
The fowls were carried to different points
from Sacramento and shipped to San
Francisco. One OF the gang was cap
turcd on the Placervile train, but his
conicdcrates are still at large.
The Lighthouse Board gives notice
that on September l6 red-lantern
light will be established near the west
end of the south jetty in Oakland (Cal.)
harbor, and that the red light just out
side the north jetty, about three-quart-
ers of mile to the eastward of the
Oakland harbor light, will be discontin-
ued on the same date.
A circular issued at Astoria, Or,
places the total salmon pack for the
season OF 1893, which has just closed,
at 375, 800 cases of all grades, or about
equal to that of 1891, and 10000 cases
short OF last years pack. OF these q
large proportion are fiat cans and all
have been sold to domestic dealers, and
many Gamers will be short in their
deliveries.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce dcnounces the map which Is pub
lished with the State books, for which
the Legislature voted $685. 900, and $780,
600 copies of which were recently pub
lished for circulation at the Worlds
Fair, and asks Governor Markham,
under whose name the book is published,
to Immediately suppress the circulation
of $50 Inaccurate and misleading q
document.
There are said to be many idle men
on the streets at Fresno, who aid in the
agitation against the Chinese, but who
will not work when places are ready for
them in the orchards and vineyards.
Several gangs OF Cinnamon were driven
from vineyards the other night, but no
whites would 60 to work to fill the
places made vacant. This action is not
general, for many whites of both sexes
have found and accepted needed en-
ploymsnt.