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

Oregon expects 10 clip 1900 900
pounds OF WOOL this year her increase
IN sheep over last year being estimated
at 30 per cent, all Of which is sheer gain.
The expedition from san Diego into
the Colorado Desert after the ilusiyc
PeRleg mine has been forced to return,
owing 10 the cxtreme heat encountered.
JamcA lamorcau OF Idaho Falls has
brought suit in the Fifth District Court
against the EnsOr lnatitute of pocatclo
for $4,000 damages, because they tried
and Jailed to cure Alm of the liquor habit.
The Pend d'Oreilc river is rising rap
idly, being within six feet ~ high at
present ns At any time last year. Every
indication points toward the water being
higher this year than ever known before
The offices Of the Southern division of
the Santa fe railroad, heretofore located
IN San Brrnardino, are being removed
to Los Angeles to take quarters in the
ncw depot recently erected in the latter
city.
Arrangements have been completed
for the right OF way TO construct canal
on ii cut'oil at the mouth OF the Yuba
river, the object being to relieve the
river during high water and make the
channel more direct.
Work on the double-turreted monitor
Monudnock has been practically sus-
pended during the past month, 200 me-
Chanics having been taken off the work
ing force and assigned to other work
about the navy yard.
The State Of California will no longer
pay bounties for coyote scaIps unless
compelled to do 80 BY the Supreme Court.
There is no special appropriation, and 1t
is All open question as tolwhether these
claims can be paid out Of any fund in
the state treasury not otherwise appro-
priatcd.
The Chinese and white men heretofore
employed at $l.25 on the Southern Pa
chc railroad between I'll Paso and Los
Angeles are being replaced with Mcxi-
cans from Chihuahua ut IL per day. 1t
is openly stated that the spirit OF the
contract law is being broken.
Ida Maude Kline. the bogus colorcd
widow in the Mckinney will contest ut
Stockton, Cal, who swore that she was
the wife OF tho old negro in the hope
that she could get his estate worth $I0,-
0O0 is in jail, charged with perjury, and
A. j. Ross, an CX-pollce officer who Is
alleged to have worked up the evidence,
il under arrest OH charge of suborna-
tion OF perjury.
w. A. Shaw, a rcal-cstate dealer of
Salem, induced Mrs. Elizabeth Joseph
TO deed her home to him for an alleged
consideration OF $4,000 that sum to be
paid her Mt the rate OF 1850 year for
twenty-lour years, without interest or
security. Shaw eXaCtcd promise OF &C.
creCy, but finally Mrs. Joseph consulted
some attorneys. Shaw's lawyers advised
him to deed back the property, and that
has been done.
Il. NJ. Potter Of San Miguel mesa, San
Diego county, Cal, was rIdiculed few
months ago when it became known that
he was to raise crop OF mustard seed.
The crop will mature about July /, and
it il estimated to be about 1000 pounds
OF seed an acre, or about sixty-tive tons
in all. This is from about eight pounds
an acre Of the seed sown. The total crop
is worth $40, 400 ut 8 cents pound,
which is the ruling price.
Acknowledgement Chamberlain has
\ ,rmal School act, in which he says it is
evident that the Legislature did not in
tend that the appropriation should be
expended in the erection of new build
ings, but only in the payment of salaries.
the purchase OF needful and proper app
paratus, and generally in settlement of
such expenses as might be incurred in
the successful arrangement of the school.
A strange complaint is prevalent
among the cattle in San Bernardino
county, Cal. 1t is disease of the bone,
similar to ray fungus, which starts inside
the bone and consumes it. Generally it
starts in the bones of the left shoulder,
gradually reaching other portions of the
body and invariably terminates in death,
generally in from three to five months.
1t is as fatal as glanders and is supposed
to be as contagious. 1t generally attacks
cattle pastured on heavy dark loan.
The Fresno Expositor says: An item
is going the rounds of the California
press that "millions of worms are de-
vastating the vineyards OF Fresno conn
tv." This is altogether an error. Worms
are not devastating the vineyards to any
extent. They have appeared at two or
three points outside the regular vineyard
district, but have done no material in
Jury to the grape crop of this county.
The worm that is doing the most of the
damage in this vicinity is the worm of
the still.