The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-04-01
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Bella Bella and KitkaIia Indians
Commence II0StllitieS.
FREE GOLD-BEARING ROCK FOUND
The Governor OF Montana Signs the B II
NJ king II Unlawful for Scalpers
TO Sell Tickets.

Tombstone, A. r., has become the seat
OF United States District Coult
Idaho pupils in the public schools are
TO tc furnished textbooks without cost.
Vancouver, b. c., has discovered that
its ChinatoW II Ia isovercrowded unhealthy
and disease- breeding.
Fiph and game dealers in Oregon are
TO test the legality OF the fish law
adopted by the ast Legislature.
A suit has been instituted at San Di-
ego againet the Bear Valley Irrigation
Company. Waste OF funds is charged.
The Bella Bella and K,tkalia Indians
In NoTh Bitisn Columbia have Com'
menc,d hostuties az tesn OF the re-
cent massacre ON Sorrow Island.
The trial of the bigamy charge against
George b. Jeiiers, whore connection
with the Ayres Brighton murder case If
well known, has been set Tor April - at
Sacramento.
The Prov aional government is 90 ny
TO aesist the IRA ar river bridge prof set
10 the extent o. 62,50l, payab in i've
eunaI AMI ual in-tallmenta. This Will
materially help the Northern Pacific rail.
road extension project.
The Mining and Developing Company
has purchased the Gold Bar mines and
q lid Bar west extens on III the Wander
bit mining district III San Bernard no
county for $5l,ruv. The same mines
were recently sold for 100000.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports thirteen failures in the Pacific
Crast States and Territories Tor the past
week, as compared with thlrty.one for
the previous week and fourteen for the
corresponding week OF 1892.
Char es +. Olsen, an member OF
the Utah Legislature and ex-Assessor
aud Collector of Cache county, Utah,
has been eentenC TO one year in the
penitentiary for embezzlng $4,000 while
occupylng the position Of Collector.
Deep snow in the Blue Mountains in
Oregon have driven large numbers oi
elk to the lower levels TO the great de-
light of hunters in that region, who have
killed greater number OF these ami.
mails thi4 season than for years previous.
A resolution has been introduced into
the British Columbia Legislature pray
ing the Leutenant-GOvernor to move
the Dominion government to prohibit all
immigration from Asiatlc Countries for
a period OF one year from the first day oil
April next.
AT Virginia City draft of y'fve
men was made from the force employed
in the Savage mine and Il draft oil ten
from the Belcher. The draft will result
in the suspension of ore extraction from
those mines, which have been jointly
producing about 1000 tons monthly.
Governor Richards of Montana has
sipned the bill making it unlawful for a
scalper to cell for any consideration the
who'll or part OF any ticket on any rail-
road or steamboat, whether the line be
operated or owned within or without the
State. The punishment is fine OF
500 and one years imprisonment.
The Phoenix CA. T.) City Council
passed an ordinance raising the saloon
tax to $500 per annum, raising gambling
toxes in accordance and forbidding mu'
sic i'm rooms where liquor is sold. 1t also
nut tax of $40 day upon street taSlrs,
and the Salvation Army by a similar
clause is forbidden to parade the streets.
Gillian county, Or, citizens have pc
titioned the County Court to grant a
bounty on dead sand rats. The little
verm,n have had a good winter and Will
soon come out of their holes in the pin k
OF cond ton to ravage the growing grain
The farmers say. unless something is
done soon to check tins pest, they Will
be run out.
The United States Commissioners are
in camp TWENTY-FIVE miles north OF Cou'
eIo. Mendocino county, Cal, in what is
known as Kit Carson's cabin, which was
built in 1863 by Frank As0sll, famous
trapper OF those days. The report Is Is
current that the COmmiss oners VII,
place on the market half of the Round
Valley Indian reservation, 66,IOO acres,
at from $1.25 to "a an acre.