The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-03-25
Warm Contest in ArizOna'S LegiS.
lature Over Irrigation.
A MOTHER KILLS HER INFANT BABE.
Shipments Of Winter Vegetables From
Southern California 10 the East
in Ctrl0ad Lots.

The Southern Pacific is to have a new
depot ut q ants iasa, Or.
Phmnrx, A. r., reports that rain il
failing, the iirs in nearly one year.
Fresno voted against the ,ssue OF $75
0OO bonds 10 comp etc It's sewerage sys'
TEN.
British Columbia has imposed a dis
count Of 20 per cent on American silver
coin.
PIrtand's iue passenger station will
bs completed 10y August, l'0i. II Is to
cost $40 1000.
The Banker II Il and Sullivan mines,
the largest SILVER producers in the Cnur
d'A,enes, have shut down.
A travelling insurance agent has done
up the farmers OF B Cham county,
Idaho, by issuing spurious policies.
The majority OF the Indians on the
Nez perces reserv alton nave signed an
agreement ior the opening OF the reser'
walton.
Some OF the people of Boise City,
Idaho, are oppDs ed to the railroad enter
ing that town on account OF the smoke
killing the trees.
In Lower California enough rain has
fallen to insure good crops, though the
d ought WAS beginn ny TO be severely
felt all over the peninsula.
In the United States District Court at
Portland Peter Grant, Il sailors board
ing house runner, was convicted OF har-
boring deserving seamen, and was fined
$3.50.
There is a warm contest in the Arizona
Legislature over the passage OF an irri-
CATION bill, whose features are somewhat
similar to the California laws on the
same subject
1t ia thought that the bed o. the Fraser
river in British Columbia is rich with
deposits OF gold, and an attempt will be
made during the coming summer to Sc
cure portion of this wealth.
Governor Mcconnell Of Idaho openly
stated in n letter to the District Attorney
that members of the Legislature of that
State we're bribed, and that information
will be furnished to secure convictions.
Utah's total gold output for 1891 was
$3l,6i4; for 1892, $3l ,926; showing an
increase OF $2S2. The silver output for
1891 was 8,750,352 ounces; Tor 1892 1t
was 1852, ,259; showing an decrease OF
9S8 095 ounces.
The Nevada Legislature has adjourned,
and bill reducing the salaries OF State
officers is found 10 he missing. The
State Controller says the journals show
it passed and he th,:2ks It will hold good.
1t will he entered in the statute book,
with certifcation that the original was
lost.
A G. Cleveland OF Nevada, one of the
original promoters of the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake road, has great faith
in the enterprise, and secured five years
extension of the right of way across Ne
vada and Utah to Salt Lake and Ogden,
and also the same extension on the bonus
offered hy the State OF Nevada OF $500
for everv mile of road completed. He is
now in Utah.
The ra lroad freight agents in session
at Santa Barbara, Gal, have agreed to
form an az ociation, TO bA called the
Transcontinental Freight Rate Commit
tee. in VIII ch al trapscoutlnental lines
except the Great Northern, the North
ern Pacific and Canadian Pacific will be
parties. A resolution to that effect was
passed, hut no written agreement has
yet been drawn.
The Grand Orange Lodge of British
Columbia has adopted strong resolutions
indorsng Dalton Mccarthy, Q, @ VI. p,
and condemning Sir John Thompson and
his government for using public iundsto
asaist the Premier's core igionists TO
fight the people of Manitoba in t1eir eff
forts to throw oil che separate school
system, and urging upon the British Co
lumbia members oI Parl ament at OF
tawa to support Mr.. McCarhv's resoh
ton to abolish French as an official Ian
Ruage and do away with separate schools