The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-11-18

Sensational Mining Suit Com.
mcnccd at Boise City.
LIBERALS OF OGDEN DISBAND.
The Consolidated Virginia Mine on
the C0mst0ck Lode Begins
Active Operations.

Three Los Angeles mashcrs were
rouudly whipped few days ago.
Two hundred families are reported to
have moved away from Astoria, Or, the
past Two months.
An oycrhnuling Of tho Rangers en-
gluc- nt Mare Island has led 10 corrcc'
ton ol the defect.
George +. Roystor, who sued the Sac
raLculo Bee Tor 10000, charging libel,
got u verdict lor $3.50.
Strenuous efforts are boing made 10
have ituit growers convention assem-
bic IN Spokane in February.
Active operations in the Consolidated
Virginia miuc on the Comstock began
the other day with the repairs OF the
rhalt- The news is gratifying to miners.
The Liberals at Ogden, u. r. have
disbandrd ~ party. They were com
posed Of gcntlles or non Mormons, and
have long bitterly opposed the Latter
day Saints.
The charge .oi arson against Trottcr
the owner OF the dye works at Spokane,
ha. been dismissed. This il tho case
where an explosion killed Mrs. Rcane
and the works were set on fire. IL was
stated that Trotter had fired the build
ing in order to obtain the insurance.
There are grave suspicious that the
explosion ON the collier San Mateo the
other day, which ripped open her decks,
va. not caused by coal gas, as was first
given IN explanation. 1t II proposed at
Victoria, B. c., to have an official inves-
tlgallon.
Tiptop has heretofore been the most
prosperous mining camp III the Terri
tory Of Arizona. 1t was II chloride camp,
but Welded from 500, 900 TO 5000 year
Is. A company organized last spring to
work the properties in the district on n
large scale gave up the enterprise three
months ago on account OF the low price
OF silver, and the camp has been totally
abandoned. Six months ago 1t was a
prosperous little village with school,
store and the hum OF industry. To-day
nothing is left but two lonely indivd-
uaIs, who remain to look after the prop
erty.
c. Wetmore, Chief State Viticult-
urist OF California, reports that the yint-
age OF the present season Will be about
$4,000, 600 gallons, or about 5000, 600 gal,
Ions in excess OF last years yield, and
will be OF good quality generally. About
4 600 tons OF grapes will be used in the
must factory at IIealdsburg, the product
of which Is in great demand abroad
During the next ten years, however, it
is expected that the State vintage will
Ahow u decrease, owing to the ravages OF
nhyIloxera in various sections and also
TO The recent check in the planting OF
VINEYARDS caused by the low prices that
have generally prevailed during the past
few seasons, the growth Of the industry
in the past having been too rapid, so
much SO that the output in one year rose
from 5000, 900 to 1900, ,00O gallons.
A sensational mining suit has been
fled in the United States Court at Boise
City, Idaho, by Arthur Neal OF Seattle
against Fred Page-rustin and Ill. f.
Parker of Seattle and several Boise peo-
nle interested in the Eldora Mining
Company, operating in the Neal district,
about twenty miles from Boise. Neal
sold two valuable mines to II. p. Plow-
man, u Boise capitalist, for $4,000, re-
ceiving half in cash and the balance in
notes secured by mortgages. Neal al
legcs that Tustin and Parker got hold OF
him in Seattle and kept him under their
influence for over two weeks by means
OF drugs. During that time he signed
what lie thinks is n power OF attorney
authorizing Tustin to forclose a mort
gage. He says he might have signed a
deed to everything he possessed. Tustin
forclosed the mortgage in his own name
and, it is claimed, never paid Neal a
cent The Eldora Company was formed,
purchasing mines from Plowman, agree
ing to give him $4,000 and one-half OF
the stock OF the company. Neal asks
for receiver to take charge OF the prop
erty. Plowman claims that no money
has been paid him by the company.