The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-25
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Boomers Along the Cherokee Strip
Suffer From Cold.
CARNEGIE REDUCES WAGES AGAIN.
An Immense Ledge Of LIthOgraphic Stone
Discovered Near ST. Louis
Sword Of COrteS.

Nebraska will send 300 cowboys TO tn,
Worlds Fair.
In Baltimore the lowest fine for policy
gambling Ia 5000.
Boston wants authority TO light tht
city with its own plant.
The brass manufacturers OF Canada
have formed combine.
An anti-Pinkerton bill was introduced
In the Wisconsin Legislature.
Boston is taking subscriptions for q
monument to Phillips Brooks.
Lieutenant Peary will set out on his
Arctic expedition about July /.
The Western farmers are holding on
10 lO4, 100000 bushels OF wheat.
Half a million a year ls 10 be spent 10
protect New York's water supply.
The sword OF Cortes will be among
Mexico's exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Carnegie has reduced wages at the Ed
gar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock,
Pa.
The old New York Hotel In New York
city has been sold to a syndicate OF cap
italists.
Canadian estimates for the ensuing
year contain appropriations Of "a, $50, 200
for canals.
Nebraska's Legislature will probe the
frauds back Of Lincoln's Capital National
Bank failure.
The United States foreign commerce
for the last fiscal year amounted to over
g., 600, 100000.
Through the medium OF matrimonial
paper Pttsburg man became engaged
to his own daughter.
Oklahoma farmers are jubilant over
the late SHOWS, which win prove very
beneficial to the crop.
The railroads centering In Chicago will
expend at least 100000 In prepara-
tion for the Worlds Fair.
The Harrison Telephone Company,
with $50, 10000 capital, has been incor.
porated under the laws of Illinois.
A ledge of lithographic stone sufficient
to supply the world for 800 years has
been discovered near st. Louis, Mo.
The boomers camped along the Chero-
kee strip have suffered intensely from
the cold. Several have frozen to death.
Professor w. F. Whitlock has been se-
ected Chairman of the Book Committee
OF the Methodist Church OF the United
States.
Hanlan and Gaudaur have signed ar
ticles to row for the championship of
America and 81 900 side in Toronto on
July 22.
st. Louis feels good. Beer Is selling at
So per barrel, cents per schooner, and
her 4 percent bonds are nabbed up by
capitalists at 10l.
There will be in the neighborhood OF
325 consular positions subject to appoint.
ment by President Cleveland and his
Secretary OF State.
For over $2,00O,0O0 the Weyerhouser
syndicate has bought 900, 600, 900 feet OF
Minnesota pine lumber, planning to
control the market.
The Pullman Car Company will have
to pay taxes on property In Nebraska in
future. Judge Dundy of the Federal
Court has so decided.
According to the estimate OF the Post
master-General, the receipts OF his de-
partment for the next fiscal year will
exceed the expenditures.
Three of the largest silk mills in the
United States have formed syndicate
to control the production of fine.grade
silk goods in the country.
Government employees of the military
and civil services are complaining bit
terly of the losses they sustain through
the depreciation of silver.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has begun
suit at Scranton, Pa, against eight per-
sons who were instrumental in having
her placed in an insane asylum.
Baggage and transfer companies along
the New York Central railroad have
combined as the Consolidated Transfer
Company, with $l,6OO,O 900 capital.
1t is proposed to levy poll tax of 800
per annum on all Chinese residents OF
Canada. Enough to pay fare by under
ground railroad 10 all parts of the United
States.
Montreal Is now at the beginning OF
the winter carnival, which will last until
the close OF Mardi-Gras. Tobogganing,
skating and snow-shoeing will be in
The Department of Public Works at
Ottawa will shortly call for designs for
the erection of monument on Parlia-
ment Hill to the memory of the late Sir
John Macdonald.
A movement is on foot to form new
traction company, with capital of $lO,-
100000, out of the street car lines not
now under the control of the Philadel-
phia Traction Company.
The Senate has ratified the agreement
entered into between the Northern Pa.
cific railroad and the Puyallup Indians
of Washington, whereby the railroad is
given right-ol-way sixty feet wide
across the reservation for spur of its
road 1878 feet long. The agreement
was amended in one particular by pro
viding that the Indians shall receive not
less than 81 800 an acre for their land.