The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-13

Cheeks Of the Seven Stars Min
ing Co. Repudiatcd.
DEEDS FOR WORTHLESS LANDS.
A Wells, Fargo d Co. Express Car
on the Atlantic and Pacific
Destroyed by Fire.

The salmon run In the Columbia il
improving.
Natural gas in Santa Fc, n. NJ, is to
be utilized.
The Oregon Pacific road is to be ex-
tended to Boise City, Idaho.
The horscthicycs who raidrd ranches
near Prescott a. r., have been caught,
Trouble IL reported between the cow
boys and Navajo Indians on Green river,
Utah.
A project for railroad between Phr-
nix, 4. r., and San Diego is being act
lively developed.
The Stock-growcrs Association con-
ycnton at Ogden wants the arid lands
ccdcd to the States and Territories.
Mr.. Huntington has directed the Off
GERS Of the Southern Pacific Company to
name the Santa Monica wharf "Port
Los Angeles" J"
The mining excitement in Josephine
county, Or, continues. New finds are
reported almost daily, and some OF them
are very rich in gold.
The Sheriff and deputies ut Vsalia
who made failure in their last effort TO
capture Evans and Sontag, are now
busily engaged in explaining how they
failed and placing the blame on each
other.
Numerically the Stanford University
faculty consists Of thirty-threc profess
ors, seven associate professors, fourteen
assistant professors, fifteen instructors,
eight assistants and one nonresident
lecturer; total, seycnty-cight.
1t is estimated that Oregon wool will
clip seven pounds TO the fleece this year,
which viii give the State 100000
pounds OF wool for sale within the next
three months. The increase in sheep
this year is estimated Mt 80 per cent.
Lake county, Or, has two salt marshes
ono on Silver Lake and one on Warner
Lakeland when the railroad picrces
that country the salt industry will be II
sure thing, as the salt is equal in strength
and purity to Turks Island salt.
Deeds for worthless lands in the Colo
RADIO Desert are arriving at San Diego
for record from persons in the East who
are being vctimized by Walter j. Ray
mond. He calls them citrus fruit lands,
and sells them for good prices. They
are utterly without value.
The Wells, Fargo & Co. express car on
the Atlantic and Pacific at Hancock, N.
NJ, was destroyed by fire, and the safes
contained nearly 100000 in gold and as
much more in greenbacks. A large
quantity of the gold will have to go back
to the mint for rccoining, being melted
together. There is nothing but ashes of
the currency.
Checks of the Seven Star Mining Com
pany have been repudiated by Pres
colt ca. T.) bank, with which the COM
pany has been doing business, the COM
pany having no funds to its credit
This is the property recently stocked by
DIR. Warner of patent medicine fame,
and which was advertised for sale under
guarantee OF paying dividends.
A farmer named Whitney living near
Etiwanda, San Diego county, Cal, was
recently bitten by rattler, and through
the prompt application OF remedies ex-
perienced no apparent ill results. One
week afterwards, it is gravely stated
while working in u barn he saw and
killed u large rattler. Immediately he
was thrown in commissions, and since
then he will throw himself on the floor
crawl along and protrude his tongue.
He is under medical care.
The Bowers dredger, which has been
at work ut South Bend the past twenty
months, has gone to Olympia. While at
South Bend the dredger excavated 1885,
800 yards Of river bottom, and distrib-
uted the material, very sandy clay,
over $50 acres Of tide fiat, of which about
forty acres are filled five feet and the
remainder three feet high. The harbor
has been extended about half mile
eastward by the operation, the extension
having an average depth of twenty-five
feet at extreme low tide. The cost of the
work, exclusive of engineering, drainage,
etc, has been $27S, lS0, and all borne by
the property owners of South Bend.