The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-18
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Large Amount Of Natural
Gas Wasted in Indiana.
NEW YORK BECGARS TO BE ARRESTED
A Negro Hanged In Delaware Nineteen
Years Ago for Criminal Assault
Was Innocent.

Northwestern Iowa is liable to be In
volved In meat famine.
Citizens OF Memphis are endeavoring
10 suppress the gambling evil.
About forty employees in the New Or
leans Mint have been discharged.
Kansas sends in the best wheat report
Of any OF the wheat-growing States.
An investigation OF the ex-ofiicials Of
the Illinois Penitentiary is asked for.
The Michigan Liquors Dealers Asso-
citation has organized an insurance order.
Small game Ia reported 10 be very
abundant throughout Alabama this year.
Extraordinary precautions against the
cholera have been taken at the city OF
Mexico.
Philadelphia capitalists are figuring
on starting new bank in Wall street
with 81 900, 900 capital.
A Philadelphia syndicate has made
extensive purchases OF coffee lands in
the State OF Oaxaca, Mexico.
The managers OF the Chicago Fair are
counting upon 81, 100, 900 in receipts for
concessions granted by them.
Mexico's exports TO the United States
during the past fiscal year aggregated
81, ,949, ,5SS more than during the previous
year.
The fifty.cent Columbian stamps, it is
discovered by st. Louis puzzle fiend,
contains the picture OF man smoking a
cigar.
The Union Pacific threatens to make
the rate from OGDEN TO Missouri river
points $40, and hot rate war Is ex-
pected.
BARRIERS in Ohio are agitating for law
which shall make it legally possible for
a white barber TO refuse to shave a col
ored man.
Six OF the public schools of Milwaukee
have been closed by the Health Com
because OF their unsanitary
condition.
In Louisville man named Manning
has been arrested who is charged with
selling charms warranted to cure all
sort OF illness.
The Senate has passed the bill to re-
fer to the Court OF Claims the claim OF
Jessie Benton Fremont to certain lands
in San Francisco.
A Chicago lawyer has suggested that
when they possess the
legal requirements, be named for Su-
preme Court Justices.
Four saloons were erected in the mid
die OF the Ohio river, which was entirely
frozen at Louisville, and did a thriving
business for many days.
AS the result of recent order by the
government the immigration commits
sions paid by railroads to steamship
will be reduced.
Governor Hogg of Texas, In his mes
sage to the Legislature Of that State,
advocated the taxation of venders of
deadly weapons and cigarettes.
Senator Warner Miller says Hunting.
ton and the Southern Pacific interests
are in opposition to the Nicaragua Canal,
and their agents are at work in Wash
ington.
A bill to prohibit prize-fghting in In
ulahai PloFluluR IuaV pl lhOLpaA5 ohoulu
be fined $1,000 and the newspapers
81, 600 for printing advance notices, was
killed in the House.
The Geologist OF Indiana says that
enough gas has been wasted in its belt to
supply every family in the State for two
years, and that $22, 900, 900 is but fair
of the loss.
Police Superintendent Byrnes of New
York has issued orders to the police to
arrest all beggars caught plying their
trade. They had made general nuis-
ances of themselves.
Four thousand new postoffices were
established during the last year, 557, ,846
letters poured into the boxes,
32,6l2 of them wholly without any out
side sign, symbolor address.
An election contest in Massachusetts,
has developed the fact that the success
full candidate for Representative in the
Wellington district was naturallzed only
the day before he was elected.
The Minnesota Legislature is getting
ready to try new form OF paternalism.
1t is proposed to amend the State Con-
stitution 80 as to enable the State to in
sure all farm buildings at cost.
To the British emigrants who will take
up land in the northwest of British Co
lumbia the Canadian government is Of
fering through the London Emigrants'
Information Office bonuses of $5 to $40
head.
Miss Nellie Ahern will be the next
State Librarian at indianapolis. This
was decided at caucus OF the two
Houses in which sixty-four votes were
for Miss Ahern and only eight for the
male candidate.
A Washington dispatch says it has in
from thoroughly reliable
source that NJ. M. Estee upon the part
of San Francisco has offered the Santa
Fe $10,000,O01 if the road would build
into the city.
The Chickamauga National Park Com
missioners have offered $17,000,000 for
eight acres OF ground on Orchard Knob,
Tennessee, where Generals Grant and
Thomas stood and watched the battle of
Missionary Ridge.