The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-02-18
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Penloycr Vetoes the Salute on
Inauguration Day.
EXTENSION OF THE OREGON PACIFIC.
Tray of Diamonds Stolen From Jewelry
Store In SaCramCntO-Marine
Engineer PardOned.

Riverside packers and growers are
holding the orange crop back until the
Florida fruit is well out Of market.
The contract for the construction OF the
South Gila canal has just been let to
Los Angeles parties. The work when
completed will cost 81, ,000,O
The wife OF X. I. Earle, late superin-
tendent Of the Stockton combined har-
vester works. believes he has gone 10
Mexico with married woman.
o. W. IIolIenbeck, the Auburn (Cal.
banker, has been acquitted on an en-.
bezzlement charge, owing TO a variance
between the indictment and the proof.
The Gage canal, which furnishes the
water supply for the new cable settle
ments Of Riverside, In being cemented for
Il distance of six miles, and the work Ia
nearly completed.
Phoenix, A. T., is apparently in earn.
est in an endeavor TO oits share toward
building the proposed San Diego and
Phmnix railway. San Diego offers to
build to the Colorado river.
The Los Angeles Board OF Supervisors
favor the passage OF State law provid'
ing that new counties cannot be formed
without the consent of majority OF
voters residing within the area OF the
original county.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re.
ports fourteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with thirteen for the
previous week and sixteen for the cor
responding week OF 1892.
The caee OF the Illinois Trust and Saw.
ings Bank OF Chicago against .he Los
Angeles cable road has been opened in
the Superior Court at Lee Angeles. This
is an effort to iorclose 81 ,644,00 worth
OF outstanding mortgages.
The Governor of Washington has par
doned Lucius Gonzales Of San Francisco,
a marine engineer. Gonzales has served
two years in the penitentiary, but recent
circumstances prove him innocent OF the
crime for which he was committed.
A small bird inhabitants the valleys
and canyons putting into Death Valley,
making his home in the mesquit groves
abounding there. His principal occupa-
ton seems to be war of determination
against scorpions, which he is very skill
full in Killing.
The Bee Hive, the old residence of
Brigham Young at Lake and recently
owned and occupied by his son, John w.
Young, has been sold out on judgment
for $67,4l3.44. The Bee Hive brought
2,56773 and the other property enough
and more to satisfy the judgment.
Sergeant Levin of Victoria, B O., who
was suspended owing to his investigation
into the manner of the death OF A. J..
Davis, the Montana millionaire, has been
reinstated. The Sergeant believed that
the daughter.in-la law of Davis pushed him
while he was drunk, and he fell down
stairs and was killed. No criminal in
tention was discovered.
A tray of diamonds WAS stolen from H.
Wachhorst's jewelry store at Sacramento
the other evening. One man broke the
plate-glass windows and another covered
the clerk with a pistol, while the first
grabbed the tray, when both men
dashed up the street and disappeared in
Chinatown. They had false whiskers
and could not be identified.
The prospects for an early resumption
of operations at the TemesCal tin mines
in San Bernardino county, CAL, are not
very encouraging. During the past week
the Sheriff has sold at auction a quantity
of the movable property of the company
to satisfy the accounts of parties to whom
the company was indebted when the
mine was closed down some months ago.
The arrest of Mrs. Yesler at Seattle,
WASH, on the charge of having destroyed
the will of her husband. is now believed
to be part of a conspiracy to prejudice
the appointment of Mrs. Yesler's choice
as administrator of the estate, and Low.
man, the disgruntled heir, is the head Of
the conspiracy. There is much feeling
in the city. The Mayor will not involve
the city in the suit.