The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-03-11
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Massacre Of Seventeen Indians
on Sorrow Island.
ONE YOUNG LADY KILLS ANOTHER.
Considerable North Wind Throughout a
large Section Of Southern Cal
ilOrnla Does Good.
ONE YOUNG LADY KILLS ANOTHER.

The bin for soldiers home has
passed both Houses of the Idaho Legls'
In ure.
Henry Bentley has been held for trial
at Los Angeles on the charge oi poison
ing his wife.
Every town in Eastern Oregon is an
earnest applicant for the location oil the
branch insane asylum.
Pnmnix, A. T., is much excited over
the sudden death OF woman. The In
dicationa are that she was poisoned.
The Indian agent at Alert Bay has
been notified OF reported massacre OF
seventeen Ind ans on Sorrow Island by
the Kit katlG tribe.
The Bonanza mine at llarqua lIala, A.
T.. has for some time been systematic
ally robbed by Mexicans, who carried
out nuggets and ore worth So u pound in
dinner pals.
Flowing by means of the huge traction
engine used last fall for this purpose il
TO be soon begun on the Umatilla reser-
vation. Six hve-iurrow plows will be
operated ut once by this means.
There ia the prospect OF clash be-
tween the Santa Fe and Southern Pa
clhc. and ae a result the Pacific Coast
pubic will get cheaper fares. A general
decentralization OF rates is predicted.
There has been considerable north
wind throughout large section ol
Southern Can ornia during the past
week, which has rapidly dried up the
excess oi m>sure. No damage OF con-
sequence TO the orange crop Is reported.
There has been incorporated in the
sundrv civil service bill paragraph fix.
ing the limit o. cost for the San Fran
cisco public building at $3,OU0,, o.. This
action ol Congress will render available
the $2l 900 rema ming from the purchase
OF the building site.
The Chinese cook of the Chinese crew
OF 1870 men at the Palo A to stables was
bounded and gagged the other morning
by two white men and Il Oh naman, and
the rooms in Chinese boarding house
we're ransacked and between $4,000 and
$1,000 in coin taken.
SUPERINTENDENT Clark Of the insane
asylum at stock ton, Cal, has permitted
newspaper man to see sarah Althea
Terry in the madhouse. He found her
a raving maniac and subject to the re-
slraint necessary in such case, but
otherwise kindly treated
The sealing schooner Pioneer has ar
rived at Victoria, b. o., after very
stormy voyage. She brought in'orma-
ton o. the location of The wreck OF the
sealing schooner Maggie Mac, the fate OF
which has teen a mystery for over
wear. Two etorekeepers on Q1atslno
Sound report having found fragments OF
the Maggie Mac IN a small cove just
south OF Cape Scott.
The Manzona almond plantation in
Antelope Valley, Los Angeles county,
continues to expand. Two years ago
there were perhaps thirty acres set to
trees. Now there are about thirteen
hundred acres planted, and carload lots
of trees are arriving every few days. 1t
PROMISES to become, if it is not already.
the largest almond plantation in the
world. The trees, If planted in single
row two feet apart, would reach nearly
from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Two schooners from San Diego have
been seized by Mexican customs officers
at San Ouintin, and are held there pend
iny Investigation. 1t is claimed the
boats were engaged in fishing and aba
lone catching in Mexican waters, in
which case they will undoubtedly be
confscated. Two more schooners were
suspected and steps taken Tor their ap'
preheusion. Four schoonerR are known
to be in those waters. The Mexican Of
fcjals have reported to their home gov
ernment that great amount OF SNUG
Cling is carried on by means of small
vessels from San Diego, which are al
woys to he seen off their coast. osten
sibIy on fishing trips. Application hat
been made for smaller steamer to pa
troll the coast.