The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-02


Quite number Of the Indians have
gone to Yakima TO pick hops.
p First hucklcbcrries Of the season
= were In market lust Saturday
John Buck went to M0nkland Satur-
day night TO stay for some time.
Elmer Rand and wife came home
from the Sound Tuesday evening,
VIM. Rand has sold his interests In
the livery stable 10 VIM. Curdiman.
Bert Strnnnhnn and Doug LangIle
came down from Trout lake Tuesday.
G r.. Downing, II newspaper man of
Portland, made us II pleasant call Mon
day.
Many of the closed banks throughout
the United States have resumed busi.
ness.
VIM Luckcy and wife haze gone
bnck to Portland after II pleasant visit
here.
=. T.. Bartmcss will sell for cash only
and ut IL reduction Of from 8 to 10 per
cent.
The populists have tickets out In all
the Eastern states that hold elections
this tall.
Joseph A. Wilson will pasa through
Hood River on Monday nights train
for the East.
Mr.. aud Mrs. George McCurdv re-
turned to their home in Portland Tues.
day morning
Bert Langillc returned Wednesday
to the Stanford university, California,
to resume his studies.
Three million grain sacks on overdue
shiDs have arrived NJ San Francisco,
aud the corner Is broken.
! A swarm Of lOcusts 80 immense as to
obscure the Gun three hours passed over
the city of Tunis Tuesday.
/ Mrs. VIM Curdman was taken sud
denly i'll Monday aud Dr. Brosius was
called. She IL again all right.
There Is 1900 900 pounds Of wool
stored IN the warehouses Of Pcndlcton.
Only 10000 pounds have been sold at
that point.
/ +. NJ. 10y has purchased house
aud lot from 4. Dishrow, in Winans
addition, and hns commenced the erec-
ton of II new barn.
Mrs. Rice came down from The
Dullc- Tuesday to visit her son, w. J.
Campbell, and family.
j. II. Middleton came up from Port
land Tuesday on II business trip, re-
turning Thursday morning.
The residence Of Simon Damen Of
Ccntervillc, Wash, was destroyed by
fire Thursday evening Of last week.
Portlnud's great Industrial Exposl-
tion opens September 9th aud closes
October 2Sth. See nd In another col
umn.
Burlington, Iowa. reports the coolest
weather now existing in the memory
of the oldest inhabitant. Heavy cloth
ing necessary for comfort.
Forest fires are raging all over the
state and the atmosphere Is darkened
by smoke. This state Of affairs will ex-
ist until the fall rains set n
w. II. Allen has purchased four lots
from Robert Rand, just back Of Judge
Hcnry's property, and Is putting up
residence on them Price paid $3.50.
We have not pushed any Of our sub
sCribcrs for amounts due this office,
hut We will have to ask that they ad.
lust their indebtedness at the earliest
possible date.
Mr.. J. Kiscr who was up here last
week doing some budding ut the Col
umbia Nurseries for II. G. Bateham,
and budding forseveral parties in town,
has returned 20 Portland.
Jessie and Johnnie Watson, Mr..
Webber, Lou Morse and son Charley,
were fishing at Sandy Flat Saturday,
getting about 500 fish. They have our
thanks for Il nice lot of the same
The First National bank of The
Dallcs. which lately suspended, has re-
opened for business. This was the last
bank that suspended in Oregon, and to
the credit of The Dallcs was the first to
reopen.
Kansas City has been suffering the
past week from sugar famine. For
the first time in months wholesale
houses received, Tuesday, from the re-
ilncries at San Francisco shipments in
carload lots.
We had the pleasure of setting the
name of Hon. Robert a. Miller ut the
bottom of a land notice from Oregon
City this week, he having taken charge
of the registers part of the land office
ut tnat point.
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Curricr, Mrs. T..
b. Fulton's father and mother, and
their grand daughter Miss Dollie Brown
arrived here from Valparaiso Illinois,
Friday morning on a visit, and if the
place suits them will make it their
home.
A forty-acrs prune orchard near Eu-
gene was recently sold for $4,000. The
orchard has been planted only about
eight years, and for several years past
the trees have borne sufficient fruit to
pay fair rental on the land. Before
planting to trees the land WIS probably
worth $50 an acre, but the trees have
increased its value to $l200 an acre.
One morning last week we passed
blackberry patch and saw two ladies
among the tTeaeherous bushes of thorns
picking berries with mems pants on,
SAYS the Traver Advocate, whereupon
the Woodland Mail rises to explain
that 1t is time for Yolo county to shut