The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-06-03
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Thunder and Rain throughout
the Colorado Desert.
A U. S. PAYMAsTER ARRESTED.
Another Rich Strike In Gold at
Baker city - Damages for
False Imprisonment.

The Chino beet factory Is being en-
latRcd for the coming crop.
The Columbia-ryCr canncrics have so
iar packed 10, $40 cases OF salmon.
Shasta's (Cul.) Supervisors have APP
proprlatcd Il 900 for II mineral exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
The contract has been let for new
opcra-housc ut Pcndlcton. 1t will have
II seating capacity of about 300.
Another wonderfully rich strike in
gold is reported from Baker City, Or.
The people are much excited.
For the first time in more than Il year
Southern New Mexico has been visited
by rainstorm of some twenty hours
duration.
Riverside so far has shipped l,70O car
loads OF ornngcs-50O moro than last
season, About 500 carloads are yet to
be shipped.
Forty acres Of ground have been To-
Gated for placer mining ut the mouth Of
the Pcshatin, Washington. Unexpected
that the pay will be large.
Kid the renegade Apache, has been
heard from. He has just visited the
San Carlos reservation and supplied
himself with another squaw.
Old Chief John. OF the Saanich
Indians recently died ut Saanich Arm,
i. c., where he had been quietly living
for many years. He supposed he was
1870 years old. The present chief is over
so.
Another irrigation and watcr-storagc
enterprise is being surveyed on the Gila,
twelve miles above Yuma, A. 7. The
proposition is to put sixty-ioot dam on
the river ut u point where it is crossed
by natural ledge.
Grace Murphy has obtained verdict
at Fresno, CAL, for "a, 1000 against Mrs.
Johanna Smith of Golden Gate avenue,
San Francisco, who had charged the girl
with theft. The suit was for damages
for false imprisonment.
For several days and nights thunder
and rain have prevailed throughout the
Colorado Desert. The Ilarqua lIala
country in Arizona has met with heavy
rains extending towards Phoenix, and
on the Upper ella it has amounted to
almost Il Hood.
At Fresno u suit for $4,000 damages
has been begun by Miss Grace Murphy
against Mrs. j. Smith, widow of Captain
Smith, who died in San Francisco upon
his return from whaling expedition.
The suit VIA brought on the grounds Of
malicious prosecution.
Fuller and Warner, two st. Louis
gentlemen, with two men from San
Francisco, have chartered the junks
Chrome and Alta at San Diego for q
trip to the Galapagos lslanes, off the
coast of Peru, to search for treasure said
to have been buried there years ago by
priests of that country.
1t is reported that the Southern
Pacific will begin the construction of
the Black Canon line, surveyed over a
year ago, to connect the Maricopa and
Phoenix line with the Bullock road, q
distance of lie miles from Phoenix to
Prescott.
Upon teegraphic orders from Wash
ington Paymaster J. G.. Sullivan of the
receiving ship Independence at Mare
Island was placed under arrest and his
sword taken from him. 1t is reported
that there are some irregularities in the
paymaster's accounts, but the officers
friends believe that he will be able to
straighten out matters satisfactorily.
The abundant water supply that is
promised by the melting SHOWS will
afford the means of working many an
old gulch or ravine which years ago
yielded handsome returns and which
have been practically abandoned await
ing u season like the one that is now at
hand, and throughout Baker and adjoin-
ing counties there will be an activity
manifest that will result when the final
cleanup is made in the fall in distribut-
ing many thousands of dollars of the
golden treasure into the channels of
trV.de.