The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-10-21
EASTERN MELANGE.
Colorado Miners UnfayOrable to
II Sliding Wage Scale.
THE POPULATION OF OKLAHOMA.
immigration Into Canada-ChOiCe
Lands In the Red River Val
ley Of North Dakota.

The harvest OF the Florida orange crop
has commenced.
A dispatch from Fall River says that
all the mills are running.
Horses and cattle are dying Of drouth
in various parts Of Texas.
The Indians are costing the govern
ment about $1,000, 900 per year.
Mob law was strongly condemned by
the Knoxville Tenn Presbytery.
James A. Garfield il TO have monu-
mcnt in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
Congressman de Almond proposes a
tax on all incomes in excess Of 10000.
The report Of the Utah Commission
say, that polygamous marriages are a
thing OF the past.
Over one.tifth Of the whole number OF
people in the United States have visited
the Worlds Fair.
Georgia negroes will form an associa-
tion TO prevent lynchings and other out
RACES upon the race.
Secretary Lamont has appointed a
board TO appraise Fort Bliss in Texas,
with view to its sale.
Ex-Prcsdent Harrison is said TO have
received II $50 for recent magazine ar
ticle on the Worlds Fair.
More than 100000 words have been
used in Congressional debate since the
silver repeal question came up.
Several pupils in Philadelphia, rang
ing from o to IL years old, have been ar
rested for carrying revolvers TO school.
More than one-half of the Cherokee
Strip boomers have already left their
claims and gone back TO their old homes.
Virginia comes up smiling with the
largest peanut crop for years. Norfolk
reports 800, 900 bushels more than last
year
The Missouri State Board of Railroad
Commissioners and the express compa-
MES are preparing new schedule OF
rates.
Railroad trains will shortly be lit by
electricity. The New York Central rail-
road is probably the first to use that
system.
Representative Cooper OF Texas has
introduced resolutions in the House re-
ferring the question of silver to a vote
of the people.
Immigration into Canada has proven
failure the past year, a decrease of 25
per cent compared with the previous
year being shown.
Kansas farmers have been taken in by
swindlers, who sell compound alleged
to double the amount OF butter from q
given amount of cream.
A Kentucky Congressman wants the
government to pay rent for the school
houses and churches used as hospitals
by the armies during the war.
The canal between Georgia Bay and
Lake Ontario, which will shorten the
Chicago route to the seaboard by over
900 miles, is nearing completion.
In Maryland the finest varieties o.
peaches are selling in the orchards at 2E
cents bushel. Prices are so low that II
does not pay to ship them to market.
The Chicago grand jury has found in
dictments against twelve men, who art
charged with arson. They were com
bined to insure houses and then burr
them.
A whistle that will make itself heard
for twenty-five miles has just been fin,
ishcd by John Bowman, and it will adorr
the car shops at Third and Berks street
Philadelphia.
The Indebtedness per head in Colorado
is $206. Even Kansas, which has always
been an insatiate borrower, has only
succeeded in running up a mortgage deb
of $40 per head.
A Rochester man has devised u plar
by which trolley street car can bt
stopped almost instantaneously, or with
in space of three feet, while the car il
going at full speed.
Bartholdi's magnificent statuary grouI
winch 1s at present on exhibition at th'
Worlds Fair will be kept at Chicago
rhe work is of bronze, and is composed
of heroic figures of Washington and La
fayette.
The silver-mine overs at Aspen, Col.
have proposed sliding scale of wage
to the men, but the latter are not dis
posed to accept it, and work will not b,
resumed until the price of silver justitie
the old wages.
Elder Roberts of the Mormon Churcl
complains that he was barred from par
ticipating in the proceedings of the Par
lament of Religions at the Worlds Fair
notwithstanding the belief was enter
tanned that all religions could have tn
right and privilege to be heard.
1t is reported that the crops of peache
and grapes in Michigan this year are to-
great to be moved. The various trans
portation companies that are engaged il
carrying the product to Chicago ant
other markets are overwhelmed with OF
ferings OF material to be carried away.
A party of negro miners passin
through Chicope, Kan, from visit t.
Wier were called "scabs " by lot Q
BOYS, and stones were thrown at them
when one of the negroes fired his pisto
at the boys, wounding one. Much ex
citement resulted, and the negroes wer
taken to Pittsburg, Kan, to avoi
trouble.