The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-05-20
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.
Backward Season in Nevada
Protects the Fruit.
NEW GOLD FIND IN ARIZONA.
A Blue Ribbon War In Progress M
san Dicgo-A Deputy Sheriff
Killed by the Kid.

The Southern Pacific is to build to Sar
Diego fIom Yuma.
Victoria d. c. lumber dealers hay,
formed Il lumber combine.
Peach Springs, A. r., IL in the throc,
OF excitement over II new gold find
4 wonderfully rich strike has been
made IN the Eagle Tail Mountains, 4. +.
The Clatsop Mill Company at Astoria
now has dryhousc, with II capacity OF
10000 feet Il day.
The Citizens ticket at phunix, A. r.,
has been elected, with the exception OF
City Marshal.
The san Diego County Horticultural
Commissioners have organized and COM
mcnccd the study Of fruit pests.
There are rumors of big opium com
huc, working through Canadian ports
and having headquarters at Portland,
Or.
The backward season in Nevada has
protected the fruit, and the pasturagc
Will bc exceedingly fine, owing to heavy
rains and SHOWS.
There is much excitement in Graham
county \. T., over the indictment OF
several citizens lor raising the registra-
tlon to make the county lIrst-class.
Md, the Apache, has killed Jake Bow
man, Deputy sheriff OF Cochsc county,
IN Guadalupe Canyon, A. I. Bowman
started out to hunt Tor and kill the KID. /
An Albany paper asserts that people /
going to the Worlds Fair from the coun- /
try thcrcabout will take ut least $50 900
away that will never return and be Il
complete loss to that community.
The clerk hire OF the last Legislature
cost the State OF Oregon S26, ,U26. 10, or
over 900 Il day. The lowest paid any
one clerk was 5l6, but very few OF them
drew less than Sl25. There were l6S
clerks on the pay roll.
A bluc-ribbon war is in progress at
San Diego. Bands Of Christian men and
women visit the saloons in Il chosen
quarter OF the city and hold gospel meet
lngs inside the saloon if invited, rs is
often the case, or on the sidewalk if de-
MED entrance.
The Phoenix CA. IT, bankers have do {
clded to contest the legality of the Ter
rltorial law taxing all banks, national,
State or private, on the same basis az
other property when the bank does busi-
ness solely within the Territory, whether I
organized under the laws of Arizona or !
any other State. :
Chester Ayrcs, with traps baited with !,
cotton saturated with nostrum whose !
odor is pleasant to the nostris of cov-
otes, has been able to capture and kill $
within five weeks forty-six coyotes in a
Mcndocno county, Cal, whose scalps o
bring him near II 400, the bounty from c
the county and the sheepmen. 6
At Phwnix, A. r., the grand jury has :
just ignored the charges against five :,
prisoners who have been in Jail for from .
four to six months. These men were u
too poor to give bonds, and were COM
PEELED to remain in Jail until the session u
)f the jury without u shadow of evil
lence to indict, much less convict them. ic
A fish wheel is now in operation in the f
Umatilla river mile above the town of rC
Umatilla. it is the first one ever tried eN
,ut of the Columbia, and seems to be 10
ioing pretty we'll. II. G. Hinton, who ot
put the wheel in, is also the inventor of sc
IN irrigating wheel which is now being 81
lsed successfully at several points along ia
he Umatlla river. AZ
Preliminary arrangements have been 81
for the establishment of the a.
Australian steamship line to run in con-
lection with the Canadian Pacific rail tr
Tay. The first steamers will leave Sgd he
ey May II and June 8, and, returning, DR.
yill probably leave Vancouver June s t;I
nd July 6. th
A petition has been put in circulation fie
the mainland of British Co be
lmbia, addressed to the Governor Gen pa
raj OF Canada, suggesting separation of OK
he mainland from Vancouver Island as of
le surest means of relief from the ex- mi
ting evils of the resources of the PROV Pr
ice being spent in unproductive under COZ
Ikings. ten