The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-22
EASTERN MELANGE.
The Reported Conditions Of
the Various Crops.
DESTTTUTION IN WEST KANSAS
Outcome Of the Weather Bureau
Investigation at Washing
tOn-The Mississippi.

Lizzie Borden has been invited by th'
Globe-Democrat to lecture.
The work Of ovcrhaulng the halls o
Congress il being pushed rapidly.
Toronto is wrestling with the question
OF runningstrect cars on Sunday.
Lcadyille, Col., is filling up with idle
men, owing to the shutting down Of the
mines.
Serious charges Of discrimination have
been filed against number Of roads en-,
tcrlng Chicago by local merchants.
BY using cotton picking machines a
crop can now bo raised in some districts
Of the South at Il cost Of 2 cents a
! pound.
Near Valccitos, Tex, the Rangers and
a band Of Mexican horsethievcs had a
fight, and Captain Jones Of the Rangers
was killed.
There il dcstitution in parts Of Kan
sas. The wheat crop il q failure in large
sections, The Legislature may be called
in extra session.
Guilclcss immigrants landing in New
York sometimes are buukoGd into the
exchange Of good European money for
Confederate bills.
Secretary OF State Lesueur is receiving
complaints from all over Missouri re-
garding combinations Of insurance
agents TO put up rates.
Governors will be elected next Noyem-
ber in Ohio, Iowa, Massachusetts, and
Virginia. The contests in Ohio and Iowa
will be the most interesting OF them all.
The other day workmen in an old house
in Philadelphia, ut one time occupied by
William Penn, discovered a lot of an
cient coin and English bank notes hid
den under the flooring.
The receipts Of the government for the
year aggregated 1886, 600, 600, while the
expenditures will foot up 1888, ,OOO, 600,
leaving a surplus of receipts above ex-
pcnditures of S2,000,000.
The Department of Agriculture is
about to introduce calla-lily roots as a
vegetable. In appearance the root re-
sembIes an Irish potato; it is easily
propagated and palatable.
The banks at independence, Kan,
have arranged series OF electrical alarm
bells, which are placed in different por-
tions OF the business part OF the city.
The town is now fully prepared for rob-
beTs.
A suit has been instituted at New York
against Senator Squire of the State of
Washington to recover 50, 900 900, which,
it is claimed, the Senator owes the
plaintiffs for lands sold and which be-
longed to them.
The outcome of the weather-bureau
investigation at Washington is the ex-
oneration of Prof. Harrington and the
dismissal OF Mclaughlin, chief of the
executive division, who preferred the
charges on which the investigation was
based.
The new military order signed by the
President abolishes the Department of
Arizona, and places Arizona, New Mex
leo, Utah and Colorado in the new de-
partment. California is restored to the
of California, with head
quarters at San Francisco.
The abolition of seed distribution
through members of Congress and the
of the cost of meat inspection
upon the packers are likely to be two of
the leading recommendations in the an
nual report of Secretary Morton of the |
of Agriculture.
The United States makes very dis
couraging showing for this years crop of |
cotton. 1t is already certain that the
crop has been badly damaged by unfa-
vorable weather during the past six
weeks; that it has got poor start; that
it is being injured by insects and disease
and cannot amount to an average Weld. !
More serious still is the prospect that |
further adverse weather, which may |
fairly be expected at this season, catch
ing the belated crop in its present con-
dition, will reduce the yield still further.
A few sections, as Florida and Louisiana,
seem to have been exempted to the me-
fate that has overtaken the
the cotton crop generally, but they are
not extensive enough to make any ma
terial difference in the crop as whole.
Acting Secretary Hamlin has instruct
e0 IOlleCuOrS OF customs IN order that |
the department may be fully advised
the admission of Chinese
persons into the United States to pre-
pare and forward to the department a
statement showing the number of Chi
nese persons admitted by them from
January to June 80, 1898, and the rea-
IONS; the number to whom admission
was refused and the reasons; the num-
Der permitted to land for transit to an
other port for exit from the United
States. The Collectors are also directed
20 make a weekly report of the Chinese
persons seeking admission into the
United States, through giving names,
description, occupation and place of des-
,ination in the United States, of those
admitted and the evidence upon which
such action was based, and also the
names and description and the occupa-
ion of those to whom admission was re-
used and the reasons for such refusal:
Ilso the names, occupation and de-
cription of such persons permitted to
and for transit through the United