The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-01-14
New Line Of Steamships Between
San Diego and Mazatlan.
THE MERGANTHALER AT ASTORIA.
A Proposition Made to Extend the Rail.
road From Jullaetta to Lewis.
ton, ldahO-Etc.
Yuma Is having new water works.

Yuma is paving new water works.
Portland is overrun with burglars and
sneak thieves.
The Piutes In Nevada have been hay
Ing rabbit drives.
Aurora, New, once had 5000 popula-
tion. II now has twenty-five.
A letty is 10 be at once constructed at
the mouth OF San Diego harbor.
Unusual profits are being made by
this season.
A general reduction OF miners wagee
throughout the territory Of Utah is
threatened,
Orange-growers are getting 1925 per
box delivered ut the depot at Los An
geles, which 10 a very good figure.
The jury in the case Of School Super
intendent Harwood, charged at Santa
Barbara with altering the records, has
failed to agree.
The entire news matter OF the Astorian,
published at Astoria, Or, is now aet on
Merganthaler linotype machine, the
only one in use on the Coast.
A new line OF steamships ia about to
be established between San Diego and
Mazatlan, Mexico, the first steamer eav-
ing san Diego about January l5.
Two alleged witches were tortured to
death by the Xuni Indians in New
Mexico Il few days ago. Trouble will
probably result in an effort of the United
States TO make arrests for the deed.
Farmers in Marin county, Cal, espec-
tally in the lowlands near the coast, are
complaining Of weed that has germi-
mated OF late from the rich soil, which
the cows eat and which gives peculiar
taste TO the milk, 20 much 80 that in
some districts the milk is unpalatable.
1t affects the butter made from the same.
A proposition has been made to extend
.he railroad from Juliaetta to Lewiston,
Idaho, before the next crop is harvested,
il subsidy OF $75, 900, together with the
right of way through the town, is given.
The people are enthusiastic on the sub
ject, and the terms will undoubtedly be
accepted.
Citizens OF Idaho Falls have purchased
a whole section Of school land, which
they offer as a site for the State Agricul-
tural College. In addition to this en-
t;2sng inducement, the argument Is adj
vanced that Idaho Falls is desirably
situated and possesses many features
calculated to render it suitable place
for the college.
Owing to the continued low prices OF
silver and lead the Niagara group of
mines, at Bingham, U. t., on which
over $500, 900 is invested, have been shut
down, and the managers OF the Old Jor-
dan group have notified their men that
they will have to accept reduction in
wages or find themselves out OF employ
ment.
Reliable persons who have just re-
turned to Boise, Idaho, from Diamond
Basin, in Owyhee county, denounce the
reported find of diamonds in that region
as hoax. They declare that the story
that Kunz, the expert from Amsterdam,
had discovered great diamond-bearing
ledge over there is false and they assert
positively that Kunz did not drive even
a prospect hole in the imaginary ledge.
The San Francisco Morning Call states
that there is prospect of lively meat
war lii San Francisco as the result of the
o5UdDllslIn6ub VI uiilp Ds AIulOui y ulB
stock yards and slaughter-house plant
at Baden. The South San Francisco
slaughter. house men, who have con-
troled the San Francisco meat trade for
so many years, do not like the idea Of
competition, and are trying to make the
retail butchers boycott Armour's estab-
ment. Armour's representative at San
Francisco, Thomas Newton, declares that
if the boycott is attempted his company
will open retail butcher shops all over
the city and will sell meat at rates with
which other butchers cannot hope to
compete.