The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-12-23
OCCIDENTAL NEWS.

There IN only one woman among the
1913 convirts ut the Oregon pcnitcntiary.
She was sent from Morrow county for
cutting II harness 10 pieces.
At rocatcllo, Idaho. an cdict has gone
forth that hcncclorth no married woman
or unmarried man shall he employed in
the public schools ~ teacher.
A man named Aglar deliberately
threw blazing kerosene on his wife at
Los Angeles. She was irghtlully
burned aud is not expected TO live.
4 test il 10 bc made Of the legality Of
SucrumentO'H new charter. II ~ be-
levcd decision can be- secured from
the Supreme Court by the first Of the
year.
The party In search Of Mr.. Winston
who H. thought to be lost IN the Sierra
Madrc, has returned to Pasadena 4
search OF the Arroyo Scco Canyon Is
now to bc made.
The statement Of the Southern Pa
ciHc railroad freight office shows that
the total fruit shipments to the East
from san Jose for the season up to
December was 66 49,, 200 pounds.
An active volcano on the American
side ol tho straits was one oi the scenes
witnessed by the passengers on the
steamer Maud, which returned from Al
puLerni to Victoria, B. c., recently.
'. ."Nreak in the main water pipe in n
street IN Tombstone, \. T., last week
was found to have been caused by the
roots Ol Il tree, which had grown around
the pipe and crushed 1t 30 that 1t burst.
It's understood the government in
tends to return another indictment con-
tanning more specific charges against the
defendants in the opium seizure cases ut
at Portland, and also that several other
persons will be included.
The Canadian Pacific railroad will
take the business OF the Canadian Navi-
CATION Company the first OF the year,
and will place a new side-wheeler with
speed OF eighteen knots M hour on the
route between Victoria and Vancouver
A woman at Spokane, Wash, was
fined $40 few days ago for practical
joking. She perpetrated the exceed
ingly humorous, though not exactly
new, Joke OF mixing the sugar and salt
on the table OF public dIning room,
The court called it disordcrly conduct.
President Dwight Braman Of the San
Diego Land and Town Company has
announced that the company nus ue,
cided to extend the National City and
OtAy railroad from La Presa into the
Upper Swcctwater through the JamaCha
country INTO the eastern ehu oi CaJoh
Valley.
Since the waters of the CoQuille have
receded it IL learned that the damage
to the Coos Bay and Roseburg railroad
is found to have been overestmated,
but as il was nearly all backwater with
no current, the receding floods leave the
track only slightly damaged. There
was heavy wash at Cedar Point,
Wili'h twlsleu Hiio sn,,'vi wv sm'',,
spun oir'soS' w''.'i mo'o 1's ,ns 'rant dn',,,
s'ruc'uIe5' No i"''S VI ''o' "n,ioIm "u.j I"'' -
ageu, anu e.,c'e was iioy 49, hmi,t om U
unlil"ee w. "iy y, omo na',o p' ,uas 'J Soua va
pilne' lio eio"'oI' J''i"S' h" We "" o hon,
10 I'e pa'"stlte, "niDl' % in"u !'9U 'eo,' "eo'
competed ~, peiorI ,io l"','h sc. ao"oo'' 81.
opened ood me to'"i o"ii'"so wiz "o' oN'
ceeu Fo'ooo'
Samuel p. Morse, formerly a wealthy
merchant OF Omaha, came TO san trah-
cisco last September with high lndorse-
ments. While ut the Palace he pre-
sented several checks to different people
Tor various sums of money, the checks
being drawn on Omaha banks. These
checks were sent back for collection,
and have been returned MS worthless,