The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-07-05
BRIEF NEWS
OF THE WORLD
WEEKS HAPPENINGS TERSELY TOLD
A Resume Of Less Important But Not
Less Interesting Events of
the Past Week.

Of an uprising in the army.
A plot to kill the hing and queen OF
Italy has been discovered.
Rockefeller's money has been re.
fused by the National Juvenile I'm
provement association.
Governor Chamberlain has declared
all laws ratified by the June election
to be in effect.
Senator Tillman declares that Stand.
ard Oil interests have been at work on
the rate bill.
President Roosevelt has signed a
bill authorizing st. Louis to erect
and maintain bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at that city.
The secretary of the interior reject
ed the bids recently opened in Port
land for cement for the Umatilla and
Okanogan irrigation projects. The
price was too high.
Five ice men at Toledo, Ohio, have
been found guilty of combining for
the purpose of raising the price of ice
and &c ntenCed to one year in the work
house and to pay fine of So, 900.
General Greeley has reorganized the
relief work in San Francisco.
The friendship of Russia and Great
Britain has been cooled by the Jewish
massacres.
The sultan Of Morocco has signed
the treaty promulgated by the Algecir-
as convention.
Political signs in the East point to
Roosevelt as the andidste to run
against Bryan.
Cross Creek, a small Pennsylvania
town, has been wiped out by fire
caused by an electric storm.
The strike of bituminous coal min
ers in Michigan has been ended by
the men accepting the 1903 wage scale,
The president will likely visit the
canal zone next fall and see for him
self the progress being made on the
canal.
Canada proposes laws which will
stop business of every kind on Sun
day, even railway trains. No games
or performances will be allowed where
an admission is charged.
At a meeting of the board of super
visoIs of San Francisco city and
county the tax levy was fixed at 81. 322
per 500 The new levy is 16 cents
and 2 mills higher than last year.
The Russian douma blames the gov
ernment for the recent massacIes and
calls on the cabinet to resign.
Experiments are being conducted
in Kansas to ascertain the result of
meat pIeservatives. Dogs are the
subjects.
General Greedy says at least 80, 600
people in San Francisco are still de-
pendent on the supply camps for
food.
Formal announcement has been
made by Attorney General Moody
that he will prosecute the Standard
Oil for accepting rebates.
The Transcontinental Insurance
company is reported to have only as
sets sufficient to pay 10 per cent of
its San Francisco losses.
Insurance companies have refused
to pay a dollar of insurance at Santa
Rosa, California, claiming the earth
quake ruined the city. The state IN
surance commissioner has pledged his
support.
The peasant revolt is growing in
Southern Russia.
English won an suffTagists have been
arrested for rioting.
Bryan says his kind of conservatism
were be president would be to destroy
the trusts utterly.
Idaho is asking for information re-
garding the insurance companies
which refuse to pay their San Francis
co losses in full.
Monday, July 8, has been decided
upon by the federal authorities at
Portland as the date upon which the
Oregon land fraud trials will begin.
Federal Judge Wolverton will ex-
change benches with Judge Hunt, of
Montana, and the latter will preside
during the trial of the many cases
which are ready to come up. Govern
ment prosecutor f. j. Heney will ar
rive In Portland this week to assist
in prosecuting the land grabbeIs. At
the present time it is not known
which case shall have precedence, but
G Congressman Hermann will be among
the first to be tried.
Some thirty years ago few men
settled on a fiat about twelve miles
south of Arlington. In the crew was
only one wagon-an oldESchutler. In
some way they began calling this
neighbor hood Schutler, from tue old
wagon. A few years later it was, as it
is now, known as Schutler Flat.
When the Condor branch of the o. r.
IL N. Co., was built, station was es
tablished near this place, and is
named Schutler. This Is one Of the
finest farming sections in Gillian
county, and thus in an old wagon a
name is found for fine wheat Eelt.
An Eastern firm engaged in the
building OF railway cars has recently
placed orders for an aggregate of 80, e
OO0, 900 feet Of Oregon and Washington
fir for use in Car building. While this
is an unusually large order, the use of
Oregon lumber for that purpose ia
nothing new. For a number of years
Oregon mills have shipped lumber
east to be used in the manufacture OF
cars. For strength and durability as
compared with its weight, Oregon fir
has no superior.
Just what additional revenue will
come to the state treasury as the re-
suit Of the passage OF laws taxing the
gross earnings of telegraph. tele.
phone, express and other corporG9 onE
is not known for a certainty. The
Western Union Telegraph con p my
will have to pay about s3, 800. The
Ps ci6c States Telephone company will
have to pay more probably. None Of
the corporations will pay until it has
been tested by the courts, so it Ii
said. Some have estimated the rev
enue at from $4,000 to $780, 900 9
year.