The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-11-14
GENERAL News OF /
LOCAL INTEREST
ITEMS FROM NEIGHBORING TOWNS
A Resume Of the Weeks DOings Com
piled from Our Ex.
changes.

The school girls have organized
basket bali team with Lefty Carson
and Eva O'BrIen as captains of the
different sides. Iksy are practicing
daily and expect sCon to compete
with The Dalles, Hood River and An
tetope. -Dufur Disl tch.
Dave Barnett killed a large white
swan at bis place sou b Of Madras the
first of the week. he swan had evi.
IDENTIFY grown tiled from it's long
flight and dropped down to within
range of MIR. Barnett's gun. The bind
was pure white, end very large,
measuring S6 inches from tip to tip of
Its wings. Madras Pioneer.
One hundred and fifty residents Of
Psndleton have signed petition to
the state game warden protesting
against the dams In the Umatilla Tiv-
or and the dam of the Maxwell Land
Il Irrigation company in particular,
as fatal to the salmon which are said
to be dying ty the thousands through
failure to provide proper fish lad
ders and means OF passage.
Grande Ronde tpples to the Orientl
This announcement alone veriiles the
oft-told virtue of local fruit Gerrit
Oldenburg, representing Page q Co.,
wholesalers, of Portland, is packing O
carload Of Ben tDavis apples OF 700
boxes, which will be shipped tn China
by way OF Seattle. The car leaves to-
morrow when the half world tour will
be commenced. Not every day in the
week does Grande Ronde valley fruit
gain such prominence as this partiou-
lar instance, but always and all the
time does it gain earned notoriety
and In few years will be known far
and wide as high standing as Hood
Rivers ever dreamed of being. La
Grande Observer.
George Il. Roberts. who retired
from the position of director of the
mint on August l, 1907, has oomplet-
ed compilation of the statistics on
production of gold and silver in the
various states and territories of the
United States for the calendar year
ending June 30 Mr.. Roberts esti-
mates the production of gold in the
United States during the calender
year 1906 to have been $94, 1873, 800 as
against $S8, 100, TOO for the calender
year 1906, net gain in 1906 of 6, 193,-
100. The prinoi pal gain was In Alaska,
which amounted to 50, 439, 8; Nevada's
gain In gold was 81, 9l9, 500; Oregon's
S75, 220; Tennessee's S22, 800; Arizo-
mas S5, 800, and Virginia's s5, 300. The
greatest loss of gold in any state was
In Colorado, where there was de-
crease Of s2,766, 700. The next largest
loss was In Montana, 1867, 300. Cali
fornia lost 1864, 200; Washington,
s26s 600; Idaho, $500, 900, and Wyom-
ing, Sl8,000 The total number of fine
ounces Of gold produced was 4 ,565. 800.
In 1883 Jason Elder, who is now one
of our most efficient forest raDgers,
while rambling in the woods came
across a yellow pine tree in which he
discovered at the base a mountain
sheep's horn inmbedded. and which
he longed to investigate. 40 favoIa-
BILE opportunity tc do so presented it.
self until October 3, when Elder, who
was supervising the building Of the
government trail at the place where
the tree stood, cut it down, and cut
ting block from the tree In which
the horn was embedded he sent 1t to
Guy M. Ingram, forest supervisor at
Lakeview, and which Is highly priced
by Mr.. Ingram, as it is curiosity
rarely If ever seen before. The tree
was 318 feet in diameter and was 2l3
years old. The horn was little to
one side of the center of the tree and
ran In a circular direction, and in
stead Of being carried rs a mountain
sleeps horns usually are, was almost
straight. From the outside of the
tiee IL showed since it was embedded
therein 1872 years had elapsed. The
horn was soaked with pitch and was
30 inches long. The horn at the base
was ten inches in diameter, and pro-
truded from the tree about six inch
aa -Silvar T,aka Ieadar