The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-06-18
port and Toledo money TO estaoIr1-
high school courses Immediately.

Drain, burned Sunday night with all
its contents. including a large num-
ber of costly paintings. The loss is
more than $4,000, with no insurance.
1t was owned by Mrs. E. L. Boswell.
In the circuit court at Oregon City
last week, o. L. Puryear was awarded
$3.50 by jury In his suit against the
Milwaukee Country Club for $1,000,
which was double the amount Pur-
year is said to have lost while gambl-
ing at the club.
Judge Bean having refused to
grant the temporary restraining or
der asked by the attorneys for the
liquor interests, the county court last
week issued a double proclamation
declaring the sale of intoxicating
liquors as beverage In the county
of Umatilla prohibited.
The lumber mill and 1000, 900
feet of lumber owned by the Wind
River Lumber Company at Menomi-
nee. four miles below Hood River,
were totally destroyed by fire last
week. Several cars belonging to the
o. Il. & N. also were burned The
loss is many thousands of dollars.
partly covered by insurance.
The State Land Board has received
from the United States patent to
about 1000 acres of lieu land, Sc
lected on forest reserve bases. This
patent covers all selections made up
to February, 1907. AS the land has
been already sold, the patent does
not mean that the state will have ad-
ditional lands to offer for sale.
The following forest guards have
been appointed in Oregon: George H.
West, Cascasfe reserve, Mazama divis-
ion; Smith l.. Taylor, Cascade re-
serve, Willamette division; e. Barnes
and Walter Allison. Blue Mountain
reserve. Miss E. A. Newell has been
appointed a clerk on the Cascade re-
serve.
For the purpose of seeing that the
prohibition law is rigidly enforced in
every precinct In the county, Law
and Enforcement League was formed
In Pendleton last week. The purpose
is to assist the officers In enforcing
the law and to expose and prosecute
every officer who who does not en-
force the law; also to work for the
upbuilding of the county.
p. ]. Walsh, county sheep inspec-
tor of Wasco county, has filed his an
nual report Of the condition of the
sheep in this county, in which he
says there Is not single case of scab
in his jurisdiction. The report gives
the lambing average at 80 per cent.
The total number of sheep in Wasco
county is given at 9,165.
Ex-President John H. Coleman, of
Willamette University, has received
an invitation to become president of
the University of the Pacific at San
Jose, Cal, and will probably accept.
This university Is under the patron
age of the M. e. Church and has six
buildings and about 500 students.
The value of the plant Is about $780,
600 and it has $3.50, 900 endowments
The new safe put in Troutdale
postoffice by the government to re-
place one destroyed by safecrackers
last fall was blown so successfully
last week that it was possible to
carry off the steel strongbox bolted
inside. 1t contained papers and mon
ey, part belonging to the government
and part to Harlow, Blazier & Har-
low. The postmaster declined to give
the amount secured, but 500 is said
to have been about the amount Sc
cured.
Five families, 16 in number, were
seriously poisoned last week at North
Yamhill by eating ice cream which
had stood In the freezer over night
For time 1t was thought that many
of the sick people would die, and sew
eral times Reliance, the little daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Moore, was
given up for dead. Three physicians
labored for several hours to save the
victims, and all are now entirely out
of danger.
1t has been learned one Of the
most interesting details of the UNA
tiIla land frauds to be brought out in
the txial of those accused will be the
manner in which entrymen were To-
Gated upon their lands. 1t is said
that about so entrymeR were located
upon their claims by one locator, who
used the same "homesteader's" cabin
for the entire so entrymen. The
facts are that the cabin shown many
entrymen as their residence was
from four to eight miles from their
land, and the same cabin served for
everybody who simply took the land
for speculation.
A conference or representatives OF
the Hartman lines and of the Trav-
elers' Protective Association was
held last week at Salem, and 1t was
agreed that further hearing upon the
subject of mileage rates shall be con-
tinued until August 5. The travel
ing men want mileage books at 2h
cents a mile. The books now on sale
are in the nature of scrip and cost,
all told. about 2& cents mile.