iver Glacier,
I lie
VOL. 1.
HOOD KIVRU, OltEGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 0, 1802.
NO.' 10.
llooc
3food Iiver (5 lacier.
rviu-aio itirt iiTVkiur morni r
The Glacier Publishing Company.
IBaCKIMlON rillt'L
In ' ft M
Mia iiiuiith. in I it
Tlir uiwiUit ...... ,
(unit W , , I CnW
THE GLACIER
Barber Shop
Grant Evans, Propr,
fcovnd Hi., nr Oak. l!uol KJ.w, Or.
Bliatlngaiul Miilr cutting tlj dona.
MaiUfacliuu UuaianWed.
OCCIDENTAL 1IEUKGE
Rubies Worthy of Mention Found
Near Baker City, Or.
A MAP OF OAKLAND, CAL, MISSING
Number o( Sealskins Already Landed it
( Victoria Fruit and Nursery
Firm Oults liusincss.
Duval & Ron of Grenille, France, pro
jioko to erect a brewery at Phu'iilx, A. T.
Horse thelvea operating in Sutiiliern
Arixona have robbed over twenty ranch
ers. A swindler with 2 bills raised to $10
id working Puget Sound towai with
Koine success. 1
There have lieen landed In Victoria
already 1M,H" sealskins. The animal
were caught liotwoen California and
Alaska.
Pan Diego has decided to celebrate the
3-VHh anniversary of the discovery of
Han Diego Bay, which occurs September
2H next. .
An outbreak of Anthrax has occurred
six miles south of Ios Angeles on adalry
where forty cows are kept. Fourteen
have already died.
Additional pumps will at once b ucd
on the San Pedro wreck In front of Vic
toria, 1!. 0., and it is believed the ves
sel will booh le oir the rocks.
There are fifty-five hop bonces in
l'olk county, Or. Each house is good
for handling nine acres of hops. At this
rate the total acreage would Ikj 4!).") hitch.
Saint Teresa is still at Nogales, A. T.,
performing miraculous cures. Tlio
Mtorlcs tiiat site had been shot by the
Governor of Sjnora never had any foun
dation. The Bradstreet Commercial Agency
reports 12 failures in the Pud He Coast
States and Territories for the past wee k
as compared with 17 for the correspond
ing week ol 1SD1.
It is stated at San Diego that J. Mal
colm Forbes, the Boston capitalist who
was recently married and took up his
residence at Coronado, is the purchaser
of the Pacific Beach railroad.
, A thorough search of the public rec
ords at Sacramento has failed to reveal
the presence of a map of tho town of
Oakland, which was made in 1852 by a
French engineer and was accepted as a
State record. It is believed the map has
been abstracted.
A gentleman Just in from the Bo
nanza mine at Greenhorn Mountain,
near Baker City, Or., says that rubies
have been discovered near there winch
are worthy of mention. They have the
appearance 'of the genuine article in
color, and to all appearance are rubies.
He said they were about the size of
peas and have the octangular shape of
that stone. He has secured over 1UU of
the gems.
There Is a bit of hlBtory connected
with the postoillce of Kickreali, Or.,
commonly known as Dixie by the older
inhaoitants of Polk county. The post
oillce was established back in the six
ties. The first name suggested was
"Dixie." But at that time tiie war feel
ing was at a high pitch, and Colonel
Nesmith, as godfather of the new office,
advised dropping of the "South-down"-sounding
title and substituting the
name "La Creole," after the beautiful
stream on which it lies. An error was
made In spelling the word by Us sound
in Washington, and the office went
officially upon record as "Kickreali" and
has remained that way ever einco.
James 0. Mason, formerly postmaster
at Tillamook, who was indicted by the
United States grand jury lor having
forged tbe name of Johnson Erickson to
a money order and collected (13 thereon,
was arraigned in the United States Dis
trict Court at Portland the other day,
and entered a plea of guilty. United
States Attorney Maya recommended
that a fine of $500 be imposed, in de
fault thereof the criminal to be sentenced
to a term of imprisonment. Counsel for
Mason said the money could be rained,
so sentence was deferred and prisoner
remanded to jail. Mason stood well in
the community until this crime was
charged against him, and some now
think that he pleaded guilty to screen
some of his family who committed the
crime. lie made good the amount of
the order some time ago.
THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION.
Kentucky to M;ike un lixhiblt of Tobacco
In All It I'orniH .Jiipjin Applies
for Space for Minerals,
The Woman's Pharmaceutical Associ
ation of Illinois Is planning to conduct a
model pharmacy in tho Illinois building
at the World's Fair.
Julian has applied for space in the
World's Fair mini's and mining building
for a mineral exhibit. It will Include a
line collection of the celebrated Japan
epu alloys and bron.e preparations.
One of the novel exhibits In machin
ery hall at the World's Fair will be a
paper mill. It will be in active opera
tion, and will show all the processes of
uiper-making from the pulp to tho fin
tailed card, which will he In the form of
a World's Fair souvenir.
A schooner is now bid n if lit ted out at
Halifax to g ) to the Arctic regions to get
ten or twelve Eitouluiau families, fiftr or
sixty persons in all, for exhibition at the
World's ralr. Dogs, Uniting implements,
utensils and everything necessary to
show Esquimau life will also be pro
cured.
The American Ostrich Company lias
seiu to Chicago lor exhibition at the
World's rair thirty birds from its ostrich
farm at Fall Brook. Kan Diego county.
Cal. The ostriches nave been sent on
thus early in order that they may be
come thoroughly acclimated by the lime
the fair opens ami appear at their best.
An exhibit of bells will 1mj made at
the World's Fair by a large mariuicatur
ing concern In this country, and the firm
U planning to display It In a reproduc
tion of the Tz ir Kolokol (klngol bells),
the famout broken tall of Mohcow, which
is 22 feet in diameter and 21 feet 3 inches
high, weighs 413,772 pounds and is used
as a chapel.
Kentucky will make at the World's
Fair an exhibit of tooacco in all its
forms, from the seed up to the matured
and manufactured leaf. There will be
exhibits of diff.-rent varieties of plants
in various stages of growth and illustra
tion of the manner of shipping and
handling the weed from the time the
seed is p it in the ground until the prod
uce goes into the cliewor's or smoker's
mouih,
A large portion of the agricultural ex
hibit which Illinois will make at the
World's Fair will be selected from the
exhibits made at the State Fair at Peoria
the coming fall. In order to encourage
I he farmers to make especially fine ex
hibits of larm, orchard and garden prod
nets the State Board of Agriculture,
which lnii in charge the preparations of
the State's World's Fair exhibit, has of
fered a number of cash prizes aggregat
ing fi),5U0.
The New York World's Fair Commis
sioners have been trying to find a model
of Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, to
be InclU'lml in tbe Mate exhibit at Chi
cago. So far, however, they have been
unable to discover one, and they have
asked the Maritime Exchange to help
them out. Thev have made many in
quiries, but have been able to get only
some statistics as to the vessel s dimen
sions, rvone of the ew lork shipping
men appear to know if any model of the,
oiti si' Binooai survives the eighty vears
Hiuce the vessel was used.
The tide of public opinion is unmis
takably turning strongly in favor of
keeping the World's l-air open on Sun
day, provided a "silent" fair be assured.
The exposition authorities have never
bai any idea of keeping the machinery
running on Sunday and everything going
at full looin aa on week days, and since
they have so declared themselves, the
demands for Sunday closing have dimin
ished greatly in number. Not a few who
hail petitioned for a closed fair have
changed their minds and revoked their
request, and have asked that the gates
be opened.
PURELY PERSONAL
Hugh O'Donnell, Lender of the Home
stead Workmen Mr. Howells
is Interviewed.
Chauneey M. Depew will soon sail for
E trope lor his annual outing. The date
ol his departure has not been fixed.
''rince Bismarck In an address to stu
dents of the University of Jena theotber
day intimated that he would make a tour
of the German cities.
Prof. Koch of Berlin is seriously ill.
it is reported, and forbidden to labor !c r
a long period. It is thought that the
bacillus of overwork has done the mis
chief.
Mme. Calliroo Parren is editor of a
weekly woman's paper, published in
Athens lor the past five vears. and haa
made it widely influential among Grecian
woman.
Of all the Confederate Brigadiers sur
viving and in public life General Wal
thal of Mississippi, recently re-elected
Senator, is raid to ba the most pictur
esque J lo ia tall and slender, with a
mane of black hair that is striking in
appearance.
Hunh O Donnell, leader of the Home
stead workmen, ia represented by all the
newspaper portraits of him to be a hand
some, tastefully attired young man, who
would be sure to secure more than an
average share of interest from any group
of summer girls.
Tho Blanche K. Bruce, who is rnnning
for the office of Auditor on the Repub
lican State ticket in Kansas is not the
gentleman who was for a time in the
United States Senate and also Register
of the Treasury, but a nephew of the
colored statesman.
Mr. Howells tells an interviewer that
he makes at the outside from $10,000 to
$15,00il a year by his pen. Mr. Howells
says also, and most people will believe
him, that his work is the product of
painstaking effort and nevsr of the fine
frenzy of inspiration.
1,.,.;:,.l..i.. : ; :., , :..', :,,-r
BEYOND HIE ROCKIES.
The Revenue Department Makes
a Peculiar Decision.
GAIN OF LAND FROM OLD MEXICO.
Key to the Hleroglj phlcs That Will Unlock
the Mysteries In the Hlltlte In
scriptions Found.
Eleven deaths have resulted from
the
riots at Homestead, I'a.
New York banks have $19,207,000
in
excess of tbe legal requirements.
A Tennessee convict is pronounced by
the penitentiary physicians to be of both
sexes.
New York business men are greatly
worried over the lack of warehouse fa
cilities. The manufacturers of Fall River,
Mans., have just increased wages 3
per cent.
There is quite a rush of people into
the Southern States who have a few
thousand dollars to invest.
General George F. Alford of Dillas,
Tex., is atont to go to Europe to induce
farmers to settle in that State.
Marshall Field paid $200,000 for 800
iquare feet of Chicago land recently
the largest price ever paid in that city.
By a cut of the Rio Grande river it
was shortened abmt two miles, and 900
acres of Mexican laud are now on the
American side.
Golden, a suburb of Denver, conta'n
lug 8,000 people.il in danger of being
swept away by a grand landslide from
Table Mountain.
The railroads are finding it necessary
to make cheap excursion rates in order
to supply harvest hands to Central and
Western Kansas.
A Buffalo deaf mute has recently been
attacked by St. Vitus' dance in his arms
and lingers. He is learning to make
signs w ith his feet.
By order of the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia all the theaters in
Washington must be fitted throughout
with electric lights.
The story of concessions by the Mexi
can government to an American com
pany to build a railroad from El Paso to
Mazatlan is again repeated. .... ,
The Revenue Department has decided
that the hi-chloride of g ild institutes
which claim to cure inebriety are liable to
the government lor the retail liquor tax.
An attempt has been made to burn the
State women's prison and reform school
for girls at Indianapolis. Three fires
were started at the same time, but were
extinguished.
A student of Johns Hopkins Univer
sity is said to have discovered the key to
the hieroglyphics that will unlock the
mysteries in II Utile inscriptions, hith
erto wholly unknown.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford road propoes to run an electric
train between New York and New Ha
ven and make the distance seventy-four
miles in sixty minutes.
For a second time since the passage of
the silver law of 181)0 50 per cent, of the
customs revenues at New York during
the first ten days of July was paid in the
new treasury notes issued uue'er that law.
Over 400 damage suits have been filed
against the Little Rock and Fort Smith
and Missouri Pacific railroads for viola
tion of an Arkansas law fixing passenger
rates, and the court ia deciding about
fifteen cases a day against the companies.
A huge bowlder and beside it a flag
staff filty feet high have been erected in
Franklin, N. H., to mark the spot where
Daniel Webster was born. The birth spot
was originally in the town of Salisbury,
hut is now included in the territory of
Franklin.
The father of Alice Mitchell, who
killed Freda Warde last January at Mem
phis, testified that Alice'B mother was
insane and the girl had manifested sim
ilar peculiarities. She speaks of Freda
as if she were living now, and takes no
interest in her own trial.
Father Bay, a Catholic priest in Chi
cago, shot and killed Barney Moran, a
burglar, who had entered toe priest's
house one night last week. Moran fired
twice at the priest, misting him. A
Coroner's jury decided that Father Bay
was not to be blamed or censured.
The strangest thing of thia generation
in the way of will-making is reported
from Kentucky. One of the richest men
of the State died a few days ago, and cut
his sons off with $100 each because of
their liking fast horses. His widow and
daughter divide a fortune of $5,000,000.
A Syrian woman, badly afflicted with
leprosy, was allowed to land at New
York, having passed inspection at quar
antine. It is said the inspection is too
careless, and there is fear that unless it
is made more rigid the danger of im
porting cholera infection will be very
great.
The Haskell multicharge gun has azain
been tested at Reading, Pa., for penetra
tion into iron plates. The projectile
penetrated the best range iron six inches,
which is three plates more than any gun
ever penetrated before. The projectile
was found lo be as perfect as when it
came from the lathe.
The American Museum of Natural
History at New York has secured the
Harry Edwards entomological collection,
which 's well known in San Francisco.
The collection includes over 250,000 in
sects of all kinds from ail parts of the
globe, and is very rich in the lepidoptera
of North America, especially the butter
flies of the Pasifio Coast.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.
Interesting Wrangle in the House Over
the Bill Pensioning SoJiers Who
Fought in Indian War.
neereiury l'.iklns Iibs formally ap
prover the proposition lor the construe-
lion of two Iree bridges across the Will
amette river at Portland, Or., according
to the plans of the local engineers.
The House Committee on Indian Af
fairs has favorably reported Senator
Dolph's hill granting to tho lilue Mount
ain Irrigation Company a right of way
for reservoirs and a canal through the
Umatilla Indian reservation in Oregon.
There Is quite an Interesting wrangle
over the hill now pending in the House
for pensioning soldiers who fought in the
Indian wars. Representative Wilson of
Washington and Senator Mitchell of Or
egon are insisting that, while pensioning
inone soiuiers who (ought in the Indian
wars of a comparatively recent period,
iiiuhu w ho purui-ipaico. in uie eariy In
dian wars in Oregon and Washington
should also receive their reward. It is
on this prop'mition that the two Houses
are now in disagreement, but it is hoped
that the early Indian fighters who are
still living will be included.
The bill which passed lbs Home to
enforce reciprocal commercial relations
between the United States and Canada
provides that when the President shall
be satisfied that the passage through any
canai or iock connected with navigation
on the St. Lawrence river, the Great
Lakes or the waterways connecting the
same ol any vessels of the United States.
or of cargoes or of passengers in transit
to any part of the United States, is pro-
n i m u-u, or maoe uiincuit or buruentome
by the imposition of tolls or otherwitte,
which he shall deem to be reciprocally
unjust and unreasonable, he shall have
power to suspend the right of passage
through the St. Mary's Falls canal so
far as it relates to vessels owned by sub
jects of any government discriminating
against the United States.
enaior rettigrew will very soon re
port a bill of great importance to every
county, township, school district and
Slate where there are Indians who have
taken lands in allotment under the pres
ent laws. So soon as Indians take the
lands in allotments they become citizens
and are allowed to vote, but they are not
obliged to pay any taxes. This bill pro
poses that the government shall pay the
taxes for the Indians to the same amount
and at the same rates as the white peo
ple situated alongside of the Indians,
the object being that, as the government
says the Indiana shall be taxed, the gov
ernment should provide for the payment
of taxes in States where Indians are lo
cated and where they receive the bene-
vrJts of taxation and civilization. It
seems like a very sensible thing, and
will perhaps be favorably considered in
the Senate.
Further invest igation into the propoeal
to issue a proclamation opening the Col
ville Indian reservation leads to the con
clusion that no such praclamation will
be made until after the lands have been
surveyed and the Indians have secured
their allotments. The reason for this
course of action is to prevent the end
less litigation which is sure to follow,
especially if white settlers go in and
make selections which after survey the
Indians desire. Under the law the In
dian can oust the white man from his
claim, and if a white man is fortunate
enough to secure a valuable mineral
tract, a person wantimr the land could
easily induce the Indian to oust him and
cause a great deal of trouble and ex
pense. So it is probable that the $35,-
000 appropriation for surveying the land
will be immediately expended and the
Indians requested to take allotments.
after which the proclamation opening
the land to the white settlers will be
issued.
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
The St. Paul School Board Abolishes the
Distinction of Sex in the Matter
of SalariesEtc.
Kentucky has a colored 8tate Teach
ers' Association.
Brooklyn is to launch a manual train
ing school, the vote in its favor being 20
to 10.
During the last year 1,800 girls were
graduated from the Boston Cooking
School.
The largest and finest technical school
in the world ia to be erected at Manches
ter, England.
Of the class of 1892 at Cornell Univer
sity 118 favored a protective tariff, and
43 opposed it.
The Presbyterians are about to estab
lish a college in Salt Lake City, and have
purchased a site of 100 acres.
There are seventeen young men in the
graduating class at Harvard who failed
to get their degrees this year.
One-third of the students abroad, it is
said, die prematurely from the effects of
bad habits acquired in college.
During the last year there graduated
from the medical colleges of the United
States about 5,000 young doctors.
England, with 94 universities, has
2,723 more professors and 51,814 more
students than the 360 universities of the
United States.
The revenues of Oxford and Cambridge
represent a capital of about $75,000,000.
The University of Leipsic is worth near
ly $20,000,000.
The oldeBt college in North America
was founded in 1531 the College of St.
lldefonso in the City of Mexico. The
next oldest is Laval College, Quebec
On June 13 the School Board of St.
Paul, Minn., abolished the distinction of
sex in the matter of salaries, and will
hereafter pay the women the same as
men for doing the same werk.
FOREIGN CABLEGRAMS
Russian Province Overrun With
Voracious Wolves.
MOUNT jTNA EFFERVESCES LAVA.
Death of a Notorious Colored Australian
bushranger An African Tr.be
Revolts The Reds.
The Jewish population of London is
pui uown ai some oa.uuu.
The Timet says that Gladstone may
secure office, but not power.
Streams of burning lava are flowing
down the sides of Mount Etna.
Natural gas has been discovered in
me uiBincioi neisio Upper Austria.
The " Reds " met in London Sunday,
aim uenounceo inn exwnttnn nf (far
achol.
A report from Zanzibar says that the
ianvemre trine nu ravn m nri throat.
ens the German forces.
In Pern it is nrnrvnneil ts rhuoh tt,a
rapiu oecune in me value ol silver by
temporarily stopping its coinage.
One of the Parisian newspapers is re
ported to be experimenting with type
iuau oi giasB wun gratiiying results.
The German nrirann nf Ri.m.nilr Uf,
begun to weaken. They are satisfied
their attack on the government has
failed.
An association of capitalists with back
's in London, New Orleans and New
era
York intend to fnnml a nntlnn nvianr.a
! If t .
in tiamuurg.
So far ninety-nix bodies hav been
taken from the ruins caused bv the
breaking of a trlacier at St. (
uaina in savoy.
r, , "r,
An audacious I'arin imwr rwantlv
published a list of American women tchn
are weaiiny enougn tor impecunious no-
i
uiemen s wives.
Nathan Rothschild of Vienna, lion an.
nounced his intention of abjuring all
tilings eonine lor the fntnre llo ia tn
dispose of his racing stud.
The alarm in Rnmian nffifinl prlaa
over the spread of the cholera is grow
ing, ins press, it is reported, is not al
lowed to publish full details.
New evidence in tho Mavhrfolr nnlwn.
intr cafe at london haa Wn A
and it is thought it will cause a paYdon
to do granted Mrs. Alaybnck.
Australia has shinned tn Fnrnn. in lha
J I" .u. V ' b . . V.
Dast tWentV-BlT Weeks i iiO n kit hnahoU
of w heat, against ,144,0,K)' bushels in
the corresponding time last year.
The King of biam has excellent rea
sons for never allowing Mrs. Siam to
leave the children u-ith him shun aha
goesout shopping. There are eighty
four of them.
The formalities neeeaftflrvfnrtha remo
ter of the steamships City of Paris and
City of New York from the English reg
istry 10 me American registry have been
gone through with in London.
Manv Afghan tvihen refnsa tn an nnnrt
t.. . " . ..... . , : rr"-
nie Ameer, owing to nis exactions and
qunnoftad intritrnpn u-ith Pimaia 1 ia
r i n 1 ' ao
stated that, if the Ameer's tioops are de
tntA n i I.. .- . r
icuicu, a KGuerat levou IB certain.
The Sultan nf Mnrnnvi'i t rtv.ni B-hrt
are endeavoring to suppress an insurrec
tion at Algiers, are committing many
lawless and cruel acts, and Christians
and Jews are much alarmed for their
safety.
Liady Duffenn has invented a new tip
pie, which has aroused Parisian thirst to
a high degree. It consists nf maahaH
strawberries, cream and sugar, upon
which CllQUOt franne is frothed from a
siphqn.
A grand hunt is proposed in the prov
ince of Kastroma, Russia, to destroy the
wolves, which in phenomenal numbers
and with great boldness and savagery
have attacked the cattle and even men
in the region.
Mr. Rhndaa tho Pnna rinlnnn Pramio.
w I - - - vgw WIVU . WUI&I ,
htn intrndneftH intn tha I niriolotura o
.vv VUW -V. IL'I.LUl V
franchise bill which raises the electoral
qualification from 25 to 75 and dis
qualifies illiterates, except those already
on the register. '
The French Senate has nassed a hill
prolonging the present tariff on petro
leum until January 1, 1893, and another
orrant.ino. a annnlamontai-T nrolit UM -
000 francs for the French exhibit at tho
Chicago Columbian Exposition.
Dr. Potora tha African aTnUva. Vina
discovered enormous saltpeter beds be
tween Monnt Kilimn-Nisirn and tha wl.
cano Donjo Ngai. The whole great ter
ritory between Kilima-Njaro and DonjD
Ngai is reputed to be one great saltpeter
bed.
The small cnihl nf Hranvhtaman -hn
hnvft tho franrfiian ts Hraur ninin-ao nn
the London pavements have suddenly
ihkbii ui uuiwvawng a nigner styie oi art.
They have improved greatly in their
profession, and aro oninir intn -wOitinal
caricature, something they never used to
do at all.
A notorious bushrancrer a enlnro man
named Russell, has lately died in the
Bendigo Hosnital. He was known in
the early fifties as " Black Douglas, the
bushranger," and had a part in many
escapades throughout the middle dis
tricts of Victoria, especially in the min
ing localities known as the "Middle
jjiggings."
The Prince of Wales dona not. nmnnao
to attend the antnmn mnnnnvora whinh
take place in Hungary in September.
mo rnucB is going eariy next montn to
Homburg, and will return to England
about the second week in September,
when he is going to Scotland on a visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Fife at
Braemer,
GIBRALTAR PA33.
Iatr'ln( rlar( of i'amou North
wmUrn Highway for Hmugglcra,
In years gone by ho many supersti
tious and conflicting stories were cir
culated about Gibraltar pass, formerly
Deception pass, that it was difficult to
get any truth about it. Even the
width was not known, nor even ap
proximated in tho calculations, and it
was commonly reported that it was
but sixty feet wids. To scttlo this
question, George Lynch and Arthur
White took two skiffs arid a line and
measured Gibraltar pus at the nar
rowest part of the throat, and found
It to be 300 feet, and it may be widen
ed forty feet more by a shot of dyna
mite in blasting off a point of rock.
Tho narrow portion of the pass aver
ages COO feet in width, and in re
moving a small island between the
bass proper and the narrow channel
known as (lanoc pass, the width of
uioraiuir pass can with but little ex
pense be widened to about iKX) feet.
The narrowest part of Canoo pass is
SO feet, arid the widest part is 200
feet For a considerable distance Gib
raltar pass ia already half a mile to a
mile and a half wide, with a depth of
water at low tide of 100 to 200 feet,
and the walls are of solid and nearly
smooth rock. There are but few such
natural passes for shipping in the
world.
Twelve years ago one of the largest
scow schooners that has ever navi
gated Puget sound (being the one that
took the lumber to build Dungeneas
buoy) was anchored outside of the
pass for three days. The captain was
a very careful man, and wanted to
take the tide at its most favorable
stage. The third night the tide came
while all on board were asleep, and
raised the vessel so high that the an
chor could uo longer touch bottom.
When the captain and crew awoke
the next morning they were amazed to
find that their huge craft had floated
through the pass, and that they were
lying in the placid waters of Gibral
tar harbor. The passage was so smooth
that no one knew ih.j veiel was not
at anchor outside.
The smugglers who infested these
waters since the earliest days have al
ways reported the pass to be a dread
ful place. They had an object in do
ing so; it was to deter the parties in
pursuit from entering here. At one
time the United States revenue cutter
was afraid to undertake to pursue a
smuggler's craft through and stopped
outside. At that time the head man at
the Utsalady mill was the head and
chief of a gang of smugglers, and on
every island in this great archipelago m
were the haunts of noted smugglers, "
some of whom were as wily and as
crafty as any such characters that
were ever portrayed in works of fic
tion. One of the number, who now
resides on an island in Gibraltar pass,
and has a little fleet of sail vessels
snugly ensconsed behind said island,
out of sieht of the dailv Dassens-er
steamer, tells us that he never smug
gled for the profit, but was prompted
solely by the love of excitement He
has Ion" since retired from that busi
ness, and amuses himself nowadavs in
fishing. About five miles south of
our otlice is Ben Ure's spit, which
forms a part of the southern protection
of this harbor. This spit runs out
from a claim of 1(30 acres on Whidby
Island, formerly the home of Ben Ure,
who recently sold the ranch for $3,000
to the La Conner bank crowd. The
name of the former smuggler referred
to is Ben Ure, He is a keen, quick
witted Scotchman, 60 years of age,
eyes wide apart, and indicative of
bright perception.
An old acquaintance of Ben Ure
tells us that some years ago, when Ben
was in the height of his elorv. a fed
eral revenue cutter came on h'im una-
wares and captured him. The captain
of the cutter ran a line from Bon's saU-
boat to the stern of the cutter, and was
towing him toward Port Tovvnsend to
confiscate his cargo r.nd imprison the
owner. But the captain failed to sire
up his prisoner when he left him in
his own boat Ben put his wits to
work; he decided that he would not
go to Port Townsend. The night was
very dark. A lantern had been hung
on the bow of Ben's boat This, light
Ben transferred to the top of a cask
that he fastened to the tow line; then
he out the tow line between the cask
and his own boat When day dawned
the captain of the revenue cutter was
greatly chagrined to discover that he
was towing a cask with his lantern on
it, and that the contraband cargo and
its crafty owner had escaped amid the
mazes of the archipelago of this Medi
terranean of the New World. Ben had
quietly slipped through Gibraltar pass,
wnere tne cutter aare not attempt to
go, and proceeded to enjoy himself on
his ranch.
We are informed bv people who live
at the pass that there is scarcely a
night that smugglers do not sail
through Gibraltar pass, taking lar?e
quantities of contraband goods both
north and south across the British
boundary. The eovernment stations
revenue officers at Port Townsend and
Blaine to intercept smugglers, but it
has no one here, where the most of the
smuggling is done. The smugglers
can not go through Swinoinish
Slough, because it is almost certain
that they would be caught, so they
run a regular line through Gibraltar
pass. Washington Farmer.
The Grrnun emperor has inaugurated
rusa.le for better morals in his canltai
As a remilt tbe Berlin prisons have never
Hriore oeen so crowded as at present,
till the works goes on.
-4
i