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r-- It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 6. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 21, 1894. NO. 8. tjpn II I II' . The Hood River Glacier. 2Xeed liver Slacier. PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY MORNING BT ; The Glacier Publishing Company. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. One year........... , ft 00 Bix montns ............ 1 Of Three months , 60 SiiKlecopy.. t Cent THE GLACIER Grant Evans, Propr. Second St., near Oak. - - Hood River, Or. Shaving and Hair-cutting neatly done. Satisfaction Guaranteed. f NORTHWEST NEWS. " Oregon, A decision was handed down by the Supreme Court last week affirming the famous case of Raymond vs. Flavel, de cided by the lower court in favor of the defendant some time ago. This case in volves the title to a large tract of land now included within the city limits of Flavel, and the opinion of the Supreme Court confirms the title of the Flavel es tate, which was attacked by the plaintiff, Raymond. C. W. Fulton represented the Flavel heirs, and both he and his clients are being . congratulated on the favorable termination of the case. The State improvements of the public , mineral springs at Sodaville are now in course of construction. The State owns an acre of land surrounding and includ ing the mineral springs, and the last Legislature appropriated $500 to improve this ground. Those who have charge of the work have planned a great deal more than the f 500 will do, and the next Legis lature will be asked to appropriate more money. ; The work already begun con sists of a large summer-house covering the springs. It is to have cement floors on the lower story and, is to be a hand some structure when completed. . Washington. An order for 72,000,000 matches has been received from the East at a Tacoma match factory. : Several carloads of cattle blockaded at Ritzville were unloaded and driven across country to the Great Northern. Skagit county School Commissioners have bought 250,000 feet of three-inch planks for flanking roads on the Samish flats. . .. ' An effort is being made to stop the wanton slaughter of elk in the Olympia Mountains. The Indians kill them simply for the hides and tallow. A handsome traveling saleswoman is doing the Sound towns for a San Fran cisco grocery house, and even Washing ton .chivalry does not prevent the local trfede journal from laughing her to scorn. Chief Mah-sa-lah of a tribe of the Kiilispel Indians is in jail at Colville on the charge of burglary. , Mah-sa-lah stole some provisions from a farmer's cabin about two weeks ago, and was ap prehended for the offense. The Chief tian says he feels very bad about going to jail, for the reason that his father and all his1 "relatives before him were good men and he himself is a good man, and he fears that some of his near kin will commit suicide on account of the dis grace they feel over the unfortunate af- fair. - :-. ALASKAN NEWS. ' Great Immigration Going to the Yukon .i River Mining Section. Portland, Or., July 9,-The Alaska papers just come to hand report that never in the history of the Yukon river mines have so many people started from Juneau for that section in one season. Over 400 people in all degrees of experi ence, financially flush, and broke, and of all trades from the clerk, doctor and , professional man to the workingman, have made a rush to the gold fields of the Yukon river and its numerous trib utaries. The upshot to many of the in experienced will be bitter in its failure, because they had nothing in common with the requirements of the 'Country. They had neither money, friends nor mining experience to rely upon in their extremity. But in many cases the men had become desperate and were willing to take great chances with the rest, since the strikes, financial depression and hard times had cast them loose from all employment, and they had conse quently little to lose in striking out for the greatest gold-bearing placers in North America. That the Yukon coun try offers great opportunities for the financial advancement of the skillful placer miner, says the Juneau City Herald, is beyond dispute, as the many living examples of successful miners fur nish ample testimony. Many of ' the Juneau miners have made in one season a handsome stake. But they went pre pared and equipped for several seasons' work and were pioneers in frontier life. The Silver Queen mine is working .well, the ledge presenting a better show ing than ever. Mr. Hammond has al ready shipped 200 tons of ore to the Ta coma smelter. Great improvements are being made in the Treadwell mine. Skun-doo, the Chilkat Indian doctor who starved a klootchman to death for alleged witchcraft, has been bound over for trials and has been lodged in jail at Sitka, Deputy Marshal Hale taking him from Juneau over on the Topeka. It is time some of the Indian doctors were strung up for their inhuman treatment of subjects. BarberShoD A; MILITARY EDICT. General Miles Issues Instruc tions to His Troops. DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI. To Aid the United State Marshals to . Disperse, Capture or Destroy All Bodies of Men Obstructing the Mail Routes In Hostility to Injunctions! Chicago, July 10. The following order was issued this afternoon by General Miles, addressed to all United States troops serving in the Department of the Missouri: The acts of violence committed in the last few days in the stopping of mail trains and postroads; the blocking of interstate commerce; the open defiance and violation of the injunction of the United States Courts ; the assaults upon the Federal forces in the lawful dis charge of their duties ; the destruction, pillage and looting of the inland c merce property belonging to citizens of the different States, and other acts of rebellion and lawlessness have been of such a serious nature that the duties of the military authorities are more clearly denned. rPVtn n.Anl.maiinn if tliA fi ! 1 nil the Commander-in-Chief of the land and naval forces, and the State militia, when called on to serve, is understood by the military to be in the interest of humanity and to avoid the useless waste of life, if possible. It is an executive order for all law-biding citizens to separ ate themselves from the law-breakers and those in actual hostility to the action of the United States Courts and the laws of the national government. He has defined the attitude of these law-break ers to be enemies of the government. and hence it is the duty of the military forces to aid the United States Marshals to disperse, capture or destroy all bodies of men obstructing the mail routes, and in actual hostility to the injunction of the United States .Courts and the laws of the United States. This does not change the relationship of the Federal officials with the local authorities, as it is expected the State and municipal governments will main' tain peace and good order within the territory of their jurisdiction.' Should they fail or be overpowered, the military forces will assist them, but not to . the extent of leaving unprotected property belonging to or under the protection of the United States. The officer in the immediate command of the troops must be the judge as to what use to make of the forces at his command in executing his order in case serious action be re quired, and when he has the time he will communicate with his next supe rior for his instructions. The earnest efforts of the law-abiding citizens have done much to improve the condition of affairs during the last few days, and I can earnestly request all the law-abiding citizens to do whatever is possible to assist in maintaining the civil govern ment and the authority of the municipal, State and Federal governments in pre serving peace and good order, DECREASE IN THE CATCH. Pack of Royal Chinooks Will Fall Far , . Short of Previous Years. Astoria, Or., July 10. During the past week there was a marked decrease in the quantity of salmon received at the various canneries here. M. J. Kin ney who began operations at the old Devlin cannery thirty-six hours after the fire which destroyed the great build ings of the Astoria Packing Company, put up but 1,700 cases of Chinook fish during the six days ending Saturday night, which is a shortage of over 4,000 cases as compared with the correspond ing week last year. From almost all of the other packing establishments re ports of large shortages are received. It was the opinion here up to ten days ago that the total pack for the season would not be more than 50,000 or 76,000 cases short, but fears are now entertained that the shortage will be much greater. The traps are yielding large quantities of bluebacks, and at the Cascades Mc-. Gowan Bros, are doing better in pack ing this variety of fish than for some years past, but it is' almost a settled fact that the pack oi royal cninooK nsn win fall far short of that of any previous year in ' the history of the industry. Usually July is the best month of the season, but it is thought that the gener ally fine weather since April was the means of bringing the fish in earlier than has been the rule formerly. Prep arations are being made at the site of the Astof ia Packing Company to resume operations there on a small scale Wednes day, in order that, should there be an improvement in tne eaten, tne nsn may be handled. So far, however, the plant at the old Devlin cannery, now the prop erty of the Astoria Packing Company, has been much more than adequate to take care of all the salmon that was se cured. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Curtis has filed with Fish and Game Protector McGuire his report of arrests during the month of June for violations of the fish and game laws, particularly fishing for salmon during the weekly close sea son. The report shows that ten offend ers in all were arrested, the fine in each case being $50, which, with the sales of web seized by the officers, brought the forfeitures up to $530. Several nets were seized, the owners of which were not ar rested, and in these cases civil suits have been brought by the 'State to have the nets forfeited and sold to pay costs. NEZ PERCE TREATY. It Will Open Half a Million Acres of Land to Settlement. Washington, July 10. Representa tive Wilson from the Committee ' on Indian Affairs has submitted an extended report on the bill to ratify the agree ment made with the Nez Perce tribe of Indians for the sale of their surplus lands, submitting also a substitute meas' ure, the passage of which is strongly recommended. May 1, 1893, Robert Schleicher, James F. Allen and Cyrus Beede concluded an agreement with the Nez Perces by which they released to the United States about 000,207 acres of land to be opened to settlement under the provisions of the uomesieau, lownsne, timoer ana stone and mineral laws of the United btates. The bill reported by the committee pro vided that persons entering these lands shatt'pay $3.75 per acre for agricultural lands, and $5 per acre for i timber and stone and mineral lands. it is Deneved Dy the committee on Indian Affairs that the money received from the sale of these lands at the prices fixed in the bill will fully reimburse the government for all expenditures made in connection with the purchase of the land or negotiation of the treaty, and all incidental expenses m any manner con nected therewith. The committee also believe that the first payment made under the treaty will be returned to the treasury as quickly as settlers can make the payments required under the bill. In support of this proposition two state' ments are submitted, estimating, each independently of the other, the classes of land and the acreage thereunder. thrown open to settlement by the terms of the treaty referred to. The first estimate was submitted bv Robert Schleicher, Chairman of the com mission which negotiated the treaty, ana is as ioiiows : " ' Acres. Prairie agricultural land ...a 860.000 Timber agricultural land.,... , 70,000 Mineral lana a),uoo Timber and stone land 7i'.O0O Mountainous land not estimated 46,207 Total number acres under this estimate..556,20 The estimate thus made at the prices fixed by the bill would brine to the gov-. ernment the iouowing sum : 350,000 acres agricultural land at 13.75 per acre 1.S12.503 70,000 acres timber agricultural land at 13.75 per acre .. 262,500 20.000 acres mineral land at 15 per acre.. 100,000 70,000 acres timber and stone at 5 per acre aou,uuu Total 12,025,000 It further appears, says the commit' tee, that Mr. Schleicher has resided near this reservation and in the county in which it is situated many years."" He is familiar with the resources of that coun try, a conservative man in all things. and his judgment good with reference to the matter upon which he has ex; pressed an opinion. VERY LITTLE FRICTION. The Naval Appropriation Bill Passes . the Senate. Washington, July 10. The naval ap propriation bill was passed in the Sen ate to-day with very little friction or delay. There was one amendment of fered that might have led to considerable debate. It was for the construction of two new steel-armored cruisers at a cost not exceeding $2,750,000 each. Gorman, who was in charge of the bill, requested that the amendment should be with drawn on the grounds ' that by 1896 the thirteen cruisers now in course of con struction would be completed and would furnish a very respectable navy, and that in the present depressed condition of business and the existing state of the nation's finances it was desirable to keep down expenses. . Daniel, who offered the amendment, recognized the force of the suggestions, and in accordance with Gor man's request withdrew the amendment. White of (Jaufornia called attention to the action of the committee in striking out the appropriation of $50,000 for a steam tug for the Mare Island navy yard, and had read a letter from the Secretary of the Navy indorsing the necessity for the tug. The appropriation was allowed to stand. Allen offered an amendment. which was agreed to, providing that all appointees as naval cadets shall have been actual residents of the district from which appointed for at least two years previous to their appointments. rne House Din to amena the law rela tive to mining claims was also passed. It provides for the temporary suspen sion of the requirement that a certain sum of money shall be expended each year on mining claims until a patent shall have been granted. ' . ? . A Columbia Quarantine Station. Washington, July 11. Senator Dolph has introduced a bill for a quarantine station at the mouth of the Columbia river. It appropriates $40,000. The Secretary of the Treasury recommends it and indorses the recftmmendations of special agents for the quarantine station. Senator Mitchell to-day requested the Postmaster-General to make arrange ments for mails between The Dalles and Portland, as railroad traffic is suspended. Constantinople Shaken. London, July 11. The -Daily News correspondent at Constantinople says:' Yesterday's earthquakes were the sever est that have been felt here within living memory. Thousands of windows were broken, and dozens of walls are cracked. There is scarcely a street in Stamboul which does not contain debris. Many people were killed and injured. Troops for the Cceur d'Alenes. , Spokane, July 11. Troops have , been sent into the Cceur d'Alenes. Company and one part of Company E, Four teenth Infantry, from Vancouver, under command of Major Burke, left here for Wallace. The Union Pacific train was held one hour for them. The troops are equipped for field service. THE MILITARY ARM Systematically Used to Bring: Order. Out of Chaos. ... OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE Justice Is Aroused, and the Courts Have .Begun to Indict and Arrest the Of fendersNormal Conditions. Already About Restored. " Ghicago, July 11. Slowly but stead, ily, calmly and certainly, as befits the supreme power of a great nation through' out all the wide stretch of its domain where evil-disposed persons are taking advantage of the exceptional industrial condition to incite violence and blood shed, the Federal government is. moving to the accomplishment of that for which its powers were delegated to it by the people, the preservation of order and the safety of life and property. At Chicago in connection with the State and munic ipality, it has already brought peace out of the condition of war which prevailed last week. .. At San Francisco, Sacra' mento and various points in Colorado and Washington, where the unruly are creating havoc, it has let loose the dogs of war in token of its intention to have peaceeven if it has to fight for it., -In this city the military arm has accom plished its purpose ; the judicial arm has taken up the orderly course of its duties, which include the fixing upon the guilty Ai il. f il ' " I intrwes measure oi uieir crime ana the fitting of the punishments thereto. The first step in this procedure was the assembling of the Federal errand iurv and the delivery of a charge to it by juage urosscup. . That it is the intention of the national authorities not to be turned aside from an exhaustive inquiry into the questions which it has undertaken to pass upon by mere technicalities was evinced at the outset by the brusqueness by which it swept aside the plea of privacy and privilege which the Western Union Tele graph Company, with a due regard for the privacy ot the messages of its clients, was forced to put in, when the jury called for the messages from President Debs to the i members of his order which had been transmitted over its lines. The court held that public safety was para mount Jto private right, and so ordered that the dispatches be produced. That it is the intention of the government not to be too long about the work in hand was shown by the fact that the footsteps of the telegraph official who brought the dispatches had scarcely ceased to echo along the corridors leading to the grand jury room when the body filed into court and announced it had found a true bill ef indictment. Pending the arrest the persons thus put under indict ment, the public was allowed to draw all its conclusions from the premises and such preliminary data as it "had at hand. That President Debbs was the man none doubted, and subsequent developments justified the surmise. Touching the outlook for the future outside of Chicago, it may be Baid that to-day's dispatches were almost uniform in tenor to the effect that normal condi tions had already been restored, or that they were rapidly approaching that state, ' and there seems to be no reason at this writing to suppose that the progress to wards a complete resumption of trade and traffic will meet with any serious check as the coming days shall succeed each other. In other words, it does not seem possible, with all th6 forces of law and order, as now arrayed, with their leader put to his own defense at the bar of justice ; with their ranks beginning to be depleted by desertions, and with the strain which they have already endured, that the American Railway Union, can rally its forces for a struggle which must needs be long and discouraging at best. Apparently, therefore, their only hope of final triumph lies in aid which they hope to get from union labor outside ot their organization. As this is being written, the order for all classes of labor in Chicago to go on strike to-morrow morning is being promulgated, and it is said that that of Grand Master Work man Sovereign of the Knights of Labor, calling on all members to strike and all who sympathize with Pullman strikers all over the country to come out With them, is expected to follow quickly. How generally the order will be obeyed is problematical. To a great extent the effect has already been discounted by the stagnation of business, and it is known that some of the longest heads among the labor leaders believe the action has been postponed too long to be effective. i At sunset the nation will probably know whether the situation is one of crisis or collapse. : Hopkins Censures Pullman." Chicago, July 11. "It is labor lost; not fifty Mayors would have the slightest effect on the Pullman Company," said Mayor ' Hopkins when asked if Mayor Pingree of Detroit had asked him to beome one of the fifty Mayors to ioin in an appeal to George M. Pullman to allow the differences between him and his men to be submitted to arbitration. Mayor Pingree thought there was no need Of asking me to ioin him in such ah appeal," said the Mayor. " My posi tion is pretty wen Known. JBut htty Mayors will have no effect on the Pull man Company; no nor 150 nor 500. Everyone is ignored by this company. However, it will take Pullman years to recover from this trouble. He will find that he is boycotted without unit in action or effect by the American people. The business will go to Pullman's com petitors. Then he will realize the mis take of his position to-day." WHAT SOVEREIGN SAYS. Text of the Manifesto to the National 1 Knights of Labor. Chicago, July 11. The manifesto of General Master Workman Sovereign to the Knights of Labor was issued to-night. It is as follows : " Chicago, 111., July 10, 1894-. To the Knights of Labor of Amer ica Greeting : A crisis has been reached in the affairs of this nation that endangers the peace of the Republic. Every fiber in our civil structure is strained to the breaking point. The shadow of factional hatred hovers over our fair land with terrible forebodings. The arrogant lash of superiority is being applied by the corporations with relent less furyand the chasm between the masses and the classes is growing deeper and wider with each succeeding day, If peace is restored and this nation saved from acts repulsive to the con' science of Christian people, there must he wise action, and that quickiv. " Sincerely believing that the flames of discord are being purposely fanned by the railway corporations, to the risk of the life of the government, I take the liberty to appeal to you and through you to the conscience of the whole people im ploring you to lay down the implements of toil for a short season, and under the banner of peace and patriotic desire to promote the public welfare, use the power of your aggregated numbers through peaceable assemblages to create a healthy public sentiment in favor of amicable settlement of the issues grow ing out of the recent strike of the Pull man palace car employes ; and you are further requested not to return to your usual vocations until a settlement of the pending troubles is made known to you tnrougn some autnentic source.. in the present strained relations be' tween corporations and their empoyes is involved a principle near and dear to all true American citizens the right of labor to present its grievances to owners and representatives of corporations and capital. The Pullman Palace Car Com pany refuses to arbitrate the differences between itself and its emnlnvps nn t.hn ground that cars were built below cost, and, therefore, there is nothing to arbi trate. But the conclusion of every un prejudiced mind must be that, if such were the facts, it could have nothing to fear at the hands of an arbitration com mittee. But the Pullman Company goes further in its autocratic policy than a refusal to arbitrate. It has refused to join with the business men and the Board of Aldermen of Chicago in a committee to discuss the question as to whether there is anything to arbitrate or not, and behind this autocratic policy stands the (jeneral Managers Association of the railway corporations, backed by the United States, as the aiders and abettors of this social crime. "Suppose the Pullman Company had invited organized labor to arbitrate and organized Tabor had declined the invita tion and refused to discuss the question as to whether there was anything to ar bitrate or not? It is needless to say a wave of popular indignation would ob literate every labor organization from the face of the country, and no more could be formed during the next fifty years. The stigma of such a position would follow every man connected with organized labor to the grave. But in the present crisis the corporations, whose wealth has been created by labor, take the position that they are prior to and above their creator. Like the brigands of old, they rob the laboring masses and employ the sword and bludgeon and set up a throne on the bones of the van quished and hold their divine right to rule over the remainder. Pullman claims that, notwithstanding the wages of the employe were reduced to starving point, there is nothing to arbitrate because cars have been built at a loss, yet neglects to state that the stock of the company has been watered three times over, and that the company has been able not only to pay its regular dividend on water and all, but its stockB have long been and at the present time are at a premium on the stock market. . " Pullman cries poverty to his starving employes, and men .. retreats to his princely summer mansion on the St. Lawrence river, and wires the business men of Chicago that he has nothing to arbitrate. Like Nero, he laughs in lux ury, while his devoted martyrs burn. if the present strike is lost to labor, it will retard the progress of civilization and reduce the possibilities of labor to ever emancipate itself from the thrall- dom of greed. The dignity of labor and all the victories won in the past are at stake in this conflict. I beseech you in your obligations in this hour of trial. Court the co-operafion of a generous public, stand firm and united in our common cause, and the victory will be one of peace and prosperity for the faith ful. (Signed) ' J. B. Sovereign, General Master Workman." Ex-President Harrison's Views. Indianapolis, July 11. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison, having been quoted as saying President Cleveland has estab lished a new precedent in sending Fed eral troops into a State without a request from the Governor of the State and over his protest, said to-day : "I have never said what I am quoted as saying as to the use of United States troops bv the President, nor do I think the President has transcended his powers. On the other hand, I believe there is no spot in the United States where United States troops may not go under such orders without asking anybody's consent, and that the enforcement of the laws of the United States is the sworn duty of the President, and the army is an appropri ate instrument to use in the enforcement of these laws where they are violently resisted and the civil officers are unable to deal with the situation. , If the posse comitatus law limits the President's con stitutional power at all, which is very I doubtful, it only requires the proclama tion to precede the. use of troops." LAND- FOR MANY. Valuable Information for In tending Immigrants. THE SEATTLE LAND OFFICE. The Acreage in the Land District Acres Disposed Of Amounts Re- . ' served From Settlement Unappro priated and Unreserved. .. Seattle, July 9. Percy F. Smith, the head clerk at the Seattle United States land office, has completed his annual re port to the bureau of statistics at Wash ington, D. C, of the condition of ' the lands in the Seattle land district.' ' The total acreage in the land district is 7,501,560; acres disposed of, 2,876,706; acres reserved from settlement, 703,601 ; total acres unappropriated and unre served, 4,554,289, of which 173,196 are surveyed and 4,381,093 are unsurveyed. ' The report is a valuable one, and con tains much information of value to set tlers and prospective immigrants to Pu get Sound. It is the result of much careful work. The report is full, and by counties is as given below : Clallam county Total acreage of the county in the Seattle land district, 1,161, 240 ; acres disposed of, 216,340 ; acres re served from settlement, 26,750 ; area in acres unappropriated and . unreserved, 817,950, of which 83,081 acres are sur veyed and 734,869 acres unsurveyed. isiana county Total acreage of coun- ty in land district, 129,720; acres dis posed of, 126,198; acres reserved from settlement, 2,193; area in acres unap propriated and unreserved, 1,329, of which 1,329 acres are surveyed and none unsurveyed. .- . Jenerson county Total acreage of ' county in land district, 983,360; acres disposed of, 192,776 ; acres reserved from settlement, 3,649; area of acres unap propriated and unreserved. 786.935. of which 19,480 acres are surveyed and .' 767,455 unsurveyed. King county Total acreage of the county in the Seattle land district, 1,117, 880 ; acres disposed of, 537,803 ; acres re served from settlement, 6,400; area in acres unappropriated and , unreserved, 473,677, of which 4,260 acres are surveyed and 469,417 acres unsurveyed. jutsap county Total acreage of coun- ty in land district. 190,500 : acres dis posed of, 180,805; acres reserved from ' settlement, 8,214; area in acres unap propriated and unreserved. 1.481. of which 1,481 acres are surveyed and none unsurveyed. .fierce county Total acreage of coun ty in land district. 46,000 : acres disposed of, 42,549 ; acres reserved from settle- . ' ment, 3,451 ; area in acres unappropri ated and unreserved, none, of which no acres are surveyed and none unsurveyed. San Juan county Total acreage of" the county in the Seattle land district, 101,- . 000 ; acres disposed of, 94.060 ; acres re served from settlement, 2,955 ; area in acres unappropriated and unreserved, 3,985, of which 3,985 aores are surveyed and none unsurveyed. Skagit countv Total acreage of coun- ty in land district, 1,171,000; acres dis-1 .i posed of, 380,195; acres reserved from settlement, 1,005; area in acres unap propriated and unreserved, . 789,800, of . '; which 25,040 acres are surveyed and 764,760 unsurveyed. Snohomish county Total acreage of county in land district, 1,195,180; acres disposed of, 524,571 ; acres reserved from settlement, 1,543; area in acres unap- ' propriated and unreserved, 668,966, of ' which 18,200 acres are surveyed and 650,- vot) unsurveyed. Whatcom county Total acreage of county in land district, 1,405,680 ; acres disposed of, 381,309 ; acres reserved from settlement, 14,205 ; area in acres unap- ; propriated and unreserved, 1,010,166, of which 16,340 acres are surveyed and 993, 826 unsurveyed. DISTILLERY AT GRANT'S. It Will Be In Operation as Soon as Re- yp pairs Can Be Made. Goldbndale, July 10. G. B. Goodell, President of the Distilling Company at Grant's, says the distillery will be in op- eration as soon as the necessary repairs -can be made. At present they are sup plying their local trade from the stock they have on hand, which is handled by teams irom grant's to Tne uaues lor shipment. Mr. Goodell has made in- ' quiries of the Indians to ascertain if they had any tradition of high water equal to that of 1894. He came to the conclusion that no such flood was ever known to the present race, from the fact that the Indian burying ground, known to them as Celilo tillakum's mem-a-loose ill-a-he, was by the recent flood totally submerged. As the water re cedesj it is said the Indians are growing frantic over the fact that many of the graves of their forefathers are being . washed away, in some places the 5 graves are washed out, while at others parts ot the bones and skulls remain to mark the place where thousands of In dians have been buried. ; It is said when wars were rife among the various tribes of Columbia Valley the Indians deemed it a social obligation to bury all their dead warriors. One Indian, who claims to have seen more than '100 snows, or years, says his tribe always buried its dead there as, it-was considered above the high-water mark. Gladstone's Formal Declination. Edinburgh, July 9. At a meeting of the Midlothian Liberal Association a letter from Gladstone was read in which he formally places himself out of the race for re-election.
