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3gogL Jiver Slacier. HOOD RIVER, OR., JULY 28, 1894. The president's action in appointing a commission to investigate the cunse of the great strike is in every way com mendable. The commission so ap pointed will have power to send for jH-rsons and make a thorough in vest i girtion. The fact that Carrol D.Wright, lit bor commissioner, will be ex-ofllclo chairman of the commission, insures a report which will be thorough, reliable and instructive, and whatever conclu sion Mr. Wright may come to will have great weight in the public mind. For years the Portland Alpine club and others have promised an illumina nation of Mt. Hood. On every recur rlug 4th of July people all over the states of Oregon and Washington have atald up till midnight watching for the promised red fire on Mt. Hood which never showed up. " And now the Ma zamas have failed to burn their red fire where it could be seen by any one at a distance. To prove that it can be done, , the young ladies of Hood River offer to burn the red fire on the top of the .mountain, where it can be ssen by all in sight, if the Portland people will furnish the material. Doug Laugille bus discovered a shorter and easier route to reach the summit of Mount Hood from Cloud Cap in u, wnicn tne Oregouian says can well be designated the northeast passage. Like all inountuiu climbs, it is no child's play to follow this new trail up to the top of the mountain, but it is entirely-safe and of such scenic grandeur that it will doubtless soon be popular with tourists and all others who wish' to ascend the mountain. Hood River is the natural starting point for this mountain, being ouly twenty-eight miles distant from the 8 now line. Hood River is reached by rail in three hours from Portland, but the trip by steamers up the Colum bia, which gives a better view of our wonderful scenery, will be the most popular route for tourists. The dis covery of this new route will greatly increase the travel to Cloud Cap Inn ly way of Hood River. Senator Hill appeared in a new role In the senate, Tuesday, when he made a two-hours' speech in defense of the president. He unmercifully " scored the democratic senators who had joined in the assault on Mr. Cleveland and '.likened them to the conspirators who stabbed Csesar to death at the foot of Pompey's statue in the Roman senate. Gorman he characterized as the lean and hungry Cassius; Mr. Jones, Mar cus Brutus, the honest Brutus of the senate; Mr. Vest, who struck the first blow on Friday, as Casca; Mr. Voor hees as Trebonlus, "testy but earnest," .and Mr. Harris as Metellus Cimber. f hey had struck down the president, Mr. Hill said, not that they loved Mr. Cleveland less, but that they loved the senate compromise more. "And yet," he concluded, "I can say with Antony, 'They are all honorable men.' " The question of what to do with our fruit is again agitating fruit growers. Gravenstein apples, prunes and plums will soon be ready for shipment The returns from our first carload of prunes shipped to Omaha last season did not prove satisfactory to the shippers, but the same parties are disposed to try it over again this season. Failure, to properly pack the fruit in the car was the main cause of loss, and having learned a' lesson In packing a car, they will see that nothing is left undone to secure safe transportation in the future. Mr. M. V. Rand last season shipped some of his Hungarian prunes to Om aha by express and realized 3 cents a pound for them. This year he will have an extraordinary large yield of this fruit and feels confident it will find ready sale In the East. California ap ples are now quoted in the St. Louis market af $1 per 20-pound box. . The regular apple box here contains 45 and 60 pounds. Our Gravensteins last year sold for $1.50 in Omaha, which paid our shippers about 75 cents, or more than double the prices paid by Port land commission houses. Prunes are now quoted at $1.50 a box in the St. Louis market. . This is at the rate of 7i cents a pound. The freight rate last season to Omaha was $1.12 per 10O pounds. If our prunes sold In Omaha for 75 cents a box there would be more money in shipping them green than in drying them. ALL .SORTS. In Grant county the sheriff is al lowed one deputy at $1,200 a year, and the clerk one deputy at $900. " ... The peach crop of ; Delaware is esti mated at 150,000 baskets. The crop last year was 7,000,000 baskets. 1 ; The Dalies Daily Chronicle is now printing the Associated ; Press dis patches direct from the Western Union lines. ' , 'lhe Kun publishing Co. of Portland has filed articles, of corporations with the secetary of state; and the object is to print a daily and weekly newspaper. Cupt. John O'Brien, W. F. Osburn, Geo. Pope, Benton Killin and E. D. McKee are the incorporators. ; Under the game law buck deer can not be killed until after August lst.and spotted fawns can not be killed at any time. It is unlawful to kill any deer at any time unless the carcam is used or preserved by the person killing it, or is sold for food. Elk can be killed from August 1st to November loth. Trout cnu not be Bold or offered for sale any time except during the months of September and October. The Ellensburz Register shvs the Kittitas valley will furnish employ ment to hundreds of men and teams the coming fall and,, winter. The ca ll al work will give employment to a large number, and the harvest is larger than ever before and will take a large force to handle it. July 17th there was a strike among the newsboys nt .Masslllon, Ohio, for a higher commission upon the papers they sell They swarmed the streets and thrashed every non-union young ster who dared withdraw himself from the shadow of the police. The arrest of four of the ringleaders ended the strike. j ' - , There seems to be a mistaken idea among patroona of the public schools that if they are unable to purchase books for their children that the latter are debarred from the advantages of attending school. Such is not the case however. . Under the law, upon proper representation of the fact that the parents are unable tp purchase books for their children, the directers of the district are-required to furnish the same from the funds belonging to the district. Condon Globe. , , This is the season to look out for for est fires. Everything has become some what tinder like and a little careless ness may . result in great damage to timber, grain, etc. It should be con stantly borne in mind that there is a state law which provides punishment for all, persons who thoughtlessly or otherwise start fires in the woods. This refers especially to those out hunting or1 fishing, who may be careless about leaving burning camp fires. Every year these forest fires destroy a great quantity of timber. Mountaineer. The Mount Tabor Fruit Growers Association made another stand last week and came out victorious. The handlers of fruit came to the conclusion that they would reduce the' price of raspberries from 5 cents to 4 cents, so when the growers came intoj the city j they were met with a 4 cent offer and j the usual assurances that many berries had been secured for 4 cents, but the growers told all Intending purchasers if they had bought berries at that price to go to the same place and get some more, that they would haul to the can nery before selling for less than five. About the time the growers began pulling out of the market for the can nery the buyers seeinu that their little game failed to work and that no cut would be accented paid the old price, and the growers went their way home witn another leather added to the crow of co-operative victory. Pacific Far- The following from the Pacific Far mer shows what could be done here if we had a cannery, Of course ourstraw- j berrv men expect more than 3 or 4 cents a pound, but they would do well to get this price for berries too ripe to ship but still just .right for canning, aud the expense of picking would be less for a cannery than for shipment: Three miles west of Gaston. Wash ington county, Oregon, is a 40 acre tract of land owned by J. W. Estes, which three or four years ago was a wild and reckless a tract of land as is seldom seen. Mr. Estes bought it and went in debt for nearly every dollar of the purchase price. To-day there ' is hardly an idle acre in the whole tract, Mr. Estes holds a clear title, and his magic wand was strawberries. ' - It is not an exclusive strawberry ranch, but they are the main crop at present. A year ago Mr. Estes con tracted his berries to the Forest Grove cannery people at 4J cents and cleared up between $800 and $1000 on the berries and paid off the last-, dollar of indebtedness against his farm. This season Mr. Estes had 0 acres planted to strawberries and has not averaged less than 3 cents per pound for them. Who Can Beat This! M. V. Rand has a Yellow Newtown apple tree, two years old from the bud, which this year is bearing a crop of 118 good-sized apples. . The tree is ten feet high, In thrifty condition, and the ap ples will mature all right. These 118 apples will fill a bushel box. . Cost and Value of tlie Strike. ; New York World. ; History will set down the strike which has just udedas the cheapest and best that lias occurred in the coun try since the celebrated occasion when rioters threw British tea overboard in Boston harbor. In proportion to the extent of the strike and the strength of the force brought out to suppress it the loss and injury to life has been trif ling. Nearly as many were killed aud wounded in the homestead strike, which was confined to a single town. In the last general railroad strike of 1877 more than a hundred were killed. ; Of damage to property the record is equally short. Only railroad property has suffered, and that to but a small degree in comparison with the vast amount of such property open to dam age. Untold millions would not have bought the claims for damages agai ust the city of Chicago during the excite ment of the first few days; now they are scratching bravely to find damage enough to foot up $1,000,000, and if they could settle the bill for $500,000 the railroad ' companies would have $200,000 or $300,000 to put on the right side of the profit and loss account. The indirect loss to all concerned is a more serious matter, though not apt to be disastrous in any one case. The strikers themselves will lose from five to fifteen days' pay as individuals, but the laboring people as a mass will lose practically nothing. There were only about fifteen thousand 'actual strikers, and at least ten thousand of. the for merly unemployed have been at work as deputy marshals and guards at higher wages than the strikers would have received. Farmers, fruit growers and other raisers of produce in the upper Mississippi Valley and in Call fornia will lose heavily through the loss of opportunity to market their pro ducts at the proper time. - These dosses are all temporary, and will not affect the permanent prosperity of any of those involved. ; , The only concern that will suffer any really serious and permanent loss from the strike is the Pullman Palace Car company. The damage to Its property has been terrible, but the Injury to its popularity is incalculable.- Heretofore railroad companies have preferred Pullman cars to those of other lines or to their own parlor cars, because of the prestige of the name "Pullman.". The public has had an idea that unless a car was labelled "Pullman" it couldn't be really and truly a pailor car or a sleeper. Hereafter the railroads vlll, feel like offering the Pullman company a bonus to paint its name off of its cars. It will be a year before timid peopte will feel safe again in a Pullman car. The sensible part of the community will laugh at such fears, but they will also take a righteous satisfaction in beeping money out of Pullman's' pock ets. .', The expense put on the public of the city, State and nation by the strike is large in the aggregate, but will not fall very heavily on any one else. Chicago has had extra police expenses aud the militia costs the state something like $20,000 a day, or say $250,090 in air. This is largely offset, however, by the giving up of the usual summer encamp ment, the value of which in training the militia is made up by the even more practical training of actual ser vice. Attorney-General Oluey - has asked already for $255,000 with which to pay deputy marshals, and the cost of transporting the army and feeding It in Chicago will probably raise the total expense of the federal govern ment due to the strike to about $1,000,- ooo.-; - , ; - This much as to the cost of the strike. Now as to its value. To the working classes, and especially the organized working classes, its value has been in estimable. It has taught them at once their streugth and their weakness. This man Debs, comparatively un known,' the head of an organization less than a year old and never publicly heard of until three mouths ago an organization antagonistic in its very nature to older amiscrouger labor organ izations ulnae, witn no real grievance, without sympathy or assistance from other labor leaders, has tied up - the whole freight traffic and most of the passenger traffic of the great west. What would happen if the old railroad organizations, the brotherhoods aud atiiliated unions, should together order a strike? The success of Dens, limited as it has been, has taught labor the answer to that question. Oa the other hand, the evil tuut violence does to the cause of the workiuginen has been1 amply proved by the ! strike. ' The whole west 'Would have, been tied up yet as tight as a miser's purse if no cars nad been burned or other damage done.' It was not the soldiers nor the courts nor Debs that killed the strike, but the acts of violence of that Friday and Sat urday. : It has been worth all the strike has cost the workiuginen to learn that lesson. . The chief benefit of this strike to the country at large has been in the intro' auction into tne labor question a new element the federal government This does not mean the federal army. Whatever may be the general opinion, the fact is that the federal troops have not in this strike interfered in any thing but federal matters; that is, in . trans' portatlon of mails and to a very limited extent of interstate commerce. There was a great deal of rash talk at first as to what federal troops might, could, would, or should do, but the fact is that' the preservation of peace and the protec tion of property .have .been- a- strong! moral inliueneein the state institution, and perhaps even a threat, but that Is .all. ..... v- .... , The really valuable, federal interfer ence was the action of the president in appointing what is' practically a committee, of arbitration in the Pull man strike. This is : taking ' it for granted, of course, that such a commis sion is to be appointed, and that no hocus-pocus of a law is to be conjured up to limit its functions and destroy Its effectiveness. - Whatever may be the niceties and distinctions that the deli cate nerve centres of Attorney-General Olney may evolve, the cold fact is that the people of Chicago, strikers and anti- strikers alike, believed that the pres ident's promise meant business. Tbey believed that a commission of eminent. fair-minded men was to come to Chi cago at once to hear the stories of the Pullman strikers and of the. Pullman company, and then to return to Wash ington and to report to the president or to congress: "The facts are so and so, and this is what should be done." Everybody understands that such a recommendatian would have no legal, binding force upon either side, but no body believes that the Pullman com pany would be so Idiotic or the strikers such fools as to fail to obey it at once, and cheerfully. It was upon this unr derstanding that the strike was ended. If there is any other purpose ahead of this commission, then the strike was ended under the influence of false pre tenses and Chicago has been buncoed. This possibility aside, there is no doubt that the ending of the strike by an In tervention of congress is practically a notice that the federal government has provided a court of last resort to decide as to the right ' or wrong of labor troubles, and it is worth to the people a thousand times what the strike has cost. " E. V. HUSBANDS. mi i Only shop in town doing machine work. Lowest prices guaranteed. Prather B'ilding, Hood River, Or. Jul21,04 GEO. P. CROWELL, Successor to E. Li Smith Oldest Established xiousc in tne vaney.j- - , DEALER IN . Dry Goods, Clothing, AND ' General Merchandise, j Floiir and Feed. Etc., HOOD RIVER, V - - - OREGON. NOTICE TO STONEMASONS. The Board ol Directors of Sohool District No. 8 hereby advertise for scaled bids for the stone-mason work on the foundation for the new School House. . Said work to be done by the perch about' one hundred and fifty (150) perches, more or less. Said bidder will fur nish sand, lime and cement. Bids to be closed at 8 o'clock p. m. Saturday, July 28, 1894. ' The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.' , T. C. DALLAS, Chairman. M. H. NICKELSEN, District Clerk. Hood River. July 17, 1894. TO CONTRATORS. Bids will be received untillFriday, August 3, 1894, at 8 o'clock p. m., lor the erection of a school building at Hood River. Oregon. Plans und specifications can be seen at the office of M. H. Nlckelsen, school clerk, Hood River, Oregon, after July 10, 1894. Right reserved to reject any or all bids. Address T. C. DALLAS, ' Chairman of School Board. PHELPS CREEK WATER CO. Notice Is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Phelps Creek Water Company will be held at Smith's school house July 23, 1894, at 2 p. m., for the election of officers and such other business as may properly come be fore the meetlug. . T. E. WICKENS, President. W. J. CAMPBELL, Secretary. Hood River, Or., July 11,1894. ASSESSMENT NOTICE. Stockholders of the Hood River Fruit Grow ers' Union .take notice: An assessment of 10 per cent (or 60 cts a share) on the capital stock of the corporation has been levied by the Board of Directors and is now due. Leave the amount and get your receipt at the store of A. S. Blowers & Co. , H. F. DAVIDSON, Secretary. NOTICE. All persons are hereby notified that they will be required to pay a rental for any space occupied by them along the line of the railroad spur on my home stead.. Mks. Mattie a. Oiler. Hood River, Or., April 18, 1894. FOB SALE. Eighty acres, five miles from town; 40 acres in cultivation; 600 trees, prin cipally ; apple, in full bearing. All fenced. . Good house and barn. Three shares of water in Hood River Supply Co. go with the place. Good well and spring. harvey (jkapper. 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