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r looc Eiyer Glacier. ie - , '?f:;-;r,-r It's a Cold Day When1 We Get Left. - -- - r VOL. G. -. ; ; : :; HOOD RIVER, OREGON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 19, 1895. , : NO. 31. 2Keod Tiver fi lacier. PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY MORNING BY S. 'F7"BLYTHE, "PublishVrr" '- SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. , , Ona year IS 00 Six months . 1 00 Three months. .... 60 finale copy -. f Cant GRANT EVANS. . EOBT. HUSBANDS. .THE GLACIER BARBERSHOP, Second St., Near Oak, Hood River, Or. , EVANS 4 HUSBANDS, Proprietors. Shaving and hatr-cuttlng neatly done. Satis tactiou guaranteed.-. . - ' " : NORTHWEST NEWS Condensed Telegraphic Keports of Late Happenings.' TAKEN HOT FROM. THE WIRES Budget of News for Easy Digestion From Different Part of the States of Wash ington. Oregon and Idaho Item of Interest to Pacific Coast People. -v The annual cat of wood at Meacham, ' Or., is 8,000 cords. The Dalles, Or., boasts of unsurpassed coaatring on the hills. - Miss Emma Driscoll has been elected City Librarian at Spokane. - - - Eugene, Or., is collecting a carload of provisions for the Nebraska sufferers. The Tacoma Poultry Association's first annual show will be held from January 15 to 19. 'Proposed amendments to the Spokane city charter would reduce the salary list by 16,000. " ... ... The Astorian predicts great activity in road construction by the Clatsop county farmers next spring. ... . The A. P. A. will establish State head quarters at Olympia during the session of the Legislature. j : : ; " ;. According to 'Librarian Gilbert's re port the Washington State library has over 20,000 volumes. Suit has been brought at Seattle by Dexter, Horton & Co. for $217,148.93 against William : A. and Anna B.Har rington. The first Southern Oregon State Board of Agriculture will hold its annual meet ing and election of officers at Ashland on the 14th instant, A female deer, driven out of the mount ains by the storm, was seen quietly browsing in Max Pracht's orchard in Ashland a few days ago.. ? . w. . Umatilla county, Or., figures out a profit during the first six months of the salary system, as compared with the fee system formerly in vogue. The Tacoma Rod and Gun ' Club has ordered four dozen Mongolian pheasants to be distributed in Pierce county. It has also drafted a new game law. The Tacoma Land Company has com menced suit to set aside au assessment of $26,404.97 for street improvements upon technicalities in the Council pro ceedings. , . j.-V A 'fairly well authenticated report comes from the Nasel country to the ef fect that Weyerhau&er ; syndicate has purchased 3,000 acres of timber land in that section of Washington. J. J. Kaufman has been elected Chief of the Walla Walla fire department. The retiring Chief, Y. C; Blalock, was presented with a gold match safe by the members of the department. ' ? . 4- A petition to the Oregon Legislature is being prepared . at . Eugene, asking for .'legislation preventing Indians from hunting deer off the reservations, as they : are rapidly exterminating the game. A hunting party in the Olympic '. Mountains report having seen 600 elks :in a single day without attempting to ;shoot any of them, because their pack animals were already laden with' game. Piling for an extension of the Harris mill wharf at South Bend, Wash.,.ie be ing cut. The wharf will be extended twenty feet fartherinto the Will a pa river and made 600 feet in length. There will then be a depth of thirty feet alongside. The biennial report of the Superin tendent of the Eastern Washington Asy lum for the insane, situated at Medical Lake, has been issued. Superintendent Semple reports 207 patients. The death rate during the past three years has been comparatively low, as the climatic influ ences are good.' Itlsva noticeable fact that the proportion of melancholies is less and the number of maniacs greater in this hospital than in several other in stitutions where comparisons have been . made. This state of affairs is believed to be due to the clear, dry atmosphere. No case of epidemic disease has occurred in the hospital for the year ; no suicide or homicide since the opening of the in stitution, and but one dangerous attack. Many improvements and additions have been made. About twenty acres of new land have been cultivated ; 2,000 addi tional strawberry and 1,000 raspberry ' plants have been planted. Mr. Semple earnestly advocates the examination of persons suspected of insanity by compe - tent physicians instead of the Superior Judge, the examination to be conducted with privacy. ONE WHO WAS THERE. Denial of Alleged Armenian Atrocities . by a Distinguished Spaniard. London, January 11. The Morning Post will print to-morrow a long inter view with, the Spanish traveler, Ximi nex, who has just returned from a geo graphical mission through Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. He said: ' " I was in Armenia from March to November, and happened to be in Bitlis during the disturbances in the Sassoun district. It is absolutely false" that women and children were outraged and tortured by Turkish troops. The whole thing was grossly exaggerated from an entirely local disturbance locally sup pressed, the troops arriving too late to share in the repression beyond the cap ture of the supposed instigator. He was a liberated convict, named Bohazian, alias Mourah, formerly a pupil in the American Methodist mission school." Ximinez exonerates Zekki Pasha, who on arriving at Moosh immediately lib erated numbers of Armenians and adopted a policy of conciliation through out. He says that the Armenian ques tion hardly exists in Armenia. The Ar- j menians of the Sassoun district he de scribes as the least educated and intel ligent of those in Turkey and very dif ferent from their fellows in Van and Bitlis. He thinks they are little better than the Kurds. The disturbances arose from quarrels and raids of the Armenians, he says, and developed until the Armenians mustered a force of 3,000, intent either upon reprisals on the Kurds or revolution. The troops twice encoun tered this force August 27, killing 300 of them in an open fight. The editor of the Post describes Ximi nez as a distinguished Spaniard of high scientific attainments and ft Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Eng land. He accepts the above statements as true, and denounces Gladstone and other supporters of the Armenian polit ical plotters. DENIAL FROM THE. FOREIGN OFFICE. London, January 11. Lord Kimberly of the Foreign Office announces that the statements made at the Chester confer ence of Armenians as to the attitude of the British Foreign Office toward Ar menian affairs were entirely untrue. The Standard says that Great Britain has replied to the Porte's appeal to dis avow Mr. Gladstone's birthday speech on Armenia by directing attention to the fact that Mr. Gladstone is simply a Member of Parliament and cannot be prevented from uttering his personal views. . TO PROTECT THE PATRIARCH, '.'' Vienna, January 6- A dispatch from Constantinople explains why the the Turkish police entered the Armenian cathedral yesterday. The Patriarch, Stephen Peter Azarain, has received many menacing letters owing to his public statements discrediting the worst reports from Armenia and favoring the Porte. . 'Cheflk and Djelaledin', members of the Commission of Inquiry, arrived at Erzeroum Monday. MONEY ,OF THE DEAD. There May be a Contest "Over Fair's Will After All San Francisco January 11. The will of late ex-Senator Fair will come up for probate, and should no compromise be made between the executors and heirs the latter according to report are likely to contest it. - The only way to break the will is to prof e that the testator was of unsound mind or was unduly influ enced when making it. The physicians who made the autopsy upon the body oi Fair have , not yet made any detailed public reports of their examination. They have stated that the causes of death were diabetes and B right's dis ease. They said little about the : condi tion ot the brain except that it exceeded the average'- weight. The Question of sanity promises to enter chiefly into a contest over the will. - . - ' TO j USE . CHINA'S MONEY. Japan to Have- Erected an Immense , Steel Plant. . . Chicago, January 11. -The Japanese government has submitted proposals to the Illinois Steel Company to erect in Japan a steel plant capable of turning out all the steel armor required by the Japanese navy and all the steel rails needed for government railway con struction. The plant is to involve an outlay of between $7,000,000 and $10, 000,000. This money Japan will payout of the indemnity secured from China. E. E. Potter, secretary of the construc tion of Illinois steel at South Chicago, left for Yokohama last night to consult with the Japanese government on the details of the plant. He will remain in Japan until April., The Japanese pro pose to develop all their mineral re sources, and the railroads are intended to connect the plant with the source of ore supply and the principal ports. Indignant San Franciscans. San Francisco, January 11. Mayor Sutro announces that he will call a mass meeting of citizens to protest against the action of Acting United States Attorney Knight in refusing to issue a warrant for the arrest of C. P. Huntington, who is charged with violating the interstate commerce law by issuing , a . pass .' to frank M. Stone. ' At the mass meeting expressions of opinion on the appoint ment of Mose Gunst as Police Commis sioner will also be made. Title to North Brownsville Land. Washington, January; 11. The Sen ate to-day passed the House bill to set tle title to lands in North . Brownsville, Linn county, Oregon. CUBA IS BENEFITED Spain Places the United States , Among Favored Nations. EVERYTHING AGAIN SERENE Island Planters Will be Able to Control the Market of the Greatest Sugar- Consuming Country on the Globe Details Kemain to be Adjusted. London, January 10. A Madrid dis patch says that as a result of recent ne gotiations a minimum tariff has been accorded to the United States by the Spanish government upon exports from the United States into Cuba and Porto Kico. : ' .. ' satisfactory conclusion beached. Washington, January. 10.-As" indi cated in. the cablegrams from Madrid the negotiations between the State De partment and the government of Spain looking to the restoration of the tariff on American products entering Cuba and Porto Rico have reached a satisfactory conclusion. It is true that some minor details remain to be adjusted, but little difficulty is expected in securing their settlement. -, It appears that in conced ing to the United States the benefits of the minimum tariff Spain has also se cured a substantial advantage. Her West Indian' colonies ordinarily supply the United States with about 75 percent of the sugar imported into the country. Thus the sugar is liable to a duty of one tenth of 1 cent per pound over and above the 40 per cent duty imposed on Cuban sugar, and in consequence the Cuban planters practically receive a portion equal to the discriminating duty paid by European sugars, and, it is believed, will thus be able to control the market of the greatest sugar consuming country on the globe. '; -'.EMIGRANTS FOR HAWAII. Nine Hundred Portuguese to be Taken .. to the Island. . : Washington, January 10. Mr. Lorin A. Thurston, the Hawaiian Minister to the United States, returned to Washing ton last night after an absence of three months on a special mission to Portugal. The object of his visit was to obtain emigrants for Hawaii, and in this he was successful. A party of 900 Portuguese will start for Hawaii January 11 to aug ment the 14,000 of their countrymen al ready there. The men who compose the party are farm laborers, and will be utilized principally) in the coffee-growing industry. The labor supply of the islands according to Thurston is entire ly inadequate to the development of the interests now in progress. The govern ment of Hawaii has furnished a steamer to take these emigrants to their destina tion, and will bear the expense of the journey. ' , ; ' ' ' ' ' ' ' -With reference to the condition of po litical affairs in the islands Mr. Thurs ton said the agitation against the gov ernment has been carried on by a few malcontents, but has not resulted in causing much uneasiness. The govern ment, however, has put a Btop to it by arresting Bush and others" for conspir acy. ' The Queen's attorney, Neumann, nas taken the oath of allegiance and Mr. Davies, guardian of Kiaulani, the heir apparent to the throne, has announced that in consequence of, the recognition of the Hawaiian KepuDiic py ureal Britain he no longer supports the pro ject to restore the Queen. ' Mr. Wide minn. nnn nf the l-ovalist commission ers to Washington, also announced that he recognized restoration as a dead issue. LAST YEAR'S SEALING. The Catch of the British Columbian Sealing Fleet. Washington, January 10. The State Department has published an official re port from United States Consul Roberts at Victoria on the seal catch of the Brit ish Columbian, sealing fleet last year. The figures show the catch to be the largest ever made in a single year, and that the fear once entertained that the hunters would be seriously handicapped by the compulsory use of the spear has been overcome. The total Canadian catch was 94,474, and of those taken in Behring Sea 11,705 were males and 14, 636 females. The-catch in 1893 was 70, 332. In addition this year 573 skins taken by American schooners . were landed at Victoria, bringing- the total number of skins landed there to 95,047. The sealers took 48,993 skins off the Jap anese coast, 26,841 in Behring Sea, 11, 705 off the British Columbian coast and 7,437 off Copper Island. An intimation of further claims against the United States is found in the release of the seized schooners Favorite and Wanderer without any formal investigation and the prompt filing by their masters with Collector Milne of claims for damages. , Rich Strike Near Deadwood. Deadwood, S. D., January 10. Min ing circles are in a flutter of excitement over the announcement of a rich strike made in the Lackawanna mine on Green Mountain, a few miles south of Dead wood. A twelve-foot vein has been un covered, the ore from which after many assays gives returns averaging from $1,500 to $3,700 in gold per ton. The vein is well defined. The mine is owned by James Collins and Curley O'Leary, two poor miners, whom a chance "spot" in one moment has placed in affluence. JAPAN'S PARLIAMENT. Only Urgent Questions Will be'Conjid ered Now. ' v Tokio, January 10. Premier Ito, speaking in the Japanese Chamber of Deputies yesterday, declared that the victories over the Chinese were due to the bravery and loyalty of the army and navy supported by the loyalty and una' nimity of the people of the nation. He felt honored, he said, to occupy the pO' sition of Prime Minister at so important a period in the country's history. In view of necessary war measures Premier ltd said the budget would deal only with a few other urgent matters. When the war should be concluded, he said, the government would submit a number of useful measures, but in the meantime only ths most urgent questions would be considered , ';" MORE PORT ARTHUR CRITICISMS. London, January. 10. The Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon, referring to the massacre at Port Arthur, says: "Re sponsibility for the horror rests not with the Japanese peasant, who everybody knows is a lacquered barbarian, but with Marshal Ovama and his officers, whose civilization professed to go a little deeper. Whether they permitted the outrages or not, or were unable to check them, they are unworthy of the command of the armies of a power which calls itself civ ilized." if CUT OFF THE CHINESE RETREAT. ' ''" London, January 10. A Shanghai dis patch says reports -have been received from New Chwang that during the as sault of the Japanese upon Soumen Chang the town was burned, rendering 10,000 homeless in a temperature of 40 degrees below the freezing point. The Japanese are cutting off the retreat of 15,000 Chinese soldiers commanded by General Sung, and the Taotai of New Chwang, fearing desertions, has ordered that all soldiers who attempt to run away shall be immediately shot. : SUNG ASKS FOR REINFORCEMENTS. ! London, January 10, The Times will publish to-morrow a dispatch from Shanghai, saying that General Sung has sent a message to the Chinese govern ment to the effect that his force is com pletely at , the mercy of the Japanese and begging for reinforcements, or per mission to return. ' COREAN INDEPENDENCE DECLARED. London,' January 10. A Seoul dis patch says the King of Corea yesterday formally declared the independence of Corea. . ( .. t TONG HAK LEADERS BEHEADED. London, January 10. A Fusan dis patch says the inhabitants of Kow Yo Ken in Southern Corea have seized and beheaded three of the principal leaders of the Tong Hak rebels., The rebels are fleeing in all directions. ' COREAN MINISTER TO JAPAK. London, January 10. A Seoul dis patch says that the grandson of the King Regent of Corea has been appointed Corean Minister to Japan. PILOTS ON WARSHIPS. His Presence Does Not Relieve the Com- mandlng Officer of Responsibility. ' Washington, January 10. Secretary Herbert to-day issued general orders to naval officers, reversing the former prac tice of the department regarding the re sponsibility of pilots on warships, which will render it impossible hereafter to shift the blame for an injury to a vesel on the pilot, as was attempted in the case of the Columbia last spring or the Cincinnati last November. The order is as follows : " The accident to the United States steamship Cincinnati upon the occasion of her striking ground on the eastern side of the shoals to the south and west of Execution Rocks lighthouse, Long Island Sound, on November 16 last ren ders it' expedient that . the department promulgate to the service its views with regard to the responsibility of pilots on board vessels of the navy. A pilot is to be considered merely as an adviser to the commanding officer, and .his presence on board a naval Vessel Bhaii not relieve the commanding officer of such vessel or any of his subordinates from full responsi bility for the proper performance ot du ties with which they or any of them may be charged concerning the navigation of the vessel." ' '' ' ' '- - GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. Will Represent the Engineers of the En- I tire Southern Pacific System. San Francisco, January 10. A meet ing of the Grievance Committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of the entire Southern Pacific system has been called for the latter part of this month, to be held here. This commit tee has not been together for two years, and is called only when important action affecting the brotherhood of the entire a T - 1 a1 rut. i a. x . . i system is to ue ui&eu. xiio iwsv uiue il met here its doings were very secret, but it secured what it came for. That was a restoration in part of the wages which the company had just cut.. The fact that the committee has been 'called to gether shows that the engineers have not dropped the matter of wages. An effort is now being made to settle the differences between the brotherhood and the American Railway Union, and has been somewhat successful. The Ameri can Railway Union will in the next couple of. weeks decide on the stand it is to take. Dr. Harkness Defeat Sutre. San Fkancisco, January 9. At the election of officers of the California Academy of Sciences, held to-day Dr. Harkness on the regular ticket was elected President, defeating Adolph Su tro, the candidate of the reform party. The vote was Dr. Harkness 67, Sutro 44. BROKERSDOWNED Decision of the Court of Appeals : in the Sugar Case, -u THE DEMURRER OVERRULED New York Brokers Guilty of Contempt - in Not Replying to the Committee's ; Interrogatories Must Abide the Con- , sequences Prescribed by Statute. Washington, January 9. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia to-day rendered an opinion sustaining the opinion of Judge Cole in the case of Messrs. Chapman. & McCarty, stock brokers, who refused to testify before the Sugar Investigating Committee re garding individual speculations through their firm. , Judge Cole's decision over ruled the demurrer filed by the brokers to the government indictments. The cases will now be appealed to the United States Supreme Court. . The three prin cipal questions involved, the Court of Appeals stated in its opinion, were the constitutionality of section 102 of the revised statutes, on which the indict ments were based; whether the inquiry was within the power of the Senate to execute by requiring witnesses to ap pear, and whether the questions were pertinent to the inquiry. All of these questions the court answered adversely to the Drotcers. it said :, . .. " No doubt is entertained by the court as to the validity of the section which embodied the provisions of the act of January 24, 1857. It is not reported that the defendants belong to that class of witnesses exempted by article 5 of the constitution. The act must not be con demned as unconstitutional if by any reasonable construction of its terms it can be maintained as constitutional and valid. The contention that that act was an attempt by Congress to delegate its powers and jurisdiction to the several Houses to punish for contempt of court. and that, therefore, the statute is void, is not acceded to, for the: statute has never been . understood as having any such purpose. The effort to show the statute void is an utter failure." ' ' As to the power of the Senate to com pel witnesses to testify the court said it experienced great difficulty in distinctly making the boundary within which either House can act with coercive power to compel the disclosure of facts deemed important and of delimiting the rights of the citizen to exemption from inquiry into his private affairs. The court con tinues: - - - ; ! " The subiect matter of the cases im mediately and most seriously affects the Senate itself and the great legislative trust confided to its members by the peo ple. : The dignity and integrity of some of the members were openly and serious ly questioned in a- manner well calcu lated to destroy public confidence and to j bring odium on that important branch of the government. There was no pre tense that to answer the questions would criminate the witnesses in any way, and it was their clear duty as citizens to obey the law. The refusal was at their peril, and they must abide the consequences prescribed by the statute. The court cannot assume that the investigation was intended as a mere idle, prying pro ceeding without any ultimate aim or ob ject. The questions had reference to and sought to elicit information as to whether the brokerage firm bad bought or sold sagar stocks in the interest of any Senators or were carrying such stocks for such Senators. Such inquiry was plainly in the scope of the Senate Committee. The questions set out in the indictment, and which the appel lants refused to answer, were all perti nent to the inquiry. The indictment is good and sufficient, and the demurrer thereto was properly overruled by the court below and the judgments entered on the demurrer in both cases must be affirmed." - . .. Chief Justice Alvey delivered the opinion.;,,;: ', : , . ;. ! .Right of Way Through Public Lands. Washinton, January 9. The Senate Committee on ' Public : Lands to-day authorized a favorable report on the bill passed by the House last August author izing the Secretary of : the Interior to permit the ubo of a right of way through public lands not within the limits of any park, forest, military or Indian res ervation for tramroads, canals or reser voirs to the extent of the ground;, oc cupied by the water of the canals and reservoirs and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof or fifty feet on each side the center line of the tram roads by any citizen -or any association of citizens of the United States engaged in the business of cutting timber and manufacturing lumber. ' . Railroad Will Appeal. . San Francisco, January 9. The deci sion of the Supreme Court that the Cen tral Pacific must pay its taxes for 1887 will ; probably be appealed. Judging from what the officials of the road say, the basis upon which the appeal will be made is that the Federal franchise has been taxed, which gives the United States Supreme Court jurisdiction. There was a manifest determination among the railroad officials not to discuss the case, but it is regarded as certain that an at tempt to appeal to the Federal Supreme Court will be made. Stanford University Opened. . Palo Alto, Cat., January 9. Stan ford University -; opened ! to-day. The registration of students is not complete, but the number will exceed 1,100. Professor- W. . W. Willoughby has been added to the faculty, and will take a chair in the economic department. PEACE NOT POSSIBLE. The Failure of Negotiations a Foregone Conclusion. Paris, January 9. The Paris edition of the Herald will print to-morrow a dispatch from Shanghai, saying that . China's peace envoys to Japan have been . instructed not to surrender any territory. China is merely willing to concede' the . independence of Corea and pay an in demnity. The failure jjf the negotia tions is regarded in Shanghai as a fore gone conclusion. ; Generals Chiang and Chen of Port Ar thur fame, whom Li Hung Chang re- ported to. the government as having died heroic deaths facing the foe, have turned up without a scratch. A rigorous in quiry will be made. - - . CONTRIBUTION TO THE RED CROSS. Berlin, January 9. The Red Cross Society of Germany will send 10,000 ' marks to the Red Cross Society of Japan to aid it in its present work in the field. ' THE CRUELTY AT PORT ARTHUR." ' London, January 9. The Times will -to-morrow publish advices from Kobe vcaAst date of December 3, giving alleged details of the massacre at Port Arthur. The Times correspondent states that the slaughter was carried out with every re volting feature of primal barbarity. Four . days were passed in murder and pillage, and from dawn to dark horrible mutila tions of ' every conceivable kind and nameless atrocities were perpetrated. : Prisoners were tied together in groups, . riddled with bullets and then hacked to . pieces. Boats crowded with fugitives of both sexes and all ages received volley v. after volley of bullets. The streets were strewn with corpses showing every ghast- " ly form of mutilation. The soldiers were apparently ' un- , checked in their deeds of blood by their commanders, who, totally losing their European veneer, showed absolute un consciousness of these brutalities on ' , their Western visitors. They did not . , forget to be effusively attentive to them. and did not appear to suspect that their guests were filled with indignation and disgust. . - - The Times will say editorially that it V is impossible to doubt that the General in command could have stopped the bar- ' barous mutilation if he felt so disposed, but his failure to prevent it has cast an indelible blot on the Japanese and has gone far to destroy the admiration which Europe was so liberally extending to them. It will scarcely be thought either that the Japanese government had hith erto shown sufficient sensitiveness in the matter. . ..',,, GLADSTONE . ON IRELAND. Presentation Made the Occasion for an .: ' Expression of His Views. London, January 9. Thomas O'Con nor, representing the American organi zation of the Friendly Sons of St, Pat rick, presented to Mr, Gladstone this evening an album with an illuminated address, which was prepared in March, 1894, on the occasion of Mr. Gladstone's retirement. Mr. Gladstone received Mr. O'Connor and the gntlemen with him very heartily. He looked rnddy and an imated, and talked with much spirit) After inquiring into the history of the society and its lists of members Mr. Gladstone expressed his gratitude for the -compliments paid him in the address. Mr. Gladstone declared his ' interest in Ireland and the Irish, whose cause, he said, he should keep at heart to the end of his life. He regretted the divisions in the ranks of Ireland's leaders. The country's chances of obtaining her rights would never be as bright as they ought to be until all Nationalists united. Do mestic discord must mean necessarily the postponement of any realization of their claims. Everybody in any way able to assist in the reunion of the fac tions was bound to do so. Anybody prompting discord undertook a terrible responsibility, which might mean untold injury to the cause of justice to Ireland. He hoped strongly that some agency soon would be found to unite the Na tionalist groups. He trusted that Ire land's many and influential friends in America would move vigorously for peace in the ranks of the Nationalist leaders. They should appeal to the Irish mem bers of the House of Commons to forget for Ireland s welfare their present differ ences. : SPOKANE GETS THE POST. . The Conference Committee Retains the ' Wilson Amendment. Washington, January 10. After a sharp fight the Wilson amendment for a military post at Spokane was retained in ' " the Military Academy bill to-day.- ' No -appropriation is made. Squire and New- ' berry were before the committee. -Cock-rell, Chairman of the committee, was dead set against the post. He said it was put in to help make Wilson Senator. New berry denied it. It is said Otis, Scho field and the War Department wanted it. and Spokane had made an offer of land in good faith, and Wilson had done what was asked of him. Cockrell was molli fied, and allowed the amendment to re-' main. All the parties refuse an appro- 1 priation. Assistant Secretary of War : Doe says that the department has money enough to begin the work if the post is authorized. The action of the commit tee to-day means that the post will be -established. : Th Explorers Traced i London, January 8. The Central News Agency's correspondent in Shanghai says that the French explorers, Grenard and Phins, who have been missing some two months, have been traced. Phins was murdered by the Chinese after leaving Li Hassa, the capital of Thibit. Grenard was arrested by a rebel officer, and was started for Pelling. December 10 he passed through Tai Yuen, a province of '-' Shan See, 1.