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(ood iiver Slacier. SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1S95. Dr. Jay Guy Lewis died at his home in Sparta, Union couuty, Sunday last, lifter a brief illness. Dr. Lewis was comparatively a new comer in Oregon, but was known throughout the state and was very popular. He was super intendent of the state's exhibit at the world's fair. He represented Arkansas lit the centennial exposition and again ut the New Orleans exposition in 1883. He was much interested in horticul ture, and hist winter, at his own ex pense, traveled over the state to collect f pet'lmens of apples for exhibition at the meeting of the national horticul tural association at Sacramento. He was a good friend to Hood River. In the deatli of Dr. Lewis, Oregon has lost one oli her most valued citizens. Tiny Are Friends. Hood River, May 16, 1895. Editor Glacjkh; In last week's issue of the Glacier we noticed an article by VV. 1'. Watson which commences with a tjuestion, to wit: "Are they Friends or Enemies?" We emphatically pro nounce them friends. The bird Mr. Watson alludes to is the violet-green swallow -Hirundo Thalassina (Swain eon). (Audubon, vol, 4, p. 597.) Their habitat or geographical distribution, so far as we are informed, extends throughout the 'Rocky mouutaius, Oregon, California and Mexico. They subsist exclusively upon insects, and ubiaiu them on ttie wing, and when so t-ngagt'd, each one flies independent of hio neighbors; flying . widely apart; leaving ample room for cutting hither and thither through the atmosphere, and thereby lesson the danger of acci dent to themselves; areabuudaut; mi gratory; have a simple twitteriug note, but no song. There are seven species of this getiuA of birds, to wit: Purple, green-blue, violet-green, ; cliff, barn, bank and rough-wiuged. . ' , . Edgar W. Wimans. Knights of the Maccabees. A subordinate tent of the Knights of the Maccabees, an order similar in its ocial and beneficiary features to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, was organized in Hood River Friday evening, May 10th, by Deputies Su preme Commander W. L. Bartlettand J. W. Sherwood of Portland. The applicants for a charter met at Odd Fellows' hall, and after being ob ligated, elected the following officers: ' Past commander, F. C. Brosius; cotn tuuuder, C M. Wolfard; lieutenant commander, H. F. Davidson; record keeper, J. F. Watt; chaplain, Itev.J.L. Hershuer; physician, F. C. Brosius; ergeant, O. B. Hartley; master at ui'inx, J.. H. Ferguson; first master of the guards, E. v. Husbands; second master of the guards, C. E. Markhum; ttentintl, H. Henn; picket, T. C. Dallas. The tent is well otlieered, and with a 'charter membership of twenty-one, gives promise of becoming one of the most popular lodges in the town. The rapid growth' of the' Knights of the Mxucubees attests the favor with which it lias been received in the United States; being but thirteen years old, it wlready has u membership of more than 185,000, and is recognized as one of the Lest of the beneficiary orders. Otter ing, as it does, special inducements to young men, it has kept the average wge of membership very low, thus re ducing the cost of protective life in surance to the minimum. "Maccabee." Jtt. E. Conference, i Editor Glacier: The third quar terly conference for Hood River charge was held at Hosier last Saturday and Sunday; Rev. R. C. Moter presiding. F.L.Johns, M. E. pastor, says 69 names have been added to the church thus far this conference year on Hood River charge. This has been a good revival year, and the camp meetings are yet to be heard from. District conference will meet in Hood River June 4th to 6th. Programme next week. District Epworth League Is in con vention at Arlington this week. C. E. Convention. . For good and sufficient reasons, Among which might be mentioned bet ter speakers, larger attendance and more leisure, the executive committee while at Salem decided to hold the county convention at The Dalles in August, 29th and SOtb, instead of May this year, but committees are already at work, and a feaat of good things is assured, County Pbesidejst. Odell School House Items. " Mr. Joe Divers is visiting his father and mother. He says be is well pleased with his new home. Mr-Rosson is building a house on tiis claim near Mr. Straight's. , ' -' Early Oregon Journalism,1 At the meeting of the Oregon His ' torical Society last night, Mr. George H. Himes, who has been connected with northwestern journalism and printing for S4 years, read a valuable puper. As an introduction, he gave a brief sketch of the early pioneer days of Oregon. -His main topic, however, was the history, of the early press of Oregon. This paper was entertaining as well as instructive; and as he told of the Ktruggles of the pioneer editors with Che obstacles of a primitive civilization, many a smile passed through the cul tured audience that listened to his paper with close attention. The crude printing presses, the Infrequent and ir regular mails, the horseback freightage, the scarcity of printers, the combative temperament of the average editor, to gether with specimens of rough humor, and of that bandying of choice epithets which entered into the "Oregon style" all these were brought out so as to enliven the store of facts for which the noclety is indebted to Mr. Himes, who has constituted himself an authority -in this particular Held. Wboevsr Wishes to ascertain the name of the first newspaper, the first editor, the first printer, the first daily, the first telegraph operator, and lots of other "Arsis," all west of the Rockies, must consult the archives of' Mr. Himes. Sun. Biography of Tilden. John Bigelow, who in 1885 submitted to the public the "Writings and Speeches of Samuel J. Tilden," has just published a biography of Tilden. The first chapter of the second volume Is devoted to detailing the inception of what Mr. Bigelow calls the conspiracy to defraud Mr. Tilden of the presi dency. His statement of the part Ore gon played in the contest is as follows: "When the Oregon contested case came before the commission, the elec toral tribunal did not permit itself to be in the least embarrassed by its perilous rulings. By the laws of Ore gon its returning officers were the gov ernor and the secretary of state. One of the republican electors was. a post master, and consequently disqualified by the constitution for serving as an elector. The secretary of state there fore gave the certificate to his oppo nent, E. A. Cronin, a democratic elector. Cronin voted for Tilden and Hendricks. One copy of a certificate of his vote as a Tilden elector in due form was forwarded by mail to the president of the senate, a second filed with the United States district Judge, and- the third was borne by Cronin himself to Washington and delivered to the president of the senate. His vote, therefore, for Tilden and Hen dricks was legally and regularly before the two houses of congress. Cronin had unnecessarily gone through the form of organizing an electoral college which neither the laws nor the consti tution of the United States require,and for that purpose had appointed two persons to act with him. As one vote for Tilden in Oregon would be as fatal to Hayes as one iu Louisiana or Florida would have been, this vote had to be rescued as a brand from the burning. But how? Here was a Tilden elector regularly certified . by the authorized returning officers. 'To reject him was to elect iu his place a muu certified to them to have been an officer of the federal government. Was it to be pre pared for this emergency that they for bore the Florida case to decide whether the holding of a federal office disqual ified Humphreys as an elector? It was a very aggravating case for the repub lican commissioners to deal with, but they rose to the level of the occasion; 'the hope was not drunk wherein they had dressed themselves:' they did not weakly let 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' but boldly decided 'that the secretary of state did canvass the re returns in the case before us, and there by ascertained that J. C. Cartwright, W. H. Odell and J. W. Watts had a majority of the votes given for electors, and had the highest number of votes for that office, and by the express lan guage of the statute are deemed elected.' t hey further held 'that the refusal or failure of the governor of Oregon to sign the certificate of election of the persons so elected does not have the effect of defeating their appointment as such electors.' , . . . "The commissioners made this de cision in favor of Watts, the republican elector, solely upon the ground that lie had 'the highest number of votes.' But if the highest number of votes was suf ficient for an elector in Oregon, why was it not sufficient in Florida, where the electoral ticket had an incontesta ble majority of 91, and in Louisiana, where it had an incontestable majority of over 7,000. They altogether sup press the supreme fact that the secre tary of state had certified to the gov ernor that another person had been elected and that Waits had not been; and the further fact that the secretary of state and governor, and no one else, by law constituted the returning of ficers of Oregon. This suppression was necessary because in Louisiana they had held that an elector is not appoint ed according to the terms of the consti tution until he has received the certifi cate of such appointment from the re turning officers. Therefore the decision which elected Watts in Oregon should have admitted all the Tilden and Hen dricks electors in 1 ouisiana and Flor ida, and the decisions in Louisiana and Florida should have elected a Til den elector in Oregon, had the commis sion attached any importance to the virtue of consistency in their rulings, or felt that their appointment on that commission invested them with any other function or imposed upon them any other duty than to make Hayes president without violating any more nor any less of the ten commandments and the laws of their country than was necessary." Mr. Bigelow thinks "the action of the electoral commission conferred upon Mr. Tilden the unique distinction of being the first let us hope the last-president-elect of the United States feloniously excluded from the chief magistracy; a distinction which, like the banishment of Aristides, the assas sinations of Caesar, of Henry IV of France, of Lincoln, of Camot, makes it one of the conspicuous and indestruct- ilble landmarks of history." The pension office is informed of the death at the age of 91 of one of the last remaining pensioners of the war of in dependence. Her name was Mary Brown and she lived near Knoxville, Tenn. In 1824she married Joe Brown, a soldier of the revolutionary war, be being then 65 years old and she but 20. Away up on a spur of Mt. Hood, nearly 7,000 feet above the sea, some nature-loving men have erected a ho tel. "Cloud Cap Inn" they have ap propriately named it. It is a long, ir regular, one-story building, constructed of logs, with great, open fire-places and broad verandas, and securely anchored to the edge of a precipice by heavy wire cables, for winter's winds at this alti tude are furious. . Rude as it appears, however, it is exceedingly comfortable. Klickitat Agriculturalist. County court adjourned Saturday until the 25th. Until that date, no penalty will be added to the delinquent taxes except the one per cent already added. All taxes not paid by that time will be collected by advertising and selling the property. , - School will close in May Jttth, Hood River oh Alaska. About all we hear of Alaska is in con nection with her seal fisheries and the troubles that grow out of them. The territory has, however, a number of other important industries that have begun to attract attention in Europe, if not iu our own country outside of Alaska. . Alaskan conneries can, it is claimed, supply the world with salmon. The recently published report of Governor Sbeakley gives a list of 22 canneries which market together nearly 700,000 cases of salmon a year. Their com bined product iu 1891 almost reached 800,000 cases, "which was more than the world wanted," says the governor in his report. "The market declined, and since then the canneries have pur sued a more conservative course and have endeavored not to overstock the market." And, then, Alaska has 24 companies engaged in the business of salting salmon for the market. They ship about 21,000 barrels of salmon an nually. Another company markets 1,000 barrels of salt herring, 400,000 gallons of herring oil and 1,000 tons of fertilizing material every year. "Alaska's food fishes will be a source of wealth for all time," says Governor Shenkley. He reports the codfish banks o'f that territory inexhaustible and halibut in great numbers; also that about a hundred other species of edible fish are to be found in Alaskan wsters. Nor is the wealth of Alaska confined to her waters. One of her srold mines netted $444,000 last year. The owners have the largest quart, mill in Amer ica 240 stamps. According to this re port, Alaska has a mineral belt from two to twenty miles wide, extending from Point Barrow, the most northern point, . In a southwesterly direction through the territory. . . Alaska's principal river, the Yukon, is over 1,000 miles long, and the ,terri tory enjoys the further distinction of having the highest mountain iu the United States, if not in North Amer ica While the geographical position of Mount Saint Elias has not' been officially stated, it is known that the summit of the mountain is in Alaska. Comparatively few people are aware of the territory covered by our Russian purchase. Twenty-one states of the Union may be named whose combined area is 10,000 square miles less than Alaska's. This territory is almost as almost as large as the United States before the Louisiana purchase. To reach the capital, Sitka, a resident of either Point Barrow or the island of Attu must travel over 2,500 miles, and the distance between Point Barrow and Attu Is nearly as far. If a resident of either of these places were chosen to represent the territory in congress, he would have to travel about 7,000 miles to reach Washington City. If his home were in Attu, he would live over a thousand miles further west of San Francisco than the latter is west of New York City. Attu is 120 degrees from East port, Me. one-third of the distance around the world. St. Louis Republic. : The Goldendale Sentinel began its seventeenth year with its issue of May 9th. Congressman Ellis gives notice that there will be a competitive examina tion held in Portland on the 23d and 24th of May, of those desiring to he ap pointed to a cadetship in the An nap-, oils naval school. Applicants must be between 14 and 20 years, sound phys ically and of good moral character. Mr. Ellis will meet applicants at the Hotel Perkins' parlor the morning of the 23d. The delegates chosen at Salem to represen' the Webfoot Endeavorers at the Boston convention in July are: Rev. George E. Hawes of Portland, A. R. Ruthford of Oswego, Miss Lena Holt of Eugene, Miss Anne Smith of Hood River, and Anna Thompson of rortiana. A Railroad Bicycle. A man rode through town in a novel way last Friday morning, on his way to Portland from Spokane, which trip as far as Arlington he made in two days. He had an invention of bis own, a railroad bicycle. The contrivance consists simply of a wooden platform ten inches wide and four feet in length, which rests on six-inch . wheels fitted to the rail. The bicycle Is fastened to the platform in an upright position, the wheels passing through a long slit in the center of the platform, and rest ing on the rail also. Two ash slats, fastened to the flooring of the platform, carry a ten-inch grooved wheel that fits neatly over the other rail of the track, supporting and steadying the bicycle and serving to keep it in an up right position on the rail. The whole contrivance was very simple and inex pensive and weighs only about forty pounds. Arlington Record. At Crapper Seiiool House. , The Sunday school at Crapper school house will give an entertainment at the school house, Saturday evening, May 25, 1895. Proceeds to go for the purchase of . an organ. Following is the programme: .' Music, i , , ' "l r Recitation by Fred Chandler. Duet. . - 4 "Mother Goose." H Music. i I y . Recitation by Johnnie Lindsay. Song. . Dialogue by two little boys. .Solo. , ., i; Dialogue, "Courtship Under Diffl- Lculties." - ' Farce, "The Mouse Trap." Recitation by Miss Mollie Dunlap. j Tableaux, "Help for My Sisters." Refreshments. Admission, 15 cents; children under 12 years, 10 cents. -. . " Successful Applicants. The following applicants secured cer tificates at the teachers' examination held last week at The Dalles: First Grade Agnes LeDuc. Second Grade Mollie Dunlap, Thos. B. Chastain, Hattie Stirmveis, Nellie Hudson, O. H. Kerns. , Third Grade Miles Kinney, Angle Phillips, Ada Conard, Alma Taylor, G. A. Brock, Evelyn Newman, Bessie Hastings, Oroer Butler, Hattie Allen. In San Francisco, street-car compa nies, who feel the effect of the bicycle craze, are sprinkling the streets in or der to make them muddy and impass able br wheelmen. Reports from the upper country say the Columbia and Snake rivers are rapidly rising. The decision in the railroad commis sioners' case has been rendered in favor of the members holding their offices until their successors are elected and qualified. . A Milwaukee dispatch of the 16th says: Frost was general throughout the state again last night. Garden and fruit crops are being steadily wiped out. In the northern part of the state the snow that fell early in the week still re mains on the ground. Wheat and oats suffered least.' All other croos will have to be replanted. ' Rule to Cut Rafters. A local genius has figured out the following for cutting rafters on the 9-12 pitch (common pitch for this country): Take the width of tne building and add one-fourth thereof to itself, and it will be the exact length of two rafters, with out projection. Allow for the projec tions). For example, take a building 16 feet wide; the length of the two raft ers will be 16 feet pius one-fourth of 16, making 20 feet, or 10 teet for each rafter. Then add for whatever projection there may be on account of cornice. The height of the comb above the plates is just three-eighth of the widtn of the building tor tne-izcut. uorexampie, in a 16-foot building it is just 6 feet. Fossil Journal. A Primitive Colony. Some time ago an enterprising laud agent succeeded in transplanting a col ony of 200 persons from the mountain ous regions of old Kentucky to the foot hills of Mount Rainier, where the prim itive usages of their former home are still retained. They are a very inde pendent people, living within them selves, supplying all their own wants, selling but not purchasing. Both sexes dress in wool raised, spun and woven by themselves. Even a choice is of fered of their home-grown tobacco,long green and hammered flat. The women chew tobacco and dip snuff. Tea is made from sage, and coffee from roast ed peas. The colonists are all hard shell Baptists and brought a preacher of that faith with them to minister to their spiritual wants. Written for the Glacier. . ' The Steamboat. A thing of life and beauty, It grandly moves along; .. , Its mighty pulses beating With all the rythm or song. It fleecy breath outflowing, A banner of trailing steam, Ab It proudly plows the waters , Of Oregon's noblest stream. A dream of painter and poet, , Triumph of a glorious age, 'Twill bear far down Time's current The lame of a thinking sage. Away on its restless mission It speeds in its furious quest, , And leaves no sign behind it Save the waves of wild unrest. . But from over the troubled waters, Whence it vanished all too soon. Comes a reverberating echo Like a pepl from the trump of doom. Shabdc. Don't Stop Tobacco. The tobacco habit grows on a man until his nervous Bystem is seriously af fected. Impairing health, comfort and happiness. To quit suddenly Is too se vere a shock to the system, as tobacco, to an inveterate user becomes a stimu lant that bissystein continually craves. Baco-Curo is a scientific cure for the to bacco habit, in all its forms, carefully compounded after the formula of ail eminent Berlin physician who has used it in his private practice si nee 1872, with out a failure, purely vegetable and guar anteed perfectly harmless. You can use all the tobacco you want, while taking Baco-Curo, it will notify you wneu to stop. We give a written guarantee to permanently cure any case with three boxes, or refund the money with 10 per cent interest. Baco-Curo is not a substi tute, but a scientific cure, that cures without the aid of will power and with no inconvenience. It leaves the system as pure and free from nicotine as the day you took your first chew or smoke. Hold by all druggists, with our ironclad guarantee, at $1 per box, three boxes, (thirty days treatment), $2.50, or sent direct upon receipt of price. Send six two-cent stamps for sample box. Book let and proofs free: Eureka Chemical & Manufacturing Chemists, La Crosse, Wisconsin. , Mt Rail for Sale tap. Situated i miles west of the town of Hood River, on the Columbia. Free from late frost. Full crou of all kinds of fruit now on ranch. Fine irrigating facilities and water for tiiat purpose Delonglng to place. Call at. Glacier office or at ranch. F. R. AB8TEN. Land for Sale. Forty acres of land; 5 acres fenced; on the county road, 5 miles from town of Hood River. Price, ((600. Address - myl8 J. H. FRARY, Tucker, Or. To Water Consumers. All who wish to use water for Irrigating must make application before using the water. No Irrigating will be permitted except through hose with regulation nozzle. Any person using water contrary to above rules will be cut off from the main and no more water furnished them by this company. Price of irrigating Is 75 cents per lot, or frac tion of lot, payable strlcily in advance. . A. 8. BLOWERS, E. L. SMITH, S. J. LaFRANCE, Directors Hood River Spring Water Co. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at Vancouver, Wash., April 10, ISfld. Notice Is hereby given that the following-named settler has filed notice of her in tention to make final proof in support of her claim, and make payment foi the land de scribed, and that said proof will be made be fore W. R. Dunbar, Commissioner U. S. Cir cuit Court for District of Washington, at his office In Goldendale, Wash., on May 28, 18SI5, viz: SARAH B. GILLIAM, ; H. B, No. 8880, for the northeast M of north west hi section 83, township it north, range 12 east, Willamette Meridian. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous resldor.ee upon and cultiva tion of, said land, viz: Kills B. Hewett, Jesse P. Snider, Robert A. Snider and Marlon M. Splawn, all of Lvle P. )., Washington. GEO, H, 8TKVKNS0N, apsnW . Koglsier, "WEST 7 i Hood. ZESI-rer, Or. KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND ' Choice Fresk Meats, ' Hams, Bacon, Lard, And All Kinds Game. '- ALSO, DEALERS IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Fruit & Produce Commission Merchants HELENA, MONTANA. Helena is the best distributing point in Montana.' We solicit consignments of Straw berries and other fruits. Returns promptly made. ' ap!3 WE HAVE C S . ZEE And shall endeavor to merit custom by QUALITY as well as QUANTITY. We keep a full line of In their season. Do not Headquarters for All Kinds of Sprays, We have In stock, economically and scientifically prepared, condensed forms of sprays as recommended by the Oregon State Board of Horticulture, as follows: Hpray No. 1 -Lime, 30; sulphur, 20; salt, 15 in such form as to require only to dissolve 1 lb In 2 gals of water. Rnmv No. 2 Kulnhnr. 100: lime. 10O; blnevitrlol.gr of which 1 ih In 2U! irals. for winter. down to 8 or 10 ernls. for summer use. is reauired. Spray No. 3 Whale oil soap (80 per cent), 1; of thiB 1 ib in o gals, is the proportion. Spray No. 4 Rosin. 4; sal soda. ; 1 lb to 7 for winter, to 4 gals, for summer. Is the proper Acme Insecticide 1 Ih to 5 gals. " ater, as a fruit pest; 10, 25 and 100-lb cases. Also, Faris green, London Purple, etc. Do WILIIAMS HANNA & -DEALERS IN HOOD RIVER, OREGON. AGENTS FOR BEST IN THE WORLD. HEADQUARTERS FOR LEATHER GOODS 3D. P- PIECE'S V ;- v v 'J-' O J?w JbJ . The Famous C. M. HENDERSON & CO.'S For MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN. All n 4 U iUnn l., Xtr.t ft tl uui biio iucupctsb uun iii t; ijcoi, auu vi jicuuciouu oiivrca air; uiieujcsi iu liiv lung run. Don't Fail - To call and examine and price theso goods. They will please you. No trouble to show them. Hand-made Double Team Harness, $20! With Boston Team Collars. All other kinds of Harness cheap for 18i)5. If you Uoubt it, call and price them. 1 propose to keep Hood Biver trade at home if price is an object. D. F. PIERCE, Hood River, Or. ' . Ezzcellerrt ITeaoIb-ers, 3Bea-ia.tIfuLl Buif roia..d.laa.'grs. SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PRICES, Address, ' MRS. SRAH K. WHITE, PrlnH-wl. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Ijand Office at The Dalles. Oreeon. Mav 7, 1885. Notice Is hereby given that the following-named settler has filed notice of his Intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof i will be made before Register and Receiver at The Dalles, Oregon, on June 20, 1885, viz: 1 CHARLES H. ROGERS, Hd. E. No. 3389, for the southeast section S2, township S north, range 10 east, W. M. He names the foil twing witnesses to prove i his continuous residence upon and cultiva tion of, said land, viz: ; Alfred Boorman, W. A. Eastman, Antone Wise and E. D. Calkins, all of Hood River, Or. mallJIS J AS. F. MOORE, Register. Strayed or Stolen. From my range, one light bay horse about IS hands high' no brands; a small bell on when he left. Also, one dark bay. or brown mare, branded H on left "stifle, and with a dot on right stifle; halter head-stall on. Horse 6 years old, mare 7. I will pay S3 reward for their return to my place, near Tucker's Mill. aj)20 A, W. KINO, Hood River, Or. ADOPTED THE . r IB jSL S I SI! forget that we meun to be 20; sulphur, 3; caustic soda (08 per cent), V potash, gals, water for wooly aphis, etc. strength. , universal Insecticide and wash for all tree and not fall to see us before buying your insecticides. & Biosms: "WOLFARD, sizes and large variety. My motto in "Possibly LJ U sr.,. I1,a ..I, . J 1 1 The Annie Wright Seminary. TACOMA, WASHINGTON. 1 884. Eleventh Year. 1 894. i A Boarding School for Girls, with Superior Advantages. Taw Ikstitbtioi Gms CiurcL iTTKXTIOIT TO TBI MORAL ( l INTELLECTUAL J ) PHYSICAL ( Dimoram ' OF Tit Q. T. Prather, . Notary Public H. C. COK. PRATHER & COE, ffle anil 93 Oak St., bet 2d and 3d. We have lots, blocks and acreage In the town of Hood River; nlso, fruit, hay and oerry farms ana timber claims In the most desira ble locations in the valley. If you have any thing in the real estate line to sell or rent, or if you want to buy, give us a call. Deeds, bonds and mortgages promptly and correctly executed. We will also attend to legal business in Jus tices' courts. We are also agents for SOUTH WAUCOMA property. PRATHER & COE. .; - '. ap27 Mil Shoe