Ml he Hood River Glacier. It's a Cold Day Vhen We Get Left. V.OL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 30, 1805. NO. 14. 3eod IiverS lacier. PUBLI8HBD EVERY FRIDAY BY ' ' S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. On year... , .......ft 00 mx months i or Three mouths ..... W SiiKlucopy ICsnte THE GLACIER BARBERSHOP, HOOD KIVEB, OR. , GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. 8havin(f and hiiir-cuttlng neatly done. Satis- lactioii guaranteed. THE CAUSPEL INDIANS. o Serious Trouble Is Anticipated . With Them. - Washington, August 29. The Cal ispel Indians, over whose lands a dis pute has arisen with -white settlers, are regarded by Indian bureau officials as quiet and peaceable, and no serious trouble with them is anticipated here. The dispute over these lands is an old one, and is due to the absence of sur v veys. The Indians belong to the Col . ville agency in Washington, and an - agreement was made with- them some time ago providing for their . removal to the Flathead reservation, . further to the north. The agreement has not yet .. been ratified by oongress, but in the " event of a failure of ratification, the Indians are to be settled on allotments on their present reservation. Captain John W. . Bubb, their agent, notified the Indian bureau last May that the white settlers were enoroaohing on . their lands, and he was instructed to go where the encroachments were be ing made, mark out the boundary line and warn the white settlers to keep off the lands. The trouble arises directly from the fact that settlers have been granted land that laps on the reserva tion, and the general land office issued orders a month ago to the 1 land office there to issue no more patents for lands in the neighborhood of the reser vation. ;': , , .. . y More About Waller. .,' New York', August 28. Charles T. Lyons, of Brooklyn, has presented charges, to ' the state department at Washington against United States Con sul Wetter, of Madagascar.' He claims that Wettor was not energetio in guarding the. interests, of ex-Consul Waller, sentenced, to twenty . years' imprisonment for violtaing the rules of the French authorities in . Madagas car. , V Mr. Lyons also claims that Wetter, for purely personal reasons, caused ; his (Lyons') arrest on the charge of violat ing the United States statutes. Ac cording to Mr. Lyons, all that he had done was to open a letter addressed to ' himself written by Consul Wetter. It was charged by Consul Wetter, how ever,, that this letter was written to the governor of one of the provinces of Madagascar. . On this charge . Mr. Lyons was arrested, but fearing that he might not receive fair treatment under the ciroumstanoes when released on bail he left the oountry Armenians Are Alarmed. ' Constantinople, August 29. Advices received here ... from Erzingham say that great terror prevails among the Armenians there, owing to the atti tude of the Turkish authorities. The latter, in consequence of an attack which was recently made by brigands on a Turkish colonel, during which a number of his men were killed, are be lieved to be taking steps which will have most serious consequences. The Armenians are acoused of being the , authors of the attacks on the colonel, and it is alleged that a large force of Turkish troops has been retaliating by attacking the village and monasteries of the vicinity, and engaging in other acts of ; violence. The Armenians, , fearing a recurrence of theSassoun out rage, have appealed to the ambassa dors of the powers at Constantinople for protection. . , . Communication With Kootenai. Vancouver, B. C, August 28. The Canadian Paoifio railway has let the contract for the construction of thir teen miles of railway on the Arrow Lake branch to the head of. Upper Ar row lake. This line . when construct ed will give communication by rail with the Kootenai oountry all the year round. ' . . . Japan to Build Naval Forts. London, August 28. A Berlin , dis patch says it is reported Japan will build two new naval forts at Orninato, in Aoknori, and at Yeiko bay, in the Loo Choo. islands. ' It is further re ported that the mikado will send a squadron of his best men-of-war on a cruise to Europe and America. IN FAVOR OF DIXON He Is Given the Decision Over Johnny Griffin. BOTH MEN FOUGHT GAMELY They Were, However, Left In Good Con dition at the End of the Twenty- Fifth Kound. T Boston, August 29. George Dixon, the colored light-weight, of Boston, was given the decision this evening over Johnny Griffin, "the Braintree Lad," at the end of the 25-round matoh held under the auspioies of the Farragut Club, in the new Tenth-street armory. The decision was a surprise to the majority of people present, it hav ing been nearly understood that there was to be no deoision if both were on their feet at the end of the 25th round. Both men were certainly in good con dition at the end of the 25th, although Dixon had done the better work. Griffin surprised his friends by the game manner in which he took pun ishment and they expected a draw. Dixon was seconded by O'Rourke and Maurice Kelly. Attending Griffin were Eddie Conlin and James Robin son. Both men weighed in this after noon at 126 pounds. In the first round Dixon started in apparently to end up the fight quickly, and landed heavily twioe. Griffin was forced to the ropes at the end of the third, and was sent down by a right hander on the jaw, but he got up and pulled off the round by clinching. Throughout the fifth round Dixon con tinued on the aggressive. Dixon land ed lefts and sneaked in a right When they clinched Griffin ducked into a ter rific upperout Both exohanged rights and lefts. 1 In the sixth Griffin partly olosed Dixon's left eye. ' The seventh was terrifio, Dixon repeatedly jabbing Griffin in the face. In the tenth it was apparent the winner must do some lively work to get a deoision. ": Dixon was continuously planning his fight on this line, while Griffin's fine training was manifest in his ability to stand up under severe punishment. . Up to the fifteenth the paoe was a hot one, then both eased up for the next five. In the twentieth Griffin changed his tac tics, and swung hard with his right, landing on Dixon. Both men began to show the effects of their work, and the next two rounds were- slow. In the twenty-third Dixon tried hard for a knockout, but he did not succeed. The remaining two rounds were com paratively tame, and it was apparent that Griffin had lots of fight in him. The Treasure Given Up. San Francisco, August 29. Wells, Fargo & Co. , no longer entertains a hope of recovering the $53,000 stolen from the train which was held up near Swingle station, Cal. , last October. Two of the four bags which originally oontained treasure were found a day or two ago near the scene of the rob bery by deteotives, who have been hunting for the money ever since the arrest of Brady, the trainrobber. The bags were discovered by some one of the many tramps who infest that sec tion of the oountry. The treasure weighed 212 pounds, and could not easily have been transported. Each of the two bags now in possession of the detectives contained $10,000 and the fourth had in it $3,000. .. . . Committee Hard at Work. New York, August 29. The reor ganization committee of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Miohigan rail road is working on a final adjustment of details preparatory to making over the property. Some delay has been occasioned by the midsummer vacation of Western judges. It is expected mat ters will be wound up in October. All stock is to come in under the plan. There are about 175,000 bonds which have not assented. The last deposited paid a penalty of 15 per cent. Zella Nioolaui' Debut. Philadelphia, August 29. Zella Nioolam, who has gained considerable notoriety by reason of her several suits against George J. Gould, made her ap pearance last night as a theatrical star at the Lyceum theater. Zella content ed herself with a minor part in "The Golden Age." : Her voice is sweet, but nervousness prevented her making full use of it. Compared with the debut of Eva Bay Hamilton, Zella was an artistic success. 1 ' Czar's Present to Montenegro. . ' Cettije, Montenegro, August 29. The steamer Rostoff, from Cronstadt, has arrived off the coast, near Antivri, with a cargo : consisting of 80,000 rifles, 15,000,000 cartridges, a number of cannon and machine guns, and a quantity of dynamite and other muni tions of war, all of which form the czar's present to Montenegro. The Pope Will Arbitrate, f London, August 29. A dispatch from Borne says that the pope will as sent to a request for him to arbitrate the frontier dispute between Hayti and San Domingo. v JUDGE HOLT'S WILL. A Contest Over the Document Seems Imminent. Washington, August 29. It is thought here almost certain there will be a contest over the alleged will of the late Judge-Advocate-General Holt, sent in a mysterious manner yesterday to Colonel Wright, the register of wills. The present beneficiaries under the oommon law will resist the execution of the will just produced for either not genuine, or, if made, as not represent ing the latest intention - of the dead man. '. It is thought Judge Holt may have revoked the will or given - orders to burn it. ' It is supposed that either Miss Throckmorton or Miss Haines will move to probate the alleged will and thus precipitate the legal fight Register Wright visited Judge Holt's negro coachman : yesterday , and ques tioned him, to learn if any of the ser vants had mailed the will to him, but the coachman denied any knowledge whatever of a will, and expressed great surprise at the discovery of one... An old servant of Judge Holt's said today that after the judge's death, Washington Holt, of Kentuoky, a rela tive of the judge, opened the desk of Judge Holt, saying that his last will was made in 1886. Another servant, for over ' thirty years employed - by Judge Holt, said that shortly before his death Judge Holt conversed with her about . his property, saying his affairs were badly mixed, and that he had left everything in the hands of Washington Holt to straighten out . Fight at a Strike. . Wapakeneta, O., August 27. The strike on the water works trench de veloped in a tragedy this afternoon. Joshua Tiller, Albert Seifert and Os oar Voorhees were shot Tiller will die. Yesterday morning the men went on a strike and deolared no one would go to work until their demands were satisfied. Some went to work at noon today, but were driven out The trus tees and contractors ordered Lewis Vanskiver and another man. to fill some trenohes and cover pipe in the seoond ward., They began work and the strikers congregated and began beating Vanskiver over the head with clubs and shovel-handles, breaking the largest ones. After he had been struck several times, he drew a' revolver and fired into his assailants several times. Several participants were arrested and the officials are after : others. Tiller was apparently the leader of the strik ers. He was with Coxey when he marched to Washington and was also in the Chicago riots. Sheriff May Kill the Fighters. - Austin, Texas, August 29. Today Attorney-General Crane gave out his seoond. opinion anent the Corbett-Fitz-simmons fight in Dallas ' in October. This opinion was called for by an in terrogatory propounded by Sheriff Ca bell, of Dallas county, as to whether, in suppressing the fight, he was legally empowered to shoot and kill those who interfered. The attorney-general holds that, in the lawful discharge of his duty, the sheriff certainly has the right to use firearms in an emergency de manding it. ; He bases his opinion on the statutes governing riots, etc., and argues that, as the fighters and all in attendance will certainly be gathered in for violation of the law, under the law the sheirff or any sworn peace officer is bound to to disperse said as semblages at any cost. As to the ques tion of killing those who interfere, the attorney-general cites article 68 of the penal code, which says: "Homioide is justifiable when necessary to suppress riot, when the same is attempted to be suppressed in the manner pointed out in the code." . ,' r , ; , New Law Causes Trouble. . Sioux City, la., August 29. The new grand jury law is making troublo for the state. The last legislature made a change, to date from this time, in the manner of drawing the grand and petit juries. ' As the grand jury is drawn the first of the year, however, the court decided it might hold over until January 1 next. On the opening of oourt yesterday, objection was made to the jury by all prisoners on the ground it was not summoned according to law. It is a serious question whether indictments by it will be valid. The same question is raised by other conn-ties.-'. : - - ' '; , Fltzslmmons Commences Training. r New York, August 29. Fitzsim mons has commenced training for the coming championship fight with Cor bett, at his little cottage on the shore of Coney Island. His ' course differs from the training of the average fight er. He trains himself and regulates his own diet and work. He will rise at dawn, take a salt bath and then a walk. : After taking something to eat, he will play ; with his lion and then punch the bag. He announces that in his present training he will not follow certain worn-out rules of old trainers. Effect of Balfour's Remarks. , London, August 29. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard learns on gqpd authority that the result of the remarks of Hon. A. J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, to the effect that he did not believe an international conference would result in internation al agreement, is that Germany is un likely to call a bimetalio conference. A WASHINGTON LAW Assistant Attorney General on Its Validity. , PAST LAWS EEVIEWED IN PART He Thinks the County Commissioners Have Power to Levy a Tax for . , School Purposes. ' V Olympia, Wash., August 28. In reply to the question, Does the author' ity now exist in the board of oounty commissioners to levy a county tax for the support of the oommon schools of the oounty, Assistant Attorney-General Haight says: "if the repealing clause of the rev enue law of 1893 had the effect to re peal all of section 16, chapter 127, law of 1891, there would be a serious ques tion whether chapter 68, of the laws of 1895. is a valid law. But, inasmuch as the repealing clause of the revenue law of 1893 abrogates only a portion of seotion 16, chapter 127, law of 1891, leaving the main body of the statute intact, there is a substitute law upon whioh chapter 68, of the laws of 1895, can operate, and therefore chap ter 68 is a valid and effective law." Inquiry has also been made of the attorney-general if the law requiring the records and books of the county surveyor s office to be open to mspeo' tion, constitutes such employment of the county surveyor that he is entitled to compensation by the county for eaoh office day of the year, without other employment in behalf of the oounty. This inquiry the , attorney-general gives no opinion upon, as there is a case now pending in the supreme oourt, in whioh the question whether the surveyor is entitled to $5 per diem for keeping his office open is involved. BACK FROM JACKSON'S HOLE General Copplnger Has Returned to His Headquarters. . Omaha, August 28. General Cop- pinger, Major Humphrey and Lieu tenant Hutoheson arrived this evening after a month's stay in the Jackson Hole oountry. They were four days in making the trip from Fort Washakie, where they arrived the 19th,' to Raw lins, Wyo. Randall and two troops of the Ninth cavalry returned with Gen eral Coppinger from Wyoming, and are now at Fort Robinson. Major Chaffee was left in command of the troops still on the field. General Cop pinger was reticent in discussing the situation at Jackson's Hole, saying only that when the troops arrived the settlers ' were very much . frightened. They were congregated at two points, and were sending out scouting parties. The conflict, he said, is between the state laws of Wyoming and the treaty with the United States. The general saw that work on the military road to the Hole country was being rushed be fore he left that section, as he antici pated further use of it Wyoming's Game Laws. "'. Washington, August 28. It has been definitely decided . by the Indian bureau that no attention is to be paid to the game laws of . Wyoming, where the laws come into conflict within the treaty of the United States with the Bannocks and Shoshone ' Indians. - The attorney-general, after considering the matter, has informed the secretary of the interior and the commissioner of Indian affairs the rights of Indians to hunt on unoccupied lands, in his opin ion, are unquestionable, and the state of Wyoming has no power to limit or abridge this right. No definite steps to enforce this determination have been entered upon, further than the instruc tions to United States district attor neys, to secure the release of Indians now in custody on writs of habeas cor pus, probably will be supplanted by an order to do the same thing in case any arrests are made in the future. The bureau will discourage hunting by. In dians, so far as is possible, and at pres ent no passes will be issued permitting braves to leave the reservation. It is probable that a number of soldiers will be kept in Jackson's Hole country dur ing the remainder of the hunting sea son, and if it is deemed advisable any time to permit Indians to leave the res ervation to hunt, the whites possibly will not be permitted to molest them. It is hoped, however, that the work on the irrigation ditch, soon to , be con tracted for, will furnish occupation and money for the Indians, making hunting unnecessary for their mainte nance during the winter. No immedi ate trouble is anticipated, as the In dians are now on the reservations and are likely to remain there, at least for the present Texas Fever In Kansas. Topeka, August 28. The state sani tary board has received notioe from Paola that Texas fever has broken out in a herd of cattle on a farm two miles west of there.' The farm has been placed under quarantine. : The cattle were shipped to Paola from Mountain Grove, Mo., August 17. It was only last week that Texas fever was found in Cowley oounty. SUGAR INDUSTRY IN CUBA. With Another Year of War It Will ' Be Prostrated. New York, August 28. The Ward line steamer Santiago, which has just arrived here,, brought several passen gers' who ,. could give authentic in formation about the , insurrection in Cuba. Among those on board were Dr. H. von Herff, of this city, and Mr. John La Bourdette, administrator of a plantation at Guantanamo, which was recently raided. In conversation with a reporter Mr. von Herff said:. '- . "I found business in Santiago at a standstill. Most merchants were wait ing for "better times." . Some of them had closed their doors. Recently the government issued an order forbidding merchants to sell any goods or mater ials to women and children from the country. This was done to cut off the insurrectionists from obtaining any supplies from the towns. "I made a trip from Santiago to the interior of the oountry, but it was a risk to undertake. The railroad was guarded at several points by Spanish troops. ; The province of Santiago de Cuba is sparsely settled, the principal places being the settlements of work men on the big sugar estates. Inland provinoes, in faot, the eastern half of Cuba, is mountainous and covered with dense forests. When the revolution ists are closely pressed they take to the woods, and it is almost impossible for the Spanish to penetrate. The revolu tionists are simply carrying on a guer illa warfare. Every few days I heard of some raid which usually consisted in destroying a plantation. There is little fighting going on. ; - -; k , .; No one ventures to predict when the war will oome to an end. If the insurrection goes on for another year the sugar industry will be prostrated. The administration of a large planta tion in the Santiago district told me it will take the planters four or five years to recover from the damage already done. Many plantations not laid waste by the insurgents have been practically abandoned. The laborers have fled to the towns and the cane is uncut Next season if the estate goes uncultivated, the fields will be over run with weeds and soon become worthless for . produoing a crop of sugar. ' " . "In faot, the sugar planters really bear the brunt of the war. They will have to pay enormous taxes,- even ;'if the insurrection be put down. At present almost every planter is threat ened with ruin if he does not contribute money to the insurgent cause. : The sugar planters are between the devil and the deep sea. . If they do not pay large sums for 'protection,' their fields are laid waste. If they ask 'protec tion' from the government they are marked as enemies of the republio and their property will be set on fire or ruined at the first opportunity." A MILLIONAIRE SMUGGLER. He Admitted His Perjury When Too Late, and Was Arrested. New York, August 28. Henry Griesdick, the millionaire brewer of St Louis, was plaoed under arrest by customs officers on a charge of smug gling and held in $1,500 bail, which he deposited. Griesdick was a pas senger on the Columbia of the Hamburg-American line. When the cus toms officers came to his baggage one of them held the millionaire's declara tion. It described two valises, two trunks, nothing dutiable. Attached to it was the usual form of oath and the signature, "Henry Griesdick." '-: ' 1 , : "Nothing dutiable, I believe, . sir," said the officer, politely. . r "Oh, no, sir; nothing indeed," re plied the millionaire." ..; . -:,,,'.y'-.t, :. Then a little gray-bearded man step ped up and said:- ' , ' ' ', V, "Hold on there, sir;' if you please, I think I'll take a look through these." "This is an outrage," cried Griesdick. When the officer completed his exami nation he made , an inventory of duti able goods found in Griesdick's effects as follows: " ...-. ' , . Gentleman's "! gold '"" watch, ". four ladies' gold watches, five gold chains, two diamond, ruby and sapphire rings, one pair diamond sleeve buttons, nine tablecloths, seven dozen napkins, three bolts of silk, six pairs kid gloves, four pair silk gloves, seventeen pocket knives, nine cigar-outters and several other articles. - The value of the goods was estimated at $2,000. "I admit I have made a grave mis take," Mr. Griesdick said, "and I am ready and willing to pay the duty on them. How much is it?" , . "We regret that it is too late," said the inspeotor. ."We shall have to place you under arrest" ' ' "' y .-.-. ; - ' :".'.',t'.- The New Comet..., ..' alo Alto, August 28. Professor W. J. Hussey, of the Leland Stanford university, says: -. ;. . "The comet discovered by Swift, at Pasadena, is probably one of short per iod, hitherto unknown. It is not a de layed return of Barnard's comet of 1 884, as was suBpeoted a few days ago. My elements of the orbit of the new comet are: . . - Time of perihelion passage, October 6, 1862; perihelion distance 1.4047; longitude of node, 172 deg. 42 min ; longitude of perihelion, 18 deg. 55 min.; inclination, 5 deg .57 min. 1 THE KU CHENG INQUIRY Nothing Confirming ..5 Press Dispatches Received. REPORT, HOWEVER, BELIEVED Washington Officials Satisfied the Chl - nese Will Permit Foreigners to Be . , Present at the Investigation. Washington, August 27.--Neither the state nor navy department . has re ceived any information confirmatory of the newspaper reports that Chinese officials have yielded and are now per mitting foreigners to be present at the investigation into the attacks on "the missionaries. The report, however, is credited here by those acquainted with the condition of affairs in China and who have felt all along that the im perial government would see the justioe of permitting 1 foreign representatives on the commission. It is felt here that the affairs of Americans in China, while in charge of Minister Denby and Admiral Carpenter, are in responsible hands and that they will see that ade quate measures of protection are afford ed to the extent of their ability. M. W. Ransom, of North Carolina, will be appointed United States min ister to Mexico, and the president will thus rectify the blunder in the first appointment of Ransom while he was still a member of the senate. Whether Mr. Ransom will return to Mexico or not will depend entirely upon his own wishes. His experience with the cli mate of Mexioo last spring was not such as to greatly encourage him to re turn. Mr. Ransom was not well when he went there, however, and his physi cian thinks the unfavorable effect of the climate was largely due . to his physical oondition, and would not have been serious if he had been well when he left the United States. Since his return to this country, he has recover ed his health. .. , TV A .document recevied at the state de partment from Minister Sill, at Seoul, encloses four new postage stamps, the first issued by Corean for domestio pur- poses. The stamps are bright in color and carry, besides their English letter- -ing, giving the denomination, several Corean characters, whioh presumably convey the same information to the na tives. They carry no figures or pecu liar signs. The stamps are manufac tured in . Washington for the Corean ., government They range in value from 1 cent to 10 cents,' or 50 poens. Mr. Sill says that the postal bureau is to be conducted in connection with the telegraphio bureau and the department of publio works. ' A general test and competition be tween machine guns has been set to be gin Monday, September 16, at Indian Head. It is expected six machine guns will enter this contest, three being au tomatic and three not so. The auto matic guns are the Colt, the Maxim Nordenfelt, and the Hotchkiss. The others are the Gatling, the Accles and the Pratt and Whitney. It is expected this test will continue for two weeks. The navy department Was today in formed of the arrival of the cruiser Marblehead, ' of Admiral Kirkland's European squadron,, at Algiers. . ; The admiral has discretionary orders to go to. Turkey to look out for the protection of American interests arising ' in con nection with the trouble at Tarsus, but i in view of the satisfactory adjustment of affairs at that place, he may not find it necessary to make, the journey. ... Commodore Tyron, chief of the med ical bureau of the navy department, has prepared and Secretary Herbert has approved an order making regula tions for the care of the wounded in naval engagements. The new order is to obviate the difficulty of transferring wounded men from ' the deck to the surgeons' room. ,v: T : ', MARION COUNTY'S ASSESSMENT The Board of Equalisation to Begin Its Annual Task. ' Salem, Or., August 27. The county board of equalization will begin its an nual task of adjusting taxation tomor row. - Assessor Coffey has not yet fixed the assessment of the Southern Paoifio railroad. It is impossible, he claims, to secure the co-operation of the other assessors to determine upon a uniform rate on' the road throughout the state. Mr. Coffey thinks a mile in Jackson county should be assessed the same as a mile in Multnomah - county. Two years ago he fixed the rate in this coun ty at $5,000 per mild, which was high er than in any other oounty, and the state board of equalization lowered it. County Judge Hubbard will favor es tablishing Mr. Coffey's figures of two years ago. ;: : j "... .v'S? . -. -,.-.. ',:. Correspondence received by Judge Hubbard indicates that some county officials do not understand the apparent low rate of assessment placed on this ' road in Oregon, as compared with Cal ifornia. '. The rate fixed by California is over $12,000 per mile, but ' that in cludes the steamship lines, depots, real estate and all - property. Oregon as sesses all properties separately, so that there is very little, if any, favor ' shown the road in this state.