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The Hood Biver Glacier. It's a Cold -Day When We Get Left. VOL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1895. NO. 25. Sfoed Iiver Slacier. PUBLISHED KVKRY FBI DAT BY S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. On. year , ft 00 Six month...... 1 I 00 Three months 60 Sjile copy Cent. THE GLACIER BARBERSHOP, I1DOD KIVKIl, (lit. , GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Shaving and hutr-cuttlng neatly done, factiou guaranteed. Satis- EDUCATION OF INDIANS Annual Report ot Superiiv tendent Hailman. . ' . FAYORS STATE INDIAN SCHOOLS Hearty -Co-Operation Hag Been Received From a Number of State Super intendents in the Yest. Washington, Nov. 14. W.' N. Hail man, superintendent of Indian schools, in his annual report, discusses- at some length the proposition to enlist the dif erent states in Indian eduoation. He says there is, in cases, an unwilling ness to admit ohildren to schools at tended by white children, and in some cases, he thinks it might be necessary to continue separate schools for limited periods. Superintendent Hailman re ports that a hearty co-operation was received from state Superintendents of schools in California, Oregon, Wash ington, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Idaho, and he believes that in most of these states it will be possible to transfer the work of Indian educa tion to the state authorities in a com paratively Short period. Mr, Hailman discusses the difficulties which Indian children who have been at school en oounter when they return to the reser vations and the squalor of Indian life. He thinks efforts should be made to have agents put these Indians in homes of their own, and exert every effort to prevent them from returning to their former mode of life. " MINING SUIT DECIDED. Supreme Court Hands Down a Decision in a Butte Case. Helena, Mont, Nov. -18. The su preme court handed down a decision today in a mining oase, in which Hon. W. A. Clark, chairman of the national bimetallic oommittee, was. defendant. The decision of the third judioial dis trict oourt in Butte was affirmed, which was against Clark, compelling him to pay $40,000. The decision settles the ownership of a vein which dips under an adjoining vein. The Niagara and Blaok Rock claims adjoin, running east and west, the former on the south. The apex of the vein in controversy passed through the west end line of the Black' Rock and crossed the common side line west erly from the east end line of the Black Rock, and continues across the Niagara, passing out of the east end line thereof. The vein dipped to the south. The Blaok Rock extracted ore from that ein on the dip at a point under the apex, which was on the Niagara and south of a perpendicular plane sunk into the earth at the oommon side line. The lower court deoided that the Ni agara people were entitled to an ore aooounting against the Black Rock for ore taken from the dip of the vein under the apex, which was on the Ni agara ground, and east of the point where the apex passed wholly within the Niagara premises. Another Disappearing Gun-Carriage. Philadelphia, Nov. 12. The seoond Buffington-Crozier disappearing gun carriage erected as an experiment was shipped today on three oars from Cramp's shipyard to San Francisoo. The Buffington-Crozier oarriage is au tomatic in its movement, and is oper ated by a system of weights. Another disappearing gun-carriage now being prepared in Cramp's shop is E. Hunts piller's invention. This latter is pneu matic in action, and is intended as a competitor to the former. . One Killed, Five Injured. London, Nov. 12. An aocident to the Sootoh express from London-at Saipt Neots, eight miles south of Hunt ington, on the Great Northern railway, caused by the breaking of a rail, today resulted in the death of a lady passen ' ger. Five other passengers were seri ously injured. THE TEXAS INJURED. Cement Lining of the. Double Hull Is Badly Cracked. Washington, Nov. 14. The battle ship Texas has come to grief at the dry dock at New York, and has sustained injuries, the exact extent of whioh is not known at present The ship went into drydock about a week ago to be oleaned and painted, and to remove an accumulation of seaweed whioh had grown in the pipe gratings leading to the circulating pumps. On the 18th instant, Captain Glass reported to the commandant of the navy yard that on the regular weekly examination of the vessel, made that day, frames 43 and 44, in compartment B, were found to be distorted, apparently from the straining of the ship on the keel blocks. No other evidence of straining appear ed, and an outside examination failed to show any evidence of damage. , By direotion of Commandant Sicard, Constructor Bowles made an examina tion, and on the 9th he reported that the xexas was resting easily and sup ported thoroughly in all respects. Still, as a measure of precaution, six feet of water was let into the dock to lighten the load on the keel blocks. On the 11th, further straining was reported, and the dock was flooded then a depth of eleven feet, as far as the water oould be admitted without danger of disturb ing the position of the Texas on the blocks. Commandant Sicard called for a de tailed account of the injuries, and, in return received from the constructor a report stating exactly and by number the injured frames, and where they were located. This report was trans mitted to .the navy department with the statement that no delay in the work then progressing on the ship would ensue, and that the straining ap peared to be due to the weight of the ship on the keel blocks. The? depart ment was not altogether satisfied, and has called for further particulars, re garding the report so far made as pre liminary, f It appears from these reports that twenty-one of the bottom frames and brackets unbuckled from a quarter of an inch to an inch and a half, while the cement lining on the double bottom is oracked in many places. Whether it will be neoessary to undertake to re pair these frames and remove the dents in the bottom cannot be told until a further examination can be made, and to do this, it may be necessary to re move all the weight pf the ship in or der to draw off the water safely, other wise the strains might again become exoessive and irreparable injury f 9II0W. In the absenoe of full details, which must in the end be gathered by a special board, the department officials are not disposed to plaoe the blame for the ao cident upon Constructor Bowles, as he has the reputation of being one of the best dockmen in the navy. In stead, there is belief that the Texas was too lightly built to stand her own weight while in dock, and if this should be the case; it would require a large sum and muoh time to strengthen the hull. The vessel was built on plans purchased from England, and it is said department officials were of the opinion from the first that they were defective, in that too much strength had been sacrificed in order to save weight and make the vessel float at the calculated displacement. JAPAN TO WITHDRAW. Prepared to Evacuate the Peninsula. Liao Tung Washington, Nov. 14. The purpose of Japan is to evacuate Port Arthur and the Liao Tung peninsula by Febru ary 16 next, which is three months from the date of the . payment by China of the 80,000,000 teals agreed upon for the evaouation. While three months is fixed as the time within which the evacuation may be made, it is probable the Japanese will not take the limit of time, but will set about retiring from Port Arthur im mediately upon the payment of the 80,000,000 teals next Tuesday, as the oost of the maintenance of an army is very heavy. It is understood also that a further feature of the treaty for surrender is that its.evacuation will not be followed by a cession of the fortress to any other power. An official statement to that effect has been made and is credited here, but the Japanese legation has re ceived no official advices. Late mail advioes satisfy the officials that the rebellion in Formosa is over, and that the rebel leader has surrend ered. He offered to make a conditional surrender some time ago, but the Jap anese would not give concessions to rebels. Since then, the officials believe he has yielded unconditionally and that the war is at an end. . AH Are Fenny Papers. Chicago, Nov. 18. The Tribune in its issue Sunday announced that the prioe of that paper on week days inside the city hereafter would be one cent This morning the Times-Herald and the Inter-Ooean, the only two-cent morning papers, announced a similar reduotion in their price to meet the out made by the Tribune The action of these morning papers today places all the morning papers in Chicago at one oent a copy. , ' ' OUR COAST DEFENSES First Report of the New Com mander of the Army. NECESSITY OF IMMEDIATE ACTION lion Brave Men Would Be Useless Without Appliances to Cope With Modern Engines of War. Washington, Nov. 13. The annual report of General Miles, commanding the army, was made publio today. The personnel is shown to be in excellent condition, well instructed, efficient and attentive to duty. Liberal appropria tions are required for publio buildings at the, posts, many of whioh are out of repair. General Miles believes that the peaceable conditions now existing among the various Indian tribes is largely attributable to the presence of troops at suitable points and the ad mirable oonduct of the ', experienced army officers who have been plaoed in oharge of the principal agencies. While it is economical and desirable to have the reserve forces of the army near the great centers of communica tion, General Miles urgently contends that these points should be selected for their strategicrvalue, and that the tend ency toward concentration should not be carried to the point of depriving the Western settlements of proper proteo tion. , Under the head of coast defenses, General Miles states the condition of these is such as to require decided and immediate action for their improve ment, The unguarded condition of our coasts is known by every first-class power, and our people should not be led into false seourity. ne quotes from his report or 1894 a strong argument for the defense of Pu get sound, and shows that since the time the new Canadian railroad con nections have been established there not a single gun has been placed in posi tion for defense, while those at the en trance of the Columbia are obsolete and of little value. It is true that some progress has been made toward defend ing San Francisoo, and a few modern guns and rifles have been placed there. These, however, are but a small part of the general plan for the defense of the harbor, while San Diego is in the same oondition as Puget sound, entirely at the meroy of 'any foreign fleet. General Miles recalls his report of 1889 upon the absolute importance of the defense of the entire Pacific coast, in view of the fact that it is possible for any naval power to blockade any important port within ninety days, .while it would take many years to make a successful resistance, and the oountry might be required to pay an indemnity of 15,000,000,000. While the railroads might transport a million brave men to the coast, they would be useless without appliances to cope with the modern engines of war, and with all our intelligence, inventive genius and enterprise, we are as far behind in the modern appliances of war as China or Japan. . Such were the conditions six years ago, says General Miles, and such are the conditions today, with the excep tion of the slight progress made at San Francisoo. Wedding in High Society. Tew York, Nov. i4. One of the principal society events of the year, second in interest and magnificence only to the recent Marlboroug-Vander-bilt alliance, was the marriage of Miss Pauline Payne Whitney to Mr. Al merio Paget,'' which was celebrated at noon today in St. Thomas' church, in the presence of a distinguished com pany of guests, whioh included Presi dent Cleveland and , Secretaries La mont and Herbert. The bride, al though yet very young, has been known in the society of this country and Eu rope for two years past She is the daughter of Hon. W. C. Whitney, who was seoretary of the navy in the first Cleveland administration, and is one of the wealthiest men in New York. Additional interest has been centered upon the bride because she is an heir-: ess to several millions from her father and more from her grandfather, Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, the oil magnate. The groom is a young Englishman, whp came to this country several years ago and has acquired a large business in real estate in St. Paul, where he will reside with his bride. The Czarina's Reported Illness. , Darmstadt, Nov. 18. Nothing is known in oourt circles here of the sen sational story circulated regarding the illness of the czarina, whose life was said to be despaired of as the result of an operation.- Nothing fnrther is known at Darmstadt than that the c oouchment of the czarina, ' formerly Prinoess Alex of Hesse, may be expect ed any day. " No More of the Canal Scandal. Paris, Nov. 12. The report of l'ln transigeant, that the government is about to reopen the question of the. Panama scandal, and that prominent members of the parliament would be prosecuted on this account is authori tative tly denied here. THE NEXT CONVENTION. Almost Certain Thai It Will Come to San Francisco. San Francisco, Nov. 14. The Chron icle's Washington special says: Chicago acknowledges itself beaten by San Francisco and declares that the Republican convention will come to the Pacific coast city. The Chicago Times-Herald, which had been one of the staunchest advocates of the claim of that city for the convention, this morning publishes the announcement that San Francisco has won. This is the statement which its Washington correspondent sends out: "The Republican national conven tion 01 lsyu will probably be held in San Francisoo. Information of a trust worthy source has been received that the Golden Gate city already has nearly a majority of the national committee in its favor. San Francisoo made a strong fight for the convention four years ago, and many members of the national committee then' pledged themselves to vote for that city next time. Citizens of San Francisco are working for next year's convention with characteristic energy and enthusiasm, and have add ed to the list of pledges secured four years ago enough new ones to make them feel certain of having a- majority of the oommittee when that body meets in this city a month hence. "Great as the surprise will be at the probability of the convention going ' to the far side of the continent, ' leading members of the oommittee familiar with the temper of that body predict that San Francisco is in a position to win and will carry off the prize. A large delegation of leading citizens of San Francisoo will.be in this city -to attend the meeting December 1, and are expected to bring with them a fore case of the sort of hospitality which the Golden Gate people are ready to extend to their guests. SPOKANE COUNTY POOR FARM Charges Against Management lead Arrest of Superintendent. Spokane,. Nov. 18. Superintendent Pittman, of the Spokane county poor "farm, was arrested today at Spangle and held in $200 bonds to await trial in the superior court for attacking and ohoking an aged inmate, named Mc Copeland. Pittman admits that he grabbed the old man,, threw him out of the room into the hallway, where he fell, and that he and his son then picked him up and carried him out doors. They were trying to expel Mo Copeland because he would not work. Another inmate, named Anderson, was expelled Sunday. He walked into Spo kane. He charges the management with gross brutality and tyranny, and aoouses Pittman's sons of tying a rope around the neck of an old man and choking him so that he could not swal low for several days. The affair will probably lead to an official investiga tion. - The Carson Mint Case. Carson, Nev. Nov. 14. General Clarke, for the government, today out lined the mint-stealing case for the proseoution, saying that they expected to prove that August '14, 1898, James Heney, the defendant, took bullion to the Reno reduotion works to be melted into bars; that this bullion oontained no silver, and was of mint fineness; that such bullion oomes from no mine in the world. The jury visited the mint and two witnesses were plaoed on the stand to explain the routine work of receiving and disposing of the bullion. The Jones trial has been set for the 21st Maher Challenges the World. New York, Nov. 14. John Quinn, manager of Peter Maher, who knocked out O'Donnell, made a statement today in behalf of the fighter. He said: "Maher challenges any man in the world to fight for the championship, and will fight for $5,000 a side in pub lio or private, and will go any place to do battle." Quinn said Maher would not ohal lenge Corbett, because Corbett had asked him as a personal favor not to do so, as he had retired. Colombians Anxious for Peace. New York, Noy. 13. The Herald's correspondent in Bogota telegraphs that the government has issued a de cree, raising the state of siege in the republio with the exoeption of Bogota and the province of Cucuta. The gov ernment grants amnesty to all engaged in the last revolution a8 conspirators, unless they shall have been charged with common crimes or acted as lead ers in organizing invading expeditions against Colombia. . All exiles now in Venezuela may return without penalty if they promise they will not again conspire against the constituted author ity of the country. Now Worth W6,00O,O00. Peoria, 111., Nov. 14. J. Cummings Drexel, of this city, a nephew of the late Anthony Drexel, of Philadelphia, received information today that by the death of an aunt, Mrs. C. F. Kenil worth, of Brighton, England, he is the heir to an estate valued at about $6, 000,000. Mr. Drexel is 2? years old, and has his residence in the city. He has been in the employ of the business department of a newspaper. THE APPROPRIATIONS Annual Reports of the Heads of Departments. THE BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION The First Assistant Postmaster-General Makes Some Recommendations ' in Bis Report. Washington, Nov. 12. Commodore Philip Hichborn, chief of the bureau of oonstruotion and repair of the navy, has completed his report of the year. The report includes estimates for ap propriations for next year, the most important being $5,950,549, to be ex pended on vessels authorized by oon gress for the increasse of the navy. He also asks for $1,500,000 for the general repair of vessels and purchase of stores ana machinery; $528,000 lor the con tinuance of work already authorized on the Hartford, the Chioago and other vessels, and $500,000 for two composite sailing vessels. He dwells especially upon the neoessity of adequate money for the repair of vessels, covering mod' ern steel ships, with their extreme sub' division and elaborate systems of ven tilation, drainage and mechanical auxil iaries of all kinds. They require much greater care, both when in commission and in ordinary than was formerly the case with.the old wooden ships. It is more than nine years since the first vessel of the new navy was put in commission, and the necessity for gen eral repairs and renewals of fittings and equipments is beooming more and more pressing. The policy of extreme eoonomy has about reached its limit, and unless more ample appropriations are made for the care and preservation of ships and the general maintenance of the yard plants, the efficiency of the fleet will be diminished and the government property will suffer serious deteriora tion. Commodore Hiohborn notes the completion and acceptance during the year of the Marblehead, Columbia, Olympia and Minneapolis; gives the status of other vessels almost complet ed, and also states the fact in connec tion with contracts recently let and specifications made under the authority of the last naval appropriation bill. He suggests the importance of appro priations sufficient to put the navy yard plants at Portsmouth, N. H., Boston, New York, League island, Norfolk and Mare island in oondition to meet the demands of the immediate luture. He thinks $125,000 necessary at Norfolk; $75,000 at New York and $70,000. at Mare island. He also renews the recommendation of last year- for the new stations at Port Royal and Puget sound. The money is, he says, neces sary to equip the stations with tools so as to enable them to cover the ordinary repair work. Probably, the most important part of 'the report is that devoted to the neoes sity of the increased drydock facilities. Mr. Hiohborn notes the fact that there was no dock in the country sufficiently large to dock the 'Indiana preliminary to her trial trip. The Postal Department.' Washington, Nov. 12. First Assist ant Postmaster-General Frank M. Jones has issued bis annual report for the year ended June 80, 1895. Mr. Jones shows that the divisions under his supervision have saved, during the yew, $1,895,577,' the prinoipal items being in the saving in carriers by stop ping overtime, and a reduotion of force amounting to $1,300,000. The salar ies of all presidential postmasters amounting to $5,897,200, and the gross receipts of postoffioes $60,588,097. The number of presidential postmasters is 3,491, of whioh 159 are first olass, 700 second class, 2,632 third class. An estimate of $17,000,000 for all postmasters is made for the year 1897, an increase over the present year of $1,000,000. The total - number of positions brought within the -classified servioe was 2,895. Mr. Jones recommends the-abolition of experimental free delivery, unless $10,000,000 is appropriated for the pur pose; also free -rural delivery, unless $20,000,000 is appropriated. Of the investigations and discharge of carriers for cause, Mr. Jones says 885 carriers have been removed. He reviews the conditions whioh made the investigations neoessary, the prinoipal one being the accumulation of overtime claims, showing that something was wrong. The work has been systemat ically prosecuted during the past eight months, and the carriers at 151 offioes have been investigated. . An estimate of $12,960,900 is made for the free delivery service next year. The money order report shows that there are 19,691 domestio money order offices, and orders to the amount of 156,709,089 were issued', and $156, 159,689 paid . Mr. Jones recommends legislation requiring clerks handling money order business to give bonds. Concerning dead letter matter, the re port says: "' "The number of pieces of original mail matter reoeived during the year for treatment was 6,319,873, a decrease of 81,171." Mr. Jones renews several recom mendations made in his - last report, such as a penalty for using postmarks for unlawful purposes; to prevent boy cotting postoffioes; to amend the frank ing laws; more stringent legislation against obsoene mail matter; the power- to suspend employes; the employ ment of temporary and substitute clerks; care of disabled employes; the better classification of salaries for clerks in larger offices and the employ ment of substitute oarriers. TO EXPEL DUNRAVEN. Such Action Talked of by New Yacht Club Members. York New York, Nov. 18. There is much talk among the members of the New York Yacht Club of expelling Lord Dunraven from the club, of which he is an honorary member, for his course in imputing knowledge of fraud to Messrs. Iselin and Smith, in the matter of the official measurement of Defender prior to the recent raoes for the Amer ica's cup. Among those who havq ex pressed themselves in favor of charges being preferred against Lord Dunraven, if he does not immediately resign, are J. V. Bouvier, P. M. Halstead, Mr. Doremus, Mr. Clark and N. I. Nichols. Commodore Smith said that he did not know whether Mr. Iselin had demand Oil f Vl (1 f f Vl t .nn n-nA wiimn inmn.U.AM w i. iiui u u..(7 li aun 1 1 .u 11 1.1 11 iiiiiiiiiiii 1 i:r,n of the New York Yacht Club should make an investigation of Lord Dun raven's charges, but he had no doubt that he would take such action. - Mr. Iselin was not in town today. . ' Members of 1 the New, York Yaoht Club say that it is not neoessary to pre fer charges against Dunraven in order to expel him from his honorary mem bership. They say that under chapter 20 of the by-laws he can be summarily deposed from the roll. The ohapter reads: "In oase of an occurrence injurious to the welfare of the club, the name of any member implicated therein may be removed from the list of members by a vote of a majority of the representa tives at any meeting. " - It is thought a meeting of the cup committee will be held in, a few days " to consider Dunraven's charges. There was a remonstrance of feeling on the floor of the stock exchange today. Ex Commodore Smith cheered, and when tirillraro 1 nil T7Vi n 4-11 - with Iselin?" there were loud oheers. but Lord Dunraven's name was hissed. AN IRATE MOTHER-IN-LAW. Lord Sholto Douglas Threatened With a Horsewhipping. San Franoisco, Nov. 12. Lord Sholto Douglas is to be horsewhipped. He has been unfortunate enough to arouse the ire of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Addis, of Oakland, and she gives' notice that she will start for Los An geles early next week with the inten tion of teaching his lordship a lesion. Lord Sholto will soon learn what it is to have an American mother-in-law on his trail. ; " Mrs. Addis is a buxom woman with a will of her own. His lordship has dared to defy the will of his mother-in-law. Not only that, but she says that he has insulted her, and now' she is going to teaoh him some American manners, so she says. Lord Sholto, in a letter to his moth er-in-law, a few days ago, had courage ! enough to inform her that when he married her daughter he did not marry the whole family. He suggested that he was fully able to manage his wife, and that he would be extremely happy if he had never laid eyes on any of his Oakland relatives. In other words, he told his mother-in-law to mind .her own business, -and that hereafter he would brook no , interference on her part. - ' Satolli's Possible Successor. Baltimore, Nov. 12. Cardinal Gib bons was asked this evening in regard to the report that Pope Leo had deter mined upon the recommendation of the cardinal to appoint Monsignore Laur- enzli, at present inter-nunoio at the Hague, the successor of Satolli as ab legate, after the latter has been raised to the cardinalate. The Cardinal said he knew nothing about the matter, and had not reoommended Monsignore Laurenzeli, of whose ability he spoke in the highest terms. Anson Is an Actor. Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 14. Captain Adrian Anson, of the Chicago baseball olub, became an actor this evening. Hoyt & McKee presented him to the publio in Hoyt's oomedy, "A Runaway Colt." Anson had a bad case of stage fright, and several times missed his lines. He was well received, however and, with Mr. Hoyt, was called before the curtain. The play will be- a suo- ; is. The last act is one of the best things that Hoyt has ever done. ' Japan's War Indemnity. Washington, Nov. 13. The Japan ese minister has reoeived a telegram that an agreement has been signed at Peking providing for the payment of an additional indemnty by China for the evaouation of Liao Tung peninsula. The amount is 30,000,000 taels, to be paid November 16, 1895.