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J ' ' ' ' r The Hood River Glacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1895. NO. 30. . 1 " , " "' 1 " " 1 '.' . "" 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 ' 11 1 . . ., 1 I.,. - 1 1 ,. r-' 3eod IiverS lacier. PUBU8HBD EVERY FRIDAY BV ' S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK. On. year , ft 00 Six months 1 Of Three months 60 Sntrle copy f Cento THE GLACIER BARBER SHOP, HOOD RITKK, OR. GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Shaving and hn!r-cutting neatly done. Satis action guaranteed. NORTHWEST NEWS. "MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES AND DEVELOPMENT. Worth Taking Up Kay Woolen Mills Subsidy Entirely Subscribed ' From All Parts of Oregon. 1 Coquille City is going to have a sash and door factory. A oommeroial club baa been inoor porated by the citizens of La Grande. There are now 1,033 patients in the state insane asylum, and disbursements for last month . averaged $10.89 per capita. . Two mail lines will probably be es tablished from Ashland ' to Klamath Falls, and from Ager to Klamath Falls, thus doing away with the present pony line to Snake. . The $25,000 subsidy required for the rebuilding of the Kay woolen mills at Salem has now been entirely subscrib ed. Machinery for a four stamp mill of double the oapaoity of the former will be ereoted. '- It is stated that there is little gov ernment land in Coos oounty worth taking up for farming purposes. Creek bottoms are nearly all settled and so is good bench land except in such plaoes that are too far away from roads or navigable streams. There is considerable vacant land in Curry county. : The samlon paok for the season of 1895 amounted to the following num ber of cases for: the Columbia river: 617,460, valued at $3,842,028.65. Of these 483,178 oases were packed on the Oregon side and 184,282 oases on the Washington' side; 457,812 oases were Eoyal Chinnook and 81,500 cases were fall Chinook salmon. On the Oregon coast streams and bays 62,620 cases Were put up. Awut per wmi ui the catch on the Columbia river was takeu with gill nets. Twelve per cent with seines, 19 per oent with traps and 5 per oent with wheels. The number of persons employed in the fisheries and allied industries in this state dur ing the year was 5,849, to whom was paid the enormous sura of $1,236,246 for labor. The paok this year was larger than for any season sinoe the origin of the industry, save two, 1888 and 1884, when the pack was 629,400 and 620,000 oases respectively. Washington. H. L. Thomas, of Seattle, has a scheme to build an electric road be tween Taooma and the Queen city. : There has been a sudden demand for work oattle on Puget sound, and the cattlemen are unable to supply the de mand. Cattle may be worth $200 a span before winter is past. A bank is to be established in New Whatoom by a Chioago man, who has already established banks in Colfax, and at Union, Or. He states that the new" institution will be capitalized with $60,000. , The ordinance providing for the is sue of $1,250,000 warrants for the con struction of the water system at Seat tle was carried, with a light vote and registration. The vote was 2,831 in favor and 1,506 against. It is said the distillery near. Golden dale will soon be in operation. The company is now arranging to buy 1,200 head of hogs and 800 of oattle, for winter feeding for the early spring market The resumption of business by the distillery will be of great bene fit to the Kliokitat farmers. ( There is a movement on foot to send a ton or nax oi wasningion growm w the Barbour works in . Ireland. And the manufacturers have said that they will hackle it and otherwise pre pare it to show just what can be done value in comparison with other flax. Judge Hanford, of the United States court has rendered a decision that land claimed by a railroad under its grant, but for which no patent has been is sued, are not assessable and taxable as the property of the railroad company. This will reduce the assessment of the Northern Paoifio Railroad . Company in many counties; The state land .commission has in vested 1 $160,000 of the permanent school fund in state warrants. This. amount with the sum already invested in oounty bonds and the amount draw ing interest on the contracts of the purchase of sohool lands, will make a whole sum for the permanent sohool fund now drawing interest, about $2, 800,000. . Idaho. The new town of Nez Peroes is lo cated about fifty miles from Lewis ton. The Cottonwood Piping & Milling Company, expect to kill over 1,000 head of hogs this month. The wool clip of Idaho for 1895 will amount to 8,00,0000 pounds, an in-' orease of 1,000,000 over last year. A general paoking house is a new enterprise about to be started at Idaho Falls by a stock company, with a oapi tal of $4,000. Salmon are said to be dying by the hundreds in Snake river. They are washed ashore and many dogs have died from eating them. Montana. The jail at Belt, reoently destroyed by fire, is to be promptly rebuilt A two story brick will soon be erect ed for the Soldiers Home at Helena. It will cost $10,000. A New York capitalist will erect a handsome three story building block at Billings, in the spring. Billings contemplates a proposed sys tem of sewerage which is estimated will cost about $35,000. The machinery has been purchased for a oomplete flouring mill at Butte, with a capacity of seventy-five barrels per day. , The people at Billings, Livingston and the oounties of Custer and Yellow stone are agitating the opening of a portion of the Crow reservation by an aot of congress this session. . British Columbia. A salmon cannery is reported to be a new enterprise that will be established near Victoria next season. . The Kaslo and Sdoan railroad has been completed and accepted by the Canadian government The road ex tends from Kootenai to the southwest and is literally lined with mines. A company has just finished reclaim ing 8,000 acres of first seotion and 45,- 000 acres on the Kootenai river. ' It will be plaoed on the market in the spring, uver sjaeo.uuu nave tnus lar been expended on the work. Hardly one year ago there was but one log house on the site of the city of Rossland now occupies. There are now 8,000 people there, the town has eleo trio lights, a telephone system and wa ter works are being put in. Rossland is in Trail creek distriot, about eight miles from the boundary line. Three- fourths of the mining interests there are held by residents of Spokane. The mine owners and business men in the Fort Steele seotion of East Koo tenai have petitioned the Dominion government for an appropriation to im prove Kootenai river from Fort Steele south to the international boundary line, says the Nelson Tribune. - It is aimed the river oould be navigated eight months in the year were it im proved. It is also . olaimed that there will be 50 tons of ore on the river bank by the time navigation opens in the spring. Atlanta Congress on Africa. Atlanta, Ga., . Deo. . 18. Governor Atkinson, in his address before the con gress on Africa, said, in referrng to the interest of the negroes in the con version and salvation of the Dark Con tinent, that it remained for eaoh to deoide for himself whether he would go or remain. ."You are free oitizena of this republic If you care to stay, the choice is yours; if you think best to cas your lot among the people of your old country, none may say you nay. So long as I have a voice in the affairs of Georgia I shall do my utmost to see that the oolored man has his rights." The objeot of this oogress is to give the American negroes a right view of their relation to the civlization and redemp tion of Africa. To Protect Public Funds. . San Francisco, . Deo. 18. The state bank commissioners have made an or der that the funds of any oounty treas urer deposited with a bank shall be re ceived only as a speoial deposit, and not loaned out nor used by the bank in any way. The oounty treasurer must give his money to the bank in a sealed package, and when he wishes to with draw the deposit must receive it baok in the same paokage. ' Woman Suffrage Convention. Rochester, Deo. 18. Woman suf fragists throughout the country are preparing to attend the twenty-eighth annual convention of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, whioh assembles in Washington, January 28 next The official call for the conven tion has been issued. It is signed by Susan B. Anthony, and Rachael Foster Avery, corresponding seoretary. ' The jail at Belt, reoently destroyed by fire, is to be promptly rebuilt DOINGS OF CONGRESS ROUTINE WORK OF THE FIFTY- FOURTH SESSION. Substance of the Bills and Resolutions Introduced in the Senate and House Make-up of the Various Commit tees Senate. Washington, Deo. 18. Senator Peff er spoke on his bill to regulate oongres sional funerals. He declared that the expenditures on account of funerals were oontinualy growing until the average cost had increased to $4,542. The last thirteen burials of the seventy-three whioh had oourred in the sen ate had cost more than the other sixty. Of the 107 senators who had died while in the servioe the expenses were great est in the oase of the late Senator George Hearst, of California, whose funeral cost the government $21,822. Senator Squire has introduced, by request, a bill creating an additional lighthouse district out of the present Thirteenth4 district, whioh shall em brace the waters of the Straits of Fuoa, Puget sound and Washington sound, and all Alaskan waters, and to have the lighthouse tender Columbine trans ferred to that district House. Washington, Deo. 13. A bill haB been introduced fixing the salaries of United States .marshals, in lieu of fees. The following are' the figures fixed in the Paoifio Northwest: Oregon, mar shal, $4,500; chief deputy, $1,200; Washington, marshal, $5,000; chief deputy, $1,500; Idaho, marshal, $4,000; chief deputy, $1,000. Another bill fixes the salaries of United States distriot attorneys, as fol lows: Oregon, .$4,000; Washington, $4,000 Idaho, $4,000. No explana tion has been made why Washington officers should receive more than those of Oregon, and they will probably be equalized before the bill can pass. .. Senate. Washington, Deo. 18. Quay today presented the senate the petition of the Wool Merohants Association of Phila- delpia, and it was read and inserted in the Reoord. . Cafferey offered a resolution, whioh was agreed to, calling on the seoretary of the treasury for information as to his reasons for suspending the payment of bounty to the manufacturers of sugar. Stewart addressed the senate on the pending resolution for a commission to investigate the needs of labor and agri culture, predicting an invasion of the produots of Oriental lands in competi tion with our domestic products. Senator Squire has introdnoed a bill providing for the establishment of a gun factory on the Paoifio coast for the manufacture of teavy and ether ord nance for the use of the army. House. Washington, Deo., 18. Proceedings in the house opened by Cannon offering a resolution for the consideration to morrow of an amendment to the rules for an inorease of membership of lead ing committees from fifteen to seven teen, the number in the last house, and for the creation of an additional oom mittee on eleotions. The resolution was adopted.' Flynn asked unanimous oonsent for the consideration of a resolution call ing upon the secretary of the interior to inform the house of the reasons for the delay in the appointment of allot ing agents to allct land to the Wichita Indians, and whether any blood con nections of the seoretary of the interior were interested in delaying the open ing of those lands to settlement. Postmaster-General Wilson's recent order forbidding postal employes from urging postal legislation also came in for attention, Peffer offering a com prehensive resolution of ' inquiry as to the order. Another resolution by Gall inger oalls for information as to the number of aliens in the various govern mental branches. Senate. . ' Washington, Deo. 19. The presi dent's message on the Venezuelan ques tion occupied the attention of the sen ate during the brief session Many memorials concerning the Cuban rebellion and the Turkish ques tion were presented. Call offered a resolution to investigate alleged elec tion irregularities in Florida. . House. ' Washington, Deo. 19. The house devoted . itself to-day 1 to disoussing the propositon to have, two election committees instead of one, the Vene zuelan message meanwhie lying un opened. He Forgot the Canal. Hartford Courant It seems a pity the president hadn't a word out of so many, many thou sands of them to throw to the Nica ragua canal. This is really a deserv ing projeot, even if it is American and patriotio, and if General Benjamin Harrison did oommend it It is also quite as important, one would think, as some other things that got into the message for instance, Mr. Cleveland's grievance against Mr. Thurston, of Hawaii. MOSE GUNST' WON. His Position as Police Commissioner Confirmed by the Supreme Court. San Francisco, Deo. .18. M. A, Gunst, better known over the oountry as Mose" Gunst, has been confirmed in nis position as polioe commissioner by the supreme court. Gunst was ap pointed police commissioner, a life office, by Governor Markam just be fore he retired from office. Although relating to San Francisco alone, it created a great stir all over California Ministers and others objected to Gunst, because of his reputation as a sporting man, although not a word oould be said against his intregity. When Gov ernor Budd oame into offloe, he promptly appointed Stewart Menzies, a highly respected citizen, to succeed Gunst The latter refused to give up his office, and the case was carried into the courts. Gunst won in the lower court, and the full bench of the su preme oourt today sustained the deci sion of the lower court Sinoe his ap pointment, Gunst has taken an aotive interest in polioe affairs, and has in stituted many reforms in the depart ment here, the result of an exended tour of invesisration in Eastern ciies. Chicago to Have Fewer Saloons. Chicago, Deo. 18. Chicago brewers are tired of being saloon-keepers, and have decided that after January 1, there will be 1,700 fewer saloons in the city than at present . Those that re main must pay a third or a half more for beer than is being paid now. A Shingle Combine. Taooma, Dec 18. An organized effort is being made among all. the shingle manufacturers of Western Washington to olose by January 1, for two months in order to stiffen prices in the Eastern markets. Arizona Irrigation Bonds' Placed. New York, Dec. 18. A dispatch from London says it is reported that a large Anglo-American banking house has placed in Glasoow, Scotland, the entire issue of the first mortgage bonds of the Arizona Water Stoarge Com" pany, amounting to 400,000. Result of the Dynamite ICxplosion. Butte, Mont, Deo. 18. In the dis trict court today, the trial of the $20, 000 damage suit of Sophia Goddard against the Kenyon-Connell Commer cial Company was commenced. It is the first of about twenty suits growing out of the dynamite explosion, January 15 last, by whioh sixty -eight men were blown to atoms and between 500 and 1,500 men injured. The suits aggre gate between $300,000 and $400,000, and nearly every attorney in the state is engaged on one side or the other. Strike Among Tailors. New York, Dec. 18. Tonight about 15,000 tailors in this city, Brooklyn and Jersey City are locked out. - There are 195 shops in the Employers Associa tion and of this number eighty-three have posted the new card, and the rest are expeoted to follow within a few days. Twenty thousand workmen may be involved, for that is the number con trolled by the Brotherhood of Tailors in three cities named. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Pith of Press Comment at Home and Abroad on It. Chicago Times-Herald J In its broad and comprehensive grasp of the questions dealt with the message is one of the strongest state papers that Mr. Cleveland has ever written. While it is diffuse and might be con densed with corresponding improve ment to its literary style, it is not nearly so ponderous in its rhetorio as oertain others of Mr. Cleveland's pa pers. Even its diffuseness is pardon able when we consider the president's earnestness and his, desire to make bis meaning plain to the average intelli gence. This is particularly the case in his discussion of the financial and. reve nue questions, where he reiterates both his faots and his arguments. But it is in respect to the Venezuelan question that the president shows the vigor of the administration's foreign policy. Only those who hoped that the presi dent would not rise to the "height of this great argument" and sustain in all its broadness the modern construc tion of the "Monroe doctrine" will be disappointed in its utterances. The oountry at large will receive them with acclaim. . . Words Lack Truth. Denver Times. President Cleveland's message was a very strong and able one in many re spects from his individual standpoint. What he says on greenbacks, tariff, bond issues and silver, are all strong points, but they lack the convincing elements of facts truth. Josh Bill ings thought it was better .to have a limited amount of knowledge than to know a great deal that was not true. President Cleveland would evidently disagree with the lamented Josh. If It Were Dramatized. Chioago Inter Ocean. If the president's message- should be dramatized, the first three acts would consist in the president butting the bull off the bridge with his head padded with sawdust, so as not to hurt the bull. THE BIG CONVENTIONS THE REPUBLICANS WILL CON VENE AT ST. LOUS IN JUNE. Chairman Harrity Notifies Democrats to Assemble in Washington City to Be lect a Time and Place The Pop ullsts Will Exchange Views. - Washington, Deo. 17. Chairman Carter, of the Republican national committee, today issued the following call for a national convention: "To the Republican Electors of the United States In accordance with usage and the instructions of the Re publican convention of 1892, and by the direction of the national commit tee, the national convention of dele gated representatives of the Republican party will be held at the city of St Louis, .state of Missouri, Tuesday, the 16th day of June, 1896, at 12 o'olook, noon, for the purpose of nominating candidates for president and vice-presi dent of the United States, to be sup ported at the next national election, and for the transaction of such other and further business as may be brought before it "Republican electors in the several states and territories, and voters with out regard to past political affiliations, who believe in Republican principles and indorse the Republican policy, are cordially invited to unite under this oall in the formation of a new ticket Each state will be entitled to four dele-gates-at-large, and for each representa tive in oongress-at-large,two delegates, and for eaoh congressional district, each territory, and the Distriot of Co lumbia, two delegates. "Delegates-at-large shall be chosen by popular state conventions, called not less than thirty days after this pub lished notice, and not less than thirty lays before .the meeting of the national convention. Congressional distriot delegates shall be chosen at the conven tion called by the congressional com mittee of each dstriot, in the same manner as the nomination of the rep resentatives in congress is made in said distriot; provided, that in any con gressional district where there is no re publican congressional committee the republican state oommittee shall ap point from the residents of such, dis trict a committee for the purpose of calling a district convention to eleot district delegates. ' Territorial dele gates shall be chosen in the same man ner as the nomination of the delegates in congres are made. Delegates from the District of Columbia shall be ohosen at -the convention to be called by the oommittee of three provided for by the uational oommittee meeting in Wash ington City, December 20, 1895, and such convention shall be constituted of members elected in the district pri maries, to be held at such time and place and to be presided over by such judges of election as such oommittee of three may appoint "In addition to the representation now authorized by the rules of the na tional convention for the territories of Utah, New Mexioo, Oklahoma and Ari zona, the oommittee advises eaoh of the said territories to elect four delegates, and the admission is recommended. 'An alternate delegate for each dele gate to the national convention to act in case of the absenoe of a delegate, shall be elected in the same manner and at the same time as the delegate is elected. ' 'All notices of contest must be filed in writing with the secretary of the national oommittee, acoompanpied by printed statements of the grounds of contest, which shall be made public The preference in order of hearing and determining such contests will be given by the convention in aooordanoe with the dates of filing such notices and statements with the secretary. " " Democratic Committee to Meet Philadelphia, Dec. 17. W. F. Har rity, chairman of the democratic na tional committee this afternoon re quired the secretary of the ccommittes to notify the members thereof to assem ble in Washington City on January 16 next for the purpose of selecting a time and place for holding the next Democratic convention. Chairman Har rity has reoeived letters from the com mercial bodies of fifty cities urging the national oommittee the select a late date for the convention. The business people contend that a long campaign unsettles trade. It is believed that a date not later than the middle of July will be selected. : People's Party Convention. Terra Haute, Ind., Deo. 17. The national executive committee of the People's party has issued a call for the national convention at Lindell house, St. Louis, January 17, 1896, to fix the time and place for holding a national convention and to transact other busi- Another Nihilist Conspiracy. 1 Berlin, Deo. 18. A special from Moscow says a conspiracy against the life of the czar has been unearthed there. Another dispatch says a num- ;ber of bombs have been seized, and , several men and women, inoluding a ! prominent nihilist leader, have been ' arrested. GREAT STREET CAR STRIKE" About 5,000 Men Involved Public Sen timent Said to Be With Strikers. Philadelphia, Dec. 19. The great strike of motormen and conductors of the Union Traction line began early this mornin&r. The sentiment nf the, public is clearly with the strikers. Ihe company employes about 5,000 men. Two-thirds of them are mem bers of the employes' association. The demand of the men is for a working day of ten hours with $2 a dav. a, rea sonable time for meals, protection from the weather and recognition of their organization. At 12 o'clock the street railwav traf- fio all over the city, with the excep tion of a few lines, is at a standstill. The entire Dolioe force is hnsv sing the minor outbreaks of violence and men are locked up at every station. Despite the efforts of the strike lenders , to reserve order, there has been much violenoe, although none of a serios na-f ture. At Cumberland nnrl AmVinr streets about 100 women plugged the switcnes. xne conductors tried to re- open the switches but were driven awav . by the women. Soores of men have been arrested for outting the trolley wire. ' ' - Education in Alaska. San Francisoo, Deo. 19. The United States commissioner of education has issued a report on education in Alaska, from which it appears that during the past year there have been maintained there sixteen day.scjiools with twenty four teachers. . There .have been also maintained seven oontract schools with forty-nine teachers and employes;, The' commissioner reoommends the appro priation of $50,000 for the ensuing . year for education in Alaska. One of ' the oddest recommendations of the re- port is that the government increase its ' appropriation for the introduction of domestic reindeer as a food supply for the people. Nearly .400 were intro-1 dnced last year. ,J!'1 ' ; Proposed Hawaiian Cable. New York, Dec. 19. The govern ment of Hawaii has granted to Col onel Spaulding, a well known planter of the Hawaiian islands, a concession for a cable to the United States, with a subsidy of $40,000 a year.' Colonel Spaulding's idea is to apply to the gov ernment of the United States for a sufficient subsidy to warant the laying of the cable and for its maintenance.' The object is to secure to the United States the advantage of a cable com munication from the Hawiaiian islands, in the hope that, the cable at some future time may be extended to Australia and China, with which coun tries we have large and growing com mercal relations. " Another Defaulter for Mexico. Terre Haute, Deo. 19. The abscond ing Adams express agent, George W. McCammon, has been traced tcv Jack son, Miss. , and the police have received, a telegram that he has left there for Natchez. He is probably trying to reaoh New Orleans, so as to get" to Mexico. It is said his stealings will amount to fully $5,000. The safe could not be opened here and was shipped to the manufactory, at Cincinnati. Until it is opened the exact amount cannot be given. .'; Tarred and Feathered. " Wilkesbarre, Pa. , Dec. 1 9. Charles Durchek, a student at the Wyoming' seminary, in Kingston, a resident of Freeland, Luzerne county, where his father is a wealthy brewer, was tarred and feathered by thirty students, last night, on the campus. The students had for the past few weeks missed ar ticles from their rooms, and after quietly investigating the matter, found that Durchek was guilty. Fast Bicycle Ride. Denver, Deo. 19. A special to the Republican from Cheyenne says: Ihe fastest mile ever ridden on a bicycle was made here yesterday on a thirty eight pound, ninety-six inoh gear tan dem by Charles . Erswell and John Green, who rode one mile, flying start, unpaced, on a straight-away oourse in 1:17 1-5. The ride was made before a wind blowing thirty miles an hour. ' ' Confederate Veterans Fledged. -) V New York, Deo. 19. The officers of the Confederate Veteran camp of New York met in special exeoutive session last night and unanimously adopted . a resolution pledging themselves, in the event of war, to raise in New York and offer to the president a company ' of Confederate veterans to battle "for the honor of our country and the glory of our flag." Coin's New Party. Chicago, Dec. 18. W. H.' Harvey, the oracle of free silver, who is best known as "Coin," today launched his new politioal party. According to the press notice which Mr. Harvey gave out, it is to be known as "Patriots of America. " Its essetial mission is tc advance the cause of free silver, as well as to eliminate selfishness from poli tics, and it is expected rapidly to over come all existing politioal parties. The national offioers are: W. H. Har vey, first national patriot; Charles H. McClure, national recorder, and James H. Adams, national treasurer,