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The Hood River Glacier. It's a Cold Day When , We Get Left. VOL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 17, 18. NO. 34. 3(ood Iftver Slacier. PUBLISHED EVBBY FRIDAY BY S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. On, year. O 00 Biz months...... 1 00 Three month. M M BnKle copy..... t Cat. THE GLACIER barbershop; ' 1 HOOD RITBR, OR. . GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Bhaving and hair-cutting neatly done. Satis actiou guaranteed, EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. An Interesting Collection of Item From the Two Hemisphere Presented In m ;, Condensed Form A Large Amount ''of Information In a Small Space. Reoent census figures show that in . ten years Massachusetts has lost in population. A severe shook of earthquake was recently felt in New Westminster and most portions of the Fraser valley. ' The Amerioan bark Arcturus parted her cable and went to pieces on the rooks at Santa Rosalia, Cal. . One man was drowned. Fire1 in the Chicago Forge & Bolt Company plant did $75,000 damage. The plant is owned by the American Bridge Company. The secretary of the interior has ap proved the selection of 1,300,000 acres of land in the Bismarok, N. D. , distriot, and 686,000 acres in Montana made by v the Northern Paoiflo. ' The members of the Venezuela com mission met in Washington : and re ceived their commissions from Seoetary Olney, and were administered the oath . of offloe,'.and elected their offloers. ' The Cheyenne north-bound passenger train was wrecked at , Chugwater, Wyo., by running into a bunch of cat tle in a out . Fireman Parker was killed and Engineer O'Neill hurt Four ooaohes werd derailed. " The National Association of Manu facturers of the United States will shortly hold their annual meeting in Chioago. Particular attention will be given to the Nicaragua oanal, the con vention favoring the government own ership of the great waterway. The reoent 'massacre' at Ormah is stated to have been terrible. Official dispatches Admit 900 . Christians Were killed, but acoording to private ao oounts about 2,000 Christians were killed.' A massaore is said to have oc curred at Birejik, an important town on the Euphrates. - This outrage is be lieved to have been oommited by Kurds and Hamedios in the colony. The am bassadors have received word that the bloodshed there was xeoeptionally seri ous. A large meeting of the Allegheny County Bar Association was recently held in Philadelphia to deoide the ques tion whether women should be ad mitted to praotioe. - The women were victorious by a vote of more than 10 to 1, consequently they will be accorded the same privileges as their male col leagues.' The 'question was decided after a lively disoussion of a resolution, whioh called on the judges to prohibit women from becoming membera of the bar in Allegheny oounty. - - Another ' uprising J has occurred in Fpromsa; . . . At a hotel fire in Altoona, Pa., three people were killed by a falling wall. , Meetings are being held in Chioago to devise means to aid the suffering Armenians. .''..'.,: , In a railroad wreck in South' Africa twenty-eight persons were killed and twenty-three seriously injured. Nearly 1,000 chests of tea of the cargo of the . big tramp steamer Afrida were" damaged on the voyage from Yokohama to San Francisco, and gome of the stuff will be a total loss.' An oten switch, caused by the care lessness of a . conductor resulted in a collision - of a freight and passenger train near i Chihoothe.O. . Six people were killed and many more were in jured;- - : A Chicasro. Milwaukee & St Paul rain crashed into a funeral procession at Plina street, Chioago, injuring five persons.. One of the oarriage drivers was thrown fifty feet, but none of the injured will die. Monsismore Satolli, apostolic dele gate to the United States, has been raised to the rank of cardinal of the church. The ceremony, which took Jaoe at the venerable cathedral in Eal timore, consisted in conferring the red berretta, significant of the high station. Two children, aged 7 and 8 years, were oaptured by- the police in San Franoisoo, in the act of robbing a store. They had been assisted by larger boys in securing an entrance, and confessed, to having had previously entered another store in the same man ner. ' " At Albany., N. Y,, the climax of one of the most dramatic and sensational oriminal incidents of the state's history was made publio when, just forty eight hours prior to the execution of the death sentence of Bartholomew Shea, another man confessed to the murder, and Shea stepped from beneath the shadow of death thrown by the eleotrio chair. Preparations for the execution had been made, the state eleo trioian was already upon the . ground. The whole Cuban island outside of the city of Havana is now in the hands of the insurgents. ' They have not an nihilated the Spanish forces, 'nor have they routed the whole army . in any single pitched battle; yet the situation is practically in their hands, and so completely have they outgeneraled the Spanish that, to all appearances, Mar tinez Campos' army might as well be in Spain for any oheok it has upon the movements of Gomez's army, A speoial from Washington says: A more important issue than that over the Venezuela boundary may be raised be tween the United States ana Great Britain if reoent reports from Nica ragua shall be confirmed by later de velopments. ' The substance of these reports, sustained by important evi dence, is that British interests are reaching out for the oontrol of the Nicaragua canal, and that the govern ment is being urged to annul the char ter to the existing corporation. , ; Secretary Carlisle has made publio a circular on the subject of the new bond issue. The loan will be a "popular" one, and the circular, which is dated January 6, gives notice that the gov ernment will sell $100,000,000 80-year 4 per cent Coupon or registered bonds, dated February 1; 1895, for whioh pur chasers will be required to pay in gold coin or gold certificates. . . This will be the first issue by .the present adminis tration of such a large amunt of bonds at one time. The ciroluar also contains an intimation of a possible further issue of bonds . should the . issue or sale of an additional or different f ornvfof bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve be , authorized by law before February 5. - ' Disastrous prairie fires in Western Kansas, have caused . great loss of life and property. An explosion . of ; natural gas in a Chioago tenement house wrecked - a building and injured three people. ' . The gross earnings of the Northern Paoiflo for six months ended December 31, were $11,588,148 an inorease of $1,625,533. A board of naval officers has been ap pointed by the navy department for in vestigating the condition of the nine monitors lying at the League island yard, Philadelphia. " Disorders have ooourred in the East End of London growing out of the fact that the German and Dutch sailors about the docks were hissed. The windows of the shops kept by German Jews were broken, and several German olubs were closed. The London Times in an editorial, reminds the United States that whether we have troubles in Europe and Africa or not, we will not yield on the Venezuela question. We have in sulted nobody, but if we are compelled to fight we shall be" ready to defend what is worth fighting for. Stephen V. Emmons, a prominent gold miner of New York, has addressed an open letter to President Cleveland, setting forth a unique plan for main taining the treasury reserve. , His suggestion is that if ' the seoretary of the treasury will put himself in com munication with the owners of gold mines throughout the country, he can cause the entire product of the, United States to be at the. disposal of the gov ernment in exohange for silver coin. He promises the oo-operation of all his interests. At the request of Senators Mitchell and MoBride the seoretary of the in terior has direoted a special agent of the department to proceed to Oregon immediately, to make such investiga tions as can be made at this 'season of the year in relation to the alleged ap propriation and , occupation of . lands within the Bull Run reservation (irom which Portland reoeives its water sup ply), the pasturing of cattle and sheep thereon, and the destruction of timber by forest fires and trespassers. This agent is direoted. by the seoretary to oonfer with the chairman and other officers of the Portland Water Company and their attorneys, to co-operate with them in every way. The rebel ohieftan, : Gungunhana, who has been making war on the Por tuguese in Mozambique, South Afrioa, has been captured, and the rebellion will be terminated. ; , : . Judge Morrow, of Sari Franoisoo, gave judgment in the sum of $800 to a passenger who was refased acoommo dation on the steamer Willamette Valley for the reason that he had a scalper s tioket. OREGON'S POPULATION RAPID INCREASE NOTED SINCE , THE YEAR 1890. Interesting;, and Spicy News Notes From Our Sister States Notable Increase in Agricultural Products Mining and Dairying Oregon. There are five stamp mills now in Jackson oounty. The Columbia river is how lower than it has been for many years. Of forty-three vessels examined by the health officers at Astoria, during the last quarter, no contagious diseases were found. . ".: The total sales of land through the office of the board of school land com missioners during' 1895 was 71,923 acres at the value of $92,956. A cargo of . lumber is strewn along Elk Beaoh for miles, whioh is supposed to have been floated off the decks of lumber schooners during the late storm. Sturgeon fishing has become quite an industry around The Dalles. Several large catches are reported in that dis trict, a ' reoent one !' weighing 425 pounds. i The Southern Miners'. Association has formed a permanent organization at Grant's Pass. ' About 200 miners were present and genuine enthusiasm prevailed. Wheat is now moving out of Pendle ton about as rapidly as the railroad oan handle it The movement was started by a reoent.' bulge when 400,000 bush els were sold at 40 cents net. The Polk oounty census returns show 2,440 legal voters. . The entire popula tion is 9,193. Over 2,000,000 pounds of hops were' raised; 795,951 bushels of wheat, and 530,507 bushels of oats. The Coos Bay Creamery Associa tion paid in aotual cash to its milk re ducers during 1895, $13,600. Notwith standing the low price of butter this season, the year was fully as good as in 1894. J : ," , '" , ' Work on the construction of the freezing and packing houses, at Goble, is progressing as rapidly as possible. The machinery will arrive this month and the establishment will be ready for operation by May. Mrs. . Warren, the first white 'child born in Oregon, and one of the sur vivors of the Whitman massaore, was reoently married to William Cochran. The couple have moved to San Jose, Cal. The bride was 60 years old at the time of her marriage. The estimated amount of revenue to be raised this year, $783,000, is based upon the assumption that, if the ordin ary "expenses of government are the same as last year, $94,524, the excesses will amount to $88,459,. which will bring last year's figures. up to, in round numbers, $783,000.' This would give a rate of 5.4 mills. The promoters of the Oregon sum mer- school have formed a corporation with a capital stook of $20,000, divided into 2,0,000 shares. - The objeots of the Association arc to advanoethe standard and efficiency, of the teachers of the various eduoational institutions of the state of Oregon, It is intended to maintain and conduct one or more schools and to provide lectures and in struction on pedagogics and the asso ciated sciences. Most of the shipments from Portland to the Sandwioh islands up to this time, have . been bran, feed, shorts, middlings, etc.,-- and some lumber, while fruit, bananas and oranges have been brought back; The Oregon Rail way & Navigation Company have ar ranged that their ..outgoing steamers Will oall at the islands, and if sufficient trade they will call on their way baok here, , Feed, fertilizer, lumber and flou are , the products whioh. Oregon intends to ship to that point ' " The total population ; of Oregon is about 878,000, a gain of more than 100 per cent over 1885, and of 18 per cent over 1890, Between 1880 and 1890 the state inoreased at the rate of 79.63 per cent. Inorease has been more rapid, ' therefore, between 1885 and 1895, than between 1880 and 1890. On the other hand, the rate of inorease was greater between 1885 and 1890 than between 1890 and 1895. It will never be as' , large again, beoause &a greater . immigration - will- bear a smaller proportion to the whole. ' Ore gon gained 94.65 per - cent between 1850 and 1860 because the original population was so small that the im migration of that era exceeded it The gain of 18 per cent between 1890 and 1895 is just about such as shown by states whioh are growing, but not re ceiving Considerable immigration, New York gained 18 per cent between 1880 and 1890. ' . Washington. A new logging camp has been estab lished at Sunnyside, on Lake What com. . ,The large log jam in the Coweeman in Cowlitz county, was broken with dyna mite. .- '. ; -.- -' Adams county claims not to have had a sheriff's sale advertised for two months. , . Waitsburg is discussing the matter of putting in a pumping system during the dry season. y E. P. Brinnon, a pioneer of Jefferson oounty, is dead. The town of Brinnon was named after him. Snohomish expeots to add an import ant industry this year to' her resources, namely: a beet sugar faotory. The teaohers of Walla Walla oounty have decided to have a permanent or ganization, to hold a monthly meeting at Walla Walla, Waitsburg. Presoott and Dixie. The new fish oannery at Richardson will be completed during the coming Maroh. Its oapaoity will be 60,000 oases and will ; employ not less than twenty people. , .' The Watcom board of tracte has ap pointed a committee to look up a site for the Lynden creamery on Belling ham bay, where good shipping facili ties can be had. The merchants and ship owners of San FranoiBco and. Puget sound con template a telegraph line from Tatoosh island to Gray's Harbor. This stretch of country is totally nnoovered. ".' The executive committee of the Northwest Mining Association have decided to call a convention on Febru ary 22, at Spokane. Invitations will be extended to the state Officials of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon tana. - ;,v The Everett school board has deter mined to bond the outstanding indebt edness of the district, and then to put expenses on a cash basis. . .The board is not inclined to issue any more war rants. The problem it has to solve is to run the school without giong in debt ' The leading educators of this state are to hold , an important meeting in Spokane, next summer to organize a society and take action for a unifica tion of the publio school system of Washington, including the state uni versity, agricultural college and state normal sohools. " - As a result of the prospecting done by a diamond drill on the coal proper ties of the Everett and . Monte Cristo Company, about three and i one-half miles southeast of Granite "Falls, a tributary to the town of Everett, it has been decided to develope ' the property by sinking a shaft. ; ; The salmon pack statistics for the Columbia river for 1895 show: Spring ; pack Chinook salmon, 437,810 cases; bluebacks, ' and steelheads, 52,566 oases. Total value, $2,711,853.75;: amount paid for fish, $1,776,547. ' Allowing one-half the catch to the Washington fishermen makes the amount received by the fishermen of Washington for spring salmon deliver ed to canneries $888,278. 50. Fall paok 92,86 -cases of silvers! des, 81,500 oases of Chinook, 3, 500 cases of steel head; total, 187,086 oases, valued at $456,50960. '.. . Idaho. .''. A new lumbering enterprise has just been started at South B6ise. The mill cost $40,000 and will cut about 4,000, 000 feet this year. The maximum ca pacity is 40,000 feet per day. ? ; A coal mine has been located about twenty-five miles from Idaho Falls. It is a superior quality of coal, and oan be delivered at that place for $3.50 per ton, one-half of the prioe of soft coal at the present time. It is a very light coal, free from iron and with great heat. A road is to be constructed to the mine. , ' A oompahy has been organized whioh has seonred deeds to ' gravel bars and water rights about the Horseshoe Bend to Salmon river. It is the object of the company to construct a large cut' through the neck of the bend which will be 18,000 feet long, and by this means drain 9,000 feet of the present river channel. , . ... V-.-'"-- A Chicago capitalist Is about' to launch on the Snake river a veritable floating mining oamp. On the- boat there is a good sized boarding and lodging house to acommodate 150 miners an immense stationary .engine and boilers together with dredgers and pumps of all sizes. - This mechanical boat battery will move up and down Snake river : working the banks,, for gold., ;- '' v . .r; .,: The 'report of Wells, Fargo & Com pany gives the total mineral production of Idaho, in 1895, at $7,853,820, an inorease of $511,900 over last year. Of this production the gold was $2,521, 000; silver $2,807,450; lead, $2,026, 680. The difference between Wells- Fargo's total and the assay office esti mate is ' largely accounted for by the different value per ounce of silver, the mint using the coinage value and Wells-Fargo the commercial price. The difference, 62 cent, ' amounts to $2,600,000. ' '. ' ;';'"y.; ; ; ' '. .-Montana. , . ; . A new hotel is to be built early in the spring at the Old Hunter's Hot Springs resort. . . The Odd Fellows at Belt have let a contract .for a new building The lower floor is to be used as a public hall. ;.; '; '.'' . A stucco oompany has been incor porated with a capital stock of $15,000. It is to work the gypsum fields at Kibbey. PRESIDENT'S LETTER CLEVELAND WRITES TO SENA- TOR CAFFERY. No Agreement With a Syndicate, and Neither Banker Nor Financier In cited to Washington to Arrange for the Disposition of Bonds. Washington, Jan. 11. The debate on the Elkins resolution in the senate last Friday, when the administration was accused by several senators of having entered into an agreement with the syndioate to float the expected issue of bonds, is the subject of a letter writ ten Sunday, January 5, by President Cleveland to Senator Caffery. The knowledge that suoh a letter had been addressed to Mr. Caffery was obtained tonight, and the letter was made publio by the latter. It is in the handwriting of the president, and covers six pages of olosely written paper. It is as fol lows: : ' ' ; ,'':' "I have read today in the Congres sional Reoord the debate in the senate Friday, concerning the financial situa tion and the bond issues. ' I am amazed at the intolerance that leads even ex cited partisanship to adopt as a basis of attack the unfounded accusations and assertions of a maliciously mendacious and sensational newspaper. "No banker or financier, nor any other human being, haB been invited to visit Washington for the purpose of ar ranging in any way or manner for the disposition of bonds to meet the present or future needs of the gold reserve. No arrangement of any kind has been made for the disposition of such bonds to any syndicate, or through the agency of any syndioate. No assurance of such a disposal of bonds has been directly or indirectly given to any person. In point of fact, a decided leaning toward a popular loan and advertising for bids has been plainly exhibited on the part of the administration at all times when the subject was under disoussion. "Those charged with the responsi. bility of maintaining our gold reserve,, so far as legislation renders it possible, have anxiously conferred with eaoh other, and, as occasion permitted, .with those having knowledge of ; financial and of the monetary conditions as to the best and most favorable means of selling bonds for gold. -. "The usual importance of a suooess ful result if the attempt is again made ought to be apparent to every American citizen who bestows upon . the subject a moment's patriotic thought. The secretary of the treasury from the first moment that another sale of bonds seemed to be approaching desired to offer them if issued to the people by a publio , advertisement if they could thus be successfully disposed of. After full consideration he came to the con clusion to which I fully agree that the amount of gold in the reserve being now $20,000,000 more than it was in February last, when a sale of bonds was made to a syndioate, and other conditions differing from those then existing, : justify . us in offering the bonds now about to be for sale by popu lar subscription. : .; "This Is the entire matter, and all those particulars could have been easily obtained by any member of the senate by simple inquiry. - "If Mr. Morgan, or any one else, reasoning from his own standpoint, . brought himself to the belief that the government would be constrained to sell bonds again to a syndicate, I sup pose he would have a perfect right, if he ohose, to take such steps as seemed to him prudent to' put himself in con dition to negotiate. I expect , an issue of bonds will be advertised for sale tomorrow, and bids to be invited, not only for those allowed by law, but for such other and differ ent bonds as congress may authorize during the pendency of the advertise ment f "- ';-: '' " . ? . "Not having had an opportunity to oonfer with you in person since the present session of oongress, and notic ing your participation in the debate of last Friday, I have though it not amiss to put you in possession of the facts and of the : information herein con tained..? '---"--- -'- ; Six Hundred People Killed. . Teheran, , Persia, Jan. 1 1. Two earthquakes occurred in the district of Knalkaly. , The first ooourred the night of January 2. ' The large village of Janjabad was destroyed and several others partially , destroyed. Three hundred persons were killed.' , The sec ond shock occurred January 5, and was very severe. It was felt over an area of ten miles. The town of Goi was destroyed and thousands of houses demolished. In addition great damage was done many villages. The loss of life was very great There were 600 persons killed in Goi alone, and a large number of cattle and sheep perished. , Italian Victory in Abyssinia. , Rome, Jan. 11. News is reoeived that the Italians in Abyssinia have de feated ' Emperor Menelik's forces at Makelth, the engagement taking plaoe January 7. The Shoans lost heavily, while the Italians had only three of the native troops killed and a few wounded. ,': THE : NEW TARIFF; What the Great Dailies Are Saying A About the New Emergency Bill. New York Times. : This is a "general tariff bill." Those who said in the majority report of the ways and means . committee and ' on the floor of the house that it is not suoh a bill knew that they were guilty of deliberate .misrepresentation. The bill changes every duty in the present tariff, except those relating to sugar, and it also takes wool and lumber from the free list. Why should any one deny that suoh a measure is "a general tariff bill?" And so the programme is laid out to take wool from the free list now, imposing theMcKinley duties on the carpet . makers' raw material and 60 percent of the MoKinley du ties on clothing wool, with a corre sponding inorease for woolens, and to enlarge all the other rates by 15 per cent; "in 1897-98" toenaot the entire . McKinley tariff, or something, worse; : to subject all business interests to tariff agitation ' during this 'session of con cress, dnrintr the nnlitinal nnmnnicrn . of next year, and (if the Republicans ' snail win at - the polls in 1896) during the two years thereafter. How do business men like this prospect? . ' Our Progress Is Threatened. Philadelphia Times.) The many and various arguments against an inorease of the tariff are reinforced by the latest treasury state ment, which shows the revenues for the past six months to have been $8,000,000 greater than in the corre sponding period of 1894 and the ex penditures $4,000,000 less. While re fined mineral oils and their produots represent nearly a fourth of this value, the inorease in the exports of iron and steel, machinery, leather and manufao- tures, china and glass, ohemioals, silk ' fabrics, and several other items, is even more remarkable, showing conclu sively the influence of lower duties, '' especially on raw materials, in enabl ing American manufacturers to enter the markets of the world. This most , valuable progress the tariff proposed by the house of representatives would abruptly destroy. Only Temporary Expedient.. Philadelphia North American. The president cannot shape the polioy of the Republican party. He asks for help, and he must expect help as Republicans may see fit to prescribe it. He will probably accept uoh help as is foreshadowed by the house. Hav ing led the country into embarrass ments, the Democrats cannot exneot to be permitted to devise the means of getting back to firm ground. They had that privilege last year, antl utterly failed to raise to the level of the oc-' ' oasion. None of the measures offered' are the embodiment of the polioy of thei Republioan party. They are provided for the emergenoy, are merely tem porary expedients to tide over a diffl- oulty that only a powerful remedy oan remove. A Very Big Job. ' ' ' . Utiea Observer. , . - ' - , The ways and means committee of the house of representatives have under,-. taken a very large job in trying to palm off a measure for protection as a measure that complies with President Cleveland's request. There has been no greater fraud attempted on the American people. It is peculiarly reprehensible because it is taking ad vantage of a publio crisis to impose an ' unjust, iniquitous and repudiated . , policy of taxation upon the American people. Not a Party Measure.: -'. . ..-j; Pittsburg DIspstch. , The tariff bill, while passed by a party vote, is not a party measure. No,. protectionist would acoept, as a tariff . settlement, the preservation of the in-' congruities of the Wilson aot with a 15 per cent raise. It ought to be recog nized by the Democrats that the ac ceptance of the Wilson schedules, as a -basis for an increase of revenue; is just what it claims to be, , a temporary measure to provide revenue enough to stop the swelling of the publio debt v The Syndicate Condemned." " Cincinnati Enquirer J v . . ..'.-j : If the managers of the majority in the house were in real earnest abont this business of finance, why did they not proceed to investigate the much condemned transaction under whioh a v syndioate made an enormous and un v natural profit out of the taxpayers of ' the United States? An Unfair Assumption. New York World . ' " It is currently said - that the senate ' will not pass this bill of relief. The " assumption is unfair, v There- is no warrant for saying that the senate will J refuse to pass an aot so obviously. '' neoessary for the relief of the treasury under oonditons suoh as those that now exist. - . Why Democrats Oppose. 1 Philadelphia Inquirer. - - ' The Democrats attaok this bill be- -cause it is a step away from the Wilson- Cleveland abomination. These Demo-, orats declare that we. do not need money. That is funny. Great public enterprises are still held up. The,. Philadelphia mint, for instance, lan guiahes. , -. ' v - v