V The Hooc River Glacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. 4 VOL. 7. ' HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 24, 18. .NO; 35. 3f eed Iftver (5 Lacier. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY S.F. BLYTHE. n SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. On. year. ......... ........ ..ft 00 Six months I 00 Three month! , M 8ni(l. copy. .. Ct THE GLACIER BARBER SHOP, HOOD RIVER, OR. GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Shaving and hair-cutting neatly done. Satis action guaranteed. NEIGHBORING TOWNS NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST EPITOMIZED.. .'. Development and Progress of the Varl ou. Industries' on the Pad Bo Coast Organization of an Immigration Board Oregon. ,-.. '. I Umatilla county has a movement on foot to stamp out the Russian thistle. The Bandon ? woolen (mills have started up again and are running at full capaoity. . v ... Eighteen '""millions of '. cans were made during the past season by an As toria can company. Lakeview has been indulging lately ; in rabbit drives, and thousands of the animals have been killed, ' The, work on the lighthouse at Gape Arago has been abandoned for the pres ent, owing to rough weather. A new. steamer oalled the Ruth has been put on, the Columbia river by the Oregon Railway '& Navigation Com-1 - pany.A . . The machinery has been placed in the iron works at"; Ashland and every thing is jlow running very nicely with a full force,. ' ' ' x Material has arrived at : Bandon for 1 the lights and , fog-horns at the light house there. The tower fixtures are now being plaoed. - I -? ' : A number of bob-tailed quails have been reoeived from Ohio ' and turned loose near Pendleton. It is the first of the variety in that section. The reports from Tillamook come to the eft'eot. ,.that there is, one . of .. the largest runs of Steel-head salmon ever seen in 1 the'' Wilson, Trask or other rivers. v '. "The farmers of Wallowa have plaoed on the market this fall' about 4,000 head of hogs,' which at ' thie prevailing low prioes have realized the owners about $15,000. ,- Pendleton's first installment of flour shipments, is the first ever made from Eastern Oregon to Australia; it consists of 5,000 barrels, which in Australia will have a valuation of about $16,000. Although little work has been done on the actual construction of the As toria railroad, the surveying is being pushed right along, and the prospects of building the road are now considered good. . n .-..- - ; Oregon shows a great inorease in the manufacture, of , butter and cheese in the past , ten years.'.' n 1885 the; num ber of , pounds l manufactured r was 8,286,923; in 1896 this inoreased to 6,821,667. The Beaver Hill coal mine district is reported to show indications of a very prosperous future, and an extra . fine vein of coal has been . diaoovered and the small , camp has grown to be a prominent'distriot " The state military board have de cided against an encampment of the Oregon National Guard. The expenses would have been about $20,000, and the members of the board were averse to so large an expenditure at this time. Before the coming ' summer is over upward .of 600, more. Btamps ; will be dropping in Baker oounty than during 1895. Hundreds of men will be added to the payrolls, and plaoer mines will i be operated on a scale unprecedented in the county.' :; . ' One of the sheep kings of Umatilla oounty sayB there is a heavy inorease in the demand for sheep for spring de livery, and he believes that sheep will be worth more this year than for some time past, and that there would be an inorease of 75 per cent over last year in the number of sheep. . N. ...Washington.. '. -1 A new road has been " opened from the Sillaauamish at Grand Falls to Canyon oreek. Walla Walla oounty is advertising forbids for the ereotion of a house on the oounty farm. . A large number of men are engaged rebuilding the Northern Pacific tele graph lines between Pasoo and Prosser, The work will be completed ., this month. A regulalry organized band of horse and saddle thieves have been operating in Yakima and Kititas valleys. The oounties that have no bonded debts in Washington are Cowlitz, Garfield, Klikitat, San Juan and Whatoom. , A log boom in the Snohomish river, containing about 10,000,000 feet of logs, has broken and the logs are fast going to sea. : ' The saloon men ' of Blaine have inaugurated a crusade against the minors, who have been in the habit of visiting their saloons. ... ,.-rr The shipment of Washington lumber to foreign oountries inoreased from 80,000,000 feet in 1894 to 130,000,000 feet in 1895 with prospects for still heavier ! shipments in 1896. - Parties have leased a boom at the mouth of the Nooksaok river and will begin work at once to remove, the jam that has made steam navigation and log driving impraotioal for the last four years. '. . A vigorous fight is predicted between the stockmen of the Big Bend, and the small farmers for possession of the north half of the Big Bend.. Some of the settlers are trying to take up land under the desert law, . and the cattle raisers . will fight the matter in the oourts. - . Evertt has several mills in view. The construction of the Bell lumber mill, on the subsidy site will begin at onoe. ' ' The new company, who are rebuilding the burned Smith" mill at Lowell are aotively pushing the enter prise forward and preparations for the foundation of a plant are now being made. The local land offloe at North Yaki ma has an application from the com missioner of arid lands for the; segrega tion of 77)180 acres of land in Yakima oounty to be withdrawn under the Carey act ' ', The work of selecting lands and making preliminary lines for the canal has been quietly going on since the existence of the oommison, though advantage has been taken to a very large extent of previous surveys made. . , . ' ' " '" The . oontraot ' for furnishing ; and placing the machinery in the flour mill at Spokane has been concluded, and the mill will be in operation about the first of April It will rank as one of the best equipped mills in the United States, being one of the very few hav ing only the latest improved ma chinery throughout This . establish ment will not contain a single piece of machinery or material of any kind that was ever in place before in any mill, and every piece is of the most reoent design.,. .:. Great interest . has been manifested throughout Washington in the immi gration convention' which has just oon Oluded its session in Seattle.- The re sult of the convention was the organ ization of a permanent state immigra tion asociation. - The plan of organiza tion provides v that the ; organization shall consist of one member from- each county; that there shall be an executive oommittee of seven chosen, who shall elect a president, secretary and treasurer from their number. C. L. Webb, . of Seattle, has been elected president. The committee earnestly reoommend that 'an appropriation of not less than $25,000 per annum should be made by the next legislature, and there seemed to be no doubt that this recommenda tion, would be granted for the ques tion. ...... - -. ... ;-'-.- - Idaho. . The railroad payroll at Pooatello is J40.000 per month. -;" y -'.V. v fr,A Grangeville' citizen intends to put in a hotel and a livery stable at Dixie the coming spring. ' s : ; ; " .;, Boise City is ready to receive bids for city sidewalk bonds; the improve ments were recently voted by the peo pie of that city. . The People's Canal Company have a large number of teams on their work at the west side where they are grading as rapidly as possible. The estimated cost of the woolen mills project at American Falls is $54,000. 'The actual construction will probably commence in the spring. A movement is on foot for the in corporation of the town of Wardner, An attempt was made to incorporate it three years ago but the legal require ments were not all fulfilled. ; Pooatello is the. town chosen as the next meeting place for the State Teaohers Association! The recent ses sion at Boise was a great suooess, and H. Barton, of Idaho Fall, was elected president. ' There was patented in the state of Idaho during the year, 9,893 aores of land in aid of the State Agricultural college, 8,708 for. insane asylum, 19, ,954 acres for penitentiary, 1,320 for public buidings, 22,883 for scientific school, 96,492 for charitable institu tions, 5,607 for the normal school. Of public lands in Idaho there were sur veyed during the year 480,895 aores, The Northern r'acinc company re ceived patents for 91,411 acres of Idaho lana during mu year, .. The Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma territory have all left their farms, and hive gone to ghost dancing. EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. An Interesting Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented In a Condensed Form A Large Amount of Information in a Small Space. ; The notorious outlaw, Bill Dooley, is again creating trouble for the officers, this time in Texas. ' A special from Rome says 10,000 Abyssinians were killed or wounded in an attack upon Makile.' The heirs of the lateJay Gould are being made to pay their inheritance tax by the New York courts. Both Cincinnati and St Louis are working hard to secure the national Demooartio convention. Despite the order of the court, col ored children were denied admission to the publio schools in Perry, O. T. ' The available cash balance of the treasury is something over $180,000, 000 and the gold reserve below $60,- ooo.ooo. , .. , , ' ; The government is taking ' aotive steps to put a stop to poaching in Yel lowstone Park, in order to proteot the few remaining buffaloes. , Mrs. Alva E. Vanderbilt, ; the di vorced wife of William K. Vanderbilt, has been married to Oliver H. P. Bel mont, Mayor Strong, of New York city, performing the ceremony. ' ' , The term of F. B. Rookef eller, the ex-banker of Wilksbarre, Pa., who olosed the doors of his private bank in February, 1893, defrauding 600 de- j positors out of nearly $500,000, has ex pired. , Edwin Fields, who at one time owned a large part of the city of Tomb stone, Ariz., and a mine wortn more than half a million, has been taken to the ooor house at Dunning, 111., to spend his few remaining years. ' , f Attorney-General Maloney, of Il linois, has bearun quo warranto pro ceedings against the National Linseed Oil Company on the ground tnat it is a trust - The case is similar, to the pro ceedings -' pushed - against ' the late whisky trust ... ... - Those in a nosition to have early in formation on the subject, claim to have good reason for believing that large German banks intend to suosoriDe ior $40,000,000 . of the new government loan. The Deutsche bank, it is said, intends to subscribe for $25,000,000 of the bonds, and the Bleichroeders for $15,000,000. It is also said, that the imperial counoil has been largely influ enced in consenting to . these subscrip tions by the strained relations' now ex isting between Germany and England. The London Times in an editorial, reminds the ' United 7 States that "wrhftthfir we have troubles in Europe ind Africa or not, we will not yield on the Venezuela question, we nave in sulted nobody, but if we are oompelled to fight we shall be ready to defend What is worth fighting lor." , i Three brothers were fatally injured by an explosion of dynamite in Phila delphia. The boys expeirmented.with a toy safe which they were trying to open with dynamite, an explosion oc curring, breaking open the door. The three were so badly burned that their death , is daily expeoted. The mother also sustained serious injuries trying to put out the flames. '.. t , - V-. A representative gathering of men anA women of Detroit, took action ex pressive of keenest sympathy with the Armenians, and also Dy a gut oi over $500 made a substantial beginning in rendering" .financial aid to that op pressed r people.1 .The meeting ! also adopted memorials , to tne . umwa States government,' and' to the queen of Great Britain, urging action which shall forever end the atrocities perpe trated by the Turks against christians. a dianfttori from Johannesburg says it is reported - from Pretoria that Dr. Jamieson and otner omoers interesroa with him in the recent disturbance with the Boers, in South Africa, have been started for Natal, where they will be handed Over to the British authori ties to be tried under the laws making it a punishable offense to prepare a warlike demonstration against a friend ly state,.. j ; ; ,,-i,; ; ' , 'V ( ' n ; Alexander j. Boroday, an electrioian of the Westinghouse Company, of Pittsburg, Pa. , is believed to be held a nrisoner bv the Russian government, probably in Siberia. He was a natur alized American citizen, but had been aotive in politioal agitation in Russia before ooming here. 'i Albert Schmidt, general superintendent oi tne west inghouse works, has communicated the facts to Secretary Olney. ;;;,;'. A The London correspondent of the As sociated Press says that Great Britain in aeriouslv and steadily preparing for war on a very large scale at sea and on land, against Germany, or against Ger many, Franoe and Russia, should they nombine asrainst her. Emperor Will iam threw down the gauntlet; it was promptly pioked up anc energetic steps warn immediatelv taken bv the British government to back up this action by a most imposing display oi sea power, Ten days of suffering from cold and privation on a rocky bluff, during whioh time seven of the crew, includ ing the captain and mate, met their death, and the other mate and a sea man terrible accidents, tells the tale of the wrecking of the big four-masted English ship Jeannette Cowan, '. on Vancouver island, Puget sound, other wise known as the "Boneyard of the Paoifio Ocean." Seven people are dead and two injured. The officers of the tug tell a harrowing story of the wreck and of the crew and its sur roundings as found by them." . The interest of American millers is centered in the nex meeting of the executive committee of the National Millers' Trade Association, to be held January 27, in Chicago. Millers have recently practically deoided upon a per sistent agitation for reciprocity with South American countries,, and will make a determined effort for the re peal of that portion of the tariff law which they think conflicts with the flour interests of the United States. B. A. Hart, a member of the associa tion, says the prospect of the Cubans gaining their independence will have a tendency to promote oommeroial rela tions between the new republic and this oountry. ' . Canada is to have a naval reserve. , Whisky, not wines, will be used for christening the new battle-ship Ken- tucy. . . Peter Hougaard, believed to have been insane, killed himself and his wife and five children in Chicago. : The matter of the Behrihg sea arbi tration treaty is at last in a fair way to be settled, Canada having agreed to its terms. ' . ; .v-' T Vigorous search is being conducted for the hidden wealth of an old Spaniard, who died some years ago in Los Angeles. The Occidental college of Los An geles, Cal. , a Presbyterian institution, has been consumed by fire. The loss is $70,000, partly insured. . The overtaxation of the public archi tect's offloe is given as the reason for the delay in the construction of the Portland, Or., public building. Colonel Ingersol, the great infidel, has been extended an invitation to preach in a Chicago church, and to give his views of ideal Christianity. The second coming of the redeemer has been prophesied again by an evan gelist of Baltimore, who thinks the war talk is the beginning of the millenium. Through" the cheapness of corn, American distillers, for the first time in ten years, can successfully oompete in the French market with the Ger mans. V' .' " The candidacy of Senator Allison is announced for nomination on the Re publican ticket for the presidency. Iowa s congressional delegation is solid for him. '. . " : , It has been authoritatively an nounced that the Yale : management has deoided to abandon the project of a race with Oxford-Cambridge crews, of London. . . - The sultan of Turkey has issued a decree prohibiting the distribution of funds collected in this country by the Red Cross Society for the relief of suf fering Armenians. A dispatch from London says the statements made in the Italian news papers that Great Britain had ceded Zilah, on the Straits of Babel-Mandeb, to Italy, is officially donied. ' A dispatch from Vienna says Count Thun, governor of Bohemia, has re signed, and that his resignation is ex peoted fo lead to a - healing of the breaoh between the young Czeons and the Germans. , i r'.'.v'.' The Gloucester fishing schooner For- tuna sunk in a collision with the Bos ton Fruit Company's steamer Barn stable, off Highland light, Boston har bor.; Nine of the Fortuna's crew were drowned and fourteen saved. . Mail advioes from Hawaii state that friends of the ex-queen are anxious for war between England and the United States, believing that in the event of such hostilities England would seize the Hawaiian : islands and restore Lil iuokalani. ' ' "' The City bank, of Minneapolis, a state banking institution, ( suspended payment this week, pending ex amination. The i capital - stock , is 2300.000. The deposits at the last statement, December 81, 1895, were $523,604. It is claimed the depositors will be paid in full. t ;; A cablegram from Prague announces the death of Charles Jonas, United States consul at Crefeld, Germany.-. Mr. Jonas was formerly consul at St. Petersburg, but exchanged positions with John Karel. He was at one time lieutenant-governor of Wisoonsin. ..; The certainty of the settlement of the Venezuelan boundary dispute '. is still in doubt, since Venezuela repeat edly affirms that it is impossible for her to compromise the boundary claims, by anv treatv or convention, because of the terms of her national constitution. "There is a general opinion," says a letter to a Boston tobacco dealer, "both among insurgents and Spaniards, that General Campos has become demented His aotions, not only in the direction of the campaign, but bis private and ordinary doings are such as to give good grounds for this belief." AT CHICAGO, JULY 7 PLACE AND TIME OF THE DEMO CRATIC CONVENTION. Four Cities Competed for It They Were Chicago, St. Louis, New York and Cincinnati Twenty -nine ' Ballots Necessary to Select. . Washington, Jan. 18. The Demo cratic convention will be held in Chi cago, July 7. That was the decision reached today by the national Demo cratic committee after an interesting and, at times, exciting session, which continued until 11 o'clock tonight There was oosiderable difference of opinion as to the time of holding the convention, the proposition advanced by Mr. Thurman who held the proxy of the- New Mexico member, being ' to hold it June 2, two weeks before the Republican convention, and the other by Hugh Wallace, of Washington, to hold it July 7. The oommittee de cided upon the latter date by a vote of 32 to 18. ', The main : interest seemed to center in the ohoice of the convention city. For this honor there were four appli cants, Chicago, St Louis, Cincinnati and New York, Thirty minutes was allowed each in which to present its olaims. : The speeches made by distin guished citizens in each instance, were of a high order of excellence, and, at times, aroused the greatest enthusiasm. The balloting began at 6 o'clock this evening, and from the first a long and bitter struggle Was indicated. The first ballot resulted: ' , Chicago, 6; Cincinnati, 11; St Louis, 19; New York, 14. ' v There was practically no variation, except for the change of a vote or two, until the-twenty-third ballot, when Chicago began gradually to increase her vote at the expense of New York. On the twentieth ballot. New York's strength was rapidly disintegrating, her vote going almost bodily for Chicago; but St. Louis, which had tenaciously clung to. her nineteen votes, also cap tured several of Cincinnati's votes, and, on the ballot before the last St Louis led Chicago by one vote. ; Before the last ballot, the twenty-ninth, whioh was taken shortly before 11 o'olook, the four remaining votes of New York were thrown to .Chicago, and she ob tained the necessary plurality. Sena tor Brioe voted for Cincinnati to the last ', " : ' GOVERNMENT GRAIN MONOPOLY The Discussion on Von Kanits' Pro posal In the Reichstag. Berlin, Jan. 18. In- the reiohstag today, during a disoussion of Count von Kanitz's proposal for the establish ment of a government grain monopoly, the oount denied, that it would raise the prioe of bread. He also said that the soheme was not socialistic, and that its object was to benefit the peasantry. Baron von Bieberstein, the minister for foreign affairs, replying to Count von Kanitz, said that the letter's no tion had created expectations whioh could not be realized, and had aroused anxiety and distrust He denied the existence of universal distress, and as serted that what distress existed was not due to the commercial treaties. The centrist leader, Herr von Galen, formally, announoed . that the. center party was in favor of the absolute rejec tion of Count von Kanitz's scheme. Count Herbert von Bismarck -was listened to by a full house as he arose to speak. He favored Count von Kanitz's grain-monopoly bill, but adr mitted the proposal should not be de scribed as a perfect remedy of the agri cultural disoussion. But he impressed upon the government that the initiative lay with themselves, and that neglect of the question would drive the peasants into the arms of the socialists. ; v. ; Confessed and Was Sentenced. Colorado Springs, Jan." .18. Robert R. Smith today pleaded guilty to im plication; in the robbery of the Wells Fargo express , office; of $16,000 in Grassy Gulch,! near Victor, some months ago. Smith was driver of the wagon. ' He says his confederates were George Smith, recently killed in Vic tor; Gray and Welch, who broke jail here some time ago, and a man named Hay e. Smith -was sentenced, to six years' imprisonment : f - 'Mrs. Langtry's Stolen Jewels. London, Jan. 18. Governor Schust er, of the Union bank, of London, said today it was true that Mrs. Langtry had brought action for the loss of her jewels, whioh were entrusted to the care of the bank, and which were obtained from it; by a forged ., order. Mr. Schuster added, however, that the bank was resisting . Mrs. Langtry's claim. The jewels have been variously esti mated in value . from $50,000 to $200,000. .. ";-';;'.- -' 1 . Home for Salvation Army Officers. Newark, N. J.,. Jan. 18. It is an nounced that General Ballington Booth has . purchased a . farm in Bergen county, near the place of Theodore A. Havemeyer, to be used as a home for wom-out Salvation Army officers. THE CUBAN REBELLION. Insurgent Are Bringing Matters to a . ; Crisis Kditorial Comment. Chicago Record. Making all due allowance for pos sible errors in the latest reports of the sitution in Cuba, it is still not im probable that the insurgents are on the eve of a stroke whioh will bring the warfare to a crisis. During the -last few weeks the fight has been waged steadily, the insurgents being generally the gainers. General Campos seems to have been unable to make any head way against his opponents, who, aside from the advantgae of a complete f ami liartiy with the topography of their oountry, are inured to its climate and have abundant refuges in whioh to take shelter. Unless the Spaniards have been resorting to a ruse, and leading the insurgents on simply for the pur pose of trapping them, the fall of Ha vana is within reasonable probability. We Must Acknowledge Them. Chicago Inter Ocean. We are under no .obligations of oourtesy toward Spain. She was one of the few powers that acknowledged the belligerency of the Confederate states during the war for the Union. She hastened to assure Great Britain of the paltry aid of her feeble force in resistance to our application of the Monroe doctrine to the Venezuela issue. Nor are we under any obligation of sentiment The. Spanish government is the most, illiberal, the most hope lessly unprogressive, in Europe. Cuba has borne impositions tenfold more aggravated than those whioh foroed the thirteen ; Amerioan colonies of Great Britain into successful revolu tion. A congressional declaration in favor of acknowledgement of the Cuban republio will be approved from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Insurrection or Revolution, Which? New York Independent . . Shall we call it - a revolution or a mere , insurrection - devolutions have been numerous in Cuba, as Senor Ponce de Leon tell our readers this week, and he ought to know, for he has had lively experience in them. But somehow the Spainsh power has not been overthrown. Senor Palma, who is the ohief , representative of the "Cuban Republio," tells our readers this week why Cuba ought to be free; and he . and Mr, Crosby and Senors Pierra , and De Quesada appeal with much eloquence and earnestness for Amerioan sympathy, dwelling bitterly upon the wrongs and cruelties and op pressions of Spanish government, and their words cannot but exoite sym pathy. ; A Puxsllng Matter. ' IBoston Traveller. The most puzzling thing about the Cuban rebellion just now is why, if the insurgents are numerically as strong as they are represented to be, they do not concentrate enough to seize and hold some town or city on or near the coast, and make a strenuous effort to maintain some kind of oommunioa-' tion with the outside world. Until they make some effort of this kind they can hardly ask any of the established nations of the world toreoognize them, however much they may have popular sympathy for their struggle for free dom. : . Our National Interest. , ' New York World. . We have a national interest in the independence of Cuba whioh has no parallel in the case of any European country. If we were aggressively dis posed we might find both reason and precedent for a- much more aotive sym pathy with the Cuban insurgents than any body at present proposes to extend to them. All that they ask for is a recognition of their right to do battle for .liberty and independence. So muoh every Amerioan ought to stand ready to grant. v How Spain Treated America. Pittsburg Dispatch. . . , ' If a third of the provinces of Spain were to declare that they had seoeded and this oountry should reoognize them as belligerents in less . than three months the proceeding would be an exact parallel to Spain's aotion when the Southern Confederacy was pro claimed. Cuba is Spain's distant ool ony and our neighbor, and yet we have not imitated the unfriendly Spanish example under the greater provocation. Should Spain Unite With England. ' - Peoria Herald. . : It is laughable to read that in the case of toruble Spain will unite with England. What oan Spain do? It looks now as though the revolutionists in Cuba would keep her busy. The only result of a war with Spain would be the acquisition of Cuba by this oountry, ' A few thousand American troops would speedily settle that busi. Before They Are Wiped Out. Atlanta Constitution. Let the Amerioan people hasten to demand belligerent rights at once be fore Spain can gather her foroes to wipe the Cubans out. Let these rights be granted . them at onoe so that the struggling Cubans may have this ad- vantage in tneir enorts to secure self-government