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The Hood River Glacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1896. NO. 37. ) 3food iyer (5 lacier. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY S. F. BLYTHE. .'. ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. On year ft M - Six month. ....... 1 00 Thre. month . BokI oopy .... Canto THE GLACIER BARBER SHOP. HOOD RIVER. OR. GR,ANT EVANS, Proprietor. Bhavlng and halr-cuttlng neatly don. Satis actiou guaranteed. EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC f NEWS OF THE WORLD. An Interesting Collection of Item From the Two Hemisphere. Presented In a Condensed Form A Large Amount , of Information In a Small Spaoe. President Cleveland will be present at ' the anniversary celebration - of Prinoeton college. Twenty-nine hundred miners at Co lumbus, O. , returned to work, having settled their trouble. , . The Berlin correspondent of the Standard says that the ozar's corona tion has been fixed for May 12. A San Franoisoo paper says the president has aooepted an invitation from Attorney W. W. Foote to spend part of his vaoation next summer on the Paoiflo ooast. Eight Hon. Hugh O. E, Childers, formerly first lord of the admiralty, ohanoellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and flnanoial secretary of the treasury, , died in Loandon. The ioe gorge in . the Maumee river, about eight miles above Toledo, broke and in running out oarried away two spans of the new bridge in course of construction. The loss is estimated at $50,000. A speoial to Novoe Vremya from VladivOstock says news has been re ceived from Peking that the Chinese government has assigned a large sum for the creation of a fleet. The plan of oonstruotion is very large. ' In a heavy fog, with the wind in the northeast and the surf running far up the beaoh, the Amerioun liner St Paul, bound in, went ashore on Long Island. All of the TOO passengers were safely transferred to land. The Hon. Theodore Bunyon, United States ambassador to Germany, expired suddenly and unexpectedly at Berlin of heart failure. Mr. Rnnyon had been in somewhat feeble health for sometime past, but ho immediate fatal results were anticipated. . , A speoial to the New York World from Kingston, Jamaica, says a seri ous uprising is reported in Port-au-Prince, the capital of. Hayti. After three days' rioting in ' the streets, the insurrection was suppressed. There, is general uneasiness 'throughout the island.' . SV "'"' A speoial to'1 the Boston . Traveller, from New Yorksays that the ban plaoed by the Catholic church upon he orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons of Temperanoe and Odd Fellows is ab solute, and offers no farther discussion. This is the mandate of the pope,s - through his repreantativS, - Cardinal Satolli. ' The seoretary of the Oakland, CsX, branoh of. the Amerioau Railway Union has received . a letter irom the private seoretary 'of B. V- Debs, t, in whioh the statement telegraphed . from the East that Debs is to, resign the presidency of the union is denied. j He says Debs will win the fight he' is now engaged in on behalf of organized la bor or die in the attempt." At a meeting of the grand officers of the Knights of Pythias held , in Cin cinnati, the following resolution was passed: "Resolved, That, it is the unanimous sense of this assembly that no enoampment of the uniformed rank should be held during 1896,7, unless a guaranteed rate of one cent, per mile by the shortest practicable route, with a limit of twenty' days, can be se cured." - JV i; r' v-.f Ira Reynolds three-year oonviot from New Whatcom, oonflned in the Walla Walla - penitentiary, attempted suicide , by driving a. nailf jn the top of his head to a depth of v two inches. After considerable difficulty the prison - physicians extracted the nail. When questioned about the insane deed, Rey nolds said his head was growing loose and unbalanced on his uhoulders. He drove the nail in to keep his head on. The Chinese government has agreed to open the West river, provided China is allowed to retain the territory ceded under the Burmah-China oonyention '".-?..'" v'J--" ''vi" ; of 1894. The opening of two ports on the West, or Si Kiang river, namely, Shao King and Wu Chow, was stipu lated for by the Japanese as part . of the terms of peace. . The cities of Can ton and Hong Kong are situated on the bay into whioh' the West river empties. Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, has snbmtted the final ao ceptance by the British government of the plan for a Bearing sea commission to pass upon the claims of Canadian sealers seized prior to the Paris award; It remains only for the president to submit the plan to congress, and as the legislative branoh refused to pay a lump sum for the seizures, it is consid ered certain .that the "commission ar rangement will be approved. The Philadelphia Press is authority for the statement that General Garcia, the most distinguished Cuban general now outside of Cuba reoently sailed on board the fruit steamer Bernard, bound for Cuba, and that he will land there with the most formidable . expe dition that has left this country. It is said he will take oommand of the ex pedition on the high seas, . where he will meet the fruit steamer Jasof , with over 800 men and a large quantity of arms and ammunition on board. As a result of a family row in Jeffer son, la., two men were killed, two wounded and a woman badly beaten. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is being considered by the administration as the possible successor to Theodore Runyon, as ambassador to Germany. A railroad bridge near Sausalito, Cal., collapsed from the weight of a lo comotive, resnlting in the death of the engineer and serious injury to the fireman, . General Joseph H. Porter died at the Grand Union hotel, New York. The immediate cause of his death was com plications from a gunshot wound in the lungs, received during the war. The rolling mills of the Illinois Steel Company, located at South Chioago, whioh were shut down Deoember 81, have resumed, giving work to 6,000 men, who have been idle since the shutdown. A physioian of Rio de Janerio de clares that he has found a cure which is almost oertain in its effects for yel low fever. The physician's new rem edy consists of the internal use of doses of the extract of eucalyptus. A dispatoh to the New York World from Caracas, says: Anti-English meetings are again being held. The women ot Venezuela form branches of society for the defense of national ter ritory, and will boyoott all English household goods; ' The Berlin Tageblatt says: "It will be the duty of continental diplomaoy to oonvicne America that England's motives in the Armenian , question are politioal, and not humane, and thus dissuade the United States from co operating with England. " A dispatoh to the London Pall Mall Gazette from Cairo, Egypt, says a seri ous revolution has ocourred at Khar toum, growing out of differences be tween the mahdi and the tribes belong ing to the interior of Soudan. 'The mahdi is praotioally overthrown. William Gambold, a railroad brake- man, has begun a suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Comany for $35,000 damages for malicious proseou tion. The suit is the outgrowth of the Amerioan Railway Union strike of 1894, and is brought as a test case. Belva Lockwood, once a presidential candidate on the woman s rights tioket, and now a practicing attorney in Washington, has been debarred as a practicing attorney or agent before the pension bureau. She is aooused of having improperly accepted a pension fee of $25. Pinkerton detectives have arrested Express Agent George Krout, of Colorado Springs, Colo., on a charge of being implicated in the theft of $35,000 from Wells-Fargo Company several months ago. Krout claims to be innocent, saying he had been robbed by highwaymen. A speoial . dispatoh from St Peters burg says: Arrangements point to a conclusion between Russia, Great Britain, France and Italy for a final settlement of the Armenian question. These include Russia's occupation and administration of Anatolia, and the purchase of Cyprus by Russia. The unexpected order for Commander Ballington Booth's recall to England from Amerioa, has occasioned so much disquietude and murmuring arilong the rank and file of the Salvation Army in this oountry that General William Booth, father of Ballington and commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army forces throughout the world, who is now in Australia, has decided to visit the United States next spring. The treasury department is exceed ingly anxious that a large proportion of the gold offered in payment of the new bonds shall be obtained in Europe, and for the purpose of enoouraging im ports, it is intimated that the bidder who offers foreign gold, or who demon strates that he has gold on the way at the time the bids are opened, will be given preference in the awards, other things being equal, over others who offer domestio gold. NEIGHBORING TOWNS NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST EPITOMIZED. Development and Progress of the Vari ous Industrie on the Paoiflo Coast Everything- Point to a Bright and Proiperou Future Oregon. A new steamer for the ooal trade is soon to be put on between San Fran oisoo and Coqnille City. . . A mining and coal-shipping cor poration has been started at Bandon, with a capital stock of $150,000.. ; . . "' The building of the Astoria railroad has already oonsumed $400,000 whioh is at the rate of $50,000 per month. JA rabbit drive fad is now being in dulged in by the oitizens of Lakeview, and thousands of the animals have been killed. It is estimated that the wool crop alone sold to such good advantage that $600,000 was disbursed in the vioinity of The Dalles last year. : Benton county, now having six flour ing mills, is to possess a seventh. The new mill is to be of a complete roller process and to contain modern ma chinery. ' . ' ; Pendleton is soon to have a new hoteL A leading property-holder of that ctiy has about completed arrange ments for erecting a brick edifice on the corner of Main and Railroad streets. ; The Portland Oregonian has award ed $150 prize for the best definition of a baby. The Heppner lady who won the prize sent in this answer: "A tiny feather from the wing of love, dropped into the sacred lap of motherhood." An outside market for hops raised in this state would be a most welcome boon to growers, who are very much oiroumsoribed in their movements. An experiment of this nature was recently tried in California when 50,000 pounds were sent to Isswjoh, England. The i farmers around Roseburg have been cashing up their wheat, taking advantage of the prevailing advance of the market value of that commodity; the result is muob ooin is being placed in circulation which cannot be accen tuated with the opening season. A $5,000 nngget was recently found in the Virtue mine near Baker City. It oonsisted of a single slab of . gold weighing in all about $5,000 worth, and required no retorting before ship ment to the mint at San Franoisco. A three days run in this mine has just produced $64,000. Tillamook's lumber report shows that over 2,000,000 feet were sawed there in 1895. Of the three largest mills, one has a capaoity of 50,000 feet, another 20,000 feet, and the other 25, 000 feet. Suppose the output to be 40,000 feet per day as a low estimate, the combined product of all the mills for 800 days would be 12,000,000 feet An enterprise whioh is to be of great importance to the communities in the Rogue river valley will be the proposed Highland canal, whioh is now taking definite shape. The matter was for mally brought to the attention of the board of trade, before whom represent atives of the company appeared by in vitation, and detailed plans and speci fications On points touching on the en terprise. The Willamette 'river seems to be steadily deepening every year and also increasing in volume of ' water. ' In places the channel has an entirely dif ferent course than that remembered by the oldest settlers. . It really seems to be going back to its old bed of prehis toric times. Suoh radical changes have taken place in the chnnels of other rivers, but the cause of whioh has been just as - deeply involved in mystery. ' ; Washington. County immigration conventions are all the rage in the Evergreen state this month, ... .. .-., i A resumption of the operations' of the paper mills at Everett is a matter of ' considerable importance to that j town. . A consignment of Kaffir corn will soon arrive from Kansas and an effort will be made to induce Adams county farmers to gve it a thorough trial The people of Puyallup are rejoicing in the mildness of its climate, whioh fact is evidenoed by the presenoe of blooming roses and chrysanthemums. Specimen rjhotoerrarjhs of Whatcom oounty timber have been forwarded to an Eastern polyteohnio institution, to be used in the regular course of study. Another large batch of land has been patented by the Northern Paoiflo rail way. It consists of 595,818 aores lying in Yakima, Walla Walla and Frank lin oounties. ' To this state has been secured a sep arate district for river and harbor im provements by the authorities at Wash ington. An engineering office will be established at Seattle.. The Ritzville farmers and business men are very joyful on account of the bright prospects for a good year. Sum mor fallowed ground is permeated three or four feet with moisture and a good crop is almost assured, A good suggestion has been made to build : flatboats with a capaoity of ten or fifteen tons, to be loaded with ore at or near Fairview mining oamp, B C. , in the Oesoyoos division upon the Okanogan river, and float them down to Wenatchee. The Paciflo county bar association has taken steps to prevent Oregon law yers from practicing in the superior court in the district which comprises Pacific, Wahkiakum and Lewis coun ties. The last legislature passed a law allowing only those lawyers from other states to practice in Washington courts . whose states granted the same privileges tQWasbington lawyers. It appears that Oregon laws do not per mit lawyers residing in this state to praotice there. ' Two carloads of machinery have ar rived from the East for the Seattle firm that successfully bid for two of the new warships. The buildings are now all in readiness, including the building ways, which are covered by a roofed shed 200x75 feet, giving ample room to build both the torpedo boat and the rev enue tug. Not the least significant of the recent extensions is the shop for steel shipbuilding whioh is now com pleted and ready to reoeive its ma chinery and tools. Real estate agents of Spokane are jubilant over the increase of their stock in trade of alluring inducements. The bank clearances for the week ending January 25, exceeded those of Seattle, Tacoma and Helena. It may also be noted that the railroad traffio shows a remarkable increase, and the hotels and restaurants are filled with more strangers than at this time for three years previous. This increase, together with ten big mines working in the Coeur d'Alenes and a lengthen ing list of shippers in the Slooan and Trail Creek districts; with wheat ad vancing until it is worth about 20 cents per bushel more than last year with new enterprises guaranteed for this city and with the other signs of new prosperity, Spokane has no complaint to register at this date. . ' Idaho. ". The late Goddard murder case oost the oounty of Nez Peroe $7,524. A shipment of 70,000 fruit trees was recently made from Moscow to Camas A j at .'11 i. the Vanderbilt mine, two miles south Of Hailey. ".''.-, ; Another payment is due the Nez Peroes in February of $150,000. It might be very handy these dull days to be an Indian. Development work on the Blaok Hor net has suspended for the present. The owners will put up a ten-stamp mill for reduoing and saving the gold. The maoihnery for the new packing company at Idaho Falls has arrived and is being plaoed in position. Contracts have been made for a large number of hogs, so that slaughtering may com mence at onoe. The Boise mining exchange is start ing . off in a business-like manner. The members seem to be in earnest in the matter, and filled with a determin ation to soore a success. The exchange promises to be a great benefit to the mining industry of the state. r Some Indiana oitizens desiring to come West have written for offers and inducements as a bonus for their start ing a wood-pulp mill. It would re quire considerable soft wood, suoh as Cottonwood, linn, buokeye, etc All things being favorable another desir able industry will be started in Idaho. Montana. The diphtheria epidemio has died out at Belt and the publio schools have reopened. . Billings' latest enterprise is to con struct a $10,000 opera house with a capaoity for 600 persons. . A recent fire at Helena destroyed a $30,000 . milling plant of the Montana Lumberng & Manufacturing Com ply- A brewing concern has just finished a fine cold-storage house and are pre paring to put in bottling works in con nection with their establishment at Belt The munioipal authorities of Helena, under authority of a popular vote to that effeot, tried to dispose of about $600,000 worth of bonds reoently, bear ing interest at 5 per cent. There was only one bidder, and the matter was postponed for thirty days. British Columbia. It is likely that the War Eagle will put up a milling plant of its own at Rossland. The present air compressor at the Le Roi mine having proven too small, a new twenty-drill one' will be put iri. This oompany is a steady dividend payer. A'private bill will be introduced at the approaching session of the legisla ture for the purpose of incorporating a company to build a railway from Pen- ticton to Cascade City. The proposed line will run from Okanogan lake to Midway, thence to the North Fork of Kettle river and to Grand Forks, thence east to Cascade City. DECIDEDLY BETTER SUCH IS THE PRESENT TONE OF THE WHEXT MARKET. Farmer Who Held On to Their Wheat Have an Opportunity to Profit by the Better Price Prevailing Con elusion on 8m at in Grain. The wheat market appears to be steadily improving and is relatively higher than the price in Chicago and Liverpool would warrant, says the Walla Walla Statesman. As wheat started in last fall as low as thirty cents the rise of twenty cents and up wards is remarkably and deoidedly en couraging to wheat growers. It is to be regretted that so many farmers found it imperatively necessary to dis pose of their wheat when the prioe hardly paid the oost of raising. Only a few of our most prosperous farmers have held on to their wheat, and now have an opportunity to profit by the better prices prevailing. Farmer Expect Higher Price. Apropos of the present boom, the Oregonian states that wheat goes up at local markets because farmers are hold ing on in expectation of higher prices, and, as charters must be filled, buyers must pay what is necessary to fill their orders. There is a possibility of bene fit in this to the farmers, if the result is not the carrying over pf too great a surplus here and elsewhere, so as to break the market down in the spring. Our farmers are in mush better posi tion to hold their wheat than they were prior to 1893, thanks to the economical teachings of hard times. The science of farming is incomplete without a knowledge of market conditions, and its practice is at a disadvantage unless the farmer is prepared to act upon this knowledge. Wheat exemplifies this. So, also, in ah eminent degree, does fruitgrowing. Had the improvement oome earlier in the season, before so much of the grain had passed out of the growers' hands, the benefits would have been greater, but, even at this late date, a fair proportion of the crop is in first hands. While in the Eastern Oregon distriot about Pendleton the wheat is well cleaned up, there is said to be much grain remaining in the Palouse oountry, the great wheat-growing re gion of Washington. The oause of the present flurry has been shown to be the crop failure in Australia, which has opened up a new market for the Pacific ooast; not, as some may believe, the European war scare. All the talk of probable hostil ities has thus far failed to exoite the great wheat markets of the world. War scares have been used too often by wheat-pit manipulators to have any further value in this connection. Were it known to a certainty that war was ooming, things Would be different . Smut in Grain. , The Montana experiment station sends out the following conclusions on smut in ' grains: Stinking smut at tacks wheat only. Loose smuts at tack all of the small grains, but that of the oat is the most damaging. Clean seed, or that effectually treated for smut, will produoe a orop free from smut, but an adjoining smutty field may oontaminate this grain for next year's crop. The only safeguard is careful treatment before planting. The disease in wheat may be entirely pre vented by thoroughly wetting the seed in a solution of oopper sulphate, using eight ounces to a .gallon of water, but this will lessen in some degree the vi tality of the seed. It may also be ef fectually prevented, without any dam age, by immersion for fifteen minutes in water raised to a temperature of 181 to 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Oat smut may be completely prevented by treat ing the seed fifteen minutes in water raised to a temperature of 132 to 135 degrees Fahrenheit This treatment not only removes the smut but pro motes the growth and increses the y ield. It may also be prevented without in jury to the vitality, by immersing the feed twenty-four hours in a solution of potassium sulphide, made by dissolv ing one pound of the sulphide in twenty-four gallons of - water. The oopper sulphate treatment, used for wheat, will effeotually kill the 'smut in oats, but will in some degree damage the germinating power of the grain. Experience is teaching that the small farmer who grows fruit and berries, a little hay and grain and keeps a cow and a few sheep and hogs is not com plaining like his big neighbor of hard times, low prices and a short crop. The small farm, well tilled, is a suc cess in all parts of the country. Let a neighborhood of farmers burn over their wheat stubble in such sea sons as that pest, the Hessian fly, is most troublesome. Then sow some quickly growing orpp, and plow under in the fall. One field not burned will harbor enough flies to supply afresh a whole township. . ' " 9 The barkeeper's good moral charac ter has never yet made whisky a good moral drink, says the Voioe. Sunday oloeing of saloons in Scot, land has obtained for forty years. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Routine Work of the Fifty-Fourth Ses sionSenate. Washington, Jan. 81. The presen tation of the committee reports on Cuba, and a highly dramatio and sen sational speech by Tillman, the senator from South Carolina, furnished two stirring events inj the, senate today. The majority resolution on Cuba asks the president to urge Spain to grant belligerent rights to the insurgents, while the minority report directs the president to take stops toward securing from Spain the complete independence of Cuba. Both resolutions went to the senate calendar. ' Stewart, from the committee on olaims, today made a favorable report to the senate on the bill making an appropriation to reim burse California, Oregon and Nevada for expenditures made in the eqipment of troops during the war. Washington, Feb. 1. Senators were late in arriving at tin senate chamber today. Hale reported back the urgent deficiency -appropriation bill and gave notice that he would ask to take it up Monday. Morrill oalled up the bill for the payment to the widow of the late Samuel F. Miller, c justice of the supreme court, of a sum equal to the balanoe of his salary for the year in which he died. Morrill explained that the justioe had left only a house, en- oumbered by a $10,000 mortgage, and that the widow's circumstances were suoh as to make the appropriation de sirable. The bill was passed. The resolution direoting the secretray of agrioulture to exeoute the law relative to seed distribution was then taken up, and George spoke in defense of the oourse of the seoretary, Gallinger and Allen supported the resolution. The resolution gave way at 2 o'clock to the sulver bond bill, and Call continued his speech begun yesterday. Mitchell of Oregon followed in support of the : silver question substitute, consuming the resPof the day. . Houe. Washington,' Jan. 30. The session of the house was brief today. Con- ' trary to general expectations, the diplo matic and consular appropriation bill precipitated no discussion whatever. None of the foreign complications were even mentioned, and the bill was passed in less than an hour. The appropria- tions carried bf the bill - are about . $100,000 in excess of those appropriated - for the ourrent fiscal year. Represent ative Hermann's bill pensioning the survivors of Indian wars up to and in cluding the year 1856 has, been favor ably reported to the house. Represent ative Dingley, of the ways and means oommittee, today reported a bill to re organize the customs collection district of Alaska. The bill is recommended by the treasury department, as neoes sary to proteot the revenue and facili tate the commercial interests of Alaska. Hermann's bill for a 'life-saving sta tion at the mouth of the Siuslaw river has been reported favorably in the house. -- ' -'' Washington, Jan. 81. The proceed ings of the house opened with a scram ble for oondemned cannon. Brewster asked unanimous oonsent to pass a bill for the donation of condemned cannon to Grand Army posts at Rochester and -Lookport, N. Y. Piokler asked if there woujd be enough cannon to go around all the posts. "If all are as worthy as these posts, are," replied Brewster, "I think we can afford to manufacture condemned cannon for the Grand Atmy posts of the country. After considerable discussion the bill, with its amendments, was referred to the oommittee on naval affairs. Baker today introduced in the house an amendment to the silver bill now be fore the senate, providing that any person who takes silver or gold to the mint to be coined shall take an equally valuable amount of the other metal and have both coined. The amend ment sets forth that the purpose is to seoure the parity of the two metals. Bartlett has introduced in the house a joint resolution, authorizing the con struction of six new battleships, to oost not more than $3,300,000 each." Washington, Feb. 1. The attend ance in the nouse was sum toaay. Wadsworth from the committee on agrioulture, reported the agriclutural appropriation bill. On motion of Doo little, a resolution was adopted request ing the president at his earliest conve nience, to transmit to oongress the re port of the board of engineers on the Nicaragua canal. The bill to amend the dependent pensions act of 1890, so that in considering widows' claims seven years of unexpected absence should be deemed sufficient proof of the death of the soldier, was passed.: A bill was passed for the reorganization of the customs collection district of Alaska, by whioh the seoretary of the treasury - should have discretionary power to designate such places as sub ports of entry in the interests of reve nue and commerce. Colonel Crofton has been requested to retire by Secretary Lamont The oolonel refuses to oomply, and relies on the influence of his nephew, Dupont of, Delaware, who olaims an election as United States senator, to retain for him' bis position in the army. John Tyler, eldest son of President Tyler, died la Washington, aged 7G. .-. v ' -i, ! L