The llooi ,1 Eivor Glacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. I) VOL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAYFEBRUARY 21, 189H. NO. 39. I t I 3(eod Iiver (5 lacier. PUBLISHED BVKRY FRIDAY BY S. F. BLYTHE. ' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. On. year .(t OC bix months. 1 Or Three months Vi Snitle copy i CeaW THE GLACIER BARBER SHOP, HOOD RIVER. OR. ' ' - i! GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Shaving and hair-outtlng neatly done, ; Satis acuou gatirauieeu. - Y V NEIGHBORING TOWNS - GIOGRESS AND DOINGS OF THE -V. . V." ' PACIFIC NORTHWEST." A Budget if Interesting and Spicy ' New From All the Cities and Towns on the Coast Thrift and Industry in Every Quarter Oregon. Wheat at Salem jumped from 58 to 65 cents one day last week. The city oounoil of Hillsboro has levied a tax of 7 mills to raise revenue for the coming year. Five carloads of hogs, bought in Umatilla oounty, were shipped from Pendleton to Portland last week. The state central ' oommittee of the People's party has fixed the date of the next convention for March 26. to be held in Salem. TW TniYiaTi nf TTmflf.illn nnnntv. has v"en 'bound over in the Bum of $1,600 to aillgwer t0 tne jury on the char-! 8e of manslaughter. -jbJ be Southern Oregon Jockey Club . hold a race meeting at Central It, oommenoing May 18. This will - oe-the bpening'meeting of the North Pacifia circuit. t Railroad officials at LaGrande re port that the new Sanger maohine for olearing the traok of snow ana loe is a suooess. The maohine in use was oon struoted at Albina. The Lawler syndioate, owning and developing the Quartzville mine in the Santiam district, paid out to those in its employ and for supplies over $10, 000 during January. The first number of the Independent has been published at Klamath Falls. Don Carlos Boyd is the editor and the paper, it is stated, "will be striotiy '-, neutral, politically." r A petition for the pardon of Frank r Kelleyn.oonvioted of having deer meat in his possession during . the close sea son, has been forwarded to Governor Lord from Pendleton. Theresident of the Douglas County Pioneer Society will call a meeting some time in March or April for the purpose of electing officers, and decid ing upon the time and place for the next reunion. ' Now that spring has begun, the O. B. & 11 N. Company will commence grading up the road again, and repair ing injuries to the roadbed occasioned by washouts, slides, eta To this end over 500,000 ties have been ordered for use between The Dalles and Pendleton, and wftl shortly be distributed along the line. The verdiot of the coroner's jury in the oase of Albert D. Sanborn, whose dead body was found on the farm of W. H. Neabeok, near Kingsley, in Wasco county, was that Sanborn came to his death on February 2, by being " thrown from a horse that he was rid ing.' fSanborn was 72 years old and a G. A. R. man. Lynn Sterns, of Baker City, a son of the late Judge L. O. Sterns, has in his possession a rare ouriosity in the shape of an, old ooin. It is a f 5 piece of na tive gold. On one side in a oirole are the words: "Oregon Exchange Com pany;'' on the face, "180 G 5 D;" ' on the reverse side, in cirole, the let ters,"K. M T. A. W. R. C. S.;" below the letters a out of a beaver nd the wtara "T. O. " with date "1849." N Judge Sterns came into possession of the coin fully twenty years before bis death, and it was found among other relios after his demise. v ' .' Washington. " North Yakima has ten ; newspapers. The Whatcom County Immigration Sooiety will meet in wnatoom, eDru arv 15. '" " The steel tiling for the roofs of the new normal school buildings nave ar rived at Cheney. Tho " Pomerov council has removed City Marshal Labin from offloe for leaving town without permission. The board of sohool directors of the Chehalii shoo district has determined upon a full term of nine months' sohool. , i ' Immigration conventions were held last week by Pieroe, Skagit and Whit man counties. Douglas and Okanogan met this week., The Knapp-Burrell block, in Walla Walla, belonging to the Burrell estate, of Portland, has been sold to William Jones for $15,000 , ' .-. To Fred O. Grutt, of Davenport, be longs the distinction of being the 10, 000th settler to file a homestead entry in the Spokane land district Estimates on the amount of wheat in the Kittitas valley place it at from 40.000 to 50,000 busheR Wheat at Ellensburg last week was 48 cents i bushel, sacked. , Judge Stalloup, of Taooma, has de- cided that the oreditor of an insolvent bank has recourse against the stock holders, without waiting for the affairs of the bank to be wound up. The other'morning the ll-months' old ohildvof James Feeley, of New Whatcom tipped a cup of hot lard over her iaoe, burning the whole sur face, eyelidB and all, in a frightful manner."' ;. C. F. Piokard, living near Clyde, scattered a quart of poisoned wheat on a small portion of his land a few days ago, and as a result, the next morning found 175 dead squirrels that had par taken too freely of ', the bounty of the oounty commissioners. ' The Linooln oounty board of health is stirring up the dootors of the oounty who are amiss in .making returns of births and deaths. There is a penalty of $10 for each suoh neglect, and the county treasurer will rejoice at. "any contributions from this source. The Centralia News says that three horses belonging to Ramstad Bros. were poisoned last' week by some un known ' person mixing carbolic aoid with their feed. The horses suffered terrible agony, two of them living about a half day and the other one about a day. . The state .mining bureau has ap pointed Harry Landes as the state ge ologist. The new appointee, is proles sor of geology in the state university, and has aooopted the new position with the understanding that he will receive no compensation exoept that paid by the university. . A member1 of a Minneapolis seed firm has been in Watery ille ...far,, the past week contracting for seed peasT It is estimated that 800 acres win De sown to peas in the vicinity of Water- ville alone. It is expected that this will be a very profitable course of in- oome to Big Bend farmers. . D. J. Talmer died at New Whatcom from the effects of mercurial poisoning. 1 He had 'rubbed merouriaf ointment upon his feet, which had been frost bitten, and the skin absorbed so much of it that he was black in the face when brought to the hospital from Chuckanut a short time ago. An interesting feature of the farm ers' sohool at Pullman one day last week was provided by I. B. Harris,' one of the farmers attending from Col fax, who gave a practical talk on how to cut up a hog and illustrated his talk by a praotioal demonstration, cut ting up an animal before the class. Four Walla Walla boys, aged re spectively, 8, 9, 10 and 12 years, were arrested for stealing cigars. One of them was trying to sell a sack full of cigars in boxes, and the whole neigh borhood where the boys live was found enjoying suoh solid oomfort as rarely falls to that section of poverty , flat in the way of Havanas. Tke big dr.m on the Coweeman was heightened twelve feet last . summer. The Coweeman Dam Company find the present dam is situated at such a long distance from tide water, that it is not able to furnish a' sufficient volume to splash the logs to tide water, and in tend to build two more dams, on the north and south fork respectively, mak ing three dams in all. The dams will be connected, by a telephone line, so their movements can be uniform. The new creamery at the Washing ton agricultural college farm, at Pull man, is expected to be in running or der by February 16, and Professor Spillman has advertised for ' 2,000 pounds of milk daily. The total as sessed valuation of Spokane county is $21,650,567. The total tax upon this assessment is $608,684.76, divided as follows: Consolidated, $324,951.68; speoial road, $28,448.49; special school, $74,764.08; muniolpa", $180, 620.6: ' - ' ' ... Idaho. An original pension has been granted Henry W. Parker, of Pooatello. The Potlatch Horticultural Assooia tion neid its meeting, -mere was brought out some interesting data con earning the oondition and prospeots of the orohards of the Potlatch empire. Men are being put on at the Hunter mine and it is likely that the property will be operating full-handed early next week. The mill will be started up just as soon as the ore oomes down. Superintendent uurrin anticipates no trouble in keeping the immense plant in full operation from now on, as it is not likely to experience any further cold weather. EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD.; in Interesting Collection of Item From the Two Hemisphere Presented In a Condensed Form A I.arge Amount of Information in a Small Space. John Hays Hammond, oharged with the leadership of the late uprising in Johannesburg, has been liberated on bail. . '.- . ' A windstorm in New York which blew sixty-two miles an hour, did muoh damage to property. Three peo ple were killed. . ' The oases of Amerioans arrested , at Johannesburg are now under prelimi nary examination, and a formal trial will take plaoe April 21. . . A bridge in the New England rail road over the Peqnonnock river, near Bristol, Conn., collapsed, carrying with it twenty workmen; thirteen were drowned. ... ,' , The revision of the extradition treaty between Germany and , the United States is again at a standstill, owing to the demands regarding political and military fugitives. 'Notwithstanding the suooess of the new loan, fears are entertained that a considerable share of the gold - offered in payment will have been withdrawn from the treasury for that purpose. The New York Herald's correspond ent in Montevideo, ; Uruguay, tele graphs that the floods in the republio caused by the heavy rains of the last few weeks have caused great loss of life. ' : ' John Lee and James ' Bostio, rivals for the affections of a young woman of Adams, Ind., attempted to settle the matter with pistols, and both were badly wounded, while a bystander also received a stray bullet . -y It is reported in Havana that Gen eral Gomez is going to establish a seat of government at Siguana, provinoe of Santa Clara. He is announced to be on the move between . Batabano, San Felipe, Salud and Mariet The Red Lake and White Earth In dian reservation, comprising about 1, 000,000 aores, part of the Chippewa reservation, . in Minnesota, will be opened for settlement May 1, by proo- lamation to be issued shortly. ("Governor Riokards, of Montana, de manded of Secretary Olney that he forthwith rid Montana of the Cree Indians. The demand was made after the receipt of a letter rom 'Secretary Olney referring to the Cree oonjtroverey. The rebellion in Formosa" is un checked. One army of rebels has taken up its position at Ton Wei, and an other has assembled at Camphor Mount The Japanese troops are con fident of defeating the rebels,- but can not attack them in their mountian re treats.- ' V ' . ' The safecrackers who have been ter rorizing the people of Oakland, Ala meda and Berkley . for the past three months have been captured by the po lioe. They are mere boys, aged 16 and 17. ; They confessed to thirty seven burglaries of residences and stores. They said they had realized only $100 from the burglaries. . : - In sporting circles there has been considerable attention aroused by the announcement that Yale intends to send a crew aoross the Atlantio to com pete at the Henly regatta. It is thought it will do much to effaoe the bitterness resulting from the Dunraven incident and the unfortunate experience of the Cornell crew in England last year. . . -" .. .- Dr. Zelle, a practicing physioian of Bradenburg, Germany, has, contrived a photographic instrument which will, in minute detals, reproduoe the various oolors of objeots, persons and land scapes brought within a specified range of the camera. , What is most surpris ing in this experience is that in the photographs the oolors - lose none of their original brilliant shades. Mrs. Jennie Baxter was murdered by her husband in East Portland. She returned home in a drunken condition and Baxter, becoming enraged, drew a razor aoross her throat, nearly sever ing the head from the body. He then attempted suioide in the same manner, but was stopped by an offioer before he had completed his work. . Their 4 year-old girl was the only witness. According to a statement widely published in London, the ooming naval programme will involve the outlay of $47,000,000 and will provide for the building of four ironclads, four first olass ornisers, and sixty torpedo de stroyers, the last to ' have & speed of from thirty to thrity-three knots. The battleships are to be similar to the Renown type. Of the many changes introduced in quiok succession in Corea, the recent adoption of the Western method of hairdressing has attraoted most atten tion. The king reoently issued a proc lamation urging the sacrifice of the queues, and set the example by having his own hair out, the prinoe royal, f ol- lwoing suit Many lesser government offioers have resigned rather than sac rifice their looks. The reorganization committee of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com pany announces that the plan of organ' ization is .now operative. . Deposits of consolidated mortgage and collateral trust bonds will oontmue to be received up to February 29 without penalty Ater that date a payment of $50 per bond, will be required. Deposits of stock will be received up to the same date, upon payment of $16 per share. This week quite a large number of strikes will be inaugurated in different parts of Germany, the most important being that of homework seamstresses in Berlin, Hamburg, Stettin and Bre- slau, affecting altogether about 65,000 persons. The carpenters, bricklayers, etc., are also declaring a strike, and other trades, it is, announced, will do likewise. . The building trades strike, it is said, is in anticipation of the de mand for labor which - will be caused by work upon the Berlin exposition. William H. English died at his rooms in the Hotel English at Indian apolis, Ind. At one time Mr. English was prominent in politics, and in 1880 was unanimously nominated for vise- president on the ticket with General Hancock, by the Democratic national convention. He was president of the Idiana Historical Society, and author of an historioal and biographioal work on the constitution and lawmakers of the state. Owing to his unremitting work on the history of Indiana, which has just been published, his system was in a greatly enfeebled oondition When disease fastened itself upon hinj. Three were killed and two injured in a train-wreck near Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Nancy Weloh, an Oregon pio neer and the first white woman to set tle in Astoria, died suddenly of heart failure in Astoria. . By the use of Roentgent's new dis covery, the "X" rays, a bukeshot was located in a amn's hand, where it had been for two years. An Athens dispatch ' says that the German excavators near Theseum have discovered a marble bust of the Roman emperor, Antonius Pius. Grant Atterbury, a murderer, was taken from the jail at Sullivan, 111., by a mob, dragged to the courthouse in his nightshirt and hanged to a tree. The schooner Aida, twenty-six days from Shanghai to Port Townsend,- has made the best passage across the Pa oifio ocean on record for a sailing ves sel. .-' - The city of Guayaquil; Ecuador,- was visited by a terrible-fire. -The Peru vian consulate and several blocks were destroyed. The loss will aggregate over $4,000,000. Bartholomew Shea was - electrocuted in Dannemora, prison, New York, for the murder of Robert Ross, .at Troy, N. Y., in March, 1894. He died,-protesting his innocence. . The three-masted schooner Allianoa, from New York, went ashore on Plum island, Massachusetts and was stove to fragments. Four of the orew were saved and three drowned, v , As a result of a prizefight in Phila delphia Frederick Schlechter, one of the principals, died and ex-Polioeman Huckfeder, the other principal, is in jail, charged with murder. A statement prepared at the treas ury department, under the direction of Assistant Secretary Curtis, shows that the government will realize from the new loan $111,378,836.97. Governor Lord, of Oregon, has re ceived from the United States land offloe a oer tided transcript of a clear list of school indemnity selections in The Dalles district, embracing 6,522 acres. ' ' . . ... ... . I - ,' : Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas orator, will make her debut into the minis terial profession, and henceforth her literary prefix will be reverend instead of colonel. Her recent sickness was the immediate cause of her mind tak ing a divine turn. , . Justice Morris, of Washington, D. C, in announcing a decision of the court of appeals for the District of Co lumbia, ruled that while intoxication may be a disease, yet if it is voluntary and leads to commission of : crime,' it is a crime in itself. ' ' v ' An aerolite exploded ' above Madrid. The loud report was followed by a general- panic. All buidings were shaken, and many windows were shat. terred. Aooording to the officials of the Madrid observatory, the explosion occurred twenty miles above the earth While proceeding from Yokohama to Kobe, the United States flagship Olym pia struok a gale to esoape wbioh all steam was crowded on and , a;; speed of twenty-one knots developed. . The storm broke her forward deck stanch ions and carried away her bridge rails. Rev. J. H. Hunyontt, a Baptist min ister, has been arrested at Morrill to vn, Ark. . charged with infantioide. ' His housekeeper's 1 -year-old baby cried while he was preparing a sermon, and the preacher became enraged at the an noyanoe and choked the child to death, The London Chronicle claims the credit for the conversion of England to arbitration, and says: "The speeches in parliament show that we have reaohed the point where a solution is a oertainty. The Sohomburgk line is as defunct as the boundaries of Wes-set" BOUNDARY OF ALASKA SECRETARY OLNEY TO STATE SECRETARY PRICE. The State Department Has no Knowl edge or Asserted jurisdiction by . Bngland OTer United States Terri tory In-Alaska. Olympia, Wash., Feb. 18. Secretary of State Price has just received from Secretary Olney, of the department of state at Washington, D. C. , the fol lowing letter, under dae of February 8, 1896: '. .- . ,. -"I have the honor to acknowledge tne reoeipt, by reference from the presi dent, of your letter of January 21, with which you transmit a certified copy of nouse concurrent resolution No. 29, Washington state legislature, relative to the Alask boundry. . "The subjeot mtter of this resolu tion, namely, the necessity of delimit ing the Alaska frontier, under the terms of the Russian treaty of cessation, and the prior Anglo-Russian treaty of 1835. both as to the southeastern coast strip and as to the 141st meridian line, has had careful consideration here for some time past. It would facilitate examin ation of the matter were the depart ment authentically advised of any specific cases of B.itish claim to the harbors, bays and inlets through which the greater portion of the oommeroe and trade of and with the territory of Vlaska must be carried on, and which by right, as aforesaid, belong to the United States, as stated in the retsolu tion in question. No instance ' of as serted jurisdiction over territory claimed by the United States in the premises, has been brought before this department, and the' only correspond ence had between this government and that of Great Britain on the - subject has been directed to a harmonious and satisfactory ascertainment , of the boundary and its permanent demarka tion." . ' . ' .... . THE QJEEN'S SPEECH. England's Desire for a Settlement of the Venezuexa Dispute. ' London, Feb. 18. There was an unusual amount of interest in the opening of parliament today. ' Owing to the many important questions that will oome before-the present session, nearly' air the members of the house placed themselves on record before the party chiefs as having heeded the calls for a full assemblage. That part of the queen's speech referring to the Venezuela affair follows: ' i , 'The government of the United States has expressed a wish to co-operate in the termination of differences which have existed for many years be tween my government and the republio of Venezuela upon the boundary of that country and ' my colony of British Guiana. I have expressed my sym pathy with a desire to oome to an equitable arrangement, and trust fur- ther negotiations will lead to a satis factory settlement" . Sir William Harcourt, commenting on the speech, said he rejoiced at the paragraph with regard to Venezuela, as it held out the hope that the ques tion could be settled at an early date. He added that no words that could impede such a settlement would fall from him. .This was greeted with loud cheers, as it disposes of the report that the liberal leader had determined to make an attack upon the govern ment's policy in regard to Venezuela, whioh bourse necessarily would . have led to an' exchange of warm remarks, which might have impeded the pro gress of the settlement of the dispute. Continuing, Sir William said mis understandings both in England and in the United States existed, and had caused ruffled feelings on both sides. The idea that Great Britain disputed the application of the Monroe doctrine was nothing new or etxraordinaty. Monroeism, he ; asserted, - was . not a principle of international law, but one of national policy, to whioh the Ameri cans have a traditional and passionate attachment, and it was the same doo- trine by virtue of whioh Great Britain bad interfered with .. various states where her interests were affected. It is announced on authority that following the : advice of the United States, Venezuela has practioally de cided to send a. representative to Lon don with power to open negotiations with the government of Great Britain for the settlement of the boundary dis pute. . ' ' : '.'" ' ' ; Barney Beck, a .printer, shot and seriously wounded Mrs. E. B. Catlin in Anaoonda, Mont He was pursued by an angry mob, but killed himself before they ; could capture him. In fatuation for the woman, and her re fusal to accept his attentions is given as the cause. ' Delegate Catron, of New Mexioo, the author of the anti-prizefight bill, is greatly displeased at the impression which has been formed that he was acting under the advice of Governor Thornton, 'of New Mexico, in his efforts to prevent prizefighting in the territory. Catron made a statement to the press, accusing the governor of "standing in" with Stuart, in his de sire to pull off the fights. , DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Routine Work of the Fifty-Fourth Sen ' slon Senate. Washington, Feb. 13. In the senate today Quay's resolution to recommit the tariff bill went over. The long pending resolution, whioh has brought out so much criticism of the seoretary of agrioulture, was passed without division. - The measure was amended so as to provide that the purchase and distibution of seeds shall proceed as heretofore. Blanohard was reoognized for a speech bn the Monroe doctrine. He strongly commended the president ior tne reassertion of the Monroe dco trine, and advocated that it be given the sanction of legislative indorsement. - A discussion of Secretary Carlisle's observance ; of oivil service .rnethods came up on a provision of the deficiency bill for the appointment of twenty-five expert money-counters. Allen arraign ed the civil service system. It would in time turn over our government service to a lot of "cigarette-smoking dudes." The senate, -in exeoutive ses sion, confirmed the following nomina tions: W. W. Rookhill, to be first as sistant secretary of state;" William Gallbway, to be receiver of publio moneys at Oregon City, Or. " Washington, Feb. 14. There was an unusually full attendance on the Republican side of the senate chamber today, as Morrill, chairman of the finance committee, had given notice of a motion to take up the tariff bill. The deficiency appropriation bill held its place as unfinished business, and there was no disposition to displace it. Vest secured the adoption of a resolu tion calling on the seoretary of agricul ture to report what recent changes have been made in the quarantine, line against cattle coming north from Tex as. Peffer came forward with a lengthy resolution proposing a senate investigation of the oiroumstanoes of all the recent bnd issues. The resolu-. tion proposes a special committee of fire senators and gives oommprehensive . directions as to the soope of the in quiry, the dealings with the syndicates, the effect of such dealings and explicit information as to the purohasers of the bonds, the rate, and all attendant cir cumstances. , Morrill asked that the resolution go to the finance oommit- te, but it went over. Washington, Feb. 15. The friends of the tariff -bill met an unexpected repulse this afternoon, when, by the v vote of 21 ayes and 29 noes, the senate defeated the motion of Morrill to take up the tariff bill. The negative vote which defeated the motion, was given by Democrats, Populists and four Re publican senators Teller, Mantle, Du bois and Carter. The affirmative vote was entirely Republican, but its total of 21 is less than half of the aggregate Republican strength. The senate has passed the bill authorizing the leasing of lands in Arizona for educational purposes; also, the bill authorizing the i irst .National bank of Spragne.Wash.: " to change its name and location; also, ' the bill authorizing repairs for the publio wharf at Sitka, Alaska. .' ,; ' House. . ; . Washington, Feb. 14. At 12 o'clock the regular order of the house began. ; Cannon presented a senate joint reso lution appropriating $75,000 for the purpose of making a joint survey ' to gether with Great Britain of : the - boundary line between Alaska and British territory. The resolution was adopted.' The house then resumed consideartion of the bond silver bill, Dolliver taking the floor in opposition to the free-coinage proposition. He reviewed the story of the subject from the fourteenth century, and said the ' demonetization of silver in 1878 bad not struck it down," for during a pre vious period of seventy years there had been no silver circulation. McMillin followed. He said there was an in sufficient currency , and that we should not wait for the co-operation of any foreign country, before taking steps to improve our financial affairs. . He was not for monometalism or anything of the sort; he desired the use of both metals. Brosius opposed free coinage, and Bailey sought to prove that gold had appreciated within the last twenty years, saying that if this were true the . opponents of silver would have nothing to stand on. Washington, Feb. 15: After a ten: days' debate the house today, by a vote of 80 to 190, in committee of the whole, rejected the senate free coinage amendment to the bond bill, and re-, ported back to the house, with a recom mendation to nonconcur and . insist upon the house bill. The most signifi cant statement today came in the form of an ultimatum from Dingley that a bill might be reported from the ways and means committee looking to the initiation by this country of a project of another international monetary con ference to meet within a year. While' Dingley said be was expressing his .per. sonal position in the matter, it was generally understood from the manner in which he said it that the suggestion bad already matured into a well-defined intention on the part of the Re-' publican leaders of the houss. In beginning to teaoh deaf mutes the art of speech, they are at - first placed before a mirror and taught to form with their lips the vowel sound K 1 .,,.?CV .:.;