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The Hood Eiver Glacier. 7 A It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH t, 18. NO. 41. A. v - '3food Iiver S lacier. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. One year. ..ft 00 Six months 1 00 Three month! .. 60 Sngleoopy iCnU THE GLACIER BARBERSHOP, HOOD RIVER, OR. GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Shaving and hair-cutting neatly done. Satla aotiou guaranteed. , EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. An Interesting Collection of Item! BTom the Two Hemisphere. Presented in Condensed Form A Large Amount of Information in a Small Bpaoe. ' i Irving Flemming committed suioide, by cutting his throat with a razor, at Woodburn, Or. . The entire family of Jaoob Jaoodi was asphyxiated in his farmhouse, near Niles Center, 111., by gas from a coal stove. . Bill Nye, the famous humorist, died at his home in Asheville, N. C, from a paralytio stroke. Daniel Galenoia, residing near Spo kane, killed himself by shooting him self through the heart - A large amount of spurious coin in the shape of 60-oent and $1 pieces has been found to be in circulation at Wenatohee, Wash. The president has signed the bill ex tending the operation of the mineral land laws to the north half of the Col ville Indian reservation. At a meeting of Irish-Americans held in New York, resolutions were adopted demanding the release of all political prisoners oonfined in English jails. , ' E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk of the United States district court, was shot and killed by his son, Robert Camp bell, in Nashville, Tenn. Young Campbell has been regarded as men tally unsound. Seven people were asphyxiated, one fatally hurt by jumping from a win dow, and five ; others more or less in jured by fire in the residence of James R. Arminger, a prominent jeweler of Baltimore, Md. The monitor Monadnock has been formally placed in commission at Mare-island navy yard, San Franoisoo. The Monadnock - was oummenced twelve yeais ago, and has dragged along at intervals. Navy offloers say she is now a most powerful battleship and able to hold her own against any thing that floats. . . State Senator Guy, of New York, lias prepared a bill whioh will be pre sented to the legislature very soon -whioh authorizes the oity to purchase and remove the Edgar Allen Foe cot tage. The bill provides for an appro priation of 50,000, whioh sum, it is estimated, will oover all expenses. The , Chioago Post's Washington special says that on authority of a gentleman who enjoys the personal confidence of the president as fully as any one, the statement is made that if congress adjourns without currency legislation along the lines suggested by Mr. Cleveland, he will call a special session and f oroe the issue upon the oountry as being the one question of paramount importance. James Fitzgerald was banged at St Louis for the murder of his sweet heart, Annie Nessens, on the night of November 24, 1898. The rope broke and the viotim lay struggling on the ground beneath the gallows. The doctors found Fitzgerald still oon scions. Stimulants were given and he revived. A new rope was sent for and an hour later the sick and trembling, but very nervy victim, was again taken to the scaffold. This time there was no hitch. Despite the bad roads travel has al ready oommenoed to the Nez Feroe reservation and it is estimated that 1,500 white settlers will be on their claims before June. The new city of Nez Perce is already the soene of ao tive business operations. A new stage and mail line will be in operaion by April 1 from this plaoe, which will give direct communication with the terminus of the Spokane & Palonse branoh of the Northern Paoifio railroad. Under the new postal appropriation ill the secret inspection of letter car ters by special agents will be stopped. The bill provides instead, that there shall be thirty additional postomoe in' speotors, who shall be assigned to the free delivery ; servioe exclusively. While these men will be nominally un der the authority of the fourth assist ant postmaster-general, they will be subject to the orders of the first assist ant and the superintendent of the free delivery servioe. They will devote their time exclusively to the inspection of the free-delivery servioe, and will pursue the same methods pursued by the special agents. ' At Ellis island, in New York har bor, the immigration committee of the house will take evidence bearing on the administration of existing immi gration laws. The committee will witness the landing of two shiploads of immigrants. A general consulta tion on the subjeot of immigration and the class of immigrants will be held with the government inspectors at El lis island with a view to learning more about the workings of the exist ing laws. It is generally oonoeded that if any immigration law is passed by the present oongress it will be the Lodge bill now pending before the sen ate, which provides for a strict educa tional test, in addition to the restric tion of present laws. A man and a boy 20 years old, were lynohed by a mob in Wiohita, Kan., for bank robbery and murder reoently oommitted in that town. The Amerioan ship William G. Davis, from Philadelphia for San Fran oisoo, to inaugurate the new line of clippers around the Horn from the lat ter port to the Atlantio seaboard, has been lost at sea. Senator Dubois says the silver Re publicans of the Northwest will per mit no tariff legislation in this con gress or any other that does not recog nize free silver, and the same issue will be raised in the St. Loius conven tion. Five hundred lithographers struck in New York to enforoe the recogni tion of their organization and the abo lition of the piecework system. The action of the New York branoh is ex pected to precipitate strikes forthwith in all large cities. Rolla O. Heikes, of Dayton, O., champion target shot of the world, has made another sensational record. In an exhibition at Indianapolis he broke 100 targets, continuous shooting, in 4 minutes and 20 seoonds, whioh makes a new world's reoord. The withdrawal of Commander and Mrs. Booth from the Salvation Army has oreated a commotion in the Phila delphia branoh of the army. The sol diers are aroused and talk of enlisting in a big seoession from European head quarters is heard in every Salvation hall in that oity. In a fit of rage Jaoob Dietzel, of Chi cago, aged 68, shot his daughter, Mrs. -Henry Obner, and then himself, infliot- ing fatal wounds. He was onoe in prosperous oircumstances, but of late has been dependent upon his children for support, and their frequent oom plaints, it is said, were ' the oause of the crime. It is reported in Constantinople that, February 14, the first day of the Ram adan festival, the ' Turks surrounded the Armenian quarters in Marsovan and ordered the Armenians to aocept Islam. Five hundred of them agreed to do so, but 150 reoalcitrants were killed. A fresh series of massaores is reported in the Sivas and Kharpoot districts. The Paris Politique Coloniale pub lishes an alleged telegram from the Frenoh consular agent in Brazil, Re porting that oonfliots have taken plaoe in the disputed territory of Amapa, be tween Frenoh Guiana and Brazil. It is added that the Frenoh troops half destroyed Amapa after losing 100 killed and wounded, including four offloers. ; George Grant, a pioneer resident of Grass Valley, CaL, 70 years of age, was blown up by giant powder. He was using the powder to blow up some willows and leaned over to see why it did not go off, when he got the full oharge in the face. One eye was blown out and the other badly injured, his lip terribly laoerated and his left arm badly injured. He will probably sur vive. ' ' Henry Cottrell, of Edinburgh, Ind., died after several weeks illness, of softening of the brain, due to excessive oigarette smoking. A post-mortem ex amination was held, ' and ' a peculiar oondition was discovered. The peri cardial sack was enlarged until it held about a gallon of water, and the heart was abnormally contracted. A fatty growth had also formed, and both the lungs and spleen were enlarged and weakened by the disease. . Havana advices aver that the ' Cu bans will retaliate on the Spaniards for their slaughter of suspects by using dynamite. A manifesto signed by the Cuban revolutionary party has been found scattered through Havana set ting forth that from five to ten of the suspects oonfined in the Caballas were being shot nightly, and that the Cu bans would retaliate by destroying Spanish residences and places of busi ness by dynamite. THE PACIFIC STATES GLEANINGS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE NORTHWEST. News of Towns and Counties in the Growing; Stated of Oregon, 'Washing ton, Idaho and Montana Condensed for Bust Readers Oregon. The carshops at La Grande are being thoroughly overhauled and repaired. A quantity of finishing lumber was washed up on the beaoh between Cape Lookout and the Nestucca river last week. , The power-house for Forest Grove's electric light plant is about completed and the builidng is ready to receive the machinery. Marshfield's fine new public sahool building was opened for use last week, and the people are delighted with the plans and the work. . It is proposed by the Catholios of The Dalles to build, during the early part of 1897, a magniiioent churoh build ing, the cost ol which is to be $13,000 to 15, 000. Farmers in Sherman county are said to be hauling seed wheat from the rail road to their farms, they having sold too mnoh wheat last fall, not leaving themselves enough for seed. .It is expected that work on the Rat tlesnake road in Wasco county will be gin next week. A petition will be presented to the county court April 10 to open the Gordon ridge approach. A pocket of rioh ore was struck in the Old Tom Payne mine, in the Poca hontas district in Eastern Oregon. About ten years ago a ' pocket was found in the mine from which $12,000 was taken in one week. t A drive of 100,000 feet of logs has been received at the Dilley sawmill. The mill will start up soon and 400,- 000 feet of logs will be brought down before the water is too low. The logs are from Pat ton's valley. A Tillamook dairyman has made an experimental shipment of butter to China. Under perfect conditions, the butter was landed in fair snape, " and was sold so as to realize a better figure; than if marketed at home. .-- if ' The board of directors of Milton have deoided to continue the school two months longer than was Originally intended. This will make affuU ight months' term, the longest held by any town in Umatilla county this year. The Paoifio Express Company and the O. R. N. Co. have offered a re ward of $50 for the arrest and convic tion of the men who robbed the agent at Heppner. This, with the sheriff's offer, makes the reward offered $100. All the logging camps of the- Grand Ronde Lumber Company up the river from La Grande have been olosed down. The river is gradually rising, and it is probable that the spring log driye will be oommenoed in a short time. Word has been reoeived from Bel gium, says the Pendleton East Ore- ognian, that Polydor Moens, wno shipped cavalry horses from Umatilla county to that country, has closed his accounts and finds that he has lost money on the deal. The board of regents of the state normal school at Weston held a meet ing last week and aooepted the bid of Gibson '& Cole to do the oarpenter work for the sum of $632. The work in question is the building of a lady's hall addition to the sohool . building at Weston. . The Williams brothers are prepar ing to build two boats on the Snake river, near Ontario. A large pump, twelve inohes in diameter, and an engine of 100 horse power to run the pump will be put in one of the boats. The other will be a tug, used for haul ing supplies. Washington. There will be a jury term of court in Kittitas county, beginning March 10. Silas Fisher has sued Spokane for $15,000 for injuries received from driv ing into a ditch. The new ferry at the Blockhouse crossing over the Chehalis river has been oompleted. Mr. Bovee is'expeoted soon in Oakes dale to start the oreamery, which that town has so long labored to get ' under way. .... Charles Gray, of Entiat, is making arrangements to put in oomplete box making machinery at the Entiat mills this spring. Many of the farmers of Kittitas county pay four and five cents a pound for beans, instead of raising enough for home consumption. The annual report of the state board of dental examiners shows that certifi cates have been issued to 109 practi tioners during the year. Albert Lund says that he has run out about 1,000,000 feet of logs from upper Gray's river, in Cowlitz county this winter, of which about 800,000 feet were of spruoe. ; The Kirby Hightower lumber mill, two miles from Sedro, was destroyed by fire last week. The loss is estimat ed at $2,500, with no insurance. The mill, it is said, will be rebuilt at onoe. The " Snake River Fruitgrowers' Association has leased the fruit farms on Snake river to J. B. Tabor for a number of years. The consideration is $2,500 for the first year and $500 addi tional or each successive year. The bee industry in the oounties near Whatoom is a flourishing one, and is rapidly growing. Last year nearly a thousand hives were sold in Whatoom, and an order of 500 hives is just being finished up for a local dealer. Twenty thousand pounds of hops were sent from Tacoma to Vancouver, B. C. , to be shipped to Australia by a Canadian-Australian steamship.. This is the second shipment to Australia from Tacoma of last year's crop. . The present season promises to be a very lively one for Castle Rook and vicinity. Already extensive prepara tions are being made to put in opera tion all the shingle and saw mills at an early date that have been shut down the past year or so, and other indus tries are talked of. A mass meeting of the citizens of Snohomish was recently held and reso lutions adopted condemning the aotion of the oity council in refusing to revoke the license of the Gold Leaf saloon, al though a petition for such abolition, signed by 670 citizens, had been pre sented to the council asking for such aotion. Captain L. M. Lambert, aid-de-oamp to the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and" instruct or of military soienoe in the publio schools for Washington and Alaska, has issued a circular to all county sohool superintendents and principals of publio schools in towns of 5,000 inhabitants or over, setting forth the benefits to pupils of sohool drill. J. Williams, the Indian who was convicted of murder in the seoond de gree for killing another Indian near the British line in Skagit county, has been reoeived at the Walla Walla peni tentiary for fifteen years. This is the oase in which an appeal was taken to the supreme court, beoause it was claimed the state courts had no juris diction over the Indian. , At the reoent examination of teach ers at Colfax, forty-six applicants pre sented themselves. Onlv forty-one completed the examinations, and of these but twenty-one succeeded in pass ing well enough to teach. The greatest stumbling blook, as usual, was the test branches, arithmetic and grammar, al though the auuestions on theory ana practioe were extremely difficult. . Idaho. George T. Murray, of Cottonwood, Idaho county, has been granted an original pension. . . ; The star mail service between Gran- geville and Raymond will be increased to three times a week from March 2. At a largely attended meeting held in Wardner, $1,000 was subscribed, and work will soon be oommenoed building a new ohuroh for the Metho dists. - Farmers have commenced plowing in Juliaetta. A larger percentage of grain will be ' sown than last year, due to the advance in the prioe of wheat : Flax will be the prinoipal crop on the reservation. , ; "' A large number of sheep are being fed in the vioinity of Lewiston. C. Thiesen, James Madden and Riggs Bros, all have large bunohes aggregat ing 2,500 head, that they are fattening for the spring market Riggs Bros, sold last week a carload at 8a oents. This is considered a good sale. : Parties are building a steamboat in Lewiston for use on the rivers in a big mining scheme, representing an invest ment of $30,000. The craft will be fitted with a sixty horsepower engine for motive 1 power, and a forty horse power engine for operating mining ma chinery, with a hydraulic apparatus, appliances for crushing quartz, assay ing ore and separating flour gold from black sand. Montana..'' A party of leasers have started work on the Stevens mine again. They are sinking a new shaft near the gulch. There is little question but that the new light aoetylene will beoome the popular illuminant The shares in the new oompany recently incorporated in Butte have about all been taken up by citizens of that oity, and it is expected that consumers of the new light will soon be supplied. The completion of the new concen trating plant of the Montana Ore Pur chasing Company is being rapidly pushed ahead. Already several of the vanners and jigs are running. This plant when completed will be capable of handling 600 tons of ore daily. New boilers are also being added in order to furnish the increase of power re quired for the new plant - If all reports are true Helena is to be turned into a mining camp as the re cent discoveries of copper there would indicate that the find is of more than ordinary merit. Years ago the claim was abandoned, but was again looated on January 1, as " '96." United States Marshal MoDermott has secured an option on the find and will no doubt work It, as the assays show great values in silver and copper. OLDER COLTS WANTED NO CALL FOR LESS THAN FIVE V YEAR-OLDS. High-Priced Horses Produced by Care ful Handling and -Good Driving Management of Manure Butter Ra tionsMiscellaneous. The horse market calls for greater age than formerly. A few years since our draft colts were largely sold at three years old; now, in common with roadsters, there is little call for them younger than five years old, and the best markets require six years. From three years old until sold they should "work for their board" upon and around the farm. This can easily be aooomplished with the draft colt, but the production of a salable carriage horse calls for finer work than is fur nished upon many farms. ' If a high priced horse is produoed it will be the result of careful handling and good driving, for this horse must be good mannered and kindly disposed as well as attractive. The very nature of the conditions and surroundings requisite to the production of first-olass car riage horses will long stand in the way of an over-supply. This is a charmed circle within which not all should seek to enter. This position is taken by a noted breeder and it is correot. Corn and Cob Meal vs. Cornmeal. The question is often asked as to whioh is the more valuable food, corn and cob ground together or cornmeal alone. . Considerable experimental feeding has been conducted to throw light on this question, and very gen erally, says Indiana Corn Culture, the information seoured favors the grind ing of the oorn and cob together. It is assumed that the pure meal packs in the digestive organs and is not so read ily permeated by the digestive fluids as in the oorn and cob meal, the cob mak ing the mass more porous. At the Maine Eexperiment station Jordan fed two lots of pigs eighty-one days, one receiving corn and cob meal, the other pure meal. There was but little difference in the gain made by eaoh lot Shelton at the Kansas sta tion found that it required 650 pounds of oorn and oob meal to make 100 pounds of gain when fed to pigs, while it required 670 pounds of pure meal to make an equal gain. . In a steer-feeding experiment Professor Shelton also seoured results favorable to the use of the cob with the corn. : Management of Manure. Unless very careful provision is made for conserving the fertility in farm manures', it is far better under ordin ary circumstances to draw them direot ly from the stables during winter on pastures, meadows or fields whioh will be devoted to corn the coming year. Spread thinly from the wagon. Cir cumstances and kinds of crops raised, must to a limited extent, indicate when, where and how to apply man ures, but a good rule to keep in mind is to spread thinly and evenly on the surfaoe in the fall and early winter where plants . are growing. , This is nature's method of utilizing her waste vegetable products. It is seldom a good plan to plow manure under imme diately after it is spread. That whioh is put upon the fields in the fall will have largely lost its fertilizing Constit uents by spring. They will then be found in the soil or stored up in plant roots ready for the coming season. It will do them no harm to plow under the corpse, since the spirit has largely departed. Sinoe all the manure cannot be applied in the best possible manner on aooount of season and . conditions, it is well to preserve as far as possible that made in the latter part of the win ter and spring until - September, when it will be fairly fine. It can then be spread on the fresh plowed land and harrowed in preparatory to seeding to wheat or rye, or it may be spread evenly over grass lands. Butter Rations. Professor Sanborn, speaking of prao tioal butter rations says: Early out hay, out from ground drained by na ture or by art, nice, sweet fodder, bright clover hay with the leaves all saved, sound oorn-meal and a few car rots will make the best butter in amount, aroma and texture. Bran will out down the quantity and quality of the butter, especially if given in large quantities. I speak of it as a substitute for oornmeal. There is no substitute for fine ground oorn-meal, not crushed, but flour of corn. The energy of cows must be turned to milk production and not to oorn-grinding, nor to carrying two pounds of oorn to digest one with, its interference with digestion. We cannot afford to grind 80 cent oorn for steers, but for cows we can. Oats will not give the oolor to the butter that corn will, while the oil meals give a less desirable oolor and poorer texture. A small amount of ootton-seed meal is favorable to quan tity if a lagre amount of corn fodder is given, and in small amounts not cen surable. Two to three pounds a day is all that I would desire, while ten pounds of meal in total is enough grain. . DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Routine Work of the Fifty-Fourth Ses sionSenate. Washington, Feb. 27. After th senate had disposed of much routine business, Morrill, ' chairman of the finance committee, immediately fol lowed with a distinot surprise in ' the form of a resolution to take up the tariff bill. Morrill began with a brief statement as to the complications in the tariff bill. He said it had been ap parent for many months that there was a deficiency in the revenues. During every month since the present tariff bill went into effect, there had been a defloienoy. "How was it before?" asked CockrelL Morrill went on to state that the deficiency up to this time reaohed $20,000, 00. If we went on at the same rate, the deficiency would be $30,000,000 for the year. It was certainly manifest that oongress should do something to relieve the ' treasury and assist in the renewal of business. Therefore he moved that the senate proceed to consideration on the tariff bill. The roll-call was taken and the motion was defeated, 22 to 83. It was not unexpected, in view of the vote some days ago. Washington, Feb. 29. A stirring speech by Vest on behalf of Cuba was the event of today in the senate. It oame unexpectedly, as Vest seldom an nounces his speeches or makes prepara tions. The senate had agreed that the final vote on the Cuba resolutions would Jbe taken at 4 P. M. Monday, and the debate was proceeding, White and Gray contending as a legal propo sition that the United States could not. at this time, reoognize Cuba's inde pendence. This aroused Vest, first to questions of remonstrance, and then to one of the bursts of eloquence with which he, at times, electrifies the sen-v ate. He spoke of Spain as the tooth less old wolf who had lost, one by one, her litter, and was still clinging to the single remaining cub. He pictured Spain as the impotent giant Despair of the "Pilgrim's Progress," gazing on defeat. In impassioned words he made an apotheosis of liberty of rare beauty and fervor, adding with ringing emphasis, that the Cuban patriots would never, never, never, again be come the unwilling subjects of Spain. House. Washington, Feb. 28. The house ! today in committee of the whole, after a very interesting debate, by a vote of 93 to 64, deoided that none of the ap propriations in the Indian appropria tion bill for Indian schools should go to the sectarian sohools. The only sectarian schools to whioh money now goes are Roman Catholio in denomina tion, and the fight today was lead by Linton, a Michigan Republican, who . is the most pronounced and openly avowed A. P. A. member on . the floor. In last year's appropiration bill the amount was cut down 28 per cent, with the understanding that it should be reduoed 20 per cent each year until it ceased, at the end of five years. The committee on Indian affairs this year resolved that this appropriation be re duoed 20 per cent, but Linton moved an amendment that no portion of this appropriation should go to sectarian ' schools. Washington, Feb. 27. The house to day passed the Indian appropriation bill, the sixth of the thirteen general appropriation bills, and sent it to the senate. . The house' also passed without debate the Dingley bill, authorizing the secretary of the treasury to take . and kill the Alaskan seal herds, if a modus vivendi oannot be oonoluded be fore the opening of the present season for the protection of the seals, pending negotiations for permanent protection to the herds with the countries inter estde. The Van Horne-Tarsney con tested election oase, from the fifth Mis souri district, oooupied the remainder of the afternoon session. Washington, Feb. 29. At 5 o'clock this afternoon an ex-member of the house became a member, and a member became an ex-member. Suoh . was the result of a three days' debate in the house on the Van Horne-Tarsney con tested election case. The vote by whioh the Democrat lost his seat and by which it was given to the Republioan contestee was 112 to 164, eighteen Re publicans joining with the Democrats to the majority. The report of the ' committee on foreign affairs, . submit ting resolutions on the Cuban question, was then presented, but, upon objec tion of Boutelle, went over without ao tion. At 5:16 the house adjourned. The house committee on judiciary, after a long conference with Attorney General Harmon and Major Strong, of the department of justice, . today au thorized a favorable report of Repre sentatives Updegraff's bill to abolish the fee system as to United States dis trict attorneys and marshals, and to substitute salaries. Clyde Fogle, a member of the junior class in the university of Oregon, has received the seoond prize offered by the Amerioan Institute of Sacred Litera ture for excellence in New Testamont Greek. All the colleges of the world were represented in this competition. Mr. Fogle has reoeived all his instruc tion in Greek in the university of Ore gon.' The value of the prize is $50. X