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FT-- " v v- Hood River Glacier! Tle It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. ' VOL. 7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL 3, 1896. NO. 45. 3f ood liver S lacier, PUBLISHED BTBRT FBIDAV BY S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICI On. year Six month. ' Three month. .........ft 00 i 00 THE GLACIER BARBERSHOP, HOOD RIVER. OR. GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Shaving and hair-cutting neatly don. Satla- acuoii guaranteed. EVENTS OF THE DAY tPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. ' .m Interesting Collection of Item. From the Two Hemisphere. Presented In a Conden.ed Form A Large Amount of Information In a Small Space. ' The state department has reoeived a cablegram from United States Minister Smythe, at Port an Prinoe, Hayti, con firming the Paris report of the death of President Hippolyte. .., . A terrible explosion of fire damp took plaoe in a mine at Brunnerton, N. Z. Five persons were killed outright, and ' sixty more were entombed, with no hope of being rescued.. . v - ." . An order in the Canadian oounoil has been passed under whioh Spain is added to the list of the countries entitled to participate in the advantages oonoeded to France under the so-called Frenoh treaty. The Vose block, one of the finest in Maohias, Me., was burned and several business firms renting offices in the building, as well as lodge-iooms, lost all their effects. The total damage is estimated at $250,000; insuranoe, 150,000. - An attempt was made to derail the Oregon express between Tehama and Vina, Cal, by plaoing ties on the traok. The engineer saw the obstruc tion in time to avert a smasbup. No r motive can be given for the attempted - derailment The, Iron Horse group of mines, among the best-known in the Trail Greek district in British Columbia, has been sold for $75,000 to Peter Porter. The Iron Horse is a gold producer, and has a defined ledge, and is ship ping ore." 's The battleship Iowa has been success fully launohed. Mary Lord Drake, daughter of Governor Drake of Iowa, broke the bottle of champagne over the vessel's prow and gave it its- name. The vice-president and several cabinet officers were in attendance. . Three hundred Chinese were blown to atoms by the explosion of a maga zine attaohed to the fort at Kiangyin, China. The disaster, aooording to mail advices reoeived by steamer, was the work of mutinous ' soldiers, who were preparing to join the secret so ciety rebels in an attaok on an adjacent town, but whether through carelessness or by intention is not known; ! In the last week of mild weather, " , Grand Valley, Colo., throughout its ' length and breadth, is riddled with holes - dug for fruit trees. It is estimated that between 760,000 and 1,000,000 ' fruit trees, apples, peaohes, plums and pears, chiefly, will be planted as soon as water is turned into the Irrigating ditohes. This is far the largest plant ing the valley has ever known. The resignation of John L Hall as assistant attorney-general of the in- terior department, was presented to the president this afternoon, to take effeot May 1. Judge Hall resigns to acoept the general oounselship of the Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Company. His successor as assistant attorney-general will be W. A. Little, of Columbus, Ga. Consternation was thrown into the camp of the numerous heirs and claim ants to the Davis millions, when At torney M. J. Cavanaugh filed a petition in the district oourt in Butte, Mont, in behalf of Mrs. Huldah Queen Davis, otherwise known as Huldah Snell, of Kern county, Cal., laying olaim to the whole of the estate, worth many mil lions, alleging she is the surviving wife of the dead millioraire. The chamber of deputies in Paris, Franoe, 288 to 270, has voted for the government proposal of the principle of an income tax, but has referred the details of the soheme to the oommittee. It has been believed extremely doubt ful whether the proposal oould pass the legislature. The action of the oham ber is in the nature of a compromise in dorsing the prinoiple of an inoome tax, but throwing aside the details of the government soheme. A desperate fight took plaot in the village of Berry, I1L James and Charles Horning, two prominent young farmers, and James Housiok were shot in the fight One of the Homings re oeived a wound in the leg, and the other had his hand and arm shattered by a ball. ' Housiok was shot in the neok, and his injury is regarded as seri ous. The trouble grew out of the sending of a valentine. . , . It is . stated that the F.ev. . C. O. Brown, of San Franoisoo, will be tried by the Bay conference on the charge of unministerial oonduot , The charges, it is said, will be presented by either Dr. Rader or Dr. Williams, and among the items alleged against the accused minister are said to be his attempted deception of the press; the discrepancy in his testimony in the Davidson trial, where he is alleged to have testified one way in the police oourt and directly opposite in the superior oourt It is asserted that the Transvaal gov ernment is about to oSer England the assistance of the burgher foroes to crush the Matabele uprising. The garment workers of Baltimore, who have been on strike for five weeks, have returned to work where they oould get their places. Over 6,000 per sons have been out. The Missouri supreme oourt has affirmed the sentence of the Taylor brothers, convloted of having murdered the Meek family, near Milan. Execu tion was set for April 80. The president has appointed B. F. Franklin,, a ., former member of the house, as governor ; of Arizona. The term of the present governor does not expire until April 1, 1897. ' Mme. Dure Berthel, a leading con tralto of Louisville, Ky., one of, the best-known vocalists of the South, has been stricken blind, and the probabil ities are that her affliction will be per manent - . In Prague, strikers attaoked the weav ers who had resumed work, and a seri ous oonfliot took plaoe. Finally the polioe were oompelled to charge with drawn swords and several persons were wounded. A New York Herald dispatoh from Rome says the negus Menelek has or dered the massacre of a number of pris oners and siok persons who have fallen into the. hands of his forces during the present oampaign in Abyssinia. Judge Hanford has granted an order for the sale of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, the sale to be made in Seattle on or after May 10 next. The bondholders, under the reorgani zation plan, will be bidders for the property. ..... - Hereafter the Northern Paoifio will run two transcontinental trains instead of one. The time between St Paul and Portland will be shortened eight hours by putting on a fast mail train. The time eastbound will be shortened six hours. Senator Davis, of the judioiary oom mittee has reported favorably the bill making it unlawful to shoot or throw any missle into any railorad locomotive or oar, or to shoot at any person there in. The bill has particular application to the Indian territory. . A speoial to the Herald from Madrid says a violent attack upon Senator Sherman was published in the Impar- oial, whioh oalled him a former slave- trader, and asserted that he wants , the Cuban rebellion to suooeed in order to re-establish slavery in Cuba. It is now known that one-half of the Tezas peaoh orop has been killed by frost . Corn has all been, planted,, but as yet no ootton, although the ground is prepared for it. . Owing to the late season, caused by cold winter? the aoreage will not be as large as last year. The Cutter Silk Manufacturing Com pany, oi west Bethlehem, Pa., has made an assignment to ex-Postmaster John Field, of Philadelphia. The failure is a heavy one, as the oompany is capitalized at $500,000 and has, in addition,' a bonded indebtedness of $100,000. - - - Secretary Morton has let a oontraot for 10,125,000 packets of vegetable seeds, to be distributed under the re cent aot of congress, to D. Landreth ' & Sons, of Philadelphia. The prioe is $70,000. The seeds are to be delivered ready for mailing. The oontraot for a million paokets of flower seeds was let to L. L. May & Co.; St. Paul, Minn , at halt a oent a package. : The Chloago board of election' com missioners has deolared that 45,000 of the 870,000 voters registered for the ooming spring election are fraudulent The commissioners discovered whole sale registration frauds in nearly every ward. They say the number of names stricken from the lists is greater than the total vote oast in Montana, North Dakota, Delaware, Florida and Nevada. A move has developed in Nebraska to oontest the right of the government to regulate the liquor . trafflo of the forts in this state. At every post the "oanteen," operated by privates, is oonduoted without state or county in terferenoe. At Fort Robinson county authorities issued warrants against the oanteen owners, for selling .liquor without a lioense, and writs to confla oate the wet property. The military authorities refused to permit the sheriff to serve his warrants and that offioial has appealed to the seeretary of war, TWO FORLORN HOPES NICARAGUA CANAL AND THE HA WAIIAN CABLE PROJECTS. Bxouaea Are Plenty, and Nothing Can Bo Expected for Them From This Session of Congrea Have Been Gen rally Indorsed by the People, Washington, April 2.-Two import ant projeots are not likely to be con sidered at this session of oongress, and yet they have been generally indorsed by the people of the country the Nicaragua canal and the Paoifio oable. For some reason, no progress has been made with the oanal project in either house. There Beems to be a general stagnation in both houses and senate, so far as this important subject is con' oerned. In the house it has been re ferred to a subcommittee. The mem' bers of this subcommittee on interstate and foreign oommeroe, are supposed to be very earnestly in favor of the oanal. This is true of Representative Doolittle, of Washington, who has been working hard on the oanal soheme ever sinoe he. was a member of con gress. He has been very hopeful that something would be done at the present session, and even yet he hopes that a bill may be reported and that it will get before the house, but even he can not hope for passing the bill at- this session, especially when there is now so much other business and so great a desire on the part of many members of oongress to get away as soon as possi ble. Mr. Doolittle thinks the bill may be advanced so far that it will be taken up immediately upon the assembling of oongress in December. If is true tbat the engineers who recently exam ined the route of the canal gave it a very black eye, still its friends have been willing to push it along, even if the engineers did report a greater cost than had first been anticipated. There is a lurking suspioion that the adminis tration is not very favorable to the con struction of the oanal, and that may have had something to do with retard ing it But more than anything eles is the desire to keep down all show of ex penditures. The authorization of the expenditure of enough to build the oa nal would mean much more than the' present eoonomioal oongress desires. The building of the Hawaiian cable would mean an aotual expenditure, an appropriation of money to begin the work. There has been considerable ac tivity manifested in regard to this by the senate, but the subcommittee of the house interstate oommeroe oommit tee does not seem very anxious to, pro ceed. In faot, the various oompames that are advocating and are behind the oable pro jeot. seem anxious to se-1 oure favorable aotion in the senate be fore anything is done in the house. Senator Mitchell several years ago in troduced a bill having for its object the building of a oable to Hawaii, but as the matter now stands, there is a greater desire for a oable to the Orient than to Hawaii. At least, it is desir able that the oable should be built on to Japan and China when it is once started aoross the Paoifio. More than this, it is apparent that a oable to Ha waii alone would not be a paying in vestment, while a cable aoross the Pa oifio, touohing at Hawaii, would be of great advantage to the whole country. Senator MoBride has scoured an amendment in the legislative appropri ation bill increasing the amount for clerk hire in the Oregon surveyor-general's office to $8,000. The amount was $5,000 as the bill passed the house. Some of the inoreases may be sacrificed in oonferenoe, yet there is a general desire on the part of all senators to ac commodate MoBride, as they may have it retained in the bill. THE COMMODORE'S CARGO. Consignment of Arm for Cuban. Suc cessfully Landed. Washington, April 1. The treasury department has evidence tending to show the steamship Commodore, whioh recently oleared from Charleston, S. C, with arms and ammunition, did not lose her cargo in a storm at sea, as reported by her oaptain, but. landed it on the ooast of Cuba. The oolleotor of oustoms at Charleston, in a report to the secretary of the treasury, says the Commodore oleared at that port on the 9th inst, for Tampa, Fla., with a manifest showing arms, ammunition and artillery. On the 22d she returned with other cargo, and on the following day she entered as from sea. Her oap tain made a wreok report, whioh says he encountered a severe gale, and that the steamer's cargo was thrown over board, and the whole power of all the pumps was used to keep - her afloat This statement is oontradioted by one of the Commodore's firemen, who stated the cargo of the Commodore was successfully landed on the ooast of Cuba. Other evidenoe in support of the fireman's story is promised, and in oase it is proven to be true, the vessel, it is said at the department, is , liable to forfeiture for violation of the navi gation laws relating to clearance pa- r - r .: The recent Kter of the president consolidating pi toffloes will add to the facilities of sm yler offioes and will ap ply t $0,000 j4;tanaiteri. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Routine Work of the Fifty-Fourth ion Senate. 8ee Washington, April 1. The senate is to have a revival of flnanoial and bond discussion as the result of an animated debate shortly before the session closed today. Peffer's resolution for the ap pointment of a speoial oommittee of five senators to investigate the recent bond issues had been relegated to the calen dar, owing to the opposition of Hill, but it was reaohed in the regular order today. Again Hill sought to have the resolution, go over,, but he was met by energetic protests. Peffer gave notioe that he would move to proceed with this bond-inquiry resolution as soon as George oonoludes a speeoh on the Du- pont case. This promises to bring a test vote, unless dilatory tactios post pone the measure. Among the bills passed today, were those appropriating $2,000,000 for a pulbio building at In dianapolis, and settling the long-pend ing accounts between the United States and Arkansas. Washington, April 2. Senator Cul lorn, chairman of the senate oommittee on interstate oommeroe, and author of the present interstate oommeroe aot, today announced his purpose of intro ducing a bill to amend the law so as to prevent the transportation of foreign goods, at cheaper rates than those of do mestic manufacture, as it. is allowed under the deoision of the supreme oourt in the import rate oase rendered in the supreme oourt reoently. The senator said he had not yet deoided upon the form of bis amendment, and would not do so until the opinion is published in full, but that he would give the matter his attention and use his utmost endeavors to get a measure through oongress which would not al low discrimination in the interest of foreign shippers. The postoffioe appro priation, carrying $98,000,000, was considered in part, but not oompleted. Bonao. Washington, Maroh 80. Hepburn of Iowa, in the house, antagonized con sideration of the sundry oivil appro priation bill, whioh Cannon, chairman of the appropriation oommittee, gave notioe he would call up today, by mov ing that the house proceed to the con sideration of the private olaims. Can non opposed the motion of Hepburn, but on a rising vote he was defeated. He then demanded the ayes and noes, which were ordered. The roll oall re sulted 147 to 77. The house then went into oommittee of the whole for con sideration of bills n the private calen dar. Piokler, chairman of the oom mittee on invalid pension, moved that bills from the oommittee on war olaims be laid aside without prejudioe, and that the commltteoconsider only bills from the commit on pensions, in valid pensions n i military affairs. Some filibusterinsvwas attempted, but Pickler's motion Vas agreed to. Washington, April 1. The house to- day took up the consideration ' of the sundry oivil appropriation bill and disposed of 15 of the 100 pages before adjournment During the general de- bate, Cannon, the present head of the apporpriations oommittee, and his predeoessor, Sayres, interchanged opin ions as to present and past appropria tions. Cannon, in the course of his re marks, expressed the opinion that the appropriations for this session oould not fall below $506,000,000. The aotion of the oommittee in appropriating for oontraot work only until Maroh, 1897, was attaoked, but Cannon justified it on the gorund that the same thing had been done last year in the oase of the fortifications bilL But few amend ments were added to the bill today. Eight amendments to inorease the salaries of lighthouse superintendents from $1,600 to $1,800 were adopted. Washington, April 2. A resolution was adopted by the house authorizing the expenditure of the $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropria tion for . the casoades of the Columbia river, for the construction of the pro tecting walls neoessary to the opening of the oanal to navigation. The house disrageed to the senate amendments to the legislative, exeoutive and judioial appropriation bill and agreed to a oon ferenoe. ' Bingham, MoCall and Dock ery were appointed as conferees. Con sideration of the sundry oivil bill was then resumed. During the considera tion of items under the head of ooast and geodetio survey, Cannon, took oc casion to sharply oritioise the adminis tration for "freezing out" Professor T. C. Mendenhall, the predeoessor of Gen eral Duffield. He referred to the pres ent superintendent as a "new dis covery," but said he did not desire to reflect in any way op his tompetenoy or ability. " . Three men boarded the eastbound train No. 1 at Truokee, Cal. , taking positions on the "blind baggage." It appeared that they were standing on the platform in a careless manner, and when the train was l ounding a ourve near Boca, a lurch threw them off. One of them, ;. William Morse, whose home is in Tacoma, was killed. R. F. Evans, of Chicago, was badly injured. The third man was not injured. During a single flood of the Yang- Tse-Kiang, In China, 600.000 persons wsrs drowned. NEIGHBORING TOWNS PROGRESS AND DOINGS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. Budget of Intere.tlng ' and ' Spicy Mews From All the Cltlea and Towns . on the' Coa.t Thrift and Industry In Eery Quarter Oregon. lwenty-flve new dwelling and busi ness houses have been ereoted In Gold Hill during the past six months. The dwelling-house of George Doust, three miles south of Grant's Pass, burned to the ground last week. Noth ing was saved. , The buoy that was plaoed outside the Columbia river bar went adrift lately, and floated ashore five miles north of the river. Among other triumphs of its glorious olimate, Curry county points with pride to three families in whioh mothers and children are within school age, and draw school money. , The first issue of the new oollege journal of the agricultural oollege was published at Corvallis last week. It is twenty-nine page publication, and all of the mechanical work was done by students. The Moon peaoh orchard, west of Grant's Pass, has about ten acres of thrifty peaohes trees, about eight years old. : Frost has killed the buds every year, and there has never been a orop raised there. A farmer of Cresswell, Lane county, tUi week, shipped to Port Townsend, W ish., forty bead of choice stall-fed Wef oattle. They averaged 1.200 pounds and he reoeived . three oemts per pound gross for them. . ; . T. H. Decew, of Ontario, Canada, who has large holdings of timber lands up the North Santiam, says it is his in tention to put in a saw . mill, with a oapaoity of 100,000 feet a day, either at Albany or Halstead. The mill will also manufacture fruit and berry boxes. After having been closed . down for some time, the Astoria planing mills has started up work again. ' A new pony saw will be put in in a few days, and the mills will commence to out cedar door bolts. They have a num ber of Orders ahead whioh will keep them busy for some time. , E. Egbert and his brother brought to The Dalles last week, a mastadon tooth, whioh they found in excavating for a grade one and one-half miles from the new bridge across the Deschutes. The bones of the animal were traoed, though they crumbled on exposure to the air. The skeleton was found in a bed of clay. , The chief attraction for Klamath people just now is the annual fishing operations of the Indians on Lost river. About 200 Indians are camped there, and several tons of suckers are already drying on pales for the year's subsist ence. On Sunday the oamp is thronged with sightseers, for the Indians hold servioes both morning and evening, filling in the interval in games and danoes. "... , , ' ' The net indebtedness of the city of Corvallis is $15,778. This is shown by the quarterly report of the polioe judge, whioh plaoes the total amount of outstanding orders at $14,755; es timated interest on same, $8,000. There has been applied on one of these orders in cash, $1,977, leaving the net indebtedness to $15,846. The reoeipts for the last quarter were $1,757; the expenditures were $914. The people in Pendleton were horri fied one day last week at the sight of a runaway team, with a boy being dragged between the front wheels of the wagon. Within a block of Main street, however, the boy managed to get the horses under control, and coolly dim bed to the top of his load from whioh he had fallen. He was dragged on the ground for about three blocks, but sustained no injuries whatever. , Eagles are becoming numerous and destructive to lambs in Curry county. Will Goff saw one at work the other day, and, with a rifle, broke a wing and leg. The bird was then captured, and a fight arranged to the death with two dogs. The eagle was a large and powerful one, measuring over seven feet, and the battle royal lasted over an hour, up and down the yard, at the end of whioh time the bird lay dead on a feathered-oovered field. After noting the condition of the government snag boat Corvallis, Cap tain Fisk has ordered that she be abandoned, and it is impossible to raise her. The Three Sisters is still at the scene of the wreok, and the orew will remove all the apparatus from the Corvallis that oan be svaed during the present stage of water. Unless knock ed to pieces by driftwood, the machin ery oan be removed by the low stage of water in the summer season. Major Harper, agent at the Umatilla Indian agenoy, has announoed that, during his visit in Washington reoent ly, he brought up before the depart ment the question of paying the In dians some money due them on acoount of sale of reservation lands. ' In re sponse to the request he preferred, the department consented to pay $25,000. This amount wiu be transmitted dur ing the course of the next three or four months, and will give about $25 to each reservation resident who has tribal rights. 1 Washington. An Olyinpia firm within the last two weeks shipped 2,000 dozen eggs to Alaska. Wallula's fruit trees escaped the frost, and its output of peaohes and cream will be equal to the best. Qniloene has oompleted a stock oom- oany to build a creamery. It. is ex pec ted to be running by June 1, Department Commander Buek, of the Washington G. A. R., is visiting the camps in the eastern part of the state. Two head of oattle slid from a deep hillside in the vicinity of Ten-Mile, in Asotin oounty, the other day. One was killed outright and the other badly orippled. At- Smith Creek, Paoifio oounty, last week, a oougar was killed that measured seven feet four inches, and an enormous wild oat was killed at the same time. ' - v A Colfax nurseryman has oontraoted to furnish 5,000 fruit trees to the Bur- rell estate, near Garfield. The trees will cover 100 aores, the greater part of whioh will be planted to the Palouse apple. About twenty-two miles west of Che- balls, a few days ago, a fir tree was felled six and a half feet through at the butt, whioh measured 181 feet tohe first limb. There was not a knot or blemish on the log. Ever sinoe bass were placed in Med- ioal Lake, it has been , questioned whether they oould live in its waters. This has been satisfactorily demon strated in the affirmative, for they oan be seen frequently jumping from the water. Plowing began in the Kittitas valley last week in earnest, and is now under full headway. The ground on aooount of all the snow having been absorbed by it, is in flrst-olass oondition and the prospects were never better for excel lent crops. From many sources the Walla Walla Statesman learns that the fish law is being openly violated in Walla Walla oounty. Men and boys may be seen along almost every stream angling for trout The sport does not beoome law ful until May 1. Louis Melberg, a oar-repairer on the Great Northern railroad, was fatally injured in Seattle by being caught be tween the drawheads of two fiat-oars. 1 A oOupling link was driven through his body, tearing his intestines in a horrible manner. . ; ': . ! Mrs. Nanoy J. Noyes died in Seattle last week, at the age of 91. Deoeased -was born in Walden, Vt, in 1805, and oame from good old Pubntan stock, her parents being among the first of the New Englanders, ooming over soon after the Mayflower. 1 ..;" Reports from different parts of Adams oounty bring the intelligence that the last oold spell ruined the fall wheat, whioh a few weeks sinoe prom ised a large yield for the approaohing season. Many of the farmers will be- , gin reseeding next week. The drydook at Port Orchard is prao- tioally finished, but it will not be put in commission until a board of inspeo- tors appointed by the navy department has examined it. The Monterey, now on its way to the Sound, will be the first ship to test its merits. Fraternities seem to be the order of the day at Fort Hadlook. Already the list is a long one, but in a short time one more .will be added, dispen sation having been already applied for permitting the institution of a lodge of Masons, whioh, it is said, will take plaoe within a month. Idaho. A postoffioe has been established at . Swanlake, Bannock oounty, Idaho, with Floyd F. Whitt as postmaster. ' This offloe is four miles north of Ox ford. , . The Northern Paoifio steamer Georgia Oakes will oommenoe regular trips be tween Coeur d'Alene and Mission April 1. This boat connects the Bar-row-guage railroad to the Coeur d'Alene mines, and the Northern Pa oifio train from Spokane. Captain S. G. Fisher, Indian agent at Lapwai. was in Lewiston reoently, aooompanied by Robert Stainton, who is assisting in making up the Indian - pay rolls. Captain Fisher says that about May 1 there will be another pay ment of $200,000, or more to the In dians. A mining boom has struok Moscow. People are locating olaims on the mountains north of town. Quartz has been found On the surfaoe which assays well in both gold and silver. A olaim -was staked on the very summit of Mount Mosoow, taking in 2,000 feet of the big ledge there. There is a town on the upper Snake river, oalled New Sweden. Hans Han sen is mayor of the town, Peter Peter sen is clerk and the common oounoil is composed of Peter Hansen, Hans Peter sen, Peter Hans Petersen, Hans Peter Hansen and Peter Hansen Hans Peter- -sen. No relationship .exists . among them an. '