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The Hood River Gr acier It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL.7. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY APRIL 10. 1896. NO. 46. 3ood liver (5 lacier. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY S. F. BLYTHE. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. One year , fS 00 . Six months..,.,,,,,,,,,,, ., 1 00 Three months..,, , 60 8nffle copy... $CenU I THE GLACIER BARBERSHOP, i HOOD BITER, OB. GRANT EVANS, Proprietor. Bhaving and hair-cutting neatly done. Satis- acuou guaranteed. EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. &B Interesting Collection of Item From the Two Hemisphere, Presented In a Condensed Form A Large Amount of Information lit a Small Space. The Chinese government has decided to enter the postal anion. H. E. Topping, a furniture dealer of Astoria, oommittQd suioide by blowing his brains out ' T. Simon Sam, formerly minister of : war for Hayti, has been elected presi dent to suooeed General Hippolyte, de ceased. The sohooner J. B. Leeds is long overdue at Gray's harbor from Guay- mas, Mexioo, and great anxiety is felt for her safety. , The London Times correspondent in Vienna says: The Vaterland publishes a communication from the superior of the Catholio station at Orfa, declaring that 8,000 Armenians have been massa cred there. A foreign dispatch says: It is be lieved the dervishes lost 5,000 dead, wounded and prisoners in the engage ment at Mount Moeran on April 2, with the Italian native battalion com manded by Colonel Steveni from Cas ' sala. f -, - The money order transactions throughout the United States during the last quarter of 1895, beat all previ- - ous records in volume. The accounts have just been audited and show the reoeipts to have been aggregated $15, 575,971. " ' v A novel measure, aimed at high theater hats, was enaoted into law by the Ohio legislature. It provides that any manager permitting any person to wear a hat or other headgear in a the ater obstructing the view, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be fined $10. ; William Kemper and John Limpke, of Otis, Ind., engaged in a friendly oontest ' for boxing supremacy in a : saloon - at that place. After a few : passes, Kemper struok Limpke in the abdomen. The injured man fell un oonsoidus, and remained so until he ex pired soon after. . : It has been annbunoed that a chair of the Kussian language will be estab lished at Harvard next year. Profes sor Leo Weiner, of the . University of Minnesota, a native of Poland and a well-known soholar of the Slavonic tongues, has been appointed to the chair for five years. - A special report to La Prenza states that the situation among the Santa Fe colonists in Buenos Ayres is desperate. They are without means and almost without food. The commercial firms are in terrible straits. The national congress will attempt to suooor the peo ple until the next harvest. . - A dispatch , from . Buoharest to the , London Times says: The papers here annouoe the oonolusion of a military convention between Kussia and Bulga ria under whioh, in the event of war, Bulgaria would cede to Russia ports on the Black sea, and would concen trate an army at Shumla. Edward Davids, a prominent farmer of Fox Lake, Wis., was shot and in stantly killed by Julius Zilke, a farm hand working for him. Davids had interefered to prevent Zilke from strik ing a young man in a quarrel, and Zilke waited for Davids to come home, when he shot him in the presenoe of Davids' wife. John Selnian, the victor of no less than twenty fatal shooting affrays in Texas, the exterminator of "bad" men, and the slayer of the notorious John Wesley Hardin, was shot and killed by United States Deputy Marshal George Scarborough. The men had a quarrel over a game of oards, whioh resulted in the shooting. Letters received from Rainy river. on the Canadian boundary, report the s death in Rainy river of the entire party who aooompamed Colonel A. F. Naff, United States special agent. They were on the way to investigate a report of timber stealing by Canadians, and were ascending the river in sleighs. They broke through the ioe and all but Colonel Naff were lost. At a meeting of the bond holders of the Northern Paoiflo railroad held in Berlin, it was unanimously resolved to aooept the reorganization plan. The Northern Paoiflo plan of reorganization has been adopted by two meetings, one of third mortgage bondholders, repre enting $4,971,000 out of $7,845,000, and one of seoond mortgage bondhold ers, representing $3,844,000 out of $6,448,000. There has been considerable rivalry between the masters of the sailing veS' sels plying in the ooal trade between San Franoisco and Nanaimo for the past year, and some very fast passages have been made, several of them inside of twenty days. The Wilna, Captain Slater, arrived at San Franoisco, mak ing the round trip in sixteen days and four hours, which is by far the best time on reoord. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, held in San Franoisco, Ru doph Spreckles submitted an interest ing report. It showed there is every promise that the world's produot of sugar this year will be 1,00b, 000 tons short of the supply of several years past, which explained why sugar is selling for 4, cents a pound against 3 oents last year. The estimated profits of the company on this year's yield is upward of $500,000. Sir Heroules Robinson, governor of Cape Colony, has cabled to the govern ment' the details of the massaore of white men in Inyati, in Matatieleland, inoluding Messrs. Handley, Cass and Buford. Assistant Commissioner Gra ham was murdered by the Matabeles at Inyati March 27. A general attack upon the whites followed,' and they were entirely outnumbered and almost overwhelmed,, being unable to make any effeotive stand against the rush of the native warriors. . News has been received that 1,500 immigrants are about to leave Naples for the United States. , Two masked men entered a saloon in Astoria and robbed the orap game of the bank roll, amounting to $560. Governor MoGraw, of Washington, has issued a proclamation designating April 34 as Arbor day for the year 1896.. An explosion ocourred in the engine- room of the Murphy Varnish works, in Chioago. Several men were seriously hurt and two fatally. . Count Mattei, the disooverer of the system of modioine 'whioh boars his name, died in tsoiogne. xne system was a development of homeopathy. Philip Heppner, a well-known ware houseman of Arlington, . Or., commit ted suioide by shooting himself through the brain with a 88-oaliber revolver. The expedition of the Russian Geo graphical Sooiety, equipped for the ex ploration of the Irkutsk reigon of Si beria, has started, and will be absent three years. ' The first report of the battle at Mount Mooran, April 2, stated that the Italians lost 100 killed and wounded. Now it is admitted that ten officers and 800 men were killed. W. H. M. Christie, astronomer royal, will leave London in July next, and Bass throusrh British Columiba en route to Japan in order to witness tile eolipse there in the autumn. Canada has taken official action in regard to the Cree Indian matters, and the present outlook is that all Crees in the United States will , be deported within the next four weeka. The Assembly has passed the bill limiting the hours of labor of women and ohildren to sixty hours per week, and puts all establishments under con trol of the board of health. Charles Parkin and Patrick Cordi- gan, two members of a wreoking crew, were struok by a fast freight train on the Pennsylvania road near Bowning ton, Pa , and instantly killed. The seoretary of - the ' treasury has asked for an appropriation of $3,000 to be expended under the direotion of the United States marshal of Alaska for the repair of publio . buildings in Alaska. ' The navy department has. received a report from Passed Assistant W. P. Arnold, that the black plague has made its appearance in Hong Kong, but that the faot is being oonoealed for business reasons. I The board of health of San Franoisoo has been notified that a Chinese pas senger on the Gaelic died at Yokohama March 31 of the plague. The steamer sailed for San Franoisoo the same day. She will be quarantined on her arrival. The Northern Paoiflo office in Spo kane has advioes that a general ad vance in freight rates to the coast over the transcontinental lines of about 25 per cent will be made in a few weeks. The statement oomes from unquestioned authority. James I. Dozier, on his preliminary examination on a charge of killing Frank Kelly at Bntteville, Or., on March 81, was acquitted in Justioe Johsnon's court in Salem. The evi dence proved that the shooting was in self-defense. LONG NEEDED RELIEF BETTER MAIL SERVICE TO GIVEN HEREAFTER. BE Li'egavlng Station at the Untrance to Rogue River Receive, Favorable Commendation Tillamook Station Reported Adversely. Washington, April 9. Some time ago Senator Mitchell sent a letter to the postofflce department asking if bet' ter facilities could not be arranged for the distribution of Portland city mails arriving in the. morning by the Hunt ington and Portland railway postoffioe. Captain White, supertindent of the railway mail service, has replied that the postoffioe department has author ized an additional olerk on that run, whose duty it will be to separate the Portland city mails in accordance with an arrangement to be made with the postmaster at Portland and the super intendent of the eighth division of the railway mail service, whose headquar ters are in San Franoisoo. Under this arrangement it is expeoted . that the mail destined for Portland will be sep arated and arranged for distribution so that they will be served on an early delivery. Representative Hermann has seoured a favorable report from the oommittee on commerce on his bill for a life-sav ing station at the entrance to Rogue river. General Superintendent Kim ball reoommends that the bill be pass ed. The. oommittee, in reporting the bill for Rogue river, says: "The oommittee are oonvinoed of the propriety of the establishment of the station in the vioinity indioated. The commerce is considerable and in creasing, and trie coast is dangerous. There have been eight disasters in the vicinity of Rogue river, of whioh five involved total loss, of the estimated value of $57,192. Fortunately no lives were lost in any . of these wrecks, but many were imperiled and will continue to be until a lifer aving station is estab lished." The oommittee reported adversely upon the bill for a station at Tilla mook, upon the reoommendation of the superintendent, who says that there are other points where stations should be established before Tillamook is con sidered. ' v .-,' THEY EXPECT WAR. People in Venezuela Disputed Ground - Know It Value. Georgetown, British Guiana, April 9. If the Venezuela-British Guiana boundary dispute is deoided in favor of Venezuela, 99 out of every 100 Eng lishmen in this country will lose money by it, and the same may be said of nearly every American living in the colony, exoept the United States consul. British Guiana is divided into three oounties, Demerara, Berbioe and Essequibo. Praotioally all the gold fields are in Essequibo- county, and nearly all of the territory whioh oomi prises that oounty is under dispute. While the rest of the world is look ing upon the question as practically settled so far as the possibility of war is conoerned, the point of view here is entirely different. Gold, there is here, and to what ex tent may be judged from the registra tion for the last three days, every bit of it being taken out by placer mining. The day before yesterday 673 ounces; yesterday 808 ounces, and today 1,000 ounces were taken out. Owing to the voloamo nature of the country and the difficulty experienced in getting to the fields, long canoe trips being necessary, up to the present time mining has been very crude. As for the British claim that there are 52,000 British subjects in Essequi bo oounty, exolusive of government officials, it 1b very misleading. If a line should be drawn due south from Morocco river it would be found that the aotual settlers between that and the Sohomburgk line would not num ber 1,500, while in the northwest dis trict, that on the coast directly south of the Orinooo river, where the best quartz is supposed to exist, there are not more than 2,000 actual settlers. Rioting- In Hayti. New York, April 9. A riot ocour red at Jaomel, Hayti, on March 27. The marauders burned several houses, and killed, it is said, ten people, and women and children had to flee from their homes in. the poorer quarters to mansions outside the city for safety. The firing became so general after nightfall that the Dutch Royal Mail Company's steamer Prinoe Wilhelm IV had to leave the harbor without her clearance papers and part of her cargo. This vessel has just arrived here, bringing a number of Haytians, who were banished because of their display over the death of President Hippolyte. ' The Virtue' Rich Output. Baker City, Or., April 9. Superin tendent John MoNally brought- in this afternoon the clean-up of a twenty-two days' run from the Virtue mine. The retort was not big enough, and it had to be retorted in two sections. Its value was over $30,000. The weight on an ordinary Buffalo soale is 110 pounds. - A BOLD PLOT. Plan to Kidnap Corneliu Vanderbilt In California. San Franoisoo, April 8. George E. Gard, late chief of the Southern Paoiflo Company's deteotive servioe, oame up from Los Angeles last night and gave publioity to one of the most remark able stories of an anarchist plot that was probably ever heard in San Fran oisoo. The plot, aooording to Mr. Gard, was nothing less than a con' s piracy to hold up the Vanderbilt speo- ial tram and abduot Cornelius Vander bilt, and it has transpired that the officials of the Southern Pacific, who were informed of the matter through Mr. Gard before the Vanderbilt party reached El Paso, have been taking all possible precautions to prevent . the carrying out of the plot. : bnortly before the Vanderbilt party readied El Paso," said Mr. Gard, in speaking of the affair - at the Palace hotel, "I received a letter whioh de tailed In some degree the plans of a gang of extremists for making money out of the kidnaping of Cornelius Van derbilt. As to my informant, I do not think it necessary to say any more than that he is in San Franoisoo. The let: ter was written from here, and the men who were working out the plot, so I was given to nnderstand, were making San Franoisco their base of operations. The letter went on to say that the men had been conspiring for some time, but had not been able to agree on any plan for making a haul until the an nouncement appeared in the papers that Vanderbilt and Depew were on their way to California. They imme diately pioked out Vanderbilt for a shining mark and prooeeded to lay' plans for a hold-up. My informant was one of the gang, and in his letter to me he said that he would oontinue to act in the role of conspirator, and keep me informed of their movements andanyi further de velopments in their plans. The letter was the most startling epistle I ever received, and I was con vinced of its genuineness, for I knew the person that wrote it, as well as his history and associations. " MORE PILES PULLED. Trapman Forced by Threat, to Ue Hi . Own Piledriver. Astoria, April 8. Sunday, thirty fishing-boats, loaded with fishermen, their , wives and a brass band, sailed down the bay to celebrate Easter. They ended up the exoursion by forcing a trapman to use his own piledriver to pull up about 150. piles off Desdemona sands, near New Astoria. The man's name is Pettiwink, and he is a hard working family man. He was given the choice of being strung up or re moving the piles, but without waiting the fishermen got in and helped pull the piles. A . large number of new. piles were also loosened and floated down the river to the sea. During the performance,' the band played "America." . , : It is stated on good authority that the Scandinavian Fishermen's Paoking Association has offered to pay the men 5 cents if the men will guarantee to fish for no one else at less than 5 cents. Overwhelmed by Office-Seekers. Seattle, April 8. Mayor Black's resignation, so soon after taking office, created much excitement here tonight. In his resignation he requested that William D. Wood be eleoted by the cunoil to succeed him, and this has just been done by a vote of 11 to 2. There is already talk about the A. P. A. influence having something to do with Mayor Black's determination to quit publio life, but the real reason is known to be that his health would not stand the strain he-was put under by seekers after office. Mr. Blaok was unacquainted with politics, and he was elected as a business man on the Republican ticket, to give a business administration. , When he took office the rush of people for places over whelmed him, and he says in his resignation that he would rather be succeeded by a good man immediately than to hold on longer and split the term of office. Judge Wood is a prdm inent and well-known citizen, a Re publican, and well versed in publio affairs. A Georgia Tragedy. Tolboton, Ga., April 8, Miss Sallie Emma Owen was shot and instantly killed last night in the parlor of J. H. MoCoy's -residenoe, by W. L. Ryder, a dentist. A. Bersons, a oandidate for oongress, was standing beside Miss Owen. He was shot at, but reoeived only a flesh wound. It is presumed Miss Owen refused to marry Ryder. Miss Owen was a graduate of the Wes leyan female oollege, and belonged to one of the wealthiest families and most . aristooratio. . set in Georgia. Ryder was captured a few miles from town. He had made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide by cutting his throat , Mill Boiler Rxploded. Ridgetown, Ontario, April 8. At Watson Bros. ' mill today a terrible boiler explosion tore the building to fragments. The bodies of two men have been taken ' from the ruins. It is believed other are buried there. One man was fatally and several seriously injured. THE PACIFIC STATES INTERESTING NEWS NOTES FROM VARIOUS PLACES. The Great Northwest Furnishes Some Mew of More Than General Inter est Development and Progress In All Industrie Oregon. ' The Promised land in Wallowa conn ty is fast filling up with settlers from outside points. So far, $23,000 in taxes have been collected in Lane. There is yet over $100,000 to collect ; . The proposition needle factory in to start' a' pine Grant's Pass has again taken on life. .. Pendletonians say that the O. R. & N. is about to run The Dalles local through- to their town. Coquille rejoioes in the opening of a new hotel, oommensurate with the town's new ambitions. Only 280 men have applied for work on the state's sewer at Salem, but the returns are not all in yet Twenty-eight young men and about a dozen young women are said to be earning their way as they go at the state university. , Hopgrowers in the vioinity of Cor- vallis, undeterred by the unprofitable prioes of last year, are beginning to pole their vines, says the Times. The Pendleton Salvation Army war riors declare their loyalty to the old commander, and will have nothing to do with the American organization. Major Worden claims to have dis covered a mistake in the government survey which located about 4,500 aores of good farming land in Klamath Lake. ' ' . The Coos Bay & Eastern has been settling up a lot of right-of-way claims, and the speedy resumption of work be tween Myrtle Point and Roseburg is looked for. The treasurer of Clatsop oounty has sent to the state treasurer $7,500 and will this week send $10,000 more, com pleting the $17,500 due from Clatsop oounty for state taxes for 1895. A rioh plaoer find has been' reported on Paddy's creek. '. It has been known for a long time that there are deposits of plaoer on the creek but no one has so far been able to find it in paying quan tities. A. G. Hunter, erstwhile the offioial at the Chemawa Indian sohool, has left for his . new post of duty at Chilooo, Indian territory. Meanwhile the farming at Chemawa is superintended by one of the pupils. General John H. Stevens, of La Grande, was 90 years old last week. The general is in excellent health, and makes the ronnd trip from his residenoe on First street to the business portion of the city almost every day. . The move to prohibit stock from run ning at large in Benton oounty is awakening a storm of opposition in the outlying , preoinots, and a bitter fight over the question will be one of the in cidents of the coming campaign. . A. meeting of the Marion County Horticultural Sooiety will be held at Salem April 25. The subject of mar keting fruits will be handled by a gen tleman from the East, who has studied the marketing problem, and fruit growers are promised much benefit from attending the meeting. Grandpa Nichols, living at Bonanza, Klamath oounty, will be 100 years old next January.' When he was 87 he made homestead entry on a pieoe of land near Bonanza, and seven years later proved up on it' Despite his 99 years of life he is yet hale and hearty. He has a-son 70 years of age. Some money has been spent and much bad. blood has been engendered in Prineville by an effort to close up the saloons under the old law of Octo ber 18, 1854. , Two days were spent in the first trial and the jury disagreed, and a seoond trial of the same oase lso resulted in a disagreement. - D. R. Cooper, of Mount Hood, re cently sold in Portland 136 boxes of ap ples, for whioh he reoeived: Baldwin, $1.87 per box; Spitzenberg, $1.75; Ben Davis, $1.50. He has about 500 bear ing apple trees, from which he pioked and sold last year 600 boxes, clearing $500. From his nine-year-old Bald wins he pioked ten to twelve boxes. It is said that there will be a new smelter in operation at Linnton, inside of six months. A smelter was built there some six years ago, but for some reason it was a failure. The projectors say that the outlook for making a smelter pay there now is much brighter than at the time the attempt was made before. They are oounting on the out put of Baker oounty mines. . Washington. Sheepshearing has begun in Walla Walla oounty. Captain T. O. Jenkins is preparing three acres of ground near Goldondale for tobaoco. The Asotin Sentinel states that the daily output of the plaoer mines be tween Asotin and Salmon river is $125 per day. Waistburg will soon have eleotrio lights. The plant has been bought, is in the town, and work has begun on the surveys. In Metropolitan Seattle there 'was a spelling bee ; reoently between eight lawyers and. an equal number of min isters and deaoona The lawyers were vanquished. A merchants' and farmers' organiza tion has been formed at Wenatohee, for the purpose of securing the oonstruo- tion and operation of two new indus tries a creamery and cannery. A syndioate of German capitalists is negotiating to secure mining properties in the St Helens district, andif the deal is oulminated will spend at least $80,000 in development work this year. A party of Yakima young ladies have under consideration a bicycle trip to . The Dalles. They propose, to have a wagon aooompany them loaded with creature oomforts and prepared to pick up the injured, says the Herald. George H. Newman, reoently con firmed by the United States senate as Indian agent of the Cdlville and Coeur d' Alene reservations, went to the Coeur d'Alene reservation last wek, and will relieve the aoting agent, Captain Bubb, of the United States army, as soon as an invoice of the property can be made. xne spoKane street Kan way com pany has made an order that no em ploye of the road is allowed to talk to passenger. - Neither the conductor nor the motorman.oan enter into con versation with a person on the car. ' The civil servioe commission of Seat tle has deoided upon the order of ex aminations and the first examination will probably take place in about five weeks, this delay being necessitated by the oourse laid down in the oharter. A skeleton was unearthed by work men at the O. R. &N. Co.'s stockyards in Spokane last - week. One of the , workmen sent his piok through the top was. It is supposed that the skeleton la tlinj- r9 a artna in The oommittee appointed by the Col- ville Congregational church to solioit funds and a site for an aoademv is making a successful oanvass, although the location for the aoademy has not yet been decided upon. The ' citizens are taking hold of the matter with a spirit that promises suooess. ' ': '.') The oase of ex-Treasurer Krug,' of Seattle, has been ordered redooketed in the United States supreme oourt, upon payment of costs. A motion to dismiss will be made on the ground that no federal question is -involved, and, if the motion is denied, the case will be set for trial at the October term. .. , The danoing question is a very lively issue in the North river country just now. The people are divided into the danoe and anti-dance factions, and the bone of contention is the schoolhouse ana tne advisability of permitting dances in it The anti-danoe party has at last prevailed, ana tne ngnt ian- tastio will no longer be tripped on the schoolhouse floor; Nor will the voice of the preaoher be heard any . more within its walls, as churoh services have been prohibited there as well. Idaho, f, The promoters of the Boise mining exohange are planing an exoursion of Eastern people to that section some time in May. ' '."',' The De Lamar Nugget has compiled a most complete map of the mining olaims of De Lamar mountain . whioh will be of great servioe to the mining public ' r . The state of Idaho during 1895 pro duced a total of $10,110,495 in min erals. : This was an increase of f 316,- 405 over that of 1894. Shoshone is the banner oounty, produoirrg $3,576,812. It is estimated that the production for 1986 will fully amount to $15,000,000. Artioles of incorporation of the Idaho Chemioal Gold Mining Company,' or ganized under the laws of New York, have been filed with the seoretary of state, together with a notioe of appoint ment of H. H. Armstead as agent for the company in this state. The com pany owns mining property in Lemhi county. . Squatters on the Nez Peroe reserva tion, who have been frightened by re ports that Indians Would claim their holdings as unallotted lands, have been reassurqd by Speoial Agent Lane, who says there is small probability of land now occupied being given, to the In- dians. There are fully 100 squatters on this land, and the effort to dispossess them would end in serious complica tions. Montana.' . The Castner Coal and Coke Com pany has just completed plans whereby its extensive system for making ooke will be inoreased in the very near fu ture. -' - ..... "... . i , . The payroll at the San Coulee coal mines for last month amounted to $45,000. This was for fifteen days and the output of ooal for the same period was 80,000 tons. The output of ooal and ooke at Horr is increasing each month and when all the improvements contemplated by the company are oomplete, Horr will be one of the most prosperous oamps in the state. '