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. eed Jivef Slacier. i in- . . - Fin day; February , is.97. ... y , V The cabinet of Mr. McKi ooninlelcd. John Sherman of Ohio will be secretary of state; Lyman J. Gage of Illinois, secretary of the treas ury; General Russell A. Alger of Mich ijfan, secretary of war; Judge Goff of West Virginia, attorney ger.eral: John D. Long of Massachusetts, secretory of the navv ; Judge MeKlnnii of Califor nia, secretary of the interior; and Jas, Wilson of Iowa, secretary of agricul ture. The postmaster-generalship, it l expected, will be given to New York if a man can be found whose appoint luent. to a cabinet position will not help al nnr the division of the party in that state. Lvnian J. Gage, who will be the next secretary of the treasury, is said to be a great admirer of Cleveland, nav ing voted for him in 1884, and in favor of tariff reform and the new civil ser vice regulations. His appointment is hot hailed with delight by that large following in the republican party who believe that to the victors belong the spoils when their side wins. Legislation that has in view the driv ing of trusts from ylew Is ponding in Alabama, Pennsylvania,' Massachu setts, Indiana, Utah, Minnesota, Wis consin, and even In New Jersey, the home of monopolies. Since the Geor gia legislature passed an anti-trust law, lust December, every trust doing busl8 iiess In that state has revoked all con tacts that kept out competitors. The first number of the American Fruit Growers' Union, a semi-monthly journal, has been received. It is got ten out in Chicago by Willis Brown, secretary atid general manager of the . union, and is devoted to fruit growers' Interests in co-operative fruit market f ng, fruit crops and market reports and horticultural topics. The Glacier is in receipt of a very re'uduble communication from White Halmon, throughout which can readily lie recognized u vein of sarcasm, in which the writer gives an account of the meeting of berry growers last Sat urday. We have decided not to pub lisli it for the reason that it will do no good. '. The Skamania Pioneer asks for a correspondent I" each precinct to give "the news, not poetry." And in the name issue prints a poem a column and one-third long, by a' citizen-, of. Chen oweth, entitled "The Last Christmas at Home." All old soldiers will be' pleased with General Alger's appointment as sec retary of war in McKinlcy's cabinet. He is a man they delight to see hon ored.. ' 1 .' ' 1 The new apportionment bill before the legislature gives Wasco and Sher man counties one senator and Wasco county two representatives. By n vote of 50 to 9, the voters of Dufur school district decided to bond the district for $3,000 to build a new school house. Salem, Or., Feb. 3. There was an Attempt made to hold a joint conven tion of the two houses this morning for the purpose of voting for a United States senator, but only 36 answered to roll call, though two members, Sena tor Hughes and Representative Lake, came in later, swelling the number to f!S. However, Senators Haseltine and Heed refused to take a band in the pro ceedings and withdrew from the con vention, leaving only 30 to proceed with the election of a senator. After considerable debate as to the legality of the convention, and the possibility of Ms authority to elect a senator, a mo tion to adjourn to 7:30 tonight pre- vailed. , I ... . Salem, Or., Feb. 4. Only 32 mem bers answered to roll call at the Joint convention ' today. . Huntington of Wasco created a sensation by announc ing that he did not consider the house properly organized, and that ho would withdraw until such a time as a legal organization could be effected. Four ni her members asked to be released from all obligations to Senator Mitchell. Mulch for Strawberries. ? Hood River, Jan. 18, 1897. Editor Glacier: I cut the enclosed sIId from ick's illustrated Monthly, it seems to me to solve the problem of the strawberry' crop to those who have large patches, few hands to till and no money to hire, and need winter protec tion. . P. G. Barrett. A very happy expedient is presented by a correspondent of Connellsville,Pa. Having made a new plantation in spring, he says: "I then cultivate about once a week or as often as I caul tin-til the middle of August; there are now plenty of young plants and the rows, or beds, are from eighteen to twenty-four inches wide, leaving plenty of room for a path between. I now take some oats and scatter them among the plants niid in the paths, then cultivate, and in a short time you will have a full patch of oats, so that t he plants are almost burkd from sight. The oats continue to grow until frost comes, then settle down, completely covering the plants which are protect ed from the frost, and when spring opens the oats have disappeared, hav ing totted or wosted away, and the nliints come through in good shape. I nave half an acre and the oats are now eighteen inches tall, and I expect the plants to come out in the spring in good condition. I have tried it three years and I am satisfied with the re- wiltn." Reminiscences of the Cayuse War. , ' (Continued from last week.) Lieut. Jeffreys of our company went over in Ihe hills and made arrange- ; nients with dipt, (iumyer, in charge i of a company of mounted hlf-breeds j from French Prairie, to charge the In- dians. This company was about the beat company of Indian fighters In the command. Pretty soon we heard the French boys yelling, and we could see their flag above the hill. They dashed off as fast as their horses could run. Co. B then charged over. the bill, the Indians ran and we captured their rifle pits. They left ' their tobacco sacks, gun sticks, and in fact, nearly every thing could be found in their holes in the ground. We got into their rifle pits, unci I was iiMone along with Lieut. McAuliff and Jim Beebe. The Indi atis had made a stand just over the next rise of ground. They would raise their hats on gun sticks for us to shoot at, and occasionally one would dance around, holding his blanket by one corner while he swung it in the air. I made a hole in the ridge of earth thrown up outside our pit, laid a stick of wood on top so that I could not be seen by the enemy, and sat there with my gun cocked. McAuliff and Beebe were lying down:- Beebe kept saying, "Why don't you shoot?" I said, "Wait till that rascal swings his blan ket again." Presently the Indian made a, grand flourish and swept around gracefully with his blanket. It was all done in an instant, but I fired and shot him in the belly. The In dians made a great fuss, and I could hear him" crying. He was put on a horse and started across the bottom. Finally they took him off his horse, and about 25 Indians came out of the timber and lie was carried away. While a party of us were sitting on a hill side, eating cam as and couse, we noticed an Indian stealing down to wards a hollow in the direction of where Choate had gone. We yelled to Choate aud tried to tell him to look out for himself, but couldn't make him understand. We then motioned for him to come back. .1 went over to wards the Indian and crawled up be hind a badger mound. I looked over in the gully and saw the Indian crawl ing along. He saw me at the same time and got behind a slight rise in the ground. I laid with my face close to the ground, as the little mound would hardly hide me. Pretty soon the boys shouted, "Shoot him, Ame; he's run- ning!" As I raised up be had started to run out across the bottom. He ratl in a zig-zag course, so that I could not take aim till he was about 125 yards off; but I finally downed him. He laid there in plain view of us, but I could not get to him, as be was too close to the headquarters of the Indi dians, near a point of timber. We bad an old mortar gun that we brought from the fort, which we loaded by fill ing a sock with pieces of iron, bullets, etc., and then fired several shots Into the timber, thinking to oust the In dians. While Capt. Wilson was pour ing powder into the tube, a bullet came along and knocked the can of powder out of his. hands. About the third lime the mortar was fired ' it bursted, and the flying pieces nearly killed Capt. Wilson, who went about with his head tied up for three or fous days. The Indians came in the night and dragged my Injun away with horse and lariat, and all I got from him was 16 bullets I found scattered along the trail where they dragged him. A little later a bullet struck . the front part of Meigs' glazed cap and tore It nearly off bis head. A bunch of cotton bigger than his cap in the first place was knocked out of it. Meigs jumped onto Bill Gates' horse and rode dovn the hill 60 yards and up the other side of the gulch .about 50 yards, and then came riding slowly back. He was a young lawyer from The Dalles. Next day was the last day of the fight. An Indian came out some dis tance from the main crowd and said he wanted to talk with our commander. Lieut Jeffreys and I went out to meet him. The Indian also had a man with him. When we got .within about 200 yards the Indian asked that only one of us come to him, so I stopped and th other Indian d,id the same. Jeffreys and the Indian met and shook hands; their talk lasted about five minutes, when each man turned and started for his own command. The Indian was on horseback, while Jeffreys was afoot. When, they got about 50 yards apart about 50 Indians on horseback came yelling towards us. Jeffreys ran till he came to me. I drew my gun up to my face. The Indians came on to within about 200 yards, when one-half of them turned to the right and the others to the left. What they wanted to do was to kill one of our officers, but they' saw our boys running down the hill to meet them, and they were too cowardly to couie nearer. - It was rather quiet on the hill for awhile in the forenoon. We could see a big Indian riding up and down a ridge across the hollow. ' He seemed to be waiting for something. John Pulp, better known as Oregon John, and myself stole down the hill, across the flat and up a little gulch. The In dian came back down the ridge, and as be turned to go up our boys called to us, "Now is your time, boys." 1 We ran up the hill a few yards, and there he was, riding along hi plain view hot j over 100 yards away. 1 JWli of us were so tired out from running that we could not hold on him, but being anxious to shoot, bang, bang! went our guns.. The Indian wheeled his horse arid came riding toward us. Our guns being empty, we took to our heels and ran. The Indian did not follow far, but turned and rode back up the hill. I have since been told that it was Stock Whitley, chief of the Des Chutes, and that be was on a strike. He and his band were fighting for revenup, and they had concluded they wanted more pay. And while riding back and forth on this ridge he was waiting for an an swer to his demand for a rise. In the afternoon the fight was more lively all along the line till about 4 o'clock. The volunteers that Mountain Robinson met came in sight on the bills towards Umatilla, and there was one contin uous stream of soldiers kept pouring over the hills till after dark. Next morning no Indians were on the battle ground; we could see one here and there on the high points, act ing as spies. It was 9 o'clock before we discovered that the Indians had left. We then started up t he road, and in about four miles came to their town. They bad taken the roofs off their houses, which consisted chiefly of skins : of animals. There was about 500 bouses 1 in the village. In some of them were ' large ricks, of provisions of all kinds, j We took some and set fire to the bal- j ance. We then followed their trail over to the Coupee, 15 or 20 miles, : where we camped for the night. Some of the officers went to the French bar racks, where all the French of the val-! ley and some friendly Indians stopped j all fall and winter. They reported that the Indians passed there in great confusion, saying they could bavestood j us off, but that a new crowd had come,'! a string of white soldiers reaching from The Dalles to Walla Walla, which they considered too much for them. The Frenchmen said the Indians had their children tied on top of the packs on j their horses, and that while traveling in the night, one woman 'discovered that a horse was missing with her baby lushed on the pack. ... She went back I and found the horse feeding on a hill side. She was only three or four hours ahead of us. r j Next morning it was snowing, and our horses were not fit to follow the re- ; treating Indians after standing so many days without food. We return-! ed to camp, and next morning the snow was 15 inches deep and the ther- j mometer 27 degrees below zero.. We ' went into winter quarters in factory: cotton tents, and wintered on beef straight, but it was good beef, captured from the Indians., and we had plenty of it.. ; . j I was said to be the best shot In the ; whole regiment. I shot away CO bul lets In the battle and wasknown to kill only five Indians. Lots of the boys i did good work, among them Mr. Hald, . now a resident of Hood River valley. t i't it... U II 1 1 ' woe ev.-.....K, mC that is honestly laborious at all. The ended, two half-breeds rode into camp lioe,r l;fe is too sieepy, too destitute of and reported that Governor Stevens stirring thought or effort, to be alto would be there next day by 10 a. m. j pother natural. It needs at least the So next morning we made rendy to re- j old element of danger and neeessarv celve him and fixed a platform for him j "fflance to render it even bracing. to give us a speech, at which business MIXTURE, OF ' STRANGE BLOOD, he was second to noue. We formed in i hollow square, fired a salute from our guns and gave htm a royal reception. The little Indian had taken Colonel Kelly's letter and delivered It to Gov. Stevens some where in the Nez Perces country, and that was the first Intima tion the governor had received of the war. Everything was so agreeable when he passed up in the spring that he never thought of war. He then got 100 Nez Perces braves to accompany him and was not molested. The gov ernor mounted the platform and spoke for an hour and a ' half. I was stand ing In line, with two or three lines back of me, when one . of the boys in the rear rank gave me a nudge and said a gentleman wished to speak to me. I turned round, and there sat the little Indian on his horse. I went to him and he leaned over and grabbed my hand and held it quite awhile. I asked kim how he knew me among so many. He smiled and said, ''Meal ways know you." I have since learned that he joined the hostiles the next summer and was killed in a. fight across Snake river, along with Ow rtign. me iez rerces an went 10 The Dalles with the governor. . l suppose some win say we were , uiuioons, useu oy me untisn govern wicked in our treatment of the Indi-j ment, and also do some part of th rop ans, but while' we were fighting tlm ! inS of he balloons. They work in thev would siiake the sealDS of white " ..... at us, and we' naturally wanted to re- j taliate. One of the most excitable instances of the whole campaign happened the! first nisrht of the battle, while we were I lying in the fence corners. The Indi ans set fire to a house about 600 yards from us. It made a big blaze and light- j ed up the surroundings as plain as day. About 1,000 Indians circled round and round the fire, every one yelling bis best. - George Montane was our guide, and a good one he was, too. " Well, Mr. Wood, this ends the story of the battle as I saw It and as I recol lect it. Yours truly, . . Amos Unperwood. P. O., Hood River, Or. WANTED SEVERAL FAITHFUL MEN or women to travel for responsible estab lished house In Oregon. Salary f780,payable15 weekly and expenaes. PoHitlon permanent. Reference. Enclose self-addressed Rtamped en velope. The National, Star Unllrtlns,Chlcago, SPREES AT A CHURCH FESTIVAL. Contracted for by Subscription In the ' Rhlneland Village of Oberringolhoim. It ia a custom of the country in Ger many to get drunk at the consecration of a new church. . This custom lias been regarded as unlovely and un- Christian by maDy influential Germans of the new school, most notably by Em peror William II., but still it remains unreformed. and the comic weeklies do not tire of depicting the scenes, in and out of the police court, that follow the consecration sprees and lights. Some 'three weeks ago the festival of a new church was celebrated in Oberringel heim, in the lihine country. In antici pation of the usual trade in exhilarat ing liquors a saloonkeeper who does business near the sacred edifice adver tised thus in the Rhineiand Observer: "Jacob Muller herewith pledges him self for a subscription price of three marks (75 cents) to serve every one of his guests with as much wine as he can drink on the occasion of the church consecration. . ' "Inviting my friends, and patrons to visit me in response to this request, 1 remain, respectfully yours, v "Jacob Muller." Within an hour after the newspapers containing this advertisement ap peared, 39 citizens of little Oberringel heim bought subscription tickets from Muller. At the current price of or dinary loose wine in the Rhine country, emch of the 39 and their colleagues in this speculation had to drink 10 large glassfuls before he could begin to bene fit by the subscription tariff. The final results of the speculation cannot be known until the police court reports of the Oberringelheim district arrive with the newspapers from the ; con tinent. LIFE IN THE GREAT CITIES. Its Tendency Is Not to Enervate Na- ' tlonii. And as to the tendency of the growth of great cities to enervate nations there ib no proof of it at all unless we identity the life of great cities with the passion for idleness and pleasure and self-indulgence, which sometimes, but by in means universally, accompanies their growth, says the Loudon Spectator. When you get a large proletariat liv ing, as that of ancient Rome and pos sibly of Xineveh and Babylon did, on the alms of the rich and powerful, then no doubt you have the conditions of a thoroughly unnatural and unhealthy life, and no one can wonder at the rapid decay of such cities and of the .nations which gloried in them. But where the honest working class far outnumbers the proletariat; where ', the t middle classes of distributors and manufac turers and professional men are labor ious, and energetic, and even the class that lives on its accumulated wealth contains a considerable sprinkling of 6crious and disinterested workers, wo do not believe that there is the smalles-t evidence of any greater danger in the life of the city, than in the life of the agricultural village of the pastoral, tribe. Indeed, we should regard Olive Schreiner's picture of the life of the modern Boers ns indicating a condi tion of things more prolific of morbid elements, with it almost complete ab sence of any stirring or active intelli gence, than any- kind of modern life Few Reigning Families of Same Nation - ality as the People Governed. There is hardly a reigning monarch in Europe whose family is of the samo nationality, absolutely, as the jicople, governed. . The house of Austria is really the house of Lorraine, and even in their origin tlie Hapsburgs were Swiss. And if Emperor Francis be not. strictly speaking, an Austrian, still les is he a Hungarian, although he is n king of Hungary, says London Tit Bits. ' The king of Belgium is a Saxe-Co-burg, the king of Denmark a Ilolsteiner, the infant monarch of Spnin is a Bour bon, the kii.g of Italy a Savoyard, the king of 15 on mania and Prince Ferdi nand of Bulgaria, are both foreigners, the founder of the Bernadotte dvnastv in Sweden was born at Pau less than :v century and a quarter ago, the czar i a Holstein Gbttorp, and the king of the Hellenes is likewise a Holsteiner. Even in England's royal family there is very little English blood left. The Ilohenzollerns were originally Suab ians, and, therefore, partly Bavarians rnd partly Swiss. Neither was the his toric house of Orange, in which patriot ism has nearly always been the first in stinct, Djtch to begin with.' Making War Balloons, Women make the aerostats, or war L"CUB uum P"ly r me purpose, A here nre about 35 women encased. all earn good wages. They nre mostly the wives and tlaughterof sol diers, and have all been carefullv trained by the superintendent cf the balloon department. The making of the balloons requires a very delioate I touch' on thin flint of bullock's skin !havinff .to be laIdver another with the have also to be woven into each other with extraordinary deftness. V - i Isolated Weather Station. Rockall, a desolate granite rock ris ing1 only 70 feet above the sea, between Iceland and the Hebrides, is to be made an English meteorological station. It lies 2!"0 miles from land, the nenrrst point to it being the little island pi! St. Kilda, ISO miles away, and itself nearly 100 miles from the main gronpl of the Hebrides. 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