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"IT'S A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XI. IIOOD RIYEE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1D0O. NO. 44. HOOD RIVER GLACIER Published Every Friday by 8. F. BLYTHE. Terms ot subscription 11. 50 1 year when paid 1n uriviinM. ; THE MAILS. i The mail arrives from Mt. Hoodat 10 o'clock a. m. Wednesdays and Saturdays; departs the same days at noon. For Chenoweth, leaves at 8 a. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; arrives at 6 p. m. For W hite Salmon (Wash.) leaves daily at 6:411 a. m.; arrives at 7:15 p. m. From White Salmon leaves for Fiilda, Gilmer, Trout Lake and Glenwood Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays. ' ForBingen (Wash.) leaves at 5:45 p.m.; ar rives at 2 p. m. SOCIETIES. IAUREL REBEKAH DEGREE LODGE, No 1 87, 1. O. O. F. Meets first and third Mon days in each month. Mi,g Stella Richahdson, N. G. .': H. J. Hibbard, Secretary. CANBY POST, No. 16, G. A. R.-Meets at A O. U. W. Hall first Saturday of each montb at 2 o'clock p. m. All G. A. K. members in vited to meet with us. ,t, M P. Iskkberg, Commander 4 T. J. Cunning, Adjutant. CANBV W. R. C, No. 16-Meets first 8atur day of each month In A. 0. U. W. hall at ' , p. m. Mrs. Apulia Stkanahan, President, j Mrs. Ursula Dukes, Secretary. OOD RIVER LODGE, No. 105, A. F. and A. M. Meets Saturday evening on or befors each full moon. . E. Williams, W. M. D. McDonald, Secretary. sTJOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M. (XL Meets third Friday night of each month. I G. R. CA8TNER, H. P. I G. F. Williams, Secretary. I rjOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 25, O. E. 8. ill Meets Saturday after each full moon anC 'two weeks thereafter. I Mas. Mary A. Davidson, W. M. I LETA AS8EMB1.Y, No. 103, United Artisans, j J Meets Becond Tuesday of each mouth al i Fraternal hall. F. C. Brosivb, M. A. ; D. McDonald, Secretary. j "ITTAUCOMA LODGE, No. 30, K. of P.-Meetr 1 Y in A. O. U. W. hall every Tuesday night, f Geo. Stranauan, C. C. ! G. W. Graham, K. of R. & 8. I ! IVERSIDE LODGE. No. 68, A. O. U, W. 4 Jt Meets first and third Saturdays of each t month. O. G. Chamberlain, M. W. j J. F. Watt, Financier. H. L. Howe, Recorder. I TDLEWILDE LODGE. No. 107. I. O O. F.- , J. Meets in Fraternal hall every Thursdaj 1 Digbt. A. U. UETCHEL, N. O. H. J. Hibbard, Secretary. F. SHAW, M. D. Telephone No. 11. All Calls Promptly Attended i. I Office upstairs over Cppple's store. All caili I left at the office or residence will be promptly i attended to. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ABSTRACTER, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTATE AGENT. For 21 years a resident of Oregon and Wash- i niton. Has had many years experience 1 teal Estate matters, as abstracter, searcher of titles and agent. Satisfaction guaranteed or ne charge. J F. WATT, M. D. Surgeon for O. R. & N. Co. Is especially . equipped to treat catarrh of nose and throat and diseases of women. Special terms for office treatment of chronic cases. ' Telephone, office, 33, residence, 31. piONEER MILLS Harbison Bros., Profs. FLOUR, FEED AND ALL CEREALS Ground and manufactured. Whole Wheat Graham a specialty. Custnra grinding done every Saturday. During the busy season additional days will be mentioned in the local columns. HOOD KIVKIt, OREGON. pAPERHANGING, KALSOMINING, ETC. If your walls are sick or mutilated, c ill oa E. L. ROOD. Consultation free. No charge for prescrlp. I tions. No cure no pay. I Office hours from 6 A. M. till 6. P. M., and all ' night if necessary. J7CONOMY SHOE SHOP. FKICB LIST. Men's half soles, hand e ticked, $1; nailed, beat, 75c ; second, 50c ; third, 40c. Ladies' hand stitched, 75c ; nailed, beet, " M)c ; second, 35. Best stock and work la Hood River. C. WELDS, Prop. pHE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY Is the place to get the latest and best in ; Confectioneries, Cwnues. Nuts, Tobacco, , Cigars, etc ....ICE CREAM PARLORS.... COLE A GRAHAM, Props. p C. BR0S1US, M. D. " PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. f Office Hours! 10 to 11 A. M. ; 2 to S and 6 to 7 P.M. ' JIT. HOOD SAW MILLS f Tomlissoh Buos, Props. I FIR AND PINE LUMBER.. i Of the beet quality alwaa on hand at 1 prices to suit the times. J OB PRINTING. For Bill Hearts, Letter Heads, Envel opes, Cards, Circulars, Small Posters, Milk Tickets, Programmes, Ball Tickets, Legal Blanks, etc., come to the GLACIER JOB OFFICE. DALLAS & SPANGLEK, -DBALKBS LN Hardware, Stoves and Tinware Kitchen Furniture. Plumbers' Goods, Pruning Tools, Etc We have a new and complete stock of hardware, stoves and tinware, to which we will keep constantly adding. Our prices will continue to be as low M Portland prices. lEMUIS TIIfiHE A :fe:ialtt. EVENTS OF THE DAI Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting; Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented " Condensed Form. Methuen oocupied Boshof, on the way to Mafeking. The Illinois river is flooded, owing, it is said to the Chicago drainage canal. The house adopted the conference report on the currency bill by a vote of 166 to 120. General Cronje and the remainder of the Paardeburg prisoners will be taken to St. Helena. Rather than have it captured by the British, the Boers will raze Johannes burg to the ground. . The 66th anniversary of the birth of King Humber I, was appropriately cel ebrated throughout Italy. General Kobbe has been appointed governor of Albay province, Luzon. Hemp ports have been opened. Lord Roberts' forces have occupied Bloemfontein, and Kroonstadt will be the Free State's seat of government. James G. Smith, president of the Telegraphers' Union and an inventor of telegraphic devices, died at his home in New York, aged 69. The Armstrong Steel Works, at Flint, Mich., burned with a loss estimated at $130,000. Goldens' brewery and cooper shop, adjacent to the steel works, were also destroyed. Patrick Egan, ex-minister to Chili, and ex-president of the Irish National Federation, has written a letter in which he says that 85 per cent of the Irish people dislike Queen Victoria. At Price, Utah, Indian Agent Myton, leased 700,000 acres of goveninent land on the Uintah reservation to Eastern Utah flockmasters. The leases run five years, and the amount involved is $18, 000, which goes to the Uintah Indians. Rev. Dr. Isaac Meyer Wise celebrat ed bis 81st birthday at Cincinnati. He is the oldest rabbi in active service in the United States. Dr. Wise was born in Steingrub, Bohemia, March 11, 1819. Alter more than half a century spent in America he stands today at the head of the Reform Jews of the country. President Wheeler has announced to the regents of the University of Cali fornia that experts of acknowledged repute have been engaged to make ex cavations and explorations in parts of the world rich with relics of ancient learning. The entire expense of the work will be borne by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. In Egypt, Dr. George Reisner will have charge of the explorations. The materials collected by these scien tists will be placed in the Archaeologi cal museum to be established at Berke ley. Filipino insurgents are fighting hard to keep the Americans out of southern Luzon. Pliionfi in Honolulu is stamped out. after a total of 62 cases, 53 of which were fatal. " A brother of President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has been captured by the British. General George White has arrvied at Durban and embarked upon the trans port for East London. England politely declined the proffer of the United States to intercede in the war in South Africa. Near Baker City, Or., an O. R. & N. freight train ran down four Japanese section hands, two being killed. Labor troubles are rife in Martinique. Riots and incendiary fires spread terror through the island, and ignorant negroes threatened to behead the whites. The United States government has purchased the steamer Columbia from the Northern Pacific Steamship Com pany. She will go on the regular Manila run. The flteamshirj Armenia, load ins at New York, will carry supplies to Ma nila for the American troops in the Philippines, and 2,200 tons of rails and a large amount of steel bridge and structural work for the Siberian rail way, to be delivered at Yladivostock. Senator Sewell has introduced a bill changing the name of the Paris, of the American line, to the Philadelphia. Three of the ships of the international Navieation Company constituting the American Trans-Atlantic mail service, already bear names of American cities the St. Paul, the St. Louis and the New York. T. K. Sudborough, formerly clerk in the auditor's office of the Pacific Ex press Company, at Omaha, has sued the express company ana irastus Young, its auditor, for $30,000 dam ages, alleging that by reason of his ar rest on May 26, 1808, on the charge of embezzlement, he has been brought into publio scandal and disgrace. At Crioole Creek, Col., the February output of gold was f 2, 296,700. Throuehout Illinois, Michigan, Indi ana, the southwest and west, the heav iest snowstorm in years prevailed. Democrats of the Kentucky legisla ture appropriated $100,000 for detec tion of Goebel'a murderer. Manv college presidents and profess ors met in Chicago to form an organi sation to make uniform higher degrees and shut out cheap diplomas. LATER NEWS. Julia Arthur has retired from the stage. The insurgents in Manila and Hong Kong are active. St. Patrick's day was enthustically celebrated throughout Cape Town. Hetty Green's daughter is said to be engaged to a poor Spanish nobleman. The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railway system has been sold at auc tion. Andrew Bolter, one of the noted entomologists in America, is dead in Chicago. Two boys, aged 9 and 8 years, were burned to death in their own house near Alfred, N. Y. British industries are badly in need of cash. The money market is head over ears in debt. Nine persons were injured in New York by the dropping of a coal chute upon an elevated train. General Hernandez, leader of the Venezuela revolution, is making pro gress against the government. Two thousand Boer women in Pre toria have been armed to aid in the de fense of the Transvaal capital. United States supreme court rendered a decision upholding the Texas courts in their war against the trusts. During a row in a saloon at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, two negroes were shot, one fatally and the other' seriously. Admiral Watson's purpose in send ing a naval vessel to Tokio, China, was for protection of American inter ests. British are persisently prosecuting the war in Borneo. In a recent en gagement several scores of rebels were killed. Puerto Rico's distress is growing worse. Governor General Davis cabled that 500 tons of provisions will be needed weekly. The French line freighter Pauillac is missing. She carried a cargo valued at $3,000,000 and has not been heard from for over a month. Governor Geer received a check for $27,806.85 from the war department in settlement of the state of Oregon's claim for clothing furnished the volun teers. To prevent friction with the sultan of the Sulu archipelago, measures have been taken by the American authori ties in the Philippines for the adjudi cation of any questions that may arise which cannot be disposed of by provis ions of the treaty which he and Gen eral Bates entered into several months ago. Pueito Ricans call for a settlement of the tariff dispute. A school of forestry will be establish ed at Yale university. Governor Leary has issued a procla mation freeing the peons of the island of Guam. The transport Meade sailed for Ma nila, via Honolulu, with 25 doctors. 69 hospital corps men and 26 recruits. The Port Gibson press, Port Gibson, Miss., in which was stored 2,000 bales of cotton, was burned. Loss $100,000. All records are being broken by the weather in the East and South. The thermometer at Chicago registered 1 below zero. The feature of the St. Patrick's day parade in Chicago was the carrying of a bis Transvaal nag at the head of the Ancient Order of Hibernans. At Marietta., Ga., a mob of 175 men battered down the door of the jail and entered the cell of a negro and fired about 100 shots at him. He will die. The Academy of Music, the leading theater of Quebeo, was burned with a loss of $80,000. The St. Louis hotel, adjoining was damaged to the extent of $30,000. Mrs. Lida Greyeroff, the largest woman in Indiana, died suddenly at her home in Kokomo, falling from a chair while playing dominoes. She weighed 550 pounds and was 32 years old. Five dead and one fatally and one seriously injured is the result of an at tempt to start a fire with gasoline at Columbus, O. George White used the fluid at James Weaver's residence, and an explosion followed. The building was set on fire, and the inmates were covered with the burning fluid. At Chicago, George L. Maglll, form erly president of the Avenue Savings Bank, which collapsed in, August, 1896, was convicted of receiving depos its, knowing bis institution to be in solvent, and sentenced to the peniten tiary for an indefinite term. He was also fined double the amount of the de posit received, the fine amounting to $2,396. Maud 8., the famous trotter, died at Schultz' farm, Port Chester, N. Y. She was brought to the farm from New York a week ago, and it was intended to use her for breeding purposes. She was sick when she arrived here, and had been under the care of a veterinary surgeon. She gradually became worse, however, and all efforts to save the life of the valuable mare were fruitless. Maud S. was owned by the Bonner estate, and was 26 years old. Her trotting record of 2:08 was made in 1885. During the marriage ceremony of John S. Blair and Miss Somersett, near Perry, O. T., the bride fell dead. In a department store in San Fran cisco, two clerks stole $7,000 from the salary envelopes of the employes. Near Bluefield, W. Va., Joseph Glean, a farmer, killed bis daughter and her lover and then killed himself. While resisting arrest Lonnie Logan, a notorious train robber, was killed by an officer in Kansas City, Mo. BIG STRIKE ORDERED Manufacturers and Machin ists Cannot Agree. WILL AFFECT 100,000 WORKMEN r Will Extend Throughout the United States and May Reach Other Coun triesBegins at Onoe. Chicago, March 20. After the con ference between representatives of the International Association of Machinists and the Administrative Council of the National Metal Trades Association, ended at 10:80 this morning, President James O'Connell, of the union, declared that strikes would be called immediate ly in all parts of the United States and Canada. Such strikes will involve 100,000 men and cause to be shutdown for an indefinite period plants having an aggregate capacity of millions of dollars. Chicago labor troubles are re sponsible for the disagreement, which is expected to precipate the general machinists' strike. AVere it not for the fact that leaders of the Machinists' Union refused to call off strikes that now exist in Chicago, Columbus, O., and Paterson, N. J., the manufacturers and leaders, it is believed, would have come to an amicable agreement and arbitration would have been perman ently established between the National Metal Trades Association and the Inter national Association of Machinists. The members ot the executive board of the Machinists' Union, however, re fused to call off the Chicago strike, ai they declined that if they did, tht Chicago local union would secede fron the International Association. When the refusal of the machinists to end the strike was presented to the maufaotur ers, they issued an ultimatum to the labor leaders, and on their refusal to agree to its provisions, all negotiationi were broken off. Before leaving the rooms in which the joint confennce was being held, President James O'Connell, of the In ternational Union, declared that tht union would begin immediately to call strikes in all parts of the country. The first of these strikes will be called in Cleveland. After all the large cities shall have been tied up, strikes will be called in the machine shops of all the railroads in the country. After meeting in seperate confer ences, all the afternoon, the manufact urers and the labor leaders began a joint meeting at 8 P. M., at which ths manufacturers submitted to the ma chinists a proposal for arbitration. They asked that all strikes and lock outs be called off pending the arbitra tion of the difficulties by a committee consisting of the presidents of the two organizations and two members from each association, whose decision shall be accepted as final. On the second proposition the two associations were united. The labor leaders refused to agree to the first proposition, and submitted a demand for immediate and separate arbitration of the Chicago difficulties. This the manufacturers refused to ratify, and the conference broke tip, both sides making what amounted to a formal declaration of war. The declaration of machinists took the form of threats of an international strike made by Pres ident O'Connell and Organizer Reed. The manufacturers then presented their side of the question in a set of resolutions in which they declared that "the form of joint agreement this day unanimously adopted by the adminis trative council of the National Metal Trades Association, and presented to the executive officers of the Interna tional Association of Machinists is the best and only proposition which the National Metal Trades Association has to make, and that the committee again presents the agreement of the executive committee to the International Associa tion ot Machinists, and requests them to accept the same by affixing their official signatures and notify them that this association is ready to sign the agreement jointly with them." The union of the International Asso ciation of Machinists met today and in dorsed the action of the officers. In view of the failure of alt efforts for 'a settlement of the machinists' strike, National President James O'Con nell announced tonight that the last detals of plans for calling a national strike this week of 70,t)00 union machin ists were being perfected. Mr. O'Con nell had put himself in communication during the day with the local unions in several of the big cities East and West. He declares that all is in readiness for general walk out before April 1. Terrorized by Regulator. . Atlanta, Ga., March 19. A special to the Constitution from Columbia, S. C, says: The station agent and othel citizens of Neeces, Orangeburg county, telegraphed the governor at midnight begging for troops to protect them from white regulators, who had twice visited the town, beat the people, white and black, and promised to return tomor row and kill them. Work on the sur rounding farms has been stopped and people driven from their business. The governor telegraphed the sheriff to ride across the country with a posse and give protection until troops could bt sent tomorrow if needed. New York, March 20. The United States transport Burnside arrived today from San Juan, Santiago and Gibara, with 40 cabin passengers and 62 dis charged and furlougbed soldiers, eto. Among the latter are 12 prisoners and 15 guards. The Burnside brought nim soldiers' bodies. Manila, March 20. A military com mission at Bay am bong has sentenced to be hanged, on March 30, two natives, who have been found guilty of murder ing their countrymen. BOER SYMPATHIZERS. New York Muss Meeting Addressed by Montagu White. New York, March 19. There was a meeting of Boer sympathizers at Cooper Union tonight, at which George H. van Hoosen presided. Montague White, the Boer representative; John E. Mulhol land and P. L. Wessels, a representa tive of the Orange Free State, made speeches. Mr. Van Hoesen prophesied that "not until all the Boers are in their graves or all the English are in flight will the war be over." Referring to his interview with re gard to the probable destruction of Johannesburg by the Boers, he said: "A nation making war cannot pro vide a drawing room for its enemy. The Boers would neither have lost noi gained by the destruction of Bloemfon tein; but the rase of Johannesburg is different, as it would provide splendid barrack accommodation for the British, and by reason of its location and othel advantages an invaluable base for oper ations." As to the reported statotnent ot th( British that President Kruger would be held personally responsible for any de struction of property he said: "President Kruger is well able tc take care of himself, and if he in not, I call upon you to take care of him." Mr. Wessels spoke briefly, beginning with a reference to the reverence with which the Boers regard their women, and the fact that the women have been fighting in the trenches. He deolared the' Boers had demonstrated and would demonstrate their right and fitness to govern themselves. He charged Eng land with supplying the natives with guns to use Against the Dutch; with falsifying the surveys, in order to get possession of the diamond fields; with misusing the nathns and Beers, and with other reprehensible things. He concluded with an appeal that America intervene to stop hostilities, and reiter ated the statement that - European nations would have intervened if they had but known how the United Statei stands. THE CUBAN PROBLEM. Will Be Taken Up Whvn Puerto Rico Is Out of the Way. New York, March 19. A special to the Times from Washington says: Four weeks hence, the year allowed by the treaty of peace with Spain for the Spanish inhabitants of Cuba to decide whether they will be Cuban or Spanish citizens will expire. Immediately after that date, April 11, according to the plan laid down by the administra tion at the opening of the present ses sion of congress, preparations are to be made for the holding of municipal elec tions and ultimately for the election ol a convention which will decide upon the Cuban form of government. To that government, according to the original programme, the United State: is to surrender the control of the island. Whether that programme will be car ried out in its entirety cannot certainly be said. The senate committee on Cuban affairs has the matter before it. The plan was Senator Foraker's, and he secured the consent of the adminis tration to it at a time when powerful interests were contending for a differ ent policy, and when they had pro gressed so far that the plan had been announced to the public as the presi dent's plan. Senator Foraker is confi dent that it will be adopted, and it Is understood that this is the reason why be is so anxious for the immediate adoption of a civil government for Puerto Rico, with or without a tariff annex. He wants Puerto Rico out of the way, it is said, in time for the big ger Cuban problem to have a free field. Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, has started for Cuba with Senators Aldrich and Teller. Senator Piatt is chairman of committee on relations with Cuba, and lie, with Senators Aldrich and Teller, form a subcommittee which has been delegated to go to Cuba and study the situation. Nothing has been said about the duration of the stay the three senators will make. It is under stood, however, that their visit relates to the plebiscite of April 11. INTERVIEW WITH ITO. Rumors of War Between Russia and Japan Are Unfounded. New York, March 17. A dispatch to the Herald from Yokohama says: Mar quis Ito, Japanese ex-prime minister in an interview, said: "The rumors of war between Russia and Japan are unfounded newspaper reports. An agreement exists between Russia and Japan to the effect that neither power will encroach upon Corea, and we must believe that Russia is sincere. The new Russian minister to Corea has come to Tokio and our re lations are most friendly," Speaking about the South African war, Marquis Ito said: "The outcome of the struggle will be to inorease England's greatness and arouse new interest in the armies which her colonies have developed. England will have trained soldiers all over the globe. "The policy of Japan is not a colonial one. The Japanese army and navy are intended to defend Japan and her in terests, not for conquest. Japan has no money for war or aggrandizement. The new development of commerce ia the East renders it necessary for eaob nation to protect its interests with a show of power. - "The present reform revolutionary movement," concluded Marquis Ito, is insignificant because it has no fol lowing among the people." Declare Himself Dictator. New Orleans, March 19. Advices from Port Limon and Greytown by steamer, say that President Iglesias, of Costa Rica, has issued a proclamation suspending the constitution of the re public and declaring himself dictator until after the threatened invasion on the part of Morra occurs or has been ibandoned. REFUSED TO CONCUR House Objected to Amend ments to Relief Bill. DEMOCRATS WERE VOTED DOWN ienate Passed a BUI Providing for Spanish War Claims Com mission. Washington, March 21. The house today refused to concur in the senate smendineuts to the Puerto Rican re'ief bill. The Democrats supported r. mo tion to conour, on the giound that it would further delay in extending re lief to the inhabitants of the island, but the Republicans stood firmly be hind Chairman Cannon in his demand that the house should insist upon its original provision to appropriate not only the money collected on Puerto Rican goods up to January 1, but all subsequent moneys collected or which are to be colleoted. The remainder of the day was devoted to District of Co lumbia business. Two measures of national importance nd many of slightly less interest were passed by the senate today. The leg islative, executive and judioial appro priation bill, carrying more than $25, 000,000, was passed without debate. The measure providing for the appoint ment of a commission to adjudicate and settle claims of the people of the United States growing out of the war with Spain was also passed without op position. . For a brief time the Puerto Rican government and tariff measure was un der consideration. Foraker, in charge of the bill, submitted some committee amendments. A few of them were agreed to, but the important ones are still pending. A free trade amend ment to the bill was .offered by Beve ridge. BIG ORDER FROM MANILA. Million Dollars' Worth of Clothing for the Soldiers. Washincton. March 21. Colonel Patten, of the quartermaster-general's office, today completed arrangements for the shipment of about $1,000,000 worth of clothing and equipage to Ma nila for the use of troops in the Philip pines during the next six months. TheBe shiDmeuts will be made by way of New York and San Francisco by the first available transports, and are in response to cabled requisitions from the depot quartermaster at Manila. Among the principal articles cunled for are 130.000 khaki coats. 122.000 pairs of khaki trousers, 100,500 pairs of russet shoes, 50,000 pairs of black calf sikn shoes, 220,000 pairs of cotton stockings, 75,000 nankeen shirts, 05, 000 cotton undershirts. 70,000 pairs leggings, 50,000 ohambray shirts, 65,- 000 dark blue flannel shirts, o,UOU campaign hats. 75,000 pairs' nankeen ilnwon A1 nnft nnlra ft faun tlrAwnrfl. 10,000 linen collars, 10,000 waist belts, 75.000 hat cords. 1.500 tents (includ ing 200 hospital tents), 2,000 blankets, 12,000 brooms, 8,000 scrubbing brushes, 5,000 barracks chairs and 10, 000 light woolen stockings. With the exception of the Hunt woolen stockings, all articles are in Htnck at the various niihtnrv depots. and will be forwarded with no more delay than necessary. Woolen stockings have not heretofore been considered as an essential part of the outfit of a soldier in the tropics. and consequently were not kept in sotck. These articles will be pur chased in the open market in San Francisco and forwarded with the rest. In addition to the articles already enumerated, 500 field ranges are called for. Even these were in stock, and will be sent forward. Under the pol icy adpoted by the quartermaster de partment arrangements will be made immediately to replenish the stock in all depots up to the maximum amount at the time of the receipt of the mam moth order from the Philippines. Empress Snubs the I'owers. Peking, March 21. The ascendency of the anti-foreign party is becoming pronounced. The dowagor empress appears unable sufficiently to reward the officials who exhibit marked hos tility to everything not Chinese. Hen Tung, probably the most bitterly anti foreign official of the empire, has been decorated with the three-eyed peacock feather, which has never been conferred for 80 years. The notorious Li Peng Hing, who was dismissed from the governorship of Shantung on Germany 'e demand, has been advanced to the first rank, and the ex-governor of Shantung, Yuh Sen, has been appointed governor of the Shang Si district, a snub to the powers interested, and likely to preju dice British interests in the proivnee, as the powers believe his maladminis tration is the cause of the present state of affairs in Shantung. Plague Spreading in Australia; Adelaide, South Australia, March 21. Five deaths have recently oc curred here from what is suspected tc be the bubonic plague. Sydney, N. S. W., March 21. An other death from bubonio plague hat occurred here, and two fresh cases are otficially reporteJ. Reconstruction of Theatar Francals. Paris, March 21. The chamber ol deputies today adopted a credit ol 2,400,000 francs for the reconstruction of the Theater Francsis, recently des troyed by fire, and for the providing ol a temporary home for the Comedic Francais at the Odon. Steps have been taken by the Topeks Commercial Club to have a big expo sition in Kansas in 1904, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of theorganiza liou of the territory of Kansas. BOERS AT KROONSTAD. Sutler With SB. OOO Men to Attempt U I'orce Blggarsberg Range. London, March 21. Kroonstad, where the Boers are concentrating, is 80 miles from Bloemfontein. It is sur rounded by a country of hills and jun gles. General Gatacre is now resting at Springfontein, preliminary to joining Lord Roberts. General Buller's hill work before Ladysmith has given him an experience which is about to be used in forcing the Blggarsberg range. It is believed that 25,000 of his 40,000 men are about to engage General Botha's force, and the next news of fighting will probably come from Natal. The leaders of the Afrikanderbund are circulating a petition in Cape Col ony asking the imperial government not to take away the independence oi the Boers. Thirty-two thousand additional troops for South Afiica are now at sea. Canadians at Carnarvon. Carnarvon, Cape Colony, March 21. The Canadian mounted rifles, under Colonel Herohinor, and the Canadian Artillery, commanded by Colonel Drury, have arrived here with a con tingent of yeomanry. The presence of this force here has had an exoellent effect in the-district. It is said that a large force of insurgents is in the vi cinity of Van Wyck's Vlei. Settlement of Sulu Disputes. New York, March 21. A speoial to the Herald from Washington says: To prevent friction with the sultan of the Sulu arohipelago, measures have been taken by the" American authorities in the Philippines for the adjudication of any questions that may arise which cannot be disposed of by the provisions of the treaty which he and General Bates entered into several months ago. Colonel Pettit, who succeeded Gen eral Bates as commanding general of the department of Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago, has issued this order, a copy of which has juBt reached the war department: "It is directed that all oases in dis pute between the sultan and his sub jects and the United States which come in conflict with the provisions of the treaty, be referred by the commanding officers at S'Assi and Bonago to the military commander at Sulu, who will take such action as he may deem best, making a full report to the distriot commander." Medals to Spanish War Veterans. Washington, March 20. The. Na tional Society, Sons of the American Revolution, on Wednesday evening will present medals to such members of tho District of Columbia Socioty as served in the war with Spain. Senator Lodge will deliver the address. This aotiou is taken in accordance with a resolu tion adopted at the last congress of the society at Detroit, authorizing a com mittee to prooure from the govern ment an old Spanish gun or plato from one of the captured ships, to strike medals from the same and distribute them to members of the society who served in the late war. Fast Mall Wrecked. Montgomery, Ala., March 21. The fast mail on the Plant system, which left here last night, was wrecked about a mile and a half from Ozark. Wil liam Kellar, a commercial traveler from Savannah, Ga., and Conductor Reed, were fatally injured. Others injured are: R. L. Todd, division pas senger agent of the Plant system, Mont gomery; Jack Comaker, Southeastern passenger agent of the Mobile & Mont gomery, and C. L. Mitchell, a mer chant of Zark. The train was slowing . up for a bridge when the rear truck of the tender jumped the track and the entire train, except the last sleeper, left the rails. Two passenger coaches and two sleepers turned over and rolled down an embankment. Victory for American Shipowners. Vancouver, B. C, March 21. An important ruling was received today from the secretary of the treasury, at Washington, by the collector of cus toms in Vancouver. This was to the effect that in future no American goods will be allowed to go north in Cana dian vessels to Skagway for looal con sumption there without payment of the regular duties. This is .a victory for American shipowners. Boxing Bout Knded Fatally. Santa Cruz, Cal., March 20. Frank Cass, 18 years old, was killed at Levin lakes today in a friendly boxing bout with Bert Whidden. In the eighth round Whidden struck Cass with a six ounce glove on the left side of the neck. Death resulted in half an hour. Cass weighed 170 pounds, being 20 pounds heavier than Whidden. Applications for the War Loan. London, March 21. In the house of commons today the chancellor of the exchequer announced that the total number of applications for the war loan was 89,800, and that the subscrip tions were 335,500,000. The largest application, he added, was for 10, 000,000. Victoria Wheat Crop Short. Melbourne, March 21. The official statistics of the wheat crop in Victoria show only 15,000,000 bushels, instead of 21,000,000 bushels, which was the estimate before the harvest. The ex portable surplus will be 6,650,000 bus'uels, instead of 13,000,000. Smallpox oa the Newark. Washington, March 21. Advices to Surgeon-General Van Reypan, indicate that the number of cases of smallpox on the cruiser Newark was limited to two, as originally reported, contracted by two sailors who mingled with the natives at Vigan, in Northern Luzon. The report of Assistant Surgeon Rus sell, attached to the Newark, indicates that these cases were successfully treat ed and the spread of the disease prevented-