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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1901)
no. ;;. HOOD RIVER GLACIER l'uuliheit Every Friday by q H. V. It 1.1 Til K. Terii of u Umt ij Un 1.."i0 a year lien psiil 111 ttllVHllCf. TIIK MAII.V The in ii ( I arrives lr"m Mt. IIimhI at 10 nV. lek a. in. Wwliirwlayn ami Salnrilnyti; dc par l h the tttnie 1h h ut nenn. Kir I hiMimu'th, leaves at 8 a. til. ThmUvh, Thii'Mlaya anil Satiinlaya: arrirea at . in Hr w hiti- SkIiiihii ( anil.) leavca daily ai 6:45 a. ni.: arrives at 7 : 1 " in. tum While Salmon leaven for FnMa, (lllmer, Tniut Lake and (ilenwoixl daily at W A. M. For H iiki'II (Wimli.) leaves al . p. in.; ar rives at '1 v. m. Hoi I KTI I Allll-.l. Ilhllhk AH I'l i.HKK l.(H.K, No ii r7, I. I. (). K. .Meets lira! and third Won dttvs In each month. Ml bStfi.i A Richardson, N. Q. II. i. II iiiha Hi. Secretary. 1AKHV POST, No. 1, 1. A. R -MeetsatA. t O. I'. W. ilall nccuihI and fourth Hatur ava of em.Fi niontl) ai 2 o'clock p. in. All ti. A. K. iiciubera invited to meet with n. M I'. Ihknhkro, t'oniiiiander T. 1. ClNNINfl, Adjutant. IAN BY W. It. C, No. IB Meets Umt Sntur j day o( each month in A. O. V. VV. iiall al'i jj. m. Mum. Auki.ia Hi'ranahan, I'reiilent. Mas. t'i.l t.A ill kks, K'cretary. -MOOD lilVKR I.ODiiK. No. Ill), A. If. and A. JI M. Meeis Saturday evening on or before Nem:h full tnoou. (I. K. W ii.i.iams, W. M. I), .MclioNAl.D, Secretary. HOOD R 1 V K It (ll.WTK.lt, No. 27. R. A. M. Meets lliild Kiiilay nlibt of each month. (i. R. Caktskk, H. P. (I. F. Williams, Secretary. 110(11) KIVKR ( H APTKR, No. 2.', . K. S. Jl Meets Saturday alter each full moon and two weeks t.ierealter. Slua. Mary A. Daviiwhn, W. M. OI.KTA AS8KMBI Y, No. KM, l ulled Artiaana. Mcels e.-ond 'i'uesday of each month at Kialerniil hall. V. (.'. Brush's, M. A. 1). M;ltutALi, Pecrelnry. fArcoMA I.OIMIK, No. 3(1, K. of P.-Meeta ill A. (). I'. W. hall every Tucadav nik'lit. K. S. OUM tit, C. Frank I.. Davidson, K. of K. ikH. )IVKKSIf)K I.OIKiK, No. fiH, A. 0. 1', W '. t Meets first and third Saturdays of each inoiith. o. (i. t hammkki.ai.n, M. W. J. F. Watt, financier. H. L. II"WK, Recorder. ini.KWIl.liK I.OIKiK, No. Kit, I. O (). F.- iueeia in rraiernai lutu every i nursnay nirlit, A. ti. (iKT HKI., N. (i. ' H. j. Hibbard, Secretary. ;TI0OI IMVKR TF.NT. No. 1!), K . O. T. M., 1 1 meets al A. 0. I'. W. hall on the tirat and third Fridays of eaeii inotiih. J. K. Rand, Commander. I)1VKRIHE I.OIKIK NO. 4(1, HEOREK OK t HONOR, A. (). U. W. -Meets It rat and third Haturdiiys at a p. M. Mks. iko. P. Crowki.l, C. of H. Mrs. ('has ( l.iRKK, Recorder. ty F. SHAW, M. D. Telephone No. II. All Calls Promptly Attended Ollice upnairs over Coprrle's store. All calls left al the urlice or resilience will bt promptly mended to. JOHN LF.LAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-ATI, AW, ABSTRACTER, NO TARY I'lHI.M' and REAL ESTATE AGENT. For 21 year a resident of Oregon and W ash ington, 'id a had many years experience in Keat K'tHte mailers, as al-straeter, searcher of litlesaud tiKeiit. irtttia. action guaranteed or no Ciiu.ae. J F. WATT, M. 0. KiirKcon for O. R. it N Co. fs especially eqnipH'd to treat catarrh of nose ami throat end disciiM' of women. hpecial terms for ollice treatment of chronic ca-es. Telephone, ollice, li, residence, 4". 'H. .1. FKKDHKICK CAUPKNTKR AND BUILD F.R. Kftiinnteii fti rni-licl for all kinds of work, liepairii'i? a specialty. All kinds of fdo work. Shop on State Street, between Ki'ct anil Second. pAPERIIANtilXti, KAI.SOMININO, ETC. I- If your nails are sick or mutilated, call on K. L. ll(X)I. Consultntion free. No charge for prescrip tion. No cure no pay Olln'iift i I A. .1. till I. P. ., tU M nlsht if necessary. (0N0UY SHOK SHOP. PltlCK 1. 1ST. Men's IihIF soles, liand eticked, $1; nailed, iiest.75c; second, 50c; third, 40c. adies' hand ethclied, 75c; nailed, beat, Mlc; geioud, i!5. JJect stock and work in Hood Kiver. C. WK.I.DS, I'rop. ' J HE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY la the place to gpt the latest and best in (' mf clinneiief, C'aii'iieB, Nuts, lobaeco, Cixarp, etc. ....ICE CHE AM PARLORS.... COLE k OUAIIAM, Props. p C. BKOSiUS, M. D. " PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. Oflice Honrs; 10 to 11 A. M. j 2 to 8 and 6 to 7 P. M. JyJT. HOOD SAW MILLS Tomuspon Baos, Tbops. ....FIR AND PINE LUMBER Of the heft q'mlity alwaa on hand at prices to unit I he times. gl'TLI R A CO., BANKERS. Do a (tenerAl hankJrig business. HOOD RIVER, OREGON. M, . COOK CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Hood River, Oregon.6 Estimates Rtrnished. Plans Drawn Q J. II AYES, J. P. iftic with peo. T. Prattler. Business wilt b .attended t at stiy time. Collections made, and anv te aitH9 :iveu to us will be attended to peedily a'nl results ma.!e promptly. Will locate on i:ood government lands, either tim ber or larmtnir. We are in touch with the U. i. Land Odice alThe Dall. (ilv tu a tU. i ran From All Paris of the New World and the Old. )F INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERi Comprehensive Review of the Important Hap penln(s of the Past Week In Condensed Form. Queen Victoria is dead at her 0 home house home, at Cowles, Isle of Winht. She was alinoNt 82 years old, and had reigned longer than any other monarch in the world. Verdi, the noitiposor, is seriously ill. The severest storm ou record is re ported from AlnHka. A strip of Benton connty, Oregon, may he annexed to Linn. A fire at Walla Walla destroyed $25,000 worth of property. The next Grand Army encampment will he held at Cleveland, Ohio. The Venezuela government is trying to blackmail the asphalt company. Speaker Reeder, of the Oregon legis lature, has announced his oommittees. A new pure food law is now being considered by the Oregon legislature. A bill is before the Washington leg islature for the abolishment of fish traps.. Ex-Congressman George W. Cowles, aged 78, is dead at his home in Clyde, N. Y. A measure has been introduced in the Oregon legislature to increase the monument fund to $20,000. The senate has confirmed the nomi nation of James S. Marian to be attorney-general of Porto Rico. A new county, named Clearwater, will probably be created by this ses sion of tie Idaho lgeislatnre. John II. Russel, a well known the atrical manager, is dead at the state hospital at Middletown, N. Y. The governor of Idaho has recom mended a memorial to congress asking for popular election of senators. A measure is before the Washington legislature providing for the purchase of the Thurston county court house for a state capitol. Rev. Charles E. Conrad, M. D., a noted missionary, died at Quincy, 111., aged 81. He was in Calcutta during the Sepoy outbreak. The revenue cutter Grant is to make a cruise along the coast near the United States -Canadian hue to investigate the wreckage, of which so much hag come ashore lately. West Point cadets agree. to abolish hazing. Enraged Omaha citizens burned a penthouse. Germans contemplate a cable line around the world. The naval appropriation bill provides for four new warships. Astoria's big export sawmill will be located at Tongue's Point. The term of duty in the Philippines may be limited to two years. Minister Wu urges Americans to enter into trade with China. Havana citizens petition congress to lower duty on Cuban products. America's protests against Venezuela have been detied by that government. The house will devote most of its time this week to the appropriation bill. British ship Mnel Try van foundered in English channel and 11 lives were lost. T. W. Bartley, of Moscow, has been appointed lish and game warden for Idaho. Anarchist plot to kill prominent Ameticans disclosed by member in a couit trial. Severe cold weather prevails in Cuba. There has been much suffering at Santiago. Count de Lubersac and Baron de Rothschild fought a duel in France in which the former was wounded. An Idaho bill for the repeal of the stringent law against gambling hat been introduced in the house. The Oregon legislature will be asked by the managers of the Spokaue expo sition to appropriate $50,000 for, an ex hibit at the fair. Two men, while rowing across Ni agara river, lost control of their boat and were carried into the rapids. One of them was swept over the falls and drowned. The other was rescued. All hopes (or the recovery of Queen Victoria are gone and the announce ment of her death is hourly expected. All members of her family are either at her bedside or going there as fast ai steam can carry them. Mayor-Elect Hurley, of Salem, Mass., will give his salary of $2,500 to the poor. Chairman Johnson and Secretary Walsh will keep national Democratic headquarters in Chicago open till 1904. An experiment farm will be started 200 miles from Manila by the United States Philippine commission for the growth of all torts of seeds and plant from this conntry. n DIAMOND SMUGGLER CAUGHT Had Them Snugly Hidden in the Pockets of a Belt He Wort Around His Waist. New York, Jan. 21. United States Marshal Alcott, of the Ferry district, hat formally seized in this olty $17,600 worth of diamonds, which were brought into this country by Antonio Aiuenia without paying duty on them. The goods were fouud on Ansenias' person by United Statet customs offi cials at Ansepias was leaving a steamer of the Hatnburg-Anierioan line at Ho boken. Anseniat was not arrested, but tht diamonds will be held pending a decis ion of the Treasury department at to whether he it giiltyof smuggling. Hit defence it that he is a Cuban merchant, and that be it merely past ing through this country on hit way to Cuba.. The diaotnnds were concealed in the pockets of a large belt which Anseniat had around hit body, and were accidentally discovered by a cus tom inspector who happened to place his hand on Ansenisas' back as the lat ter was leaning over a trunk. There are 126 separate at tides, of an ap prised valuation of $11,000, which with 60 per cent duty added would make them worth $17,600. THE IRRIGATION MOVEMENT. It Receives Strong Support From Secretary Hitchcock. Washington, Jan. 21. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock was to have been heard today by the house commit tee on public, lands on the subject of irrigation, which it attracting atten tion in many Western states, but being unable to come to the capitol, ht sub mitted a statement. This strongly supports the policy of irrigation, and says that a vast acreage capable of sup porting 50,000,000 people should not be left a desert. Mi. Hitchcock points oat the remarkable results experienced in the valley of the Nile, practically redeeming Egypt from bankruptcy. Professor Newell, of the geological sur vey; Professor Finchott, ol the agri cultural department, and Representa tive Newlands, of Nevada, who started the movement by a bill for irrigation ttoreht u-es along the Humboldt river in Nevada, also strongly supported the plan. The hearings today were on the Newlands bill, but this has brought up the whole subject as applicable to Western states, and particularly Cali fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Kanasa, Nebraska, South and North Dakota. DARING HOLD-UP. Two Men Tried to Rob a Fifth Avenue, New York, Restaurant. New York, Jan. 21. Two robbers, armed with 32-caliber Colt's revolvers, eutered Maillard's restaurant and con fectionery store, near the Fifth Avenue hotel, just as the place was being closed at mi luijht, and ordered the cashier to throw tip his hands. In the place were a half dozen waiters, and the very boldness of the robber attracted attention. The cashier had several hundred dollars of the day'i receipts on the desk before him, and it is supposed that he did not move quickly enough to satisfy the robbers, for one of the men discharged his re volver. The bullet crashed into the wall back of the cashier, who caught up the rash and dodged underneath the counter. The waiters concealed themselves underneath tables. The shot attracted a Broadway crowd, and the police were notih'ed. Brandishing their weapons the robbers dashed from Maillard's, the crowd falling back and giving them all the loom they wanted. One turned into Twenty-fourth street and succeeded in making his escape. The other dashed across the pavement of Fifth avenue to Madison square, and waB captured by a policeman. He said he was Fdward Burgess, a steam fitter. . Conference on Cannal Treaty. London, Jan. 21. United States Ambassador Choate and the secretary of state for foreign affairs, the Mai quia of Lansdowne, had a second con ference today on the amended Hay Panucefote treaty. An outline of the aotion Great Britain intends to pursue was not developed, and no definite de cision is likely to be reached by Great Britain for several days. General A. J. McKay Dud. New York, Jan. 21. General An drew Jackson McKay, a distinguished veteran of the civil war, died in this city today. He was quartermaster general on the staff of General George W. Thomas in the army ot the Cum berland. Burned by Molten Copper. Tuscon, Ariz., Jan. 21. Juan Lo pez, a workman at the Copper Queen smelter, was burned to death by molten copper which fell fro:n a twinging pot under which he stood. His clothes were set on fire and his body horribly disfigured by the liquid metal. New Ships Building. Ships that will be worth in the ag gregate $29,725,000 are now in pro cess of construction at the shipyardi along the Delaware river. Mail Boxes for Rural Routes. Salem. Jan. 21. Twenty-five dozen mail boxes required by the govern ment for the rural mail routes, have been received in Salem, and the bal ance are expected in a few days. They are made of galvanized iron, 16 inches Ion?, six inches wide and six inches hiub. Each family or person on the route desiring mail by the car rier mast put up one of these boxes and pay $1 each fur them. i Mil Venezuela Trying to Squeeze an American Concern. ENGLAND WILL GIVE NO PROTECTION Offers to Restore the Asphalt Property for One Million Dollars Insurgents Cain t Battle. Tort of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies, Jan. 23. The arrivals today from Venezuela confirm the leports of the existence of a critical condition of affairs in that republic A former Venezuelan miuistei asserts that the politicians at Caracas are making a de termined raid on the Bermndese Asphalt Company. He adds that they tried it before ou a modest scale, squeezing $30,000 out of the company, when United States Minister Loom is protested and stopped Inrther action ol this description. The government, the minister aho says, listened to reason then, but hat now lost its head and offered to restore the property for $1, 000,000, although it is said to have been illegally taken by a dictatorial decree. ' In addition, the assertion it again made that if foreign governments permit the action of the Venezuelan authorities to pass without some pro test, all foreign investor! will be driven from South America, for the latter al ways claim they are being illegally plundered. In this connection, the assertion is made that no former Ven ezuelan government would have dared to act as this one does toward Wash ington. It is explaiued that the Ven ezuelan authorities are counting on the disinclination of strong nations to co erce weak ones. At the office of the Orinoco Com pany, whose two steamers were re cently seized by the Venezuelan au thorities, the manager says the British minister at Caracas, Mr. Haggard, has informed the American minister that the Biitish government will not pro tect the company because its share holders are Amerioans. The compiny it said to be losing heavily through the seizure of the steamers. The commander of the French cruiser Suchel, stationed at Curapano for the protection of the large French interests in that vicinity, reports that disturb ances are inoreasing. The insurgents of Venezuela have just gained a battle near Gucia. Germany Not li terested. Berlin, Jan. 23. tfhe German for eign oflice shows no interest whatever in the reportt regarding the situation in Venezuela, and characterizes the newspaper accounts of the difficulty as exaggerated. A WESTERN FIGHT. But the East Is Willing to Help Obtain Appro priation for National Irrigation. Washington, Jan. 23. Some hun dred prominent daily Eastern newspa pers recently have editorialy expressed views favorable to a system of national irrigation. It would seem that the East is well in line in wishing the de velopment and reclamation of the great area west of the hundredth meri dian, and that it is realized that such a development would benefit the entite country and be a national benefit, add ing to the general wealth and power of the nation. While the East is thus willing to assist and co-operate, it ex pects, of course, that the West will make its own fight. Every local Western organization of whatever character chambers of commerce, boards of trade, commercial dobs, business associations everything with a president and secretary ahould dis cuss and take action upon this ques tion of national irrigation and govern ment appropriations for the building of storage leservoirs, and then stand ready to cooperate with the National Irrigation Association, for whatever procedure is necessary. Accident to the Bailey. Washington, Jan. 23. The torpedo boat Bailey has come to grief again. The accident which disabled her in this case is peculiar. While lying in Newport, about to undertake a trial trip on the following day, the intense cold froze the water in her boilers, bursting a number of the tabes. The boat has been sent to New York for re pairs, and the trial board has been ordered home. School Act Passed. Manili, Jan 23. The act establish ing the department of public instruc tion wat unanimously pasted by the Philippine commission today, after a debate between commissioner Moses and Judge Taft, over the section per mitting religiout instruction in tchool houses. . Piano Two Hundred Yetrs Old. D. Decker, of Charlott-ville, Ind., it the possessor of a piano made 200 years ago and which is yet in good con dition and of excellent tone. It it made of solid mahogany. Florence Strike Settled. Florence, Colo., Jan. 23. The strike ol the mill men of Florence was set tled today. President Gorman, of the State Fedeiation of Labor, who has been here in conference with both sides, announced tonight that the mill mangaers had signed an agreement granting the main demands of the men, including the eiuht-hour day and of the onion wage scale. The in ilia will resume work at once. The agreement It fer one year. ANARCHISTS' PLOT. Planed to Kill Prominent Americans Disclosed in Corut Trial. New York, Jan. 23. Ellas Masuras, a Greek, the complainant in an assault case, which came before Judge Kel logg, of Yonkers, N. Y., this morning, told a startling tale of a plot of Greek anarchists to kill prominent Americans, and would have told more had the court not stopped him and turned him over to the police, that they might quietly investigate the case. Several arrests have already been made, and a number more are planned. On the stand Masuras (aid that in Greece he had been a member of an anarchist society. Some time ago it fell to his lot to kill a public man in the United States, and he was ordered to come to this country and place him self under the ordett of the American branch of the society. He had never beard the name of the man he wat to murder, and understood that, at in other cases, the man who wat to be the victim wat to be telectcd after hit arrival in this conntry. After reaching America, Masuras, according to hit own story, went to Yonkers, and affiliated himself with a branch of the organization, at well at one in New York. Finally he he came frightened, withdrew and refuted to cany out the mission entrusted to him. From the time he left the organ ization he claims he was annoyed and threatened by members of the society. He remained firm in hit determination not to obey the orders, however, and yesterday six of the men came here and begged him to return. When he still refuted, one of the six, which one he could not say, attempted to stab him. The blow wat aimed too high, however. Masuras wat appurenty willing to tell more about the society, but Judge Kellogg adjourned the hearing and committed the prisoner to jail, pending further examination. Masuras was examined by the police, and at a re mit the war. ante were issued. Joseph and James Kiptaukas and Frank lit a taigns were arres.ed by the police. One other Yonkert man and two New York ers are named on other warrants, and the police are searching for them. The police assert that they believe the story told by Masuras, and they say that the affair hat led to the discovery of an anrchist band of a dangeroua char acter. SNOW STORM IN ALASKA. Cimplete Tie-Up Resulted on White Pass and Yukon Railway. Seattle. Jan. 23. The steamer City of Seattle, January 14 from Lynn canal, reports a great snow storm in Southeastern Alaska. For five days succeeding January 7 the fall was par ticularly heavy, completely tying up the White Pass A Yukon railroad. The highway wat still blockade I when the Seattle sailed. Between Skagway and White Horse, the interior terminus of the road, there were eight engines and three rotaries stalled. Several of the engines were diawiug trains on which were from 10 to 12 passengers each. All of the en gines were without water, having to melt snow. A train near the summit of the mountains back ol Skagway ran short of provisins, the crew having to pack food for the passengers from Eraser, over two miles distant. The storm appears to have extended well towards Dawson, carrying down the wires of the Dominion Telegraph Com pany. Highwayman Will Die. Spokane, Wash., Jan. 23. P. B. Callahan, a highwayman, lies dying at Saared Heart hospital, as the result of last night's adventures. At midnight Callahan entered Garabaldi Albi's sa loon, 'one block from police headquar ters, took a drink with the proprietor, and covered him with a gun. Albi lan away and gave the alarm. Calla han robbed the till, then run down Washington street. In the darkness he plunged over the Great Northern retaining wall, falling on boulders 18 feet below. Both his jaws were brok en, and the base of his brain injured. He was taken to the hocpital where he will probably die. Albi is a brotherof William Albi, who killed a robber named Lacey two years ago, in revenge for having held him up. Glass Works to Close Down. Haitford City, In.L, Jan. 23. The American Window Glass Company and the Independent Manufacturer's Asso ciation today agreed to close their plants until Aripl 1, instead of June 1. Eighty factories and about 80,000 workers will be affected. The object of the shut-down is to curtail produc tion an maintain prices. Soldier Commits Suicide. San Francisco, Jan. 23. Edward M. Baytel, a convalescent soldier, com mitted tuicide at the Presidio yester day by shooting himself through the head with a Krag-Jorgensen rifle. He wat a Russian, enlisted in Chicago, and assigned to company E, Thirty teventh infantry. His sister resides in Pullman, 111. New Negro University. The University of West Tennessee, which has jut been chartered in that state, it to be built at Jackson by prominent negto educators. Charges Against Militia ColoneL Columbus, O., Jan 23. Charges have been filed with Governor Nash against Coonel C. X. Zimmerman, of I the Fifth Regular Ohio National j Guard, by Major Dodge, and it is ex pected that a court maitial will be the result. The charges inende false en- tries on the musier rolls and failing to 1 account for public funds. . No action will be taken until Governor Naan re turn from Washington. n of ii i iieoiG ins Interesting Events and Gossip of the Past Week Reported From Cities and Towns in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. OREGON. The Dalles has levied a 6-mill tax. Burns hat leceived a chemical fire engine. , The Southern Pacifio Is stoiing ice at Ashland. The Dalles will purchase 600 feet of J fire hose. The Oregon legislature deficit foots up $50,000. Mchinery for the new laundry at Eugene hat arrived. The Grant county tax levy at been fixed at 25H millt. Coyotes are numerous In Colet val ley, Douglas county. The Douglat connty tax levy baa been fixed at 20 millt. The Pendleton school district hat levied a special tax of 8 millt. Several herdt near Montgomery have been visited by coyotes of late. It is reported the Dallas organ fac tory may be moved to Albany. , The approach to the Upper Calapoola bridge wat carried away by the flood. Baker City hat rescinded street Hunting contract, and is in darkness. The walls of the first story of Mal heur county's new court house are fin ished. Collision of a train and handcar near Woodburn, Or., was narrowly averted. Famous Uncle Ben gronp of mines in Idaho hat been told to a New York syndicate. The coal shaft being sunk by W. A. Maxwell of Coos City, it now down about 800 feet. Plans for the new creamery at Sum merville are taking shape. It will cost about $4,000. Athena has invesetd $1,600 in school warrants. The city, besides, has a balance on hand of $1,100. Lincoln county ha awarded the contract for bnilding the depot bridge to George McCoulou for $335. The old Coos Bay road it said to be in better condition than for several years at this time of the year. Henry Zntz, Jr., a 17-year-old boy, of Vale, Or., accientally killed him self while examining a revolver. I. J. Straw, of Klamath county, rode off a bridge into a snow bank last week, and had to dig his horse out. Contract for building the Wheeler county court house has been let to A. F. Peterson, of Corvallis, for $9,025. Sixty-five thoroughbred sheep belong ing to O. F. Knox were drowned near Cottage Grove by the recent freshet. Howard & Stearns are feeding 500 cattle on Crooked river and about 600 head at Silver Lake, in Lake couuty. A petition it in circulation asking that the public roal from Cottage Grove to Loraue be widened to 00 feet. J. W. Waltera & Son, proprietors of the Elmira mills, have floated their logs into the Ixng Tom from the Noti river. Several car loads of Weston bricks have been shipped to Mission station. They will be used for government Luildings. An acetyl ine gas plant belonging to J. P. Williams, of Long Creek, ex ploded last week, and slightly injured Mr. Williams. A petition is being circulated asking an appropriation of $1,000 to repair and improve the state buildings and property at Sodaville. A herd of 110 sheep wat shipped from Huntington to Salt Lake City by the Baldwin Sheep & Land Com pany, of Crook county. It it reported that Ed Lambson, of Willamina, hat leased a large tract of land ou Salmon river, which he in tends to stock with cattle. The sale of land belonging to the Leonard Lang estate in Pine valley, which escheated to the state of Ore gon recently, has been confirmed b.v Judge Eakin, of the circuit court. A meeting was held at McMinnville in the interest of the woodcutters of the county. Every precinct was well represented. They advanced the price of cutting oak wood from 75 cents to 90 centa a cord, and fir from 70 to 90 cents. The farmers and stockmen of Malheur county feel confident that the coming season will be a prosperous one for them. While the winter tbtit far has been an open one compared with those generally experienced here, the indi cations are that there will be plenty of water for irrigation during the coming summer, and that the feed on the range will be good. WASHINGTON. The new $16,000 tchool house at Davenport is finished. The railroad agent at Hamilton, Harry Beeardsley, was robbed of $200. A school house will be built at Day ton to cost between $20,000 aud $30, 000. Ed Sievert, of Jowa, is consider ing a proposition to buy a shingle mill at Everett. WASHINGTON. Tacoma butchers have formed an association. A petition is being oircnlated to have the postoffice name of Guy changed to Albion. The Simpson Lumber Company, ol South Bend, hat accepted plan for a pony band saw mill. Fire partially destroyed the ship chandlery atore of J. C. Todd & Co., on the water front, Tacoma. . Lost $4,000, fully covered by insurance. Mr. II. P. Harrington, a prominent citizen of Rosalia, died of pneumonia. His remains were taken to the home of hit parents In Monroe, Mich., (or interment. During the recent snow SO torn of ore was hauled from the Cedar Canyon district to Davenport for shipment. Had the sleighing continued good, still more would have been brought Out. Larkins' hotel at Garfield, leased by J. W. Keown, was entirely destroyed by fire, together with most of the con tents. Loss on the building, $1,500; insurance, $650; loss on contents, $1,000, with $050 insurance. While fording Toppenish creek, near North Yakima, Will Carrat was nearly drowned. He was on horseback and the swift current of the stream carried horse and rider several yards, when they lodged in tome willows, from which, with difficulty both succeeded in lauding safely on shore. Owing to technical error in writing the boundariea of a small strip of land, amounting to nearly three sections, lying on the east side of North Bay, between Mason aud Pierce counties, is left out of the jurisdiction of both counties. An attempt will be made to have the neutral strip incorporated with Pierce. Oscar Bates, ex-sheriff of Stevens county, received fatal injurlea at the Drummer's mine, near Curliew. He had set three shots in the 125-foot level, and started to climb the ladder, but missed his footing on the second landing and fell back 20 feet. The sliota exploded before he conld regain the ladder. Hopkins D. Jones, until recently a hotel potter at Wilbur, Wash., who was arrested at Spokane on a charge of horse stealing, has been releaed. Word came from Wilbur that the man Chance, whose horse and ' saddle Jones had appropriated, would not prosecute Jones. The Wilbur man said he owed Jones money, and that he would be satisfied to have him keep the horse and saddle to settle the bill. IDAHO. A free ferry at Weiser it proposed. Caldwell merchants have made an early iloaing agreement. John Hunt wat arrested at Oiofiuo, on a charge of cattle stealing. A public meeting was held at Lewis ton to protest against division of Nez Perces county. ' The postoffire of Ledno, Blaine county, has been moved two miles southeast, without change of post master. At Weiser't regular city election in April, the citizens will vote whether or not they want the city bonded for $00,000. It it announced that shipments of crude ore and concentrates from the Coeur d'Alene last year aggregated 175,000 tons. - , There were several tnow slides in Bear gulch last week, but no damage is reported except that the Orofino blacksmith shop was swept away. Several carloads of steel rails have teen unloaded in the Weiser yards. They aie to be used in extending the Pacific & Idaho Northern next sum mer. . Meetings have been held and resoln tions adopted by several G. A. R. post protesting against the proposed plan o moving the soldiers' home from Boit to Fort Sherman. H. M. Merrin, of Spokane, hat taken a bond on the Father lode and two claims adjoining in the Coeur d'Alene district. It it understood that work will commence immediately. Lew Granger, who is charged with stealing eight head of cattle out of a pasture near Moscow, hat been arrest ed. Granger hat a number of aliases, but it is said hit true name it Lai kins. Plans are being perfected whereby 300 feet more tunnel will be driven in the claims of tne Silver Eagle Mining Co. There is alto talk of building a cog-wheel road from the Silver Eagle to the summit. - . A Mountain Home drug store wat broken into and an attempt made to rob the place. The proprietor, who has sleeping apartments in the rear, wat awakened by the jtoise'Of the rob bers. Upon his apjiesrari-e'e" they ran, having secured nothing. .