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a, c' IT'S A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XIV. HOOD RIVER, OREGON", FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1902. NO. 30. HOOD RIVER GLACIER Published Every Friday by . r. BLTTUK SOX, Publishers. 8 T. Blythe. E. N. Blythe, Terms of subscription 11.50 a year when paid a advance. TBI MAILS. Tht mall arrives from Mt. Hood at 10 o'clock a. m. Wednesdays aud Saturdays; depart! the tame days at noon. .'or Cbenoweth, leaves at 8 a. m. Tuesdays, 1 huradayi and Saturdays: arrives at n. m. For White Salmon (tt aih.) leaves dally al6:45 a. m.; arrives at 7:16 p. m. From White Salmon leaves for Fnlda, OUmer, Trout Lake and Ulenwood daily at 0 A. M. For Bingen (Wash.) leaves at 6:46 p.m.; ar. lives at 2 p. m. OCIKTIES. AK UROVK COUNCIL No. 112, ORDER OF U PEN DO. Meets the Second and Fourth Fridays oi the month. Visitors Cordially wel comed. C. U. Dakin, Counsellor. Mas. HekbY McOciaa, Secretary. ORDER OF WASHINGTON. - Hood River Union No. 14'.', meets in Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Baturdavs in each month, 1:80 o'clock. C. I., t oiti.i, president. 1'a. H. L. Dumble, Secretary. SACRKL, RKBKKAH DKtiREB I.ODGF., No i 17, 1. 0. O. F.-Meets tint aud third Mon ays in each month. Mrs. W. 0. Abu, N. O. Miss Ota Waliir, Secretary. ANBY POST, No. 16, 0. A. R.-McetsatA. O. I. W. Hall aei-ond and fourth KHtnr.lav of each month at i o'clock p. m. All U. A. K. members invited to meet with us. J. W. Kikby, Commander. C. J. Hatis, Adiutatit. CANBY W. R. C, No. 16- Meet first Satur day of each month in A. O. U. W. halTatl p.m. Mas. B. K.BHomiKKa, President Mai. 0. L. Btkanahan, hecrt'tary. HOOD RIVER LODGE N. 1U6, A. F. and A M. sleets Saturday evening on or before each full moon. Wm. M. Yates, W. M. C. l. Thompsom, Secretary. HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, Tt. A. M. Meets third Friday night of each month. K. U SMITH, li. P. A. N. Rahm, Secret ary. IIOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 25, O. K. S. Jl Meets second and fourth Tuesday even. Hits of each month. Visitors cordially wol. corned. Mas. Moi.ua C. Cole, W. M. Mai. May B. Davidson, Secretary. LKTA ASSEMBLY No. 103, United Artisans, Meets Hint and third Wednesdays, work; second and fourth Wednesdays social: Arti sans hall. F. C. Hrosrs, M. A. Mrs. E. A. Bahmeu, Secretary. WAUCOMA LODGE, No. 80, K. of P.-Meets in A. O. U. W. ball every Tuesday niuht. C. E. Markham, C. C. W. A. Firkraugh, K. or R. and 8. RIVERSIDE LODGE, No. 68, A. O. V. W. Meels first and third Saturdays of each Bionth. Frko Howe, W, M. E. K. Bradley, Financier. Chektkk Shute, Recorder. IDLEW'ILDE LODGE, No. 107,. I. O O. F. Meets In Fraternal hall every Thursday Bight. W. O. Abu, N. U. J. U Henderson, Secretary. HOOD RIVER TENT, No. 19, K. O. T. M., meets at A. O. U, W. hall on the first and third Fridays of each month. Walter Gerkino, Commander, SIVERSIDB LODGE NO. 40, DEGREE OF HONOR, A. O. U. W.-Meets first aud rd Saturdays at 8 P. M. Mrs. E. K. Bradley, C. oi H. Mrs. H. J. Frederick, Recorder. HOOD RIVER CAMP, No. 7,702, M. W. A., meets in Odd Ft'llows' Hall the Drat and third Wednesdays of each month. F. L. Davidson, V. C. E. R. Bradley, Clerk. yy B, FRESBY, Attorney-at-Law and U. S. Commissioner. Ucldendale, Wash. Makes a specialty of met work- Final proofs in timber and homestead entries made Before him. J)U. J. W. VOGEL. CCULIST. Will make regular monthly visits to Hood Elver. Residence 363 Sixteenth Street, Portland, Oregon. Q H. JENKINS, D. M. D. DENTIST. epeclallst on Crown and Bridge Work. Telephones: Office, 281; residence, 94. Office in Langille bid. Hood River, Oregon. JJR. K.T.CARNS, Dentist. Cold crowns and bridge work and all kinds of Up-to-Dite Dentistry. HOOD RIVER OREGON L. DUMBLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Successor to Dr. M. F. Shaw. Calls promptly answered In town or country, Day or Night. Telephones: Residence, 81; Office, 81 Office over Kverhart's Grocery. J r. WATT, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Telephones : Office, 281 ; residence, 288, SURGEON 0. S. d N. CO. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-AT LAW. ABSTRACTER, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTATE. AGENT. For IS Tears a resident of Oregon and Wash ington. 'Has had many years experience In Itral Estate mailers, as abstractor, srarcher of lilies and eaeut. satisfaction guaranteed or Bo charge. pREDERICK A ARNOLD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Estimates furnished for all kinds of work. Repairing a specialty. All kinds of shop work. Shop on Stat Street, between Firit ftnd Second. JHE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY It the place to get the latest and best in Confectioneries, Candies, Note, Tobacco, Cigar, etc ....ICE CREAM TARLORS..- . W. B. COLE, Proprietor. p C BROSiUS, M. D. " PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Fbone Central, or 121. Office lloara: 10 to 11 A. M.j J to 3 and 6 to 7 r. m. JJUTLER 4 CO., BANKERS. Do general banking business. BLOW IS STRUCK. Powers Seize Venezuelan Warships Ulti matum Sent to Castro. Caracas, Dec. 11. At 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon the combined German and British fleet seized and towed out side the harbor of La Guayara all the vessels which were then there. These were the warships General Crespo, ToIubio, Oasutn and Margaiita. The ships were manned by 390 men. The news of the capture of the war veseelB is not yet generally known in the capital. Great excitement will undoubtedly prevail when it is an nounced. Ultimatum Sent by Courier. Caracas, Dec. 11. It ia said on good authority that the captain of the Brit ish cruiser Retribution yesterday after noon cent a special courier from La Guayra to Caracas with an ultimatum for compliance with the note deposited by the British and German ministers at the home of the foreign minister be fore their departure for Caracas. It is aid that the note gives a maximum of 48 hours in which Venezuela is to ac cede. The note, it ia said, requests the immediate cash payment of $34,000 each to Great Britain and Germany for the settlement of claimi arising from past revolutions, by a mixed tribunal, the same as the last agree ment made with France. FOR ALASKA CABLE. Secretary Root Recommends an All Amerlcan Line. Wasbintgon, Dec. 11. "1 wish to call attention to the importance of a cable between the nortb western coast of the statu of Washington and the southern point of our Alaskan terri tory, so as to connect the telegraph system of the United States with the telegraph system in Alaska. 'The government of the United States is maintaining troops in Alaska at various points. It is responsible for the maintenance of order. Disturb ances are always liable to occur in new milling camps, and there is always a possibility of their occurring along a iroutier line. Our only present means of communicating by telegraph with our officers, or with anyone concerned in the government of Alaska, is over the Canadian land lines." So says Secretary Root in his annual report to the president. And be it remembered, Secretary Root generally gets what he goes after. The necessity for an all-American telegraph line to Alaska is recognized by many men in congress, and its importance, in view of the recent completion of an extensive military system in Alaska, is all the more apparent at this time. It is doubtful whether an appropriation will be made at the present session for a cable such as the secretary advocates, although, if proper estimates are sub mitted later, an appropriation may be provided in one of the regular supply bills. HEAD TAX IS RAISED. Senate Making Good Progress With Im migration Bill. Washington, Dec. 11. The senate committee yesterday adopted all the committee amendments to the immi gration bill, with the exception of one prescribing an educational test, and also the action of the committee in striking out section 36 of the bill pro tiibiting the sale of intoxicants within the Capitol building, and then laid aside the bill until today to pass a number of unobjected pension bills. The amendment fixing a (3 head tax on each immigrant coming into the United States furnished the principal topic for debate. It was discussed at length by Galliner, Hoar, Fairbanks, Penrose, Lodge ai.d Foraker, and final ly was agreed to. The committee amendment making the tax a lien on the property of the transportation lines bringing aliens to the United States was disagreed to. An amendment by Lodge was adopted, providing that the head tax shall not be levied on aliens in transit through the United States, or to aliens once ad mitted to have paid the tax. Section 3, prescribing an educational test, was passed over temporarily. Section 36 of the bill, prohibiting the rale of intoxicants withiu the limits of the Capitol building, which was stricken out by the senate committee, was passed over temporarily. e WRECK IN MISSOURI. Passenger Train Derailed at Open Switch Two Lives Lost. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 11. The west bound limited passenger train on the Santa Fe was wrecked at Rothville, Mo., shortly after noon today, raining the death of engineer Samuel Wise, of Argentine, Kas., and his fireman, Alexander Havelin, of Topeka, Kan., and great damage to the engine and coaches. One pasi-enger was slightly injured. A colored waiter had bu arm broken and two other waiters were injured. The wreck was caused by the coaches being derailed on an open switch, whirh the engine passed safely when the train was going at a high rate of speed. The train was almost de molished. Tannery Fire, Loss $375,000. Ridgway, P., Dec. 11. The Eagle Valley tannery was destroyed by fire today. The loss on the building is es timated at $75,000, and that on the stock of leather acd bides $250,000 to I3DO.OO0. Insurance ample. This tannery is in the Elk Tanning com pany's district, which is identified with the United States leather com pany. A Urge nnmber of employes will be thrown out of employment. Re building will commence toon. NEWS OF OREGON 1TFMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STATE. High Water Damages Eugene Woolen Mill Minnesota Colony to Locate In Lane County Ingram Wants Legis lature to Aid Him Oregon Odd Fel lows CeLbrate 50th Anniversary. Albany is making Improvements in its fire fighting system. Elks throughout the state Sunday held memorial services. A slight earthquake shock ""was felt at Grants Pa;s last Saturday.. Local meat dealers of La Grande will establish a first-class packing house. A colony of Minnesota farmers are negotiating for 30,000 acres of land in Lane county, ' The warm and heavy rains of last week have raised the Rogue river to the highet stage it has known for years. A two days' farmers institute was held at Lewisville, -Folk county, this week. A good attendance was out and deep interest manifested. Fire destroyed the planing mill of W. D. Flue, at Rainier. Loss on building and contents, $28,000, par tially covered by insurance. Governor-elect Chamberlain is at work on his inauguial address. It will not be a long document, but will make a general survey of state affairs. He favors protection for public lands, fiat salaries and a liberal appropriation for the Lewis and Clark exposition. The 50th anniversary of the organiza tion of the first Odd Fellow lodge in Oregon was held in Salem December 6. There was a large number of members from all parts of the state present. The exercises were presided over by Silas J. Day, past grand master, 1808. The high water caused considerable damage to the woclen mill in Eugene, and was sufficient to scare the propriet ors regarding the prospect of what might happen if the water should go four feet higlter, as it sometimes does. The machinery has been thrown pretty badly out of true. Frank S. Ingram, who was shot while Tracy and Merrill were making their escape iron the penitentiary, and who lost his leg as a result, and has since been pardoned by the governor, is cir culating a petition asking aid from the legislature to establish him in a small business whereby he may be able to make for himself a living. A poultry show will be held in Al bany December 22, 23 and 24. A masked man held up the post- office at Springwater, Clackamas county, but (.Mured only 60 cents. The Northern mining and milling company has been organized at Oregon City with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The board of trustees of the Oregon insane asylum have added Dr. A. E. Taroiessie as a physician to the medical staff at the asylum. The suspension of timber land entries until they can be investigated is much broader than at first account given out. It embraces all of the offices in Oregon, Washington and California. Notice has been received at Albany from the postoffice department that the site for the Albany postoffice has been leased for 10 years. The building will be enlarged and remodeled throughout. A scheme has been foiled at Hunting ton to secure several large tracts of public lands by fraud. The officers were watching the case, and at the appointed time of bearing the prin cipals failed to show up, having re ceived notice that they were being watched. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 7172c; blue- stem 7P80c; valley, 74c. Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew ing, $24.00. Flonr Best grade, 3.60(33.90; grab- am, $3.203.60. Millstuffs Bran, $19.00 per ton; middlings, $23.50; shorts, $19.50; chop, $18. Oats No. 1 whit, $1.151.17&; gray, $1.12(31.15 per cental. Hay Timothy, $10ll; clover, $9.00; cheat, $89 per ton. Potatoes Best Burbanks, 6080c per sack; ordinary, 80365c per cental, growers' prices; Merced sweets, $1.75(3 $2 per cental. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00(3 4.25; per pound, 10c; hens, $4(34.60 per dozen; per pound, 10c; springs, $3.00 (33.60 per dozen; fryers, $2.603.P0; broilers, $2.00(32.60; ducks, $5.00tg 6.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 13c, dressed, 15c; geese, $6.00(36.50. Cheese-Fall cream, twins 15(3 16Xc; Young America, 16K317X; factory prices, 1(3 l)c lees. Butter Fancy creamery, 30(3 32c per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20 $22c; store, 16(318. Eggs 2530c per dozen. Hops New crop, 23326e per pound. Wool Valley, I2(315c; Eastern Oregon, 8(3 14 He; mohair, 2$2Sc. Beef Gross, cows, 3(33 He per pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 6(3 7c. Veal-7j(38Hc. Mutton Grow, 3c per pound; dressed, 6c Lambs Gross, SXe par pound; dressed, tc flogs Gross, 6M363ie per ponnd; irasted, 77Xe. ZERO WEATHER AND BELOW. Whole Middle West and South Is Suffer ing Ceal Unobtainable. Milwaukee, Dec. 10. The severe cold is causing distress in Milwaukee. The hard coal merchants of the city were besieged by well-to-do people throughout tne city who have money to purchase fcol and other supplies, but who are absolutely unable to purchase hard coal at any price. ' Every applicant received the state ment that there was no coal to be had and that the very small supply in the bins was destined for the people who had ordered coal last spring, and who can get it only in small lots. One large coal company has closed its offices for one week, and the others are dealing out their visible anthracite in quantities as small as possible to their old cutosmers, that each may have a little. The temperature throughout the state ranges from 10 above to 6 degrees below zero tonight. Destitution In Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 10. The cold wave that bore down upon this city yesterday reached its climax today, with a tem perature at the zero mark. Today and tonight the mercuiy remained near that pointr Five fatalities from causes directly attributable to the weather have been reported to the authorities and numer ous cases of destitution incident to the udden drop in temperature were afforded relief during the night and today. Missouri Is Frost Bitten. St. Louis, Dec. 10. A veritable cold wave has struck St. Louie and vicinity. At 7 A. M. the weather bureau record was 15 degrees above zero. The sky is clear. Today is the coldest of the sea son in this part of the Southwest, the temperature being close to the zero mark. At Kansas City the Missouri is filled with floating ice, the first this year. All Through the Southwest. Louisville, Dec. 10. Freezing tem perature overspreads the country south of the Ohio river to a line touching Alabama, Mississippi and North Texas, the thermometer in many places re cording the coldest weather of the winter. Rain falls in Southern Texas and much snow is reported from var ious points in North Texas and Okla homa. STILL ANOTHER WEEK. More Time Taken by Mineworkcra to Pre sent Their Evidence. Scranton, Pa., Dec. 10. It is ex pected that the mineworkers will con sume all of the present week in pre senting to the Anthracite Coal Strike commission their side of the contro versy with the the coal operators. It is estimated the employers will take about 10 days to submit information they desire the commission to have. The commission tomorrow will ask the attorneys for both sides to present what figures they have already prepared, so that the arbitrators may Btudy them, and those who are not yet ready to present their figures will be required to make an extra effort to expedite the work. The commission has no desire to unnecessarily hurry anyone, but feels that all interested should work as rapidly as possible. The arbitrators are dai'y receiving . letters of advice from persons in all parts cf the coun try. A majority of the letters make pleas for the protection of the non union men. President Mitchell, who is a member of the Civic Federation, left here late tonight for New York, where he will attend the meeting of the Federation, which will begin tomoirow. BIDS FOR TRANSPORT SERVICE. Seattle Firm Names Lower Rates Than Portland Company. Washington, Dec. 10. In response to the advertisement of of the war de partment, the Boston steamship com pany, of Seattle, offered to supplant the army transport service at the fol lowing rates from Seattle to Manila: Officers, first class, $100; troops, per man, without subsistence, $25; troops, with subsistence, $35; freight, per ton, $1.25; lumber, per 1,000 feet, $10.50. Laidlaw & Co., of Portland, submit ted no bid for officers or troops, but offered to carry freight, Portland to Manila, at $4.60 per ton, and lumber at $11.50 per 1,000 feet. The figures given apply to the return trip from Manila, as well as to the trip to the Orient. In order to meet the emergency at Seattle, and to provide quarters for troops departing and arriving, the Boston steamship company offers to allow its steamer Garonne to anchor permanently in the harbor as a tem pornry barracks of 700 capacity. Russia Is Dissatisfied. London, Dec. 10. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the Morning Post says the Russian government is by no means satisfied with the Behring sea award which the Dutch jurist. Professor Asser, gave in favor of the United States on November 29. It deos not object to paying the stipulated sum, but it objects entirely to the principle of the award whereby Russia is not al lowed to chase tresassers beyond the limit of her territorial waters. Proposed Holiday Adjournment. Washington, Dec. 9. Representative Payne, leader of the majority, today introduced a resolution in the hour for a holiday adjournment from Decem ber 20 to January I. TALES OF WRONGS MINERS GIVE COMMISSION EVIDENCE AGAINST MARKLE CO. Mother and Two Boys Struggle Thirteen Years to Pay Debt of $396-TestI-mony at Times Was Pathetic, and Surprising to the Commission Mine Owners Have Little to Say. Scranton, Fa., Dec. 11. Tales of eviction from houses owned by C. B. Markle & Co., the narration of the death of a wife' as a result of an en force removal from her home, and the story of a mother whose husband was killed in the Markle mines, and of how she and her two boys struggled for years to pay the Markles the back rent and coal bill she owed them, were the principal features of yesterday's ses sions of the coal strika commission. The testimony, as presented by some of the witnesses whose lives are given up to the coal miningi industry, was at times pathetic, and surprising to the commissioners, who listened to it with undivided attention. The miners this afternoon concluded the calling of witnesses against the Markle company, which concern and the conditions surrounding it have been prominently before the commis sioners since last Saturday. In the absence of Samuel Dickinson, of Phila delphia, and George R. Bedfoid, of Wilxesbarre, attorneys for the Markle company, who are reported to be un avoidably absent, only a perfunctory cross-examination has been carried on by J. H. Torrey; of Scranton, who is lepresenting another company before the commission, and who had been asked to take care of the interests of U. B. Markle & Co. as best he could. Much surprise has been expressed that the company has not made greater efforts to refute some of the seemingly damaging testimony that has been pre sented. It is expected, however, that the company will do so later. The attorneys for the large coal com pany have nothing to say regarding the character of the testimony hefng presented, but those representing the miners, are well pleased. Mrs. Kate Burns, of Jeddo, was one of the witnesses called to the stand, and told how she and her two boye worked 13 years to pay off an accumu lated house rent and coal bill due to the Markle company. She was ex amined by Lawytr Darrow, and in answer to his questions Baid her hus band was an engineer inside the Mar kle mines. The husband was killed under ground, leaving her with four children, the eldest of whom was a boy of eight years. The company never offered her a penny, but the employee gave her about $180 to defray the funeral expenses. After tier husband had been killed she moved from her four room house into one containing only two rooms,, one room above the other, and for the next six years she struggled as best she could to get along. She took in washing, scrubbed for the neighbors, and once in a while she was given the cleaning of the offices of the Markle company. During these six yeare, she said, bIio kept her chil dren at school, and when the eldest child was 14 years old she sent him to the mines to help earn the daily bread. At the end of the first month the lad brought home his wage statement, showing that the mother owed $396 for back rent. The boy's wages for the month bad been taken off the bill and he came home empty handed. She submitted to this and in the course of time her next boy was old enough to help earn a living and he, too, was sent to the coUiery. Like the older brother, the second boy received no pay, his earnings being deducted foi rent. The tears of the mother on the witness stand were by this time well ing up and when she added that the money she earned for cleaning the Markle offices was never given her, but was kept by the company ofor rent, the commissioners looked at one another in surprise. She said it took the three of them 13 years to make up the debt, the mother's earnings from neighbors being the principal contribution toward the jutintenarite of the family. The debt was cleared last August. During the six years from the time her hus band was killed until the time when the first boy went to work the company never asked her for rent. Barrett Not the Man. Washington, Dec. 11. During a call on Secretary Hay the Japanese minis ter, Kogoro Takahira, diplomatically but firmly intimated that the appoint tnent of John Barrett as minister to Japan wonld not be as pleasing to the imperial government at Tokio as that of some other man. No formal protest was filed against Barrett s appointment, but the statements of the Japanese minister were such as to leave no room for doubt as to bis meaning. Fatal Wreck on the Santa Fe. Los Angleee, Dec. 11. Peter Ptter son, a Santa Fe engineer, was instantly killed snd two firemen were seriously injured in a hfaJ-on freight collision on the Santa Fe near Peach Springs, Arii., yesterday. Both engines were wrecked and several freight cars were mashed. Only meager details of the wreck are obtainable. To Pay Cost of Bubonic Plague. Washington, Dec. 11. Delegate Wilcox, of Hawaii, has introduced bill in the bouse to pay the judgment rendered by the Hawaiian legislature for property destroyed in suppressing the bubonic plague. THOMAS B. REED DEAD. Qrcat Leader of Congress Passed Away Peacefully at Washington, ' Washington, Dec. 8. Thomas Brack ett Reed, ex-speaicer of the House of representatives, and for many years prominent in public life, died here Saturday night at 12:10 o'clock in his apartmenis in the Arlington. The im mediate cause of death was uraemia. A change for the worse was noted in Mr. Reed's condition early in the morning. At 9:30 he was given a sub cutaneous saline transfusion in order to stimulate the kidneys, which were failing to perform their proper func tions. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon the saline solution was again administered, about three quarts of fluid being used. The heart became weaker and weaker, but the patient regained consciousness until 11 o'clock in the evening, when a complete coma came on. At the bedside when he died were Mrs. Reed and Miss Katherine Reed, Drs. Gardner, McDonald, Bishop and Goodnow and the nurses. Dr. Good- now, who had been in consultation with the local physicians, was again summoned from Philadelphia. Mr. Retd a mind was in such a state during the day that he did not realize the seriousness of his condition: He was cheerful and conversed with those about his bedside. When it became apparent that he would not survive his illness, the wife and daughter were notified, and they remained constantly at his bedside until the distinguished patient breathed his last. With only faint hope of saving his life, oxygen was administered throughout the day. Air. Reed passed away peacefully and without pain. He was born October 1, 1839. The body was taken to his old home at Portland, Me., today, where the funeral will occur tomorrow. CASH FOR PENSIONS. House Appropriates Nearly $140,000 for Old Soldiers. Washington, Dec. 8. The house Sat urday pasted the pension appropriation bill carrying $139,000,000 without a word of debate, and devoted the re mainder of the day to the passage of bills on the calendar, quite a number of which were passed. To prevent the passage of a bill to prohibit the mili tary bands from engaging in competi tion with private bands, W. A. Smith. of Michigan, made the point of no quo rum, and the house thereupon ad journed. It was agreed that the Lon don dock charge bill should be consid ered and voted upon today. On the call of committees bills were passed to readjust the time fur holding couit in the Western judicial district of Texas; to confer jurisdiction upon the circuit court and district courts of South Dakota in certain Indian cases; to create a new division of the Western judicial district of Missouri; to incor porate the society of military surgeons; to increase the maximum period in which livestock can be confined in cars without unloading from 28 to 40 hours; to grant right ol way for telegraph and telephone lines in Alaska from 80 to 320 acres; to set aside lands in South Dakota as a public paik, to be known as Wind Cave national park; for the relief of certain settlers upon the Wis consin Central railroad and The Dalles military road grants; to incorporate the general educational board; defining what shall constitute and providing for assessments on oil mining claims, and xing the punishment for the larceny of horses, cattle and other livestock in Indian Territory. FOR BENEFIT OF IDAHO. BUI for Sale of Fort Hall Land Proposed Irrigation Surveys. Washington, Dec. 9. Senators Du bois and Heitfeld called on the secre tary of the interior today and urged that the department draft a bill which can be introdued in the present session looking to a disposal of the remainder of the Fort Hall lands within the five mile limit of Pocatello which were not sold last summer because they were held at $10 an acre. The secretary prom ises to have a new bill drafted which will permit of their aleat a more reas onable figure, possibly leaving the price to a department representative who will conduct the sales. The Idaho senators today called on Hydrographer Newell, of the geograph ical survey, to urge the early undertak ing of government irrigation in their state. While they made no specific recommendations, they expressed a preference for the Gdose creek project in Cassia county, and the Mountain' home project in Elmore county, Mr, Newell assured them that early investi gations would be made of the irrigable land in thg state, as well as of the avauaDie water supply. Americans Would Hava to Pay. New York, Dec. 9. Experts familiar with the trade of Venezuela, nnder normal conditions, assert, says a Trib une dispatch from London, that the customs revenues are derived chiefly from imports of flour from Mie United States and Canada, and exports of coffee to the same markets, and that the seiz ure of the customs for the settlement of British and German -claims would in volve the payment of debt through duties levied upon commerce from and with America. Qrcat Tunnel Finished- Cleveland, O., Dec. 9. The last spadeful of earth that separated the workmen engaged in digging the two sections of the big waterworks tunnel, 100 feet nnder Lake Erie, was removed today, and, after six years of oc ntioo ous labor, the tunnel Is practically completed. Its purpose is to supply the city with pure water from an intake crib five miles out in Lake Erie. Since I the work began 60 Uvea Lave been lost I through explosions and other accidents. ULTIMATUM GIVEN ENGLAND AND GERMANY SEND FINAL WARNING TO VENEZUELA. Warships Are Assembling on Her Coast After Presenting Ultimatums the Ministers at Caracas Went on Board the Warships of Their Respective Na-tlons-Ouns Will Talk Next. London, Dec. 10. Great Britain and Germany have presented ultimatums to Venezuela, which will be followed up by the seizure of the customs unless a satisfactory settlement is forthcoming within a brief period. The ultimatums have a time limit, but the exact date cannot be ascertained here. The for eign office states with regard to the limit: "It ia a reasonable time in which Venezuela can satisfy the injured gov ernments. Both notes are practically identical, although the amounts of the claims differ. The notes merely re iterate the continued disregard by the Venezuelan government of all oar rep resentatives, specify their claims and demand immediate action on the part of President Castro's government in connection therewith." The British government's case is practically identical with the state ments made in previous dispatches from London, in which it was flist announced that the action was con templated. The foreign office says: "lhere is not the slightest desire to coerce Venezuela, and if any answer nan peen made to our repeated protests and demands, no such action as now taken would have been proceeded with. It was the persistent and insulting dis regard of all representations which compelled us to move. It is now too late in the day for anything but purely diplomatic arrangements for the satis faction of our interests. When the fleets have assembled there is scarcely time to deal with bankers and a finan cial settlement, which should have been suggested long ago and would have been welcomed by both Germany and ourselves. However,' any bona fide proposition will receive careful at tention. Reconstruction in commer cial affairs is always better than liqui dation and, if the reconstruction of the V n izuelan finances can be accom plished to the satisfaction of our diplo matic claims and individual losses, both 1 Germany and Great Britain will have achieved their ends." Ministers Leave Caracas. Caracas, Deo. 10. The British min ister, W. H. D. Haggard, and the Ger man charge d'affaires, Von Pilgrim Hbltazzi, left Caracas at 3 o'clock this afternoon for La Guayra, where Minis ter Haggard went on board the British cruiser Retribution and Herr von Pilgrim-Baltazzi boarded the German cruiser Vineta. Both the British and the German legations have been closed. Yesterday afternoon the British min ister and the German charge d'affaires deposited at the private residence of the foreign minister, Lopez Barralet, sepaiate demands; the British demand being for the settlement of claims and other matters arising out of the last revolutions, and the German demand being for the payment of the interest on the German loans and other claims. The demands are without any specifica tion as to the time given for an answer, but they are in the form of an ultima tum. Yesterday and today being festivals in Caracas, all the public offices are closed, and it is impos ible to see any one in authority regarding the depart ure oi tiie ministers. The handing in of a demand of such a nature at the pri vate residence o( a minister, forgetting all diplomatic rules, is believed in some quarters to be without precedent. The actual situation is incomprehensi ble here. Up to this morning no one appeared to know anything about the Anglo-German projected demonstration. The foreign minister said that he con sidered a menace on the part of Germany to be inadmissible, and that any threat would be only "ballon d'essai." As for England, said the. minister, she bad no grounds for ag gression. To Lay Cable This Week. San Francisco, Dec. 10. Clarence Mackay, president of the Postal Tele graph company, Vice President Baker and Vice President Ward, of the Com mercial Cable company, arrived here tonight. They said they came to wit ness the beginning of the laying of the cable to Honolulu, and expected that event to take place the latter part of this week. Mr. Mackay said he be lieved the branch from Honolulu to Yokohama, via Guam, would be in working order July 1, 1903. Can't Bring Nast's Body Home. Washington, Dec. 10. A brief cable gram from Robert B. Jouea, vice con sul general at Guayaquil, dated yester day, announced to the state department the death of Consul General Thomas Nast. The dispatch gave no details of the end. Owing to the contagions nature of the disease which caused Mr. Nast's death, it will probably be im possible for the department to follow the usual custom of bringing the body to the United States. Oold for Mexico. Mexico City, Dec. 8. It is reiterated that a powerful New York syndicate ia disposed to furnish the govt rn men t with sufficient gold to establish firmly a gold standard here. The sum named is $50,000,000. Some bankers think half the amount would be ample. There is a strong sentiment for retain 1 ig the silver dollars, although giving them a nominal value. HOOD RIVER. OREGON.