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"ITS A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." HOOD RIVEK, OBEGOK, TUTTItSDAY, APRIL 2, 1903. VOL. XIV. NO. 46. HOOD RIVER GLACIER I'ubiished Every Friday by 8. r. BtVTIIK, Publisher. Terms ol subscription 11.00 a year when paid in Bavanoe. THR MAILS. The mall arrives from Mt. Hood at 10 o'clock a. Hi. Wednesdays ana baturdays; departs tua tame days at noon. For Chenoweth, leaves at S a. m. Tnesrtays, 0 linrwlavs anil Hatunlaya: arrives at t p. m. For While Salmon (Wash.) leaves daily at 11:15 a. m.; arrives at 7 : 1 r p. in. If rum White Salmon leaves tor Fiilila.'Oilmer, Tiout Lake and Oleiiwood daily at 9 A. M. For Biugen (Wash.) leaves at i;4a p. in. ; ar. rives at 2 p. m. HOClETim. fWVRT HOOD KIVER No. 42, FORESTERS OF AM KKK'A Meets second and Fourth Mon days in each month in K, of r. hall. II. J. Frkijkkk k, C. R. 8. F. Fours, Financial Secretary. OAK flROVB COUNCIL No. 142, OHDF.R OF 1'KNIiO. Meets the Second and Fourth Fridavsol the month. Visitors cordially wel comed. F. I?. Hkosiuh, Counsellur. Miss Nf.li.ie Ci.auk, Secretary. ORDER OF WAHIUNOTON. - Hood River Union No. 142, meets in .Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Saturdays in each month, 7:3i o'clock. ('. h. cori-LK, I'resident. J. . Hamna, Secretary. 1 AURKL REBEKAH DEGREE LODGE, No. It 87,1.0.0. F.-.Meets tlrst and third Fri days in each month. Miss Edith Moori, N. G, L. E. Mohsi, Secretary. SANBY POST, No. 16, G. A. R.-MeetsatA. O. U. W. Hall second and fourth Saturdays each month at 2 o'clock p. m. All U. A. K. members invited to meet with us. W. II. I'khky, Commander. T. J. Cunnino, Adjutant. flANBY W. R. C, No. 16 Meets second and fourth Saturdays of each month in A. O, I'. W. hall at i p. m. Mas. Fannk JIailky, I'res, Mrs. T. J. Cannino, Secretary. HOOD RIVER LODGE No. 11, A. F. and A M. Heels Saturday evening on or before each full moon. W. M. Yates, W. M. C. D. Thompson, Secretary. HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M. Meets third Friday niKht of each month. G. K. Cahisbr, H. P. A. S. Blowers, Secretary. MOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 28, O. K. R. Meets second and fourth Tuesday even s of each month. Visitors co dialiy wel comed. Mrs. May Yatkh, V. M. Mas. Maby B. Davidson, Secretary. OLETA ASSEMBLY No. 103, United Artisans, Meets tlrst and third Wednesdays, wotk; second and fourth W ednesdays social: Arti sans hall. F. C. Hsomiss, M. A. F. B. Baknks, Secretary. WAUCOMA LODGE, No. SO, K. of P.-Meets iu A. O. V. W. hall every Tuesday niirhu F. L. Davidson, C. C. Da. C. II. Jknkin.h, K. of R.&B. RIVERSIDE LODGE. No. 68, A. O. U. W. Meets first and third Saturdays or each month. F. B. Barmck, W. M. E. R. Bradi.ky, Financier. t'HKSTKa Siiutx, Recorder. ' IDLEWILDE LODGE, No. 107, I. O O. F. Meets in Fraternal hnll every Thursday night. Gao. W. THom'SON, N. (i. J. L, Hihdkkson, Secretary. HOOD RIVER TENT, No. 19, K. O. T. M.. J 1 nice Is at A. O. U, W. hall on the lirst and third Fridays of each mouth. Walter Ohrkino, Commander. G. E. Williams, Secretary. niVERRIPK LODGE NO. 40, DEGREE OF It HONOR, A. O. U. W. Meets tlrst and third Saturdays at 8 P. M. Kate M. Frkdkrick, C. of H. Miss Annis Smith, Recorder. HOOD RIVER CAMP, No. 7,702, M. W. A., meets in Odd Fellows' Hall the first and third Wednesdays of each month. J. K. Rkks, V. C. C. V. Dakim, Clerk. . DEN ENCAMPMENT No. 48, I. O. O. F. Pi Regular meeting second and fourth Mon days of each month. W. O. Ahh, C. P. Y. L. Hkndihson, Scribe. JJB. J. W. VOGEL. OCULIST. Will make regular monthly visits to Hood River. Residence !K3 Sixteenth Street, Portland, Oregon. Q H. JENKINS, D. M. D. DENTIST. Specialist on Crown and Bridge Work. Telephones: Office, 281; residence, 94. Office in Langille bid. Hood River, Oregon. JjR.K.T.CARNS. Dentist. Gold crowns and bridge work and all kinds of Up-to-Dat9 Dentistry. HOOD RIVER OREGON LJ L.DUMBLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Successor to Dr. M. F. Bhaw. Calls promptly answered In town or country, Dav or Nlnht. Telephones: Residence, 81; Office, 81 Office over Everharl's Grocery. J F. WATT, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Telephones: Office, 2S1 ; residence, 283. BURGEON O. R. 4 N. CO. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORN EY-AT LAW. ABSTRACTER. NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL KSTA1K AGENT. For WYcsrs a resident of Oregon and Wash fusion. 'Has hd many years experience In Real Estate matters, as abstractor, searcher of titles and ageuU baiisUciion guaranteed or no charge. ' pREDERICK A ARNOLD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Estimates, furnished for all kinds o( work. Repairing a specialty. All kinds of ehop work, Shop on SUto Street, between First and Second. A. JAYNE. LAWYER. Attracts Furnished. Money Loaned Hood River, Oregon. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. ' niYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Thone Central, or 121. Office Honrs: 10 to 11 A. M. J to 3 and to 7 r. m. gUTLF.R 4 CO., BANKERS. Do general banking business. HOOD RIVER. OREGON. EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprehensive Review of jthe Import ant Happenings of the Past Week. Presented In Condensed Form, Mos Likely to Prove Interesting- to Our Many Readers. The Fernie, B. C, coal ttrike has been settled. President Roosevelt lias started" on his western tour. ' The ferret service at Washington has discovered two new counterfeit notes in circulation. Financiers of several rations are ready and willing to help Castro by lending Venezuela monej . The f3,000,000 appropriated by con- gress for the relief of the Philippine government has been disbursed. The miners' new scale has gone into effect in almost every state. Advance will mean about $35,000,000 more wages this year. r It is probable that the British Colrim- bia legislature, which has just con vened, will take steps to prevent Japan ese from entering that country. The Fan Joaquin river and tributaries in California aro rising rapidly, bridges have been swept away and great dam age is reported from several sections. An agreement has been reached at Seattle between the street car company and its striking employes, and cars are again running. The differences will be settled by arbitration. Q. F. Swift, president of 2,the great beef packing firm, is.dead. German newspapers reply to Dewey by criticising the American navy. Eighteen Waterbury, Conn , strikers have been arrested for deadly assault. Noah Raby, an inmate of the poor house of Middlesex county, New Jjrsey, Is 131 years old. ' He was born at Ea tontown, N. J., on April 1, 1772. William Reilly, a patient in the Bellevue hospital, New York, has an incessant laughing spell, which has lasted five days, and the doctors cannot tzplain it. When Mrs. S. L. McQuown left a bank at Marion, Ind., with f 000 she bda just drawn the money was stolen from her pocketbook, which hung from ber belt, by two men who had been raiting for her. The title to some ancient IriBh gold ornaments is being contested in the British tourts between tne crown and the trustees of the British museum. They were plowed np in the Northwest of Ireland in 1896, and were sold to the museum for 600 pounds. Germans are angry at'Dewey'a criti cism of their navy. Senator Foster declares Pacific coast man should be selected for vice presi dent. - Many people have lost their lives on account of the last break in the Missis sippi levee. The Coban senate has ratified the re ciprocity treaty on me promise oi an sxtra session of congress. Robbers dynamited the safe in the postoffice atLake Mills, Winnebago connty, Iowa, securing several hundred dollars. At the invitation of the German gov- srnment, a conference with the object if founding an international Beismicas tociation will be held at Strassburg from July 24 to July 28. It is said that John W. Gates intends to retire permanently from active par ticipation in the stock market, and that in the future ha will devote much of his time as he will spare to business to those concerns m wuicn ne is neavny interested. Privileges to construct a salt lake of 400 acres near Cape May for a swide resort have been granted to a company, which proposes to fill 600 acres extend ing from Matlison avenue, Cape May, to Sewell's point, and to construct an Inlet to the ocean so that sea-going yachts may have entrance. A new system ol searching for min sral ores by the useof the telephone is being tried at the Teleacaa lead mine, iin North Wales. James McNeill Whistler, the Ameii- n artist, will receive the degree of doctor of laws at the lortncoming oias gow university graduation ceremonies. The Mills & Wright company, of Boston, one of the oldest printing and book houses in New England, baa made in tssignmetit. Liabilities $01,279, witiaseeti nominally the same. Alfrod G. Vanderbilt haa visited Commissioner Strasbonrger, of New York, to whom be explained that most ef his securities were invested in non- tThta nrnrjertiea not liable for tier sonal assessment. He showed that he was liable for assossmsntononty $190,- 100 but be agreed to an assessment on $250,000. Jndge P. B. Wilfe, of the Seventh Iowa judicial district, has just rendered an important decision regarding the nnaur nf aasewora to asseses taxes on property in the hands of a trust com pany as trustee. Tbe court holds such property is liable to assessment both for county ana city taxes. Siqnro, Mexico, is now the only plague spot in the Jdaxatian district. Rnaaia la Irvine? to neeotiato loan of $100,000,000 with a Franco-Belgian syndicate. YAKIMA INDIAN LANDS. Effort Being Made by Commissioner to Settle Long Standing Dispute. Washington, April 1. Eepresenta tive Cushman has been advised by the commissioner of Indian affairs that steps are soon to be taken looking to negotiating a final agreement - with the Indians of the Yakima reservation whereby Ihoy will surrender all claim to lands lying between the west bound ary of their reservation and the crest of the Cascade mountains. Ever since the treaty of 1865, defin ing the boundaries of the Yakima res ervation, there has been a dispute as to tbe lands actually .belonging to tbe Indians. In that treaty their reserva tion was to extend westward "to the crest of the Cascade mountains," but in the subsequent survey marking the boundaries of the reservation the west boundary line was laid off a considera ble distance to the east of the moun tains. The Indians have all along maintained that they were erroneously deprived of the intervening tracts, but no satisfactory agreement has ever been made with them. Only last year they refused an offer of $175,000 for the lands, saying that was not a sufficient recompense for their loss. Renewed effjrts are to be made through a special agent of the depart ment to procure a mutually satisfactory agreement this summer, and in that event congress at the next session will be asked to appropriate (he amount called for in such agreement to quiet the Indians' claim. Tbe department is thoroughly convinced that the equi ties of the case are with the Indians. TO SELL WRECK OF THE MAINE. Cuban Harbor and Coast Will Be Cleared of Wrecked Battleships. Washington, April 1. The Cuban cabinet at a recent meeting decided to call for bids by advertisement, both in Havana and abroad, for the removal from Havana harbor of thewretk of the battleship Maine and -the removal' of the wreiks of the several Spanish war vessels lying on the southern ccast of the island. Bids will also be invited for removing the wreck of the Merrimac from the entrance to Santiago harbor and the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XIII, which is grounded on the north coast, near Havana. It is the expectation of the Cubans that a noat sum will be realized by the transaction, as bidders will not be paid for the work, but will be required to pay for the privilege, on condition that the recovered ships and - material shall pass to them. There are a number of bidders awaiting the opportunity to submit proposals, among them C. F W. Neely, notoriously associated with the Havana postofiice. It is reported that tbe Spanish gov ernment Eeeks to recover come of the ships now lying on the southern coast, but all bids must be made by individ uals or firms. Offers from tbe Spanish government will not be entertained. "THE OREATEST COUNTRY." Czar'a Tribute to United States In Dis cussing St. Louis Fair. St. Petersburg, April 1. The czar today received Thomas W. Cridler, the representative of the St. Louis exposi tion, at the imperial residence at the Tzarskoe Zelo and expressed his per sonal interest in, and sympathy with the objects of, the St. Louis exposi tion, the scope of which be discussed with Mr. Cridler for a considerate length of time. The czar referred to the friendship existing between Rus sia and the United States, and said be hoped to see that friendship more firm ly cemented. He seemed much ' im pressed by the magnitude of the exhi bition plans and said he wished to con gratulate America on its marvelous de velopment, saying to Mr. Cridler: "You have the greatest country." The czar promised to carefully examine a memorandum submitted to him by Mr. Cridley, showing the economic reasons for tbe participation of Russia in the exhibition. SIGN AMENDED TREATY. President Palma Sends Orders to Cuban . Minister at Washington. Washington, April 1, Ratification of the Cuban reciprocity treaty will be exchanged at the state department today . Senor Quesada, the Cuban minister, called upon Secretary Hay and officially notified him of the ratifi cation of the treaty by tbe Cuban sen ate, as reported in tbe news dispatches. As there is only one copy of the treaty in Washington, the other being en route from Havana, the exchange of ratifications will be constructive, rather than actual, Secretary Hay accepting as sufficient the assurance that the Cuban treaty has been dispa'cbed to Washington. No date hat been set fot the awembiing of congress to take action on the treaty. Line Through Colorado Coal Fields. Guthrie, O. T., April 1. The Colo rado, Oklahoma & Texas railroad com pany has been chartered as a feeder to the Kansss City. Mexico & Orient, bnilding from Denniron, Tex., to Pu eblo, Colo., and through Hobart, Chey enne and Elk City, Okla., tapping the main line of the Orient at Lone Wolf. Propositions are now being made to cities along the proposed route for bonuses for the construction. Tbe line passes through the Colorado coal fields. Silver Bought tor Philippines. Washington, April 1. Tbe secretary of the treasury today purchased for ac count of the Philippine coinage 350,000 ounces ol silver at an average of 49.8c an on nee. The silver is to be deliv ered in equal parts to the Dints at Philadelphia and San Francisco. HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON WILL WASH OUT fJOLD. 0. W. Dart, of John Day, Starting Up an Extensive Work, Tlacer mining promises to be an im portant industry in Grant county dur ing tne coming season. Several miners have already commenced getting things in readiness for the summer's run. What promises to bo an excel lcnt paying proposition is the placer mine of G. W. Tart, which will be worked for the first time this season. Mr. Dart has teased the pipe, giants and all the mining material belonging to the Humboldt mining company, and at present has a force of men laying this pipe and getting everything in readiness for the summer's run, which will commence immediately. . The mine is situated on the west side of Canyon cretk, between John Day and Canyon City, and nearly opposite Long gulch. Water will be used from the Humboldt ditch. The ditch will be in charge of Bert Stons. ; it is the intention to operate the THE LATE HENRY mine 16 to 18 hours a day, according as tbe length of the davs Dermit. Two shifts 61 men will be employed. Prosperous Hood River Valley. Though the annual precipitation at Hood River is about 36 inches, irriga tion is a very impoitant factor in the prosperity of the Hood River valley. Since irrigation came into practice on a considerable scale five years ago the population of the valley has quad rupled, the price of land has inci eased 300 per cent and the entire fruit ship ping business of that locality has grown up. Sixty thousand crates of straw berries ( two dozen boxes to the crate) and 100 carloads of apples, of last year's production, have been shipped from that station, and large quantities of fine apples are still going forward to market. Irrigable Acreage Increased. The great abundance of snow in the mountains has results! in an increase in the acreage of irrigable land that will be placed under cultivation this season in Baker county. In many in stances the increase will amount to 50 or 60 per cent over last year, and tak ing the entire county, the increase will amount to fully 40 per cent this year over last. Pilot Reck Postofflce Robbed. The postofiice at Pilot Rock, a small village about 15 miles from Pendleton, was robbed Sunday night and about $100 in money and stamps secured. Wheat Fire at Cayuse. Three warehouses and an elevator. containing in all about 18,000 bushels of a heat, were burned at Cayuse last Monday. The total loss is estimated at more than $20,000. Cayuse is a small wheat station about 20 miles east of Pendleton, and has no water protection whatever. Demand for New Buildings. Contractors and builders are over crowded with contracts for buildings to be erected in Baker City this season. Most of the new structures are cottages and dwellings of some pretensions. Tbe demand for houses to rent is gi eat er than the snpply, all of which goes to show that Baker City is steadily grow ing. Astoria at the Fair. Astoria will eroct a $5,000 building at tne Lewis and Clark fair. Sale of Albany Weolen Mill. Arrangements have been completed for the sale of the Albany woolen mills to tbe Bannot-kburn manufacturing company, of Portland. The stockhold ers of the Woolen mills company will soon meet and ratify the sale. This is one of Albany's leading manufacturing concerns, and furnishes employment to a large number of people. New Warden at Penitentiary. C. W. James, who became snnerin tendent of the Oregon penitentiary on April 1. has announced the nromotinn of Ed McPherson from the position of second warden to that of first warden. McPherson will succeed J. T. Jannn who has held the position during the past four years. The vacancy caused by the promotion of McPherson will be filled by the appointment of O. F. Johnson, of Baker City. Woodman Street Carnival. The Woodmen's street carnival and fair, to be held in Dallas June 3, 4, 5 and 6, promises to be a very successful affair. The committees are all hard at work and are meeting with good success. To Invoke Referendum. A number of minim? men around Grants Pass are giving assistance in the work of invoking the . referendum against the mining corporation tax law recently passed by the Oregon legis lature. WINSLOW COKBETT. Hopes to Find Water. B. F. Coplen, an expert on forma tion for artesian water, who sunk the artesian wells at Pullman, Wash., and who for many years has been making extensive examinations of the Colum bia river baoin, has been looking over the situation in the vicinity of Echo for some time with a view to getting four or five sections of land and putting in tbe necessary machinery for thoroughly testing the subject. He says that there is every indication that artesian water can be had along the base of tbe Echo buttes. Mills Running Full Time. All of the sawmills in Baker City are running full time and the demand for lumber both for local use and for export is in excess of the supply. Most of the lumber manufactured theie is sent to Utah, where a great deal is used in railroad construction. Will Build Dam. The Sumpter land company will erect a dam at the junction of Cracker creek and McCullougb'i fork. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 72c; bine stem, 7778cj valley, 77c. Bariey Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew In?, $24. Floor Best grade, $3.P534.25 ; grab am, $3.453.85. Millstuffs Bran, $19 per ton; middlings, $ 24; shorts, $19.50020, chop, $18. Oats No. 1 white, $1.15 9 1.20; gray, $1.12)1.15 per cental. Hay Timothy, $1112; clover, $8(39; cheat, $9gl0 per ton. Potatoes Best Barbanks, 50(3 (10c per sack; ordinary, 4050c per cental, growers' prices; Meroed sweets, $2 2.25 per cental. Poultry Chickens, mixed, 12313c; young, HX12c; bens, 12c; turkeys, live, 15 16c; dressed, 1820c; ducks, $7(87.50 per dosen; geese, $78.BU. Cheese-Full cream, twins, 16K 17Kc; Young America, 17K18X" factory or ires. 1(21 c less. Butter Fancy creamery, 30(332 He per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20(9 22Hc; store, 1518c Fggs 11(3 15c per dosen. Hops Choice, 21 23e per pound. Wool-Valley, 12X15c; Eastern Oregon, 814c; mohair, 263 280. Beef Gross, cows, 333ic per pound ; steers, 434?c; dressed, 7?e. Veal 7H IS 8 We. Motion Gross, 4c per pound ; dressed. 7kc. Lambs Gross, 4c per pound; dressed, 7e. Bogs Grose, 6He per pound 4rssed,737tfc ALASKA HAD GOOD CARE. Northern Territory Oot New Lawi Which WIU Bring Settlers. Washington, March 31. "Alaska has been bountifully taken care of in the past session of congress," said J. W Ivey, who has been here all winter urg ing legislation of one sort or another for the big territory. "I find that very few states have secured as much in the way of local legislation, and few mem bers can go home as contented as I will return to my people. We did not get everything we wanted, but we did get the most essential things, and I have no complaint to make. When I first came down here at the opening of the session, senators and representatives told me I might as well go home, that in the short session there would be no time for considering legislation. They advised me to come back next session, when there was more time. But I re plied that we had been put off that way year after year, and did not in tend to stand it any longer. So I camped down, and here I have been ever since. "In my opinion, the most important legislation of tbe session was the Alas ka homestead bill, permitting the entry of 320 acres of land, 160 of which may be commuted upon, and a like amount taken by scrip. The bill is not perfect, but it will do a great deal towards bringing in the class of permanent set tlers that we so much need. Now that people can acquire title to the land, and can feel Bafo against encroachment, there will be a heavy immigration, and tbe fertile valleys will soon begin to nil with industrious, energetic people. When we get a larger population, as we are now sure to do, we will come baca- to congress and make known our other wants." STRONQHOLD IS TAKEN. Crushing Defeat Indicted on San Miguel and His Fort Captured. Manila, March 31. Two companies of Macabebe scouts signally defeated the main body of San Miguel's forces today. It is believed San Miguel was killed. - Lieutenant Reese was serious ly wounded. The scouts lost three men killed, and had 11 men wounded. Tbe enemy occupkd an entrenched position between Mariquina and Fran cisco del Norte, and had erected a stone fort, which was garrisoned by 200 men. Lieutenants Rease and Nickerson decid ed after an hour's fighting to surround the position and charge, after having divided their commands. The two offi cers then led a gallant and successful charge, during which Lieutenant Reese fell, seriously wounded. The enemy then broke and ran, leaving 45 men dead on the field, including a general officer, who is believed to be San Mig uel, though his (denunciation is incom plete. It is hoped this defeat will dis courage disorder in Rizal province. The military .authorities will direct the operations of the detachments which are pursuing the bandit bands. Addi tional troops are to be sent to Suriago later on. NORTHWEST AT THE CAPITAL. Title of Tacoma Building Site Defectlve- Scattle-Tacoma Malls. Washington. March 31. The attor ney general today reported that he had examined the title to the public build ing site at Spokane, designated for pur chase early in the 'winter, and had found it clear. A check has been made out and sent the owners. There is faulty title to two lots in cluded in the Tacoma site, the lots owned by Mrs. Walsh, and before that site can be acquired these two lots will have to be condemned, thereby insuring clear title. Tbe title to the balance of the site is satisfactory. Senator Foster today urged the post- office department to increase the mail service between Seattle and Tacoma. He was (old that, if the electric road would carry such mails as were offered it at a reasonable rate, the additional service would be established. All in ternrbaan mails are now carried by the Northern Pacific. Police Ordered to Feral. Victoria, B. C, March 31. In view of the fact that trouble is expected at Fernie in the event of non-union men being imported by the Crow's Nest coal company, the British Columbia govern ment has requested the Dominion gov ern met, t to send a detachment of North west mounted police to Fernie, the center of the strike, and a sqmd of 50 men has been ordered to proceed from Calgary. The coal company has given tbe men nntil today to decide whether they will return to work"; failing a de cision, outsiders will lie brought in. Take Years to Recover. San Francisco, March 31. Louis Hirsch, of this city, whose coffee plan tation in Guatemala was destroyed by the recent eruption of Santa Maria vol cano, has just returned from an inspec tion of the devastated district. He says that tbe accounts of the cost to Guatemala of Santa Maria's outbreak were not exaggerated, and 'it will take a couple of years and perhaps longer, for the coffee industry to recover irom the blow. Rescued from the Flood. Natchez, Miss., March 31. The steamer St. John came np from below this morning with a full load of pas sengers and stock from the flooded dis trict. The officers report a daring res cue of three inen who were fonnd adrift in Black river. One of the men was on a log and tbe other two in trees. They bad been washed out by tbe crev asse at Boageie, and bad been without .food for three days. DEATH OF PIONEER HENRY WINSLOW C0RBETT PASSES TO THE GREAT BEYOND. Was One of Portland's Foremost Citizens Father of the Lewis and Clark Ex position -His Life Was Crowded with 'Affairs of Business, State and Philan thropyEnd Was Peaceful. Portland, April 1. Henry Winslow Corbett, for over half a century a fore most citizen of Pocrtland, is dead. The end came yesterday morning as the dawn crept over the eastern hills. While the light of the new day was drawing on the life of one of Oregon's greatest pioneers was ebbing away. So slowly did the waning taper of life go out that they who grieved at the bedside could scarcely perceive when it flickered last. The angel of 'death touched Mr. Corbett gently, and he went as he had wished to go, easily and painlessly. The end of Mr. Corbett's life so soon was quite unexpected. His health had been failing for three months past, and that he was on a downward slope was evident. The vital forces were spend ing themselves fast. Last Saturday the family law the first manifestation of the approaching end. "I'm very sleepy," said the patient, but com plained of no bodily suffering. The heart which for over 76 years had sup plied the sentinels of the brain with life's fluid was growing feeble and the sentinels were drowsy. Henry Winslow Corbett ws born at Westborough, Mass., Feb. 18, 1827, and was the youngest son of a family of eight, six of whom reached maturity. His parents were Elijah and Melinda ( Forbush) Corbett. Mr. Coi bett's boy hood was passed in Washington county, New York, where, until he reached the age of 13 years he received an ordinary common school education. At that age he began his business career in a store at Cambridge, remaining two years as clerk and a part of the time attending Cambridge academy. He then went home, and, after a short term at school, secured a clerkship at Salem, the coun ty seat. After a year there he went to New Yoik City and secured a clerkship in the dry goods store of Williams, Bradford & Co., serving there seven years. During this period he firmly established himsalf in the confidence of bis employers, so that in October, 1850, they furnished him the necessary cap ital to ship a general line of merchan dise to Portland, Oregon, by way of Cape Horn on the bark Francis and Louise. He arrived in Portland March 4, 52 years ago (1851). At that time Portland contained about 400 inhabi tants and five small stores. As soon as Mr. Corbett had gained a good financial start he began to take a prominent part in those enterprises which he saw were needed to develop tbe resources of the country. In num erous business, public, church and charitable enterprises Mr. Corbett held a prominent position. He was a director of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company, always casting his influence in behalf of liberal manage ment and to secure the lowest rates of transportation possible with good and xuick service. He was largely instrumental in the original board of trade, and for several years was its president, and was 'active in the chamber of commerce. In all the important measures of these bodies Mr. Corbett was foremost in counsel and bearty co-operation. Mr. Corb9tt was chairman of tbe committee of one hundred, which took a prominent part in municipal affairs during the hard times of 1893-95. The Lewis and Clark centennial ex position was the last great creation of Mr. Corbett and was in many respects bis favorite enterprise. His heart and oul were in it, and he gave to tbe management of Its affairs more time and attention than to his own private business. It was his purpose to make the success of tbe exposition the round ing out of his long business career, and he would have succeeded if his life had been spared. Mr. Corbett is justly entitled to the bonor of being the father of tbe expo sition. Without his help and influence tbe local company could never have bsen financed, nor would tbe state have been so generous in its treatment of tbe undertaking. Will Be China's Banker. New York, April 2. News has reached official headquarters here from St. Petersburg to the effect that an greement either has been or is about to l)e arranged between the Russian and Chinese governments for keeping all the funds of the latter at the Rosso Chinese bank in Pekin. If this agree ment is carried cut, as the Rnsso-Chi-nese bank is in reality a Russian gov ernment institution, it is not impossi ble that a protest will be forthcoming 'rom British institutions, which have been keeping most of China's funds. Four Tracks All the Way. Chicago, April 2. The management of the Lake Shore road has decided to fonr track the system from Chicago to Buffalo, thereby establishing a four track line from Chicago to New York. Nearly 400 men are already at work on the improvement, and within a short time fully 200 more will be employed. Tbe freight congestion of tbe last six months was the determining factor in influencing tbe management to order tbe improvement.