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jr.' .V. VOL. I. HOOD RIVER' OR, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1881). NO. 3 If. rm The 3ood Jiver Sclacier. FUBLISIIKI) EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BY The Glacier PublisMng Company. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. One year. ...J2 00 ... 1 00 . . , 50 .5 Cents , Three months. Sngleoopy.... 1 Mr. George T. Prather is authorized to receive and ' receipt for all subscriptions and to transact any : business (or the Glacier. List of State and County. Officials. (iovrnor S. Pennoyer Secretary of State . G. W. Mcliride Truasurur Geo. W. Webb Superintendent of Public Instruction.. E. P McElroy . ( J. N. Dolph Sc'lators ( J. II. Mitchell Congressman. . B. Hermann State Printer Frank baker COUNTY. Sheriff' Geo. Hoibert Clerk 3. II. Thompson Treasurer Geo. Iluch . . J Geo. A. Young Commissioners j H A ravens Assessor. . H. Gourlay Surveyor E. F. Sharp Superintendent of Pubiic Schools ....A. C. Connelly Coroner Win. Michell LOCAL OFFICEBS. V Postmaster ....Geo. T. Prather Justice of the Peace Henry Uowa Constable.... E. 8. Olingct) Notaries Pubiic. I J. H. Mid 1 E. L. idleton Smith E. J. THOMAS, M. D., (Graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Phila., 1878.) ' ' Physician Surgeon HOOD RIVER, OREGON. A FULL LINE OF Drugs, Medicines anl Toilet Articles KEPT IN STOCK. RAIL DIVISION. IJlTpiTTllIlO To and from principal points in the 1 lull 1 M United States, Canada and Europe. Elegant Pnllman Palace Cars. Emigrant Sleeping Cars Rnn Tnrongli on Express Trains TO OMAHA, COUNCIL BLUFFS and ST. PAUL Free of Charge and Without Change. Close connections at Portland for 'San Francisco and Puget Soui.l points. OCEAN DIVISION. TO SAN FRANCISCO. . Leaving Steamship Wharf, Portland, ct 12 Midnight, as follows : 8TKAMKR. DAT. DATS. Oregon Tuesday June 4 State Saturday " 8 Columbia Wednesday " 12 Oregon.... Sunday " 16 State Thursday " 20 Columbia ....Monday " 24 Oregon......... ..Friday........ .". 28 Baggage must be checked either at Ash St. during the day, or by the U. C. b B. T. Co. No unchecked baggage will be received on the Steamers. Ticket Office, First and Qak Streets. TO PORTLAND. Leaving Spear St. Wharf, San Francisco, at 10 A. M., as follows:, BTKAMRR,- . DAY. DATS. State Monday June 8 Columbia Friday " 7 O'egon Tuesday " 11 State Saturday " 15 Columbia Wednesday " 19 . Oregon Sunday " 23 State t Thursday " 27 No freight will be received on morning of sailing, except Fruit and Vegetables, and these will not be taken after 9 A. M. Rates of passage (including meals and berths), cabin, $16.00; steerage, $8.00 ; round trip, unlimited, $30.00. The Company reserves the right to change Steamers or Sailing Days. San Francisco-General office, No. 10 Market St. Ticket offices, Nos. 1 and 214 Montgomery Sts GOODALL, PERKINS & Co., Agents. C J. SMITH, A. L. MAXWELL, Gen'l Manager. G. P. & T. A. W. C. Allawav, Agent 0allc9. CREAM OF THE DISPATCHES. The Most Important Telegraphic News, Gleaned During the Week from Reliable Sources. A Big Seizure of Lottery Tickets. n Francisco, June 17. Detectives seliad 75,000 Little Louisiana Lottery tickets .today at 109 Ross avenue. The detectives have been hunting for these tickets for a week. They say that they came from New York. Tho Proposed Cable to Honolulu. Sax Francisco, Junell. The Evening Post today says that $1,000,000 has been subscribed for the proposed cable be tween Honolulu and San Francisco, and that the work of laying the cable will be commenced within eighteen months. Severe Hall Storms in Germany. 1 Berlin, Jane 17. Severe hail storms prevailed to-day in many parts of Ger many. While a procession was passing through the streets of a Silesian town, five paraders were struck by lightning and killed. Forty others received shocks. . " A Determined Suicide. Ellensburgh, W. T., Juno 16. As a Northern Pacific passenger train was rounding a curve between Ellensburgh and Yakima yesterday, a man came out from the brush and laid his head on the rail. The engineer reversed, but too late, the engine striking the man on the head, crushing the skull. He was taken to Yakima where he lingered till this morning. Henry George in France. . Paris, June 16. Henry George has won a decided victory oyer the social ists and done much to popularize the single tax idea in France, where hereto fore he had but few supporters. Various schools of continental natiopalizers were represented at the conference, but the dominent idea of all was clearly in favor of a single tax. George has been made chairman of the international commit tee. Vorest Fires in the Cascades. Ellensburgh, W. T., June 16. For est fires are prevailing on the east side of the Cascade range and doing great damage to timber. The roar of the blaze can be heard for miles, and lum bermen say millions of feet will be de stroyed. A strong wind is prevailing at present, and the fire is extending. Sev eral small bridges along the line of the Northern Pacific have been destroyed, but no serious damage has yet resulted further than delayed trains. Two Girls Butchered. " Omaha, June 17. Two daughters of John Leavitt, a farmer living near Gres ham, Seward county, Neb., were mur dered last night. Their parents had been away, and on their return the eld est daughter, aged 18, was found dead on the flopr in a pooi ct blood, with her throat horribly slashed. The body of the other daughter, aged 8, was lying in the yard with her throat cut from ear to ear. There is no clue to the murderers or perpetrators of the crime. The Day at Johnstown. Johnstown, June 17. The weather here was gloomy and dismal today. Seventeen more bodies were dug from the wreckage. Among them was the body of Mrs. Annie Bates, of Racine, Wis. ' She was a passenger on the day express lost on the fatal day. She was buried promptly, as were all the other bodies found. ' At a meeting of the business men this afternoon, it was decided to ask the state authorities here for lumber with which to build temporary Wsiness places. To the committee who waited on General Hastings, that gentleman said he would supply all the lumber de sired within a reek. Many of the tem porary buildings will be constructed on the old public square. One hundred portable, ready-made houses have been ordered from Chicago, capablo of accommodating six persons each. They will soon.be up, and fur nished completely for House-keeping. If this lot proves satisfactory, the number will be increased to 1,000 v A Chicago firm agrees to put them up at cost. It is being arranged t build a lock up, when a large number of arrests, in cluding persons of ill repute, will be made for stealing valuables from the wreckage. A general search will be made. Murder in the First Degree. Baker City, June 10. The jury in the case of the state of Oregon vs Clin ton Pennington for the murder of Charles B. Balcom, on May 28, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree after being out four hours. J. L. Rand, district attorney, and G. O. Hulrnan presented the case. A. J. Lawrence and S. R. Anderson appeared for the defense. The verdict meets the approval of the public. ; This is the first conviction for murder in the first degree in this county since 1863. Sullivan Drank Again. Belfast, N. Y., June 16. John L. Sullivan is on another spree. Friday night he and Muldoon had a quarrel and John L. immediately left his training quarters at Muldoon's residence, went to Church's hotel, got drunk and tried to run the house. At the hotel he drove the bartender out of the house because he was refused liquor, lie took his po sition behind the bar and helped him self liberally, as well as 1iose of his ac quaintances who happeifedlo be about. After he got his "jag" on he turned sul len and sat through the night in a chair on the hotel steps. He swore that he would not go back to Muldoon's ' house if he never met Kilrain. Incendiarism at Corvallis. Corvallis, Or., June 15. Last night about 9:30 o'clock , the South school building, near the Southern ' Pacific depot, burned to the ground. There had been no fire in it for atr least two weeks. . Water was turned on it from the engine but did little good. Shortly after the fire engines had been housed flames were seen rising from the rear "of a China house on the east side of Main street, in front of the Benton County bank. It was soon extinguished and cotton and rags saturated with coal oil were found. This raised tho indigna tion of the citizens, and immediately a meeting was held on a street corner. It was decided tohave the mayor offer $150 reward for the arrest and conviction of any person caught in the act of incen diarism in this city. Several extra watchmen were put on the lorce last night. The World's 8. S. Convention. ; New York, June 15.-s-Next Wednes day the Canard steamer Bothnia will carry three hundred delegates from America to the World's Sunday school convention which convenes in Memorial hall, London, July 28. Every state ill the Union and the provinces of Canada will be represented. B. F. Jacks, of Chicago, the author of tlit international svstem of Sunday school lessons, which are now univer sally used, ia tho chairman of the execu tive committee. The steamer is expected to arrive in Liverpool June 29, and a special train will take the company to London. On Monday evening, Julyl, the dele gates will be entertained at a special re ception at the Mansion house, London, given in their honor by the lord mayor. On the following day the closing exer cises of the great convention will be held in Memorial ball, which was built by Congregationalists, and within whose walls probably more conferences of re ligious bodies have been held than in any other hall in the world. Sadie Brantner's Confession. Seattle, June 17. The Wickersham case developed another sensation this morning, when the attorneys for the defense filed affidavits in the district court, which will likely clear him of the criminal charge of which he was convicted at the last terra of court, and those still hanging over him for perjury '. The chief aifidavit is sworn to by Sadie Brantner, the prosecutrix. About tera days ago she was allowed, by her friends here, to go to Tacoma to visit her mother, onicondition that she would return last Saturday, Nothing has since been heard of her uutil this rooming, when her affidavit was pro duced in court. In this paper she clears Judge Wickersham of the charge of seduction and says that Steal Baker, of Tacoma, held relations of criminal intimacy with her as far back as 1885, fully two years before she met Wicker sham ; also that she held like relations with several prominent merchants of Tacoma, whose names-are not given, although she intimates that she has told Wickersham who they are. She says that the affidavit made in the Denny block, in Seattle April 30, excul pating Wickersham, was true and made of her own free will and accord, although two days after that time she made affidavits that Wickersham had enticed her into the Denny .block, and had obtained the statements from her by threats and personal violence. In lile manne: she retracts every word of the testimony she gave at the famous trial, and m subsequent affida vits for the prosecution. She abuses Mrs. Handsaker, who provided a Lome for her here and stood by her through the trial, accuses the prosecuting officers of forcing her to testify against Wicker sham, and closes the affidavit by saying that it is made to clear her conscience and to clear an innocent man. Other affidavits, sworn to by Sadie Sevier, a female detective. A. J Lucas, a detective, and Harry Searles, a negro detective, are also filed. They tell how Sadie Brantner met Wicker sham at three several times after the trial, for tho purpose of making .a con fession, exculpating him, and how she signed such statements in the Denny block on April 30, of her own free will and accord. Wickersham's motion for a new trial in the seduction case is now pend ing, and it is likely he will get it on the strength of these affidavits. If a new trial is allowed, the prosecution will dmibtleRS drop the case, as they will see it will be useless to continue the prosecution under the circumstances, although they believe Wickersham to bo guilty. The general impression here is that Wickersham has secured control of the girl through his detectives, and induced her to make this retraction. The Kansas Storm. St. Louis, June 17. Additional ad vices about the disaster in Kansas from the wind and rain Btorm are that Union town, fifteen mjles west of Fort Bcott, is swept away, and two women and four children drowned. UniontoWn is a placa of 600 inhabitants, in the midst of a thickly settled country. It is feared the loss of life ia heavier than reported. As the wires are down for fifteen miles on either side nothing can be learned. The storm struck the western part of Bourbon county, late at night, coming from the west, where it played great havoc. At Augusta it assumed the form of a cloud burst. In Fort Scott it commenced raining Sunday morning very heayily. This caused a flood, carrying away several houses. The part of Fort Scott known as Belltown is entirely under water and the railroads are inundated and washed Out. IN other sections. . Iola, Kas., June 17. Allen county has suffered severely during the past thirty-six hours from floods in the Neosho river and its principal tributar ies. The streams have been unusually high all the spring, and the heavy rains Saturday night brought them out of their banks, flooding the bottoms for miles on either Hide. . There has been no loss of lifo or live stock, and those living on the lowlands were warned in time, but it is feared that hundreds of acres of wheat, which was just ripening and promised a very large yield, will be almost a total loss, while the submerged corn and other crops will be greatly damaged. LOSS OF LIFE. Eldorado, Kas., June 17. The upper" valley of the Walnut is flooded lrom excessive rains, and the streams are higher than for years. Saturday night the river came up so suddenly that a family named Graham started for their home to the highland, but the mother and a babe were drowned. The father and one child escaped. Grain fields are flooded and much damage must, result. A portion of the Missouri Pacific track is washed ' away. There have been no trains in over the Santa Fe since yester day. It is surmised that a number of people are drowned in the lower valley. The water is receding this morning. A later rumor reports the drowning of O. Beaver and a man named Cassidy. Sunday at Johnstown. Johnstown, June 16. In the few churches remaining, services were held today, but the largest meetings of. the day took place in the "open air. The weather was fair and the men seemed glad to have an opportunity to turn from hard work to religion. Today the wrecked engine of the limited express was hoisted to the tracks at Conemaugh. Double tracks will be down as far as Altoon'a by the middle of the week.. There are 3600 men at work on the Penn sylvania road tracks between Johnstown and South Fork, 1 Six bodies were recovered , today. They were buried without identification. Tonight 150 barrels of oil were emptied on the drifts and ignited. The wreck age is burning fiercely for 200 yards. The debris was searched previous to being fired, but no bodies found. Davitt Interviewed. London, June 16. Michael Davitt, the Irish leader, in an interview as to his opinion on the question of the com plicity of Alexander Sullivan in the mur der of Dr. Cronin, said : "I have read of the arrest with the greatest astonish ment. I have the highest opinion of the character of . Sullivan. I think the charge that he has been implicated in any way in the assination of Dr. Cronin is absurd. I also think that the allega tions that he ever misappropriated one penny of the funds of the national league are groundless. I believe him to have been the very soul of honor. So far from having enriched himself out of the lunds of the league he had to my own personal knowledge drawn on his own resources for the aid of that organi zation. , Heavy Storms in the East. Ne v York, June 15. Associated Press dispatches from New Jersey, Dele ware, Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania, New York state and New England, as far east as Maine, indicate extensive damage to property and some loss of life by'storms, accompanied by light ning. ' This evening in this city a Catholic church spire was struck and the cupola stripped away. Stones weighing 300 pounds were displaced. An oil tank in Jersey City was struck , by lightning and the the flames from 200,000 gallons of petroleum have been burning much of the night. No lives were lost. Another fire from the same source occurred in a lumber district, but was headed off. From all parts of the affected territory come news of damag to crops and fruit trees. Majoiity 800,000. The election held Tuesday in Penn sylvania is the worst defeat the Prohibi tionists haye ever met with- Returns from forty-four out of sixty-seven coun ties give a majority against the Prohibi tion amendment to' the constitution of 109,452 and the full returns will swell this to over 200,000. If