The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1899-10-13
LATER NEWS.

AhO HhOulNdl uOphA hhchb VI tho "ihiJ
considers Vancouver desirable place
for sanitary hospital.
Reports TO the marine hospital serv.
ice say there were 2S new cases OF yell
low fever and three deaths at Key
West.
The United States transport Newport
has arrived at San Francisco, S3 days
from Manila. She has 465 members
OF the volunteer signal corps aboard
and 13 civilians.
A cablegram to the war department
from General Otis states that the trans
port Indiana sailed from Manila with
48 officers and 6i9 men OF the Tennes-
see regiment. The regiment left no
sick.
The steamer Cottage City, from the
North, has among its passengers Sena-
tor Shoup, who has spent several weeks
in Alaska, visiting various points for
the purpose of obtaining information
relative TO future legislation for Alaska.
President Galloway, of the New York
Central railway was before the indus
trial commission to give testimony re-
lative to the question of railroad trans
portation. He favored a pooling law,
and advocated the prohibition of the
present brokerage system.
A riot prevailed in the barracks OF
company L, of the Eighth infantry, at
Fort Smelling. With only dozen ex-
ceptions, the company was locked in
the guardhouse. The trouble arose
from charge Of robbery preferred by
Corporal Fonner against Privates Stout,
Kelly and Brazille. They had been in
st. Paul on spree.
Captain Cope, of the steamer Ameri-
ca Maru, which left Yokohama, Sep
tember 27, reports the transport Tatar,
with the Kansas boys aboard, sailed
two days ahead of him, and should
reach here tomorrow. He thinks he
passed the Tartar Saturday night in
the fog, but he is not sure.
The Maxim -Nordenfeldt Gun & Am
munition Company, Ltd, of London,
has shipped two six-gun batteries of
mountain guns to Manila. They we're
inspected here prior to shipment by
Captain George w. Vandusen, First
United States artillery, who will follow
the guns Thursday. The ordnance is
Of the latest pattern.
Oberlin M. Carter, the disgraced
army officer, has paid the fine of IS, 900
imposed by the court-martial. His
check for that amount was sent to the
United States District Attorney Bur-
nett. Mr.. Rose, of -Carter's counsel,
has been called to Savannah, and Judge
Lacombe has, therefore, extended the
time for submission of briefs in the
habeas corpus proceedings.
Admiral Dewey will receive 81, 900
watch from the municipality of Boston.
The city will spend $l2,500 giving
the admiral welcome.
The Marquette Club, OF Chicago, en-
tertained President Mckinley at
banquet in the Auditorium Saturday
night. Thirty-fve hundred guests were
present.
According to the Sebastopol corre-
spondent of the Daily Graphic, the
Russian naval credit for 1900 amounts
to the erroneous total of 1880, 900
rubles.
The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment,
returning home from the Philippines,
was royally entertained in Portland
The regiment remained over night and
attended the exposition.
The Spanish government has sold
the Havana floating dock for 5000, 900
to syndicate of Vera Cruz merchants.
Several New York firms have been
asked for terms for conveying the dock
to Vera Cruz.
Admiral Dewey has chosen ]. w.
Crawford as his official secretary. Mr..
Crawford is an employe in the office
of the acknowledgement of the
navy. He will hold the rank of lieu
tenant in the navy.
Near Chicago five persons we're in
jured in a collision bewteen a Haw-
thorne race track train ON the Illinois
Central, and freight engine which
stood upon a siding, the switch of
which had been left open.
Don Emanuel Aspiroz, Mexican am
bassador to the United States, and the
first of the distinguished guests whom
Chicago has arranged to entertain dur
ing the fall festival, has arrived in the
windy city from Washington.
The third attempt to sail the first
race beteen the Columbia and Sham
rock, which took place Saturday,
proved failure, the wind giving out
when the yachts were five miles from the
finish. When the race was abandoned !
the Columbia was slightly in the lead.
A petition to President Mckinley,
urging the friendly services of the Uni
ted States in mediation between Great |
Britain and the republics of the Trans
vaal and the Orange Free State, has
received the signatures of more than
400 representative men, including 80 |
odd presidents of colleges, so church
governors of states, may
ors of cities, justices of the United |
States and state courts, senator's, con-
gressmen, editors and others conspicu-
ous in public matters, the professions
and commerce.
The American Jewish year book, just
Al.