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The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
Plague Exists ut Capetown.

Says a Washington dispatch, United
States Vice Consul General Knight, at
Capetown, has informed the state de-
partment that plague is declared Off
cially to exist In the interior of the
colony. The information was com
m~unicated at once to the marine hos,
pital service.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

The British naval authorities are
reported to be making experiments
with a new submarine boat. which. II
II stated. will be able successfully to
encounter the largest battleship
afoat.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED
Chadron bank President stricken with
Heart Failure.

From Chadron, Neb., comes the in
telligence that President A. A. Mead
don of the Citizens State bank of that
town Is dead. He was found in his
bed, having died of heart failure. lie
was formerly engaged in the banks OF
Chicago and afterwards moved to
Omaha, where he was instrumental in
establishing a bank which only sur
vived q few months, when he came t.
Chadron ana established the bank Of
which he was the head. He will b,
buried by the Masons.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
Loses Hair by Fir Q.

While Ethel Moe was sitting bv the
stove in her home at Portland, Mich,
with celluloid side combs in her HAIR
the combs became ignited from the
heat and her beautiful head OF hair
was destroyed. She received several
other serious burns. Her mother was
badly burned about the bands while
trying to extinguish the flames.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
Found Dead In His Room.

Joe Strausser, a gardner whose
home is in East Omaha, was found
dead In a room of the Etna house,
Thirteenth and Dodge streets, on
November IS. The body was still
warm when found. The cause of death
is a mystery.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
Intense Heat ut Pittsburg.

The heat Of the past three days at
Pittsburg, says a November 20 dis
patch. caused much suff sring among
the mill men and one case of prostra-
ton is reported. Alexander Jacobson
was overcome while at work In the
National rolling mill, McKeesport.
His condition is serious and he is not
expected to live.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

Said an Irish Judge to a prisoner:
you are to be hanged by the neck
until dead-and l hope 1t will prove a
warning to you"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

10. the poor Cherokee Is In the lat
est fall fashion. He has been defraud-
ed In the auditors ONCE Of the terri
tory to the extent Of about 1894. 900.
The auditor seems to have lived up to
his somewhat limited opportunities.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
Young Man Kills Himself.

win II. Brady, IA prominent young
business man of Detroit, Mich, com
mitted suicide with a shotgun,
ut his home. No reason is known. He
was a grandson of Gen. Hugh Brady,
who was a prominent figure in the
early history of Michigan.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

Henry Graham gives the following
dates regarding the introduction Of
trees into Scotland The lime. 1864;
the laburnum. 1904; the larch, 1927.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

II expectations are realized. the out.
put Of copper for 1900 will reach 1885,.
000, 900 pounds. valued at S42. $50, 900,
the largest on record
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

According to the views of a British
e captain, who was In the Gulf Of
Mexico during the Galveston tempest,
the disturbance was partly volcanic.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
Justify the Killing.

The coroner's jury returned a verdict
exonerating Detective Carberry for
killing Charles Allen, the colored
deputy in the election day riot at
Denver.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23
MARTIN IRONS Is NO MORE

Man who Directed n Great Labor strike
Passes Away.
Martin Irons, who was once leader
of the union labor organizations, and
who directed the great Missouri Pa
cifc strike in the eighties, died No.
vember II At Bruceville, twenty miles
south Of Waco, Texas.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

Sheriff Wheeler of rlattsmouth has
been notified of "a robbery which oc-
Cured at South Bend. The hardware
store OF Edwards & Bradford was bro
ken into and twelve razors, six dozen
pocket knives and twelve revolvers
were stolen. The stolen property il
valued at SIS. The officers have sent
messages to all parts of the country
and hope to capture the robbers betor,
they car get far away.
Nelraska ranullinan will IA old :.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

The air 10 so clear in Zululand that
objects seven miles away can be dis.
tInctly seen by starlight.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

Happiness 10 about the only thing a
man continues to search for after he
has found II.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

II is easier to preach than 1t Is to
practice, therefore II must be easier
TO be \ clergyman than a physician.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-11-23

Nebraska republicans will h old a
state ratification November "a.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17

mony and settled $4,000 on the boy.
Subsequently La Belle married l.. 0.
Vincent, musician and song writer.
This second marriage was also a fail
ure, and a short time after the couple
separated, Vincent died. Mrs. Vim
cent then indulged in speculation and
lost heavily on her investments. She
sold her property in Michigan for $751;
200 and went to Seattle. The gold fever
seized her. She plunged into specu!a-
tlon again and took the largest stock of
staples and machinery ever transport
ed to Alaska in a single venture. She
there fell into the hands of q sharp
trader who through Misrepresentation,
beat her out of everything that she DOS.
Sessed and who then melted a strike
among her former employees, whose
wages had not been paid. MANY suits
for wages and other debts were begun
against her and her counsel advised
her to avoid them by returning to the
States. With 5000, all that remained
OF her fortune, she commenced the
journey on a dog sleigh, her only COM
panion being an Indian who could not
speak English. Her creditors learning
OF her departure sent officers after her
She was brought back to Dawson CITY
and placed in Jail. Through the aid of
friend she was released from prison
and enabled to return to Seattle. where
she arrived friendless and penniless.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
NOTHING If NOT REALISTIC.
What the Present School of Writers
Appear to BE Aiming At.

What the Present School of Writers
Appear to BE Aiming At.
The russet sparrow sat on the root
and blinked at the setting sun. Afal
down the alley lone ragman drove his
chariot slowly along and chanted his
plaintiye lay. The wind moaned through
the chimney pots, the red sun looked
dimly down through the smoke and the
russet sparrow sat on the roof and
blinked at the setting sun.
The russet sparrow sat on the roof
and blinked at the setting sun. Sadly
the stray policeman in the gray dis
tance swiped an orange from the bar.
row of a passing coster and peeled II
with grimy hand. He was thinking,
thinking. And the dead leaves still
choked the tin spout above the rain
water barrel in the backyard.
The russet sparrow sat Oh the roof
and blinked at the setting sun. Adown
the cutters in the lonely street ran
murky puddles on their long, long Jour
ney toward the distant sea. Borne on
the wings of the sluggish breeze came
a far-off murmur of vagrant dogs in
fierce contention and life was hollow
mockery to the homeless cat.
And the russet sparrow sat on the
roof and blinked at the setting SUM-
London Answers.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
COugllS.

Every person who coughs should not
alarm himself with the idea that he is
in bad way. Experience has con-
vinced us of fact that there are two
distinct kinds of coughs--one proceed.
ing from an affection of the lungs and
air tubes, as in a cold, the other pro-
ceeding from effervescence in the stom-
ach. The lungs cough is symptom
which all know to require attention
lest serious consequences ensue. The
stomach cough is much more simple
matter, and may easily be got quit Of.
1t is caused by the food and drink
which are put into the stomach effer.
vescing, and producing an irritation. A
knowledge of this fact ought to lead
persons so affected to ponder little
on the nature of their ailment and the
tone of their digestive powers.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
THEIR DRINK is MADDENING.
Native Tipple of the Filipinos Is a HoI
rihIe Coucocf;au

Native TippIe of the Filipinos Is Hor-
rib1e Concoction.
The effect of the so-called American
saloon on the Filipinos is not nearly as
bad as the effect Of Filipino liquor on
American soldiers. In fact, the former
Is distinctly superior to the latter. since
American liquors do not produce mad
ness. George Hobart, a regular army
man, who has just returned from Ma
Mia 10 his home at Indianapolis, says
of the Filipino booze: ut is not heat
that is driving the soldiers crazy. It's
Just simply 'beno.' Absinthe is not
In the same class. 1t looks like water
and tastes like licorlce," he says, "and
when the boys can't get beer or whisky
they buy 'beno' from the natives. 1t
takes a pint of it TO make drinking
man drunk. The third or fourth con-
secutive drunk makes blooming idiot
out of the victim. The soldiers crave
1t after they have once tasted it. Out
on the lines the boys never get beer or
whisky and when the natives sneak
this beno into camp the fellows buy it.
I'm the southern islands, where the
demand Is not so great, the natives
sell 1t for 3 cents canteenful. but
around Manila the demand is so great
that the price has been raised to 80
cents. After man drinks about a pint
of the stuff he begins to get silly, but
he RECEIVERS in day or two. Then he
will want more of it and if he can't
get 1t he will go mad. Then the Off
GERS have to shackle him and he is sent
to the hospital for the insane at Wash
lngton. They tell me that the poor
fellows who have been taken there will
never get ell."-Omaha Rec
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
Too Long to Wait.

Inc japanese, as is generally known,
are mainly vegetarians, their diet con
slsting for the most part of rice and
few other simple vegetables.
Whlle they are healthy and happy
people, they are understood as compar
ed with the meat eaters of Europe and
America, and it was seriously recon-
mended few years ago by advisers Of
the Emperor, that he should encourage
his subjects to adopt diet of flesh,
with a view to increasing the average
Japanese stature.
An American who was visiting in
Japan tells of a jinrikisha man with
whom he became acquainted, who, al
though able to trot forty miles a day
without fatigue, was vexed because Of
his small size and had begun to eat
meat. He asked his American friend
one day. In the best English at his COM
mand, how long a time would be re-
quired, on an animal diet, to make the
Japanese a larger race.
Il should say a hundred years, at
least" replied the American.
The ''rickshaw" man went back u
hiS rice.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
snn Franc,.co Market.

| Wool-Spring-Nevads, 1l@1Sc pc
pound; Eastern Oregon, 100 lac; Val
ley, l6@lSc; Northern, 9@l0c.
Hops-lS99 crop, Hobo pc,
pound.
Butter-Fancy creamery 22@22 &c;
do seconds, 2l@ 2lc; fancy dairy
l9c; do seconds, 16@lSc per pound.
Eggs-Store, l7c; fancy ranch,
gee.
Millstuffs Middlings, $1,000
5000; bran, $l2.50@l3.50.
Hay-Wheat $S@ls; wheat :
oat 5000 HOO; best barley $500
alfalfa, $6,00@7.50 per ton; strs
l5@S7}sc per bale.
Potatoes-Early Rose, 500 75c; G
gon Burbanks, 90c@$l; river +
banks, S0@S5c; new. l@llac.
Citrus Fruit-Oranges, Valencia,
$2,75@S.s5; Mexican lines, $4.00@
800; California lemons 75c@$l. 80;
do choice Sl.75@2.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas, $l.5O@
400 per bunch; pineapples, nom.
inal; Persian dates. s@6lsc per
pound.
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THE uNLucKIEsT WOMAN.
Fickle Fortune Frowns Upon La Belle
Brooks Vincent.

TICKLE Fortune hroWns Upon La DSNS
Brooks Vincent.
The unluckiest woman in the world Is
believed to be La Belle Brooks-Vincent'
who has returned from the Klondike 10
Seattle, Wash. During the past si1
years she has seen more fluctuations OF
fortune and undergone more hardships
than usually fall TO the share OF most
people during long life. Dlsappoint'
ment and failure seem to follow her In
every undertaking, but she shows no
encouragement and brayely adapts
herself to changes Of circumstances.
She was born in luxury and highly edu-
Gated. During her senior year at Ypsl-
lanti College, Michigan, she met Ben
jamin Mason, a wealthy retired mer-
chant, old enough to be her father, and
married him. The marriage was an
unhappy one, and after a few years the
young wife was granted divorce and
given the custody of her young son.
The husband signed contracts giving
large sums of money instead of ali
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
DISPENSED With A BLACKSMITH
How Arizona Cowboys Punched Holes
in Wagon Tire.


i'm Wagon Tire.
up at my camp near the Four
Peaks" told Jim Bark, the well-known
cattleman, the boys are all handy
with a rife. We've a lot of guns up
there. The old-fashioned black-powder
Winchester has been discarded and
nothing but the best goes. Most of the
new guns were bought during the
Spanish war, when we would expert.
ment all day with tree trunks and
rough trenches, learning the art of war
at home. We found that bullet from
cne of the new Winchesters, driven by
smokeless powder, was good for four
feet and more of pine timber. and for
more than an inch of iron. | thought
the boys had done about everything in
the shooting line that could be done
long ago. but was mistaken.
Il sent them up wagon. In hauling
down some firewood they broke the
holsters all to flinders. The holsters
held up the wagon bed, you know. Well,
the boys figured out all right the re-
building of the wooden parts, but came
near being stumped on the iron fixlngs.
They got some old iron wagon tires and
cut them in proper lengths, but hadn't
way that they could see to punch the
necessary bolt holes. Finally the ques-
ton was solved. One of the boys care
fully marked the places for the bolts,
stood the piece of tire against a tree
and put bullet. 80 callber, through
the tire at each place marked. 1t was
novel sort of blacksmithlng, but il
worked. Arizona Graphic.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17

Wheat - Walla Walla. Doc;
Valley, 55c; Bluestem, CSC per bushel.
Flour-Best grades, $8. 10; graham.
$2. 90; superine, ~. 10 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white. SIC; choice
gray, Soc per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $14.00@16.OO;
brewing, $1,000 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $500 ton; mid
dlings, $40; shorts, $l4; chop, $l6 pei
ton.
Hay-Timothy, Sl1@12; clover, 81 a
100; Oregon wild hay, $6@7 per ton.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 45@50c;
store, 27lac.
Eggs--l7c per dozen.
Cheese-Oregon full cream, 13c;
Young America, lac; new cheese 10c
per pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $1,000
$50 per dozen; hens, $500; springs,
$2.50@4.00; geese, $4,0O@5.00 for old;
$4.50@6.50; ducks, $3.00@4.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 16@17c pei
pound.
Potatoes-40@ a SOC per sack; sweets,
2@24c per pounu.
Vegetables-Beets, 81; turnips, 75c;
per sack; garlic, 70 per pound; cab.
bage, &c per pound; parsnips, ST.;
onions, / &c per pound; carrots, 90c.
Hops-2@Sc per pound.
Wool-Valley, 15@l6c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, l5@l6c; mohair, %
per pound.
Mutton--Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3s4c; dressed mutton, 7@
7lec per pound; lambs, sac.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, $500;
light and feeders. $3.50; dressed,
50. 5.00@6.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steers, $4.00@4.5 so;
cows, $S,50@4,00; dressed beef, 61a q
7s4c per pound.
Veal-Large, 6la@73c; small, SO
Slsc per pound.
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Cnuphs of an Enninn

The cough, or puff, of a railway en-
Eine is due TO the abrupt emission of
waste steam up the chimney. When
moving slowly the cough can. of course,
be heard following each other quite dis.
tinctly, but when speed is put on the
puffs come out one after the other
much more rapidly, and when eighteen
coughs second are produced they can
lot be separately distinguished by the
ear. A locomotive running at the rate
of nearly serenity miles an hour gives
out twenty cuffs of steam every sec
ond-that is, ten for each of its two
cylinders,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
BUYING FOR FALL TRADE.
An Immense Business In Steel Reported
PROM the West.


Bradstreet's SAYS: Trade is still ex.
hihiting many of the irregularities in.
cident to the transition period between
midsummer and early fall trade. De-
spite the hot wave. with its effect on
the growing distributive demand, and
also because o. the reports OF damage to
the corn crop which it has melted,
more cheerful feeling is perceptible in
general trade. and the booking OF fall
orders ior dry goods, clothing AMI hard
ware at leading Western centers, and
heavy engagements in iron and steel
products, though at lower prices, are
OF encouraging proportions. Prices are
not showing tine precipitate declines
noted some time ago, and among the
really encouraging features is the ad
vance in wheat, mainly based on inn
proved export inquiry.
Wool is rather trmer than OF late
because OF the better inquiry, though it
must he admitted that this steadiness
is somewhat at the expense OF new
business.
Cotton goods partake OF the strength
OF raw material. and while weakness is
still PEI ceptible, brown cottons. print
cloths and wide sheetings, the natural
corrective OF reduced production. are
being increasingly sought.
While the dry goods demand as a
whole is still classed as backward for
the season, hot weather is credited with
some OF the responsibility and trade at
titude as rule is one OF hopeful ex-
pectancy.
An imm ense business in steel pro-
ducts is reported booked at Pittsburg
and Chicago, and steel bars are really
frmer with an advance OF $4 per ton
announced bv Western manufacturers
who have sold their output up to the
close Of the year.
Failures for the week were III in
the United States, against 1856 last
year. and % in Canada, against 20 last
year.
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Nort,,west Notas.

1
John p. Vollmef is erecting a large
grain warehouse at Genessee, Idaho.
A hail storm is reported to have shat
tered 5000 bushels of grain near Ok
ford, Idaho.
The people of Genessee, Idaho, have
asked for special election to vote or
the subject OF a waterworks system.
Forest fires are still raging in the
White Pine district, Idaho, although 9
large force of men is at work trying to
check the flames.
B. Gieda, sheepman OF Condor,
Or, died recently in Texas, from con.
sumption. He leaves considerable
property.
The O, r. & N. Go. Is gang of track,
layers has completed its job of putting
down heavy rails on the branch from
La Grande to Elgin, Or.
The Albany, Or, ice factory, al.
though running night and day, is un.
able to supply the demand, and q car
load of ice was brought up from Oregon
City on the 9th.
The Toledo, Or, Leader reports q
sample OF "pieplant" or rhubarb,
grown in that town, whose leaf is 81
feet in circumference, and whose stalk
is seven inches in diameter.
Forest fires are raging near Medical
Lake, Wash.
Colfax, WASH, is threatened with a
water famine.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, of New
York, was recently in Spokane. He
is said to be considering Kettle Falls,
with view to transmitting electric
power to Republic.
There are 200, 900 sheep in Wallowa
county, Oregon.
An unknown man committed suicide
III u variety theater at Spokane the
night of August 4. There was nothing
in his clothing to identity him, and
his body lay all day in an undertaker,s
without being recognized.
Largely as result of the vigilant
crusade against owners of unlicensed
bicycles, instituted by the president of
the Tacoma Wheelmen's Association
and carried ON by the police depart.
ment, the city treasurer has issued
4,a55 licenses to date. 1t is believed
the 5000 mark will be reached before
the year is out.
One salmon cannery at Fairhsven,
WASH, has received $4,000 fish two
days in succession.
j. d. Barnett, of Ritzville, Wash.
lost 800 sacks OF wheat. his barn and |
some fencing last Wednesday by fire.
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RIVERS ARE TREACHEROuS.
In Times of Freshet They Frequently
Change Their Course.

In lines of Frcshet They FreoueutIv v
Change Their Course.
The rivers of China, like the people.
are extremely treacherous. They have
no fixed channels, but move in tha i'm.
petuous floods that come pouring down
from the mountains in the rainy sea.
son, sometimes as much as 100 miles
from their old beds, leaving the inter-
vening tracts buried deep under the
sand, destroying life, making a desert
of cultivated fields over an area of
many hundreds of miles, and plunging
the farming population into terrible
poverty and famine. The enormous
canals, constructed by the Government
to correct the evil, have been of no
avail in this direction, although they
have formed in the past great wafer
ways crowded with craft, along which
supplies of food and merchandise can
be carried to the markets at trihing
cost. Modern engineering, when the
breakup of China comes, will find the
subjection of Chinese rivers a problem
that will challenge all its genius and
perseverance, and it may accomplish
here what 1t has failed to do with 9th.
or great streams where the alluvial soil
IS carried down by the current to block
The mouth and place tantalizing OBJ
'tacle in the way of navigation.
The Pei-Ho is as crooked as a pennon
dying in the wind, aud the present low.
aess of the water is due to the LONG
brought that has prevailed in the high
lands to the north, where it rises. Two
years ago steamers that now anchor at
Taku. twenty miles or more down
stream, ran to Tien-TSin, where they
could take their cargo and where pas
sengers could go. on board comfortably
and conveniently. The change. under
the present circumstances, constitutes
the chief difficulty in reaching the can
ltal. For at Tien-Tsln the passenger
landing ut Taku must change cars, con.
tinuing the journey to Pekin from the
former point.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1900-08-17
Seven
That Was All.

II can't imagine why Miss Rocking
ham treats me SO coldly. The other
evening when called she said she had
been eating green onions and hoped
would excuse her. Since then she has
hardly spoken to me-"
That's curious. What did you say
when she excused herself"
Let me see! Why, merely told hel
not to mind; that 1t would be an easy
matter for me to keep far enough away
not to be disturbed"
"Oh"-Chicago Times-Herald.
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PLANS FOR GOLDEN ZONE.
Capacity VIII Soon BE 100 Tons of Ore
Daily.

Naphctty VIII SOoh be lOO IONS Oh OEe
Daily.
Loomis. Wash, August 9.--At the
Golden Zone plans have been COM
pleted for increasing the capacity of
the mill to 100 tons daily. The neces-
sary machinery has been ordered and
the work OF adding to the present mill
structure for its accommodation begins
at once The Golden Zone is SO
thoroughly opened up that it will be
able to supply the daily mill run with
minimum force. Continuous devel-
opment OF the ore bodies will go stead
lily forward though there is more than
100, 900 tons of ore in sight
The management proposes to increase
the capacity of the mill from it's profits
until it can treat 500 tons daily. That
a mine OF this character could in three
years be brought to such high stage
OF development, show quantities OF ore
and be scarcely known outside OF the
district tells the story OF the quality of
work being done at dozen properties
in the Palmer Mountain district. Mill
runs up to date have averaged about
$40 per ton, and this is probably a
good average of the mine.