Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-10-21
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
The Idaho Mormons Regain the
Rights Of Citizenship.
EXCESSIVE DRoUTH IN NEW MEXICO.
Hot Water to be Piped Into Every Bust
ness Block and Residence Of
Boise City, Idaho.

The Chinese in Idaho propose to defy
the Six Companies and, will register.
Over $4,000 tons OF sugar beets have
been harvested at Chico 80 far this sea-
son.
] Work has been commenced upon a
new foundry building and power-house
for Stanford University.
! Much suffering in the southeastern
portion Of New Mexico is reported,
caused by the excessive drouth.
Heavy swells have washed away the
cabin of the wrecked Wetmore, and the
vessel now looks from Marshfield an il
she had broken in two.
The Hudson Bay Company has closed
out its store at Yale, B. G., the trade
having decreased to such an extent that
the store is no longer necessary.
Applicants for electric-power fran
chise at San Jose have been refused,
owing to the objection Of the applicants
to put their wires under ground.
The old adobe at Santa Barbara, in
which General Fremont had his head
quarters in the early days when he had
his camp there, was burned the other
morning.
William Simmons, who lives ten mi es
from Salem, Or, has grown three acres
OF cranberries this year. They are choice,
and are said to be fully equal to the Cape
Cod variety.
Spokane Indians have held meeting
near Spokane. They are willing to 20
on the Ceur d'Alene lands, but want
money to spend for themselves. There
are about one hundred of them, home
less and landless vagabonds, but they
believe the government will give them
all they ask.
Some brute in human form has been
shooting valuable stock on Willow creek,
Crook county, Or. A few weeks ago Joe
Hinkle found fine Hereford bull, which
had cost him $3.50, dead in his pasture,
with rife bullet in his head, and a few
days ago Perry Read discovered thor
oughbred Shorthorn belonging to his
herd that had been shot and will prob
ably die.
County Echo while discussing the scale
parasite that there was time last year
when the parasites we're not noticeable,
bnt with the return of spring they came
out in largely increased numbers and
began their work of destroying the scale.
Colonel Burr's theory is that they are
hidden away, possibly in the earth near
the tree, and that they will be on deck
again next spring.
Daniel III. Ward, who shot and killed
John Looney last July in Gillian county,
Or, has been acquitted. After being
out two hours the jury returned YER
dict of "not guilty" The jury really
agreed upon this verdict five minutes
after retiring to the jury room, but
deemed it better form to deliberate an
hour or two before redering the verdict
It was proven at the trial that Ward
acted in self-defense.
: Frank Leach, a young tailor who mis-
appropriated suit of clothes at Weston,
completed his sentence in the county
, Jail at Pendleton recently. He was
searched on leaving, when it was discov-
: cred, almost by chance, that he had
: taken the handspring from his watch
: and left it with the prisoners, to be ueed
as saw. They were compelled to dis
. gorge, and Leach was rearrested and
will stay in Jail fifty days longer.
Prof. Edward S. Holden has sent an
open address to the San Jose Chamber
> of Commerce in answer to the action of
that body in passing resolution con-
demnatory OF the Professors administra-
ton of the Lick Observatory. He says
the Chamber should have consulted per-
sons familiar with the situation of affairs
at the observatory and not have relied
so much on newspaper reports before
charging him with Encouragement. He
desires, he says, full investigation by
any competent persons.
A relic preserved in Curry county, Or,
] | is the skull of the Indian who is sup
posed to have murdered the Geisal fam
. | ily at Rogue river. Mrs. Winsor, who
was an eyewitness of the hanging of
this wretch, which occurred in the spring
of 1855, says the whites found tree
: near the present graveyard at Gold
Beach and placed rope around the Dig
gers neck. A barrel was put beneath
! his feet, which Mrs. Geisal, now Mrs.
Edison Of Gold Beach, promptly kicked
from beneath him, thus Kidding the
I world of brute who had made desolate
peaceful and happy home.
Judge Stockslager of Alturas county
has decided that the Idaho test oath Law
: passed in 1890, which forbids the vote o.
any man who was member of the Nor
mon Church then or before 1888, was in.
valid and arbitrary, and that only the
a oath prescribed by the State constitution
1 should be admins cred to persons who
: offered to register. This decision will
not be appealed by the State, and tn,
Mormons OF Idaho will now be priv
! legged to register and vote in the sam,
u manner as members of any other church
: There are 1900 OF them, and their vot
will be an important factor in the ap
preaching election. The Mormons ar
jubilant over their restoration to tn
: rights Of citizenship.