Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-10-28
OCCIDENTAL MELANGs
.
Merchant Certificates Of Entry
Being Sold to Chinese.
A TRUCK FARMER is HELD UP.
Fined for Evading Customs Officers
Poisonous Weed Causes Death
Among Utah Sheep.

Dryenfurth's agents are in New Mex
leo endeayoring to produce rain.
The British Columbia sealing feet has
brought down only 1,271 skins.
Sacramento is to spend 500. 600 in en-
larging and strengthening her levee sys-
tenn.
The owners OF the Halcyon have been
fined $500 at Victoria, B. O., for evading
the customs officers.
Hans Nelson and Juan Alvarez have
been captured at Ph1nix, A. T., while
passing counterfeit money.
The Nez Perce reservation in Idahc.
very rich land section, will be open for
settlement in few months.
The cattlemen in Southern New Mex
leo are moving off the ranges, the
drought having made them barren.
Silver salmon are now very plentiful
at Yaquina Bay, and are being caught
with trolling lines in great numbers.
The vintage ia fully on in Napa Valley.
The wine-grape crop is two thirds short,
and many large wineries are not crush
ing.
There are thirty-seven pupils in at
tendance at the Oregon Deaf Mute
School this year, the highest number
ever present.
The High Court Of California Foresters
concluded its work at Bakersfield the
other day. Monterey was selected as
the next annual meeting place.
Another murder is reported by 'Kid, !"
the Apache, in the Swisshelm Mount
aims. A woodchopper was shot and his
head beaten off with stones.
The opal fields on the Snake river near
Caldwell, about thirty miles from Boise,
Idaho, are the cause OF considerable ex-
element among mining men.
By ruling from Washington the
Nogales "a. IT, custom authorities are
authorized to permit the free entry into
the United States Of calves that were
born 20 cattle that had strayed into Mex
lean soil.
The contract for new county i.il has
been let at San Diego by the "Solid
Three" of the five Supervisors who re-
fused to submit the proposition to vote
Va tnO RCOPACf OA tLG klOulu budb bu6Y
did not know what was good for them.
The British Pacific Construction Com
pany, with a capital Of 5000, 600, has
been incorporated at Victoria, B. O.,
for the purpose of laying out, building
and equipping the Canada Western rail-
way from Victoria to YelloWhead Pass.
Matt Hindenter, who owns over $780,
600 worth Of real estate in Los Angeles,
has been detected stealing walnuts on
the Briswalter place. His coat and
trousers had their pockets extended for
the work. He pleaded guilty, and was
fined $50.
Los Angeles thinks the reported mis-
hap to the Charleston at Ballast Point
should have been thoroughly investi-
gated, and that grave responsibility will
rest on some one if the vessel meets with
bad weather and is injured. 1t is stated
the propeller blades were beat.
The steam combined harvester which
has been employed in Umatilla county
in plowing this fall. Il is thought that
the machine can pull 80 plows with ease.
It has harvested the grain on 5000 acres
this fall at the rate of about sixty acres
per day.
A California botanist, who has been
making prolonged visit to Mount Hood
and Hood River Valley in quest OF speci-
mems of fruit and foliage OF cone-bearing
trees, succeeded in obtaining specimens
of sixteen different species of cone-bear-
ers out of a possible twenty. five, and is
very enthusiastic over the results OF the
search.
Samuel McFadden, truck farmer liv-
i ing near Los Angeles, while driving
home was robbed by man who slipped
into the rear Of the wagon, placed pis-
tol to his head and told him to drive slow
and not open his mouth or he would
blow his brains out. With his other
hand the stranger went through the
farmers pockets and secured $3O5.
Evans and Sontag when last heard
from we're in Sdaaw Valley, and were
seen the day after the alleged interview
with them which was printed in a San
Francisco sensational newspaper. The
distance between the place where seen
and where the "interviewer" talked with
them would require four days travel to
overcome.
There is company with headquarters
In Portland, Or, which furnishes China
men with merchant certificates of entry
into the United States, properly signed
and sealed, bearing a photograph OF the
castF desiring to enter at cost of $50 a
head. These certificates are sent from
Portland to agents at Vancouver, b. O.,
who have no difficulty in disposing Of
them at the price stated.
The San Francisco lumbermen inter
ested in controlling the cargo output Of
the Pacific Coast have prepared sched-
ule Of the amount of lumber each mill
may cut under the pool arrangements.
The schedule is based upon the output OF
1891, and is unsatisfactory to most 81 the
small mill owners on Puget Sound, who
may be subsidized, although 1t is saio ii
Ii not the plan now to subsidize mills.