Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-11-04
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Chinese eIHighbinder Murders a Boy
in Los Angeles.
HORSE THIEVES KILLED In IDAHO
German Shoemaker Breaks a Pitcher to
Pieces and Cuts His Throat With
the Fragments.

Sacramento has voted 800, ,00O,,,in
bonds for levee Improvements.
During the year 1891 there were 2,11O
marriages and 458 divorces in Oregon.
The City and Citizens Water Com
panies at Los Angeles have combined.
The Star group OF mines at Haley,
Idaho, have been sold to Salt Lake capi-
talists.
The grain warehouse of the Pacific
Milling Company at Tucson, A. T., has
been destroyed by fire.
| A mountain of carbonate of zinc has
been discovered near Hillsboro, N. NJ,
the ore Of which is worth about $35 per
ton.
| Silver salmon are now very plentiful
at Yaquina Bay, Or, and are being
caught with trolling lines in great num-
bers.
Dick Horn, alias "Fox," shot Joe
Lynch in the stomach at Wellington,
New. The trouble was over a game OF
cards.
The captain of the clipper sealer Agnes
Macdonald at Victoria, B. c., has is
sued challenge for race to the Sand
wich Islands;and backlfor $1,000.
Sontag and Evans are believed to have
located near Watts Valley, fifteen miles
north of Sampson Flat, where provisions
for the winter have been sent into them.
Professor Barnard at the Lick Observ-
atory has discovered by the aid of
photography faint comet. This is the
first discovery of comet by this means.
The SupremelCourt of Idaho has unan-
| imously sustained the constitutionality
| OF the State test oath law. This will
prevent the Mormons from voting this
year.
Mill owners in Washington and Ore
gon, outside of Portland, are organizing
Tor mutual benefit and protection.
They claim they are making -four with
out profit.
Chung Yung, the supposed murderer
OF the Spanish boy, Fernando Quijada,
at Los Angeles, whose body was found
in cesspOol, has been captured and
placed in prison.
| A. Ruiz, Mexican rancher at San
Diego, attempted to get possession OF
his wite's property by swearing that she
was insane, but he landed in Jail on
charge of perjury.
The advance guard of Chief Engineer
kennedy's corps has arrived at Palermo,
CAL, and will at once commence the pre-
liminary survey for the San Francisco
and Great Salt Lake railroad.
About twenty shippers of Seattle have
organized transportation bureau to pro-
tect each other against unjust discrimi-
nation by transportation companies and
for the protection and development of
the shipping interests of the city.
On opening the schoolhouse of the
Gallagher district, in Mason Valley,
New, after the summer vacation it was
discovered the bees had taken poss ession
of the children's desks, and about 800
pounds OF honey were taken from them.
1t is stated at Boise City, Idaho, that
posse OF citizens exterminated band
OF eight horse thieves in August in
Idaho county, the particulars of which
are just becoming known. After the
men were shot, their bodies were hanged
and left for the buzzards to feast upon.
The 400sIndians on the Grande Ronde
reservation originally represented the
following tribes: Umpquas, Callapooias,
Oregon City, Molallas, Rogue Rivers,
Cow Greeks, Shastas, Klickitats, Tuala-
tins and few Columbia Rivers, but
there is now no distinct tribe, owing to
intermarriage. Several Indians claim to
be centenarians. The agency is we'll
conducted, and Agent Lamson is great
fsvorite with his wards.
Charles F. Blum at Albuquerque, N.
NJ, while suffering from fever got up
from bed and, taking razor from his
trunk, cut his throat, severing the jugu-
lar vein, and then cut horrible cash
across the abdomen. He next got pis-
tol from his trunk, and shot himself
three times, twice in the mouth and
once in the razor wound in his neck.
N. H. Dodson, well-known attorney
of San Diego, has been horsewhipped
by Jennie Page, a young lady. Miss
Page is niece of Dodson, and took
this method of resenting the insulting
remarks she claims were made by him
concerning her. The horsewhipping
took place in front of the Vidette Of
fee, where Miss Page is employed as
compositor. A large crowd witnessed
the scene, but no one interfered until
the police arrived. Dodson bears marks
Of severe whipping.
A German shoemaker named Ru-
dolph Manz at Phoenix, A. T., during
the night broke a pitcher to pieces, and
with the jagged fragments cut his throat.
With the blood flowing from him in
streams he walked through the hall to
the porch, and deliberately precipitated
himself to the ground, sixteen feet be-
low. In spite OF the added injuries from
striking stump the man must have
been still conscious and intent on self
destruction, for ne reeled off to ditch,
where he was found, in which he seems
to have Intentionally thrust and kept
his head until unconscious or dead.