Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-05-20
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Steamer San Pedro Will be Raised
and Repaired.
SEATTLE, LAKE SHORE AND EASTERN
Nearly $4,000 Head Money Received From
Chinese Immigrants In One
Month at Victoria.

Arizona opposes the closing Of the
Worlds Fair on Sundays.
The grand jury at Portland is after
the police for the laxity with which they
perform their duties.
1t is stated that the San Pedro on the
rocks opposite Victoria, B. c., will be
raised and repaired without doubt.
The Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern
railroad is now merged into the Pacific
division OF the Northern Pacific system.
Ogden's City Council will use only
Utah stone for paving material, and ali
contracts will specify that Ogden work.
men will do the paving.
Nearly $4,000 head money was re-
ceived at the custom-house at Victoria,
B. g., during the month Of April as rev.
enue from Chinese immigrants.
Richard Gird of Chino shipped over a
ton OF sugar beet seed the other day to
the Avarado Sugar Company. This is
the first shipment of beet seed from
Southern California.
There is fear that the flow Of gas at
Ogden when the boring passes through
the quicksand will be so strong that it
will be beyond control of the present ia
cilities provided to keep it in check.
Irrigation through the immense ditch
OF the Mokelumne Canal and Irrigation
Company in the northern part Of San
Joaquin county, CAL, has commenced,
and there is great rejoicing among the
people OF that section.
Captain G. II. R. Fitzgerald, an Eng.
lishman who has had the handling OF
large sums OF money in connection with
the Santa Cruz Storage Water Company
at Tucson, has been arrested and charged
with embezzlement.
The San Francisco coast defenses are
to be strengthened by the addition OF
twelve of the latest pattern reinforced
tifteen-inch gun carriages. Orders have
been given to have these carriages
shipped Immediately to the Pacific
Coast.
District Judge Sloan at Tucson has de-
cided that the Tucson and Narrow Gauge
railroad bonds are illegal on the ground
that the organic act creating the Terri
torial government OF Arizona prohibits
privileges or franchises.
The reports from the interior of Cali
fornia on the grain and fruit prospects
are very good. The rains and frosts
have done but little damage, the great
est loss being to grapes, and principally
in Napa Valley, but the injury is far
from severe. Wheat is looking well,
and the outlook is excellent. Rains in
the south recently have improved the
conditions in that section.
The Cocopahs and Yumas had a big
pow-wow recently west of the town OF
Yuma. The two tribes were drawn up
on opposite sides of the irrigation ditch,
and talked for some time. 1t is sup
posed the Yumas were trying to induce
the Cocopahs to return to their own
country, as they interfere with the labor
market in that vicinity. The Yumas
think that all the work there rightfully
belongs to them.
A dispatch just received at Eugene,
Or, by j. +. Robinson, Grand Recorder
OF the Knights Templar of Oregon, states
that man was recently committed to
the insane asylum at Stockton, CAL, by
the name of B. R. Luckey. The friends
of L. r. Luckey, who mysteriously dis
appeared from Eugene, think it probable
that he is the man. K. r. Luckey was
q Sir Knight, and it is probable that the
clew is good one and will clear away
the mystery that surrounds the disap-
pearance. The matter will be looked
| into at once.
Ma;e= Williams sei ss;;si II q g isd ted
States Treasury agent, who has been on
this Coast for several months on tour
of investigation into matters connected
with the Behring Sea sealing question,
will leave for the seal islands in Alaska
on the steamer Bertha. Major Williams
will proceed direct to Ounalaska and
from there visit all the points where in
formation can be secured. His inquiries
are for the purpose OF substantiating the
claim of the United States that the ex-
termination of seals is unavoidable If
pelagic sealing is allowed to continue.