Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-12-09
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
An Excellent Article Of Tobacco
Raised in Oregon.
NEGROES ENGRAVING TO IDAHO.
Preliminary Surveys for Storage ReSer-
vOirs and Irrigating Canals On
Indian Creek, Idaho.

United States troops have been sent to
the Navajo reservation to arrest Black
Horse.
The fourth big log raft has left Fort
Bragg for San Francisco. 1t contains
l 500, 600 feet of lumber.
The Governor OF Arizona has offered a
reward OF $4,000 for the death OF Kid,
the notorious Apache, and $500 for each
oil his companions.
FIRE at Flagstaff, A. t., consumed all
the buildings in the Central block and
Railroad avenue except six, which were
brick and withstood the flames. The
fire originated in Knights saloon.
The court martial of Captain Lambton
and staff Commander Bowden of III. M.
S. Warspite, just closed at Victoria, b.
g., resulted in their being reprimanded
for not paying sufficient attention TO of
fetal notes on navigation.
The Pacific Cable Railway Company
OF San Francisco got verdict at Butte,
Mont, in the United States Circuit
Court, against the Butte City Gable
Company for infringement of patent
cable car brake owned by the plaintiff.
The preliminary surveys for the large
storage reservoirs and irrigation canals
to be constructed on Indian creek, about
twenty miles from Boise, are now being
made. The three reservoirs to be built
will cover l 200 acres of land each, and
about forty miles OF canal will be dug.
| The PaSaha Fdrm>r states that the
opal onyx mines near that city have
been opened Tor quarter of mile, and
several slabs valued at $500 each have
been taken out. AS soon as dressing
mill is erected the stone will undoubted-
ly come into general use in fine build
ings.
A man about 40 years OF age COM
mitted suicide at Los Angeles. He was
veil dressed and his face was pitted with
smallpox. He tried to efface all traces
that could lead to his identity and left a
statement OF a sensational nature, the
truth of which is generally discredited.
Colonel A. Z. Isham OF Sitka, aid on
Governor Knapp's staff, who assisted
Ivan Petroff to take the census of Alask9,
believes that Petrotf is thoroughly hon
est, but that subordinate officers per-
mitted the errors through carelessness.
He believes that Petroft's mind is un-
balanced.
William Smith on farm near Mish-
awaka, Or, has produced an excellent
article of tobacco the leaves and flavor,
when properly cured, being in every way
equal to that grown in the Southern
States. He supplies the home market
in the Nehalem Valley, both for chewing
and smoking, at reasonable cost, and
says that the soil of Nehalem has all the
elements necessary for the production oi
the plant.
The Shoshone Falls of the Snake river
of Idaho. which have q body of wsteI
800 feet wide with fall of 210 feet, are
to be used for developing electric power
for irrigating purposes. A large number
of water wheels will be put in, and
pumping stations operated by electric
motors OF large capacity will be estab
lished at suitable points. BY this means
the water will be elevated to canals
through which it will be distributed tc
lands in the adjacent valleys.
Mayor Hazard of Los Angeles proposes
to veto the contract with the smeltinI
and refining works to build smelter in
side the city's limits. Los Angeles is
city OF homes, aid he does not intend Il
permit without protest the destruction
to animal and vegetable life such a
would follow from the fumes and smok,
of the smelter, beside the poisoning O
the water of the river, which is used il
some cases for domestic purposes.
In Caldwell, Idaho, some families hay,
been experimenting with some negrt
servants, and the successful results hav,
lar exceeded their expectations. TIL,
negroes went to Idaho from one of tn,
Southern States. In response to q de
mand for their services, large numbe
of negroes, both men and women, will
go to Idaho from the South in the cours
OF few weeks.
Work is progressing rapidly on tn,
FIRST section of Professor loves noun
tain railway at Pasadena. There will b,
continuous cable in the mountain, ant
the gravity plan will be used, the de
scending car raising the ascending one
The balance will be further maintaineC
by water tanks, from which water vii
be slowly discharged on the downwar'
trip. Electricity will be the motiv
power from the Terminal road to tn
foot of the inclined plane.
An old trapper, who resides in tn
Blue Mountains and knows every foot o
the coun ry between the Union Pacifi
railroad and Snake river, tells the Miltol
Eagle that there is desperate band O
horsethieves, robbers and murderer
making their rendezvous between tn
banks Of the Umatilla and Walla Wall
rivers. There are secluded mountain
retreats in that section, where stock Cal
be successfully hidden until all searcl
on the part o! the owners is over. The
; the stock is run off and sold. Men VIII
have mysteriously disappeared are be
lieved to have discovered the secrets q
this outlaw band, and their bones no,
lie moldering in some isolated canyon.