Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-09-02
OCCIDENTAL MELANCE
Portland Brings Suit Against Her
Ex-Chief of Police.
THE PURSUIT OF TRAIN ROBBERS.
The President Of the Miners Union in the
COeur d'Alenes Gets Six Months
in the County Jail.
Bodie is rebuilding.

poul0 IL TeDullQlng.
Astoria has suppressed gambling.
Umatilla, Or, claims to have an In.
dian 1870 years old.
] Electricity will soon run all the street
railways in San Diego.
Work on Portland's magnificent pas-
senger depot has been resumed.
Extensive coal fields have Just been
discovered near Klamath Falls, Or.
The California hop crop promises to
be OF first-class quality. Picking is
about to commence.
ALI pursuers of the Coils train rob
bers, the Sheriff and posse and the Ari-
zona trailers have abandoned the search.
The surplus Of wheat in Oregon and
Washington will be about the same as
last season, but the quality is superior.
A party of Pimas Indians went into a
Phoenix "a. IT, store recently and pur-
chased ten parlor chairs and two boxes
OF stove polish.
A. L. Taylor, who dried his own april
cots this season, got $3.50 from 148 trees
on one and half acres in the south part
OF Pomona, Cal.
Thomas O'Brien, President of the
Miners Union in the Ceur d'AIenes.
has been sentenced to six months in the
Shoshone county Jail.
Threats to kill Graham sympathizers
are made at Phoenix, A. T., by the
friends, it is supposed, of Tewkshury.
who is charged with assaulting Graham.
An immense glacial field, covering
nearly as great an area as that of the
Alps, but not 30 thick, has been discov-
cred thirty-fve miles southwest of
Shoup, Idaho.
A young man named Cooper robbed
the superintendent OF the Idaho Sam
ping Mill Company at Haley, Idaho,
of $4,000 in county bonds, and left town
with the securities.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports fourteen failures in the Pacific
Coast States and Territories for the past
week, as compared with fourteen for the
previous week and twenty-three for the
corresponding week of 1891.
Complaints have been made at San
Diego before the Superior Court against
the Perris Irrigation Company of the al
legged incompetency of the directors and
citations have been issued for them to
show why they should not be removed.
A scheme to pool the lumber trade of
the Coast from Alaska to Southern Cali
fornia under one head has been origi-
mated in San Francisco, says a Tacoma
dispatch. The plan of the proposed
trust has been sent to the Coast mill
owners, and the development of the
scheme for the past two months has been
carefully kept from the public.
Victoria's Council has passed to its
second reading the bylaw granting q
bonus of $500, 900 to the Northern Pa
cific, and the rumor that President
Horne of the Canadian Pacific has wired
to stop all Improvements instituted by
the Canadian Pacific in case the Council
votes the subsidy has caused much ex-
element.
| 1t is rumored in Salem that hop buy
ers in the vicinity of Lincoln were offer
| ing to contract prime quality of hops
at 35 cents. 1t is known positively that
25 cents has been offered near Salem for
several days, but the 35-cent rumor is an
astonisher, Buyers concede that the
crop in England will be much shorter
than had been expected, and only a
small yield was counted on. Shortages
are also being reported from California,
where picking is already in progress.
| A very large deposit OF kaolin has been
found in the near vicinity of The Dalles
on the Oregon side of the Columbia.
This alkaline earth, when heated with
pure sand and potash or soda, forms
common glass. AS sand of the purest
quality is abundant in this vicinity, and
the constituent alkaline earths are also
found in abundance, there is no reason,
says The Dalles Times -Mountdineer, with
the amount of capital lying dormant in
The Dalles, that glass factory should
not be inaugurated Immediately.
Arrangements are quietly progressing
which are likely to result in carrying out
the proposed scheme of building motor
line to Waterloo from Albany. Several
capitalists of Portland, as well as AL
bany, are willing to take stock in the
project, and have been looking after the
matter during the past few days. 1t is
proposed to run an electric motor line
via Lebanon and Sodaville to Waterloo.
and from the falls there to transmit
power for electric lights and motive
power for the street-car system of Al
bany.
A report comes from Turner and other
places in the Willamette Valley to the
effect that showers OF the queer are work.
ing in that neighborhood. In some places
they are using the old dodge by chang
| ing two-dollar to ten by paating the
figure ten from cigar stamp on two
dollar bill. And in places they are pass
ing counterfeit silver dollars. The coun-
terfeit dollar is easily detected by the
sleek feeling, and is lighter in weight
than the genuine half-dollar, but the
two-dollar bill is hard TO detect, unless
one is observing when receiving it.