Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-07-22
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Grand Jury Recommends Removal
Of County Officers.
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NAVAJO COUNTRY IN NEW MEXICO.
General Strike Among the Trainmen on
the San Joaquin Division Of
the Southern Pacific.

A Chinese highbinder arrested at Sac
ramento was encased in boiier-plate
coat of-mail. He carried two reyolvers
and three knives.
San Bernardino is much excited over
the discovery that its street bonds are
illegal. About 100000 Of them have
been expended 60 far.
Thirty. five miles OF the new line built
by the Southern Pacific to avoid the
food districts in the Colorado River Val
ley have been completed.
DIR. Lutz and wife (Sister Rose Ger
trude) reached San Francisco from the
Hawaiian leper colony the other day en-
route for Europe or Japan.
At Tucson, Ariz., City Policeman Will
lam Elliott attempted to arrest a drunken
Mexican, and was stabbed through the
heart. He shot the Mexican dead, and
then expired.
The official military commission to in
yestigate the possibilities of metallic
wealth in lands on the Navajo reserva-
ton in Arizona and New Mexico has re-
ported the country worthless for mining
purposes.
There is a general strike among the
trainmen on the San Joaquin division ol
! the Southern Pacific Company. They
are dissatisfied with the superintendent
OF the division, J. II. Whited, who has
increased their work and not their wages
Information was received at Klamath
| Falls recently that the Commissioner o.
Indian Affairs has ordered the survey o.
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which is preliminary to the allotment o
lands in severalty and the final opening
OF the reservation. Work will begin a.
once. This information will tend to turr
the eyes OF all Oregon to Klamath county
The little fve-stamp mill OF the Annie
Consolidated Mining Company in thu
Bohemia district, Lane county, Or, ha
produced during the month OF June
about 81, 900 in bullion in development
work. The President, DIR. j. Nj. Taylor
saws that the concentrates are found yer,
valuable, and that new machinery viii
be placed in working order at the min'
in about fifteen days, which will increas'
the value of the bullion produced abou
one-third.
| A wonderful geological specimen wa
accidentally discovered by laborer il
Astoria the other day. In digging hi
| nick struck a round stone imbedded II
the bank, the blow splitting the ston
open. In the center was a perfect clan
shell, both sides being shown and meas
uring 334 inches in length by 35s inche
in diameter. Considering where it wa
found and the heavy formation OF stone
! the clam must have lain in its ston
home thousands OF years.
A water velocipede has been invente
by Will Raymond of Clatsop county
Or. 1t is made OF zinc. 1t has doubl
wheels on each side with seat between
1t is propelled with a crank like Ian
yelocipede. Mr.. Raymond has his mode
and has applied for a patent. E. i
Hawes has just completed one of tn
yelocipedes for Mr.. Raymond, and it wi
be tested in Young's Bay in few day
1t is believed speed of twelve miles a
hour can be obtained. 1t cannot be W
set, and its occupant is absolutely sal
on the water.
There is much interest at Boise, Idah,
over the prospective building of lin
of railroad from Nampa to Silver Cit
by which that city will be afforded ra
: connection with the rich mining di
/, tricts OF 0wyhee county. Major Vic
ersham of Pittsburg has been examiniI
a the scheme on behalf of capitalists
d that city, and it is positively assertt
= that the liue will be constructed il h
:. report is favorable. While he has not
d ing to say that would indicate what Il
y tenor of his report is to be, the i'd
!, = seems to prevail that he will recommeI
IA the scheme. If the road is built, Il
proposed new mills of the Delamar Coz
q pany will be located near that city. T.
project for building road eastwa
10 through the mining and timber regio
of Central Idaho to Butte City is also
promising shape, more detailed 81
vey having been ordered by the capit'
lists who have been investigating t
matter.
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