Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-08-26
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Good Rains in Arizona Improve
the Stock Industry.
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GRASS FIRES CAUSE MUCH LOSS.
Editor Visits the Top Of Mount Shasta
Result Of Anti-Debris Conven-
tion at Sacramento.
GRASS FIRES CAUSE MUCH LOSS.

tlOn dl sacramento.
The electric tramway power-house a.
/ Victoria, b. G., was burned. Loss, $780,.
600.
| The Boston will join the Charleston
at Santa Cruz, and will afterward sail
for Honolulu.
The hop vines in twenty-acre tract
near Sacramento were laid fat by a
heavy south wind.
Charles Crew, OF Port Oxford. killed a
fine sea otter last week. He was offered
and received $3.50 for the skin.
Good rains in Maricopa county, A. T..
have improved the stock industry. A
rain famine has been threatened.
The Progresso, the first of the Atlantic
and Pacific Steamship Company's line
from New York, has arrived at Redondo,
Cal.
The Siuslaw Railroad Company sent
out engineers last week to cross section
and Set grade stakes on the first fifteen
miles Of the survey.
The seal hunters killed in the neigh
borhood of 200 sealions at Blanco reef
during the season, and made very
good seasons work Of it.
The remains Of a man, about fiftv
years old, were found between Old Sau-
salito and Lime Point. The large toe
on the right foot had been cut off.
A considerable quantity of Salmon
Mountain quartz was shipped by the
last steamer to San Francisco for assay.
An extensive ledge has been discovered.
Considerable alarm exists at San
Diego over the smallpox cases at Chula
Vista, as proper measures to prevent
the spread OF the disease have not been
taken.
Benton county (Or.) householders and
Others are in despair over the growth
and rapid spread of the thistle. Its
purple bloss Ims are to be seen every
where.
Extensive grass fires near Fresno
have caused much loss to hay, grass,
fencing and exposed houses. The fire
will make feed ecarce in that immediate
section.
The bounty upon coyote and squirrel
scalps in Polk county, Or, expired Sat-
urday. During the term of its validity,
from February l, there was paid out in
scrip upon the county the sum OF ST.
1855.
A dog owned by w. H. Haight, near
Traver, CAL, was bitten by rattlesnake
and the wound was bathed with coal
oil, Mr.. Haight not having any known
remedy on hand. In about two hours
the dog was out of danger.
Recently Victoria sloop landed a
dozen Chinese near Point Wilson, Wash,
and hastily sailed away. The customs
officers captured four of the Chinese in
the woods near Port Townsend and are
on the trail of the others.
The farmers of Crook county, Or. are
fast getting in their hay harvest, and all
report good yield. Hay on the wild
meadows is not as tall as usual, but it is
much thicker on the gr, und, which
more than makes up for its lack OF
height.
Game is seen quite plentifully, accord
ing to reports, up Ashland creek canyon.
Two cinnamon bears came close to the
camp the other day while only the
ladies' and children were there, and
panther was seen at a. distance by some
of the campers.
The Sisson Mascot editor has been at
the top of Mount Shasta lately. He
says the government monument is out
OF plumb, leaning to the southeast on
an angle of so degrees. The force of the
severe winter storms is probably the
cause OF its getting out of perpendicular
line.
Joe Wright, aged fifteen years, while
some bees ont of a tree in order |
to get the honey, on the Llagas, eighteen
miles from San Jose, CAL, accidentally |
set the brush on fire and was SO badly |
burned in his efforts to extinguish the |
flames that he will probably not recover.
Fifteen thousand sacks OF wheat have
been threshed at the Reservation ranch,
near Cayuse, Or, and the grain in the |
district is yielding about |
twenty-five bushels to the acre, and is
of fine quality. Eleven acres OF the
"California Golden" variety averaged
forty six bushels. a heavy yield for this
season.
Fred w. Young and 9. F. Hinkley, OF
Union, were out five days last week ON
: fishing, hunting and prospecting trip
to the Grand Ronde lakes. They found |
two promising quartz lodges, an anti
mony ledge, and meadow OF about
sixty acres that prospects we'll in gold.
Much OF the evidence taken at Boise
City has been direct against the Coeur
1'Alene miners. Charles A. String,
alias Allison, the Pinkerton spy, gave
his story, much of which consisted OF
speculations upon what was to be done
by the strikers, but which were never
carried out.
The result Of the Anti, Debris Conven-
lion at Sacramento was the organiza.
ion OF an association to take the place
of the old Anti-Debris Association, to be
composed OF one Supervisor each from
Yuba, Sutter, Sacramento, Colusa, Glenn
and Yolo counties, with an advisory
BODY OF one citizen each from the sann |