Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-13
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
New Line Of Steamships Between
San Diego and Mazatlan.
THE MERGANTHALER AT ASTORIA
A Proposition Made to Extead the Rail
road From Juliaetta to Lewis.
ton, Idaho--Etc.

Yuma Is having new water works.
Portland 10 overrun with burglars and
sneak thieves.
The Piutes in Nevada have been hav-
ing rabbit drives.
Aurora, New, once had 5000 popula-
tion. 1t now has twenty-five.
A jetty is to be at once constructed al
the mouth of San Diego harbcr.
Unusual profits are being made by
olive culturists in Southern California
this season.
A general reduction Of miners wages
throughout the territory Of Utah ID
threatened.
Orange-growers are getting 1925 per
box delivered at the depot at Los An
geles, which is very good figure.
The jury in the case of School Super.
intendent Harwood, charged at Santa
Barbara with altering the records, has
failed to agree.
The entire news matter OF the Astorian,
published at Astoria, Or, is nov set on
4 Merganthaler linotype machine, the
only one in use on the Coast.
A new line OF steamships is about to
be established between San Diego and
Mazatlan, Mexico, the first steamer leav.
ing San Diego about January Is.
Two alleged witches were tortured To
death by the Zuni Indians in New
Mexico few days ago. Trouble will
probably result in an effort of the United
States to make arrests for the deed.
Farmers in Marin county, CAL, espec.
tally in the lowlsnds near the coast, are
complaining OF weed that has germi.
mated of late from the rich coil, which
the COWS eat and which gives q peculiar
taste TO the milk, 80 much 80 that In
some districts the milk is unpalatabl
1t affects the butter made from the same
A proposition has been made to extend
the railroad from Juliaetta to Lewiston
Idaho, before the next crop is harvested
If subsidy OF SIS 900, together with the
right OF way through the town, is given
The people are enthusiastic on the sub.
ject, and the terms will undoubtedly be
accepted.
Citizens OF Idaho Falls have purchased
q whole section OF school land. which
they offer as site for the State Agricul
tural College. In addition to this en-
ticing inducement, the argument is ad
vanced that Idaho Falls IL desirably
situated and possesses many features
calculated to reader it suitable placs
for the college.
Owing to the continued low prices o
silver and lead the Niagara group o
mines, at Bingham, q. T., on which
over $500, 600 is invested, have been shu
down, and the managers OF the Old Jor
dan group have notified their men tina
they will have to accept reduction il
wages or find themselves out OF employ
ment.
Reliable persons who have Just re
turned to Boise, Idaho, from diamond
Basin, in Owyhee county, denounce tn
reported find OF diamonds in that regiol
as a hoax. They declare that the stor,
that Kunz, the expert from Amsterdam
had discovered great dismond-bearinl
ledge over there is false and they asser
positively that Kunz did not drive evel
prospect hole in the imaginary ledge
The San Francisco Morning Call state
that there is prospect of a lively mea
war in San Francisco as the result of tn
establishment Of Philip d. Armour'a bi
stock yards and slaughter-house plan
at Baden. The South San Francisc
slaughter-house men, who have con
trolled the San Francisco meat trade 70
so many years, do not like the idea Q
competition, and are trying to make tn
retail butchers boycott Armour's estah
ment. Armour's representative at Sal
Francisco, Thomas Newton, declares tina
If the boycott is attempted his compan,
will open retail butcher shops sll owe
the city and will sell meat at rates Wit
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