Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-02-17


this winter, left this week for their home
on Matney Flat. These young ladies
have made rapid progress 10 their stud
les and will make efficient teachers.
Their standing at the examination last
week was Laura, 87-5-10, Nettie, 1876 10
per cent.
The "new county" sehemers evidently
have bumped up against q circumstance
In the Legislature, judging from the fact
that all Of them have been given the
"cold shoulder" 80 far. The time has
come when every jim crow town aspiring
to county seat hosors cannot have new
counties formed around them by sim
pie wink Of the eye at the legislature.
Messrs. M. o. Clarke and w. 4. Bar
ker have concluded to cohdEct butcher
shop ut Condor and have rented the old
harness chop building Of J. II. Downing
for that purpose. This Is an enterprise
the town needs badly, and it's hoped II
will receive proper encouragement. We
welcome Mr.. Clarke and family to onr
town. They areindustrious and respect
able citizens.
The Offices Of clerk and sheriff through
ont the state are now salaried Offices.
After the next election the clerk Of Gill
liam county will receive a salary Of $500
year and the sheriff $4,000. With what
they can make in addition, such az pris-
oners' board and specified fees for the
sheriff, and land and notary business by
the clerk, each Office will pay in the
neighborhod Of $4,000 year.
John Brandenburg, who left here
year ago and has been in the merchan-
disc business at his old home in Kes-
wick, Iowa, has had enough Of that coun-
try. He has sold out back there and Ii
now on his way to Condor, where be
will engage in some kind Of business.
lie says he'll not be so foolish as to leave
this section again in search for better
place. 1t cannot be found anywhere.
The governor vetoed the worlds fair
and militia appropriation hills. The
Legislature passed the worlds fair bill
over his head, however, and Oregon will
be represented at Chicago 70 the amount
Of 100000 No attempt will he made to
pass the militia bill over the veto, d
compromise having been effected BY
which the military and state university
fixed levy will be abolished and an an
nual appropriation Of $50, 600 and 100000
each, respectively, will be made.
Eleven out of the twelve applicants
for teachers certificates were successful
in securing them. j. A. McMorris Is
the only who got a first grade. Here
ceiyed state diploma. Those receiving
ID grades are: Misses Laura schilIing,
Bertha and Stella johnson; 81 grade:
Misses Carrie Boyer, Nettie SehiIling,
Grace Fitzwater, Fannie Woosley and
Grace Frizzell, and Messrs. @. I. STRAIT
ton and New Madden. We are sorry we
cannot give the standing OF each, owing
TO the Supt. not sending Us the list, as
per promise,
The pension appropriation BILL as
agreed upon by the appropriation COM
mittee recently, carries sl66, AGO, 900, an
increase $40, 1862, $50 over the appropria-
tion for the year ending June 30, 1898.
According TO the report Of Assistant
Secretary Bussey for 1889, "the combined
pension rolls Of Great Britain, France
Germany, Austria Hungary and Belgium
cost annually only sSl ,002, lb0." And
these are fighting countries which have
had wars more recent toan ours. Is
there something wrong with our pension
roll Baltimore Sun dem.
With the bright prospect for railroad,
the assurance Of good crops and the time
extended for payment OF railroad lands,
Condor and this vicinity expects to re-
alize this coming summer the greatest
boom and the most prosperous season in
the history OF the country AT least a
dozen new business houses and double
that many dwelling houses will be built
here before the "snow flies" come again,
among them being bank with capital
Of over 100000. Now is the time to in
vest and build here while property is
yet cheap. Condor is in a fair way to
become the leading city Of Eastern Ore
gon within few years,
The chinook has at last come out vic
torious, the stubborn snow and CONCEAL
ed elements having been vanquished
from the field. Ithas been an unusually
severe winter, but so far as we have
learned, there has been no loss Of stock.
Stockmen have learned from bitter ex-
perienee that It Is dangerous to face a
winter without preparing enough feed
to last at least two months. Luckily
this winter they were fixed for it"
The ground is thoroughly soaked, and
all the farmers aud stockmen fee greatly
encouraged over the prospects for what
they think will be the most favorable
season this section has experienced for
many years.