Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-06
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Catholic Priest Oyerp,wered and
Robbed by a Mexican.
ANOTHER CALIFORNIA RESERVATION
/ The Strait Of Fuca Reported TO be Stocked
With Diff Logan Editor
Acquitted Of Libel.

| Phoenix, A. T., has free.delivery
postal system.
| The National Bank Of Pocatello, Idaho
has been authorized to do business.
4 Los Angeles Council has voted to per.
init the building Of q smelter inside the
city limits.
The diamond fields In Idaho are Great.
ing intense excitement at Nampa and
neighborhood.
| The four-masted barkentine Jane L.
Stanford, the largest wooden sailing yes.
sci ever built in California, was success
fully launched in Humboldt Bay recent.
| ly.
Turnkey French was attacked in the
Idaho penitentiary at Boise by Samuel
Hatton, a desperate convict, and in self.
defense French stabbed and kilisd Hat
ton.
The Chamber OF Commerce at Los An
geles by resolution has requested the
Governor to recommend that q branch
Of the State Treasury be established in
that city.
Citizens OF Florence, Or, desire that
that town shall be incorporated, and q
charter is now being prepared for sub
mission to the people before the Legis-
lature meets.
In the court-martial at Mare Island on
the Mohican case the testimony 90 far
taken goes to show that there was some
/ friction among the officers at the time
OF the accident, and also that the Mo
hican was inefficiently manned.
Grangeville, Idaho, proposes to make
an active fight to secure the location OF
the State Agricultural College at that
point. The experiment station ON Camas
prairie is in excellent condition, and ex-
periments will be begun next spring.
mainly with grasses at first.
The work OF filing Couch Lake in
Northern Portland has begun. The con-
tract is let to dredging company, and
1t will take 300, 900 cubic yards Of earth
TO complete the job. As soon as this ie
finished work win be begun on the Grand
Central depot, which is to be located
where the lake now lies.
The big government dixie at Snag ISL
and In the Columbia river has been COM
pleted, and the gangs OF workmec were
taken to the mainland. The dixie is 49,
600 feet in length, and is placed in the
river go as to force the current into the
old river channel and 10 keep the river
within narrower bounds. Frequent
soundlngs at marked points show that
the channel is steadily increasing in
depth.
The Wolcott reports that in the reccl-
lection OF sea-faring men on the Coast
there has never been 80 many drift logs
| in the Strait of Fuca as at the present
time. Ike high freshets have swept
down the fallen logs of ages and sent
! them adrift to the sea. Logs that have
been buried in the sand for years along
the beach below Port Crescent have been
washed up, and in some places great dams
of logs are formed, rendering 1t danger
ous for navigation.
The monster whale that came ashore
at Elk Creek about month ago is rap
idly melting away over hot fires at Mr..
Logan's ranch. A large force OF men
are rendering the blubber, which is in
an excellent state of preservation, and
the result will be nearly 100 barr els OF ex-
cellent unrefined oil. The whalebone.
which averaged three feet in length, was
taken out some time ago, and foots up
total weight of about 500 pounds. The
skeleton, as soon as cleaned, will be set
up in front of the Logan house at Elk
Greek.
Articles OF incorporation OF the North
ern American Navigation Company were
fled the other day at San Francisco by
a number of the prominent residents Of
that city. The corporation is formed
with capital stock of $4,000, 900 and
for the purpose Of purchasing or build
ing vessels to carry ON business as COM
mon carriers between San Francisco and
Panama, and then to make connection
with the Panama Railroad Company's
lines or other agencies that afford com.
munication with New York and another
Atlantic porte. The term of the corpo-
ration is given as five years.