Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-27
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Elk Being Shipped to the East
From Southern Idaho.
RESERVOIR ON THE BIG SANDY,
Rich Strike Made In the Grand Canyon
Of the Colorado---Troub Over
Land Brewing.

The Populists Of Idaho are organizing
an industrial legion.
Arizona is knocking vigorously for ad-
mission into the Union.
The Idaho Legislature proposes to fix
railroad fares at cents per mile.
The Parish Reservoir and Canal Com
pany has been incorporated at Phoenix,
A. Z.
The Chino sugar factory announces an
increase in the price of beets The coming
season.
The reported trouble with the Indians
in the San Juan gold fields is declared
without foundation.
A rich strike has been made in the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado, about
seventy miles north Of Flagstaff, A. T.
The gold mines in Utah are adding
largely TO the population Of that Terri
tory. The new comers are all anti
Mormons.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton at Fresno, CAL, Is 80 deeply in
debt that it wants permission to sell it's
property, valued at $4,000.
William Weightman of San Francisco,
who at one time acted az private secre-
tary to the late Senator Hearst, will be
appointed State Bank Examiner for
| California.
A rancher near San Quintin, Lower
California, while digging we'll the other
day found an old George Ill. penny bur
led about six feet in depth. The inscrip-
ton could be plainly read.
A new industry has opened up in
Southern Idaho, namely, the shipping
OF elk to Eastern States. A carload Of
these animals were sent from Idaho
Falls recently, which will net the lucky
captor about $3.50 a pair.
The Bradstreet mercantile agency re-
ports fourteen failures In the Pacific
Coast States and Territories in the past
week, as compared with eighteen for the
previous week and seventeen for the
corresponding week OF 1892.
There is trouble brewing over the
possession OF the land in the South re-
Gently decided by the Secretary of the
Interior as having been illegally sold to
settlers by the State of California, it be-
ing part OF the public domain.
The ombination Of pottery manufact-
urers has opened war on the Stockton
Terra Gotta Company in an endeavor to
freeze that institution out, and is now
offering sewer pipe for sale in Stockton
at one-third the price year ago.
Suit has been commenced by the At
torney- General of California against the
Central Pacific Railroad Company and
FIVE other railroad companies to recover
taxes levied for the year 1887, aggregaI-
ing with penalties about 81, ,0OO, 900.
A New York syndicate ia now making
a survey for reservoir and dam on the
Big Sandy river, near Signal, Mojave
/ county, A. T. The irrigation scheme is
an extensive one, and the intention Ia
to cover with bitches about l25 miles.
At the Fort Yuma Indian School the
cadets are remarkably proficient in mill
| tary drill. The commands are made in
English and given by one of their own
membersA Yama was the other day
treated 10 IN exhibit by the Indian boys.
Nannte s. McWhirter, widow OF Louis
B. McWhirter, the Fresno lawyer who
was mysteriously killed few months
ago, has commenced suit against the
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany to recover $15,0 900 due on life-in-
surance policy.
The Commissioners who are collecting
specimens for Montana's exhibit at Chr
cago have received from Fort Belknap a
number of curious Indian relics, among
which are pack of playing cards made
from human skin and a history of the
Gros Ventres tribe painted by squaws
ON hides.
Jacob Mills Of Pendleton declares he
has invented a perpetual motion ma
chine. He has worked on the contriv-
ance since he was IL years old, and is
now 20. The machine has three wheels,
from which drop twelve balls the size OF
a marble into set of cups, which are
thus forced downward, dropping aqain
into other cups, and carried up by q
miniature elevator to start down once