Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-03-10
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
Massacre Of Seventeen Indians
on Sorrow Island.
ONE YOUNG LADY KILLS ANOTHER
Considerable North Wind Throughout a
Large Section Of Southern Cal
ifornia Does Good.

The bill for a soldiers home has
passed both Houses of the Idaho Legis-
Iature.
Henry Bentley has been held for trial
at Los Angeles on the charge OF poison
ing bis wife.
| Every town in Eastern Oregon is an
earnest applicant for the location of the
branch insane asylum.
Phoenix, A. T., is much excited over
the sudden death Of a woman. The in
dications are that che was poisoned.
The Indian agent at Alert Bay has
been notified of reported massacre Of
seventeen Indians on Sorrow Island by
the Kit Katla tribe.
The Bonanza mine at Hareua Hala, A.
T., has for some time been systematic
lally robbed by Mexicans, who carried
out nuggets and ore worth $6 pound in
dinner pals.
| Flowing by means of the huge traction
engine used last fall for this purpose is
to be soon begun on the Umatilla reser-
vation. Six five-furrow plows will be
operated at once by this means.
| There is the prospect OF clash be-
tween the Santa Fe and Southern Pa
| cific, and as a result the Pacific Coast
public will get cheaper fares. A general
Generalization Of rates is predicted.
There has been considerable north
wind throughout large section OF
Southern California during the past
week, which has rapidly dried up the
excess OF moisture. No damage OF con-
sequence to the orange crop is reported.
There has been incorporated in the
sundry civil service bill paragraph fix
| ing the limit OF cost for the San Fran
cisco public building at $3,0G0,J01. This
action OF Congress will render available
the $21 900 remaining from the purchase
Of the building site.
| The Chinese cook Of the Chinese crew
oil 100 men at the Palo Alto stables was
bounded and gagged tSe other morning
by two white men and Chinaman. and
| the rooms in Chinese boarding house
were ransacked and between $4,000 and
50, 600 in coin taken.
Superintendent Clark of the insane
asylum at stockton, Cal, has permitted
4 newspaper man to see Sarah Althea
Terry In the madhouse. He found her
a raving maniac and subject to the re-
straint necessary in SUCH case, but
otherwise kindly treated
The sealing schooner Pioneer has ar
rived at Victoria, B. O., after a very
stormy voyage She brought intorma-
Ias~ az kn Nf NJ
sealing schooner Maggie Mac, the fate o.
which has been mystery for over 9
year. Two storekeepers on QnatsinC
Sound report having found fragments d
1.-THE Maggie Mac In small cove jusl
south of Cape Scott.
| The Marzona almond plantation ir
Antelope Valley, Los Angeles county
continues to expand. Two years agt
there were perhaps thNty acres set t
trees. Now there are about thirteer
hundred acres planted, and carload lott
Of trees are arriving every few days. 1
promises to become, ii it is not already
the largest almond plantation in th'
world. The trees. If planted in single
row two feet apart, would reach nearly
from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Two schooners from San Diego hav,
been seized by Mexican customs officer
at San Quintin, and are held there pend
ing Investigation. 1t is claimed tn,
boats were engaged in fishing and aba
lone catching in Mexican waters, il
which case they will undoubtedly b
confiHcated. Two more schooners wer,
susnected and stems taken for their an
prehension. Four schoonere are know
to be in those waters. The Mexican OF
ficiaIs have reported to their home gov
. ernment that a great amount of smug
Cling ia carried on by means of smal
vessels from San Diego, which are al
ways to he seen off their coast, osten
sibly on fishing trips. Application ha
! been made for smaller steamer to pa
troll the coast.