Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-12-21
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
Of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT, FROM THE WIRES

Budget Of News for Easy Digestion From
Different Parts Of tho states of WASH
iDgton. Oregon and Idaho--Iteins Of
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
spokane's Mozart Club is rehearsing
Patience"
About 50.0C0 bushels of wheat are
stored at Helix, Or.
1t costs sheep pelt to be married be-
fore Judge Goddard OF Talent, Or.
The corporations OF Brownsville and
North Brownsville, Or, are thinking OF
uniting.
M. Costello. Tekoa saddler, has re-
ceived 5000 back pension and perma-
nent allowance.
Several well-to-do families, recently
from Nebraska. have bought farms near
McMinnville, Or.
A term OF winter school for farmers
will be given at the Pullman Agricultural
College, beginning in the latter part OF
January.
Mr.. Rasmns, who recently filed pull
pit at Palouse City, has gone into the
show business. and is reheaIsing some
amateurs in Damon and Pythias."
Last Friday deal was closed by which
the Hotel Medford became the property
Of Captain j. 7. G. Nash OF Corvallis,
Or. The consideration was about rs 900.
A wind storm the other night moved
about several OF the buildings at the
mission at the Umatilla agency. The
ss..t x.f ala .
were wrecked.
The fisheries OF San Juan, WASH, are
assuming considerable Importance for
the first time this season. The Friday
llarbor cannery. which commenced op.
eratons last spring, has put up nearly
ii 900 cases OF salmon.
Mediord school district has an indebt-
edness OF IS, 500, on which it pays $3.50
interest annually. The directors have
ness at per cent interest, and are max
ing arrangements to fund it.
A l,l00-pound horse was sold at auc-
tion by the Corvallis Chief OF Police
Tuesday, and brought the sum OF 81 and
no more. The horse has been in the
city pound for five days, and the bill for
his feed was $3.50, in which sum the city
is duly horsed."
The Spokane National Banks affairs
are being rapidly wound up, the last
chapter of the settlement being the sale
at auction of the various notes. jndg-
ments, stocks. furniture, etc. The con-
cern has already paid about 90 cents on
the dollar; SO depositors will not lose
much.
The Walla Walla farmers made mess
OF their contribution to the Pullman
College tests of sugar beets. Instead Of
sending in those OF average size, as in
structe,l, they picked out the largest.
One weighed 1876 ounces. The result
was that their percentage OF sugar and
purity was very low.
The Puget Sound Lumberman for De-
ceInber says a Washington cedar shingle
company with capital OF $500, 900 is be-
ing organized to control the shingle trade
OF the State of Washington. The scheme
includes leasing all OF the shingle mills
in the State numbering 234. the product
to be handled by the company.
Persons arriving in valley towns from
Newport on Yaquina Bay state that
Monday the tide rose TO the extraordi-
nary height of twelve feet, sweeping
away several sidewalks and cross walks
along the water front and doing other
damage. The usual tide is about six
feet and when it touches the eight-foot
mark the inhabitants in that section be.
gin TO think a tidal wave OF no small
proportions is coming.