Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-08-17
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Washington.


| Tekoa wants bids on $11 400 per CEN
funding bonds.
Ex-State School Superintendent Bryar
is TO be principal OF the Aberdeen schools
| The sum Of $26, 900 is being disbursed
BY special agent among the Indians al
Iekoa. The money is due them from
the government.
| Townships %, in ranges 81, 80, 80 and
"a, Il. W. NJ, in Lincoln county will be
open for settlement September 5, 1894
This comprises 49,117 acres along the
| Columbia river. Actual settlers will
have ninety days from September 5 in
which TO offer their filing.
1 Spokane county has surplus OF re-
sources over liabilities amounting to
$153, ,309.47, according to the financial
statement for the year ending June 30,
1894. The indebtedness Of the county
amounts to $512, ,902.3 SO, of which $4S3,-
600 is bonded Indebtedness and $29,-
902.36 floating.
On Hood canal points fir logs have cd.
vanced 81 per thousand, and are selling
at from $5.60to $3.50. This is the result
OF the increased activity in the foreign
lumber demand, and some conservative
mill men say that IL less had been said
about the increase in business there
would not have been any anxiety among
loggers to secure an advance. The in
crease in the price OF logs brings the
price about back to the prevailing prices
Of 1893.
The offer OF school district No. 58 of
Clark county, Of $l 5000 funding bonds,
has been accepted by the State Land
Commission, subject to approval by the
Attorney General. Secretary Cowen has
submitted report to the commission
exonerating Charles Browder, ex Audi
tor OF Whitman county from careless
ness or collusion in the matter of dis
counting delinquencies on State land
contracts. The land selections made in
township % north, 5 west, and township
IL north, west, were approved and APP
portioned TO the grant for charitable,
objectionable, penal and reformatory
institutions.
Oregon.
From an interview with Receiver
Clark of the Oregon Pacific it was
learned that the road is still holding its
own, with prospects somewhat brighter
for the future. During the month just
closed between 1000 and 5000 ties have
been removed and new ones placed in
their stead, and the extensive repairs
begun some months ago on the William
cite bridge at Albany have been COM
pleted. The system inaugurated by Mr..
Clark soon after his appointment, has
been carried right along until now the
road Is in = better condition both physic-
ally and financially than it has been for
over two years. The receiver pays cash
for everything, and all bills for material
and supplies are discounted, thing
which has not happened for years. Pas
senger traffic for the past month has inn
proved wonderfully over that of former
years. Trains of four and five cars are
run regularly and carry from 100 to 800
bay-bound passengers daily.
In his annual review of the salmon
business, just issued, Mr.. Kinney of As
toria says: AFTER many weeks of un-
certainty and an almost confirmed be-
lief that the pack would be smaller
than that OF any previous year in
the history of salmon canning on the
Columbia river, the season of 1894
is about to close, and it is safe to
estimate the total pack at 10 per cent
in excess Of last years figures. During
the earlier portion of the season the gem
eral belief in the four-year-run theory
was rudely shaken by the comparative
scarcity OF fish, while the destruction OF
wheels in the upper river materially in
creased the probabilities of much-di-
minished catch. Still another cause for
uneasiness was the fact that until quite
recently seining was practically useless,
owing to the vast volume of water which
for weeks rushed down the Columbia
river and its tributaries. Trap-fshing
was also exceedingly poor because Of
the freshet and the resultant muddy
state of the water. It will be readily
seen, therefore, that nothing short of a
phenominally large run of salmon dur
ing the latter days Of the season would
enable Gamers to reach even last years
figures. But within the past thirty days
the shortage was rapidly decreased, the
catch having been greater than for any
corresponding period for many years
past, considering the quantity of gear in
use.