Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-12-07
NORTHWEST NEWS
Condensed Telegraphic Reports
Of Late Happenings.
TAKEN HOT FROM THE WIRES

Budget OF News for Easy Digestion From
Different Parts of the States Of wash
ington. oregon and Idaho-Items OF
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Spokane has another daily--the Morn
ing Times.
An "Uncle Toms Cabin" troupe is
swooping down upon the defenseless
cities OF Eastern Oregon.
The Salem Methodists voted 70 to in
favor OF giving women seats as delegates
In the general conference.
A long. distance telephone is being put
up, connecting the various scattered
shingle mills Of Whatcom county.
The Warden OF the Federal peniten-
tiary at McNeil's Island has asked for
more guards, as the building is getting
old and unsafe.
Albany, Or, is getting mp a Dickens
carnival, at which some 100 characters
will be impersonated by the youth and
beauty Of Linn county's metropolis.
An ordinance has passed the Spokane
Council reorganizipg the police force by
the substitution OF chief and fifteen
detectives Tor the present regular force.
Harry Lartigne OF Dayton has been
arrested for completely in the murder OF
Jasper Mills OF Garfield county, Wash.
He was taken to Pomeroy and lodged in
Jail.
The farmers OF Waila Walla Valley
will make an urgent demand on the
next Legislature for the enactment OF a
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spector.
Marshal Hallery proposes TO rid Walla
Walla OF hobos. Within the past week
he has escorted eleven OF the fraternity
to the outskirts OF the city and directed
them never TO return.
Senator-elect Lesh OF Yakima county,
WASH, is preparing bill prohibiting
county governments from creating OF
maintaining special cash fund for the
payment OF salaries OF officers.
The Finance Committee OF the Seattle
Council and the City Controller have
finished their work on the tax levy
which is for this year fixed at IL SIS
mills, as against l3 mills last year.
The celebrated Strand case is on trial
again at Whatcom. This has been be-
70 eight tribunals and to the Supreme
Court twice. Judgments for $l5, 600 and
$12 600 have been rendered for Strand
and reversed, and after all these years
and vicissitudes it comes up smiling. II
is a suit for damages for two lots taken
for the right of way OF the b. b. d b. @.
Co.
The United States War Department il
willing to establish an army post in the
outskirts OF Spokane, and has sent off.
GERS 10 inspect the different sites around
the city, and has offered to establish Q
large post provided the city will donate
/ 1000 acres OF suitable land for the posi-
and artillery and rifle ranges. A com.
mittee of citizens is at work soliciting
pledges.
The Wardner Miners Union met the
other night and discussed the strike. II
is said the meeting was stormy one
1t was announced that, as the strike wa:
on and a fight would have to be made
it might as we'll include a demand fol
an increase of wages. A motion wa'
made that all underground men be paic
So so day. President Glass opposed
such an action, and, it is said, refused
to put the motion. Some of the mem
bers became indignant and threatened
TO remove the President. He then pu
the question, and it prevailed. Their,
was some talk that the strikers will in
sist on the few men now at work in tn,
mine coming out at once, but no actor
has been taken. About $50 men hav,
been paid off, and some are leaving
town. The strikers are quiet, and tn
general belief is that there will be NJ
trouble.