Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-01-18
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
ingtoD. Oregon and Idaho-Items Of
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
The annual cut Of wood at Meacham,
Or, is 5000 cords.
The Dalles, Or, boasts OF unsurpassed
coashng OIL the hills.
Miss Emma Driscoll has been elected
City Librarian at Spokane.
Eugene, Or, is collecting a carload of
provisions for the Nebraska sufferers.
The Tacoma Poultry Associations first
annual show will be held from January
10 TO 10.
Proposed amendments to the Spokane
city charter would reduce the salary list
by $4,000.
The Astorian predicts great activity in
road construction by the Clatsop county
farmers next spring.
The A. p. A. will establish State head
quarters at Olympia during the session
OF the Legislature.
According to Librarian Gilbert's re-
port the Washington State library has
over 10000 volumes.
Suit has been brought at Seattle by
Dexter, Horton q Co. for $2l7, l48. .93
against William A. and Anna b. Har-
rington.
The first Southern Oregon State Board
Of Agriculture will hold its annual meet
ing and election OF officers at Ashland
on the l4th instant.
A female deer, driven out OF the mount
aims by the storm, was seen quietly
browsing in Max Pracht's orchard in
Ashland few days ago.
Umatilla county, Or, figures out a
profit during the first six months OF the
salary system, as compared with the fee
system formerly in vogue.
The Tacoma Rod and Gun Club has
ordered four dozen Mongolian pheasants
to be distributed in Pierce county. 1t
has also drafted new game law.
The Tacoma Land Company has COM
menced suit to set aside an assessment
of 500, ,404.97 for street improvements
upon technicalities in the Council pro-
ceedings.
A fairly we'll authenticated report
comes from the Nasel country to the eff
feet that Weyerhauser syndicate has
purchased 5000 acres OF timber land in
that section OF Washington.
J.J. kaufman has been elected Chief
of the Walla Walla fire department.
The retiring Chief, Y. G. Blaiock, was
presented with gold match safe.by the
members of the department.
A petition to the Oregon Legislature is
being prepared at Eugene, asking for
legislation preventing Indians from
hunting deer off the reservations, as they
are rapidly exterminating the game.
A hunting party in the Olympic
Mountains report having seen 800 elks
in a single day without attempting to
shoot any of them, because their pack
animals were already laden with game.
| Piling for an extension Of the Harris
mill wharf at South Bend, WASH, is be-
ing cut. The wharf will be extended
twenty feet farther into the Willapa river
and made 900 feet in length. There will
then be depth OF thirty feet alongside.
The trial of Adolph Selheim, who was
charged with the murder OF William
Smith at Spokane, was concluded by the
| Jury bringing in verdict OF acquittal.
The verdict was surprise to everybody.
The Taxpayers League is to take up and
discuss the question. Selheim shook
hands with the jury after the verdict,
and Immediately invited them out to be
dined and wined. Selheim shot and
killed William Smith in saloon No
vember II while Smith was unarmed
He is wealthy rancher and old pioneer