Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-01-11

Budget OF News for Easy Digestion From
Different Parts OF the States OF wash
inRton. Oregon and Idaho-Items OF
Interest to Pacific Coast People.
Spokane built 400 houses In 1894 at a
cost OF something like $3.50, 600.
A. Fetsch, Medford ,0r.) tailor,
drew $500 in lottery last week.
Fred Hartford OF Patha is experiment.
ing with new current wheel, for which
he has secured a patent. 1t is for irrlga-
tion purposes.
"Uncle Billy" Gillian is circulating
an initiative and referendum petition
in Morrow county, Or; also one for a
new State constitution.
A very pleasant family reunion was
held at the residence of J. =. Humph-
reys in the Waldo Hills near Macleay,
Or, on Christmas day. There were
present seven children and twenty-six
grandchildren.
The Pendleton Wool Securing and Pro-
ducng Company has filed supplemental
articles showing that its capital stock
had been increased from $l2 600 TO $20,-
600. T. b. Wells, T. T.. Fell, i. w.
Boyd, w. d. Hansford, r. Alexander,
G. s. jackson and III. Shutthis are di-
rectors and incorDorators.
Ten years ago the thermometer at
Baker City, Or, fell to 40 degrees below
zero, and go degrees below at North
Powder, Or. Weather prophets predict
regular Dakota winter during the next
few weeks. A visitor at Pendleton from
Haines, Or, reports 8 degrees below zero
at that place day or two ago.
Loewenberg Bros. of Spokane have
transferred all their stock and property,
including the dry goods business, the
Ioewenberg building, where the Louvre
Theater is, and the residence of Mr..
Loewenberg to J. n. Glover as trustee Of
large number OF creditors, among them
the Merchants National Bank Of Port
land, OF which Julius Loewenberg is
President. Julius Loewenberg Withdrew
from the firm of Loewenberg Bros. Octo-
ber |, 1893. His claim against the firm
at that time was 5000 1t is claimed
that this has been increased to 100000.
William p. Simpson Of the South
Bend broom handle factory, has found
that hemlock, so common in that region,
| is the best material yet discovered for
broom handles. Alder has heretofore
been considered the best, but handles
made OF hemlock and sent to customers
in Portland and San Francisco have been
pronounced by them superior to alder.
| The hemlock is whittier, polishes better,
is lighter in weight and is equally as
strong. Mr.. Simpson says he has a mar
ket for all the broom handles he can
make, and expects premium on those
made Of hemloek,
Judge Hanford in the United States
Circuit Court at Tacoma has appointed
President Paul Schultze, Joseph S. AL
len OF Spokane and John Donald OF
North Yakima receivers OF the Yakima
Investment Company, which is the sue
cess T OF the Northern Pacific Yakima
and Kittitas Irrigation Company. The
receivership is granted on the applica-
ton OF 0. F. Paxton OF Portland, repre-
senting the California Safe Deposit and
Trust Company OF San Francisco, which
holds as trustee OF the Yakima Invest
ment Company a mortgage given in 1898
TO secure $700,000 bond issue, which
was to be sold TO an English syndicate,
Later the syndicate failed to take the
bonds, causing complications. The com.
pany is said TO have a floating indebted.
ness OF s360,000, and $450,0OO of the
bonds are outstanding, part Of them be
ing pledged to secure Indebtedness. The
company's assets are valued at 81 ,5OO,'
600 to $2,000,000. They include 81 ,00(
acres OF land in the Yakima Valley, for
ty-four miles OF mainline canal, known
rs the Sunnyside canal, and 250 miles o
laterals, branches and bitches.