Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-07-10

y utilxHunt picnic. y. a. McMOrris ana
u. schilllug each delivered an Grafton
and the 'Iny was very pleasantly spent
| Ed Compton Of Lone Rock, the weli-
known slieepman, has been In town sew
erai days and is one Of half dozen or
more applicants for the position Of stock
inspector, which appointment will be
made tliis week by the county court.
Mitchell Monitor Corbett and sbar-
key baye signed articles d agreementfo for
a $4,000 aside bull light, or words 10
that effect. We viii wager the Monitor
against the Treadwell mine in Alaska
that there is man ~ Mitchell who can
thrash the pair Of them.
Az exchange says that j W. Bennett,
and architect d Mediord. has fallen heir
toa handsome fortune oi $G5,010 by the
death Of wealthy bachelor uncle 10
kew York. Wonder II this Il oor John
William Bennett, formerly Of Arlingi ton?
II It is, he's n lucky mnldoon.
A gentleman who recently visited
lleppner says crops in Morrow county
have suffered severely from tile effects Of
the recent hot wave. The. spring.sown
grain in many portions of the county
is entirely raincd. There will be better
than half a crop owes there, however.
County court is in session this week
by Judge Mariner and Commissioners
Ciymer and Pliter. In our item last
week referring TO the changes 10 county
officers We inadvertently omitted the
name Of Dir. Plitef, the new conmis-
sioner, who took charge d his Office
Monday.
Stewart Eakin possesses remarka-
BILE heifer, saye the Eugene Register. II
is only pears old and has never had a
calf, vet gives one gallon Of milk per day
and three pounds Of butter per week. II
her milking capacity keeps pace with
her age, what will she give when she
becomes d age2
Three caynses were sold on the streets
Of Weston the other day, one Tor cents,
another for 2bc and another for 35c, al
poundluasters sale. The Indian who
used to reckon his horses on thousand
hills as evidence Of wealth, and gtnnt
with content, Ia no longer rich. Forlorn
| is the fate Of the red ioan.--Leader.
The singular punishment Of bigamy in
J Hungary Il .ocompel the man 10 live
together with both wives 10 one house.
Something Of the tefFors Of the sitns'
ton IL indicated by the fact that nun
her Of Hungarian bigamists have petit
toned the government TO nave their sen
tences changed 10 fourteen years pena
sersitude.
The Mitchell Monitor was one Of Tho
1 Northup papers during the last cam
paigu, and bonsts of II. The Gazett,
knows that the Monitor desired to sup
port Mr.. Ellis $3.50 worth, but the cast
not forthcoming the tune changed TO .
Northup ballad. The question is, he
much did the Monitor get for "tl
switch. n--leppner Gazette.
/ Frank yeatch, formerly Of Lone Rocl
recently captured near Cottage Grov
three white and two black crows, tha
had just come ont OF the same nest, ant
we're not able to fly. The white crow
are as white as snow. except that u few
feathers ON the outer edge OF each wins
are black. Their feet, legs and beaki
are white and their eyes are blne.
4 Much IL said Of the bicycle ag dis
turbing element in business One state
ment is that 1000 tailors ere out of em
ployment in New York because the vas
army Of wheelmen have ceased to wea
fine clothes on Sunday On the othe
hand, the profits oi the rubber men las
year were over s3,o0o,Oo0. There are al
ways two sides TO business revolution
\ The hop industry in the valley is no
4 what IL used To be. The Yamhill Rec
ord says: The hop harvest in this sec
tion will be very limited this seasol
compared with former years, as many O
the yards have been either plowed up o
are being used for pasture, Only fey
Yards are being worked, but will be har
vested only on condition that the pric
Of hops will justify II.
n AT a sociable near Antelope recent
they were having good deal Of fun whe
all at once the conversation ceased an
. all was still gentleman and lady wer
sitting together, he holding her hands
/ the stiffness became mouotonous, and I
, hreak 1t he remarked, lawful pause !"
/ which she qnickly retorted, "well, ii 20
had to wash and scrub as much as ! d'
you'd have awfnl paws too"
The popuist county platform in W
/ ion county, among other things, saiu
Resolved that the salary Of the supe
!. inteudeut Of schools should not excee
$500 per annum." The people by the