Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-07-03

intend 70 enJoy the festivities at Olex ON
the 4th. A very large crowd is expected
to be there, as all Of the Lexington, g.
mile, lone and Hardman people are
coming over
Has that race track proposition died or
what has become Of It? Don't let II fall
through, for such an enterprise at Cen
don would bring many dollar TO the
town, besides afford no end Of fun and
excitement.
The Long Greek Eagle says that conn
ty clerk Powell Tuesday issued mar
riage license to Tom Swift and Fannie
Scott. Swift must be- quite "ladies'
man" to catch on 30 coon after getting
out Of the pen.
Read the county treasurer's notice
again this week. A mistake occurred In
1t last week. All warrants registered
prior TO Jnne |, 1894, will be paid---in-
stead Of 1895. The difference in these
dates amounts To about $i2 900.
The official count gives Ellis 1878 and
Tongue 63 plurality. The popuists ID
the first district will contest Tongues
election, but In the % district Quinn
takes bis defeat good-naturedly and has
resumed bis old job Of "rasIin" laundry
The weather here all last week was OPP
pressiyely hot, the mercury frequently
running over the i0O-mark. Sunday
some rain fell, cooling the atmosphere
just right for the wheat crop, which will
soon be harvested and which could not
look more promising at this time.
Garrett A. Hobart, the republican
nominee for vice president, IL one Of the
millionaires Of New Jersey. He is con-
nected with hall dozen different banks,
Is at the head Of the East New Jersey
Water Co., and draws salary Of $50 900
a year az attorney for the National Rail-
road Pool.
Don't expect an advertisement TO bear
fruit in one night. You can't eat
enough in week 10 last year, and
you can't advertise on that plan either.
People who advertise only once in three
months forget that moet folks cannot
remember anything longer than about
seven daye.--Exchange.
While other sections OF the state are
overrun with tramps, who commit all
manner Of thieying depredations, the
people Of this section can congratulate
themselves that they are not afflicted
with that class Of people, who, profess
lug to be looking for work would not
know what to do with il II they found ii.
II il reported that Union county is 10
haye another contest over the school su.
perintendent's office. j. E. Reynolds
election will be contested on the grounds
that he offered inducements to the vo-
ters by promising to turn the office over
10 Miss Nellie Stephens and allow her
10 draw the salary.
All Of the newly-elccted county and
precinct officers throughout the state
viii take charge Of their respective Off.
ces next Monday. There will be but a
slight change In the official directory OF
this county, as nearly all Of the old otIi-
GERS we're reelected, the only new ones
being Il. w. Daggett, school superintend-
ent, and Arthur Marvel. coroner.
The loss Of three thousand lives in Ja-
pan by an earthquake adds another hor
rible happening to the already long list
Of the worlds casualties. No part Of
this mundane sphere il free from NOR
tality and destruction of property by un-
iorseen causes and there is an uncertain
ty Of life that should make all quit their
meanness and prepare for the worst.
Jim Corbett, the world.renowned
blow-hard pugilist, was soundly thrash
ed in a prize fight at San Francisco the
other day by common, everyday sailor
who knocked him out in four rounds
Corbett refuses to turn over the cham
pionship belt, however, until he has
another 20 with his conqueror, whose
name is Tom Sharkey. Corbett had bet
ter have kept on fighting with his mouth
instead Of bis fists.
There is a decided shaking up of the
dry bones in the press Of the nation
just now. and one can hardly tell
"where he will be at" by next Novem-
her Some Of the Eastern papers hith-
erto democratic, are backing and filling
toward Mckinley because Of the gold
| declarations OF the ST.. Louis platform
and the Salt Lake Tribune, heretofore
one OF the ablest republican papers in
America, has come out squarely against
Mckinley aud gold,
/ In the rapid progress Of the age, ladies
are competing with men in almost all
industrial pursuits, bnt it is not often
they have gone on the road as drivers Of
freight wagons, stll this work can be
performed by woman as well as q man,
as was proven by Mrs. w. IL. Anderson,
of Crook county, who arrived here Fri
day with a load Of wool, having come
nearly 200 miles over a rough and rug
ged road unaccom panied except hy hen