Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-11-27


and will I've left of the official ballot next
time.
The editor Of an exchange who prob
ably knows whereof he speaks, SAYS:
A good way h, raise turkeys for Thanks
giving IL 10 take long scaDtlineor pole,
with cross.picre on the end; warm
the cross-piecp; go 20 your nei1hbors
roost; place tile cross-piece gently be-
meath and toncbing the TURKS feet.
The turk will respond by raising" and
descending on the warm stick--and
there's your turkey. Look out for dogs
and shoignns, though.
G. C. Wilson, proprietor Of saloon
here, and Ed Portwood are making an
effort TO establish saloon at Mayville
in the near future. Petitions 10 that
effect are now being circulated In May
Vile precinct and II majority Of the
names Of the legal voters and taxpayers
can he secnred, snloon will be opened
there, perhaps just after the next conn
ty court meets. A remoDetrance Is also
being circulated and 40 far the petition
and remomstrance are running about
neck and neck.
The Cnban insurgents have resorted
TO system Of warfare that, while it is
Mrbapus, will no doubt prove effect
nal. They haze employed d number Of
Texas rangers to climb into tree tops
and shoot Spanish generals, putting
price Of Il .0O0 on each generals head,
and have offered 5000 10 the man who
kills General Weyler. The rangers are
armed with rides that weigh % pounds
and will throw bali five miles. The
Cnhans evidently believe in fighting
the devil with fire." and II the Spanisi,
generals are not devils there are none
On this earth.
Some fellow who had nothing else TO
do has figured ii ont that had Mr.. Bry-
an received 10000 more votes--a couple
OF hundred from each Of the several
close states. he would have been elected.
The popular majority seems to cut but
little figure when the fact Is considered
that the electoral vote Of n state is
counted for the candidate having the
largest vote, whether it isa majority Of
one vote or one million. Pennsylvania
gave Mckinley a majority Of about 302,-
I 600, yet the electoral vote would have
gone TO him had the majority been but
a dozen.
The proposition is being seriously
hroached 10 divide the arinto thirteen
months, beginning the new calendar in
! 1900. This would give each month
twenty-eight DAYS except the last one,
which would have twenty-nine days in
ordinary years and thirty in leap years.
This would make the DAYS of the week
and the days Of the month the same
through all the year, except the thir-
teenth month. We wonId suggest that
as both Julins aud Augustus Caesar gave
their respective names to one Of the
months. that some other great general
/! he permitted to name the extra one.
/ What's the matter with Hanna?
A valley exchange hits the nail on the
head as follows: II is not likely that
there is paper in the whole country
/ that has not had on its subscription list,
at some time during its career, the name
or names OF parties who are so conceited
and self-important as to imagine that
should they "stop their paper" the bns-
incss would 20 under, snre. Nothing
pleases publisher so much az 70 get
rid Of just such patronage. Snch cnn-
ceited jackasses do notappear to have in
teliigence enough to know that the same
day they ''stop their paper" perhaps
Il,alf dozen or more new names are
added to the list, to make MP fnr the one
lost. 1t Is like the case where man
omit riding over certain railroad and
then said TO his fr ends: ''Now Just
watch aud see II that road doesn't "a
into bankruptcy In short time !"
A. a. Nye tells the East 0regnnian
that tweniy-four years ago Tuesday, the
18th instant, there was foot of snow
and the thermometer registered l3 de-
grees below zero. Mr.. Nye was sheriff
: ut the time and left Pendleton for Uma-
tlla with two prisoners on his way tC
Salem on that day, The cold weather
continued until after Christmas and the
snow went off and the weather becamt
, mild and pleasant throughout thewiu
], ter Flowing and sowing OF grain wai
: carried on throughout the month o
February OF 1873, II is one OF the pecu
liarities of the climate of this country
! Winter covers u period Of from three t
: six weeks and it is iustas liable to come
. before Christmas us after, Int no matte
3 when It comes 1t never takes longer thar
six weeks to exhaust itself. Usually
however, our winters are after Christ
mas in January, or early in February.
j. Dnd Flynn of Lone Rock is in town
4 I and tails tha fnllowin,f eond int., IN Ir