Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-05-07

TIRE torce-which means only onrself--
smashed the end off the right-band
thumb, and setting type with the left
hand and toes is slow and bunglesome
business.
Frank Kloss, who was hanged at San
Quinten the other day. said: Durrant
told me that be murdered Blanche La.
mont and was guilty man. say this
IN the presence OF death, and il is al
true as that | shall be hanged within
the next minute.
Geo. Sly, a brother-in-law OF the Dod-
sons near Glenn, arrived with his family
last week from Siskiyou county, CAL,
aud has located on claim near Clem,
on what d. A. Dodson calls Poverty
Flat" Mr. Sly was up to town Monday
filing on the land before the clerk.
The Moro Observer says that Moro
will certainly have an electrical power
and light plant before long. Has 1t ever
occurred to the people OF Condor that II
they expect to keep up with the process
sion OF thrift and enterprise they will
have 10 also take on such improvements
NJ. Putz, the Mayville miller, was in
town Tuesday on business. He will not
be prepared TO grind any more until af-
ter harvest, and by that time he ex poets
10 have a new engine. The one he has
been using belongs to Herbert Halstead
and has been moved back to Lost Valley.
Through the energy Of her wide-awake
citizens, Long Creek is about to have a
first-class normal school established at
that place. Such an enterprise was
talked Of for Condor some time ago but,
like everything else for the towns ad-
vancement and welfare, was allowed to
fall through.
A Colorado woman was cured OF the
suffrage craze by reading that there was
bare quorum" in the Legislature, and
she does not think such place fit for a
decent woman. Another woman was
cured by learning that the seats in the
legislative halls were made OF "undress-
ed" lumber.
Times Mountaineer The branch OF
the Wasco warehouse at Arlington has
already received 100 sacks OF wool OF the
'07 clip, and Mr.. Lord tells us the Bald
win Sheep & Land Co. has two 6-horse
loads on the way in to the warehouse
here, which will be the first of the season
received here.
X. IL. Weber, the popular and we'll
known nurseryman Of The Dalles, was
through this county last week in the in
terest Of bis reliable nursery. He was
accompanied by q. I. Bayard Of The
Dalles, formerly Of Arlington, agent for
the Concordia Loan & Trust Co. Of Kan
sas City. They went from here to Nor
row county.
MIR. and Mrs. John Reisacher OF Port
land arrived at Fossil Saturday and ex-
pect to spend the summer in our health
ful climate, in order for John to regain
bis shattered health, caused by lagrippe
and pneumonia. He and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. T. B. Hoover, were over to
Condor Tuesday, the latter on county
court business.
The Strickland-Giede sheep trespass
case will be disposed of in supreme court
at Pendleton next week. Strickland will
be represented by Pierce Mays and the
other side by w. II. Wilson and T. r.
Lyons. One side or the other will have
TO pay the costs now, without any more
delay, which the witnesses and jurors
will be glad to learn.
A veteran bronco-buster gives us the
following sure remedy to cure horse
from kicking: Tie one OF his fore legs
with rope to his hind leg on the other
side. As soon as he starts to kick he
jerks his front leg off the ground and he
goes down on his nose ker-smash. Two
or three doses like that will cure the
most obstinate cases.
In Michigan 96, 900 laboring men have
signed petition asking the legislature
TO employ state convicts in road Inn
provement. The field for this work is
so large that the idea is gaining support
ers in every state. Owing to the inabil-
ity to get outside labor for work on the
new railroad to Astoria, the managers
are making an effort to have the work
done BY the convcts OF this state.
Last weeks Duiur Dispatch says;
"The civilization of Dufur and vicinity
is such that it would not, we are glad to
say, tolerate such obscene publications
as the Fossil Journal is guilty of nearly
every issue; and we doubt If the U. S.
authorities would permit its circulation
through the mails, ii their attention was
called to the matter. We advise oul