Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-03-26

S''"' "N'hipo'ch IOp N@cO iV uh ONeI II
years, and 10c for children) will he
charged, proceeds to be used for furnish
ing school room. Every ybody invited.
Thos. Woolery Of lone, one Of the
best-kDown men in Morrow county. at
tempted TO commit suicide by shooting
himself In the head at the Perkins hotel
In Portland last Friday. The bullet
struck too high and the attempt was
failure. His wife, whom he married
only a month ago, was with him In
their room at the time, and no reason 10
apparent why he had become 80 weary
OF life.
j, II. Parsons OF Twickenham informs
us that all the material for the new
ferry boat at that place 10 on the ground
aud work on the boat will begin In q
few days. "Uncle Jerome" says the
people along the John Day expect the
river to get wild and woolly pretty soon,
as there is more snow in the mountains
than for many years. That stream has
well earned The title Of "the treacherous
John Day."
Governor Lord Monday gave az his
opinion that the county judges could
not lawfully withhold taxes due the
state after the date prescribed by law
for their payment 10 the state treasurer.
The motives Of the county judges in
wishing TO withhold taxes were, how
ever, in the governors opinion, lauda-
BILE, as they simply desired to afford re-
lief TO the counties II possible. Port
land Telegram.
A fine little daughter was born TO
Mr.. and Mrs. p. Skelly ON the 4th Of
this month. Pat was 30 wild and stun
ned over the event it being his first
work Of the kind for a long time) that
he did not come to town for several
weeks, which 10 the reason the little
girls arrival was not mentioned sooner.
Pat has recovered 30 that he is able TO
move about little again, and informs
us that he has just laid in supply Of
paregoric enough TO last year.
The Prineville papers say that "Kid"
Burlington tEston) is in Jail In that town.
awaiting the action OF the grand jury
next May, on charge Of robbing one
Charley Wellnitz at Mitchell few days
ago. Last week he and several other
prisoners very nearly made their escape
by drilling with an old case knife and
pounding large hole through the brick
wall OF the Jail with some stove iron.
In few moments more all OF them
would have got out. Burlington gets the
credit for planning the escape, which
shows that he is still possessed Of con.
siderable shrewdness.
The u. S. Senate has refused to seat
II. w. Corbett, the millionaire banker
Of Portland, whom Governor Lord re.
Gently appointed to take Hon. ]. IL.
Mitchelps place, at which Mitchell is OF
course greatly pleased. Some OF the
papers think that the governor will now
call an extra session, but our guess is
that he will do nothing OF the kind.
The result is that Oregon will have but
one senator for the next two years. 1t
Is safe bet that Simon, Bourne and his
highwaymen, or hold-ups, will not be in
1t the next time, as there will be anoth-
or election before the Legislature con-
venes again.
Prof Lake, principal of the Antelope
school, evidently has new and approved
ideas about teaching morality. Last
week the school board fred him out OF
school and the citizens continued the
good work by running him out of town,
all because he attempted to ravish one
Of his l3.year-old girl pupils, He aud
his estimable young wife and her sister,
who stopped with them this winter,
have returned to their former home at
Hillsboro, Washington county. We
learn that some Of the more excitable
citizens OF Antelope were In favor OF
lynching the fellow, but cooler counsel
prevailed and he was told TO skiddaddle,
aud he skiddaddled.
On the 18th OF this month, Jim Cor
bett, the blatant windbag, got just what
about nine-tenths OF the people OF this
country have been wanting him to get
for the last four years-a devilish good
thrashing. 1t took Fitz IA rounds Of
tremendous hard fighting to do the job,
but he succeeded nobly. Up to the
10th round Corbett appeared to have
the best OF the fight. Being by far the
more scientific OF the two, he was able
TO hit Fitz whenever and where be
pleased, but his blows were too light
and lacked the effect of those OF Fits,
who did not land so often, but when he
did get in lick 1t counted. By resort
ing to his old game Of pretending to be
almost knocked out, in order TO throw
his adversary off his guard, Fitz found
the opening he was looking for from the
first round, and struck Corbett a mur-
derous blow over the heart, and the big
bully went down like dog-the only
knock down in the entire fight. The
5000 people who witnessed the fight will
never forget the awful look of horror