Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-01-14
ARLINGTON GEMS.

Dy Snafrafu " lObeS.
The X oi 4 lodge installed their new
officers here Monday evening, after
which all enjoyed a fine supper given by
the lodge.
Your Cor. here will be absent next
week, so will not likely DO able 10 fur
nish any "Gems" next week.
r. II Robinson has taken charge Of the
express business here for the Fossil stage
Co., and has his office with Ross Boards
ley for the present.
Geo Miller's huge candle is now about
y burned. lie lit IL on New Years day
and keeps It burning all the time, except
a few hours at night.
VIII ColwelI accompanied his mother,
Mrs Alex Hardie, 10 her home on Trail
fork this week, after yisit Of several
weeks with the family Of her son here.
George Washington Crawford OF Lone
Rock, the great silver orator, went over
10 Sherman county this week to deliver
lot Of pictures, for which he is agent.
Only 81 votes were cast at our city
election last week. There being but one
ticket in the field, Of course the nomi-
nees were all elected by Overwhelming
majorities."
Arlingtonitee are wondering If they
will have TO import ice next summer.
No ice was put up here for several years,
which is most excellent proof Of our mild
and delightful climate.
w T. Barker Of Condor, accompanied
by Frank Caldwell and Albert Catnine,
shipped 250 head Of rafting fine large
hogs from here to Troutdale Saturday,
where he received 4c pound for them.
All Of them visited Portland before re-
turning home.
The dogs Of Arlington evidently have
forgotten the raid that the marshal made
on them last winter, from the way they
keep up racket every night. Some Of
these pleasant days they will find them
selves in peck Of trouble, or worse, II
their owners do not keep them at home
nights.
A great many outsiders are taking ad-
vantage OF the good school here this win
ter. The teachers have the pupils great
~ interested in their studies and there
IL no kicking by parents, as is usually
the case where there is large school
running. There are just five months
more Of school.
The writer will most assuredly let the
Yakima admirer know our hat number,
aud might add right here that we hope
the disease is catching, and that every
town and city in the U. s. sill respond
in a similar manner. We think it best
To send in our number az soon as pos.
eible, for the longer we wait the larger
the hat will have 10 be, as snch compli-
ments are apt 10 give us the 'swelled
head" Ii IL our aim to give such news
as we think is Of interest to the public,
and II affords US pleasure TO know that
our effort in that direction is appreciated.
Like the publisher, the life Of q reporter
is not always strewn with roses, for II he
overlnoks an item that he never heard
Of, some fellow is sure 10 feel like reduc-
ing the size Of the reporters head a
number or TWO.
A would.be bad man, J II Conrad, a
brakebeam tonrist, who came to town
recently and was employed IN the kitchen
Of the Grand hotel, had row with the
Chinese cook Friday night and got fired.
lie st once flied up on lighting whiskey
and started out 10 lick somebody. He
went to the bowling alley and became so
noisy that Mr. Aidrich WAS obliged TO
throw him out Later on he returned
and found the Chinaman there with
whom he had the row and at once made
for him with mutderous intent. lie
jerked out an ugly looking pistol, which
in some manner event ofI3 too soon, Tor
jnst soon enough) the bullet striking
himself in the left leg above the knee
and came out below the knee. II knock
ed all the fight ont Of him and be was
taken TO the hotel, where DR. Ruedy
dressed the wound, which will make
Conrad a cripple for life.
John Norman, the well-known sheep
man Of this section, was found dead in
his bed at The Dalles last Tuesday at 6
O'Clock Ia room over a saloon. Nor
man had been drinking heavily for sew
eral days, and was up all OF the night
before, going to bed Tuesday morning
about O'Clock As he did not put in an
appearance diving the day, one OF his
friends went to his room and found him
lying in bed partially dressed, having
been dead, to all appearance, several
hours. The verdict OF a coroner's jury
was that he died OF heart failure, pro-
dueed by the excessive use Of intoxicants.
Norman possessed some property, hav-
ing quite baud Of sheep. Some years
ago he ran a saloon in Arlington and still
owned some property here. de had been
on spree in The Dalles since New
Years day, and was on his way to Port
land to visit his step-dsughter, Miss
Sadie Quiner, formerly Of this place.
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Some wonderful crop stories are being
told in Washington just now. Adam
Stoneberger, from 100 acres of land, bar-
vested $500 bushels of wheat, or an aver
age of60 bushels to the acre. This wheat
was the red-chatfvariety, spring sown on
summer fallow land. II sold for rs cents
per bushel, and paid the grower s45 per
acre for his crop. Throughout the whole
Palouse country crops have been excep-
tionally large, and farmers were never
more prosperous, One man last spring