Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19

AhVsuhy W hlteHH The races.
Uncle al Henshaw Is handing ont ney
stoves right aud left lately and Iookin.
:, pleasant in consequence.
Il Considerable wheat Is moving toward
{ the eralIroad now though not nnch Ii be
ing sold, the market being rather unsat
lsfactory.
Brick Balding has sold his place II
Lost Valley and IL moving 10 Ferry Can.
yon. Ferry Canyon is the coming
country.
w. L, Wilcox, and family, returned
from Plnecreck Sunday. They say the
Wheeler comfy roads are very muddy,
tho result Of the late snow and rains.
Geo Dnkek was In town Monday.
lie says some Of the fruit trees in his
neighborhood were broken down by the
unreasonable snow storm last week.
| The Firemen's Bali to be given in Arm
j ory hall Thanksgiving evening will be
the grandest affair Of the kind ever Civ
en- IN the county. Stick u pin in the
date.
ex-governor William Wallace Thayer
died last Sunday morning at Portland
after an illness Of Two days. lie was ~
years old. He Was elected governor Of
Oregon in 1878 on the democratic ticket.
Sheriff Wilcox and wife, from Condor,
visited Mrs. Wilcox's mother, Mrs. Cav
on, on Pine creek this week. Mrs. Cav.
en-, whose limb was fractured by run
away last week 10 getting along nicely
undercare Of Drs. Shaw. - Fossil Journal.
i. A. Renner and bis son-in.law, Hen
ry Doores, with their families expect to
leave next Sunday for Meteetse, Wyo-
ming where they will make their home |
in the future. Mr.. Renner recently sold |
his ranch and cattle to w. N. Brown,
the price paid being s25OO.
j. u. Stevenson brought In the finest
sample OF potatoes the other day tha. we |
have seen this season. The 'spuds"
averaged about one foot In length and
five Of them were all Jay Bowerman
could lit and more than he could eat at
one meal. They are fine specimens.
showing the productiveness OF Ferry
Canyon soil.
The job department ofthe GLOBE office
has been crowded with work lately,
turning out stationery etc. for our enter
prising business men. Among those
served last week were jackson 4 Dysart,
& Wilson and T. q. johnson, OF
this place and Wade Bros, Of 0ex. We
like 10 be busy go send in your orders
and we will accommodate you aud guaran-
lee satisfaction.
The photo Tent 10 in full blast and
MIR. Bradley, the proprietor, wishes to
announce that his stay in Condor will {
be short owing to the forwarduess Of the
all weather. Those who wish TO secure )
, sitting should call at the earliest OPP
II you do not wish to be left,
'all early at the photo Tent as it will !
,nfy remain few days longer. Mr..
Bradley informs us that he Is better
equipped for fine Photographic results
han ever beiore Call and hear selec-
ion on the graphophone at the tent.
James Hestain and wife, OF Lone Rock
vho left this county four years ago in c
earch Of a better country and more i
greeable climate, returned last week,
atistied that their search had been In n
ain. During their absence they travel T
d all over California, Western and !
Oregon aud were in Mexico Il
Or time but nothing they saw suited q
hem 30 well, when calmly considered
rom all sides, as the ranch which they !
till own, near Lone Rock, Mr.. Hestain !
ays that California is the home OF the "
ich man and Of the pauper and that :
he latter class largely predominates.
lie says he never before saw 10 many =
biectly poor people as are to be ionnd II
n California and he is glad to be back v
, grand old Gillian county. y
G, ]. Quinn, Of Mayvillc, was In town ?
aturday on business connected with the Fl
nal proof OF the homestead of the II
eek estate, OF which MIR. Quinn is
xccutor. The nearest relative and
cir OF the deceased is a brother who re-
des in New Jersey aud this is the first .
lse on record in which final proof has o
cen made on homestead without the u
wner or heir being present when testi- u
lony OF witnesses was taken. In this !"
lse Ii. II. Hendricks, OF Fossil, laid the ~
Iatter before Hon. Binger Hermann, p
OF the general land office a
Washington, with the result that that = !.
sntleman made aruling thattestimony =
witnesses could be taken here and the p,
nal affidavit OF the heir could be taken u
New Jersey.