Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-05-25

A flre at Dawson City on the 10th OF
April destroyed u 100000 worth Of
property.
The concert at Armory hall tomorrow
evening promises to be treat to lovers
Of good music.
Em bnlmed Beef Alger has announced
himself as candidate for U. 8. senator
from Michigan.
Rev. Babe, Of Freewater Umatilla
county, preached here last Sunday,
morning and evening.
s. b. Barker has improved his resi-.
dence property with new picket fence
on the side fronting Oregon Avenue.
shurte 4 Weir Co. have their adver-
tlsIng space filed with an attractive ad
this week. Call and see them when In
Arlington.
General Gomez, the Cuban leader, is
on his way TO Washington 70 plead with
President Mckinley for the welfare Of
his country.
Miss Daisy Downing is visiting Mrs T.
@. johnson. Her sister, Mrs Wright
who has been seriously III at Fossil 10
improving rapidly.
A family OF home seekers from the
Willamette valley arrived in town Mon
day evening and went out TO Ferry
Canyon Tuesday 10 look for land.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. d. Couture were In
town from their ranch In Ferry Canon
during the week. Their baby Is slowly
recovering from its long illness Of last
winter.
John Jackson left yesterday for Port
land where he goes on combined busi-
ness and pleasure trip. Mrs. CO. Will
son is the efficient manager Of his store
during his absence.
The new job OF painting on P. II.
Stephenson's building 10 one OF the best
ever done In the town. II is q
credit 10 the skill Of Mcssrs Pliter and
tirider who did the work.
The fine Atlantic liner, Paris, lost her
course of the English coast during a
heavy fog Sunday morning and went on
the rocks. No lives were lost and II is
believed but little damage was done 10
the vessel.
Mrs. II. G. Strickland expects TO leave
for Portland tomorrow or next day
where she will take her little daughter
Hazel for surgical aid. Hazel's condi-
tion has been growing worse lately and
is now considered quite serious.
Judge Mariner returned from Canyon
City Tuesday, where he has been for n
couple Of weeks, assisting in the work
Of determining the amount OF Grant
county's Indebtedness, and the share TO
he assumed by Wheeler county. The
entire debt Of Grant county amounts TO
$i85, ,93l. .gi, Of which amount Wheeler
must assume the sum Of $27 ,9ll.7b. The
Judge made the round trip from Blalock
TO Canyon City on his wheel.
This section OF Eastern Oregon has
been visited BY fine rains lately and the
chances Of good wheat crop are mate
rally enhanced. Farmers say that
while the cold weather Of the past few
weeks has kept the grain from making
good showing as II otherwise would
have done. II has been making root"
beneath the surface and is now In good
condition for making wonderful
growth, with the advent Of better
growing weather."
The two hobos who were "run in" one
night last week were taken before Re-
corder Tatum next morning and fined
800 and costs each, and being broke
we're put TO work on the street. While
the marshal went for some tools the fell
lows took French leave and Councilman
Moore who Witnessed their hasty depart
ure is willing to swear that as sprinters
they are cracker jacks. The sentence
is still in force and II they ever come
back TO Condor the city will be eight
days work ahead.