Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-12-20
'OR[dON 5TATf News
Items Of Interest From All Parts
OF the State.
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS
a Brief Review Of the Growth and Improve
msnts Of the Many Industries Through.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.
Elmira has . football team.

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A telephone line from Huntington :,
Burns is projected.
The sheriff of Grant county collecte,
$9.4lS,40 in November.
An organ has been purchased fo
the Gold Hill school house.
The Corvallis creamery is paying 81
! cents per pound for butter fat.
]. j. Fitzgerald, of Shelbutne, has
a contract or 10000 fence rails.
The Mcdonald q Fisher sawmill al
Summerville is in running order.
Repairs to the blanchard bridge east
OF Aurora We're finished last week.
The Clerks union, OF Pendleton. has
organized with nearly 100 mem bers.
The Enterprise council has passed
acts against bawdy houses and va.
grancy.
breakwater is being built at Eu-
gene at the east side of the bridge over
the Willamette.
Malheur county has accepted the
new bridge across Succor creek below
Barney Malloy's place.
Lincoln county has allowed NJ. D.
Welton $500 on his claim for damages
sustained from the collapse of Little
Elk bridge.
The body of young Hays. who was
drowned November 2, eight Aliles above
Dallas. at the Hood dam, has been re-
covered one mile below that city.
Captain R. P. Wainwright. of the
United States Army, purchased S5
horses for the government at Hunting
ton. The price paid averaged about
$50 a head.
Tillamook county commissioners
have leased the county sawmill to |
County Judge 6. w. Sappington until
April 1. who will furnish road plank
ing at 81 per 1000 feet.
Frank Hatch was arrested at Eugene
on charge of forgery. His offense ia
that OF endorsing the name Of a man
named Davis to check given by the
Acme Commercial Company, amount
ing to $9.57.
While returning from the Umatilla
house to his loom in the Chapman
building, The Dalles, Fred Stewart. a
young travelling man representing the
Merchants Supply Company, OF Port
land. was held up by two thugs and
robbed OF $40.
The Homestake mine, located on the
North Fork of John day river. seven
miles from Lawton, has been bonded
TO Eastern capitalists by the owners.
Messrs. Tom johnson and Joseph Robi.
'on, ior the sum of $500 on years
lime. Further conditions of the bond |
ire that the persons holding it are to ;
AXE immediate possession and prose- !
'ute the work OF development with a
arge force of men divided into three |
ight-hour shifts, says the Lawton {
standard.
Petitions have been circulated for
hree different free rural deliveries ont
t Albany. nearly covering the entire !
eld In all directions around the CITY. Q
nd there are hopes Of the same being
but it is not known =
'hether they will reach the depart-
lent in time for the agent now estab. 9
shing routes in the state TO act upon
lem before his departure. The ronts II
ut Of Shedd has given such general !.
itisfaction that there is a general de- u
re to have the system extended here. 70
The WallOwa marshal ran in a man n
II peddling without license, who de-
I'd the city authorities and would not st
ZEN listen to the reading OF the COM
amt by the recorder. He was incar-
rated in the city prison for contempt Y,
court. where he languished for two pe
three days or until some people
ound town put up So for a jury trial. g
10 jury thought upon the evidence 90
Tered that the man was entitled to d1
scharge, and so rendered It's verdict. liz
10 man is foreigner, presumably an
allan. He threatened to sue the city !,
! damages
= ~NA4 RAAfoeO ActtCIb ItCblv6O Dy
q. Hope, OF Vale, it is learned oai
It the Ocean Wave mine is making oni
splendid showing. !. N. Clark. a 4
ming expert, has the development POT
rk of the mine in charge, and in a
ter that was received from him he Eai
8 that several fine nuggets have per
N taken out lately. In former let. =
he stated that the gold is not con. ano
ID to the rich vein that is being fol- 'c
red, but that small particles OF IL !
= be seen in the dirt over the entire .igi
and walls Of the tunnel 1t is his fo;'
MON that it would pay to mill the =
Die hill on which he is working. 60"
mine isan extension ofthe Golden 70
'le. which is owned by Portland y
italists. &c
he Lakeview Rustler says that
n Green, of the West side. who has :.