Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1901-01-10
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Items Of Interest From All Parts
Of the State.
coMMERcIA AND FINANclAL nAppEMNGs
A Brief Review Of the Growth and Improve
ments Of the Many Industries Through.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.

The Burns postoffice has received
number Of combination boxes.
The new depot At La Grande is
ready to be painted and furnished.
Ninety Danes have made their
homes west Of Eugene since last iaIl.
Leonard Lingren lost three fingers At
Mineral last week In shot gun acci-
dent.
Construction Of the new hospital at
Baker City win begin in the early
spring.
Colonel ]. T. Grayson has bought the
Last Chance mine, in Cable Cove, for
$s. 500.
Two carloads Of mining machinery
for the Cornucopia mines has arrived
at Baker City.
Ounce Davis, who was seriously In.
jured recently ct the Coos Bay jetty,
is recovering.
j. p. Abbott a farmer of Wasco
county has finished the most up-to-date
residence in the county.
Plans are being drawn for number
Of modern residences at Baker City to
be erected in the spring.
The discovery of two new veins Of
copper at the Greenback mine, Grave
creek district. is announced.
The Bison group OF mines near
Quartzburg, Grant county, has been
sold to California syndicate.
The Medford bank presented to its
customers and friends in jackson coun-
| ty, 700 buckskin money pouches.
The men who carried out the dead
Chinaman that succumbed near Can
non beach received $50 for the work.
A portion OF Pete Peterson's dixie, on
Hayne slough, Coos county. washed
ont. The damage is estimated at
$1,000.
Constance Duffy is held in $l0O
bonds to await the next term of court
for having assaulted John Tolen at
Athena.
The rood from E5saraf bFieee 20
| Garibaldi is obstructed with DRIFT logs,
and it is possible to get by them only
at low tide.
Two Marshfield youngsters had a
duel with air guns last week. One
was shot in the finger and the other in
the forehead.
Paul Romeo killed a cougar near
Bald Mountain, Polk county. for
which he received $40 bounty from the
! Livestock Association.
Joe Peters, aobut 90 years old, who
lived about three miles south OF Los
tine, Wallowa county, was found dead
near his cabin several days ago.
Tom MoEwen states that three
foot body OF ore averaging $24 has
been encountered in the shaft of the
Snow creek property at depth Of 90
/ feet.
Dan Wager, who has q group oi
promising claims at old Center, about
six miles from Sumpter, on the Gran
ite road, has gone to Montana to buy
mining equipment.
The Granite Hill mine located IN
Louse Greek district, and owned BY
Messrs. Hull, Mongum and Booth, II
being operated on full time, with pros
pects of good run.
i Mrs. Captain Geary OF Corvallis
made a compromise with the insurance
company in which her husband was
insured, accepting $4,000 in lieu Q
the claim Of $4,000.
In drunken brawl an old mai
named Aldrich stabbed Henry zum
walt severely several times in the bacl
and shoulders. The wounds are MOI
considered dangerous.
A barn belonging to John Reith, o
the Lewis and Clark river, Clatsor
county, was blown over recently
Four head Of stock were buried in the
ruins but none were injured.
sidewalks nearly two miles long
leading to the church are contemplated
AZ st. Louis. For this and other i'm
provements on the church property tbs
parish expects to use about 100000 fee
: of lumber.
A new coal mining town, three mile
southeast Of Wilkeson, by the name o
, Hillsboro, has been plated By Andr,
, ]. Hill and Joseph Finkelherg. The
plat contains 12 acres. A logging roat
, from Wilkeson runs near the new
townsite.
The CroweII ranch Of 300 acres, nea
Jacksonville, has been sold to O. ]
Knips, OF Grants Pass, for $4,000. /
; consists of 20 acres in apples, 80 acre.
> in prunes. 10 acres in alfalfa, and 81
4 acres in new sown wheat. The pur
Chasers are recently from Iowa.
John Golfer. alias "Scotty." he
been held in 81, 900 bonds to answer .
the next term of court on the charge o
. robbing Thomas L. Edwards, of Mil
+ ton, of 500. Golfer snatched purs
4 from Edwards at Pendleton.
The Sparta and SPARTA Carson stag
lines in Eastern Oregon have gone int
the hands Of the bondsmen ior th
mail contracts. The reason given wa
s that the contract was taken at too 10y
d rate. and running expenses coul
/. not be made,