Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-01-01
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS or INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
or THE STATE.
New Church at Brownsville a Christmas
Pardon from Governor deer-P Prosper
oas Hop RaIsers Of YamhlII County =
Great PruBs industry at Dallas : The
Rosebarg Poultry Show.


Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Elliott, Of
Dallas, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary December %.
Governor Geer has granted full
pardon TO George Morey, who was
serving life sentence for killing Gus
Berry In Portland in 1898.
A night pumpman at the White
Swan mine, at Baker City, is dead
from falling into an old shaft contain
ing boiling hot water from the exhaust
Of the engine.
The Southern Pacific has been petit
toned by the interested residents in the
neighborhood to make some important
changes in its train service on the
YamhilI division.
The agent OF the Oregon raft COM
pany reports good progress in obtaining
the right Of way for the proposed log
ging railway up Milton creek, and sur
seyors will be placed in the field at
once TO take levels.
The neW Methodist church at
Brownsville was dedicated last Sunday
morning. After the ceremony was
completed the sum of 81 200 was
pledged by the people to pay off the re-
naming Indebtedness.
]. II. Olds and con, pioneer hop
raises OF Yamhill county, have leased
20 acres near Lafayette and are setting
it out to hops. They contracted their
hops this year at I3 cents, but they
won't contract next years crop.
The poultry show at Roseburg has
closed, and was great success in every
way. As novel testimony as to the
climate of Oregon, the Judge OF the
show was furnished with q dish OF
fiesh-picked raspberries every morning.
Frank Wallace, Grant county sheep
man, was recently arrested on a charge
OF stealing 28 valuable bucks, but was
subsequently acquitted. He now
brings suit for SIC, 900 damages against
his accusers, one of whom is county
STOCK inspector
Salem is making preparations to
enlarge her city limits.
The superintendent of the Tunnel
ton mines, in the Gold Creek district,
has gone to Denver to purchase a
milling plant for the development of
the properties.
A joint "log-rolling" given by Ash
land and Phoenix Camps, Woodmen
of the World, was largely attended by
delegations from Southern Oregon
and Northern California, and was a
grand success.
The prune industry around Dallas
is being enlarged this season, as evil
denced by the large sales OF nursery
stock being made. ]. B. Num-, agent
for Portland nursery, reports having
sold to date over 10000 prune trees
this fall in the immediate vicinity of
Dallas, with large orders on hand un-
filled. This locality last season had
very near full crop of Italians, which
it is claimed cannot be said OF any
other locality in the world. The fruit
was par excellent, and so per cent of
the crop was shipped direct to London,
10 carloads leaving Dallas in a single
shipment.
Prof. G. l.. Mckay, head of the
dairy department of the State Agri-
cultural College of Iowa, says:
There is no question in my mind
but that uairy products and bacon
pork can be produced cheaper in
Oregon than in any other country in
the world" Prof. Mckay has visited
Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Ger
many. and Eengand, and his investi-
cations on this subject make him an
authority unsurpassed.