THE CONDON GLOBE
H..A. HARTSHORN
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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1907.
Ed. Bigbee who has been work
ing in the timber in Linn County
for the Dast eight months came
up from Lebanon Sunday evening
for a two weeks visit with
friends in and around Condon.
Earl Thouvenel has taken a
position as assistant type setter
in the Globe office.
M.H.Abbey who been in Port
land for the past week attending
to business matters returned
; Wednesday evening.
Dr. Donnelly formerly of Fos
; sil passed through town Wednes
day morning on his way to Port
" land. The doctor expects to lo
cate and practice medicine in Con
don in the near future.
-
Geo. Campbell, an expert en
gineer who formerly lived at Ar
lington, came in from Portland
Wednesday evening to repair G.
S, Smith's threshing engine.
J. A. Eberle left Tuesday for
Portland and other points in the
Valley on a business trip.
Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Wood and
little son left Tuesday morning
for Seaside to spend a few weeks.
The doctor will attend
the convention of the
State Board of Health and the
State Medical Society which
meets at Seaside on July 13th.
; Mrs. C. F. Kennedy and child
ren left Tuesday for Alba, Ore
gon, where they will visit with
Mrs. Kennedy's parents for a
couple of months.
C.F. Kennedy was a Clem vis
itor Tuesday.
Chas. Wilkins came up from
Clem Monday evening and
brought a sample of wheat from
Henry Wilkins field which stands
five feet and ten inches in height
The heads are plump and well
filled and in every way it is as
good a sample of wheat as can
be found anywhere.
; Mrs. J. A. Scott left Wednes
day morning for Walla Walla,
Washington where she will visit
all summer with Mr. Scott's par
ents. Frank Purdy of Fossil passed
through town Wednesday morn
ing on his way to Douglas.
Mr. Purdy says he expects to start
a dairy ranch in the near future,
' P.C. Parker of Oakland, Oreg
; on came in Monday evening for
a weeks visit with his son, At
torney Parker. Mr. Parker has
been visiting his son at Pilot Rock
and is now on his to his home.
The 0. R. &N. Co. expects to'
.handle about 1500 cars of wheat
on the Arlington-Condon branch
, this season. This means about
750,000 sacks or 1 million, bush
'els beside the large amount that
will be milled and fed here. They
expect about 600 cars from Con
don alone.
) The Kerr, Gifford Warehouse
Co. have handled 805,000 pounds
of wool this season. The wool
is practically all disposed of
and they are now - get
ting ready to take care of part of
the big wheat crop.
Jay Bowerman left Wednesday
morning for The Dalles to make
final proof on the homestead fil
ed on by his brother. From
there he will go to Portland and
Salem to attend to business
matters.
Mr. and Mrs. E. P. "Mahaffey
left Sunday morning for a week's
visit in Portland with friends
and relatives. They will also
probably spend a week at the
springs before returning. ;
C K. Andrews has charge of
of the Arlington-Condon branch
during Conductor Mahaffey'a ab
sence. Claude says it does him
good to get back to Condon.
E. M. Larkin left Tuesday for
lone to unload snd set up the
combined harvesters he sold in
that vicinity. Mr. Larkin has
unloaded and set up in the last
ten days six in Condon, two at
Clem and one at Shuttler.
- Rafe Hankins. who spent the
fourth in Fossil, passed through
town Monday morning on his
way to Eugene where he is
working for a sawmill company.
Mrs. J. W. Kane who has been
in Condon and vicinity for a cou
ple of weeks left Monday morn
ing for The Dalles to make final
proof on her homestead. From
there she will go to her home in
Portland.
Jay Barr, the city waterworks
man, moved his household goods
to the city's ranch on Hay Creek
where he will have charge of the
large engine recently installed
there. Mr. and Mrs. Barr will
probaoly remain there all sum
mer.
W. N. Patullo transacted busi
ness at Arlington Tuesday.
The First National Bank has
installed an up-to-date adding
machine.
J. J. Wasson will move his
grocery store about August 1 in
to the room in the Merrifield
building now occupied by C. H.
Williams.
John Jackson's dog, Piper,
was poisoned Wednesday night.
It is not supposed that anyone
done it intentionally but that he
picked up some poisoned meat
that someone had thrown out,
It is a bad practise to put out
poison for anything.
The longest long-distance flight
ever attempted by an aeronaut
in a dirigible baloon will be un
dertaken this week by Roy Kna-
benshue, the Toledo aeronaut,
He will undertake to sail his new
passenger ship from Toledo to
Cleveland, a distance of 123
miles, on an average speed of 20
miles an hour.
D. J. Willson, familiarly,
known as "Jap" Wilson died at
his home on his ranch near the
mouth of Thirtymile, Wednes
day morning at 3 o'clock. He
was suddenly taken sick on Mon
day morning and Dr. Wood was
called. His condition was hot
serious at that time and .after
prescribing for him Dr. Wood
returned to town. He rapidly
became worse and, Dr. Wood
having in the meantime left for
Seaside, Dr. Gavey was called on
Tuesday and found him suffering
from acute intestinal obstruction
followed by peritonitis which cau
sed his death. He leaves a wife
and three children to mourn his
loss.
So far as workinsr Durnoses
are concerned, the fiscal year of
the government closed on July
5th. The year has been finan
cially, a prosperous one, there
being a surplus of $87,000,000.
which is one of the largest net
balances ever had.
In three crumbling columns of
sandstone, in an almost inacess
ible region of Nubia, Professor
James Henry Breasted of the
Chicago University has discover
ed the only remaining monument
of Ikhnaton, "the greatest of
the Pharoahs", and ended a
a search of more than 3,000 years
by the scientists of past centu
ries. These relics are declared
to be the most valuable finds of
the present century and are all
that is left of the gorgeous Sun
Temple of Sesibi, in the buried
city of Gm-Ytn.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission decision given on July 8,
in the case of Georgia Edwards
against the Nashville, Chattano
go St. Louis Railroad, held
that where a railroad provided
certain accommodations for a
first-class passenger of the white
race it is commanded by law that
the same acemmodations shall be
provided for negroes who have
purchased first-class tickets.
The baseball management is
trying to secure a game with
the Antelope team to be played
at Condon. The Antelope team
has been playing good ball this
year and when these two teams
meet it should be worth coming
miles to see. No arrangement
has been made as yet but it is
safe to say that it will not be
long before this game, as both
teams are anxious to play.
- A few more days of weather
like we have had during the past
ten days and the wheat will be
out of danger from the hot winds
which are the terror of
fanner. Some of the grain is
already ripe euough to cut and
with a little more of the hot wea
ther Gilliam County will have
the biggest wheat crop in histo
ry. Everybody is keeping tab
on the wind and getting ready to
harvest There are hundreds of
acres in this vicinity which, it is
reported, will average forty bu
shels and the great difficulty
will be in securing the help nec
essary to harvest it
It is certain that the Japanese
in this country have been well
treated both before and since the
war. During the war with Rus
sia the sympathy of a large ma
jority of the American people
was outspokenly in favor of the
Japanese but ever since that time
they have manifested an inclina
tion to take umbrage on the
slightest provocation and there
is beginning to be a suspicion
that what has heretofore been
the cockiness which comes from
a brilliant success is in reality a
deliberately planned campaign to
provoke trouble. But it is with
a nation as it is with an individ
ual Whoever seeks trouble usu
ally has little trouble in finding
it. Uncle Sam wants peace but
he has a certain amount of self
respect that he must and is quite
likely to maintain. Japan is
neither discreet nor wise in the
way it has managed its internal
relations 'since the recent war
but it should be under no misap
prehension about the United
States. This country fears no
other, least of all Japan, and
while it will do all it can to hon
orably avoid trouble, when trou
ble begins it will be found at the
front Telegram.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. McElwee
who came here from Vernon,
Texas, last fall and afterward
went back to Texas have decided
that Gilliam County is a pretty
good place after all and returned
Monday evening. ,
Geo, S. Smith came up from
Arlington Wednesday evening.
R. L." Hunt left Sunday morn
ing on a business trip to Port
land. He also attended the
druggists convention at Seaside.,
He returned Wednesday even
ing. Polk McPherson was a busi
ness visitor at Clem Wednesday.
Coffin Bros, have sold their
58,000-acre farm in Klickitat
County, Washington toaJSpokane
syndicate for $400,000.00.
A big horse roundup will soon
take place in Klickitat
and Benton counties. It is es
timated that there is between
8000 and 10000 horses upon this
range which is one of the largest
in the west About 150 riders
will take part in the roundup.
" Mrs. G. T. McArthur and two
children left Wednesday morn
ing for Mountain Home where
they will visit for three weeks
with Mrs.McArthur'8 father and
sister.
Evan Anderson left Monday
morning for Mikkalo where he
will paint the new store building
recently erected by F. Little.
Howard Tobey left Monday
morning with ten cars of sheep
for Colorado. He will run the
sheep on the range in Colorado
for a couple of months and will
then shiii them to Chicago. Em
mett Cooney accompanied Mr,
Tobey and will go through to
Chicago with the sheep.
Geo. Knox of Fossil shipped a
car of horses to Portland Monday
morning, Steve Thomas went
with the horses and will handle
them for Mr Knox.
J. R. Wells was a business vis
itor at The Dalles Monday and
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Weigl left
this morning for The Dalles where
they will visit for a couple of
weeks with friends and relatives.
Construction trains are now
being run on the 'nor th bank road
from Pasco almost as far west
as Arlington and ties and rails
are being laid at the rate of a
mile and a half a day. The com
pany promised that they would
have trains running as far west
as The Dalles in July and it be
gins to look as if they were go
ing to do it
The railroad company has
awakened to the necessity of
having water at the Condon
stock yards and the work has
been ordered done as soon as
possible. The tools are already
here and as soon as the men ar
rive the work will be rushed.
R, H. Robinson left Thursday
morning for a few days' visit in
Portland. Mrs. Robinson is in
Portland and they will probably
spend a week at Seaside before
returning.
A number of people have ex
pressed their appreciation of the
music and place of rest furnish
ed by C. H. Williams in the roon
in the north side of the Condon
National Bank Building during
the celebration.
j S. B. Hartshorn brought in three
: turnips this week that averaged
twenty-one inches in circumfer
ence One of the turnips weigh
ed four and one-half pounds and
would easily make a meal for a
good sized family. This is anoth
er illustration of what Gilliam
County's soil can do when hand
; led In the right way.
' Chas. Wilkins of Clem was a
Condon visitor Sunday evening.
Eugune E. Schmitz, mayor of "
San Francisco, was on July 8th
sentenced to five years imprison
ment in San Queutin penitentiary
by Judge Dunne on conviction
of the crime of extortion from
French restaurants. ; 5
Walter May who has been
working at Heppner since the
first of the month returned Thu
rsday evening.
The Condon base ball team will
go to Clem Sunday ; to
play the Clem team. The Clem
; boys are not satisfied with the
' showing they made here during
, the celebration and want a chance
to retrieve their reputation.
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There is some talk of organiz
ing a troop of rough riders in
j Condon in view of the trouble
; between this country and Japan.
; H. W. Pauling and R. H. Rob
; inson expect to move their bus
i iness into the old Gilliam County
'bank building about the first of
August
! Mrs. Gus Burres is on the sick
I list this week.
Mrs. A. Palmer of Ajax was
in town Thursday.
Geronimo, the old Apache
: warrior, while attending a celeb
ration at Cache, Oklahoma made
' an attempt to escape into Mex
' ico. He said that he had heard
j of the Apache troubles near El
; Paso and wanted to help his
people fight
j A new and( startling ex
planation for the sending of the
j Atlantic fleet to the Pacf ic ocean,
is that American secret agents
in Japan have sent sensational
information to this country that
Japan is active in a certain direc
tion. The, Mikado is said to be
planning a coup in spite of all ap
pearances to the contrary. Or
egon Journal.
- According to statistics recent
. ly compiled by the Office of Pub
lic Roads in the Department of
Agriculture, .there are nearly
2,500,000 miles of public roads in
this country, only a small per
, centage of which are improved
although an expenditure of near
ly $80,000,00 per annum is ap
; plied to the maintenance of these
I roads.
; An advance copy of the Offici
al Call of the Fifteenth National
Irrigation Congress has been re
ceived by this office. It is issued
from the Headquarters of the
Congress at Sacramento, Cal.
and announces that this impor-1
tant convention wll be held in
that city from the second to the
seventh of next September. The
document recites the purposes of
the Congress, invites the ap
pointment of delegates by organ
ized bodies "of all f kinds, and
announces special rates over all
railway lines to California. The
Interstate Irrigation and Fores
try Exposition, the California.
State Fair and special harvest
excursions over California are
among the entertainment fea
tures promised those who attend.
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