The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-28

want to see. / confide in YOU. Don't elope
with Julia while I'm gone"
u Will never be known whether Condor
was joking in his quiet. dry way, or felt
that tie was rcposing a great deal of trust
IN ms visitor. Julia was anything but
beautiful. but he was proud of her.
After leaving WalIa Walla." said Ma
/ Jor Gwydir last night. wild Goose Bill
/ went up to the present site of his ferry on
I the Columbia, below Wilbur. He and his
/ boys, then half grown, put in the ferry
some time later, and accomplished the
! phenomenal feat of building a road from
brand Coulee to the river and on the OPP
posite side from the ferry, across the res
ervatlon to his bridge on the Okanogan
river. Ii is - miles from the coulee to
the ferry and 35 miles further to the
bridge. He built the bridge, too, and all
without outside assistance. That turned
travel his way, of course, and he made
some money. But he never charged a
poor man n cent TO go across. His ferry,
ms table and his stable were always free
TO needy einigrants and poor people who
passed by.
HE took up land and grew to be pretty
well fixed. The townsite of Wilbur was
his property at first. lie lived there close
on to 81 years, and the Indians thought a
heap more of him than they did of Uncle
sam. His word was their law. He was a
radical republican and Okanogan Smith
was just a strong n democrat, but they
were fast friends. Smith was elected to
the state legislature. Bill was rendered
several nominations and had chance to
run Tor tho territorial Legislature in early
days, but he persistently refused. lie
was strong silver man and was public
spirited to a high degree.
wild Goose Bills killing record was Il
Indians and one white man, but ne was a
peaceable man, and after the incident
with the fellow who first put Wild
Goose to his name, ho was as law-abding
as any one. Some of the Indians lost
their lives by interfering with his domes-
tic relations. l remember once when the
sheriff of Walla Walla county and two
deputies passed him with three Indian
murderers as prisoners. Bill had Just
sold his revolver TO a Chinese placer
miner, but the sheriff told him where he
could find another. In going after il no
noticed the approach of 10 Indians in war
paint, coming TO the rescue of their fell |
lows. Well, Bill stood by the sheriff and |
three OF the 10 escaped. The other seven |
breathed their last on that battlefield, and |
'Hc pEIsoueTS went 10 jail. Inc sheriff, |
whose name | have forgotten, was shot |
through both wrists and crippled for life. |
You can't say too much about the |
goodness of Bill Condor. He had his
faults-and who has not-but with differ
ent training he would have been revered
and loved by thousands. His latch-string
was always out, and his money went to
many good cause. Nor was he chari-
liable alone in that way. He always had n
kind word for those who were oppressed
md in trouble, and he would go farther
% help friend than any man knew"
The man with whom Condor fought a
iuel, according to incomplete reports
rom the scene, was young Parks a son of
Old Man" Parks, who kept the stage
station at Grand coulee. The trouble Is
aid to have been about a woman, and
london is reported to have shot her twice
n the arm before opening upon Parks.
Both pulled at the same instant. Parks
ell first.
Il got the --- - -, but guess he's
ot me, too" he shouted, and fell over,
cad.