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Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

would not only mean a direct
main line to eastern markets for
the vast timber tr butary 10 the
John Day but would give water
grade route and cutoff of over
100 miles over the present o. w.
X. & N. over the high Blue
Mountains.
Another feasible and possible
route for taking out the vast
amount of timber on The north
side of the mountains of the Fos-
sill country is by building logging
roads down Thirtymile and run
ming the timber down to Thirty
mile canyon Oh the Condor Fos-
sill extension where a large saw
mill could be built.
In looking over the territory
on this trip it is understood that
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
MAYVILLE LADS
ELOPE WITHFAIR
MISSOURI MAIDS

Montgomery, Mo. Mar. 10
Claude Graham and Tonic Li,lie.
both Of Mayville. Or, young
farmers, secured licenses to mar
ry Maggie and Mamie l. Balm.
bridge here yesterday, and with
the girls eloped to st. Louis,
where. it is believed, they were
married last night. Mrs. Alex
ander Graham, a friend Of the
girls. accompanied the clipping
quartet to st. Louis. The girls
are the daughters of a well to.do
landowner here and have kept
company with the two young
farmers from the Pacific Coast
for some weeks while the latter
visited relatives here. The par
ents and friends of the two girls
knew nothing of the intended
elopement.
Missouri is the SHOW me"
state and the young men of
Montgomery were shown by the
two young men, well known here
how to turn the trick.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
OLEX RESIDENTS
ENJOY PARTY

Olex, Mar. 20, Especial Cores
pondence to the Condor Glohe)-
The party given in Wade's
hall on Saturday evening was
we'll attended and all seemed to
have a good time.
M. E. Weatherford of Arlington
was a visitor on Thursday of last
week.
w. S. Wade and wife returned
from Shepherds Springs on We'd
nesday last.
j. F. Hurt went to Pendldeton
Saturday for a few days visit.
C. w. Martin was an Arlington
visitor Saturday.
j. E. Reynolds of Arlington
was in town on Thursday of last
week.
Bill Eddon of Condor spent
Saturday here.
T. C. Mobley went to Arling
ton Monday.
Glen Keeney went to Condor
Monday.
Geo. Raumgaartner returned
Sunday from Arlington.
Miss Cavy Weatherford wa
an Arlington visitor on Monday
Continued on page 81
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

Oregon agriculture, distribu-
tion of natural products. trans
portation conditions, and the
whole range of agricultural eco
nomy were subjects discussed
and studied on last Saturday in
the Portland Commercial Club by
leaders in all lines of effort, III a
conference with President Kerr
of the 0. A. G. on the methods
to be pursued in organizing the
extension work authorized by
the recent Legislature.
Get away from fruit and
grow wheat, oats and barley, for
which we have a greater demand
than supply" said T, B. Wilcox,
president of the Oregon Develop.
ment League.
Organize for better distribu-
ton, so that the farmer can
make a profit on the enormous
crop he is now growing merely
to waste" said A. P. Davis, Of
the Farmers Union, and operat,
ing a farm in the Grande Rondt
Valley.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

the railroad official found the
old survey of the once proposed
electric line a heavy and most
expensive route to build and
that the extension through May
vile would not only be one Of
heavy grades and out of the way
on account of extended loops
around hills, but that a more
feasible route could be run from
Condor over the old survey down
Thirtymile canyon and then up
Wehrli creek on to the north fork
of Butte creek and up Butte
Creek proper into Fossil. While
this would leave Mayvilie four
miles to the east, the large
amount of grain could easily be
hauled to the railroad because of
the downhill haul from either
the Mayville SIDE or the west
tributary country.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

A special meeting of the coun-
Gil was called on Friday night by
Mayor Burns and all councilmen
were present. The object of the
meeting was to pass on the new
ordinance which provides for
street improvements. the ordi-
nance was read three times and
passed unanimously each time.
1t contains the Bancroft Act and
in other ways provides for the
contemplated improvements of
the streets and especially the
paving OF Main.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
ADOPTING ORDINANCES FOR PAVING

At another special meeting
called Monday night an ordi-
nance prepared by the city en-
gineer, specifying the manner
in which the curbs shall be put
in and providing for a walk IL
feet wide on Main Street, was
adopted. The curb is to be %
feet from the center of the
street, This will make the paved
street Sc feet wide and the walk
will cover the space from the
curb to the buildings.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
MRS.G.W. MARVEL
OF ROCK CREEK
DIESSUDDENLY

Sad are the circumstances sur
rounding the death of Mrs. G.
w. Marvel at her home on Rock
Greek Tuesday afternoon. She
started, with her husband, to
drive to Mikkalo and became i'll
while on the road. They turned
around and drove home and in a
short time Mrs. Marvel became
unconscious, failing to recognize
the members of her own family,
and fingered but a few hours.
She had not shown any symp-
toms of illness and the cause of
her death is known hut is sup
posed to have been heart trouble.
Burial was given yesterday in
the Olex cemetery.
Mrs. Marvel was one of the
pioneers of Gillian county, hav-
ing come here with her husband
in the days of early settlers.
She lived on the same ranch on
the creek for twenty years and
raised a large family. Her loss
will be deeply felt not only by
her family but by all in the
neighborhood in which she lived.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
Grow More Wheat, Oats,
and Barley, Says T. B. Wilcox

Teach the farmer how to get
his product upon the market at
less cost, how to utilize certain
by-produts now unused, and how
to get greater tonnage from less
acreage, said c. E. Spence,
master of the State Grange, who
is a practical farmer of Clacka-
mas county.
President Wilcox of the Devel-
opment League, threw bomb
shell into the meeting by declar-
ing that the state had gone fruit
mad, and while tons and tons OF
berries, apples and other fruits
rotted where they gre v the pre-.
ceding year, he was scraping
the state from one end to the
other to get wheat, barley anC
oats.
There will be no diminutior
to speak of in the price of tloul
for the next 10 years." said Mr.
Wilcox. Wheat is the mos
profitable crop that the Oregon
farmer can turn to just now
Continued on page g.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

Olex. March l6. (SpeciaD That
Gillian county ranches are at
present scenes of greatest activ-
ity is demonstrated on the 1000
acre Kilbourne Ranch on Shut
tier Flat where plowing and seed
ing of spring grain is being done
on an extensive scale. Eighteen
hundred acres are already in
fall wheat and 1900 more acres
are now being sown to spring
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
SHOW AND SUPPER
RECEIPTS ARE $l33

The supper served by the
Catholic ladies on st. Patrick's
evening in the old church was
we'll patronized and the enter
tainment in the Athletic Club
opera house the same evening
was attended by large crowd.
The total receipts of the supper
and the show were $133.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
REP. W. A. CAMPBELL
SLOWLY IMPROVING

Representative Campbell has
moved from the Nisbeth Sanito-
rum in Portland and the Camp
bells now have apartments at the
Barker in that city. Sandy"
is slightly better than he has
been for several weeks.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
$40 CARS OF WHEAT
SHIPPEDFROM CONDOR

Five hundred and twenty cars
of wheat, carrying 720, 666 BUSH
els, have been shipped from Con-
don since September last accord
ing to statistics obtained at the
local depot.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

The Oregon Hotel will serve a
turkey dinner on Easter Sunday
March % from II till 2 p. m.
so cents a plate.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. B. Robertson
went to Portland yesterday.
Mrs. j. w. Donnelly went to
Portland yesterday to visit her
son, Edgar.
N. F. L. Van Slype went to
The Dalles today to visit his
daughter.
]. E. Reynolds shipped a cal
of cattle Monday from the loca
yards to the Portland market.
F. 7. Hurlburt went to Airing
ton today.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21
DR.. N.C. BLALOCK DEAD

DR.. Nelson Gales Blalock. well
known over the entire northwest
died at his Walla Walla home
Friday afternoon. He was one
of the first to see a great future
for the Inland Empire in the up
building of which he has been
great power. He has been
associated with many enterprises
in this section and at one time
owned the island in the Columbia
below Arlington. Mrs. Farr Of
this city is a niece of his and he
had many other relatives in this
county.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

blacksmith shop is located on the
ranch, the owners employing
their own blacksmith.
This large ranch is modern.
the house and barn being lighted
by electricity, and at this time
several new buildings in the way
of machine sheds, a bunkhouse
for the men, etc.. are being
erected.
The owners do not entirely
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

grain, both wheat and barley.
In the plowing and seeding
operations on the Kilbourne
ranch two Caterpillar engines
and six niue teams are being
used, the Caterpillars each pull
ling twelve fourteen-inch plows
and turning under thirty acres
per day A night crew is main
tanned and altogether eighteen
or twenty men are employed. A
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-03-21

devote their time to tie grow
ing of grain for hogs are raised
for home consumption. cure
their own meat and raise all the
necessary garden truck.
The prospects in the neighbor-
hood of Olex are excellent for a
good crop, there being about
eighteen inches of moisture in
the sod.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the new
w postal machine.
If Solomon could see that machine
he would have to sit down in all his
glory and blue-pencil certain edito-
rial about-but never mind. The poor
man is dead.
The inventor who made it is doubt
less at work, this very minute, on a
later model that will put George on
the scrapheap-of course, the machine
may now be named George. 1t just
ought to be, because it does every
thing.
Doubtless, also, the wise men in
charge are up to Georges every screw
and cogwheel, but
To one plain, misunderstanding Ann
woman who got port hole peep
through the depositor's window de-
partment's latest looks like kitchen
ette oven in partnership with a top
roll piano player. with an organ grind
er crank on one side, and pedal
down in front of the roaster that bites
paper like parrot bites fingers
when 1t gets a chance
AS well as she could see through
the nice clerks back, he doesn't have
to rummage any more in that box of
yellow envelopes until he comes to
the one with your number and then
dab it with rubber stamp.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
This Wise Politician Played the Game Both Ways

EII T does not pay to try to train
i with both sides In the political
game "ou are liable to get caught
said Representative Morse of Wiscon-
sim
In order to understand the point
you must know the extremely bitter
fight In my state between the stand
patters, of which a certin senator Is
a leader, and the progressives. with
which wing Of the party l am affili-
ated.
Not long ago a candidate for the
postmastership at the town OF K
sent me the following telegram:
~ have always supported your wing
of the party. l have always trained
with the regulars. want your sup
port for the post Office at K. Please
do what you can for me-
Il was very much mystified at the
message. / could not understand why
he chould use as an argument for my
support that he was a. regular.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
What Two Vanity Fair Girls Saw in the Ghetto

A PLAIN, stout woman was cross
"A ing the cobbles of street down
town. 1t was street broken out all
over in business rash Of second
hand clothing and noisy with foreign
tongues.
The woman herself had the saffron
glazed skin and soot-black hair Of an
other land than ours. Her shabby
black gown was somber enough for
chief mourner, except for an out
b. ct of red on her breast. and
her head was partly covered with a
rusty lace shawl.
A thousand other stout women in
shabby black with shawls over their
heads might have crossed the street
without attracting attention. This
one was the exception. And it is the
exception that counts.
Two young women Of Vanity Fair,
who must have been making a short
cut for somewhere to account for such
style in so dubious quarter, stop
ped short at sight of the woman
with the saffron skin, the rusty black
with it's red rose anu the lace
shawl.
Look at that, will you! Did you
ever see anything so picturesque off
the stage? If l could look like that
woman I'd spend the rest of my life
with shawl on my head"
Lets start it. Grandma's got a
lovely lace shawl. It's white. but she
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
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JOHN NL.THOMPSON SONS S&GO., ,Troy,N.Y
REALLY A SOUND INVESTMENT
sanatorium Where tuberculosis May
Be Cured Is Worth Much to
Any State or City.

DR.. H. L. Barnes, superintendent o.
the Rhode Island State sanatorium,
has recently demonstrated by some in
teresting studies of patients discharg-
ed as apparently cured" from that in
Stltution, that sanatorium is sound
investment for any state or city. The
gross earnings of 10 ex-patients OBJ
tained in 1911 amounted to $102,752,
and those of 211 cases in 1912 to $112,-
O21. By applying the same average
earning to all ex-patients of the sana-
torium living in 1911 and 1912, DR..
Barnes concludes that their income in
these two years was $551, 900. This
sum is more than three times the cost
of maintenance of the sanatorium in
Guiding interest at 4 per cent on the
original investment and depreciation
charges. DR.. Barnes concludes, how
ever. While institutions for the cure
of tuberculosis are good investments.
there is good reason for thinking that
institutions for the isolation of far ad-
vanced cases would be still better in.
yestments." g.--.- -..--.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25

Until Washington gets used to the
~ members of the presidents family
society and the attendance at public
places are liable to get right fused
up. The first appearance of the three
Misses Wilson's at a theater alone oc-
Cured one afternoon recently, when
they went to the play house to hear
a noted pianist They came in the
White House automobile, which has
the coat-of-arms Of the United States
on the doors and on the big ornamen-
tai front piece. They left their three
fur coats in the auto and were shown
by the ushers through the public en-
trance to the theater. Presently some
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
JAPAN is RICH IN WORDS
It Has More Than Nine for a." to Be
Used According to Cir
cumstances.

There are great differences between
the richness and poorness Of words
n the different countries. Japan Is
certainly richer in its words than Eng
land. Just for example, we have more
than nine words for the word 81"
The emperor alone calls himself
Chin" and all his subjects call them
selves "Watakushi," "Washi," "Ore.
"Boku," "Sessha," "Soregashi."
Ware" "Yo," etc., according to cir
cumstances. The second or third per
son changes as much as the first per
son, 81" and all the verbs accordingly.
When l started tG learn the English.
first time, asked my American teach
er: What shall call myself before
the EMPEROR" He said 81"
Then what shall l say before my
parents?"
'T."
What shall say before my man
lends? And before my woman
iGpds?"
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
Presidential Girls Go About the City Unattended

kid discovered the White House auto
in front Of the theater, and informed
the ushers. Then there was a great
confusion of voices. CONSERVATION
reigned supreme among the theater
employees when they discovered that
the ladies of the White House had
passed unknown through the public
entrance of the theater instead Of go.
ing by the inside entrance. They had
taken their places in box. however
and so nothing could be done. The
young ladies were attired very hand.
somely Miss Margaret Wilson, wear.
ing a dark blue costume, with brown
straw hat with taupe feathers; Miss
Jessie Wilson, in a charming street
dress of black charmeuse trimmed in
bands of fur, and Miss Eleanor Wilson
in a costume of white lace and black
satin, over which she wore long
coat Miss Jessie Wilson was decid.
edly picturesque in big white felt hat
worn with her black costume, which
had for a trimming white coque plum.
age, and the brim underlined with
black velvet.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
All He Wanted.

A Boston man tells of certain i--
repressible bore who always made
use of formula when anyone sought
to put him off and thus spare the OBJ
jects of his attention the annoyance OF
an interview with him. This formula
was: But assure you want but one
word with him-only one word!"
On one occasion he sought out a
noted lawyer. The latter's clerk met
him very solemnly with: ''Why,
haven't you heard? Mr.. Blank died
last night"
The words were scarcely out of the
clerks mouth when the applicant was
saying, conciliatingly: But l assure
you | want but one word with him
only one world" .o-t. ..'
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25

might let us have 1t dyed"
Silly! Haven't you been wear
ing scarfs right along? My silver
gauze isn't a patch on that old lace
thing I'll bet it's full of holes"
1T isn't the veil, it's that odd red
flower. If she makes a red rag look
like that, wonder what she could do
with these sweet peas?"
The stylish two started on, and
the other woman sauntered along on
the sunny side of the street. The
blood red flower glowed in dramatic
contrast to its somber setting, but it
was the rusty lace shawl that made
her different from that thousand 9TH
er women
For in the lace mantilla of her coun-
try is folded the romance of old Spain.
The mystery of it's grace cannot be
learned from a fashion page. 1t must
be taught in Spain.
And by way of a first lesson one
must be born there.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25

being filtered through greenery. The
wide leaves of the wild banana and
the frequent palms give very tropi-
cal air to the scenery. Noises are
few; occasionally large bird will ut
ter its call, an iguana will rush
through the rustling leaves, or some
monkeys will chatter as they swing
through the creepers overhead. Bril-
liant metallic blue Morpho butterflies
fit silently through the more open
aisles and the tracks of night wander
ing animals can be seen on the
ground
The little footprints of cutias and
pecas are resent on the firmer
ground, and the curious serrated lines
made by the plates of both croco-
diles' and turtles armor occur nearer
the waters edge. Ants swarm on the
trees, and nearly all inf1ict painful
bites, and there are several kinds OF
wasps and bees, which either suspend
their nests from twigs or else build
in rolled up leaves; all would seem to
be the guardians of orchids and to do
their utmost to repel the despoiler.
Ants as Guardians.
Some orchids always have their
roots in ants nests, and one kind.
which I subsequently obtained at the
cost of an aching hand, had little
hole at the base of each pseudo bulb
in which a large black ant had its
habitation and of which it proved a
most faithful guardian. The orchid
turned out to be an oncidium. with
delicate sprays of yellow flowers
thickly spotted with chocolate brown.
My companions had been searching
for turtle eggs, but without success,
and we cooked a supply Of curry and
rice, and had as dessert a plentiful
supply of passion fruit.
1t was six o'clock and darkness was
falling. l made haste to bathe at the
brink Of the river and then to get un-
der my mosquito curtains. And not a
moment too soon. AS the light faded
with a soft suddenness of the equa-
torial regions, insect life emerged for
it's nocturnal loves and feastings, its
dances, music, flights and battles. And
for many of these revels blood, and
especially human blood, is a longed
for prize. If an incautious hand Of a
restless foot were pressed against tha
curtain for a moment, a cloud OF mos
quitoes Immediately settled on 1t and
drove their relentless trunks into the
veins.
No European who has not himself
seen them could credit the myriads Of
mosquitoes which haunt these forest
streams, and as the few inhabitants Of
these regions are all suffering from
malaria, great care has to be taken.
The noises that all these insects made
seemed to rise and fall in waves Of
sound, now becoming intensely shrill.
now dying away to comarative still.
ness. My companions had fallen
asleep in their hammocks; from the
river were heard only faint ripping
sounds, and l composed myself for
sleep. Never was there a greater
delusion, it was indeed a mutt blanche.
Mysterious scamperings came from
the edge of the forest above me; a
great splash came from the river and
close at hand something rose. sighed.
moaned and sank. Bats sQueaked and
blundered against my nets, creeping
things left the river and scuttled
over the sand. 1t was too dark to see
anything; the sound Of all This un-
known activity had a curious effect
on the nerves and vivid stories OF
e,eat snakes, of jaguars and croco-
diles came to the mind.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
Uncle Sans Postal Machine Performs Wonders
He let's George do it.

He let's George do it.
All the nice clerk has to do now is
to play little fandango on the top
roll piano, take a crisp note from the
oven, turn the organ crank make the
pedal thing snap a round bite out of
your certificate, and-and-
But, maybe, it might be more relia-
bly, satisfactory for you to go your
own self to the postal window with a
nice little bill and tell the clerk you
want to belong. You mustn't get
nervous. For while he Is a clerk who
looks clever enough to write a law
book, there is also a something about
him that makes you know he could be
tagged for Fairgrounds and scouts.
And you can stand up like a soldier
and tell your truly age. He will never
breathe 1t, for two reasons One Is
official reference. The other is that
he doesn't care cahoot.
If you are a prosaic person with
eyes like that hawk that lends itself
so accommodatingly to sigh-compari-
sons, you will see in George merely
an invention which will do things for
the clerk, but
If your mathematical capacity per-
mits you to put two and two together
and make five of it, the new machine
takes on the aspect of that other
George, who is there to help you down
your wolf, as once he downed his own
dragon.
And to have help in your battle with
the wolf means something. II you
have ever glimpsed the sharp white
of his teeth.
N. Bit is always safest to hedge.
Maybe the machine isn't so brand-new,
after all, except to the woman. And
to Solomon.
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
Candid Confession.

when l was young feller," said
Farmer Corntossel, they didn't dance
turkey trots and tangos"
81 suppose you feel superior on that
account"
'Dunno's I do. We danced all the
dances they was. The. only reason
we didn't do trots an tangos was that
Va hadn't thought of 'em.r
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25

Il was enlightened, though. very
shortly, for l received a second mes
sage. 1t read: 'Telegrapher made a
mistake. Message intended for you
sent to Senator -. He has yours.
"On exchanging kilograms with the
senator, l found them very similar
His read:
II have always supported your wing
OF the party. / have always trained
with the progressives. / want your
support for the post office at x
Please do what you can for me-
The Ely miner., 1913-04-25
Childish Constancy.

II only we realized it, il only we cul-
tivated it more, we could see with
clear-eyed vision that all of a child's
original nature breathes constancy. 1t
is an essential strength of the unde-
filed child's nature to be constant Not
until our own false examples have at.
tackled the natural purity of the child
does it become inconstant-unre!iab
Harriet Beecher Stowe.