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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Mistress Of Monterev
SYNOPSIS

In Spanish-governed California of 1888 a
conflict between Church and State is repre-
scented by two friendly enemies, frai old
Fray Junipero Sierra, franciscan mission
airy. and Don Pedro FACES, civil governor.
After telling Sierra he Is sending to Mexico
for his wife and son, whom he has not seen
for eight years, he refuses his aid toward
founding the Santa. Barbara Mission, Dona
Eulalia agrees to go to California, accom-.
panied by her duenna, Angustias. Don Pc
dro sends for Sierra, telling him that two
priests are on their way from Mexico with
Eulalia and young Pedro and that he is
leaving to meet them. FACES engages a
young Indian girl, Indizuela, as maid for
Eulaha. Eulalia sails from San Bias. 1t is
desolate trip. From the port of Lorets, a
large cavalcade loaded with Eulalia's party
starts out for the long overland trip. Eula-
liza. accustomed to luxury and comfort bit
terly regrets having been persuaded to
come. The two priests, Fray Mariana and
Fray Bartolomeo, call on her and arouse
her suspicious as to their genuineness. AS
the cavalcade stops at various missions,
EuIalia hears rumorS OF the approach OF
her husband. While Don Pedro plans a
great fiesta to welcome his wife, Eulalia
plans her costume. Don Pedro welcomes
his beautiful wife and young son. Eulalia
IS toasted as the Queen of the CALIFORNIA;.
On the long journey to Monterey, the re.
united couple are royalty entertained at the
Preside at San Diego. Eulalia disapproves
OF the democratic relations of Don Pedro
and his people. Pleading WEAKNESS in the
midst of the feast she goes to bed where
Angustias tells her she knows Eulalia is
again to become a mother. Don Pedro is
disturbed by the developments in the char
acter of the priests and breads Serra's dis
appointment in them. Limping from mis-
sion to mission Father Sierra has vision of
St. Francis and tells his sanity master that
he will be ready to join him when Santa
Barbara Mission is founded. Meanwhile
Eulalia finds there is a conflict between
Sierra and Don Pedro and plans to use the
priest as an ally. After a f1attering wei.
come at Monterey, Eulalia is bitterly dis.
appointed in the preside.
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A. L.-You have spent so much
time and energy in your detective
work that one can only congratulate
you on the fruit of your labors. A
more sympathetic soul than mine
would tell you that you had been
badly used, but it seems to me that
any girl SO constantly surrounded
with suspicion was bound to get a
few wrong ideas in her head.
You have refused to trust her
from the minute you met her. You
have always accused her of the
worst You have fought down any
impulse rising in you to believe
that she was worthwhile. Are you
surprised that after three years she
has decided to put some of your sug.
gestions into practical use?
I believe this is the first time
she's ever deceived you and / also
believe that if you took her back
now, you'd be doing the one thing
which would save you both from
misery. But you must make up
your mind to put away the sleuth's
outfit when you marry her. To live
with a house-detective is enough to
put any woman into the frame of
mind where she feels impelled to
60 out and do some of the things her
charming husband has suggested.
G Bell Syndicate.-WNU Service.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Giants Short Lived

The circus giant, the man with
abnormally long legs or other alb
normalities of frame, is a short
lived human. Tall men fall into
two classes, those who attain their
extraordinary growth because of in
herited tendencies and those who
become freaks because of some up
set in the glandular functions. The
man who "comes by his height nat
urally" usually lives normal life
span, but the freak seldom attains
middle age. An insurance compa-
ny, given to research in such mat
tiers, found that number of men
ranging from 2 feet inches tall to
8 feet z inches had an average life
of thirty-four years. The oldest died
at forty-ive, the youngest at TWEEN.
ty-seven.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
CHAPTER XIV

'My Lady, he is coming, Padre
Sierra is coming!" exclaimed Angus
tias from her lookout at one of the
barred windows. ''He is walking
across the parade-grounds toward
the palacio."
"Ah!" said Eulalia with an excjt-
ed f1utter. "Quick, Angustias, hand
me my sewing. You, Indizuela, pull
up a chair here to the fire for the
holy father, and be quick about it.
Angustias, is there chocolate made?
Escabellito! Where are you, you
imp? Here, get where you belong"
The child Topped on the floor fac
ing the fire, and La Gobernadora
settled her feet comfortably on his
round back.
"All right, Angustias. Open the
door for him."
When Junipero Sierra, who had
trudged across the hills from the
Mission Carmelo, limping on his ul-
cered leg with Pho beside him,
reached the door of the palacio, he
paused. Angustias, with a deep bow
and murmured greeting, ushered
him within.
ITO BE CONTINUED)
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I need not tell you what they are.
You know them. Why did you bring
Rubi and Gill here? To insult me?
To desecrate the Mission San Carlos,
whose bricks are made from my
flesh and moistened with my
blood?"
He tottered and FACES put hand
toward him.
FRAY Junipero-"
"Touch me not! Your hands are
unclean! You are betraying your
trust! Betraying the Holy Church."
FACES took a quick breath.
FRAY Juniperol" he cried stern
ly. "Those are serious charges
against me! I did not choose the
two priests who came from Mexico.
They were sent by others"
"Then 1 am betrayed in Mexico!"
"No! No one is betraying you!
But your own suspicious are"
"Ah-ah-mea culpa-mea maxi
ma culpa-" He tottered again.
Again the Governor moved to sup
port him, but Fray Junipero stag
gered to the great chest and leaned
against it.
Leave me, infidel, unbeliever!
You who stand in the way of the
Mission of Santa Barbara-dearest
wish of my heart-to be the bright
est pearl in the Virgins crown
Go! And if it were in my power to
send you-like Lucifer out of Heav-
en-away from this land your pres
ence curses, would do it, God help
me, would do i'll"
He choked, and bent his head in
his hands. Tears trickled through
the fingers that had woven and sewn
raiment for Indians, and built adobe
houses to shelter the heather.
The Governor went quickly from
the apartment. Then he walked
slowly into the church, knelt a mo-
ment and sat beside his wife. She
looked in alarm at his face.
"Pedro," she whispered, what"
He touched her hand. Nothing"
he said, ''hush."
She could hear his heavy breath
ing. His fingers strayed to his beard.
Then fray Junlpero entered the
church, and they rose.
He celebrated the mass in a
hoarse voice, then turned to climb
the steps to the pulpit. Eulalia
gasped when she saw his face, gray
above the stiff richness of his bro
caded robe. Twice he stumbled and
nearly fell. Eulalia watched the
veined hand on the rail of the balus-
trade with fascination.
A bell, suspended from the center
of the wooden canopy over the pull
pit, rang mysteriously. The Indians
turned their eyes toward it, saw it
ringing without aid of human hands,
and fell to their knees in supersti-
tious awe.
Then the priest began to speak.
The huskiness left his voice, and it
rang loud and clear in the still
church. What he said, Eulalia did
not know, but the words poured
forth in ringing cadence.
Suddenly, feeling her husband be-
side her gripping the arms of the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Keeping Up
WNjil&Seien{e
&SeA"@M2e,4e
Waters of Colorado
Soon to Irrigate
the Platte Valley
@ Science service.-wNU Service.
BY RONALD l.. IVES

Denver, Colo.-WaterS now
roaring down the unvisited can
yons of the upper Colorado riv-
er soon will ripple placidly
through the irrigation bitches
of the Platte valley, 40 miles to
the east of the river gorges and
across the IA, 000-foot-high Colo
RADIO front range. Work has be-
gun on the long-debated Colo
RADIO Big Thompson Trans
mountain Diversion project.
Armed with good maps and $40,-
100000, hard rock men of the United
States bureau of reclamation have
started their drills roaring in the
first bores for the 1874 mile tunnel
through the backbone of the con-
tinent. Grand lake, carved long ago
from the living granite by Ice-age
glaciers, will become an irrigation
reservoir, storing water that will
later gurgle through the great tun-
mel, to issue near the little town of
Estes Park and fall into a power
penstock.
After generating power, the water
will flow to storage reservoirs at the
edge of the great plains, and later
go to the thirsty beet fields of the
Platte valley.
Relief for the "Sugar Bowl"
Designed to remove forever the
spectre of water shortage from the
farms of northeastern Colorado, and
to generate cheap power for farm
machines and mining equipment,
this diversion project will bring no
new land under cultivation. Only
lands now under irrigation will re-
ceive the water from the Colorado
river.
Fast becoming a dustbowl, with
surface water entirely used for irri-
cation and underground water sup
plies mined out during the last
drouth, the water needs of the
Platte valley, Colorado's "Sugar
Bowl" have increased yearly.
bitches already have been run
miles back into the hills to catch
each little stream at it's source.
Now, all the streams on the east
ern slope are harnessed, and there
is no possibility of getting more wa
ter from them.
Through the Front Range.
Colorado river water, until now
largelywasted in violent spring floods
caused by sudden melting of the
mountain snow, and flowing through
lands unsuited to cultivation,
seemed the only solution to the
Platte valleys problem. The Front
Range, rising more than a mile
above the river valley, presented
only one Of several obstacles. Now,
with tunnel construction planned,
and storage reservoir construction
starting, the transmountain water
diversion will soon be an accom-
plished fact.
From the reservoirs, bitches will
extend, like the arms of an octopus,
to gather in the water of each little
stream in the region. A lower res
ervoir, built in the melting basin of
the long-extinct Monarch Valley gla-
cier, with dam in the deep-cut
granite canyon of the Colorado riv-
er, will collect the water as it runs
in. Above, at the tunnel mouth,
Grand lake will be enlarged, and
fitted with special spillways to keep
it's level constant. Power general
ed at the eastern end of the tunnel
will be wired across the storm
swept range and used to pump wa
ter from the lower reservoir to the
upper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Chestnuts Food for Slaves

The early Romans considered the
chestnut cheap food for slaves and
peasants. Hence many chestnut
trees were grown. They are known
in Italy as mountain bread. An in
dication of their ancient use is in the
old Italian proverb which says,
"Chestnuts belong to him who peels
them"
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Can Mere Affection
Be a Good Substitute
for LOue?

nEAR MISS DENE: What do you
~ think of affection as a substi-
tute for love, as far as getting mar
ried is concerned? I want to mar
ry but can feel nothing but affection
for my future husband. Is there
any hope for happiness?-A. w.
MISUNDERSTANDING depends on
your age, A. w. No one can make
hard and fast rules about affec-
tomato marriages in general but a
good many points must be consid-
cred before undertaking such a re-
lationship.
Young people should marry for
love, and no nonsense about it. For
while we're young our hope OF ro-
nance is high and if it is denied
us, we yearn for it all our lives and
imagine ourselves cheated of LIES
dearest gift-even though we may
be admirably suited to the mates
we chose.
No matter how much the modern
writer's attempt to analyze love into
shreds, it must still be for the
young, a vital spark, feeling for
which there is no accounting. 1t is
absolutely right that young people
should ask themselves practical
questions about the mates they have
chosen, but before they begin their
self cross-examination they should
first have experienced something
deeper than affection, something be-
yond reason.
Young people cannot afford to do with-
out the vital spark. They cannot hope to
substitute for il, financial security or good
solid affection or a satisfactory compdn.
ionship. They must knotD something OF
the first careless rapture before they can
decide to get along Without it forever.
But men and tUomen OF ripper years may
,UeU marry for reasons other than sheer
heart.buning love. A man or a Donian
,Uho has kno,Un love, and the bitterness
OF remuneration or establishment, may
find peace and happiness ,oith tolerant.
understanding, sympathetic mate.
Spinsters and bachelors who have
been lonely for years find peace and
contentment in marriage, even
though the tender passion be denied
them.
A man may marry for the second
time and be as happy with the wife
he has chosen to keep him COM
Portable as he was with his first
wife who gave him love. A woman
may divorce her husband, whom
she once loved passionately, and
settle down serenely with man for
whom she has only affection.
Middle-age has learned loves les
son and is willing to compromise
with life and take what's offered
for contentment's sake. Loneliness
and middle-age can make marriage
seem a haven of refuge even though
it be a marriage of convenience
pure and simple.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Lifeless Zones in Sea

Tulsa, Okla. = Mysterious, evil
smelling, lifeless zones in the seas
off the coast of Arabia, markedly
resembling the azoic conditions
deep in the Black sea, are the lat
est puzzle to biologists seeking the
origin of oil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Recording Device

Berlin.-A new type of sound re-
cording apparatus, working on the
same principle as an office debating
machine or photograph, but using
a pyroxylin film" instead of CYL
inder or disk, is in use in Germany.
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DEAR MISS DENE: 1 have quar-

DEAR MISS DENE: have quar-
~ relied with my mother and now
live in an apartment of my own.
seem to be losing my friends. do
not tell them Of what has occurred,
and so have to make up reasons
why they cannot see me in my
home. / hate the feeling that every
body is whispering about me. feel
that this quarrel may have cost me
dear in more ways than One.-V. d.
ANSWER-Cast a veil of secrecy
over your life, shroud yourself in
mystery and at once you set the
whole world whispering. And the
chances are that the world being
what it is, some of the whispers will
have distinctly unpleasant flavor.
If you are going to make mys-
terry of where you live and why, the
more conventional of our friends
will begin to shy away like fright
ened horses. Knowing nothing of
the true state of affairs, their imagi-
nations run riot in the attempt to
discover why you've suddenly be-
come Secretive.
It is better always to tell the
truth-however ugly it may sound
for the truth at it's worst can never
compare with the stories your
neighbors have already concocted
about you.
Since you are living a new sort of
life, tell people about it. The min
ute you give your audience the facts
they will cease to conjecture, and
on the day the conjecturing stops,
your reputation will undergo a
change for the better.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Early Pole Vaulting

Pole vaulting found its way into
sports around the beginning of the
Nineteenth century in Germany. At
that time long, hardwood poles were
used.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03

Fire Burns More Than 136 Years
The Wagon and Horses inn at
Salter's Gate, near Whitby, Eng,
claims record for keeping kitch-
en- fire alight. Its fire has burned
without intermission for more than
1856 years. The inn was once a
smugglers' retreat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
The Snowy Egret

The snowy egret was once near
extinction because market hunters
seeking its valuable plumes killed
nesting birds. leaving the young to
die.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03
Kiln Drying of Wood

Kiln drying of wood takes from
two weeks to a month, while air
drying takes two years or more.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03

Taks z BAYER ASPIRIN tablets and
drink full gloss Of wotss. Rspeoi
treatment In z hours.
~ throat Is sore from the cold,
crush and stir 3 BAYER ASPIRIN
tabIsts In ! gloss Of wutsr. corsls
twice. This eases throat rawnsss
and soreness almost instantly.
All it usually costs to relieve the
misery of a cold today - is 81 to
ST relief for the period of your
cold 15f to 25f. Hence no family
need neglect even minor head
colds.
Here is what to do: Take two
BAYER tablets when you feel a
cold coming on - with a full glass
ofwater. Then repeat, if necessary,
according to directions in each
package. Relief comes rapidly.
The Bayer method of relieving
colds is the way many doctors
approve. You take Bayer Aspirin
for relief - then if you are not
improved promptly, you call the
family doctor.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-03

for many years,
he says, he has
made it a point to
be about $40, 0O0,-
000 in debit That
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-08
FL Centre Board
Gives Thought TO
Variety of Items

Minor business conducted We'd
nesday night by the FL Centre city
council included:
Taking under advisement an ap-
plication for purchase of tax de-
linquent property by J. E. Tucker.
on which ne planned to build a
$500 home.
TablIng for study an application
for purchase OF two lots on East
Main street and two on State. ad-
vanced by Jack Webster.
Approval Of a transfer of a lot
from Guy Weakley to Louis DeVita.
The lot previously had been sold
to Weakley for $40 under the tax
deed sale plan 1t was resold to
DeVita for the same price. DeVita
said he planned to build a $65O0
home.
Petition for special permit to
conduct an upholstering shop at
1901 South Fourth street. offered
by Oran Stark, refused.
Petition for a special permit to
ouild two houses on one lot, ad-
vanced by Roy Wheatcraft. refer
red TO the Planning and Zoning
commission.
Hearing of Don Damron on a re-
quest for a card game permit
Damron was advised to make out
form and apply according tc
usual procedure.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-08

Your money goes a long way
on the husky, dependable ,
Speedway, backed by a Good .
year lifetime guarantee. AS
low as Observation-Disclosures.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-08
Tax Collections
On Upgrade Here,
Collector Reports

Ell Centre tax collections climbed
Thursday and were expected to
surpass the amount collected in
1887 according to a report sub
mitted to the city council Wednes-
day night by Mrs. Faye Burke.
deputy collector.
Since collections started Oct. |,
$l22 1862 has been collected Part
OF this represents only first half
and part Of the fun amount, as well
as part general taxes and part
street assessment. The books will
not be closed until Dec. TO- Mrs.
Burke said. She anticipated collec-
tion Of about $1,000 more before
then. In 1887, a total of S126.85813
was collected between Oct. l and
Dec. 10.
In October S11,37l was collected
as compared to S10048 in October
1887 In November, 1898 the total
was $98099, compared to S88. 1892 in
1887.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-08

Laura May Sprinkle, Raymond and
John Bucher, Bill Marsh. Charles
Davis, Bob De Celles, Bert Fawcett,
Alvin Gum, Thomas Holmes, Cor
don Schwacofer. Billy Meyers,
Berkley Spencer, Iva Lee Taylor,
den, Ann. Yvonne Marie and Jackie
Donald Lawson. Valerie McFad-
den, Frances McFadden, Jerolene
Du Boise Shirley Sayles.
La Donna and Letha McDaniels,
Patsy 30 Reed. Marcia Jean Far
rell, Frances Ann Stephen, Arlene
Wise, Ira Gage. L. Monroe Gage,
Tommie Beynon, Betty Jean For
roster, William Woodward, Ely
Offill, Eva Marie Dewitt, June
Holmes, Doris Hull, Bob Pearce
Larry Conrad, Marion Crumrine
Darrell Cole. Mike Afford. Ann Ray
Hammond Betty Lu Waterman
Naomi Sayles.
Jackie Henson, Jesse McDaniels
Lalla Sue Reed, Joyce Fawcett, Mil
dred Dudley, Patty Powell, Betty
Lou McDaniels. Junior Wardlow
Laurence Maggie. Joetto Sweet
land. Jacqueline Sayles, Marjorie
Sayles, Shirley McDaniels, Joyce
Williams.
Carl and Junior Maggie, Jona-
than and Junior Sayles, Dorothy
Floyd, JOY Lon Armstrong, Tommy
Afford Morris Thomas, Richard
McCarty. Jpanne and Donella
Quinn, Jesse Galarie, Jerry ant,
Geraldine Hart, Darrell Hampton
Janet May Hines, Barbara Jean
and Norma Stapleton.
Bobbie Lee Stapleton. Raymond
Wilson, Don Roy Hammond Bob
bic Blue. Wynette Wolf, Shirley
Dean Thomas, Tommy and Mary
Lou Tyler. William Ray Morris,
Mary Galavite, Elaine Monita, Bev-
erly Murphy, Alicea Vasquez, Eva
Binillas, Karie Gentry, Johnny
Floyd Glenda Haskell, Mary and
Mark Riley, Jerry McDaniels, Doug
Haskell. Ronnie McDaniels.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-08

uteS to figure it out. This next one
is a bit clearer, though" The let
ter was signed Bob and had a pic
ture of a train! Another letter,
signed Your Pal, Bill read
I'm getting kind Of old to right
you letters but I like to right just
the same. l want a pool table.
Well, so long"
Santa smiled broadly when he
read this one:
Bring me a football. Rachael
wants a table. Roy wants a scood-
er, Rebecca wants a rocker chair
and Rueben, he can have anything.
He is only nine months old" San
ia smiled even more when he pick
ed up the next:
II want to ask you for a little
wagon. 1t will help me up on
Christmas morning and help me
when I get my wood in every eve
ming. II will make me proud Don't
think | am trying to get more than
anyone else. I know you have hun
dreds Of other children to answer
That's why I am not asking for a
high priced wagon"
A Lot of Love
A little lad named William asked
for train and harp and ended
his note with: please dear Santa,
don't forget me now for love you
a whole big heap and l am two
years DID,"
Santa chuckled anew over this;
please bring me, bring us-We
are four girls and three boyS-bring
us dolls and toys and something
for the boys. too
That's enough for today" old
Santa remarked I'll read the rest
of the Ell Centro mail tomorrow. -
So he gave out this partial list of
children who gave him letters while
he was in Ell Centro:
Lowell Hall, Freddie Brown, Le-
land Littlefield, Ruth CaperS, Janet
Miller, Roy Bonillas, Gilbert Ty-
ner. Joan Brooks, Maizie Foster,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-08
Moore Liason Man
To Library Board

Dave Roberts appeared before the
city council in Ell Centre Wednes-
day night on behalf of the library
board to urge appointment of a
city councilman TO act in a liason
capacity between the city council
and the board. P L. Moore was
named to serve as the board S
friend at court.
In addition, Roberts mentioned
some objections to the present
handling of library expenses and
payments and suggested that Moore
aid in arranging a new system more
acceptable tC he beard.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-08

ported. All farmers VINO grew COT
ton or had an interest in cotton in
1888 are eligible to vote. Growers
need not be citizens to vote Ballou
pointed out.
The referendum was called by
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace in accordance with proVi-
sions of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Act of 1888
Growers in the county received
allotments for 1887 planting We'd
neSday. Marketing quotas are based
on the individual allotments.
Cotton marketing quotas are pro-
Vided in the farm act to assist
producers in maintaining a balanc-
ed supply of cotton on hand and
to maintain high prices.
If the quotas are approved by a
tWo-thirds majority, as was the
Ease one year ago, growers who
Overplant their acreage allotments
will he required to pay a penalty of
cents. per pound on all cotton
marketed in excess OF their quotas.
OVerplanting of 1899 allotments
will also mean loss of conservation
and price adjustment payments.
In the event marketing quotas
are rejected by the growers, no
government loans will be made
available in 1889 according to Bal
lou. That is a definite provision
of the farm act