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Show OREGON ELK HAS GIFT OF ORATORY W. E. Newcombe Talks Glowingly of tlie WeMoot Stata aJid Its Beauties. Among tlie visitors in the city yesterday yes-terday was W. E. Newcombe, president of the Commercial club and manager for the Western Union Telegraph company at Ashland, Ore., and one of the most widely known telegraphers in the inter-mountain inter-mountain country. Mr. Newcombe is on his way home from the Elks' reunion re-union in Denver, where he represented the Ashland lodge, No. 944. As a booster for Oregon, especially the southern part, in which Ashland is located, Mr. Newcombe is in a class by himself His glowing description of the wonderful natural water falls, the gor- eous canyons, the crystal lakes, the ubbling mountain streams and the rugged mountains surrounding the thrifty little town of Ashland would do credit to some of the silver-tongued orators or-ators of national repute. All day yestorday yes-torday he held his hearers as under a spell with his stories of the great northwest. north-west. His talks sounded so good that the majority of those who heard them, after comparing Oregon with Utah became be-came more firmly convinced that Utah was the greatest of them all and prepared pre-pared to celebrate their convictions with a trip into the neighboring mountains moun-tains today. The chief regret of Salt Lakers who listened to Mr. Newcombe was that he could not spare more time here so that he might forget Oregon and turn his flood of gilded oratory to Salt Lake and Utah. |