The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-09-03


hottest old sports in the county, and
no game, contest or trial of skill from
horseshoe pitching to horse racing can
be sprung in that community without
securing hackers and drawing crowd
AS evidence that the old time sporting
spirit has not been subdued by local
adverses, seven round glove contest
was pulled off Saturday afternoon that
drew out the bulk of the male men,
bers of the population, and supplied
keen enjoyment to those in whom the
blood lust yearns for such exhibitions.
1t was, however, altogether a friendly
set-to, yet while conceived in affability
and good fellowship the principals in
dulged IN as much bruising as they
were capable of administering. The
pugs were the Loomis Bantam and
the Tonasket Terrier, neither having
had previous experience in the roped
arena. "A vacant building was select
ed on Main street, a ring pitched, and
an admission fee charged. Seven two
minute rounds were the limit of the go,
Marquis of GOoseberry rules. Those
who witnessed the proceedings report
it the warmest smuggling match ever
seen in this upper country. Not being
professional it was strictly on the
square, and the principals gave the
audience the worth of their money
The Tonasket Terrier is said to have
had shade the best of it. but at the
close of the seventh round both gladi-
ators were pretty we'll exhausted and
perfectly willing to call it draw.
Mrs. John p. Forde and Miss Hilda
White returned home from a weeks
visit to the Seattle exposition Thurs
day last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred c. Retzer returned
to Loomis Saturday. Mr.. Retzer was
as far east as New York and Boston on
mining business, and the report he
brings in of prospective activity on the
Gerhardt claims has aroused the hope
that the coming winter will be an I'M
usually busy one.
c. Creelman, interested with Chas.
H. Brooks in a large prospective tun-
mel project, is in town for long stay,
and his presence is looked upon as
harbinger of more lively times.
Mrs. John Them and daughter re-
turned home Thursday last after spend
ing the summer visiting at her old
eastern home.
Ed kloppenburg is back to his post
at the Palmer mountain tunnel power
plant after an absence of several weeks
taking in the exposition at Seattle.
Attorney Fitzgerald stopped off Tues
day on his way to Conconully just long
enough to say how to his friends.
The Wentworth hotel opened this
week after being closed for two or
three years. Mr.. and Mrs. John Went
worth are the pioneer hotel people OF
LOOMS, and know how to cater to the
public. The old hosiery will again
become popular resort
1t is reported that a restaurant is
soon TO be opened in the camp.
A social dance at Eagle hall Satur.
day night was largely attended and
greatly enjoyed
Miss Carrie Powers, of Chippewa
Falls, Wis, who has been visiting her
aunt; Mrs. W. II. Mcdaniel, this sum-
mer, left for her home Monday.
LOOMS had narrow escape from a
destructive fire Sunday morning. John
Woodland, who happened to be around
his place at an early hour, had his at
tention attracted by the odor of burn
ing rags, and a few minutes afterward
discovered smoke issuing from between
the south wall of the Washington Com
mercial company's stone building and
the old frame building owned and FORM
erly occupied by A. K. Gregg. Hasty
investigation was made and fire found
smouldering among some grain sacks
under the Gregg building. Fortunate
ly the flames had not reached the wood
work, and the incipient blaze was speed
lily extinguished. The place where the
fire started is in the very center of the
business part of town, and in ten min
utes it would have been beyond con-
troll, and it is doubtful if the magnifi-
cent water system could have saved
the place. 1t is supposed that some
drunk crawled under the house to
sleep and carelessly dropped match
or cigar stub among the old sacks used
as bed.
Work is going on steadily at the
Palmer mountain tunnel, notwithstand-
ing recent adverse reports, and the big
hole is going ahead steadily into the
mountain. The manager has followed
the plan laid down by the former man.
agement, resulting in one of the best
constructed tunnels in the northwest,
and the present work is equal in every
respect to that done in the past. 1t
could not be otherwise as the drills are
in charge of Joe Mcmillan, one of the
most reliable and thorough miners in
this upper country. 1t is reported that