The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-05-21

Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Sheridan were in
town from Nighthawk Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Stewart, of Mol
son, were visitors in town Wednesday.
Hugh Gibbons. the pioneer boomer
of Riverside, was in Oroville Saturday
last.
Attorney Peck returned home from
his trip to Spokane last Thursday
evening.
Attorney Fitzgerald was passenger
to Conconully Saturday, called hence
on legal business.
Regular gospel service in the Meth
odist Episcopal church every Sunday
evening s pm. Sunday school IL am.
j. A. Gordon has just purchased II
choice cows, the investment being
made largely to help out the creamery.
j. p. Anderson returned Wednesday
from Conconully, where he had been
as witness in civil case on trial be-
fore the superior court.
Dr. Schwabland was called to per-
form an operation upon Mrs. Bud Gar.
nier Saturday, and from last accounts
the patient was steadily improving.
A work train with crew of men has
been snorting around in this vicinity
for a week, doctoring up the track
wherever there was a sign of disease
or decreptitude.
S. j. Dillabough, who was quite i'll
here last week, is reported as almost
completely recovered at his home in
Conconully, where he returned last
Friday morning.
Mrs. II. l.. Fine and Miss Frances
Walter left for their home at Prescott
Wednesday morning. They expected
to stop off at Republic for few days
to visit with friends.
From the rush at the Washington
Commercial company's store during
the past week the public has demon
stratve proof that bargains and adver-
| ulSlllg Cdu WOfk wonders.
Auditor Hubbard came in from Con-
conully Friday last and left Saturday
morning for PascO, where he was
called AS witness in some case on trial
before the superior court.
Miss Jessie Dllabough, of Concon-
ully, who has just completed term of
school in the Wehesville district, was
visitor in town Thursday, a guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Samson.
Claude House, formerly rancher on
| Palmer mountain, but for the past
three years a resident of Alberta, Can
ada, came in last Friday for short
visit to his old stamping ground.
f. f. Burr is at Hedley, and owing
to sickness in his family will not be
back to Oroville for some time He
will probably resume the real estate
business here during the summer
EX-County Auditor Frank Wilmarth
came in from Conconnlly Monday on
his way to Twin Falls, Idaho, where
he is largely interested in irrigated
lands. He expected to be away only a
few days.
A party down from Hedley reports
that Ii inches of snow fell at the Nickel
Plate mine, which is pretty well up in
the air, Friday last. That will not
tend to lessen the volume of drink that
is due to arrive in June.
Maj. f. p. Wehe, accompanied by
his daughter Mrs. Chapman, was in
town Wednesday from Wehesville.
The major is in better health than he
was during the winter, yet he is still
very far from being an entirely we'll
man.
From the way foreign gentlemen who
push the shovel and ply the pick on
railroad construction are being showed
to the front the inference would be
drawn that an extension of the road
toward Hedley was possibility of the
near future.
The Nighthawk mine will soon ship
IA car load of concentrates to the smelt-
err. The mill continues steadily pound
ing away, working to perfection. May
falling of the stamps never cease is the
hope of the mining fraternity of this
upper country.
Monroe Hartman returned to the
Ruby mine last week after having been
laid up in hospital at Spokane several
weeks from the effects of an operation
for appendicitis. Mr.. Hartman is not
as yet in robust health, but he is get
ting there rapidly.
The young daughter of S. NJ Keller,
who has been i'll with scarlet fever, is
well on the way to recovery. The
quarantine has worked great hard
ship on the family, but it has prevent
ed spread of the dread disease, as no
other cases are reported about town.
Deputy Customs Collector Frank
Sherwood went out to the end of the
road TupsdaV morninu returpip,r tho