The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-07-15
Daily Except Sunday.

Jas. Cameron has taken over the
Bragg blacksmith shop.
There will be no services in the Pres
byterian church Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. Bowerman left Wednes-
day to visit with friends at Hedley.
l.. L. Work left on business trip
to Spokane Monday. to be absent sew
eral days
Jake Kast has been limping around
for week from the effects of severely
sprained ankle.
"A prairie fire of considerable extent
Saturday left botch on the mountain
side east of town.
Harry Brown, of Loomis, is temper
arily employed with the East Oroville
Orchard company.
The atmosphere is very smoky, an
| indication that forest fires are working
destruction in the mountains.
| Bob Evans was passenger for Spo-
kane Saturday, going out to make ar
engagements for the sale and delivery
of bunch of cattle.
DR.. Schwabland was over to LOOMS
Monday looking after bunch of pa
tients, and reports them all doing as
well as could be expected.
An error occurred in the call for
republican county convention by fixing
two dates for the primaries. The cor
rect date is Tuesday, July 10
Julius Brechlin, that always good
natured son of Germany, living at LOOM
is, was in town Monday. He is work.
ing for the Golden Sands Mining COM
pany.
The law firm of Fitzgerald & Peck
has been retained to defend Frank
Miller, the railroad contractor who
killed a man last week by blow with
his fist.
| The firm of Loudon, Rhoden & Co.,
in the grocery business at LOOMS, has
dissolved, Mr.. Loudon retiring Mr..
Rhoden will continue the business at
the old stand.
Mine Host Grubb, of the Radbourn
hotel, has been racked with general
assortment of agony during the past
week supplied by busy and well de-
veloped felon.
L. E. Abrams, one of the most genial
knights of the grip making this circuit,
and who represents the paper house of
Gray, Ewing & Co., Spokane, was doing
business in town Friday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Fruit left for
LOOMS Saturday, where they expect
to remain for several weeks. Mr.. Fruit
has property interest over there which
he considers it necessary to look after.
The big electric pump put in by the
East Oroville Orchards company was
connected up and set in motion this
week. 1t throws oceans of water, am
pie to irrigate the big tract owned by
the company.
River bathing is steadily becoming
more popular, judging from the grow
ing crowds that daily take the plunge.
People from the surrounding country
should come in and enjoy the fun. The
water fine.
John f.. Reese, the only man in this
vicinity laying any claims to having
been republican tinged with insur-
gency, so far as heard from, went to
Spokane Monday to greet the demo-
cratic congressman on his home coming.
Geo. w. Loudon, of Loomis, was in
town Saturday. He was here to wran-
gle with a wool buyer over the dis
posal of his seasons clip, but failed to
reach an understanding, as the buyer
failed to come across with an attrac-
tive bid.
Frank Burndley has opened a restau-
rant at LOOMS, but it is evident that
meat is scarce over that way as he had
a big order of choice cuts sent to him
from Oroville Friday last by livery
rig. That is expensive, but boarders
must be fed.
A rumor is in circulation around
LOOMS that Harry Harris, who re-
sided in that camp a number of years,
and has family there at the present
time, had committed suicide some
where in Oregon The report lacks
confirmation.
Mrs. NJ. X. Rodgers and son Edwin
of Seattle, wife and son of M. X. Rod
gers, the mining man who made the
Nickle Plate what it is today, one of
the great mines of the west, passed
through Oroville Friday last on her
way to Hedley.
Grading the streets for couple OF
blocks has been expensive, but the
work has been we'll done, and two or
three unsightly mud holes have been