The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-01-28

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| L. Mclean, of Loomis, was in town
Wednesday.
Jas. McCreath, Greenwood, b. c., in
town Wednesday.
Constable Riley Burden, of Nelson,
was in town Wednesday.
Jas. E. McCauley, of Princeton, B.
c., was registered in town Tuesday.
G. w. Smith of the Owasco mining
company, was in Chesaw Wednesday.
Col. A. M. Dewey of Spokane, was
in town Thursday on his way to the
Q. S. mine.
Jas. Regain was in town Tuesday
making application to prove up on his
homestead near Wehesville.
Services will be held in the new
Presbyterian church just two months
to a day from the date that work first
commenced.
| |. f. Lockwood, of Spokane, the man
who buys cattle, and who has bought
lots of them in this county, was an ar
rival Tuesday.
1t will be seen by notice elsewhere
in this issue that valuable Pacheron
stallion is to be sold in Oroville Fri
day, February ).
M. f. Vining, depot builder on the
Great Northern, was in town Wednes-
day evening, on his way to the front
after Il visit to Spokane,
Don't let the date of the band ball
escape your memory. a good way not
to forget would be to buy ticket as
soon as you read this item.
G. NJ. Strowbridge, who has charge
of the Triune mine, at Golden, was in
town Monday to do some swearing in
the protracted contest case.
M. Horrigan, the pioneer rancher of
the Wehe neighborhood, put in sever
al days in OrOville this week as wit
ness in the big contest case.
N, a. Keller, of Gam Valley, South
Dakota, was an arrival in Oroville
Tuesday. He is in the country looking
for Il location, and got into the right
country to locate.
The excess of dampness this week
played fantastic tricks with the noun
tain roads. The breaking up of winter
in this country is always strain on
the county road funds.
Stewart Monsey, of Paris, Texas,
was called to Oroville this week by a
telegram announcing the serious i'll
ness of his mother, Mrs. w. j. Vrad-
enburg. Mr.. Monsey is a printer and
a pressman, and now he is up north
likes the country SO well he may de-
eide to stay.
The local option wave is heading this
way. Some Of the saloon men could
lessen the danger to their business if
they exercised little more care in
conducting their places Those not in
clined to favor local option are liable
to get cold feet if unseemly scenes are
permitted to 60 unchecked.
Edward Clifford, of Chicago, who is
interested in the syndicate behind J.
w. Dutton, the irrigation project man,
arrived in Oroville Tuesday. Mr.. Dut.
ton has displayed persistence and cour-
ageous tenacity in his efforts to line uI
the land owners in the valley in the
project of watering the land from the
Similkameen river. He has the back.
ing to carry out what he proposes do
ing, and if carried out it would be one
of the greatest blessings that could be-
fall the property owners and the town
of Oroville. May the reinforcement
in the person Of Mr.. Clifford haster
the enterprise to maturity
Mention was made in the last issue
that the team attached to S. M. Keel
er's dray ran off Wednesday morning
of last week, and nothing doing in the
way of damages. This was the case il
the morning episode, but it seems tina,
the frisky animals worked a double
shift and pulled off two runaways il
one day. Late last Wednesday after
noon the team made dash in the vi
cinity of the Bank Of Oroville just a:
Mr.. Keller was in the act of fastening
the tugs. He was thrown under the
wheels and sustained Commissions of {
painful nature that laid him up fol
some days, although fortunately ne
bones were broken.