The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-09-30
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Frank Farnsworth, the widely known
sheepman, who has made killing dur
ing the past few years out of mutton
and wool, was in town from his ranch
near Tonasket Tuesday, for the first
time in several months. Mr.. Farms
worth has lost none of his old time
congeniality, and seems to have stran-
gle hold on the way to get ahead in the
world. Formerly the gentlemen let
the light of his countenance beam upon
his friends hereabouts frequently, but
during the past l8 months his visits
have been few and far between.
Last Friday night Dan Welsh, of
Loomis, put up at the Depot hotel, and
when he got up in the morning he dis
covered the absence of $50 which was
in his possession the night before. Mr..
Welsh remembers of taking liquid
nightcap at the bar, and from that
time his mind was blank until he
opened his eyes in the morning. The
proprietor of the place was arrested on
a charge of having in his possession
the sum of $50 as pledgee which he had
received from the complainant. The
case will come on for trial today.
The two ball teams of the public
school, known as the second and third
mines, played an interesting game Of
ball Saturday afternoon, and much to
the surprise of all concerned the third
nine won by the score of 81 to Is. The
little fellows played with a zeal and
determination that was interesting to
those who witnessed the performance,
and the game was highly enjoyable.
What was lacking in science was made
up for in hard work, for every player
was bent upon the one object, and that
was winning for the side he repre-
sented.
w. S. Boyer, special agent of the
general land Office, has been in this
neighborhood during the past week
spying around as the duties of his office
require, seeing that applicants for
slices of the public domain are COM
plying with the law. So long as the
man seeking to secure land is living
up to the rules and regulations re-
quired by the department they have
nothing to fear from a visit from a
land functionary. 1t is those who are
trying to secure title on fimsy pre-
tense of following the requirements
who have cause to worry over the Of
ficial's appearance.
Edwin Green, who has been resi-
dent of Oroville from a date prior to
the advent of the railroad left this
week for Abbott, Florida, where he
expects to make his future home.
Some months ago Mr.. Green, with a
number of others in this place, pur-
chased land in Florida through Capt.
Ruger. who was acting as local agent
for southern land company, and he
goes south to locate on his purchase.
1t is far Cry from the British Colum-
bia line to the gulf of Mexico, and the
change of conditions will be so dis
tinctly marked that the chances are
Mr.. Green will be hiking northward
in short time.
Clair Hunt, alloting agent on the
south half of the Colville reservation,
was in Oroville Saturday and Sunday.
The nature of the work Mr. Hunt has
to perform is picking out and awarding
Indian claimants entitled to land on
the south half the full measure of prop
erty the law allows each individual.
There are numerous claimants and the
work of dividing up the territory to
the satisfaction of the benefciaries is
slow, and it will be two or three years
before the job is finished and the resi-
due of the land thrown open to settle
ment. Mr.. Hunt was here to see and
secure the signatures of some Indian
claimants for railroad right-of-way.
The gentleman is not in robust health,
but his natural cheerfulness is not af-
fected by bodily ills.