The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-01-14

| Ou bIle WcSt Slue vi OSOyOOS ldhe SllOit
distance north of town, died of pneu-
monia Saturday. Mrs. Glendening,
1u011l11u w alS6 hser, SeSiapslXuj Jul with be
same disease, is recovering.
| Mr.. and Mrs. A. ID. Balderston left
Wednesday morning for Spokane. where
they expect to locate permanently and
where Mr.. Balderston expects to go
into business. He is a capable young
man and will no doubt make a success
of the venture he is connected with.
The pupils of the public school have
secured Sigrist hall for basket ball
practice and for such games with Wis
itors rs may be arranged. The young
men made an effort to secure the Cum
mings building, but were unable to
reach an understanding with the owner.
Fred Clark returned home Wednes-
day evening after an absence of two or
three months across the line in British
perence while away that does not Gre
ate desire to repeat the visit very
soon. Mr. Clark otherwise is looking
and feeling::well.
3Ha ny Stanton completed the re-
pairs on the lower bridge across the
Okanogan river this week. 1t was
thrown open TO travel Monday, much
TO the satisfaction of the public as
many people have been compelled to
make long detour in order to cross
( the river at the upper bridge.
Lice q Son have contract for a
stretch of railroad construction oppo-
site Riverside. Mr.. Lice. jr.. has been
here for some ten days. and the grad
/ ing outfit arrived this week. Very lit
, tie work can be done until change in
the weather. With the coming of
! spring the contractors will get busy.
O. +. Nelson, who lives at Boundary
Falls, b. c., but a former resident of
this county, passed through town on
| his way home from the Golden neigh
borhood Tuesday. a long time ago
Mr.. Nelson located mining claims near
Golden, and he has so much faith in
them that he comes over regularly
every year and does the assessment
work.
Town Clerk +. S. Taylor has severed
his connection with the Bank of Oro-
vile after being in the employ of that
, institution for nearly two years. Mr.
| Taylor will have an Office in the build
ing occupied 10y Ed Davis, and as he is
a first-class accountant, a popular young
gentleman and an all around hustler
he will find enough to keep him out of
mischief.
Jas. Ryan, the water tank look out
for the Great Northern road, met with
a painful accident, at Nelson, last
week. He slipped on an icy step, and
it was supposed that he sprained an
ankle in the fall, but on returning to
Oroville it was found that a bone in
the foot had been broken. Mr.. Ryan
is able to get around, but favors the
damaged prop.
The oyster feed given by the ladies
of the M. E. church Tuesday evening,
fell upon a stormy and inclement date,
an atmospheric condition that greatly
shortened up the patronage. Still the
effort was not wholly failure, for a
good many people with fondness for
shell fish, bored a way through the
snow storm and aided in consuming the
supplies provided.
Albert Wehe is visiting his father,
Maj. f. p. Wehe, at his home on Wan
icut lake. Mr. Wehe junior is from
Emporia, Kansas, and has spent num-
Der of years travelling for a Kasas City
house. His health breaking down he
came out to Okanogan 10 recuperate,
and has already felt benefited by the
change. He may elect to settle down
in this vicinity permanently.
M. +. Patterson, gentleman some
IS years of age, who had been employ
ed at Porter Bros. saw mill, near
Nelson, since last summer, died sud
denly of heart disease Wednesday of
last week. The bookkeeper left Mr..
Patterson in the Office apparently in
good health, and upon returning some
time later found the old gentleman
dead. The body was embalmed and
taken to Spokane for burial.
The horses attached to the handsome
new passenger hack belonging to the
Peerless hotel created a sensation at
the depot Saturday evening, about the
time of the arrival of the keremeos
train, by running away. In the wild
commotion the vehicle was upset and
considerable married. The Dir liver lost
interest in the proceedings early in
the race, and jumped to safety, thus
escaping mix up in the wreck, and
the possible dislocation of sundry bones.
Mrs. J. G. Irving has been suffering
during the past week with a serious
case of blood poisoning. 1t seems that