The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1910-02-25
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1910.

stead. Mr.. Metcalf reports that ir
spite of the fierce weather Monday
men were working on the railroad
| grade. He states that a number OF
laborers thus exposed suffered from
| frostbites.
Fred Phillips has been secured tc
take the position of Waterman for the
Golden Sands Mining company. to fill
the vacancy made by the tragic death
Of Dave Roberts. In Mr.. Phillips tile
company has secured steady and re
liable representative, who can be del
pended upon at all times and under all
circumstances.
| One of the reasons that there is so
much complaint of the high cost of
| living is that so many people have ac-
cumlated I bone appetite on 4 chuck
steak income. Butchers report that
| they can hardly find loins enough to
supply the demand, while there is slow
sale for the cheaper cuts. Just IS good,
filling and nutritious if properly pre-
pared for the table.
Mr.. and Mrs. viii Wentworth and
their young son, of Horse Spring cou-
lee, were passengers for Loomis Thurs
day morning. The family spent the
winter in Tacoma, and supposing from
years of experience that it was about
time for spring to open in the Okla
hogan country started back to the
ranch They arrived here in a snow
storm and penetrating chill, and re-
GREETED they had not postponed their
departure from the coast for another
two weeks
The man who builds, or remodels. a
house never reckons within the cost
Attorney Fitzgerald recently came into
possession of 12xl4 structure and had
1t moved to a lot near by. Then Il
force OF carpenters put in foundation,
added new innards, tore out the front
and substituted glass, rearranged the
rear, and improved the sides. About
all that is left of the original building
is the roof, and new Office outright
would probably have been less strain
on the pocketbook.
Henry Bahrs was down out of the
hills from few miles west of Oroville
Friday last for supplies to support the
strength of the crew he has driving g.
tunnel on the old Paskell-Finen prop
erty. Indications are so encouraging
that he is rushing work as rapidly as
drills thumped by men of muscle can
be driven into very obdurate forma-
ton. He states that the late Roger
Finen died in hospital at San Diago.
and not at Los Angeles, as stated in
this paper last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. II. Ellis, of We
natchee, are visitors in Oroville for
few days, having Just returned from
trip to the east. Mr.. Ellis is here for
the purpose of looking after his landed
interests, which are quite extensive in
this county, and incidentally accumu-
lating more real estate if the oppor-
tunity occurs. Mr. Ellis experience
in the increase of land values in the
Wenatchee valley has made him wise
to the fact that any land within the
reach of water is worth owning.
Larry Mcdonald, former resident
of Oroville and LOOMS, now resident
of Seattle, surprised his friends by
dropping in on them Friday last Mr..
Mcdonald had been engaged to con-
vey the remains of the late Horace
Dillabaugh from Seattle, where the
young man was recently accidently
killed, to the home of the family at
Conconully, and stopped off day or
two in Loomis and Oroville on his re-
turn trip Time has touched Nc light
ly, and he is the same hopeful, opti-
mistic seer as in the days of yore.
j. II. Evans one of the Oldest of the
old timers of this neighborhood, left
for Vancouver, B. c., Wednesday
hio' 'i'Si "iSiS iiO " LII pIODdDlN Hldhb
his future home. Mr.. Evans has rela-
tives on the coast whom he has not
seen for upward of 30 years. They
have been writing urging him to visit
them, and at last he decided to make
the journey. He leaves the Okanogan
valley, where he has put in so many
years, with feelings of regret, and it is
doubtful if he will be able to adjust
himself to the change of location for
any great length of time.
Capt. Dutiield, the government wealth
er regulator at this place, reports that
, degrees below zero is the coolest
weather registered during the winter,
and that happened last Friday morn
ing. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
seemed many degrees colder owing to
the heavy wind from the north, and
the mercury thermometers about town
dropped to 6 below, but that don't 90
as record. Seeing that other por-
tions of the state have shivered under
chill ranging from to 30 degrees
below the upper Okanogan is entitled
n no ba ilp6 nc tho hapapa l,1. ~