The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-04-14
AN IMPORTANT MATTER
In Which Every Business
Man of Oroville Should Be
keenly Interested.
It MEANS M0NEYT0 CIRCULATE
A Combined Effort to Remove
Causes That Night Interfere
With a Cash Deposit.

br. Emery, OF the Indian service, was il
ing business men. and making some sua
eestOns relative tC the deposit ard Ills
hursement OF the annuity to soon be pail
by the government to the Indians Of the
south half OF the Colville reservation. He
volunteered some information of much i'm
portance to this community which made
those in business to promptly sit up and
take notice. There is II vast sum soon tn
be paid over. or at least held in trust. BY
the go, eminent as payment for lands APP
prOpriated for homestead entry on the
south half This money is to be deposited
in various banks. and paid out for the pur-
chasing OF farming implements utensils
furniture and such supplies as may he
needed by the Indians. and for lumber
with which to construct better houses than
they are now occupying. The aim is to
improve the condition of the red wards. Ia
make them more comfortable. to give
them fair start in the battle of their new
life after their roaming ground is curtailed
by the occupancy of the reservation by
white settlers. 1t is benevolent provision
for caring ter Il people who at one tim.,
held all the lands In the county and are
Il.
TO comparatively narrow limits. Whether
they make the best of the provisions of i,
paternal government is neither here ~,
there. This is not to do with conjectures,
The point to be understood is that the
money 50 appropriated is largely spent in
the communities in which bank deposits
are made. But there is restriction rela
tive to deposits. and purchases that nat
uraly follow such deposits. that has al
ready cut a community in this county out
of deposits. and it is within the power and
province oi our people that Orovile is not
likewise passed over the same way. A law
on the statute book declares that pur-
chases for the purposes hereinbefore set
forth will not he made in towns where
selling liquor to Indians is open and no
tOrious. The people have their choice,
Palate and condOne the selling of ntoXi
cants to Indians and so without the trade
that will surely flow in from the deposit of
government funds: or stamp out the Illicit
trade and reap the greater and more last
ing benefits, to say nothing of the moral
point of view by the suppression of great
wrong.
There was no hestancy in this matter
ON the part of the business men of Oro-
Vile. In the past it has not been difficult
for Indians to secure liquor in this place
and those engaged in the unlawful traffic
have heretofore escaped the punishment
they richly merit The citizens propose
that It shall be different in the future and
those who are inclined to make few
nciels accommodating this trade in de-
fiance of law are timely warned that in
future they do so at their peril. pledge
has been signed by the leading business
men and property owners of Oroville de
claring that they will use every means
within their power to prevent the supply
ing of liquor to Indians, and will aid in
prosecuting any one accused of so doing
And the people are in serious earnest.
This position taken. with Il promise to ex-
ercise keen vigilance in eradicating a
disgraceful evil. will result in the deposit
of a large sum in the First National bank,
and the subsequent disbursement of the
ma jor part of that deposit among the bust
ness houses of the town.