The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-03-03


Robt. Evans made business trip of
a few days duration to Spokane the
latter part of last week.
G. A. Andrus, of Nighthawk, was a
visitor in town Monday evening on
business trip to Nelson.
Get you uniform appropriate for
the occasion and attend the mask ball
to be given by the band March II.
March surely came in like lion, if
a fierce cold can be considered lion
like. The lamb feature cannot show
up too soon to suit the public.
Arthur Lund, the Riverside banker,
was a visitor in town Monday. He got
lost somewhere in the shuttle and
missed his way to this Office.
The dance given by the Eagles at
LOOMS last Wednesday evening drew
the largest crowd that has attended a
ball in that camp for several years.
The feed question among stock men
is becoming "A serious problem, and if
the present weather holds out much
longer cattle in the county will eat
their heads off.
Dick Case, formerly of Oroville and
now member of the Canadian police
force stationed at Phoenix, was nj town
last Friday evening to make yearly
proof on a desert claim.
7. p. Mcneil and Paul Schultz, the
well-known Loomis contractors and
builders, will start in soon as the snow
is of building for f. II. Burnham one
of the largest and most complete barns
in the county.
Throwing his eye over the Gazette
force r. G. johnson decided that they
were in want of filling, and being q
philanthrophlc individual he left an
ample supply of chickens at this Office
Monday for square meal.
The mercury was as low on the 9th
and 18th of February as at any date
last winter, which would indicate that
winter is preparing to linger in the
lap of spring, an amorous performance
against which the public enters gen
eral protest.
Mrs. Julius Brechlin, of LOOMS, re-
turned to her home Wednesday after
spending a week in Oroville undergo
ing medical treatment. She could re-
ceive little relief, owing to the nature
of her ailment, and will probably be
an invalid the balance of her days.
Senators Jones and Poindexter have
furnished this Office with a quantity of
government garden seed for distribu-
ton. Parties calling at this Office can
secure package, or postal card from
readers out of town will bring them a
sample so long as the supply lasts.
w. H. Docksteader, one of the old
time reliable members of the Cana
dian police force along the border was
in town Thursday. About year ago
he was transferred to Victoria, but city
life palled upon him, and by request
he was returned to his old post at
| Phoenix.
Pard Cummings, the old time sue
cessful Riverside merchant, was in
town Monday, displaying that smile so
child like and bland without which
Pard would be in disguise and I'M
recognizable, scattering pleasant con-
verse among his numerous acquaint-
ances in this place.
j. f.. Mcmillan, of Loomis, one of
the oldest and most reliable practical
miners of the northwest, was in Orc
vile Thursday. Mr.. Mcmillan has
around Loomis, and there is probably
no better posted man on minerals in
this upper country.
An election takes place Saturday tC
select member of the school board
for term of three years. The voting
| will be done at the school house, and
as the polls are remote and the condi.
tions under foot anything but alluring
for pedestrians in all probability the
! vote cast will be light
G. j. Bunbury, the Canadian terror
to undesirables, spent Thursday ir
Oroville. One would suppose he va.
out for prey in disguise, for he has dis
carded his upper lip adornment, and i,
made such transformation in his APP
pearance that his friends about towr
could hardly recognize him.
VIM. Oliver, head of the Oliver
Bridge company, that has the contrac
for putting in the local water works
died at Spokane Sunday. The remova
of the head of the company will no
interfere with the speedy completion
of the contract so soon as the weather
will permit OF carrying en- work:
a party of Oroville young people
composed of Miss Donald's Sunda,
school class, and chaperoned by tina
lady, was packed into large sleigh
last Friday evening and driven to 9Th,
Farmstead," east of town, where the.