The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-06-16

trict court Monday. on a charge of selling
whiskey to Indians, disagreed and was
discharged.
Jesse Boone. an old and well known res
dent of the county, was arrested at Con-
conully this week on "A charge of having
attempted to kill his wife There has
been trouble in the family for some time
Mr.. and Mrs +. A. DeNos and Miss
Donald went down the river in Mr.. De
Nos' launch Saturday evening with the
object of meeting the Omak ball team,
following suggestion made by this pa
per last week. They continued on the
voyage as far as the Peterson ranch, and
t required four hours to work back
against the current They We're disap--
changed plans and did not start from
home until Sunday morning The De Nos
party displayed good intentions Just the
same.
L. !. Inman. of I.oomis, who had charge
of work on the Dewey ditch up to the
time that project collapsed. was arrested
last week for hammering one of the ditch
gang. named j. H. HunGley, over the
out of an effort made by Hundley to col
lect wages due. 1t was claimed that Humid
ley drew IA knife on lnman, but the evil
dence does not bear out that charge. Mr..
lnman had an examination before Judge
NJ. II. Smith. at LOOMS, Thursday last,
and was bound over to appear before the
superior court.
few days ago the family of Charles
.
in Il deplorable state. Mrs. Hartman and
two children had had diphthera, and the
disease left the woman completely par
alyZed Wednesday II committee of la
dies raised over 500 and the patient was
sent to hospital at Spokane. Mrs Con-
nally accompanied her at her own eX
pense, and the committee desires IT to be
understood that the money subscribed is
to be wholly applied for the benefit of
Mrs. Hardman Mr. Sincock personally
paid Mr.. IIardman's expenses.
O. H. Woody. publisher of the Otan
ogan Independent. was II visitor in town
last Friday evening. on his way to Mol
son. Prior to locating at Okanogan, Mr..
Woody conducted "A paper at Nelson, and
this was his first visit to the north end
of the county since his change of base.
four years ago, and he was surprised to
mote the changes that have taken place
during that period Mr.. Woody made
osan. as he struck one of the most ener-
getic and public spirited small communi-
ties IN eastern Washington and his paper
has always enjoyed the most liberal pat
ronage extended to II newspaper in the
county In return he has done loyal serv-
ice for his town. and is Justly entitled to
all the support ne receives,
\ number of property owners along the
west side of the Okanogan river are work
ing ON Il scheme To put in Il large capacity
pumping plant Just below town for the
purpose of irrigatins tracts as far south
as the old Wellington place, now owned
by II. II. Granger. II is asCertained that
II lift of 1l2 feet Will cover many hundred
acres of as choice fruit land as any in the
valley 1t is a proposition that should APP
peal to every land owner along the line
of the proposed ditch. and they should
lend every aid and announcement to
hasten it's consumation. Wednesday w.
j IIoskyn started out with crew of
ass istants to take elevations and run II
line of ditch. which indicates that the
promoters of the scheme are III earnest.
If carried out the enterprise will he of
vast benefit to Orovile. as the land to be
watered is almost Immediately adjoining
the town.
For some days Indians have been Sc
curing lioiIor somewhere and riding Wild
ly and rec<leSsly through the east part of
the town. across the bridge at the cream
cry. and through the East Oroville Or
chard tracts. boisterously whooping and
Nellin" No effort has been made to ar
rest these diSturbers of the peace and
their proceedings are a nuisance and II
source of alarm at times to residents of
the locality where they display their
horsemanship and blow or steam. They
come down across the line from Imknip
While it may be impossible for an Indian
to secure liquor directly from an saloon
in town, some one, probably more than
one, is playing the role of bootlegger, and
laying up trouble for himself The courts
are finding that fines do not seem to les
sen this nefariouS trade, and are begin
ming to sentence those found guilty to
terms in the penltentiarN. At the last
term of court at Republic hotel proprie-
tor bl t'UllGW WAS sentenced To TWO years
at Walla Walla for selling Liquor to an In
dian. \ few sentences or this kind will
put the fear of the law into bootlegsers
in this upper country.
Mrs. c. Inglelins, of Northome, MINI.
arrived last Friday. and VIII spend the
summer with her daughter, Mrs. K. {.
Johnson, near Wehesvile The coming Of
the lady was the cause OF surprise in
the Johnson family slightly out of the or
binary. Mrs. johnson started to Oroville
to meet her mother. but was delayed in
reaching town When Mrs. lngleking ar
rived she secured rig from a livery sta
BILE and drove up the mountain to the
ranch. passing her daughter on the way.
In the meantime, Mr.. Johnson had gone
to visit a neiehbor. Seeing light in his
house much earlier than he expected Mr..
johnson returned home, and as he en-
tered noticed Il lady III the room: He
supposed his wife had returned without
her mother and proceeded to embrace her,
whether in an ebullition of joy over the
non arrival of the mother-in- law depon-
eth sayeth not, Anyhow, Mrs. lnEleking
had not seen her SON. law for fifteen
years. and not recognizing him, tore off a
few shrieks at this sudden display of af-
lection ON the part of a supposed strang-
err 1t took time for Johnson to square
himself but he got matters amicably ad-
justed by the time the wife appeared on
the scene.
Col A. NJ Dewey of spokane arrived in
Oroville last Friday evening just about
the time when his crew of men employed
on his irrigation ditch pulled out. He
felt pretty sore over the sudden ending
of his pet project. According to his state
ment he has been knocked at every turn
by people in this county. lie claims that
back cappers have interrered in every
movement he has made, and nave pre-
vented him from raising funds. There is
no doubt that Col. Dewey mas been hound
ed for the past year, ana all his efforts
paralyzed by these attacks, yet the colo
mel has in Il measure invited antagonisms.
He has tried to carry out enterprises re-
curing the expenditure of enormous
amounts without any visible cash on
hand. The irrigation scheme he under
took requires one or two hundred thou
sand dollars aye twice the greater
amount. to carry out successfully, and
Col. Dewey, nor no other man, can make
q proposition of the kind a success with
out "A very large bank account. 1t was
supposed. of course, in this last move
ment involving such n tremendous out
Law. that the colonel had resources, or the
assurance of necessary resources, for 1t
would almost be the act of Il mailman to
start i'm uDon such campaign of eXpendl
ture without some means of meeting the
cost, for without cash. or the certainty
of securing it. the movement could not
otherwise than fail, and fail suddenly as
it did. There are many very many. resi-
dents of this county who hoped that Col
Dewey would succeed in this undertaking
money in the country. and because they
are anxious to see the semiarid portion
of the county placed under water and the
waste places made richly productive rs
they only can be by irrigation.