The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-04-21
PREPARING GFORTRO

If one could only get at the inside facts
what an Interesting story could be evolved
out of the history of the Palmer mountain
mine. Is it II mine. or is it IL fake. are
questions upon which people differ. aud
have differed ever since ground WIS tIrst
broken. 1t has divided communities. blast
ed friendships. almost caused tragedies.
Some men have made money out of it,
! others have lost money through it 1t was
gorgeous in rosy promise at one time. and
is now looked upon with suspicion. Hopes
that we've builded upon it have been blast
ed Experts have praised it. and expert :
have damned it. Were these experts in
! tluenced By the condition surrounding the.
employment There are those who still
| believe it could be made Il mine; more vino
! believe otherwise. Let that he as it may
/ the east who have put coin. some of u,
hard earned by the sweat of the brow. into
the proposition. and they far fron
either being satisfied with existing condi-
tions, or willing to pocket their losses
without II protest. as will be seen by the
following item taken from the Springfield
Mass Union of March 80:
Wholesale charges. alleging fraud ami
| conspiracy. made things literally hum d,ir
ins the meeting of the minority stockhold
| ers of the Palmer Mountain Tunnel com
pany in the odd Fellows building list
night Demands We're made on every sdr
that criminal action be instituted in the
case. and fund was subscribed to with
the $40 ana lives showing forth on the list
more than the ones and the twos t. bear
the expense of obtaining evilciice and
bringing the matter to the atte lsirn OF tn"
authorities. should the alleged aiSc',sures
warrant sich course being adopted.
THE epithetS of thieves and '"o,hcrS
We're hurled during the meeting; Women
wearing diamonds and one man hearing
his dinner box, showing he ha1 Just come
from work. made up the die site 4 ..ath
ernS of more than IL hundred PERSONS az
tending. The rich well as the .,nes
who by their appearance could h.lnii; ;u =
ford to lose money. either bv r..iiin; opei
atoms fdiiinS to pan out or DE giving ii
away, touching clbows and consulted 'e
gardinS the probabilities of Gna tutul'.
in several instances stockh olders can .
from considerable distances IN orI"' =" '.e
present, yet none of the dite't,rS Of u.-
company showed up. despite tie fact tnai
the assertion was made .hey h,td been
particularly requested to do so.
William j. Relley. Il Northampt ~ at
toIneN, delivered ii scathin;; .Lrrasn'oert
of the directors. and was app.auicd for the
manner il which he spoE hey know
they robbed YOU he said. They got your
moneN--tl en- they try to fleece you out OF
the property as well. The stockholders be-
licve these men are thieves. You know
just what has been done. and who has
been done There is old adaae that
lat' will desert ii singing ship. here We
have the rats still sticking. They have Sc
cul"d the appointment OF their own man
as receiver, and we should appear in the
federal court and charge that the receiver
and directors are conspirators and have
perretrated Il fraud. ! believe that we can
make these persons disgorge Some of
them have transferred their properties to
others. but we can get after them. We
need money to complete the getting OF evil
dence and we can get it if we 20 ahead.
If everything was all right these directors
would be at this meeting after the notices
they received. that each might look you in
the face and say I am an honest man
and 'refutc the charges we are making
against them. Yet not one of them ap-
pears mere to do this. | may have some
feeling for the poor thief, but these sancti-
moniuus holier- than thou fellows ! want
to see i'm court. and would offer you my
services for nothing to bring them there.
"Charles T.. ioag presided over the de-
liberations and the report of the nvesti-
eating committee was rendered by Nine.
Eva H. Del .on, who spoke for nearly three
quarters of an hour. During one portion
of her address Nine. DeLon intimated that
sensational disclosures, involving some
manner of statement secured from an Off
ciul of the company. who is declared to
have thrown his interests i'm with the min
olty stockholders only recently, had been
made. The speaker might have said more
but was Interrupted by Attorney Reilley
with the remark: I wouldn't say too
much about that. In what she did say.
however, Nine. Del-on used the expression
II man who has turned states evidence,
whatever that may have implied. She
urged that every effort be made to secure
the property from those controlling it at
the present time and urged, did Law
Yer ReilleY, that action be brought. not
only in the way OF prosecution, but like
wise that Il new receiver, or even Il CO.
receiver. might be appointed, She declared
that the present receiver had been guilty
of acknowledgement. that he had wasted
great zeal Ol money ana tndt ne n.lu DeeH
appointed receiver without the knowledge
of the stockholders. Nine DeIon also
maintained that the property had reached
the point where it might be put through
successfully from now on, declaring that
ore had been struck and that her listeners
would he unwise if they did not assert
tneiI rights and see the thing through.
We have evidence of "A sensational nature.
too. she said. despite the manner in
which they have tried to cover their
( tracks. Yes, we have lots of this material
but do not intend to show our hand
The investigating committee was au-
thOriZed to send out circulars asking for
further contributions to continue the fight
both for recognition in the affairs of the
company and in gathering evidence of
fraud. in case such fraud actually exists.
"One of the speakers who contributed
$40 to the fund to show his earnestness.
declared that he had bond of the COM
{ pany, but had deferred sending in the cou-