The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1911-12-22

A singing blizzard. accompanied by
a heavy snow fall, broke loose in the
valley Thursday morning
With two or three inches of snow
covering the ground at this writing
the promise is for white Christmas
}. A. Blackler has taken up his resi-
dence for the winter on the B!ackler
ranch, on the east side OF the Okan-
ogan.
Steve Mills, reported sick with diph-
iberia last week, has about entirely
recovered. No new cases have APP
peared in town
Miss Grace Young, teacher of the
primary department of the public
school. will spend her holiday vacation
with friends in Spokane
A communication from f. A. Nc
Guin on Our Roads," very import
ant and timely subject. is crowded
over until our next issue.
Miss Hilda White stopped over in
Oroville Wednesday night OF her way
to join her aunt, Mrs. Anna Gray, at
LoomiS. Miss White has been resid-
ing at Spokane for the past two years.
Miss Kate Dallam, who has been
attending Washington college, at Sc
attic, and teaching in the public
schools of Tnr hn OF tu,.
years. returned home Wednesday to
spend couple Of months.
The Okanogan Coal and Lumber
Yard is a new institution that Hustler
Grieger is at the head of. AS the name
implies, fuel and building material are
the stock in trade, and Mr.. Grieger has
a good stock of both on hand
A work train has been distributing
ties along the track down the hill from
Nelson to Oroville during the week,
which would indicate that the powers
that be are taking cognizance of the
fact that the road bed needs repairing.
Mr. and Mrs. J. 7. Ryan were regis
tered in Oroville Tuesday. Mr.. Ryan
has built large and modernly equip
ped hotel at Coalmont, the new Brit
ish Columbia coal mining town to the
westward, and will open it to the pub
lie in ii short time.
A new ice house, with capacity of
600 tons, located near the coal bunk
ers. has been run up for the railroad
company by large force of carpen-
ters during the past week. The house
will be supplied from Loon lake, which
seems a long distance +" haul ice when
Osoyoos lake is so near at hand,
Fred Brouillette, the foot race job
Der who left very unsavOry record
in Oroville, was pulled and i:ncG $z5
at Spokane last week, for putting up Il
race with the object of flimdan.ming
an easy mark. Life would be too short
a sentence for those jobbers that have
brought about every sport into disre-
pute by their crooked TRANSACTIONS.
A rabbit drive was framed up the
first of the week, and small army CT
armed citizens sailed forth to do
slaughter. The rabbits having had ad-
vance information as to what was to
be put over them kept out of sight and
the killings were light. DR.. Schwab-
land knocked over one, and two fell
before the deadly aim of w. II. Gran
dali.
A Jack rabbit that had wandered
within the haunts of men broke cover
on Main street Tuesday afternoon and
sprinted for the hill country to the
westward, trailed by a string Of ca
mines representing every species IF the
dog family, from the mOngrel to the
greyhound. Br'er Rabbit hit the earth
only here and there as he put distance
to the rear and managed to save his
hide.
A. l.. Alexander, the individual ex-
amined before U. S. Commissioner
Fred j. Fine last week on charge of
robbing a lodging house keeper on the
other side of the line, was remanded to
the tender mercies of the British Col
umbia court, which means, if the pris-
oner is guilty, that no tricks or soph-
istry of astute lawyers will save him
from punishment. He is still held for
extradition under the charge of Mar
shall McCammon.
There are two athletic clubs in town,
which is exceedingly unfortunate, as
combination of the two would make
strong useful and permanent organ
ization. In both instances the men,
bers have gone to considerable eX-
pense and trouble fitting up rooms and
securing paraphernalia. The one that
occupies the Cummings store building
is certainly well equipped and has COZ
lily arranged quarters. The high cell
ing in the building is a great advan
.,oo for nropar training The maiT