The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-01-05

| DIT Dan LIeSO, Odl.
Mrs. w. J. Hoskyn who has beer
visiting in Spokane for several weeks.
returned home Saturday evening.
Miss Helen Tucker. who has been
at Spokane for seveal weeks, spent
the holidays with her mother, Mrs. r.
p Hoskyn.
Just before going to press word was
received that further action in the
big irrigation projects has been post
poned until January Is. The delay is
caused in order to straighten out the
signatures, the aim being to have
everything legally correct The slight
delay will not affect the final carrying
out of the enterprise.
The paper came out late this week,
and was not very pretty when it did
appear. Considering the luck the
shop was playing in it is only Won
der paper was issued at all. The
linotype was out of commission for
day or two, and the big press broke
down while the first side was being
run off. A kibosh must be on the plant.
A. X. Meschter, merchant of Phil
adelphia, has for years been a model
subscriber, first to the Loomis Pros
pector and then to the Oroville Ga
zette. 1t has long been his habit to
come through regularly on the first of
the year, paying his subscription in
advance. A thousand such subscribers
would make life worth the living for
the publisher of any local weekly
paper.
The Russell-Hale dramatic company
played to about the smallest house
that ever greeted u travelling troupe
in this place Thursday evening. The
company deserved better treatment,
as it is one of the best that has ever
was billed for two nights, but the frost
the first evening caused the manager
to pull out for Nelson, where a per-
Torrance was given Friday night.
Through the Mining News, publish
ed at Elk City, Idaho. it is learned that
an old Oroville boy took a conspicuous
part in Christmas tree festival given
in Odd Fellows hall there on Christ
mas eve. In write up of the pro-
ceedings the following paragraph APP
pears Santa Claus, in the person of
Lee Fruit. was real jolly character
and his jokes and repartee as he dis
tributed the presents were highly APP
preciated.
The case of r. P. Hoskyn against
Adelbert Hart, $40, 900 damage suit
for SANDER. has been brought in the
superior court by Mr.. Hoskyn, grow
ing out of certain defamatory state
ments alleged to have been ma lie by
Deli Hart of Mr.. Hoskyn's integrity |
and standing as an attorney in the
Parkhurst cases. Smith & Gresham
and Judge Neal, of Connonully, appear
as attorneys for Mr.. Hoskyn. While
lawyer should keep within the bounds
of professional ethics, yet it becomes Il
serious matter to attack his integrity. |
Saturday evening stranger on the
verge of delirim tremens, whose name
could not be ascertained, threw scares
into people hanging around Geo. De-
von's hotel. He was troubled with Il
homicidal turn of mind, and threatened
to abbreviate the lives of several per-
sons within range of his vision. Mar
shall McCammon was notified of the
prospective thinning out of the popu-
lation, and fastened to suppress the
would-be killer. The stranger enter
tanned no fear of the majesty of the
law. and when the officer flashed his
star the maker of trouble dashed at
the marshal with the avowed purpose
of fixing him for trip in a hearse.
Nc objected with the butt of a revolver
and even after he was down it re-
quired the united effort of several men
to get the half crazed victim of alcohol
to Jail. During the night in Jail his
companion in confinement, also suffer
ing from alcoholism, died after ter
rible struggle, soaring the stranger
out of the little wits he had remaining.
Marshal McCammon considered that
experience sufficient punishment,
and permitted the unfortunate foater
to 60 free Monday.
A singular accident occurred on Pal
mer mountain the day after Christ
mas by which a farm house was almost
totally destroyed. The building be-
longed to Joseph Adair. A large tree
growing near the house was endanger-
ing the building, as limbs were con-
stantly falling from it. On the 18th
of last month Mr.. Adair, M. M. Col
Inns and Mr.. Collins sons decided to
cut down the tree. Owing to..its heavy
top the tree swung away from the di-
rection the men expected it to fall.
1t crushed down upon the house,
story and half building, destroying
three rooms, two bed rooms and the
stairway. The big tree cut through