The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-09-13

poi 'oh IN Tie attempt, preferring death
uhder the wheels to death under the
emily snow drifts. The train STONED
ana took us on, and we then disc0v-
ered That we were % miles from
Sprague, having lost some six miles
travelling all day.
but IL is not necessary to prolony
the story, and this part of it is only
mentioned to give some idea of the
hardships of winter travel across
country in those days, and how
sparsely the country was inhabited.
In few days we were in Spokane
rails, and when our eyes fell upon the
place, hardly more than village. and
still retaining all the ear marks of a
village, nestled on the south bank of
the Spokane river, with pine trees
down in the very heart of the town,
the cascades in all their pristine beau
" before the utilitarian hand of man
commercialized its power and spoiled
picture that had few counterparts
in the land, we decided to seek no
further. The natural situation in
sured future greatness, while the en-
virOnments as to scenic attraction
could not be eXcelled anywhere. Af-
ter a stay of few days and a con-
ference with few citizens as to the
encouragement for starting a repub-
lican paper, for there was time in
the history of the Spokane Review
when 1t treated everybody with equal
Justice, and its political principles
were not for sale to the highest bid
der, we returned to California. After
getting south again there was some
delay in starting back north, but in
SpOknae Falls with the outfit from
which the first copy of the Spokane
Review, and many others thereafter
was printed.
Now, after tedious round about
course, we come to the parallel case
with that of the Nelson Leader. The
first press in use on the Review and
the only kind of press in the country
at that time, was Washington hand
man killer. BY some means a part of
this press was lost in transit, and we
spent the Value of the press hitting the
wires in frantic effort to get track
of the missing part. The paper was
due to come out, but there was no
way of getting it out. At last, through
the courtesy of Frank Montgomery,
of the old Cheney Sentinel, permission
was granted to use his press. Late
one never-tO-be-forgotten Thursday
morning in May, 1883, we pulled out
of Spokane Falls with the forms of
type, in spring wagon, accompanied
by a printer named Frank Graves, and
started for Cheney a distance OF some
IA miles, with absolutely no knowl-
edge of the road. Well, we drove, and
drove and drove, at last coming to the
conclusion that the man who informed
us of the distance to be travelled was
either densely ignorant, or mOnu-
mental liar. The night dragged along
without the signs of town or single
habitation. At about 2 o'clock in the
morning we came in sight of small
cabin along side of the road. The oc-
cupant was routed out, and in answer
to inquiries stated that we were with
in short distance of Spangle, far
out of our road. We back peddled, got
lost beyond Marshall, cut across coun-
try in the early morning, and came IN
contact with only one fence before
reaching Cheney. Our troubles were
ended, and the first copy of the paper
that is today one of the leading dali
les of the United States first saw light.
Now, that is the story that kept run
ming in our mind all the evening as
we assisted in getting out the Leader.
Then we were young, lusty, optomls-
tic. enthusiastic, in the very hey day
of life, now old, wrinkled, tennis
court laid out on our Uranium, at
best only a few years ahead, working
as hard in the shadow of the end as
in the dawn of the beginning OF our
residence in the state, just as optomis-
tic. however, as in the days of yore,
thanking God for good health, ana
feeling that while the town In whlch
we are located, which is almost as
large as was Spokane when we Hrst
saw the place, may not make sec
ond Spokane, it will at least develop
into a fOurishing city of conslderaple
size. But the most wonderful feature
the magic of it all, are the changes
that have been wrought In those rev
wears for they are few when you look
hack upon them. Spokane has grow
to be a city of 100000. The countls
around about is densely popuia,eu.
Railroads extend out OF the Guy hNe
the spokes of a wheel. Stateiy nO,hes
have taken the place of shacKs. wnsn WIZ,
we conjure up the names OF those WY
were the first to read the ola oPoNaM;e man;
Fails Review, and cheered on tne eu,
tor in his labor of booming IL Is eau
to note that most of them Steep .neii
last sleep, and their names are oi.
80 no fnnnd carved in cold marDie
obove narrow mounds God bless
those those who are still in the land OF the
living. and may those who have gone ne
hefnre % be reaping their reward in
Paradise.
Last Friday night the members OF
.ha pritisb Columbia Municipal Com
Wy .:n,, onno;nted by the British Co