The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-08-16

ment at once. Kind friends and rela-
ives stayed with him through the
i night and saw him safely placed on a
cot IN the baggage car for his hard trip
Tuesday morning. Mr.. Allen suffered
terribly and it is sincerely hoped that
the Spokane physicians speedily gave
nm relief from the excruciating pain
Photographer l.. w. Barnes, after a
very long and tedious wait, is at last
most satisfactorily located in his new
studio in the Stofferan block, opposite
the depot. His section of the building
was built especially to suit his needs
and Mr. Stofferan has decorated the
interior in most pleasing and ap-
propriate manner
The list of whiZ wagons in Oroville
is steadily increasing, and the owners
are extracting much pleasure from
their use. The taste of the purchasers
vary, and as there are as many makes
OF motor cars as brands of breakfast
foods the man who wants a car would
be hard to please if he could not find
model to his liking.
Miss Mildred Cole. daughter of G.
|. Cole who recently purchased the
j. c. Wild ranch, is organizing class
in piano instruction to give private
lessons to pupils in their own homes.
Miss Cole is an accomplished musician
having studied under some of the very
best German and American professors
of instrumental music.
Republican candidate for county
treasurer, f. G. Quackenbush, of Ton
asket, was in town last week Satur-
day busily engaged in constructing a
political fence for himself among our
people. Mr.. Quackenbush Is very
pleasant gentleman to meet and should
be able to secure a gOOdly bunch of
votes in this neighbOrhood
THE state bureau of inspection has
filed with Attorney General Tanner its
report on the Oroville school district,
which shows that the assets of the dis
trict are $12,556, with liabilities $5,255,
and the net assets of $7,304. Bills IL
legally allowed amounting to $8.S5
constitute the total discrepancies found,
and the district is in a fourishing con-
The last of the many high railroad
officials to visit Oroville this summer
was j. W. r. Davis, superintendent of
highway. who passed through here on
his way to the front Monday. He re-
to lay over Sunday here and spent the
day scouting around the country in
vestigating the natural resources of
this immediate vicinity
J. w. Newell and E. A. McMahan
gathered their fishing material togeth-
er in hurry after hearing the report
that Bear lake, near COalmont, b. c.,
was alive with fish none of which less
to AL Il 1t
hook. These gentlemen expect to re-
turn home this. Friday, evening and
it is cinch that their friends will all
be at the station with basket when
the train arrives tonight.
Chas. H. Carpenter & Co. are a new
firm to start up in Oroville and their
line of work is something entirely
new for the business interests of the
town as they will establish mail Or
der agents supply house at this place.
While their aim is to eventually con-
fine their efforts more particularly to
the local field their territory is only
limited by the ground covered by the
United States mail service.
One of our business men and a
neighbOr of his settled some of their
personal differences Monday morning
as they met over on east Railroad
avenue in the good old fashioned bare
listed knock down and drag out STYLE
1t has been a good long time since we
have chrOnicled an Occurance of this
kind and we hope the occasion will
never arise again as such exhibitions
and extremely unsightly at their best.
w. J. Shelton. Of. the Ellemeham
neighborhoOd, was in town Tuesday to
make a new application to prove up on
his homestead the first proof having
been turned down on the technically
that he offered proof two weeks be-
fore his actual five year residence had
expired. The department now figures
homestead time from the moment a
person starts actual residence on the
ground and not from the date of filing
as formerly.