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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

every owner of a claim possessing
merit. 1t would be to all intents and
purposes market for raw ore, and its
presence here would be an incentive
for every miner and prospector to de-
yelop mining properties. Indeed, it
would supply the capital to make de-
| velopment possible. There are numer-
Gus claims within a radius of a few
miles of Oroville containing ore that
will not pay to ship long distance to
| treatment plants that could be made d
| source of revenue if the ore could be
marketed at sampling works near at
hand. Thus providing means for ex-
| tensive exploration the chances are
| ertain that out of the many meritor-
ducing mines would result. Produc-
ing mines employ large crews, thus
providing pay rolls, and pay rolls are
the life blood of town, or city. Let
few paying mines be created within
close touch to Oroville, aye, only one
or two efor that matter, and note what
healthy effect it would have upon
the prosperity and growth of the place.
The pulsation of new life would beat
through the entire ramification of bus
mess circles. Everybody would feel
the happy and invigorating influence,
and derive some benefit from that in
fluence.
These are the two great agencies, al
most within sigth of realization, that
are to be the forces to lift Oroville on
a plane with the best inland towns of
eastern Washington. 1t is backing
that is enduring. 1t is not transatory
beneficial provisions that would en-
courage the starting of boom to be
followed by disappointment. 1t is not
a speculative, intangible promise, de-
pendent upon chance or the whims of
individuals. Irrigation once estab-
| lished is here for all time. A produc-
ing mine once in operation can be de-
pended upon for years. These are
backings of solidity. They are power
full in themselves, ard creators of 9TH
er industries that will contribute to
| town growth. Moreover, success in
these two and diverse projects will
have their effect upon transportation,
increasing the accommodations of the
present lines, and inviting to the field
other roads. 1t would make of Oro-
vile railroad enter of magnitude,
as it already is in a modest way.
Few towns are more fortunately
| situated as to tributary resources.
/ With bountiful irrigation and all that
irrigation means in diversified farm
| ing; with wealth of mineral at our
doors; with grain fields of vast
| acreage near at hand; situated
as the key of the upper Okanogan and
| lower Similkameen valleys, through
which no railroad can be constructed
without touching the town; with no
rival, nor chance of rival, within a
radius of an immense territory, moth
iEg can prevent Oroville from coming
into it's own and becoming an import
ant city, except cataclysm of nature
that would wipe this part of the earth
completely off the map.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

According to his signature there
is one resident of the county who be-
lieves in revolution, and that man is
w. G.. B. Randolph. A revolution has
recently been in progress in Butte,
during which the socialist mayor was
thrown out of second story window
by the mob and was considerably
mussed up. That socialist will hardly
subscribe himself 'for revolution
although he really has no reason to
find fault with his treatment, as he
was only forced to take some of the
medicine he prescribes for others.
But when you come to think of it
seriously when people commence to
advocate revolution under the stars
and stripes it is about time to call a
halt, and for all sane law-abiding
citizens to enter a protest that can
not be misunderstood. Men who are
suffering for revolution should be
sent to Mexico where they can get a
stomach full of il.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

The most encouragement progress
siyes are receiving to keep up their
organization is through the demo-
cratic press. Democrats dread the
possibility of progressives returning
to the fold. Without continuation of
the split in the republican party the
democrats cause is hopeless. About
all so-called progressives who are not
democrats at heart are realizing that
the only way to escape the blight of
democratic disagreement is to join
hands with the old party of prosperity
and make common cause against the
common enemy, and are returning to
their first love in vast numbers, and
this is causing democratic editors to
see red
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

According to President Wilson and
Secretary Bryan party platform is
a document to be more honored in
the breach than the observance"
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

Every republican who attended the
county convention. held at Omak Sat
urday was impressed with the spirit
of optimism that prevailed, the ex-
hibition of good fellowship among the
delegates, the interest manifested in
the proceedings, the feeling express
ed that the party is being rehabilitat-
ed with most encouraging prospects
of success at the November election.
Ii any one has been laboring under
the absurd impression that the repub-
lican party is dead he would have had
his mind disabused of that error had
he been with and mingled among the
faithful Saturday. The only business
before the convention was the election
of delegates to state convention.
There was nothing else to be done.
This was of so little real Importance
that a full attendance of delegates
could not be expected. Yet there was
a very creditable gathering, delegates
coming from remote parts of the
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19
SOCIALIST COUNTY CONVENTION

Socialists of Okanogan County
You are hereby notified that there will
be a convention at Omak, Saturday
July Is, at l p. M, and an evening
session, for the purpose of consider
ing the placing of ticket, or partial
ticket, in the field in this county for
the coming fall election, and to attend
to any other business which may
properly come before such convention.
Every comrade in the county should
be there and bring well-filled basket
to help celebrate our national pros
perity All red card members eligible
to attend. Teams fed and sheltered.
Yours for the revolution!
w. c. B. RANDOLPH,
County Secretary-Treasurer.
By Order County Committee.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19
c: 4&es: c:c:c: :c:eses.

Services in the Methodist Eplscopal
church next Sunday. Morning SUP
iect. What We Want of Christ,
evening subject, Church and Labor.
All working men invited to be present.
Sunday school at TO- as usual. Ep-
worth League at Z. Prayer meeting
ON Thursday evening at s. You Will
be welcome to any and all of these
meetings. Come and bring friend
with you.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

county to participate in the conven-
ton. There was enthusiasm, and
cheer and confidence in that body OF
old time republicans, and those pres
ent were repaid for making some sac
rifice to attend by meeting again with
those who have worked for republi-
can success in this county for so many
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

Wonder who is figuring on starting
another daily paper at Spokane? 1t
is always a safe bet that when the
Spokesman-Review commences pub
fishing columns extrolling it's merits
as an advertising medium and boast
ing of it's circulation some movement
is on foot to encroach upon it's pre-
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19
MEN, ATTENTION.!

A meeting for men and boys only
Will be held at the Presbyterian
church next Sunday afternoon at 4
O'Clock. Rev. J. M. Robinson will
address the meeting on the subject,
The Greatest Question Before the
American People" This is of great
interest to every man in the COM
munity Mr.. Robinson is a speaker
who commands and holds the atten-
ton Of his hearers,
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

Minutes of the meeting of the town
council of the town of Oroville, Wash,
June s, 1914.
Present-Mayor Grub, and Coun-
cilmen Beale, ABlackler, Smith and
Pourtales.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved.
Bill of Geo. J. Gardiner for insur-
ance on pump house was read and on
motion was allowed and ordered paid
w. e. Payne appeared before the
council in regard to the feed bill for
feeding certain horses which were fed
by him in the town pound. A motion
was made and carried that the bill of
w. E. Payne, for SIS, for feed be paid
On motion council adjourned.
e. r. HOOSE, Clerk.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-19

The Wenatchee World now has the
daily field all to itself, the rival daily
having suspended publication. There
never was an excuse for two daily
papers in Wenatchee, as the place is
hardly large enough to give one daily
decent support. The defunct daily
cost its hackers many thousand dol
10
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31
MASON VALLEY CLOSING


Stockholders of the Mason Valley
Mines company are in receipt of a no
tice from President w. H. Aldridge
of New York, informing them of the
closing down of the smelter and
mine. The notice is dated October
16, and reads as follows:
"On account of the low price of
copper and the discontinuance of
shipments by a number of mines
which had contracted to ship ore to
our smelter, it has been decided to
close down our mine and smelter.
"The difficulty in marketing cop
per has made it impossible to esti-
mate intelligently financial results of
operations and for that reason the
statement for the quarter ending
June 80, 1914, was omitted. A
statement will be made to you as
soon as final results of operations cap
be determined"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31
OUTLOOK FOR COAL

Herman Darms,, president OF the
Darms Coal Mining company, came
up from Coaldale this morning with
the very gratifying news hat the new
shaft which has been sinking
through a dense rock formation FOR
the last three months has encounte'-
ed a change of formation. The last
shot broke up a petrified log which
was charred and blackened Sc as tc
closely resemble coal and then enter
ed a shale or coal bone which Is al
ways found with coal. At the same
time a heavy flow of water came in
and the shaft soon was flooded to d
depth of 20 feet. The company Is
equipped with a steam pump, which
is now being rugged to clear the
shaft and permit further exploration.
The finding of water is appreciated
by Mr.. Darms who has had to maui
water for the steam boiler a distance
of Is miles.-Bonanza.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31
AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC Agents IN
. PARIS HAVE BIG TASK ON HANDS

fer French citizens to the French
representatives.
The stupendous operations of the
millions of men fighting in Belgium
and northern France have quite
overshadowed the struggle for the
possession of southern Alsace, which
was the first really important devel-
opment of the war. Official commu-
nications have largely ignored this
theater of operations, and most peo-
pie are hat the struggle
has continued and that the region
between Altkirch and Cernay has
seen several reverses of the fortunes
of war.
cause commanding the valley of
Wesserling, has been taken and re-
taken several times. Mulhausen,
twice taken and occupied by the
French, was at last accounts again
in the hands of the Germans, as a
result of the withdrawal of General
Pau's army to reinforce the armies
of the north.
Dispatches from Basic state that
each n of these changes of for
tune has been particularly trying to
the population. Conspicuous native
Alsacians were punished after the
first German r~eoccupation for al
legged services rendered to the
French, while, after the second
French occupation 1t was the turn
of native German citizens to suffer
for giving information to the Ger
mans.
At Thanh the German mayor and
postmaster were shot after the sec
ond French occupation for spying
in favor of the Germans. Moreover,
in retaliation for the action of the
French in taking away with them all
the men of age to bear arms from
the villages occupied by them, the
Germans called out every man in
Alsace between the ages of II and
As. In consequence there is much
distress in many villages where
there are only old men, women and
children left.
This unhappy land, serving as a
buffer between the belligerent doun-
tries. is far from seeing the end of
it's trials. The battles that have
followed each other almost daily
since Sept. 13 are only the prelude
to bigger and more destructive en-
gagements that will Immediately fol-
low the decisive result of the battle
of the Aisne.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31
EMMETT BOYIt'StXPLANATION OF PRISON
DEAL IS CONTROVfRTED BY THE LAW

assumed the proportions of a scan
dial at one time. solely a matter of
letting the contract for the steel
cells on December %. 1910?
Was there not something more to
it? In point of fact, did not Sec
ton 7 of Chapter CXXXI, the very
law providing for the new prison
and under which as stated by him
the state engineer was to draw the
plans and specifications and be the
superintendent and architect, con
tain the following limitations as to
cost:
Sec. 7. For the purpose of car
rying out all and singular the pur-
poses of this act, the sun of one
hundred thousand dollars G1OO,-
000) is hereby appropriated out of
any moneys in the general fund in
the state treasury not otherwise ap-
prOpriated, the same to be trans
ferred to the state prison building
fund" etc.
Yet Mr.. Boyle, in the face of that
limitation and without other au-
thority of law extending such limita-
ton of cost, prepared plans for a new
prison costing $355,O0O, and was
only exercised as a good public
spirited citizen and office holder be-
cause there was some ~irregularity in
letting the contract for the steel
cells.
If we remember cOrrecly, Cover
nor eddie and the people of the state
We're exercised chiefly as to why an
act of the legislature, limiting the
cost of a new prison to 800 900,
could be stretched to enable a 1885,
900 prison to be saddled on the tax
PAYERS. Perhaps Mr.. Boyle car ex-
plain this. for it is a point that has
never been clear in the public mind.
One thing. however, is clear. that
after Governor eddie was sworn in
there was not a single additional dol
lar expended on the new prison.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31
new FIND MADE
IN ELK0 COUNTY
LEDGE ASSAYING $31 PER TON
UNCOVERED ON LONE
MOUNTAIN

According to advices received from
Carlin, Jack York has made an i'm
portant strike at Lone Mountain,
says the Elko Independent. He has
uncovered a ledge OF ore which runs
$31 per ton. The ledge is several
feet in width and shows a large body
of milling ore in sight. This dis
covery was made on one claim and
on another claim less than a mile
away he struck an immense body of
lead-silver ore which runs on an av-
erage of SAL per ton or better. Jack,
like most prospectors in this coun-
try, has his faults, but we must take
off our hats to him as being able to
find and locate the claims where the
money is to be found.
He is a lucky cuss," some people
say, but it is not all luck. 1t is the
ability to locate the stuff and the
nerve to go after it. That faculty
has been born in the cradle of vicis;-
tudes and hard knocks in western
mining camps. He is a genius in
making important discoveries and
selling the CLANS for a song, and oft
en- times he has been compelled to
sing the song for himself. The last
find he made was at Lone Mountain,
which he sold to the Alaska I'm
provement company. Jack received
$4,000 for a half interest. Just
how much the other half cost the
company has not been made public.
AT any rate, c. Y. De Law, general
manager of the Alaska Improvement
company, is authority for the state
ment that in a short time enough
ore was shipped from the claim to
owe the entire purchase price.
There are several leasers at work
on the property, and they are do
ing well. Enough development work
has been done on the Rip Van Win
kle, which is the name of the mine,
to disclose values high enough to
put that mine in the million dollar
class, and Jack York, the p%rospector
who made the discovery, received a
paltry 100000. 1t is only fair to
say that it is probably all it was
worth at the time the sale was made.
Subsequent development work ex-
posed a large amount of high grade
ore.
The facts of the matter are that
the surface has barely been scratch
ed. Competent mining engineers
have estimated that countless mil
lions lie hidden beneath the rugged
mountain which bears the name of
Lone Mountain. 1t Is the one best
mining proposition in the state, yet
to be exploited and worked in a
strenuous business-like manner by
men who have the money to invest
and faith in the efficiency of the
management and confidence in the
judgment of the prospectors and
mine experts, who all agree that the
opportunity is here to make millio ms
of dollars.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31
PIG IRON

The marketed production of pig
iron in 1913, according to reports
made to the United States geological
survey, was 3~O.38S.935 long tons,
valued at the furnaces at $458,342,-
345, compared with 30,18O.969 long
tons. valued at $420.563.38S, in
1912, an increase in quantity of
2O7,966 tons and in value of $751;
77S,957. The average price per ton
in 1913 was $15.0S, and in 1912 it
was 1898.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31


embassy, under its obligations to
represent German and Austrian in
terests in France, is looking after
about $4,000 persons who are de-
tanned as alien enemies in eleven To-
c~alities in France. There were Ger
mans and Austrians living in the
country at the outbreak of the war.
The French government provided
special trains going to neutral from
tiers for two days after hostilities
had begun, and all those remaining
within France after those days we're
obliged to report themselves to the
police and go to those Owl in
France to which they were assigned.
The state department at Washing
ton has attached III. Percival Dodge,
formerly minister to Panama, to the
embassy here as special agent to
have charge of German and Aus
trian affairs. The third floor of the
embassy office building is taken en-
tirely for this work, and a consider
able staff of secretaries and inter-
prefers are at work.
The reason that France holds S0,-
pears to be as hostages for the
proper treatment of French citi-
lens who are similarly held in Ger
many and Austria, and to have in
hand a means of reprisal should
there be any ill treatment of French
soldiers captured by German or Aus
trian armies. The most distinguish
ed prisoner is probably Count Pejac-
sewich, member of the Hungarian
cabinet for Croatia, Slavonia and
Dalmatia. He happened to be at
Vichy taking a cure when the war
began. He is allowed to remain in
his hotel and has entire freedom of
movement within the town. A good
many hundreds of German and Aus
trian subjects have been allowed to
remain where they were, in each be-
cause of special reasons; other hun
dreds upon the representation OF
the American embassy have been
allowed to leave the country, in each
case also for special reasons, usual
ly those of ill-health. But there are
, still about $4,000 who had to go to
the detention camps. These are
usually in barracks formerly occu-
pied by troops. There is a good
deal of crowding and the food is
probably about what French sol
diers receive. There appears to be
every intention on the part of the
French government to treat these in
voluntary hostages as Well as they
can under the necessities of war.
There is in France a great deal of
suffering among French people. 1t
is likely that millions are less well
fed than the German and Austrian
prisoners. Nevertheless, these pris-
oners, being forced to live away
from their own homes. find life diff
fcult and full of inconvenience. They
are allowed to receive money and
spend it as they please. They also
write and receive letters freely ex-
nept that they are all read by rem
sOrS.
Switzerland has undertaken to
and among the first that are being
exchanged are French people caught
in Germany and Austria by the war,
and Germans and Austrians detained
in France. Germans and Austrlans
are taken by French police to the
Swiss border and turned W. there
to Swiss agents, who in turn trans
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-31

Emmett Boyle became state engi-
neer on March 10, 1910, by appoint
ment of Acting Governor Dickerson,
succeeding Frank R. Nicholas.
THE legislature (19O9) made an
appropriation for the construction
of a new prison, and under the act it
was provided that the state engineer
should draw the plans and specifica-
lions and be the superintendent and
architect" -Boyle's speech.
Boyle refused to accept the plans
of Nicholas, which he estimated
would cost from $500, 900 to $780,
900 to erect, and
The permission was granted me
finally to proceed to draft plans in
accordance with the provisions Of
the law. finally submitted to the
board a full set of plans calling for
the expenditure of $355,000, but
knowing there was some irregular
ity in granting the steel contract, I
withheld my approval, knowing
that a new board was coming into
office and that it would act fairly
toward the people of the state. The
first act I committed after Governor
Oddie took office was to lay this
matter before him and to suggest
that the only way to block the deal,
etc. I therefore claim that in
stopping the building of the prison I
am entitled absolutely to the credit
and in my opinion I am entitled
to the credit."-Boyle's speech.
The "irregularity" in granting the
steel contract referred to must have
occurred on December %, 1910, or
three days before Governor Oddie
was sworn in, that being the date
the contract was let. Mr.. Boyle's
approval was therefore withheld dur
ing the Dickerson regime, a matter
of three days. Promptly on Cover
nor Oddie being sworn in, Boyle, ac-
cording to his statement, notified
him of the ir~regularity, a piece of
news which, although the papers at
the time were full of it. MI. Boyle
evidently labored under the impress
sion that Governor eddie had not
heard. So he enlightened him and
suggested the way to block the
DEAL" under his tutelage the deal
was blocked and Boyle now is in a
receptive mood for the p%laudits of
the voters.
BUT MR.. BOYLE, IN HIS En-
PLANTATION. HAS OVERLOOKED
SOMETHING.
Was the public clamor and indig-
nation against the new prison, which