The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-04-03

Trout season opens May l., and clos
es December 81. Anxious anglers
have been making inquiries as to the
beginning of the season.
Judge Brown, Grant Elgin and Mark
Thomas came in from Okanogan Sat-
urday, and motored on to Nelson and
Chesaw Sunday. They were out after
signatures to the petition for Okla
hogan as the county seat, and were
meeting with encouraging success.
Okanogan is looming up as a very
formidable candidate in this county
seat scrap, that promises to be a hot
one before election day.
Last week Geo. Teel, one of the old
time homesteaders on Ellemeham
mountain, sold his ranch to Chas.
Lewis, and Friday last he left for
Walla Walla. At that place Mr.. Teel
will join and make one of a patry
that. is going to South America to
locate and take up land. 1t is a far
cry from Okaongan to South America,
but the friends of the young man
trust that when he realizes his hopes
in the south he will return to the
mountains of the far north and meet
up again with those of his acquaint-
ances who may still be in the land of
the living.
Mention was made last week of the
serious condition of Mrs. s. F. Nc
Donald following an operation per-
formed last Thursday morning. At
the time of going to press both physi-
clans having charge of the case were
of the opinion that the patient did
not have one chance in a hundred of
surviving. Much to the surprise of
the doctors and the qualification of
friends Mrs. Mcdonald, after the first
sinking spell, rallied, and since that
time has steadily gained strength until
at present writing, week after the
ordeal, she is in a fair way of per-
nanent recovery.
The band is making arrangements
for grand ball to be given next
Friday evening, April 13. Up to the
hour of going to press no particulars
had been handed in other than that
a banquet supper will be served at
the nominal cost of rs cents per
couple. Particulars, however, are
hardly necessary. The fact that the
band is going to give a dance should
munity, not only for the pleasure to
be derived from the occasion after re-
framing from such indulgences dur
ing lent, but because a most worthy
organization is the beneficiary
DR.. Lewis has signed lease for the
new part of the old Peerless hotel
building, which is to be converted in
to a hospital. Some necessary change
will be made before the building is
furnished and opened for business
No specified time is given as to when
Dr. Lewis will arrive here, but 1t will
be in a very short time. DR.. Lewis
has conducted hospital at Spring
dale for several years, and his reputa-
alton as a successful surgeon has
spread far and wide He has treated
many cases from the Okanogan coun-
try. The doctor loks upon Oroville as
central location and splendid field
in which to build up a large business
AL Fox is building a ferry boat to
be used as private crossing Of the
Okanogan river at the Ellis-Forde
Orchard Tracts. Messrs. Ellis and
Forde own and are improving large
tracts of land on both sides of the
Okanogan river, few miles south of
Oroville. 1t is very frequently the
case that machinery and horses used
on one ranch are needed on the other,
which requires a long drive to the
nearest bridge crossing, consuming
the best part of day. Then there is
communication between the two or
chard tracts almost daily, and the
only means of crossing is with skiff
The new ferry will be a great con-
venience.