The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1915-03-26

engaged in rolling the weed, making
garden ON a large scale. He will find
the change greatly to his advantage
from monetary view, and will be
able to raise enough vegetables to
supply the family throughout the year
Riley Hurlbert, one of the early
homesteaders of Horse Spring coule :,
and now a resident of Tonasket, was
in Oroville over last Thursday night
on business. While here he took oc-
casion to meet and exchange greetings
with his numerous old Loomis friends
now living in this place.
Take it all in all the present month
has been climatically perfect, con-
sidering the season of the year. Rare
ly March passes that there are not
at least few cold, stormy, blustery
days, yet so far this March has been
more like unto the month of May than
the usual March weather.
Harry J. Kerr, the popular Okano-
gan banker, was in town Saturday
evening in his car, returning home the
same night. He brought up Sheriff
Stark and Prosecuting Attorney john
sen, who were on hand to meet the
prisoners, Robinson and Schuerer, and
conveyed them to the county jail.
o. S. Allen is manufacturing cement
blocks on the ground at the site of his
new building at the corner
Of Vancouver street and Central ave-
lue. He calculates that it will require
A month before he has enough blocks
IN hand to finish the structure, and
hen he will commence construction
n earnest.
Grade ball teams from the Oroville
ind Tonasket schools played the first
)all game of the season on the local
grounds Sunday afternoon. No notice
lad been given of the proposed game
and hence there were few present.
For the first game of the season it was
1 slashing good exhibition of the ma
ional sport, as the score stood 2 to 0
\ favor of Oroville.
The food sale given by the ladies OF
he Altar Society of the Catholic
church was held in a vacant store
in the Hotel de Grub, and
vas very literally patronized There
was hardly an end to the good things
. eat, and the very sight of them was
sufficient to cause purse strings to
oosen up. The ladies were we'll re-
)aid for their trouble.
A. Pignocco, who has been aresident
II the Similkameen valley off and on
or number of years, has removed his
amily to Seattle, where they expect to
make their future home. The many
friends of the family wish them good
ortune in the place of their new abode
rusting that at some future time the
Inducements will be sufficient to bring
hem back to the Okanogan county.
Both w. j. Carroll and Will Wies.
gerber have come out with the spring
birds minus the mustache decoration
hey have sported for years. Mr.. Car
ell smoothed off his face for detective
and no one will be surprised
o learn the scheme worked. The
,hange in both cases is so much the
worse that the wives of the gentle
men would be justified in suing for
livorce.
There are indications that a revival
If mining is to take place in the north
part of the county this spring and
summer. 1t is to be hoped that work
will go far enough the next time de-
starts on any of the prop
critics to demonstrate their true value.
Il there is mineral in paying quantities
n northern Okanogan county the
sooner it is known positively the bet
.er, and if there is not, that should be
known, so that no more money is
brown away in an Improbable in
lustry.
Ed. Mills, an older brother of Post
master Bert Mills, and a former resi-
dent of this county met with very
serious accident at Spokane one day
last week. Mr.. Mills has been con-
nected with his father in a black
smith shop at Spokane, and at the
time of the accident was shoeing a
fractions horse. The animal kicked
Mr.. Mills ON the ankle, fearfully shat
tering the bones of the ankle and leg
The unfortunate man may be compell-
ed to submit to amputation, and even
if that is not necessary the doctors
state that he will be cripple for life.
A deposit of asbestos has been UNI
covered at the Golden King mine, on
the Similkameen river, short dist
ance west of town. What the quality
OF this deposit may be will have to be
determined by analysis. The ledge is
said to be quite extensive and may
prove of considerable commercial val
ue. This discovery of asbestos goes to
show that the extent and variety of
the mineral deposits of this north
county are not yet fully known. So