The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-11-17
teeKlNG BACKWARD.
- When the Land Was
y.upr sud Sparsely Settled.

ye0og ouu cp~tScAs SVeo~'
Ann the Loomis Prospector, No
r 10. 1897
usderstand that f. p, Wheeler
.umenced work on the property
~ a Bridgeport, Conn, COM
lseated on Mineral Hill, near
.aully. "a large amount of work
~ on the Mineral Hill claims,
~ we're never made to pay, large
srrrh remoteness from transpor-
NJ Wheeler still lives at the
when he Is not away looking
dher properties he owns in the
4 nvest)
,ae from S. E. Barron, the man
II the @. S. Mining company, with
4. situated a few miles south of
.s states that DR.. E. H. Thatcher,
kaksne, one Of the stockholders in
urporation, has recently visited
aims and returns home feeling
udsaed with the property and the
Blss Of development so far made.
% S. went through many vicis-
q but never paid for operations.
Barron was one of the hardest
II operators in the county until
i Unfortunate moment he was
4 TO the state legislature, when
me up mining in this county.
she Is now is not Known
N infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bsall died Saturday. (Mr. Beall
)sn dead fifteen years and Mrs.
1lknow Mrs. Henry Staples.)
II kPospector states that the Their
nans registered close to zero,
= ms something like the weather
live been having this week.
h lace was billed to take place at
knsidmce of VIM. Balm, on the Sim
nsm last night. (Mr. Balm in those
Nas a rancher in the Similka-
~. He was elected to coun-
n; got a taste of metropolitan
] tenoving to Conconully and
4nturned to the farm to stay. He
bHvss At Okanogan.)
- trials and tribulations of the
- Of those days in the matter of
nication with the outside can
y X understood and appreciated
|&Deople of the present day, with
u1s cutting through the country
I'd west, north and south. The
lQeetor says "if there is anything
H1Ez1ng upon Christian fortitude !
Uaring upon the arrival of
u ct this place, and at this season
Il year, We have failed TO discover
|sn Is social item in which a
1T resident of Oroville figured:
kw Of the musically inclined
- Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Boyd,
nhled last Thursday evening to
Mrs. j. F. Samson, who is an
mplished performer on the guitar"
eriff Reid was up last Friday for
purpose Of putting Dan Mulchaey
ssession of piece of land on Pal
lake, over which a protracted con-
has been carried on in the SUPER
'ourt, Judge Neal having but re-
y decided the case in favor of
haey. (Mr. Mulchaey is still living
= land that was under controversy
Judge Neal is resident of Oro-
but the whereabouts of ex-Sheriff
Is not known
ICE IN a while the law was enfOrc-
this country in those early days.
Tospector says that Sunday the
'1 we're surrendered to solitude.
men absence of people on Sunday
eser before been noticed in town.
saerfff hinted that Sunday closing
leference to the back door as well
Ae front. The rowing population
II seclusion and wept"
Nj was given at Pard Cummings
J, away down ON the Okanogan
i, eae evening last week, which
attended by everybody in the
'oofhood. Fred Retzer, of this
was In attendance. When young
Up this way has a desire to shake
little matter of an hundred
drive does not stand in his way.
= not learn whether Pard took an
part, but if he did, and has lost
lsn since the days when we knew
u would have been worth the trip
the old man do the Highland
Or a sailors hornpipe. (Mr. Cum
iived on a farm where the town
Anosan is now situated. In this
ar Cummings Is a prosperous
aant OF Riverside and shows lit
q OF the passage of years. Mr..
Is still a resident of Loomis,
skittlsh as he was twenty years
'Avlng a boy almost large enough
mo dances in neighboring towns)
mofal tidal wave has engulfed
aworth. The official order was
a'sated demanding the closing of
s1'ness houses in the south end
On Sundays. The front doors
'eilgiously locked, but the rear
aees we're left on the latch. Prose
Attorney Peter Mcpherson was
upon to round up the offenders,
se learned Saturday that Peter
WI peioW performing MS duty'
Wy years ago the Wenatchee
vas the southern boundary of
ssan county and the town OF
'nworth was in Okanogan county.
.ernerson, the prosecuting attor-
Suil residing in this county at
ster.)
- F.W. Hankey has returned to
1uliy and resumed his extensive
"sctice after a six weeks jaunt
spokane. (Mr. Hinkey was a
.e'snt, but eccentric lawyer. He
"om here to Honolulu, and has
sst sight of for years.)
= Is received that Alf. Cowherd,