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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-05-05
AFTER MANY DAYS.

After years of prOcrastinatiOn, after
numerous inexcusable pOstponements,
after the unwinding of miles Of red
tape. after hard and persistant effort
OH the part of commercial organiza-
tions, the press and individuals, after
diligent labor on the part of the dele
cation in congress from this state the
Colville Indian reservation is at last
to be thrown open to entry. A definite
date has been fixed, and the prOclama-
tiOn announcing this event, so import
ant to OkanOgan and Ferry counties
in particular was signed by the pres
ident Tuesday. There is no danger now
|of further postponement. The opening
will be an established fact in the near
future. The date for registration is
only two months away and the final
opening takes place in the fall The
people of this part of the state can see
the cOnsummatiOn of long desired
object, that has dragged along through
so many years that they had almost
lost hope.
So much has been said in public
print about the government lands on
this reservation that the general char
acter and extent is known throughout
the country, and so much interest has
been aroused that a grand rush for
registration can be expected at the six
places that will be designated in the
proclamation where registrations will
be accepted Many hundreds of people
will no doubt register and hundreds
will go upon the reservation in person.
Undoubtedly many more will register
than can be supplied with homesteads.
The official opening is bound to at
tract a large number of homeseekers
to Okanogan county, and it is not at all
improbable that some of these who
fail to draw prizes in the land lottery
may decide to invest in improved and
unimproved lands in the valley. The
opening of the reservation will prove
an immense benefit to the county, not
alone on account of settling up large
vacant territory, but in attracting at
tention to this rich yet comparatively
virgin section of the west.
The announcement of the opening is
contained in the following dispatches
FROM Washington, published in the
Sunday issues of the daily papers:
On July registration to participate
in the drawing for rights to take home
steads on the Colville Indian reserva-
tion will begin at Spokane and several
other places in Eastern Washington.
Registration will continue until July
22nd.
July 27 the drawing will be held at
Spokane.
September 5th the reservation will
b" thrown open to the holders of sue
cessful numbers to make their selec-
tions. They will be given until Oct. 1S
to do this. On that date the remaining
land if there be any will be thrown
open to general settlement.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-05-05
SCHOOL MEET.

The annual athletic county school
meet takes place at Brewster today
and tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
Il is expected that representatives
from all of the high schools in the
county will be in the lists, and indica-
|tions point to one of the best attended,
most exciting and interesting meets
that has ever taken place in the county.
1t is expected that a number of fans
will accompany the boys from this
place and the trip will be we'll worth
while. The following lads will put
forth the best that is in them for the
honor of the OrOville high school, and
patrons of the home school trust that
they may make a creditable record:
so yard dash-Prince, Mallory or
Carrel.
100 yard dash-same entries.
220 yard dash-same entries.
Shot put-Prince and McMahan.
Discus-McMahan.
High jump-Ashby and Ford.
Running broad jump-Dallam and
Mallory.
Standing broad jump-Cole and
Prince.
Hurdles-Cole and Dallam.
Mile Run-COle.
Pole vault-Mallory.
Relay race-Price, Mallory, Carrel,
Cole or Dallam.
Tennis-BOys doubles McMahan
and Ford.
Boys singles-McMahan
Girls singles-Lorine Bartell.
Declamatory contest-Dallam.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-05-05
SIMILkAMEEN BOOMING.

The Similkameen river is booming
up with violent activity. 1t is rising at
the rate of over foot day. and If the
present weather continues this valley
is to see the highest water since 1894
Six feet more of water will put the
power plant out of commission, and
that has not happened in a dozen years
The only hope for relief is a change
of weather. Should it cool off within
a few days danger of immediate high
water would be STAYED off. AS we &c
to press there is no sign of cooling, and
it will be well to keep an eye on the
thermometer and commence building
arks.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-05-05

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13

before in the history of F'rozenstar's
had there been such a demand for fur
niture. Corinne's commissions amount
ed to an amazingly large figure, larger
by far than those of any other one of
the society saleswomen.' What a
pleasure it would be, thought Frozen
star, to hand that check to Miss Della
croix. He would take it in person to
her. She would surely allow him to
call some afternoon after the selling
venture was over.
Just as he was meditating this in
his private office, the advertising
manager slouched into the room.
Have you heard the news?" he ask
ed. "One of the men from the Morn
ing Post Just told me. But of course
1t isn't going to set into print. That
would never do. That Corinne Della
croix you thought you had up in the
furniture department is really loafing
in seclusion at her fathers place at
Palm Beach. The man that told me
had it straight from some guy that
knows her fathers private secretary.
You see, she thought it wasn't fair to
rob some girl of a job; yet she didn't
want to miss getting the commissions
for charity. So she got hold of a
pretty little salesgirl who needed work
and got her to take her place. She
happened to know guy in your store,
too, engaged to him, 1 think-and so
she came around in Corinne's place
and arranged to be in the department
of this man she is going to marry. OF
course, no one is any the wiser except
a few of us that heard the story. And
it can't make a bit of difference to
you SO long as the people have been
fooled. I think it was quite a shrewd
idea, don't you?'
Frozenstar had a momentary vision
of the check he had made out in or
der to be a patron of the charity ba-
zaar.
Yes, it was rather clever" was all
he would say.-(Copyright. 1915, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13

embroidery and great diamonds, but
nevertheless, I pitied him sincerely,
for he was strange to our table man
ners and some of his errors were
both ludicrous and painful.
Toward the end of the dinner a
servant brought to the young man a
plate of toothpicks. He waved the
plate away.
No, thank YOU he said. I have
already eaten two of the awful things.
1 want no more"
A man who worked in the packing
department of a large store recently
rendered his resignation and accom-
panied it with the announcement that
he was going into business for him
self with another man.
He and l." he explained, will
make a success of it. I will furnish
the experience and he will supply the
capital
How long do you expect that plan
to succeed ?" asked the foreman.
"Oh, about five years." was the re-
ply. by that time I should have
the capital and the other fellow the
experience
Josephine and Janet met one morn
ing at the literary club and began
chatting.
II hear that Laura's engagement to
the young minister is off, remarked
Janet. DO you know why they quar-
reled?''
Mrs. Simmons was rather taken
aback by learning that her new do
mestic's name was the same as her
own daughters.
Your name, Katherine. and my
daughters being the same makes mat
tiers somewhat confusing said Mrs.
Simmons Suppose we change it ?"
| "Oi don't moind, num-" replied the
girl.
That's very nice" said the mistress.
| How do you like. say, the name OF
Bridget ?''
We'll, num-" returned the domes-
| tic, its not mesilf that's over par
ticular. Dim willing to call tn young
Teddy ony name ye'd suggest, mum. .
There should be a national holiday
called Junk Day, when every house
barn, shed, garage, etc, should be re-
| lieved of all it's junk
That's right, old man, but do you
realize how little there would be left
| of many a happy home ?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.

[From the Chicago NewsJ
Girls with the most cheek do the
least blushing.
You never hear a dressmaker say
that figures cannot lie.
Man may be the stronger, but wo-
mans tongue is more facile.
Matrimonial packages are not al
ways what they are tied up to be.
Some men wouldn't take advice if it
were offered to them in capsules.
The average man would rather visit
a dentist than his wife's relatives.
When a man says a bright thing
he nearly always forgets the quotation
marks.
A woman is always suspicious of an
other woman who dresses better than
herself.
Lots of men are lenient with them
selves because of their belief that
charity begins at home.
The mind cure may be all right
but the patient must have a mind OF
his own to start with.
For a real likeness of yourself, the
modern photograph isn't in it with the
old fashioned tintype.
IT is much easier for a bad man to
live down to his reputation than it is
for good man to live up to his-as
well as more usual.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
MERE MEN COUNT FOR 1rTvrLE,

If mere men could win the Euro
lean war, or crush the Central Pow
ers, Russia might be able to turn the
trick single-handled. Although her
casualties in dead. wounded and cap
tured since the war began are esti-
mated at the enormous total of $780,
OOo, it is stated that her army now
comprises some 100000 men and is
as numerically strong at least as when
the war began. But this tremendous
force is poorly equipped and badly Of
ficered, and it's effectiveness is full
sixty per cent less than was Russias
army at the opening of the war. Rus
STA is mighty in men, but men by
themselves, without modern equip
ment and thorough training, count for
little in this greatest of wars that the
world has known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13

the farmers in the first class-that
fifth of the farmers who did best
was $1,421. In the second class it was
s642. The last class-the fifth of the
farmers who were least successful
got nothing for wages and lost, on the
average, $517. That is to say, the in
terest on the amount of money rep
equipment would have been $517
more than the farm returned them
1t should be borne in mind in this con-
nection that the labor income is mere
ly the farmers wages, and that the
family has in addition, besides inter
est on investment, the use of the
farmhouse and such fuel and food as
the farm supplies free of money cost.
Other demonstrations have produced
similar results. In almost any north
ern community, one-fifth of the farm
ers are making approximately $1,000
a year more than the average and 49,
900 more than the least successful.
This is not luck, nor it is altogether,
or even chiefly, a question of the skill
of the individual farmer. Further
analysis will show that the successful
men are following certain methods
adapted to their conditions and that
the unsuccessful are not. 1t is the
business of the county agents and
farm management demonstrators to
ascertain what those methods are and
to point them out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
Euening Chat

BY RUTH CAMERON.


Two women were pushing their baby
carriages abreast along the sidewalk the
other day. A third woman, who was ap-
oreed o the As sne
she gave the two women and their carriages
baleful glance.
the mothers to the other. 1.-The look she
gave mel You'd think it was a sin for us
t. be ,n wheeling bab hes bet shes the
yes" said the other. .Stuck-up thing !,
I'd like to know If a mother hasn't a right
Think Of being mean enough to look like
that at dear little baby."
And she gave her own particular darling
glance in which motherly admiration and
indignation at the lady of the baleful look
were strangely mingled
There was no doubt Of that But that was
no reason that they should be made nuis-
ances Of. And that was just what their
mothers were doing in taking up the whole
sidewalk with their perambulators.
They had a perfect right to wheel the
babies on the public sids s but not to
ing on their motherhood In doing it. It
wouldn't have been tolerated in anyone
To presume on the almost universal
Difference and consideration shown to
and unworthy thing to do. Yet these wom-
en- were doing it, and / have seen many
others.
double seat in the trolley by having
small baby sit beside her instead of hold
ing 1t in her lap 1 have seen women do
this with little babies a year or two old,
while elderly women stood.
Mothers who allow children to rub their
muddy feet all over the trolley seat and
thus make it unfit for the next person to
sit on also belong in the unfair class.
Again, / think it is unfair for women
with babies to travel in the trolley at the
rush hour unless 1t is really necessary.
They dare to do it because they are .prac-
tical1y sure of seat, but they dishonor
themselves by trading on that security
The working men and women have to be
on the car at that hour and the car should
be left to them by those who are not forced
to travel then.
The very sacredness of motherhood
makes it worse for those who belong to
the i1lustrious order of mothers TO trade
upon its privileges and not to honorably
repay the chivalrous consideration they re-
ceive with gratitude and consideration
for the rights and privileges of others
protected by the Adams Newspaper Serv-
ice.D
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
THE SILVER BOOM.

Presumably it is the European war
that is also making hay these days for
the miners of silver in this country.
On April 80, silver sold at 73% cents
an ounce. In September, 1915, the
price was 1853 cents. And there is
now something of a boom in the sill
yer mining business. 1t costs between
30 and 40 cents to produce an ounce
OF silver, under the average silver
mining conditions, and there isn't
much production in this country when
silver brings no more than 40 odd
cents an ounce. But silver mining
boom Is on deck and in its train will
probably come lot of wildcat silver
mining companies that it might be
well for those of get-rich-quick ten
denotes to investigate carefully before
they invest their hard-saved money in
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
EF'rom the Philadelphia Record

EF'rom the Philadelphia Record
Bread is the staff of life, but lots
of US subsist on pay-rolls.
It's an uphill fight for some fellows
even to be on the level.
The people who are always looking
for the worst of it are seldom disap-
pointed.
In spite of the prevalence of labor
saving machinery, picking pockets is
still done by hand.
Many a man has an idea he is 60
ing to get into heaven by putting his
religion in his wife's name.
The woman with a liberal education
may be inclined to give her husband
a piece of her mind.
1t isn't enough to be thankful for
what we have. Sometimes we should
be thankful for what we haven't
Don't believe all you hear The man
who tells you how he despises wealth
is generally anxious to borrow a quar-
ter.
Marriage is a luxury 1
can't afford Harduppe-'A luxury :?
HUH 1t seems more of a necessity
to me-"
Wigg-.fI hear you've sold your bird
dog. He was a good retriever, wasn't
he?" Wagg-'I thought 50. but he
didn't bring much when 1 sold him.
Eyes, am going to marry a woman
without a cent to her name,' said the
optimistic man. oh, WELL a good
dame is more to be desired than great
riches,'' replied the fellow who has a
cold in the head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
Globe Sights
The corkscrew is key that unlock
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

The corkscrew is a key that unlocks
the house of folly.
You can't prove you are a good
sport by abusing the umpire.
A little man always like to tell what
a go-getter Napoleon was.
Don't take yourself so seriously that
others will think you are a joke.
A medal always means more to the
man who wears it than to anyone
else.
Eight hours work is enough. The
trouble is that so many of US dilute
the work.
A mans earning capacity is never
definitely fixed until his wife sues for
a divorce.
Some men and some automobiles
are very much alike. They smoke and
kick and come home late.
Don't you wish you were a ball play
er, so you could blame your short
coming on your arm?
Where there are two young ladies in
the family, the first one to get ready
is apt to be the best dressed.
If the dear women learn that a
woman trims her own hats, they are
apt to say that said hats look it.
No 200-pound woman should expect
a husband weighing 120 pounds, bed
side or ringside, to protect her.
Much of the economy is based on a
desire to save money so that a large
bunch of it can be wasted at one
me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

General Obregcn and General Scott
having exchanged conversation for a
couple of weeks without reaching any
definite understanding about anything,
the controversy between Carranza and
the United States returns to diplomat
&c channels, and another rote-writing
fest is in order. In the meantime
well. prophecy in any field is futile,
except that it can be set down for a
certainty that the Mexican situation
will keep on growing worse. just as it
has for so long. and as it will undoubt-
eddy continue to do until the United
States does it's full duty in the prem
fses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13

tnued progress in our foreign trade
lies. We could not hope very long to
continue piling up export balances at
the rate at which we have been doing.
We could at least not hope to do so
unless We sold all the goods making
up that export balance on longtime
credit. The surest way to maintain
our foreign trade on anything like its
present scale will be to find means of
offsetting more of our exports by i'm
ports The supply of American Sc
curities abroad is not inexhaustib1e,
nor Is the demand in this country for
foreign securities. The failure of the
supply of one or of the demand for
the other would speedily curtail our
exports unless against them we took
other goods which the rest of the
world had to sell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
Jayhawker Jots

One reason why women get less pay
than men, declares Tom Thompson in
his Howard Courant, is because they
are willing to work for less.
What's the answer to this School
Note in the Bunker Hill Advertiser
School will soon be out so let us begin
to pay our respect to our fellow stu
dents.
Time is now represented as an old
man with a bald head, says the Leav-
enworth Times, and it adds that that
makes it impossible to take him by
the forelock
There are at least two things that
will warrant a man to cuss, insists the
Lebanon Times; a puncture a mile
from a shade tree, and out of water
two miles from a well.
The farmer who buys an automobile,
points out the Winfield Courier, is not
usually the same one whose boy gets
tired of country life and goes into the
city to tend a ribbon counter.
The scarcity of dyes has almost
ruined Jim Jacobs canary industry.
reports the Coffeyville Journal. since
he can't get the proper shade of yell
low to tint the English sparrows he
catches.
Observations by Jack Gage, in his
Geneseo Journal: Failure is often
spoiled by success. .... 1t is unwise
to trust the man who trusts no one.
The dog in the manger is only
one of the chronic GROWERS. j. Any
way the road to happiness is always
on the level. When it comes to
work in the spring, almost anybody is
willing to pose as total abstainer.
80. The man who goes after things
gets more than the chap who takes
them as they come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
IMPoRrs AMI ExpoRrs.

Trade in it's essence is barter, the
Exchange of one commodity for an
btner. however refined may be the
iunctions of the mechanism devised to
|acilitate trade, says The Annalist
When a shoemaker pays a dollar for
basket of peaches what he does in
Effect is to exchange a certain amount
81 shoe or shoes, which he has made
ind does not wish to consume, for a
|ertain amount of peaches which he
! hs not produced but which he wishes
b consume. The dollar which he has
'hken from some one for the shoes
Ind which he in turn pays to the
armer who raises the peaches, facil-
Iates the exchange of commodities,
. Ut does not alter the essential char
ter of the transaction. The only
Jay to get goods is by offering other
foods in exchange. The thought has
pecial application to our present for
IGN trade position. Just now imports
re Increasing at a more rapid rate
han exports, though both have been
lounting to new high records. We
rported more and imported more in
[arch than in any other month in our
history, but the balance of exports was
bInewhat less in March than in Feb
1e--- 1t is in that direction that con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
DEMOCRATIC ExrRAyAGANcE.

Some question has been raised as to
the justice of the charge that the
Democratic national administration
has been guilty of gross extravaganza.
What would be considered good evil
dence to substantiate such a charge
outside of an array of complicated
statistics and figures that would make
rather dry reading?
The testimony of a lifelong and
loyal Democrat, who is in a position
to know whereof he speaks?
If so. here it is.
Warren Worth Bailey is such a
Democrat. And he represents one of
the Pennsylvania districts in the
lower house of congress. In a recent
debate, duly reported in the Congress
sional Record, he said:
"It is true that the treasury is in a
depleted condition. We have gone on
spending money with a lavish hand,
which we should not have done. The
Baltimore platform pledged the Demo-
cratic party to rigid economy in ex-
penditures. On the contrary. expendi-
lures have been more lavish than ever
before. In many directions they have
exceeded all previous records. Econ
omy has been a watchword of Democ-
racy. That this watchword should
have lost its meaning in these later
days is not reassuring. There would
be no occasion for the retention of the
tax on sugar if decent economy were
practiced in carrying on the affairs of
the government. To my mind, even
the odious stamp tax is less odious
than the tax on sugar. 1 want to pro-
test with all my might against this
betrayal of Democratic pledges. Ex-
travagance is flourishing unchecked.
With even ordinary prudence we
might bring expenditures within the
limits of income 1t grieves me to
stand in opposition to my party in this
matter. But I cannot make light of
my given word. I shall remain loyal
to the pledge given and stand true to
the people,"
Then Representative Bailey voted
against the retention of the duty on
sugar