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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

the exceptional and extraordinary
amount of snow to be reduced to water
and hurled upon the coast country,
the floods this year promise to be IN
precedented. This is not the prediction
OF an alarmist. 1t is simply state
ment of positive assurance. There is
no way for man to head off the i'm
pending danger and calamity, for 1t
will be calamity to hundreds OF prop
erty owners within the zone, or path,
OF the coming food Even this valley
may experience the highest water
since 1894, and even the high tide OF
that season could be surpassed should
the snow go out either under the in
fluence of warm rains, or protracted
spell of warm weather. A gradual mel
ting of the snow in the mountains
would do no harm, but it is the danger
of continued thawing when warm
weather once starts in. But there is
no need OF crossing the bridge until
we get to it. If the flood comes the
people must make the best provisions
for protection possible. Ii it does not
come the residents of the valley viii
have reasons for being devoutly thank
| full. -.....
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

The president made a western
HDeaking tour last week, extending his
itinerary as far west as Des Moines.
Iowa, visiting number of large cities
speaking upon and urg.n. the neces-
sity Of preparedness. 1t took the pres
idsnt some time to change his mind
tpon this course of public policy, but
nov, that he is enlisted in the cause
IT, II one Of the stronges. advocates in
the country for thorough preparation
~ meet the eventnalities of war. HIT
has at last come to realize the help
sssness of this country should compli-
cations arise which woul1 require this
country to back its attitude on any
question of international inisunder-
standing by force of arms. Everywhere
the president was greeted with i'm
mcnse crowds, and everywehre he
found the spirit of loyal Americanism
prevailing among all classes. 1t is evil
dent from the presidents utierarces
that this country has been nearer the
verge of war than the common people
have any idea of, and that it will re.
quire the most delicate diplomacy to
keep the United States free from the
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

Towns within touch and remote from
the south half of the Colville reserva-
ton are parading claims why they
should be made registration points
when the reservation is thrown open
to filings and settlement, an action ON
the part of the government that is an
ticipated during the present year. The
designation of registration points of
course rests with the method employed
in opening the reservation to settlers.
OF late years it has been customary,
when public lands were to be thrown
open for settlement, to distribute the
land by lot. That is. all applicants for
homesteads would register before a
stated date. and on that date numbers
would be drawn as in the old fashioned
lottery that the government long ago
suppressed as source of gambling,
the few drawing prizes, the many only
blanks. The element of chance thus en-
tering therein adding zest to the pro-
ceedings. This clamor to be made reg
istration points is somewhat premature
as letter from Washington states
that so far registration has not as yet
been decided upon by the land depart
ment.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

the long, cold winter, !,
something awful II a IRA ~
the business part Of town .. I
covery made that the ors ii
not in working order. Thi, q, ~
splendid fire pressure. =.
equipped department, bu, |, !
helpless in an emergency |, : !
drants were out OF commjss..
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11
NOBODY HOME.

Good morning, MIR President, have
you changed your mind this morning?
What do you think about the nat
ional democratic platform of 1872,
anyhow? Was it funny joke or just
bad mistake?
Why did you endorse that platform
in the campaign? Did you think that 1t
offered promises and set forth prin-
ciples that appealed to the voters and
Why did you assure us so earnestly
that democratic pledges were made to
be kept after election as we'll as to en-
list support before election?
Did you mean what you said, or,
after all, were those fair words mere
"molasses to catch flies WITH"
What caused you to think that in
the midst of hard times, the people
would approve the record-breaklng
extravaganza of a democratic con-
gress, in direct violation of their
pledge to effect economy in appro-
priations and expenditures?
Did you think that the people con-
sidered that plank of the Baltimore
platform pure political CUFF. and that
we would have been disappointed If
your party had kept that pledge?
Did the same line of reasoning in
fuence to reverse your attitude on the
Panama canal tolls, the one term prin-
/ ciple, the tariff commission idea, the
preparedness issue, the spoilS system
/ and the maintainence of American
rights and American honor and the
protection of American citizens in our
/ foreign relations?
! If il was not proper to keep the
/ promises of the democratic platform
was it proper to make them and tC
offer them as the reason for electine
/ you?
! If democratic policies and principles
were wrong in 1914 and 1915 and are
wrong now, were they not equally
wrong in 1912 when they were formu.
/ lated?
Ii that is true did you not secure
your office under false pretenses?
Having done this, do you think that
you can hoodwink us again?
I With a record of broken pledges, dc
you expect US to place confidence in
anything you promise before the next
election?
Do you think that because you have
broken practically every other plank
in the platform, the plank pledgine
you to a single term becomes null and
void?
Do you think that you can, with T. o.
priety and decency, become candi'
date for reelection?
If you do, as seems apparent, what
have you to offer that you expect us
10 believe?
Have you one single idea that you
are sure of?
Have you any fixed aim or purpose
other than that of holding office?
You talk of keeping your mind open
Is it so wide open that it receives ev.
erything and retains nothing?
/ You liken yourself to a pent-up vol.
cano. Is that why the iron of your pur.
pose and the metal of your spirit flow
forth in futile lava of words?
If you cannot depend on yourself, d,
you expect us to depend upon you?
/ Goodbye, Mr. President Four year:
ago We built a house for you. We have
furnished it with experience, and today
we return, knock at the door and fine
nobody at home Goodbye
Jr.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

1t is not the purpose of this paper
to convey the impression that there
has been no winter n the northern
part of the Okanogan valley, for,
speaking from an experience extend
ing over some eighteen years. it is
safe to say mat for protractai cold
this winter has been the most severe
during that period, let il can be said
that in comparison to other portions OF
the state, the northwest, and the
country at large, for that matter, the
winter here has been exceptionally
moderate Eight degrees below zero
has been the lowest temperature reg
istered. More snow has fallen in the
valley, taken altogether, than has fall
len in many years, and get. six inches
was probably the greatest fall during
any one storm. People complained of
the cold, of course. but the cold was
exceptional for this locality. Still ev-
erywhere else from whence reports
were obtainable, the cold was far more
intense. Snow has never interfere1
with travel in this part of the valley.
Indeed there has not been sufficient
On the ground to make sleighing easy,
while in all other localities the fall of
snow has been phenomenal, closing up
roads and causing protracted block
AIDES. Between Oroville and Tonasket,
trains on the Oroville-W thee
branch have not been prevented from
~ ndtr1n
from few miles south of Tonasket on
down the line snow blockades have re-
peatedly tied up transportation. The
trains from Spokane have never had
any difficulty ruuing into Oroville.
Take it all around, and those who are
SO fortunate as to reside in Oroville
and the adjacent valley have reason
to congratulate themselves upon living
in one of the most equitable climates
on the coast 1t would have required
nerve to boast about this orange zone
temperature a week or two ago, but
liz sizing up the country at large from
e weather point of view We had such
a boast coming. Those who we're in
clined to find fault when the freeze
was on in earnest failed to appreciate
their fortunate situation, and really
had every reason for singing hosan-
mas instead of registering protests. The
weather record for the winter is going
to be an advertisement for the north
end of the valley, and will encourage
prospective homeseekers to locate
here.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

Hedley was visited by disastrous
fire on Wednesday of last week, when
the big Similkameen hotel was entirely
DESTROYED. The loss was considerable.
Nothing could be-done toward saving
the property as the water mains We're
frozen and the fire department help
less. Wonder if the fire MIGRANTS IN
Oroville are in working order after
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11
From present indications Their,

From present indications there are
going to be a multitude of candidates
for nomination for the various offices
to be filled at the primary. That is
one of the beauties of the primary law.
Any man with the price, can file his
name for any office within the gift of
the people. There will be horde of
republican candidates. for this is GER
tainly republican year. and aspi-
rants for position feel that a nomina-
ton at the primary would be equivo-
lent to an election. And that is dead
sure right.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

great European ENHANCEMENT. MT.
wilson returned to the White HOUSE
Nth his anxiety considerably sllayed'
ceiling that Americans can be depend
ed upon to stand steadfastly by their
country and their country's flag IN
sny emergency, Notwithstanding the
peace at any price advocates, and the
utterances of traitorous foreign born
racidanfS
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11

Politics have commenced warming
up around the edges and it will not
be long until the country is in the
spasm Of a hot campaign.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-04

Big folk have little folk upon whose rights to
trample;
Little folk have lesser folk and follow the ex-
ample.
TN 1907 sienkiewicz asked me in common,
with Meredith, Wells and other English
writer's to join in an international protest
against Germany's brutal appropriation OF
Poles in Prussian Poland. But I cannot find
that he has protested against the Polish boy
colt OF the Jews 1 was interested on referring
to the volume in which these protests from all
over Europe were published to see that used
the same language on behalf OF the Poles as
now hold behalf OF the Jews. Might,
wrote. is now recognized as the rule or lie.
Christianity has been deposed even from the
lips of governments. Ii rarely was anywhere
else; but our century has grown too self-con
scious TO be able to leave it even this last rest
ing place In this degeneration Of the human
conscience Germany has played perhaps the
leading role That is what / wrote the
LIST OF January. 1908. but am quite prepared to
hear that my remarks about Russia are pro
German"
A critic in a french magazine. reviewing
some Ghetto stories, remarked that reading
them was IKE seeing the bay. on whose shore
be lived. from the opposite curve. that all
his familiar landmarks were reversed
vealed under a aspect. Thus, his own
people. so sereney conscious OF their central
their religion the last word of sweetness and
light, appeared a synonym for hatred
and darkness. To-day. a Ghetto story. especial
~ IL laid IN the Russo-Polish Pale. would re-
veal the war for righteousness as an incOnS
prehensible nightmare IN which the Jew,
fervent to pour out his blood and his treasure
for Russia, finds himself bounded and tor
tured between the separate hates OF the Rus
sian and the Pole, and only saved by the con
querlng Kaiser bringing. like Napoleon, equal
rio hfa for oil Erar In n lew
who won the Victoria Cross and was refused
a meal in y restaurant in OF our greatest
liberal centres. in Leeds TO be precise. must
have been somewhat bemused, the more so as
he himself makes speeches on the Asquith
model
The angle at which the Jew sees the war
can thus rarely be what the Censorship Bureau
would consider a right angle-it is either TOO
obtuse or too acute Christian Gunner-if
that is not an Irish bull-wrote to the York
shire Evening Post: Il Britisber home on
seven days leave. after being out in France
for fifteen months. What has surprised
me as much as anything in this Of sur
prises is the great number OF Jewish boys who
are doing their bit at the front and doing II
right. Most OF them have enlisted under wrong
names, hiding their proper names under Eng
lish ones Some o. my best pals at the front
are Jews whom anyone would welcome pals
and who are true as steel"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-04

erence. Moses told the Jews Thou shalt love
thy neighbour myself" and Seneca re-
minded the imperial Romans that all men are
sacred-hOmo sacra res homini Moreover, the
world always has been and always will be
melting-pot II is curious that even before the
present German megalomania began Fchte
claimed the French as a people OF Teutonic
stock, no less than the Spaniards and the ltal-
ians, and It is true that a Gothic strain exists
in them all.
The alien internment camps throughout Eu-
rope scientific Illustrations or the
fusing process caught in the act AS for Jew
ish blood, l probably the only person in
London who has never been suspected OF II.
The eighteenth century may have pushed cos
mOpolitanism too far. The nineteenth re-
acted with equal exaggeratlon to nationalsm.
and the twentieth is an era of natioualism run
mad. With Schechter. the great Jewish
scholar. whose loss just lamenting,
feel that for salvation our ravaged world will
have TO turn back TO international ideals
and these the old Jewish ideals, ito do justice,
have mercy and walk humbly with thy God"
The claims Of the Jewish race do not rest on
It's separate blood. but on its quality and It's
history.
I'm the eighth century before Christ" says
Professor Huxley, 'in the heart of a world Of
idoatrous poytheists, the Hebrew prophets put
forth a conception Of religion which appears to
me wonderful an inspiration of genius as the
art Of Pheid.as or the science Of Aristotle
Eight centuries later the conception to which
Huxley paid tribute crystallised and
ried to a wider audience by young Jew from
Galilee and six centuries after that accom-
modated to the Arab mind by another Semitic
uear Mecca
Without a knowledge OF the Bible which, in
the words Of Lord Bryce, is the one piece OF
literature. ancient or modern, that is common
to all the peoples Of European origin In both
hemispheres," European art and literature
would be unintelligible. After collision with
every great ancient empire and persecution
by every modern, the race that wrote the Old
Testament and the New survived to write the
gospels of modern socialism, and remains to-
day one of the factors of human evolution one
Of the roads to the superrace.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-04
Even Russians Find
They Need the Jews.

Their common misfortunes, said Prince Lu-
bomirsky. the Mayor of Warsaw. would beget
harmony Professor YavOrsky. the President
of the Chief Polish Council, has published at
Vienna a statement admitting that Jews should
receive full rights in independent Poland.
Whether In Poland or In Russia, the Jews will
oe loyal and valuable citizens. They do not
cherish rancor. An eye for an eye and a
.ooth for a tooth"-which never a motto
for vengeance, bat only a legal maxim for the
Hebrew courts In adJudging compensation for
bodily damage-was practically abolished.
even in the courts, centuries before the Chris
tan era.
II is with grim amusement that I have
watched this much-abused maxim OF the bar
barOus Jew glorifed into a popular slogan OF
contemporary ChristendOm. No. there will be
40 danger TO Russia from Jewish emancipa-
ton. The only danger will be to the Jewish
race deprived OF the ring-fencs OF persecution
within which unintelligent anti-Semitism
has conserved It. Such solution OF the Jew
fish problem. unless accompanied by the con-
cession OF core of nationality under a Fed
eral concept, might we'll be the dissolution of
the Jew.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-04
Pathetic Stories of
Hebrew Soldiers in the War.

That the Christian Gunner is not exaggerat
ing, let the story OF Private Sam Thomson il
lustrate-the young signaller OF the Camerons
who, In house at LoOs, killed singehanded
three Germans and captured thirty, and WHO'S
real name Sam WoOlf. Sam was anxious
to give his all for England. yet he felt it neces-
sary TO smuggle himself into her army. And
II is a sad fact that despite the resounding
CRY for recruits, Jews have been frequently
refused or, IL accepted, Clipped" II is
called. by their comrades.
There are indeed signs that after the war
the long agony OF the Russian jew viii find
RlleviattOn-but II will not be through the &C
ton OF Christians or OF statesmen What is
bringing about the emancipation OF Russian
Jewry is not the pale God OF GalIee, but Nam
mon and Mars. The very explosions Of the
war, the congestiOns OF refugees, have broken
down the pale and created a new order. which
can never quite return to the old, though the
Black Hundreds" and the True Russians" Cor
True Prussians" they now called in
RUSSIA, are moving hell and earth to bring
back yesterday. And at the moment they have
almost succeeded.
The most reactionary parties are in power,
Liberal Groups and even Moderates have been
bahled. the Duma has been indefinitely closed,
the manOeuvre (already exposed in that
sembly). CT egging the Christian soldiers
against their Jewish comrades exploited afresh
with a diabolcal cunning that perceives that
IN the Jewish valor and manifold military dis
tinctions. with the 90 600 Jewish casualties al
ready known, lies the collapse Of the whole
True Russian" case
Secret orders have been issued to the COM
manders TO report on the behavior OF the Jew
ish soldiers. l. e., OF course, on their mis-
behavior. with view 10 excluding Jews from
the army altogether after the war. With
strange hash OF war and politics. army or
ders arraign the slackness OF the Jewish sol
diers who yet dare 10 demand equal rights;
their Jewish-German speech is proclaimed the
obvious channel OF communication with the
enemy and this though every attempt to es-
tablish charges OF treachery and espionage has
broken down. Hence intolerable situation
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-04
Complete
Short Story

meeting as brief as possible.
You have received my telegram
he said He thought OF you until
the last and asked me 10 give you
back your letters. which never left
him. Here they are"
She took the parcel In silence. but
he could see her lower lip trem bic
with emotion.
He had never spoken 20 me on
this subject. II was the hrst
heard OF his love-
A sudden timidness overcams him
and he stammered:
He also asked me tot was
his last wish-that I should kiss
you for him"
"Oh. my dearest friend"
For a short momen' he held her
little form IN his arms and pressed
TO his h@art the woman he loved
Then he said In a voice that he
tried 20 make firm:
ITO me. his brother. the loss -
anspesksblA H.s .sYsa ash other
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-04

dearly
And we loved each othst cra-..
she repeated mechanically T..-
she gave way 20 her SORROW a.
together and conclusive sobs made
her whole body tremble. He forced
her TO cit down and tried 70 calm
her.
He was brave till The last
moment He knew he was doomed
he died like a hero
did he suffer uuchi~
Yes. he did suffer. He 49,
struck IN the abdomen b. an 60
plosive bullet"
"Oh. how atrociopsT
He was holding her cold. slender
little hand 10 his and felt her win
draw IL 20 wipe away her teAra
Then re felt that 81 be renaiss
here longer hts heart would br~Ak
Taking her hands IN both Of -
own he stammer~l:
BE brave! Be brave. GsArr
Then be rusAsd ga % ia kpsES