The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-25

store in which he has clerked for the
past year or more. He is ambitious to
obtain thorough education and that
is the most praiseworthy ambition that
a young man can have these days.
The familiar face of c. J. Mckenzie
was absent for two weeks from behind
the cash register of the Hotel de
Grub, during which time he was in
bed getting the best of severe attack
of bronchitis. He is back at the old
/ job providing for the wants of travel
ers.
F. v. Covert captured real butterfly
marked with all of the delicate colors
Of those insects, Thursday last. 1t was
monkeying around the Covert building,
trying to get in to the steam heated
radiators. If that Is not an indication
OF spring then all signs fail in cold
weather.
The south bound train did not pull
out Saturday until noon, and from the
size of the crowd at the depot waiting
to take passage it looked as though
half the population of the county was
out on an excursion. They were stored
| away in the single coach like sardines
in box.
The front of NJ H. Mahoney's build
ing, adjoining the post office, which
is to be occupied by Eide's drug store,
Is still unfinished because MIR. Mahoney
is still waiting for glass that was ord
cred long ago, and which has either
gone estray or is tied up in some
blockade.
John COrmick, of Edmonston, AL
berta, who is largely interested in the
Iyanhoe mine, came in from the mine
Tuesday. where he has been for a few
days. accompanied by w. B. McChes-
ney, general manager. and A. w. Boyd,
superintendent, and the party went out
to Spokane Wednesday,
A rotary snow plaw, brought in from
Hillyard and on the way to points
west of Wenatchee attracted consider
able attention at the depot Sunday.
From side vitw the pillow looks like a
box car. but front view shows a
business end that is as penetrating as
the hot end of a hornet.
A letter from A. M. Wehe, of Milwau-
kee, who has been interested in mining
claims about the old Wehesville camp
for a quarter of a century, writes that
he expects to be out here again this
summer. Owing to poor health Mr.
Wehe has not been able to make the
trip for three or four years.
BluestOne is quoted at % cents a
pound, a great increase over the ordin-
airy ruling price. If G.. w. Smith can
produce any quantity of blustone from
ingredients to be found in this neigh
borhood equal to the samples he has
extracted, bluestone factory
here would be big paying venture.
Sheriff Harry Stark was visitor in
Oroville over last Friday night. If he
was up here on any LAY" he kept it
pretty close under his hat. However,
Mr.. Starks visits here, whethe rfor
business or pleasure, are always well
coined by all who know him, unless
it is the party whom he is especially
after.
Our macadamized streets are chan
nels of oozy, nasty, sloppy mud. 1t
would be difficult to make a stranger
really believe that they were ever
graveled. Maybe this is the way that
graded streets ought to appear, but it
is hard for those who have to pay for
the Improvement ca to feel that way
about it.
Wise Indians in different parts of the
state predicted that the heaviest snow
storm of the winter would occur on the
18th of this month. 1t was a pleasure
to note the passage of the 18th without ;;
an abnormal change in the weather,
which would indicate that the wisdom |
of the red man in this instance was
considerably off color.
A bridal party at the out going south
bound train Saturday furnished enter
tainment for a number of young
friends. The friends were loaded with
rice and other bric-a-brac and the new
ly weds were souced in a deluge. It is
display of exhilaration that is fun for
everybody but the victims, but it is
meant in all kindness by the partici- |
pators.
Where did the Okanogan Independ-
ent get the dope when it says the Con-
cOnully basket ball team has defeated
OrOville twice this season? Oroville
and Conconully has played only one
game this season, and in that case it
was plain and undeniable case of
grand larceny on the part of Concon-
ully's referee. Conconully has refused
to play return game.
Sam Mclean, who had the govern
ment deport him, left Thursday last
for the home of his brother in Ontario
He had to go to Seattle and from there
take the train east. He was accom-
panied as far as Marcus by Immigra-
ton Officer Volgney. From that point
he would have another official escort
to the coast. The government is liberal
and painstaking with such cases.
A. M. Van Alta was down from his
ranch on Palmer mountain Sunday.
Van is one of the Oldest stock raisers
on the mountain, and has had his hands
full this winter looking after his cat
tie. But he is man who cares we'll
for his stock and as result he suf-
fered no losses from the severe winter,
although it has required many hours
of gruelling hard work to save tile ami
mails.
If you hear the fire siren rip off a
blast at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon do
not get excited. The council has order
ed Mr.. HOOse to turn the alarm loose
every Monday at that particular hour
in order to see that the alarm is work.
ing smoothly. If the blast shocks your