The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-04-07
Mrs. Stanley Evans of LOOMS, &C.

companied by her young son, Stanley,
come over from LOOMS on a shop
ping trip last Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. Jas. East They made the
trip in a car, and Mrs. Evans says the
roads are in better condition than she
has ever known them to be.
Advertisers desiring changes. and
changes should be made frequently TO
secure the best results, should have
their copy in not later than Tuesday.
This office is willing to make changes
without cost to the advertiser and only
asks time to be given in which such
changes can be properly made.
Deputy United States Marshal Fred
Thorpe, of Spokane, was visitor in
Oroville Friday last, coming into the
county in the line of his duty. Mr..
Thorpe was formerly sheriff of this
county, and in that office made cred
table record as a brave and efficient
officer. He has a wide circle of friends
throughout the county who are always
pleased to meet him on his occasional
visits.
Father Sherman of LOOMS, came
over to Oroville Sunday and left for
Spokane Monday morning He stood the
long, severe winter we'll and is in
better health than when he came into
the country last fall. He was some
what surprised to find that We do have
winter up this way occasionally, for
he was laboring under the impression
that northern Okanogan was kind OF
semi-tropical country.
This office had a pleasant call of
brief duration last Friday from A. H.
Harrison, entomologist, of Louisville,
Ky. o. T. Clawson, state horticultural
inspector. Stanley Nagley, county hor-
ticultural inspector and j. A. Hughes,
county agriculturalist. A bright, jolly
quartette of good fellows are they,
thoroughly familiar with the work
they follow, and their visit was all too
short.
W. H. Thomas returned to his home
ing several months at his mining prop
erty on Kruger mountain. Before leav-
ing, he shipped car load of ore to the
Grand Forks smelter for a test run. He
is interested in the Golden Chariot,
upon which considerable choice look
ing ore has been opened in the process
of exploration during the past dozen
years.
VIM. Cody is still engaged in driving
a we'll at Elton G. Rice's home, south
of town. He is down 200 feet and has
water galore, but Mr. Rice is now out
after oil, and proposes to sink 1000
feet in an effort to reach that valuable
fluid. Should he strike gusher. fare
we'll to the peaceful lassitude of this
part of the valley. Oroville would ex-
perience an excitement with all the
frills Of first class boom.
Last week the Oroville Investment
Company, in which all the local real
estate dealers are combined, made the
following real estate sales: To Paul
Sidell. Of Seattle, 10 acres on the flat
on the west side of the Similkameen
river, just below the cemetery. To Mrs.
A. j. Larson, 20 acres of the celebrated
J. A. McGinty ranch, few miles south
OF town. To J. c. Martin, 10 acres in
the Lake View tracts, just east Of
town. To Geo. Major. lot south of the
Episcopal church. Mr.. Major will prob
ably build at once
W. l.. Keller. who is interesed in
mining property on Kruger mountain,
left for his home in Bellvue. Ohio,
Tuesday after having spent most of
the winter in Oroville. Mr.. Keller was
among the first prospectors to comb
the hills of the surrounding country
He lived here for "a years. Some four
years ago he went back to Ohio for a
visit. fell for pair of bright eyes. was
married and has since made his home
in that state, coming out to his old
stamping ground about once every
year. If mining looks up. Mr.. Keller
will probably be out again next fall,
if not sooner
Monday R. D. Jones and his eldest
son Howard, left Oroville for Tucson,
Arizona, and the balance of the family
will follow in two or three weeks. For
the past two years Mr.. Jones has held
the position of section boss on the Oro-
ville-Wenatchee branch, his sector ex-
tending from the Y, on the east side
OF the Okanogan river from town. to
the north boundary of the Ellis-Forde
Orchard tracts, making his headQuar-
ters at Cordell. Mr.. Jones has been
employed as section hand on numer-
GUS railroads during the past many
years, and in every instance he has
made good. He could always be de-
pended on to attend strictly to his du-
ties and he has the reputation of be-
ing one of the-most reliable and eff
cient section bosses on the Great Nor
thern system. The past winter has
been one to try the souls, the stamina
and the ability of section men, and no
portion of the branch has been kept
in better shape than that under the
immediate charge of Mr.. Jones. He
goes to Arizona to fill a similar posi-
ton on the Southern Pacific, but has
higher aims. He has a family of five
boys climbing rapidly to mans estate
and with their help Mr. Jones proposes
to eventually go into the cattle bust
ness in the far south land