The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-02-08

from Malott for the first time in sew
eral months. Mr.. Griffin is one of the
very oldest residents in the north part
of the county, although not so ancient
himself in the matter Of accumulation
of years. His late fathers place, a.
short distance down the river from the
pl esent town of Tonasket, was one Of
the old landmarks of the county. Of
late years Mr.. Griffin has dabbled ex-
tensively in mining, and for the past
eighteen months has been engaged in
prospecting some mineral claims that
he owns not far from Malott.
Recent visitors to American Lake
who saw some of the Okanogan county
boys at training in the cantonment,s
stats that Bert Champneys, formerly
manager of the bank at Loomis, is now
top sergeant Of his company and has
received an appointment to the Off
GERS reserve school at the Preside,
but has not as yet been called to take
up the new work. In the recent Liberty
Loan drive, Mr.. Champneys was given
charge of the work in his company,
and it is said to have made the best
showing of any company in the can
tonment.-Okanogan Independent.
L. Perrizo, the gentleman who re-
Gently purchased group OF mining
claims from Paul Nelson, located few
miles north Of Oroville. met with
painful accident at Nighthawk, Satur-
day. While cranking up his auto the
machine back-flred and the crank
struck Mr.. Perrizos right arm just
above the wrist He supposed the bone
was broken and came down to Oroville
| for treatment 1t was discovered under
the X-rays that no bones were broken
but the arm was very severely bruised.
The injury is severe enough to put Mr.
Perrizo off the working list for a week
or two.
r. B. Smith. state inspector or
weights and measures and general
trouble man for automobile owners, 1
spent Tuesday in town, and was busy
man all the time that he was here.
Under information filed by him no
less than seven arrests wer made for
violation of the auto law, the chief
charge being failure to procure a.
license. The delinquents were hailed
up before Judge Ferguson and were
touched for various sums in fines. Mr..
Smith desires this paper to state that
automobile licenses expire in this state
the last day of February and that it
behoves owners of these gasoline lux
- m n
as possible, thus saving future trouble.
Geo. Stoltz had a rather trying ex-
perience getting, to Nelson Sunday,
evening with his 10000 Leagues I'm
der the Sea" films that he had adver-
tised to show at that place in the
American theatre. Owing to drifts
car could not run through to Nelson
from this place, and arrangements
were made for man and team to meet
Mr.. StOltz some miles this side of Mol
son. When he reached the place where
he was to meet the team, that outfit
failed to show up, and Mr.. .Stoltz had
to drag his films on a hand sled some
five miles. He did not reach Nilsson
until 8 o'clock, and on that account
failed to secure the crowd he would
have had had he been able to open on
time.
E. ]. Waldorf, our warehouse hust-
Ter. was over to Waterville. and other
points along the railroad last week, |
pushing for business. He sold car
load of hay to Jack Friel, an old resi-
dent Of Waterville. and laid the ground |
work for a number of other sales |
What struck him forcibly while at |
Waterville was the business being
done by the Frank Craft Buick COM
pany The Buick people have received |
five car loads of Buick and Overland
cars within the last few weeks and dis |
posed of every one of them. There |
seems to be lots of ready money in the |
Big Bend metropolis and the owners |
of that money are not backward in |
spending the same. Mr.. Waldorf says
that most of the cars seen are of the |
higher priced brand.
Webb Hurley had very narrow es-
cape from very serious accident one |
day last week. Mr. Hurley goes from |
LOOMS to the point where work is in |
progress on the Oroville-Nighthawk |
road every Saturday afternoon in his |
car to convey the workmen home. Last |
week as he was bowling along toward
Nighthawk with load, following the |
river, his steering geer broke and the |
car became unmanageable. The car
Slowed toward the river, but very for
tunately heavy bunch of bushes
caught the machine and held it on the |
very brink of the river. Had the car
gone into the river-but what's the use
in trying to picture what might have
been. The fellows who escaped are
very thankful that they did not pro-
vide sensational item for the press. |
The attention of farmers is espec-
tally called to the scarcity of reliable
seed oats. Seed oats are difficult to
secure at this time at any price, and
within sixty days they cannot be pro-
cured at all. E. J. Waldorf, the local
warehouse man, has lines out through
which he can secure two car loads of
seed oats that can be recommended to
the grower, but wants to know if the
demand for this seed will be sufficient
to consume the entire invoice. He will
order one car at least, but would feel
greatly disappointed il after disposing
Of the car there should be sufficient
demand to require second car at a
time when another car load could not
be procured. Mr.. Waldorf proposes to
furnish seed oats to farmers at actual
cost, and all those who may desire
seed should interview that gentleman
at the earliest possible date.