The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-10-11

several SIochHOluerS Oh tne OrOVlll0
Copper company arrived Monday
evening and they will spend few
days here thoroughly inspecting the
property of the company on Kruger
mountain, a short distance north Of
town.
Corporal Jas. Silverthorn was In
town from Camp Lewis q day or two
the latter part of last week on q
brief furlough visiting with his old
friends. The young man looks nifty
in the uniform of the United States
army and is well pleased with the
service.
The Chautauqua entertainments
for which few members of the merry
order of easy marks signed up for
last year is billed to take place early
in November. II the weather is mild
enough the entertainers may be in
duced to give their program in the
park, otherwise the stuck signers
better secure a box car for the oc-
casion, or cut out the performances
entirely. Any way it is done the
signatories will have to dig up.
Prof Olds believes in patriotism
and believes in instilling patriotism
in the young. Patriotic songs at the
school house are roared forth with a
snap that show that the hearts Of the
young generation are in the music.
The public had sample of the ex-
cellent training of the school on pa
tytn Ia . Io1L
the Civic League building last Mon
lday evening. The school children
| contributed very materially to the sue
cess of that meeting.
Eli Wilson, formerly town marshal,
| and one of the most popular officials
| this town has ever had, came up from
J Okanogan Tuesday evening, where he
has been visiting, suffering from an
| attack of typhoid fever. DR.. Lewis
went to Okanogan Tuesday to see Mr..
Wilson and it was following the doc
tors advice that he came here and
entered the Oroville General hospital.
We are pleased to say that 1t is light
case and Mr. Wilson will probably be
well on toward recovery in few days.
( Wednesday morning a team OF
! horses attached to a heavy wagon
J driven by a man named Dugan, who
is hauling apples from the orchard
under charge of Y. l.. Redhead, start
ed to run away from in front of San
|derson's plumbing shop. Dugan was
bumped out and fell on top of one of
the horses, which did not add to the
pleasant state of mind of the animal.
There is no telling how the mix up
would have ended had not Mr.. Red
head cut across lots and headed off
the flying team almost in front Of
the Gazette office. The young man
made a very neat job of stating the
lrunaways.
| w. o. Steele reports that the coyotes
lare becoming so bold in their depre-
dations on Ellemeham mountain that
if something is not done to reduce
1.-THE tribe hardly a domestic fowl or
lporker will be left in that locality.
Mr.. Steele himself has lost rs young
turkeys, almost full grown, from
these predatory raiders and the other
day one galloped through the front
yard and picked up and carried away
a young porker against the shrill pro-
test of the pig The government en-
E lploys trappers to thin out these beasts
and it would be blessing to the resi-.
dents of Ellemeham if one of those
destroyers of wild animals would take
up his abode for a time on the noun
tain and exercise his skill against the
cunning of the coyote.
course, will be in close touch will
millions of producers are unquestion