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

ises to be still greater. 1t will be much
more convenient for him living on his
place than living in town and travel
ing back and forth during the busy
season.
Fed Clark and l. N. Wickersham,
who are equipped for the job and put
up about all the ice used in the COM
munity every winter by ice house own
ers, commenced cutting Sunday on
Osoyoos lake, near the Dooley P.
Wheeler place. The ice if Of fine quail
ity, from ten to twelve inches thick,
and Messrs. Clark and Wickersham
have 500 tons contracted for.
Travelling men from far and near
rendezvous at Oroville Sundays. They
come here for the purpose of enjoying
the comforts of first class hotel dur
ing the cold weather, and the day there
Is no arrival or departure of trains
finds the Hotel de Grub more crowd
ed than any day in the week. That ho-
tel is an asset to the town that the
residents of the place can hardly I'M
iderstand or appreciate.
Word was received here last Thurs
day of the death of Harlod Dokken, at
Seattle, who was a victim of combi-
nation of measles and pneumonia. The
deceased worked for the Great North
ern and was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Dokken, now living at Myncas-
ter. They formerly lived at Chopaka,
where Mr.. Dokken was section fore
man, capacity that he is. filling at
the present time on the Great Nor
thern road.
Henry Bender, head of the Bender
Metals Mining and Milling Company is
pushing preparations at the Nighthawk
flotation plant as rapidly as machinery
arrives, and before many days the mill
will be ready for operation. There have
been numerous delays, at no time the
fault Of the manager, who has been an.
xious to start treating ore, but about
all the problems have at last been SOL
we'd. 1t looks as though this enterprise
would prove success.
DR.. d. H. Lewis and Reevie Frank
returned home from a trip to Water
Vile last Thursday evening. DR.. Lewis
was called to Waterville to see DR..
Smith, who murdered Thos. Burke
week ago Sunday, and Mr.. Frank was
down to the Big Bend city on business
connected with the Frank-Craft Buick
company. The report that the little
city which never before was the scene
of a killing, was very much wrought
up over the awful crime.
Jack Gormerly and Charlie Anton
son, who are working the o. K. mine,
on Kruger mountain, on a royalty,
shipped out a car of the best looking
ore this week that has been taken out
of the mine. The ledge is showing up
better than at any time since the pres
ent lessees took hold of it. What is
needed at the o. X. is deep working
and mill on the premises to concen-
trate the low grade ore, of which there
seems to be an endless quantity.
Geo. J. Hurley stopped over in town
Monday night on his way to Okanogan
to meet with the county game commits
sion. Wednesday he went out to Seat
tie and Spokane on business connected
with his position as member of the
county game commission. After his
return next week Mr.. Hurley expects
to be in Oroville for some days in
charge of the Oroville Commercial
company's store while Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Powell makes a trip to Califor-
MIA.
In another column we publish a po-
en- from the pen of Mrs. Evangeline
Douglass. who lives few miles south
OF 1OnasFet, which is worthy of Pc
rusa!. Mrs. Douglas has written much
clever poetry, and this last production
The Soldier Boy" is one of the best
war poems that We have seen in print
and appeals to every parent that has a
boy +, flowing the flag at home '.r
abroad. The words should be set to
music and the song would make a hit
all over the land.
In the last distribution of public
school money the districts in this To-
cality fell heir to the following sums:
LOOMS, $366.32; Palmer Mountain,
| $39.75; Oroville. $11s6.62; Golden,
$34.32; Nighthawk, $44.01; Palmer