The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-03-21
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washington Nursery Co., ,!of Toppenish
has been working this locality during
the past week. Nj Mofiler il not a
stranger in this part of the country,
as he has visited Okanogan county a
number of times in past years solic-
iting for nursery stock, and is we'll
posted in horticulture. He is a pleas
ant gentleman to meet, of more than
ordinary intelligence, and although
well advanced in years. is hale and
hearty, so much so that some two
years ago he took up homestead in
Montana, and thereby hangs tale. AS
he tells it with all sincerity and appar-
ent truthfulness one is led to believe,
and believing one is inclined to admit
that there is somethingf even super
nat. raj in dreams rrai tscrc are men
who dream dreams that come true. For
Mr.. Mohler's experience is a plain
dream story. The psychologist, or those
versed in the occult sciences, might
figure it out, but the strangeness of
Mr.. Hohler's story is beyond the ken
of the ordinary mortal He thus tells
how he came to take up a homestead:
Fourteen years ago., when Mr.. Moh-
Ter was on the Frazier river, in British
Columbia, for he has travelled over
much of the northwest en- horseback
and by team, he had a very vivid
dream in which he was to take up a
homestead. Not only did he dream that
he was to file on land, but the picture
of that land, it's topography, it's sur
roundings, were vividly outlined in his
dream. The next night the same dream
was repeated, with the addition that
when he located on the homestead two
men came to his camp. They agreed to
search for the section corners, and
each started in different direction. A
short distance from his camp Mr..
Mohler discovered a birch stake upon
which had been cut the surveyors
marks. but time had so effaced the
marks that one of the men he called
could make out only the letter S and
the figures II, which he could dis
tinguish when they were pointed out.
These dreams made great impress
sion upon Mr.. Mohler, and in the fol-
lowing years in his wonderings he
searched for such a piece of land as
he saw in his dreams as he travelled
through the different western states
selling nursery stock. He. travelled in
blackboard all over the Columbia
River valley and on up through Okla
hogan county to the RrySsh Columbia
line in search of his dream ranch but
always failed to find it. And so the
years slipped by and he continued his
search. When the south half of the
Colville reservation was thrown open
he visited upwords of twenty sections
numbered II but there was nothing
to it.
In 1917 while in Eastern Montana
he made wide reasearch. but was dis
appointed. On his way driving back to
Washington he was about to turn
south to Thompson Falls when
traveller advised him to keep to the
northwest, as the grasshoppers had
destroyed about all the vegetation to
and stopping at a farmhouse some 80
miles from Kalespel, he casually asked
if there was any vacant land in the
neighborhood subject to enlrv. The wo-
man said there was a number of re-
'linquishments that could be purchased
and then spoke of piece of land that
had been in the forest reserve that had
been recently opened for entry, saying
toat her husband tculd give him more
information upon his return. Mr. MOh-
ler went into camp and talked with the
farmer upon his return. The result
was that Mr. Mohler rode five miles
the next day to see this land, and the
moment he set his eyes on it he saw
that it was an exact picture of the land
that came to him in his dream nearly
IA years before, part timber, part pra-
irie with a small stream running
through it. He went back for his out
fit, returning to his land and had
l.ardly made camp before two men, the
two men OF his cream, appeared. and
afleI some conversation they started
looking for the section corner. Two
hundred yards from his camp Mr.
Mohler found cut on tree the caba-
listic signs H." And thus his 1ream
|of some fourteen years previous came
almot absolutely true.
People may poo-poo and smile deris-
lively, and tap their head and say rats
in the belfry, but for all that
There are more things in heaven and
earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamed of in YOur