The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1919-01-17
LOOKING BACKWARD
)ms of interest taken from the Pal.
mer Mountain PrOspectOr Of
January 6, 1899.
inns Of Interest Taken from the Pal.
mer Mountain PrOspectOr Of
January IL, 1899.

b. A. Pierce started Monday on q
BIT to the Sound cities and Spokane
Pierce goes principally for pleas
e, and will likely be gone all win
(Mr. Pierce is still residing in
)omis, where he is conducting a
bre).
While splitting wood one day last
bek J. p. Dexter missed the piece OF
bod and severed the cords leading
the thumb. (The old man recover
from the accident and is still! liv-
3 near Loomis).
An account is given of an exciting
naway in which the team OF j. A.
bngacre did the performance. Mr..
bngacre lived in Loomis up to few
bnths ago when he took up his resi-
nee on Ellemeham mountain.
R. r. Hargrove returned Saturday
Om Conconully, where he has been
oing assessment on number OF
aims during the past 30 days. (Bob
argrove moved from Spokane to
hby and from there to Conconuily
way back in the early sos, attracted
the country by the stories of rich
|ineral strikes. He secured num-
If of claims near Conconully and
hing on to them for years, doing a
Try large amount of development
ork. A number of times he was on
Ie very eve of making a tnrn that
build have insured him competency
>r life, but the deals always fell
Trough. Bob was one of the most
ptimistic mining men that ever oper-
led in this upper country and had
faith in it's mineral possibilities that
as beautiful in its edrnestnesS. He
rck tenaciously to his claims and
rver failed 10 do at least the annual
est ssment work. But he never re-
ized anything out of his years Of
hor and passed away few years
I'D his widow and son are living at
kanogan).
7 he Prospector appeared he week
n January 13 as a half sheet, rs the
SEow blockage mad tied dp the freight
md express. Up to thai date no mail
al arrived since January &.
" J. Bowen arrived IL camp Fri
Day and reported & general hiovxade
! along the route. He vas fourteen
Lays on the route between Davenport
IND this camp, and crossed the Column
bia river on an ice jam when no one
ha ind IN trU q
lays the mail from the outside is
billed up at Bridgeport and Coulee
Fifty. Just before he came out a
wreck occurred on the Washington
Central in which three engines and
y passenger train were piled up and
boose had been sent out ahead with
snowplow to clear the track. The en-
zine got stuck in cut about Is miles
beyond Coulee City, and about -
o'clock at night passenger train
with two engines came down the road
|at a speed of 80 miles an hour and
ran into the disabled engine before
1t could be seen. All three engines
were piled up ond a man who was
asleep in the caboose was killed. He
passed three teams loaded with powd-
Ter for this place at Bridgeport.
The Prospector reports the install
|lation of an air plant ii the .. s.
|mine, situated at Blue Lake, between
|LOomis and COnconully. At that
time a force of men was driving a
tunnel on the @. S. and much develop
men had been done and was after
wards carried on at that mine, with
Encouraging prospects Of making a
producer. A vast sum of money was
spent at me @. s., bu. for years the
property hai been idle.
In the report of the proceedings of
THE county commissioners the follow
ling persons were allowel bills as
|service as election officers in the pre-
'cincts in the north part OF the county.
land at that time Okanogan county ex-
tended to the Wenatchee river, and
there was a Wenatchee precinct in
the county: Salmon precinct Con-
conully, Geo. Moore, Geo. A. Black
well and Chas. Milberger. Geo. A.
Blackwell is the only one still living
in the county. Similkameen, VIM.
Baines, Joe Linton and Jesse Hunley.
Mr.. Baines lives at Okanogan. Joe
Linton still lives on his homestead
near Nighthawk, and Jesse Hunley is
dead. Golden, F. P. Wehe, A. Geo
Wehe and Geo. Paskell. Maj. Wehe
the Oldest of the trio, is still living
the other two having passed away
Toats Coula, Loomis, j. o. Calhoun
r. V. Griffin. ]. M. Piman, G. X. Pet
ers and Fred J. Fine. All are living
except Mr.. Griffin. Johnson Creek
d. c. Graham, A. J. Squares and G.
Fl. Fate. All of these gentlemen, we
believe have passed away. Spring
Coulee, E. c. Sherman, Chas. Wilcox
and M. Mahoney. So far as we know
Mr.. Mahoney is the only one of the
three still living in the county. Meyers
Creek, Chesaw, E. M. Harthorn, Rob
ert Allison ]. L. Cresson and ID. II
Elliott. Mr.. Cresson is still a resi-
dent Of Chesaw, and we know no
where the others are. TOrOda P. A
Mccormick, e. P. Gallac and e. NJ
Harthorn, none of whom are now liv
ing in the county. Ruby, Matt Garri
gan, Dan Davidson and e. J. Doiran
Mr.. Garrigan died in the local hospita
from injuries received in a runawa!
only few weeks ago. We do no
know what has become of the others
In the Brewster precinct were D. L
Gillespie, ]. D. holland and Ale!