The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1920-02-13

against the practice and warned those
guilty of supplying the joyful that they
were laying up trouble for themselves,
but potests and warnings seem to have
no effect in lessening the consumption.
| 1t is devoutly to be hoped that some OF
these law breakers may be caught red
handed, and then given the utmost lin
| 1t of the law. That would go far toward
breaking up bootlegging.
Great weather this locality has been
experiencing during the past week,
considering that according to the nat
ural changes of season 1t ough to be
snow and ice and shivering cold. With
frost at night the temperature re-
minds one more of early April than
the middle of February. Some OF these
days have been as warm as May. 1t Is
hardly believable that winter Is over.
but even If the country experiences an
other touch Of severe weather In the
natural order of things 1t cannot last
long.
Profiteers have no monopoly upon
modernized methods of relieving the
public of cash. Thieves in Seattle prac-
tice p-to-the-minute means of carry
ing on their nefarious vocation. Last
week Mrs. Frank Colvert, of Oroville,
who has been in Seattle for some time
where her son is under treatment at
hospital for an affliction of the eyes,
started to walk in the early evening
from the hospital TO the home of sis
ter, out on 33d street Suddenly clos
ed automobile turned In to the curb,
man stepped out and thrust the muzzle
of revolver in Mrs. Calvert's face,
ordering her to hand over any cash
she had on her person. At first Mrs.
Calvert was inclined to treat the hold
up as a Jest, but the highwayman
speedily gave her to understand that
he was in deadly earnest. Mrs. Calvert
reluctantly let go of between $500 and
$500 in cash and check for $40, pay
ment on which was stopped by noti-
fication to the bank the next morning
Wednesday afternoon Carl Schultz
came down Central Avenue with his
truck towing the most dilapidatCd mo.
tor car that has ever been hauled in
to motor hospital in this place for
repairs. From the looks of the wreck
it would seem that in order to put it
in order it would have to be entirely
rebuilt. The mussed up vehicle was
c. Schassberger's laundry delivery
car. Returning from Tonasket Tues
day evening, and driven by Donald
Allen the car went off the grade near
LAUDER gulch, where the contractors
are repairing the road, and turned bot
tom up. The top saved young Aliens
life Even at that the top was splint-
cred into kindling wood, the steering
wheel broken, the tenders bent out of
shape. The whole car was mass of
broken wood and iron. 1t was lying
with the four wheels in the air when
the Schultz truck reached The scene
Wednesday morning and was righted
and brought to town after much hard
work.
Otto Kohlhepp, deputy collector u
S., internal revenue for Chelan, Okla
hogan and Douglas counties, spent two
or three days in town during the week
setting such people as have income
tax to pay wise to the complicated
document that it is necessary to make
out for the information of the govern
ment relative to ones income Those
having business to do before Mr.. Kohl
hepp found him ain amiable and accom-
modating gentleman ready and willing
to give all the information in his
power 1t was a satisfaction to learn
from Mr.. Kohlhepp that he found little
disposition manifested among people
to dodge paying income tax, and they
all seem to be anxious to turn in an
honest statement of their income and
the source thereof Which would indi.
cate that the great bulk Of the people
believe in the government and are
cheerfully willing to contribute to-
ward the maintenance Of the govern
ment, even if conditions growing out of
the war have made taxation consider
able of burden.