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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11
ARE YOU REGISTEREDl

There only remains some ten davs
Ill which the voters of the Oroyille
precincts can register. Ii YOU are not
registered you will be debarred from
voting at the primaries. Nominations
LOT oifices to be filled are made at the
primary election. IL you want voice
IN lhe selection of these officers reg
istration Is necessary. There is a flock
Oh candidates to select from. Person
any they are all worthy gentlemen.
lhey cannot all be nominated and it
pehooves the voters to pick out the best
OF them and place them in nomination.
ANA in order to do the picking it is
necessary that the voters name be
legally registered If you have not al
ready performed that duty do not put
1t off another day.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

10 "a m. Sunday school II a. IN. pub
lie worship Rev. DR.. Gray Of Pitts
burgh. Pa. who is visiting his son,
Rev. Vincent Gray, will preach. A
cordial invitation to all to join us in
this service.
No evening service as the pastor will
be at Pateros on district business
Dr. c. C. Curry of Spokane was a
visitor in town on Sunday enroute to
Nelson and preached a mastery SER
mon on Sunday a. m He returned on
Tuesday and conducted the business
session of the last local conference
Taere was a splendid turnout and DR.
Curry showed himself as a master
of church business A larger demo-
cratic spirit was evinced than has
ever been shown by any district off.
lcer DR.. Curry is a great believer in
local church autonomy which is the
growing sign of the times He left
on Wednesday a. m. for Riverside.
JAMES. OPIE, Pastor
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11
ERRONEOUS REPORT OF SHOOTING

Tuesday an excited boy informed
Mrs. A. j. Taylor, who lives in East
Oroville, that her young son mad been
accidentally shot near the Frank
Stansbury place. The distracted wo-
man ran as far as she could toward
town to summon "A doctor and pass
ing car brought the exhausted woman
to DR.. Bevis' office The doctor started
out to make a record run to the
scene of the alleged accileny and met
the boy walking in toward town. The
excess of happiness in the Taylor fam
fly upon learning that the report was
false was almost as exciting as the
outburst of dispair when the report of
the shooting was conveyed to the par
ents.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11

Miss Vera SeXson and her young
brother william, daughter and son of
Vern Sexson, left Tuesday for Spokane
where they will visit with relatives
for a few weeks and then enter school
at Kettle Falls for the coming sciOol
year. These young people attended
school at Kettle Falls last year.
Monday Rev. D. Vincent Gray,
accompanied by his parents and sis
ter. Rev. and Mrs. 7. ]. Gray and Miss
Christine Gray, left for Caelan lake,
that Switzerland of America, where
they expected to spend the week The
young Mr.. Gray is making it a point
to show his relatives over most of this
part Of Washington, possibly with the
hope that the attractiveness of the
country may induce them to remain
permanently.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11
FAIR CROPS AROUND DAVENPORT

Dell Hart returned home last Friday
evening from an auto trip to Daven-
port. where he was called on business.
While at that place he had occasion
to travel over considerable of the
farming land in the vicinity of Daven-
mort He says that within a radius OF
TON miles of that city wheat is looking
in very good condition, and he would
iudge that the yield would reach from
90 to 50 bushels an acre, not norman
Weld. but far and away better tnah
could have been expected considering
the climatic conditions that have pre-
vailed this summer. Beyond the limit
he sets grain is practically failure
and when he mentioned the Mansfield
country Mr.. Hart fairly threw up MS
hands in despair.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH..

Beginning Sunday, August 20, the
usual eleven o'clock morning service
will be resumed Holy Communion at
II a. m. The Holy Communion is cele-
brated every Sunday at s a. m. Let's
make start and get back into the
habit.
The church picnic will be held next
Saturday. August 12, at the city park'
For adults as well as boys and girls
If Won wish transportation, be at the
church at 10 a m. Bring lunch for TWO
meals also a dish and spoon for the
ice cream.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11

b. Goodall, immigration inspector at
Curlew, was marooned here mos- %.
Wednesday on his way home after
having taken his annual vacation. MIR
Goodall expected to take the train
from Oroville to Curlew Wednesday
morning, but discovered upon reach
ing here that there had been quite a
change in the train running schedule
since he left his station. Some Samari-
tan gave the gentleman a lift by car
to Nelson from which point he no
doubt found transportation over the
last leg Of his journey.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11

Dan Pacheco cut his right foot very
severely Monday while repairing the
motor used for irrigating purposes on
his place. south of town. DR.. Bevis
patched up the injury and says Daniel
will be able to be around in week or
ten DAYS.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11

c. E. Selby. who is immigration In
snector at Port Townsend, arrived IN
Oroville Tuesday for the purpose OF
relieving immigration Inspector M
Maske who goes off on his regular
summer vacation.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-08-11

Voncluded on page A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25

sisters Of an earlier day might not have done
What sort Of girl is this world champion
broncho buster, this slender maiden who owns
a ranch. rides after rustlers, gets one severe
injury after another in her hazardous sum
mer's work Of riding AT the frontier celebra-
tons. and comes back for more? Except for
a brown skin she could not be picked from
the thousands Of other girls who were also
buying the best in Fifth Avenue shops. She
is small, she said her weight was usually
ninety.eight pounds hut that winters ease
al Tia Juana had made her over eight-lO4
pounds. However. she could easily train that
down If she got her Jockeys license
Miss Trickey's claim to being the worlds
champion woman rider is undisputed. in the
sense that everybody admits that her title is
not only fairly won. but also very diligently
earned. She has held the title for three years
but each year il is disputed, and vigorously.
TOO, by dozen or more young women al ar
equal number Of places where rodeos arc held
in the West during the summer. So far, how
ever, no woman has been able 10 equal Mis-
Tricky in the number Of stunts that she can
do. There are many women riders in the
West who. according 70 their friends. can
stay m a bucking horse as well as this recent
little visitor 10 New York But when il comes
10 endurance in the relay races. or 70 dare
devil courage in Roman racing Miss Trickoy
has had a clear field
The life of an ssprant 70 Miss Trickev's
lsurels Is = mixture Of hard and soft. The
summer months require intense physical e.
fort. inconvenient travel long hours Of work
with little rest and disregard for limb and
life that would make many brave man sit
down and think before he decided 10 be
champion rider. The winter. for winner.
isn't so bad; for the girls who didn'; come oT
with big prize money during the summer the
winter means more hard work. They work
on their own ranches or as stonographer, and
bank tellers in order 10 save up enough money
10 do il again next summer.
But Miss Tricky Jared vel last year. She
rode in fourteen contests took frsts nj al Of
them except in one or two events and was. ~
she puts II, fortunate enough not 10 he hurt un.
MI the very last contest. Then during a relay
race, another contestants horse crashed into
the plucky girl while she was trying To mount
her second animal She was trampled under;
her spine was injured and two ribs were
broken Pshaw Nothing at all. It's all night
now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25
Postponed Shopping Tour
To Hunt Lost Horses

Then, after she got out Of the hospital
Miss Tricky went TO Tia Juana and spcn.
the winter there and in California resorts.
She had recently bought 2,OOO-acre ranch
near Shsniko. Orc. and went there 10 soc
how things were getting along She had left
The ranch, including small herd % cattle
and herd Of 200 fine horses. IN charge %
three riders. She found that some Of her
horses were gone, and 50 she postponed her
Fifth Avenue shopping tour
The Wild Yves, show idea has supplantcd
IN many Western communities the old-style
county fair. Back in the eos Denver insuru.
rated It's Festival Of Mountain and Plain. and
held the first large-scale bucking contests. The
festival was given up, ard meantime Cheyenne
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25
"Rustiing" Once Meant Var
And II Does Yet

In the old days rus,ling meant war ~
death. II does yet, according 70 re O''7s
girl. III they catch rustlcr they are
him sometimes. Sometimes they gei ~
lynehing party said Miss Tricky. "A eesP
Of years ago We had real good fight WE;
sheep man and a cattle man had an srsun'A
and killed each other
whrwind Of dinners, ;hea,ers and s''f
ping, mixed with greeting old friends, mar"
Miss Trickey's New York visit. SIR ','
here to receive the McAlpin trophy Wnls' ,
presented each year to the best woman '''
testant al Cheyenne by l.. N. Boomer %"
ager Of the Hotel McAlpn. Il is 'l'e' :.
lief map OF Wyoming. with a dlam'nd MAJ,
ing the location Of Cheyenne. On ~ sV-
are the figure Of a cowgirl, with one 'S
stretched out across the state; another w.
on bucking horse and appropriate A'T
tons.
Miss Tricky went directly 70 Cheyen,,
prepare for the opening Of The frcnu'' -.
celebration on July %. Before tina, even, :.
will participate in one at Yoder, Ny0r ''''
ninety miles away.
Although women have participated ID 'n.,.
frontier exhibitions for many years 49,
recently that they have done so IN a''SA-
like great numbers, and indeed tnei 90" -
into the field Of the cigarette-smoA'~'
spurrcd cowboy is a modern deveiOp"' "a,
There have been ranch girls who eOo'u !.
we'll, yes: there have been girls eApen
throwing the rope, too but only reeen'g 49,.
women gone into the Wild West business -,
ously enough to offer real eompetiuOn go.
mon. Some OF them, as is the ease u 80
of the men performers, are OF the nO'n !,
yariety--ad adept riders. good show peVP''
be sure, but not Of the real West
One of the most famous Of women ''. ..s
has been transpanted TO the West from s 80,
old Mount Vernon, where she lived 70 s ~,
womanhood before even seeing p. a..
horse. She is Kitty Csnu't, one o. "A.
Trickey's most persistent competitors s.d.
matter Of riding honors on western ,o,k
Miss Csnutt had never ridden UNIV uo,
when, after a few preliminary tries OF, yau
tsna ranch, she captured prize AZ Wv
City roundup. $.
But Miss Trickey. as could no otner :. A
clan, brought TO New York the favor u -
riding ranch LIE. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25

orse-conquering escapades Of Lorens has
been overruled.
Miss Tricky has paid. no, only in expended
energy but also in physicsl injury. for her
siver-decorated saddles, her trophies and her
prize money. Her slim brown arms are Gov
cred with sears other wounds have left their
marks on other parts Of her body. Expert
and lsrge-scale dental work was required 70
preserve the frank and friendly smile Of the
little rough rider after one bad accident. She
has not been the only one to suffer injury
Prairie Rose Henderson. Ruth Roach, Mary
Stockum, Kitty Canutt-all Of them have had
the same experiences. In Denver at Festi-
val Of Mountain and Plain Mrs. Ed Wright,
one Of the first and hes, known woman bronco
busters. was killed.
There is no brand Of horsemanship that
Miss Tricky has not become expert in. There
i 4 vast difference Of technique between man
acemen, Of a plains horse and society nag
a, horse show Again. special knowledge is
needed for riding race horses Miss Tricky
has it all down. She has even competed
against the csvalrymen from Fort D. A. Rus
sell in Wyoming in the thrilling Roman races.
IN which the rider stands with feet planted on
the backs OF two hslf-tamc horses. At Chey-
enne last year she won this event in which
csvalrymen and cowboys entered. She was
the only woman who attempted the race.
Miss Tricky tells one, as do all the women
riders, that staying on bucking horse is not
as difficult as some Of the other things they
are called upon to do Riding a broncho re-
quires absolutely all OF ones strength for two
minutes, perhaps. But IL takes the judge
between a minute and two minutes TO decide
that tho contestant has made clean ride.
and then. after signal gun is fired, other
riders who stand ready pursue the buckng
animal and hold it down while the contestant
dismounts But in relay riding endurance az
well as strength is required. and here is where
tho women in tho game have more difficulty
than men do.
Perhaps the most thrilling Of all Wild West
stunts, unless one excerpts the wild horse race,
is steer bulldogging, in which rider leaps
from pursuing horse to the neck Of run
ming steer and wrostles the animal TO the
ground. Even that is not enough to stop
Miss Tricky. Her nncty-eight pounds would
be nothing against full grown steer, but on
her fathers ranch she has budogged year
lings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25

had started us Frontier Days show That was
twenty-six years ago next July. Cheyenne.
famed old COW town % 'he southern Wyoming
plains took up the task 90 keeping the arts
and crafts Of the plainsmsn so. by staging
annually bulldogging ropine. king and
other contests.
The Cheyenne show is 'the dadd them
all" as IL proclsims in It's amour,
each wear Every little town that puts
rodeo crowns It's "world's champion But
common consent the winner a. any Of the
cheyenne events is recognized as the real
champion All Of the best performers make
the Cheyenne show and that Of Pendleton'
Ore. which is Of equal magnitude. There is
regular circuit, from Calgary Canada, south
and the towns arrange their programs so that
dates don't conflict That makes it possible
for the best talent to be present at most Of
the affairs.
People complain that the show Of tho Chey-
cnne type. which was started spontaneously
and not with great commercial possibilities in
view. has nor become commercialzed. To
some extent II is true Ropers and riders who
have not the pedigree-artihcially trained per
formers. as 1t were-hnd their way into the
programs Just as in Miss Trickey's case.
their occupation has become profession. But
the shows are still the oldtimc Affairs the
performers for the most part arc "the real
article
Take Miss Trickey as an example. She was
horn on a great ranch near The Dallos, Orc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25
By JOHN A. CHAPMAN

Qon. From childhood her interests have been
those Of Western ranch-riding, cattle,
horses. She rode gentle horses all over her
fathers Bar-O ranch when she was little. and
when she was about fourteen began breaking
horses. She and her two brothers were en-
oloyed by their father in riding the rough
rois off, urbrokcn young horses. The entic-
rrize Of one horse out Of every five they
brosc was a spur 10 their activities. and the
children soon had "strings' Of their own.
Sometimes they rode five or six horses in
day the little Trickcy girl keeping right up
with her brothers That was rigorous train
ing for the summers on the road that were 10
follow. BY the end Of tho day the children
would he 50 tired and So bruised after being
piled IN by ono horse after another that
they ached from head 20 foot.
Even AZ the tender ago ~ fourteen Miss
rrickey used TO 60 out on the roundup with
hcr father and brothers. She heard Of the
prizes that were being offered AZ Pcndlcton.
and Il was her one ambition 10 ride in
Pendlo,on contest. But her father would
hcsr nothing NJ IT, He wanted her IN con-
tinue going n high school But ono year tho
girl went 20 Pendleton unknown to her father
and came hack with silvcr-mounted saddle.
Since that time the parental objection TO the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25
~ Sounds Very Much
Like Movie Stuff

The fsct was. Miss Tricky had postponed
bsr trim N New York 20 ride out alone look
ing for rusilers who had run of with some
% her choice horses II sounded, IN The alb
trad, ike some movie scenario Of the old
Wild West, IN which the beautiful young hero
mo strnns a six-gun around her slender waist
and. stepping aboard her pony houoots II
after the villain. Either she or the handsome
bronze-skinned young hero must shoot the
villain. II the yaillain were mean enough so
.hs, shooting him would hc an act OF virtue II
wo.ld he better 10 have the heroine do the
shooting.
The scenario. however, was not at all Ike
,hst as il came from Miss Tricky. The "nole
thing was really quito ordinary. She found
ber horses gone when she returned TO the Hat
Eight ranch from California. She had an idea
who took them. She started 20 hunt for them.
She rode five weeks. alone except for the occa-
,ional company Of friendly ranchcrs. She IN
vestigatcd every nook and corner Of two coun-
tics She found some Of her horses which ev-
IDENTIFY had dropped out Of the herd. She did
10, find the rusilors. No. she didn't have
.ix-run hanging from a cartridge belt about
her waist Yes. she did have gun, though.
A saddle .run-3o-3O rife with sswed-of
barrel She slept at ranch houses along the
way
BIZ, beneath the msttsr-of-fsct tale OF this
twenty-year-old girl lic the same details which
made the old-;imo West Of The Virginisn.
There arc the open range. horse-steallng, cat
tie rus,ling-sll the sccoutrements Of the from
TER. actually in existence to-day. And added
IS The twentieth century note: Young girl
moves through the story in way ths, Der
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25
Marty on Mars and Marconi
BY ROBERT B. PECK

onc is two few times an sec II he gets
rise out Of US
"NoW, you can't locate a message like that
very easy. II seems 10 NC. an there amt no
wireless machine nearer than Mars that can
send out any answer 10 that message. Ncars
- can make out. il goin 70 take several years
an cost scvcrel millions to rig one up.
49, II Mr.. Marcon gets n message from
somewhere that he knows comes from some
whore out in space what's he poin' to do
about it if he finds it's some such message
as that? He can't answer IL fer year or so,
an then he's liable TO stir the folks that sent
it all up, addressing his answer to Mars.
when nc docs yet around to answer it,
what can he say only You're right or Go 10
tho head Of the class or somethin' like that?
It's eoin' TO be long time before YOU have
any useful sort Of conversation with Mars
an what tho use Of itll he then. do know.
"Hayin' more people to talk TO amt no
great advantage. The more YOU got to talk
10 the more YOU talk. an there's too much
talkin' goin' m already.
First thing YOU know they'll he havin'
wireless conferences. with Lloyd George telin'
Mars where il gets off,
The more people Won got talkin ac-
quaintance with the more fights you're liable
70 get into. 4 fea don't get into many
fights with strangers without he's drunk
An gettin' into fight with Mars is liable
10 he serious. It's got bad name that way,
hear"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25
What She Wants Most
Is a Jockeys License

II want that jockeys license said Miss
Tricky the other day, because then, during
the winter, can ride my own horses at Tia
Jusna and the other big race tracks. like
the races about as well as anything, and my
happiness would he complete II could ride
in them"
Although admitting women as jockeys has
NOT. been done before, the Jockey Club, which
has jurisdiction over such matters on big-time
tracks, has taken Miss Trickeys application
under consideration.
According TO Miss Trickey, there are parts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25

NCT Of the West last week came little
I Miss Lorena Trickey, bringing with
- her assurance TO disilusioned popu-
lace that in spite Of factories, Fords
and Asppers the old West Of the open ranges
and rustlers still hangs on.
Into the West few days later went this
same Miss Trickey, taking with her choice
t,ts from the lingerie shops Of Fifth Avenue
memories Of a good time in the big city and
= diamond.studded gold and silver plaque
which rroclaims her champion all-around
woman rider Of the world. She left behind
nor something which has led sporting men TO
believe that even II the last frontier Of the
Old West has not disappeared the last bitter
fqht nv mere man against the entertainments
~ ferininity has been made and lost That
something is an application for 2 jockeys
license from the Jockey Club without which
q rider Of racehorses Is confined 20 outlaw
tracks
Miss Triekev WAS 70 have arrived more than
a. month ago IN New York 70 receive me trophy
which was awarded her last July in Cheyenne.
uhere. in the Frontier Days celebration OF
that famous COW town. she competed against
The best riders OF both sexes in trick ridinE'
relay racing Roman racing and bronco bust,
ins. Miss Tricky asked how come? why
the delay? The answers were ofhsnd and
frssmentary. Just a little business at the
ranch in Oregon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25
((T WONDER" said Marty Mcmahon the
retired bartender, does Mr. Marconi
- really mean it when he says maybe

retired bartender, does Mr.. Marconi
- really mean IL when he says maybe
he'll get message from Mars this
month. An il he gets one. wonder how he'll
know It comes from Mars an not maybe from
Venus or one o them foreign places
at amt likely that them that lives on
Mars even knows It's Mars they're Twin on.
They prob-ly got some outlandish name for It
that amt nothin' like Mars.
1T looks to me like it would take a otta
wise guys long time 70 dope out message
If they got one. An when they got it doped
out it prob'ly would be one o these standard
messages like what the Mayor Of San Fran
cisco sends TO the Mayor Of New York when
some cuckoo says he's goin' 70 run all tho way
70 New York an will the Mayor please give
him message fer an excuse.
"They wouldn't prob1y be sendn' out any
thing real important, like who's ,hc heavy
weight champ on Mars or anything like that.
day after day an year after year. Just into
space on the chance that we'd pick Il up
Most likely they figure we're lotta dumb.
bells, II they been sendin' messages for fe.
centuries an amt heard nothin' from W. an
ny this time Trey prob'ly got some fela with
pull on the Job O sendin' messages 10 earth
with instructions not 70 do nothin' only once
or twice year, an then 10 send out one an
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-25

Of the West, chiefly in Oregon, rear hsr rsn.h
and in Idaho, where there is st. open rass,
Much Of the Oregon open range is called n.
horses heaven country. because Of ne a..
that only horses. and not cattle, can exis. q
land where it +. thirty miles 70 water. O.,
around Shaniko and The Da.ies she says. Il
country is only about half fenced This rem
nant Of open range mas made possible Ar
sized industry described by the cowgr. as
"slick-esring."
Yesrling colts in this occupation Of ne
new West are run or before they are BRANDED
The rustlers brand the animals with the,
own trademarks and then turn them o'g
IN some secluded part Of the open range. Afr
4 period Of time has passed and the brand
have become old enough 50 tina, their dates Of
application cannot be- detected. the animals
are run onto the home range o. their rr
owners. Because The cots are Ano1n as sles'
ears this particular phase o. rustIns g'e
IT'S name.