The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-01-12
REGISTERING A WARM PROTEST.,
Spokane. January 2 1929

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Spokane, January 2 1929
Oroville, Gazette, Oroville. Wash.
Gentlemen: Some two weeks ago,
following our usual custom, we pack
ed our grips and started from our
sunny river home at Nighthawk, to
spend our annual outing here in Spo-
kane.
Our trip here has been frought with
incidents that are both interesting
and cuss-inspiring, vivid reflection
against the service given to the peo-
pie of our section by the G. N. r. R.,
appearing to be an almost premedi-
tated act to force local freight bust
ness into the higher rates of express
Having several packages prepared
to go by freight to Spokane and ar
irving at the station at Nighthawk
we found that the railroad men were
cutting outgoing freight shipments to
about once month, and that If we
| wanted our goods within any such
| time we would have to have them 60
by express. Thinking We might do bet
ter in Oroville, we shipped from
Nighthawk by express to Oroville.
There, we found conditions but little |
better and to have any assurance of |
getting our goods before the birds |
returned in the spring would have to |
turn them over to the tender mercies |
Of the express company to Spokane.
which we finally did with the expecta-
ton Of having tle pleasure of calling
for our parcels and parting with
good sized stack Of Uncle Sans round
dollars for services rendered. Having
that phase Of the trip finally settled
we hied ourselves to our peaceful
slumbers, leaving a call" with Mine
Host Bartell" for an hour between
midnight and morning that we might
be in time for the Spokane flyer"
Marcus route.
The early call came true and with
cheerful hearts and the elmer man"
well stocked with "Joe's" famous hot
cakes and coffee, we boarded the
early train leaving Oroville at a.
M, and were soon on our way over
the trail known to all travellers as
one where Jim Hill" gave his patrons
more for their money than any road
In the United States, as they could
ride all day for $7.15, but that was
pre-war prices, now its 1918, war tax
omitted.
The day passed slowly on. So, also
the train, but we lived in hopes of
our destination somewhere
near on time, 5:35 p. m, but again
our hopes were shattered, and reach
ing our journeys end was like reach $
ing the fleeting rainbow base. Fortu- t
nately for US, our lunch basket was q
full so that with the noon hour passed t
and the evening shadows longer Il
grew, with many, many miles of
travel still ahead Of us we found
pleasure in tantalizing other hungry !
with visions of chicken
egs and jelly sandwiches disappear
ng to our entire satisfaction. But :
I'll things have IN end. So did this i
rip, and at 10 p. M, after having 16 y y
hours of "watchful waiting" we found t
on terra firma amid the :,
,littering lights of sunny Spokane"
hoping our troubles were at an end.
tut not SO, yet.
Having baggage checked that we
equired for immediate use that night
ne only satisfaction gained was to II
Wait their own good time to hand
anne over to US, which in this case S
vas just one hour, so at II p. m. we g
we're ready to leave the station for HI
ur final destination, happy in the p
ollect our belongings from the ex- +,
ress company and without delay set Il
lie our headquarters for our stay in " "
spokane But oh, the will o the wisp it
1ea." Two days later we succeeded in
Dcating not quite half of what we II
ad entrusted to the safe (?) trans -
ortation by express and the balance
where, oh, where" For two weeks now
he express company have been o
in vain for a small pack
&c, the outward dimensions of which 4
rould about equal an ordinary dining "
able, lost somewhere between Oro- y
lille and Spokane. 1t has just occur s.
ed to us that you might solicit them R
Or an ad in your lost and found" de- 70
artment with good results. SC
Leaving our home with two inches ~
snow our eyes were greeted on =,
ur arrival here with two feet Of the liz
beautiful where not disturbed, but L.
lied high in ridges in an attempt to ~
lake traffic possible through the Fl
treets. But the south wind blew and
lie gentle rain dissolved and in few
avs only the white caps on the dist II,
mt hills were visible as a reminder S,
what had been. TO
The new year of 1923 started off tn
lost beautifully, a bright, sunny, di
arm day, a perfect cline for the ia
Jerry makers whose sports were car an
led we'll in to the early hours 1t has ",
cen a steady rain all day today but D,
tile stir on the streets. Spokane la
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