<m&? 01- * h<JrO~t-ixj^i:x/ V- " .0 ?ior VOL. II. NO FERGUSON, BRITISJH COLUMBIA, AUGUST 22, 1900. 82.00 A YEAR. TUB WAGNER OROUP Situate fit thv Head of Haley and Cariboo Creeks Along the Lardeau and Duncan Summit The Wonderful Lime Dyke Belt Upon Whioh Many Prominent Mining Properties are Located.���The Abbott Oroup.���The Big Wagner Group���Splendid Shewings on the Frances Jewel and Dunoan.��� Lack of Hallway Transportation up the Duncan River Valley is Keeping Back One of the Finest D',3trlots in British Columbia. Ex-Provincial Mineralogist Carlyle is keeping back one of the finest districts in the whole of British Columbia. Still, like the othei'B, Mr. Porter is getting ready so as to be able to ship as soon us the railway comes, and it cannot be very much longer delayed. This season has seen somo good work done in that section, surveying, etc., and though there Is littlo probability of any railway movement thore this year the iron horse should be doing the climbing next year. said that the grandest scenery he ever gazed upon was from the summits of the great lime dyke back of tho Wagner group. And as a frontispiece to his report reproduced one of theso scenes. Having a desire to visit this SEA OF GRANDEUR and desiring a better and personal knowledge of the country the Eagle man accompanied Cutler T. Porter, a prominent mining man of Spokane, to the Wagner group. Leaving here on Thursday afternoon we arrived at the Ten-Mile hotel, at the mouth of Gainer creek, where Chef Earnest Davis and the gon'al "Johnie-on-the-spot" mado us : fortable for the night at tho "prospector's happy home." At four o'elduli the next morning we were on our way up the j south fork of the Lardeau, through a drizzling rain. Soon tve ascended a short series of switch-backs and gradually landed on tho fine '��� ���. LOW LEVEL SUMMIT, between the south fork am! Haley creek.' From hero we descend'd. by the same means, Russell p'oek, a\ ! in the hale- ���:i'i. ' ^al ��� > ."" n idert,tree ire \ d !:, ��� boi ;> and+ ������! I ViuiMU. l$V...>tfw;���,.JW>.: & ���... A- followed what is supposed to bo a government trail, consisting of blazed trees only, (this is in R. Green's riding) up Haley ereok to the foot of ABBOTT HILL. After an hour's climb, "tailing" the horses up the switch-backs, we found ourselves at the Abbott cabin. Probably the first thing to command attention from the visitor, after peering through the clouds to seo the big lime dyke above, is tbo LONESOME GRAVES of Wm. Brecinridge and Jake Hoar, who were killed in '90 by a snowslide while coining down from their day's . work, within sight of their long resting place. Prom the Abbott cabin we wind around tbe brow of the hill towards the head of Haley creek, keeping well up on the benches, until tbe WAGNER GROUP QUARTERS are reached. Liko two drownsd we dismounted, chilly and hungry, and more than appreciated the warm lire and bannock within the canvass. Turning the horses out on the BEAUTIFUL MEADOWS along this Lardeau and Duncan summit we lay in for the evening, the usual camp-fire discussion being participated in until it was time to take to the blankets. Rising early on Saturday morning Mr, Portor and the Eagle man struck out to view tho Wagner group claims and incidently post survey notices on the claims, thus affording us a splendid opportunity to see the wholo works. Dropping down from tbe summit into the Hall creek basin or head wo walked or climbed for 8ix hours up the northern slope of Hall oreek upon a ridge lying in between two monster LIME DYKE PEAKS. First over the Midnight, then the Morning and Death-on-the-trail, and after some engineering and perseverance we reached the Little Tommy, lying right up against thedyke proper. Having taken this kopje we were shown tho immense lead where open cuts hare been mado and THE ORE EXPOSED. The ledge is visible right away down as far as we could see. We returned to camp in the evening, so leg-weary and hungry that we ate one of Sandy Laughton's '(Sand/ was up doing assessment work on a claim above tbo Abbott) bannocks and the- beans and sow-belly tasted better than a Hotel Vancouver spread. On Sunday morning���a beautiful clear cloudless day��� we prjfked up the camping outfit, roundjd up the.horses and at (i o'clock we si/rted A OWR THE SUMMIT r'.'.ilai and .Jlacier between Hall and Cariboo cri k, and the Eagle is informed thi ;e are the first parties who ever $290.67 TO THE TON The Triune's First Shipment Yields the Highest Average Value Ever Produced in the Lardeau. OVER ONE HUNDRED TONS M0RET0G00UT WITHIN SIXTY DAYS Nettle L. Force tn lie Increased, Foreman B. Crilly intends to put on another shift in the long baso tunnel shortly and if possible get under the upper workings in timo to stope this winter. Manager Pool hopes to ship at least 600 tons of oro this winter and If possible to get it to the Landing, 750 tons. A Record Hard to Beat���The Old Gold Camp la Lively.���Work on the Bannookburn Group.���The Rob Roy's Progress.���Mining Men Still Bidding for the True Fissure.���A New Company.���The Climax, Marie, China, Lardeau, Effa and Jane.���Three Shift Force on the Empire Group���They Expect to Crosscut the Leads Very Soon. too .jjiorses clear over this route. It- wasic. novel and frying experience. Standing on the top of this summit the! huge lime dyke peaks are towering above us on every band; the MOUNTAIN PEAKS FOR MILES and miles around look like a big lake of snow-capped waves. Here, too, the headwaters of four creeks, Haley, south fork of Lardeau, flowing west, andH-'l end Cariboo creeks flowing ov ..r. seen. The majksWo nr seems to '<o hot it in reality is seven. 1 jlor effect caused by the rising sun over Red tjJpBmTiln and the many glaciers surrounding us Is simply grand. Surely in no "(her part of the world is there such 8WJJ SCENIC BEAUTY. Valleys half, peaks there, the whole count r> is beneath us; it's a sight that rod i never be forgotten. But we i iusl not riwei. bore ���oo'ong. Starting 1y. ���-Ah<- mo?>v^ . yA^i ,'.'",JtLl,,,e southern end of tne Wagner group and ull the way over this summit and down to Cariboo creek we are crossing THE WAGNER GROUP, a wonderfully rich mineral belt, which a Spokane syndicate have managed to secure during the Inst sixyears. Starting at tho camp, at the head of Haley creek, Is the Lucelle K., joining tho Abbott, then the Jewel fraction. Tho next is tbe FRANCES JEWEL, upon whieh a good deal of prospect work has been dono, and from a 40 ft. tunnel driven on the ledge ABIGPILEOFORE. has been thrown on the dump, average assays of which run from $80 to $100 to the ton, but nothing more is likely to be done until transportation up the Duncan river is provided. But even at present they could build a trail down Hall creek, five miles, and down the Duncan river to the head of navigation, seven miles, and COMMENCE SHIPPING, if they bad a concentrator built. From the Frances Jewol we cross to the Emma, Basin 'fraction, Queen Mary, Princess Marie, Lardeau fraction, Lardeau, McCartney fraction and on to the DUNCAN MINE, for a mine it is, Though we could not see all of the surface shewings on account of the snow, we saw enough to oonvlnce us of its value. A 100 ft. tunnel has been driven and at tbe end a 40 ft. crosscut. At the 00 ft. point a crosscut reveals A 10 FT. LEDGE, nearly 2 ft. of wbloh is dean ore, the balance good concentrating ore. At this point a 00 ft. winze is sunk and at the bottom the lead is the same as abovo, thus demonstrating that there must be thousands of tons of ore almost in sight. Assays of Duncan ore run from $87 to $203 to the ton. The Duncan is A RICH PROPERTY and will surely add to tho wealth of the province as soon as a railway is provided. From the Dunoan we start down tho Cariboo creek slope, passing over the Ould Jim fraction, Ella, Texas, Iowa, Snowstorm fraction, Hather and Sata Rita. This lands us in tho valley of Cariboo creek, from where we can look up to the Empire group, which we visited, but of the rest of the trip the Eaole will tell next issue. Mr. Porter is as enthusiastic as ever over his syndicate's property, but ho, like all others, greatly deplores tbe lack o/railway communication whioh In Treat Creek Camp. Wm. Glenn camo down nfrom the Trout Creek camp, over the divide from Haley oreek, on Friday, whore he was doing assessment work on some re-located claims, anil the EAGLE is informed that thero will soon be razors in the air over the disputed territory. Black Diamond Oroup Surveyed. J. P. Burnyeat, C. E,, P. L. S��� of Vernon, ia down from the Blnck Diamond group, up the north fork, having linished surveying the Silver Tip Mining Co's group. He is now preparing his field notes and tho application for a crown grant will appear in the Eagle next issue. Nice NhewiiiR on the Mountain view, Frank Appieost and Low Thompson came down from the Mountain View, up Gainer creek, a few days ago, where they have beon doing assessment work, and report a find of 10 inches of <���':';'. ..'.rnlena ore. R. Caloy o: Kevelstoke owns a half interest nnd they hold the other half. The Lost Tunnel oroup. Messrs. Templeton, Evans, Murray and Culkeen aro doing prospect work on the Lost Tunnel group, up the sonth fork of the south fork, with encouraging results. The boys intend to open this property up enough to prove it, and then either stuff or commence shipping ore next season. To Operate up the North The Galena Crock Mining Co. of Lardeau, B. C, Ltd., is a now concern organized in Belleville, Out., to operate properties in this district. Vernon H. Cowsert is secretary, A. E. Lewis, treasurer, J. A. Marshall, president, W. B. Riggs, vice-pres. and J. M. Miller, the well known mining man of Rossland, a managing director. Tho executive office is Belleville, Ont., the head office Rossland, B. C. Further particulars of tho new company's future intentions will be made known at a later date. Tbe returns of the Triune's maiden shipment of ore to the Trail smelter have been given to the Eagle. All kinds of rumors, published guesses in our contemporary and conjectures have been afloat. But with its usual reliability tho Eagle begs to present the exact figures, There was 1180 sacks of ore, the gross weight of which was 42,180 lbs., the net weight 39,895 lbs. or 405 lbs. less than 20 tons. The ore sized up in these proportions: Gold, $237,68; silver, $4,985.95; lead, $589.96. Total gross value. $5,813.49, or, ligur- on a 2(1 ton basis, $200.07 to tho ton. Transportation and smelter charges amounted to $430.05, leaving the net proceeds $5,376,84, or, on a 20-ton basis, $268.84 to the ton. It costs $10 a ton to pack It to Ten-Mile, $15 to haul it to the Landing und the enormous figure of $22 a ton for freight, transportation and smelter charges to the C. P. R. The shipment was accompanied by A. Ferguson, one of tlie ownors, and V. Lade, one of the lessees. They got $20 an oz. for their gold and 01 cents peroz. for thoir silver. The EAGLE need not comment. The figures shew for themselves. lint it is safe to say that every ton of Triuno ore shipped this season, (the owners hope to get out im tons, a isort of which '������;��� lrendy on the way to the Landing) wiil net at east $2"(i.00 a ton, after paying $47 a ton for freight ami treatment. The Triune, it must be remembered, is only about ten week's' old, and the lessees have over 20(1 tons blocked out right now, after having driven less than 125 ft. of tunnel. The cost of mining, too, is expensive, but just think of an average value of over $300 a ton from what was a mere prospect three months' ago. And what is more not one single rent of capital was invested to open it up. Tho lessees co-operated, leased the property, stood off tho merchants for 15 days and went to work. The above Inures shew tlie result. The EAGLE defies any other eamp In this | vince to produce a better record. snow drives thoin down. The Bannookburn ledge is another of tho great lime dyke's productions, on the Duncan side in this instance. Aiurther report will appear next issue. E. H. Tomlin- son. late of the Last Chance, and Alex. Smith of Surprise (Slocan) fame,Kaslo. are the owners. The Bannookburn :.- to the Duncan side of the dyke what the Abbott is to the Haley creek slope, both shewing wonderful mineral out- croppings. The China und Lardoau. Joseph Brandon, of Silverton. has lately acquired a valuable silver-lead property in the Lardeau country. The property acquired consists of tho China and Lardeau claims, situated on the south fork of Gainer creek, about eight miles from Ferguson. There has been considerable work dono upon tlie property and the ledge Is exposed in I face of the tunnel just driven. Rushing Work i.u the Empire. R. Leckie-Ewing returned from tlie Empire group, at the head of Cariboo creek/yesterday. He was accompanied by Engineer Roberts, who lias been ��t tbe property for some time. Three shifts are now at work on the long crosscut, about 120 ft. now being driven. In another SO ft. tbey hope to crosscut the first lead and then push on to tap the other two, the second ono having the best shewing above. They will have possibly 200 ft. deptii und if the ore body is found the [Umpire may bo considered beyond the doubt stage. The company paid $.'10,000 cash forthe property last year. Tho great iron capping and from $50 to $80 galena on the surface, with lack of railway transportation, makes it an expensive pi-Upoeltion t��� vtoi!:, but if they iret the ore the company havo money enough to overcome tlie other difficulties. A dotailed report of the EAGLE'S visit to this property will appear next issue. The Malic (lull. The Old Oold Culup. Supt. J. W. Westfall is down from the Old Gold camp, having successfully piloted another tenderfoot safely over the scene of action. .Mi-. West- fall reports the Primrose looking better than when wo were there last week, moro mineralized quartz being encountered with each shot, indicating that the ore body is not far distant. Work is also being pushed on the diagonal crosscut in tbe upper workings of the Old Gold, but it will be some littlo time yet before they got under tho big surface shewing of galena anil pyrites of iron above. A diagonal crosscut is also being driven ou tho Guinea Gold from the This Parallelling tbe Cariboo creek slope portion of tlie Wagner group, right on the top of a "lime dyke" mountain of granite-like lime, lies the Marie mineral claim, owned by Gus. Johnson and John C. McCartney. They have a fine shewiug of clean galena ore in a 4 ft. ledge, running from 70 to 100 ozs. in silver and 84 per cent, lead, so much that the ere is nearly soft aud lead-llko. It is traceable for over OHO ft. Tho K.wtt.K man bus a fine speciman. personally secured fi'om the property last Sunday. Two years assessment, a 10 ft. shaft, is all tho development so far, but next soason more will be done. many places. The ledge, which is a large one, carries a paystreak of from five inches to two feet of clean ore that gives assay values of from 25 to 00 ounces to the ton in silver and from 66 to 82 per cent, lead.���Silvertonian. J��lsiuero Oronp. Ed. Hillman left to-day for tho Elsmere group of five claims, In which he holds a half inteaest, Messrs. Graham, Craig and C. Hillman owning the other half. Three men went up yesterday and all four will drive 25 ft. more on the 20 ft. tunnel already driven on the lead, ore being encountered all the way, assays of which run from 60 ozs. to 100 ozs. in silver and from $9 to $137 in gold. Tho lend has been open cut on each of the five claims and ore exposed in place, in every instance. If surface shewings go [for anything this property is ono of the best up the north fork. will tap the lend at considerable dopth and develop many other characteristics of the mine, from whieh a hotter idea of future work will be derived. The Old Gold camp is pounding right along night and day and If their wonderful developments wero made in The Climax. Several opon cuts on the lead of this claim have oxposed a good shewing of galena. It is located on the Iron Mask lead on the southeast side of Hall ereek, over on the Duncan slope, near tho lime dyke, and is owned by that well known old old-timer. John ('. .McCartney, who, 1 hough 1(2 years of age, Is still ns full of hope as the younger folk. "Old John.'' as ho is often called, has great faith in this portion of the country and as he has been mining for thirty years his opinion is worthy of weight. True Fissure. Tills wonderful galena proposition just hack of Ferguson on Groat Northern hill, Is being negotiated for by at least three different parties and tho EAGLE hopes to learn of a big deal in the course of thirty days. The sucoess- Rossland, you couldn't koop investors f���i p80pia WU1 hnvo a good property in or a railway out with a club, lint in the True Fissure, as everyone in thia the Lardeau it is accepted as a matter oump -knows who has visited the of course. But the Lardeau and ground. The massive galena ore body Lardo-Dunean will soon have its day. | looks more like a quarry than a lead. Tt is not so high grade as many others Work on the Hunnnrhlmru. The famous Bannookburn group of six claims lying in a hugo draw between two lime dyke peaks below in the district, but there's lots of it. The Boh Roy. Two shifts are pushing work on tho glacier, on the southern slope of Hall j lower crosscut tunnel in the Hob Hoy. creek basin, up near the Lardo-Dunoan ' They should reach the No. .'I lead in a summit, is being worked this year., few days now. Drifting will then bo The Eagle man saw the property on 1 commenced. The Ron Roy will havo Sunday last. Three men have now 70 ' tlio greatest depth yet attained in the ft. of a 100 ft. crosscut tunnel driven Lardeau whtn they get under their oi" and they will continue work until thojiu the upper workings���over 500 ft. PROVINCIALPARUAMENT (Continued From Last Week.) FOURTEENTH DAY. Victoria, August 9. The House met at 2 o'clock p. m. Hon. Mr. Turner presented a petition from the Phoenix Board of Trade, supporting the Grand Forks & Kettle River Rallwav Bill. Mr. Helmcken presented five petitions asking for certain amendments to the Game Act. Hon. Mr. 'McBride presented a return to an Order of the House for ail hydiaulle leases granted since 1st January, 1S0S, In the Atlin District, with names of lessee, dates of application, name of creek or rivor, with location of ground on it covered by each such lease; also name of applicant and leases still in abeyance or Withhold; silso return of applications for water leases, numbei of inches applied for In each case, these granted and those In abeyance. FIRST READINGS. Mr. 'Helmcken introduced a Bill rj- lallnit to employment on works carried on under franchises granted by private acts. The Bill was read a first time. Mr. Oliver introduced a Bill to amend the Municipal Clauses Act, which received its first reading:. Mr. Mclnnes introduced a Bill relating to Labor. The Bill was read a first time and its second reading fixed for Monday next. BALLOT RETURNS. On the motion of -Mr. Brown, seconded by Mr. Oliver, it was resolved, That an humble address be presented to His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, praying that he will cause to be sent down to this House a return showing the number of ballot papers actually issued to voters in each riding of the Province at the General Election held on Ihe Sth day o' June. 1900. QUESTIONS. 'Mr. Mclnnes asked the Government the following questions: 1. How many licences have been Issued under Section 14 of the "Game Protect lot' Act, 1898," and how much rever.ue has been derived from the issue of such licences? 2. How many convictions have taken place under the said Act, and what is the total amount of the fines which have been imposed? Hon. Mr. Eberts replied as follows: "1. 7; $350. 2. It will take considerable time to prepare a return that will furnish the information requested by this <:ues- tlon." Mr. Oliver asked the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture the following questions: 1. Why was Mr. Thomas Wilson dismissed from the Horticultural Board1.' 2. Who has been appointed in his place? and a. At what salary? The Hon. Mr. Turner replied as follows: 1. Mr. Thomas Wilson was not dismissed: his term of office expired on June 30th, 1900. 2. The vacancy on the Board was filled by Mr. Thomas Cunningham. 3. Members of the Board of Horticulture are paid $5 a day when actually employed." MECHANICS' LIEN ACT. ' MR. HKLMOKBN rose to continue the debate on the Bill to amend the Mechanics' Lien Act, having moved tht adjournment, upon the motion for the second reading of the Bill, on the previous day. in order to give time for studj of its provisions. Mr. Helmcken said that during the interval he had looked into the question, and as the workingman waa properly protected in the Bill, he considered there ought not to be any objection to its passage. Ht would simply state that the measure would have his hearty support. MR. McPHILLIPS, while not objecting to the principle of the Bill, considered that in view of the desire exhibited to economise the time of the House (he himself had consented to withdraw a Bill on 'that consideration) the measure might be allowed to stand over until the next session of the House. If the discussion of the Bill were proceeded with he would feel justified in reintroducing the Act which he had withdrawn. MR. BROWN did not oppose the second reading of the Bill, although he thought the principle of admitting a provision regarding material men Into the Act was a dangerous one. The Introducer of the Bill had a-sured him, however, that priority would be given to mechanics In the BUI, and that it would practically continue to be a Mechanics' Lien Act, and in View of that he had no objection to it. At the same tlm-�� he would like to see his hon. friend withdraw the BUI and let it lie over until next session. MR. HUNTER remarked that the best way perhaps would,be to allow all the blMc that offered to be introduced. The House could then pass Ihe Estimates and leave them on the Order Paper to bo dealt with at the January session. MR. EBERTS was glad to pee that h's hon. <friend from New Westminster ('Mr. Brown) had changed his mind with regard to this Bill. He reminded the House that since 1888 the Lien Act had been in force providing a Hen for material men, and in that Bill the material men came after the laborers, on the same principle as proposed1 in the Bill before the 'House. But the member for 'New Westminster was not satis- fled with that Act. He thought that material men should get no protection at 'all, not even the contractor, if he was a laborer upon the works, and in 1891 the hon. member introduced a Bill embodying those principles. He was glad to observe his conversion in that regard. For himself he had always been in favor of giving a Hen for material men and would therefore support the present measure. MR. BROWN corrected the hon, gentleman. What he argued in 1891 was, not that material men should not be protected, but that he considered such a provision out of place in a Mechanics* Lien Act The question being put, the motion carried and the Bill was read a second time. It stands for commitment tomorrow. LOAN SOCIETIES BILL. The debate upon the motion for the second reading of the Investment and Li an Societies Bill, adjourned upon request of the Hon. Minister of Finance, was further deferred upon his request, to afford an opportunity to look Into the quc.-lion of fees appertaining to its provisions. GAME BILL SHELVED. MR. McINNES moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Game Laws. He said that the present laws were not altogether satisfactory to a great many of those interested in thi3 subject, nnd it was at the request of a large number of sportsmen he had introduced the Bill before the House. In tin; Bill an amendment was proposed to Section 8 of the Act, fixing a minimum penalty of (60 for illegally taking ti'out. The section protecting game birds during the clo-e season was also amended by imposing a minimum penalty of $25 for shooting- any game birds, to the number of six, during the close season. These minimum penalties were not in the Act before. Section 9 was amended also by making it unlawful for any person under sixteen years of age to carry or have in his possession any gun or fire-arm, unless accompanied 'by his parent or guardian. Since this amendment was drafted, however, he had been advised that this might work hardship in the rural districts, and he had limited the application of it to within ten miles of any city. Section 13 of the Act was- repealed and it was proposed to substitute the following: "No 'person shall buy, or sell, or have in his or her possession, any of the said animals or birds, or any part or portion of 'any such animals or birds, during the period in which they are so protected; provided -always, that if lawfully killed or obtained, they may be exposed for sale, or kept In cold' storage for live days, and no longer, Immediately after the commencement of Buch periods of protection; but, in all cases, the proof of the 'time of killing, taking or purchasing shall be upon the party in possession." The object of this was to restrict the haltrft which was somewhat prevalent of killing very large quantities of game and keeping it in cold storage as a supply for the whole season. Provision was also made that It should be unlawful for the Lteutenant-Oovernor-ln- Coincii to remove any provisions of the Act regarding the close season until two years from the present time. MR. McPHILLIPS argued that the Bill was not in order, holding that It dealt with the question of taxes or re- veni'cs, and therefore came within the prerogative of the Government. He ctiod tho penalties imposed under the Bill a;-: revenue-producing measures. MR. MARTIN pointed out that this argument was fallacious. It was a line and not a fee that was dealt with in the Bill; not a licence for doing anything, but a penalty as a preventative. The hon. irentleman was certainly not debarred from introducing the measure on that ground. MR. SPEAKER ruled that the Bill was perfectly in order. MR. OLIVER objected to the Bill on principle. The distinction drawn between cock and hen pheasants he could not see the force of. The Lieutenant- Governor could remove the prohibition only as regards cock pheasants. Suppose a person shot a hen pheasant in mistake, was he to be fined for it? He also took exception to the provision against boys under sixteen years of age carrying arms. He had a boy 13 years of age who was not only capable of handling.a gun but was an adept in the use of the weapon, and he was proud of it. Some of the best gunners in his district were boys under 16 years of age. They could not only kill game birds but tackle bears as well. (Applause.) MR. NEILL considered the Bill a contentious one which would hamper the business of the Hou*e and he proposed to vote against 1t. He moved that the Bill be read this day six months. MR. MARTIN, although not particularly a sporting 'man, disbelieving in fact in nny game laws at all, yet protested against the attitude of the last speaker. Surely the hon, gentleman did not consider becuse the Government in order to obtain a lease of power, had agreed not to do anything this session, that the House was to be bound by such an arrangement. 'So far as the Opposition was concerned at least it considered Itself bound by the obligation It was under as representative of the people, to do what it felt necessary in the public service. He did not think that responsibility should be shirked In the manner suggested by tht hon. gentleman. MR McINNES pointed out that this was a matter in which a large number of people were interested. Several largely signed petitions had been presented that very day in regard to this legislation; and he understood there would be more within a day or two. While there might be some question as to the general Idea of the Act, there should be no contention whatever as to the propriety of giving the Bill consideration. The details could be amended in Committee as the House saw fit. As to the hurry being evidenced to shirk the duties of legislation, he reminded the House that the present session would cost Just as much as a general sersion, and the people would probably look upon it in that way. They had been elected for that purpose, and not for the purpose of squeezing through the session with as little pains as possible in order to get away again quickly. It was an important thing also that the game should be properly protected, and for these reasons he was desirous that the Bill should be proceeded with. HON. MR. EBERTS thought the present Bill contained some unnecessary provisions. It was on the statutes that a 'boy under 14 years of age should not carry fire-arms. The regulation in regard to cold storage he thought undesirable. He could not see why a sportsman should not be permitted to keep the birds he killed as long as he desired to do so. Of course. If he kept them over into the close season, the law would apply to that case. He sympathised heartily with the general purpose of the Bill. The protection of our game was an important matter. He instanced the State of Maine as an illustration cf how important the preservation of game really waa to a country in the interests of travellers and sporttmen. The preservation of the z:\me meant to that State something (like two or three million dollars in that i way. and in the same manner it applied In this Province. He argued that the 1 best way to protect the game was to i prohibit the sale of came birds and thus do away with the pot hunter. He would support the motion for the second reading of the Bill. MR. NEILL'S amendment, giving the Bill the six month1' hoist, was then put, and carried on division. Names being asked for, there appeared: For: Messrs. E. C. Smith, Oliver, Kidd, Neill, Green, Hall, Turner, Dunsmuir, A. W. Smith, Clifford, Hayward, Garden, Prentice, Wells, Pooley, Murphy, Rogers, Taylor, Dickie and Mounce.���20. Against the amendment: 'Messrs. Mclnnes, Gllmour, Stables*, Brown, Martin, Curtis, Munro, R. Smith, McPhillips, Helmcken, Eberts, Fulton, Tatlow, and Hunter.���14. ORIENTAL EXCLUSION. MR. RALPH SMITH, w-ho moved the adjournment of the debate on Mr. Helmcken's resolution on Tuesday, in regard to the letting of Government contracts, rose to continue the discussion. It will be remembered in this connection, that Mr. Mclnnes moved an amendment excluding Chinese and Japanese labor, in the following word*: "Also that in all contracts, leases and concessions of whatsoever kind entered into or made by the Government, provision be made that no Chinese or Japanese shall be employed in connection therewith:" And that Mr. McPhllllps moved an amerdment to the amendment, substituting therefor the following: "If any Provincial aid be granted in the way of contributions from the public funds of the Province, or a grant of Crown lands In aid of any public undertaking, that any such aid or grant be conditional upon a contract being entered into by -any such person or Company receiving aid or the grant of lands, that no Chinese or Japanese be employed upon any such work or undertaking." Mr. R. Smith said that, in moving the adjournment of the debate, he had done so with a desire to record his position on this auestion, He had secood- ed 'the original resolution, and personally he thought It a mistake that these amendments had been associated with it. However, it was now before the House as was also the amendment to the amendment, which embodied the same principle, but not to the same degree. His position was this: He was not prepared to support any principle, which appeared to him to be exercising an authority not pos?essed by this Legislature, and which the Government would not have the power to enforce. In the second place he did not Intend to advocate any principle of legislation tending to Interfere with the Industrial interests of the Province. If the amendment moved by Mr. Mclnnes went beyond the powers of the Legislature he would vote against it, but at present he bsw no reason to think that it did. And while he would not support any legislation on this question that was shown to be ultra vires of the powers of the House, he would not oppose any measure which promised restriction of Mongolian competition, unless convinced that the Legislature had no right to pass such a measure. The junior member for Victoria was the only member who had disci!��ed the constitutionality of the question, and he (Mr. Smith) did not think that he had proved to the House that the Government hod not the power to go to the extent of the proposition made by the hon. member for North Nanaimo. He regarded that amendment simply as an order of the House to the Executive Council of the Government; simply an Instruction to the Government, that in all its private contracts, it should provide for this necessary restriction against the employment of Mongolian labor, a restriction, which it seemed to he the unanimous opinion of members of the House, ought to be placed. The Junior member for Victoria had read into his argument a plea that that would include statutory provisions, and was therefore subject to disallowance. He did not see where that came In at all. He did see that it would necessarily be involved In a statute of any kind. He was therefore prepared to support it. He considered that it was the duty of this House to do oil in its power to effect a remedy in connection with this question, subject of course to a precaution not to Interfere injuriously with public interests. He would have no hesitancy in voting against any measure which threatened to cause a revolution in that regard. The argument of the Leader of the Opposition, that it was useless for this House to pass resolutions urging the Dominion Government to do Its duty in this respect, did not meet with his full concurrence. He thought that the unanimously expressed opinion of this House, embodied in a resolution, would have more effect than anything else In waking the Dominion authorities to the Importance of this question, and In Inducing action on Its part. If possible any such measures should be backed by Unanimity, bo that there would he no escape through differences of opinion in this House In that regard. The hon. Junior member for Victoria had complained that the Dominion authorities had not done all they could to bring relief to this Province in connection with this Oriental problem. He was not prepared to say the hon..gentleman was not right in that respect Personally he agreed that the Dominion authorities should have done more, but he wanted to know what excuse any member of this House could have for not dclng his duty, through a complaint been lacking in that regard. If it was true that the Dominion Government ought to have done more and had the power to do more, then he asked how any hon. member could And reason for not exercising the authority that belonged to this Houae in that regard. He regarded this question as one of Immense importance. Every member in the House had pledged himself right and left In regard to it, and he considered that they should all be prepared to do everything within the powers of the House to effect a remedy, especially if their action was not likely to Inflict any disaster upon the Industries of the country, and he did not think the business of the Province would be seriously affected by the full application of the demands of the resolution before the House, MR. CURTIS asked the Indulgence of the House for a moment, as he did not wish this question to go to a vote without making a few remarks upon It. He had 'been very much surprised at the action taken by the hon. Junior mem' ber for Victoria in refusing totsupport the amendment of the hon. meyber for j North Nanaimo on the groundWhat It I was ultra Vires of this Legislature, j How could a resolution on this qraMon be ultra vires? The amendmeiyj' was not to be Incorporated into an ax and did not run the gauntlet of the ��� .sallowing powers of the Dom In lor 1 It was a mere expression of the o Aon of this House for the guidance oi the Government, and the only question ot ultra vires that could arise, with regard to it was as to whether the Provincial Government, when entering Into contracts, granting a concession or giving a lease, of something which It really owned, could annex to such concession, grant or lease, certain conditions upon which such privilege was to be enjoyed by the party securing H. It seemed to him a monstrous proposition for the hon. member to come there and tell them that they had not that power. But If he (Mr. Curtis) had any doubt about it (he had not much confidence in the hon. gentleman in the matter of law) he would find an answer to that question in the very amendment which he (Mr. McPhillips) had moved, for there he said: "If any Provincial aid be granted in the way of contributions I from the public funds of the Province, or a grant of Crown lands In aid of t any public undertaking, that any such aid or grant be conditional upon a contract being entered into by any such j person or company receiving aid or the j grant of lands that no Chinese or Japanese be employed upon any such work i or undertaking." Why, he applied tho very principleJn his amendment, wht/h ��� he��i*#eeted .fcfln l*w-Wr��t ono. If was j well pointed out toy the hon. member for New Westminster that he 'had admitted the principle; that he was pre- pared to go a certain distance and stop- ! ped short. Now, was there any reason why they should not attach conditions proposed in the amendment to any I grant made by the Government? The hon. men: ber had admitted that It was fair enough in the case of a bonus that suoh a condition should be exacted. Why should they stop there. In grant- Ing a charter, for instance, to a company, that was, in cases of an extremely valuable commodity, *t was not uncommon in Canada for such grants to acquire a very great value. Then why, in granting such franchises, or any privileges whatever should they not annex this very reasonable condition as suggested In the amendment of the member for North Nanaimo? In that, too, It was left emirely In the hands of the Government. It could use discretion. It need not impose this condition unless it thought It a proper thing to do. The House of course, instructed it that it was a proper thing to do, but still I the Government's hands were left ah-1 solutely free to act as it chose in the matter He was glad to see that no i other member of this House had taken j the stand of the hon. fourth member j for Victoria that such an amendment was not within the powers of this House. Then they had' also the argu- j ment of the Hon. Minister of Mines In j whicli he quite agreed with the amendment moved by Mr. MaPhlllips; and whom he understood to say, as> some other members had also, that that am-1 endment went as far as the policy laid down bv the Leader of the Conscrva-1 tlve Party, in the late camratgn. He (Mr. Curtis) took Issue with that state-1 ment, and' quoted from! Mr. Wilson's speeches to show that his policy was In exact line with the amendment of- j fered by Mr. Mclnnes, wherein Mr. WU- ' son had suggested that a Chinese and Japanese exclusion condition might be attached to privilege* granted1 by the j Government, such as railway charters ! and chattels for the construction of t telephone and telegraph lines. This was al! that was suggested In the amendment of the hon. member for North Nanaimo. the motion which he had the honor of seconding. He asked those gentlemen who followed the banner of Mr. Wilson, If they were going to keep their election pledges. The vote on the amendment to the amendment would test them in that regard; Of course he (Mr. Curtis), If he could not have the amendment carried, would be very glad Indeed to support the amendment to the amendment. It gave them something, but it gave nothing at all like what they had in the amendment itself. Then again, take the position of the first member for Victoria. He deprecated making a condition of this kind to his motion. In the first place he wouU say that credit was due to that gentleman for Introducing the original resolution, which was In the prope��� direction, 'though he was not prepared to go further and do what he could towards excluding Mongolian labor. That resolution Itself, however, If properly carried out and applied, so far ai Government works were con cerned, and matters of that kind, would have a tendency to exclude Mongolian hvbor, ibecause' when a standard wage wa* established, such labor was practically excluded, because as he under" stood it, Mongolian tabor was1 never used In this country unless it could be had at a lower price than ordinary white labor. (Hear, hear.) He was, therefore, glad so far as the original resolution was concerned, to give it his hearty approval. Mr. Curtis quoted from a speech delivered by Mr. McPhllllps, in May last, in which he had urged as a means of remedying the Oriental labor question, that they (the people) should set an example and not use that labor themselves, and in whioh. he held that British labor should be given the preference; and based an argument thereon that he (Mr. <McPhlh lips) was not justified In opposing tha amendment before the House. Some members In the House had' elated that they were so tired of this question that they wished it were consigned to some llmb'�� whence it would never return. He thought those gentlemen would be far more tired of the question eventually unless they agreed 'to measures such as they had proposed on this side of the House. Until Mongolian labor was practically excluded from competition with white labor in this Province, the question would not be at rest, In the Interior of the country, It would be found that the question was a burning one. At Greenwood the feeling was so strong that the buslnesss people had joined hands with the Labor people and had agreed hy resolution not to> employ or use Mongolian labor, with the result that a large part of the Chinese population had left that place. He did not want to make this a party question at all, and would like to see the Government urge that the amendment of the member for Victoria be withdrawn and some resolution pass that every member of the House could agree on. Unanimity would have great effect ait Ottawa and through the country. He thought the Government would strengthen Itself by accepting a pror position like that contained in the amendment of the member for North Nanaimo. Referring to the recent action of the Japanese Government In prohibiting emigration, Mr. Curtis referred with amusement to Hon. Mr. McBride's claim that that was due to something; contained in the Speech from the Throne. They all knew the reason of that. It was the exigencies of war that was causing the Japanese Government to keep its people at home. That could not be taken as a final settlement of the Japanese portion of the question. iNor could they depend upon the arrangement proposed by which only ten or eleven Japanese citizens per month, from each prefecture, should be allowed to come to British Columbia. Even If that carried to the full, there would be nearly 6,000 emigrants per month, because there were 40,000 prefectures in Japan. And what safeguard had they ttiat-these regulations would 6e carrlfralul*!*' TWSy fftilgHTbe atoro* gated tomorrow, and the full Influx go on again. It was therefore of the highest importance that they should,, without delay, take every step possible to suppress and keep down that immigration if not by direct then by Indirect means, and the proposition of the hon. member for North Nanaimo was one that would go a long way towards accomplishing that result (Applause.) HON. MR. McBRIDE said that so far from being unfavorable to the stand he had taken on the hustings in regard to this question, he would repeat that he would stand by every word he had. uttered in connection with the Mongolian question. He would repeat here now MR. BROWN rose to a point of order. The hon. gentleman had already spoken to the amendment to the amendment. MR. SPEAKER ruled that Hon. Mr. McBride was out of order. HON. MR. McBRIDE: "My hon. friends opposite are a little afraid to> listen to me on this question." MR. GILMOUR thought if the hon. gentleman was going to make such at statement as he made in the last debate, that credit was due to this Government for the action of the Japanese authorities, it was better that his opinions were unspoken. HON. MR. McBRIDE denied that he had made such a statement. What he did say was that the action of tlie Japanese Government was due U the policy outlined In the Speech, and not that It was directly attributable to the Influence of the Government of British Columbia. MR. GILMOUR said he thought members of this House should advocate Provincial rights, and not get up and tell the Dominion Government what it had not done. The Dominion Government, he admitted, had not done enough, but Conservatives and Liberals alike were responsible for that. He thought tbe House should support legislation as offered In the amendment as a means of doing something to remedy this question. HON. MR. TURNER said he only had a word to offer. The member for Nanaimo (Mr. R. Smith) had' said that he would not advocate anything that was likely to prove revolutionary with respect to the trade and commerce of this Province. He thought the amendment ofthe member for Nanaimo was of that character. That amendment would affect all contracts, leases and concessions of whatsoever kind entered Into by the Government. No Chinese or Japanese were to be employed in that connection. Now, they knew there were certain leases which the Government made to verloua businesses in the Province. Take the fishing industry. A large number of the canners were on leased ground, and If the amendment passed they could not employ Chinese or Japanese labor. Then there was the lumber industry. A man coming for the renewal of his timber lease would he under the necessity of accepting the condition that no Chin aeh mid be employed In connection with his work. In that light the amendment certainly struck him as being of a revolutionary character. As to the can- <l nlng industry, which he really knew more about, it really meant an absolute prohibition of the industry. He bad heard it said by a member during this session that he did not abject to that, and that for his part he would prefer that there should not he a cannery In the Province, and that the salmon should be running up and down the river uncaught. He (Hon. Mr. Turi.tr> hardly thought that was acceptable to the Province or the world at large. It was altogether against the doctrine of political economy. How would the people of Great Britain con- alder it? Was there nothing In that business which proved beneficial to the people of the Mother Country? Were they not Interested In getting a supply of good food at a reasonable price? Would it not be a revolution of trade If that enormous amount of food was taken out of that market? When they considered that In one year a million or more cases of salmon had been sent there fron�� this Province, representing many thousand pounds of good food for the i-eople of Great Britain and when they took into consideration In connection with that the fact that the production that year of a million cases of salmon, or, say, eight hundred thousand cases, which was nearer the average, meent an expenditure on Chinese labor necessary for carrying on the work, of ���400.000, the significance of this point would be seen. Then there was the expenditure for white labor and Indian labor, and for boxes and other products of the Province, the total expenditure in connection with those eight hundred thousand cases would be at leas: one million and a half dollars, that largely went into the pockets of white men, and of which not one cent would be expended In the Province, but for the expenditure of that $400,000 on Chinese or some other cheap labor. If any labor could be got to replace the Chinese, at such prices as would enable the Industry to got on, then it would not 'be revolutionary to prevent Its employment, but he said it was revolutionary if such an enormous difference was made 1n the production of food in this Province and in the expenditure on the white labor, which had been, as he said, on that eight hundred thousand cases, one million and a half of dollars, In labor, and In purchasing the productions of the Province. Was R for this House to say "We will sweep away a million and a half expenditure in this Province, that goes into the pockets of the white laborer, because the Chinese get an approximate $400,000 In connection with i? And in connection with that $400,000 he would venture to say there was $200,000 of it expended In this Province. He wai not arguing for Chinamen now. He wished they could do without the Chinamen. But at the present moment there was no means of carrying on that industry without them. But there was an erroneous opinion with respect to them. If they examined the books of an;s, of these cani:eri*^g they would J find that the Chinamen expended large amounts in the actual productions of the country, In boots and shoes, cloth' Ing and food. Some of them spent very liberally Indeed. He saw an hon. gentleman smile. He ventured to say that that gentleman had never been up the Cariboo Road and seen the Chinese shops there. The first thing perchance he would call for If he did visit one of those shops, would be a little brandy. He would find himself supplied with the very best "Three Star Hennessy" or the best cognac. MR. McINNES: "They must be jolly good ftllows." HON. MR. TURNER continued that tne matters he had* referred to offered one reason why suoh a resolution would prove a revolution to the trade of this Province, and he thought to a large extent the same might be applied to the large manufacturing industries of the country. It was true if they could get workmen from the East, (he saw hon. gentlemen smile at that.) But the fact was that they could not get them although they were not earning as good wage.". In the East as they paid to the Chinamen in this Province. He felt perfectly safe In saying that. MR. CURTIS: "Do I understand you to be making a plea for cheap labor In British Columbia?" HON. MR. TURNER said the hon. gentleman could twist his words in any way he liked, but he was only stating what was a fact, that there were certain industries In British Columbia today, producing enormous revenue, which would not exist unless under the conditions he was referring to. When an hon. gentleman brought In a resolution of that kind which swept away one million and a half of dollars out of the pockets of the working men In British Columbia, he should produce a substitute to enable that expenditure of ono million and a half to go on. But he did not do that. The hon. gentleman referred in his resolution to "con- j tracts, leases and concessions." Now. ! what was a concession in public work? He Imagined It must mean a concession from the Government of lands or mon the amendment, proposed by the fourth member for Victoria, in which he laid down Something that they could carry out, which could not be objected to, and which would work out in some measure the remedy the country desired. The amendment on the contrary was useless as It would be subject to disallowance bv the Dominion Government. MR. CURTIS; "We are not asking for an act." HON. MR. TURNER knew what they were asking for exactly. In the case of a concession their resolution required an act. In the case of a contract or lease he was quite aware it did not, and the hon. gentleman said the Government need not carry it out, If the resolution passed. What use would it be to advise the Government that it shuuld insert certain conditions In the lease If the Government Ignored those conditions? The hon. gentleman said: "Pass this resolution or instruct the Government to do so and so, but it need not do It." MR. CURTIS: "You cannot be compelled to carry out the instruction." HON. MR. TURNER said the other was aa amendment framed In such a way that It could be carried out and would be carried out. When they saw a resolution which could not help the Province in any direction, and which stood a chance of destroying one very important industry* at any 'iate in the Provlhce, he could -hardly think that gentl/meii on the other side would be prep'.red to vote for such an amendment as that, but would vote for the amendment of the hon. fourth member foij Victoria, (Applause.) ' he vote was then taken, when Mr. M nnes' amendment was defeated on a vision, the names standing as folio..;: &.n the amendment: Messrs. Mcln- neo, Gilmour, Stables, E. C. Smith, Oliver, Neill, Brown, Martin, Curtis, Munro, Green and R. Smith.���12. Against amendment: Messrs. Kldd, Hall, McPhillips, Helmcken, Turner, Dunsmuir, Eberts, A. W. Smith, Ellison, Clifford, Fulton, Hayward, Garden, Tatlow, Prentice, Wells, McBride, Pooley, Murphy, Rogers, Hunter, Taylor, Dickie, and 'Mounce.���24. A vote was then taken on the amendment to the amendment, put by**Ir. McPhilllDs, and on the original resolution as amended, which carried nem, con. MR. TATLOW'S MOTION. A lengthy discussion then took place on Mr. Tallow's resolution affecting Chinese immigration, the debate upon which was adjourned on August 1st. MR. HELMCKEN, who moved the adjournment of the debate on that occasion, took up the thread of the argument, dealing with the familiar history of this question, and eventually moved the following amendment, in substitution of the original resolution: "Whereas resolutions have been passed bj* this House from 'time to time requesting the-dominion Government to increase the pdil tax un Chinese* Immigrants Into Canada; And whereas the Dominion Govern- ent has passed an Act, known as the i possibly Jeopardise the constitutionality of the Act, that the broader term "Mongolian" should be Inserted. This was done. MR. McINNES mentioned that the term "Mongolian" had been held in cases to include the inhabitants of Pin- land. Swedes and Norwegians were included. HON. MR. EBERTS thought that even so, although he was not assured in that regard, the application of It would be in the usual acceptation of the term. On motion the BUI was read a third time and finally passed. The House adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m. to-morrow. FIFTEENTH DAY. Victoria, Friday, August 10. The House met at 2 o'clock p. m. Mr. Tatlow introduced a Rill to regulate Immigration into British Columbia. The Bill was read a first time. Its second reading U fixed for Monday next. In reply to Mr. Oliver, the Attorney- General stated, that there were 249 licences at $100 per year, and 157 at $200 per year in force under the Liquor Licence Act, In 1899. IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. The House went into Committee of the Whole, on the Land Registry BUI, which was taken up from its adjourned stage, and concluded. The Bill was reported up, complete, without amendments and stands for its third reading on Monday next. The Judgments Bill was also considered In Committee of the Whole. The Committee rose and reported progress. The Official Administrators' Act was also dealt with, and was reported1 with amendments. It stands for its third reading on Monday. SUCCESSION DUTIES BILL. HON. MR. EBERTS moved the second reading of the Bill relating to Succession Duties. Section 13 of the BUI, proposed in substitution of Sub-Section 3, .Section 4, of the Succession Duty Act, as proviso that where the aggregate value of the property of the deceased exceeded $25,000. and passed under a will, intestacy or otherwise, either In whole or in part, to or for the use of the father, mother, husband, wife, child, grandchild, daughter-in- law, or son-in-law of the deceased, the same, or as much thereof as so passed, should be. subject to duty as follows:! "Upcn the value up to $100,000, at the rate of $1.50 for every S100 of value of the whole property; where said value reaches $100,000, but does not reach $200,000, at the rate of $-'.50 for every $100 of value of the whole property; where said value exceeds $200,000, at the rate of $5 for every JlrtO of value of the whole property." The Attorney-Gen-! era! explained bristly the various clauses of the Bill. -MR. CURTIS suggested in connection with the amount of succession duties to be paid that there should be a sliding ecale to regulate tho application of the law. He considered' the jump from $L50 for every hundred dollars of pro- I perty value on an estate valued up to Chinese Immigration Act. .1900, !nc >s reasing the poll tax from the sum of ^ %mm ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ $00 to the sum of $100. | d d h h h w b Be it resolved, that In the opinion-of ������m^ ,���friT,������^,���,��� ���������,��� this House, the said Act 13 Ineffective and inadequate to prevent Chinese immigration into Canada; Be it further resolved, that an humble address be presented to His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor requesting him to respectfully urge upon the Dominion Government that the effective mode of dealing with the question of some intermediate scale. MR. NEILL thought that the Succession Duty Law of the Old Countrv could 'be copied to advantage in some resxeets. The Bill was read a second time. 'BENNTT-ATLIN COMMISSION BILL. HON. MR. EBERTS moved the Bee* restricting Mongolian immigration into ond reading of the Bennett-AUin Conv Canada would be by either increasing mission Bill. In doing so he said that the amount of the per capita tax to the the intention was to appoint a commls- sum of $500, or by the passing of an sion, Immediately if required, to go to Act based on the lines of the Natal that country to inquire into the condi- Act, known as the 'Immigration Re- i tion of certain mining property. Cer- strlotlon Act, 1897.' " | tain mining claims there had been MR. BROWN consented to the with- staked over and over again, until it drawal of hia amendment, and Mr. was impossible' to tell who were the Helmcken's resolution passed unanlm- owners. It was with a view of deter- ously. I mining tihs question, that the Commls- COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. '' si��� was to be sent there. In Commlt- , ��� *u- tee of the Whole, he Intended to move The next question taken up was the adjourned debate on Mr. R. Smith' solution providing for compulsory arbitration. aii amendment that the Commission should be limited as to time. It was not necessary to have the Commission urauun. _________ . . . _.,,.,, sitting very long, because In- hoped, In HON. MR. TURNER, who had nwed (hp n__p fiifm.p ^ ^ At][n count_y the adjournment of the debate, explain ed that the resolution was of such an important nature that nothing could be done in the way of legislation this session. The Government would take the matter into seriou3 consideration, however, with a view of introducing an act at the next session of the House. MR. SMITH thereupon asked leave to withdraw his resolution, which was granted. MR. BROWN reglsered an objection to the withdrawal of the resolution on the ground that no definite promise had been given that an act would bo introduced and MR. CURTIS also objected, on the same ground. He thought the Government had treated the subject Inadequately. MR. TURNER did not think hon. les by Parliament. Now, It was well , , known to every gentleman there that if gentlemen opposite had any right to in a concession were made of land, an act atruct the G��vernment ana must be brought in to make that concession without the authority of this House. If therefore, that act was "brought into the House it would require to have this Chinese and Japanese ex- the near future, that thi would have its own Court to settle disputes arising there. It was only with a view of settling disputes now In existence, that the Commission was to be appclnted. MR. MARTIN looked upon the Bill as a very drastic one, which could only be supported under special elrcumstan- cos. He would not oppose the Bill, with the distinct understanding that it was to be modified, so that the Com mission would cease after the present appointee had got through with the cases awaiting settlement. Hi' looked upon it as a matter of some danger that a judge should be sent there, where he was outside of any law for guidance, to settle perhaps important questions affecting property, and he understood that there were no cases similar to those for which the Commission was anointed in 1899, namely, the boundary dispute and loose records. There would 'be no appeal from the decision of the Commissioner. He had absolute power, and the matter was therefore not without Its graver aspects, 01 course, he assumed that the Judge appointed would act In good faith, but they all knew, that the decisions of judges were MR. GREEN supported him In that view. HON. MR. McBRIDE also took a hand in the discussion, and pointed out that Mr. Brown had not shown any elusion clause placed in it,7nd"then the! desire for hurry ^^T^^S! act would be destroyed altogether, be- j orbitration. until the present occasion _ cause, as the hon. gentleman stated He thought the assurance given that often open to reasonable appeal, himself, the Dominion Government J the Government would seriously con- HON. MR. EBERTS, in further ex- would repudiate that act. So that he aider the question with a view to tram- plantation, of the proposed Commission, held again that that resolution was j ing legislation for the next session said that disputes had arisen In the Pcr- very much In the nature of a revolu- ; should be sufficient. cuplne District In which the boundary tion with respect to the Industries of j After considerable parrying the ob- question was involved. A great many this Province. Now from this he took ' Jection was withdrawn. miners went in there, with the Idea that it that the proposition before the Hou?e \ MR. McINNES raised a point that R was American territory and staked meant disallowance. What the Gov- J the consent for withdrawal must be their claims in conformity with the crnnent proposed was different it j unanimous, which was disallowed. American law; that Is, they had taken LIQUOR LICENCE BILL. up claims 200 feet In length, against 100 MMfww** feet| under Canadian Law. Upon In- ^^^ HON. MR. EBERTS moved the third quiry, through Mr. Graham, the Corn- some people take certain ideas. 'WhSt ��� wading of the Liquor Licence Bill. ��� mlssloner In the Dlsctrlct. It had been the Government proposed to do wns to ! In doing so he drew attention to the found that under the circumstances it act so as to prevent the Chinese being ! words "Chinese" and "Japanese" would be advisable to have the matter employed more than was absolutely ne- where they were used in the exclud- arranged In the same way as was done cessariv in this Province. Their action In* phrases of the Act, and suggested, . jn 1899. was suggested In iba amendment to on the ground that those termi might MR. CLIFFORD considered It of was not a resolution which could be talked of in this House and heralded over the country with a view of miking great importance that the Commission should be appointed as soon as possible. He instanced one case, that of the Yellow Jacket claim, where operations were at a complete standstill, pending a settlement of the points .in dispute. MR. STABLES said that he would be pleased to support the Bill, with the amendment promised by thu Attorney- General. As it was, be would have opposed it. He did not believe that the circumstances in Atlin were at all similar to what they were last year. With regard to the difficulties arising there over the first claims, he thought that while Mr. Justice Irving had no doubt given entire satisfaction, there was no doubt that a great many of the cases he had had to deal with were difficult ones. Of course there were a few of the disputants that were dissatisfied) but that could only be expected, under tho circumstances. As it was at present, there was no difficulty in that district any more than existed in any other mining district, and he thought it would be unfair to give the Judge going into that district any special powers such as Mr. Justice Irving had. There were certain laws governing mining there, 'and the miners in that district were men who for the most part, studied those laws and tried ti live up to them. With regard to the Porcuolne District, it might be necessary to give a judge such powers, and he trusted that no time would be wasted in sending a judge there, with a view to having the existing disputes settled. There was no reason why a judge should not have been there months ago. There was no doubt that a great many miners were waiting to have the disputes arbitrated, so that they could get to work and earn something to keep them over the long and severe Winter. HON. MR. EBERTS, replying to the point that a judge might have been sent to the Porcupine District before, said that he had to amend the Jurors' Act in order that cases might be tried in Atlin; otherwise, it would have been necessary to take a Jury up to Atlin to try the cases there. That Bill had been hurried as much as possible. It was now arranged that the Judge should start In a few days for that district. MR. McINNES asked the name of the Judtre? HON. MR. EBERTS said it was Mr Justice Martin. HON, MR. McBRIDE paid a tribute to the manner in which Mr, Justice Irving had performed the duties connected with the commission of 1899. He agreed that it was a dangerous tiling to give any judge special powers to deal with matters over which the laws of British Columbia had full and adequate control, but there was the isolation of the district, and the distance which separated it from Judicial bodies, to be considered. It was nearly 1,000 miles Into that country, besides which it was a matter of some little difficulty at some seasons to get into the country. Last year, the conditions were such that this Rennett-Atlln Commission was absolutely necessary. As to the Porcupine territory, a report had been received from the Gold Commissioner some months ago that it was likely to prove a very good country, at the same time suggesting that some steps should be taken to have a Provincial Commissioner sent in there. Since then a Commissioner and a police constable had been sent there, and a very good report sent In on the country. Discoveries had subsequently been made. He had received a report only the other day. showing what the conditions were there. There were certain claims about which there was contention as to whether they were in United States territory or in the Province of British Columbia, and It was with a view to the settlement of these disputes that a Judge was required, ! The Bill was read a second time and | will be taken up in Committee of the Whole on Monday. ROYAL ASSENT. ���His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, during the afternoon visited the Cbam- b?r ond assented to three bills, namely, The Liquor Licence Act, An -Act Affecting the Liability of Trustees, and An Act to Amend the New Westminster Relief Act, 1S99. MECHANICS' LIEN ACT. The Mechanics' Lien Act was taken up in Committee of the Whole and progress reported. The House adjourned until 2 o'clock p. m. on Monday, SIXTEENTH DAY. Victoria. August 13, The House met at 3 o'clock p. tn. Mr. Helmcken presented m petition from W. E. Fisher and others, re amendments tn tlie Game Act. Mr. Halt, Chairman of the Committee on Printing, reported! that the Committee recommended that the correspondence relating to the fishermen's strike on the Praser River, be printed for the Information of the House. Mr. Pooley, Chairman of the Railway Committee, reported a Bill to amend the Vancouver & Lulu Island Railway Act. FIRST READINGS. Mr. Helmcken Introduced a Bill to permit tho use of voting machines ip the Province of British Columbia. Hon. Mr. Prentice Introduced a Bill to Incorporate the Vancouver City Hospital. Hon. Mr. Eberts introduced a Bill to confirm the Assessment Roll of the City of Greenwood. Mr. McPhillips introduced a BUI to amend the Law relating to costs allowed to mortgagees. These bills were read a first time and will receive their second reading at the next sitting of the House. NATURALISATION PRECAUTIONS. MR. HAYWARD, seconded by MR. HELMCKEN. moved: "Whereas, the provisions of the Naturalisation Act are believed to be constantly evaded by Chinese and Japanese; and Whereas It Is most desirable that such* practices should at once be stopped; Resolved, that It is the opinion of thia House that an humble address be presented to His Honor the Lieutenant- Governor, respectfully requesting him to urge upon the Dominion Government ihe desirability of amending the provisions of the Naturalisation Act in such a manner as to compel all persons wishing to become naturalised to bt- identified before a judge of the Supreme or County Courts personally." In moving this resolution, MR. HAYWARD said that there seemed to be good ground fur believing that a large number of Japanese had been admitted as citizens of Canada without having shown that they were people properly qualified. The law as it stood at present was. inadequate to meet such oases, and In view of the necessity f ir more effective regulations in that respect, he huiied the House would be favorable to the passage of thia resolution, MR. McINNES said that in 1890 he hud Introduced an amendment to ths Naturalisation Aot along the lines now proposed in this resolution, Although the arguments used were suffl< lent to make It plain to any one that it w.is desirable to have the Aot amended in that regard, yet for some reason or other the Government preferred not to accept the amendment offered. He was very glad the present resolution had been introduced in this Hou e because he was confident, that had his hands, and the hands of other members from this Province been strengthened, at Ottawa, by such a resolution, the amendment he had proposed there would have passed that House. MR. MARTIN remarked that he had in the past opposed a number of resolutions that had come into the House dealing with matters that were beyond its Jurisdiction. He still took the same view he had expressed before with regard to that question. One resolution of that nature had already passed the House this session, and he had not objected to it. Nor did he intend to object to this one because he considered that this was a matter upon whicli they had certain powers and a good'* deal of jurisdiction. Unfortunately, the Dominion Parliament also had jurisdiction, and there were certain phases of this question that they were not able to reach in this Hou:;e. He saw- no objection, under these circumstances in this House in letting the Dominion Government and Parliament know what their views wore with regard to a matter of this kind, where it desired really to supplement its own legislation, with legislation that it had to ask from the Domir.lon because It was beyond the powers of this House. That was not the kind of resolution to which he objected. The kind of resolution to which he objected was one which took up in this House a disputed question of general policy, which was discussed at Ottawa, and upon which parties divided there; for them, as a House to undertake to express opinion with regard to what should be done by the Dominion Parliament In a matter that was conclusively within Dominion jurisdiction was altogether u'tra vires. That was a proposition that he still adhered to. and he thought It would be a great waste of time of thU House if resolutions such as those he had objected to in the past were continued to be brought into this House, over which it could not hope to have any jurisdiction whatsoever, and' which It could not hope that its views would make any Impression at all upon the two parties at Ottawa. He might point out however, that they were assuming some- thins here which had never been proved to the House. That was, the resolution said: "Whereas the provisions of the Naturalisation Aot are believed to be constantly evaded by Chine*se and Japanese] etc." Now, they did not know as a matter of fact whether that statement was true or not. In fact, it did not put it very strongly. It simply said it was believed, and did not say by whom. Personally he was under the impression that the staement was true, although he could not attempt to prove it in any way. If those provisions were evaded it meant that there was perjury on the part of somebody. The Dominion Act, if adhered to, and if Its provisions were carried out, fully protected them in that regard. He would point out that the local Government was not without its responsibility in this matter. If the hon. gentleman was correct In saying that the Japanese and Chinese deliberately committed fraud nn the country in obtaining naturalisation papers, the Government should follow up every suoh case, and a person gully of perjury should be prosecuted to the fullest extent, it seemed to him, now that the attention of the Government had been very pro* mhieiily called to this question, that it would he well from now on If some of their officials were to be Instructed to look Into thi;1 matter, and satisfy themselves whether these frauds were being practised on any large scale, ind if necessary go to some considerable ex- liens.1 In order that an example might be made of any poisons found guilty In that connection, That was something which was absolutely within their jurisdiction. While he did not object to the hon. gentleman calling the attention of the Dominion Government to this matter, lie con Idered It was still more incumbent upon members of this House to press this local Government into n full sense of its responsibility in the matter. HON. MR. EBERTS said he was not opposed to this resolution, although he foresaw that some injustice might be worked, if carried into execution by the Dominion authorities, upon some of these people coming into our country, who desired to become naturalised. Along tlie Coast, for instance, on the SWWlne River, or In Atlin country. Japanese or Chinamen residing there, would not be able to become naturalised unless thoy came down before a judge if the Supreme or County Court, of which there was no permanent representative In that part of the Province, and where heretofore no judge had visited officially. It might be possiblo therefore that any of these people Uv- (Continued On Page~Slx.> Lardeau Eagle. Uwcmu shortstops Canada should abolish the Senate. ublished every Wednesday momlng at tho office nt' publication, Ferguson, n C.,by It, P. I'KTTIl'lECK. Advertising Bates: Display ads., ��ft.30 per column im'ii nor month. Legal ads. 12 cents per (nonparleli line for first Insertion ; Scents For each additional insertion. Reading notioos 15 oi ut" per line each Issue. No ads. accepted at less than full rate*-. subscription Rates : By mail or carrier. |2.0Q pet-annum ; si.QO fur six months. To foreign addroBses.f2,50, stepped at expiration, oh Printing: The Eagle job department is .veil vi uippod. and is prepared toexocutoa" kinds of printing at hones: prices, etf^o cheilites accepted, Addrcsfl a l conuaunicatloua 1�� !'"' I.AItliK.U EAGLB, PBRGL'SOX, B.C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUSUT 22, 1900. THOS. TAYLOR, M.P.P. Thu Topio oootioues to tell its half- 'liizon subscribers that "wo told you to'' story of Thus. Taylor, M. P, P. Thu Topio must know that the reason thu present anti-Chinese clauses aro being thrown out by tbo government in committee is that the premier has promised, on the lloor of the house, to bring down a bill of the nature of the Natal Act. and also have passed a resolution prohibiting the employment ol Orientals on any public works or franchises to which the government gives any aid. The object of the opposition is simply to obstruct and embarrass the government, as they, with the Topic, know full well what the government's intention is in tho matter already. Consequently il is readily understood why these continual and everlasting resolutions are voted down. So far, the EAOLE has no fault to find with Mr. Taylor. He has secured nearly $7,000 of a special appropriation for our trails, etc., $12,000 for tbo liig Bend road and the regular estimates give us tho handsome figure of $17,000, the money (or whioh will bo available in a few- days. Thos. Taylor has been true to his word. Hohas to this date fulfilled every > miso he made, and tho dis- trict gut,orally has been woll represented at Victoria, to which tbe elector?; would attest twenty-fold to-morrow if they had a chance. Mr. Taylor was on the right side of tbe fence on tbo "eight-hour law meddling" question, aud the electors will, tho EAGDE believes, lino him on the right track when there is something more than nonsensical issues at stake. Tom Taylor apparently wants to see moro business and less politics. And Tom is right���in this at any rate. When a mineral claim expires it is any man's property; but a man who will "jiKup" a claim upon technical formalities, knowing tlie original locator to bave acted in good faith, is not worthy of the name. He must needs belong to the canine family. Much to the credit of cigar consumers in this community nearly every brand now on salo in the hotels here aro union-made���bearing the "blue label." Three months ago r. no but non-union cigars were sold. The people only noed to bo educated as to the advantages gained by demanding union-made products. The supply follows tho demand. Smoke Cigars ��� And at all times insist on the box bearing the blue label. It helps manufacturers to see the force of paying fair and honest wages. The Label Committee, C. M. I. U. This century is saturated with commercialism and materialism. It Is of no use for the preacher to preach .Testis on Sunday and'.have hLi members yo and pick pockots o;. Monday. The biggest thieves to-day are members of Christian churches, These whoot'gan- ize big deals or big steals are pious deacons and church members. If the preacher were to speak out they would fire him quicker than Beat���he would lose his job.���Rev. Chas. A. Eaton. No good union man should join or belong to a militia, judging from recent events. There is no tolling how soon one union man, afc the instance of the wire-pullers, may have to shoot down his brother workman, who is struggling for and demanding the right to make a living for himself and family. Let union men, ull men; buy, own and control the monopolies of the day and the "cause'' or need for militiamen will soon cease. Think men, think. Then unite and upset these old methods uf government. SCREAMLETS. Canada should own the C. P. IX. Now that the men in this riding employed on government reads and trails receive a fair day's wage they must expect to do a fair day's work. Speaking of socialism aud the trust ���the trust is socialistic it is private BOeiallsm, unregulated socialism���run for the few at the expense of tlie many. The labor unions of Canada have \otod in favor of forming a labor party, in federal affairs. Ralph Smith is looked upon as tho probable leader. Tho more one travels over Lardeau' hills the more evidences of wealth he ���ens. If the Lardeau could treat its ore at the gross value of Kossland ore it would be satisfied for tlie present. The metalliferous mine-owners, who applauded the action of Premier Dunsmuir in Imposing a tax upon the output of coal mines, du not find the same incentive for approbation when the premier invites them to have something with him.���Nelson Tribune. And now they will treat $(i ore at Kossland at a profit. What a bonanza four times that amount would he with Lardeau's ores. Just back of Ferguson the major portion uf Great Northern hill could be ground through at a profit. If tho Vancouver News-Advertiser would give as much- prominence to the Eaule's mining news of the Lardoau as it does to our views on the Chinese question, this district would compare , favorably with any othor In the province. Tho Eaole learns with pleasure that Thos. Taylor. M. P. P., has succeeded in securing $3.00 a day for mon employed nn the roads in his riding. This is another Feather in Tom's hat. The wage is only a fair one and no one will object to working for the government now. The difference between a live representative at Victoria and J. M. Kellie, a political corpse, i.i daily becoming more evident. instead of mlapent dollars on trails and roads to town sites in which the member got his divvy, we find a judicious expenditure where most needed in tbe district. Thi! Lardoau would welcome a redistribution bill, cutting it off from Revelstoke as proposed in the bill Joe Martin's vote killed. The revenue is largely derived from this end of the present riding and bv the-time our appropriations cover the Revelstoke end we are called a pap-fed district. Between schools, river banks and Big Bend roads, Revelstoke receives ti great deal more than it pays out. But it is not so with the Lardeau end. The EAGLE hopes to see this much desired change an accomplished fact before long. We have been tied up and held back by Revelstoke long enough. Speaking of the legislators at Vic toria the Nelson Tribune says: ''The most probable outoorae appears to be tbe division of the house upon federal party lines. As to the desirability of this, public opinion has very greatly changed within tho past few weeks. Many who opposed the introduction of party lines during fbc recent contest are now prepared to welcome it, and ihe new converts to the innovation may be sufficiently strong to briny it about." This is a brand new conver sion, so far a*i. yohn Houston is concerned; bnt fk'q- Eagle wouldn't mind knowing, as,*!, matter of curiosity, upon whioh side Mi', Houston will line up. Does your Watch need fix-in'? Bring it to mo at once and I'll guarantee its repair. My shop is In thu EMJLE bldg. S. F. W. Gainer. When you want u Cool Refreshing Drink Try Enterprise Beer All LardBftH'fl leading hotels handle It. Manufactured hy tjy Xnterpri&e Brewing (Jo,, &vetatoko, B. C. SMOKE. Hoyal Seal Kootenay Belle Little Grem . .,-O^CIGARS UNION MADE by the Kootenay Cigar M'fg k, NELSON, B. C. IVBec that tlio lll.ci; LAllliL is on each box. The Union Label On everything you Imy is a guarantee that tlio producers thereof receive a fair rate of wages for its production. Insist on having thk label. SMOKE CIGARS f ��� I UNION MADE See that tills Label is on aii clothing you buy ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Ferguson Packing and Transfer Outfit. HEADQUABT1SKS AT FERGUSON, H. C. Contracts entered into for packing of Mining Supplies, etc., to any point in the district. Good, prompt service, and any work undertaken guaranteed. Freighting irom Thomson's Landing to Ferguson a specialty. ��� . . S. DANEY, Proprietor. The Central Hotel One of ' the llest Equipped Hotels in Revelstoke \ Is uinler tho same management. WBEN VOU ABE IX PUT UP AT ' T LAKE CITY -^Queen's Hotel-. Abrahamson Bros., Proprietors. Evorytb Dg Haw nnd up to date. xSCk Fire prbfi4 safe. f@(9) Finest .Vinos, Liquors nnd cigars. ^*H?/ ��� Mining men's headquarters. Gheorful dining room ; A 1 service, MODERATE in-TKH GIVEN, , >*��^8>^^^^^*^M^^^^^^^M��4��&^ 1IKHT CUISINE SERVICE. TW REFITTED AND KEFI'RXISHEI), {BJ, y& 1IKST WINKS, L1QUOB8ANDOIOABB. XL FINELY EQUIPPED BAR. REST 12.00 A DAY HOUSE IN THE LARDEAU DISTRICT. ��� ��� ��� ��� /. Laughton, Proprietor. Fergusp, R C. HEADqiBfclTERS FOR MINERS AND MINING MEN CONVENIENTLY SITUATED ON VICTORIA AVE. $} NEATLY FURNISHED, ji WELL LIGHTED AND HEATED BOOMgj | Hotel Ferguson THE PIONEER HOTEL OF THE LARDEAU Wholesale Markets RosBland, Nelson, Sandon, Grand Forks, Revelstoke, Greenwood and Vancouver. Retail Markets. Rossland, Trail, Nelson, Ymir, Kaslo, Sandon, New Denver, Silverton, Cascade City, Grand Porks, Greenwood, Phoenix, Midway, Camp McKinnoy, Revelstoke, Vancouver, FergUBon. WM. SCHMOCK, Manager Ferguson Branch. J ft The Bar is supplied with the best brands of: ,��4h Wines, Liquors and Cigars. R Headquarters for Mining and Commercial '* Men. Tenderfeet comforted. lEnteri 413.00 h day and upward*. Ferguson Bros., Proprietors. iao Pacific RAILWAY. "Imperial Limited9' Service for ihe year 1900 will be commenced June 10. The "Imperial Limited" takes you across the continent in four days without change. It is a solid vesti- buled train, luxuriously equipped with every possible essential for the comfort and convenience of passengers. Ask your friends who have trauelled on it, or address .1. MoCKEERY, Agent Arrowhead, T. w. HHADsiiAW, Agt. Revelstoke. E, J. coyi.e, A*st. Pass. Agt., Vancouver, H. c Stationery is in our line And we have juHt reoclved a tine stool uf Letter Pads. Patronize " TV. The Eagle." Pur People Who till J rbo"��nglo" lias the following list of boobs for Mile: Caesar's Column, (Donuely) Me. The American Peasant, (Tibbies) 'J.jc. Ten Men of Mnncv Island, [Norton! 230. A Tramp in Hoeietv, iCowdrevj 2flc. Hotter Hays, j Fitch I 'M, Tho Golden Bottle. IDontiely] 60c An Ideal Republic, [1'hclpiu ffli*. Christ the Soclalhit 7."-��. .meriCHti Poonle'a Money, [Donnelly] fUSi;. The Little HitituKiunti, [ArmHtroi^j ,.2fic. Government Ownership of Railroads hy F. G. It. Gordon Met. Poems for the People. W.F. Phelps Hie. In Hell und the Wav Out, by H.V.. Allen. .'.SAC, one Way to Co-operative Commonwealth.,10c. Law, Labor mid Liberty, by E. V. Debs Jtle. The Concentration of wealth, E. Irving.... luc. A Pure liemoerney, by li. S. Thompson 'J.'ie. Direct Legislation; by.I. W. Sullivan inc. Municipal Loclaliem, by P. g. R. Gordon:..inc. A Fow Things About Trusts Hie. Hard Times,cause and eufe, by Gordon....inc. The How and His Money Lawn We. Merrie England, by Robert Blatchford 2"iC, Tho Story of Mv Dictatorship 2.1c. Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy..,,.We. Shylock's Daughter, by Margaret 11. Butes.AOc. A Daughter of Humanity, by K. M Smith,.26(1, An Appeal for the Mind. by.W. A. Itateliffo.lOc. Proportional Representation 10c. -Lumbep Everything is now in shape for us to supply Lumber Don't delay but get your order in tit once: .Richard Davis Save you become a paid-up reader of The Eagle ? I It's a Pleasure 1 to have | Your Printing! JUSt as yon like it. If you are discriminating In your tastes '<< ^ you will appreciate Iho neat, nrtistlcjj z mid appropriate stylos adopted In The Eagle's Job Office. We havo mm lo Improved facilities and \ know Ikiw to use them. Wo tan do all < the printing iu this entire district, Iff \ strict attention to orders wjll secure tt,, | Prices Consistent with the Quality of Work Try uk with your lioitt order. Mull orders promptly llllcd. The Lardeau Eagle,; < Ferguson, B. C! V SOCIALISM DEFINED. Readers pf tho Eaule will notice that tho word "socialisui" is sometimes iised in these columns. To thoso who havo read socialist books and papers .its.meaning is clear enough; this note is tor those who have not. There has ���been much prejudice against the word by those who do not know what it means, but this prejudice is dying out. Socialism does not mean violence; it means a revolution, but a legal revolution by the votes of the people. Socialism does not mean ''dividing up;" it means running the*railroads, tho trusts, etc., in the interest of the whole people, with all the poople own ing them together. Socialism does not mean to abolish private property in the things people use; on the contrary, it means to let nlno-tentbsdiave much more than thoy can got now, and to let tbe other tenth have as much as they huve any real use for. And, lastly, socialism does not have to wait until every one is angelic and unselfish before It can be a fact. It is coming, soon because tho working people, who are nine-tenths of all tho' people, will come to see that it will be a good thing for thorn. If you who read this note are one of the working people, you ought to read some of the books on socialism, and you will see that it will be a good thing for you. NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF ip^^Ki^i] WHY EIGHT HOIIltS. Because with the present long-hour day many are unemployed, and the man on the street fixes the wages paid to theoman at work. The price of labor is regulated by the supply. Eight hours would reduce the supply. Labor saving machinery has Increased the producing capacity of workmen, who In justice should be afforded more leisure. The eight hour day would increase the longevity of the workers. It would give greater opportunity for social and educational development. It would raise the standard of living, upon which prosperity depends. It would give men a chance to get acquainted with their families. It would promote temperance by removing the desire for stimulants whioh comos from long hours of labor. It would make better citizens by giving the citizens more timo to understand his duties. It would help tlie taxpayer by putting the tramp at work. It would promote an independent spirit, which is lacking In over-worked people. It would build up trade unions, and concentrated oit'ort is tho law of success in tbo militant world of Industry. It would open up tbe road to every desirable social reform. Horses and Freighting Business For Sale v Three stages and ten head of horses, with mail contract in connection. Fifteen head of saddlo horses with saddles. Twenty head of freight horses with five freight wagons; ore Bleighs and all necessary rigging, extra stables at Thomson's Landing, Trout Lake City and Ferguson. Will sell any purl of tlio nliove to still purchaser. For particulars, write Craig & Hillman, THOMSON'S LANDING. The Lardeau District HAS THERE BEEN SO MANY MEN EMPLOYED, OR SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT GOING ON. THE LARDEAU WILL HAVE AT LEAST A Dozen Shippers This Winter ��4 n-m " With the advent of a railway over One Hundred properties within a radius of ten miles of Ferguson could become shippers in three months' time." Ferguson is the Hub AND THERE IS NO CAMP IN BRITISH COLUMBIA WHICH PRODUCES SUCH HIGH-GRADE ORES AND WONDERFUL SURFACE SHEWINGS. Ferguson is the supply point k FOR THE NORTH AND SOUTH FORKS OF THE LARDEAU. BEING BEAUTIFULLY LOCATFD ON A NATURAL TOWNSITE BENCH, RIGHT AT THE FORKS; THE NETTIE L. AND GREAT NORTHERN HILLS, AND ALSO THE NORTHERN PORTION of the Lardo=Duncan country. 1 Editor! N.H. FANNING. , Associate: John ISmory McLean. Tills famous magazine l�� now publtsued hi Now York. It is nn absolutely free mid ludopoudont Journal ot the first class, presenting both sides ot the leading questions ��' tlio nay ���rom the pens of tiie best wrltors, ... , Progressive mid vigorous, yei scholarly and ���jilji to I..It ihotilcj bo road by every one Sollrbusof obtaining up-to-date Information. It is Indlsponsable lo ovory advanced mind. yr> Cents a Copy, t)l),80 a Veoi At all now��tand��,'or post-paid by the pnbllsbc THR ARBNA COMPANY, "Life" "Ids., NJiW YOI1K, N. V. tlonsstrietiyconnaBiiuai. u.u��uuu.uu.. sent free. Oldest nmnoy for snourlmiu>att Patents t����en tiranih Mujn A Co. n nreUU notice, without cliarge, In tbe Scientific American. A hsndsomolr llmstrsted weekljr. !*"���".?'- oulotloii of any sriantiao Iirariud. Terns, W s year: four months, II. Bold byall newsdealers. *Bi��KvrsSsle�� Ferguson is the Payroll ... Centre *,. ALL MINING MEN MAKE FERGUSON THEIR HEADQUARTERS WHILE IN THE DISTRICT. SUPPLIES IN ANY QUANTITY CAN BE PROCURED IN -FERGUSON CHEAPER THAN ON THE OUTSIDE, AS THE LOCAL MERCHANTS PROCURE LOWER FREIGHT RATES. FERGfUSON l�� NOT A ROOM TOWN, BUT HAS BEEN STEADILY GROWING SINCE 1897. THERE NEVER. WAS ':' .MORE OPPORTUNE TIME TO BUY FERGUSON REAL ESTATE OK INVEST IN THE CAMP'S MINERAL PROPERTIES THAN RIGHT NOW. WITH A RAILWAY PRICES WILL TAKE A SHARP RISE. Come Straight to Ferguson The Rossland-Nelson of the Lardeau. 1 ��� Come and see the town and district for yourself. They will stand investigation. BUY NOW. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE OR APPLY.TO : W.N, BRAYTON, M8NRY FLOYD, r GENERAL AGENT. LOCAL AGENT, gagaggflBgBgaiSMg mwm$l\il'. ' Cas (Continued from page Three. ) ing in those parts would have to make �� long and expensive journey to reach aqclace where a judge was located. As to the remarks of the Hon. Leader of (the Opposition, he agreed that it was the duty of the Attorney-General's Delia" t nen t to prosecute any cases of fraud, where alliens went before the courts and made affidavit to the effect that they had lived a certain time in the country and had not done so. He might say that he had given instructions with reference to that already. Jn reply to a question asked the other day as to what would be done where a number of aliens had made Explication to be- naturalised before the proper time, he had replied that it was the intention of the Attorney-General's Department to go into the matter very thoroughly, and if any of such applicants had made false affidavits thoy were to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Mil. CURTIS was very glad to hear the assurances that had fallen from the lips of the Attorney-General with regard to this matter. From newspaper reports he gathered that a number of applications for naturalisation by Chinese and Japanese had been made away up in 'Chilliwack, and according to the reports in many of these cases, the applicants did not understand the words read to them at all. He thought that 3�� tho investigation to be carried on by the Department of the Attorney-General special attention should be paid to that fact and that the Justices of the Peace who had certified in these coses ���should be vory closely examined as to whether tlie Individuals who came before them clearly understood what they were swearing to or if a number of Justice;* of the Peace were .lending themselves to these fraudulent naturalisation schemes. HON. MR. McBRIDE: "I cannot allow these remarks to pa3s unnoticed. It setms to be insinuated by what has been said, that a number of justices of the peace around Chilliwack have been lending themselves to securing irregular naturalisation." MR. CURTIS said that while the applications were made before these justices of the peace, they might, perhaps, ���have beon sworn to and signed by a judge elsewhere; say in Atlin. , HON. MR. McBRIDE remarked that that would, of course, alter the statement somewhat. He personally knew several justices of the peace up thero, and he felt sure that they would not lend themselves to anything of that kind. He was pleased to see that the Hon. Leader of the Opposition had somewhat climbed down from the position which he had taken In this House Tor two sessions at least regarding matters of this kind. When he (Hon. Mr. McBride) had brought forward a resolution dealing with the fisheries In the Province he had received a severe castlgation from hia hon. friend, al- through it appeared to him that it would have gone just as far toward remedying the evil complained of here, ���as the resolution which the hon. gentleman was supporting at the present moment. He ventured to think that the soothing influence of the hon. member lor North Nanaimo had had something to do with this change of front In his hon. friend. With reference to the resolution, he thought that what the Hon. Attorney-General said should be seriously thought of. That was in the case of pert-ons residing some distance from the courts it might possibly work hardship upon them. For in-tance, a man might have to travel from Stiklne to Victoria to be naturalised, a long journey and an expensive one. No matter where a Justice of the peace was a man could go before him and make affidavit, but he must have that submitted before ho became naturalised. J'orhaps that was a phase of the question one might study -before passing this resolution as it stood. MR. 'McPHILLIPS observed that the Hon. Leader of the Opposition, when in power, cancelled the commission, and one would have thought that these Jus- 4 ices of the peace would have been im- ti.aculatc. Now an argument was advanced by the hon. member for Rossland that these justices of the peace were not discharging their duty properly. Under the circumstances, he thought It only proper to refer to the circumstances under which these Justices were called into office. For years they had been responsible men throughout the country, gentlemen of high character and Intelligence and education. They had been justices of the peace for years, but notwithstanding all they had done in the interests of the country, they were ruthlessly dismissed MR. MARTIN rose to a point of order. \He had no objections to his hon. friend going into thai; subject, but about $50 per head to reach a Judge to secure their papers. Practically it would debar them from exercising the franchise. -MR. OLIVER said that there was an impression abroad that more Chinese and Japanese had been naturalised during the past nine months than there were in the Province altogether two years ago, and that led to the idea that there was something wrong with the naturalisation procedure. He thought the justices of t'he peace should not have the duty of examining persons for naturalisation imposed upon them. He considered that there sihould not only be an Investigation as proposed by the Attorney-General, but that these naturalisation papers should only be granted by >a judge of the County or Supreme Court. He supported the resolution. MR. KIDD thought It would be bet ter to have the matter left in the hands of the Government, seeing that the Hon. Attorney-General had stated that there would be an investigation in regard to it. He believed himself that there was good ground for the impression that quite a number of Japanese had been naturalised through misrepresentation in some way, but he thought it would be well if the hon. gentleman withdrew his resolution, and gave the Government time to act in the matter to determine whether there was really anything wrong or not. Mil. GILMOUR considered that the present Law needed Improvement. The change foreshadowed In the resolution might inPict hardship upon some persons, but he thought the exigencies of the case demanded some such change. He hoped the Government would, as indicated by the Attorney-General, take steps in this matter without delay, to find out whether these Japanese employed1 on the Fraser River fisheries were properly naturalised citizens or not. Tho n otion was then put and the House divided upon the question as follows: For the resolution: Messrs. Mclnnes, Gilmour, E. C. Smith, Oliver, Curtis, R. Smith, Houston, McPhillips, Helmcken. Turner, Eberts, Clifford, Fulton, Hayward, Garden, Tatlow, McBride, Pooley, Murphy, Rogers, Taylor and Dickie.���22. Against the resolution: Messrs. Kldd, Neill, A. W. Smith, Ellison, Prentice, Mounce.���7. Weils QUESTIONS. Mr. Curtis asked the Hon. Finance Minister tho following questions: 1. Whai are the approximate revenue receipts from ordinary sources for the fiscal year, ending June 30th, 1900? 2. What is the approximate expenditure for ordinary purposes for the same period? 2. Will the Public Accounts for the past fiscal year be laid before the House during the present session? The Hon. Mr. Turner replied as follows: "1. $1,527,000. 2, $1,780,000. 3. No; cannot he got ready." Mr. Gilmour asked the Hon. Attorney-General the following questions: 1. 'Have any steps been taken by the Government in connection with the injunction against building a saw-mill on Deadman's Island? 2. If not. Is it the intention of the Govon.n ent to take any action in the met ter, and, if so, when? The Hon. Mr. Eberts replied as follows: "1. An action Is now -pending respecting this matter. 2. An action is now pending respect- inc this matter/' ���Mr. Mclnnes pointed out that the reply to Mr. Gilmour's question was not satisfactory. The question referred to tho injunction and oailled for a simple answei yes or no. He hoped ttie Attorney-General would see fit to furnish the answer called for to-morrow. IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. The House went into Committee of the Whole when the Bill to amend the Judgments Act was again committed and reported complete with amendments On motion, the Bill was read a third lime and Anally passed. Th* Biill relating to Succession Duties vas also taken up In Committee of the Whole and reported up complete without amendments. It stands for its third reading to-morrow. OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATORS' ACT PASSES. The Act to amend the Official Administrators' Act was read a third time and finally passed. THE MUNICIPAL COMMITTEE. Nominations were then received from Mr. Dunsmuir and Mr. Martin for members of the Municipal Committee. Upon the suggestion of Mr. Martin seven members were appointed to this Committee. They were: Messrs. Helmcken, thought It only fair, If he did go into it.. he should do so on a motion that would (Garden. .Murphy, McPhllllps, Brown admit of a reply from him. It was a| M-Clroes, and Oliver, direct attack upon him. The hon.'RAILWAY CHARTER AMENDMENT gentleman was bringing it forward,! The Vancouver & Westminster Rail- dragging It in by the feet, when he j way Bfll was then taken up in Commlt- knew he was not able to defend him- i tee of the Whole, when self. Otherwise he would not raise the; ,Mr. Curtis moved the following aim- point Of order, as he was perfectly will- j endinent, which he explained he would ing to discuss the matter al any time, peek to have Incorporated In all the MR. SPEAKER held that the hon. j several railway charters now before Gentleman was rather out of order. Ithe House: MR. McPHILLIPS proceeded to ar- j "(a) The mortgages or bonds issued gue that he was in order, a point upon 'by the Company shall not bear a higher which the Spenker again corrected him, I rate of interest than five per centum and finally alluding to the resolution, ] per annum, and the face value of such said he hftd no fault to find with it. j mortgages and bonds shall not In the MR. NEILL proposed to vote against j aggregate exceed the fair cost price of the resolution. He thought the House | the whole of the Company's corporeal was a little too much given to passing property when its undertaking is corn- resolutions without sufficiently inves- f pleted ready for operation; tigating their character. This resolu- <b) The powers granted to the aaid tion proposed something about the Chi- ComDany shall be subject to such con- nese, and therefore, the House was to dilions for securing such running pow- proceed to vote for It automatically, ers or traffic arrangements and other The terms of the resolution, If acte<l 1 rights as will afford all reasonable fa- upon. Wi��uld infiiot a grave injustice | duties, and equal mileage rates, to all upon perse ns in his constituency. There railways -connecting with the Corn- were a considerable number of Danes pany*s lines m the Lieuteojant-Gover- and 'Swedes there, deserving people,, nor-ln-Oounell determines: aome of whom had been naturalised al- (c) The Provincial Government shall ready and some'of whom were about to have the right ten years from tfae pass- acek naturalisation. The effect of this Ing of this Act, upon giving one year's resolution would place them at a serl- notlct* of its Intention so to do, to pur- OMsdlaadvint*jrf.A,8 it would cost them chase all the Company'* property, rights and franchises at the fair market value of its corporeal property, together with such bonus (if any) not exceeding ten per cent, of such market value as the Government may agree to i>ay: (d) The purchase, lease or right to use any lands, belonging to the Province- shall, notwithstanding anything contained in. or required or permitted by, any other act to the contrary, be valid only upon a contract being entered into by the Company with the Provincial Government, containing such terms and conditions as the Lieutenant- Governor-in-CouncU may see fit to Impose, and the same to be signed on behalf of the Provincial Government by such member or members of tite Executive Council of the Province as the Lieutenant-Govern or-in-Counc II' may designate,' This amendment was taken up section by section and discussed at length. In this connection Mr. 'Curtis intimated' that he was willing to withdraw that portion of it referring to the rate of interest on mortgages or'tends, saying that he Intended subsequently to move for an amendment, covering that in the Railway Act. Section (b) passed without opposition, but a leng and animated discussion arose upon Section (c), at which stage the Committee rose and reported progress. .Mr. Helmcken also had an amendment to propose to this Bill, one provision of which gave the Company the right to'build branch lines "not exceeding 20 mileB in a direct line from the main line of ir&'llway." To this Mr. Martin raised objection that this proposition should have been made before the Railway Committee, where reasons could have been heard from those representing the Company for the request. He could not see the necessity of 20 -mile franchises to a road which was only 12 or 15 miles long. The amendment was allowed to lie over, and will probably come up at the next sitting of the Committee. The House adjourned until 2 o'clock to-morrow. SEVENTEENTH DAY. Victoria, August 14. The House met at 2 o'clock p. m. Mr. Helmcken. Chairman, reported from the Committee on Private Bills respecting an Act to Incorporate the Grand Forks & Kettle River Railway Company. This Bill was reported to the House on July 31st last, but owing to some oversight was not introduced. The Committee recommended that leave be granted to inroduce the Bill and that double fees be not exacted. The report was adopted, and the Bill was introduced, read a first time and referred to the Railway Committee. QUESTIONS. Mr. Stables asked the Hon. Minister of Mines the following question: In the event of a hydraulic lease being granted covering ground held by individual free miners, and in the event of said claims lapsing in any way, who is entitled to the said claims, the Crown or the lease-holder? Hon. Mr. McBride replied as follows: "The claim reverts to the Crown." IMr. Stables asked the Hon, Minister of .Mines the following Questions: 1. Has a gold commissioner power to issue an Injunction against a free miner and stop him from working his claim when complaint is laid against said free miner for any cause? 2. If not, to what extent does his power extend in the matter of settling disputes that may arise from time to time among free miners? Hon. Mr. McBride replied as follows; sale or in any of the proceedings relating thereto, or any proceedings having relation to the assessment of the land, but a certificate shall be furnished by the proper officer of the Government or the municipality showing the years for which there were taxes due and in arrears for which the land was sold at such sale, and the Registrar shall, where practicable, procure an affidavit or statutory declaration from the person who conduoted the tax sale, stating that the same was openly -and fairly conducted, and he shall also cause to be served upon all persons appearing to be the persons who, other than the tax purchaser or his assigns, are interested In such lands a notice requiring them, within the time limited by Buch notice, to contest the claim of the tax purchaser; and in default of a caveat or certificate of lis pendens belrig filed within the time so limited, or before the registration as owner of the person entitled under the tax sale, or his assigns, all persons- so served with notice shall be forever estopped and debarred from setting up any claim to or in respect of the land so sold for taxes, and the Registrar shall register the person entitled under such tax sale, or his assigns, as owner of the land so sold for taxes. Section S hereof shall not apply to any title in litigation at the time of the passing of this Act." The Committee ro3e and reported the Bill complete with amendments. The Bill to amend the Act relating to Succession Duties was read a third time and finally massed. THE GREENWOOD CITY BILL. Hon. Mr. Eberbs moved the fcecond reading of the Bill to confirm nie assessment roll of the City of Greenwood for the year 1900. He explained that some doubts had arisen as to the legality of the assessment roll of that place, and the BUI was introduced at the re- Quest of the Mayor of the city. Mr. Kldd asked if after the passage of this BUI appeals could be made on the merits of the assessment before its confirmation by the Legislature? Hon. Mr. Eberts said he did not know that there had been any appeals. There was one case of objection to the legalising of the rolls by a party who claimed that his property was over-taxed, but the measure was apparently desired by the great majority of the ratepayers of the city. The Bill wns taken up and passed In Committee of the Whole, after which It was read a third time and finally passed. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. Consideration of the Bill to Incorporate the Vancouver & Westminster Railway Company, was continued in Committee of the Whole, when the discussion upon the amendments proposed by Mr. Curtis, as reported yesterday, was proceeded with. The following section was the first to be dealt with: "(c) The . Provincial Government shall have the right ten years from the passing of this Act, upon giving one year's notice of its Intention so to do, to purchase all the Company's property, rights and franchises at the fair niaik t value of its corporeal property, together with such bonus (if any) not exceeding ten per cent, of such market j value as the Government may agree to I pay." Mr. McPhillips opposed the amendment on the ground that it would tend to retard railway development in the Province, and Mr. Hunter considered it too Indefinite ae to tbe manner in which a fair market value was to be determined. Mr. Curtis and Mr. Mclnnes argued ' that, locking to the possibility of Gov- 1. A gold commissioner has no pow- errment ownership of railway , th�� a:n- er to issue an injunction. The powers of a gold commissioner in regard to the working of a mine are defined by Section 110 of the 'Mineral Act.' The powers of a gold commissioner in this behalf are defined by Part V. of the 'Mineral Act.' " Mr. Curl Is asked the Hon. Minister of Finance the following questions: 1. The names of all persons or oor- norations who received a rebate or refund on timber dues on account of timber expo, ted, during the fiscal yaar ending June 30th, 1900? The amount of such refund in each case, so far as known? ���3. What proportion of the dues fixed bv Statute was refunded? 4. By what authority was such rebate made? G. Is it the Intention of the Government to provide if necessary, by a new Order In Council that all licensees or leaseholders employing in their timber business Chinese or Japanese shall not be entitled to such rebate? Hon. Mr. Turner replied as follows: "1 and 2. Brunette Saw-Will Company, $2,172.67; 'Moodyville Lands & Saw-Mill Company, $3,408.9!); British Columbia Mills, Timber & Trading Company, S5.452.34; J. A. Sayward, $57- G4; William Tytler Lumber Company, $96.15; William L. Talt, $161.06; Splcer Shingle Mill Company, $565.94; Canadian Pacific Lumber Company, $338.37; E. 'H. .Heaps & Company, JSO0.C4; Archibald McNair, $44.62; Hastings Shingle Manufacturing Company, $1,477.52; Thomas Kirkpatrick, $242.12; Pacific Coast Lumber Company, $264.05; total, $15,088.11. 3. One-half of the royalty due on timber exported. 4. By authority of Section 70 of the Land Act* and Orders-in-Councll dealing therewith. 5. I must decline to answer this question, on the ground that it asks for a statement of Government poJlicy. which the Government is not prepared to make in reply to a question." BILLS PASSED. On the motion for the third reading of the Land Registry Bill, Hon. Mr. Eberts moved that the Bill be recommitted for the purpose of amendment The Sill was thereupon taken up In Committee of the Whole, when the following clauses were added as Sections I and ��; "In the case of applications under tax sale", the Registrar shall not take endment was a step in the right dlrec-1 tion. A long and lively debate took place in which the political history of the hustings was invoked to show how one and another member stood Upon the question of Government owners-hip of lailway.-. Eventually the amendment was voted down by a straight party vote, Messrs. Houston, McNeill, R. Smith and Munro voting with the Opposition. Discussion then turned upon Section (d) providing that, "the purchase, lease or right to use any lands belonging to theProvlnce shall,notwithstanding anything contained in, or required or permitted by, any other act to the contrary, be valid only upon a contract being entered into by the Company with the Provincial Government, containing such terms and conditions as the Lieu- tenant-Governor-In-Council may see fit to impose, and the Fame to be signed on behalf of the Provincial Government by Buch member or members of the Executive Council of the Province as the Lleutenant-Governor-in-Council mav designate." Mr, Curtis said that the adoption of this section would, while not specifically referring to the employment of Chinese ond Japanese, enable the Government to make a contract that would accomplish their exclusion. This he held was certainly In line with the policy enunciated by the Conservative Leader, Mr. Charles Wilson, and if gentlemen supporting the Government were anxious that such a policy should be consummated, he did not see how they could withhold their support from this amendment. Mr. McPhillips raised a point of order, holding that the amendment dealt with the manner in which Crown lands should be disposed of or administered, a matter which belonged to the Crown. It was infringing on the Government prerogative. Mr. Curtis and IMr. Brown argued contra. There was nothing in the amendment instructing how such lands were to be purchased or leased, or in any wav conflicting with the Crown's prerogative. The Chairman (Mr. Kldd) held that the amendment waB out of order. Mr. Curtis appealed from the decision of the Chair, whereupon a question waa raised as to the right to appeal, and a debate upon Parliamentary procedure ensued. It waa at length decided that the appeal was in order, and Mr. Speaker was called In. Mr. Speaker decided notice of Any Irregularity in the tax that the amendment was out of order. Section (b) owing to are-arrangement, of the sections on the order paper waa mistakenly reported as being adopted yesterday. This section was really withheld to be proposed to another portion of the Act, and was only submitted to day, when It was voted down, so that the whole four sections of Mr. Curtis' amendments were defeated. The Vancouver City Charter was then. taken up in Committee and the wearisome' task of reading through Its clauses begun. On Clause 3, dealing with the constriction of the wards of the City, coming up, discussion arose between Mr. Martin, Mr. Gilmour, Mr. Garden and others as to the number of wards to be constituted, and It was left over for further consideration. The Committee- rose. | ESTIMATES. The Estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1901, were laid on the table of the House. THE BUDGET SPEECH. Hon. Mr. Turner announced that the Budget Speech would be delivered on Thursday next. Th? House adjourned until 2 o'clock:: to-morrow. , EIGHTEENTH DAY. Victoria, August 11 The House met at 2 o'clock p. m. Mr. A. W. Smith, Chairman of the- Mining Committee, submitted the following amendments to the "'Mineral Act": Section 8. "Mineral Act": "Every person who mines for any minerals for hi3 own sole use and benefit on any Crown lands in tne Province of British Columbia without having taken out and obtained a Free Miner's Certificate shall, on conviction thereof In a summary way, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding $25, besides costs." Section 25B be repealed and the following substituted therefor: "25B. Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by Section 24 of this Act, the co-owner or co-owners who have performed the labor or made the expenditure may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-owner notice by publication in a newspaper published and circulating in the division In which the claim is situated, or, in the absence of such local paper, in the one nearest thereto, tor at least once a week for 90 days, and if at the expiration of the 90 days of publication such delinquent should fall or refuse to contribute his proportion of the expenditure required by said 'Section 24, together with all costs of advertising, his interest in the claim shall become vested In his co- owners who have made the required ex-# pcndKure, pro rata, according to their former interests, on the filing with the Miring Recorder of the division In wnlch the claim is situated such notice- in full, and there shall be attached thereto an affidavit of the manager or publisher of the newspaper in which the notice was printed, stating the date of the first, Ian and each insertion of such notice therein, and where and when the newspaper was published during that time, and the name of such newspaper. Such notice shall be recorded, as aforesaid within 120 days after the first publication thereof." Section 127 be repealed and the following substituted therefor: "127. The owner of a mineral claim who has had his claim surveyed, anal has filed In the office of the Mining Recorder in the Mining Division in which the claim is situated a declaration by a Provincial Land Surveyor stating that ho has surveyed the claim as required by Sub-section (c) of Section 36 of this Act, and has delivered'two copies of the plat of the claim and a copy of the original field-notes, and delivered two copies of the plat and one copy of the field- notes to the owner, then the owner of such claim shall be entitled to have the cost of such survey, not to exceed $100, counted as work done on the claim, as requited by Section 24 of this Act." Sub-section (h) of Section 36 of Chapter 135 of the Revised Statutes, 1897, is hereby repealed, and the following inserted in lieu thereof: "(h) Twenty days after the expiration of the term of the said publication, unless a notice that an action has been commenced and a copy of the writ in such action have been filed in the office - of 'the Mining Recorder in the (Mining Division in which the claim is situated,, the Mining Recorder shall forward to the owner or agent, under Form I of the schedule to this Act, the documents referred to above, together with a certificate that the notice provided by Section 36, Subsection rd). has been posted in his office, and the field-notes and plan deposited for reference therein from the- da'te of the first appearance of the said' notice In the "British Columbia Oaa- ette," and continuously therefrom for a period of at least 60 days. The recorder shall also set out In Form I the name of the vecordel owner of the claim at the date of signing the same." The report was received. RIVAL RAILROADS. MR. POOLEY, Chairman of the Railway Committee, presented' the following report: "Your Select Standing Committee on- Railways begs leave to report as follows: The preamble not proved of Bill (No. 16) intituled 'An Act to Incorporate the Lake 'Eennett Railway,* on the grounds that the expediency of the said railway has not been satisfactorily shown, and that It is against the Interests of this Province to grant the charter prayed for at the present time." Upon -the motion that the report be received. MR. STABLES rose and moved In amendment, seconded by MR.. McINNES, That all the words after "that" bo struck out, and the following substituted-. "The report be not received, but be referred back to the Railway Committee, with instructions to pass the preamble." - n 5 # MR. STABLES said that he did this on behalf of his constituents. The people of that district were unanimous* In the wish to have that country opened up by further railway construction, and he thought it but just and fair that the matter should be fully discussed, and that good and sufficient cause should be shown why the preamble of this 3111 should not pass. There was no ���doubt that the people of that district paid exorbitant railway rates at the .present time, and in their behalf fie asked that the Bill be referred back to the Committee. HON. MR. TURNER said he thought it waa known to the House that the policy of the Government in connection with railways had been defined by the ^statement that It objected to anv railway charter which would have a terminus in foreign territory. It was op- Dosed to this in the belief that to entourage such lines would have the effect of preventing the construction of an ell-Canadian route; and It was felt that the energies of this Province should be devoted to securing such a road. He thought it had already been stated in the Railway Committee that it was the policy of the Government to discourage any railway, which would carry the trade of a part of Canada to an American port, where regulations were in effect to the disadvantage of Canada, and which regulations might be increased to the detriment of the merchants of British Columbia; and the trade interests of the Province. He felt sure that, though such a railway might for a time apparently prove beneficial, it would in the long run operate adversely to the interests of the Province i��nd the Dominion at large, and it would have the effect at any rate, of retarding the progress of railways which would have their terminus In British Columbia in connection with those important districts to which, reference had been made. As to the question of exorbitant ��� charges which the hon. gentleman had alluded to, by the railway at present operating In that country, he knew ���something about that, although not Interested in the road In anyway. There was this fact to be considered however, If a proposition had been made to the merchants of Victoria and Vancouver and the people of the Province generally, 'to the effect that that road could have only been built, with assistance from the public coffers, the people would have been willing to grant very tstrong concessions', rather than be without the railway, even at the rates charged to-day. ��� There was no question about that. As to the rates being exorbitant, he believed if this were really ���so, and representations were made to the proper quarter, they might receive consideration, but he felt that a company that had had the enterprise to ���construct a road through that country, Ai a large expenditure of money, should not have the rewards of its enterprise aken away from It. He would like to Pee it make money. He thoight if that feeling were more gen- ��� erally exhibited there it would be calculated to encourage other enterprises ��� of a like nature. He thought the nollcy of the Government was" more in relation to the fact -that It should not encourage the building up of a foreign port to the ���detriment of the Province of British Columbia. He knew that was the policy which the Premier had announced, and he waa very strong on that question. MR. McINNES observed that the Hon. Minister of Finance had' just informed the House that the Premier had anrounced a policy on this subject, and that certain statements had been made In the Railway Committee indicating that policy. So far as be was aware, and he was a member of the Railway Committee, he had not heard any statement of policy from the Premier either directly or indirectly, made there. As to the question before them he thought they would all agree that It was a very serious matter to refuse the right to any persons to en- ! gage in such an enterprise in this Province, and he thought It was far more ���serious In view of the circumstances ���-surrounding this case, in which an attempt had been made to smother that enterprise tn a corner of the Parliament Buildings. What were the cir- -cums'tances? At the present time there was but one railway over the passes ���Into the Yukon and Atlin districts. The whole of that great country va�� contributing to that railway, and the result waa, that being in a position to ���monopoliBe the whole of that trade, they were able to charge excessive rates, and that they did charge excessively there was not the shadow of a doult- The ordinary rate he believed was $60 per ton. Now they knew as a matter of fact that freight could be brought from Montreal to Victoria, a distance of about 3,000 miles, for $14 per ton. Yet this railway, the White Pa'is Company, which was attacking the application before the House, was charging $60 per ton for carrying freight 41 miles. It was therefore clearly shown that the rates were not only excessive, but out of all reason. It had been shown In the 'Railway Committee, he thought to the satisfaction of every one present, that the White Pass Ccmpany had a decided tendency to monopolise every means of transportation Into that country. There was a little foot-trail there, called Bracket's Trail. The Company immediately purchased It. There was another means of transportation by an air line, ���the Dyea Tramway, over the Chllkoot Pars. The Company also purchased that. The result was that at the pre- -eent time there was little, if any, competition in the Atlin District, and so far as the Klondike was concerned, the only possible competition was the round-about means via St. Michael and the Yukon River, which In the nature of things was a very unsatisfactory competition with the White Pass Railway. Under these circumstances, the present applicant, the Lake Bennett Company, came before the House and asked for a charter for the purpose of building a rival railway over the Chllkoot Pass so as to give relief to the people of the Atlin District against the present exceiaMve freight charges. It would naturally be thought that there should be no opposition to such an application. More especially In view of the well understood proposition drilled Into them above everything else, that It was necessary for Parliament to do everything possible to encourage the Investment of capital and the building of railways in this Province. Yet strange to say the very members who had spoken most loudly along those lines had been the first and foremost In the present instance to defeat this application and to pevent people from Investing In railways In the Province. It was but fair to say, however, that they had not held these opinions always. There was a time when they believed It was a good thing to have competition to this White Pass Railway. In fact during the early stages of the consideration of this BUI In the Railway Committee, they entertained those views. But, at the conclusion of one of the sitting* In that Committee, the Chairman produced a letter, and M'R. SPEAKER reminded 'Mr. (Mclnnes that It was not permissible to refer to what took place In Committee. MR. McINNES agreed that it was not right to make such allusions, before the Committee reported to the House, but that report had now been made. MR. SPEAKER Insisted that personal references should be excluded. M)R. McINNES continued saying that up to a certain stage some hon. members of theft Committee were in favor of granting this application, and then suddenly Upon the production of a mysterious I missive from the Premier, those gentlemen faced right about in their attitude and opposed that which they were prepared to support Just before. MR. SPEAKER suugested that no particulars should be given. M!R. 'McINNES-proceeded to ask what the, reason of this change of front was. It was because the Government had outlined a policy upon the question and declared that the application could not be granted. Now he was not surprised that the Government heretofore In this- House had not seen fit to declare its policy. They had had discussions lately upon a great many subjects, and the Government had persistently refrained from expressing any opinion with regard to them. Instead of that It put up a couple of pliable members In this House to make statements which it did not itself like to take the responsibility for. It Its policy upon all these other matters was in line with the policy enunciated with regard to the present question, he rather admired its discretion, for It could not be doubted that no policy could be formulated upon that particular subject which was more diametrically opposed to the best Interests of this country than the policy just announced by the Finance Minister. But that policy was not a new policy In this country nor in this House. The policy of standing by monopolists whenever tl-ey insisted, to prevent relief to the public from exorbitant charges of railways; that was exactly Ip tune with the policy with which this country was familiar. Thai was the policy which dominated the Turner Government. That was the policy that had been associated with Dunsmulrism throughout this country for years past, and that was the policy which they had much In view in this country to-day, conceal It as much as the Government wished to. Now what was the reason the Government had foi* not granting this charter? The onf statement which In any way con- vei'ed a reason was that It might In son��� way retard the construction of the all-Canadian route. If there was any Immediate prospect of the construction of an all-Canadian route that argument might have some weight, but he submitted that there was absolutely no prospect, in the sense of an -immediate and rea?onab!e prospect, of an all-Canadian route being built through British Columbia, because an all-Canadian' route starting on the Coast at Kltimaat Arm, and following Teslin Lake would be some 450 miles long and In the nature of things could not compete with a line only 41 miles In length. Consequently, It would be absolutely Impossible to find business men ready to put their money Into the construction of such a railroad, in competition with the existing White Pass Railway. The result would be that before such a railway could be constructed it would have to receive enormous subsidies from this Government and the Government at Ottawa. What was the prospect of such subsidies being granted? So far as this province was concerned It was possible that this House would irrant a subsidy to the extent say of $4,000 per mile. That would be the outside limit. But the bulk of the subsidy for the construction of an all- Canadian route -must come from the Dominion Government and unless the Dominion Government was prepared to grant something like $10,000 per mile then that road would never be built- Now was there any man of common sense who would believe that the Dominion Government would grant a subsidy of $10,000 per mile towards the construction of that line? Certainly no one who had any knowledge of the feeling of the Government at Ottawa, and of the members of the Ottawa House, would contemplate for one moment that that Parliament would be disposed to grant such a subsidy as $10,000 towards the construction of an all-Canadian route Into that country. He therefore saw no immediate prospect of such a road. There was another reason why the authorities at Ottawa would not be prepared Immediately at all events, to outlay money In connection with the construction of an all-Canadian route, and that was that such a course would destroy their chances of success in the arbitration between Canada and the United States, with regard to the boundary question; and for this reason. The contention: of Canada and Great Britain was that these very ports of Dyea and Skagway were within British territory. If they were to go to work and largely subsidise a road altogether through Cana dian territory, as at present defined, it would certainly appear very much as ii they gave up all hope of acquiring Skagway or Dyea. Consequently, until It was absolutely determined that Dyea and Skagway were not within British territory, the Dominion Government was not going to subsidise a line which the settlement of that question might alter the complexion of. For that reason, if for no other, the Dominion Government would not be disposed to deal with that question for years to come. There was another point In connection with this question. It was that this proposed line wis not contemplated, according to the Rill before them, to cross the boundary at all. It was entirely within British Columbia, beginning and ending In tho Province. It was a Provincial matter altogether, and that being so It could n >t in any way Involve the question of the settlement of the boundary between Groat Britain and the United States, and did not involve in any sense the question ot what the policy of tho Dominion Government was with regard to this matter. But, he contended, that this excuse which the Government offered for opposing the present Hill���that It would interfere with an all-Canadian route���this show of patriotism as a reason for perpetrating injustice, was really a pretext. It was not so much because It desired an all-Canadian route, not sc much that it possessed the quality of patriotism, that actually the Government. The Government'-* desire to crush this railway was rather Jn the hope that an all-Canadian mute might be started, engineered or negotiated by particular favorites of the Government. They had seen things like that before In this country. So far as this present charter was concerned, and the attitude of the Government upon it, there were evidences already maturing in this Province which showed that favorites were already at work to get a subsidy from this Government. Not only that, but there was another circumstance which showed that possibly the Government had a disposition to be rather favorable to the White Pass Railway, In this Instance, by shutting out the present charter, and that reason was found In the fact that up to a very short time ago the Premier himself held a prominent position In connection with this White Pass Railway Company. While It might be true���probably was true���that he had eliminated all his interest in that Company, it stood to reason that he could not eliminate so suddenly all his sympathy and Interest in that work. Consequently It was apparent to every one that that sympathy must still exist. He OMr* Mclnnes) thought that the Hon. Minister of Finance gave another reason why the Province personally should be very anxious to throw out this charter. He had given them to understand that, possibly as a substitute for this road, the day might come when the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Line, along Vancouver Island, would be extended up the north end of the Island, so that hy means of a connection with this line to Kltimaat into the Teslin Lake, there would be a straight line of communication all the way up, right into Dawson. If anything like that would mature, It showed again that Inasmuch as It would directly benefit the Premier, it must of necessity lead to his being partial to tho consideration of that scheme, and would consequently militate against the application for this charter. Why should they refuse these people who were coming here, asking for no subsidy, no bonus of any kind, no special privileges from this House? Why should they refuse them the right to build a line of railway within this Province.? Anil particularly when It had been pointed out that it would be a relief to the people of the North districts, who at present were being undoubtedly squeezed by a monopolistic railway, -which controlled the whole country? He hold that, In view of all the circumstances enumerated, it was the duty of the House to grant the application, nnd he therefore heartily supported the motion to refer the Bill back to Committee to have the preamble passed and the construction of the line authorised. IMR. CURTIS said he was surprised that they had not heard something more about throwing out this BUI on the other side of the House. He had expected, after the lucid statement of the hon. member for Nanaimo, and the cogent reasons offered by him why this Bill should be sent back to Committee, th'at some answer would be given by rentlemen opposite. The procedure with regard to this Bill and the manner In which It had been treated since Its Inception, did not seem to him to be fair or right. The Committee had for some days sought to consider the Bill clause by clause, and at the final end, when the question of whether It was to be reported or not came up Intimation was given that it was the policy of the Government, as put forward there to-day by the Minister of Finance, to oppose any such Bill. That meant a very great waste of timo, not only In the House, but in the Committee, and he took very great exception to that sort of procedure. But It was In Committee, as It was in the House. It wns a matter of great difficulty to get the Government to announre any policy until the last moment. As to the present Bill, he thought the greatest possible weight should be given to the representation by members from the district where the railway would operate. The Junior member for Casslar had stated that the charter should be granted, and they had It from the senior member for Casslar In another place, if not here, that hip opinion was in the same direction, and he hoped the matter would not be disposed of until the House-heard from the hon. senior member for Casslar on that point. Mr. Curtis proceeded to enter a strong plea for the proposed railway, following pretty much the line of argument taken by Mr. Mclnnes. The construction of such railways meant the development of the mineral resources of the Province and Incidentally an Increased revenue for the Government. Referring to the point as to the reason for competition alluded to by Mr. Tur ner, in which he suggested that the White Pass Company had ventured much and deserved reward, Mr. Curtis drew from that and other things that the Government 'was actuated In Its present course by a desire to nurse that railway. He argued that that Company had passed the nursing stage and quoted a report to the shareholders in which the profits on a month's operation of that line were stated to be ��170,000; Chat the working expenses for the same period amounted to 40 per cent., and that the net profits reached half-a-milUon of dollars. It wus shown that the cost of that road 41 miles long, was In the neighborhood of ��10,000 per mile, a little less than $50,000 per mile- So that the net (profits for four months were sufficient to pay 25 per cent, dividends on actual cost of the road. The profits for a year at that rate would be 75 per cent., which meant th'at the road, according to returns for four months, was returning three-quarters of the cost In one year. He thought this showed that no argument that the road needed nursing should influence the House In preventing another road .from entering into competition. Speaking of the Government's method of announcing policies, the speaker, declared that they did not appear to have any policy. The only expressions which might be termed policies got from the Government were squeezed out at the last momenlt, as if thoy had difficulty in making up their minds to anything. In this connection he suggested that the "Colonist" newspaper seemed to be ahead of the Government so far at least as the House had advice in the matter. The House had had no announcement as to the policy in regard to the matter except that the Government was opposed to this charter. Yet the "Colonist" that morning contained a statement���w.hich he presumed from the association of Government members with that paper, might be taken for something���"that it, the "Colonist" felt satisfied In assuming that Premier Dunsmuir had in mind the formation of a plan whereby the northern portion of British Columbia would be developed, etc., etc." He (Mr. Curtis) thought if the Government had any policy as suggested In that organ, that the present was the proper time to announce It, or inform the House whether there was anything in the statement. HON. MR. EBERTS Interpolated that the Government might be asked to get up every day and answer In regard to newspaper reports. MR. CURTIS said that of course the Government was not bound to answer. Judging by the past, he ventured to think it would not Inform the House. There was another matter he wished to refer to, as affecting his constituency. He understood the Hon. Minister of Finance to announce the policy of the Government with regard to railways which connected with American territory as being directly against them. HON. MIR. TURNER: "I said American ports." MR. GILMOUR: '^1 took the words down. You said foreign territory." HON. MiR. TURNER said it was perfectly true that he mentioned foreign territory, but he then said ports in foreign territory. He thought the hon. gentleman should have taken that down also. MR. CURTIS thought the Hon. Minister of Finance was trying to get out of a difficulty. HON. MIR. TURNER did not see any difficulty. Did the hon. gentleman dispute his statement that he said ports in foreign territory? MR. CURTIS was willing to admit that such a qualification may have been used, but he understood the hon. gentleman to say that. In any case he would like to hear something more explicit from members of the Government with regard to thoir general railway policy, touching the International boundary line and .in regard to competition generally. A great deal had been said about getting capital into this country, and surely the prevention of railway charters did not seem to conform to such a desire on the part of the Government. Mr. Curtis concluded by saying that he would support the motion that the Bill be referred back to Committee, with instructions to pass the preamble and report to this House. MR. SPEAKER drew attention to the wording of the motion. It called upon the Committee to do a certain thing, and was therefore out of order. He pointed out that the proper motion would be to refer the BUI back for reconsideration. MR. STABLES thereupon withdrew his motion, and 'MR. McINNES moved In amendment, seconded by MR. STABLKS: "That the report bo not now received, but that It be referred back to the Railway Committee for re-consldera- clon." Lengthy speeches ensued upon the amendment, during which questions of order cropped up here and there and evoked numerous sub-discussions. For instance, MR. MoTNNES referring to the action of the Committee in refusing to pass the preamble of the Bill, said that lo reasons had been offered there for the course taken with the exception of the bald 'fact that tho Chairman had received a communlcatiinn from the Premier that the Government did not wish it to oass. MR. McPHILLIPS here raised the point of order that the proceedings of the Committee were not open for discussion In the House, that a member should not publish the evidence laid before a Committee before the report had been .made, and MR. MARTIN took the ground that the report had been made and that so far as the evidence was concerned, none had been taken and that It could not, therefore, be reported at all. During the cross-firing which ensued upon the question of order, and following the point touched upon by Mr. Martin, that no record had been made of the Committee's proceedings, MR. ROGERS asked If he might strain the point of order, If there was any against him, to state the reason* for his vote in Committee. His reason for opposing the application before tho House, in Committee, was that there/ was another application before thsi Committee, asking for a charter foran all-Canadian route whtfch- would meet the needs of the country just a* well as this. He therefore voted with. a view of giving preference to the all- Canadian route. MR. McINNES said that these might be the reasons for Mr. Rogers' vote, but they were certainly not this reasons which had influenced the Committee. MR. GILMOUR referring to the question of an all-Canadian route as an influence on the opinion of members, pointed out that the officials of the- White Pass Hallway Company were all American citizens, whereas the promoters of the Company now seeking* a charter were all Canadians and th-��y were asking to build a road through Canadian territory. 'MR. MARTIN said that a year ago wben this Bill was Introduced ond was reported favorably by the Railway Committee, he was tho only one in the> House to take the point that It was. not advisable for this Legislature to- pass charters of that kind, for the reason that the boundary negotiations were going on between Canada and the United States, and the interests of British* Columbia were absolutely in the handa of the Dominion Government. The latten was their agent so to speak���though unfortunately they had no control over It���and it was most important that those boundary negotiations should have a successful issue. At that time* It had been announced by the Ottawa Government that it would not charter any railway running to a port on the Lynn Canal, and this railway intended to do that, having so stated before the Committee. He had therefore opposed the Bill on the ground that th�� granting of such a charter might unfavorably affect the Canadian case before the High Commission. He was: told that this Bill was now being opposed for reasons similar to those given by him lust session. If that were so, he was prepared to support that proposition, as he had not changed hia views, but he thought they were entiled to know really why the Bill was thrown out. The report from the Committee gave no indication of the reason, and he clajmed that it should be a clear and definite one. It was a serious matter and certainly opposed to his ideas of what the House should do. to throw out any railway charter in that way. Ho understood that the action of the Committee was dictated by a Government communication. He did not say that was Improper, but it evidenced the absurdity of the arrangement followed in this Province, whereby no members of the Government were represented on those important committees. Now, if the Government had come to the conclusion that the arguments put forward by him last session were sound, and it was prepared to act upon them, It was ft�� duty in the first place to have had a member on that Committee to explain, the matter at once. The Committee would have been able to carry a report at that time and the matter could have boen put to the House with a great saving of time. All this debate had arisen from the fact that while those were the facts the Government did not seem to have the nerve to get up and say so. While he was prepared for the reasons he had stated to support the Government inks present policy, the Government had no right ito ask member-? of this House to support them unless they could so vote because of reasons which really actuated them. In addition, he added that it was utterly impossible for him to vote for the reception of the report of the Committee for the reasons he had mentioned. The report was not the report of the Committee, The hon. Chairman of the Committee (Mr. Pooley) would agree with him that the reasons for throwing out this Bill were never submitted to the Railway Committee; and the reasons put in the report were apparently put in by himself. Certainly the members of the Committee were not consulted with regard t*> them. For that reason he (Mr, Martin) thought it important that the Rill should go back to the Committee In- order that It might bring in a report which would state clearly and definitely why tho Bill had been thrown out. MR- OLIVER announced h-Is Intention to vote for the motion to send the Bill back to Committee, supporting his position In a brief speech. He favored the Bill. MR. POOLEY (Chairman of the Committee) offered a few remarks In. view of the exception taken to thp report of the Committee, He contended that the report did fully express the reasons of those who opposed the Bill. He had not given tho reasons of those who voted tor the preamble, nnd he did not presume to do so. He was representing the Committee nnd wa�� not supposed to present the views of those gentlemen. Some further discussion followed, taken part In by MB. CURTIS. MR. HUNTER, MR, BROWN, AIR. McINNES and others. MR. BROWN said that he had voted for Ihe throwing out of the BUI, practically on the same grounds outlined by Mr. Martin. The vote was then taken, when, fbe motion of amendment to recommit th# the Bill was defeated, names appearing as follows: Por the amendment: Messrs. Mclnnes, Gilmour, Stables. Smith. K. C, Oliver, Brown, Martin, Curtis, Munro, Smith, U.���10. Against the amendment: -Messrs. Kldd, Nell!. Green, ���McFhllHps, Helmcken, Turner, Dunsmuir, Eberts, Smith, A. W.. Ellison, Clifford, Fulton, Hayward, Garden. Prentice, Wells, Me- Brlde, Pooley, Murphy, Rogers, Hunter, Taylor, Dickie, Mounce���24. The report of the Committee wast passed. (hN; THE WING ITEMS Ohus. Short unci .lus. Mesley came tlowu from the Wagner group on Bun- day. There is some talk ot the Lardeau football team going to Silverton or. Labor day. If you are not on the voters' list and wish to register, call at the EAOLK office. Forms, etc., furnished free gratis. An unconfirmed report has readied town that Dan. Cameron had one of bis hands blown off, in a mine, up l-'isli ereek Inst week. Surveyors MoGregpi", Wilkin, Cummins, Burnyeat and Wilkiearo busily engaged here and there in tlio district, while others are at work in the Pish rivor eamp. P. Cummins, lJ. L. S.. and party loft for the Abbott group last week, to lay out a prospective townsite on Haley ereek, at tho foot of Abbott hill and also do other survey work. All the newspapers in Kossland will soon be machine-set. The Industrial World, a semi-weekly labor paper, and the dally Record are tho latest to put the poor compositor on tho bike. Some fine catches of mountain trout aro being made thoso days at the forks of tbe Lardeau just below the town. S. Sutherland and 1). Dunbar presented the Eaolk offloe staff with five beauties the other day. Surveyor Cummins has finished sur veyingj. J. Young's half section ot timber and building land for the Nettio L., located in the Y between the north and south forkB of tho Lardeau, across from Ferguson. The trail betweon Ten-Mile and Haley creek is a cinder path compared with what it was before J. Atkinson's road gaug repaired it. They will be through with it in a day or two. The Gainer creek trail should come next. A noticeable convenience to tenderfoot sight-seers in this district is a few finger hoards at cross-trails indicating the name and distance to such and such a property. Tho idea is a good ono and the government road builders would do well to post more of them. The government trail up Gainer creek is in a disgraceful condition and with a portion of the regular estimates it should be repaired at once. It is a trunk trail, or an excuse for one, and a good deal of packing is done over it all the timo to various properties. If the electors of this riding would becomo paid-up subscribers to the Eaolk tbere would be no need of taking hearsay for what our legislators are doing and saying. A 'ull report of the House proceedings appears in the Eaolk every issuo���and it should be read and digested. A sheriff's sale ot the goods of tbe Lardeau Mines, Ltd., and H. O. Mo- Clymont, including all interests in the Lardeau King, Lardeau Queen and Lardeau Prince, situated on Lexington creek, on tho southern slope of Goat mountain, takes place to-day at 2 p. in., in Revelstoke. Savage Bros., grocery und provision merchants, Revelstoke, have made an assignment for the "benefit of their creditors. Tho.Cowan-Holten-Downs' liquor business was sold out by the sheriff last wook and M. K. Lawson is going out of business. Revelstoke's old firms seem to beholding their own. The bawdy houses of Ferguson continue levelling in the whisky business and tbo usual weekly batch of scraps and annoyance to the' townspeople haB taken place since last Ibsuc One out- lit has been advised by Mining Recorder Campbell to leayc town, but there is still need for a policeman to bo stationed here. The Nelson Economist, among many others, Is lacking in goographicnl knovvledgeof this distriot, The ''Lardo- Duncan" is that portion of territory lying cast of the "backbone" range, some five or six miles oast of Ferguson, or along tho Duncan river slope from where the waters commence to flow east. Or in short Taylor's electoral riding lis known as the Lardeau, tho other, Greon's, as the Lardo-Duncan. Wjn. Tier, M. A., of Lucan, and Jas. McNIece, B. A., of Welland, Ont., after having spent a few days of thoir vacation knocking around among the mountains of the Lardeau with their old classmate, S. Shannon, left Ferguson on Friday evening, to return to their professions back east, the former j intending to stop over at Banff and j Winnipeg for a few days, tho lattor to i like a short trip Into Montana lind | -honeo return via Crow's Nest on ('. P. II. Both loft hero satisfied that a ningniilcient future was in store for this camp. Pack trains are now busy packing out winter supplies to the many properties which will continue work twelve months in the year from now on. This is a good sign of development progress in itself. Mailed parcels to the Eagle, posted on Saturday last in Vancouver, only arrived here on tn-day's mail. Other mail of Sunday morning came .through two days ago. Some of the postmasters need a caution from tho P. O. Inspector. The mail service is slow enough at any time, but unnecessary delays are inexcusable. Assayer Shannon, B. A., made an estimate ol the Triune 20-ton shipment, derivod from soveral assays,"of $205 a ton. Ho was out loss than $3. His assays of tho pulp from the smeHer wei'o exactly the same as given by tho Canadian Smelting Co., though he had no knowledgo of the smelter returns until after his tests wore made. As a consequence,, the Triune owners and lessees think highly of Mr. Shannon as an assayer and of the smelter ns giving fair returns. Tint ('tiniHlliiii-l.imlfiiii. Allan Chisholm was in town yesterday from the Canadian-Lardeau property up the north fork. The property is looking well and work is to bo continued nil winter. Provisions are now going up for tho winter.' Cabins, etc., havo been built and everything is in readiness for the best of progress with development. T.A. Wilson, M.D., CM. L. R. C. P. & S. IQimen's University.] Provincial Coroner, Ete. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ferguson, B. C. Fred C. Elliott, BARRISTER, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC., TROUT LAKE CITY B. C, AND Ferguson, B. C. Earvey, McCarter $ Pinkham BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. OFFICES :, REVELSTOKE AND UOLDEN. Solicitors forlmperlnl Hunk of Canada. Ueo. s. MeCnttor. I. A. Harvey, A. M. I'inkliani. White, Gwillim c? Scott, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. OFFICES: McKEX/.lE AVENUE, Revelstoke, B. C. A.H. Holdich, M.C.M.I., ASSAYER AND ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, Revelstoke, B. C. Methodist Church Triune Fraction, A 700 ft. fraction between the Triune No. 1 and No. 2 was discovered and staked by Messrs. Frank Appieost. ("Kamloops"). S. F. \V. Gainer and Fred. Disjardine, on the 11th inst. They leave to-morrow to do assessment and prospect, work. A fairly good offer has already been made them for the property. Kltti mid limit). Two annual assessments on these claims, situate in Dry Gulch on tho south eastern slope of Cariboo creek, have shown them to be two promising properties. They are owned by George and his father .Tuhn C. McCartney. Some fine specimens from the Elfa and Jane were shown an Eagle representative while over there last Saturday. * When in Trout Lake City register at tho Queen's. Best service in the town. * Perfect printing punctually performed pleases particular people. Is the EAGLE doing your printing? If not, we're both tbe losers. * If you want all the news of the Lardeau you must become a paid-up subscriber to the Eagle, the largest newspaper in North Kootenay���and the best. * The Toronto World has increased its circulation by thousands during the past few years. One reason for this advanco is found in the fact that ii publishes the most accurate and fullest market reports of any Canadian paper, Send.the EAGLE to yourfrionds, or to anyone you think will become interested in the camp. It passes from one place and person to another, is read, extracts copied into larger papers; the news will spread. But give us a lift to do tbo introductory work. Printer's ink made Rossland; it cad do the same for the Lardeau. Liberal-Conservative Meeting. Owing to tlie probability of tin early Dominion election, the annual meeting of thu Liberal Conservative Union of llrftUh Columbia-will lie belli In the Assembly ilnll, New Westminster, on the RQtli day of August noxt, common* chitr mi 10 a. m. All Liberal Conservative! will be welcome. The right lo vole ia eoulltieil to delegates elioson by Liberal Conservative Asscotatione or District Meotlnxi convened for this purpose, nne delegate for every twenty members of such Association or District Meeting. Proxies can only be used by Members of the I'nlon. July 80tl., 1900. It. H KIJJS, Secretary, Vancouver. G. (i. I'ftlOH, Pro, L.C, U.ofB. 0.. 2tV2l Victoria. G. FORDDRED Boot and Shoe Maker Miners' Shoes a Specialty. Trout Lake and Ferguson. The Only Way To intelligently judge the future is to judge by the past. Preacher ami poli- tieian, professor and scientist, all agree ou thai point. The only way to measure ii merchant tailor's ability and Integrity i* by v.lial his customer?; do nnd wha't ttieysay, The gentleman who has never ���purchased clothes of me can Judge by nsVhig Hie opinion of a long lino of j.'itnms. ltd can further judgu by thc inci ilia! ibis long line of patrons Jtoeiis iiimlng batik for more clothes. My inllorlnjj reputation in the past has been ���mod. My ctiristant endeavor is to make It better. R. S. Wilson, Revelstoke, Ferguson:. Services in school house every Sunday at;��p.m. Sunday schoolat 2 p.m. Trout Lake City : Services in Forrester's hall every Sunday at 7:80 p.m. Sunday school at 2:30 p.m. REV. S. ,T. GREEN, Pastor. S. Shannon, Assayer and Analytical Chemist. OFFICE: VICTORIA AVE., FERGUSON, B, C. np*All kinds of Photographic work done. Mining properties a specialty. Local views for stile. Call at office to see samples. Ferguson Shaving Parlor Wm. SehneJI,. TONSORIAL ARTIST All branches of the tonsorial art executed with ambidexterious dexterity. General Blacksmithing and Repair Work��� Promptly attended to at moderate rates, ilorse shoeing a specialty. ' PKED. DESJARDINE. Furniture and Furnishings < The largest and moat \ complete stock in North { Kootenay. We can out- < fit your home or hotel as { complete and cheap as ' eastern or coast firms. \ Prompt attention to mail < orders; shipments made \ on shortest notice. Ask "��� [or quotations. ) rndertakers. ) R. Howson & Co. ���REVELSTOKE, B.C. Imperial Bank vm of Canada. CAPITA,, AUTHORIZED, ��,500,000.00. CAPITAL PAID UP . . *'J,4S8,l!O3.0O. REST ��1,700.000.00. .; General Banking Business Transacted Interest allowed on deposits In Savings Department at rurrent rates. A. K. bThEARN, MANAGER REVELSTOKE BRANCH. : FLELD <$ BEIVS, ��� Druggists Chemists �� Stationers iftj&S REVEL8T0KEA If you need anything In Photographic Supplies... Send to tlie CANADA DRUG* BOOK CO., KEVELSTOKE, B. 0 Leave Your Watch With A. C. Cummins, Ferguson, and he will guarantee prompt and safe delivery of your WATCH to me. Repair department Is in charge of It. N. Doyle, an expert In Engllab, Swiss and American watch repairing. All work guaranteed. . , , A line line of Diamonds, Watches, clocks, Silverware; Hold and Silver Electro Plating and Engraving. J. Guy Barber, C. P. R. Watch Inspector, Revelstoke, B, 0. Located In FefgUSOn, The Payroll Centre We Lead because we keep constantly in touch with ihe largest manufacturers in Canada, Great Britain and the Ignited States, securing cash bargains at, all seasons. We iead because we have the capital and the experience to buy in the best \ markets of the world. Lead in giving customers better value for their money than any othci \ store in the Lardeau. \ We Lead in doing the largest business j because we treat our customers all the \ same, business-like and courteously. We Lead in giving good values for your money in I Gents' Furnishings, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, Miners' Supplies, Groceries, Etc. Post Office Store Ferguson, B. C. F | Miners9 Supplies We have juBt placed in our iv.ire room a large stock of choice fresh Groceries. Also a big addition to our well assorted stock of Boots and Shoes, 'Clothing, Crockery, Miners' Supplies, Ktc. Special quotations to cash purchasers. Goods carefully packed for pack horse outfits. Close cash prices. BATHO & CO., General Merchants and Outfitters for the Lardeau. Great Departmental Store ^ REVELSTOKE, B. ���, More Than Freight Saved By Buying Miners' Supplies From Us. BOURNB BROS. C. B. Hume & Co., Wholesale and Retail ��,@ General Merchants.... Heaviest Buyers in North Kootenay. 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Title | Lardeau Eagle |
Publisher | Ferguson, B.C. : R.P. Pettipiece |
Date Issued | 1900-08-22 |
Geographic Location |
Ferguson (B.C.) Ferguson |
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Newspapers |
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Text |
FileFormat | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Notes | Published by R.P. Pettipiece from 1900-02-14 to 1902-03-27; by Alfred Pelkey from 1902-04-03 to 1902-05-29; by E.G. Woodward from 1902-06-06 to 1904-03-04; and by J.J. Atherton from 1904-06-10 to 1904-10-14. |
Identifier | Lardeau_Eagle_1900-08-22 |
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BC Historical Newspapers |
Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2015-11-26 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
AIPUUID | 120992cb-f6eb-4e88-aaa6-094d39412427 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0082104 |
Latitude | 50.6833 |
Longitude | -117.4832999 |
AggregatedSourceRepository | CONTENTdm |
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