'������ I I I ,:: Ferguson Eagle i VOL. I. NO. VII. FERGUSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, MARCH 28, 1900. $2.00 A YEAR If Backed Up by the liberal Party Would Plnd Many In Smypathy. PR0GRESS1VEMTHJNG ELSE But Some Liberals Declare They Will Not Follow Premier Martin���How to Get Rid of Joseph is What Putties The Whole of Them. Joseph Martin has given to the prose the platform on which his government will stand, and it is given in full below: 1. Tbe abolition of the $200 deposit for candidates for the legislature. 2. The bringing Into force, as soon M arrangements can be completed, of the Torrensreglstery system. 3. The redistribution of the constituencies on the basis of population, allowing to sparsely populated districts an proportionately larger representation that to populous districts and cities. 4. Tbe enactment of an accurate system of government so aling of logs, and its rigid enforcement. 5. The re-enactment of tho disallowed labor regulation act, etc., 1898, and also all tbe statutes of 1899, containing anti-Mongolian clauses, disallowed by tbe Dominion government. 6. To take a firm stand in every other possible way with a view of discouraging the spread of Oriental cheap labor in this province. 7. To provide for official inspection of all buildings, machinery and works! with a view of compelling the adoption of proper safeguards to life and health. 8. With regard to the eight-hour law, tbe government will continue to enforce the law as it stands. An ira- bMlate Inquiry will be held by the minister of mines Into all grievances put forward In connection with, its Operation, with a view of bringing about an amicable settlement. If no settlement is reached, tho principle of the referendum will be applied and a vote taken at the general election as to whether tbe law shall be repealed. If 'the law is sustained by the vote, it will be retained ou the statute book with its penal clauses. If modified In any way without impairing the principle of tbe law by removing any of the friction brought about, it will be adopted. If the vote Is against it tho law will be repealed. 9. To re-establish the London agency of British Columbia, and to take every effective means of bringing before the British public the advantages of this province as a plaee for the profitable investment of capital. , 10. The retaining of the resources of tbe province as an asset for tbe .benefit of the people and taking . effective measures to prevent the , a lienation of the public domain except for actual settlers or for actual bona fide business or industrial purposes, .putting an end to tbe practice of speculating in connection with the same. 11. The taking of active measures forthe systematic exploration of the province. , 12. The borrowing of money for i tbe purpose of providing roads, trails, , and bridges, provided that in every , case the money necessary to pay the i Interest and sinking fund In connection with the loan, shall be provided . by additional taxation, so as not to Impair the credit of the province. m 13. In connection with tbe construction of government roads and i trails, to provide, by the employment of competent civil engineers, and otherwise that the government money Is expended upon a system which will - be advantageous to tbe general public, so that the old system of providing roads as a special favor of the government may be entirely discontinued, i 14. To keep the ordinary annual expenditure within tbe ordinary annual revenue In order to preserve in'ast the eredlt of the province, which Is its best asset. IS. To adopt a system of govern- ..ment construction and operation of railways, and immediately to proceed with the construction of a railway on tbe south side of the Fraser river, connecting tbe coast with the Kootenay distrlot,wlth the understanding that unless the other railways now constructed in the province give fair connections and mako equitable joint freight and passenger arrangements, the province will continue this line to tbe eastern boundary of tbe province. Proper connection with suoh Kootenay railway to be given to the Island of Vancouver. Wlrti respect to other parts of the province to proceed to give to 'every portion of it railway1 connection at as early a date as possible, the railway, when finished, to be operated by the government through a commission. 16. A railway bridge to be constructed in connection with the Kootenay railway across the Fraser at or near New Westminster, and running powers given over it to any railway company applying for the same under proper conditions. 17. In case it Is thought at any time advisable to give a bonus to any company, the same to be in cash and not by way of a land grant, and no cash bonus to be granted except upon the condition that a fair amount of bonds or shares of the company be transferred to the province and effective means taken to give the province control of freight and passenger rates, and provisions made against such railways having any liabilities against it except actual cost. 18. To take away from the lieu- tenant-governor-in-eouncil any power to make substantive changes in the law, confining his jurisdiction entirely to matters of detail in working out tho laws enacted by the legislature. 19. The establishment of an institution for the education of the deaf and dumb. 20. To repeal the alien exculsion act, as the reasons justifying it no longer obtain. 21. '.n amicable settlement with the government as to Headman's island, Stanley park and other lands, and an arrangement with Mr. Ludgate by which, if possible, a sawmill industry may be established and carried on on Deadman's island under satisfactory conditions, protecting the interests of the public. , 32. Proper means of giving instructions to miners and prospectors. THE GRAFTER'S RETURN. It's dead easy to see that the loot wise fgrafter Atkins, after retting tie grand bounce at Victoria, has returned to his means of blackmailing politicians to give him office���namely the Kootenay Mall. He has interviewed Thos. Taylor, and though he failed to patch up a satisfactory deal, he secured the awe-striking piece of information that Mr. Taylor never Intended to run in this riding as an independent, if he Tailed to secure the nomination of the Liberal and Conservative convention, Well the Eagle never said he did. The Eagle said he would be asked to stand as an Independent. If Office- seeker Atkins would stop* nosing Steamboat Kellie around for about five minutes, and also ask to be provided; with tbe senso that providence generally provides .for little geese (let alone eagles) he could probably read plain everyday English. The poor old Snail; it was hard enough for it to bear with Windy Ike Thompson; but to have to return to its vomit is unbearable. Even Hewitt Bostock is beginning to think his "lent plumes ($)" are deteriorating in value. DNTARIO LEADS THE PROCESSION. A strong combination of labor delegates from various organizations in Ontario have waited upon the government and urged the adoption of an eight-hour day of labor for all persons employed by or on behalf of the government. The members of the government were favorably impressed, and it is expected that an Act will be presented at this session. Tbe government, the whole people, should certainly set an example, both in hours of labor and standard of wages. Laboring men, all men, should urge a plank of this nature In the many radical platforms now before the electors of British Columbia. MINERS LEAVING ROSSLAND If the Mine Owners Insist mi Having the Contract System All the Experienced Miners Will Simply Leave. While In Rossland last week the Eagle found tho labor situation thus: The miners at Rossland have taken new steps to uphold their dignity as men worthy of recognition by any and all. They have, in action, said to the mine ownors, " If you want and insist upon having cheap labor why take lots of it." And they are leaving for Montana, Yukon, Cape Nome, and some of them ure coming into the Lardeau. Good (miners and machine men can find work in any white man's mining camp and If the mine owners want men who will work cheap and have to be instructed by motion, they are entitled to them. Likewise are English-speaking miners entitled to go wherever good day wages are paid. Rossland will soon be the dumping ground for the filth of the United States, if present indications go for anything, Lauder's alien labor law has proven a farce, tbe local government seems to be powerless and the mine owners want to ruin the country, rather than pay a fair day's wage. The only alternative for the miners was tbe action thoy took���to get out of the camp, and away from lover's of Finns, Italians, Chinamen, .etc. The merchants who a short time ago, agreed to help to starve the miners into submission, will now have .to take their medicine. Unless circumstances change and tbe contract system is withdrawn by the mine owners, Rossland will be on the bum inside of one year. And more than one life will be lost through the employment of green bands. Tbe pity is that the government has no power to step in and, like Oom Paul did in Africa with the Englishman, say: "Now here gentlemen if you don't run these mines, we'll do it for you. You can no longer keep the government out of revenue which it is entitled to." This course may seem ridiculous but it Is no more so than the action of the mine owners at Rossland demands. THE MAN, NOT THE PARTY Mr. Taylor Will Assuredly Stand By The District's Interests Under Any Regime.���We Can Trust Hhn. "The Topic extends hearty con gratulations to Tom Taylor on the event of his receiving the unanimous nomination of the Liberal-Conservative convention at Revelstoke on Sat' urday last, and although it may not always be able to see eye to eye with him on political questions it still has unbounded confidence in the honesty of his purpose and should he be tbe next representative for the Revelstoke riding It feels sure he will do all in his power to merit the confidence reposed in him by the majority." [The Eagle will go further and say that it believes that Mr. Taylor would have the backbone and courage of his convictions and sacrifice his party Inclinations at any stage of the game, if need be, to stand by the best interests of tbe riding. As a local man, closely in touch and sympathy with the miners and prospectors and for that matter all classes of manual laborers, an ex-employee of the C. P. R. and as a man from among us, in whom implicit confidence is placed by all who know him, without ever a hint as to his honesty and manly dealings, it behooves us as a people in this riding to stand by him to a man.]���Ed. A WRONG SOCIAL SYSTEM. A boy of 15 years walked from (in Pennsylvania) Pittsburg to Mahoning town looking for a job. On reaching the latter place hunger drove him to seek food, and while in a private garden be saw Constable Baird coming. The poor boy started to run. "Stop," shouted the constable, and then fired. When the dead boy was picked up, bis mouth was found to be filled with raw potato. A STRONG CANDIDATE. The Eagle Is informed on good authority that H. A. Brown of Revelstoke, will be a Liberal candidate in this riding in the coming election. One by ono the Liberals who at first objected to Hon. Joseph Martin's leadership of that party, are now falling into line. TBE CONSERVATIVE PLATFORM. The following Is tbe platform adopted by the Conservative convention held in New Westminster during the provincial exhibition : 1. To revise the voters' lists. 2. To actively aid In the costruotlon of trails throughout the undeveloped portions of the province, and the building of provincial trunk roads of public necessity. 3. To provide for the official Inspection of elevator's and hoisting gear, 4. To improve the administration of justice and seoure the speedy disposition of legal disputes. 5. To provide an effective system for the settlement of disputes between capital and labor. i. To adoptrthe principle of government ownership of railways In so far as the circumstance of the province will admit, and the adoption of the principle that no bonus should ibe granted to any railway company which does not give the government of the province the control of fates over lines bonused together with tbe option of purchase. 7. To assume control and administration of the fisheries within the boundaries of the province. 8. To actively assist by state aid In tbe development of the agricultural resources of the' province. 9. To make the London agency of British Columbia effective In proclaiming the natural wealth of the province and as a place for profitable Investment of capital. 10. In the Idterest of labor tbe Liberal-Conservative party sympathises with and endorses the principal of an eight-hour law. 11. To provide an improved system of education. 12. To recognize and reform the system of provincial aid to medical men and hospitals in outlying parts of the province. 13. To actively support the advancement of the mining interests of British Columbia. 14. To aid in the immigration of female domestic servants. FATHERLY ADVICE. " My advice to you as a young man is to keep out of and away from tbe Conservative party. It is corrupt to the core," said a fatherly old gentleman to tbe Eagle man the other day. Get in with tbe Liberals; they are as pure as the driven snow." Not an your washday, our elderly friend. Tbe EAGLE oares naught for either of them, But any man, faction or party which will belp to bring about collective ownership of public utilities, among other good modes ;of government, will have our warm and utmost support. The whole people's treasury should be receiving the profits now going into the hands of a -few, who crush our very existence in piling up their useless millions. And our present-day churches are no better than the present- day social system. WHAT THE MASSES THINK. John Houston, mayor of Nelson, will undoubtedly be the next represents- at Viotorla, in the Interests of the whole people, for the Nelson riding. Later on, if he continues his present advooacyof collective ownership, be will be sent to Ottawa to serve tbe best Interests of his country. If Eugene V. Debs lives he will be president of the United States within ten years. A WELL PLEASED INVESTOR. A. Allan of Calgary, who has retired from active mercantile business in that city, where he made a good deal of money in the last twelve years, has been in the district for a few days past, making his headquarters at Ferguson. Mr. Allan is heavily interested in the Great Western Mines Co., Limited, who own and are operating on a large scale, the banner mine of the eamp, the Nettie L. He Is also a shareholder In the Double Eagle Mining Co., Limited, who intend commencing extensive development work on the Maybe, adjoining the Nettie L,, this spring, ann also purpose erecting their head office in Ferguson as soon as lumber is available. Mr. Allan returns to Calgary to-morrow, well satisfied with his investments in this camp. A SMELTER FOR THE LARDEAU. A Mr, Moyer, a smelter man from Philadelphia was In town Saturday. He intends to remain in the district for a few weeks to size up the situation here, with a view to putting in a smelter on any scale which the supply of ore will demand. He is very favorably expressed with the prospects, and has sent for other members of his syndicate to come In and locate a site with him. The Ferguson townsite company will make him concessions which will in all probability mean Its establishment here this summer. THE DEVIL'S COPY. Here are some orders recently received by a druggist in this city: "This child Is my little girl. I send you Ave cents to buy two sitless powders for a groan up adult - who Is slke." 'Dear dochter, pies gif bearer five sense worse of Auntie Toxyn for to gargle baby's throat aud obleage." "You will pleas give the lettle bol five cents worth of epeeae for to throw up in a five months' old babe. N. B.��� The babe has got a sore stummlck." "I have a cute pain in my child's diagram. Please give my son something to release it." "My little babey has eat up its father's paris plastber. Send an antedote quick as possible by the enclosed girl." 'I haf a hot time in my insides and wieh 1 wood like it to be extinguished. What Is good for to extinguish it. The enclosed money is for the price of tbe extinguisher. Hurry pleas.���Ex. THE I.IIIKKAI. PLATFORM. We advocate: I���RAILWAYS AND LAND. 1. The adoption of a policy directed towards ultimateownershipof railways by the government. 2. That public lands bo reserved for actual settlement, and that such legislation be enacted as will prevent the holding of large tracts by speculators and company promoters. 3. That when a grant of land is made In aid of railways and other public undertakings, the government retain an equivilent interest in such undertakings, by way of control of freight rates, or otherwise. 4. That the status of existing grants of land be thoroughly Investigated, with a view to compelling the opening up of the same to settlement, where the conditions upon which such grants have been made have not been compiled with. 5. That the system of transfer and registration of land be simplified and made less expensive, while securing absolute validity of title. II.���REDISTRIBUTION. 1. A fair readjustment af the present representation on the basis of population, always allowing to sparsely populated districts a proportionately larger representation than to populous districts and cities. 2. The abolition of the $200 deposit required from candidates. DX���TAXATION. - 1. The repeal of the mortgage tax. 2. The repeal of miners' licenses for the working for wages in mines. 3. That coal mines be placed on the same footing as other mines, with respect to taxation. ry.���TIMBER. 1. The disposal of timber limits by open competition, and in such quantities only as will meet the requirements of the trade. 2. The enactment of an accurate system of forestry, for the purpose of conserving and reproducing our forests. V.���CHINESE. 1. The discouragement, by all constitutional methods, of tbe immigration and employment of Oriental laborers, and the amendment, in accordance therewith, of the Coal .Mines Regulation Act. VL���ROAD MONEY. 1. The abolition of the present corrupt 'practice of administering the public road money In the interest of government supporters. VII,���HONESTY AND PROGRESS. 1. The honest management of provincial assets in the Interest of the public. 2. The taking of active measures forthe systematic exploration of the province, and the adoption of a vigorous policy of constructing, trails, roads and bridges, and the encouragement of other public works im sjuch a manner as will assist in the-speedy development of the resources of the whole province. This platform was adopted by the provincial Liberals in '97. Bon. Joseph Martin's platform embodies all this and more. The Surprise Group. D. Morgan, who is interested in the Surprise group, on Surprise creek, some seven miles from Ferguson up the north fork, went to Revelstoke last week to make a trip with A. W. Macintosh up to the Big Bend. When he secures a "stake" he intends coming back and doing some work on this property. The group consists of three claims, the Surprise, Welsh and Adellna. Mr. Morgan says there are three leads running through these claims, the centre one carrying 14 feet of ledge matter, with a paystreak of from ,1 to 13 inches, giving good galena values, assays of 1100 to tbe ton having been received. One advantage tbe owners certainly have is the presence of plenty of timber, and water power till further orders. The owners intend to continue sinking on the lead, they now being down 14 feet. Greater depth is proving the ore to bo - increasing In value and becoming better defined. A small test shipment is to be made this .summer. The owners of the Surprise, group, like all others interested up this way, would like to see the Ferguson wagon road extended to Circle City this summer. iruin A Scramble for Office on the Part of Politicians anil Hiin<|crs-on. ft J. C. Kirkpatrick went up to the Idle Hour on Monday afternoon to work with W. H. Howard who has been staying by It all winter. ���Ferguson offers special advantages and good reasons for the early establishment of reduction works, concentrators, smelters and manufactories of almost any nature It is centrally located, good sites and there is unlimited water power. Uv the Electors of British Columbia, And n Progressive Movement With This End in View Will Sweep, the Province, if United Action is. Taken. Tho EAGLE, in the intorcst of tho district in which it is published, is in duty bound to support and work for any party which advances ihe most and best progressive ideas of legislation In thoir platform. In fact every faction nov.- before British Columbia elector* ha��� a "progressive" platform; but the trouble is to determine which is the most apt to live up to- and carry out to the letter, their program! when they do gain the -reins of government. So far as the province generally goes, the Eagle will wait and hear all tho pros and cons, then choose. The candidate, Thos. Taylor, which a largo and thoroughly representative convention, consisting of Liberal, Conservative, Cotton and independent delegates from every quarter of the riding, havo chosen is indeed thoroughly progressive in his ideas, he being in favor of and will work for an eight-hour day of labor for all classes of manual labor. He is also in favor of government ownership of public utilities, and the keeping of tho pooplos' heritage for the whole people. So the Eagle is justified in advocating his election. He is running on tho Liberal-Conservative ticket, but we know our man���and he will he elected. Speaking of a resolution recently passed by the Liberal-Conservatives ut Kovelstoke, G. E. Grogau, a well posted newspaper man, who also holds progressive ideas if ho hod leave to ox- press them, says: "This resolution points out that a similar crisis exists now in this province as had to be faced at the original formation of the Liberal- Conservative party in Canada! That it was formed out of the most patriotic, far-seeing and intelligent elements of all the then existing shades of political thought in the Dominion with the purpose of supplying the country with a government which would be able to work on broad and vigorous lines for tbe welfare of tbe whole community. That the idea gathered round the banner of Liberal Conservatism the very best men Ih the country and proved so successful in its' results that to it to-day' we owe the fact ttmt Confederation was rendered ljossible and that Canada, instead of being a vague name for a string of scattered and mutually antagonistic provinces and crown colonies, is to-day in reality a nation, strong and united and with a very real and independent influence in the wider affairs of tho Empire. To-day in British Columbia on a smaller stage, the business of government is confronted with a like crisis. Sectionalism is rampart, tho government of the province is boing administered without the slightest regard to the wishes of tho people, and the administration of our affairs seems to be at the mercy of the first political adventurer sufficiently impudent and tricky enough to grasp it. It seems to bo obvious that the remedy for this condition of affairs must be a radical one. It is inconceivable that it can be really mended by placing again in power the very men, who havo beon directly responsible for allowing our affairs to slide into the present chaos. What we want is a clean sweep, now blood, broader ideas, fresh influences. This can only be gained by such a fusion as was made at the time of the original formation of tbo Liberal-Conservative party In tho Dominion, and tne opportunity for such a fusion is offered by the stand taken by the Liberal-Conservative* party in the provinco to-day. Now if this fusion really does take place, and the combination sticks to their loader's -platform, stand out for a fair redistribution measure, definitely pledge themselves to u standard eight-hour day for all classes of manual labor, both in and. .out of tho government service, Bet a (rood example by paying the highest standard wage on public works; not be dictated to by men the stamp of J. Itoderiek Robertson, then they will simply sweep tho provinco. Otherwise there will be a split. On the other hand if Joe Martin can whip all tbe straight Liberals into lino, which would be a guarantee of stable radical legislation, then a close contest may be expected. The electors of British Columbia are ready and anxiously waiting for a solid progressive business government, and the party or faction which can give thorn the best evidence that they will bring it about, will be elected, This riding should be happy. We have our man, we know where lie is at, and we can trust him to serve tho best interests of the district, under aiy regime. All that remains to do, so far as this part of the province Is concerned, Is to pile up .Thos. Taylor's majority. THE FERGUSON EAGLE, FERGUSON, B. C, MARCH 28, 190a THE FERGUSON EAGLE Published overs Wednesday morning al tin office of publication, Ferguson, B. 0., by R.. F. FH1TTIFIB30E3, lariel llnefo .nnl Insertion Issuo. itlrtli Advertising Rates: Display column Inch; 82.00 per inch win title page. Legal ads, lOe per (hum first insertion; 6c for each addll [leading notices 10c per line cad Marriage and Death notices free. Subseriution Rates: By.mall or carrier, W.OQ per annum; 11.00 for six months. No pay, no paper; stopped at expiration. Job Deportment: Thk Kaih.k Job Department Is well equipped, and is prepared to exeeuteall kinds of printing at honest prices. Mail orders promptly attended to- Oiveus a trial on your next order. ToCorrespondent-*: Thk ICaih.k Invltoa cor- reBpondonco on ani subjeol i��f Interest to the general publie,and desires a reUahla regular coi- respondont In every locality surrounding Ferguson. Thi' bona fide narao ��� >f tin; writer must accompany manuscript. Address all communications to��� THK FERGUSON KACI.K, Ferguson, H. C WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 11)00, UNANSWERED. Leaning to listen low at the core of the world's heart beating, The great, dumb heart ol the world with its inarticulate cry, "God! God I God!" Through the silence vainly repeating, To shiver bank from the lark from u blank, unanswering sky. Every throb a prayer for help, but never a word or a token That One has leaned from his heaven and listened across his bars. "God! God! Ood!" And the infinite silence unbroken! ^The woe of the world's heart beatfl up tlie path of tlie trembling stars. Age after age tlie same, to the luminous heavens o'er reaching, Ever that woeful prayer for help Through the silence hurled, Voiceless, tilling all Bpace with its changeless mute beseeching, "God! God! God!" What help for the heart of the world? ���Beatrice St. George. THE PKK81I WATER HYDRA. with it the bristle that traverses it and which does not seem to inconvenience it very much. Su wo seo that tho fable of the hydra of Leruo is. considerably surpassed by the reality. __ WHAT THE MINER WANTS. lie wants a "falseset''of teeth for il "mouth of the tunnel,"aud a girl of experience to pain! and powdoi' the "face of the drift." lie wants a four-in-lmml tie forthe, "collar of the shaft," and a boot for the "foot of tho incline.'' lie needs a jockey who can ride a "porphyry hovso"and use, the "spur o HORSE SENSE, i I am sure these rules are correct, for ! 1 learned them when a colt from my master, and surelv he knows what is I light, And does nol man do as he would i be done by? I,* More Dreadful Than tit* Creature, Mythological ��� There was once, says mythology, a hydra which inhabited tlie marsh or Lerne, in Greece, and spread terror in all the country around. Tins frightful creature had seven heads, and if some adventurer tried, with praiseworthy intention, to cut off one, it immediately grew again Now, there actually exist animals which, considering their small size, are more dreadful than the hydra of the Greeks. It is a simple suck of some few millimeters in length, called the fresh water hydra. Around the orifice of the sack ���an orifice which i* the mouth of the animal���are found disposed long arms or tentacles, armed with poisonous darts. The hydra, very greedy and always in quest or prey, ceaselessly agitates its long arms in tho water, and if one of them encounters any animalculae it twines itself around the poor victim, pierces it with its darts,paralyzes it,and so carries it to the mouth of the hydra, which swallows and digests it. There is nothing very extraordinary in all that, but here is where the fantastic begins. Cut off one of tho arms of the hydra and at the end of twenty minutes the arm will have grown out again; split the animal lengthwise, in such a way as to separate it in two halves, and each part folds back on itself, welds its two edges together and you have two hydras as a result instead of one. Instead of splitting tbe animal lengthwise, cut it across in such a way as to have at the top a depth of sack without tentacles, at the bottom a kind of ring or tube provided with arms, but open at both ends; you will see the upper half provide itself very rapidly with arms, and the lower part, which has tentacles, close itself at the top in such a.way that each half of tin; original hydra will become a complete and perfect hydra. Cut the hydra in as many pieces as you may, and each piece, will become a perfect hydra, which soon begins to search for food without having the air of troubling about the. operation which gave It birth. One can do better yet One can, if it is done carefully, turn the, hydra inside out,as one turns the finger of a glove, so that the stomach of the animal becomes its skin and Its skin becomes its stomach, in the. lirst moments the hydra seems to experience certain1 inconveniences���it does not seem to be sure of itself. Frankly, after such an experience it would be strange if it did. But at last, at the end of a few hours, it appears to take its lot philosophically, and takes fooil and digests it with its former skin, which become* its new stomach. This is still nol all. It is said that wolves will not eat each other. That is a saying evidently false as concerns the, wolves, hut rigorously true as regards the hydras. One may take, advantage of the gluttony of the animal to make it swallow one of its kind, but it will not delay iu finding out the trick played upon it, and it Immediately casts up its comrade, thus showing a singular example of fraternity. Hut where tho devotion of the hydra becomes abnegation is when one prevents the, swallowed hydra from escaping hy piercing both of them with a bristle. Then the, exterior hydra extends itself in length,while and use the the ledge" on a "bucking donkey'' (pump) and "drive a crosscut.'' His wants an "expert" burglar to "tap the ledge," a detective to "follow the vein" and a watchman to guard the "silver plate." lie wants a hat that will lit a "head of water," and a man who can wear the "cap of a tunnel set." lie wants a soldier who has been "drilled" to handle "gun" and to "shoot" and work a "battery"; also a painter who can distinguish a "color."- lie wants a "square set" of men to work lor him, some feed for his "liir- affo," a bird for the "cage," a hunter to hunt the,"gopher"anda"grizzley,"and a sprinter to "run a drift" against time. lie wants a tidy man who will put an "apron" on and "clean up" tiie mill, sweep up the ���'dust" and wash "dirt." He also would like to have the government furnish him with "stamps" free, of charge, He wants the "roof of the drift" shin gled with twenty dollar gold pieces. And when lie "dies" he wants to go to the "upper level" anil play ou a silver "horn" and have his "slapjacks'' baked in a "gold pan "���Frisco He- view. AN ARIZONA HON AN/, A. (tne ol the most wonderful producing mines of the world is the United Verde copper mine at Jerome,Arizona, owned by W. A. Clark, the Montana millionaire. From the United Verde copper mine, with its income of $U,oiX),tHK> a year, Senator Clark derives $80,000 a day, wich is $1,20U an hour, or 820 a minute, says the Phoenix Republican If the expectations of Mr. Clark in regard to the output of the United Verde art; realized-nii(i,0oo,0()i) pounds of copper a year���bis income from this source alone, will be Sl7,'JHo,00U a year, or SJii,- 000 a day. At this rate Mr. Clark's Coppermine is worth 8580.tKX),iiou. There have been other mines which have produced enormously for a short time, but they have soon become exhausted. The Verde mine, however, is the, wonder of the age, and miners who have had access in any way to the ore body do not pretend to predict what the future, may show. If it lasts two years at the present rate of production, Mr. ("lark has yet *52o,OUO,0tX) to draw upon in annual installments If the mine should last fifty years, his heirs will find a hack account, unequaled by any in the world. Pound h Great Vein of Mien. Dr, VV.E. Nichols.of Huntingdon,Ind., is back from British Columbia, where, at the head waters of the Peace Hi ver, he discovered a great vein of mica. Dr. Nichols, in 1897, penetrated 1700 miles into an unexplored country. He cured the Indians with liiB medicines,and they In gratitude told him of gold deposits. He made his way across mountains, and on the slope of one ran across this great vein of mica. The next year he went in again with a partner, C. W, Norris, of Chicago, and staked off claims. He and Norris have brought with them five tons of mica, valued at over $200,000. They claim l hey can produce cubes of mica four feet square. Heretofore the largest sheets have, been measured in inches. The doctor will claim the prize of i;'_'5,000 offered hy the British government for a piece of mica four feet square. He says his sheets can be used as glass in locomotives and battleships. The vibrations of the gun firing always shatters glass, and the navies of the world will want his mica sheets.���Mining World. Boiled the ft 11) Ie. Some years ago a thrifty old cottntier named Bethui Rummy attended service every Sunday morning at the little church of St. Klzevir, distant some two miles from her cottage on a hillside in Derbyshire. As regular in her provision for temporal wants as she was in attendance to spiritual necessities, her custom was to place a piece of bacon in a pot, near the fire, to he ready cooked against her return. Then, with a big prayer book, wiapped in a snowy handkorchief, Uetliia trudged off to St. Klzevir's. One Sunday, however, she came flustered and late to her usual place just in front of the reading desk, and, to her vicar's astonishment, remarked,as she unfolded the snowy handkerchief, "Lauk a da'.Hy me! if I haven't biled the Word of God, and brought the bacon to church." No young man lias ever looked Into a girl's laughing eyes but what believed in wireless telegraphy. I When a nun drops from sheer exhaustion or illness, promptly seize an ; endboard or a cart stake aud pound : him ou the head or the ribs, il this won't ; recuperate him, kick him violently. 'Phis treatment will restore him if per- I sistcntly administered. If a man finds a load too heavy for his strength, knock him down and hammer him thoroughly with a club. This will increase his power and he will make no more fuss. Rut do not ou any account decrease his load. That would look too much like common sense or humanity, and he will he likely to balk again when overloaded. Ply the whip frequently ou a man who is at work. No matter if he is doing his best hit him often, lest he take some comfort, If his load is light,oblige him to go faster to make up for it. Work, starve and abuse him enough to reduce man's average life one-half, as is done with horses. �� Put tight shoes ou your man and keep them there until he is lame. This will make him thoroughly miserable,as it does horses, �� Fasten your man's head in a strained position, with his eyes up in the sun. This will yive him a line appearance and prevent stumbling. Of course, he will not he able to do as much work in this lix, hut it makes him wretched and it is also stylish. 1'AKTY nKMKNTJA. There is one direction in which Canada has advanced farther than any other country in the world. We cau lick all creation iu party politics. Here, in Ontario, political partisanship has reached its highest elevation, Gritism and Toryism is tlie predominant element in every county, city, township and school section. Gritism or Toryism ride the roost. It has reached such a point of insanity that it is seriously affecting the temporal interests of the people and the prosperity of the country. Great Britain looks upon Canada as so decidedly off its head that British emigrants will not come here. From statistics just compiled by the British board of trade we learn that the. English, Scotch, and Irish emigrants going to British North America in 18H8 numbered 17,040 and during 1��'I0 16,451-. Those of the same class going to the United States in 1808 were 70,401, in 1800 they were 62,580. In 1808 Australia received 10,698 and 11,178 in 1809. Only 16,451 British emigrants came to Canada in 1800, aud these were scattered over the enormous region lying between the Atlantic and t'acilic. If tho people of Ontario would give as much attention to improving their own position as they do to improving the position of the political parties, they would be very much richer; if they joined together to oppose political roguery as earnestly as they do to oppose for political purposes the scarlet woman of Koine they would he much wiser. Gritism and Toryism in Canada is a species of national dennntia. Anyway, it is tlie principal factor in keeping immigrants from coming here, for, a> wo see, only 10,151 Britishers came here in 1800. Oh, Great Scott, how sick this journal is of Gritism and Toryism.��� Bobcaygeon Independent. In the Hunk of KURliim!., A liltle over��11,1)00,000 Bterlinfc,whloh included the final instalment of the Chinese war indemnity, was paid into tlie Bank of England to the credit of the Japanese government on the 8th of May, 1808. Previous payments on account of the indemnity had been made to the hank.in 1805 and 1800 of ��4,000,000 and ��5,000,000. On a rough average 45,000 sovereigns pass over the Bank of England's counters every day. Tho stock of gold and bullion held by the Bank of England is very nearly double what it was iu 1850. In September of that year it was a little over seventeen millions, while in 1800 it was nearly thirty-two millions. The private deposits in the Bank of England, which in July, 1887, were about twenty-seven and a quartet millions, were last year nearly thirty- seven millions. FIIOM I.OWKKY'S UPPKK STOFK. The people of Canada should own and operate all the railroads, express, telephone and telegraph lines, banks, insurance, loan and liquor businesses within its borders. Reformers who can bring about this state of affairs will deserve the gratitude of the multitude. She (in anger)���Leave my presence. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ He (calmly)���All right. Aud you be the interior hydra gets off, carrying I sure and leave mine. To W.irk on Colli incl. The Le Koi, War Kttgle and Centre Star mines, at Hossland, which for a time hove been completely shut down for machinery repairs and construction, are now ready to resume operations. They have decided to use the contract system in future, paying by the quantity of work done iiiBtead of hy the day. Tbe men were informed Monday of the new arrangement. Contracts will he lot from day to day until the mines are in full operation. Better make of every sorrow a stepping stone to higher, nobler thought and deed, than lo hang it agaioBt your heart to weigh you down in the Slough of Despond. A lover doesn't get hall so scared that a girl won't marry him as that the will marry somebody else. It seems to be a natural law that one thing should live upon another. The larger fish swallow the smaller, and the game runs back to such a line point that we often wonder where the smallest thing in creation gets its rations. Probably it feeds upon the souls of delinquent subscribers. A Arm ot Winnipeg saddlers who could not fill an order for military saddles, complained to the Government because the order was filled in the States. Dr .Borden gave the firm a roast because they had locked out their workmen for belonging to a Union. A firm ot this stripe does not deserve business from any source, let alone the government. Some parsons are fond ol stating that God is all powerful and can do anything. A skyologist ol this kind happened to make this remark at a prayer meeting in Montana. A boy in the audience doubted the state ment, and asked the parson "It God could make a yearling calf in a minute." The par on could not reply, and evidently thought that cow eamp youths want to know too much. There are over 000 petroleum corporations in California. One company has produced since 1875122,000,000 worth of oil. San Francisco uses 100,000 barrels of petroleum a month. L Gem The Coming Nation In o 88-columti weekly family newspaper, con* roinlug the following detrimental Weekly News KfK'onl.Krtiinriiil.VVoiiiiin's Department [by tho Women of Kuskln), Industrial Brotherhood, i lUlldrou's Dei.art ment, Coiitrllmtcd Article" liy the brightest reformers In tbe U.S., am' Inst- imt not least���Tile Colony Notes. Tins paper Is printed by ihe peoble who own It���the famous IJuskhi Colour, of Ruskin, WanvCt>.,On. The town of Buskin, its factories, immense printing office, store, school, library, dwellings, hotel, farnif garden, steam laundry, etc., Are all owned collectively by the people who built, operate eleiiraUnnd occupy tliem. Usually laboring men produce theSO things and the other fellow owns i hem. Do you wunt to read the paper they have Itoon printing for the last six years? If so,hcro'8 ynur chance. We will send The Coming Nation one year, price , 50 The Kaiili;, one year, price...-.- :'.00 Total 8B.61 BOTH FOR $2 25. Cash in advance Address, Eaui.k, Ferguson, B.C. The Pioneer Livery, Feed and Sale Stables Thomsons Landing, Trout Lake City, Ferguson, ' Ten Mile. General Freighters to all points in the District. Light rigs for quick trips provided. Saddle horses at all stables. The traveling public accommodated at any time of the day or night. For any further particulars, freighting rateB, etc. address��� Craig & Hillman, THOMSON'S LANDING, B. C. CANADIAN PACIFIC RY. AND STEAMSHIP LINE , ND SOO-PACIFIC ROUTE. The only direct route from Kootenay Conntry to all points Bast & West First-class Sleepers on all trains irom Kevelstoke and Kootenay Landing. Tourist Cars pass Revelstoke Daily lor St. Paul; Tuesdays and Saturdays for Toronto; Thursdays for Montreal and Boston. Same cars pass Medicine Hat one day later. Daily train to Arrowhead from Kevelstoke on main line. Dally steamer connecting for all Kootonay points and Crows Nast branch. For Boundary country via Robson, leave Arrowhead daily except Saturday. For rates and full information address nearest local agent or��� JOK MuOREKRY, A <<t Arrowhead. W. F. Anderson, T. P. A., Nelson. T.W. BRAI1HHAW Atft Revelstoke. K. J. COTTLE, A.O.P.Alt, VllCSMTer Union Made By The Cigar Flig Co. Nelson, B. C. See that the Blue Label is on each box, If you desire any Information Concerning this district drop me a line and I will cheerfully give you any particulars I Town Lots or Mining Properties Handled on commie sion. If you have either, to sell or wish to invest, write me. There are some splendid openings here for various businesses. Write for particulars. E. P. PETTIPIEOE, Ferguson, B. C. LIMITED. Operating Kaslo &'Slocau Railway, Iiitcrimtloiiiil Navigation & Trading Company. Behfldule of Time��� Pacific Standard Time [Cffectivo Feb. lot, 10OO, KimIo & Slocan Railway Passenger train for Sandon and Way stations loaves Kaslo at s a.m. dally; returning, leaven Haudon at MS p.m.. arriving at Kaslo at S.M p.m International Navigation & Trading Oo Uperatlng on Kootenay Lake and River. ss. International' leaves Kaslo for Nolson at il a.m dally, except Sunday; raturuiiig, leaves Nelson at 4.80 p.m., calling at Balfour, Pilot May Alnsworth and all way points; connects with 8. F.k N. train to and from Spokane at Five Mile Point. Lardo-Dunean Division. Stkameh Alberta. Steamer Alberta leaves Kaslo for Lardoand Argenta at 8.80 p.m. Wednesdays. Steamers call at principal landings In bothdi- reotlons, and at other points when signalled. Tickets sold ro all points in Canada and the United States. To ascertain rates mid full information, nit dressi ROBERT IRVING, Manager, Kaslo, fi.C SMOKE CIGARS And at all times insist on'the box bearing the blue label It helps manufacturer.-, to see the force of paying fair and honest wages Nelson Tiqab Makers' Union, Ferguson, B.C., Reasons why The Eagle is in the District TO STAY Ferguson (its nest) is nut a "boom'' town, or boomerang; but a steady mowing mining camp since tne season of '97. I ts unique geographical position is by sheer force making it the commercial and social centre of Golden Lardeau. It is situated nt the point where tho waters of the north and south forkn of tho Upper Lardoau Rivor meet, is beautifully located on a spacious flat on the side or a mountain, which affords tho only possible location for a town site for many miles in any direction. Planted as ft is at the forks of the river, it commands the traffic of the mining camps on both the north and south branches of the river. At least 20 mines are ready to ship ore as soon as the railway furnishes transportation in the vicinity. The railway experts have been quick to perceive the natural advantages which its geographical position haseonferrel upon Ferguson. Both the C. P. R. and Kaslo, Lardeau & Duncan Ry have roads surveyed into Ferguson, ' Thus making, the place a: competing point and insuring its future as an important railway and distributing centre. Taking this fact into consideration and remembering that as soon as ever the cars rea*c! Ferguson there will be, on a conservative esti- , mate, 2S or HO mines commencing to ship ore of a grade which is a marvel in Kootenay, the , land of high-grade silver ore. there is no reason for doubt as to Ferguson's future prospects. The pay-roll ot the mines tributary to Ferguson will.withinavery short while of tho advent nf the iron horse, begin to run awa y up into the thousands. At present the following concerns are doing business in Forguson: A saw-mill, three gen- oral stores, (which supply even th. mining companies operating In the district, which speaks volumes for their just prices), four first-class hotels, (and two more to follow), two livery, feed and sale stables (good outfits for all purposes), an assay office, a blacksmith shop, a newspaper, a private school, (a public school to be established at once), a money order oflice, ore and supply houses. All three store Arms purpose enlarging their space and stock in the spring. A town hall, Are hall and several residences are to be erected as soon as lumber is available. Several owners of partially developed properties adjacent to thp town intend moving their families to Ferguson in the spring, and will then devote their whole time to opening up their properties. Three mining companies, now working full forces on high-grade propositions, which are shipping ore right along, will make their head- fuarters and offices at 'ergusnn at once. Ferguson will be a smelting and railway point. How to reach this promising camp. Ferguson lies about 54 miles southeast of Revelstoke and the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is approached at present by taking the Arrowhead branch at Revelstoke to Arrowhead, 28 miles, thence by steamboat up the northeast arm of Arrow Lake to Thomson's Landing, 10 miles, and from the Landing to Ferguson, a distance of 16 miles, over tho government wagon road by stage, toam or horseback. Soon, however, these conditions of travel will be changed very much for the bettor. Railroad surveys hold out a promise of boing able to teach Ferguson either from the south or north com- fortablv in Pullman cars. The districv Is well worth seeing and will stand investigation, m THE FERGUSON EAGLE, FERGUSON, B. C, MARCH 28, 1900. THK WOMAN OF IT. How could I know that his golden he.ul, Where the hidden sunbeams lay Had taken its light from the fires of Hell, That he'd wreck my life some day? How could I know that his wondrous ��� eyes, That I thought were Heaven's blue, Had caught their light from the brimstone lakes, As his blackened soul passed through? When he looked in my heart with his tender eyes, And took my willing hand, 1 walked with him the pathB of sin As one walks enchanted land. 1 leaned on my elbow and watched him sleep, With his head on my arm at rest, Then 1 drove my dagger lip to the gold Of its hilt iu his quiet breast. It made me sad that Hie blood should flow, And crimson his robe so whit*, So 1 took the roses and laid them there, The roses he brought tonight. It pains me to think he must be alone, So I come to the river again, Here where I met him and loved him first, As noblest of all God's men. So I join him here in another world, For never apart can we dwell, Our souls together will happy be, Though we walk the streets of Hell. ���Mrs. C. H. Cooley. CAPE NOME'S GOLD. SulentMo Explanation If IU Origin mid Nugget Formation. The two geologists, Schrader and Brooks, who were sent from Washington to the Cape Nome gold holds last October, have prepared a preliminary report. The gold from that region thus far has all been obtained from placer deposits which can be conveniently grouped, the investigators report, as gulch placers, bar placers, beach placers, tundra placers and bench placers. During the past season only those of Ihe gulch and beach have been important gold producers. No facilities were available for exploiting the tundra deposits, and the benches have not us yet, been investigated. The coarse gold, us fares present developments show, is largely confined to creek and gulch �����.���.���, ���v ,>��������.��, mcoivcu mu diggings, ranging from the size of a I attention from the prospectors, .-mine pinhead to nuggets weighing several of the benches, near the creeks have ounces. Two have been found on Anvil creek, weighing from twenty to twenty-five ounces, and worth from S!0o to S400. Much of this gulch gold is about the size of No. 8, while nuggets from a half-ounce to an ounce are not uncommon; Much of the fine gold is lost through the primitive way of extraction now in use. The gold is usually rounded and smoothly polished. In color it is rather dull and somewhat resembles tarnished brass. The nuggets are round and subangular, but seldom flat. Small vitreous quartz masses arc not unfrequently found attached to thorn. The creek gold usually appears on or vory near bedrock under a thickness of from five to eight feet of gravel, In the diggings the pay streak is of varying thickness, but the gravel usually car- rios some gold from the surface down. A cross section of the gravel at any given depth would show tho gold not evenly distributed, but more or less gathered into zones. This paystreak usually trends parallel with the creek valley, and simply marks an earlier channel of the creek when the gold was laid down in its bed. It is not necessarily continuous, but often occurs in detached pockets, which aro sometimes very rich. In the lower roaches of the Snake river and of other large streams gold is reported to occur on the bars also in workable quantities. .It is hero much liner than 111 the creeks and gulches, but not as reduced as that in the beach. It is variously mingled with the gravels and sands constituting the bars and, like them, was deposited by the rivers and streams which brought the material down from the creeks and gulches ^^^^^^^^ Normally, in the boach deposits thero arc Hue gold, gold sand and some Hake gold. The particles range in size from that of a small pinhead to dust, or flour gold; Willi only the crude appliances for separation at hand during the last season, little of the'llour gold has as yet been sural. Small nuggets, amounting to about 1150 in value, havo been discovered, but are relatively rare. Beach deposits are also roported from other localities along the southern margin of tbe Seward peninsula. The bom i placers of the region have, as far as we know, received little or no Some been shown to yield gold, but the higher benches and terraces have been disregarded, chiefly, it seems, from the difficulty ot obtaining water. Whethor this gold is sufficiently concentrated to prove of commercial value Is a question for prospectors to settle. As far as it goes, tlie evidence points to a derivation of the gold from the mineralized veins and country rocks We wish to emphasize tills bocause of the prevalent idea that the placer gold has been brought from great distances by the action of ice or through some convulsion of nature This is a complete misconception, because there is no evidence whatever of glacial action, and all the facts point to a local source of the gold. As placer gold can move only down hill from its source in tlie parent rock,it is evident that the course of tlie gold in the creeks ami gulches must be sought in their various drain- ige basins. The life history of a gold nugget in this region is something as follows: When it is freed from the parent rock by the disintegrating agencies, it has an angular form. It is washed down into tlio gulches and gradually becomes suhrounded. By someaction of erosion the gulch placers may be disturbed,and the nugget, again moved and still further reduced in size, finds its way to the tundra deposits. By shifting of the shore line it may subsequently bo exposed to wave action, ground yet still smaller, and eventually be borne to set as flake or flour gold. We expand this elementary idea as to tho origin of tlie gold deposits because ot the misconception among some of the miners in the Nome region that the sea has washed up tlie gold and deposited it upon the beach. It is oven asserted by some that the waves are constantly adding'gold to these placers by bringing it from the depths of the ocean. The principal and almost universal vegetation in the Nome region is tho moss. It covers with a dense growth the entire Nome tundra, and in many localities extends well up into the mountains. In the Nome region and on most of the Seward peninsula game of almost every kind is scarce. Tho principal indigenous land quadruped is probably the Arctic hare or white fox. Some lynx are also found, and occasionally a cariboo or bear may be encountered. The hare seal is common along tho coast, and is a very important animal to the native in its supply of meat, oil and especially the skin foi wear anil sundry uses. ' taken In both winter and summer. In winter the natives go out on the sea ice six or eight miles from shore, where a few seals are procured at the edge of the opeq sea. The natives are also reported to take a whale or two along the coast almost every year. They sell the bones, while the flesh is appropriated for food. A Score Analysed. A Now York paper, which makes a specialty of discovering terrible things, forecasts the awful results that will follow when the trusts agree to pay high wages to the labor unions and unite with them. Suppose, says this paper, that the railways amalgamate into one colossal trust and announce to their men: "We will make the lowest pay of men who stand by us 15 a day." By this means the million railroad men will he turned into a vast mercenary army to vote or fight for its employers, anil tho public will have to foot the hill. The railways and allied ti lists, using the same method, will thus absolutely rule the land and do what they please, dictating legislation, resisting the laws and, if necessary, taking possession of the government. However plausible this possibility may seem, it possesses all of the essential elements of a comic opera, of which the mere suggestion that capital would voluntarily change its policy of grinding down labor is only one absurdity. The next obstacle is that, if the railways decided to pay their skilled labor $15 or S20 a day and their rude labor not less than $5, and unite with the labor unions.the unions would soon demand not less than $'25 a day. The next thing that would make the programme -impossible is that the cost of al! things would run up correspondingly and everybody would wake up to the discovery that they were no better off than before. -or meat, oil, I \ <. 'clothing,foot 1 jl^-�� The seal are Ji JfjJ Mining >eve Ununited. Capital, $1,000,000, in $1 shares. 4oo,ooo in the Treasury. ft i *& $ First Block of Treasury Shares now on the market for a limited time at 10 CENTS. DIRECTORS! WM. P. COCHRANE, ���er tho Goohrano Ranoli, Limited, Haclcod. .IIIIIN .1. VOI rector or The II,. W. II. POOL, I'r .1. I). GRAHAM, >l'l CniiimiMniii!,-, ArEir.. ildent Great Westorn Mines, Limited, Je ild.Oalgary !i'l Rovolsto . W. QOOSAI., iher, Win-bor Oroefi \V. M. BROWN, ii GEO. S. StoO VKTKR, Solle ���, Etcvclatoko i, Rerelatoke. Nirvanin, the name of a recent anodyne, has received in Germany the chemical name of dyathlglyeocollaini- doorybenzoesauremthylesthef. Near a certain quarry In Italy is a town, the inhabitants of which pay no rent nor taxes. They are quarry employees, who have dug dwellings In the face of a steep rock. The Double Eagle Company has been formed lor the purpose, not only of mining its present properties, but of acquiring promising elaims and developing them to an extent that will justify their sale to English and other companies at a profit. The company already owns and has paid for in full, the Trilby and Old Saul properties in the famous Fish River district, and a three-quarti rs interest in the .May Bee mine, in the Lardeau district one and a half miles from Ferguson. Sufficient promoter's shares have been set aside for the purchase of the remaining quarter. Tho May Bee is the sister claim to the now famous Nettie L, which has broken all records in British Columbia for large bodies ol phenomenally rich ore. The May Bee and Nettie L were located together in 1892 by Mr. W. B. Pool (who has been appointed manager ol the Double Kaglc Co.) Both claims carry identically the same rich ore on the surface and the same remarkable ledge runs through both, carrying high values in gold, copper, silver and lead. Tho promoters have already spent $4,000 in developing the May Bee, withexcellent results, and in order to place the mine quickly on a shipping basis the company now offers the public the opportunity of investing to a limited extent in fully paid and non-assessable treasury shares (par value -*1) at 10 cents each. Shares will be sold in blocks of 100 and upwards. Tin1 company reserves the right hi wlthd without notioo. Aiiplicati OrtoJNO. .J. VOUNfj, h iw the sale of shares from tin market at any time ������ -. ���-.it to Urn Secretary, A. H. HOLDICH, Kevelstoke. "������nl Block, Calgary, 18 I I 18 I H jRSXSXSXSXSXSXSXSXSXSXSXSXS. K BE3gSSESXSSSXS2SXSXSZSXS3BI �� FERGUSON,The Centre of the LARDEAU HINESl tollable Hotel, and from thero walk to penally ,���,���������, prapeotlre purcha<m The ^ ^ ^ ^ , .��� ^ n * UverlUU men �� s " now working underground and many more will be in a short time. The highest wages paid to miners in the Lardeau or Trout Lake Mining Divisions. Blest with practical men, bona fide mining co m panics. Plenty of room for legitimate investment. FERGUSON THE CENTRE OF THE UPPER LARDERU MINING Of STRICT. CniXolt 2r�� ��. CW�� Leii 3��X//o BUS fan * U ��� O H N__"j:'. iJolfiil i- SHI ..' 0 ill: liUf N U e m E -iB EjMlMM^i�� M HIM J I 1 ii :���: M . ^MgmMMmmm mmiim or mmm O A O ^HMDltMll '0/ \% Tlie starting point for all mining operations on the North and South Forks of the Lardeau River. ^ vlBu���u ��� r,v.i ioFi-<��ouuit and many have purchased lots with a view to establishing businesses of various kinds as soon as the coming season properly opens up gardening. Special inducements offered and a splendid field and opportunity for manufacturers. For further information, apply to��� ' porations and ir bunking institutions. Tbe mines' direct supply point. Ferguson is well represented with business houses, hotels, etc Au Al location for market W. N. Brayton iieory Floyd (quarters tor Jy * w b o 1 e s a 1 'e JU Lo., oo, H I 8 & THE FBRGUSOfl EAGLE, FERGUSON, B. C, MARCH 28, 1900. TH$ LOCAL FIELD Keop.your oyc on Ferguson. The new mail service sees intooll'ect on Sunday next. H. Xeedbain returned to Thomson's Landing.on Friday. A. Ferguson and W. B. I'ool returned from Revelstoke on Saturday- . ,.'��� The Ferguson literary anil debating society has suspended operations for repairs. Acting mining recorder McRae, and Capt. Da vey paid Ferguson a short visit on Sunday last. ���Use Bland's Dyspepsia Tablets! Cure indigestion, etc. fiOc. a box at Ahky's Drug Store. Trout Lake City has sidewalks on tbe principal strcots and is now going to instal several street lights. Religious servlco will be conducted as usual in Laughton's hall next Sunday at !l p. in., by J. E. Fleming. Thisseason is at least Blx weeks further lulviinced'thaii last year. At the present rate the snow will bo gone in a month, ('ome, gentle prospector. The regular application for the building of and sustaining a public school in Ferguson will be sent to the department of education in a few days. The Kahi.k hereby offers Mr Sheldon a like proposition to that granted him by tho Topeka Capital. As an advertising fake it was the best we ever saw. J. Booth, p'ainter and decorator, was up.from the metropolis a few days ago. He has about a month's work In sight yet, then he will return here, where a good deal of'work in his line is anticipated. Tho Trout Lake Topic says: A supplement, bringing the pamphlet of Trout Lake mines and prospects up to date, togothor with a map, will bo got out during the course of next month. About 000 pamphlots remain yet to bo distributed. Considerable mining news is held over this issue to make room for political platforms. They will, however, be acceptable for one issue, as all are more or less interested in finding the political location post these days. The Eagle's circulation has been Increased by nearly 100 names in two weeks. Not less than (150 copies a week have been choicely circulated since the Eagle'8 inception. Our circulation at the present rate will reach 1500 a week within threo months. Abrahamson Bros., of the Queen's hotel, Trout Lake, with their usual enterprise, are refitting and renovating the entire interior' of their commodious hotel. The dining room is one of the most cheerful in the camp, nicely decorated with house plants, neatly furnished, and an excellent cuisine service is afforded. J. Booth is doing the work. McKinnan & Sutherland hare thirty- five tons of freight at Arrowhead, and other merchants a large amount; but the utter impossibility of bringing loaded vehicles over the road between here and the Landing at present, makes it, obvious that we have no government estimates in sight, nor special warrants either. Trout Lake Topic: "R. P. Pettiplece arrived in Trout Lake on Sunday evening last. He looked as if the job ol superintending the political situation In the Lardeau was a trifle exhausting." That was our first trip in on foot from the Landing, Mr. Langstaff. All tenderfoot, have to be Initiated into the mysteries of covering space in this groat and glorlouB country. Wm. Snell, Ferguson's old-time barber, returned from Greenwood and nearly every other point in the Bouth country, on Sunday last. Ho says he ll glad to get back again, as wo have tbe best camp in B. C. There are men who don't "chow" vory often in Greenwood and many of the othor camps have troubles of their own. Tho Lardeau is the highest wage eamp in tbe province. The Seattle Union Record is one of the best labor newspapers, both from a literary and mechanical point of view, which has reached the Eagle office. It is published in the interests of organized labor, with a socialistic tendency. Popular demand for more information about public ownership has been the means of the establishment of nearly one new paper a day appearing In America. Trout Lake Topic: Ferguson people are already taking up the idea of a celebration to be held in their town on the 24th of May next. Go ahead Ferguson, the citizens of Trout Lake will unite with you in making your chosen gala day ono of tho best over celebrated among tho Silk-Irks. Trout Lako will try to make July 1st next a day to be rememberjd In the history of the Lardeau. SCREAMLETS. All eyes are lixed on the Lardeau. Patronize Ea'GLE advertisers They are the camp's friends. 'Great" parties pay so much attention to party warefaro, and so little to the governing of the country, that our parliamentary system would soeni to bedefeotive.���Winnipeg Voice. "This continual struggle for existence is demoralizing. It claims every minuto of timo. Wo have nothing left scarcely for self-culture or for the development of the nobler attributes of humanity." Wo should blush to call America a "free country" while less than 30,000 people control tho moans of existence of 70,000,000. "Givo a man powerover my subsistence," said Alexander Hamilton, "and ho has power over my whole moral being." Toronto Telegram: "It would bo woll for tho country if Col. Prior and othor public men who hold thomsolvoB superior to Hon. Joseph Martin could rival his usefulness to tho people, whom ho has served, or to the party which owes more to him than to any othor Liberal in Canada." A "special warrant" or two is needed right now on the wagon road between here and the Landing. Premier Martin's attention should be drawn to this by the gold commissioner at once. If he doos the Eagle believes Mr. Martin will have the road put in a passable condition without delay. It costs H cents to produoo one gallon of coal oil. It sells at 75 cents a single gallon in Ferguson. The merchants' profit at the most is only a few cents, Whore does most of the balance go? Why to heap up Rockefeller's millions. If tho government owned its natural rights the people would get their coal oil at the cost of production. Laborers sell their labor at first cost, and in return have to help make millionares, and then exist the best they know how. Is it any wonder the whole people want to become shareholders in their own products. S. Shannon, Assayer and Analytical Chefliist. OFFICE: VICTORIA AVE., FERGUSON, II. C. The Pioneer Store STORES AT FERGUSON AND TEN-MILE. Cummins & Co. Ferguson Shaving Parlor FRANK HOLTEN, TONSORIAL ARTIST All brunches of tin: tonxorkl art executed with ambidcxtcrlouH dexterity. BATH ROOM IN CONNECTION. T. A. Wilson, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Ferguson, B. C. Fred C. Elliott, BARRISTER, NOTARY PUBLIC, ETC., TROUT LAKE CITY II. ft, AND Ferguson, B. 0. Harvey, McCarter tf PiMhdm BARRI8TERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. OFFICES: REVELSTOKE AND GOLDEN. Solicitors for Imperial Bank of Canada. Geo. S. McCarter. J. A. Harvey. A. M. Pinkham. Stationery is in our line And wo liavo just received a fine stock of Letter Putin. Patronize "The Eagle." GREAT DEPARTMENTAL STORE * To mail Orders las Increased Our Postal Business A FINE LINE IN.. Dress Goods Millinery Ladies' Goods AND ALL STAPLE GOODS. BOURNE BROS., REVELSTOKE, B. C. Don't wait for Lumber We have on hand at tin- lowest prices In tliu country Rough and Dressed Lumber Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Etc. Call on bfl or write for our quotations. Hpeeial orders promptly tilled. ��� , ������ Kootenay Lumber Company, Ltd., COMAPLIX, B. C. Enterprise Beer^���* Mado by the Enterprise Brewing Co,, at Revelstoke, is keeping the camp cheerful. When you want tho best insist on " Enterprise" All the leading hotels handle it. ENTERPRISE BREWING CO., REVELSTOKE,. B C. WALL PAPER A hirffe stock of tiKsorted Wall I'iipurs, cmbiiHHi'd ami Ingrain, with border and ceilings to match, now selling at a very low figure. J. BOOTH, PAINTER, HOTEL LAHDEAU. House Painting and Decorating ^ PAPER HANGING AND SKIN ~ WRITING CONTRACTS TAKEN, WITH OR WITHOUT MATERIAL r ONLY ONE KIND OF��ORK,THE VERY BEST. ADDRESS HOTEL LABDEAF J. Booth. Furniture... and house furnishings from our large and well assorted stock is already very evident in the Lardeau and Trout Lake district, which means that we are successful competitors with all comers in price and quality. Before you invest in our line drop us a card for {quotations. We can save you money. R. HOWSON tf CO., REVELSTOKE, B.C. FOR WEDDING OR FANCY CAKES Drop a line to me, or If you want Breml In any quantity, let me know, and I'll quote prii'UH low enough to Interest yon. Our Wedding Cake artist is the be.t In B. (.'. Address: A. N. SMITH, REVELSTOKE, B. C. Sick People If you want medieine wupplied from the purest of Drugs and accurately dispensed Hund to the CANADA DRUG & BOOK CO., LIMITED, REVKLHTOKE, B. C. Mall orders promptly attended to. A Perfect Fit and Prompt Service Is one of our features and has helped build up our large tailoring trade and form the reputation we have made. You don't nave any vexatious waits when you order from us. R. S. Wilson, Revelstoke. SMOKE CIGARS a UNION MADE | ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Ferguson Packing and Transfer Outfit HEADQUARTERS AT FERGUSON, B.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 from Thomson's Landing to Ferguson a specialty. S. DANEY, Proprietor. White, Gwillim tf Scott, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. OFFICES: MeKENZIE AVENUE, Revelstoke, B. C. A.H. Holdich, M.C.M.I., ASSAYER AND ANALYTICAL CHEMIST, Revelstoke, B: C. Fayette Buker,- Mining and Real Estdte Broker. Mining Properties Listed. REVELSTOKE, B. C. Methodist Church, TROUT LAKE CITY, B.C. Services In Forrester's Hall every Sunday at 7::lup.in. Hunday School at :t p.m. Everybody cordially Invited. J. E. FLEMING. E. L. KINMAN. J. H. CUBBIE. Lessoea of The Revelstoke, Trout Lake and Big Bend Telephone Company, Limited. HEAD OFFICE : TROUT LAKE CITY, B. C, The s.s. Lardeau Leaves Comaplix for Thomson's Landing at 8 a. m. leaves Thomson's Landing for Arrowhead at 8:80 a. m. > Returning leaves Arrowhead (or Thorn* son's Landing at 2:80 p. m.. Leaves Thomson's Landing for Comaplix at 4 p.m. KOOTENAY LUMBER COMPANY, Comaplix, B. C. MAIL SCHEDULE. Summer arrangements for conveyance of mails between Arrowhead and Ferguson, via Thomson's Landing. Malls will leave Arrowhead on Mondays, Wednesday)* and Fridays. Mail will leave Thomson's Landing on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Arrive at Trout Lake and Ferguson same day. Leave Ferguson and Trout Lake Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Arrive Thomson's Landing same days. GEO. B. BATHO, Postmaster. For Sale at a Snap* Lot 5 in Block 9. Apply at EAOLE office. Notice. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the next session of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia application will be made for an Act to Incorporate a company with power to establish waterworks and supply water for mining, domestic, manufacturing, (ire and other purposes to the inhabitants, corporations, mines, mills, manufactories and all other works of tbe towns of Trout Luke City and Ferguson in the district of West Kootenay and of the surrounding district within a radius of ten miles from the present post office at Ferguson, B. 0., and to lay pipes aud erect flumes for the conveyance and supply of water to the said towns and radius; and Blsn to supply, transmit and distribute power, light and neat by compressed air and electri- y to the Inhabitants, corporations, mines, mills, manufactories and all other works of the said towns and radius; and also to construct and maintain tramway and telephone systems In the said radius and to extent, the said systems to other districts contiguous thereto: and also to erect, lay, construct and maintain all such works, bridges, tracks, roads, subways, buildings, flumes, dams, raceways, poles, pipes, wires, cables, structures and appliances as may be necessary to fully and completely carry out the purposes of the company; and also to nave the right to enter and to expropriate lands for sites for power houses, stations, tramway lines and other necessary wortsi and to appropriate, use and divert so much of the waters of Lardeau creek at a point about one' and a quarter miles from the school house at Trout Lake City and any other creek, lake or stream which may be found most convenient and advantageous within the said radius as may he necessary for the purposes of the company in order to supply water, neat, power and light to the Inhabitants, corporations, mines, mills, manufactor ies and other works within tho said radius, and to do all such other things as are Incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them. Dated tills 1st March, A. D. 1000. GEO. S. McCARTER, fi���tf Solicitor for Applicants. Notice. NOTICK18 HEREBY GIVEN thai an application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia at Its next session for an Act to incorporate a company with rower to construct, equip, maintain and operate telephone and telegraph lines within and throughout all the cities, towns, municipalities and districts of the mainland of the Jrovluco of British Columbia and to construct, erect, and maintain such and so many poles and other works and devices as tho company deem necessary for making, completing, supporting, using, working, operating and maintaining the system of communication by telephone and telegraoh, and to open or break up any part or parts of the said highways or streets as often as the said company, Its agents, officers or workmen think proper and for the purpose of the undertaking to purchase, acquire, lease, expropriate, hold and sell and dispose of lands, buildings, or tenements within the limits aforesaid, and to purchase or lease, for any term ot years, any telephone or telegraph line established or to be established In British Columbia connected, or to be connected jvith the line which the company may construct, and to amalgamate with or lease its line or Hues, or any portion or portions thereof, to any company possessing as proprietor, any line of telephone or telegraph communication connecting or to be connected with the said company's line or lines, and to borrow money for tbe purpose of the company, and to pledge or mortgage any of the company's assets for that purpose, and to receive bonuses, or privileges from any person or body corporate, and with all other usual, necessary or incidental rights, powers or privileges as may be necesBaryor Incidental to the attainment of the above objects, or any of them. Dated this 1st day of Marcb, 1900. DALY & HAMILTON, i�����tf Solicitors for the Applicants. We Can Outfit You With Everything required in this district. Prospectili', rfiinei', capitalist, expert, laborer, it matters not, we nan supply yon, in any quantity, and.as we already do nearly all the local .siipplyfilg, It evidences the fact that our goods.,prices and treatment :s right. We successfully compete with large outside firms ; we1'buy1 direct from the manufacturers in large lots at close cash'prWss, and can sell you a. eompleto outfit, carefully packed, and re'aflV for pack-horse transportation to any part of the district. When you reach Ferguson, don't ove"look these facts. "'' 'i w - V ' McKinnon & Sutherland,. GENERAL MERCHANTS AND OUTFITTERS. " i*!" The Inland Cigar Mfg. Cigar of B. C. KAMLOOPS, B. C. Nothing But Union Labor Employed. t Protect Home Indtfsiry. BRANDS- Interior La Morena Miner Fayette * For sale in all principal hotels in Lardeau and Trout Lake. Kept in stock by d. r. Mclennan, thos. Abriel, a. Ferguson, Trout Lake City. Nakusp. Ferguson. WINDSOR HOTEL* IIOIHIMMIIIOOHIOIHOHIIIIMMH MRS. S. O'CONNOR, PROPRIETRESS. nuiitm iii iMinimifl ooi iiiiiiM ITerguson, B.C. IMIMMMMIMMMMIIIMIMMMIM EVERY CONVENIENCE FOR THE COMFORT OF OUEST8. THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL IN THE LARDEAU DISTRICT. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIMHMIMIIIIIIIMMM RATES FROM 12.00 TO |>.S0 PER DAY. FERGUSON, B. C. We aim to give full value for your money in Groceries, Provisions, Dry Goods, Tools. Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Crockery, Steel, Powder; all kinds of Miners' Supplies Call and see our stock and get quotations. ��� iililllHMnmiilioii B4THO & CO., General Merchants and Outfitters for the Lardeau. TheBagle for Printing HIMIMIMMIMIMMMMHMIMIIHIIIIMIIIIHI IIIIHIIIIIIHIIIIIMMlrtl Hotel Perguson THE PIONEER HOTEL OF THE LARDEAU'. The Bar is supplied with the best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Headquarters for Mining and Commercial Men�� Rates $2.00 a Day and upwards. Ferguson Bros., Proprietors. ���MHMMIMI HIM MIHIIIX.IIIIIIIIIIM f 5HHfc^v��v*4HvttvHv*^^ BEST WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. BEBT CUISINE SERVICE. Ife, FINELY EQUIPPED BAR. REFITTED AND REFURNISHED. BEST CODA DAY HOME IN THE LARDEAU DISTBCT III /. Laughton, Proprietor. Ferguson, B. C. HEADQUARTERS FOB MINERS AND MINING MEN NEATLY FURNISHED, CONVENIENTLY X WELL LIGHTED AND HEATED ROOMS. SITUATED ON VICTORIA AVE. ^j Mi
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Title | Ferguson Eagle |
Alternate Title | [Lardeau Eagle] |
Publisher | Ferguson, B.C. : R.P. Pettipiece |
Date Issued | 1900-03-28 |
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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_1900-03-28 |
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Date Available | 2015-11-26 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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AIPUUID | 120992cb-f6eb-4e88-aaa6-094d39412427 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0082190 |
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Longitude | -117.4832999 |
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