■a J I «.- t M, „. ■&).f>a'pi!b-,,,la.% -**•- **■*■»■" Ai-AXa ffl***- '"'4*5S-.*'----. - 'i I. it£^%%%& , ,5 »«-'< "V-- .',*;• .a „ ***~a.M-L - - i-tij-a ;i .1 i. ""a a!' ** ' ^Ma-_ Industrial^fJ-aity is.Strensrtta, t \s -"-""*4-w_i - ' . *■' '--.. -■ tl "a' Iff-?! .',- *.r ci' '" Tlie O'fHcial! Organ of District Noi 18, XJ. M; W. of A. .Political Unity is Victory IVOI*. IV. No. ZS i<.-:i •v '&',%'?' *. -* 'FJEI&riBai' l£^ iSK>9 $1.00 a. Year , —* 'J .a'.** ■**- ,.*JM •Hi* i""-' bvring td the fe*^ SaUT^^ a . ^rgestock1. on Karid it ■ is ^necessarf^^ Spring goods, and' have decided to \$t&the ■ ve($e{-of Fernie an opportunity of furriisliing;atfa;|^eat^;i'redu-lealcost. All goods in the store- including^ Bedding of tive'ry every variety, ,,;--; Pi-ptures,'.,Carpets, R^ Vtopl-y:..;. i-^-teumsj Toilet:Sets,*.-Roll- Top- -•'■ *''': Desks and Mirrors Discount of 20 per Sale opensStatici'*Jany;^!v6-for twa, weeks ,.'Ui;.'-.il^''i|.l' 1 ,u ■- Stoves and Ranges,. Window s Shades, Curtain Poles, and ail Window Trimmings,'. Kitchen . Cabinets, E.tc. .' • ' . '. /' • . t y a ' i .(!* -i* -i:,' n 11*. '. i I-- -j Wo bog to'announce to bur-friends that tho long expected carload of'Flour \m at last ' come to hand and w,o can now supply ' all doriiiinds, ■' "'• •■-^Tt.. ■, -: •• - .'...•-,, ■v Mother's Favorite Ib the loss expcnfli^tgrado, but answers all the " requirements for household use and is guaranteed by it-6 Milling Company. This is proving to be a popular flour and its bost rooommendation coraos from-'those who'luive tried it, ordors having boen .'.IM*a!', i. - V'*' • .". ' ■ i .''lift in -advance for dolivory on arrival of the car. t Pride of Alberta Is a heavier Flour, a littlo higher in prico and spooially adapted for Bakers use, It is also, guar- antded by the Milling Company, This is tbe Flour that won'th« Gold Medal at Oalp-ary.* >■ <*■ Call and get our prices on both grades—or hot- tcrstUVgivottatrial. i Entombs Fourteen Men-Some Get Out AliVe--Superinten- , iMAmonjIlie'Deail;":- I10SWELL, Pa. Jan. 25—The Clarln-, dti mine of tlio United Coal company al tills' placo wan tlio scone this oven, ing at 7.30 o'clock of a'disastrous ox* plOBlon which onlomboil fourteen mln* oil) Including tlio officers of tlio mine ub follows: hi 0. Logan, supodlntoiidcntof the nilno, John Colo, night foroman. Thooxploslon occurred far ln tho workings and was caused by tho lg* nlllon of n pockot of gas which had lfcoii roloasod by tlio shots fired boforo tlio day shift left tho mino, At 12.80 this morning soven men hnd boon tnkoiufiioni tho mino and nil of Ilium had boon ovorcomo with after damp which had followed tho ox* I'lOBlOll, All nro rognrdod nn having a chance to oscnpo bill Logan, lho superintend* out who dlod shortly after bolng lift- im! lo tlio surface. SPENT IN HASTE REPENT HT LEISURE .Louis• Carosella *syas, aroused, vovy. suddenly .last Saturday morning-by, -it noise,- anil on ,inve8tigatlonflt proved to be a burglar trying tb • enter . his premises. ■ Louis was commanded lo, hold up, his hands,which.lie did,,but in,one hand ho, held a revolver which ho,lot blaze at the,bold bad.m*iii. A fow shots were exchanged,. and tho, burglar .departed., ,,, Of. cpiu-se It was* put down to Black Hands,,; No truce was left of tho burglar. , '. , ' TRAIN ROBBER GOES! r TO JAIL FOR LIFE G. N. P. Goal Go. Planning to Build 1000 Additional Coke Ovens "QIJALITY' Frankhauser, ot 0. N, Holdup Fame Hears Fate- Makes Confession HWMilNA, Jun. 28.—Judgo-Hunt In tlio Forlorn! court 'to-dny Honlonnoi] 0. FrnnkhnUBor. the convletod train rob* here, bor, to tho military prison at Fort Loiivoiiworth for tho balance of his nut mill life, FriinkhaiiHor was Involved In a hoii- miHonal robbory of n UrcM .Vorthoni l rain a year ngo In which $10,000 was Hlolon from tho registered malls nnd on this charge, mid thai of plneliiK (ho custodian of lho mnlli* In Jonpanly FrnnkliniiHiir was Indlctod, It Is sliileil Unit he linn iniiilo lo IiIh aOiiiisnl n Hlnttiiiient of thi' robbory und HiibH->'|iiout Jnll delivery which Ih komi to bo published, nnd which prom- liU's lo Involve soveral otlun- por* sons, Tho'Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company aro looking ahead townrds doing »' very largo nniount of building In the noar future, .lust at proson: things lu this respect nro in an oml*i*yo.irtiuo but within a Hliort time 1000 mon',col*.e ovoiis will bo built hero, nud othor InilirovenienlH mndo Hint will put Fornio far nwny In tho load ot any cjty In tho Kooionny, Thai pnarens- Ive policy or tho mniui*,-om*.Mit of tho Cl. N. P. donl Company Ih very com- nH*iidabli: nnd' bIiows that they liru-.' grent fnltli In Fernio and their mines PI RE AT PA8TA*3 I'Mro broke out ill 8 o'clock Thursday mnrnliiK In ih«' geticrnl storo of Pmil Pnsln on Ilnlier iivmiui*, nnd hofoic Hin flnuii'H wnri> imdcr conirol tlio In*. Icrlor nr the building and lho t'oiiloniHi worn limlly (laiiiiigeil, The flro brl-i glide responded (illicitly In the nliiiinj und by their oxcnllon't Jiidgiiunii iuul', gond work prevfiited Hi" Hiiiih-h lion, Hprondliig to thi* ndjiifi-lit buildings. An ovi-iiifiitfil Move was Ilii1 cnun", Tho loss Ib jmrtliilly ••m-ei-od by Iiih.ii** mice. 4 * ' *. -' * * Fernie Industrial , ,-, -^l 1* ■' ' » >.' ' . I ', • .'I . ' Co-Ofiertitive Socie and ty, L id Charles WoHtloy Owens, n cnrpenlor, lost n pockot wnllot contnlnlng somo chcnuoH ami monoy lo the extont or about $90 odd on tlio 1st of November lllbl, JlllOriltUilUil •*«*» i«ial .ilii. i..a jiDllrc- nnfl jinivmfnt Mojipod nt tlm lmnkfl, Tt was dlspovorod thnt they woro cashed at tlio Kings nnd Contrnl lioteU on the 24th of r)ocombor last. Tho polico had no Information ns to lho n»mo of tlio man. lint tliey* succoed- erl In nrresliriH lai" pmim-i. *"i« M.VH11 hnd loft tho town but -with the Information recfllvod from his partner nml with tho assistanco of polico In other plnces. tho man wan finally tracod to ICI10H and arrostod thoro. H« wns Idkon to Greenwood and tho polico In- lormort hen*. Mr U. H. ClorU'i wnnt to Oroonwooil on tho 28th to bring the uccuiwd bukti. und la also brlii-jIn**** bark 11 prlsonor charged wltli obtaining good*.at Hosmer um!<*T false preten-1 in*. Great credit la due (o tho police tit they had a (f.-cat deal of work In following up the duo given them. ■»♦♦■» »■»»♦»■» ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ t * ' t JH1UJUKM JMKJiMllVir mmm mmmmmmmi* I have a large stock of Pictures and 4 i vvw# «.*f«.V a** fry «-*-** ***A_\ V J-zewv w-'/wW'vw */'*iv best ever shown in the city. All work done promptly and delivered AGENT FOR THE NEW RAYMOND SEWING MACHINE opp.qp.w.D«po4 WM. SCOTT Vtrnl* %♦♦♦•♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ •»■»-»♦♦♦•»»♦■» IN FIFTEEN DAYS Suits and Overcoats U%3 UOF liOUIaia UlOOUUilt FROM OUR SPECIAL ORDER TAILORING DEPARTMENT Weassumeaii risk regarding,m and workmanship. We have pleased hundreds, that speaks for itself; •MMM *|UWM*Mi ■HWltHHI TRITES-WOOD CO. Clothers to Men and Boys VICTORIA AVE. FERNIE. B. C. .•»«•. PAGE TWO THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B.C. JANUARY,30 1909 W*"**- m M.w* '(^-MXWmM, \; i to ANNUAL SESSION At Indianapolis-World's Greatest Labor Organization Called to Order by Pres* Tom L* Lewis-Largest National Gathering Ever Held -. WithYtne gI*»S-han-J\iamaiities anA the, annual and; special|'addresse3 >out of, the /way,! th(£TJnited^Mlne^orkelB^ national- convention Va's^ready^ th.h\ morning to get down to serious and business-affairs to,come before it.as a legislative body.;.-,. , '-..., ,„ . --.7^--. The national^ auditors^ Harry Baker, John Mossop and Patrick 'Fitzsimmoni' submitted sthelr.Tespective" report.,. 7; . It was-unusually .exhaustive, and al*^ so very complete, including a reeapitu-' lation of the funds and finances of different department's 'of,the'national organization at the"'time'when-President T. Lewis came into office about a year ago. MITCHELL SENDS MESSAGE TO CONVENTION Indianapolis, Jan. 20.—The Ameri- '„' can coal miners' twentieth annual convention, which President T. L. Lewis •'"called to order in Tomlinsou Hall at 10 o'clock- this morning, bas developed into one of the largest national conventions the miners have ever held. , Between eleven - and twelve hundred delegates wre seated In the hall for the opening session, and President Lewis said he expected (hat the attendance would surpass that of two .- years ago which established a .high- 1 water mark with a record of 1301 dele- '..gates seated.* " , , Factional differences, the national election of secretary treasurer and the vice-president, which falls on the con- - vention at this time, and the necessity of getting readj; to. meet the anthracite operators, are the causes for the unexpectedly large attendance. The convention got away on the right foot, and though there may be marked differences of opinion nmong "factions" no national convention ever got started better. President Lewis ,put the top sheaf 011 the many good , welcoming speeches that took up the , morning, and he started off the work' with an emphatic declaration that was •. applauded by every-faction. '",' '/ UNION LAWS TO PREVAIL .- "We may," he declared, "haye differ- / ences of opinion 'in this' convention, .-.-' but, "gentlemen, -the conclusions of .'this convention will be the law of our :- Union and there won't be any differ- ,' ence of opinion amongst us when we '•'.' go home to put the mandates of this, '' our highest'tribunal, into effect. 4it-U^I_want,to,emphasizeJihe,fa'it^iatJf nual report, the first- business of interest would not be reached until the next day. o -- ' .Most notable of the addresses of welcome was the one by John Kern, who got such, an .enthusiastic reception that It'seemed as, though all of the delegates must have been his supporters last fall. .He mado his greatest hit on a declaration for trial by jury.- * In this connection he denounced the decision handed down by Judge Wright committing Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison to prison,- _ - > 1 "Questions," he said, "of such great importance are before the common people of the country to-day that any man who'stands in the way of the sue-- cess of a great organization working for the betterment of mankind is a traitor to the cause." , '■' MAY PROVE A BLESSING He deplored the fact that'under the present system of procedure any man such as Mitchell, Gompers or Morrison could be sent to jail without a trial by jury. "What crime have, they committed?" he' asked. "They ,have been committed to jail simply for standing for that, right of free speech and a free press for which hundreds of patriots have died. I believe that their commitment will prove to be a mighty blessing :to the masses of the people of this country, 7 ' "In'it we find a more effective appeal than any that could be made from the-stump, for a modification of our laws 011 the writ of injunction. It is contrary to American traditions and institutions that any man's liberty be taken from him except by a jury" of his peers." ■"' 7 / ,•. r"[ ; Referring to the work-' that falls "oii such organizations as the miners he Aeclared that all the world-was begin- ORGANIZED LABOR WATCHING ,1 "Organized labor," he said, "has its eye on this convention. I do not take any"stock in.reports that because men in this convention have differences they will disrupt the organization. Such reports are foolish and, they are the statements of theorists."' He declared that an organization without a difference of opinion would not be an organization composed, of strong minded men. a , ■ Mrs. Anna Nichols, president of the garment workers,, pleaded the.-cause of the' female1*workers, many of whom working in the grind of piece work at $5, $6, $8 or $9 a week are;.trying to support people dependent on them. She effectiveIy„folIowed one* of these workers through a week, declaring that she must get up at four. In the morning, cook and do her housework and then go to work at sun up and toil until night. ' She told* how she had to then go home and do her" cooking, and "then get out the washboard and do her washing." She said that thought the ordinary union wage for women workers-is only $6 to $8 a week,, many of them hae to support several children or an aged father or mother. '.'Can you men do it?" she asked the delegates. WHEN SICKNESS^CC-MES Then,-..into ■ this dark .picture, she threw the' darker shadows of illness, and the broken,up home..She pleaded for support for women In their fight for something better than life at $6 or $8 a week. ■ - -; \ She also" asked -the men to patronize only '-.those' employers of female. labor who are-entitled to use the union.la-' bel- She said that by thus doing they would at least support the high- The report of the.distribution of the $950,085.24 at that time shows how the organizations funds are held available for immediate check and the interest rate "generally received on the balance. THE AMOUNTS DEPOSITED " The depositories and the amounts deposited in them In April were: Capital'National bank, i* Indianapolis, $254,- 974.65; Capital?National bank, Indianapolis, $67,589.78';, • Indiana National Bank, Indianapolis,'li32.658.55; Fletcher National bank, Indianapolis, $132- 484.32; American National Bank, Indianapolis, $122,498.40; Columbia National bank, Indianapolis $112,255.09; German American- TruBt Company, Indianapolis $86,231.68*,, Union National bank, Indianapolis, $30,796.30; Kanawha Valley-Bank, Charleston, W..,Va'.* $10,587.47. ',,7 -.';■' , " .-*.■£. V . The Indianapolis banks-except/- the German American Trust company'paid 2 per cent interest on their deposits. The trust* company paid 3 1-2 percent and. the Charleston bank paid-,three, per cent. While the auditors were making the report the atmosphere became clouded with' tobacco smoke-and some ■-" dele-' gates presented the annual resolution that 'there be no smoking .during ■ the annual'sessions.■., y-t"*s' ... ,; W. R. Fairley wished cigarettes put under the ban with pipes. A motion to table the atl-smoklng resolution was carried and the delegates will therefore smoke as . much as . they please this year. -- * . -7 , : > . * ■•' ,;., REPORT OF AUDITOR . The auditor's special report, covering the checking, out''of <-"the. old administration included all loans made to district organizations, to officers and to others. It included also an inventory' of all property. V ' *..-.' 1 President Lewis in' making comment' m the report declared that such a complete statement was a business method of:correct, auditing.- • ' - The . auditor's report on the' current year ending November 30, 1908 is summarized in the following statement: , .0 . .-'--*. ' -' '••• ^- Income -- Tax ,,.... *.' $756,055:38 Supplies ..:.'..:.. -... 8,287.04 Journal' .'. 5;oio:73 Assessment-.. ,1'.-.-. ...".*... .*'. ;■>. r." 968.14 Miscellaneous'. ■*. -'.'...'.': :' 36,560.60 - j. <>'' ?*i "■''-. - '"- - committee1.'!**! composed of ,rSecrjet-ary- Treasurer W.: p. .Ryan. J.' S. l\fc"Cra- cken^of -Teiiiiessee, and William -piEun- •ond of :-MJchig*Sn.'" '--\ . J*?£-'- The convention adjourned ' after a two^hours session until to-morrow morning in order .to permit the committee to get to"work. ' . .',.,. ORGANIZERS IN, MEETING "'John H"Walker, the leader,,.of the "anti-Lewis" forces, indicates" that" there is going to be trouble over national organizers being- seated ia the ..convention. \ They, are representing local un: ions. .> . , ' "It seems," said Mr. Walker, "that the Lewis people have tried to pack this convention. I have been told that there- are 107, national ..organizers in the convention: "I don't believe that there are that many but. I have no doubt but what there* are over sixty organizers here at present. " "According to Scranton papers, and the "Labor, World,;; published at7Pltts- burg,''the organizers in the anthracite, districts are here under Instructions'to comegiven to them by Mr. Lewis7C "All the organizers are in the employ of the administration and I think it unfair that they should be brought here. "The.seventeenth annual convention went bn/ecord agalnBtorganlzers corn- ting to"!the conventions "uhelss they were paid by the local unions thoy,rep-' resent, or come at'thelr own expense; I",shall ■ oppose any"movement.to'.allow these organizers to draw their per diem while here and their expenses out of the' national treasury , and;.will ..de- mand,.tha,t.i£ they are reimbursed at.ali Jt must be by the local unions whose credentials they hold." President T. L; Lewis,."-, who", was shown. Mr. Walker's statement',* refused to make any comment further than to say that if this' matter did come up", in-, the.' convention lie: would.,' be heard oh it.* In the meantime lie had no comment to make on it. ,<mt. i-fe Steam RATES $2.50 A DAY " Ferriie, B.r C.r Heated Throughout j. '<Py ji*-<C«A" '*l^>1^.t^^ri-;*!H^^r> LEGATES, PROP,,;: *'■ <**■ A'-'RlZKUTO J. Crawford' lernie tiyery, Dray & Transfer Co. ICE FOR SALE .-7 yy:'"-'i'yContracts Taken j • "'-;■; Including Stuni]> Trilling, Lund Clearing nnd Ploughing. Let us\] V,'' "■'"'-' -7'figure on your next job ; ;•' ' <=,''■•' j- Rubber Tired Buggies, New Turnouts -I, / . „■* „ ' '| .' It I * , 1 -al **** • ■*-- » . +**'*+ fl*,. ■** » * .- ■->-■.., *!*-: ;-sv, ,'-«►•; >!,ri>. •■- .!,*.. ;,- *>6 ^ i."„a „. -#A.«- -Vrflfti.'-^ , f I (." ' 44,, -, ■ui *?l*t -. a Tv'* **,-"• 1"": ,a.^j ^.., .4.4-4.,.,.- , ^ " * > '* RlZZUTO "& CRAWFORD ,.- there were no differences;of opinion \ among the men in this great convent- " Ion, I would hot wish^ to preside over , it. Strong men have differences of :' opinion and 'where'* those differences of opinion are finally brought together .': they are the very things that make ■:' progressive institutions. ,. , "Whenever one man does, all ofthe thlnking-.and .all.of .the work, In this ' organization lt will be'time for-us to rap' it out of existence aiid let some one more vital-take up thc work that It. Js created to. do, - ' ' "Our organization' was founded as a result of men of widely different opinions meeting and merging themselves into one body which took as its fundamental corner stono three great principles, They aro first—^ religious liberty, second,' political independence third, industrial freedom. And' we, no matter whnt our individual opinions nro, will novor.bo satisfied until wo have completed our united work and* have established Industrial freedom in every mining camp on thla American continent. This, gontlemen, Is our work." TELEGRAM FROM MITCHELL President LowIb lind Just completed his short Hpeoch when socretnry-trons- .. uror W, D.' Ryan arose and road a telegram from John Mitchell In Which he deplored his Inability to got hero until tho Inttor part of tho wook,, lio expressed tho hopo that the fullest- success would murk (he eonyonllon,' nnd that.it would make the organization, oven more thnn in the pnut, the grent. bulwark of strength of tho Amerlcnn minors. ApplniiBO oxprossod tho approval of tho dolegiiles of .MitcUoll's sentiment, Though tho rlvnl factions nro lined ui) In thn convontlon nnd Beamingly steadfast In their own opinions, Ideas nnd blttoi'iH-KH nil talk about a disruption of tho organization In this convontlon Is regarded ns worse thnn rubbish, though such reports lmvo boon circulated, ' . Thorn urn Indications thru a poiico party may spring up In tlio convontlon to servo an 11 buffer botwoon llio ho- rnllod LowIb nnd Wnlkor fnolloiifl, It may lmvo retiring International Vice- I'l'oslrlt'Jit J. P. While ns lis Ik-ik), with tlio Iowu minors hb Its mick-us. j» CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE Tho opening hchhIoii wiih kIwii lo ndrlrOKHOH of wolconio. This nflor* noon tho convontlon got down to bus- InoHH iuul tho crodontlnl commlttoo woro cnllor! upon lo roport. Tho In* dlcntlons nro thnt it, would bo-nlglit Vr.foi.fi thr. a„nr'p of onntlm" tlin rlnli.. gntns nnd orgnnlzlng tlio convontlon could bo comploiod. President Lowls Hnld it was llkoly that tlio oirlcors tin ning to realize that the only way to make a nation great. is to make the masses happy and prosperous, and he expressed the hope that the miners would ■ in their-convention -harmonize the differences which were characteristic of strong men. He said he'hoped and'felt certain that the delegates would go forth united -.for. -a, continuance , of the organization's worii in behalf of the man who works and the people dependent on lilm,-- • JOHN J. KEEGAN SPEAKS John J. Keegan, a member of the Central Labor Union's entertainment committee, * who'presided, created something of'' a sensation when he presented tho cause of tho Indianapo-, lis striking brewery workers to, tho union. "I can promise you one thing;" he said, "thnt when you come to Indianapolis next year all of tho beer -made in Indianapolis will be union beer, or there will be no beer made hero at all." To tho last part of his statement tho delegation of Protestant and Catholic clorgymen on the stngo gave hearty assent. Father Gavisk of Bt Johns Catholic church; tho Rev. John C* Day of tho Irvlngton Presbyterian ohurch and tho Rov. H. C. Cllpplngor of tho Edwin Ray M."E. church all addressed tlio convontlon and welcomed tho ; dole* giitos. Sovorul other mlnlaton-i accompanied thom to tlio convontlon nnd wore on tho stngo, Tho Rov, .Mr, Cllpplngor mndo a gront hit, with tho dolegnlos, telling lhem how ho ran nfonl of n minor's oloctrlc mulo on his visit, uh 11 groonhorn Mothodlst preacher down Into a mine, A8 MAYOR'8 SUBSTITUTE City Attorney Crnto Bowen appeared ns Mayor Bookwrtlkor's HUbutltuto nnd welcomed tho delegates on beluilf of (ho city, "In ovory hoiibo that Ib right., propor nnd coi'dlnl," ho Hnld, "Indlniinpolls gives you wolcomo" Uo spoko of tho debt of Indianapolis in Uk; mlnon, for tlm lliniiicliil s.ipport given Itb growth by the location of thoir hondrimirtcrs horo and tlio hold* lug of their national convention horo. Willinm Pflcgor, proslrlont nf tlio CHitrnl Labor union wolconio:! tho !mlnern In bolmlf of the Iiullimnpolls j trades unionism, Rrlgfir A. PorkliiB, piTsldont of tlio Indiana Pcdoratlon of Labor, rccullod Hint It hnd boon a good mnny yonrs Blnco there had beon a non-union conl minor In Indlnnn, • Ho recalled thnt twonty yonrs ngo 'I1.? Tvi'l'.t*."fi*?1 Tnl'ft'-*'!''' '-•*••"(-.j** in TTidlifni oIIh to rnlHO fnnrlR, hot. to ontertnln n national convontlon, but to koop tliolr wives nnd children from Ntnrvin*)*. estTw-3ges"^aid_to^VolHeTirin"suifi"ci"ent- even those these wages might be. - She criticized the law, making bodies that-pass1 law for, the birds, fish, and animals but that, fail ,to, give, relief to, women and children. The" report of the credentials committee, thi safternoon,* seated „W. B. Van Horn, president of the Indiana miners. Patrick'Dolan. the deposed president of the Pittsburg minei'V'lias not made his appearance In tho city, and the Indications.are that, he.is no,t going to come. -si-Expenditures- Salaries and expenses ..;. .°.211,803.S4 Supplies 16,498.29 Office expenses ..'..'• ' 5,397.74 Journal, .. ..' .....: ,..,.7 7,410.02 Telephone, postage, express. 6,666.81 Aid *. ..... ... .-.749,037,44 Miscellaneous ...'., ... ,. .. 78,319.79 NORTHERN HOTEL (Eechwlfi* and Sorklo, Props.) Now open to tho public *aJMil-'-'5 ■ - ' H" *" 1' ' """"*" miummim**mim*mmmmmimm*mmmi*mmiimii*mmmmKm^m*mmm Evorythlnflf new and up-to-dato Handsomo Dining Room Attached Music every afternoon and night The American Coal Miners''convention got' down' to buslnosa-.'thls morning with 11*00 delegates seated ns the result of the first partial report of the, credentials', committee. , Indications were that-the final report would sent more than ono hundred more delegates. It Avns found In seating the delegates that John '.Mitchell has not been accredited to tho convention ris n delegate,' It'seems' that ho did'not. ask, for a dolegateshlp, '-'. He will como to Indianapolis to-attend the convention solely as n visitor deeply, interested In tho work. .' , -, * ."■,''. Former socrolary-trensuror Congressman W. B. Wilson though benr* ing lho credentials of a Iocnl union nt Dl0BBbui'gl"Pn.l wns not seated In tho first roport of tlie credentials committee, Ills credentials, It Ib understood woro held up on the grounds that he Is not nctlvoly engaged aB a minor and Is not nn officer of the organisation, the two rjunllflcnlloiiH for dolegnto eligibility. It Is expected howovor, thnt Inns- much ns ho Is n mombor'of tho orgnn- hat ion In good standing, nud also Is 0110 of thn orgnnlzntlons sovon dole* giitr-H lo Om A, V. of L, convention, thnt tho convontlon or tho final roport of tho ci-edoiuUilH commlttoo, will sent. lilm. WILL DE PERMITTED TO TALK Wholhor Wilson Is sonlod ns n dolo- gate or not It. is evident tho floor will bo given I1I111 whenever ho wishes to lull*, Uy iiiuiiilmoiiH voto tlio convention Invited lilm to nddroHS tho dologntos this aftornoon, Lllunvlne, undoubtedly, will Mitchell, whon ho nrrlvnH Iho Inttor part of tlio wook, bo given tho floor whenever ho wishes id though lie Ih not an ncucruditod dclocnto, WILL 6TAND BV MITCHELL Tho coal mlnorB of tho country will throw thoniHOlvoH botwoon John Mitchell nnd tho Jull doors, which 'Jimtloo Wright lu opening to him, Indications illo UliK Uiii lltliivia iililiUiti LU.i.'.'.iilon will innlro :in n;ipropr!ntl(t*n fnr the* collect I vo dofohco of Qompors, Mlt* choll nnd Morrison nnd that tho organization will mako a special appropriation for the d©fence of Mitchell. Ills principal offe-iiKo wab that laut yenr ho jircHldt-d ovor tlin Trillium tm* tlonnl convention which put 'tho St, Louis hi ore mnmifacturorB on tho ml- nurH' uiifnlr list. .Mltohf'l! hns Jiidicnlcd tlmt his case dlfforH mntnrlnlly from thoso of Oom* pftrs and Morrison, nnd whilo tho up. pi-iil to iln- lilglior couriH may chniiKc ! justice Wrlglit-i decision In tliolr cases : tillll ll limy not. ctuuiKC the position no I .iir nH .Mitchell In concertina. ] In n letter to'flpcretnry Ti-ensuror Ilynn Im liullcalon that lie believes that , lie Is ftlmotl certain to he hold, Tlm miners probitbly will soo that hi1, por* sonnlly. Imf. defcnio by some of thu • vory n.u>Ht lawyers 10 b«i Imd in Dm . country. Totirt ....... .I.,.... .-' ,u. .$1,076,033.93 ... convention' commIteeV. ,_.'■ President Lewis announced the convention 'committees this morning,' "arid in doing so he stated,that*.the anthracite miners' demands on their operat*. ors will be submitted'to'the convention' for consideration, He Indicated that It was a'iriatter of personal Interest to every miner no matter -in what field ho might be employed. ' He also said that district presidents had been reserved from too' heavy committee duties,ln order that they may be available for special committee work. ' President Lowls' did not appoint a'scale commltteo arid lt is i.ow bought that the special committee will nlBO have to''do with the anthracite demands. * Tho important commltteo chairman-' ships went tO'Davldlrvlne of Central Pennsylvania, -who'whs'-appointed to hond tho committee op offlcors reports, to Harry.'.BouHflold/pj! Kani^ns, who Ih head of the committee on resolutloiiH, nnd tCvJfliCOb Hitter of Iowa, who was mndo chairman of tho constitution commltteo.1 • . ■' , Kdwnrd Harris of tho Shamokln an* thrnclto district Is at thb bond of tho commlttoo on'appeals and.grlovfincoB, Harry Dnkor, Patrick Fltzslmnions n«d John Morrison, tho nntionnl tdllors nnd auditors, will Hervo an tho transportn* lion commlttoo. ' • MEMBER8 OF ,COMMITTEE8 Tho committees nro rh follow«: On Officers' Reports: Dnvld Irvine of central Pennsylvania; TU'ii McKimony of tlio nutlirnolto; Mnrtln N'nsli of iho iiiitlmiclte* John Moore of Ohio; non Wllllnms of Illinois; (ieorgo Slnmiol of MImhoui'I; .1. 13. Molloiiiild of WoHlern I'diiiBylviinlii; Jninos Moimui of Mon* tiuiii'Wyoiiiliig; WIIII11111 McCluskoy of KniiBns, CoiiHlltiitfoil: .liicob Hltfor of Iowa; Looi'Ilanldn of Ohlos.T. ,1, Llowollyii of tho nnlhrnclte; JamoH Cnwlo-y of Mlclilgnu; Henry I'lslnvtck of Illlnoln; \\, I). Held of Central PomiHylvanln; Mono ClovciiKor, of Oklnliomn; T. ,1, Ilbgoifl of Indiana; John Wilkes of Western Pennsylvania. Appoals nnd arlovnncou: Edward A. Harris of tho anthracite; Jnmcs Cnt>t* well of Indlnnni Goorne linker of Kentucky; John tt. Ualvin of Cniinda; T, i on nil uiC C'cii iui I'ciit.hyUuiilu, Tvi'- cy ToDow ot Ohio; T, J. Royxioldn of Illinois; "SlarDn FyUlk of tin) nnthrn* clto, nnd "Robert Mnxwpll of tho North' wost, • '■*- nennliitlmnn: Hnrrv Unnsfleld of Knn- sns; James Moonoy of Ml-fi'-ourl; A. F. Oornior of.lIllnol«; Ron F. Morris of Wost Virginia; John Grnhnm of Color- ndo; AV.'H. hrownfof Iowa; Jns. Hon* InosBoy of Ohio; T. J. Smith of Tenn* ohhco; Georito Hnrgrovo of Indlntm; Thomas Ilrowcr of Central Pennsylvania; William HnrrlBon of Alabama. ; CONVENTION OrFICER* John Fttllou tit tho unthrnclte, nnd John Lawson of Colorado, vera appointed sergea-fits-jit arms, and Phil Kin-tl, of llllnoli «nd Mutt Ar-rnKaRe of Oiito aro to bo the official mesaongors,' All resolution* mud he proswiUid to luu couuntllce to rccctvc lind apportion [ resolutions by Monday noon. The ■",- WOMEN IN CONVENTION ,.:',. The mysterious something about this year's convention of the miners which is accountable for its drawing probably the largest number of delegates ever brought >to' a national meeting of- its kind,' has'also ibro'ught" to "It more Interested arid interesting women than to lie conventions of the past.1 - Their assortment , of'. millinery lights up the eastern side o'f-*the stage. •-' ! Mrs. Raymond Robblns of Chicago, president !of the National Women's Trade Union league, "who addressed the'convention-last evening,'has been here for three days. Miss Agnes Nes-, tor, secretary treasurer' of the International Glove^ Workers, union,'.is "that girl with the catchy, triangular shaped hat." Her attractiveness of appearance and her-powers as a leader of workers' attracted her picture to the' editors".of Everybody's Magazine',."-so forcibly that she is now known as .the "woman whose picture was in December - Everybody's."^,. ,-_,.,„, .. ,', '"'MiS^gM^Wir^nrda^ gressman Wilson, who much prefers Indianapolis to either' Blosbsurg, Pa., or-Washington,-D. C, is "back home,',', and,like her father, she needs no introduction to the audience. She says that her father's constituency in Pennsylvania continues to give him enough time from farm seed distribution- to permit him to get a few..pens!ons and urge labor, legislation. , , v Mrs. "E.1 S. McCiillough.-'wIfe, of the president.of the Michigan miners,'is one woman who has been at the1 convention-over since she was-married. And she Is' one of the-.few who has a husband who Is a Socialist who has not succumbed to'the doctrine. She Is here thlstlme she.says, to. see her husband elected vice president of the international organization, " Mrs. Adolph Germer of - Belleville, 111., used to be Miss Mabel LaRuo, and she demurely played upon a typewriter for the Indianapolis, News until ono day,during the convention three yonrs ngo, Germer, a Soclnllst, enme up to, make* a kick on the antl-Soclallst com-, munlcntlons nnd'reports,', As"ho waited his turn In the outor offlco lio bognn admiring tho typist, ' Tho ,"klck" after' n hnlf hours wait wns tnmo and tho wedding was soon. Mrs, Germor, is becqmlng nn out and out Socialist; Sho tourorl Illinois on pobs Rod Special nnd Is nbout to bronk forth ln oratory. She Is vlsltliig'her parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. Clarence LaRuo, 1208 Tom- pio nvonue. SPEAK-'to the Manager regarding" a. Savings Account ". 7, to,be ..opened iin. tlie name of r a/son or daughter under age. The Hbme^Bank.'is,t.a'permanent institution, its Original charter dating: from" 18,5-1.', It "is k repository ' "" ' -' " ' ' ' ■ ' V1' - - ''-■;' *'!t'- "■' * • • '"•' ■-'' I' ' * ° where any sum is absQlut-iily.--safe;: Full compound interest' I -:;-' '7-;■-■' y '.' ' ,-< ■ i '. f ,'paid. . ; . ■; .■..?•' - •■. "V ; . -■; 7. THE HOME BANK OF CANADA HaEAD^OFFICE, -TORONTO W. C. BJMANSON Manager v ^ ,' FERNIE, B. G.t 'i'" JV. (* MI88 LIEPER VISITING PARENTS MIbb Nolllo Llopor, who waB W, B.- Wilson's private Bocrelnry whilo ho wn« national socrotary tronuuror, I;i alHo horo visiting her parents nnd hor frlonds,, Sho Ib now private socrotnry to socrotnry treasurer Prank IlnyoB of tho Illinois minors, MIbb Sndlo Kiifllck who Is President; John Wnlkor's socrotnry, In lho Bnmo offices Ih hero with MIbb Llopor, MIbb Ilnnnnh Cnrr, prlvnto secrotnvy of I'lOHldont W, W. White of tho'Town mlncm; MIhh Doiilnli Ovorstroot, priv nto 'i('(*rntnry"ln tlio goneral offices of Iho Arkniinnfl dlHtrlct; MIbb Ilrnid'on el tha Alnbnma offlcoB, nml Miss Mmy Murphy, prlvnto socroinry of Prosldoiif, Finncls Pcuhan of tho WoBtorn Ponn* Bylvanln difltrlct aro also in tho city at proHPiif. Mm. T3. 8. McCullough, of Mlohlgnn Is not thc only woman who hns n cnndldato for vlco-pronidont, Dy hor nldo, or voty closo, flits MIsb M. Domp- Hoy of Scrnnton, Sho has at heart iho Intoroflts of hor brother, John T, Dompsoy. 8ho Is hie prlvnto sooro* I , , I M wt . ,* IV. II,, n ,. '( taa.J la, a.*l a4'a.a,a,,i a/. k.,a. M.^j ajl,. ,,.«ka/..' WIMtenhnrre'nntlirncHe dlntvlrt, Tho. visiting women nro bolng ontor* tainod by tho womon connected with thu national headquarters offices and nlso by ropi'OnontiiUves of tho Indian* npoll«itrndo unloiilutn, ,- Somothing Is ,,Uif.i*.HWi ,u( •tiiiM'a iriBid, A xn% cuui party I* to bo glvon at tho Gorman Iiouho to-morrow night and noxt Wod- noHdny. night a big thoatro party Is to bo given, T.vnrA.VAPOLfa Ind,', Jnn. 20,—T. L. Lewis, president of tho United Mino Workers, threw out n chnllengo today to hin crltlos at tho afternoon ttonslon of tho minora convontlon. Aftor reporting on the work of the yenr lie Bald: "In vlow of tho mnny mlslendln*: to. pons drcal«ted with rc-feronce to my oc^fnl work j'rtu will narAnn me fnr (Canilnued on page three.) JUSTJCEJ^GHT It Is Interesting to Know how He Became a Justice—People who Know Him Not Surprised nt the ..,*.' Sentence Wo.forget things quickly'*-Iii'America, but "not all havo* yet;.;forgotten that the other day three labor leaders Gompers, Mitchell'lind Morrison,.;were sentenced to jail for twelvo, nlno uivi six months respectively for contempt of court. '•' Those mon woro not accused- of stealing anything. They had not done what tho trust owners do overy day, They had not exploited tho entire poo- pie. •' ; , They woro not oven accused bf:a real crime against any Individual, Tlio fact is that by exorcising what they Iriiuglned to.bo tliolr rlgh^, ,of,..froo speech undor - tho constitution, thoy nurt tho feelings of a'certain mnn on the bench, " ' ' ' ' * Justice Wright sentenced thoso lnbor londoi'B to Jail bociuiBo thoy had dono something that a judge, In nu Injunction hnd told thom thoy must riot do. Thoy woro punished in fact, tor disregarding lho ordors of ono of the Judgos.'- ,, , ,.',,-'7; .'.That Hontonee makos It "oloar"that In UiIh country, n judgo on thc bench, ovon n potty, unknown, iiiiimpor'.iiiit judgo, with no moro rail record tlmn a first class dachshund stands ln dig* u'lty and majesty above all tho people of tho country. For wo know that'll tniBt mtmag- or, commit Dug a crlmo against all of the pooplo notoriously, Ih novor put lu Jnll. And whon ho Is fined, If h)» fino ia big, It Ib romlttod, (Ask Mr. Rockefeller.) Those lnbor loaders,, not having offended the people, but having hurt tho feelings of a judge, who gavo thom un order, nro sont to jnll prompt' ly. Thin Is an lntorostltiK caso, and in tho future history of this country may bo conaldored Infinitely moro Import* nnt than matters which now1 attract wldor attention. - i'hti puop.u of Liu VulU'A SliiU-a havo talkod bo much nbout monoy nnd (to rights thnt thoy aro inclined to for* (lot tho human bolng and his rights, Wo hnvo rnthor lost sight of tho fact thnt tlii. rehplllnn nmlnst Rnglnnd, our flret great war. was simply «n hbsoj'- tion of tho rights of man, and wo havd also lout Bight of tho fnct thnt the wnr of tho rebellion, our socond gront war, was tho assertion of tho rights ot wnn-—ovon of tho frlondloss black slnvo," •. ■ » ' When a nation forgtos fundamental truths It either sinks Into apathy and disappears or it necoivos some shock that rovlvcs its consciousnoB* ami be* •jin» s career bntcA bit respect for mnnhood, 'Wo «r«J Inclined to think that this de-tUton which tends tbr«« men to plrnon h(*(**iiiiie thoy offended the mitj* } csty of one unimportant Judgo, roupled with the innumerable decisions 'that' refi.se""to- imprison .the really great criminals—the trust 'managers—j may play pu important part in the future histcfiy of'this'1 country.' '- We shall** not be (surprised to see this case referrWd to in future, writings.as seriously !'au ' mep-to-day, refer,. to-theDred Scott de- cision. , ...' -... ,. .,...,. ..., ,,.-. ,.y - ' We do hot expect any sudden realization of the importance of thees prison sentences. As wq have told you theso are tho days of money, not'"of monr Monby.-is' powerful and men are weak. The So- called porfect system of unlversay suffrage and government by,the majority has become almost a first class joke'in a country^where the majority, govern not at'all. , . ' * ' '"*■'- ■,'•■ But that will not always be so, > Meanwhile, whilo tho pooplo sloop, we Invito our readers to consider with somo ^attention the fact that Justice Wriglit' of tho supremo bench of the District of Columbia was taken out of Cincinnati and put on that bench by Mr. •Roosevelt>on tho recommendation of Senator Porakor, And. wo ask our,, readers to roineinbor that'this Sonatbr Fornkor whose,recommendations put upon tho bench tho man who puts labor loadors In prison Iri tho. same Seji' ntor Forakor that received thoso char- mln/j lottors from John D. Archbold of tho Standard Oil, oncloslng much lovo. nnd affection with certificates of do- posit of a comfortablo slzo, Headers, when your Judges nro cho- son by mon who got, tho oortlflcateaof deposit from- tho trusts nnd do thoir work Jn tho somite, you hnvo a rlg,it to suspout that you nro not gutting tho- bost. poBslblo Judgos in tho world, And this wo any with no personal comment upon Justice Wright, cf whom wo novor hoard boforo, nnd of whom wo should lio quito content novor :io hoar ngnln.-—Mino Workoi-B Journal." OIL COMPANY PAYS FINE IN BIO LOADS OF MONEY J3L PASO, Texas, Jan 25-Nonrly -50 tons of nilvor In tho form af dollars will bo turned ovor to tlio State of Toxah by tho Walors Plorco Oil Co. according to a special from Austin, Tho attorneys for tho Oil Company which hns boon ousted from tho st.ato and fined 11,023,000 for violation of nntl-triiHt laws nnnoiincod at Austin that tho big flno nnd tho attendant costs will bo paid to tbo stato in . i*. , ,*• *.„i<:. ■ 44-,«>l4 USItttttd. The wtito will hnvo to oniplny a small army of dorks to count tho wagon loads of coins. Don't ThVn thn Rlik j i When you havo a bad cough or cold do not lot,It, drag along until It becomes chronic bronchitis or dovoldps into an attack of pnoumonia, but glvo it tho attention it dosorvos nnd got rid of It Tako Chnmborlnln'ii Cough Remedy nnd you nro sure*of prompt relief. From u small beginning tho sale nnd uso ot this preparation has extended to ail parts "(jf tho -.United fltntVs nnd to tnsny foreign countrlss. Its many remarkable cures of coughtt nmlvco]d8 liavq won.for It tbis. wide reputation nnd extensive as*. Hold by nil dru«Kl»ttt, -i DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE,' B.C. JANUARY 30 1909 1r i CHURCH NEWS Nfews dif Ii&rest <tdil Church Goers )We Will be glad to have news'for these.columns each week V: METHODIST The Christian Endeavor meets at 8 o'clock on: Monday" night in the Methodist church to which a.ir aretinvit- ed lo be present. Thef-Meetiug -vlll be fin charge of "Mr. Wetheralt and Mr; Qulnney will, sing a sold 'entitled "God that m'adest'dearth' aid -heaven." The Epworth league reading circle meets everjr Thursday night at] eight o'clock; everybodyi is'.'lnvited to be present as some of the best books are being discussed. - .* ■ V - -'?is. t'. t "'• ■? j tr.' "'',- ■ -•'. 7' *■ a' b-' ' SPIRITUAL TRAINING LACKING IN COLLEGES . , U. M.IW.0E A7IH77' ; ANNUAL SESSION PAGE THREE \ ■ t The colleges and universities give food for body and mind but they starve the spiritual...... Do not mistake'.my meaning 'when;-I.|say;' religion. * By religion'I mean .Christianity and by Christianity. I ...mean •_ the recognition of "Jesus Christ as the master of the race. I protest against any system which feeds tiie mind and body at the cost* of the soul. -.'-r-y/.-, ..-', I ,*-■ Yet that is what colleges and universities are doing)to-day. ■*,■ They have done less than they ought. True, the colleges have chapel services. ;' But of what valu'e-.-is such service when .those who attend know not Him whom, they-serve?."-* Without the fundamental training necessary such services are shams. Many students attend merely for decency's sake and In,obedience ,to „a.promise made at home. Many universities and' colleges number among the faculty and instructors men who are notable non-Chris tlans. It'ls a>sin deserving of.th'e'millstone tojallo'w a student merely for lack of light tb perceive the obstacles'placed injhls'path by .such instructors.—Prof. Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania. *" ■"' LONGBOAT:AND DORANDO ,j« Cold water vs. .wine is no doubt a leading factor in '■ the'training that has giveir the Canadian Indian, the advantage oyer the'pluckly Italian in the different races they, ihave .'recently* run together! "" 7' '/ " '" -,,'"" • *■- Speaking favorably of. the Italiiir-, an; English paper* admits the fact that total abstinence is an essential to ath* "Helic, success-aTTdXdefe'aTls~its_Soiith7- ern .protege. by....claiming that jf .both had' beeri.'abstalners.TJorando "would probably have won.—Pioneer. y i-.,:;-*,:---.-.:".;■'?■.4.;V'l.-.i'-,*4a4..;.;a.;:'., ; ■.•■..;,■*•;'v j (Continued from-page two)",-'■" ! calling' your attention to the. fact that my . official acts are subject - to ■ the most-;rigi.d investigation, and; I ,.cbal- lenge.any one to prove that any,o£flc-, ial or personal act of mine has brought discredit to the United Mine Workers organization." ■ ,- President Lewis brought the quest- Ion of highest authority" in the'brgan- lzatlon'before the delegates hi referring to' the strike in-Indiana district No. 11, when the district officers were suspended. ''i ASKED TO RETURN TO .WORK Efforts, to reach an agreement, between miners and operators failed and Mr. Lewis proposed that the! miners return "to'working pending the investigation. j His advice was not accepted by the union ,of District,No. 11 and theT controversy resulted In.the suspension or- •der of those.miners by the executive board. ''",''' " ' ' "The question Is brought up,," said Mr. Lewis, "because it. involves the authority and jurisdiction of the international organization.:. This'eonvent- ion .should decide whether ,the international executive is the highest authority In*the- organization when"a convention is not in."session.'' '.-■' , "It is worthy, of your, attention, too, that there is a growing' disposition on the part of the operators to have penalty clauses . Inserted * in* the •> wage agreements. * ■ The" principal"'* reason assigned' is that if, contracts are of any. practical use there should be no strikes "during the life^of the contract.', " ., 7. . bership'of 300,000. at' the'last'convention it has 29'4,74C this year. "' \ During the eight njonths from" April \ "We'should also'-present sonle method that demonstrates that we * are sincere in our 'desire "to respect >" the terms of the contract.- >'•- ,-'•'" "-■' ^AGREEMENT EXPIRES APRIL '1'* ; "You know that the award of the strike commission- expires April 1 of this year and•>the delegates . should carefully consider- such plans as will HEAD OF THE CHURCH ?■«*'?* OF ENGLAND For Canada Passes Away in Toronto-Long and Honor- * ed Career Terminated *.*.-■ 'TORONTO,'■" Jnn!,' 24.—Archbishop Sweatmnn having Jurisdiction over tho Toronto diocese died at 1.30'p.m. today, aged 74 years, Ho was 111 ono week with pneumonia. Among possible successors in the Toronto diocese nro Canon,Cody, Provost Street, Mncklom, Bishop Hoove, Archdeacon Sweeney; ! Canon Tucker and Canon Welch, Rev. Arthur, Swontman, M; A., UT)., D.C.Li, was born'ln 183*1 ln London, England, and was tho son of nn omln* ont.London physician",, "tho lato...Dr. John.Swontmnn of Middlqs'ox hospital. Ho graduatod ln I860 from Christ col- logo in Cambridge and waB ordained deacon ln 1859.. Ills first appointment wns tho curacy of Holy Trinity church Islington, Deceased cnmo to Canada ln 18C5 to nssumo the head mastor- ship of tho London Collegiate Institute Throo years later ho was married In England to Miss Garland of Islington, In 1871 tlio niathomnticai and scionco mastership In tho upper Canada collogo bocurno vacant and Dr Sweatmnn was soloctod, bnt loft tho collogo noxt year to bneomo rector of Grnco church nt Brnnlford. Prom J873 to 1870 ho hold tho offlco of clerical secretary to the synod of Huron and socrotnry to tho houso of bishops, In 1874 ho b'oenmo hoailmnstD)', of, Holmiith collogo and two years lator rector of Woodstock and rector of Brant. Ho was administrator of tho dlocoBO of Huron In 1878 and 1870. Do* eoasod was nppolntod bishop ot Toron* .0 In 3870 in n notnblo contost aftor a week's balloting. Tho synod was dl* vldcd into two cnmpB on tho quostlon nf Rnrordntnllritr,, The Into Dr. Swoatman wns consecrated In May 1878 and In 1907 ho was glvon tho hlghost gift In tho powers of tho Angllcnn church in Canada, bo* Ing olectod archbishop' and primate of all Canndn. During thn thirty yoars that be has boon at tho head of tho Toronto iUocuhu the uuiubtir of Anglican churchos In the diocese Incroasod from 163 to 246 and 176 missions. Deceased was deeply affected by tho tragic iloath of. his son sovornl years ago nnd has for some time been in falling health. best1- protest, the .interests; of~tlie~lin-~ thraclte.mlne workers.".- : -•.-.. .'. 7 All: of-the'reports said that, notwithstanding! less than,halt time'work for the" men, the organization had' maintained, its strength..- ■ Against, a,mem- to November the salaries paid tp the executive board- and- toiother organiz-, ers amounted to S56.219.30, and.thelr expenses were $50,503.07*. -. . ..-**.■ V This was ?17,000 more than the expenses ln the same period last'year, and Secretary Ryan commented:—"It appears to me that the expense incident to the management Is Increasing out of-proportion to the growth of the organization. • • .- • ■ •• ■ (,* *.. * i' i; "Were-* I conducting the. affairs of the United Mine-Workers I should refuse-. to render, assistance-direct to districtsi whero the officers and-members had put forth no special • efforts to help themselves." that will continue to work for the interests of the many. *-* •■ '. , "Let us," he said,'"go forward building up; not tearing down." He recalled the years it had .taken to build up the organization and , pointed , out. the weaknesses of dissensio'as. DIFFERENCES .SHOULD END , "Be' careful," he said, "when you lekve here that nothing has been or 1 I <. ' "* * x is done that would bring back the old days when miner "fought" miner arid operator fought thema.aU.' , Your differences will , be. your employers', op- poVtuhlty. " Much as I respect the coal operators, and I believe'they are above the average in fairness, still as you divide, they, will .unite and unite much 'to your'cost." "'''"y' '] ' ■'■ He" pointed out that this was natural and recalled how: he and the miners had taken advantage of the dissensions " among tlie operators three years ago.--*' *" ' ' ''"'■■•' '-• '■' ; " .."Though L may ,not be able-to remain'with you.long, rny spirit will be with' you here. Let this ever be iii our minds that back at home ln the mines and in the modest little cottages are hundreds of .thousands of men, women and' children with eyes turned towards-us'here.! As you act bear in mind that to them you. must give" an accounting." He recalled that he had given so much of his.life to the upbuilding of this union that he had come,to regard It "somehow as my own child, and I will defend , it' as I would my own child.;; , ,,.., ALL SHOULD JOIN UNION Again, he said, with* his wonderful lmpresslveness, "The man—I do not care who he is—who lays violent hands on this great organization will have to answer' for that act. . Settle your differences, here and let every man c. go back and do his. full share at building up this union until the time will come when no man shall mine*coal in this country, unless .he belongs, to this union.. This was my dream,- my ambition; it Is my dearest wish." , \ :., Touching- on.his,own life he said: "Some, one may have said: John Mitchell is out of, the labor'movement now;'he won't see things' as'he used to see them ;When he worked in . the mines or .with .the miners. Gentlemen I do' not intend' that the day shall ever cdme-when-I- shall-see things differently, ' !"Since",-,going into new-surroundings for .'fear 3that my 'view-, might (change', even slightly, I daily" train myself to be steadfast to ""the' people"of less fav- orable surrouridirigs. ....I--;never .let a .week'go-by. that I 'do; not go'down to; the 'East Side.;oi; New* Yo;*k that I-may see misery'.;'.''I.'don't,Jthin.lt-that;ieven if I lived'in a castle, .my..views" would change. .7 ; "Biit I propbse'to protect,myself by going to see.' enough "misery • -every week to. keep'me. true.„.-!So long .'as. I live.%1 hope-to, be'true and'to defend the .rights of these people .and to advo- iTberieve-Tn". FERNIE RELIEF AND ITS DISPOSAL As Viewed; From the Outsider- Timely Suggestions and -* -How Worked Out -■ cate the cause' of "labor this trades union;movement and in .the United. Mlne_Workers of America.and my, heart is- with'you.and .in my, hope of .harmony." ■ ..*;.-,:• ■ ,.;. -, • THE CANADIAN BANK - OF COMMERCE HEAD OFFICE TORONTO ESTABLISHED 1867 B. E. WALKER, President ALEXANDER LAIRD, den. Manager. Paid-up Capital $10,000,000 Reserve Fund - 6,000,000 "• INDIANAPOLIS, ,JAN. 25. —It was the John Mitchell,of tho,old days, with tho-same. old.melodlus, offectlvo volco of the old dayB, that mado to-day probably tho greatest day ot the convent-, Ion of tho.gront.ost of all trado unions, * When tho old' time-loader of lho Amerlcnn coal minors appeared in Tomllnson hall at, 11 o'clock this-.iripr.*. ning tho,minors nntloiinl..convention went wild, ,,Seldom baa any: man, re* colvod such nu ovation.; everybody choorod and many* ovon had tears In. their, byos for the joy of seeing thoir bolo.vod old '.lender restored ,lo health. Ho hnd, Just arrlvod In ,tho city from Now York., Anothor visitor was sponklng, but his speech wns not flnlBliod.,Pi*qsldont Lewis .In a beautiful roannor presented Mr. Mltcholl, nnd nftor another prolonged burst,of,npplauso, Mltcholl, doeply moved, snld; . , "I fool doeply. sonsltlvo of tho ro*. coptlon whicli you hnvo given mo this day. It would soom that nt loast In a mlnorB' convention a former,loader of working pooplo loses nono of. his lUHtro bocnuRO ho Is sbntoiicod to Jnll.". Thoro wiib nnotlior long burst of np* plniiHo after, which Mitchell oxproHsod rogrot nt his Inability to bo prosont nt tho opening of tho cornontlon, nnd nl* ao his rogrot ovor tho fact, that ho will not bn nblo to romnln long. Unions ho can got postponed nn important con* foronco sot for Monday ho will hnvo to lonvo for Host on on Sunday aftornoon. Ho Is with Congrossmnn W, T, Wll* son nnd T. D, Nichols ut thu Hotel English, nnd around It, nt. noon lo-day thoro was a swarm of admlron*, many t., ii.'.".., 11. -,. ,..-!. i I,,. .,„,.„,« n,r- ...a..,4,.aa^/v.»^ |/^V(4.a. wvtoft ...,.i..,g, V*4a, ■minors. TELLB OF HIB SENTENCE Aftor the tumult In tho convention hnd fliibsldod, Mr. Mltcholl spoke nt length to tho delogatos, first rovlow lntr hl»i mentonco to prlnon with Ann-fuel Gompers,and Frnnlc Morrison, nnd thon making n ploa for harmony in tho ranks of tho miners, "Whnt concerns mo now," lie do* clnred nt ho touched sympnthotlrnlly on tho roportod lutornnl dlfforonnos in tho orgnnlzalton, "I* not tho possibility of going to prison. I nm concerned about thin union. If my going to prison nnd tttnylng thero would help to organize the miner* of this country. I would nay without ftriy hesitation: Tho prison for mo. Oontlemen I eamoitly hope that the legUlatton enacted by this convention snd your conduct hore may rounlte—lt that la noconsary—nil into ono Iniolnblft body LEWIS TO CONSIDER ANTHRACITE , ',. ,'.'.'i SCALE , . 7, • Delegates. from .the anthracite,,district of Pennsylvania have complained that,President Lewis of- the-iUnited Mine. Workers is not giving sufficient prominence to ■ the . anthracite - situation. , . , ■ , In Central Pennsylvania where the anthracite.coal.Is mined, about 170,000 mon are employed. Only about'40,000 of those-miners are organized and-ln any way, identified with the United Mine Workors. '., President Lowls heard yesterday of the criticism that had been mndo. of hls.alleged indifference toward the anthracite , situation.. , He said, that, at the proper time ho .would- give tho anthracite,, situation all.tho prominence it desorved -., .. . ,v. ;, , It Is probable that President Lewis will, roconuiiend, that a joint, convention of minors and operators ,in th° nu thrnclto,.district.be held to .ma'*.** a scale bbfoi'P tho.-expiration of tho pi:u- sent scale on April },.,. , ,.','.,. The scnlo undor which tha mlnou* of thq anthracite district arc working ut ■tho prosont timo Is tho ono which was. nuuld by a commission four or- tlvn yoarfl ogo—a commission thai, grew out, of'a recommendation mado ..(jy President ltoosovolt, who whon hfl sow that tho minors and operators wor-- nt loggorhcnds, usod his host efforts to restore peace, In tho anthracite .district. ' '.. SAYS MINERS WANT RESULT'S Commenting on tlio nnlhrncno ultun- tion Inst ovoning, President I/jwIa In part wild: • "It lins boon brought to my attention thnt a fow mon In this contention complain that tho nnthrnclto Bllinillou was not given mifflclont promlnonco In my nnntinl report, Thoso mon fool that tho Intorosts of tho nnthrnclto workors hnvo to somo uxlotit boon no* glut-tod. TIioho Hiiino mon do not. appear to rmillsto thnt roBiiltii and not. talk In.what tho nilno workorn of the country want, Thn IntorostH of the anthraclto mon will bo fully protected, mid this convention will bo able not only to outline, hut approve of a policy with ruforoncu to tho unlliiiioltu districts, This will bo done nt the proper timo nud In tho propur miinnor.. Thoro Is no nood for n fow mon in thU convention lo complain until tluiy know thnt thoy lmvo n IiuhIh on which to find tuiilt, i mm' --'t-iir una (K'liu- IU' Idciiii n*lllj iilcii-jjCi'' |o Ihi' .'iiilJjni- clto Bltuallon, which will bo given to tho convention for action. My doslro la to hnvo n joint confer* onco of tho anthraclto operators nnd mine workers in their respect I vo districts, But 1 wnnt to know definitely whnt notion this convention will ;| tnko with rospoct to enforcing nnd complying with lho tonus of wngo conti nets, when thofio contractu nro onco agreed to, If wngo contracts tnonii anything to tho mlnlngilndiiBtry thoy moan thnt minora should not HiiBpomi opi*rations ponding (he adjiistmotit ot a dlaputo arUliiK with r(ifur«-iH'o lo tin* im'iiitt of n wago contract." , • Tho miners held n half day «pRtlon yoaterday ndJournltiK at noon to per mlt tho committees to transact butln* •(■.The feature of the half day tee- nlon wna tho address of John Mitchell, former prosldont. The following Is from The Hosmer Times of January'21: ! ' ' J;' '*' ,; The civic elections have come 'arid gone, leaving a hew set of officials to look after the welfare of the city, 'with the exception'of G. P. Johnson'."wlio was re-elected'as alderman. But-the troubles' of' the1 elect begin after the event, as some of: the elect of 'Fernie are beginning' to realize. Many things were lnjected'irit'o the municipal campaign for votes which'did not belong there,' and among' these superfluous subjects was' the Fernie Fire* Relief Fund. ' ■'• i- ' ' ' ' "' Each candidate for the honorable office of mayor travelled out of his course to bring' the remnant of the relief fund into play In hopes of gaining a Vote or two, and now there Is trouble. Mr. Eckstein, the defeated candidate, stated that he was opposed to the refunding of money to the relief fund which had been paid for lumber and other building materials, until some'definite plan"for the final disposition of a the returned monies, as' well as-the dispostlon of the"surplus had been made with the consent- of' the majority of the beneficiaries. Mr. Herchmer, the successful candidate,', who is now, mayor, took the ground that the miners who had signed an agreement to refund the money advanced to them in monthly payments 3of $2for each hundred dollars received should be held for the fulfillment of .theii* contracts.', He'also'stated that ■he would'be in favor of extending the time of payment of any of ,the miners ' wlio wore unable ,to meet these monthly payments-if they:So desired. ,:.This was before, not after election, and subsequent developments shed a* rather lurid light upon' the ashes of- the great fire. ;'•' ' ;^''7 ' ; '* :'" "7 ■ The civic. election was held -on' lasjt -Thursday, 'and. it now appears" that Sherwood Horchmor, who is a, member -of-thc^relief-cpmmittee-to-yWhich-tjie. "distribution of the relief fund was delegated'by-the citizens, went to. ;tiie, manager,of the .Crows Nest Pass'Coal Company- and asked .that the amounts due from tlie miners on their so-called relief should be held.out of• theii; several monthly .wage accounts.'. Manager Hurd did not like." this procedure, deemlrig.it unwise, and a very unpleasant thing to do; but after consulting the. company solicitor, , Mr, H. W. Herchmer, it was* pointed out that a it was Impossible to disregard the -assignments and the amount of the pay- Branches throughout Canada, and in United States and England" BANK MONEY ORDERS ,, ISSUED AT THE FOLLOWING RATES ' - ' ' ;* • p?5 and. under ,.-.., 3c ■• • Over ,?5-and not exceeding $10..-. 6c - . . ' Over $10 and not exceeding $30 ..10c "" Over $30.and not exceeding $50;. 15c - ' These ■ orders are payable at par at every office of a. Chartered bank in Canada (except in the Yukon) and at the principal banking points in' the United States. They are negotiable at $4.90 to the £ sterling in- Great Britain and Ireland. ■They form an excellent* method of remitting small sums of money with safety aud at small cost and may be obtained without delay. H. W. TRENHOLME, Manager, Fernie. ROYAL HOTEL FERNIE HAMILTON A Savings Account will help you to save. Interest credited on deposits of $1.00 and upwards. . .. Bar Unexcelled Ail White Help . Everything Up-to-date Gall in and see us once 'i , \ C. W. DAVEY & CO., Props. Waldorf Hotel (In reai* of old stand) Table Unexcelled •i .1 * Bar supplied with the finest ■brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars MRS.-S. JENNINGS, Prop. o , (Formerly of Centml^Hotel) ments were held out of the miners' wages,' ' , . , ,7 *;• As rtbei*e has been a shortage of 'work at the mines, and the severity pf tho,weather, coupled with tho .fact that few.of the homes., are.finished, there nro. very" fow i of -the mon In n position to make payment.' In-one instance it is stated thnt'n'minor, with a family of oleVen, hnd'been nblo to socui'o but fourteen days work during the month of December, and after the deduction of uio six dollars from his wagbs, to meet Lho refund of his,aid, lie-had not enough loft to pay his grocery 'bill.' -ii.1 ,!.-;- As n result of this1 action of * tho commlttoo, through , Mr. Horchmor, thoro whs nn Indignation mooting of about two' hundred discontented minors on Sunday, at which vory strong language wns indulged. In nnd some drastic resolutions adopted. Tho first of those resolutions calls for nn Itemized account of tho receipts and (jxpondlturca of the relief fund, and nn auditing of tho books of the commlttoo by non-resldcnt nudlt'ors. Anothor ot tho resolutions Rtntos thnt thoro hnvo boon no plans for the final disposition ot thu remainder of tho relief fund submttod for lho con* sldorntlon of tho llro Biifforors nnd thnt In conHoquoneo thoro should bu no nioro refunding null! It Is definitely Imown whnt Is to he dono with tho bnluuco ou hnnd, iih well iih wllh tlio refunded building iidvuncos, Still nnotlior resolution culls for tho dlHlrlbiilon nt thn n-innlndei' of the fund to those for whom It wiih Intended, between now und thu first of Jim*.-, A committuo wns nppolntod to circulate these resolutions for hIkiiuIiiioh among tho llro aufforoiH nud to present thom to tho rollof commlttoo, nnd ♦n tlio ■prnvlnolnl fovornmnnt Thin Inst move hns boon decided upon In opposition to a movo that Is Hinted to bo under consideration to nstc tho gov* ornmont for legislation undor whicli n commission can bo nppolntod to nd* minlnter tho fund, In this connection mnny Hchemes linvti boon proposed for tho utilisation of tlio surplus. My. Horchmor. Hinted on tlio pint- form thnt. ll might bu n good thing to Invest tho money In a rocrention ground, or to expend It In boautlfylng tho comutery. OtlmrH thought, thnt It might bo imfld for Hldownlks nnd si rent improvemnt; but llm only proportion that might bo connldersd nt nt nil jus* tillable, wa« tlmt «uitR«st«d by ex-Mayor Tuttlo, thnt wlmtfivor aurplun thoro might bo could bo turned Into nn educational fund. Ev*i» this would bo a ■,.v.«!i»,on ol thftt* <i4iiUU>\nloim from The Original and the Standard You don't get an experiment—or an untried material—or merely verbal promises—when' you buy RUBEROID. All the experiments*-and tests were ' made * 16 years ago. You get perfection in roofing in RUBEROID. ■ 16 years' aervice on, roofs 'all'over, the world proves' that RUBEROID resists;all weather<conditions—-is unaffected by • , heat or cold—and is absolutely fire-resisting. and waterproof. You can roof thei'house and barn yourself with RUBEROID, thus saving expensive roofers' work. Write for samples and prices. Sold by Western Canada Wholesale Co. tho evident purpose for which thoy woro so freely donated to tho pooplo of Kendo from' a' vory goneron"*,' public'., which' seems to bo lost Right of In the controversy now going oti with pomo hent, More than $100,000 In-cnsli wiih received from the butsldo public, bo* Hldbs largo contributions of provisions and clothing nnd no ono could oxpocl' that ho much could be hnndlod lo tho satlsfiictlnn of everybody, nnd It mny bo tlmt Homo vory nnwlso stiggonilotiH have boon mndo, but tho commlttoo lo whom tho, management of tho fund'Iiiih boon outrun!od should lonvo no room for criticism, by making n coiuplulo Htntomont of nil Its transactions In dn- lull, not only for the wit Infliction of thoso who hnvo pnrtlclpntod In tho rollof, but. for tho HntlHfnctlon of thorn* hoIvoh nnd thu goiioroiiH contrlbutoiH, Nothing short of this should bo con- tomplntod, nnd nothing Iokh n'1!) ho iiccoptod by tho public Thnt ii dlHCUHHlon nn to whut should bo dono wllh lho roniiilndor of (IiIh fund Hhould hnve nrlHOti Imfoni u thorough stntonicnt of whnt hns boon din- trlbulod, |h iinforluiuito, nud out of plnco. Thoro In no doubt iir In tho Intentions of thu many <1oiioi*h to this fund, and It. will bu timo enough to iIIhciihh tho uhoh lo which any r-'Hlduo mny Input, nftor It. Iiiih boon found tliut no moro rollof of nny kind U nooded nnd Mint fi Tl ti'lin bevv, votillv hnen In nonil hnvo rocolvod a fair nlmro of It. It, Is nil very well to sny thnt this or that porson hns received moro or Iosh thnn n fnlr shnru but it Ib tho duty of tho commlttoo, which nccoptod tho tnsk. tn tee to It thnt. thin hns boon dono uh Hourly iih poHslblo, If thoro is n Hurplus It would soom thnt mi cqultnblt- division of It among thoso mont noodlng nnd doRorvltig should bn mndo, Itwtond of creating n commUnlon through which to divert tho lomiiliitlitr ot Dm lnnd Into clinn- nols not Intondod by tlio ilonoiu It Is stiiti-d that I hero Ih ii remnant nt n flro relief fund In the c|ty of Ht. John, N. H., which ylolde Juki enough in tin* ahnpo of InteroHt to pay the oxpcnun of n coiiiiiilHslon to ndnilnlstor it, — It was not the Intent ion of Iho donors to provide a soft job for anyone. ' .-.very dollnr of aid extended to tho pooplo of- Fornio was for the purpose of Immediate rollof, and if that rollof was more thnn might lmvo boon uecos* Hnry nl. tho time tho remainder Hhould bo UHod to mnko tho liomoK of tho Iook* ers'iiH comfortable through lho hovoi-o winter as.poHHlblo, Thoso littlo con* trovoi'HloH, which hnvo sprung up iih lho iohiiII. of loo much polltcnl zonl will roHiilt In good, If tho parties will bo lomporato nnd nol loso Hlght nf tlio object for which tho fimd wiih croul* od. Thoro hooiiih lo bo n growing ImproH- sion In Homo (-unrloni that this relief monoy belong--- to somobody, somo com* mliteo, or dolognto of u coininlltoo; or tlmt tho (Jliy of Funilo Iiiih, In Homo wny, bocomo Helmed of tho title nnd thorofoio It belongs lo thu city, lo bu hnndlod by hoiiio city official. IT BELON08 TO THE 8UFFER* ERS OF THE DIO FIRE WHICH 8WEPT THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE ELK RIVER, nnd Iho commlttoo dolognlod to dlHirlhuto It hnvo no Hliudow of r I j.; hi io dn anything oIho with It without tho rnniiontofnll tlirmo coiiooilicd, oxprosHod by vol*.*. Tho fuel thru thu commlUou exooodod llh uuthoilly In domiindliiK moiigiiKOH on tho wngoH of mliioni oxtoiidlng ovor yenrH of timo boforo icndorlng nld to thom tn votnttld tltnlr liniiuoH Iihh boon brought out. in thlH cnntrnverHy, nnd brliiKH up n nuoHtlnti which enn bo donlt with only by nil pnrtloH, nnd nny attumpt lo divorl the prococdH of such n contract Into othor chiinnolH without flrHt, ninldTifr, n full nnd lioml/cil nc- count of nil Hint hits boon done, will bo looked upon iih it groan vlointlon of tho IriiHt reposed lu lho rommlttoo by tho peoplo who fronted It, through the nulliorlly dolugnted to Mayor Tuttlo, not n« mayor, but as n cliUon of the dUiri.t. nftV('U<d liy llm gront Iln-, Tlio Htrlcturon of nomo of tho mln* "it* ruKtirdliiK tho ndmiiiiturntUm of tho old relief fund mny bo uncalled for, but It !« nn «tnnipIo of how auch things nru allowed to drng out n long oxlutoncc, providing work for some on.< HOTEL FERNIE ~" The~Hotel~of"Fernie~—L Feinie's Lending Coiiimercinl nnd Tourist House KING'S HOTEL Bni« supplied with the best Wines, Liquors and pifj*iu'N . DINING HOO.M IN CONNKCTION JOHN P0DBIELANCIK, Prop. QUEEN'S HOTEL Doing business in the same old placo l.lquoi'H nnd t%His of tlio IukIiohI (|iiality .*, Well ,>t(iL'kcd Imi W, R0BICHAUD, Pron, which la n grent nld tn whoever (« thei to look nfi.-r It, Ionic nftor the uocea- -ronimUtdou, but U U »(•(<• to nuy Umi,»Uy fin lu i.xUwih.- intM dlkitpptiitt-d. THE POLLOCK WINE CO., LTD. Wholesale Liquor Doalors ii A full stork in ii f.-w d.ij-i*. CLUB CIGAR STORE FERNIE Tlie 'inly rellnlde \Atu-e In town for choice pipe*, nnd tobacco W. A. INGRAM, Prop* ■■ ',-Siff V^-l. - lift *7*** PAGE FOUR . v-r^a,—.-.I*. •THE DISTRICT -LEDGER,- FERNIE, "B.C.-JANUARY-30.1909, \\ ,.*«,-, -a,. s Sfre Biairijd: foliger $1.00 a'-year in advance. Address all communica'-f i tions to \ the "Manager" District Ledger, Fernie B. G. 1 Rates' for .advertising on application. .j We believe, through, careful enquiry, that all "the ■ advertisements in this 'paper are signed by trustworthy persons, and to prove our faith by words, we will make * good to actual subscribers any loss' incurred. by trust- ■ ing advertisements that prove to be swindles; but we ,.- do not attempt to adjust trifling ■ disputes between . subscribers and honorable business men who; advertise; ! nor pay" the" debts of honest bankrupts. <,'" This offer holds good for one' month after the , transaction'• causing" ■ the complaint;; that is we must , have notice within that time. In all cases, in writing to advertisers say "I saw it ia The Ledger." W. S. STANLEY, . PHONE 48 . ^ y Manager. , WEBSTER'S Imperial Dictionary,.page, 1309,: RELIEF, The act of relieving, or the state of being- relieved; the'removal ih"*\vholo or in part of 7 any C ,_ t ' la ' J * ' evil or anything painful, oppressive .pi***.burden-*- some/ • ■ -' y,'- *,'■ ,i * -.; '„,., SYN.-rr-Suce.bi*,.support, release, extricptio'hV*alleviation, mitigation, aid, help, -assistance- .remedy,, redress; exemption, deliverance,"'refreshm'e'nt, com- <* ■(, . ' •- f ■ ;■/'•* •-.-*■' fort, consolation. -. •' ' iW--■■■-' ; ;!RELIEPFUL:'*a3iyingar"elief; able tp:.rcliev',. ; RELIEVE (2) To ease or deliver„-fr6,m, as any burden, wrong oppression, or iajustice,' by legal or legislative process or interposition. !;'(G)' To-raise to life again; (7) to give mutual assistance;to; to support. ■'■'.'", '-.-, ■' RELIEVER: One who relieves; ansagent'of relief.' , ' '- a ■' , Fernie Fire Relief Committee definition:^ RELIEF: To lend you something that is already yours by gift-from the people,,, and force "you to repay it, ....--.-ri- \y, ,.;-.,- *•••;•;-'■ >~. \, .-..■- ,■-,,,.,: . -, Lt 1 . I ■**• , :.y .... J.*, i-' in- WE PUBLISH elsewhere a complete listof the donations and the.names of the donors *,to the Re lief. We challenge the Relief committee to "write" to any of "the donators and ask them if they wish the money, returned ■; ," ■*". - ," WE WONDETt if ,the citizens who lately donat- ed ato the eaftliq-^lfOu*atere"rs~in-"Italyrwisb*—,the- mon'ey paid bact, ■ ,*«■-. ■ ,■■*....,* -,-. i. TUT-TLE BE ■ SURE ■ ind'- attend the ■ public '-meeting, to- ■■■*.■ * •'■•(, '?.' morrow after aoon to discuss the all important- question as tt* whether Relief is relief, or relief is .not relief. "■*■'' '*- >" '■■ ' "'■ --' ' WHAT is relief ? Ask the committee! have some rare ethical ideas. ;, They, CHEER UP, Maude, when'you DONATE any money ..to ,the Salvation Army in future you can demand repayment'according-to the Fernie Fire Relief committee. '•'■'' . THERE IS NO RECORD ON THE MINUTE BOOKS OF THE FIRE RELIEF COMMITTEE TO SHOW THAT ANY ASSIGNMENTS WERE. TO BE MADE BY THE SUFFERERS WHO GOT RELIEF (7) MONEY. We suppose Sherman is to blame for that .too. THAT RELIEF MONEY ONCE MORE Was the money that thc people from tho outside sent to Fernio intended for the purpose of creating a fat job for one or more persons for the space of six or eight years? We know i'or a fact that several of the contributor*-, have already stated, and stated very strongly tlmt they sent thc money here to bo given for tli** help of tho needy, Who gave the prem-ut committee any authority to act? Tlie original general committee did. And now Ilii*, committee alwolulely rei'tiHc to be dictalfd to by this general committee whom they claim docn. not exisr." The following ameiidiuciil to Mr. Ilerclmier's resolution which the majority of the •.■•iimiiitt*.**' (and plciiHO take milieu who the majority were, and remember the (.-lit'iio they represent) turned down, shows quite conclusively that the present committee wish to have complete control of.tlie affairs, so that they can do ns they wish with the money thai liolongs to the people: Amendment to llerchmer's resolution: That the ik..ilt(.r of thc di**po*,,'t'«*i ***■? th-* relief fund li« suit- j.ijikd to a reformdum \*<Mc nf lho tire HuflVrors. 1: Shall the money advanced for lumber and othor supplies be repaid i 2! Shall the funds now in hand be given to the, C**1y ll»r "tiltS illlpn-Ht-Sllt-l.,--*. XX, .-.'.•.■a.-a.'..., -via..? .1: Shall tlie funds now in hand be distributed L'y tnt fomnnttr-e to those )iow in need I The vote of the committee on tho nmcmliiu-nt resulted as follows« Kor: V. II. S.ii-rin.iii, T. Uigi;*. .AjjiihiHi • tt. ITm-niner, Readinpr, Pollock, Man* •soil. Mr. Herchmer, (who by the wny seem* to think tint be hns some extra divine or other connection Vfitb this fund and should act as spokesman and fonns-i)) stntft] flint supposiwor a vote of the people wa* called for, the inert who had received any benefits so far should not be allowed ot vote, Well fur cheek and prcs..i«*f>1ion that takes the biscuit. THE MONEYJWAS SENT.HERE FOR THE PEOPLE YET THE PEOPLE HAVE NO'RIGHT TO SAY WHAT DISPOSITION IS TO BE MADE OF __a> ' - .-■-' -*....-«■ ... >... '■■'... IT. At a meeting of the general committee appointed by the Fernie Trades and Labor Council held'in the little wooden shack in front of the Ledger Office on Wednesday' evening, September 30th last, the following -question*-*,, werev put to ..the..then Mayor, W. W.. Tuttle, wbom the Relief "committee very generously^sent to meet the T7and'Lr,•..committee'"': i "■' ■' y '•' - '■ "'■' "■ " v 1:.To ask. (not.demand) an itemized statement of receipts--and expenditures. 2:,To ask,why J. "Wilde was not allowed his seat-Jn place of F-. II..Sherman, who,.was-away and had arranged with Tuttle that'Wilde was to' be seated. - ' . ■ * •■;'.-,'.<'• 3:'.A request--(not demand)''that the secretary and treasurer be'bonded. ' " ; ' 4. That Ave ask (not demand) that two auditors be appointed. ..one fr-om4.be Trades and-Labor. Council. ^, ,.,..v .. -va--*^-.-. - -a*,"*.-- .- Th(j;.i'ollowing'answci*s)wer« olicitgd;from-'''Mr: Tuttle. after 111 ucli.Uong winded^speilihg had been indulged in.,..- -vA-..,--.. i. •,■ . .:-, ,-v ;■- ,?.- ■ , -a ' ■ tf- :Vf-';-a' *;--a . ''1 -■'-. \- • a,';i! "'7-In-answer'to' the'^irst-vequest Mr.-.^Tuttle -.giC'i'c his word -tb: tlie com initfee':-,' I! that' a*:'detailed. s'ta'te- nieiit would bo prepared forV-thc end.flf-theitiiontli! Ilc^stated that *he •inilerstood;,that|,ther'e'*alrie5L(ly was such;ti statement-ready, and that.'buihis rptiirn fro.iri.Spb.kajie;hd-.would,'s.**k handed tb the committee and also printed,,in; itJie papers." ■ A ■ , . .-"'vln'.'answer:'-to'-tlie'''second..query MR STATED "THAT IT WAS HIS OWN PERSONAL WISH THAT MR. WILDE SHOUI^.HAVE'BEEN GIVEN A SEAT BUT THAT HE WAS ONLY ONE AND THAT HIS COMMITTEE OVERRUL1!!!) HIS"';DECISION.r- He "stated that he did'.not -disagree with them FOR THE REASON THAT :HE WISHED TO, KEEP HARMONY IN THE RANKS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE'.'' ':"*' $..\ J. R. Galvin here arose and told Mr ."'.-.Tuttle ■■'that'as he was the chairman *'■ of the'committee, and bad been given absolute authority to .appoint men on that committee, he had also the power, and the full power'to fill any, vacancy that might occur in the ranks of the committee. Galvin ; further quoted legislative rules to show that Tuttle'should •hare' appointed' Mr:j"Wilde pro tenTat least." ■'", In answer to the third request Mr ....Tuttle stated '-that the treasurer had already asked tq be.bonded and that he" would present pur requests as'-'tothe secretary being bonded'to the committee.".'-'. *7' ''IN REPLY TO AQUESTION AS TO %HY the.relief^committee;refused TO MEET OUR OOMMITTEE MAYOR TUTTLE. STATED THAT^T- WAS AGA^T1HIS; WlteSv?>o ^ -y Mr//Tuttle'j last Week-denied (that .the Relief, .committee .refused'-io-meet ther committee of the Trades and- Labor-Council; -The' above'minutes,' taken^direct frbmithe files'of the'-Tv'aridli: Council prove thatVthe?'RELIEF?COMMITTEE DID RE-* FUSE TO MEET THE T. AND;L.; COMMITTEE! 'Why?;'- G6d knows'' ] ''/,_ lj,';:', ,■ *'.. "'".■ ' ' \ '' "Mayor 'Tuttle stated, that, he .would arrangd for the, committee to',get a'-meeting vfith-the execut-| ive in two weeks,-which willbeon October 15th."* MR. TUTTLE.DENIED THIS LAST WEEK- TO MR. WILDE AND GOT VERY EXCITED WHEN TOLD THAT HE HAD. WHY? , c Now then,.why have the Trades and Labor peo! pie, (whom both Tuttle and Herchmer claim to love) been' ignored in this manner/..1 Why was no; meeting called. Simply because'the committee did not want,any suggestions, or interference at all. ' ,. . .:-■-.,. -.- Then they have gall enough (excuse thc expression) to make a grand stand aiid heartrending appeal to "FOR GOD'S SAKE KEEP IT OUT OF THE PAPERS; DON'T LET THE PUBLIO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT OUR FIGHTINGS." Who nre these men? What right have they to try and hush mutters'up? Wc \vill snow them up, uo matter who it hurts. •**!»■■ -: ' '■};?■ 1 t";,'i ' '. i 5 ■'; ***•, *^ *\ - -'• .*-.•■ - to such* a? degree!,'as to excite* cbinment, also a certain amount of ■ well' founded suspicion. , .,. .4., ., ! Thaw. is*1 a Tmuxderei' and yet on-ithe-highway- to freedoni-^an acquitted man. c ... ;K:.:. The Hains-plotted-and carried into- execution a plot for.murdw-j—j-ei one^f,the principals goes free' and* the 'other lDrother^ma*y,f iiever'Have tb'cbme Hip for triaL ■-;l:li'ii*?iJ|)';({]^ 7i!^.il ' "' :" " "':' . Gompers,''Mitctfeu and'iibfrisori dared to'defy the right fditf.inljtoctibnfuie",''and at once the strong arm of the. law, seeks .to place them behind bars for sentences of various lengths with: absolutely '■ no '- J * I1-"* S -*— l '*l' ' ', ■*■*• ** *"- t 1 I , 1' ' Xl X '* , " j , * I ,-f , r* thought of acquittalj..such as was meted, out to, the,two previously.,me;ntioned.murderers.. . ;.*:• The., .whole. situation .appeals -to th'e -unbiased ^ thinker, as farcical in ;vthe, extreme. were in ,.not. for the stupendous results and precedents-attendant'.ou the outcome, of them all. Americans are'wont to scoff at,the,conservatism and.adliesibri to '"'well- founded principles of justice which are followed>iu British tribunals, and to,be egotistical over''theii*' boasted independence and freedom from restraint, but until,th't\','judiciary of the,.Republic-,can- fre-.- iiself from the, suspicion ..of lack of' consistent1 v with >yhich.it.ij3.'now surrounded,;the average Bnt-. islier will have no desire to participate in;the n*..w order of .things... -. ., ;., . , ■ • -.. --<:i>. -■ , ••■■..:. , .--:v., 1 * A REPORT .was spread that .a certain firm -had ■ made an assignment,here last week. ' There is.absolutely, no ground ■* for, the report at all, which seems to liave^-been .circulated with a deliberate-; intention to ,do harm. , , It is a'pity that-men* 'will*, stoop ,to spread, a report like tins even-for ess reasons,". ,/.,;. - * » , ■ ■ , - * : The;,Free-:Press admit' that unless vothers ^mentioned the-relief question they ^yer^going;tb*do as the ! relief ■ committee - was doing '' KEEP IT DARK;!-'-v*'! Since the public has become-'aroused" ; and; the-,*' "editorial mudsling^*3f the -.Lodger' with-, his!'onergbose'p6w dared to'firing to' liglit sbnie of'the fallacious ideas of the committee, the Ffee Press comes but'-witti-:some'fill-upvpenny-.-. liners, supposed to be*a-personabattack;,on:a,,cou- ,ple of gentlemen-olthe.:eity-.--.-:InTtheir usual >vay. they-shelve>the:main iassue and resortjto'tperspn- 'aiities\'whieh'j;have no bearing on^the!,m'*it'tef'-at' •^lL^'V^-v-'-iirH*'!^^ '$iW.*Y '- ' ' "*■ As;'to,'Tom Biggs!.and.l!)._H,"SKe.'cm,a'o, they.are_ above'rQproaeK'as far as.the,Relief:matter, is,concerned,, and..can rest- assured.that .the. general.pub-1 die'(outside ofrthe clique that is always opposed'to tiiem, "because 'they are' friends • of- -the laborers)* place more confidence' in them than;th'e] Free 'Press need ever'hope'to get'.''^'/'"' '1'.1:': :':."' '-"•-'•' ' *." ' "".■ There'is oiie'thing"that seems"fo hurt, tlie'Free'" .-Press..*-and«.their- measly ,50 suppprt*3rs, and that, is- thatythere-is 'such| a paper, as,The,Ledger,, even, if tli.e/.^ito-rjs '-V^nonentity. - >The same fact,both- .ers the- relief '-committee just, at; present., » Truth , iilw'ay^'dOes smart you know. ■:• * *. i:• ■• \- <>■'- .; it*r.>:-. i!*. ' " SPEAKING**of use's'to whicli'tl^'rem^nCaer of that relief money; might be put' it lias'been suggested- that 'it' would' be"a kifid act to'buy'fi iiew'sbt of brains for the'1 editorial'department of tlie "Fernie Free'Press.*"1'"1 ■ • «■■ . ■ • .- J-j *;>-?-j ? H 1 *' • f... nil . ▼: ?.. .,.'*- t FRED WAYLETT, Pron-ietov't :■!•■ I ♦ ;4' it f t t t I 9 : ;*i.-ja.--fi Victoriia i^i .'i-V. ' busin- W.E .underst-cind that thei-police. commissioners are going to* enforce..the laws, as promised -by Mr;' Herchmer. ,,-< This is. good news and we give'- the commissioners :and the Mayor -."credit, foi* 'tlieii*' , ,, " .. • -■ C.I stand. .-.'.- .- • - * -',-, THE following inscription was,noticed'bri a.C'. P...R7 box car that was in the local yards:—"The wages--'of sin is'death', but the wages of the C- P". R. are worse." ;' ■' ! * ,'.•'.-' .'.'"'''.SOMEof tlib'junemployed in Toronto'object to'' working four hours a day'fbr'a bowl of ^oup." The" ■nerve of'some of these workingmen is'certainly "an", awful! thing'.!,,, 11. Cb:6cola.tes ;!7 I ^■l *'.'. .;*<•:;-' 7 -,!.*..i-.' \l-.i i-.j-j :.9 .r*- ■ i': ,',; • -',-'-■.-.•u"'/ -i; > ■'■ ;- •%• iFresh.Fruits Daily- -,:„Iy .,-,,- ■;-'."ii-,.- :- ,' .r;\ , .|„-i.|> ,';., *(i-:»,-, *,J) ' ,"'-*<" * :'' * >-T Opp. Post Office i ;; THE FACT4that 970;persons signed.an "out of .work "list in Toronto, many of whom are'actually on the'verge'of starvation, would, make encourag-. ing news for .the so-called elite of that city, -who , at- this, season,- of the" year are, spending thousands of*dollars on at homes, afternoon,teas and bridge, "and other forms'of■ wasteful amusement. - .-..'.: THE DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN FORESTS The disastrous results whicli must follow upon the rapidly spreading destruction of the forests of .the .east slope of the Rocky Mountains has engaged the attention, of the Dominion government,'- and ■ last year - an ■ investigation into local-conditions was commenced, with*a view to devising regulations''such'-as( would'permit the full ■Use7of_alLresburces' while ■' preventing devastation and' waste; '"' * J"r"^*r-r* .The investigation is'by nb means complete, yet the-section of the country already covered—the valley - in whicli-the Crows £Jest. Railway*rwis,, an. area' of .some 204... square - miles—, reveals' a most-serious*state pf:;af-, fairs. _ '",.-••,. , ■ ■•■ ',,--.--.-'.? • Fffteen years ago '184 -square' miles out of. the 204';C9mprislnR the district were'covered''with heavy'-fir forest.* To-day1' there' are, only ; 39 ' miles •'' ot standing-' timber. ' ■ Nearly,'-' 80 ;'per cent, of tbe merchantable timber of the region has.been Irretrievably,lost through,fire'.. ,', Further than.that repeated ' fires'/have destrlyed even the- capacity., for tree growth In one third of the 'total,area, killing the second and third growths,' and leaving ,t 60 miles, of bare.gravelly waste,' utterly unproductive i- ■" That these conditions aro typical of tho entire eastern slope is not to be doubted' for lumbermen who have investigated, conditions at tho-sources of the Saskatchewan and Athabasca rivers, ostlmato that, not ten per cent, of the forested area Is to-day; standing tlthbor. A conservative estimate of the loss by fire in the Crows Nest valloy alorio Is four hundred million feet of lumber ln loss than fifteen -years. If a similar waste has occurred in tho other-*fIftoon, hundred* squarb milea of tho east slope which is entirely probable, tlio loss to tho-country hns boen almoBt lncalculnblo.-rWinnipog Froo Press. WDRK1NGMEN;S CLUB One to be Started Here Soon- Enthusiastic Meeting THREE DECISIONS RO88LAND WINTER CARNIVAL For the above uy^ut lo Uo liulil Trub. 2nd to Oth tho'Canadian. Pacific Railway announce a rato of fare anil ono third return, fidiots on snln from Fornio lind Wost, Jniiuary 31st. to Fob. -1. - Final rotum* limit Fobvuary 8. ■ Henry Douglas of tlie C, P. It. freight staff left last Saturday for Winnipeg where ho./ntondH visiting' Messrs, Kurd and Simmon** to nrranpio about bringing Imclt anothor citizen for Fornio, All the staff wish lilm ovory Buccosfl In Ills now entoriirlso.' Wo aro nil vory plonsod to hoar tlmt Mr, T. A. Bishop will bo tho next one, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES. Three deeisious from \11riouH hranoht-H of tho United Stntes judicinry of compiirntively recent date, viz.: The Thaw Vurdiet, The Ilnins Verdict, nud the result of the trial nud,sentence of Gompers, Mitchell and iMdiTinon rom-n'i'-'c throo more links in tlie chain of evidence which hns of recent yeafs threatened to undermine nnd cat into the very vitals of a H.VHtiMit of just ice, lieri'toi'oro supposed tu be free from tlio thraldom of monetary eoiiHidorji- tions, and the vory aloofness of which from all ulterior interest h formed thc lceyntono of tho fabric of an impartial diKpcusiition of justice in the bind to the south., Tho Thaw ciikc, with all its attendant filth and iiMNlin.w*, wi*H pimidt'd before the public until the perflon with oven tho most rnengrc information, All mombort. of iho Frntonml Order wOd »ot do»bt th. guilt *t tho Prl8«nOT, nov ,v»« ZSP^Tttl-Tf-ftZ it ever denied evon by the deleuHo itbeii, that Thaw killed Stanford White. lii» eoni'inement in an insane asylum and tho subficquont appeal to be considered shortly, will doubtlest* make him once more a free citizen of the land'wtioHC lawH ho ho grievously digressed, Tho Ilains eauc, of moro recent date, but in many essentials a similar one, provides new scope for tho legalizing of murder, and the encouragement to that fast growing belief that it is safe for any pcr»on to f-0 out and kill providing he has the ingenuity to form a plausiblo defense. Thc cane of the Lnbor lenders, who hnd uftVnd- ed no written law, who had conspired to injure or kill no ma|i, but whose only offense was a refusal to obey thc ipBi,dixit of a hitherto practically unknown judge, forms a comparison so striking that even the wost f-xtenunting circumstrtne.'i* fail mis.- erubly to suggest any reason or cft.wV> why thi-so ili-cixioiiK should differentiate one from the other O. I', 100?. UUll Ull i'liai(a>, I'li'utUuLi ll'.'.., W. a. K13AY, Socrotary A meeting of, the ^yorl';ers >as held on Tuesday night for,,the purpose ,.of forming a-workingmen's club-and in- stltute.-' There' was a' goodly; num- ber present and > ■'persons!~Tvvho~reaHy meant business. ■'-'-•-• ■],' Mr. F. Woodyard was voted'to the chair and' gave 'a-little1 of his'experience* in' connection-with clubs in' the old country and also in the States.-He' advised the; starting of- & club in Fernie', ' because; he ;' Btated- that .it." had a great Influence "on'Hh'e young, for their uplifting and advancement in life. He expected-that if the club was formed. that1 it"would be a' boon to,' the young people and-also to the families of this town, who at present had no place to go but to the saloons, -■* Mr. L.- P. Eckstein addressed.- tho meeting at somo length. 1 He stated that he,had had.some' such project as this in. mind fori a long* time, and he had seen the necessity > for forming a worKingman's club and, Institute, not solely for. tho selling of intoxicants, but for having a rootling room, whero all tho nows of* tho outside world and all the best periodicals could bo road and enjoyed. Again; some men cannot settlo down to a good book, but would like n gamo of billiards or pool, others would liko a gamo' at clieckors or dominoes 01* cards, nnd all these should bo looked to. . Somo mon will drink, and If they would drink, glvo It to them at a reasonable price, so that thoy will havo something loft for thoir families riot aB at present whon a man goos Into a saloon, If his monoy is not all spent, ovor the bar It Is taken from lilm by tho tinhorns that, are around, Mr. EcltRtoln strongly advised tho formation of such a club and If ho woro-permitted ho would become a mombor. , •* Mr, Shermnn nlso spoke nnd advised thai there wns no timo llko tho pro-, soiit to form n club, nnd promlsod his mcmborslilp nnd lnfluorico for tho good of tho club, Ilo thought lio could got a fow volumes of good books with which to comnioiico tho library, and of courso ho Bald that a' gymnasium would 1)6 nocoHsary nlrio. Mr, Shorman clnltnotl thnt tho aim should lio not only to ilovclop , tlio inonliil, but nlso the physical powers of tlio young mon, . Others prosont spoke onlhuHliiHtlcnl* ly of tho commencing ot tho club nnd tlio good thoy know It lind dono in plncus whoro thoy had lived, Mr. T. IIIrrh wns elected secretary, Tlio club was formed and signatures taken nnd monies promUod. An In* Itlatlon foo of $5 was llxed and a commlttoo of 12 nppolnted as iol* lows: T. t'rh-U. r,n*'** Vneee. .T Wll'lf*. W. nirUcnuon, T. Clilfipondalo, F. Shaw, J. -Dudley, l». Atkinson, T. II. Wruy, j7Parker, F. Woodyard,'president, T." Biggs,1 secretary. .7 7;.'!" * The charter list is left, open for 30 days and. all those wishing to . join can do so, by applying to the secretary^ or. some member, of the committee. • ' ; '". ■ -7 ,.,' Workingmen,; get * in at once and help this thing alohg-^it is-for your benefit:. . , „ „--.'r -..*,'.. ,. M;^. Easthep SCHOOL TAXATION ;Fire, .Lifer Plate, Glass1; ,..fi and Accident 7 ,-v' Insurance1 ■ ■••<!,; : * •- I- . . Xt:'.' ■ > **.-.,- ■ • Property For Sale in -'v all parts.oif the ■r": ! '":/i7citv'i;uI'iU'" "J V''* Houses -Foi .R;/£';*N-;:.T. Agent' , ' '<o"-"/\ New Oliver Typewriter Machine given out "on trial No Charge Mason & Risch Pianos / —-.Ar-the-resuit-oft-the-discussiQU-ot what is • acknowledged .to be a sore point in school administration -in- Brit-, Ish' Columbia,' a deputation from-< the Provincial Association of-School -Trustees; which met recently at Revelstoke, .is at.-present...at. Victoria to urge upon the government the advisability-of conferring oiiiBoards of Trustees, power to-.levy rates-for:'school purposes instead - of- having , recourse ,to the city, councils as at present. Tho course which, the .deputation will now urge the.provincial government to-adopt in this matter has frequently.been advocated in these columns as a necessary; step.* towards' .the - complete freedom of education and a means of simplifying thb situation,between the school boards and the city, councils, - As matters -stand at present friction between - tho school board and <■ the City Council in any community may almoBt bo regarded as a necessity of the situation, since the City Council, without control of the expenditure, is called upon to hand out the monoy, which the* school board may find it necessary to expend during tho year.' That heat should bo generated bo*! tween two bodies so situated that' movement on the part of either results, in friction, Ib inevltablo and it is1 In complete accordance with reason and common sense that thoir relative positions should be relieved. If tho total amount required for school purposes wero raised by dlrdct. levy, tho council (J simply furnishing tho machinery for'g* collcctlon, tho responsibility of tlio ^ trustees would bo much moro nppnr*,1 _ ont and the complcto Indopondovico of the council which tho prosont laws aim to glvo llio board. ' '■ • Twonty years ago iln*) monoy spout on education In the province ', was raised by tho-provincial govornment but time- brought modification of a ,system which wns only -Justified In faco of conditions 'that'woro merely tbmporary lho 'request which Iho school trustees association Is now mailing for further modification of tlio method of rnlslng monies for school purposes, besides bo* Ing jiisllflcd by 'irocodoiit In Hie old country, and, to a lessor oxtont, in llrltish Columbia; goes up to tlio provincial Houso with the full weight of a solid publio oprnlon behind it, ?.«•.**.- i' i h JMI**/:--'"1-?*^ Sn vest merits ■j .1 fu r. . t 1 -w . : - v I ■ are not u But here is; one that will be Practical Economy Profitable Results 1 '" { .* a' By buying your Bread, Cakes and Pastry * from EFFECT OF HOME YRAININO ON i ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ You will Say Is it Possible ?? Tlmt T wm buy 'ohoioo fruit lands with 11 good water Hiip^ly, within 30 mile.H of Kevnia., on thu iiwUillmunt plan, Such easy payments aro not -nttbred by any othor coinpanyv Write for circular on ''Kootenai Irrigation Tract" LANGUAGE It is oxcocdliigly hard for llio ton- 'chor's'nt'a preparatory'sCltool to ovor- como tho lnfluonco of homo training when this training has"had a bad of- Wo vuntiirc to' thlnlt thnt fact on a boy,' Por Instnnco tnko tho cubo of a boy who hoars continually at homo tlio- phrnso "I dorio It." Tlmt boy will bo obliged'to mnko a conscious effort ovory timo lio substitutes "I DID"- for "I DONE." Ami ho will fronuontly Blip back into tho old ways In moments of oxcltomoht. *"*■ Ono curious phase of Uio situation in this country is tho fact that boyB whoso pnroiitB nro Imralurants, and who como to this country whon vory young lmvo a bottor chnnco of learning'good English than tho nativo boys blu-al* uy, lit uviuU nuctt. ii„i I.„i'- U-sJj J* m^icnii. ' Thin ia 'ifluf to' ibc* fact that tho Immigrant boys bavo qo> bad English to unlearn. A» t-oon a» thoy arrlvo horo'thoy at onco'go to school and are carefully taught good English* henco thoy should grotv up speaking that. SOCIALIST TEA •D. W. HART, (ARt. forcmtmtft, Baynes, B. C The Socialist' party gavo a vory flno concort nnd loa on Wednesday ovoning lu Druccs lialI. A vory polasnnt timo was spent,by nil. . Tbo following wutt u.ii yt*it,.ut,i i^ii?.i;iS ".ftcr "."V.U-V, ti rtnfifo vitte, be\A, for whloh * Camp- boll's nrchastra suppltod oxcollont music: ' '" V, " Clialrnmn'fl reninrJfs. Cornet solo: March; Mr, A. Paton, Recitation: Dlshop and tbo Cntnr* pillar: SV. Owtiii. Song; comic: Following* fathers foot steps, J, T. Puckoy. Kncoro: Farmer Giles. Song: Doar old Homo, and oncoro, Mrs, Simpson. Cornot solo: Miss Lottlo Gray. * 8onK;' Coiuolatlon*. W. II. Evann. Song: Holy City: Gladys Hughes. Song: Stop your tld-lln-**.: by W. Otvcn. Song: Mrs. 8otcbfle1d. Song: My Daddy's a Gentleman; J. T. Puekcy. Recitation: Tbe Collegian and tbo Portor: Mrs. fi. J. Dicker, Bong; in tUt* BUkdow ol tbo rtatiu: Wm. Schoflald. Song: Big lien: T. Dlggs. *> Lama Shoulder Cur«d I.anm ahouldf-r Is usually caused by rhoumatistn of tho muscles and it •jiili-laly ylpldB to a tew appllratlnnn nf Chamberlain's Pain lialm. Mr*. F. H.'McElwoo of nolstown. Now Brunswick, writes: "Having been troubled Cor some timo with * pain In my about- d«r I AettteA to glv* CbamtserUtA'fl Pain Balm a trial with the rennlt that I got prompt relief.' For sale by all druggists. l,# 1' re I - . I- ■I, *: 1 '--a V "*'■" ^-."-"f 'A" ■' v:;-••.-■(•■'n.--v ' .; -,-■■•. .' 1 -..j. ..j.. - I *.- 3 '--'1 14 "if *i fi h" Sf. 3 *?-".- - -a. —,^^,,-^.^A* •-*-■ - • nr.**.-7,| '■k-v7.:-'J-'^^id'3*il-;'^;[1V,i,*rc) ■)/ VyyhWl-lf ii..&'» Oi:;-!:l: {;{'!, "■"t-fflf' it*< *j|-{ l •l \ --*,- The Official Organ .of District No. IS, U. M. W. off A. ... '"$•$ 3 ; .-.7--, ir. ',?i•}'.>cfl-*■*t.1'*-.? '-- . ■-■'■-'.:-.; ■'■ -• ~ ' >-*■■•-■"•' !;«- ' '\~'»"' Fernie, B. C, ,< Ja.nna.ry \ 30th, 1909' •ant,3 af-,.*iO «.-;<» ■•■*,' '••■- '.",iyu-u i;Cu. . ■; ,Sv> • ('iti^i-i :£ ••!}: ."*. i l-HST—8F DONATIONS : f - '■ t, - -"" "* *' ' - " " -"—-,—■■: ~" ,»•;•'*. jajt»*,.„ -at-'J J , "'...-■*..- l - if. -•-•■ ')■? - *. ' -.t-fjt r {'.,.,. ,. .'" „ 7 i .--Jyr-.'-M-.' .~'y-,i: .£/'• : .;.-< >f, .vV J. !/:-••■,* >*!>a; -4a.l ., f .i ,l-l- a, ^"aila.!-,?-; j 1 rt»a^r 4.v7.^.r.vl ,,.'.. , . .. Do ^anyi-of^rthese people iiv^ijh'UjifKH^IUiii ns i.' wish; the moriey fettirhed ,.,->£'!*:'!t>*J ii: MR. \y., S.,. SIBLEY, {ESfJ.,-. 7 Dea'r''Sir::tReferriii'g'tb,y6ur lett'er-'of- Jan. 26th we beg to say that we will endeavor to have the complete list of donors in .your hands' in .time for publication iii this.weeli's issue of your"paperT"""Wltli'regard' tb~'tlie"itemized stat* { ment we beg to advise that the. committee hns j authorjzed an audit to be miule,by Mr'. B. B.1 j M^erriiott, Esfl'.f'pf N^lsojt.ftfndj w^ien this is j completed'wewiirfurii'lsh you with a" complete \ itemized statement for* publication.!' » ° „ Yours respectfully. ! """"FERNIE DISTRICT'FIRTD"RELIEF FUND,-™*" :■-*•*.*■ •=-„•-.-■■:r-.-.-:::r.-:T.(perJt.-R.-.Webb, Sec.J . FERNIE, B. C.'Jnn. 27 Tfi0*l|s6;bf49\ipp.lieis shows.only the full cars received," there was a largo amount received by express and freight in smaller quantities,'' but on account.ofv, the, great ju$h. at the time thero .was riot* a* cdrnplete'recoVd kept, of same. On behalf of those who suffered in tho late Are the committee wish to.extend their... .very hearty thanks* to'the public for their generosity in subscribing to the fund, also for the large amount of supplies sent, * ' , Vo'iirs respectfully,. ' '.'"FERNIE1 DISTRICT'FIRE RELIEF COM. (per R. R. Webb, Secretary.)' *, ——— t ( Supplies received.by the Fernie District.,.Fire Relief Committee'in car lots. , Spokane, 2 cars provisions, tents and other • Supplies.1 - *--*■■■•' -J'-'A '-■■■.":-iC'V. : --'-'Kali6peU,.Mont„".-2 cars ..provisions and clothing. - ' . ' ,-.,.' . .Butte, Mont., two cars provisions and clothing. , Great Falls, Mont., tv.b cars provisions and clothing. ,. ^ : Cranbroolc, provisions, clothing'and other sup- '•plies, two' cars'. "" : " New Westminster, provisions and clothing, two cars. , a , „ 7 '/< ■'. "' Vancouver, two cars provisiosn'and supplies. WesURobson, 1 car provisions and supplies. Kelowna, 1 car potatoes. ' ' Grand Forks, 1 car supplies .■*,-, Trail, car matresses, blankets and clothing. * Nelson, 2 cars provisions, blothing, hay and oats..-, .-. ■ -.'■'. v. " ■7-i ■ .,- - Edmonton, 1 car oats. ' .»,.--. K Strathcona, 3 cars hay, oats, brari and shorts. Calgary, 6 cars provisions, clothing, tents, blankets.'-mattresses, flour and other;supplies. Pincher, four cars hay and 1 car flour *.... Nanton, 2 cars hay. o "• ."' ■ Cowley, 1 car.- hay and-1 car.supplies. ., Lethbridge,-2 cars provisions and bther sup-, =*:iplles. -: * :- -' --■■ ■ - --- i ■-- •""•-' I. .y„ - High-Riveis^car^hayiand^atSail. •ari'proVls'- ions, and'.siippliesliW;' *1 i?A?1 ,'.t T' " Medicine Hat, 1 car. oats, and oth-ir supplies. Moose Jaw 1 car flour.'' "■ ' " .-..Regln**,.l.car.floiir.-„.,- ,„w,„ .. . ;* Winnipeg, 1 car flour aiid dtlie'r supplies. '{Liat of subscribers to the Fernfe District Fire ■•' I'i-'f/.'-'ii; ,•-,)-,Relief,'Fuhd;*!? phoenix .$500.00 ilohtreal'Board of Trade,.*.. ..■.-...... 5000.00 ; J. A. Roy .'..' ...-;.'.'■';{...!;."..7:-.-..'.. 100.00 Berlin .' ',; 200.Q0 :'Red Deer ..-.. -..'ir-;:..'..•..*■.'.*,..'... "100100 •Prince Albert ', 500.00 Kingston ;. -200:00 'McPherson Shoe Company ,.,-. '.. 100.00 ,J. L. Cassldy Co'. ■A. E..Trltea;'..?,-,v;. ' Soo ..'.'.; ";.'. ..*.' .. "Spokane Elks;*.".' .,.' Erie City Iron Works Woodstock;,',-*. .*... ;*...;. . National "Red Cross '*., rH. L.' StovenB. ... ' Daley .Red .Company * R. '. Ironsides „Hudson Bay Knitting-Company 25.00 100.00 60.00 100.00 200.00 200.00 1000.00 100,00 1000.00 ■100.06 100.00 Vancouver subscriptions 4000.00 St. Johns, N. 13 *,. 1000,00 Mnson Rlsch Plnno,Company *....'.. 100,00 Trail, B. C ; 212.25 D. Lowe ', '...'...,',,..'.'.*.,... 5.00 Forrest, Man., a.v..■....*,., .. 100.00 Novth Vancouvor ,..'... ,,", IfOO.00 'Victoria TradoB and Labor Council ., 10.00 .St.*'Johns church-..., ,,.£. .23.25 "Ottawa 2000.00 Laggnn ,;v ;,-.*-.-;*..v*.";.* - 30.20 ■ii ': ■ ' i i ■■ >. Lake .Louise Chalet. .. Edmonton .'*..ti, .-pin-y/i.-;. Methodist .Mission, Nicolet ... "Medicine' HatSlercliants'Bank Calga\*y,; Merchants bank 'Methodist'cliurch, Michel ,. St. George's church, Irvine ...;. "Cochrane^!. .,"■'.*'.-.;-'.'. _ Manitoba Gypsum Co. Montreal, .Rolling Mills Hiunllto'tf' Powder Company Jeffrey .Mafg. Company ....- Ar"Baniatt"-;'.-v'rrrr-'':";-;'.'"." Kindergarten class. -Cardston ... R, S. Wilkersori,'Friciul Fort William Theatre .,.- -IIIlDnifet."--Bnptist- church Cnlgnry Hardware men '.".. J. M.,-.Phillips -.-..-.. Hlllynrd ... ' Lacombe : Trail •-•.v.'.1'.' : North Vancouver X" R\'-&""'irCo.",""L"ethBfidge :."..'-.' Friend i'.r.'l i...:,'.. U Lethbridge theatre" -.. .... Crannon ...,„.....,..., .:.'... W'.-'GV.'WMte'*.':'.V.". Saskatoon Vei non ., ....,.-.',; Friend' 7 . '*' *H.- L;- Loviring"-.": .-.--.--..-r.v....'".. Ri-P.-Davy-. ..a* *..'..'.. The Ogilvle'Flour Milli ..* Revelstoke ■' *Ai'-'G;.* Johnston .*..- .•'-•/"■ E. A. Morris Mrs. Fernie '. Canadian Rubber Company ,..,.... Jv A. McDonald,-Winnipeg ..... Rev." John", Fernie' ,.-■!-'.• Vancouver.. Chinamen.-...- '.'':: J-. Souris 7 ,. Portage La. Prairie ,.,..,.., .'. J. P .x Hartman '...'«.'.."..' Camrose .Winnipeg, Driving Club 7 -. .- Medicine, Hat''... ". ". H. S. Suede Banff ; Princess St.'Church, Vancouver . T. Crahan -. •.'-.'. Waterous Engine r W'orks Versey '...,.... .--._.'.-;. ..*'. Saskatchewan .':'":"..'"'.- '.'..'/:. Winnipeg .. ... .'.......: Spokane Chamber of- Commerce , James J'." Hill -....;., Wm;,-Fernie?-.., Taber 1>-\:*-.':. - ■*-/;':':- .7- Vancouverv Portland Cement Co. , KetobfWge* -'^■jV^-'-^.* v.- Kaslo ': <T. ■■:<:.- :.~T~T.. .-.. .ttttt Vancouver.City,; Bank of Montreal, Calgary Sub. Niagara Falls, Ontario 7 J. H. Grant T'.-Eaton .*., '-.}/. ..-.;\ '.'...';:. I PhilliRS &. Wrlnch. -.-: Hamilton'■.',.'. ■..'.'. .. .;' ;. Geglns ... ... ... ... '..'.'' Toronto ... Calgary subscriptions • .7 Cobalt ,, Coleman',' Alta.' **-.",. V .'* .* .; Carman, Man ,. 'Blenheim,"--;:.- /■ -;•'■"-.'?;-"-7. ;*'.. ... Ontario governn. jilt , Lord' Strathcona .;. ... Victoria '7.T :.".' ... Vancouver Club v-....- .... ...... 'Itodysmlth-';,-.' ■ .'■■ .•;,.. Quebeo ...... Golden ,.........: Grand Theater! Victoria A, T. Larkln Snndon .'., .- at-." Todhuriter ';...,...... ,D. 9. Crystal Isabel Roue '. Nicolet' ... 7. W. E..Hayes Dan Stewart ,. F. W. Johnston Cnlgary Commercial Travellers Canadian Cnnnors .. ........... Friend ,,, Friend m , ...... t Crane Lake ,' Belleville, Ont , 'JiV, i 83.00 ■709/10** .12.10 - ^O'.-OO 29.00' . 13.00 " 10.00 23,00 25.00 -100.00. 200.00 100.00 no. oft -4 s. oo 20.00 :.i.6'i .. 36.25 1CS.00 100.00, 230. (10 ITo!00 Nanaimo ; iWidow, Fort Willinm'.. Sympathizer '- Prince Rupert Kaslo ..Miss G. W.orthington ... JJames', Dn'vle'....,...-.'... -3i\ ;,W. Herrlndeaii ... Lewis' Hall, Victoria ... Roseiiale -.,.. ..." ' .',1'illewach .... ... ... Alberta' Gra'n Company Vancouver Maccabees . Peutlctoii'-.V.**" .*'.'. :.'.. W. B.. Jackson ...' New Deliver" .. 200.00 .: :4,,*-00'.lOO .';,',, 5.00 . " '9-5.20 ..'"'" 89.'00' ... v p.'OO .. 500.00 .. 500.00 .,3.00 .. , 25. (00 .. •■" "5.00 .. -1000.00 .,v.--.12:00 .; • ,10.00 :. ' so.oo ..* ■ 100.15 ... . 100.00 .. 100.00 *..- " ,-5.00 .17.60 .. 100.00 .'. • 300'.00 25.00 .. 100.00 .. '!: 25.00 50.00 .;. ' 6.00 .. 300.00 .. 350.00 hi * 100:00 ,..' 100.00 7 ? 5.00 ,.\-':-2ooo: 30 .. 5000.00 ... 500.00 ,..*.- 5000.00 ... 500.0-') ... 500.00 .... 400.00 ... 1000.00 rr^ oOOtOO ... 5000.00 '..' "*563;00 ..." ' 200.00 .;. ' 100.00 .■-.''■•■1500.00' j: ..;..,-.- 25.oo .'..-,- '500.00 .-.,'.. ,,-,500.00 ... 5000.00 ... • '500.00 ... 100.00 ... 100.00 ...-• ,11.00 ...' 17.00 ..- 5000.00 .... 5000.00 ...'"1000.00 ... 214.50 ... 500.00 ... 1000.00 .'.. 800:00 ...'• 32.00 .*.'. •*■ '5.00 ... 310.00 -5.00 1.00 5.00 ... ■ .50 5.00 50.00 5-.00 25.00 ... -. ,50.00 1.00 1.00 .,..- 23.00 ... 100.00 9S2.T5 1.00 ••• 1.00 800.0*1 'SS'.QO ' 5. On 10.00 • 10.CO fid! 50 50.00 200.00 50.00 10.00 176.05 10.00 126.00 , 25.00 '102,00 22.25 " 5.00 'r 50.00 77.50 20.0"! ' 38'. ^ ■■• 9.70 *'i:;iIpeg-,Paint and Glass Co. ';.'.'■..". Field"".'.".' -.....'.* '■ Casades J. A. Lancaster ......'..-...'.;.*.. ..'•.. Great West Permanent Loari&' Saving- Mission" City i..'. '...'...-',...'.'. .■*.'.'.. > Harsoque Mfg. Co. .;..,.....,..,.,,.,..., 'Nakusp -.:■.*■ .-.-.* ... ".*.. '.'...".'"..*.:'.V."' Miss. Podley,', Dublin1 iv. ' :\:.<ir...'.;' Medicine Hat . 7 ...;.; *.,**...., 23.00 500.00 *' 50'. 15 ■ 264.00 ' 828.25 '•''• 66.00 500.00 , 40.00 ■ ' 5.00 •' 10.00 1000.00 100.00 . S."50 Port 'Arthur .777: Mrs. H.. Scarf.,.: '-.!■.'"...'. ..*'.'...'.". North Star Mining Co and employes., Coleman, Alta;1 ,.,..,..... — Merritt,.;.. ...-; . .* .....'....■*.'.. Grand Forks ... .'.;-.'.../.'..'.'..':' Mt. 'Lealiman" .':'.". ..-:..-. - *.., G. W. King, Dauphin - W. 'B. Van, Eggmond ..: Lake of the Woods Milling Co.-.... Ingersoll Girls Aux. St. Andrews church..... Ladies Aux. Bro. Trainmen Medicine' '-' Hat '.:*.-' '.'■.."". '..* -.•.*.;, Masons; Whitewood Japs,', Northwest"... ". .' — I. O. O. F. Port Arthur .........:'.' W.* H. !Tlffen ... ... Wardner, B. C.- 10.00 25.00 94.70 25.00 ,,2.00 152.00 Spellamachene : :... 100:00 H. Aspmall-..7 ..- .-.:'..-. 5.00 Medicine Hat ...' 10.00 R. C."Clark :'. ,.. " 5.00 Shuswap .'...77..' .-.'". 100.00 T. H. Hoven', '.'..-. j .-• 15.00 Dean," Quetie'c' and * others , 30.00 Portage La Prairie *.''",' 200.'00 Employes Nicola Valley Coal and" -.:-'. Cbkfe' .'Co/,:1 Middlesboro ....'.'.'..".* '200.00 Glelshen-.; .:.'..:*...'.:..'.- 100.00 Calgary '*.'.-. .'..-...' .:..-;'...■< 2600.00 Employes Western Fuel Company.... •■ 600.00 Union Brewing Company i... • 25.00 W., A, Letcher ..'. ........"...- • 5.00 Prescott. ' .' '..:.."'.100.00 Banffff ...'.'.': '; '..;....,- .'71.65 -Ro'sedale—.- ^—Ji..:.-.I.-.-.:.._.'.,7.'.' ' 50.00 Glac'e Bay .'.'.-•'..::; .77T;.'. moOOTOO" ■■Nicolet' .;. .-.:- .4. :.'....:.-.':.■;:-y. - 250.00 Blenheim .-.«.,.--.. .-.*.. .•;'.'-.." v;. .•."-• J'8.50 Victoria Board of Trade ...-.•:...-..:>;•=■ 3000.00 .Ladysmlth.-;*.'.'- .-,;-. d-. ..ii,-,- 7,00.00 ■)-...,'... i..,,'...,. 'i-,21.,00. ;..'...' - 5.00 Carmon Miss L. Duncan.. ..............'. Golden :' ' .-. Friend . . .' .*..•..'..;....*,.: In His Name,*;- ... .: , Cardston t ;,....:.'.'.'.' Berlin Christian Endeavor Society Mile Stone>....-.<,...-.. ;... Daily News Sub.* Winnipeg ... .' Quebec '.7.- i C.alaary Brewing Co. ,...,. Carman. . .,., '. [-a-- Boden",'... 7,. , '......': ...,....'..'. 7.'..., Edmonton .'...,". ...'../ 7 .vi.'.'.. 7' Bobelstine' &' Company ;.' ..:../..". '/- New Westminster Municipality of JSurbanby :. .- Pentictoi . ..:'.;-.-■ •..■.■ .- Brownfiaid ... .•.*......:.: , R. E. Boden Regina .... , '..,.., Phoenix. ' '.*..' i?randoii Times ',......., Oxbow,'Sask. '.:.'... .' '..'..-.: St.- Marys church,'Calgary '.'...-.'..."." Forrest, Man; .-.'.-... ..- .•..:.' Nanaimo' ..: •. .*.• ... ...>...*■..;....' Home Bank ,..v -...:. Canadian Pacific Railway Co. ....,--. Canadian Bank ,of Commence ,"..'7.., Hi C." Coppock1'. .* ... ....,"...;. 7'; Summerland -,. i ,...'....'.."'.'■..'.! .Manitoba ,Free" Press' '.:' '.';!........ Balance from' Cranbrook Relief fund Windsor'....*..'.. ..:. ....;'....-..' * Kamloops ; . .'.-> '.; ., .-;.',...;..'.'.-,- 1. M.-. Phillips,, r. '. , CoquiHeri B,,C .,,....,.... Christian Endeavor", Berlin,,"Alta— Leduc, Masons.'.'.'..,'...' *. '.,'• Haney and Hammond municipalities.'*.' Red, Cross Society•'■'-..-. .'■ .'..- '.':.'.." Local Mine Workers of America Lille Flshburn .' :• ■;'. Twin Butte , .-..*.. Ewelrae ... Ottawa subs • Geneva, New York '..."...'.,. Canadian Bank of Commerce ' Employees Cumberland Ry. & Coal Co Prescott ' ' - Cranbrook Subs ' ;...'. * Rebecca Lodge - Summerland Subs. .* H. Clayer ... .'..' A. Megrew ' ' Ladysmlth . ... , Presbyterian church, Kltsllano . i Montreal Board, of Trade' : Princetown' Subs. -.'....-...' '.y. Ironsides Lodge P.' W.-' A.- ".-. Miniota Herald Subs; -.' Toronto Subs. Brandon • • Victoria ..- '.....,..'......... Revelstoke °,,.. 7 ......... Government of Alberta ..' .'...'.'.'.*.''.'. Victoria'Board of Trade Nanaimo ...' ..'. ,'. ':.-. '..'•• .'.'..*.... H 7 W.'Herchmer ..- " .,...:—'., Tictoria ...-':..•-.'.-.■...-..:. .... 'HT^ATf~Keiryoii~...-..., .,- -r-*irr-. London •. .,.,..,..... Prince Rupert7 ,... .'..'.. vlnnlsfail .' ' ..Haney ,.., Cranbrook .:.'..•.■'.','. .';'. ..'.'..'. 5000.00.: 1000.00 ...100.00 .' ' 5.00 ''"' 3.00' 214.00'' ' 125.00 420.00 200.00 - 8.00.- ,. -5.00 ., .,10.00 , 104.40 78.30' ' 2 5.'00" ;' 10.00' 75.00 ' 17.00 ■ -, 5.00. 300.00. 10000. on. ' 1000.00 ' 6.50 ,'100.00'-' ' 114.73'. '761 .'00 '• . 300;00,< - ,,- 58.25 , ,100.00 ,. .31.00 " '"11.50. ' ' 25100 "* '50.50'' - 1.V.50 t LASTING ONLY FOR A FEW DAYS \ e i i 9 9 I' 0" I During* this .sale I am oftbring a. nice range of-.' "Women's AYhitewear at exceptional low p'rices.71 Women's Corset Covers made of fine cotton, low style . round neck, trimmed with laces and embroideries , FROM 25c UP , Women's Drawers made of soft finished cotton, trimmed with" laces and Embroideries FROM 25c UP . . - - ■ ■-,---< - .1.- ' {Women's Night Gowns made of nice quality of cotton, some Mother Hubbard yoke, short sleeves, low neck, , high neck, and long sleeves FROM 50c UP Also a small quantity of white flannelette Night Gowns All this whitewear. is genuine bargains and tlio 'cheapest ever offered. Inspection invited.,- 9m-e9m-WBkwmmsam--m i RS. E. T .200.00 " i.'oo ■■■ l.'OO • 87.50 -15.00 -5.00 '3.00 Printers' Union Victoria , , 10.00 2.00 .10.90 20.00 1.00 ' 1.00 28.00 .50,00 Lagan .... ........ Brandon Times Subscriptions Dr. Mullock ...... ;...;... W. C. Ellis Mission City7*.'.. ... Summerland Baptist church . •• ... Standard Paint Co *. Crows Nost Pass Coal Co.*. 5000.00 Harrlgnton, Wash,; Subs -... I -4.50 Port Simpson-'.' ■ 72,00 Leduc .; ' ,... 75.00 Seattle Commercial Club .. 475,00 Friend ... ;;'..* ■-..*. "-2.00 Cnlgary" 2600.00 Winnipeg Free Press 1553.15 Woodstock.. 1800.00 Banff ,371.05 Princess Streot church 350.00 T. Crahan ., ' 100.00 Waterous Engine Works 100,00 V,Gasey,-.,-(...v ,'*'.' '.,,.,.,, * 5,00 Saskatchewan ' government 2000.00 . 3.00 65.50 20.00 1430.00 3. no 165.30* • 16.U0- 2640.50 600.00 - 500.13 500. liO 5000.00 1709.25 • 520.00 ' 10.00 '7 500.00 „ i.0ll_ ,300.00' ,8.25 ,2.00 .. ' *'' 3.00 i. 2000.00 You've Got to Fall Back On Canned Goods between season's time when it's almost impossible to .procure frash vegetables 'and ■ fruits. But'the fall needn't be .so hard because the canneries wo patronize certainly put, up a fine line of things edible. Yet we hold down the prices to a living limit THE FAIR FERNIE'S; CHEAP CASH STORE ,» ;t. b. struthers, prop. Total t v.-. ■.-.-.■... $139,205.46. vr Drafts* Returned- Unpaid Banff ;...7 T. Crahan , ,. Princess St' Church Waterous Engine Works VeaBey....' ... 7..' ... 7.' Saskatchewan government .' v. Winnipeg Quebec .., ....... Kaslo.'.';!. ..." Prince Rupert Geneva, N. Y Wm. Fernie ■Woodstock Calgary .*. Canadian Bank of Commerce, Fernio. Bank of Montreal, Victoria ,371.65 100.00 350.00; 100,00, ' 5:00 2000.00 5000.00 1000,00. 500.00 800.00 10.00 500.00 1800.00 3500.00 1000.00 500.00 Total ' .*.$17,536.65 Recapitulation Amount deposited ln bank $139,205.40 Less draftB returned 17,536.€5 . 't:y The Misses Euler <> V. ,' .,.-1 . ■ - -I tf ',<i ■-. .---i ^ Y. announce a Real Genuine, 1 Bargain Event o, .^——Trr-.','...,, ., - ~ 7~~ CLEARANCE SALE of Hats, Furs, Ladies' and Children's Coats ■ ) ' I x x X ■<>' and Dresses, Underwear and Hosiery ■■ % Astonishing Values ^MtBmM 4> Hanson Street toitt o«thoiic church site) Fernie yT TOTAL SUBSCRIPTION $121,668.81 I certify tho above to be correct. R. R. WEBB,. Secretary. «t. •¥•*$••, i ;»^iV'f-i,;f "iv"!'-'!''-". -'- ' .! $¥¥¥¥¥'¥¥¥¥¥¥'*-W¥¥¥¥¥¥-*¥¥^ •'- _ r, y U UyJiL U K Jb JtL K j i* == ,. From our own Correspondent ■i • i. a> 1 • a . - -i ********************^^ I »v> By an ovoraiglit Innt woolc wo omitted lo Btnlo In our report of tlio Pres* bylorian concert thnt Mrs, H. II. Nesbitt nocompnnlad aovornl of tlio BlllBOl'H. mil Dixon from Iloamor apont Bun* dny horo with h'la friend' Torii CoiiRh* Inn. Yoti hot *wo went Homo. Thoro woh nothing olso to„do.,> _ Tlio Bouth Afr|c«n Votor«iiH «uHooln* tion linn moved n Atop towhrda' ohtaln* ing thnt 320 acres for onch of Itn momlH'i'B. A clr-'iilnr 1ms boon aont out nakhiK if thoy nro willing (o bo, ■worn Into a homo, dofonco re-nerve forco, It ia thought tho conauntlng to do thla will practically onauro tho grnnt by Iho govornment. Moria Boll wn» tlio lucky holder of tho winning ticket In tho drawing for tiVU 'ia-a.'**.. It {,','_'.'.T.. Tien hitmen la now nftftrnoon boaa and fleorge Pounder flro boat nt No. 8 mino; Mlchol. We ahould havo boftfd Wo plpv* on tho 25th.! ' Bora* of yoii^Jolly Beg- nam romomborthli nostVcnr. Ilit* Ito/lii tihWiit-itmi, ,-*>», •;*.« L**iiV of tho Scotch, poot Robert, noma; wm colebritod by a concert, and dance In the club ball on Monday nig ht under the auaplcoa and wiMUgement^bf tho Jolly Deggtra ciub/.ri-fli»'inow and wind were fierce during the'1 day and at »h« tulvbititcd time for * opening the doore thore. wan very liUleaUte- mvut, uud more thnn on" ot th«» mn. mliteo bed thtJr doota abont * big turn «*it ' IfflNrnver at ctiftinr Utno tberfe' w»».«roUe a hvmptty iaMtrttig, ahowlng with what r^vmeate and r«- tn*tt thu mem6ry of "Du'riu la atlll held by.all-who Ute a .loucblrt »bai- nre \e\t vt\ih.u tUwa.. .iCat-Vterlaii, tha bnll ono wns bound to remark on tho contrast from 'thorough olomonts:out* aide. ISvc-rything lii'Hpoko comfort ond brlglitni'BS. ' The drnplngi)' nnd long running llnuu ot luturtwlnod and various colorod niimlln with horo and thoro Rueponded electric fairy lamps, formod n hcoho of perfect animation. Ulght aboyo .thu front of the platform hung a beautifully drnjiod picture ot "llnbbln" hlinaclf bearing In largo typo Ills Immortal, phrauo "A man's a num for ii' thnt," The Rov, Norman Mac* do'nnld wiib chnlrmnn and in hie re- mnrt(H gave a brief outline of the bard'e career nnd touched feollngly on many of hia charactorlettcu. The following' program waa admirably given, the accompanists being Mra.,Nov* bitt and Mlas Edith Mgga. The comic convulned tlio audience; , PART 1 Selection: Mr. L. CnmpbollV or- cheatra. - * Bong: My love la Like Ihe Ro«\ Red Rono-rMr. R. Sampton. 3".",£*.* J-:-?"'*1, the finvter of Thin* blane—Mr*. Slmpion. Cornet Solo: Mary of Argyle: Mr. A. Palon. Comic aong: Bnfteit o* the Family; encore Step your tlcklln' Jock: Mr. J. T,. Puckey. Song; T.noh Lomond:— Mlaa M. Smith. Recitation'. Half piiat ten!— Mra. Malhieeon, Song; Annie I-aurlc, and encore, — Someofte: Mr. R. 1!. Nesbitt. Song: Ye banka nnd braea; —Mlaa Taylor. flvn taititiit-t hittnei dnHng vthlcb orcheetrn rettAercA aelectlona. PART, 2 Down tho Vule; Mi*b, Simp* Song son. Recitation: Tarn O'Shnnter; Mr. A. McFognn. Song: Pal of mine:''Miss .M.;Snil'tli. Comic Song: • Sleeping in tho old Uaclcynrd, nnd nncoro, extra vorao — Mr. J. T. Puckoy, Cornot: • Scotch 'airs':' Miss Lottlo Gray. ,Song: Cliorua Gontlomen; .Mr..,11. H. Nesbitt. Song: Always Mo: Miss Taylor, Song: Afton Wator:, Mr. It, Sampson, Mr. A. McFognn proposed a voto of thanks to tho chairman mil iho' artists. ' Mr. 11. Snmpboii socondod and it was otHhuulaHilrnll)'. carried. All Joined In sliming Auld Lang Hym* iind thon dlsporsud well plnmcd with lho ontortiilnmcnt. After tho room was cloari*d Mr, L, Campboll'a orchestra struck up the strains for thn danco and kopt it going In flno stylo until 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. Mr. Wm. Alexander wns floor manager, and caller off and with a smiling faco and courteous manner carried through without n hitch nn excellent string ot dancoa. Mra. Taylor supplied a »u* perb iuitv,li..'.iiit.i. .ti»* mu'vi'd by ibr- Jolly Beggars. These also carried out Ihe other duties. Wm. Alexander aucceoda R. II. Nesbitt ns outsldo aupcrlntcndt-nt. "'iaae Mue U>vi*.c vi. -.il- .■ivcr* t? Mr.— houno when you have time." Such waa a'written order picked up not -more than a mile from (ho tipple. It la a dreadful malady whon a man beglna to feel too big for hia aboes, but whon be alao requires a ahpe horn to help him put bt*i hat on. wt»ll If la time ho took a tumble to hlmaeir. The Introduction of moro bualnees i*n«*thode and less of this nonsense -would f,*iv<- aome people from thinking ugly things. It ia a hard Job to keep No. 5 mine track clear of snow drifts. How many cars did you have to-day ? This Is becoming a steotyped query nmongst tho diggers. Surely Mils car shortngo problem is not going to be like tho poor-**always with ns, Tlio ropen'ted failure of tho electric light 1b renclilng d soro*point. Liiut week end n'section of the town Imd again to resort to candles nnrl nil. it Is high time this Iwns looked Into, „ ■'"•■ i Tho following nre the figures of the doctor's bnllot: i'or Incrense, Conl Creok i'l For Incrense, Fomie 41 Totnl S3 AtjhliiBt Increase Conl Creek .. . 141 Agnlnct, Ferule it Totnl IB a Majority ngnlnst 70, r \ I WARNING-MINERS Mii.evR arc warned against going to tlio following mines as they are unfair, and miners are warned to keep away: Keep away from HiNevoHt. Alta.. as a dispute is pending there now. il The Workingrfoan ys —— Store ====== Dont Jorget that I am back in the old stand and that my prices are better than ever Men's Suits $5.00 to $20 " Shirts 75c io 6,00 Shoes 2.00 to 5.00 Caps SOc to J. 50 Trunks 3,50 to $25 a a u See my swell line of Neckties ?q *q d*j V./i.tw'j »i*.**k*k»aT: ■ Bush Mines Eosedale Mines. Strathcona Mines — • Dawson Mines Frank Mines Alberta Coal Co. Morinville, Alta. Edmonton Alta. a a a u I A. A. GILLESPIE (Neuti aW io Hotel Few?*,! CITY COUNCIL It ii ii ii The regular meeting of the City Council wns held last Thursday evening, and the usual routine buslw ** at* tended to. The city band was grant* ed 1300 on the motion of Aid. Cree nnd .■lUta Ul., Fifty aanltary boiea were ord»*red on the r.iotlftn of Aid. (Jat*>« and McDonald, A.J. Fisher waa appointed as (it) Uollcliftr. Aid. Gates and Johnson moved that the* clerk write tbe provincial government through our (-.uti'it: iauiautci, J...*. Ross, asking to hnve more fire wardens appointed for Fernie electoral district. Property ownera are to be notified through Chief of Police to hnve their promise* cleared up and all rubbish removed, Notices of motion wero bunded In io amt-ud public health h-fla***',' to regulate trade Hrenjt-i-s; lo weigh coal; r« a t*<*wer aad plumbing by*law. Tenders were ordered tor tbe b*U" miui fo tlty hall. . PAGE SIX THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B.C. JANUARY 30 1909 MARCONI SYSTEM SAVES 1.100 LIVES The Scene of Accident off the Coast ot Vancouver Island ,. Sep. Liners in Mix-up ,. "' Republic,. White-Star line, rammed ' byHhe Florida off Nantuckett and her passengers transferred to the latter vessel. . The Republic sank later. ..**_- r Florida, Italian Lloyd line, stood by to-pick'up Republics passengers after the? collision., ''-,.. Baltic, White.Star line, caught distress signal also from Republic's submarine bell, searched for and found the disabled .' ships and took the' Republic's and Florida's passengers from the later vessel and brought them to New York. . Furncssla, Anchor line, picked up by, wireless by disabled Republic, and was aiding to tow ,Jier to port when latter sank. La Larraine, French line picked up wireless messages, sought and found the Republic but finding that she' wns not needed came into port. Lucania, Cunard line, picked i<p distress signals from submarine bell and searched for disabled vessels. New York, American line, warned by' wireless messages of disaster,'and searched for disabled vessels! IN THE ATLANTIC . NEW YORK, .Tan. 2-i.--The wireless' telegraph on' Saturday spoke but tlie prologue of the great drama being enacted-on tlio sea behind the Impenetrable curtain of fog out where the steamship Florida'witli 1100 souls on . board had rammed the White Star line . boat Republic with upwards of SOO souls aboard. 7 -.. t. .. , To-day by'the same magic means the full drama was revealed before the,attentive world and soon revealed itself a tragedy, "Regret that first class passengers of the Republic, Mrs. Edward Lynch and W. L. Mooney were killed; also Mr. Lynch and Mrs. .Murphy badly injured.—Ransom," ' GOOD. NEWS REFUTED '-' ■ ■; This wireless message received by officials of the White Star line grim- '- ly refuted the All'Safe and :No .Lives Lost messages that had gladdened the watchers on shore. Science had done .- "** much to-lessen' the horrors of j- tliis great .modern disaster of the sea but death hail not been baffled. It came quick and terrible' when the sharp prowr.of the Florida cut its. way into the side.;pf: the Republic," crushing to - death th'e two passengers as they"were asleep in their berths and'--maiming those who slept but an arms length away."'" " "" " ' ■"""' >It -.visited..'the .hold as. well as the deck of the liner and four members of the crew, believed to be coal passers at work deep in the, hold of tbe ship were killed by the crushing blow that doomed the Republic. '.; 'DEAD AND INJURED ,. The dead and injured , ns reported by wireless are ns follows: ^ The dead: ;. . . ._ '*'W. .Mooney of ■ Langdon, North. Dakota. it , ' - Mrs-Eugene Lynch,of'BoBtoh, Mass ■■ Four members of the crew at present unnamed. ,''-.■, . . : ■ -•; The injured: :■" Eugene, Lynch, ;.j-.\Irs. M.-J.'Murphy, Grand Forks, N, Dakota. " Those named above wero first cabin passengers and occupied ■ adjoining staterooms on Ihe saloon dock on the port side of (lio Republic" whoro the bow of the Florida crushed Into lho vessel. .. ,:- THRILLING EXPERIENCES -Passengers of lho. Republic who lived tboriiKh; tho peril passed through tho most thrilling experiences yot.ro* AND -'•$,*■#• Cold-Sores *mmmmmmm—wmatmmmm—mimmiMmmmm*mmmmm Are your hands chapped, cracked, or tore? Have you "sold cracks" Which Open and bided when the skin Is •Jrawn LigliL? Have you a cold tore, frost bite, chilblains, or a "row" place, which at. times makes It agony for you to go sbaMt, your hou»«liold •taMei ? If to, /.am- liuk will give you! relit-f. and will heal tho frou-d»mog«d| akin, AnointU tbe tore pis ■••, at fiijjiit,] Zam-Buk't rich healing i-moi-icoi will) link into die wounds, end iho smart Ia-**;, and will heal quickly. Read this Lady's Experience. Mm. VVIIon, of Portlnml, hiiv-i»:■- I connidor it only py dntv lo toll yoi. Of tho (iWftt, bnni<nf 1 hitvn Anrivml from JSam-IJuK. Sly Immii woro no hon rfinl Cfurlic) li.ul .'1 na, tik:, ;J- >., ,tiii •*„„-„ neur wnter, Whim f ilH an tliuy vmild amart and burn in if I h:i.| hoaI-Io-I tlmiu. f aeein^l quite uruble t > uu mild /rum •nyinl'.rf I put on tlit-m until I irlod Knm-Knlf and It nncceml',*l xvn<n nil uton hud faiifd. It cbwcil tho tiiir omoVh jj-avo ttu lame, nootheti Die inilntnuiM'ttm, and in a vary ahort time tiealvd m* hands, completely. It ix it wonderful healer and should be in every home," Zom-Belt alto turn etotni, rtufm. viitlrt w-W l*Ut, uktri. /titrrini torn, mrf Mini, M,, butki obtctttft, UiiifiUK ntti-'i'orm. tie. <•«'., beret, tniitt-, meUk. iirtlix* Vuj tu an m>-ro- uillvH. it t\>rt* rhntwiltim tftnlMi, tuurakht. tie. Well HruMttUjittti ,ta>t,er juMftu/fmn thr Xnm-fliili da. furwi/'* Prttt U e. tt Kn. ,t iir fi el corded in the history of marine disasters. Transferred from a sinking boat by small boats in a black fog, abandoning their effects and glad of a chance for their lives; they found themselves aboard a vessel but little safe- than the damaged hulk*.'they'had left and facing a rising gale. "* ,. -..7,?, ?-*,...,-7 For 19 hours they were crowded on the decks of the Florida with her 900 excited passengers sleepless and poorly nourished "while the fog made the midnight of their peril never ending. Helpless and with • the "knowledge that the rolling ship" beneath" them fould„not. outlive. the ;p*;oniised,,stoi ui. at almost midnight by' tlie clock, they were .told tbat Jiey must face another twenty four hours'.of peril.thot-*hey must be twice transferred from the sinking liners by means of small boats, must climb down the frail, rope ladder thrown over the swinging sides of the ship until like'human pendulums-they were" swung:. aboard ' the cockleshell's tossing on the waves below-, only to climb the steeper ladders of the great Baltic, where at last they were to find safe refuge. '* '',.*. IN THE PACIFIC '■ VANCOUVER,'B. C. Jan. 24—The last of the survivors of the -wrecked American schooner Sequel, seven men including Captain Jamieson and. Mate Swanson,. ..were .rescued by daylight Sunday morning from Senbird Rocks, Pachona Bay, Vancouver Island by the C. P. R. steamer Tees and a* lifeboat crew fiom Bamfleld which went to tbe scene of the wreck on the siea- mer. Leebro. Th? men were shortly after their' rescue transferred lo the United States revenue cutter Manning, to be taken to Neah Bay for medical .treatment. They were utterly exhausted and had suffered intensely from a night of exposure on the wind swept and'spray- dashed rocks. Seaman John Herman, the second man°taken off the rocks; was suffering from a broken leg," the injury having been received when the two aftermasts of - the four master came down after the schooner' drove on the rocks about midnight last. Fri-' day night. ■■'..- ., n INSTANTLY KILLED It was these falling masts .'winch killed the wife and-child of Captain Jamieson; the woman and child were standing0on the deck ;whei7the spars fell and they were instantly killed. ' The bodies were made 'fast to ' the wreck and are still on board. To-morrow morning aii attempt will be,made by the-.Bamfield life savers to recover the bodies. . With the exception of the wife and child of Captain Jamieson everyone; of the fourteen people on the schooner when she struck were -. rescued. .,_, - ■'■.'•■' •'- v ■■■ Five seamen were heroically-rescued Saturday afternoon by, crews''of the steamers Tees and Leebro' an'd tbe life,.saying.crew from Bamfleld., .These menJat' daylight Saturday, morning left the wreck lit low water and scrambled ' through the surf to a small rock that was_almos.l..awash, at .high. tide... A boat-was-puUoff-from-the-Leebro-to. which-' it -j was, made fast with -."a-Jline, and an attempt was made to approach the rock on which the men were huddled "when the; boat was swamped. „ Luckily.'another boat had put off from the Lees and rescued the members of -the .swamped crew.;., - *. .A.second attempt was more successful and the crew managed'to get near enough .to thet rock to throw' a life line, across jt..;' ....', ,,; .DESPERATE WORK OF RESCUERS V, To .the'.llne was "attached" a'lifebuoy and into this the shipwrecked men stopped one,at a time and iverp hauled through the surf to the lifeboat. . Five men .were taken off shortly before dark,"'but Mate Swanson; refuse*;) to leave the rock until tho men on tlie battered hulk of the steamer wore tai ken off, As darkness descended nothing more coulcl.be done for the man on the'Soquol ami the'Tee's nn'd Loobi'o proceeded-1o' Bamfleld-.whore -the-live rescued men wore put ashore for mod- k,' i ' - S i ' \. . ' .'.-'.I.' '■.' ■„---.'"aa»a4,4, *. pal treatment, . * - ■ ■• CAPTAIN ON BOARD TO' •E'rf'D^ , NEW-iYORJC, Jan. 20,—JVIthln uori- sldorably* .cab thnn 72 houre nftor the em Hli botwoon tho ocoaii liners Ropub* lb- and Florida off Ihe .Niintmdteti, sboala which eventually sent, tho for* mor ,to the bottom and rendorod almost helpless survivors of tlio -accident have found n haven nt Inst. At nightfall to-night MM piiHBoiigers of llio two voflHoln wore Bnl'u,l;i this port, brought horo by the Baltic, wlillo'non'r* Ing It wore tlio revciied offleora and crow on tho derelict destroyer Seneca, to whleh tlioy woro tniimfoiTOd from tho cut Uu* QrcHlmin, after slaying up to the last moment by tliolr sinking VUMHtd. , At, tho dock In Brooklyn wiib tho biittoii'd Florldn, aboard which tho crow had I'Mimlnod throughout hor"try* Ing ('xpi'i'leiicuH. Only tlio lll-fatoii Republic wiih then wanting to complete the entlro list, und h1h» was In port, lier Jimt port of (Ull. Little could bo leiiriied from C'n'ptnln Hofblnl of the Florida to-nlglit, hut. uiTonlliiK to olhurii who hud been nn board Homotlilng went wrong with tho Florida'h Htiierlng ivlu-ol when Hie col* IIhIoii wiih imiuliieiil, Unn Hlory Iiiih it thai tlio (-imrturmiiHtcr had tlie holm when ihe (CiiniiiHiiiIiir yidled for It, lo li" Jtmimi-d at Htiirbrmrd, Hu put II lo port Instead rind the llnorn criiHhud Into ericli other. Anotlier Hlory line It that Uu* iiiiui flro-'p'-tl ibe wheel In I lie piiulc. Hot h HliiwiuilH ngi'i'ii In Haying Unit Uio cotuniiiiuler followed Iho 'iinirleriniiHlor with un lion Kplke tuilowitiK what tie iiuihI hnve coiiHld- '.'a.1 Il,l :,{.UI,lUli'l, i I*..'! I ,'i(,t ) , All liijnreil ijmirteriiiiiHler from the Florida wiih broiiKht Into port to-dny but ho stoutly naaerted Hint*he wbh not nf. tho wheel whon tho accident oeeinred. The t-'iiptnln of Ili« lli-publle refiiHoil fo leave and llm hoc-oik! nff(ci>r remain- od nt hia Hide. An hour In tor when tlm Hi-nrchllRhta of llm tug Mnry of Heuilly wero plnylnit on the arcne two ahota wore Imiird from llm brldgo of tho llopubllc, two blue lighth wero burnml at tho bow,of lbu doomod «toanier. .luat before hIio went down Cnptnin rtenlby climbed the mimt whilo lho Hooond officer Jumped from tho rnll. Tb*.*)' wore rencaeA by one of ihn firenhnm'a lifo bnnta In rnnimand of ('minor Johnaon. ' On the Aech ot <h*^ Ropiiblle ■**.« the wonr down ri-atnil two enuketa, ron* taining the bodies of. Mrs. Eugene Lynch of Boston and W.J. Mooney of Langdon, N. p., who were killed in the collision between the Republic and-the .Florida. 0Tbe Republic re.sts on .the bottom of .the 'Atlantic with 3S: fathoms ■ of water- over ber. > -.. ' MACDONALD And the Socialists—Proletarian , Criticizes Article in Lethbridge Herald W. F. M. HOPEFUL >0F AFFILIATION A recent issue of The Lethbridge Herald contained almost vitriolic attack on-the Socialist miners-In the. Pass by publishing-an article" culled from the Frank Paper which charged with them warning abroad, "breathing threatenings and slaughter"- to-, all and sundry who differed from them/ * Many of the statements made,-' if not actually libelous, sail very close to the wind. The whole article was one of cowardice and by. covert sneer and subtle suggestion tried to convey the suggestion: that the great miners organization Is lending Itself, to parties of disruption. * . . The regrettable feature nbout the affair is both the Herald nnd Frank- Paper lent themselves (possibly willing victims) to air the grievances of one Macdonald, erstwhile secretary of District 18 U. ,M. W. of A. That individual, a one time ardent Conservative, but now, having listened to the seductive flattery of Hon. Frank Oliver's satellites In the Pincher riding, finds It to his "interests" to become an ardent Liberal. The incidents leading up to his departure were partly of a political nature, but owing to the advances made to him by certain prominent Liberal officials, Macdonald thought he, was big enough to deliver the labor vote, the price, rumor hath it: he was to be tbe Liberal Labor candidnte in 'the district at the forthcoming provincial elections and in tbe event of success —well, you can't keep a good . man down. '.■•'-'.. '., But the day has passed when any so- called labor leader can deliver the vote. ''"' .; By adopting certain tactics in the Maeleod . election Macdonald. earned for himself the bitter enmity of the majority of the miners in the Pass; they resented being made (lie political football of time servers who would* not.hesitate to adopt any method- to reach the desired goal. The ,hard feeling was carried frorn the political field into the economic field, and now interested, parties would have us believe that Macdonald was sacrificed to appease' the insatiable appetite of that ogre—the-■ Socialist party." ' , • . . . . • The statement that he was defeated because of his non-acceptaiice of Socialism as a political'belief is,manifestly,absurd. ' ' ■ . He was beaten just as the other officials might expect when ■ the rank aird"fiie~1)f"Distri"ctT8Vgr"ee''upon~"th"e" required number of candidates" to be" nominated in opposition instead' , of, lis in the past splitting up their voting strength. - To the charge that the officials of District 18 are all 'Socialises it is an easy matter to brand the lie upon it for President F. H. Sherman Is the only Socialist- among-'them.''' Messrs.' Galvin and Patterson hfvo repeatedly refused to Identify themselves with the Socialist party. ' ., 7' ,,'.' . NTo; the whole'business hns nothing to do with the S, P. but, simply the fact thnt the miners in tho Pass endeavored to ndmlnlster a woll deserved rebuke which might1 also serve ns a reminder to others Interested. The mills of the gods grind slow. But they grind exceeding small,' . (Proletarian In'tho Southern Alborta Lnbor Bulletin.) . A MISINTERPRETATION A Manila' mother-in law lind stayod so often with lior daughter ns to caime n quarrel with tho husband; and one dny when she cnhio ngaln.lo stay sho found ■ 1k.\v dnughlor in toni's on tho doorstep, , ,., ,. "I mippotio George hns loft you," she sniffed, "Yoa."'(Sob.) '.Then thero Is n, woman- Int ho enso I know," sho fi/ild, her eyes lighting ii)i. "Ycih." (sob.) "Who |r It.?" sho domniulod, "You." (nob.) "OrncloiiHl" oxclnlinod llio mother* In-law. "I'm sure I novor gnvci him any eneoiirngenioiit," " Tho brawny Irishman ormiod ovor he big gliiHH ->nsa in tlm chomlat's nhop nnd uruiilimlly luiumgod io locate llio diminutive proprietor of tlio bpufllnoRs, "Wud yo plasto glvo mo Bomothln' to kill motlm?" ho asked nnd wan at onco Htipiillod with a pnekiiKo of moth ImllH, Liiti-i* In tlm dny tlm Irlnlitnnn returned, "Aro yon Hi' moonoy fneed littlo Imp tlm I Howld mo tlioHn bulls?" Im HllOlltod. In IiIh norvoiiHiioBH the mtili of pills Raid lie wiih, "Well, thin," liowlod the IrlHliiniiii, "JlHt you conm homo wld inn, nn' If yo cun hli it Hlugle moth will wim Iv Uioho lltllo Imytliou pollotH I'll npuro ye lh' flirnHlilii* yo'll g|r. nthonvlflu, Hny no* f lit ii* nhoiit ih' looliln' kIiihh nn' ornn* mints iwwmlf mid flw ml-mlN broke," With tiie United iiif Workers of Amefiiifcft 1 Convention Closes r i ne Pure l-ov-i*. Ldvv Si'i'i'i'lury WJj/wi WO'*-' "Oiie of Dm objects of tlio law is to Inform tho consumer of the prosonon of eortnln linrmfiil drugfl In medlclimH," Tlio luw reqnlrr-R tlmt the amount of ehlor* " . * - , ,, , ., i ..,i '-'.'al.a.a, af^ku'ith 1.|V>. ^kaaaav, u.aa* Vj.kaa.. Imblt. forming drug*, be ntnted on (lie label of oncl) bottle, . Tlio innmifnc- turoi'N nf ('Imniborlaln'H Cough Hem* cdy have ulwayR claimed that their remedy did not contain any of thoso drugH, nnd the truth of thin claim I* now fully proven ns no mention of thpm Is mnde nn Uio label, Tho rem* ody In not only one of .(ho unft-st but one or the bent in uio for cough* nnd cold*, Iu vnluo bM boen prove*) beyond queitlon during (tu) many* ycara it ha* been In tfenoral imo. For «nle by all Arnnultit. Men should look for this'' T alg o n Chewing Tobacco. It guaranteesthehighquality of Black Watch The Big Black Plofl. -<■■ ■■ ' ;,.- ,•• Nelson Daily News. :» _..'.-",-., 7The proceedings of the,annual con-' vention of* the western union of miners - . c. concluded in Nelson yesterday. The delegates expressed themselves as be- ing extremelj-" pleased-'>with the gen-" eral results of tlie meeting and considered that the convention would be productive of several Innovations that would greatly favor (he status, of the mine -worker In the province and in the part of the state of Washington which is. included in this division of the union. Frank, Sherman of the United Mine Workers of America was present as a delegate from that confederation and expressed.for tho workers whom he represented a wish that the two unions might becomo' affiliated. This proposal was most favorably received by the convention and it was decided that Charles Bunting should,attend as a representative of the W. F. M. at the fraternal meeting of, tlie U. M. W. of A', which .Is to be held for, the purpose of' considering such an affiliation at Lethbridge oh February 3 next. ,,.- ■ A motion was'passed at the convention that a proposal should be submitted to a representative-referendum of'the members, of the Western Feder-' ation of Miners to the effect that'the "per. capita tax should be so increased as to allow a paid' organizer secretary to be appointed for the district. , A resolution was also passed that representations' should be made to Messrs. Hawtliiornwnlle, Mclnnes and .Parker Williams asking them to "use their influence towards the abolition of the clause in the election "iaw-that necessitates a a candidate making a deposit of ?100 before standing for election to, parliament as the conven'-. tion considered that this, clause was a great hardship-for working men,,and they believed the object of the clause was to prevent; members of the working class' from.'-'electing-independent members., '.'■ '' V -' :. -They also-asked that an amendment •should also; be',''made to the present -eIoeti©n-'aci7so;'--that-all->-workers-who. are constantly .moving from one place to another maybe able-to.be.placed on the voter? list in any. constituency within a'period of ten to twelve days. A motion was,carried to the effect that the convention placed absolute confidence;in the above' mentioned Socialist members of the provincial house of parliament as It considered that they were the only true representatives of the working.class. ,'- : The following officers were elected for 'the present year: President: J. A. McKinnon of Rossland; vice-president T.M.,McKay"of Greenwood, and secretary,, troaurer, A, Shllland of Sandon,.' - .,. 7 , , , , In , his address Charles Bunting the retiring president pointed out that he considered it, esesntlal to the success of the'organization that tho members should on evory occnslon stand together as one mnn, At the tenth' convention a resolution was passed calling upon their district to, acquire and operate a newspaper In tho Interests of tho .union, and a 'committee had beon appointed to. take such stops towards .'aeeniiiig'n. nowBpapor and-would no doubt make n' report oh tho progress thoy had made, ■ '... HofeiTliig'to tho proposed homo for tho sick nnd aged .mombors of the union tho president did not think that nt tho present llnio It would bo advisable to levy a. special tax.for Unit purpose but thought that tho matter Hhould bo more fully- discussed when conditions wore moro favorable,.Thoy lind boen oippoworoil to ubo the fiinda of tho association for educntlonnl and political purposes Imd ho' bollovod that, It would bo more satisfactory If n portion of the pdr capita tax were sot aside for Huh 'inrpoHO, Dealing willi the quoRtlon of benefits allowed for dlHiiblllty ho wiih of .tho opinion that a uniform scnlo Hhould bo sot for nil Ihe difltrletfl In*tho union. ' •2272 ~.:«r'H «-. To the 8ufferer*3 of the Fernie Fire on Aua. 1»t, 1908. , , OruetlngR*. , I desire to. call your,attention to tho necoHHlty of hohio daflttlto plan being ndoptod for it final disposition of tho funds ho gonorouHly contribute od towards your aHRlstanco. You are aware that a substantial mini will bo loft over nftor all accounts nro paid In addition lo what has boon advanced for the purchase of lumber. and building materials, An fnr r.c I nm nivnro no jilnn hn« boon adopted and submitted to you for your approval as to. what. would be dono with tho mono*/ whon ropnld to tho fund. Therefore I roupoctfully ndvlso and requo-it, that no ropny* mont of any loan for lumbor and build* Ing materials bo mndo by anyone until mieh timo as some itr-fintto plan 1* adopted and submittal to all fire suit* erers for their approval arid consent. Wishing you all the compllmont* of tho ■e».4t»n, •/our friend nnd well wisher. •' F, H. therm*" Canadian Pacific Ry. ., • , . , " a--'Are you:contemplating .a* trip tp.; The' Orient •'-= \ Oily -' Honolulu Australia -, New. Zealand Are you contemplating a trip to ' , v ' CALIFORNIA Or any Pacific Coast Point? Or is it a trip to '.,.'. Winnipeg ■ Detroit St. Paul Toronto Chicago Montreal Boston , New York Or any European point thought of. , The line is, equipped with unexcelled first., class cloaches, tourist and standard sleepers, and dining cars, coupled with safety, speed and comfort." ' 7 ' - • For folders and complete information apply, to ;R;,Reading, Agent, Ferine.'' ;,'..''.. , J. E. Proctor, <*' '' - Olst'ric; Pa-v-ieiiger Agt , , , Calgary, Alta.. DR. WRIGLESWORTH, D. D. S. DENTIST; Now - doing business at-the Johnson- Faulkner Block.y,Office hours 9-12.30 1J»H: y""~i- i-. Fernie B. C. J. BARBER D. D. S. .-— Fernie, B. C. - -,--•'- 1 ■'' "FERNIBy,-:V' {"'"" •"'-' B.C. W. R. Ross K.C. J.S.T. Alexander. ... -.. ^. Barristers and Solicitors. Fernie, B. C, Canada. ,.. L. P.,ECKSTEIN. BARRISTiSR, SOLICITOR. ... FERNIE, B. C. F. C. Lawe Alex. I. Fisher Secretaries of Local Unions DISTRICT 18-U. M...W. OF A. -' ,'BANKHEAD, No. 29:- James-Fisher BELLEVUE, No. 431. Fred Chap- pell. ','".'. .. ;"'■■* ' -CANMORE,.,No: 1387: A. J. McKinnon.' ' '*.'.' - *' .- *; COLEMAN,'-No. 2^33:'',William Graham: ■ -7" ..-'CARBONADO,iNo:,'2688:' James He- witi,;?;v;,V •'''';;•.'".;"!, "CARDIFF, [No. 2387:'' G. H."" Gib- DIAMOND CITY, No,',2C87: Georgia Prescott.,' - -:.' ■ •"■* '■ . EDMONTON.CITY, No; 2S40: ,J.. H. Crowe.- • j • .), FERNIE, No. 2314: Thos. Biggs. FRANK,* No; 1263: Walter . Wrig- Iey. , „-,"'' .., "' ':■ HOSMER," No.. 2497: .'J. D. Both- wick., , • ''_. ; . ', ',,. ..HILLCREST, No. 1085*; Harry Cooper. ..*,'■' -.* . LETHBRIDGE,; No. 674: Charles Peacock, ■ LILLE, No. 1233: J. ii! Griffith. . LUNDBRECK, No. 2275 — J. D. Smith. . . ' .'; - ' ' ''. MICHEL, No, .2334: Charlos Garner, ,' .,',■,''. MAPLE LEAF/No. 2829; H. Blake. MERRITTi *No.i 2027: Thomas Cal* vort, .' , „■ ■■ . METFORD, No'. 2098: John Curran. ROYAL,COLLIERIES,. No, 2589: T. Pupon, Box 490, Lothbrldgo. ROCHE PERCEE (8ask) No. 2G72: Lnclilnn McQuarrlo. TABER, No. 102: .'Joshua Craig.. TABER, No. 1050: Wm. White. TAYLORTON, (8ask.) No, 2048:— Lnohlan .McQuarrlo... TAYLORTON, (8ask.) No, 2B10:— Jos, Twist. TA9KER, N. D., No. 2803:- J. IS, Lansborry. WOODPECKER, No, 2299: William IcOWO, . OUTDOOR CANADA FOR JANUARY Tho Juniinry numbor of Outdoor Canada rippcmn* with nn attract Ivo two color cover typical of Canada's wlntor NeiiHon, nud nu Index page lndon with tltlur, ot good thliigH. Among tho landing arllcles is thu story of n Musk< Ox hunt, entertainingly told by that king among oxplorers of Canada's north land, J, W, Tyrrell. John T. Hnll of Medicino lint writes of a Ohi'lHtirins Broncho Bustlng—a form of ontortnlnmont arranged for thc bxiimiU tit tlio Mmilciiw tttU ti'ciiuiit. hosDlt'tl, and furnishing before Us con rltislon nl lonst one additional patient for that Institution. A gripping (ale of the Northorn Ontario woods comes frrni, tbn pen nt Pellnnirh Pnrmn In Thn Oitilmbl/ca Puck, nccompanylng which Is n clever frontlsploco llhiatra- lon by Arthur Homing, tho woll known Canadian nrtlst—Tho Timber Wolf, Rodcn Klngsmlll dlscussos sport In his usual breezy stylo, Montreal's winter carnival gets a pen picture ns wall as Koveral illustration and tbo regular departments of the mttgiulno are well represented. The number is In ovory way a most creditable ono, «- showing; that the new management Is determined to make of Outdoor Canada what It has right to bo—an over Increasingly Inierestln-R nnd successful ma-faslne. LAWE &'FISHER ATTORNEYS . Fernie, B. C H. W. HERCHMER BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. Fernie B. C. ' . . W. A. CONNELL Pioneer Builder and Cotractor of "• .Fernie'.'. i --'■ , ' \ , - ... : ESTIMATES FURNISHED l' THE FERNIE LUMBER CQ. - Ar McDougall, Mgp. ■......•a.. Manufacturers of and Deal- a. Jl -a...,'.. ■ ' ers in all kinds of Rough ' . and, Dressed Lumber *"_ , ! ' J ' ' x- . , ' ■> , i ' * i ; * * i -■,* ' Send us your orders P. KENNEDY Lumber . Dealer All kinds of rough aiid dressed lumber Victoria. Ave. North Fernie who said fire:? We did. "We .are firing, away at-tlie. ■ ■'■' old. business '• .' CREE & M0FFATT ALBERTA BOARDING HOUSE Hosmer, B.C. Board and Room, $26.00 ;per month ALL'WHITE'HELP' ;,' Mrs. peslea,*uresf Prop. DEPOT RESTAURANT 11 ' V .** * - >! '| \ Placleod, Alta;; ' The Two Charlies Charlie '< Chamberlain ' Charlie Seattle Drop jii and' bee uh P. .'. Wholesale Uijuor Dealer rmmmmmsmme Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes' Gents' Furnishings - BAKER AVENUE BRANCH AT HOSMER, B,C, ♦ THE DI8TRICT LEDOER The Puper that reaches the People of the Pass. As an advertising medium It's THE BEST ♦ NOTIOE In tlio niattor of an application foi' tho Ibhiio of a duplicato CortltlcnKi of Titlo for Lot 018, Group Ono, Kooton- a-.*-) DittaUCt, NOTICE Is horoby given that It la my Ititontlon to lasuo (it tho expiration of one month nftor tlio flrat publication hereof a duplicate of tho Certlflc* nto of Title to tho above mentioned Lot in tho nomo or Clmrles P. Ilill, -which cortlflcato of titlo is dated the 19th day of April 1898, nnd numbered 716K. II. P. MteLEOD. District Registrar Land Roitlstry Office Kelson. D. C, .January Ifl, 1009. E. A.'Kummer* ' *'T;. O. Kuimner KUMMER BROS. Builders and Contractors Estimates Furnished -'• i". ■* ■ :i 'i,j ,':-./: ., FIBRE PLASTER KEPT IN-STOCK FERfflE-GARTAGFeOr ..il' 'Il 1 Team Work and Draying . .'.. -, ' ';:,y.'.: '■-. '•'.'*,*i;i : .,!-■ . ' Dealers in Wagons,. Sleighs, Dump ' Carts, Spring'Rigs and Harness,- 0. N. ROSS, Manager Stoves! Stoves! Stoves! We have the cheapest and. best line of Ranges, Kitchen Stoves and Heaters. . . B.C. FURNITURE STORE ..New and Second-Hand Goods, W. STAN. TERRY Painter and Decorator Oive nie n ohimoo mi ymir work * i 60 YEAR&' HXPBniENQB rssss i •i» •t !l I. il WenipJiiiKricaii. mmpn<>_*hr MtaniiRa ieaiti-u, item* Jot ,mTBL, TFuhtDf i Li THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B.C. JANUARY 30 1909 REGARDING THE If more liquor. is sold ,where there are tlo" saloons than-where there are, would brewers, distillers, and wholesale dealers, who own about seventy- live per,,cent of all saloons, pay license rent, taxes, insurance, attorney's fees and contribute large suras of money to influence the press, to publish and distribute literature and in other ways to - obtain license, all to lessen the amount of their sales, . ,, ; "Would the liquor men now be maintaining five national organizaations at heavy expense, to oppose all prohibit ory measures, if such measures did not interfere with the traffic? Would they keep an expensive lobby at the national capital tb urge the restoration of the canteen or army saloon If they were not at all financially interested? Are beer wagons and "speak easies" and "blind' pigs" and liquor-agents alone, worse than all these evils plus the open saloon? Do not the records ot hundreds of towns show that saloons do not lessen these nuisances, but acord additional temptation to drink, and are the spawning place of the most degrading vices? How do saloons help a town? Do .they .make better fathers, husbands, sons or brothers? . Do they make mothers, wives and children comfortable and happy? Do5" they help to build up churches and make it easy for the parents to keep the children in school? Do not saloons mean drunkenness, and does not drunkenness mean less steady ad less skilful labor? Do not sober men work more and retain their ' earning capacity longer than drinking men? ' Do not the insurance companies say that an abstainer is from 30 to 40 per cent better risk than,a drinker? Will' not the business of a town bo determined by the amount of coods which its citizens can buy and pay for? Is not the purchasing capacity of a man limited to his earning capacity? Do not sober men as a rule earn more than drinking men, and do not I Notxonlyis,,the .mater fresh and interesting and important but the, style throughout is quite.equal to the best This wiU be better appreciated when it is stated that the contributors include Gold-win Smith, Dr. Colquhoun, Deputy Minister of' Education^ On- Srio; John Reade, F. R. S. C Mon- S Gazette; Arthur Wallis of the Toronto Mail and Empire; J. K* «* McCready. Chariottetown, ..Guardian; j P 'Robertson, Winnipeg, R*. Sellar, Huntingdon Gleaner;. J* K. Mclnnes. Regina Leader; J.^WrBengough, Toronto and R. E.Gosnell of Vancouver. One portion of the book presents an exceeding interesting history of the Canadian Press Association, in honor f whose fiftieth birthday the book-was first produced, with other sections devoted'to the press in each of the pro vinces. The book includes 268 pages with over 40 half tone portraits of prominent journalists. Typographically the book is. very pleasing with its large REMARKABLE, COMBAT. ***. Battle to the Death Between a '■ Donkey and a' Wolf.' A combat' of most unusmil- c^rae-. ter occurred near Paso del Norte, Makico. The participants "^-t brirro, 6r little Mexico donkey. amcMa wolf of a very large ^V^^^f^ thelobo. I>arinStbeim^xt^^S ship had broken out of th*i stebk and wandered several miles ont mto . the country. His , owner,, going u> seek him, was an eyewitness to dm feht with, tahe wolf and titos 4e9enb- "My burro was quietly B«^J^ a little tm .^ ,*W\}&g±' two walls of uttmg, ragged rock X* the wolf ?™ *^*S* with his head close to the. &°v£%> as a trying to trail somethnig-tiiis. ^■^Scteristie of that sped**, tfedid not.see Dandj-os I call my burro-until he .was, neaift* on too. MEE CLUB LICENSES Important Legislation Being Considered likely that it results from unscientific observation. The instruments which the scientists have now at their disposal for measuring the extent of the earthquakes and tremors show that the usual amount of vertical movement is only about two millimetres or about one twelfth of an inch."— Montreal Star. , . ' with rough edges other I «rald type, heavy paper and gilt top, and its handsome cloth binding. Orders may be sent in care of John R. Bone," Secretary Canadian Press Association, Daily Star, Toronto. The price Is ?2 a copy, postage 15 cents extra. . WAGE EARNERS PROSPER Where No Bar Rooms Absorb. Their Earnings In a Scott Act campaign last month the Moncton Daily Transcript struck some sledge hammer blows against the liquor traffic and among the'lnterest- ing items of' Information which it supplied to -its readers was the following statement, which needs no comment to make it impressive:1" Moncton city gave a crushing answer to the fallacious argument that the absence of the license saloon mars the prosperity of a community. Moncton City has on its assessment and it was not till then that, raising his head, the latter saw the wolf. The moment they set eyes on each other I could see that a fight would surely follow. The wolf, with his jaws" snapping mid growlmg ferociously, made at Dandy, who wheeled sharply around and let fly with his heels, tumbling his enemy oveT and over and nearly pounding the life from him. This performance was repeated again and again -until the wolf seemed to realize that-the job on hand was decidedly more than he had bargained for. The last contact of Dandy's heels had sent him with a crash against the hard rockB that '-walled in the* dell and stunned him for a minute or two. So, on recovering, he changed hia tactics. Running "up to Dandy, he waited. until those terrible heets were elevated, in the air, when, jumping around with surprising agility, he dodged the kick ind made for his antagonist's throat. The latter, however, was on the lookout, and the lobo found that the burro's other end wa.s also armed for battle. Before he could fasten on any part of the lively animal he was caught at the back of his ears by a set of powerful teeth, and in a second his neck was broken. Notwithstand- Sunday, (To-morrow) at 2.30 Miner's Hall, upstairs ALL FIRE SUFFERERS " . ' - .'n r of Fernie and District VICTORIA, Jan. 26—The debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne was continued this afternoon by G. R. Xaden, Greenwood; Dr. W. T. Kergin, Skeena and J. M. Yor- ston .Cariboo, for the opposition and \Y. H. Hay ward, Cowichan, for the government.'' A. E. McPhillips, K. C, the Island, moved the adjournment of the debate. The opposition speakers devoted their remarks mainly to a review of the conditions in their respective constituencies. Mr. Yorston in a quaintly humorous speech kept the house in roars of laughter as he told of the work of the government road builders. Mr. Hayward's speech was notable for a, vigorous attack upon the govern- SNOWSLIDE CAUSES FOUR DEATHS GRAND JUNCTION, Col., Jan. 24.— Pour men. were killed and more thanty. a score had narrow escapes from sudden death when a fifty foot high avalanche of snow swept over the Camp Bird mine at Ouray late yesterday. . - The four men were talking in the cook house yesterday, when almost without warning the thousands of" tons of rock, dirt and snow came upon them in its frenzied rush from the They were hurled in- For what purpose was Relief Money sent in by a generous public ? mentis present fiscal policy in so far Imountain sido* -—•■ . . -,.-4.,._ „„„_ I to the canyon and covered with snow. as the rural municipalities were con- be mld8ummer .before the bod Mr. Lr. Morris Profession-al Optometrist (Graduate of the Spencer Institute, New York, Dr. of Optics of The Nor-Illinois College of Ophthalmology and Otology, Chicago mg the fact that the wolf. wa3 killed -instantly, Dandy, held on-to him and occupied himself for several minutes i uij udii uu ..a .yith beating his vanquished foe's list more than six hundred wage ear- i^y up "and down on the ("-round. the houses in which Then, feelini? satisfied that-life was extinct, he dropped the carcass, and cerned. He dealt principally with the question of the cost of school maintenance and alleged that under existing conditions, whereby personal property, Income and poll taxes, all went Into the provincial treasury, ru-l ral municipalities were unfairly handicapped, and the application' of present school law was a failure so far as rural municipalities are concerned. The same speaker dealing with the liquor license law, said that in his opinion, what was absolutely necessary to-day was the appointment of one or more inspectors whose duty it would be to examine and analyze all liquor offered for sale and he believed that much of the stuff offered for sale was doctored and poisonous. Hon. R. G. Tatlow, finance minister, presented a return of the special warrants signed by the lieutenant gover- ies can be recovered. Caught in the steep mountain trails by the blizzard which raged all day are eight six horse teams and the Camp Bird bullion stage carrying $6- 000 ln gold and many passengers. It ners who own they reside. This estimate excludes all business men, employers of labor, professional men, etc., . and only includes those ordinarily classied as wage earning working men. At the last Dominion elections there were cast in Moncton city 2245 votes, which votes were based on virtually manhood franchise.' There are some property holders in Fefc. 1-2 ., 7 ., „, .4 ..v. 1,244 property noiuers m Moncton, the* families consume more and there- and Qyer.m or 5Q pgr ^ Q. thege Is the credit of a are wage earners. It.is doubtful if any city of its si7.e in Canada has so many workingmen fore helpN,business. drinking man as good as that of an ab stainer; if not, why? o Do not all political economists agree that the morals of a bread winner are fully as important a factor in his value to the community as his physical and,intellectual qualities? Caii a man beer and beef .with the same owning the houses in which they live as does Moncton.. The.percentage of houses owned by the -workingmen here is phenomenal. ' The workingmen and wage earners of'Moncton : have prospered without the saloon. They have built their homes,,they, * * 1 ...L- . ___,_.__^-«j/i4iaa4aac_+iifav—mn.in?_ the"liceli"se_anu-airii3wn~tneir-own7icDIaeaaCa.s1-...-*.- - -. tain their families'*in comfort, they educate their children: despite their .being deprived of the saloon or the Who would that money go to if it did llcensed bar;- „ , . iZ fnr llnuor'' • • 7 « a Scott Act city or town without not go for liquor._ . . i, u u notnrosner will „buy_ money?. Who pays the other expenses of the saloon keep er? tpon calling him he followed me home as though nothing had happen- id to disturb his equanimity.' After *<he boys heard the story they unani- •nously agreed that he was indeed a 'dandy.'" Fat Babies Out of Fashion. The fat baby is at a discount. He- s no longer the admiration of his !ond mother and the envy of other labies' mothers. At the Edmonton Baby Show the nedkal officer of health, Dr. Lawrence, refused to have the babies yeighed. The fat, pasty baby had not \ chance. ■ ■ The Edmonton church schools were 'he scene of the conflict. A row of ^arriapres' was. drawn up outside thc ■loor, but they were baby carriages— wrambulators, mailcarts and even a -.mall wheelbarrow. Inside the hall v mighty roar greeted the ' casual. visitor. ' It was not the babies. cry- rig—th"ey,w"ere*m~the"best-oi-spiTits-— will be at TABER Monday and Tuesday, COLEIfAN - Saturday, February 6th FERNIE - Monday and Tues., Feb. 8>9 After a long and careful study of the Science, on experience of ovor 25 years in thcbupinc&s, und the adoption of the newest sind best methods, Mr. Morris is second to none in Canada us a Refractionist. .AVo manufacture, our own goods. All our lenses nre cut and pioimd at Regina, and all orders filled from there, saving delay nnd guaranteeing satisfaction to our customers in Western Canada. No matter how difficult your case may he, no matter how* mnny others havo failed to fit you, if you can be helped with glnss.es now is your opportunity. CHARGES REASONABLE: is feared that tliey were In the path of the slide and great anxiety Is felt for their safety. The men who escaped narrowly, were working ln the mine. The shaft building was not in the path of the slide but was close enough to tremble as the avalanche thundered, by. A teamster saw ,(the slide coming, and unhitched one of his horses and escaped on its back, the slide missing lilm by only a few inches. Dad Austin the hero, of many a wild ride through the mountains and one of the oldestc, stage drivers in the west^ heard the .. ... ., , „„.„„„„ slide when it started. He was driv- nor together with the expenditure . , . . .... . ... "" b . , ,;„ mno „„,- .„„ inS a six horse stage filled with peo-. thereon between May 1908, and Jan. , . . ,, ■, ,* " '. ' . . . , . , ., a. „,„ ,..„, pie and when the horses were pluug 25 1909, which showed hat the ^a - recognized the" TVrXe£Q0,; , it ? ? ' ,' w»n«l. instantly threw all his weight of -which -j229.5d8.39 had been already m ^ brftke ^ succeede(1 in ^ expended. > ln , the st on u v v Qt Hon. W. J. Bowser, attorney gener- lhe avalalichc. Two of the leadlng ^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^^^^^^^^^^^^s CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Rossland If it is such a disgraceful thing to sell liquor that you do not wish to associate with the man that does it, is it a good thing for you to vote for, him to do a bad thing? If.it Is a bad thing to bo a drunkard is ll a good thing to,-license men to make drunkards? If a saloon is a good thing, why do thoso who patronize it desire to- ho shielded from view by screens a liquor license does not prosper tho advocates of license explain, why six hundred of the^ wage earners of Moncton city own their own houses in which they reside? Moncton city has been nearly thirty years without a licensed saloon, and such Is the ecconomlc record The workingmen of Moncton are known as a rule to bo Industrious sober and thrifty. There is much whilo thoy do so, and why must lt boI """""•", —7 " - . .... . , .. ...... __,.„„i„ | loss drunkenness in their ranks than a a mia/alaa kept away from churches and schools and out of residence districts? . Is there anything In logic, morals, reason, rollglon or common sense which says that the church should throw down hor arms and strike hor colors whon sin forms a political alliance? .. Christ came not to regulate the,works of the devil but to destroy,1 thom. Ia it not enough for Chlrstlnns' that thoy be as tliolr Lord? Is it right to voto for a thing which no decent man can defend? Is not the license systom the strong tower to which the traffic doth rosort ln Its every time of nood? Is it not "the'revenue which it pays" which is always mentioned by the trade whon tho evil la on trial for its life? Is not tho license the most dangerous and deceptive expedient yot tried to dofbr *- or defeat tlio overthrow of the traf* ' flo? ln those of any licensed town. Thoir proporty nccummulatlon, their savings In tho banks, nnd their payments to benevolent societies* are all factors which challenge the admiration ofi students and economists. * | If tho license saloon had existed overy few doors on -Main street, and occasionally ln the residential districts during the past twonty nine pears, enticing men therln to spond .their wages, 'does any sano man for ono moment bollovo that the showing in proporty would ho approximately bo splondld? BimlnoBB men and wago oarnors,— study these facts and let woll onough alone. Can you afford to run . the risk of marring this rococrd of prosperity by voting for llconso and vot Ing against tlio Scott act,-—Tho T*1" noor, •>ut the mothers genially discussing * he merits of their respective. treasures. ■ . One mother, the proudest woman 'n the room, sat in state on a large -■hair, with beautiful triplet girls on ior knee. Several lots of twins were to bo -,een, and a pretty little couple drcss- •d in pink would certainly have won he prize for the best complexions if mo had been offered. Each baby was labeled with its nother's namo and nddresa, the date >f its bhth, and the food it had been •irought up on. •- Dr. Lawrence, who organized tho ••■how, considers these exhibitions to 'xo one of tho most radical remedies or high infantile mortality. Tho babies to be prize-winners nust havo "well-developed 'and • traight bones, a bright color and -n •oncral appoaranco of health." Ex- '•easively fat and flabby babies Have •tot a,chance in competing. WINTER The Sporting Feb. 2nd to the 6th 5 Big Days f0etUth CURLING and HOCKEY MATCHES by the best teams in the west ONE CONTINUAL ROUND of PLEASURE Faro and a Third for the Round Trip post Go." <>♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦'♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Pio- If a thing is bo demoralizing that lt must bo prohibited on Sundays and election days, and bo dangoroiiB that lt must be forbidden in caso of rlotH, tiros or othor occasions of grout ox* cltomont, ought It to bo pormlttod at any time? Ib the government more zoalous of rovonuo than of.,Jufltlco? Shall wo prohibit the slaughter ot buffaloes ami llconso the butchory of liablOB? Shall not tho cry of tlio child and the mother bo pourod Into tho oar of tho State, which Ib the bnllot box, ami the powor of moral miaHlon lio Bupplomon* tod by tlio Btroni? arm of the law? Aro tlio devil ami bin mlnloim wolRhlng our arirumontB or counting out votea? "Shall tho tlirono of Iniquity havo followulilp with time, which frnmoth „ mlfloliloC by law?"«--(PBalm 01, 20.)-- Pioneer, MINING INSTITUTE HISTORY OP CANADIAN JOURNAL* ISM '•.veryonu wlio It. li.k.c.-U,'. In the ** UiiUorj- ol! CuuuAa ivlll u'clc-omc n new' book "A IIlHtory of Canadian Journal* Uin" which hnn just beon issued. Tho volumo which furnlslioR In permanent form the first comploto lilfltory of tho prouB In Canada, covorn n Rront deal of ground not covered by any othor book oxtant In Ciinada. Tho roador at hn penmen Ub pagos Is continually mii'prlBod to find in It hltlior* io iinpiibllRlind HldollglitB on tlio car* oore of our public mon, aR woll as full utul first bond Information roirnnllnK our (treat journnlUtB and our great newHpnpcri.. Altogether lt Ib ono of tlio moBt valuable lilHtorlcnl worka which hns apponrod In Canada. GREENWOOD, Jan. 2fi.—Tho fourth general mooting of tho wostorn branch of lho Canadian mining liiHt.ltuto waB oponod In tho court houso this aftornoon, In tho unavoidable abBonco ot A. D. 1W. HodgoB chairman ot tho branch, tho mootlnR was presided ovor by 8, 8. Fowlor, Tllondol. Tho vlnltlnf*, motuborR woro welcomed by Mayor Bunting, alderman Dick* Bon nnd GovoriiinotiL Aitont McMynn. Aftor roiitlno bimliioBB Imd boon dlu* poHod of eonimltlooR woro floloctoil ns follows to draft roHolutloiiB* first, con* KratulatlnR 11. \V. Bioclc,on Ills appointment nfl director of tlio rooIokI- eal Biirvoy; hccoikI, nnilni'HliiR tiie pro- PobiiI to apply to tlio Dominion rov eminent for monotnry aid to the Nol* son eloctrlc zinc umuliui* iiiiui, a- protuiiiiK iipiM'ajclaUou ui' ilw utdluii at tlio provincial Rovernniuut iu hnvlnit asRlBted tlio name industry, A BiiRgcstlon wiib mndo Hint the pro- vtnrtnl irnvr-rnmont he roquofltod to subHldlo the western branch of the liiHtltuto as It nlrcady doos farmers' InstltutoB, Aftor n abort noBslon the mooting adjouriiod to to-moirow moriilni! when nf*vornl pnporB will bo read and ills* CURRod, Later thc vIMtorn will be. tnlion to the UrttlRh Coliimhln foppor compnny'fl nmclttng woi-Uh iuul tlu* Mother I*odo mine, To-nlglit they nre belnR ontortnlned to a daneo by the (Iroonwood Cinder* orra club, A'Question of Sharpnw«. 'Best value in tho world—2s, -3d. free from 8erapem, Stcole & ... -thus ran Uio advertisement, ''GonUomen," wrote Mr, S. Poogor, "1 have pleasure in inclosing pootal order for 2b. Gd. Please send too one i>f your rnzora by return. P.S.—Ae I ■lon't posBOBB 1&. Od. at the present momont, I cannot Bend it. However, I have no doubt you will aond Uio razor. In a largo concern liko yours one postal ordor moro or lees will not ooant." "Dear sir,.' replied Monsre. 3..S. & Co., "wo beg to forwoid you tho ra7.or and thank you for your esteemed patronage. P.S.—Our pack- ■r has carolcBsly lorgotton to inoloBO tho razor. To ono with such a chcok us yours, however, one razor moro or lees will not counta," you you Gurney-Oxford Measuring the Complexion. Tho color of tho hair, oyon and iildn is mooflurod by a now inutru- mentr-a Hiinplifled 1/ivibond ti*nto- moter—doviBod by J. Gray. Tho ob- lorvor looliB at the objoot under test through a tube and interposoR I^ovi- bond's Bt-andnrd color gliuttws in front ol a white Btirfnco at ono fiido oi the uporturo until tho glnBHOA tnuiRmit a a*»lnr exnotly oorreHpondlnR to thai 'if tho hair, oycR or Bkia, Tlio oxnot aompoRitlon of thn color Ib then ob- aa-ilnod (rom the ri'iidlngn on Uio hUui- ilUt'd ttlflHOOH, An All Around On I nml ry, A (/oiitloman invited boido Irlondrt to diniit'r, and as the colored Rorvant iintored tho room hn accidentally ilrnmu'dn platter whleh hnld a tnrkoy, "My frlondB," m\A tho RonUemnn In n mont Impnmiilvi! tono, "novor in my llio havo I witneaHcd an event ro Irnmrht with (liiiaHtcr to tho various natiotlH ot thu (!i"i-i;, ,,in thin u.l.u..- it,y no .-,<.■.' 15iP I'.^wn.nll of Tnrkoy, '.lio ujifwltlnp nl Oreeco, tho destniie- Mnn of China and tho humiliation af NOTIP.I" Notice to nil organized labor, nnd i frlondB of organized labor*. Koop away j from tbo McCluro Minos at Tnakor, N. j Dakota, as thoy have lockod out thoir men for Joining tbo United Mino Workcra of America. The men had to bo raovod nway from thoro as tho company got uu Injunction neelntt tbora, JOHN Tl. OALVIN, Yico-Proi. DU. 18 U. M. W. of A Let us prove to range will save The home that owns Golden Nugget Range —• saves fuel * —save) food —uvei health —saves time —saves labor for this is the range that war built to save just these things, GURNEY-OXFORD GOLDEN NUOGET is the lowett-pHccd range containing the spocinl features and improvements of the highest-priced ranees. It is suppliod with an Gurney-Oxford reversible grate that gives a constantly bright, live fire and burns every bit of tho fuel to a fine ash*—there is no waste, In the morning a turn of the grate handle -rivos you a quick, bright fire. You don't nave to loosen a singlo bolt or nut to change tho grate (rom coal to wood burning The fire linings can bo removed without disturbing the pressed -steel top how much al, introduced a bill as follows: An act to authorize a revision of the stotules of British Columbia, and an act to license clubs to sell intoxicating ll-juprs. The main provisions of the latter bill are as follows: No liquor shall be sold or supplied by any society, association or club, whether incorporated or not incorporated, or by any memlier, officer or servant thereof, to any member of such society, association or club or to any person on the premises of said association, society or club, unless a license for tlie sale of liquor by such society, association or club has been duly issued as hereinafter provided. A license to be known as -a "Club License" shall upon application therefor, -, accompanied by the consent in the writing of .the attorney general, be issued at any time_by the superintendent of provincial police to any such society, association or club which is not by its charter of--incorporation, or o^Terwileri^BibiteaHEroni-^seiiirig- liquor to the members thereof, upon payment of a fee of $100. Such i license shall remain in force until De-i cember 31 next ensuing and shall au-| thorize the sale of liquor by the society, association or club, its officers,or servants to any member of said society, association or club,, or to any person bona fide entitled to tho privileges thereof. The provisions of the Liquor License act of 1900 and of the Liquor Traffic Regulation act, not expressly applicable to such'societies, associations or clubs, shall not apply thereto. Nothing In (his act contained shall authorize the sale of liquor upon the premises of any society, association or club to any person who is not ot tho full age of 21 years. The superintendent of provincial police or any person authorized by him in writing so to do may at any timo outer upon and inspect the promises and books of the society, association or club licensed under the provisions of tho act. The attorney goneral may at any time cancel any license Issued under the provisions of this act, whon it, is made to appear to lilm that the society, association or club, or Its members, offlcerB or BcrviintB have violated any provlBlon of thiB act, or that, tho society, asHoclatlon or club Is not bolng conducted in a propor manner, W, ll, RoHB K.C, Kornlo, has boon choHon Kovunimoiit. whip in succession tb Hon. ThomnB Taylor, now mlnlHtor of public workB, (i horses were cut off by the mass of snow and debris and carried down the canyon hundreds of feet below. The camp of the Ansfelder, freight camp was-completely wiped out. Forty .or more horses "were carried into, the canyon and buried. Fernie Meat Market 1 Meat, Butter, Eggs - and Fish Fresh Meats of all kinds ~^~ Givs~us-""&-"trial—7"— a,a> **-*• . A, M. Matulis, Prop. • Baker Ave. Rear Hotel Fernie Calgary Cattle Co. All kinds of ROAST MEATS Give us a trial The range will never worp nor crack jilt of flat steel. for it In built of patent levelled dead The range Ib lined with asbestos so till the heat is kept inside to do your cooking .... unusually large oven hns a drop door thnt forms a solid basting shelf when open, We know thnt thc Gurney- Oxford Golden Nugget Unnge Is the one you should have in your kitchen. Wo know you will realise Hut if you call nnd let us explain the range to you, PRESSURE OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN8 18 HIS EXPLANATION GURNEY-OXFORD GURNEY-OXFORD CANADIAN RANGE This is the range with the new divided flue. This divided the he»t ■Aim M-i'vla, il «..,. •*,**. fra"**-*. ci ib* oven -*.** wMl us the bock, keeping nil part* at a perfectly even temperature No turning of pics or unevenly baked cukes with this ranee. The Gurney-Oxford Canadian is also provided with the reversible grata— the grate thnt burns all the coal Duilt of the finest, dead fiat, patent levelled steel, lined -with asbestos, Urge oven with balanced drop door. Th« Ourn*y Standard M«l»l C«, C.--tMry Meal.**** Z.&tt.ettte* J. D. QUAIL Salting A|.nl. t»*Me In eoniiocllon with the recent earthquake on tho Paiilflo roimt n profcHHor| of Mcfllll utilvei-Hlty who In dueply In* toroflloil In HelHinle phoiionioiin Hinted Dint thu occurrence of nn earthquake In Hint, region would not ho at nil mir* prliilng, "Wlillo tlm Bclonce of HftlHrnolngy Ih hi 111 In ItH Infancy," hn Hnld, "and none of iih can Hpoiilt with any eortnlnty on it, hi III wo know l hat I'tit-h dlHtiirhim- ccH nro dim to tlm Krndunl mol Inn off iuul Htii'liikugij of Hut mii'fiiro of the (llll'tll, AH tlio Kii-itt pluiiiM Hlil'illltH In ,r hI/.d the t-rmil planet linn <o ttcntninin- j (Into Ituclf to the dlmliilxjitn-j: lunly nml * 11 cortiiln amount nt Hluiklim In und | -Tiiinl-lliiK iriHiiltH from lIiIh adjum- j tn.'iit, TIiIh vory often, In fact Hourly nlwiiyH umini III till' llllHC nf HOllln) lingo mniintiilii or I'ltii-j--' of ni(iiiiitiiliiH> which by 1 heir weight plan* n ureal ! nt niln on the criiHt, miiKlng It finally' IO CllVt) 111 VMieli (le- Mil')'",' «.' tie ('.•■'l'*.l jiejilini nf ibe i-nrth \n wlM--' drawn owlnj? to Hliilnkni-'e, "Out un tho ronut there you hnve; the hiiKit 1'iinia-'* of Hie Ito'-klcH, one of tho gi'-uW'Ht. miiK«H in the world, nml, I the prcHHiue wiib which Ihey i-e«t nn , tlio Hlll'flice ol Die <-ii11 tl IH I'li'infiliuM, , HuppohIiik the hIIkIiIcki nhrlnkiigi) haHJ (icciirri'il under Mm criiHt of the earth: In a dlHtrlct where mich nioiiiiiiiliiHl Htnnd, then Miln erinrmotiH preimiiro 1 Hlmply hrenltH up the hollow rrtiat and you have nn ciirthrtunko, "Ah for the tepintH that tlx; earth moved Hnvnrnl IiicIich nt genttle," con* lilllled the lH'llfi:l.liUl*. "I filld It ex tromcly difficult to kIvo <.iwl(.'iicn to any such Htiuenieitt. It Ih more tlmn A complete lino of samples of Fall Suitings and Overcoatings Worsteds, Screes and Tweeds Up-to-date Workmanship Moderate Prices J. C. KENNY 60 VBAtia' EXPERICNOB IfmnBalwllAb^HAnUBa^Klf*!.! fcwtete „ -. —aW, without olidfv't, U> tba t^mjmtm Culillon ofjuij' KrleiilKli* 5i.urtir.l. CAittttrt, \Xtf* t**r, pj*t*i* pr»p«l 1, »ll neaftttMltr-i, » •j ttrnij lur KauMbir tottTtw y bu Wauhiotdun, u. a (II.ASMOW. Jnn. 28—The Cnnndlnn • urlw.i ivt C'cui". myloiT to dny won (lie tlrnt out nf three Intcrimtlonnl test ninfclicfl rie.nlnm Sent In rid with n Hcnre ol 112 to Tn, The irnphy In thin com- petition |in-< been donnted Uy l»rd Str/ii].«-f<i j*. *»^»1»V¥¥V¥VYYV**t¥-l'V¥¥»¥¥¥ | ^ , BAYNES I **tt*k*kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk The Pprtnightly club met ,with Mrs. B. H. H. Stanley on Friday night and thei,-meeting was a very successful one new life being given to-our program by the addition, of some voung people from Waldo. Following is the Program: Solo: Mr. Lamb. Reading, "Mr. Fenson. Recitation: .Miss Gray. Sam Welter's Walentine: Mr. D W. Hart. Paper: The Owl; Mr. Dan Curry. Humorous, reminiscences of " the Boer war: Mr. Hobbins. Duet: Messrs Green and Fenson. Recitation: Forugner's Views of the Statue: Mrs. Hart. Original remarks, Mr. Louis Fitch. , ■*> Mr. 0. J. Johnson, an electrician from' Spokane is having a house built . at Kootonia. Mr. s. J. Morrow is doing the work. , * '". Invitations are out for a.farewell Party to Mr. and' Mrs. George Lewis of Waldo.- it will,be given at the' home of Mr. and Mrs." Robey on the .tilth. Mrs. J. d. Aye was calling on - Wends m the new addition Tuesday afternoon. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ross, Mrs. Clemens ima Mr. Barter took tea with Mr. and Mrs. Hart o.n Sunday night. Mr. H. L. Crate is at work on his new house on Kootonia tracts Messrs. Bailey and Barret gave a ...bachelor dinner tho other day and it is appalling the number of bachelors tnat were present. The land agent reported the -sale of ,so many tracts of land to young wo- ■ toon, and the only way Dame Gossip ; can figure it out js t))a(. ha\e .sent their substitutes.1 Those ' Joung*men piobnbly believe wKh the ■> "author wlio said- bachelor's Hall.-what a queer looking , Place it is «uei» me from such all tl e davs of , - my lite. ■ ■ Ah me, what a burning disgrace it fcevrr m -ii] to b0 pjlt{n£ a vHa„ > MICHEL * "E )f* .^tkkirkkkirt^^^i^j* \u^tl J'0U Seen the ghost? That's the W bnVtm MicheI' Xo- S min°* We C\ I ? troated dur,nS "»e Jast week \assTnn am,U?iUg gh0st stor>'* which Mosei1 t0 wnder around the ?lne m the 'orm of a woman. It was ^ Pay night that the wierd ghost first 2>s2 ?n. nppearance. a>"- was sup- 'J-hH,? , ,epairers. who no doubt had tt^ "'?? t0° *** ****** S„«?fDame-Liquor. Anyhow the fef* subject" spokenot %d tlM? h°USe ^rins the week, ■W intTt Ti' 'Wero*80 Sea'-G(1 ^at t5 the ! i *raWlns the,r "me. un- 'So ll\TQ nCWS WaS b'ro»Sht to _C -IIM0".86 on Fr»ay night that "b>.;;;rr!L~,,au"D"6eh~caToireri47Tiil izing the order of Eagles. .The lodge is expected to start -next mpnth about 70 having already "put their names in for membership. : * " . E. Scentore of Calgary was in town ontTuesday. -H.H. Sharp of Spokane was in town on Tuesday. \ A grand lime light lecture entitled A Trip to Klondike was delivered on Tuesday night at the Methodist church by the Rev. Robert Hughes, which was well attended.' The lecture lasted about • two hour3 during which time Mr. Hughes took the audience right to the Klondike and back. , The regular meeting of the K. P's was held on Wednesday last when the installation of the following "newly elected officers took place:—.E. K. Stewart, C. C, J. A.-Murray, V. C, H. F. Weber, K. F. R. S., Tim Truan M. W., W. J. Mast, P. G., B. Stead- man M. F. and M. E., W. Hewitt I. G., J. A. Martin 0. G. , Roughead's living picture show was well patronized on .Tuesday night. The Church of England was again opened on Sunday last. It comes as welcome news to the people of Michel to hear that services will be held there on every Sunday night for the future. It is a great pity that the sacred house has been closed for such a long time. The Rev. C. Crowther has been appointed curate, in charge. He occupied the pulpit for the first time on Sunday night and delivered a'most stirring sermon. We are soon lo have a musical treat in Michel by the children of the Methodist church who are now practising a pretty canata .under the able direction of iheir conductor, the Rev. Mr. Cook. * The Coal company had the misfortune to lose one of their most valuable horses on Monday night in No. 5 mine. • .Mush is on the war path again trying once more to win a home. What will the lady in Vancouver say? Mr. Joe Thomas, pitboss of No. 5 mine is resigning his position on the 31st inst. ,,, Bennie is getting his name up these days as an Irish jigger. Why don't you buy clos.-s, Jim? . THE j DISTRICT* LEDGER,:.FERNIEr.B.C*.: JANUARY 30 1909 resulted' in a tie 3-3.... This is the first game that Coleman has played away from home this year. -:' They ejc.- pect to play with team in Fernie oii Friday night. , The - aggregation is a particularly strong one and it is said th(-*.t in the last half of the game the play was very fast. The Coleman.line up-follows:'' "■ Goal: H; Grady. Point: Ai Ju White'." - ' "' Cover: Spence Lewis. Center: W, Bawlf. Right wing: Alex. Grisack. Left wing;, B. M. Stitt. D. J. Mclhtyre representing' the managing committee accompanied the team. A. McKeDzie and R. H. Evans went as extra' men. A. Mutz of Fernie was a Coleman visitor Thursday." F. Whitnay of Lethbridge called on Coleman Merchants on Thursday. Jealousy. X By COLIN S. COLLINS.' $ ,.f.opyrlghied. •J-H-5-h-h-**. ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥»»¥¥¥¥»¥¥¥¥»¥»¥»»» | , MERRITT J AkkkkkkkkkkkkkkAkkkirkkkkkk ""1~ IlilU *?S ™,,'ei?0SS a-ncl v*"as k'eked out aVho*-tn 'V0 draW',0rtime* "was ' Pfc!fc ?; a Woman aftei' this pay _ flaps'it will be the ghost of a don- - «> after noxt pay. «hAFrif,S<?fy,liCkle Ca,ne to light. C M,k0, SIra°»- a Hungarian had CnJy I0"' hanKing by Che "Mk Wind his shack door In Newton. A Cwh? ln?"eSl Was hol(J on Snt'»" %s re, a,1ft,te'*left by the (lGC<™<*d as road which showed that his wife ■ 4am,ft,itthM0,d count,'y'had bce» b?i«5 ,,e.fl,,uro wb children should 4c wlT'l '7 t,lelr """-mother. lCiowi Ul be°n a long ,lme l" kW°S WaT,WC ' Hketl & a'» Who diet „f , ,Tho Jury r°lMrno<1 n ver- ■•£, St T W!!il0 tomPo.*«i*I!y |„. dJ"e* iho funernl took placo ■Mr. and Mrs. Foster of ,«re in town on Sntnrdnv. town L J3ckHt0,n of Fornio 'wn on Saturday,. t *'• H. Mc.MiiiHn of inwn on Sntiirdyu. *^^^*^^^^^^^¥-i-¥-¥*-¥V¥^-¥^*-¥¥--¥ $ COLEMAN. I •K i, - - * •••••••kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk* D. Evans of Pincher Creek visited Coleman on"Tuesday. John-Sc'.us made a business trip to Fernie and Michel on Monday's local. D. L.. McPhee of Royal City was the guest of 0. W. Benedict on Sunday. - .Mr. McPhee reports business good in the new city of the plains. . D. J. Lewis, who has been spending the past few weeks at the Union hospital, is now out'again and is able to get around by tlie aid of a pair of crutches. The fractures in his log have healed very rapidly and ho expects to take his place soon at the mine. • Robert Holmes of Burton City, B.C. is visiting his sitesr, Miss Holmes,-at the boarding house. Mr. Holmes was fo!-merlj''aT-resideritr"of~Coiemaii7 moved last April with his on Sun- Sparwood was In Fernio was In ■ "■•/ *■*• ** The banquet and dance hold-hy the *'lehol Burns club on Monday night, "•o 213th Inst,, was ono of the boHt °\w held in Michel, About 200 por- Sl"iifl «at down to do Justice to tho jj^od things tlmt, had boon provided, 'pv Frank Camplioll presided and nf* r0t* giving tlio company Burn**' grnco {•"-tforo meals tho following menu was "Inded out: « ' Scotch HogglB BrnlHod Vonl nnd Spiced Hoof Boiled lia niniid PIcI'Iob fruit Salad Cakes assorted. Ton nnd coffoo Fruit, wlnoH, Hppolal Scotch wIiIh- J%, old Port wiuo, Throe Star brandy 0t>rmrin Lngor boor. A loiiHt. to IiIh (Burns) Immortal "J^mory wnn drunk. Tho Michel or* ''•OHlra ulfiyiiil Homo (Ino Holoctloim In ll'i) ovoning, Tlio chairman wavo IJ'li'nH' giaco after iiiciiIh afior whicli "'w followliiK miiHlcnl program wan curriod out: Son*,': Rtur of HuriiH; Mr; .Iiiiiich Hoiik: Village lllackHtiilth: Mr •"lstInn,' . a3oiih': For ihe Noil (cncoroil. Jl not ton. Ul'Cltlitloil A, Mr. ,.,,,, The man who wiib iihkIk 10 mourn: Mr, V), McDonald Violin nolo: Ditto Bolls *',>. Jo« Donne .-1. nr Seotjniid- M."w 5?l.V,,orn I,om" inneoreil) ;'i >v. Hldlov. •somk; Tlio Football Bt Match:— Mr, Ion Tucwlnv I'llVl'i. v?on«: The Cainph(ill8 Am Comln*,'.— konit; Donnlft Mnry of Argylo: Mr. ''• Mftthnr, onenred. i»i n»»t: Thn ITr.ii'ii, t» w .lacM nml Mr. Stewart. At 11.30 tho dnnclnfi* part of the Prt)«rnmnie wiih ntartod which wa« •V'ht up until fi.ao next mornluK, when 'hi* nioBt. cnjoynblo tline cnmo to n ^to with Iho sln«liiK of Auld I-nng \lr. Walter Moody of Frank w«« "• town on Hundny on n vl.nlt lo blfl A. M, Morrison of Coli.*ninn h«B In "own durlnff trc wci): organ- Hii TmT r family to thenar famed fruit growing regions of tlie.Kobtenays. Mr. Holmes reports prosperity in the district'where ho has made his new home. The smoker.for the benciit of tlie hockey team - at the opora house on Saturday night was woll attended and a good lime was reported by those present. Rev. Father De Wilde went to Michel-on Monday. D. F. Hughes; general merchant of Crows Nest transacted buisness In Colcninn.on Tuesday, C. P. Wlllmott has been laid up for n wook or more with a severe cold. Tho Inlc-rnational Conl and Coke Co. made a record dny nt the mines on Wednesday. They 'loaded 2,"iC0 tons of eoal, n II. C. McDirney of Cnlgary visited Coleninn Inst week. F. M, Smith of Nelson II, C, route agont for tho Dominion Kxpross Company wiih In Colomnn on Friday. Two new pnnsongor conches and n bnggiiRo ear passed through Colomnn on Friday on tliolr way to McGllllvrny. Thoy nre tlio property of tho Knstorn B, C. Unllwny und will bo used to nccomniodnto (ho pnasunger trndo on that company's lliio whicli runs from McGllllvrny to Corbin. Quite a numbor of Colomnn's hotol hoopers, butchors, etc., nro putting up a supply of Ico. Tho Ico waB novor bettor than lt Ib this year, thnnks to the forty and fifty degrees bolow zero woathor which1 wo had n Hliort time a|*o. * J. II. Millar of Pincher Creok wiw it Colomnn visitor on Tuesday. W. J. Llglitlionrt of Lundbreck wus in Colemnn on Monday looking for moro plastering contracts, Charles LoiiKhurHt of NolRon II. C. Is in town nnd Ih Htnylng nt the Cole* num. II. W. Shnrpo of Spokane Ih niRlh* tcroil nt tho Colomnn, Win, WnrtBton of Vnncouver, who Ih Rolling the Frnser HolglitH iIIvIhIoii of Now WostniliiHldi* ,,Ih Hiapplnfr nt thn Clrand Union, lie reportH IiiikIii- dHfl nH good, Alex. Mc Kin linn I'ulliriied u fnw dnj'H ii|;o from (iliiLii N, S,, whuru lie lind boon vlslilng undor the pnrontal roof for Hdvernl nionlhfl. Ah*x says tlint llmcH nro flow and that work Is Hcnre In the far eiiHt. He Ih gliul to get. hack to the wimt ngnln. 0. W. Dcii'-illct left ItiHt night on n trip lo Nelson ntid to tho Okiiiiiignn. Ho will probably ho nwny for n week. The Colemnn Itueroailon and Do- .t'.l 1,'t't III, alJICl'lIlK, HllrL'llllg ■nll'hl with ii full' mil-lid mmtt |in>K(>nt, Tlm vlro prcHldiMit or* ciipldd I Im clialr durliiK the former p.iit of the iiieotltiK and nftor Homo routine IhihIii-.<hh liml boon trnnmictod n good progiaiii of about nn hour nnd ,» '.,-..-. e k-iikui miih lintciKu) to, Notice Hhouhl lie made nf two hoIoh by .Mr, llnyson for which ho received n Hpoc* Inl voto of UiiuikH from (he nudlcnro, S. Alt.'lii'8oii7principal of llm Colemnn ptiblln Hthnol delivered nn nddroxH on thn cdiicnllonnl ndvantngoB of de* ttatluK, und 'XiXii llhtitiied to with H|ic- clnl attention. The evening on the whoh* Vi'mi enjoyulily n\wM by till who *itt('wk'(l. The hockey Rnme at IMoyh* with the .Moyie team on Wednesday nlfflit which A meeting was held in Menzle's hall on Saturday night to form a voluntary fire brigade, appointing G. Hygh 'is fire warden.. Another meeting will be held on Monday. The Grand hotel is now open , for boarders. The hockey match between Middlesboro and Merritt resulted in a, tie. ' The miners of Merritt and.Middlesboro are working in conjunction to start a co-operative store. .1. Galvin, vice-president of district IS, attended a meeting'of .Middlesboro union to settle the grievances, but other business prevented him from remaining.' Dan Beaton arrived from the coast and is now working at ihe Diamond Vale. There Is a chinook wiud in the valley and everybody js -.-mlling even the cattle in the fields. James McCulloch of Fernlej arrived on Fridays train and Is working at the Diamond Vale. Abel Warn and W. Stanton arrived from a trip to the coast on Friday's train! .... At=the meeting of the volunteer fire brigade held on Tuesday night it was decided to raise money by subscription, to sink large wells and to secure hose piping, J. Travers of Vancouver has secured a position iu the Diamond Vale office. Bob Boyd has taken, over the Diamond Vale boarding house. The local members of the order, of K. of*-P. are*working to start a lodge in Merritt. Tom Bennett starts to work for the Herald first of the month. , A strong committee of the miners union.is working to start a co-operative store in Merritt and Middlesboro. Rod McKenzie.* has gone up to Joe Graham's tcamp. Alex. Hoggan reports every room iri his hotel is full. Well what about his license? - There is considerable agitation to have thc site for- the new" school .changed ~ ■. -*—'■ A lady of unknown age and'character arrived on Monday's train and all the stage have gone crazy. A bazaar will be held in .Merritt in the near future. One lady was seen making some fancy work while tlie old man was mending his pants. ■ 190S. by E. C. Purc*)l|j3. i*.,*i.'..*.,Tr,*..*.i?M*..T..*.„T^.T.i*.,* ,T, Jimmle Blatchford sprang to his feet to greet Marcia as she entered, but the gravity f/f the 'girl's face ^rrested the greeting 'that hung upon his -llps^and Instead he gasped. "What's the matter?" be cried when tie bad found bis voice. "Is it anything serious-some of the family iU?" "There is no Illness in the family," said Marcia coldly." ■' "Then .why this .' funereal', countenance?" demanded Blatchford. "Here I am, just back from the west, and you, don't even say./How d'ye do?' Didn't you got my letters every day, or what Is the matter?" "I was Induced to visit a motion picture performauce yesterday," began Marcia, "I believe that they are called •nlckel,|alieaters.'"-.,,.. "I've heard the " phonographs outside.", murmured Jimmle. ,"If the pictures, are-as bad as the music your look of woe is explained. How did you come to patronize such a place?" "It was curiosity." explained Marcia. "I happened to meet Belle Brewster and George Taylor nnd Henry Towne. Belle is perfectly crazy over the ■ absurd motion pictures, and they were ou their way to oue of those place*. 1 foolishly.let myself be persuaded to go with them. They had a picture of you on tbe screen." "That Is Ilattering!" cried .Jimmle mockingly., *'I find, you looking as if the end.of, the'world was near,,and you explain that you saw me ln the motion pictures, which accounts "for your stnte.'of depression." "It was taken at the shore last summer," said i Marcia meaningly. "I admit that I am not a dream of beauty In a bathing suit," said Jim- rale, with a-smile, "but L did not know that, I: was - almost • fatal ;to the. beholder.".-. -. .-...„ "You were entirely dressed," interrupted Marcia. "You had on that gray suit r liked so much nnd the tie I gave \ .,/!, -¥**-*i-*¥*-¥¥*-¥-¥-¥¥¥¥-V-¥¥*-¥-¥¥^-¥-¥+ t CORBIN. J * o * •••••••••••^••^•••••••/HH* Corbin is a new mining camp sltuiu- cd about 14 miles from the famous loop of tlio Crows Nest, branch of the C. P. It. It Is supposed to bo,owned by the Spokane Intornutlonul Railway and controlled by 0. C. Corbin, one of Spokane's lending millionaires. About 125 mon nro,employed. Just at the, commencement of winter n number of men woro laid off nnd woro encouraged to hnng around the camp In the expectation of being re-employed nftor while. Tho only boarding house !n tho camp is"run under tho auspices of the compnny, $1 por day being charged for board, tho, men finding their own bedding, sonp and towelH, After tho mon who were Intel off hnd exhausted their sayings In paying for board thoy wore ordered out of camp and several of! them tried to got to Michel In tho bitter woathor wo ox* poi'lonecd in the early part of this month with tho result thnt several of them wero badly frost bitten In tho1 onilcavor nnd woro picked up by tho railway soction mon. Thoro Ih no road into Corbin except by tho railroad nnd If was blocked by snow, and no effort npponrod to bo mado by tho company to clear tho track. Tho food supply, having ho- gun to run out somo of tho men cnmo ovor tho snow into Mlchol picking up some of their frozen comrades by tho wayside, nml wired to tho Hon, Rich* nrd McDrldo, promlor of British Co* lumbln, ncqiinliitlng lilm of tho situation, Mr, McBride Instruct ed tho C. P. It, to Bond n rollof train nt onco. Tho hpow plow wim put to worlc nnd tho track nlonrod In two dnyH. However tho men have hnd to pay tho $1 pur day for hoard, grub or no grub, Can tho publio wonder If some of thOBU minors at Corbin turn revolutionists nnd emphasise their protest by voting tho Socialist ticket. "YOO'D MSTTBIl GUT TnB WAY." ■LICENSE Am- The Pure Food Law Secretary WUboii Bays "Ono of the obJoctB of the law Ih to inform tho coiiHtimor of tbo presence of certain Utiutul u'niKH in niedieinoH." Tho law r«qulroB tlmt tho amount of chloroform, opium, ■mor-nhlnc, and other linhlt forming drugs bo stated ou tho lnbcl of each bottio. Tho mnnufac- uin-th m nmmbi'rtn.n'H CoukIi Hem- ody havo nlwnys claimed that their rornoily did not contain any of these drugs, nnd tho truth of thin claim is now fully provon n« no mention of them In mnde on tho label. The rem- (■dy ia not only one ot the aaf.jat but ono of thc bout In u»o for couglw and colAit. Vs value haa been pruvcu beyond i*ijei.tloii during the mnny years it ban been In general ur***. For aale by nil rim-tR'noi. you for Enstor, tho ono you said you novor would, wear except whon you wero with mo," "And I never did," said Jimmle promptly, "Only the thoughtof being with you would tempt mo to'wear'that' '■Ircus nocktlo. What else did I bave?"| "A girl," said Marcia explosively—"a girl who looked like an-actress. You bud your arm nbout.her >yalst, and you wore kissing her, und,the.people walk-; Ing along the beach stopped and iaugh- c-d nt you, and suddenly.you Bnw them nnd got up and ran away."- "And horo'8 whoro I. got-tho ongage- mont ring and my letters back, and you tell me that I havo destroyed your faith: In the honor of men'Just becauBO somo motion picture actor happens to look llko mo." "It was you,'* InslBtodMdrcla.' '.'Thoro mn bo no possibility of a mistake," , "I'm from Missouri;" docldrpd Jim* mio. "Would you plnd taking mo to tho plnco whore I can bo confronted with thoovldoncoof my portjdy?" "Slnco you will not admit your guilt," said Mnrcln coldly, "I do not boo how you can tlony the picture whon you muRt rccnll tho'clivumstancei," "Plonuo." Bald Jimmle pleadingly, aud Marcln nodded nn nsuont* Tho Nlckol* odoon wm. but n few blocks nwny, and proRoiitly thoy had paid ah admission nnd hnd pRinod Into the dnrkenod hnll. For half an .hour, thoy nut thoro wnteliJng tlio flickering pictures thrown ngiilm-t tlio screen of whltowoBhoil wnll: then Mnrcln turned to Jlmmlo, "Wo intuit have Been all (he plehiroi," Bhe HnUl. with omlinrrnHn'motit. "This koi'Iiin to ho tho place I wns In yostordny, but T recognize tionenf Hipm* pictures. I hope yon do not think I"- "I tliltik ,vo*. nre iiufnmlllnr with picture ricnlen*." Hnld .llinnilc, with n Innjaili, "Wnlt here n moment." lie dl[f'|,(>'l it way in the durknoHH, and Mnrcln oIipkimI her tired evet tn thnt out tlie Unworn*.* flicker !i £'.'- U'U iiiMiv ii.im'riUiie ihuii ever. H-iitnlo i- iiilltiiile imd Hoinc**., tint wlmk* en her (•••iiH'tonci- lu th<* Irl'-ntlflcAtlon. iuul mm ulin t--i*l ■■ven fnllwl to prove ber case, "with: him. Presently^ a band rested on her arm, and she opened ber eyes. •• - ' , - - : '.'Slip out,".; said,. Jlmmie.,. ..,"1' have solved the mysteryjri part^ The'same people.'come;here;every, day, ap they' change",tho picture'sfeacb morning;' i^he proprietor Bays .there's, a regular .'circuit, and he told me where I cao And; our scandalous,film.". He balled a street car/and a ten minute ride broughtithexa to another!- place almost exactly like the flrst ■ One*: of the first things to greet "their 'eyes ..was a huge sign reading, "By'the Sail1' Sea Waves—Very Comic." , . -■ 'Tm. glad some 'brie, sees bumor to the situation,'.'.said. Jimmie-grimly as he laid a ten cent pieqe on the cashler'ai, shelf and led Marcia through the door. • They* had not long to wait, and Jim** mte gasped as Marcia' convulsively; pressed bis arm. A glrlland a man', -were Bitting oh the Baud;In the 6hade" b£ a huge uinbreila.' Oblivious of a: gathering crowd, the two billed and cooed until a well, directed-pebble bit the sunshade and attracted tbeir; attention to the audience in the.rear. ,. The man' was so exactly like himself tbat' Jlmmie stared In fascination. Then he sought the box office, where two men were counting money, "I want to make some inquiry about that film just shown," said Jimmle aa. he attracted the attention of one of the men,' "I've nothing to do with the pictures," was the surly response. The. other man turned. , "I'm "the man who ■ makes them.- Want to hire, tbe service?" he asked- eagerly. "We get'all tbe big'French stuff before any' one else; We're the most up to' date.' and we get the crowd' every time." '•" ,° , "I am merely curious about the picture 'By..'the Snd. Sea • Waves.';" explained Jimmle. The man grinned.-. ., "Friend of yours?" be asked. "Great sell, wasn't'It? It was made to order for a chap., He wanted to spring It at a bachelor dinner to the other fellow. He got iis a suit of the chap's clothes, even to shirt and shoes. ' The-picture stood.him $200, but he sald.lt was worth'It "He let us use it for.exhibi- ■tion' too.", . "You don't happen to know the man'8 namei do^you?" coaxed Jimmie. • -.' "Sure,"°,was the prompt response. "It was something like a-.clty.--* It wasn't Villa; no, It was Towne.- That's lt He's a broker chap: . What? -I'say,* you're the chap they took' off I "Towne said there wasn't no * come-back. It was all a joke.'* ; „(,"It Is a joke—on Towne," said Jim-, mle steadily. "You need apprehend no trouble in the matter. I thank "you for your courtesy."' _'," ' . He turned to find Marcia at his elbow. .; .,'.*■ "Take .me out of here, Jlnirale," she said-softly.* "I was an idiot to fall so; easily Into Henry Towne\ trap.' He, wanted to cut you out That was hia object." "And he counted, upon your freezing into Icy silence and offering,no explanation," said Jimmle understanding- ly. ."Now, let's get home. I've seen enough pictures for one evening,- and I -gue88'you-haver*"r-;efs"wai"Kr,B'It"is*~not~i very far.- I want a chance to cool off." "What are you going to do about It?" asked the girl curiously as they sought a more quiet thoroughfare." "Three things," explained' Jimmle. "I'm going to fire my mail for letting Towne have my clothes; r am, going tp, call on Towne—never mind that—and I'm going to get a license tomorrow and marry you before they can 'spring any more photographic seeds of jealousy on lis." "I think,", snld Marcia softly, "that In future the seeds' will foil on barren ground, Jlmmlo, but—you'd better get the llceuse anyway." Women of Ancient Egypt* Women always Htood'on'a level with men In undent Egypt,'unlike the custom of other eastern countries. They wero allowed to rule ns queens as'early as the second, dynasty, Their palaces wore of brick adorned with gorgeously painted walls, rich carpets, rugs of fur, ivory and' ebony chairs and couches. Till tiie end of the eighteenth century there was littlo change, In fominlne attire, which consisted of a fine linen garment, extending from shoulder to anklo,,.supported by straps over tho shoulders. Colored robes were not fro, qucntly worn. Gay plumage was loft to the men. Women contented thorn- solves with blackening their eyebrows, lotting, thoir hair down and decking themselves with ', innutuorablo rings,' chains and bracelets. "For three long months 1 was not'oble-to attend to my own = needs;' and for three weeks the eczema on my hands was so bad that. .-Twas'tinable-to feed myself.* 'I had to he fed^os one feeds',d.bob'y, -because 1 could not hold knife;.fork, spoon.or cup" 'io says Miss -tViolet McSorley<:of -75, Gore Street, Soult Ste. Marie, in telling how ; „ Zam-Buk cured hpr ol eczema. t, She adds: " Hands, wrists and arms up ■■: Jo tlie elbows wero covered,wiih eczema. Tho itching and the soreness were ■■■ '■igh unbearable. As the disease developed/tho Bkin actually,,-peeled off , .leaving raw sores. ; The" palms',''fingers; backs of my.bands.,'tmd-wriBts ■ 'were all in this' shocking' state, and I was forced to 't-rit in agony ,all the while." * I., - . .... "Tho raw sores were soon in a foul condition, and my fiqger nails, al( -: ;.except two, fell off. , During the different stages of my-trouble' I sought the advice of three different doctors and received-treatment, but although, -getting, slight, relief, at first-there-was no euro.. Amputation was at one (time thought necessary but the timely introduction of Zam-Buk prevented, ttkia fearful-ending" , "Zam-buk was recommended • by a friend and we bought a supply. oThe first few applications gave mo a little ease, but it was not until I had • .'continued with it for-some time . tbat 11 felt a decided improvement. -■After - that my cure went on quickly. ■ Zam-Buk did .what .everything. ; ''else -had failed to do^- Now my hauds and arms are quite freed from the., 'terrible eczema.", ) Aro you suffering from »kin diseaseV If so,.take MissMcSoriey's,, advice anolry'^Zam'-Buk. , ' ' Zam-Buk cares eczema,' ulcers, piles, tad leg, ringworm, ,. fettering sores, cuts, bruises, burnB, stiffness, poisoned wounds of all kinds, pimples, face and Up sores, bod sores, diseased 'ankles,1 and all itching, Irritation, and Inflammation. Of all '■druggists and stores, 60 oents. a box, or from Zam-Buk Co, Toronto, tor same price. Befuso all cheap' and worthless ;* substitutes ot the ** just as good" type. FREE TRIAL BOX Send thli coupon'and a la i-tamp to Zam-Buk Co, Toronto, and, a ' dainty trial box 'of Ztam-Bui will be malla - ed you. rolj** •111;' ic ■IOC JH(j [fit. od' :-i fioi u fr it 0' . n. '. 0: "Bf ''■Ol if)' 0! ?/" 3,' 'IV, >tf ' ill" ■ to', y* 'si' IK! (u7 % . Palled to Relieve*, On tho mighty deep.' Tbo surfaco of tho soa roae and fell with sickening monotony, Tho great ocean llnor rolled and pitched. Tbo young brldo covered her pallid countenance with her hnndi. "Harry,-" she faltered, "do you ftlli lovo nje?" "My dtirling, moro thnn over!" vowed hor compassionato Bpouud. Ah'oloquont sllonco. Tho surfaco of tho son roao und fell with nlokoning monotony, The great ocean llnor rollod and pltcbod, "Harry," sho gat-pod, turning ankle her pnlo and gluiHtly fnco-"narry, I thought that would mnko mo feel bettor, but it dooin't."—London Answers, Divert DlmiM, "What," iuqulrod tbo Sunday achool toachor of hor youthful ptiplln—"what uo dlvora dlsenitos-}" nnihful or Ignornnt, tho acholar* •lung tenncloiiflly to tho doctrine that Ittlo boyii nhotild ho noon and not toard. "■"*flnii\'' pitrtmcd the ("nchcrj1 "tj-ia't my of you toll met" rtiuu Johunie-n arm that up. "Woll?" atkod tho teacher. 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N.; WILLIAMSON ;, '. Authoress of',"THe Pflncess Passes," "The'liightningr « .«,,...-a ..Conductor," EtcV, Etc. 7r* ■ :. • Copyright; 1906, hy Mrs. C. N. Williamson. old wood which she had * 'smelted every-night when she had waked-up in., Uie-wondmiui.,bed. in . the . lower room.,.Often she nad^old herself, that thefee scents wouid wake her !thinJt of that-room, no matter-where*,.Bhe might,oV;'..and how many years might'- have passed. Only last night, she-" had; thought that, not knowing she was not to sleep in that bed again/ • * But,, she said in her.mind, perhaps it was part of the dream that she had been changed to another room. Surely she. oould not mistake. -No other' bed could be just lik« that. And then,', if she, were not there,' why should" she'be in bed at all? What about the fire shining behind the closed door in the oorridor,, her frantic knockings, her-scream, and the hand* that had choked away her- - breath?,.. Had-uhe really - gone through- that fearful scene? Oh, she could not doubt it. Perhaps;, even at this, minute, Mr. KenritK ]and Captain Oxford were being burned to death. Somehow she must save them. - ■* She tried to sit up, but something held her down? Hei arms* were crossed behind her. back and tied; together at the wrist; she, could feel 7 where they were.bound.' And her feet were bound also. She' was powerless to move, but.at least,she could cry out; Suddenly she remembered how near to .the "corridor 'of,the burning room AS TO REDISTRIBUTION. */ r- -Tl-.l, J. p. QUAIL FERNIE, B. C. ii • y. yt/'.^ry 100 ions of; good ,,-. /y .ii ■' ,.'';-*'.;-..". Spy <•>;- n W.JE. Barkery Cayley, Alta. Alberta Show i Case. Wbrks , Manufacturers, of STORE FIXTURES ; Calgary, Alta. ' acquire, owii'arid maintain', ,-wharyes', aiid docks' in connection therewith', and to'construct, acquire, own, equip and maintain;steam,and other vessels and boats, and to operate the sape iri any navigable-.waters;* and to cons- struct, operate jand maintain telegraph and, telephone lines along theroujfes .of—the~sa*''_'**-'twav_a'Qd.-ii'S_hranc*ies'. or In "connection therewith; and* \\tt< transmit messages. fforVl cqmmercla purposes, . and to collect. tolls there ■ for;'and to acquire and receive frhnf the government,' corporations' or, persona grants of land, rights-of-way} money hbnuses,-privileges"'"or oth'eij assistance, in.aid.of, the; constructlor} of. the Company's undertaing with power to.usp,. own and operate, .water po\ver convenient .to,the. road, for railway- riiid 'other purpose's^' and " to exercise - such powers ub are granted by - parts 'IV and V of the '"Water Courses Consolidation Act" arid 'to connect and enter,. Into'traffic or other arrangements with railways, steamboat or other companies, and,for all rights," powers and privileges'necoss* ary usual>or-,lncidental to all.'of the aforesaid .purposes. '*•'.' '-. ..Dated this thirtieth day 'of December,' A.' D. 1908. ' ; * Wlleon, Senkler & Bloomfleld.' ■*"• ' Solicitors for tho Applicants. ....''*■ : - '- 21-6t' ♦•»♦■*»■»»*»♦*»*» I Fernie Dairy J711ESH MILK delivered to all piirts of tho town L GORRIE BROS,, Props, 1 ♦■»♦♦♦*» ♦■»♦♦♦» ++£ H NOTICE NOTICO ia horoby given that application will bo mado to tho Logleln* tivo Assembly of. tho '• Province of briitau -wOiuuioiH at un uuxt ut-»»iou tuf i.*i *.<.'! lo iui'vrwulij ti Wiiiv-uy with power to build, equip, maintain nnd oporato a line of railway of stand- nrd gauge from n point on the Inter* national boundary lino botwoen Brit- IfeU **.'A>»-U..ia>aJ. tVaiai a,Uii V^Uaa't-al SvaWaSit* X— Eflit Kootenay, where tho laid boundary ii intenectod by tho Flathond River; thonco northerly by tho moit feasible and practicable rout-d following the Flathoad Hlvor;-and'to* the boundary between Hrltlih Columbia and tbe Province of Alberta where tho (.filil bounilary Jn Interseelfd hy th« North Kootenay Tan, with authority alio to construct, equip, -maintain and ope-mto branchei from any po.nt on the propoieai line or Unci not exceed- lenKtb *»*S **hil» power t* eonttruet, Ittn In any one «••« fifty f E0) mllei In notice. ' ;; v ' NOTICE /is hereby given'that 30 days aftor date I intend to apply",to the Superintendent of Provincial Pol*' Ice for n retail liquor Hcon-BO-.for-tho Hoffman Houso, Elko, D. C; - Roderick James MaeDonald Elko D,C.; Dated thU 10th day of Deo.'l&OS. \ • r E. Weston Is prepared to givo / ostinirttea fonillclass- oa of building work, liopairfi a specialty. Givo mo a trial. mmmimm •m* Address: P.O. Box IB, Fernie I ' (* She^'oiienetH*her door'akd'Jotilied out. , vyas the,'tower.', If ,the," fife ^spread it .would'reach the tower; and'if in.reality-she'were lying on her "olid bed'in the tower room it was only'the question of a little time'before the"fire should reach her, and- she would be • burned to death.--, . -.-,.'.. •■ ! '.-,'-Elspeth Dean .was;,-young -,and strong,, nnd. the. tide ot,life .was. high iu her. veins. The physical repulsion to death was intense" in her, and the cry' on its way to her lips was rendered even more piercing by the quick horror of this thought.' ','-■' She screamed long and shrilly, but a voice within her seemed to say with the echo ot her own shriek thnt rang in her, oars: ."If you are in the tower, x\p one;,i,will hear you, You ' might die I a.' liund ro'd '"deaths before FIREWOOD For Sale Prompt Delivery am*m*»mmmmm*mmmm W, R. Boardman P.O. Box 62 WARNINO Miners, keep away from HIHcresf, Alta,, ** a dispute li pending there now. any one-would ;come."^,: The girlv shivered from" head to foot, and lying' there helpless, waiting the horrbT, that was to'; como, sho felt that the .bedh'had.begun to move. Thore had sheen n-.click; and thon slowly, smoothly, tlie bed began to glide along ns if sliding in a groove.. ■ y. CHAPTER XIV. / V. Elspeth's eyes were wide-open, but the darkness was like a dark eloth laid'upon, them.. She could aee nothing; but as the bed slowly moved; inch by inch, she'folt an intensely cold air which surgod round hor like tho wind made by a pair of giant wings. Thon the bod stopped, still in thick darkness, and she hoard n sound of hurried footsteps and of light bronthing. Thore was nnotlior, curious,. clicking sound, and • while tho girl wonderod In chill torror what would como noxt, tho bed on which sho lny tiltod suddenly up nt such nn extrume anglo tliut she rolled off, Thoro was a brief instant of horror, ns sho trloil vainly to save herself, oxpootinc a crushing fall, porhnps into tho blnok depths of some hideous cubllotto; but she rolled from tho bod upon a solid floor, covered with something soft, liko a thick rug, And tho fall, was so n!lght tliut, sho win- not ovon jarred. For n few seconds thore wiib com- ploto stlllncsH, and thon Homothing that moved brushed against lior ohook, Sho hollovod thnt it was tha hod bolng rolled nwny ngnin, "Now I am to ho murdered, perhaps," was tho thought that crept coldly Into Elspeth's mind; but sho oould do nothing tu avert whatever (ale might bo in store for her, except to ory out, nnd if sho did that, it would probably precipitate hor death. It was by liu-llncl rather than calculation that she lny still, scarcely breathing. Voices whispered noar hor in tho f^nrl'Tin"'* Phi» fiixnIA •nolihor r^cnffnlT** the tones nor make out the words, hut tlm foil her face v.**, ha-in-f Jio- ouused, perhaps hanging in the balance. "li only thoy would believe me fainting," (.ho thought. "They will wonder that I don t mnko a Bound, Vaa.v. i>.t-(.'aHi.J4 Ita!*.^ ka aUkJa-'a, a*, -a^.tai nnd look at my (ace. I must lie with my eyes shut and hold my breath as long as I con." Scarcely had she formed this plan o: action, when a stream ,of white lipht fell upon "her closed' eyollds. Sitli all the tnree of her will she kept f... <.U'.ulj, Uer \uwi tiwhcu lying ou her cheeks without a flicker, "Fninted," eanio t whisfier. louder than tx-fore. "Can't be sum." murmured * second voire. "S'xe r!,ay be nhsmrninr." A moment Inter Klefxith fell the -,ie>>raur« of a hnnd on her chest, 'Hbe (|(WMi't *ieeiii 1« ftr*»-ithe," was 'i*t *hhi#tt.A tot Hii-iit, '•.V"!! liuu, I-., iu w:y« Uct tin the present.' She can't possibly' ob- cape."....,..- ; "She can screain." y. .'.'Ii shedid, she wouldn't be he^ard:" "Yet We are whispering." , .."Loiid voices.-augut' rouse tho girl to. conecioueness,- it's more, coaven- -ie'nt that'she shou|d'",be'as she ' is. We'.ye no time to wiiste upon her now.. Little wretcn!' u one Uadu't spoiled. , our game down. Delow witli, her yells, the tire would presently nave -saved us all trouble. Our two birds, would have been killed with oue stone." "Too late .to, thiim ot that. There tniist be no suspicion against us. We had better go'now.- But I-would leel safer if I were certain she could make np noise." ,,{,.,,... ; - "Simple ■* enough to close her mouth.7 , . - .„...,. 7 . -. ;.; "You meau"—— , "Not .what you. think'1,'do. We can't afford, to-risk, the .smallest telltale stain'' whenj.we-shpw Yourselves downstairs 'among the people who've been roused by the fire, and! besides, I've another plan. The thing must be done before.morning, and in such u way that .she can be curried back to her bed and laid' mere quietly, - with no one to guess that she met death by'violence.-A dose of laudanum is the things the. bottle found by her Bide. It,'will,'be thought that, she killed herself'because she'd beeri, discharged." ." "'■'-' "You think'of everything."'-'V * " I' ' have - had"' some ': experience; i otherwise I* shouldn't be where I am." "Can,you get hold ,of the-, lauda- numP','. i .., , , .,.,. ,' !'Yes. VI .always, keep plenty ' of stage, properties.,. There, I've made a gag of a sort out' of "niy handkerchief. A second's work to fit it in, and she can wake when she likes,, without-> causing you a oualm."- Elspeth ..heard, every • word of this conversation; and when a hand pressed down her chin tp open her mouth ulio lay limp und, motionless. as be- 'tore,-making ho,^resistance. A'great lump of cambric' waB "fo'reed'between lior teeth,'' and still she feigned un- Ga>:iBciou8nees. 'Her hearing seemed now,>!almost-abnormally keen.' She * heard "the: breathing, of- the. two.men. ",8he heard.the,soft, sound of footfalls on ..the thick % rug, „or carpet, arid.-at .ldst ,'a faint elicka:.*vyhich .sieemed ;to .oorne' from .a' distance. After that all 'was'.still, and she .knew that she'had been; left''alone.' ■•'**■■■ • ; , ^ ■She had 'h'eai-d.-why-'the "meii'were :goin'g7a'nd-if waa-^ieasonable to sup's pose-that;thoy* would, be gone some time. Still. if could ' not be-.-so.-very long, if she were to be disposed- of "before _mowing,",.Jftftei...the fashion _whiclu_haii^ith^so^mucluquiet,gri_m^ ness' beeii''Hugjgested."Th'ey would~nee^d~ darkness.to hide tlie" deed, if she were' ' to! be "carried i through "the house"' and' ■.laid upon th'e' bed;'in"the new room ■ whose i uumber; ■ they must*- already know. .:'., -.'.'■.,- . , It ,Ib'' difficult*, Vo- recognize a voice . from,, a whisper,. ond,'Elspeth could not have guessed , the identity of .either .speaker from the;.murmurs she' had heard; nevertheless she was sure that she had guessed the name of one man. The other wasr still a mystery to her; Bhe had ho idea who he could .be. But, after all, it mattered little. Nothing,* indeed, need matter much to her now, unless she could free .herself, and .escape. To expect to. do this seemed'like, expecting to perform a' miracle. And yet ElBpeth could not believe that she was to die to-night. < ' . " For her thore was but one ray of light in darkness.* She had.heard one of the men say to the .other that sho had "spoilt their game." That must mean,, she thought, that the alarm she had given hnd been,heard; that John Kenrith and Captain Oxford had been saved. And ' tho idea' that she'had been able to do'this gave her oourago to attempt more. She did not know whero she was, but ii Bhe oould only tree herself she oould find out; and if, * afterward, she. oould escape,- she would be ablo to give at least one villain up to justice. VOh, if I could only' loosen these bands that hold my arma,-' she said to herself. "If I could do that, all tho rest would bo easy, perhaps." Elspeth Dean was a lithe ana supple as woll as a slender oreature, with all tho elasticity of youth and health. As a child sho had been ablo to do all sorts of wonderful things with her lively little body, and sho and her brother, two or three yearn older than herself, had often played a glorious plav in which they were contortionists in n ntireery oirous. It was many years einco the girl had praotiBod any of tho fonts tor which she had been .famous among her little oompanionB, and indeed, sho had tor- gotten all about them until this moment, Now, howovor, she suddenly romem- bored how well, ir tho old days, hor body had been acoustoiiiod to obey hor will, And in tho despernto dangor which throatened hor sho called up her ancient skil' to hor aid. So did she wrltho and twtst hor slim arms and shouldors as to looson the bonds made to hold less supple muscles. Presently she folt a slight relaxing ot the band*, which hold her wrists. Slowly, slowly, grudging each moment, sho twisted one hand out of bondage, the fiftieth part of in inch at a timo, Then suddenly it was froo, and she could have sobbed in joy and thanksgiving, though she was far (rom being out of danger. With ono hand nt libortv, it wns but tho work of a tew seconds to tear Die i'iix* ]j-i.-,\i hu ujimlh, mni lo ..> lease the other hnnd. Then sho sat up, nnd unwound a long,- narrow itrip of woolly (iiatorial which (elt like knitted work, from hor ankles. Sho was free to move, free to escape—If «•.!■. t* ^^,ttrl X •--I ft,, 1 ,» hi *• •* • ••..- ,.<•»■• H ** .At* * •* "■'"j* Tremulously, tott.3ri.1g a little at flrst. she scrambled to her feet, and for tho Ami time since she had rolled (rom the moving bed seriously asked hortelf where she wu, Gropingly, «he tilt-d to find a woll, •Humbling on, catching her foot in th" wrinkM foM-i of it rug, and saving herself from a fail by setting an Hue o! snmo hanirinir drapery. Thus , Frank Paper: >. The subject- of. redistribution to increase the membership lnp-the legislature, in accordance .with the increas-i.of population since Alberta became a Rro\-mce',is very' much in the public mind these days, - Whether or not there is any good reason to expect.such a redistribution,at this ties sion is problematical, but a recent news despatch from Edmonton announced, it,to be the Intention 0^ '.he government to effect some,such legislation and the run of newspaper com ment; throughout the province would indicate that it Is quite generally expected.' ' " , -= i. The: talk ■ as' it affects the. Pincher Creek constituency is that it is.proposed to . divide .this .district at about Lundbreck, putting all the coal mining sectfon of this district into a .section by itself. The,Frank paper does not believe—yet—that such a thing is contemplated but in the event It Is proposed we are inclined to think there will be protest from,this district that will cause the members of the government to sit up and take notice. While under ordinary circumstances there would be no objection or at least no very general or serious objection, under existing conditions there is a very ' serious and valid objection. Should such a constituency* be created it would of course mean,that In all future elections for member ofthe legislature, the man elected would not represent an aggregate of $50,000 in property, whereas the property valuation of-the, district is. far In excess of twenty, millions. The,'people who own the property.would havo.no representation at all. AVe do, not-.hold that ■ this would , be so serious if a straight'out and..out lnbor man could .be. elected,', but this would not'be the case. The labor organization of the district is in,the control, of the. Socialist party, and that means that the people who.'own the' property* would <J« have to be represented by'a';ni'aii who would bo nothing more nor less than the mouthpiece of an organization', whose chief tenet is the very antithesis of owning property. ' ,*' • .- And then there is another,,phase of the case that will meet with objection.' Because of the fact that the creation of such a constituency would insure Women's There is one man in the United States **vho has perhaps heard * more women's-secrets than any other man or woman in the country.' These secrets are not,secret8 of guilt or shame, but '. the secrets .of suffering, and they have been confided to.Dr, ^2^, R. V. Pierce iri the hope and expectation of advice and help. . That few of these women have been disappointed in their expectations is proved by the fact that oiaety-eijiht per cent, of •all women,treated-by Dr. Pierce hflve been absolutely and altogether cured.*,, Such a record wdolti.be remarkable if the ., cases treated were numbered by hundreds only. But when that record applies to the treatment of more than half-a- mil- , lion women,- inva practice of over 40 years, it is-phenomenal,.. and entitles Dr. Pierce to the. gratitude accorded him by women, as the first oi . specialists in the treatment of women's diseases. - , Every sick woman! may,,consult,. Pr, pierce by letter, absolutely without * charge. All replies are mailed; se«leal in perfectly plain.envelopes, without;. any printing or advertising whatever, "Jpoi. them. Write without fear as without fee, to World's Dispensary Media****1*. Association, Dr. R. V. Pierce, Prest., Buffalo, N. Y. ,, / •* ;••'**■-■, \ DR. PIERCE'S FAVO-ft-iTE PRESCRIPTION -fViCa.lx.eis 'XXT&aJx. "VCrc>ax»,e>n. Stx-oxMSf - BIG CUT ON ALL LINES OF CLOT HI NO Vou'can save from 25 to 40 per cent, if you buy now " MEN'S SUITS, FINE CLOTH $5.00 AMD UP MEN'S FLANNEL SKXR.TS, $1.50 NOW $i.OO FIVE PAIR WOOl SOCKS FOR $1.00 Kef oury Bros. Temporary building between Northern Hotel and Henderson block *aC*^-ai^K»a385a*i^ Andy Hamilton Tinsmith and Plumber always the election as member, of a Socialist, all electors who do not hap-*1 pen to ,he of, that pereuaelcn would to ' all intents and purposes be dlsfran-, chised. . It would not be us.If they *• had. a, fighting chance, of *?o::ie ..time | electing a member. In such a case ^ -rsr— the wrong,would,not, be so great but ■& * **.■'• '" '<':,*'- they .would never, have that-chance;.' the present system of exploitation uur" there'is no combination of circunistan- Would ask the exploiters' to be' lthid ces that could" be" devised , whereby' enough to dispense'just-a-few more they'could ever elect a member. . | crumbs,' yet the Idea of reaching for These'facts'.have been brought to,'the entire loaf Is riot-to be consider-' the "attention of Premier Rutherford ed. I We; can furnish you with estimates in I anything in our line * ■ ■ ' ■ . ■■ . ■ . _ . ■ • ■ |-*85K**iSi^S^^X*« and' the members of his' cabinet and they reallze.thi's is a correct-statement of the' case.'-' The'-lFranlc Paper is not The argument that In the event of this awful' catastrophe' taking' place the electors of■ the' other' bt-colored ready to believe that" they will won't-' stripe ' would be'1 practically dlBfran- 6nly-isacrificGi-Gvcry--interest-and-ev--ehised_isJndee(^&dL ery person'-who does not believe-In-crumb,,of sympathy, does, he .extend-to Socialism. -*;.• -. •-, • ,. . .-.the great, number of practically, dis- . But If they- do they will simpiy be franchised electors of the Fernie dls- pandering to Frank Sherman and lt is trict, yet the only result this'has.had from him that the proposal emanates Is .a closing up of their ranks dc*er- and It would be. In his.interests alone 'nilnedly'resolved to keep -Incessantly that it ..would bo-put .'.through for-.tho , battering away, at the walls of on- scheme is!nothing more or less than |trenched privilege, not'with-squeals, pleas, protests, but with lrrifutn-ble logic and a recognition that events are fast shaping themselves to bring out about a reorganization of society wherein humanity will ccaso to be everlastingly a secondary consldora- a vehicle of his own building designed to gratify his overwhelming desire to,, sit In the legislature. Of this thore is no possible question asrlt Is already known to a .certainty thnt Mr. Sherman will be'the candidate of tho Socialist party In this riding ln , the j tion event the decision referred to Is made. The Frank Paper is not willing tc believe tho Alberta government would he guilty of nn act that would hnve tho effect, of foisting'anyone man upon any district, 'particularly a nonresident who does not own.a dollars worth of property in tho district, who has no Interest whatever In It, who Is not wanted by any man who ownB a dollar's worth of property and who only Books" election In the dlHtrlct that ho may gratify his nmbltlon to Bit in tho houso to bo a perpetual, thorn In tho flesh of the government of tho day. COMMUNICATIONS ,Tlio Kditor doiMiiol liolil IiIiiim'U wiikiiikIIiIo for 011I11I011N isx|>r(!i"*ed liycniTuuiiniKlciitK ' "Mlacrcnrdla! All yo unrcgonornto, loud - mouthed, slim pursed and prop* ertyloBS disciples of Knii Marx, , who still possess n lacteal streak of liuin- nn kindness .In your . anatomy, hark unto tho wnll of the unfortunate editor from Flunk, Alta., who mo hkIkiih of sequestration of his kooiIh and chnttolB (tho Inventory Iiiih not yot boon mndo'out) In ,tlio event of tho C'Oiitoniplnk'd redistribution' of the Plnehnr Crook cont-tltueiicy boeomlng nn ofcompllnliod fiiet. Ordinarily tlio N*CHtoi*n of iho Fourth I'.muto nro vo* clforoiwly loud In thoir support of tho theory of vox po*>uU vox ih*l, but when that majority eotiHtlttiti'H. to theii- IM-l'f.-I'VOd linilKilllltloilH II IlK'llIt,".- to vpRteil Intct-f-HtH, all provioiiH rlii'torl* onl obullltloiiH nro fowl ten, mid carofiilly.Iiild upon tin* nln-lf until nn election Ib appronchliiK, when thoy nre Bayly trotted out for thu purpose of alluring tho iinnophldtlcntod. Thu wlohlur of tho fucllo pen him, howovor, overstepped thu limits of dUcriulon, and by hU zml on behalf of tho minority ranged himself squarely on tho aide of the d-ifendom of thlnw*. and against human boltm**. Now Tho power which, from this gentle* m'nn's stntement, Mr. Frank Sherman Is credited with wielding, must, If ho bo a vain man, bo exceedingly Gratifying and this despite the fact that he "neither owns n dollars worth of property nor Ib ho wanted by nny man who does." Tho editor of tho Frank pupVr is either a victim of crass Ignorance or wilful perversion when he stntes that the chief tenet of the organization — Socialism—Is the 'very nnttthoBh* of owning property, otherwise Its votaries In tho coiiBtiteuncy In which he lives ought to bo thoroughly satlstled with tho JiiO.OOO thoy aro credited with possessing. If holinfi access to a WcbHtor's Imperial Dictionary I would respectfully suggest that ho look up tlio definition of SoclnllBin. and whilst this is not tho exact definition, It Is nevortlioless a refiitntlon of his assertion ond I would also urgo him to moke a ftudy of I'ConomlcB becinmo ns a moulder of public opinion. If ho coiihIiIovh tho philosophy of Socialism to bo Illogical and unsound, It Is his hoiinden cause all married, men to be discriminated again.. I wonder if this delegate ever heard a workingman oxpress . such an opinion.* I doubt It. Such a statement "as this is absolutely' ridi-n eulous, for it is such a thing as the Workman's Compensation Act -that the workingmen have been .seeking. *" Why?'-* Because if anything happens to the bread winner the employer must, under this act, - pay compeusat- ion "to'TE«rTiffloun<r'ofT$l-;SOp~in-rc-ase of death; or weekly amounts in case of disablement, up to a maximum of $10 per week. As this touches -. the pocket book of the employers they do not lli<e the"act, and'wish to.bluff tho- g'overhment into believing it* Is the people^who do not want it.. Ono of the delegates has, I,believe^'gone;_ so . far 'as 'to discharge - nil: married men ln his employ. '„ I doubt if that will avail him anything for the simple reason that any member of a family, or - nny person, wholly or In part, dependant upon tlio earnings,of a workman Includes wife or husband, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, step-mother, son, daughter, grandson, " grand-daughter, Btop-son,. stop-daughter, brother, sister, half Bister, half-brothor, adopted child, foster'parent," It further adds that "If tho workman leaves nn Illegitimate child wholly or In part dependent on'hiB'earnings, or being nn Illegitimate child, leaves .a parent or grand- paront wholly or In part dependent on his earnings, thoy shall bo Included aa dependants," and will therefore bo en- ' titled to claim undor the Workman's Compensation Act, How many workmen are there In Alberta to-day who havo neither a "member of a family" nor a depend" nut" who could claim undor this com* peiiBatlon act. In my opinion tho number Is small. Thoro hnvo boon other things said to the detriment ot tho Compensation act by theso gentle* mon I lmvo no doubt but the above will Bhow sufficiently tho vory quoB* tloniiblo methods hying employed lu an cnilcavor to ropcitl the Work- innii'H CompeiiHiitlon Act and to striko another cowardly blow to tho wealth- duly to Inform IiIh rciulni'H wli<'i'<*ln . tho fault Hoh. This phlloflophy Iiiih l>io<lucr.'rB--tlio workliignion moro than olght million ndhorontH nil1 ' ,nl'I,,t Bny' •Mr* ■'•'■■■or tlmt my over tlio Rlobo and Its Humbert? arc! opinion of tho gent lumen (?) forming foiiHimitly growing, tln-reforo it can*:"'0 'hdoKatlon referred to goii.-nilly, not Im Hwcpt aside by any hucIi '•rinj,. '•••«• 'ho one thai dlHv'liiirg*'iI all tho argumentb ub ho advances, hm iiuihi ' '•■•"'•"lull men In UiIh employ, pnrtlc- he di'iilt with calmly, Hcl-'iitllleiilly ami * u,nr,*Vi wo",,!' "ot ■onlt *'*•'■■ ,n l1l'lnt- dlHpiiHHloiuitcly. j Yoiiib truly, SochillHin Ih not tho otTHprlng of 111 ^JQS. N. MI3IU. fow faildlslH, hut Ik a urowlng rccognl*' "'••' thm of llio fiat Unit a HjMtt'in which, THOMAS HKHlrl, l-lflQ., foninliiM within ItHcJf the ciuihc of thn > lS,,c* "In'-Htono Local, fxlHtliig wide Hproad mlHcry Ib Jniulo*'■ ^mi' Slr: • hnvo In my office at •luntu loiiieet wlththa tiiilvorHiil ..(•Hlr.'i''1'-" I-Ir,-H(,|1l "nm suvcral ciihi-h whero for hollormont of tho wholo human fn*'n,on *,riV" P«*"ehntit'd property In AI* wily, mid at. lt is Incapable nf helnn! h,'>rUi "n<l lip01, hivpuilpntliic I linvn mended niimt be replaced by the toor- i ■'0,l■"• '■"■• "10 vendors hnve no fit lo Kiiiilzation of bocloty on another bn« Ih. ' und while It U ImpoMslljlu, or Hcc-nm to bo Impotxilhtn, to get a return of the pu relume money I feel that nomo* thlnx ought to bo done, to put a stop to what I coiiMlder little abort of Hwlndllni; tho miners. Some tlino tiioru u not need to »(rij> mm 01 me |intre(ihe ino nuuiber ot (initrntK-'dKed 1 "»•'" * "" " »uc.'.i»u, *'„.«.a'.. /..„ luiisU lit hyi'imliiy, ..*.- 3ji> him eo I'li-'-Uy-,-? aV.'.J.T, P'lh.lc pr^c 10 DM \'.\nc\ nt budlnenp, hut ilnuhttPHR what I then wrote him Horo'-* a qtu-Htton for tho troubled gontlomnn! If tho coiiHtltuency ro* miilnn unchanged and a. Soclallut candidate hocomt'8 olected, would It not ruthloBuly torn lt off Mmself, throwing no fnr beyond tho tench of repossession that It it merely noceisary to call attention to tho fort, "Tlio (trpfttest KO<**d to th* nront(**t number Majorltlwi rule*.' The rights ot tho Individual aro'superior to tho rights of proporty, and sundry othor mouth filling aphorl«ms are tho stock In trado of tho ordinary spell hinder, yet this Frank (In ' a double semo) editor calmly oitlmatcn the Aggregate wealth ot iho majority of tho electorate In thu proposed nbw •ho (•.t4>(*<tl«vl herself, and' found be-* I "hllng bh toO.lWH wh«-ni<..h Dm p»*op«rty hind that drapery the wall for which jvalutlon of the district is largely In t*he had *earehi»<l. Her hand touched exeeis of 20 million-.. a iurfaoo of «w»l, and puaing her Again, he sees no danger In a flrwr* along it. «h* dii«ov«re4 that mraight labor man, who regards a r.m±1,?* »*j!W'r m5"Ul end* to • «•■•*«' »« «»»!• (IK as Bicrely a Ji* framing 01 otone. ........ . ,.., . • .. "Tlw tower -villi'•* oh 1 told to Ul- KnntUtl ^MAual willing lo uphold (To b# continued.) Cardiff, Altn„ Jan. 18. Editor DlHtrlct Ledger, bit; ini'M' iim w itit*- j-Ti-tM-ri' tlmn a number of men who own and oporato umall mfnei) In Edmonton and district, trying to do harm to the Workmen* Compensation Act, which came Into forco on January tgt, loofi. by method* that are not at all Above (ipruckLh, Thi-iio iiilr.e Of.ncri*- form J been entirely forgotten, bocauso I jflnd (hat people are *tlll koIu*; on pur* jchHilng property from thene iiKetiu. I You underitand. of course, that I do noi. *■.*.;», or •at.'fii Vtiittn, xuax imm-t*. ought not 10 Invest ttmlr monlen, but It Is not an InvoHtment where they pay for something and never get, it. May I suggest, as a means towards stopping this objectionable practice, that your union draw tho attention of lu u\\;».Ucnt to what ha* bwii Aw.4. I trust you will pdrdon me In thaa ed a delegation and Interviewed Pre mU:i* Uuthuiforil, Iu ihcli* ciitla-aivor w!brlnglnc before th*** local union tbh havo tlio workmen's Compen'atloit Act repealed. One of the deletates mado a statement in this interview, it la said, to tho effect that tb« act iraa not approved of by tha v-ftklng- men of Alberta, for, he said. It *ould tnitiUr, but I feel thnt J may do t>o, became I know that If there If ono (hlng more than another tbat union* want to prevent , it I* pracflo., which to my mind, are criminal one*. Your* faithfully, L. \\ ECKilTElK .a..w.-wH,fc^J.-*-V'-•".a*"*' !*?ti^Sr -Vrj,^'i^'|i"StJi-WVViS«'1 PAGE EIGHT THE DISTRICT LEDGER. F.ERNIE,. B.C. JANUARY 30 1909, LOCALS , ' C. P. R. TIME TABLE. ■"' No; 8 Elyer "Eastbound ' 24.18 No;; 7 Flyer Westbound '. ;*■ 1;55 No. 214 Eastbound"Regular .... 18.25 No.-213'Westbound Regular7.'..' 9.46 ;No. .236 Eastbound, lst clas3 .,: 9.00 ' No.v,235*!We8tbbund, 1st class '; .20.16 , G. N. TIMETABLE.' " * No. 252'"' "' 7 No."'25*1 12.40 a.m.-'«! -FERNIE ■ = 4.00 p.m 12.58 ' ' ••' "HOSMER *'-■ 3.40 l-ty'-i i'T ''"'OLSON-7'' ',' ' ll 3.27 1.35 " ' ' MICHEL ' ■"' 3.05 „ESTRAY—One horse; color black; Tweight 'about' 900 pounds, branded 7L on left hip, blotched brand on right -shoulder.- Came to my ranch on 7th - January;»owner can have- same by ■' proving title and,paying expenses.— ■.- Chas. Stephenson, "Gateway, B.' C. ' TO RENT—Furnished rooms- with ;'; bath at-Howland" avenue, opposite the !" Baptist' church. *' ■ , WANTED—Partner in good paying *, buisness, with five hundred dollars capital; apply post offico box 23S. FORSALE: Fire proof safe—Appl to L P. Eckstein. LOST: Pocket book containing $1-15.4.1 i' near tho C. P. It. express office. : Large reward if returned to Adolph An- • derson, Dominion Express office. *, WANTED: A reliable giri to look aftei\small child and do li-jht house ■ work by February 10. Apply M.w.'R. W. Woods, c Mrs. King of Calgary was in town this week. Mrs. Iir: Higgins of Hosmer was in town on Wednesday. „ .*" " Just arrived, a few dozen of live v chickens at the Fernie Meat Market. The police arrested several drunks, this week and also a man for stealing a watch. . . - . „ The Central Hotel was caught sell ing liquors last Sunday and summonses issued against them. Mr. and Mrs. J.- P.Lowe have returned from their honeymoon and have taken up their residence in town, J. II. McMullin, government agent, left: lv ""* P. R. express on Wednesday for V.ctoria on business. For fresh and best sausages go to Fernie Meat Market. Miss Ruth McLean and her mother, both of Hosmer, were in town' this week: Col. J; McKay, fuel agent of the G. N. railway is in,town this week looking over mines at Coal Creek, Michel and Carbonado."''-.* 7" ' Patronize Fernie Meat Market; arid save your .money, ., —Mr-r^and—Mrs^—jT-P-T-Lowe-have-re^ ' turned to the -city from' a trip to the • coast. " They will reside for-the winter at the resldenceof W. W. Brown on Prior'street. ■ » ' - • • •••••••••••-a kkkkkkkA tikkkkk ,•*•* t -( • t •t • i •t ■M i • t • < • t ■ i • t • t • t ■ < • « t t ■ i ■ ( • t < Safety Deposit Vault Safety Deposit Lockers can be rented at The Ledger Office. Most fireproof vault in the city, Reasonable rates. See the Manager for, particulars. * kkkkkkkk'ttkkkkkkkkkkkkkickk* Tlm Brotherhood Soelc-ty of Cnrpun- tors iuul Joiners of Fernio challenge the Amalgunlatod Society of Carpeti* tci'H mid ,I(»Iii('Vh to ii gnmo of hockey liny tlmn tliey fuel propiired, A. Initio, ii loci nro depleting hccuch lu llio Klondyko wiih shown nt the Methodist cliurch on Wodnesdny evening. About 70 slldofi woro shown and a largo number of people were InnUend* unco, For fresh killed chickens go to FernU Meat Markot, Al Illzzuto of tho Homn hotol lias been confined to the Pernio'hospital for ii fow diiyH undergoing an oporation, IIu i.-i reported <*ih piogreHsliig very favorably tnwimlH complotn io* rovcry. Tom Pugh who recently iind Ills fingers nmpiitfttod Ih progresfllng satis* fiictorlly and Is expected to bn hooh out of hoHpllnl. It. Ik undorfltood ho InteiidH unlit k back to t'10 old country. ,1. ThoinpHon, an elderly I'.iiKllHlminn who was living In u tent, nn-ir to tho Catholic prloHt'fl" rn-Hlilc-iico and who had his two feet frozen iliirlug the cold miiip n lltilf while ago, had both amputated on Monday hint. Dating .Ji'iitinry 1,'tli Mr. Prank Raymond Ih appointed local miiniiger for Ferule and p.'nilc Dlnfrlit; all orderei or ((iinpliilniK Hhould be reported >o Mm. Kooientiy Tidephonn Uih-h, Mm Itcd, (per .MitiU'ii*.,' Qiinlu, .Supi.i The soil of Ceylon In of volcim'.- oi1- Igln, colitnlnl^g phoHphoroiiK mt<i niin* a, 4.4 a ... „ n<i„i.- i,lf,lf,l. 4 lilt* llil!»MI;J In "ftflbitbt" ('be well knuv n ;,i, *,,.,• Ceylon ten, a i ollcney iirtd frnnrniice that lh Incomparable, ..Valentine Post Cards at Bleasdell's Palace Drug Store. The new depot should be-ready the last of February. , Rochon has some real, nice ice cream on hand. Call and see. . Miss .Constance Stiyen of Cranbrook is visiting her' sister,;Mrs. .Charbon- neau. ..... - , »„....".- '/,,-.' > Baths hot or cold at the Club Cigar Store. _''.-*,.;.-•;•, , ■ ','' • '•'"'" ,Mr.*J. .McMillan,"superintendent of C. P.-.R. telegraph ..was in Pefhie on Friday.■•':. *.i •,•,.•■•*. ., -f .. - Patronize home industry and .'smoke Crow's Nest Specials and Extras . ■ Charlie ShepIJerd of Hosmer 0was in town over Saturday and Sunday, of last week. s •- '"..-.■ ■-' 7 Rochon' has won'the highest appreciation, of the, citizens as a Candy King. There are a great "many applicants for the .position, of chief.of policc.of Fernie,., • -, ,T. /. . ..,„•.,, •.-,? .Rochon,<that's all—the Candy King The San* Francisco Opcr.a, Company wl'tf play,In Bruce's opera hoiise in ihe near future'.'- '.-■'- • - -a • }, Valentines at Palace Drug-Store. Colemuu played hockey iit Moyie "on Tuesday and broke even, the ' score be- ■ig three .all. '.•.-",. "• ...L.-T. English of .iho Free Press '•iff has hoc ii <-oi.sldcr:ibly under the /eatlier of" late."" :■ Mr. E. V. Daugerfleld, district bag- rage agent, at Calgary was in Fernie --.'huisdny-and Friday. , The cuisine at. the Napanee is unexcelled. The bar has the best*.in the' land. -•-■■- ..-*.- ■ Tho committee of Italians wish' to thank all who contributed to tho relief of the sufferers- in Italy. The Club Cigar store every time if you want the best that offers in cigars and tobaccos. • -.,', '*"• Socialists meetings are held in the •Miners hall every Sunday night at 7.45 and all workers are'.invited. P. Burns and Co.'s new store is now near completion. It is expected that it will be occupied next week. You can play on either English or American billiard tables at Ingram's. think. ''you?, ar.e being served as well Eatons have received a rush order ior:six sets, of boxing gloves, 6 punch- •ing bags and a few hand spikes for the Pree Press composing room. The bowling alley at,Ingram's for an hour's sport.' . , •The 'Ross-Whlmster dance will be held on Friday evening February 5, in Bruce's hall; .excellent music. , A large number from here' attended the social and dance given in honor of Robert Burns at Hosmer on, the 25th inst. - , v ' * Hereafter; hockey' practices will be as follows: Monday and Friday nlghfs from 7 to, 8 and Wednesday, night from 10 to 11. .... **n .j*"* -*£*■ ■**5'- A A A iA i^ ,A -^-~j_r-mt'^-'-^-\_u tjr I FURNITURE FOR SALE N«w Ho, f Koottnay lUng-c, Etc. Owner gotac to leavedtjr -ind will ull cheap, C. ]. JOHNSON a Next to Robt. Redhead I •■- Wright the Jeweler has a fine line of ladies Diamond rings which he is selling at great bargains, prices range from $10 up. Store next door to Hotel Fernie. * a i • ., Rev. Dr. Chown, head of the Methodist department for moral and Social Reform will be In Fernie on Tuesday February 9. The Socialist party desire to thank tho following for tho loan of dishes etc. for thoir concert-and ton: Mr.- Terry; Mr. neid and Mr. Blundell: The electi-lc wiring of the new C, P. It. depot was finished this week by IT. I-I. Boyd, electrical engineer- of Winnipeg. *' Tho yard onglno baa boon tempor-' ai'lly removed from the C, P. U. yard here to relieve the congestion of work nt Crow's Nost. Mr. It. }'f. Nesbitt hns severail his connect Ion as outside siiporinton'deni with tho Coal coinpiiny iind has boon 'Hiiccoodcd by Mr. W. Aloxandor. Through spoclnl Inducements Wr. (I. Bruco has succeeded In getting • the San Francisco Opera Co,, with 40 net- on* to play Fornio at tu\ ourly date. The LadioH Benovolenl assoclnlion nro going to glvo a tea on February the 5th from :i to C In Bliindell'H store. Mr. Bluiidoll very kindly offered his moro nnd Hiipplles for tho oncnnlon. All the solicitors nre now liousod -n iheir now ipmrteiH with iho oxcoptloi. of Mr. h. P. Kcl'Htoln who will bo re* niovinii' to IiIh old ciunrtorH in tho llendorfion block whon It in complotcd, In lho l.'ii pi int. church nu Suiulny ov- enliig Mr. Wllllnmson will preach on Ihe subject "A Worthy Purpose," Mr. A. II. Kennedy will also hIiiu ii nolo, service ar. 7..'10. Everybody Ih conl* inlly invited. A naval muimnn Iiiih onco nvory dny to Hiiliitn thu (|iiiu*ter-(leck of his ship, ovon If no officer Ih upon It. "galiuln" Ten Ih In hucIi popular favor thru, many peoplo feel like wiliitlng ti ime- hot whenever seen. Ladles watches at great bargains for to-day only, Wright the Jeweler next to Hotel Fernie, The school lionnl mot on Tuesday nml completed iirriillgementH ilhout the niieitlug of the hcIkkiIh oh kooii iih pen sltile. The old biillillng of the 11 om i hunk will lie ui-eri niul |h now In t'h1 couiHe of ((mi)iletlon, Ah noon iih mine room Ih available extra teaehet'B will be put on. U in lispecieil that •he Hplionl will be open within ten diiyH. /-* , , i - , ' , 44a... a ......p. ., ».,..! a/*.a tt C.,.,1,^; II, t\\n mmini'onw'c-.t t\t Ciml t'vecv Mr. T. KpriiHtnn, pit Iiohh nt N'o. r. mine, Iihh been promoted to nn«lHtnnl Hiiper- ititeiiib-nt ul Michel. Mr. I'uvn Martin, pit Ikihm ul No. '.I uiluo Ih laklu-; charge of No. fj mini) ami Mr. Tom Vi'iiiaAikin *i« VrtlUIlK t'lCnlKi- III ,'MI, ,1 nilno. We underHtaiid thoRn changeH nro in tako effect on Monday next. For • good comfortable smoke get Oo re n becker's brands. They are home product, W. J. niundell, the (rrorer hns moved Into his new quarter* In the John* non-Falconer block nnd Is now com* forlHbly uliimieil nnd better prepared itutn even to meet tbo demnndu of his many customers, lllundcll I* one of our pioneer business men and Imrdly i.«yi*ds introduction ae his choice jrro- i-.ri«-s *r«> io bo found in nearly -r-if-r-j I home in the city. t , Mr. Biggs' calling days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, any hour., Phone 41 for the best of meats. A. J. McCobl of Michel•> was:. "n town yesterday.;on business. -., -, " Mr. tudwig from Winnipeg arrived here last' Saturday and joined ' the Ledger staff. •■•'-•■• ■ r .-'." Bert White of. the, Coleman hockey team stayed over' for a short' visit with',friends, here. * ', ' ' ,T. H. McMullin,' J. P.]'left on Thurs- dify for. the coast on official .business* a', ' .- ^ .'■ ■-'.-.--',' / .' /'" .' ,Would; the Free Press'.editor (not near-editor) like to.get .the receipt for building 2 houses and luxuriously furnishing-one on--$300 of Relief money?. .'.Air.-and-Mrs. F..J.-Watson.returned to town on Tuesday, after having spent two weeks in Spokane, Seatlle and -Vancouver. •*■'■.* Master*Leonard Dudley.left for California, on Thursday. He went ;as 'far as Moyie alone and'from'there he will go with his' sister. ,'• ,' ■"■' ' The'hockey boys have Issued tickets that entitle tlie holder to membership. They'only cost,-**l so' buy one; and help .the boys along. i . Pat Miller's orchestra, the best in the Kootenay, is going to play at Hosmer next week. They also have two or three otliei\,engagements ahead, "Wallowing around in the snow up to heir necks seems to bo a popular sport with ^some poipUv-They call It snow- shoeing. . . ' The postoffce staff were busy Friday placing new boxes in. ■ This will be welcome news to a great many people who have had to wait alobg time for their mall. The Teamsters'.Union had an official visit from T. Briggs of Indianapolis Ind; Mr. Briggs is the general auditor of, the International Teamsters union of America/ " ' Fresh fish daily at the 41. . c ■ , ,- ' ■ •*> , The Trades and Labor council meets on Monday evening at 8 sharp.- All delegates are urgently requested to be. present. -The Miners delegates are especially reminded. ■.-■'.. We have'.our phone connected.now andi any Irates can save their, family a funeral bill by. phoning instead of calling. One called last week, but he was of-the harmless .nature. The number Is 48. '' ' ' ■ • Beef, mutton, pork, veal,,hams, bacon, lard, etc., only ofthe very best. Phone 41. The Monthly tea of the Ladies Aid society, of the Methodist church will be held at the' home' of Mrs. W. Brown on Tuesday, February 2nd from 3 to 6 and at 8 in the evening. The Tom Marks company are to return to'play here on February *he 25th, 26th and 27th." This will be good news to any one who s'aw,.the previous performance. Have you got a match. - For hotel. accommodation the Nap- anee:Is the, place. *",• • - ■ ■- * Joe Aiello, one of our merchant prin-j ces left on ^Monday.night's Flyer on a four months trip to his old home in sunny .Italy. .*- Joeiwill visit""'-the scene, of, the j recently stricken portion of .Sicily. ijt>, , ,- ■■•■ ,- , For.jNew Year Gifts see Wright the Jeweler's display of Jewelry and. of watches.. , Next door to Hotel Fernie. ' J. Lundie was taken to Spokane'last Sunday to undergo treatment at .one of the hospitals in that city. : He,was •accompanied by Mrs., Lundie and alio, P/, It. Lundie.- We nre pleased to report improvement,- ' •-.:■-' If i»ur wife is angry get'her a box of Rochon's Chocolates—that, will win l-.er over.' ' ,, ', ', .' ' , President F.: H, Sherman .left,for lIIllci'OHL.oii.-Tuesdayj-.lio will return Sunday morning to attend tho public meeting .of firo sufferers and thon leave for, the convention on Sunday (■veiling's train. Tho mniingoment of'iho Drnmnlnnd tli'Tiiro nro putting "on .i bohor chow U-nn ovor'.theso days, Thoy h,\\n reduced, thoir prices and if you want to •mu ii good moving picture show glvo Uioni n call, The Napanee hotel Is, prepared to handle gravellers iind .other; guests. l'.OBtoni cnpltal ready io liivosllgiiti? legltlmato liivontnioni8, IiiikIh, ilniber or mines In British Coliimhin, Addrosp In flrnt Inslauco with full particulars. "Capital." cure of Noblo & Co.. Mol* sons Hank building, Voneouvor. IIo's back—who's back? Why don't you know. Bob Mooro, tho gonial Ir- Isninn who linn u linnrt nn Inrgo ns a '.i.i.sli nnd n pockot that. Is opon to the needy at all times. Bob su.vh Ireland h; all right, but Pernio Is bottor, We have a nice range of Sterling Silver Toilet Sett and Military Brushes which we are selling at less than their actual cost. Call and oet one before they nre oil gone, Wright the Jeweler in A, A, Gillespie's store,,, next door lo Hotel Fernie, Bonn' (Aclteiiient wiih ciuihoiI horo on Weilneiidny, Iho report going uroiiiid tint tie men Imprisoned for u ihort while lu the ('nrhoiiudo mino hnd been killed, hut when the true until ro of tho iii'Cldmil wiih kiuiWn people iirenthed freely tigaln. Many of the SlnvH !*eio hnd rehitlves there. Two (•'.•HoldU-i'H ut the Queeim Owfi from tho Pieo Pcuhr offlco engaged In a rough nnd tumble, lot mo down easy PltzglmnioiiH-Jeffrlt'H combat thin wook, Keports my that one of thom Ml bHtjLDy lliv iitvcA*. <it U. J^J'ttir'* noiu.—ilU'HO are not tho same two tlmt locked horn* n short timo wro •*»•*>■» *» *»-»**»■, ':1 vpr^WItti' Mp-to-datc (Fixtures „ _. . - V J -a...- - -S. {:l.wv'J*; !•- i'■■•*• ; -., i <*. BLUNDELL Olvei-ua ;a.yeall SiilgeiP Sewing Ma|.-hine|fb.y '.'."'■'.. Fernie,'B. C. ...,:" 4-i .-.• = }•,.' . . .!}.y,.. ai , ! -a Why be without a Sewing Machine when you, \V. •■., '• '.can get'.one, for ,^$3.00 a.rhoiith? \';:}i(\£ ,!;'.-> ';".-. al li' -al J. P. H0ULAHAN,-Agent; oppositeI Coal Co.'s office,, PellatAve... ', 7 COMMUNICATmN The Ledger,does not hold Itself J*e- sponsible for opinions expressed. , ■ To the Editor of The Ledger: ;' Dear Sir:*.-! want to call your, attention to. a case .of, so called relief by S., Hevchnier, now mayor. .;. Mrs,. Demfturez had.^ some insurance on her houBe which was burned.. ■ When she-.sent-me up to;get" her money from.Herchmer I found that between,.bills: that,did not belong to her and lawyers costs she had nothing coming oiitof .the $600^ Is this; proper treatment to hand out to a woman with'twri children who,has lostr all. I am going,to, prosecute this case. , - . .*",..- ,'0:.,O. DBMAUREZ THREATENS DISCLOSURES , NEW WESTMINSTER, Jan. 25.' — Piqued be'ciaiise.a recent despatch'from Ottawa intihiated that discipline in ,the B. C-, penitentiary was not perfect in the-recent.tenure of office of D. D. Bourke ex-deputy warden and for several months'.vlrtually-warden,'haB written to' the press intimating that unless justice Is-done he will "open tip a new Held for moral reformers by telling the world the .'truth about the-escape; of Bill Miner and his three convict companions" who escaped from the.B. C. penal instiutlon In August of 1907. .Mr. Bourke states'that tbe disclosures ,he may make public would be sensational, and' far'reaching. - ••'■ .. '}•-■ *; - - -j- , • TERRIBLE'EXPERIENCE - WINNIPEG,;Jah.-,28.—A special .to this city from .Big Falls, Minn, says that a fire''-which'destroyed-'the Audit hotel and saloon here1 last nlfeht^caus- ,ed the, death of twb(,*men and' two oth- vers .were, probably-? fdtaliy burned, at the same'.time;**''" '.}'" ,', ,■•' ' „ ,,';''' . , J.J,. Curie"-/, and Joi?.' Leblance,'the homesteaders ,-of.,^aiikonda^ were. cremated.., Paul"'Lawrence and'ills wife who ran. through-tho, flames in'their night clothes1 were terribly burned and are' not expected to live.-;' Nels Erlck- p6h who'leaped'froiit'the third * storey window, was badly;'bruised about'the .hood' and his'jugular, yeiii'wns' narrowly" missed by tho window' glass ■ which cut a deep gash,.Injbls-throat, \Tlie buildings and contents' wore a complete' lOSS. -. '■'.'' in-' ■ \ ' t \ ■•■I*** , '''', ' \DIES "At. CALGARY ''■ * , GALGARY, Jan. 25—George Mnclion nn . omployeo *of tlio. Groat West Snddlory company ileft work this aftornoon 'about 15 o'clock and died, an hour Inter nt his.rosldonco, Sixth nvo. Ho was n resident of this city for a mimbor of years and, had been a mem- bor'of tlio old volunteer flro popart* mont and,vory popular.' Ho loaves a wife and family.:7 . , ,i . ■', —: .1. . —i , r— . ■*. i •• . CARNIVAL- ■A fancy dresB carplval will bo held In'the rlnlt on-'Tuosdny ovenlng, Pob. 0, '/"PriKOB wlU'-'boglvoh for the host moiVs oofitumo,' bost.huiy'B . costume, boat drcBBod school girl, nnd.boy, and the host, comic costume, ,, Mr. 11.,W. Wood will glvo.,11 five dollur ..prize for a two mllo-raco /ornnen, and n prize will also be given for a halt milo race for hulloB and ono mile race for boys, twelvo lapB to tho milo, m* HAMILTON LICEN8E REDUCTION HOCKEY NEWS HOCKEY CLUB, IN LINE ," ''A'; meeting of tlie, hockey clubi'was held .on Sunday ,In the-Napanee "and tho .following officers .elected: ,, '•'",' a Hon. President: W. R'. Ross a'nd!,R. W. Woods. , , ', '..':. ■- .',/■,.,' Hon. Vice-presidents:..Rev. Grant, T'. H. Whelan'and W.G. Barclay. ^President: S. HerchinerV ;.■ ■ -1st vice president*. J. R. Pollock. '.■&-2nA vice president: H. W. Tren- holme. , , '** -3rd; vice president: W. C. B. Man- son.' ' 7 ','.- V'"'-" Manager: Con.,L. Whelan.* ',, •Secretary treasurer: Chas. Pyfe. . Executive: ■ M. A. Kastner,;-:, F •' C**' Armstrong, J.-.-.A. Scott. ,. '■■'';'-' , :"i The colors of-the club will be'.red and black. The Coleman hockey team played the Fernie boys on Thursday, in our new rink. , The game from the spectator's standpoint was very. good. The Coleman boys won by a score of .five to,one; but when It is.considered that this was the'flrst^game our., boys played together -,(as they only, organized on Wednesday) it is a very,-good.showing Indeed. Thegaine at half time was nil and •> the Coleman' team were the first to score in the. second half. Our boys when they have had a^few, practices and get. down to playing, together will be able to skin the ColemanMoyle aggregation. Rev ._F_ather_McCulloch made a most impartial referee. •" A game, was played between-a picked team', and the Coal "company boys this week,and'the picked team'picked; ev er'ything in sight.,,' Modesty for the Coal company boys prevents lip from stating th'e score.' •*• • ,f ,-:!," The office staff of the Cohl Compahy met the Trltea-Woods boys at the new rink last night and after'a very; hard tussle managed by the use"'- of a', little overtime, ."to get .the best end pf tho score to, the tune.of"*! to 3. It was, a good game all:through,and the Coal Company boys earned tlielr win.: ■ I1 ?PSw^lNfest':,T^iiM2oY \ -\ .,-""•'". -.,.-• y - ■ -v-f. ■ ^-'-i...&<-?sks--'■ s* , -* -j -i*. 'vsv^* ti^'. 4-.(- - ."J.' -. • |3ENER^jpjERCHANT|S WIFernie's -7Glfea$-;JCash - StdSeHI v..-ivi. * '■ .;*, - *-.- ,?"■ .- ■ >..-'i'^\.yiit -y-pt- .-.'tM . _ y^&i'<yi?\s®y -y>y^/ ■•• Victoria Ave. 1 '-M^sX-i. <-'-'yK%k ,.'A "^~- ";"*: Fernie/ BM "'W l,*^0i nobavrv/'j/. -,:!T ■■ \>&m r*' M WKftr $?■■% -*-ai '*yM -anti IN WINTER,STORMS . t> -. - - - - ...... look,,well ,to. ,,ybiiv feet. The advice of doctors when there is im epidemic of '■',» :.'. *,. grip is ."KEEP;,YOUR FEET DRY" You can do this by wearing, shoos: made of good lentlioi' ("ind- put together by tho beat inuthodH. -Wof have them. When you buy a McDougull shoo you; are InsmiHl ngninst dump';) .*''■• ':y-.*.'.ov wot foot. ^-.'A*- 'X, ~.\,.'iityy -s ., .,--"/yv&s<. * ' •' '* ■' •-'* - --• ' --■-'- * ' ■ ' - - * * jf?* .1,. i> (-*!.■*<* *"lU '»** ■- •-' •■•**- Da I'AMt, -. I'-^ri-^W-.^t.j.J li, ^.-rat.A ' ' ^aHf' • ;»:;; *i cD '■ .-v;rV-'- ou s v \ . C'*-t* * ■Vt ^ -r^ all;- ...-?! ._)a mtS.Kl.- .- ■•■■« ••iv ■ i A covdpiete assortment of best-music Vocal and Instrumental, received to-day Irf- .^HlS.has been..,carefully selected and comprises^ : """ mostt:of the favorites, both pbpularand classic;S\ . We. ,have'".now." on., exhibition ..a'.shipment 6f;..the"!^.|' famous new double record Columbia discs. These; .'discs '.MAofi each^bearstwo..complete records, one on ieach,:sideJ anrj, cost ionly710c more, than thef.i usugii* single record-ofb£her|makes'.^.^vv-' (?•?£"'fe>l«M- ".:*i.-■„"--.■ .I--• 4.,-.- -■ • .••-' r,!„r..v.i{tk'"/ "'-'^^1*'^. > The "January-issue MEdisoh«I^ora^ ,Call;and make.your selection early,.while oursstockw„, 1 -is^completerrrThe-riew^foiir-Tninute^^-^^ records are winning many friends. 7, • ) '".".■' "'-'■•'■••e' '.•'. .'».-•,>•'•■■. if.V*w',*-'.-■■" i*M-i {" j A fuli line'of ViolinsP-NIandolihs;,^^BarijoSj,5Giiitai*s, ■-* '* Harm6hic6s,'*AccoMeohs.:!Flage^^ Strings;-etc., , always.on hand at,,. , i.>\-,-• rt'- i^s^t- ■•■■. - . Suddaby's Drug & B$ok£tprie AGENT1 FOR SPOKESMAN-REVlW,'kOO.^ ''■"'-'- ' " ■' "-•■'- CHOCOLATE8,i ETC. ' ' "' j : .Tn■.*■' "•7i,v^J","'-^''!f;.'?' y- '.'< 'i )v '.tit ,-.f*t u*. ' '-^.'■-iMt'-siiVfJril-.' The 41 Meat Market, Ltd. THE RGARIN' GAME IS HERE i Two rinks journoyod to * Cranbrook Inst week playing for tho district' mo* dais/ resulting In Fornio being 2 up nt tho, finish. , Following nro tho rinks and; scores: - CRANDItOOK FEnNIE A.Abbott Wrlglesworth , McDougnll Johnson Ward Liphardt McCownn Illundoll skip...... 0 , Blilp.,,;.,.. lrf In Fernie its Hawthorne for SIGNS Painting, Interior HAMILTON, Jan. 25—Tho city coun* ell chamber wah crowded to tho doom by woven o'clock UiIh ovonlwi when ll* cmu-io roductlon waH connldoiod, Tom* poronco nldormon wanted a reduction of 15 to (10 hut the roiincil fixed the number at. OS, tho iiumlior now IhhikkI which Ih 7 below tho commlHHloner'H prut-ii-nt prlvlloKnH, »***■ BIG 8TRIKE AT NEW YORK .NM3W YOI»K. JAN. ^"—A coIohhiiI Htilko In Hlxty triulPH lo involvo Hin. 000 men and women; planned by the United lkbrow Trnden was innugur* atod to-day by Konernl NtrlknH Involv* tug paiiirunkei-8 thiouglioiit Now York, Ti.U ,lllji.*.l Iji. iltl) kltih,) iit iU CcfttUlt.- tho wuf{« Hciilo In erred befoio lnut ycar'H (lopiciiHloii. * Decorating WMMl tt A ■"•II** Av*. INSTANTLY KILLED TIBACHVILLE, Jan. 25.—W. A. Drake of i>amlnKton wan inotsntly killed nt the Standard White Lime company'**! worki, Hin nock vra* broken by tioniu falling machinery. The new rlnlr 1st Incfe-vl a great. Imn* cllt to the young people, tt ia lar& er thnn the old rink, more from fort able, and Mioiihi r-ceivt* largo pntronfiKe. There in cno thlnit that onitht to be remedied a littler. The boy* are allowed to play Around too much. The raretaker or mnnogor nhould quiet tb-rn ;i JSul.* «* ir. I« «mio}lri*| to Ihe Iflrflf*. Small IleiulorHon Ingram Brown WIlBOIl Wood Hoggnrth Qrant 14 akip ,, 10 ' 2!1 ' " 25 CurlliiK Is most popular nt pronont and tho Htnnos aro in groat domniMl, Tho boyu report lho rlnkg to bo In good Nhnpo. «— SUICIDES IN JAIL NKW WKSTMINSTIOll, 11. C, Jan. 20.--I)t>Hpoiiilont ovor tlio Iohh of IiIh poiRoiml liberty Jnmon Ii, Weiton, a convlflted liomo thlof and Jnll bronker, cnmmltteil milcldo In the p-'nlientlary InHt iiIrIiI with n ahoomakor'H Imlfo. HIh dead body won found by a gunrd nt ho miule li 1 tn mnrnln,** rou-ii!i- Wofiton wnu sent down for five yearn JiiniiiK been sunt down from Vernon for sle/iHiig I101-809, 1 ' *****> LINOTYP6R8 STRIKE .'AViiiS. ,l»it, -to,—Ail tbe llnotypors on tho Pari* nowspaperg struck tonight for mora, pny, Tho publishers wero oxpoctlng tho striko and hnd propared. and only suffered slight In* convonlonco nnd delay. ' ' m THE FERNIE RINK CO. LIMITED. NOTTf.!? Is b«*reby -riven thnt tho annual general meeting of tho nhore- holders of the Fernio Rink Company United will be held in the Provincial government offices at 8 p.m. on Monday, February t, 1908, O. O. llKNDF-RBO.V , Socrctary-tseiuiu.il- i 1 o u i 0 ii, i -i ■ * «* ~ i ttAVING "oponetl a brunch stoi'e i.n thb^tompoi;-,,,-- ■IA ,u,y stote lntely' occupied by .'A. *A; ,Gillespib,!;-. ■ two flobi's north 'of the now Bank of. Goinmqi-co Iiui hi Ing,, wo a ro', prepared, to Hiipply tho people of., l^ci'iiio und mii'i'oiiiHliiin; district with tho choicest ;meats: ■; of nil kinds, Wo koop a cholco Holoction of hmns.. Ibicon nnd Liuil, (tho well known Armour Bi'im.l)' , iuul Fresh F(n]i (lilily.. " ," ,..'„' All our Moats ana Spobially Soleotod from 1 our own RanoHai '-,•'' '£: ,'•,",■ IIoUiIh, Bouvdinij Housoh nnd Cunipsmipplied ut the lowest poHHllilo ,pj!]'!Oii,.i, .Wo iCHpectfully Hollolt -,■: your patronage. .•-.,' ■3 4 a The 41 Meat Market, Ltd. P. BURNS & CO., •T *■ '-'«■' t LIMITED rViiuliiiSALII and aii iml mtriii iinift-uJiAlUd :) I ."..''" i" "■- •'. ■. . ' . ' 'AhvaJ's a choice supply of Beef, Pork, Voul, ^»ut*aA)ii, iiuu L.utiiiuii Siaiid. iiinn*-., *L .*•■■•..■«>.!' B.icon,i lA\t\, Buttor and Eggs Our Specialties Kw-h,' SmoV-prl ftrifl flflUml Fisli, always a good assortment. Try our''-Mince Ment, S'UU'kraut. and Oyster*-.. t ht 'if: I lit \>t in. Ib. y h' **f? I 'xi 3 * i i 4 aa-V,, ,4^ jei .'J. - f, .a,*,. -,,V I ?■ *f.t *lP« *. , « ^ - *tj-* ^«
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Title | The District Ledger |
Publisher | Fernie, B.C. : W. S. Stanley |
Date Issued | 1909-01-30 |
Description | The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919. |
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Language | English |
Notes | Preceding Title: The Fernie Ledger Frequency: Weekly |
Identifier | District_Ledger_1909_01_30 |
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Date Available | 2016-07-26 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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DOI | 10.14288/1.0182738 |
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