!>' -x , * *| - i rpf'oviu'ciwl Librayy Juue ?0 $» \ • W ;\ I Industrial Unity is Strength VOI* V. No. 9 Tne- O-BScial Organ off District Ho. 18, U. PI. W. off A. Political Unity is Victory FERNIE, B. C, October 2nd, 1909 $1.00 a Y DRAWN: GUNS COME INTO Local News Police Officers Shoot Into Crowd of Miners- Hurt Three * ^GLACE BAY, C. B., Oct. 1— Three men struck by bullets tills afternoon fired from revolvers in the hands of coal company police, none of the, men being seriously hurt, Is. tlie result of - a fracas. , The row. started over some men, who were stealing coal from one of the little piles which have been, opened by the strikers since the laboivtroubles. A little to the eastward of the mine is the shore and along, the cliffs facing the sea appear small'1 seams of coal. ■ These are of little economic value and they never have been worked: 1 The land' is Included in the coal * Company^ leases and of the officers of the company have forbidden the digging of coal from these seams; This afternoon-it was'discovered that two of the boys were taking coal from the - cliffs arid' thereupon Norman Mackenzie, accompanied by four other., policemen of, the coal company, proceeded to , tlie cliff to arrest the amateur diggers. They ordered ,"°the crowd to disperse, "but the orders were not promptly -obeyed.. The 'police drew their revolvers .and fired, first in the air, and ^then into the crowd'. *' One man, John. Butt, had his ear shot - off while! others were hit in various portions ofthe body. The wounded '■-men were arrested ancl placed in J&ll on the charge" of unlawful, assembly. IVa rrahts were issued' for the arrest of Dr. Anderson, M.H.O., has resigned; Philip Carosella returned-' from th<3 Coast this week. Smart-Boy Wanted for office, work. Apply to Elk Lumber Co. ' ' - i If you are a particular smoker get your smokes at Ingram's. . Wanted:* Millinery Apprentices. The Misses Euler. , ' - ' The Napanee will start building operations on Moriday, _ Bob Moore, the5 Irish bard from Michel was ln town ori Thursday, i Looking for grouse does not,appear to agree with some people. Eh Jep? , Robert Adlam has been appointed as caretaker for the new school house. •Millinery opening Friday, and Saturday of next week. The Misses Euler. ■ We are informed.that electric light and power will be .here in about a month. ' Don't forget to ask for Michel beer —the best beer made. - For wiring, electrical fixtures, dynamos, generators and motors", see Depew," Macdonald & McLean. n If you want the best—call for Elk Valley beer. Borri: On Thursday'Nov. 20, to Mr. and Mrs. Hicks', a son, weighing 121-2 pounds. ' ' ■ F. Adolph, tlie popular lumber man of Baynes Lake was in the city yesterday on his return from the prairie, where■• he has been purchasing some1 horses. ' He . reports things booming at Baynes. ' - .We- regret to report tho death of little Ralph; the 3 year old son of Mr. and Mrs: E. Peterson of Dalton aye** nue. The little lad succumbed to typhoid at 6 o'clock this morning, -and passed away to the great beyond. We extend our sympathies to the parents in their sad bereavement. Local News STRUGGLE The Now Famous Labor Leader Addresses-"a Large Crowd in Miners' Opera House--' ' • ' ,; Capital is Handed Usual Body Blows-Fluent Speaker A. general meeting of the Board of Trade will be held on Monday evening at. S p.m. Excavation for the new Royal Hotel has been started at the corner of Cox and Baker streets. , Work has commenced oh Hotel Fernie again. There was a short delay on account of material, which has now arrived. ] Don't forget that Monday is the last day you can get on the Voters list. Attend to it for bo tli municipal and provincial. •Mr. and Mrs. G. (!. .Moffatt returned to the city yesterday morning on the regular train. The Lodger extends congratulations. A Mounted Police officer was "up here on Wednesday to get some fellow the local police had nabbed and who was wanted in Alberta. GIRLS SAVE A TOWN FROM :th'e men "..who used the revolvers. The policemen,1 say .that- the crowd, used stones and rocks before' they fired. ,' The-nieh .of the crowd denythis and say that not, a stone was thrown until ' tlie shots were, fired. Seven men were attended for bullet, wounds., ■" Sir- Thomas Shaughnessy, Messrs. Osler,-Nant6nr-Angus74latthews^-_an"d A large meeting was held in the Miners . ne*\y, opera house on Sunday afternoon last under the auspices of the Gladstone Local. The meeting was at 2.30 p.m., the principal speaker being W. D. Haywood, who spoke upon the Class Struggle in the West,' and the Great Trial at,Boise, Idaho"; and the formation of the Western Federation of Miners. The meeting was largely attended,-*a large, number of Coal Creek people being present. ,,. Clem Stubbs, vice:president of District No. 18 took the chair and support: ing him on the platform were Messrs. A. J. Carter, District Secretary, *T. E. James, International organizer, W. Evans, Coal Creek. Tlie meeting opened with song 20 from the Socialist tune book, named Toilers Arise.' The chairman in his opening remarks,said that,while Comrade Haywood had been travelling all through District IS,he had been recorded everywhere a hearty reception, which.had been given because he.represented the cause of the Workers in addition to his own trials. lie had _no doubt that a number of his.hearers had admitted that it. was their fell purpose to hang us by tlie necks' until we were dead, and not because we had committed any crime, but because we endeavored to improve the conditions of the miners employed in the occupation of mining, and, it. was "because we were successful that, the mine operators had us arrested, and were going to get us put to death without, even a. trial, and this had culminated in the Class Struggle of the West. ."This struggle is not only in the west. "It is,in the north, east and south, and'is world wide, this struggle between the exploiters and the exploited, and it will continue just so long as one- man fattens on the sweat of another man's labor. In looking over the audience I see the faces of men from many countries. I see the Slavonians, the Russians, Italians and others, all forced' to leave their countries because- of the ' conditions ' existing there', and camo to what they thought was a free count ry,-, and "we can see these men leaving their hum* ble homes with a small roll of cloth Telephone Girls' Bravery Was of the Hair """"'. Raising Kind "*3 PAINSVILLE, Ohio, Sept.' 30— The,, bravery ofr.lwo telephone girls, Hazel Christian and Alice Warren, sleeping in the telephone exchange nt Perry, a village near'here saved that town from possible destruction by fire early today. Fire broke out in the stove beneath SUICIDED WHILE DESPONDENT PETRERBORO, Oct, 1— Wesley Douglas, 24 years of age, residing in a lonely part of tho country near Wcstwood, chased his mother and brothers out of lho house yesterday and then shot himself dead. Ho had boon ".in ill- health for, some time and was moody and mororso. . Tho engagement of the San Francisco Opera company at tho Empress the- atro; Vancouver,; B.,*C, hns given P. W. Healp nn excellent opportunity to ro-orgnnl/.o his company and build, now and beautiful scenery. Kncli and ev* ory production shown at. tho Empress thoatro has i>co,p built In such a manner that it can bo Bhown In any 1 heal ro or hall In woBlorn Canada. Tho day Pavlstcnno, The Gliolsn, Tha Runaway Girl, and tho now scenery and effects' for Tho Toymnkcr and, Fnn* limn rofloet groat, credit upon scenic artist Ernost Qlovor aiid Frank Coates master mechanic of tho Empress thoatro Htnff. Aftor tliolr engagement nt lho EmprosH thoatro tho company gooH on-tour nritl It Ih tbo intention of Mr, Healy to again visit, our city nt tho For nlo oporn houso'Oct, IU. ■ A REFUTATION Sw'itzer and Wm. Whyte of ;the C. P, R. spent a couple of hours here on Sunday. Mayor Herchmer, the aldermen, President Pollock and Sec. Stevenson of the Board of Trade,'President Ellas Rogers and General' Man'. Hurd 'of the Coal Co., met/them .and showed them around. They we're agreeably " surprised at Progressive Fornio. A special train will be run over the Great. Northern Railway from Fornie to' Baynes on October 17th. Faro for round trip $1.75. „% .. The coming of Gorton's Minstrels to the Fernio Opera House Octobor 0 Insures to its patrons a fino entertainment with some of tho best special attractions ever soon on Iho minstrel' stage. Tho program has boen , arranged to' meet the' npprovnl of nil who appreciate n bright breezy, performance with somothing worth whilo doing all tho time. Tho singers, tho comedians aiid expert ..-specialists en* gagod with this company.are loaders In tliolr varjous linos and tho h'sfl. that can ho procured. Don't miss the flno stroot purinio nnd concert at 11.101 ■ by ".this time sympathized with the cause for.which they worked, but if Mr.'Haywood ever came through Fernie again,' I think that probably a lai-ger number of thc-citizens of Fernie would' be interested' in the same movement that Hay woody is interested in at. the present time. * We aro beginning to realize*thai the old stories that have'been told to us by our capitalist friends, those who aro our masters, and also by thos J who are supposed to,represent us in the logis-. laturo, aro'false, hoy are trying to dows and orphans, who had lost, their husbands and fathers .In that' terrible explosion. They had a banquet, and at that banquet no less than 360 quarts of champagne were ■ drunk. I 'think that had they stopped to-consider what, that meant, they would have* found that every drop of champagne was a drop of human blood. I have been travelling in your district, and have visited nearly every camp under the auspices of the officers of this District and I want lo publicly extend my thanks to them for helping to make my work what, it should be and what I have intended it to be.. Nee- cessarily in going through'the camps I have come in close touch with the miners,.' and the conditions under which they work, under agreements that bind you in - fetters, but which they, can break when they please, and I state emphatically that if precaut-. ions be not, taken that in Michel there .will be a duplicate of. the great disaster that occurred in Fernie, T say this publicly so^that the officers or the Crow's Nost Pass Coal Company might know that the' men ktiow the Mrs. T. II. Whelan left this morning I the exchange. The girls were alone. but stuck to their post and telephoned the sleeping citizens and called tho Painsville and Madison fire depart; Ing, "their little belongings on* their backs, wending their way to the wharf to take steamer fov America or Canada,-and we can nee them after their journey" entering* New'.York harbor where tho statute of liberty stands, and tho Stars jind Stripes are,floating in the breeze; they believe that"they havo at last reached a haven of**i;e- fuge.a place where men can bo free, When they land, at'Ellis'Island there are none,to greet Ihein, except those who act in the capacity of interpreters and who go through tlieir small blind'us to our renl Interests, lyit wo belongings with no gentle hand. We are at last awakening (o Ihe fact tlintitUon.find thom turned ovor to lho om- ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ +> DON'T GO TO NOVA SCOTIA 4 Wo doslro to rofuto llio Htntomont of "ForolRiior" In tlio Frank 1'npor Ihnll wo mndo an ntinek on tho foreign MionkliiK pooplo. Wo did attack John llulkn, nntl IiIh nctloiiH provo Unit wo woro right and lio deserved It. Wo npoioglzod for lho members who lind Joined IiIh union on lho ground of bolng deceived by him. Wo respect and oHlonni tlm ItnllniiH and HlnvoiiliniH loo much'to tyiHt any slur on tlimn. Tho wrltor of tlio lollor Ih very much mlH- tuhun whon ho thinks othorwlHo, Agents of tho Dominion Coal Co. of Cnpo Breton N. S., nre at work trying lo Induce minors of WIlkOHbarro and othor anthracite mlno towns lo go thoro and scab, District and ■ loonl officers should exert IhoniHolvcH ■to"provonl. -thorn from securing nny men for such purpose. A Btrlko hnB boon on In Nova Scot In nml nt Uioho inlncH Klnco July 0 Willi ovory prospect of ■winning. Don't go (horo nml try to do- foal your brollioni who nro fighting for Uio right lo orgnn* l/o nnd holler comlltloiiH of omploymont. Htuy nwny, Duo not Ico will lm glvon« In Uioho coIuiiiiih wluiii Uio strike Ih won. Ub* ur import!, please copy. ♦ RE8IDENCE OP MR. P. V. WHELAN thoso men nro playing Into tho hands of.the capitalists, and aro traitors to our camp. >Labor Is robbed of everything It produces except of sufficient to allow them to continue their occupation, I Ho had pleasure-in Introducing T. 13. Jnmeis. ' . " T. lii. James said It was rathor a surprise to him on nrrlval at Ferule to be requested lo speak, Tho people woro not llioro to hour him nnd ho had no story to toll (hem llko liny wood. If the people allowed thoir minds to run bnck lo tho period of which ho spoko he thought they would soo nil things In n now light. Ho appealed to his lionrorB to romombor that tho hiiiiio things that, wero applicable ln the country of tho Westoru Federation of Miners woro applicable hero In Canada. Lot ub go bnck nbout throo weeks ngo to Nova Scotia hi which place Uic minors are struggling to mnlntnln tliolr rlghlH. About thnt tlmo one of (ho humble minors In Nova Scotia" was dragged from his hod, by tho bUIo of IiIh wlfo, nnd Htnb* bod nml probed with bnyonntH. and hiH wlfo loft, lo tlio morcloH of four dnmiuiblo brntcH. Ilo h'opod that nil present would j follow (lie romnrks of tho sponkor of tho dny. und ho wiih Hiiro Hint when thoy loft tlio hnll thoy would bo glnd tlioy hnd attended. Ho wiih Htiro that noino of tlio cup- HnllHt opponents would Htylo the monl* lug a political mooting. Wo nro horo for n purpoHo und Uio sumo inutisngo thnt Comrndo Haywood will present to ynu contains my vIowh oii tin) mat* tor. Mr. \V. I). Hnywood wnn then Intro*, i., . i i ii,,*. nyiiic..*-,.-.-*. \w Hintrmfln fltuMiR nnd wnn accorded a honrty re* ceptlon. Ilo said: Mr. Chiilrmnn, Lnd* Ioh nnd GoiHlomon, ComrndoB nnd Follow WorkorB: It Ih n great privilege for mo to havo tlio honor, of mnklnrc Hi/i (fiitlnl oneriph In the new hnll of Ucnl GladBtono, ami I trust Hint no remark!* of mlno will mtir tho lm* porlnnco of thla mooting, TIiIh Ib tlio second occasion of my speaking to lho clllzons of Fernio, nnd to Uioho of my henrorfl who did not hon'r mo on Lnbor Dny, I f«*'-l »t Ih my duty to thank tho laboring claws for what thoy hnve done for my now departed cnmrudii, 0. A. Pctibono, nnd Moyer, Adams nnd tnywlf. Mo owed to thom lilo Hfo and hia liberty, otherwise they would bo nil Bleeping In a iwd of quicklime within the wnlltt of lho -*.ti.u> puitllxulUiy uC Idaho. Ono of the Federal governor*. ploymont offices. Wo find them shipped to the coal mines, sleol works, nml travelling, at' lust roach Fernie, hut'still find ihe clnsB struggle In Fernie, Just as deeply rooted ns in lho country which they loft, nw] we ni'O reminded that it wns (M.Jy a fow yours* ago that tho disastrous explosion took plnco, tho direct, result in nil probability of (ho nogllgonco of thnt Compnny, nnd It wns, lho Western Federation of Mln- era,'the orgnnlnnllon Unit represented you (hon, Unit took up tho case on bolinlf of tlio widows and orphniiR of tho men. * .This wns n pnrt of lho cIuhh struggle. The WoHlorn Federation of .Minora hoiiI tho best nltorney Unit It wns nblo lo Hocuro In Citundn or tho United States, nnd went. In law In order to Hoo.uro fonipeiiHiiUon for the widows und orplinns, nnd behold some I lino following wo find tho officers of the Crow's NoHt PdHit Conl Compnny celebrating their victory over the wt- Are You On ? Tlio Isint dny on which you cnn register so as to enable you to cast your ballot at tho forthcoming provincial eleeliun is October 4th Register Register condition~of~U7e"mines. . TF.-XIiclTel~T saw conditions in an awful state. Why even' Pennsylvania puts it to disgrace. People are Inhabiting hovels I hat are, not< tit; for. pies-to liru«.:ii*u-' *.-.Tl<is ^ is entirely.-due to,-,the class struggle. Tho operators who are running these mines regard the men that arc employed like so many'cattle belonging to thom but. have not got their brand on them. " ' . ■ From Michel I went to Lethbridge and in the mines there 1 found Japs, lt will not be long beforo the white men nre forced to a level, with the Orientals and a rice diet with the Japs and Chinamen. . v In Cjinni'orc and Uankheiid all outside labor employed Is.Orlentnl, either Chinamen or Japs, nnd your agreements nro such that you are not ablo to keep thom out of the union, or lo alter Iheir wages. Your Compensation Acts do not, extend lo (horn. I had of recovery hoped this aftornoon io iienr sonio one of your (•Itl/.niiH, 11 lawyer porlinps, sny Bomoihhig with regard to thc Compensation Act. Tho Componsn- lion act does not componsiito. For liiHtnner- llioro Is one Louis Krone In Cunmoro who wiih working thoro, nnd wan (old to go nnd stiirl up pumps. Tho mlno wns not oxuinliu'd bill Kro* no wenl In wllh n nuked light nnd wns horribly burned by gas, IUh iioho was nonrly burned off Ills face, Uio drum of IiIb onr gono anil ours burned off, und other Injuries,* On applying to the coinpiiny for coinpoiiHntloii ho was lold Unit lie could go buck lo work or If ho did not j Ulio to do llnu. ho could sue th" I Coinpiiny. Continuing, ho mild: lu HiihhIii, you will remember the Itlondy Sundny, It will not ho forgotten by Uioho who live nml It, will go down In history iih one of tlm inoHt diistnrdly crimes on record. Thai wiih ii purl of lho cIuhh Htruggle, from which the UuhhIuiih nud Finns nre eiiil-'iivorliig to gel nwny und for Unit reason Uiey Imve rnmo to AiiH'tleii and Cnniid.'i. Wc nlso hc«' the Sweden In UiIh Htruggle, In their Fiitherlund Uier" nr" 'J.Ml,o«i» iii«'iuli"i*H nf organl/ed lnbor h«dlen ou strike, sulking MguliiHl their musters to en* inbllsh, not an Inerenso In wngi-s or a reduction nf lionrH. but to "HtnlillHli the right lo organize, und who nre now on tlio verge of Hlurvutloii und I 11 t, .. 4, 1,1.1.1 t,V(**-1ll 1,\l\ „"\ iv i..t ......... i, .- '• tn- ' Again we find In revolt the Hindoos—tho ono whom you call tho Hug Hond. We find Hint tin* Hindoo U revolting nRiiliiHt tlio government ne* ....i, ,t i../.,n liv the Tlrltl«b nud the King of England und tlie Kmpeior of Ihe Indies. Wo find ft man, n Hindoo who hnd been brought into tho Kng- Unh court, htundlnit and looking tho Judge In the eye nnd Rnylnis: "Vou hnve uo rigid 10 bring me here ut try inc. It Is « jHilitinil cilme. You, Mr. Knullshnmn. hav" killed In ten yenrH fifty inlltioiiH of my broiliers. nml you have inki-n from us one hun- j.lri.l million a >'■:*." i" revenue, Thi* in n clnnn Him^-le. Dw tttruKKl** of iln- Hindoo ngnlnst lh" HiIUhIi. I Again In Turkey we find them r«* V (Continued on pnge :n for Spokane, Mrs. -Whelan is accompanying the two sons of Joseph Whelan and the Colton boy who are returning to Wallace, Idaho. AU the papers are speaking very highly of the San Francisco Opera Co. which plays here on the 13tlv. They are old favorites with Fernie and should liave,,full house audiences. ■vy. A, Ross and V. Kistler of,Seattle two of the Great Northern' leading lights were in the city the early part of the week,.and with the popular local agent ".Mr. Blackstone, paid the Ledger a visit. Mr. Ross, who is'an old time,printer, was much .surprised at the size of four plant and congratulated us on our paper. ■ Gorton's Big Minstrels^ will b--,,.*..'''l. i at Fernie Opera House October C. TVj management of this favorite coiiir-*-*11, promises everything new this season,, There will be -big novelty fealuiv-, great, dancing specialties, sweet singing etc., all of a first class character. Amongst, thc best, specialities is the dancing of^Welby and Bloom, Their sketch which is _'said to b'e one of the. ments. , ■ While talking with the Painsville fire chief the flames burned the wires and' the girls in their night clothing," stumbled down the stairs through the smoke to the street. Two stores, a livery stable and residence were burned before aid from other towns -arrived. The Free Press started on their ten storey sky scraper today. strongest of ,its kind, portraying the quaint, humor and amusing peculiarities of tho southern darkey, displays to the best .advantage their well known ability lh clmracter-work. - ■ TOUCHED THE BANK WITH EASE Growd-Stand-Arou nd-and. Watch Operation in * Daylight - official notice- To the officers and members of Local Unions District No. IS U. M. W. pf A. ' Greeting: Enclosed herewith, you will please find a copy ot n communication received by your district, secretary from local 2314, Fernie: Wo, your district officials, desire to say Unit wo have mndo a thorough Investigation ln(o (he circumstances of F. II. Sherman und find that'he Is in a critical condition, At the present lime he Ih In the Fernio hospital and tho doctors glvo him very little hope were compelled to throw CLL:;'YvOOU SPRINGS, Col. ScpU 30' , --Two armed posses are scouring the mountains in the vicinity of ibis cltyr, in tlio hope of capturing two bandits * who* yesterday afternoon robbofy-i'the Citizens National Bank of Glenwood Springs of $0000. ,. The robbery was the most spectacular ever known in the wost. It, took place' in broad daylight, while the street In. front* of the Utile bank was thronged'with summer resort ers. Tho n-jlibers elbowed their wny through" the crowds and entered the'hank. F. A. l*iin*h, Hie'accounting toller, wiih ut Hie window. The robbers wore no niiiHkK. Unroll and Ills bookkeepers up lliclr With this end In view- It Ib expedient that somo, assistance should bo forthcoming Ihnt will enable him to got. (he advice and assistance of somo spoclnllst. Aftor considering tho npponl o( Fornio local we nre confident Hint Iho lncnls will not let this nppenl go by. We would suggest thai each local should Hike up nnd consider seriously I lie huHl ways nnd .means whereby a HiihHtuntlul subscription mny be rnlsed to give Uiu necessary assistance to Kx- ProHldein. Shenniin'H deserving cuuso. Incidentally ii mny he Muled (lint financially, llro. Sherman la In very poor elreiimstiijiccH, It Is <|iilto true tlmt lie hns a.form on'the prnlrl" bin nt UiIh I line ii Is not u revenue producing one, being only In Uic developing Hinge, nnd lie hns n wife and seven children, one of whom Ih totally blind that*need support. Trusting tliut yon will give UiIh your enrlloHt and couslderiite attention, We are yourn fruioruully, with best wIhIioh, 4 W. Powell Pn-Hldeiii UNI. IS, Clem Stubbs Vleii-I'l'i'hldelll A. J, Cnrter Hecreiury'TrcuH. hnudfi and*as they did so one of the men emptied (he colli ent s of the snfi! Inlo ii snd- iind the two mnde lliolr way out of u rear door, mounted horsen and galloped for the inountnlns. During I lie light one of the horses was shot down but (he men conllmteil Ihe flighi on ihe one remaining nnimni. Lain uxluy ii iiii»ii Hiving the nnmo of James Brown was nrrcKtcd hero on a charge of complicity In the robbory. AlloUl<T HllHpeet IlIlK 1)0UII IlITOHtl'd who refuses to give his name or to tnlk ut all. A pnriIon nf Uio amount stolen was found lodny ou u trail lending down u Hliurp precipice, THE BEST EVER "In Wyoming" was wimesseil by a large crowd nt the Fernie opera house nu Wednesday night. Tie- piny wiih the best ever put on ut UiIh limine and any one who mlnsed It missed a genuine treiil, r.veiylhllig In coiiiieellnu with the proilueiiiiii xxnn uh nnturnl iih ihough yon were In Wyoming In ear* lieHl. It Ik il plellHIII'e to reeoillllleiul a play of UiIh nt amp hh we know wo me doing Jiih'l<e, The cniujiniiy pro mine ii return date und we ran ukhiii*" tin-in <>f it f'dl hom-e '.-J •fl HEMDfcWCt OF GEO. CO DY ON VICTORIA AVENUE PAGE TWO THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNiS, . B. C. OCTOBER 2 1909» THE POOR MAN'S ENEMY (Industrial Index)- - Much discussion has been given to the question, shall labor enter politics or not? ,. The answer is that labor is already in politics, always has been and always will be either for good or ill. A labor party, or the formal indorse- , ment by labor of certain candidates who have been put up by other parties, may be wise or otherwise. That does not affect the fact that labor— the hard working, well meaning people of the country—hold the balance of power, In truth, they are the power compared with which other social forces of the present day are extremely weak. If labor should make use of this power, even as an organized body of citizens, honesty and efficiency tlftn would he the platform of every man 'who seeks public office. In, this state of affairs existed the so called large problems of political life would . take care .pf themselves.' What -is right and what is best would come about naturally. ' Good government, like charity, begins at home. The election of presidents and- United States senators is of far loss importance as a practical, everyday question than the choosing of the right kind of men to fill our city and county offices. The reform would work upward. Towns and cities are taxed to the limit to support extravagance . and graft, and in the, end the man who works with his hands pays the tax. One of the greatest enemies, of the poor man today is the political machine. All large evils are biit combinations or outgrowths of small evils. The power that thwarts the will of the people in national legislation lias its roots in local politics. The machine is distinct from legitimate party organization, although it is often confused with it in the minds of the people who are not familiar with the game of politics.^ It is 6the proper function of a party to.nominate men fotc office with a fair field and no favoritism, respecting the right of ^V8r=y=aspir3ut*: to='givo=promiuoucs~to-- the merits of its candidates and policies during the campaign „and to get out its votes on election day. The machine assumes thc right to dictate who shall be nominated and cries:— "Hands off!" to ,the party at large. Its selections; are made not on tlie score of fitness or honesty, but with a view to the spoils and the perpetuation ii.of its powor. Greedy for the former, it licenses vice, creates useless offices aud sells the right to disobey the law or holds up the public on privileges to which they are entitled undor tho law. Every railroad lobby, evory corporate abuse, evory privilege accorded to tho rich at the expense of the poor, has Its beginning in the local political machine. Tho small politician delivers the goods, for a consideration,—* eithor of money or ol spoils—to the big politician, and he takes care of the Interests, It is the record of the machine that it, opposes lnbor legislation, opposes tho' extension of'poular education and balks public enterprises in whicli It is not allowed a graft, True, It seems (o favor reforms ,ai times, oven to load them, but, this Is merely putting , on a fair face before public sentiment. It permits the pnssuge of wood luws In ordor thnt ll mny piny favor* ltos. Honest officials find I'leui- hoIvch checkmated hy UiIh hIIoiiI Influence in lliolr attempt to do their (Inly. Kh power loosens tlie gi'nnp of l',o policeman, it nd blinds the eyes of tho judgo, Tho ninchino Is reactiomtry, destructive and uiipntrintle above all UllllgH. Tons of thousands of honest, working men support the machine through pnrty foully, not making the dlsilucl* Ion between II nnd legitimate parly organization, They fall to perform tlio duties of good citizenship in using Dw power they have lo ninke good nomination--- nml In voting again*! .-ill the had oneH. HlgiiH nie not lucking dial the people at large' are getting rendy for revolt ngiiliiKt ,(lie slavery of ihe machine, Wage enineih ure Inking a greater illleichl In (In* I'Olill'Ill III' llii'lr plillles, iiiiil the iiumliiT of Independent vm-Tn] lire on I lie liill'i line. Willi I lie fall! elections liel'me us (lliu l'< ll twin] (hue; to gin- more enriie^i heed in the nml*| ler. Am :i geiieial propositi ion n vote, •urnJt)Ht it mnrhiiie ininlliliite Is a .m;iIV' voii'. j TRADE UNIONISTS SEE NEED 0F,! THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT The tcsiile tinlnnNt*-, Mu-'iii'.'lioiM lliei country are slowly but muHy uwul-en-j lug to (he tnci that existing wrongs, r.UlliOt be Ii-lili-di.'ii I.) .'ill e((ii.(/|:iii- UT- itmilziiilon alone, Inn (hut the iiue Koliilliin uf the Injunction queHUnu,! —posing as th*-"- friends of the laboring people! , And then awakening as usual, after the strike has been lost, and after quite a,few of their number are the occupants of jails, bullpens, hospitals and morgues, to the simple fact that the Republican nnd Democratic parties and their political henchmen are not the'friends of labor, but are owned and controlled and operated, like the capitalist operates his mine, mill or factory, for the sole promotion of tho private interests of a few individuals who own the greater part of "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Let us see how this political,power which we so magnanimously vote into the hands of the capitalist class is used. A strike is called to remedy a grievous wrong or perchance to resist a reduction in wages. The men all respond, the ranks are firm, men enthusiastic, everything favorable, corporation losing money— and. then, what? Why, then a call is sent, to tho governor for troops, or to the chief of police for a few extra brain awaken- ers, to protect the strike breake'-s,, at work. ' - After this procedure it is the*established custom for the masters to npply to some, temple of justice for an injunction, depriving the strikers of all constitutional rights, And here let me ask, Does, the court, as a rule, ever inquire*. into the merits of (ho workers grievances, the cause cf the strike? Is the matter investigated? Not much! These capitalist judges, elected on the platforms of the old mossback, moth eaten, , subsidized Republican and Democratic parties, are as true to their class and the sanctity of property rights as the workers have been false to their class and the Socialist party, the political expression of their social needs. . •*■- Experience, it is said, is the best teacher, and let us hope that the experience of the trade unionist has" not been in vain, I believe I can- speak for the craft to which I belong when it.'_l liof Hin—lrtc..-—t\f_ 111, .4 J 1,44.*.^— *. .11. 4V4WS — \jL— (.14* at-nlt. Oil IIT bull jit-tit nnd Dw deportation nm!] mimler of Milking, unionists, along! with the .M|iiiiii"lenn exploitation ofj the eittlie working cli.su, Ih to ln>| found expreKH-'il in no uncertain terms; in the Socialist propaganda—I.e.. thej -.liinliivlor. of (In- •au-.e, produ**((on | for private gain, the enrichment of thej f.||.* (■"«• wf'.i omii the jnlm and with' thejii ll.e lit.en nnd hiipplncHB of Uio' "tolling millions. j The 1(/hk of i.e.iily ctery gnat strike, tliut has taken place during the Insl! decade has been caused chiefly, Ifj not entirely. l»y Dw wot ken- voting iU tlukeU nt uiplUU.-m and "IwDnr. titHiitich mipportont of prlvnte intercuts and legalized robbery to public office, wim-*** of them—ah, the mockery of It in Colorado under "a Republican governor has made thousands of Socialists in every mining district, of the country. In the State of Alabama, Governor Comer, a Democrat and a "friend of labor," saved the day of the mine owners. ' The strike was* virtually won, when the mine owners called upon him to serve his class. Did Governor Comer hesitate? Did he take their request, under advisement? Oh. no- he immediately issued an ordor to the state troops already on tho field to tear down Uic tents of the striking minors, and served notice that the supply of convict mine labor in Alabama was in need of certain additions, and it was very likely that ho could uso n good pnrt of the strikers in such mines, If the striko was ndt called off immediately. With no shelter for tho strikers or their families, with tho troopors bayonets at thoir backs, with n government, from the governor down, owned und controlled by capitalist forces— tliqyo was nothing lo do but, call off the strike. Another striko was lost and mino slavery perpetuated In Alabama, boonuso Ihe workors voted tho polltlcnl power Into tho hands of their oppressors, In tho stale of Colorado under Governor Peabody, a good Republican tho same thing occurred, The state troops woro usod to crush organized Inlittr, lu Colorado bullpens wero erected und deportation of Hlrlkoi'H wuh speedily recognized iih one of the Infant Induslrlos of tho Htnte, and Ih now universally recognized iih un oh- tiibllslied eiipltnllHl Institution In the country, Governor Penbody spent UioiihiiiiiIh of dollars of ilu* money of the suite of Colorado to break llm Htiike, The people's money lined uh nn Instrument of opprcHHloii! HltmlcK of Abraham Lliieoiu and TIioiuiih .leffei'Hou! Ih UiIh ii government of Ihe people, by Uio people und I'or the people? Ih UiIh (lie hope of ilemncrucy? What a irnv<THlt>* on u republican, representative form of government! And who Is lo bluiiie for UiIk furclcul form of government, of ihe inantigeinent of public n f fn Iih? The enplliillHt cIiikk- wry Hinull In number? Ah, no- the working i-Iiihh' iilniii* niiisi hem- the entire i'en|i(iiihllpll*! Ity. i It bus been snld thai there Ih nol (JurkiK'Hii but Igiionmee, ntul Ir Ik flirt j I'oree tif ignorance tliut hits placed UiIh I freiiietidotiH power for wenl or woitj Wtn tlm li'inrU fit' ti ininll tinrimltle' cIuhh. The workei'H, lis it rliiHii, huvei never voted lot* lieller llillIKH *llie>' i tins i* nl ways been content to be iiiih burden heftier" nud >>hnr<> th» lot id the hiiIiiiiIhhIvi- clave. Hut It Ih onnj of the ntoHt hopeful Hlguw of Union I .. I . ., . 11 I,•>,,!, ■• .iiilnt, own'/, ' ment drifting towards the .SocJiiIIhI ! propngnudn--sailing towards Hint op-', en sea which lends to « new land, n| new era, detllcnted to pence nnd plenty! iiiii! <-oiiHecrnteil to » higher order of! clvlll/nilon, i At the Inif convention nf the United' .Mine Workers of AmmUti, the largestl Hlnele ir.'nle union In Amorlcn, a re«o-' lotion was pnftsetl declaring for the tenets of Hoclallsm. It in my -ribstervfllton that the lime Ih lint far dlHlnut when every ronlj trmle union In Amorlcn will seo the. iiff-cMilty ut offiaxilxftl polltlc-M action nnd will voire the pnllflrnl expression' nf their <lnh» under the banner of the! mlJlf-im. t/rir-ornprimilHlng, Socialist movement. 1 Development The general strike now In* progress In Sweden since August 4, 1909, is not to be considered as a strike in the common sense of the word. This strike has' not been commenced in order to secure to the workers increased., pay or shorter hours, but it is the inevitable result of thc aggressive attacks adopted by the "Swedish Employers' Association." „ * Ever since the financial and industrial depression that set in in conjunction with the last great economic crisis in America—a depression which for tho workers carried in its train many difficulties besides the lack of employment—the organized employers in Sweden (and they are better organized than in any other country) have made it their special business to try to break to pieces the National organization (the Landsorganlzation) of tha 'Swedish workers. Their method has been to threaten with unlimited lock out in case their terms were not accepted. Thus, during the course of the year 1908, the organized employers put the Swedish workingmen and the,-whole Swedish .people before the possibility of a complete lock-out and a general suspension of work not less than four times, in tlieir attempt te bring about a destructive and final struggle with the organized workers. ' These conflicts were( however, solved, mainly to the satisfaction of the workers, and on the basis of previously existing conditions, through the arbitration of a commission appointed by the government, which evidently feared rand wanted to postpone '" the struggle which had been planned by the employers. ■ '" Through these constant • struggles, under threats of mass lock outs the xesouncQS_of_theiworkers*_organization« were deplorably , decimated, and for this reason the employers placed a great deal of hope in the expectation of a renewal of the attack.' Profiting by the favorable circumstances, they again) began their assaults upon the National organization of workers this year with the determination of dealing It a blow after which it should■'no more raise its head. In order to accomplish this, they used tho following method: Iri three different Industries, and in rather Insignificant places, wage reductions of a slashing character were, dlctatorially 'ordered, reductions "so large that, in view of the continually increasing cost of living, lt would have'been entirely out of the question' for tho workers to submit to them. In order, to enforce tho acceptance of the reduced wages in theso out of the way places, the Employers' Association on July G declared a lock-out against all the workors ln tho throo iiidustrlos concerned, announcing at the snmo tlmo that if thoir demands woro not acceded to on July 26 the lockout would bo oxtonded to Includo 50,000 men, ond on August 2 to 80,000 mon. As tho workers could not. possibly recede from their defetislvo position, I hoso hnrd decisions woro carried out, and on August 2 80,000 men and women were shut out from work In Rueh Induslrlos ns the employers could shut down with tho least Injury lo themselves, Theso workers woro Informed that' tlioy could not como to work oxcopl. aftor nu unconditional surrender, und ftirUiornionvtho iisbo* ciintion empowered lis offlcerH, In ciiho of noeoBslty, to extend Ihe loelt-onl. to includo nil the organized workers In Die lnnd, , TIioho fuels throw n lurid light upon the woeful innientntlons of the employers over the workliigmen'H "nl* Kick on widely," rIiii-m (hey them* selves lind planned the Hume kind of "uttnok." It wiih In the fnco of UiIh Hit tint Ion Hint the repreHciitiilivo nHHomhly of the org/inlzed workei'H wuh convoked, lt wiih now plainly to lie hccii by the worker*, (hat nol only wuh the result of more tluni '.ifi yenrs of Htruggle for a human i-nIhIuiicu i-iiiliinwTi-ij, but nlso the very oxIhIoiico of their organ* izitlloii. They could not escnpi* I lie fuel Unit Hie employeih' ultimatum wuh ;i,,cluilleiige lo ft life find death Htruggle, tn order tint in be slowly ground to pleooH between the HilllHtOlicH of the hiiccusHivn lock'OlitH the workers were compelled lo Hpoedllv renorl to the Iiihi und most powerful inenim of tie* lellhe- I(|e m'liei.ij Mi Ike, , The general strike I'OiiiliM'IM.t.'il on August t. Not only did the organized workers vote nlmost unnnlmoiiHly lo (■ciiho work, but even the tinorgnnlzed wrirlfepM to the number of Tint 1i>rh thnn jort,0()fl went out on Hli'llcn with tlieir organized fellow workers, -Still more ii hiiiiiH rirgrtiilxiiflan of workers, cIiikr- ed nmong the "yellow uiiIoiih," and hitherto jicrtiKctl of running the errands of the employers, mnde common anise with their follows. Leaving out of account the agricultural workers, only the employees of the government and the municipalities Hiieh iih rnllwny, postnl, telegrnph, nnd telephone, lighting, street cleaning, nnrt waterworks employed nre still nt work, nml for tnctlcal rensons , too Jo-nK to <-*K-pln-!n, All tlione ifovernmental nnd municipal employees who nro nlno well or* nanlr.ed, are attettUiK them«dv*is to support tli« Htrllccrtt, and will lit nil ROGRESSIVE F ERNIE PROFUSEllY ILLUSTRATED 100 :,: : PAGES : : : 100 This book ^hows the wonderful ' growth of the City of Fernie in one year and deals exhaustively' with its advantages, etc., etc. I READY SOON ORDER FORM Fill in this form and place orders in advance. Price', 50 cents. Return this order, form to The District, Ledger, Fernie; B. C. ° THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C. Please reserve for. me. copies of "PROGRESSIVE FERNIE" at SO cents Per copy, for rtthir.h. j.e "ftclosed $ Name INCLUDE 15 CENTS FOH POSTAGE Address Steam heated throughout. Hot and cold Baths. The King Edward Fernie's Leading Commercial Hotel/ Rates $2.50 and upward*,, J. L. GATES,'PROP. A. Rizzuto J. Crawford Fernie Livery, Dray &.Transfer Co. ICE FOR SAE.E ( **' N .Contracts Taken *,. * . a Including Stump Pulling, Land Clearing and Ploughing. Let us figure on your next job Rubber Tired Buggies* New Turnouts RIZZUTO & CRAWFORD 9 \ I probability go out on strike at the proper time if necessary. *> It may consequently bo said that the Swedish working peoplo almost to a man, have stood up in dofonco of their.- organization and for Its high nnd noble aspirations. Strike breakers aro noxt to Impossible to find within the ranks of tho actual workors all rumors to the contrary being fabrications. In -its origin .the general strike Is entirely void of political and, revolutionary alms, nnd is of a puroly economic character. What, it may become In the course of events if the employers persist ln their ambitious do* signs, remains for tho future to show forth. As It Is, moro than 300,000 workers aro striking, which means tlmt ovor a million men, womon nnd chlldron aro now nctunlly starving or on tho vorgo of starvation. In spite of this desperate condition lho strlltors aro observing perfoct order, Not ovon the milling of arms gibes and Insults on tlio pnrt ot thoir adversaries, or tho machinations of "iigoulH provocutoiirti," lmvo so fur boon nblo lo docolvo tlio workors Into committing tho dearly longed for foi* Hos Hint would croiilo nn occasion for tho uso of tho rlflos nnd tho mnchlno KittiH. In fuel nt no tlmo of lis previous lilHlory hns Sweden hooii Mich it ponceful nnd orderly country ns It Ih JiihI. how during llu> gcmorul strike. Tlio workers In Sweden nro mtfflclonl* ly tniltiwl lo Holf-control not. to niidiin* gel* ilmlr Hiir-'iiHH by ii rush slop, tlmt would curry wltli ll bloodshed nnd Jnll for (lioiiKiiiidu iilmosl eertnlii defenl. for nil. Mill In onliM* lo nmliiliihi tho flghl, until tin* .•iii|ili'ji.*r*» hliull lmvo (.iiffur* cd cnoiifih flnnnelnlly to cull It off (lie woi-J'fi-K lu Hwedr.'ti iiuihI lmvo thn ns- Hlstniir-i* of the world, tho Internal ro* huiii'oh being -'iitli'itiy limdwnmt't, Tho .Swedish workers, used to hardship, uii' willing to Htiuv*' for n long time ynl lu order lo guln tho victory. 'I nny (in* iirvjiaruil to fight to ti fin* }.-,h mi u tiU-l til Mil, hi i ml und mill.i, lint It hIIH r<-i|tilr.-H Immense sums lo keep mon* tlmn a million ppoplo nllve. The workorH of oilier flcnndhmvlnn coiintrlnH Immnillninly cnmo to tliolr nnHlt*t!*.iti<', nn-noiiHlnK tlio-miu-lvon lion* vJJy. (hwrnmiy nnd othov cotintvlet hnvo ul ho Hi-nt large contributions nnd from nil over tlio world como moHimges of rlioor nnd promises of help. Ilul oven nil this doos not suffice, It Is for tIiIh renson tlmt Uio Kxec'ii* (Ivn romwfttoo of (ho RwoiIIbIj "Und* Horgntil7.ntlmi" Iiiih sent us, tho under- signed, to America to npponl to all tho American work'-th lo lender Hpm*dy anil powerful help. Knowing full woll that you fully appreciate the Intermitlonnl. Import of tho jitruggto now going on In Bvvodun that you would count a itofrat for thn Swedish workers an your own Iohh, nnrt thnt you will ronnt ihnlr vlrtory ni your own victory, wo bring you fraternal grfi'tliigH from your Swedish follows and thoir thanks in advance for assistance rendered. All appropriations and contributions should be sent to LANDSSBKRBTARIATET Stockholm, Sweden Yours for tho welfare of tho working class, C. E. Tholln John 8andgren Authorized dologatos from tho Swedish Landsorganis-ntion Now York, Aug. 27, 1909. Cablegram from Sweden That tho efforts of the combined capitalist class of Europe have boon unsuccessful thuB fnr to break the backbone of tho Swedish striko, will bo boot understood from tho following cablegram rocolvod In tho offlco of tho Swodlsh Amorlcnn nowspapor "Arbot- ren' (Tho Workor) from tho President of tho Swedish National Orgnnlzntlon of Workors. Stockholm 8ept, 15 "Arbetern" 28 City Hall Place New York City: The gigantic struggle continues with undiminished energy against the 8we* dlbh Employers' Association; more than 150,000 still continue the struggle, Ab yet no settlement. With courage and endurance, the workers are keeping up the fight to the utmost, and will win the fight If only economic assistance Is given to the Btrlkero. LANDSSI0KIIHTAUIATI3T ltormnn Llndnulsl, It will bo seen from llils cmblogrnm liuil Ihe hIInut Ion him rnmnluml tm* cliiing-id, The slrll-o Is now In Uh sixth week nml Dw Hiv<mIIhIi Unionists urn Hiuiidltig I'lrm In spile of ull the i-fform mndo by tliolr opponents to hint I hem (loivn, TIiIh must not bo iinikTHtood to bit a fight ngnltiflt the ciipllnllstB of Sweden nlono, for tho etillro onpltnllHl cIiihh of hlurnpo nro combined und nre imlng their host efforts to hi'otik this labor body, (he moHl thoroughly orgunlzod in nil Mur* opo to-day. It was for tnctlcnl nnd slrntoglcnl purposes (tint, me imorgrini/.ed lmvo H'lunuii lu null., Thi/, wut, t]<)uu miilnly because there wns no desire on tho pari of tho striko commltteo to proclpltntci a more dangerous situation niul fiirthormoro, it wns Impossible, wllh Ihe slender monns on hnnd to iiuinuirt hucU n largo body. Tho workers of tho world cannot afford to permit tlio destruction of tho Swedish orgnnlzntlon. Its present efficiency Is tho result of over twenty five yours of Indofntlgnblo work on thn pnrt of Its builders and precoptors. Wlml Is needed is tlnnnclal nld nnd much of It. II lliu workei'H ioim* to llm lesctii-i and keep up tho flow of funds as they nro now coming In nnd which nro only now arriving In Sweden, then victory will bo ouru. This In* tho lime for action. All Hut forroi of labor tho world over should stand with u* In thli Htrtif-glP. If wo go down It it only a quostion of time beforo you will follow, hardware: A full line,.of shelf and heavy. Hardware in stock together with a complete range of Stoves Furniture Department Our Furniture Department embraces the most unique and up-to-date lines. -■ Come in and have a look J. IX QUAIIr F£fRNTIJSf Bs C* *emm Pollock Wine Co, Ltd \t " *- Phone 79 Baker Ave. P.O. Box 2C2 1 WholeSole Importers and Exporters of-Wines, Brandies, Cordials, Forei?u and Domestic Whiskies and Gins. Large stock.of Fernot Branca, Italian, Hungarian and German Wines, ■ also Norwegian Punch and Aquavit. Beer, Portor, Ale and Cigars. Agents for Waulrtsha Arcadian Water, Schlltz Beer -and the famous El* Valloy Brewing Co. Ltd, Beer, draught and bottled. Special attention given to ' family trado. Our Motto: Pure goods and qulcx delivery. v, NORTHERN HOTEL Wm. Eschwlg,- Proprietor New and up-to-date Handsome Cafe Attached OPEN DAY and NIGHT Alberta Show Case Works ") Manufacturers of STQBE FIXTURES Calgary, Alta. ►♦♦♦♦ Fernie Dairy FRESH MILK dolivored to all >, parts of tho town DOBSON & WILLINGHAM . PROP8. ♦ Great Northern Rail'y i Fast Time and Good Connection To AU Points East and West Leave Fernie 1.00 p. m. Arr. Spokane 11 „ Only- 24 hours from Fcrnlc to Seattle and Vancouver H. L. BLACKSTONE, Agt. FERNIE J Singer Sewing Machines Co., Fornio, B. C. ***mm**m*—mmmmmm*im<m**mm*»mmmmm ■Mwmmn* Why be without a Sewing Machine when you ■ can get one for $3.00 a month? Wm. BARTON, (North of New School) Pellatt Ave. ~THE DISTRICT LEDGER. FERNIE. B. C. OCTOBER 2 190ST "HA-at-I'Mlftfet" l\> '} I-. l*1 7 IS' , tW to hv- ■/. j ii1 'Si ?. 4 tn \ ? I'. HAYWOOD AND CLASS STRUGGLE Continued from,Page One volting, This is not a class struggle but a battle between two classes of master's. We see a Sultan overthrown. Here we see the Christians maltreated,on every hand, their hands and tbelr. feet cut off; and then dipped in, hot. pitch and every conceivable form of torture practiced,' We see the. Moors ln the country in Spain * struggling to maintain possession of that domain which has been their home for many centuries. Spain ^with .its tottering government, and with art idiotic boy on the throne, who wants to maintain the regal splendor that Spain once had, calls for men and money. . ,The awakened working people of Spain absolutely refuse. to take up arms against their fellow work* ers in the Moor land, arid it is these coditioris that go forward to make a class struggle, and that is what has brought about the largest amalgamation of the working class that the world, has ever seen. , 'Workers of the world, unite.* You have nothing to lose but your chains, and you have a world to gain," Is the "slogan cry of the party which takes under its fold every nation of the entire world. We bar neither race, creed nor color" nor either sex. We find, eleven millions of people now fighting the Class struggle and fight- . ing for the emancipation of the working class... This is.not the only Socialist meeting that is beingheld on a Sunday!"'' There are hundreds or perhaps thousands of other meetings taking'place? This , subject that I. am preaching about Is one that your ministers dare not touch. It preaches the trulh, but under the capitalist regime your preacher dare not tell the truth, because if He did he would lose . his job. I, perhaps, have done more than any other''single individual to bring about hearty and more, close co-operation between the Western Federation . of Miners and the United Mine Workers of America. Two years ago I "addressed the International Congress iii Indianapolis with "the result that a resolution was passed appointing a delegation to attend the conference of the W. P. M. " Somo measures were started to", bring about a closer reciprocal relation ^between these two big * bodies,„but it is not^yet as close as I hope to see it. I hope that every man employed-in the mining industry will come under one banner. He =■ believed,it would be a good thing for the eastern miners to have the fight- ■~jng spirit of the,Rocky Mountain*inin- ialists will fight the, Grand Trunk Pacific for this land. Mr. Fisher.—The Grand Trunk,Pacific bill did not include a land grant." . Haywood: That makes it all the worse. Turning to the audience he said:.My friends, the Liberal government gave the officers of the Grand Trunk Pacific 81 townsites, the" heritage of the people of Canada and the United States, and I want my share of it. .. -*...- i* -' ** Mr. Fisher asked when. , The enquiries were requested to be asked when the speaker had finished his address. Mr." Fisher had wanted to know where Mr. Haywood had gpt TAliES PROM THE GOIiDEN WEST his authority from in one of his pre-- vious interruptions. Haywood replied that the Grand Trunk Pacific deal, he took from the press, and that is was not the only piece of, graft. The graft that is now going on at Montreal, and that has gone on over contracts there, Is scandalous. The people of Canada will no longer be able to point the finger of scorn at any of the corrupt cities of the United States, The cause of the Rlel rebellion was against the granting of lands at 15 cents per acre which are how turning Olut 40 to 00 bushels of wheat per acre. What can the working men, expect in electing men to represent them like, for instance your own member, W. R. Ross? . I do not know whether he is present, and I don't like to take advantage of a person behind his. back, but he takes advantage of us all the time. He does not represent the working class. And what are we expected to do on the other side? We were'told. that, if W. H Taft were sent to oifice that a wave of prosperity would immediately return. Now he has been returned, but do we see that wave of prosperity? , No; we see in 'that country one million men who are out of employment, -nothing at the back door because they are denied access to the machinery that would provide them with employment. There are ten million people on the verge of starvation in a country that is second to' none in the iron and steel industry, arid second only to England in the textile industry. .When we voted for W. H..Taft we voted for-a man whose only qualification was that he "knew how to make an injunction, which he learned in the federal courts of Ohio, and he had now got the name of Injunction Bill, ^ ■■"-_, A Dear Little Girl 7 '■•- '*: ' at the Rink , Sat Down Just as.Quick - -* As a Wink; . Said she "I Don't See ' Why They Giggle at Me It Is Very Polite— I Don't Tfaink- 1*11 just Sling the old Skates" Out of. Sight And Stay Home With My Mother \: - \ At Night I will Learn Light House Keeping With Golden West Washing: Powder And may Soon have a Home of My Own Don't You Hope: ., That Will Beat Roller Skating All Right.' PROMINENT FARMER COMES TO DEATH Supposed to Have Been Thrown from Load of Lumber-Was Well Known Socialist, ers.merged with them. , I know that there is an effort being made*on the part*.'of an organization calling itself "The Provincial- Mine Workers of Canada", ^establish an all Canadian union.' - ■ ■ . I don't know where they are going to. Btart in to, form an all Canadian union. He wanted to see how many Canadians there were In tho first place in that hall, and requested evcryono who wa3 not a Canadian to raise his hand. With few exceptions every hand in.tho hall was raised. , Your Interests aro identical' with those of the men across that Imaginary border line between the'1 United States and Canada. It Is you men that get tho coal that produces tho coke for the * smelters. Your Interests aro not so closely.Identified with tho miners of Nova Scotia as they aro with the mombors.of the \V. P. of M., tho fact -that thore is such a country as Canada notwithstanding. The capitalists aro not confined to any country. Thoy go where Industry Is, whoro thoy can gain wealth for thc purposo of oxplolt: Ing the working clnsB. • Capitalists havo no country, no flag, no honor, no God but gold and whoso ensign Is the iikuli and croBBbones, whoso password ia graft.' aB 1b ovldoncod by tho m)* oral govornment giving to tho Grand Trunk Pacific 81 townaltcs and othor lands, which ought to bo tho heritage •of tho pooplo, Mr, Fisher horo Interrupted tho spoaltor and nuked what land grant was Included in tho Grand Trunk Pacific bill. Mr, Haywood: "By (.ho fact that 81 townsltofl woro glvon to thom. I say to you that Canada, nor Ottawa, nor anyone olno haH any right to glvo nnyono a titlo to any land." Ho rolatod a story ho onco hoard ot a follow who wag togged out In flab stockings and wido pants callod "peg tops," and carrying In hlu hand a ltnob stick which ho waa knocking a littlo ball around wllh, Ho was aHkod whoso land It waB around. "Mlno," wan tlio roply. "Whero did you got It from?" "Prom my fathor." * "Whoro did ho got It from?" "Prom his father." "And whoro did lio got It?" "Ho fought for.lt." iNUto, 1 Xxi*iti lu in*) *v ,)w*i '^.y *,t^*-.u'^ that if It lu'romrn ■necem-.M'r*** tho. Rr.p- A lonely accidental death came to A. H. Swardfiger, a well known farmer of Black Spring Ridge on Saturday night or Sunday morning. , The deceased started from Claresholm on Saturday with a load of lumber and on Sunday mornin?: he was found dead on the prairie "hear Elinor, The load of ..lumber wis* found about half a, mile away and one of the horso.-? was'found dead also. , Mr. Swardfiger was the owner of a bad tempered horse which no one else cared to handle and which the hostlers at the local barns would have nothing to, do with. It looks as If the team had run away, and Mr. Swadfiger had been killed by . being thrown from the load. A coroner was called from Claresholm. The deceased leaves a wife and family of five sons and two daughters and ..was a-man between forty and fifty years of age. .Two of his sons own and operate a threshing outfit in the north country. •* Mr.,Swardfiger was well known in the city as he came here a good deal to trade and was also known as a prominent Socialist;—Lethbridge Herald. • ' ..,*■- Bill" Taft, Injunction Bill, ' \Vho never worked and never will. After making injunctions,- putting union men*into jail,-they gave him a position worth $50,000 a year, a raise of $25,000 per year, and allow him $25,000 a year for travelling expenses. He related the story' of a tramp going, along the track with a bundle on his back, soloquizlng on n his not being able to get a ride' after he had helped to,build the railroad: I represent the men who built the road, but Taft and his ilk'e represent the men who own the rond. Coming to William J. Bryan, what Is tho difference between Injunction Bill and Silver Bill? ; He Is tho greatest political demagogue who is now preaching to us, who whon ho starts out on a political argument meets himself coming back. During tho lato campaign, Bfynn in making his tour of tho States promised them In to say, who are" proud that they are of the laboring class, and to show this it causes lead.poisoning, which results in terrible suffering A man cannot regard to tho unemployed problem that they .should have a government guar* antood savings bank. Now what Ir tho uso of a government guaranteed savings bank to a hungry, man, I do not think ho would llko to havo this ln his stomach. I seo Bryan Is going to speak In Lothbrldgo and Calgary and if ho can got a dato ho may apeak In this hull. I do not usk you to voto tho Socialist tlckot, bocauso tho Socialists aro not looking for votes. I do ask you to road thb Socialist, llteraturo which you will find in your libraries. If not thoro then tho Workingman'B club will furnish it. I ask you to listen to Socialist spoakors and thon apply, this philosophy to your own quoBtlona. Thoy toll you that wo will not havo Socialism until human naturo changoB, but I toll you that human naturo will not chango until wo havo Socialism.' Thoro aro somo working mon who will stand on tliolr heads and aBk ub what wo nro going to do with tho capitalists. Thoy aro llko tho pooplo who OBkert Abraham Lincoln what tho ladicB and gentlemen of tho south would do If tho bIovob woro out froo. Ho ropliod "It Ih root hog or die," and It will bo tho Hamo with tho cap* HallnlB, thoy will havo to "root hog or dio." Wo will not lot thom out but wo will tako thom In, and glvo thom a good hard job In tho mlno factory, or .. - .."Ji .-.Vf-.***'*. Thore are nnmo workingmen, ntrango they wear overalls all the year around, for fear that they should be taken for capitalists. They seem to like the clanking of their chains. .The Western Federation of Miners was born*in jail, where a number of their members were incarcerated in a "bull pen", the result of a strike in 1892 in Coeur d'Alene, The minors went on strike to prevent a reduction of wages" from $3.50 to *j3.00. Thc mine operators immediately called or. their allies, the thugu, Pinkerton detectives and scabs., There was a pitched battle between th'.- union men and the non-union men in which ac*me were kllWi Th.-*** iho Ito ps were called and' when they, came 1200 union',men were seized and wero put ln a "bull pen." He described a bull pen as two storey building made out, of rough lumber, with high pal*, nigs around. Most of those seized wero hold for seven months without a trial or warrant. They wore not permitted to leavo tho building, not oven to answer tho most necossary calls, Many became diseased and many died as the result, Among thnt.;. number woro 14 who were nrreBtod for violence nnd Injury; and among thom wns your townsman Tom Wholan, and lt wns by a mere coincident that Moyer, Adams, Pottlbono nnd myself, occuplod tho snmo coll M yoars later. Whilo thero amid tho four gloomy walls of tlmt prison tho four'.oon docldod to got nil of tho mombors of tlio woBtorn country Into ono orgnnlrntion. On tho 1fith of Mny, 1891), tho Western' Pel oration of Minors wns launched at Butto, Montana. Following this came tho Cripple Crook striko In 1804 when tho minors of tho greatest gold camp then on record struck to maintain an eight, hour day, and a minimum wngo,, of $3. Tho capitalists oporatlng tin* mlnos Immediately call-, cd on tho govornment fojr tho troopH— By tho wny havo you over honrd of tho minors culling for troops, thoy aro Bont along without tho milium asking for thom—but Iho mlno operators did not got tho troops bocnuBO wo hnd o work more than six or eight years in the lead mines before he is ready for the capitalists scrap heap , This is where 99 per cent of our men go. It Is composed of- old men, and young men who are maimed and who nan no longer make profit for their employers' There is no employer, not even the Crows Nest Pass Coal Company who employ men from "a sense of philanthropy. They hire men for the' money that they can make out of them. Remember that Manager- Hurd Is no less a wage slave than you are. He gets three "meals a day, a placo to sleep, and can* buy a few cigars now and then but they ,**.yould not like to change the system. Now, wo lost tho strike In Leadvillo because the troops weer used against us. Then enme the second great striko of 1899 ln Coeur d'Alene. Tho mlno operators brought in the troops as boforo. Thoy blow up stores and trlod to foist ln on the miners. Ono storo was blown up and attributed to tho minors, but It was Joe McDonald, who had 3000 pounds of giant powdor. McDonald wns the superintendent of one of tho mills. Tho troops who cnmo woro Federal troopR. Anothor bull pen was erected and this timo It wob a ono storoy placo, Tho mlnorB wero thrown ln. Tho food was unfit for dogs, and black soldiers wore placed nl onch post, lt bolnp tho tlmo of tho Spanish-American wnr. In that bu]l pon worn tho votoranB of tho Civil wnr who woro willing to dio to froo, the mothers nnd fathers of those nigger Rohllors from tho chains and tho Mhnclcoln of slavery. I mention the word "nlggor" bocauso mnny ot tho minors from a [falsa sonso of patriotism, went out to tho war, leaving thoir wives and fam ilies and sweethearts behind, whom the nigger soldiers were insulting, outraging and ravishing. *, 7" They weer arrested and beaten. I want to tell you a true story of one, Mike Divine. Poor old Mike had been sick and bad been staying for a long time in the provincial hospital. He was finally discharged,' and while tottering down the street one day was accosted by the black*soldiers and pushed off the sidewalk..■•' He remonstrated with them and they arrested him immediately. The sick man had another relapse, and again was sent to the hospital.* While there he felt that he was going to die, and, being a Catholic, enquired for a priest,.but was, told what • had been told to no one else to "Make your confession in hell," and after this poor old Mike died, dying with these words on his lips: "Boys, stay with the union,' and we have been staying with it ever since. Following this strike occurred a number of others with which I will not weary you, and this leads up to the Colorao labor war, culminating in that trial of which you have* all read so much. The men in a camp not previously union, had organized a union. The company had put in a detective named Gray. He informed the company of the leaders and on the Ilth of February nine of the members were Informed that there was no work for them. On the 14th of February all the men went on striko and on the 3rd of March the troops were ordered out, which was a bold step. There was no "occasion to bring them there." There had been no trouble, all quiet. On the 17th of Marcli 5000 miners of Cripple Creek went on strike in sympathy with their 654, fellow workers. In proceeding I want to explain-, that the Western Federation of Miners makes no agreements, no contracts nor any schedule with any company. When we make a wage scale ,we put it in the by-laws, and give the companies a copy of the bylaw. We do not believe in contracts and you men can-refuse to go into agreements with the operators. Two days later the troops were withdrawn from Colorado City. In the meantime the Citizens League had been prganized. A general strike was called and^on the 4th of November the troops weer sent, into Cripple Creek. ,Theer was no disturbance again, just one old man by the name of Stewart, who we have found but since was beaten by his wife with a frying pan. The troops committed petty7larceny and-'murder. While they'were in Cripple Creek there were strikes in other parts of the States. The troops were sent to Tellside. One night they went to the • homes of 90 different men. Comrade James told I, you of one instance in Nova Scotia, but this was .of 90 different men. —"Manyof- them—were"J"di-agged*"froiir the side of their wives through the snow and frozen' ice in their night clothes; they were shipped out and told never to return. Thirty five men THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HEAD OFFICE TORONTO ESTABLISHED 1867 \k ¥ B. E. WALKER, President ALEXANDER LAIRD, Gen. Manager. Paid-up Capital $10,000,000 Reserve Fund - 6,000,000 Branches throughout Canada, and in United States and England G0UirBT--BUSaDliB*SS /ST^^iSil^iTS.'ISlao. business. Sales notes will be cashed ov taken fov collection. R A N-S-TTKff-f RY MATT -*^m)Unts may be opened by mail and monies -U All Alii U Dl MAIL*) deposilod ov withdrawn in this way with, equal facility. ... H. W. TRENHOLME. Manager, Fernie. Every Housekeeper values the opportunity to save, Many a. penny may be saved by pur> chasing all your 'Pleat and Poultry at our market. OPYRIGHT <S]n*ing Lamb, Mutton, Pork nnd Rib Roasts to tempt* the appetite. Nowhere can you find such a variety to choose from. Your orders will be given our immediate attention. * P. Burns ■*& Co., Meat Merchants j The 41 Meat Market touted I Wholesale and Retail Butchers I .... * •. '■• .=— • Back to our Old Stand We beg to announce to our many customers that .we have removed to our old quarters next the Eank of Commerce pending the erectioncof our new building opposite the King Edward hotel. gmwmmimsxms^^ were arrested and charged with vagrancy. , All of them had money in theii" pockets. We hnd a restaurant where they could eat and number of thom had property. One of them, Henry Makle, was taken to a cesspool and told to clean it out which he refused ' to do. He was taken and handcuffed and held up to a telephone pole for four hours In a raging snowstorm. He also told of other cruelties perpetrated on' the poor miners. Tho troopers "wore sent into dlfforont places nnd told to break up tho strikes. The Cltlaens league did everything ln their powor to end tho striko. In Southern Utah and Colorado men wero lined up, sent out of tho places and told never to return or thoy would bo shot.. Their houses wero taken from thom and p-tven to scabs and their furnituro, otc., broken.'' Wo had tho strike well In hand ln Cripple Crook. We had a union storo nnd supplied all our mombors with food, otc, Romombor that you havo n co-oporatlvo storo, and you should all help to mnko It n succoss, nnd mako It ono of tho machines to fight tho cnpltnlists, nnd It will bo n aplondld thing for you nil to bo mombors. You havo nnotlior weapon of your own, which If you will tnko ndvnntnge of, you can mnku thu strongest weapon tlio workmen ever hnd, nnd thnt Is tho District Ledger, It do- servos ovon moro support than your hnll or storo. You should glvo It your most cordial and cnrneBt support, Kvory man who Ir n mombor of Andy Hamilton Tinsmith, and Plumber We can furnish you with estimates in anything in our line 25 tp 35 per cent. You will ' save by buying Clothing from us. Complete stock of Winter goods. Call and see us before you buy elsewhere, Sweaters, 75c, Wool Sox 3 pair 50c Pure Wool Underwear, suit $1.75 Flannel Shirts $1.25 each L llVUr- r~ I -*«*|| %J0 *_, -*^m^^_mm at et eryrw^t a tuftf ii m»» tt_wp ffl Iff MfTH sa*/ Yet you may cough tomorrow! Better be prepared for jt when it comes.. Ask your doctor about keeping Aycrs Cherry Pectoral in the house. Then when thc hard cold or cough first appears you have a doctor's medicine at hand. Your doctor's approval of its use will certainly set all doubt at rest. Do as he says. He knows. No alcohol in this cough medicine. JX. Aver Co., L>«<[HS. Robutt htillh It a (treat ufegu-vd »a*lntt itlatla of threat and luntf troubUfchot *MiutlMll6n will deitroy th* but ef health. Ask your doctor about kytf* Ptiu. governor iu tho right plnco who wna n union mnn, lloworH, who wna thon xherlff, or* unnlzod nn nrmy of doputloH of 1000, who woro compoBod of tho loweut (Irogu of docloty. Thono 1(100 woro organized, nnd It wns then tlmt tho Governor c'iiiuu out tuo uuuj<» mn\ 11,0 ifOlki; Thoso bravo 1000 deputies marched up to tho tup of null's HIII to capture tho mlncru enmp, mot tho troopfl nnd thon mnrched down ngnln. Wo won X.UK It'll i'l.XS U-Cv-A'UCA*. -.V.-v >ik**J'Ot»<l. W-v.V u.V-1 mod ngalnnt ur. * Thon followed thc Btrlko of thu lond mlnorn nt J/mdvillo In 1800, n Btrlko to prevent tho lowor* ins of wages from V to $2.K0 per dny. With tlio probnblo exception of conl mlnorn, tho lend mlnorn enRnj-'O In th* moat deadly work. the lend mlncH nrf full of un-jenic, which corneii nhooilriff out ns coon ne tho tunnel Ir driven in nbout 100 feet, and when thla ia inhaled by the men ' Are You Connected ? r\ «•* « ■->.•-•■* %* f e\ rY-K* ♦ * M* i** 4-*•**■>, Si**!,*** • %t a WW* r -v *mv UwliVt v*** w +*q •*••* •* iroxi Sic new sysU-si'} Now is ihe time io have connection* and wiring dono. We can savo you monoy. We have all styles and makes of fixtures motors and generators. See us at onco. Tho **|l-*».**" J. * *,.* M*.- •-* ■"• **^' - - • l " KEFOURY Nnxt to K.hIioii'h Ciiinly Hlon' BROS. NfiUtoN'milH'Mi 111.Id w till Vfi ■•*■•■* AAAW vice ehocrfully given. Depew, Macdonald & McLean Co. \ Limited Slectrieal Contractors ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ tho U. M. W, or A. Hhould tnko ll, mid nil of you men who nro fortilmi* cm nml ennnot rond ICiikIIhIi kIioiiM keep ImnuncrlnB nt your nfflci-rti until tlioy put n column or i>uk<* In your Inn- kuuko, Tho Cltlzenn' lenRun wnH componcd of lawyer*,, clerks, doctors nnd pro- ff-HHlnnnl m.»n, nn>n who rould not r*" mnln In Orlppln C.r«t'k iH hmirH If It wero not for tlm workltiK cIuhh. llt> then told the tnlu of thu nrrt'Ht of IiIh (-ornpiiiiioriN mid hlnihilf, The 8tunenberg Trial V, •** '*.*/L'.fv. avv'utAw \..i t,,,t,,,f, ,i '.-...ti, wo hnd never fcoii, In n town 1000 mllen nwny which wo li.id novur vli-.lt* ed," ho unlil. "All llio corporation*** w.M-o nKHliiHt un, nud evon Hie ll. H. rnnll wrm tide irnckfd while they rushed uh from Denver, Colorado, tn XXoIm, Mul.-.*. Tli-.' r-'ltt*',.*.'!' funi.!rli"d tho trnln tu-e nml we mnde ihe trip In fw/v<* hoiirff f<**=i iJ-.rtti fl.** "schtvliit" time. Arrived ni Holm: .*.■ weie Uilieii In the Hlnck Mnrln »o Dw Ktnte penl- | (•COI'linUeil ML J...... 1> Loans DROP IN MATTER On first claai butlnett and rail* dentlal property. AND TALK THE OVER WITH US Real Estate & Insurance THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C. OCTOBER 2 1909 ®fte M^itixi £&$** J1.00 a year iu advance. Address all communications to the' "Manager" District Ledger, Fernie B. C. Rates for advertising on application. Phone 48; Residence 9 W. S. STANLEY, Manager and Editor : * : ORGANIZED LABOR Tlie Canadian Alining Journal: The constantly increasing efforts of labor leaders in tlie direction of international confederation are pregnant with significance. - It requires no flight of the imagination to discern a settled design beneath the visit of prominent American labor-socialists to Europe. It is quite as'improbable that the incursion of the United Mine Workers of America into Canada arose from the unselfish * desire of certain demagogues to aid (he miners of the Dominion*:" Whatever the ostensible objective of the labor propaganda maybe, its ultimate purpose "is the widest and closest possible inter-union of labor societies. And in this aim. per se. there is little to condemn. Individuals and societies alike,'who strive to ameliorate tlie conditions of human life, are deserving of praise iind sympathy. But it is a patent l'iict that tlie majority of labor leaders on this continent are demagogues, imbued with the dogmata of a crude form' of socialism, which is in reality a variant ..of anarchism modified by opportunism aiid illiteracy. To demagoguery. i'or instance, and to deinagoguery alone, is to lie attributed last week'**! episode in a coal mining district in the United ..States. Here a strike was' imminent because of the proposed introduction of safety explosives, Thli incredible' folly of the. miners in opposing a measure calculated solely to reduce the risks under which their daily work'is performed, is due, of course, to" ignorant prejudice. . Hut their leaders, often profoundly ignorant themselves, foster and encourage the ignorance, prejudice, and passions of their followers'. Anyone who will lake 'the trouble to read the official utterances of. labor per- 'iodieals—and IhcU. LM. \V. A. Journal is an outstanding example—cannot but admit the justice of this indictment. As a general propostion, il is true'that the leaders of mining labor are antagonistic to the introduction of regulations, devices, and methods that' arc calculated to prevent loss of life/This is especially true of coal mining. •■ In Great Britain a temporizing government has pandered consistently to the most radical section of labor socialists. Whilst the, militarism of Ger- ' many can hold revolutionary tendencies in check, in Great Britain no, such corrective-is either poss- TTlTle~oralesira I> l o. "Great BYi"tain7~iTncl~all Angles Saxon countries, must depend primarily upon the controlling influence of educated public opinion. Now. since mining labor is highly organi/.ed. there is present an essential need that operators and owners organize. But this organization iiiiist not be called into being us a corporate entity hostile to labor bodies. On such a foundation succ.es.-. would never'lie worth attaining. The basic problem is not one of warfare, but of co-ooeraiion— co-operation, national and international as between - mine owners first, and then as between owners'and labor. ' The first, step in this desired consummation must be local and national union of mine owners or operators. Never was the need so apparent as it 'is in Canada today. Indeed, ihe value of mining invest inputs depends more tpday upon labor conditions ' than ever before; and no othei- factor is so uneer- lain. Jlenee, if only,as a business precaution, it is incumbent upon mine owners to gel together mid • slay together. Only by imilunl I rust and concert- • ed action can mine owners hope lo gunrd their interests adequately. And only liy temperate nieth- • ods, wise forbearance, and the dissemination ol' '* right knowledge can Ihe confidence' of organized ' lalior be won, Meanwhile it is perl incut to observe that Canadian niiiie owners will never have as fair an opportunity of organizing as is offered lliem by the present conditions." Tlie foregoing is a clear example of class eon* scioiisncss among Ihe nuisler class, and may be profitably studied by those of the workers wlio still have the '"identity of interests" bee in tlieir btui- lll'IS. It is also an example of the means'used by the masters, to weaken the labor organizations, and while ostensibly showing a friendly attitude, are ever'ready to stab them in "the back, and \yliile finding little to condemn in a niovement, the ultimate object of which is the closest possible ihter- union of labor societies, they still make a covert thrust at the movement through its leaders, ' ■ by stating that the majority of them are demagogues, imbued with the dogmata of Socialism, which is in reality, a variant of anarchism, modified by oppor- ism aud illiteracy. ■-' AYe agree that there are demagogues ih the labor movement, but instead of being imbued with Socialism, the spirit of eo-opoeration in ownership as well*as production, they, at the bidding of the masters'; issue lengthy epistles against it. just as amusing to those who understand'the position of the producer and the" master under capitalism as the article printed above, either an example of woeful ignorance, or worse still, an attempt to keep intact that much talked of delusion of the workers.* "capital and labor's identity of interests" foi* the purpose of persuading a long suffering working- class to help **, uphold a system that permits of the master,'who,produces nothing, taking and holding'all Unit labor produces. The statement that the miners, and especially the coal miners, are antagonistic to the introduction of regulations, devices and methods to prevent loss of life, will'be branded immediately by -the workers as a deliberate lie. and an attempt to foist onto the workers, who lose their lives in following such hazardous occupations, the responsibility that belongs to the profit hungry dollar hunting, labor skinning corporations. The example quoted shows again the lying and deceit practiced to gain their ends, when they state that a strike was imminent because of the introduction of safety explosives. • ■ Any person who understands the situation in District No.*: 5 ,U. M. W.- of A. knows that it was tlie considerable reduction of wages embodied in the new order, that was the cause of the trouble, and not the introduction of safety precautions, as * X - [, they would have us believe. - - . ' The I\ W. 'A. should congratulate themselves on being willing tools of the master class, as shown by passing resolutions favoring greater naval and military organization,-when we consider the statement that "tlie militarism of Germany can hold revolutionary tendencies in check," but we do not take it for granted that in Great Britain any such corrective is either possible or desirable'. * It is very desirable to,the masters that the workers should develop the telescopic eye so that they may. see what-is happening in other countries, but be blind/to happenings under their noses. . We do not think the members of the Tj: M..W. of A. in Nova Scotia will have any doubt about the military, and will be convinced that the main object JiLJiaving ■LLamlitarv_QrganizatiouJs_tliat..thc*y_mav_ NOTICE NOTICE .is^ hereby', given that thirty (30) days\after date I Intend to apply to the Hon. phlef . Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for Coal1 and Petroleum on the following described lands . situate in South E, Kootenay, British Columbia, Block 4593, commencing at a post planted at or nearvl mile east of the 31st mile post of the present C. P. R- surveyed line and being the south east corner of^A. S. Farquharson's claims; Thence running west 80 chains', Thence running north 80 chains; Thence running east 80 chains; Thence running south 80 chains to a point of commencement, making 640 acres more or less. Located this 1st- day of September, 1909. .„ NAT BABCOCK, Agent, A.S.FARQUHARSON, Locator J. RAVEN, Witness . EVERYBODY ENJOYS - Thence running east 80 chains; .Thence .running south 80 chains * to' a point of commencement, making. 640 acres more "or less. -' \, - • Located,this 3rd day of September, 1909. '.■••.-':.''" NAT BABCOCK; Agent, .4, NAT BABCOOK, Locator J. RAVEN, Witness ~ * • . , , Sold only in sealed lead packets' At all grocers- 40c, 50c and 60c per pound' TEA • Located this 2nd day of September, 1909.7 ', , • NAT BABCOCK, Agent, •■-• P.A.FARQUHARSON, Locator J.' .RAVEN, Witness' NOTICE ■ NOTICE is hereby given that thirty (30) days after dato I intend to apply to the Hon. Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for Coal and Petroleum on the following described lands " situate in South E. Kootenay, British Columbia, Block 4593, commencing at a post planted at or near 3.miles east of 30 mile post of the present C. P. R. surveyed line and being the. north east corner of Edmond Boisjoli's claim; - % Thence running south 80 chains .Thence running west-80 chains;.- Thence running north 80 chains; , Thence running east 80 chains; to a point of commencement, making 640 acres more or less. , Located this 2nd day of September, 1909. . * ' ■ -. .*.'■• NAT* BABCOCK, Agent, EDMOND BOISJOLI, Locator J. RAVEN,, Witness.. NOTICE be used in the subjugating of the struggling workers. ' . • "■ *• ■■ We should, as a, class conscious working class, firmly set our faces-against militarism; and nip. in the bud .any patriotic; impulse that may arise amongst us, knowing full well that the object of the masters in encouraging patriotism is that they may have an army of paid murderers who' are willing when called upon to shoot down the members of their own class, the proletariat. / The advice to the coal corporation that they should organize seems 1o be entirely supevfluouf-f. as they are already more strongly organized.than are the'mine workers, but the mine workers.could profitably take this advice, and effect, not only a closer organization of all mine workers,, but also of all workers. , We can readily soc how much tlie mine owners should tolerafe tlie labor unions: wo realize .that it.is to their best commercial interests lo tolerate them just so far that they-may be ablo to get the workers to sign time fontracts or agreements, and bind themselves under any circu'innlances not to cause any trouble for varying periods of time, so that they have a guarantee Unit their mines will continue to operate, but ihey are not prepared to let lalior get thai whicli rightly .belongs to it, nor even in the industrial warfare, to let labor organizations have a free hand to lake advantage of favor* able eircimistances, the saine as they do themselves. On the whole it is a good sign when we see such vituperoiis articles, that llio workci/s are awakening to their real interests, and the consummation of tin* Marxian slogan may not be so far distant. "Workers of tlii! world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world to gain." NOTICE is hereby given that thirty (30) days after date I intend to apply to the Hon. Chief Commissioner of Lands aiid Works for a license to prospect for Coal and Petroleum on the following described lands situate in South E. Kootenay, British Columbia, Block 4593, commencing at a post planted at or near 4 miles east of 27 mile post of the .present C. P. R. surveyed line and being the north west corner of P. A. Farquharson claim; Thence running east 80 chains; Thence running south 80 chains ' Thence running .west 80 chains; -Thence running north 80 chains;- to a point of commencement, making 640 acres more or less. =^=*-Located=this=3rd*=-day4=of=Sei)tember= 1909. NAT BABCOCK, Agent, P.A.FARQUHARSON, Locator J. RAVEN, Witness. * NOTICE NOTICE is herebyf given that thirty (30) days after date I intend to apply to the Hon. Chief' Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for Coal and Petroleum on the following described lands situate In South E. Kootenay, British Columbia, Block 4593, commencing at a post planted at or near 3 miles east of 30 mjlc post of the present C. P. R. surveyed line and being, the north west corner of Nat Babcock'claim; . . , Thence running south 80 chains Thence running east 80 chains; ' Thence running north 80 chains; Thence running west 80 chains; to a point of commencement, making 640 acres more or less. located this 2nd day of September, 1909. NAT BABCOCK, Agent, NAT BABCOCK, Locator J; RAVEN, Witness ; ' NOTICE... NOTICE is hereby given that thirty (30) days after date I Intend to apply to the Hon. Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to prospect for Coal nnd Petroleum on the following described lands situate in South E. Kootenay, British Columbia, Block. 4593, commencing at a post planted at or near the 28 mile post of tho present C.;P. R*|tyirveyed line and being the north* w'^t'' corner of Nat Babcock claim; : * Thonce running oast 80 chains; Thonco running south 80 chains Thonco running wost 80 chains; Thonco running north 80 chains; to a.point of eommoncomont, ranking 040 acros moro or loss. Located this 2nd day of September 1909. ' NAT BABCOCK, Agont, NAT BABCOCK, Locator J. RAVEN. Witness Fernie Opera House G. L, TASCHEREAU, MANAGER Haywood Glass Struggle (('on,luiled from \mv,e >'ti KMlllliry illul llicl'i' pllU'l'il III (lie roil* (li'iiini'il <-<*lln with tin* di-nlli wai«li ou l-inird over i|s, nml lhi* nt ii timo wlu-u Ui* liad not "V.'ii i'.-.i-l*.nl tiiu iiifliiii- Inury lie-iii-iiiK- ThfiV were hIx im-IIh In iln- place In wlilcji w<- were confined. I "tTiipli'il Uic tirnt, n man since hum;, the H'M-ond, l-vtilhoiic ihe third, u cni/.y mtiii the fourth, niul u iiiiui wor vim' ll life «e|iti<nce Will III lilt* Hlxlh. Later we were taken lo another 'ill! Ill Alii! MlllIU) •All-'.le XX,' XXI'.LI' I'Oiifliii.il in a Kleel rnKe In a hidlii it- mem i*«'»m Here xxn were allowed to Hleep liiit Iii flu* lilnhn Hindi penitentiary our food: wan doped, our Hleep 1 ...,1 .t l,.,1f l,mn*li. Itilervi-I.i In* ttie Ktiuiihi who ciinie a limit mid flushed n llfiht lu our faceo und -wry pfforl I'OHHlble wiih miiilo to wear uh out," What a Detective It The iletectlveH whom In.' nociim-d of "trumping up Dw falm- ••vldonc-u nifiiiriHi iih," f-nnie In for Htronjf con- demniitloii. "Do you know whnt a do- tfitlvf- in?" he thundered. "I do nnd I nm ftoliu! tn tell you. nnd I naiy hopn there U h deceive In thin audience to listen to tiu* so that lio will know the IowchI, nieiuii'Kl, most dt-Hplcnlilc* thing tlmt either ereepH or eniwln, (Appliiumt.) lie will ko into Hie union!''""'j'. the h,iHlm*HH offlee, the !,«„„. or ,..»-< [^ „ ,„ Where elHe mill live, bleed llllll thrive* . . ,. on Ihe I rouble nf IiIh own iiiiihlilK. I lei ..„' ... Ih Hi iiiukko! of Ids own con'u n. l! ' >»' Kov.-i*miu*nt hml hIiico held n lell •.mi ihitt the I.Iiik and pilnre of j <*oinmln**loii Inlo th- blowlni? up of tlw deteeilveh were burn nu nool.ed HtnreH, etc, during tlmt strike, ntul know the (llffer.'iu'o. You would not he nhle io *•*<■<■ thein with n micron- Tlmt'rt whnt I think of n do* anil (here Ih only nun nml) Ih Ihe mnn who hln'H that I heir own mot hem Iuul lo break their ]vuv, to emihle (hum to Hn In bed only Iiihi hcnhIoii it hill whh piiHHed re* ImbuiHliiK llio'W. V. of M, lo the ex- Hli-uluht. I could lake Ihe IhmuIh and ,,,,„ of -fdo.oon fur the ilnmnge they hoiiIh uf 10.0011 ili-u-uilvoH and put nil; r„(.,.|VW, „, „,„ hniI1,H of thll ,BW „,„, nl' them Itis-dde the littlo hollow tlmt mnn ihroiiKh every hair iu a humitul Id'iiu* h lieiul, unit tl I hliooli mat Iiim- NOTICE NOTICK Is horoby glvon that thirty (30) days nftor ditto I Intend to apply to tlio Hon. Chlof Commissioner of LnndH and Works for a license to proo- poet for Conl and Potroloum on the following doHcrlhod InndH Hltunto in South 12. Kootonay, British Columbln, Block 4.'0:i, commencing nt a punt plnntod nt or near 4 ihIIoh ortHl of 27 milo post of tho proHCiit C, I». H. surveyed lino nnd holm; tho houIIi woj-it cornor of 1\ A. Kiirqiihai'Hon clnlm; Thonco running ciihI 80 chnliiH; Thonco miming north 80 cIiiiIiih; Tlionco running wimt 80 chnlnn; Thenco running houIIi 80 clmltm to a point of conunonciMiient, nml'liin (110 ados moro or Iohr. Locntod I IiIh 3rd dny of September, lOOH. NAT HAIICOCK, Agont, P.A.WAIIQUHAIWON, I/icntor J. IIAVHN, WltnoHB order peoplo, nr the C'ltlzriifl longuo iih I ' J Wt,: •l,il in M.'jicJu-rhiu Li ui'fifi] U'iwj hhi Vou cnulil pour them ou', on a r.>*i|.. r! heaiern, If they were membeiK of Ihe cent mid lho Hktu of n blueberry woul1 it. m. W. of A., to Htnnd by tlmt or- cover them,, Tlmy rnuM phy tag on the Hiirfn-.c of Hint cent nm*. novor mm nerosH ench other In n tlmA-mml v. ;■■••• If Ihe coyote nui acror.H llio <*/ii"*.**. of n iletertlvn on tho prnlwtt.H Iir* would run ten milos around to nvold lt imi tlio huzznrdfl would fly hhh v.hon lh. y cnmo to It, Let mo tell you tnat vlicn n iluteotlvi' dloH ho go-'H ho low tluu ho hnH to get ii ladder to climb up Into hell. "Yon may say thero nro good de- t.Tiivoft. You ran take Iln* Rood poliiitt gnnlz'itlnu nnd mnko It n splendid hiic* reHH, nnd thon unlto pollllcnlly nnd •i i u,i i tti it. „■.*.(•-*... M.1.-V t|lOk*>'lk>l,lhkil -life |^'.^-.-b**'Mt-tt.,'J»i. t,t.--J.-. n1-.^ icseniR the working claKB, nnd you can do for yoiirHcJveH nnd tho working cIiihh In Ronoral what you havo dono for uh. lio ri-Mimed hlft »ent nnild great appInuHO. Orcnnlwr T, K. Jnmen nl thin |imr* ture rcqucBtod ench man to keop from fhe '.".-.ne of nation In Novn Srotln, of nil tho dotoctlvoH In Dw wotlil andjM,ll'J' «"« «»»«• "'»•' o{ Ir.iorn*lloraI put them on the -mail <-nd of a hor*! Vlrn-lTcildont McCuIIourIi. Tho flelit what I think of him. A dntertlve Is tiet'H ntlnjf and tho hornrt wuttld not (In Nova Scotia la oara. To-Night Barrett & Barbour A pleasing Repertoire of Playlets Married I*ife A laugh and grow fat coinedy*.- We're so happy, we're miserable Retribution Taken from the emotional drama of East.Lynri, Lady Isabell in her parting with Francis Levi- son. 'She is found by her Uncle NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given, that thirty (SO)-idays after date I intend to apply to tho Hon. Chief. Commissioner of Lands and Works for a license to pros peijt for Conl and Petroleum on the following described lands situate in South 13. Kootenay, British Columbia, Block 4593, commencing at a post planted at or near 4 miles east of 27 mile post of tho present C P. R. surveyed line and being the Tenth oust corner of Nat Babcock claim; Thence running west 80 chains;' Thence running north 80 chains; , FERNIE CONSTRUCTION CO. CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS Business- Blocks, Churches Schools, and heavy work a ,- specialty P.O. BOX 153 FERNIE B.C. Agents for Kdmonton Pressed Brick and Hand, Point Common ■ and Preasad Hrick. Estimates' furnished free Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Co., Ltd. | Beer and Porter Lord>Mc5everii,.who lulls her of her dying child, Moving Pictures 1 Two Performances 8 & 9 Prices 15c and 25c. | Bottled Goods a Specialty | M. A. Kastner INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Fire! Fire! Fire! The anniversary of tho great fire of August 1, 1008, is'drawing near. .Let us draw your attention to the fact that we represent 11 financially strong, old established and well known Board l**ire[ Insurance companies, also agent for the Sun Life Insurance Company of Canada Wa have several snaps in Business and Residential Property0 * in different parts ol' the city Agent New Oliver Typewriter Machine given out on trial \ No Charge I 9 i Lumbepmerand-Rancheps We wish to call your, attention to our new and complete stock of: Heating Stoves, for coal or.wood; 'Horse Blankets; Camp Boarding House Utensils; Hardware and Harness; Carriages and Wagons and Farm Implements. . The above lines are all direct from the manufacturers and the. prices are right. - J. M. AGNEW & CO. ELKO, B. C. * -great? lor. NOTICE NOTIC'li* is hereby glvon tlmt thirty *,.*)UJ dnyH utter iiutu I iniuiuf to apply to tho lion. Chief ConuiilBsloiicr * of I-ands nnd Works for a license to prospect, for Conl nnd Petroleum on llio rollowliiK doHcrllicd InndH Hltunto In tttiuni iu, Hoou'imy, Mrimti Coluintiiii, lllock V,'j'i, eommonclnR nt a post plnntod at or nonr A miles enRt of 30 milo poHl of thn present C. I', lt, surveyed lino, nnd IicIiik tha north '.vest cornor of P. A. Farquhamon claim; Thcni-v- rnnnlnrr hoiiHi SO rhnln» Thenco running cant 80 chain*; Thenr-*? running north 80 cholnn; Thence runnln**; wost -SO clialna; to a point of commencement, making 040 aero more or Icm, COmiWt, 19M. »Y THC HEW YORK tVEMNO mXCMt (MEW YOW HEWLD C03. »■ «««• to***- Kiwt mt 2- -*> * & i r k 17 '•/Ir* The Official Organ of District No. 18, U. M. W. of A. Fernie, B. C, O ctobcr 2nd, 1909 y ** * * ********************* "'."■ i* -..'■* ""'.:"' *'•* | News From the Camps I -v ^:. •• ■ .''••" '• - . •• * From our•- own Correspondents * ■ i... ■ ...:......:...'... .' ' ' s- ^yl •kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk' * COAL CREEK * ', *kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk-kk-Xkrkki-Kkk ■The harvest "home, which .was announced to be held In the Methodist church on Sunday.September 19, and which was postponed on account of the death, and'burial of the late, .Mansell Rees, will talie place,on Sunday first. There will be no services in the .Presbyterian church ou that day so that all may be free to attend tho harvest home services. All are cordially invited. \ Interesting and profitable services are expected. There was no work for the afternoon shift at No. 1 mine on Saturday last through the hoist breaking down. Mr. and .Mrs, .lolm Smith (uncle) arrived here on Tuesday lflght from the old country. . ; Mr. and-Mrs. Daniel" Campbell left here on Wednesday for Nanaimo. ' President Powell and thc members of the' district board were' in Coal Creek this week. They are making ( an Inspection of the mines aiid !it is understood that an effort is being put forth to arrive at a price for No. 1 north. ■ * Born on Saturday September 25th, lo Mr. iind Mrs. James Fawley, French Camp, a daughter. v Born, on -Saturday September 25th to Mr. and Mrs. Ste.ve Morris, . a * daughter. ,-..'- .The Coal Creek ladies aid in connection with the Methodist church aro 0 very busy these days, though small in numbers, and they get through"a large amount of work; They are now trying to organize a bazaar by the 23rd of November with the object of rais- . ing,funds"to add two more rooms to the minister's house. The - present two-rooms were quite sufficient, for ; a bachelor minister, but are .inadequate for one with a wife and'child. The proposed alterations will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of* $400,* aM^HenFdI^^ia~iiave~Womisell"'to" bound for almost forty minutes teaching the people that. Jesus Christ is a living reality, and that His kingdom on earth is greater today than ever before in the history of the Christian church. . The crowded church was a manifestation of. the people's esteem for Mr. Grant. The managing board take this opportunity.of thanking Mr. Grant for coming to conduct the services and also those members of his choir who accompanied him and assisted in making the, service still more enjoyable. ' 1 . -■ . i It affords us much pleasure to report that Mr.- Scott, has almost'fully recovered from his painful illness, and to see his stately form'and. smiling face once more in our streets (?) and Ih our homes, * Rev. J. 11. Martin, our late Presbyterian missionary, has returned to pursue his studies at Knox -.college, in. Toronto. As yet there is nothing definite to publish as to who will be his successor or when he will arrive-Vin this place. Tho output at the mines continues to increase. On AVednesday 1339. cars John, who has been suffering foj; some time. ,.;.,' -•' ■■ it is rumored around town that certain members of the board of trade are opposed to the incorporation of the town'of Coleman. The .people of Coleman are not made 'of.the"klnd of stuff that snivel at the,feet.of one or two men, and, the town tyill shortly b'e incorporated because the people say it shall. 7 • -.-Sam Turner who*has;been staying in Coleman for ■ about a. month, has gone to work'at Frank. ; President Powell and Qrganizer T. James arrived in town last Friday: Powell has been rushing around doing good work. He and Brovey have HILLCREST aik. interviewed a great many of the Slavs who have not yet joined the U. M. AY. of A. He reports them all with the exception of one or two like Kr'ago or Bulko, on the point, of coming back to the old union. Behold! The mighty Bulko hath vanished! , We don't know where but we don't expect him to return.. His all Canadian ' Miners Union ' is about broken, hnd we would be pleased to have a committee appointed with "an independent chairman"-thrown In, to ascertain and make report, io the public of the benefits that'Miave accrued to those who loft the Uni?ed Mine Workers and joined the Bulko union." ..We would suggest the "coining new president" as Independent chairman, were dumped on the tipple with a \ * President Powell while he has been tonnage of 1783 tons. This is theji,-, Coleman has done some good work, best, day's output since the time of thej besides interviewing the Slavs iii their big-bump some fourteen months ago'owll i10mes he spoke to them in any now.' . ' - " ,-•• . . ,fold spot, he could find them. On Mon- Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart "return-; day- he held a meeting along with ed from their honeymoon on Sunday i Brovev on the hill behind Slav town, ■Mr; Stewart resumed his,: No. 5 mine on Tuesday mor-• Mr. and Mrs. Burrows of the Hillcrest hotel.met with-an accident Saturday morning, while driving * home from Coleman. The horse ran away on the slide aiid threw both of the occupants out of the buggy. Fortunately neither of them was-seriously hurt and at .present are progressing favorably. '• .'pi ) - ' Mr. Percy Porter went to'Coleman on Saturday to referee a boxing contest there. . ... *. '.- Mr. and Mrs. C. P Hill are expected back this week from a .visit to several of the eastern cities, and the citizens are* looking forward to the arrival, ,as it is rumored that Mr. Hill has taken great interest in the.sanitation-of the eastern towns," and the people of this town think that they will derive some benefits in that line when he,, comes back. Sanitary conditions in Hillcrest can stand quite-a lot of" improvement at present. The largest consignment of coal that was ever shipped out of Hillcrest was realized-* last .Monday when the. company shipped 1080 tons of coal, thus speaking well of the management of ,the mine, * ' * Mr. George Martin met with a slight accident, a few days, ago but he will be able to resume.his work again in a few days, Dr. Allan Ross of Buffalo, N. Y., has been appointed by Dr. Malcolmson to take" charge of the Hillcrest camp. The appointment has1 been most satisfactory ancl the doctor is getting on splendidly with the peoplo. '"" ' Mr. W. Taylor late of Coal'Creek, is building a fine addition to his boarding house here, and it is near comple tion. Mr., and'Mrs. Taylor are accustomed to this .line of business as they "Mrs. Frank TCarp and family arrived here from Fernie and. are going to raa'.'fi. their home here. , ' Mik'e.banaher came back here from Seattle this week. ' The hoys here are, wondering wlv-if is the matter with Guthro these days, that he is not trying to enlighten the boys on the Socialist doctrine, and especially the new comers to town. ■ Mr. D. It. McDonald blew in ' here last week'from Hosmer and, is now doing carpenter work on the new wash house. Tom Harrison from Frank paid us a visit last Sunday. <• . > A singing competition look place at Hillcrest. one night last week in which J. Turnbull of Frank acted as the judge and the prize was won*, by .Mr. Chas. Sehdeder. Andy Waugh and several others from Frank took part in the competition. Mr. Turnbull proved himself capable as an adjudicator and will be, welcomed again here in the'same capacity. Mr. Andy Good of Crow's Nest made a flying visit to Hlllyest along with J. .Macdonald of Frank. __ The , boys her.e hope they come again and stay with us for a. whole, week thc next lime, . ~ v Imperial Bank of Canada HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO Capital Authorized $10,000,000 - Capital Paid Up ... 7 .$5,000,000 * Reserve $5,000,000 D: R. WILKIE, President HON. ROBT JAFFRAY, Vice-Pres. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA , Arrowhead, Cronbrook, Fernie, Golden, Kamloops, Michel, Myie, Nelson Revelstoke, Vancouver and Victoria. , SAVINGS DEPARTMENT . t; Interest allowed on deposits at current rate from date of deposit. FERNIE BRANCH GEO. I. B. BELL, Manager evening, duties at •*I**S* - '"Ihave-'promised to meet the U. M. W.- "A painful'sensatlon was caused on ' officials here in dobnte' on Uw propo- Sunday last by the report of the sud-.js-*tjou aiong AViili Pow*jM. ; <-.*toB.*.her [things-are favorable for a complete turning over from th'e Bulko to the .U.' den death of Carmlchael McKay, the well; known fire^ boss at No. 1 raine.- Fortunatoly the" roport. proved, untrue' but. upon enquiry, we found that the person who first gave the.report, gave what he. believed to be the truth. Mr.McKay went to bed apparently in good health about 11 p.m.. About j 2.30 Mrs.' AIcNay awoke and found her husband sitting on the bed side. She asked him what was the matter-and which was attended by about, seventy > conducted similar places in Coal Creek Slavs and Polanders. The, leaders] and Fernie. - „ . Mr. Alex. McLeod went up to Calgary recently on business. Fred Porter, brother of Mr. Percy Porter, . Hillcrest hotel, arrived here fom Springhiil, Nova Scotia, during the week. " '.-,.■■ at least'raise $100 of'this amount. They •hope to stock the bazaar with all kinds of useful articles such as aprons, skirts f,or girls, pinafores, white "pinafores suitable for "Christmas presents bed linen, etc, also all sorts of baby linen for which there ought to be a big demand. We never remember a bazaar here before and we, hope that the.efforts of the ladles will bo crowned with success. The ladles hold sowing meetings once a week, on Wednesdays at 2 p.m., lea is served at 3.30 ■ for which a* small charge of ten' cents ia made, the procoeds to go to the bazaar ', fund. Gentlemen are cordially Invited to tea at Mrs, Mawson's, 224 Morrlsey cottages to whom gifts of articles suitable for the bazaar or donations toward tho same ma); bo sont. • A special train left hero on 'Sunday aftornoon last nt 1,30 p.m. for Fornie In connection with Haywood's meeting, Quito a largo crowd went with lt. and wore dellRhtert with what I hoy heard. Haywood Is a very powerful speaker who illiiHtrntos IiIh arguments In a simple, clenr imd coitvlnclng man-* nor, which tho hlgfiost dull head can grasp, Wo hope the sceil he'has sown will bring forth good fr"l* •■» tl10 "0,IV future. Tho road lending up to tlio houses on tho north sldo of tlio Creek Iiiih now boon lighted from bottom to lop, nn<l tho llghls aro a docldod Improvement,' and reflect ureal credit on tho company. A Utile levelling up of lho footpath now und we will quit urylni*, about lt. Tlio contract for the now club Ih out for (onilerH and iih soon n« lot worlc will bo niHlioil, Whon down ui the Luiln'i'i* offlco, u fow dnyH iiko tho writer of thono hoIdh wi\h fihown tlio first forty pw-jph of ProKi-cHHlvo Fornio. The work Ih nvorylhlng 'tlmt Uio oilllor linn beon claiming for ll. Thero Ih ii very flno hlHtory of tlm IVntilo flro written hy thoso w)io won* IlirouRh It and know what It wuh like. It Ih bountifully print od and tlw photo n-proiliii'llmiH urn Hplonilld. If llm root of thn work In (H|iinl lo llio firm forty tlion It Ih tho blKROBt fifty ceiiU worth of liter* niiirn ovor will mil of Uioho part ft. Uot your ordor In onrly. Annlvorsury mirvluuH woro hold In the* Pvf,'.,'"'t<,r'*1'' Htnveti nt Priill Pt'onlc on Ri.ndiiy Dw Wh InHt Ow'i'p to tlm tllW'HH of our fmtnomod MothodlHt mlnlHlor, who wnH to officiate nt tho mornlim Hen-loo, Mr. Walter Joycu kindly coniiontod to tnko IiIh plnco, -intl ronrtimtPrt the nr»rvlrp In a manner which wan biul'ly nppreclntoil by tho congregation. In Uio ovoning tho church Ivan flllt'd to Ut utmost Hontlng capnclty to llmon lo Rov. Mr. Grant of Kornlo.' Ho took liln toxt In Matthew Chapter. 10, and versoB 15 nnd 16. lio Halt!) unto them Hut whom nny y« that I urn? And -Simon Potor answered and aald Thou am tho Chrltt. Ihfi Won of tho hiving Ood.' On this subject he held his largo congregation spoil got no l-eplyr^SlrTMcNa^llieirgoroh"- to his feet and his wife-again asked him what was.the matter; this time he replied saying: I'don't know, Lizzie, there..is something wrong*,with, me.,- Immediately turning around he: fell j with a thud to the floor, his head hitting the edge of a box while falling. Mrs..McNay, without dressing ran to the nearest neighbor, Mr. .lack Gray, who immediately returned to the house with her. Mr. Gray found her husband in a state of unconsciousness and really believed lilm to be dead. Mr, Gray's brother who had* now,.arrived was sent, for tiie doctor. He' did not know whoro ho lived and had, to inquire of the night watchman in the mine yard, to whom ho also told his businoss hence the report, spreading so rapidly. " Mr. McNay lay unconscious for ovor an hour, and when, ho commenced to breathe In regular lnannof he seemed to be In convulsions. However he soon camo' around nnd wont to bed ngnln, Whilo ho was naturally n littlo sick nftor the attack ho lm* provpd so quickly that anyone neelng him sitting down at IiIh door In thc ovoning would never lmvo guessed ho lind,passed through ho serious a time n fow hours before. Work has now eommoiu-od in oar- nest, on tho new Htoro for the Trites- Wood Co. Tlio contrnclorH nro Mobbi-h. IJooldiout and DiivIb. Thoy expect, to have tho roof on hy noxt wook end aiid tho building completed hy tlio eiiil-of the present month, "Mr. John Combo Iiiih boon appoint od to tlio position of 11 me keeper ut No. ii mine, mieeomllnK' Mi'* ThoihuH Johob (roHlKim'il). Mr* FlnluyHon, u new domuv, Hiiciii'oilH Mr. Combo iih timo keepm' ut No. !- mine. l'rof. V, V. Cooper Iiiih JtiHt conclud o o o o 0_ <> t- o o IS M.' \V. Union.' On Monday night without even stopping to eat President Powell spoke to about'one hundred, men on conditions in Coleman and also '*gaVe a graphic description of affairs in Edmonton district. He told of the wash houses without water, windows of doors, of ■how_the_Iaw_calls.lorla_wasIi_hQ.usfi_f_Qr_ twenty men, and that the companies to avoid the law just keen below that number. ■ He pointed out. that there j V were mines with a single shaft, not" "V many fmilos from the legislative halls. V of Alberta', and many men will recall V the sad accident that occurred in that district three or four years ago through a mine shaft of this description taking fire, - He showed how thja. inspectors j were mere puppets instead of mer with'a/grave duty to perform, What we want is [inspectors appointed by the men who have to wash their hides in dirty troughs and have to face tho foul air and other, dangers of the mine, and only then can we get men whom wo can truBt, to do their duty. The houso of Paul Ofner wns the scene' of fostlvity last Saturday evening, the occasion being the christening of young Paul, Mr. Murray of the Constitutional •. church "officiating. After the ceremony, was over the tables were spread with all tho eatables'and refreshmenth the west produces. After tho feast Mr. Ofner. furnished Borne music ami Mr. Potoff set the bnll a rolling with n dnncc. Aftor considerable diversion ln the way of music und other things Mr. Powoll, who wns Hitting very quietly, thlnking.no doubt of tho Slav union, wns culled upon-. He decided afl IiIh portion lo give n recitation ontltled The Madman's Drive. Any who hnvo not booh the host actors of lho day ought to hoo nnd hear Powell give this—-nuf Biild. 81 ovo WiiHHlk, who wuh hurl about two wools* ago, Ik now out of the hos* pllnl nnd will bo around again In n few dnys. Mi'H. Hrovoy Iiiih boon Hpoiidliig n few dnyH In Colomnn, , Lust week we said that I lie Coloman • GEO, BARTON • j EMPRESS TRANSFER | {Draying j A Furniture Moving a Specialty | • I A '.-■ WOOD OF ALL KINDS § WO 5 f Leave Orders with W. Keay 5 | - ' @ Z PHONE 78 A of Canada Head Office: TORONTO ,8 King Street West ^'♦♦♦♦^♦♦♦♦.•^♦^^♦♦-^♦♦♦♦♦^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^ NEW PIANO PARLORS Will beopened in, the Miners Union Opera House Block on,Monday "O ct o b e r~r. : '—'" . ■ ~^ ■ ,** o . ■ Heintzman & Co. Pianos Canada,'s[ Most Famous Instrument ; The name doee.. not make the piano, but the piano makes the name. You will readily understand this when you see, hear and examine the different styles of pianos now on exhibition in my new store. Open evenings. * , . ti . , M. J/Villert Elley ' Dist. Mgr. Fernie O O o o o ir •O o o o •0 o o o o s Money may be safely sent abroad, to any part of the (world, through the British or , Foreign Correspondents of the Home Bank. The National Bank of Scotland, London, Eng. ' The National Park Bank -. New York The Merchants Loan & Trust Co Chicago The Shawmut National Bank Boston The Home Savings Bank Detroit' •' Tae Union Bank ot Australia Melbourne James Mason General Mannger W. ,C. B. Manson ^Manager, Fernie ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•^♦♦♦♦♦-^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^^ Our First Display of Fall Millinery will take place on Friday and Saturday Next -Week We are showing some of the latest novelties of Paris and New York. Watch for our Grand Opening in our new store in , Henderson block at an early date The MISSES EULER unity 1 od ii moHl InH-TUHllim und limlruellvo|boyH were Kfl"R '« "Mlrhnl li folch tho cup bnck, und so thoy did, Tho roHiilt uh Ih now, woll known, wiih two KonlH to ono In (nvor of Colomnn, Tho HcoroAvniild.litivo lii***n moro but limy did not wnnt to mnlu* Dw Frank lonm Rorlt-H of lofilurt'H In llm Coal Crook MolhodlHt eliurcli. Iln Ih nn nxcull* out oiitortiiliKM- niul nn orator of no inonn cnlllnv. IIIh loeturoH nro of- n blub (Mluciillonul Htaniliiril und cannot fnll to uccomiillHli nnd ImmenHurubl*' feci too hnd nmount of nood. Tho I'rofoHHor outfit (o rocolvo tl"' hourly foopernllon of nil publio mlut'iiilonullHlH nud ovory* ono hitoroHtuil lu llm world'** boat wolf nro. First oIiihh board ami-1 nblo board; monl tlckoth *$.* al FiilrcloiiBji'H Bonrd* Iiir IIOUHO, 170*180, opposite Football irrnmiilfl. Conl Cronlc, ************************** \ .* OOLEMAN j; *************************** Tho International Conl and Coko Co. has laid off ono Bhlft of company mon for a fow wookH. „ . ' J, Hilling nntl family hnvo loft Colo* man for Arkansna, whoro llioy Intonil to niako thoir homo, Ho notified hin IrluniU b«for« lm loft that lm would look out for a fn«t trnln an noon n* ho •struck tlio fltuto llnu, J. Uniworth nml wlfo lmvo gono to IvCtbbrldg* to commit a doctor about riio WoHtorn Cuunillnn Co-Opcrntlvo TrndliiK compnny of Colomnn hold lliolr Homl-unnunl nli.n* IioIiIoch imi-i-lliiv, lriHt Sundny iu tlio tnlnciH hnll whon tlu; iiudltoi-H roport wiih rond, nud ro* commondatlmiH from tho commit toon HUhmlttod. it wim Hhown Unit, thn Htrlko hiiH..nffuclui\ tho profits to n ooi'tnln ovlimt, lull nnl «n muoli nH lo mako tlm Htoro In a woro position than provloiiHly. Thu Htoro Ih in u bottor portion now thnn ovor nnd ut proHont Ib advancing hy lonpn nnd IiouiuIh. Tho commlttoo rocttnimondod tlmt il pur cont be. pnld on tlio Hlmro cnpltnl nnd fl por cent, to nou-Nhnro IioIiIith for lho KoodK purchased. Ton per cont wns pnld to Hhnrohold* oi-H on goodfl puroliniiod. TIiIh will bo pnld to Bharoholdom. " AH. nrngon and Charlie Roblmon met In thc hall on Saturday to fl&ht flftoon rounds but In Iho flr«t round lliu Italian bioko hU wiUt und Dw fight wn» called off In favor of Kohln* non. zwr. -:".!• School Books and School Supplies \ To purchase just the goods you want now at considerably less than the regular, prices. We have odds and ends in the following lines which we want to clear out before the season Is entirely over. On some, Items the price is cut In half, while on others the reduction is smaller, but every line offered represents exceptional value. SCREEN DOORS AND WINDOWS , POULTRY NETTING 1 ONLY REFRIGERATOR FISHING TACKLE INCLUDING JUST 5 RODS • GRAS8 CATCHERS,,, ICE CREAM FREEZERS SICKLES, SCYTHES LAWN 8HEARS, ETC. Most of these lines are sampled In our windows Come In and let us quote you. this week. Whimster & Co. HARDWARE m_mm_mBm TINSMITHING PLUMBING \iiir* iiMvy ■TipII ©*f*ni(f*lr • -Man **• on hand at right prices PALACE DRUG STORE A. W. Bloasdoll Phono 18 Tho Fornio Opora House Wednesday Oct. 6th. Gorton's Famous f Minstrels 8 Export Dancors Jolly Comedians O Accomplished Vocalists © Six Big Specialties elegant -Scenic and electrical ettocts Gorton's Celebrated Band of Solo Musicians Superb Concur 1$ Noon and Evenings Grand Street Parade K!1 j-mw Scats on Salo at Suddaby's Rtacrvad 8oat« 78c. & 91.00 Don. AdmlMlon Soc ■•« \ PAGE SIX. TME bisTRICt LEDGER, FERNIE, B. C. OCTOBER 2 1909 tuxSt^seafaKbosas^seMtauAmi. NEW RACE FOUND IN THE NORTH Had Never Seen White Man-Are o* Sturdy People, Resembling the Old Time Indian SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30.— On' The newly discovered natives, who board the whaler Jeannettei which ar- call themselves Nunacaotics, are tall rived in the port yesterday, heavily laden with furs, blubber and tales of the frozen north, was J. Bower, „an Arctic explorer, who reports the discovery of a new tribe of people never .before seen by the eyes of a white man. The new tribe of Eskimos, according to Bower, lives on a point of Prince Albert Land, and look like the North American Indians. Tbe explorer was warmly welcomed by the strange tribesmen and he received many rich and valuable furs from them. » , On this trip Bower lost an eye by a spider bite, ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE KILLS Young- Lad of Six Killed by Brother—Had Gun on Shoulder (Lethbridge Herald) Milton Brown, aged six years, son of John M. Brown, of Kipp Coulee, south of Raymond, was the victim of a fatal accident on Saturday. He was walking behind his brother who was carrying a loaded double barrelled shot gun. The gun slipped ancl the brother pulled it " up, and the trigger caught in his suspenders, and the gun discharged, the full charge going into the head of the little brother. * ■*' ' Medical aid was summoned and every attention was given but. it was seen that he could not survive. He died on Sunday morning at five o'clock. = honor G-. H. V. Bulyea, lieutenant governor of the province of Alberta, Hon. A. C. Rutherford, premier of the province of Alberta; Hon. C. N. Cross, attorney general of the province of Alberta, and Hon. \V. If, Cushing, minister of public works of the province of Alberta. THE STANDARD'S , NUMBER SOUVENIR The Montreal Standard's Special Number has come to hand, and is'a most creditable production. It has a magnificent cover in colors, painted by one of Canada's best known artists. The number contains nearly 150 half tone plates devoted to subjects of general interest, and, has two surjerb panoramic views of Montreal suitable for framing. The printing is first class, and we understand that many thousands of the issue havo been sent to friends abroad. ' August, as August is the latest data we have this year. 7 Averag-j - Year , , - No. menibei s' 1904, 1905 1906 1907 1908 251,593 258,244 221,168 : 248,218 243,644 GROWTH OF UNIONS ABROAD 1909 .. -.. ..- 262,747 Previous to my administration the highest average paid membership from January to August for each month was in 1905 when it reached 258,244. ' For the eight months this year ending-with August' the average monthly paid membership is 262,747. This shows that we have received per capita tax on an, average of 4,503 members "more for each of the eight months of this year than for any other year in the history of tbe organization. ■•'', It Is a well known fact that industrial conditions this year and last were a great ileal worse than in the year 1905 when he had our highest paid-up membership previous to this year. The information is given to you in order that you can analyze it for yourselves and pass judgment on the truthfullness of the reports, that are being circulated that discontent and dissension is Increasing in the organization. It is but fair to you to call your attention to the fact that some of the same men who attempted to discredit our work last year are the leaders In circulating reports this year which are calculated to arouse the feeling of distrust or doubt in.your minds and to that extent to do injury to our organization. We are expected to arrange wage agreements next year and my • time will be taken up preparing for any issues that,may present themselves at the time when we negotiate our- new agreements. * I will have no time to answer all of the things that may be said^and circulated. You should demand from the fault finders of the organization the proof, of .what they say. Any information you wish from this office will be gladly furnished. " • ■ I invite and ask for the most rigid investigation of my official work during this year.. With the sincere hope that every member will feel il his duty to become active in building up the organization : fa the most efficient and^y# perfect of leavening agents* MA»E FROM PURE CREAM OF TARTAR - ■■; , ■ ,■ -, * ' ■-.-■-.* No alum, lime or ammonia. DR. WRIGLESWORTH, D.'D. S.^ DENTIST. v' . Office: Johnson-Faulkner Block. Hours,9-12; .1-5;' 6.a0-7.30. Phone 72 rernie B.' C. W. R. ROSS,K.C. Barrister and Solicitor Fernie, B. C. Canada. L. P. Eckstein D. E. McTaggart ECKSTEIN & McTAGGART .BARmSTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. •y*-^MP»*****»V»V¥¥¥*¥^¥ ¥»»¥¥¥»■»¥ ¥•*■¥■¥¥•■¥»*■¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥•*••■¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥■ l— — _ —— Sunday School Q^fn^m , ffT On the Lesson by the Rev. Dr. Linscott for the International Tl Newspaper Bible Study Olub. , ^"••••^•■j^Tfr^^ OCTOBER 3 1909 Acts RESOLUTION A compilation of trades union.sta- tictics in the principal countries of the world places the number of members in good standing at 9,000,000 or 1,000- 000 more than last year. Germany contributed a gain of 400,000, which |'and Preparing for next year, with my outstrips Great Britain and nearly ov-jbest wishes to you all, I remain your ertakes the United States. • At this! very truly. ' .'*** - Of the United Mine Workers of America, assembled nin the City of Lethbridge, September 20 1909 Whereas, by an'act of Parliament, _hQlng_chapter__L7_o£_an-act,.to_amend, the Coal Mining Act, for the purpose of limiting hours of work below the ground it is enacted as follows: "Subject to' the provisions of this act a workman shall not be below ground for the purpose of his work, or going to or from his work, or be allowed to be below ground for that purpose for more than 8 hours during any consecutive 24 hours." And whereas in^ihe said act tho Lieutenant, governor in council may, in the event of,a great emergency or of any great economic disturbance, due to the demand for coal exceeding the supply available at the time, by order in council suspend thcoporntion of this act to such an extent and for such period as may be named In the Order, either In respect to conl mines or any class of conl mines. And wherens recently the lieutenant governor In council hnd made un ordor purporting to direct the machine men In mincR to work more thnn the 8 hours por day below ground; And whereas the members of the United Mlno Workers of America in the City of Lethbridge, In the province of Alborta, wore nn8cmbleil by tho district prcHldent W. II. Powoll to n meeting held ln the snld city of Loth* bridge, on tho 20th dny of Septombor 1909; It wnn unanirnouHly resolved at that mooting.to protest 'walnut tuo ordor* In council niiulo on tho ground thnt there iIh no crave economic disturbance duo to tho demand for conl exceeding the avilablo .supply at tin; present tlmo. nnd thnt there Is no Brnvo omnrsoncy rolling upon nny number of mon to work moro limn 8 hours per dny. It wns further resolved thnt the mombors of tlio United Minn Workers of Amorlcn, District No. 18 In tlm district of Lc'thbrld*-*-.! aro not mlrcrsc to tlio opnrntorH workhiK thrco shlftH of 8 lioiif'H ff tlioy .wish to do so, so Ioiik at lho men upon tlm ono shift shnll nol bo obliged lo ko (o work on nuotlier shift, It wns further resolved thnt n copy of this resolution bo forwarded to his time United States and Canada have about 2,300,000 members, whereas in Germany there are 2,215,000, The unions of Great Britain were accredited with a membership, of 1,888,000 last year. Five European countries have more trades "union members than the state of New York, but New York outranks Russia, Hungary and Spain as well as the smaller countries.— The "IDENTITY OF INTERESTS." ' * ' .- '., ' ■ Once upon a time there was a wolf who came to the sheep to offer his services as shepherd, Do you suppose he showed his teeth and talked about his appetite? iVot at all, He addressed him thus: "My dear sheep, I am~^as, you know —a "strict vegetarian. Your interests T. L. Lewis President U. M. W. of A, THE "RUNAWAY GIRL" "The Runaway Girl" will* be one bf the attractive bills in the repertoire of ihe_j5an._Francisco Opera. Company this .season. The Province of Vancouver in its issue of August 12th said "A Runaway Girl" at tho * Empress Is playing to,capacity houses nightly. This delightful musical comedy is entertaining from the rise to the fall of the courtnin.- Its refutation as one of the greatest successes ever produced in the Gaiety Theatre, London, is* aptly justified when one listen's to the tuneful gems that follow The comedy Is Paul a., Prisoner—The Arrest. 21: 17 to 22: 29..' Golden Text:—Thou therefore endure hardships as a good soldfer of Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. 2-3. Verses 17-19.—Why Is it that there is no, class of people who so love each other, and rejoice in each other's fellowship as real earnest Christians. , Why did the,Christians at Jerusalem receive Paul so gladly? . Paul told them about the wonderful things "which • God- had wrought through his ministry among, the Gentiles. Should Christians always tell each other of the victories of .their faith and works, or is it liable to engender* pride and look like boasting? Verses 20-22.—Does a good man always "Glorify God" at the success of others ? What either among men or angels, is the greatest cause for joy? (See Luke 15-7) , . > What is it, a sign of, when a person criticises or is not glad when he learns of the goodness of another? Could a Christian, either then or now, be full of .the Holy'Spirit ,if at the same time he was guided by,-or "Zealous of tlie law?" , *. In bridging the two dispensations, is it likely that God, so to speak,* winked at the Apostles trying-to graft the Iaw_ of Mose*ilnta_Christianity,_or_was October 10th 1909 Acts Cox Street Fernie B. C. F. C. Lawe Alex. I. Fisher LAWE & FISHER ATTORNEYS Fernie, B. C. H. W. HERCHMER * Barrister and Solicitor T. BECK BLOCK FERNIE B.C, and. mine are identical. Let us com , , . , „ bine to defend our interests against jone a"°]t,her rap,d1/" ,, ,„ 1U , those wicked Socialist bunny rabbits ^,r>'ludcr°us a,ndIITeddytWe^b„!S n who are nibbling up all the. grass in tniat.eB.J? ^ Ieadl"S roI° °f,. p»?; the place, and nre bent upon undermining tho foundations of society." The sheep agreed, tho rabbits bolt-, , ,, ... , ._ * ,, ed into the burrows and the wolf bolt-1 Aioatly to the strength .of the com ed-the sheep..-From "Those Wwt- ,\a.n5'* Char,0B Couture slng8 splend per." He is more than usually well supported by the company as there are several new members that add ched Rates." OFFICIAL CIRCULAR Mlno To tho members of the United Workers of America: Rrotherfl nnd Fellow Workers: Mueh Ih bolng snld nbout tho discord nnd discontent within the ranks of our organization. If those reports wero really true, you ns members of tlm United Mlno Workers would hnvo just ennso for nlatrn, bocauso your Interests collectively nro paramount nnd of moro importance thnn lho Interests of nny In- dividual. If the motives of thoso men who nre circulating tho reports of discord nnd dissensions within our mill's wore sincere nnd honont thoro might bo some justification.for tliolr action. According to the reports being dr- milntod, one would bo lend to bulbvn thnt llm Unitod Mlno Workors organization Is rupldly goln*; lo destruction, It. Is but fnlr tn you Hint you should hnvo such Information nn will onnblo you to determine (Ills question to youi own mil Infliction, I hid Imrewltli giving you Information tnken from our records nt tlm not* loimi office, Tli It-; tiifoniiiilloii. covorN n period of six yonrs nnd gives tho nv eniKe number of puld up members lot* ench of the eight muni lm during (lint period iK'f-lrmliiK wltli llm month nt Jimunry nud ending with tlm month of idly nnd Amy Leicester, James Mnck nntl Alexander Dale are all good. The scenery nnd costumes are. elaborate and mnke the production a most, ' attractive one." Fernfe opera house on Octobor 13. GJLTY. J» Do You Feel This Way? j^J™yr H**. «••>•,( Ut\ all t'rtJ cut*? flo ;••-■_ tciT.et!.ra*-3 "They My thnt everythine he touchel turns to gold" "They mean that he will turn to anythlnn If he Is touched with gold* LOOKING INTO LAKE OF FIRE t DARING FEAT OF PHOTOGRAPHERS IN HONOLULU ISLAND. . think you fust can't work swey tt your profee* •ion or cride »ny (onjer r Uo you have t poor tpf tite, •nd liy eweVe et ni/bu unable lo sleep P Are your nerve* til -(one, end your ilomaeh too P Hu tm* bition to forge ■heid in the world left you? H io, yoo mi*lit •• well put « itop to your miiery. You eari do it U you will. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will U4*i.C )<s4U *. lilStttimi toa^wJ-u, Ii mill Wi V<4>M 1-u.y I'.tU to work, it will Mt thinf! rifht in your itomaen, and your appetite will come back. It will purify your blood. II there it any tendency in your family toward conimnptloo, It will keep that dread destroyer away. Even alter eon* lumption bai almost Jained ■ loolbold in the form ol • linferinf coutfi, bronchitii, or bleeding at the tun-ft, It will brinf about a eure in 98 per cent, ol alt ct*et, It ii a remedy prepared by Dr, R. V. 1'lerce, of liulfilfi, N. V., who«e adtikt it ifa*n frtt to all who whh.,to write him. Hia (rest iucccm hai come (rom hit wide experience and varied practice. Don't be wheedled by a ptnny-frtbblnf dealer Into taklsf inferior tubitl* tutet for lit. I'ierce't medicinet. recommended to be "jutt at good," Ur. I'ieree't medicinet are oh inown couroimoN. Their every ingredient printed on their wrapper*. Made from roott without alcohol. Contain no habit** forminf dru£t. World'• Diipentary Medical Attocittion, lluffalo, N. Y. HONOLULU, «n|)t. ilU-M. L, Halo, ,1, KoynoliU nud Hnmst .Moses, photo* graph-**™, dn-Bcondvd today Into th-? pit of the* orator of Mount Kllancnu, re- mnlnlng hnlf nn hour on tho odgn of ., j "m..,- «.,*., .r x.,y. ...,1 #i ti_.i„ Ia tho flmt tlmo (tint thin font Iiiih been accomplished. Tho momborH of tho pnrty ventured ulrnoflt to tho rim of tho nooihlng lnko und attempted lo tako photogrnphH. Tlio bent watt intense and nt thin Ihe ndrnninrort walked over pr-rtffi'Iy molten nri-nn. Aftor completing tho nliKfrvfltloriH thoy returned «nfely to Dw rim nf lb<* crnler •wlicr*" hnlf n dozen friend* had wltnosiiod tho Ail- scent. Kllauri-Bu In one of the I«rg- t'tt active volcanoes In tho world. it God's plan that Jewish Christians should.,still keep the law? Is'lt likely that even James and the elders at Jerusalem knew of the full liberty of Christ's gospel, or that "the law" was to be abandoned? See Gal. 5: 1-6. Heb.S: 8-13'et sop.) Verses 23-26. Did James and the elders give Paul good advice in this matter of the vow and shaving their heads, and can you conceive it as possible that they, we're directed by God in the advice they gave? Did Paul do a wise thing to join with'these four men in the'rantter of the vow, and whnt he must have known to be a useless ceremony ln connection therewith? Paul in one place states in substance that ho became all things to all men that he might win them to Christ. H,ow fnr cnn wo caryr out this principle without being gullyt of decopt? Ion? (See 1 Cor. 9. 20.) * Verses 27*28.—What is the difference between a Chrlsttnn who, from prejudice speaks ovll of another Christian, and thoso Jews who spoko falsely, of Paul? Versos 29*30.—Should wo over form on opinion or spread a rumor from more appenrancos? Which generally raises tho moro excitement and why: A rumor of something vory. good, or of something very bad about n man? ' Verses 32*40-—What Is It In human nature which makes one class or race or political party or religious body, u cruel against another class or race, o* political party or religious body when their passions get etlrrod? (This question must be answered In writing by members of the club.) Chap. 22; 1*5—Ought tho fact thnt Paul had onco boon ono of UieniHolvPS and had chnngod to bo a Chlmtlan, from convictions of duty to God, to liavo glvon lilm favor with, God foar* Ing nny rpnooiinblo mon? Vorfios 6-21; In tlio narration of our poi'Honal Christ Inn exporlonco a duty, nnd Ih It nn offoctunl wny to proncli tho goHpol to HlnnorH, and a help to ballovors? Horo In a man with hatred ln his heart for .Tonus, on n mission of porno* cut Ion lo Johiis folio wort*; on tho rond bo hooh: A gront light from honvon, , Uo In Htrlckon down to tho ground; Ho Ib Hpokon (o by Jostis; I la uHkK JCHtin who ho In; Johiw nnHWors hl» rinontlons; Thoso with him saw tho light but honrd nnt tlm vrtlriv , Hn nskH .Tobuh whnt lio shall do; Jesus told hint to go to Damnscus and he should thor* got full Instructions; Ho Is blind nnd led by tho hand to Paul a Prisoner.—The Plot. 22: 30 to 23:35. - ' . . Golden Text: I will say of the Lord He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him will I trsut. Ps. 91:2. Verse 30.—Which showed the fairer spirit toward, Paul, the Roman chief Captain or the Jews?* If you had to be tried on a questsion of religious doctrine basing your decision on history, which court would you select, a committee of secular judges or, a committee of professional priests? ■ . ' Verses i-2: What was it, in .Paul's opening statement, which caused'the high priest to have him slapped on the mouth? When Christians these days profess to live all the time well pleasing to God. is it a popular testimony with average. Christian people? Why'did the high priest object to Paul's profession of having "lived in all good conscience before God"? . Is it possible and is,it the duty of every Christian to live all the time, "with a good conscience before God?" ' '-'•. Verses 3-5: When either pope, bishop, priest or parson' acts like, a demagogue, why should he not receive the treatment which should be due to a demagogue'? • Should the fact that a bad man is on the bench, or at the bar or in the pulplt._secure_for_him_the_r.espect._of DR. J. BARBER, DENTIST Office Henderson Block, Fernie B.C. Hours 9 to 1; 2 to 6; 6 to 8. °, Residence 21 Viotoria Ave. THE FERNIE LUMBER W ** *1' A. McDougall, Mgr . 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Matt- good men; for the sake of the office or of "the cloth"? ,- Verses 6 10: When Faul saw the spirit of this Jewish council did he probably change, the style .* of ' his address to them and if ho did so, why would*.he? . * . When a jury is packed or prejudiced against the prisoner. a»id ,.there in no hope for acquittal, whii* is tin next best thing for the prisoner,.' *.o aim for? ■ ■ Paul's defence was clearly tho truth but was lt the whole truth? Is it always-wise or right to tell the, whole truth? What was PauJ's real crimo from the standpoint of the Jewish council? What was tho difference between the belief of tho Pharisees,, and the Sadducees as lo Immorality? What good reason is thero fov the belief thnt tho' soul will1 llvo after death,? What did P/iurB tactics result in, bosldos dividing up the onomy? . * Is it olwhys or sometimes true that "when rogues fall out honest men get their 'duos," and how did lt work out In this caso? Verso li.—Does God don.irally tlmo Ills visits to us when \v.> nood Mlm niout? In whnt guise or shape did tho Lord appenr lo Paul and how did ho sponk to him? Thoro Is no wny to tnko tho miraculous out, of tho Now TOBtnnv'iit, without destroying it, now In viow bf that fact why did not Qod roficuc Paul In this lnstanco, ns he did from tbo prison nt Phlllppl? Cnn you traco any rulo by which Qod was governed In performing Now Testament miracles? • VorsoB 12-1C—Whnt wna tho plot which wnn formed to bring nboul Paul's death? Ih It posfllblo that thono,forty mon with mich a murdorouB intont, couM think that thoy woro doing God's sorvlco? Vernon lfl-2-l—How wni* thin mim-tor* out plot fruHtriUfld?. How em you trace Ood'i hand In this natural deliverance) as clearly at If It had been done miraculously V (This question must be answered iu writing by members of the club.) 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E, Barker, Cayley, Alta. ft ivoma ooooooooooo OV OOOOOOOOOOO Author of "The Prisoner of Zenda ^ __= - oooooooooooooooeaoooo, , €«pnigbt isos* ABlhony Hope Hawldit* LuxoTitch was the guide ana bad no lack of counsel; from lads who ..knew, tbe hills as well as their sweethearts' faces. He rode.first, and, while they were on the bridle path, they followed in single file, walking tbelr horses or leading them. Sophy and Dunstanbury rode behind, with Basil Williamson and Henry. Brown just In front of them. In" advance, some hundreds of yards, Peter Vasslp acted as scout, coming back from time to time to ad- rise Lukovitch that the way was clear. The night fell fine and fresb. but It was very dark. /That, did not matter. The men of Volsenl were like cats for teeing ln the dam. ' . Tbe first ten miles passed slowly and tediously, hut without mistake or mishap. They halted on the edge of the plain an hour before midnight and took rest and food. Each man carried prov!*, sion 'for two days. Behind them now rose the steep hills whence tbey, had. come, before them stretched thc wide plain, away on their left was Slavna, straight ahead < Mlklevnl, the goal of their pilgrimage.. Lukovitch moved about, seeing that every man gave heed to his horse and had his equipment and his weapons in good order. Then came the word to remount and between 12 and 1, with a cheer hastily suppressed, the troop' set forth at a good trot over tbe level ground., Now Williamson and Henry Brown fell to the rear with three or four Volsenlans lest by any chance or accident Sophy should lose or be cut off from the main body. Lukovitch and Peter Vasslp rode, together at the bead. / i ■ To. Dunstanbury that ride by night through the,spreadlng plain was wonderful, a thing sufficient ln itself without regard to Its object or Its Issue. He bad seen some service before, and there* was the joy of that. He had known the comradeship of a bold enterprise; there was the exaltation of that He had taken great risks before; there was the excitement of that The night had ere now called him to the saddle, and It called now with all Its fascination. His blood , tingled and burned with all these things. But there was more. Beside him all tbe way was the figure of Sophy dim in the darkness and tbe dim silhouette of her face—dim, yet, as it,seemed, hardly blurred; its pallor stood out even ln the night She engrossed his thoughts n-nA uniiWBAil V*lr* nrtn j*i*>»1-*?i 4 \**.w% rt ■" -»"U- t-**iJu 1 ft >wu-uio-u^i;\,uiu*iivuO( y Wbat thoughts dwelt in* her? Did she ride to death and was it a death she herself courted? If so, he was sworn in bin soul to thwart her, even to his own death. She was not food for death; his soul cried, passionately protesting against that loss, that Impoverishment of the world. Why had they let her come? Sho was not a-wo* man of whom that could be asked therefore lt was that his mind so hung on ber wltb nn attraction, a fascina-. tion, an overbearing curiosity, The men of Volseni seemed to think" lt natural that sho should come. Tbey knew her, then, better than ho dldl Save for the exchango of n fow words now and then about the road they had not talked, no had respected ber silence. But sho spoke now and, to his great pleasure, less sadly than be had oxpected. Her tone was light nnd witnessed to n whimsical enjoyment which not even memory could altogether quench. "This Is my first war, Lord Dun- ntanbtiry," she said. 'Tbo flrst timo I'vo taken the field in person at the head of my men I"* "Yes, your majesty's,first campaign. May it bo glorious!" bo answered, suiting bis tono to hers, "My first and my last, I suppose. Woll, I could hardly havo looked to huvo oven ono—Jn thoso old days you know of—could I?" "Frankly, I never expected to hold my commission as an array ofllcor from P, Carosella Wholesale Liquor Dealer *2s&*imr*mma*m*m* Dry Goods, Grocerlei, Hoots nnd Shoes Gents' Furnishing! h ll H|il» L_l I I ■ BAKER AVENGE BRANCH AT HOSMER, B.C. ' ■ BXPERIENOH* jupc Marks Co-wmaHT* Ae. " Mid dlMK.jllltl.ttl U.»» >*•>» wtiMluir M ommunles- onFtitou k IwdM-wtf mauut** *t«a*y. Unr**-M* rtiUtHm nt a*» nUtiutt* "wortwil. Tim* tee i«_^^UaftM,»-riw|*-*»»-Wt. ***** M-WHSSSMfi ly that ber conscience was' not trou* bled. "Aiid he won't blame me either. When he sees me. he'll know what It nieans." -' .' find, ln fact I Intend to' help. So do we all, *I,think."*. • "It was our oatb in Volseni." she an** swered. "They think monseigneur will sleep the, better for It' But 1 know well that nothing troubles monseigneur's sleep. And* I'm so selfish tbat I wish he • could be troubled—yes, troubled about uio; tbat ho could be riding in the spirit with us tonight, hoping for our victory, yet very' anxious, very anxious nbout me; tbat 1 could still bring lilm joy and sorrow, grief and delight I can't desire that monselgneur should sleep so * well. * They're kinder to him—hid own folk of Volsenl. They,aren't jealous of his sleep—not Jealous of the peace of death. But I'm very, jealous of It. I'm to him, now just as all the rest are. I, too, am nothing to monselgneur now." "Who knows? Who can know?" said Dunstanbury softly. ■ His attempted consolation, his invoking of the old persistent hope, the saving doubt, did not roach her heart In her great love of .life the best sho .could ask of the tomb was a littlo memory there. - So' she had told monseigneur. Such was tho thought in her heart tonight She was jealous and forlorn because of tbe silent darkness which had wrapped her lover from her sight and so enveloped him. He could not even.ride with her In the spirit ouc the* night' when she went forth to avenge the death she mourned! The night broke toward dawn, the horizon grew gray. Lukovitch drew in his rein, and the party fell to a gentle trot Their journey was almost done. Presently they halted for a few minutes, while Lukovitch.and Peter Vassip held a consultation. Then they jogged on again in the same order, savcthat now Sopljy.and Dunstanbury rode with Lukovitch at the head of the party! In another half hour, the heavens lightening yet more, they could discern the double, row of low trees which marked at irregular intervals the course of the river across the plain. At the same moment a row of squat buildings rose in murky white between them and the river bank. Lukovitch pointed to It with his hand. "There" we*, are. madame,'_7-be_saij-. "ThU ti my firm war, Lord Dunttan- bury," ihe'tald. you," ho laughed. "As It Is I'm brooking all tbo laws In tbo world, I suppose. Perhaps they'll uovnr hear of it In England, tnongli," "Whoro thoro nro no lawo loft you none left In Krnvonln now. Thorn's but uno crime, to bo weak, nnd but ono penalty, death." "Neither (he crime nor the penalty for un tonightI" be cried gayly. "Queen Bophln'-s ntnr nhlnon tonlglttl" fifi* - „.....,, I.Ml i , * t ,1 ...... 1- ■-•*« t-4 jf WI* ■_*-*-•*I* h* « -&M>* «»«■■. *»t l» l**.*J *W-'-*Mr*1___ Ing ber cheek a moment "No, f can't," he laughed. "I forget; I spoko imctnphorlcnlly." "When pooplo spenk of roy Btar, I alwaya think of thin. So my «tor •hlne» tonight? Yei, 1 think ac—»hlneo brightly beforo it tet*. f wonder If TCravonU'i -tar, too, will have a letting soon-a -stormy net tine!" "Well, we're not helrlng to make It more tranquil," said Dunstanbury. IT« taw ber turn tier bend •uddenly and sharply toward him. She spoke •julekly nnd tow. Tn teeting a hud's life fn tbis tf peAUIon," th* wtM. "We M.*t or mine Mote wa part" "1 don't blame yon for that" "Oh. no!" Tb* reply sounded almost CMitus-MMM*; at hurt It thawed plahs- "That's the-.farmhouse at the right end and the barn at the left, within a hundred yards; of the lock. There's our shelter till the colonel comes." • "What of the farmer?", asked Dunstanbury.; * "We shall catch him In hissed—him and his wife," said. Lukovitch. "There's only the pair of them. They keep ,the lock and havo a few acres of pasture land to eke■ out their, living. They'll give us no trouble. If they do, wo can lock thom In and turn tho key. Then we can'lie quiet In the barn. With a bit of closo packing it'll take us all. Peter Vassip and I will be lock keepers If anything comes by. We know the work. Eb, Peter?" "Aye,* captain, and the man—Peter's bis namo, too.' by tbe way—must glvo us something to bide our sheepskins." Sophy turned to Dunstanbury. Sho was sralllug now. "It sounds very simple, doesn't lt?" sho nskod. „ * "Then wo wntch our chanco for n dash — whon the colonel's off his guard," Lukovitch went on. "But If bo won't obllgo us in that wny?" asked Dunstanbury, with n laugh. "Then, ho Bhnll hnvo tho rownrd of bis virtue In n better fight for tbe guns," Bald Lukovitch. "Now, lads, rendy! Listen! I'm going forward with Peter Vnssip hero nnd four moro. We'll seciiro tbo ninu nnd his wlfo. Thoro might bo a servant girl on the premises, too, perhnps. Wben yon hem* my whistle, tlio rest of you will follow. You'll tnko command, my lord?". Ho turned to 8ophy. "Mndnmo, will you como with mo or stny horo?" "I'll follow wltb Lord Dunstnnbury," bIio Bfllil. "We ought nil to be In tho bum boforo It's light?" "Suroly! A bnrgo might como up or down tho river, you seo, nnd It wouldn't do for tbo men on board to seo nny- body but Vnssip nnd mo, wbo nro to bo the lock keepers."' Ho nnd Peter Vnssip rodo off wltb tliolr party of four, nnd the roHt waited In n Hold a couplo of hundred yardn from the bnrn. A dip hi tbo ground afforded fnlr cover. Homo of the mon began lo dismount, but Dunstanbury stopped them. "It's just Hint ono nov*, er known," bo snld, "nnd It's bottor to bo on your horso tlmn off It In enso any troiiblo does como. you know," "There oughtn't to bn much trouble with the lock keeper nud bis wlfo or oven with tbo sorvnnt girl," snld Basil Williamson. "Girls cnn mnko a difference some* llmuH," Sophy snld, with n umllo. "I did onco in tbo Strcot of the Fountain ... i. ri, ,, n , . , » Dunntnnlmry'B precaution wn« nmply Justified, for, to .their nstonlRhment, tbo noxt Instnnt n shot rnng through tbo air and thy moment nftcr a loud cry, A rldorlCHB horso galloped wildly pnst them. Tho I sheepskin rug ncrosa X'M CAvki.-i kit.*!) fcV\i liv *4 *ii4C^>.i,(,i'«i^ i/\> irlt Votsonlan. "By hooTcn, havo they got thoro before us?" whlupercd Dunslnnbury. "I hope so. Wo shan't have to wait," snld Bophy. .-, lint tbey did wait thero a moment Then came a conftj*je<l noise from th-i long, low barn. Then a clatter of hoofs nnd l.ttiiovlteb wen with thom nittln, bnt his comrade* were four men now, not flf*. "flash! Silence J Koep com!" be panted bre-afhlMiily. "Htnfnlti Is bete already. At least there are men In the barn and horeee tethered outside, and tbe bargea ate ou the river, just above the lock. Th* sentry saw ns. He challenged and fired, and one nt at drop* TM. It mutt b* Stafnlttr 8t_fntU It tu, Qtaerttl Rtenoik* had failed' to allow', for the respect which his colleague entertained for his abilities. If Stenovics expected him back at Slavna with bis guns oa tbe Sunday, Stafnitz was quite clear that he had better arrive on'Saturday. To this end he had strained every nerve. The stream was with him, flowing strong, but the wind was contrary. His barges bad not made very good progress. He had pressed the horses of his company Into service on the towing path. Stenovics had not thought of that His rest at Rapska bad been only long enough to give hi3 men and beasts an hour's . rest and food and drink. To his pride and exultation he had reached the lock at Mlklevnl at nightfall on Friday, almost exactly at the hour wben Sophy's expedition set out on Its ride to intercept him. Men and horses it might be weary f now; Stafnitz J could afford to be indifferent to that He'.could give them a good rest and yet, starting at A clatter of hotijs and 7 the n^xt mor^. them again. . * „a w|t!j them and the guns In the course of the afternoon. There might be nothing wrong, of course, but it was no harm to forestall nny close and clever calculation of the general's. "The sentry?" whispered Dunstanbury. '" "I had to cut him down. Shnll we be at them, my lord?" "No. not yet .They're ln the barn, aren't tbey?" * * "Yes. Don't you bear them? Listen! That's the door opened. Shall we charge?" "Nd, no; not yet. They'd retreat inside, and it would be the devil then. They'd have the pull of us. Walt for tliem to come out. They must send, to look for the sentry. Tell the men tb lean right down in their saddles—close clown—close! Then tbe ground covers us. And now—silence • till I give the word!" - *• Sllencefell again for a few moments. They were waiting for a movement from Stafnitz's men Iri the barn. Only Dunstanbury* bareheaded, risked a look over the hillock which protected them from view. A single man had come out of the barn and was looking about blm for the sentry who had fired. lie seemed to suspect no other presence. Stafnitz must have been caught in a sound nap this time. The searcher found his man and dropped on his knees by him for-a moment Then he rose and ran hurriedly toward the barn, crying, ."Colonel, colonel!". "Now!" whispered^ impetuous Lukovitch. , --.7' .! But Dunstanbury pressed him down again, saying, "Not yet, not yet." Sonhv—laid _lier_hand__on_his_nrm- "ITalf of us to the barges," she said. - In their eagerness for tho fight Lukovitch and Dunstanbury bad forgotten the main object of It." But the' guns were' what monseigneur would have thought of first—what Stafnltz- must Iirst think of. too—the center of contest nnd the guerdon of victory. ■ -^m Ohekjykej*-- FUR the history of this night from thc enemy's side thanks arc due to tho memory and to the unabashed courtesy of Lieutenant itnstat?., wbo camo alive, If not with a wholo skin, out of tho encounter hnd lived to reach middle ngo under 11 new roglmo so unnpproclntlvo of his services that lt cashiered lilm,for getting drunk within a yenr from, this dute. Uo ended his dnys ns n billiard marker nt tho Golden Lion, n fact ngrconblo to poetic Justice, but not otherwise mnlo* rlnl. Wlillo occupying that cnpnclty ho wns nlwnys rendy to opon IiIb month to tnlk provided he woro nfforded nlso* n better reason for opening It Stnfnlb* nnd IiIh men felt that their hnrd work wns done. Thoy wero within touch of Slnvnn, nnd. thoy hnd no reason, ns thoy supposed, to fonr nny tittnek. Tho colonel liml indulged them lu somothing iippronchlng to n enrouso, Songs Iuul boon sung nnd Hpeochcs mnrlo; congrntulntlons wero freoly offered to tho colonel; nlluslons wero thrown out not too enrcfully vnllnd to (lie predicament In which Stenovics found hlisiHolf, Hnrd work, n good supper nnd plentiful wlno hnd tliolr effect. Rnvo lho sentries nil wore imleop nt 10 o'clock nud gnino to sleep till the reveille Hounded nt 0. Tliolr presenco wns n surprlso lo thoir iiNHnlliiiitH, wlio liml pcrlinpH uppronch* ed In too rush n cnufhlonco Unit tlioy woro Unit on tho ground. Hut tbo greater surprlno bofoll thoso who Imd now to defend (ho Imrgen nnd tbo guns. When the mnn who had found tho dend sentry run hnr-k nnd told hHi Inlo, nil of thom, from Htnfntl*/. down* wnnl, conceived tlmt tho nttuck inimt como from Htcnovlr-H. Nono thought of Hnphy nnd bor VolsenlnnH. Thoro thoy wito packed In the burn. Hcpariited from tliolr horsoB nnd wltb tbelr car* (d 1 ii**» i.tid MNKie. 1110 crtnuiu-a* were rn'ifl.v rnlight up, Dw hnr*U'!t not ro nnslly rcnehort, nuppoMng nn sctivo, nklllful enemy nt band outside. Tor themselves tbelr position wns good to stand n alnge. But BtnfnlU could not afford tbat 111m mind (low -.(tit*ro finjitiy'M hurt, 'itironjihont and on both sides the guns were tho factor which dominated tbe Uctlc* of tbo tight It was no use for Stafnitz to stay snug In the barn while tbe enemy overpowered the t barges (supposing they fried fight), disposed of the sentry statloned-on each deck*and captured the gun's. Let the assailant carry them off and the colonel's game ,was up. Whoever the foe was, the fight was for the guns and for. one other thing no doubt, for tbe colonel's life , "We felt in the deuce of a mess," Rastatz related, "for we didn't know how many they were, and we couldn't see one of them. The colonel walked out of the barn cool as a cucumber and looked and listened. , He, called to me to go with him, and so I did, keeping as much behind his back as possible. Nothing was to be seen, nothing to be heard. He pointed to the rising ground opposite. 'That must hide them,' he said. Back he went and called the first half company. 'You follow me in single file out of the barn and round to the back of it Let there be a foot between each of you, room 'enough to miss. When once you get. In rear of the barn, make for the barges. Never mind tbe horses. Tbe second half company will cover the horses with tbelr Are. Rastatz. see my detachment round and then follow. We'll leave the sergeant major in command here. Now, quick, follow me!' "Out he went, and the men began to follow In their order. I had to stand ln the doorway and regulate the distance between man and man. I hadn't been there two seconds before a dozen beads came over tbe bill and a dozen rifles cracked. Luckily tho colonel was just round tbe corner. Down went' the heads again, but they'd bagged two of our fellows. I shouted to more to come out and at tbe same time ordered the sergeant major to send a file forward to, answer the fire. Up came the heads again, and they bagged three more. Our fellows blazed away in reply, but they'd dropped too quickly. I don't think we gotone. "Well, we didn't mind so much about keeping our exact distances after that and I wouldn't swear that the wliole fifty of us faced the fire. It was devilish disconcerting, you know, but In a few minutes thirtyc6r five and thirty of us got round the side of the barn some- bow and for the moment out of barm's way. We beard the fire going on.still ln front, but only In a desultory way. They weren't trying to rush us, and I don't think we had any Idea of rushing them. For .all we knew they ipight.be 200 or they might-be a dozen. At any rate, with the advantage of position tbey were enough to bottle our men up in the barn for tbe moment at all events." • - ■This account makes what had happened pretty plain. Half of Sopby's force had been left to hold the enemy or as many of them as possible in thc barn. They had dismounted and, well covered by the hill, could make.good practice without much danger to themselves. Lukovitch was*In command of this section of the-little troop. Sophy, Du n^ton bu rynanan^efeFVa^sTpTal soon foot (tbe horses' hoofs would have betrayed them), were stealing round, Intent on getting between tbe barges and any'men whom Stafnltz tried, to placo In position for .their defense. After leaving men for the containing party, aiid three to look after the horses this detachment was no moro than a do74en strong. But they had started before Stnfnit7.'8 men had got out of tbe barn and despite the smaller distance the latter bad' to traverse could mako n good race of lt for the barges. They hnd nil kept together, too,, while the enemy straggled round to the rear of the barn in slnglo file. And they hod ono great, perhaps decisive, advantage, of whose existence Peter Vnssip, tbelr guide; wns well aware. Forty yards beyond tho farm n small ditch ran down to tho Krath. On the side near tbo farm It bad a high overhanging bank, tbo other side being nearly * level with tbo ndjolnlng meadow, Thus It formed n nnturnl trench nnd led straight down to where tho first of the barges lny. It would hnvo been open to an cnfilndo from tbo river, but Stafnltz, hnd only one sentry on ench bnrgo, and theso men woro occupied In staring nt their advancing com* pnnions nnd calling out to, know whnt wns tho mnlter. An for tho bnrgees, thoy hnd wisely doclnrod tientrnllty. deeming tho nintter no businoss of theirs. Shots wero not within the terms of a contract for trnnsport Stafnltz, not drenmlng of nn nttnek, hnd not roconnoltercd his ground. But Lukovitch know evory Inch of tt (hnd not Gonornl Stonovles remembered thnt?), nnd so did Peter VnBRlp. The surprise of Prnslok wiib to bo nvenged. RnntnbE tnkes np the tnlo ngnln. nin nnrnitlvo linn ono or two touches vivid with n Iocnl color. "When I got round to the rear of tho bnrn I found our follows scnttorcd nbout on their boll Ioh. Tho colonel wns In front on bis belly, with bis bend Just rnlHod from tlio ground,' looking nbout lilm. 1 lny down, too, getting my bond boh Imi n Mono which chnnced to be nonr mo. I looked nbout mo, too, when It Hoomoil snfo. And It did hp.-i» i*nfc nt fln-M, for wo could bear nothing, nud deuco n mnn could wo sec, But tt wmni't very plonnnnt, beonuKo wo know tbnt. Hiiro enough, tbey must bo protty nonr us Homowbero. Presently (ho colonel cnmo rrnwllng bnck to mo, "Whnt do you mnkn of It. Itnstntz?' bo whin- pored. Boforo I could answer wo honrd n brink oxchnngo of llro In front of the burn. 'I don't llltc it,' I nnld, 'I cnii't hoo thorn, nnd I'vo n notion (hoy cnn seo me, colonel, nnd (lint's not the plrnsnntPHt wny (0 fight Is ItV* 'Ond, you're right!' pnld lie. 'But tlioy won't »-c dn? till) tbo in-lh-r (nt: .* iihiiti-Uu.' A/id then nnd (here lie lit one. "Well, he'd Jimt thrown nwny bis rnntoh when n young follow—quito a Ind he wns-n couplo of yards from us ••.iiililpnlT lumppd from hin bcllv on to him kneet nnd called out quite loud-It soomed to me he'd got a sort of panic— nnltu loud ho railed out "Rheepsklns, sheepskins!' 1 jumped myself, and 1 sa w the colonel .start But, by Jove, it was true! When you took a sniff, yoa could smell them. Of course I don't mean wbat the better class wear. You couldn't have smelled the tunic our lamented prince wore nor the one the witch decked herself out in, but you could smell a common fellow's sheepskin twenty yards off—aye, against the wind unless the wind was mighty strong. '"Sheepskins It is!* said the colonel, with a sniff. 'Volsenlans, by gad! Ifs Mistress Sophia, Rastatz, or some of her friends anyhow.' Then he swore worthily: 'Stenovics must have put them up to this! And where toe devil are they, Rastatz?' He raised his head as be spoke and got his answer. A bullet came singing along and went right through bis shako. It came from the line of the ditch. He lay down again, laughed a little and took a puff at his cigarette before he threw It away. Just then one of our sentries bellowed from the first barge, 'In the ditch, In,the ditch!' 'I wish you'd spoken a . bit sooner,' says the colonel, laughing again," . While this was passing on Stafnltz's side Sophy and her party were working quietfy and cautiously down the course of the ditch. Under tho shelter of its bank they hnd been able to hold a brief and hurried consultation. What they' feared was that Stafnltz would make a dash for the barges. Their fire might drop half his men, but tbe survivors when once on board—and the barges were drawn up to the edge bf the stream—would still be as numerous as themselves and would command the course of the ditch, which was at present their great resource and protection. But if they could get on board before the enemy they believed they could hold their own. The decks were covered with Impedimenta of one sort or another, which would afford them cover, while any party which,, tried* to board must expose Itself to tire to a serious and probably fatal extent. So they worked down the ditch, except two of them. Little as they could spare even two, It was judged well to leave these. Their Instructions were to fire atshort Intervals, whether there was much chance of hit-, ting anybody or not. Dunstanbury hoped by this trick to make Stafnitz ? believe that tho "SheepskinsI Sheep-. whole detach- sMns."' - ment was sta-, tionary In tho ditch thirty yards or more from the point where it joined the river. Only ten strong now and one of them a woman, tbey made their way * toward tbe mouth of the ditch and toward-the_ barges which held the prize tBey_ouglit" ■ ! - ' But a diversion aud a very effective one was soon to come from the front of tho barn. Fearing that the party under Sophy and Dunslnnbury might be overpowered, Lukovitch determined on a bold step, that of enticing tbe holders of tbo barn from their shelter, ne directed his men to keep up a brisk fire at the door. He himself and another man, one Osslp Yensko, disregarding the risk, mado a rapid dash across the line of ,frre from the barn for the spot where tho horses were. The firo directed at the door successfully covered thoir daring movement They were nmong the horses In a moment nnd hnrd nt work cutting the bnnds with which they were tethered. Tho. animnls wero half mnd with fright, and tho task was ono of great danger. " But the maneuver was eminently successful. A cry of "Tho horses, the horses!" went up from tbo barn. Men appeared In tho doorway. The sergeant major ln command himself ran out Hnlf tho horses wero loose and stampeded along tho towing path down tho rivor. "Tho horses, tho horses!" Tho defenders surged out of the bnrn ln dondly fenr of being caught thoro ln n trnp. They preferred (he chnnccs of tho flro nnd stronmed out In a disorderly throng. Lukovitch nnd Yonflko cut loose ns mnny moro horses ns tbey dnrod wnlt to relonso, then, ns tbo defenders rushed forward, retreated, flying for thoir lives. Lukovitch camo off with n bnll ln his nrm; Yensko dropped, shot through tbo honrt Tlio men behind tho bill riddled tho defenders with tbelr llro, But now tlioy woro by tbelr horsos. such, ns woro left of thom. Nonror twenty tlmn ton dotted the grass outsldn tbo burn door. And tbo mirvlvors woro demornllzod. Tbelr lender, tho sorgennt major, lny (lend. Thoy reloiiHed tbo remulnlng borsoH, mounted nnd with ono pnrtlng volley fled down tlio river. With n cry of triumph Liikovlloh colleeloil (lie romnin* dor of his men nnd ilnxhod round tho sldo of (ho bnrn. Tbo nost moment Colonel Htnfnlti, found himself nttnek* ed In bis roar ns well ns bold In check from lho ditch In IiIh front "l-'or n moment wo thought lt wns our own men," nnld nnstat?., continuing tils account, "nnd tlio colonel ithoiit- nd. 'Don't llro, you fools!' But than tlioy olmored, nnd wo know tho Vol* ni'iiliin ii.-ei'iit-ciirHO tlii-m! 'HIipepHklnn ngiilii!' nnld (bo colonel, with n wry kind of Hinlln. lie didn't IiphIihIo then; ho Jumped up. crying: 'To the Imrgen, lo the Imrgos! Follow mol' "We nil followed. It wnn Just an ■iiifp to eo wltb lilm nn tn ol'iv whnro vou woro. Wo mnde n dnsh for It nnd mi in tlio Imiiu of tim rivor. I lien tlipy ruse nut of (bu ditch In front nf iih-> ind limy uvrp nt ui behind, to.-.-with ••tool now. Tbpy daren't sboor for tear nt bitting their own people In our fH"int Vint flip Lie.*"* nf il Vrilf**. In pnni* I'lUk Isn't plensant. nnd In tlu1 ond nmrp of our mpn turned (o meet (hem tlmn wput in wltb (h* colonel. I went W on with him, though. Vva always for tbe safest place if there's om eater than another. But here there wasn't •30 I thought I might as well do the proper thing. We met them right by the water's edge, and the first I mads out was the witch herself, la sheep' skins like the rest of them, white as A sheet but with that infernal mark absolutely blazing. She was between Peter Vassip and a tall man I didn't know—I found out afterward tbat he was the Englishman Dunstanbury—and tbe three came straight at us. She cried, 'The king, the king!' and behind us we heard Lukovitch and his lot cry- . Ing. 'The king, the king!' "Our fellows didn't like it that's tbe truth. They were uneasy In their minds about that job of poor old Mi- stitch's, and they feared the witch like the devil. The heart was out.of them. One lad near me buret out crying. A witch and a ghost didn't seem pleasant things to fight Oh, it was all nonsense, but you know what fellows like that are. Their cry of 'The king!' and thc sight of tbe woman caused a moment's hesitation, it was enough to give tbem tbe drop on us. But the colonel never hesitated. He flung himself straight at her and fired as be sprang. I just saw what happened before I got a crack ou tbe crown of the head from the butt end of a rifle whicli knocked mc out of time. As the colonel fired Peter Vasslp flung himself In front of ber and took the bullet in his own body. Dunstanbury jumped right on the colonel, cut him on tbe arm.so that ho dropped his revolver and grai>* pled with him. Dunstanbury dropped his sword, and the colonel's wasn't drawn. It ■ was just a tussle. They were tussling when the blood came flowing down Into my eyes from the wound on my head. I couldn't seo anything more; I fainted. Just as I went off I heard somebody cry 'nands upr* and I imagined the fighting was pretty well over." The fighting was over. One scene remained which Rastatz did not see. "When Colonel Stafnltz, too, heard the call "Hands up!" when the firing stopped and nil becabe quiet, he ceased to struggle. Dunstanbury found hlra suddenly changed to a log beneath hlra. His bands were already on the colo*-., nel's throat, and be could have strangled him now without difficulty. But when Stafnitz no longer tried to defend himself ho loosed bis hold, got up and stood over him with his hand on tho revolver iif-his belt Tbe colonel, fingered his throat a minute, sat-up, looked round and rose to'his feet ne saw Sophy standing before him. * By her side Peter Vassip lay on tbe ground, ■ tended by Basil .Williamson and one of liis comrades. Colonel Stafnitz bowed to Sophy with a smile. "I forgot you. madame," said Stafnitz. "I didn't forget monseigneur," she answered. , 1 no looked round him again, shrugged his shoulders and.seemed to think _iOr~a-moin"Ciit."Thcre-was"au-_bsoiute"" stillness, a contrast to the preceding turmoil. But tbe silence made uncomfortable men whom the fight had not shaken. Their eyes were set on Staf-, nits.* * "The prince died In fair 0;' ' be said. "No. You sent Mlstlteh to " i*der him," Sophy replied. Her eyes were . relentless, and Stafnltz was ringed round with enemies. "I apologize for tbis embarrassment I really ought to havo been killed. It's just a mistake," he said, with a smile. ' Ho turned quickly to Dunstanbury: "You seem (0 be a gentleman, sir. Pray come with mo. I need n witnoss," Ho pointed with his unwonnded hand to the barn. Dunstanbury bowed assent The colonel In his turn bowed to Sophy, nnd tho two of them turned and walked off toward tho barn. Sophy stood motionless, watching tbem until they turned the corner; then sho fell on her knees nnd begun lo talk soothingly to Peter Vnssip, who wns hnrd bit but, In Basil Williamson's opinion, promised to do well. Sophy wns bilking to tbo poor follow when the.sound of a revolver „shot-n slnglo shot-came from the bnrn. Colonel Stafnltz hnd corrected the mistake. Sophy did not rnlso ber bond. A moment Inter Dunstanbury cnmo back und rejoined them. Ho exchanged n look with Sophy, Inclining his hond ns n mnn does ln nnswcrlng "Yos." Thon she ro-ic. * "Now for tho ImrgCH nnd lho runs," bIio snld. Thoy could not carry tho guns bnck to Volsenl, nor, Indeed, wns thoro nny use for thom (hero now. But neither woro mon- Hulgnour'H guiiH for tbo encmlcH of moiiBelgnour. Under I.ukovlteh'H skill- i'<l dlrcotliiiiH (Ills wound proved Nllghl) tlio big guns wore so distillled iih lo romnin nf llltlo vnluo and (ho ImrgPH bikon out Into iuIiIhirenin nud there HciittU-d with lliolr enr* goes. While ono pnrly imn-iioil lIiIh worlc Dun* Nlmibiiry mnde tboprlHon** pfrtcollnci llii'lnv.HiMile*l und dend,place them on n wiikoii ntul hpI out on their ■■unroll (n Kin vim. Thon bin men pbiceil tbelr dead on Imrsi:*;, Tlu-y hnd lo.it three. Five wore wounded besides Fetor ViiHMlp, but nono of thom soverely; nil -.'unlil ride. For IVier they look .1 cart from Ilut funii In convoy blm nn fnr ns lho nm-ont (o llio lillln. Up thnt be would havo lo lw carried by bin comrade-*. H wn» nom 1 boforo nil tbelr work li.,.*. ,.',/,'.., ','}„• <',.iihi-,-> Hci'rJ tivli-lillLi hi Die water. ,\n they started to ride back to VoUenl tho Unit snnlc.. Tbo second wns soon to follow It. "Wc hnvo dono our work," said Lnko* Vlfilt A nd Sophy answered, "Ye«." But Slnfnltv.'n men had not ctrrtal Ojo. Udy of Mielr commander biek. (To bo continued?) "I'rnu rwnii wllh mn; I 1 nnd it Willinm," McCItBADY-CUMMINfl. Tbe RoBsland Miner of yesterday nnyit:—"The mnrHof*c of Dorothy Cummins And Arthur John McCrrnry was solemnised at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon in the Methodist parsonage. Rev. W, p. Ewlng, pastor of the Methodist church officiating. Mias Jennie Webb waa bridHmatd, and ilattt Chapman \*t»i man. The bride waa attired in a bandtome blue gown and carried a bouquet of aaten and earnationi. The wedding party, numbering eight, nfter the ccremon?, s-r*-*.***.--**..**! to the Hol.n-.ivri I house where the wedding feast waa Mprtnd ani the hrlde and groom j warmly congratulated. Tlie bride I* tbe eldest daughter ol Mr. nnd Mra. Norman Cummins of Nelson, nnd la a trained nutee by profcMion and, recently, for a time, waa emplaycd in tbe rtUUrtt' hospital to thU city. 'The broom 1* tbe eldeat ton of Mr. and Mr*. John MeCreary o( thin city, and bat been a reaident of Itc-mlnnd for the past thirteen yearn. Ue ban bflflit prominent in tm.u'lniU un.l h-..ck* ey circles and hns a host of warm pprwcmnl friend:] who rcjoi***-' to '.■**.** biro happily mariled,— :.*.. «/l4, 4 Will the worker* ever wai;.' up? 1-- green of latitude or lomsliud*' or climate muat have Komotbing tn dn with iln* aMltudn ol trado iinlonntiM 10 rlu«n ronacloui political action boraiiHo I nm tcrtaln tbnt British FolnniliSn nnd Al berla are fifty years ahfnd of Manito ba In mniters that affect tho working ' biit. They (Manitoba) lmvo hnd the edil- Strll.cn have failed uilsii'i**ibly, ptckni* ing linn been derhired llli^nl, In* lunrtlonn hnve born IhhuciI ugnlnst (bo union fundi, and supported by tho Dominion jmlti Inry. Tbe police lmvo lined Iheir clnlm nnd Ibn mllitln (heir gmtling mm!*, nud mill the union mnn »1>t|»-* t>>i ,twHmbvtt-d by nothing except the cobweb* on Mr brain. Will bf ever wake up?*—Winnipeg lorrcn* pondent In Weatern Clarion / u r-"- THE DISTRICT LEDGER, FERN IF,, B. C. OCTOBER 2 1909. C. P. R. TIME TABLE ,*• Arrive No. 213 West ..* No. 214 East No. 236 Local East No. 235 Local West No. 7 West Flyer ..' No. 8 East Flyer \..' Change takes effect,Sunday 'NO. 252 10.55 11.13 11.25 11.50 G. N. TIME TABLE FERNIE HOSMER *' OLSON MICHEL Fernie . 8.48 . 17.55 • ' 8.4.8. . 20.50j . 10.40 . 20.08 June 6. No. 251 1.00 12.35 12.27 12.05 Fishing tackle outfits "at Suddaby's! Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Turney returned on Saturday from the Coast cities and the Seattle, fair. Refrigerators, tbe,kind that they use' at the equator, from $9 up at Trites- Wood Co.' From today .Mr. George Barton will handle the agency of, ihe Canadian Oil Company for'gasolene, etc. W. M- Elley is opening a piano and music store in -the' Miners Hall block. Mr. Elley assures us,that he will have the best music store.in B. CJ See his ad on another page. ■;• For Sale: A new Goldie & McCulIoch ..safe. Apply to L. P., Eckstein. For sale, 5 milk cows. Apply to G. Morley, Cokato. For sale: Pure bred Irish Water- Spaniel pups. Apply to.B. F. Lester, Hosmer, B. C. Wanted: A tid.* act in dining re m 1 girl, good wages. Applv TliOi-iio.1 . Poardins; Iiohfo. .Michel Furnished House,to Let. 6 roomed cottage. Apply Ledger Office. LOCAL NEWS i Baseball, football and tennis outfits at Suddaby's. The next meeting of the Ladies' Benevolent Society will be held at Miss Alexander's house on Saturday at 3 p.m. For a good comfortable smoke get Dorenbecker's brands. They are home product. The fall opening at the Todd -Millinery Parlors will be from Monday, October 4, at I o'clock. .Latest American styles. A sample order of Elk, Valley bottled boer will convince you of the superiority over all others. $2.50 per doz. delivered at your door. Call up phone 79 and we will do tho rest.. Don't miss the most up to date and elaborate showing of fall millinery Fernie has ever produced, from 1 o'clock Monday 4th. Advertising space on ihe new drop .curtain in the Miners opera house is now available. To arrange for special position see D.Rees, secretary, or address box 361, Fernie. The regular monthly tea of the Meth-1 odisV Ladies' Aid will be .held al the; home of Mrs. J. S. Gusty on Tuesday, October n from 3 to G p.m. The "Cranbrook Herald in an article ■ headed "A Few Facts About British Columbia," gives Fernie a population of 3,500". TTiH'Ts^lTTighrfo'F'Cran brook, but Fernie can boast of double that 'number and then some, Thc editor of thc Herald was given a complimentary to the Board of Trade banquet, while the local press was ignored. We hope tho Fernie board of trade appreciate what .they are'' getting in re- Finest in the land—Ingram's bath room. Ahem, have you tasted Michel beer? Isn't'it good? The Methodist churc„-young .people gave a reception to Mr. and Mrs Weatherilt last Monday evening. Try a case of Elk Valley Bottled beer, $2.50 per dozen delivered. Phone 79. * . C; R. Gordon, the provincial inspector of factories, was in the city the early part of the week on official business. Up-to-date billiard and pool room for sale. Easy terms or to rent to responsible party. Enquire J. Seigle, New Michel. Commencing tomorrow (Sunday) the drug stores will be open from 9.-30 to 12 a.m., and 7 to 9 p.m. This will be a great benefit to many. When thirsty nothing but Michel beer for me. Harry Gorrie shot a mountain goat at Aldrich Creek, weighing about 400 pounds last week, and David and Matthew Gorrie shot a fine deer at Jaffray., *.*, First class board and table board; meal tickets $5 at Fairclough's Boarding House, 179-180, opposite Football grounds, Coal Creek. For wiring, electrical fixtures, dynamos, generators and motors, see Depew, Macdonald & McLean. No place in, town just like it. Ingram's pool room. * Ladies of Fernie are invited.to inspect the fall millinery of Mrs. E. Todd, -Monday, the 4th from one o'clock. The very latest. French and American styles.* Elk Valley beer popularity known as'-Michel, always on top at the leading hotels. Gordon and Fred Johnson, two, of our most-respected young citizens departed amid a shower of maidenly tears, on Tuesday evening lo resume their college studies. , Fred goes to Chicago and Gordon to Toronto. Beef, mutton, pork, veal, hams, bacon, lard, etc.," only of the very best. Phone'41. A grand'banquet will be given by the I. O. O. F. in honor of the visit of* .the Grand Master,.Bro. Wallace Law, Esq., to be_hgl__UL K*P* ball bn Wednosda ' TENDERS WANTED' Sealed tenders, wanted for a.brick building for the F. O. Eagles, Coleman Alta. Plans and specifications may be seen af the secretary's house; lowest or anv tender not necessarily accepted. ■ ' HY. GATE, .Sec. F.O.E. Coleman. I 1 t ♦ 4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦••-»'» ♦»♦.»♦♦*■»■ Fa.ncy Cli In a, and Dinner Ware NOTICE We, have just unpacked a fine" .stock, pattern in- Dinner ware for sale' by ■ the' dozen\6r set.-; •*■ All goes for. Coupons. . - , W.J. BLUNDELL Give its a. ca.i1 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦ ♦ ♦♦»»*•*•>-♦ .In the matter of an application for the issue of a duplicate certificate for Title for Lot 3 Block 2 of, lot, 5455 Group One Kootenay District • (Map 7313.) „ . '. ». _' ' NOTICE is hereby given that' it is my intention to issue at the expiration of one month after the first-publication hereof a duplicate of the Certificate of Title to the above mentioned lot in tho name of Eder Harper which certificate* is dated the 19th of March 1906, and numbered, 7495A. H. R. Jorand, District Registrar Fernie Cartage & Construction Co. | Wanted 150 WOODSMEN Highest going wages paid. Apply F* G. Waters, Elk Lumber Co., Ltd'.-, Hosmer, B. C. Rochon's Kandy Kitchen Under new management The Fernie Cartage & Construction Co. beg to inform the citizens of Fernie they are prepared to carry out all classes of work. Heavy . Draying, Excavating, Building and Concreting a speciality. Estimates given on all Contract work. All work guaranteed satisfactory. , O. N. ROSS, Sole Proprietor To secure your share of the surprising toar- gains at tlie big Removal Sale of To The Electors Dry Goods Clothing Boots and Ice Cream a Specialty »'.*'- ...___________________» Chocolates -and other candies manufactured on the premises. Concrete Fence Posts 7 foot long --'■ 70c each i W. M. DICKEN FERNIE October C al 10 p.m. All'members'and especially the Rebekahs are respectfully invited to be present. Oui* old friend, Roland S. Garrett, wlio operated our monoline keyboard so successfully previous to the fire, was married last Wednesday to .Miss i.etta McAfee of Bradford, Ont. Wo extend our congratulations and may Rollie's troubles bo small ones. S Garbutt Business I College 1 _.Stafford31ock.JLe__bndge;, 6 I • • Guarantees positions to its graduates. Thorough instruction in i Shorthand & Commercial branches, f For any information or free prospectus write \ e r Linoleums Geo. J. Shmidt, Principal Garbutt Business College P. O. Box 1291 Phone 263 \ Crows Nest Trading Co. General* Merchants , / Everything Reduced for a. few days longer The Store of Good Values Agents-"Bell Pianos"; Sold on monthly payments Victoria Ave. Fernie, B.C. 0 I t Trites- Wood Co.,Ltd. I J..WAYS THE BEST Quality ALWAYS THE BEST ere Quality Counts Service ALWAYS THE BEST QUALITY Quality is the first thought here. The Perfect Quality of all our many lines of Drug Store goods has created a reputation of value to us THE G' • I W DS All are carefully selected and of the best. Drugs, Toilet Articles, Chemicals, Rubber Goods, Sick room necessities and Nursery Requisites v Mail Orders Receive our Best Attention ALWAYS THE BEST Price ALWAYS THE BEST ARCitts for Victor and Huylcr's and Lowney's Chocolates Drug Store Edison Phonographs Hew Scale Williams* Piano ALWAYS THE BEST Goods ALWAYS THE BEST
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Title | The District Ledger |
Publisher | Fernie, B.C. : W. S. Stanley |
Date Issued | 1909-10-02 |
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_10_02 |
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BC Historical Newspapers |
Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2016-07-26 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
AIPUUID | 828e46a8-7005-4e68-b6e6-4d6258fd943d |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0182815 |
Latitude | 49.504167 |
Longitude | -115.062778 |
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