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"cote is still in tho government employ- y 7 . <as mln^e inspector, going on to enquire i7 " -j whether", the administration has any 'S7e*.y. recommendations ' from the secretary *>' >''> :A"'.of BelleTuo Local of the TJ.M^W. of A. 7-* 'n- ■ "'*■ wilativ«, to the "dangerous condition of •'^ "the.'mines.'"*.- .,■. • "• 7, """- ' ^ .,<, - *..Also for all reports upon tho-explo- .:' 7 N. sionV of October- 31 and December*9, ..""'. "7* - 19101,"and.,their, cause, was thereNahy - l77*'v violation v"of- the mines, act,;if so has' * -'-', ,-;tt31o government prosecuted-anyone. He '/. ; 7 *, - "will* demand any reports, which .may 7 » , \ have' been- received-bearing-upori1*the *.'■.■. 7-' inquest upon the victims^ after'a series ■* ,.. ..- of questions regarding the employment ';,'?"* i"7 ofr'a solicitor in.connection with" the ■7.*; -inquest. '. O'Brien .will inquire .whether ■; -.-V in1 the estimation'of the government yy ', -. Elijah' Heathcote,' General; Manager '' '. ; > '.Coulthard,*iManager/Powell, Pit-Boss ■•' .''-Anderson, or anyone of-them, are ex- ',>:* *iy,cused,,ffbm7llabllity. ,'Are, Heathcote/ '.;'' .*' ,, '; Pbwelland Anderson still holding' cer- 7 7 y"tlflcates issued by" the"government'is CO'-.7,the next question'on the list, yky '■-''/„-■ The government wlll*be"asked;whet"h^ 7;->/ - l7'*-er any.'report has0been" received'from '" /r ' Joseph/S.>Ig»d8on,'"appointed by'th* WANTS HIM TO WORK FdRy^>7' .- '$1.50 PER DAY 0> TEN"!iNpUR8 ' fLETHBRIDGB,' Ai{a\^Jan.',:31^The City Council awarde'd-the'contract for the new Sewage Disposal Plant to the 'firm of Hotson, Header and Good, who' sublet the digging to a contractor (not a" resident of the city) by the name of Whitney. "Whitney.advertiseibfor men through an employment,agency; no rato was stated, and,when the men went to the place to work they were told the pay was $1.50 per day of 10 hours. Tho contractor, stated this, was all he could afford to pay at. tho present time owing to adverse conditions, and that he had only started the work to give work to some of the im- employed. Tho mayor of this city states, he can do nothing regarding this as the contract was let previous to him taking office.. This is a fine living wage In a city whero board and room costs from J6 up per week. --</.-• coai; opera tomss pMalspoverty ' :- :-V.;':.' -',-———-7 • v' '. - " Demand Lower Wage and Longer '•"""' ' ...*''. - "> ■ ■' x ,* - - j Hou^S'-Strtke Threatens V./.W >;S':*,<"<: wl10 caused the death of 31 nie'n hi the ^•■Sy[ 7Bcneyue"explosioi.,"'-',7 ;- "J"' ! 77 '- •C:<}7 - betailfl-as to" the constitution .of the -rX\-','J3b'/-PropoBed.. commission^ will '.be :soughtV 7.77^7>T"ne'^pcialisV : -^-^^^jnw^DUishten'^ vas- to/\fie^n"umber!, of ■>* i commlBBioners'-:-- and ♦'tho -. intentions of -the government in regard to' legal re- ^^./.presentation before'it* ' He wishes to^ '. '7 lmow, whether-the' miners themselves' .;'-,• may be'directly,represented liefore the" ,"* commission^ .' •'-.-■ • EXCUSE /,.- By William Daly'Jr. /There is'abroad a nice comforting philosophy .which seeks 7tq justify poverty. The reasoning runs something' like, this:" •,.■"'■■,• * , Poverty, is necessary. !_ It kills off the-weak and "the unfit,-and'thus en-, ables this world's goods to go'around —tb the competent.-. , - j,"*., ' Poverty is Inevitable'' ,Oniy the, fittest can survive.*._ This1* is a "natural law,"-and therefore futile to combat." ' s So what's /the -use of • reforming things?' You ..c'an'tr anyway;' and it wouldn't be good if you could. But isn't this begging'tho question? You can't prove that the world isn't big enough for all men.to live in comfortably. Man's'capacity for producing is great enough; It's his system of distribution that is bad. * 7 w '■ .VVl'hon the "child Uaborer' emerges from the mill.and>begins an uninterrupted marfh^ from bum to criminal, 'ihall we say,In our arrogance'that he isvweak, that'-lie-hashad a chance to be strong? ^"'*"'/7'~ "■' ""? X!'~ /- -t "■-.When a• man,--underfed ■ and 'unedu- catied.; remalns*laL7jSandU_am[is«7lifeF shall, we "call" him' incompetent? -- -Andrflnally, shall.t-ho'se who are on top, whether through the' efforts of their' grandfathers or,-,themselves,,-be permitted to'make their succosb ah excuse' for the-oppression'of others.' COAL;MINERS ARE , ,', - , ; I S 7- HANDICAPPED BY " ' ' ■ SHORTAGE OF CARS, Were the matter not of such serious Import the coal operators plea of "poverty .would be treated as a huge joke. Tho .-convention of the t/. M. W, of ** -i \ "» - ' A. In Indianapolis had Wore It during the, week the operators'. demands, and * as no" agreement ' .could possibly, be arrived at between the menand the operators,- as the de mands ot the latter were out of proportion to all reason, the matter was left to a joint Interstate conference which is now being held. Below is appended,, side by side, Ihe demands of tbe men andithe operators, and it can safely be left to our readers whether he be a coal digger, - of,- ,a plute, to judge 'which party has right on its-Bide. They are: * UP IN VANCOUVER Police and Militia Use Clubs Freely Farm Peftypiece, Grabbed THE OPERATORS I. .*., *-. , ./THE MINERS 7- Sniggle for Necessities -, "PIty4he Poor." - Whereas, the ever increasing and al- . ready too high cost of living without ' Whereas, the ever-increasing and al- a corresponding Increase in the wages -reajy too-high cost of, producing coal of our members is maklngit not only , -.. - impossible for our people to keep pace "without a corresponding Increase in with, the improvements in their;Stan.r^roflta toou; members*is making it dard of living that modern civilization . ,,..'** makes necessary, and which they not only impossible for our, people^ to should'have, but is making incerasing- keep'pace with''the improvements in ly hard and bitter the struggle to get .," ■ -;< ■ . even the barest necessities of life; other.*.. Industries, but - is making in- an£ ■•"■-. "_ .-* „ 7. creasingly'hard and bitter the struggle Whereas, The invention of labor sav- ;.'-.;- ing'machinery; the introduction of oil to'eet even,the;barest profits, and in and gas-as fuel; the utilization of eleo many "cases "ghows "an actual loss'in tricity generated by our waterways, * and - the - prospective development of more and" more" of it; as well as the greater efficiency of the modern * organization and more highly skilled labor, are making" unnecessary the long hours of labor on the part of the workers,*'and the especially dangerous nature, of our calling, away- from the light.of day,-,,isolated from^'all other" human beings, surrounded by unknown operation. \-\ J * (, ..Whereas the-'invention of labor-aav- the machinery,.the introduction of oil and gas as fuel, the utilization of electricity generated by our waterways and the progressive development ot more-.and more of it, as well as. the and, unknowable/dangers, our, health ■- greater efficiency of the miners' or- affected* and our, lives shortened by , - . being compelled-to inhale continually . ganizatlon and the making ofunneces- the deadly.damp, poisonous gases and equally enervating and lung, befouling millions of particles" of the always present dust and smoke, ,we believe fhat we, are ' ntitled'fto. a" substantial increase in our wages, and that our work day/should-be minimized. ■■ , sary demands"bn'the part of the workers and the especially dangerous and' hazardous-nature of our business en- title us/to: a' substantial decrease in "our wage'" "scale and _that^-0ur7dean^ VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. SlI—The dissatisfaction prevailing in the ranks of the unemployed here reached, its climax Sunday when there was a pitched battle between the police and those out of work, as a result „of which 24 men are now nursing bruised heads ln the police station. Two, .It was unofficially stated, were victims of fractured skulls. - * " ,' Throughout the past week the unemployed, strengthened by idle men from other ..western cities, have had demonstrations and* on Sunday the"1 police thought lt'timeto call a halt, and immediately set out to break up a" meeting,on Powell street.* They were offered strenuous opposition. Amongst those arrested was R. P. Pettiplece. ' The, mounted police were then called and after the riot had been quelled they'arrested 16., Eight more.,were arrested in front of the city hall,'to which the, unemployed went • after evacuating the Powell street grounds. ' On Monday morning'the attorney for the defense of the men made application for bail, but the magistrate, who does hot know''what' it is to look, for work and not get it, made it at $500 and consequently all the persecuted are still in Jail, except Pettlpiece, who was bailed out by two friends. ' Yesterday another , attempt was made at free speech, but the copitalist Mayor Findlay had a squad of foot and mounted police in readiness, and no chance was glvon the would-be speakers. Four mon were arrested, one for creating a disturbance and the other three as. vagrants, tho latter three being sentenced to three months each. '-Nearly all the men who wore arrested at] Powell Street grounds on Sunday are now out on ball, but there nre several who could not find any monied friends and they are still in jail. A peculiar- feature of the affair is that the bail money of those who did, gt>*: put was furnished by some of the prominent Hindus of the city. Would Fili Jails then Talk at Will Leaders of the Independent Workers of the World have arrived hero from Spokane, and declare they will use the tactics so - successful there and at Aberdeen and Fresco to obtain free speech. They threaten" to import over a thousand of their followers here and fill'the jails so full that it will be Impossible to arrest any more. , * ',. VANCOUVER, Feb. 1.—R. P. Petti- piece has been committed for trial at a higher.court. , y B. C. FEDERATION OF LABOR • y (Special to the/District Ledger) "'.EDMONTON,' Feb.*- ].—In reply, tp ■a series of questions arked.by O'Brien in the legislature today it .was brought out that Elijah Heathcote.was appoint- . edj' inspoctorof mines for the Crow's Noet Pass District on April 1st, 1900, He., resigned on-November 30, ,1903, to- art'opt' a position; as superintendent for the Crow's Nost Pass Coal Co, at Conl Creek; B.C., and was appointed '■District' Suporlntondont of Minos'for the^Crow's NoBt Pass District on Mar. 21st, 1910, and that ho is District In- spectbr'-of Mines, at tho prosont tlmo. Regarding "the "Qollovuo Mlnos; the 'reply was that tho company wafl notl- flod that a good Bwcoplng von'tllatlng currant ot nlr bo kept passing constantly through"'that portion "of mlno; also' that plllnrs wore to he' oxtraoted .so ub to prevent gas nccumualtlng. - ' On Doo. 7, 1010, tho govornmont1 re- colvod the following roport: "That-1 have oxamlnod the No. 1 ($oam and found tho timbering, ventilation und . general,condition to bo good, Did not find nny'gftB prcsent.'~^(Slgnod) Elijah Honthcoto." Further questions brought forth that thoro woro no violations of tho Conl Mines Act; that a solicitor.had boon employed with tho objoct of as- slstlng In tho Investigations with Instructions to roport If nny criminal liability hnd boon brought to tho attention of tho govornmont. Asked whothor n<mtheo'o, Powoll nnd Anderson still hold certificates issued hy tha government, It was stated that no '** certificates aro Issued by tlio govern- ' mont to an Inspctor; that Powell holds a certificate aa manager, and Anderson aa pit bons, It wpb also .stated that mlno fescue stations nro bolng established, and that tho officials of tbo U..;M, W. of - A. havo been- consiiItM nn 'to iht> moBt siilfabla location;" that a com- mission consisting of throe men, thoroughly , acquainted with mining conditions of Alborta and conversant with tlio Coal Mines Act1 will bo appointed at whloh the mineworker** will bo represent, •* -*■ . Demand-Presentecl .. ^work-Cscate shall be minimized.' , Therefore, we, your committee, after ■-*■. --v..---.. . .. Wfully considering a'l of.the rt'solu-,opfra}ors there^re <*emand: * tions submittedto us, and thoroughly^' ;i.\ That-all coal be paid for on the discussing and' weighing carefully -.- "."*-.;■ '. , -,,. • .'every phase of.the entire situation, l«mp,or mlpe run basis at the option submit, to , the' convention as a sub- of the; operator, stitute for'all"matters, referred to us,' ■ „ .'*' „.. %,: . . ' .*- .. ~ . tho*-foNowirig..d«niamle,\.which-we,.-fret*-/.i'^;?v^at.,y«vd«mand,a "all^, lieve should be adopted™by the conven-* cents per-ton decrease and that"dead"' j-,The inability of the C.P-R. to supply cars for the coal mlnoB of the Crow-B Nest Pass is having a bad effect on business in that section of Alberta' and' British Columbia, and in consequence many of the mines are not working at anything llko their full capacity, according to Robort Coulthard of the Canada West Collieries of Blairmore an* Bellevue./ ; ■ ,,' ' '■"■' . ' "Business ' ls cfull' all through , tho Pass,"* said Mr.' Coulthard, "and tho, mlnos aro unnblo to getnearly enough cars. 'Big supplies of coal aro on hand but thoy cannot bo "shipped, and for tho tlmo''being nt least, tho mines are compelled to curtail tholr output." Cpmmerclal men who . havo boon through tho Pobb have tho snmo complaint to make, stating that' tho short- rtge is effecting business of nil kinds nnd thnt orders'throughout the' Pass havo fallen oft considerably In tho past few months. tlon and submitted to the* operators to be Incorporated into our new wage Bcale: - ., 1. That all coal he'weighod before being screened,-and paid for on the mine run basis, and that the readjustment of the prices be made on thn ,'8hall b decroa3»d ln proportion, basis of the .actual.percen/.age of au"u\.imy**-lvaar* ,u '"'•1'''"""" Bcreenlnga as compared with lump.- 5. A proper readjustment of the work shall' be paid for at a corresponding decrease. *.' '' '4^/,The' workday and wage scale for all classes of outside and-inside labor * The British . Columbia Provincial Federation,of Labor is organized for the purpose of voicing the needs and aspirations of ^labor, legislatively and otherwise; - and to provide a place^for worthy members.of its affiliated un-bert F. Pi-toe, a._vnnnt> YOUNG MINER KILLED IN CARDIFF COLLIERY ' " "" 1 Skull Crushes When Truck on Railway Gets Beyond-Control., EDMONTONyAlta., Feb/ 1.—Her- fem!riAr-_ coal, -machine differential' at the basing MR8. ROBICHAUD IN CRITICAL CONDITION -2, That we demand a flat 10 cents a, ton Increase at tho basing points, 'points ln Illinois and-Indlann, so that dead ^^.^S"SSifn!!r,,1',tt 8h^ b<s tlie °™ ft» OWo and west" * 4. Uniform workday and wage scale em Pennsylvania. j> d°siSbS""0B 0f'OU-8,dO and ,n8,d° ;'««, That a uniform day of nine D. A proper readjustment of- the hours at tho working place for nil machine differential at UM basing (Special to the District Ledger) ' WORCESTER, Muss, Fob 1, 8.35 p,m —"MrB Catherine Robjphaud, of. Fornio, B, C„ who haB booh touring the cost, nnd 1ms recently boon tho giU'st of Mr nnd Mrs, Wm. Duron, at 20 Church fitroot, Worcostor, wns seized Hiiddonly Sundny and rimbed (o Memorial Hospital. Bho hns double pnou- monla nnd wns tonight reported In a critical condition, A consultation of doctors was held boforo sho wns sent to hospital. " Beforo coming hero she had boon visiting hor son, Mnrtln, nt Ottawa. points ln Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and western* Pennsylvania. > -6, ■■ That a uniform day. of sovon Ito'ii- at ,tho working place for all' classes of Insldo labor bo made tho basis of tho abovo scale, based on present prices. 7. Thnt .five hours constitute a day's work on Saturday. 8 Wo* demand weekly payments. The coal companies shnll not bo per- mlted to havo moro than two wooks' wages hold In tholr offlcoH at any one tlmo, , 9. Wodomnnd thnt thero shall bo no limit to tho amount of'deductions mndo through tho companies' offi&-*H for tho minors' organization, 10. Wo demand that thoro shall bo no discrimination by tho conl coinimn- fos In tho employment of mine workcis account of crood, color or^natlonnllty. 11. Wo dnmnnd thnt nil local In- cqunlltlos nnd Internal differences bo referred to the districts nf fooled. 12. Wo domnnd thnt thia contrnct iihnll bo ontorod Into for n period of two yonrs, becoming effective April 1, 1012. classes of inside labor be made tlio basis* of tho nbovo scalo period, . ■ 7. That olghti hours constitute a day's work on Saturday. 8, ■ Wo demand monthly payments. 9, Wo demand that there shnll ' bo a limit to tho amount of deductions mndo through tlio companies' offices for ,tho minors' organization, nothing to bo deducted except on the written order and not to exceed 25 cents per month per man. 10, Companies to have tho right to employ nnd dlschnrgo men without question. .11 aud 12. Wo domnnd that this coiuinct Hluill ho entered Into for a period of four yonrs, becoming effective 1012 ond that tho prosont differentials botweon the stntos shall bo continued. Ions/to participate in the discussion of those practical probiems, upon the revolution .of' which depends their welfare as workers,\i*jdividually and collectively." *, yy ., -*-./■ ,,'_ When the'Introduction of the modern machinery of. production and" the har- heBBl'ng'o'f the''forces, of. Nature, it' is only"'iIttft*B;; 'that' "the'w'eatth- pro8ucerB should participate in the benefits derived/- y* . - . • We\ therefore, pladge ourselves to uncreasingly demand a universal workday of eight houre or loss; bo long as labor-power Ib sold as a commodity. ■■ We believe there ls more efficacy in electing working-class representatives to write tbe law than by supplicatory methods;* and ourofforts will bo moro in that direction tn future. Wo aro firmly convinced that tho future belongs to tho only useful pooplo ln human Bocloty—the working- class. SIGN NEW AGREEMENT President Powell a Busy Man These Days ~ Tho following agreement has been entered into by and botweon the Klpp miners of the Lethbridge Collieries ' Ltd. and District'18, U. M. W. of A.' Commissioner W. F. McNeil signed on" behalf of the Western Coal Operators! '■ Association, and President \vS B. * „, Powell for the District, and* was dated at Lethbridge on January 27, 1912. . The agreement reads:' ' ". ll That tho general provision of the agreement now in effect betweenthe .,, United Mine Workers of America, Dis- ' trict 18, and tueJWestern Coal Opera- * tors' Association, be ln effect at above ' named colliery. 2. That the outside and insldo day .'' wage scale of j.he agreement now in effect between the United Mine Workers of ^America, District No. 18, and the Western Coal Operators'"Associa-' tion,* be'in effect at the above-named- colliery. -11 3. That the contract rates of this lignite field (namely A, R. and I. Co. Chinook Colliery, Royal Colliery' and"'. the Diamond Coal Co.^ be ln effect at the above named colliery, with the following brushingaclau.se: Brushing.—Clod or draw slate in entries or rooms to bo paid at the rate of 6 cents per inch for all clod or slate in excess of 15. inches. *'--,■ ' 4. That these, general conditions and rates are to be effective- for the life of the • agreement' between . the , Western fCoal Operators' Association ' and District No. 18 United Mine Work- ers of America, dated Nov. 17, 1911: Note—LThe above contract rates are, .mads-wiih-the-uaderstanding-thatrthe^ cutting, is to be done in tho band ot bone or slate which is some ten inches * of a foot from the bottom of the seam;', work at tho mine on the 2nd of Jan, He.was unmarried.'* His parents reside'at Tottenham/London, Eng„ and 'hhvO'-"b'een-*nbtIfiod- ■" of- *--thoir"""* •eon's death. ' ' 7 ' ; i BELLEVUE RELIEF FUND Tho socrotnry, Jas. Burke, of,this fund .reports ns follows: Receipts $5398.13 Disbursements 4-188.ID 24,-was killed, having his. skull crushed, when truck on .railway got beyond.control; at* the Cardiff collieries' at Morlnville yesterday ^morning. .. J however, it "the company desire rto The young man had only started tb make this cutting below -the, bottom PEN8ION8 FOR THE AGED POOR Premier Names Special Committee to ' Investigate OTTAWA, Jan. 31.—-In tho house this aftornoon Premier Borden nnmod the members of a special committee which Is' to investigate old ngo pensions. It is composed .of Messrs. Bradbury, Buchanan, Burnham, Carroll, Currle, Goodovo, Jameson, McDonald (Plctou), Vorvlllo, Mondon and Hon. W. T, White. Balanco $ 909.08 It is rumored around town that somo lucky individual Bccured n royal flush nt Ingrnms Clgnr Store the other night, und although all the boys aro hanging around the poker hor, nftor tho "key." William says there'fl "No- tnlng doing!" GOVERNMENT AGENCY FOR FERNIE SURE Mayor Uloasdoll nnd Mr. Tritos, who recently took n trip to Victoria, for the,, purpose of Interviewing tho government on clvle mattero, tho.ro- suits of which are that a complex «o- Tho fiover^ment wiij 1 fornmont agency will bo established ■elect tho commission, but It does not Intend to appoint a legal representative, * - „ THB 1816 A good programme la being arranged for tlm coiulun wtttkr To-niRht (Saturday) the bill Is "Percy and Ills fikjusw," "Won by a Vool? "ScUhic*,- "A TMHghtor of Maly,* nnd 'The While Medlclno Msn." The orchestra now ^ontiits of three pltocs, and Illustrated non en riifj much, to Urn ytwuvU'ti* of tho evening. here*. Aa regards a land registry office and sheriff, It Is likely thnt wo shall have those, but no decision hns as yet been mado. An offlclnl administrator will be appointed for tho Fernio, Et«ctorn.t District at the commencement ef the ensuing year. Tbe school Ki-uuL, of which 25,000 in tuk-wl, has not boon grsntedas yet, but there is little doubt but that we shall ret th.s snm. It has developed thnt In organizing tholr forces to moot tlio minors tho operators wltnossod ns hontcd a factional fight nn hns been scon on the convention floor of tho United Mlno Workers of Amorica slnco It convened. Tbe word "scab," used generally by members of tho union labor movement to designate porsonB not lit sympathy with tholr cause, Is snld to hnvo been used by the mine operators In expressing their/disfavor of tlio ac tlons of certain Illinois mlno owners ffllth In -pmntlnf vmge or-mniiiHv lyu ytnrs ago. Approximately 00 per cent of th* delegates from District 1, 7 nnd 0 hate been Instructed by thoir local unions tn <w,ti» fT*.-- n I'-Jrf.-v*! Kii?:swiii. I- case this conecsslon^iroves impossible the delegates from the PennyslvanM anthracite retfons have been Instructed to uphold any movement that will result In universal strike. Thoy will be against any attempt, should sny attempt ho made on tbe part of bltu- mlnou*. miners to agree to the present wage prate for two more yesrs. Tn fixing the salaries of the Inter- Vice-President Ilnyes, who wns In tho chair. And tho delegates cheered. The vice-president's salary was "fixed at $2,600, Tho next election of International offlcors will be hold on tho second Tuesday of Decomber, 1912, and the officers eloctod will sorvo for a porlod of two years, and future elections will bo hold on thn second Tuesday of December of each alternate year there- Doings in Alberta Legislature bench of coal, It shall be optional with them to do bo, providing by'so doing It will not decrease-the, earning eapa-^ , ,c.ity.of:theiman.y . .' •*_,,- . . ; ' 5, ...Tbattho local'.conditions as now. exist at tho'vseveral collieries In this Immediate field, as are In tho agreement, now Jn effect, bot'woen the Unit- > ed Mine Workers of America, District, 18, and the Western Coal Operators' Association, be In'effect at tho above ' mentioned colliery, during tho life of' tho agreement now In effect between the United Mine Workors "of Amorica, District 18. and tho Western Coal Operators' Asoclntion. C. That whoro Monobel is used tbe samo prlco is to ho charged nB Is now charged on all othe/ mlnos (whoro In - use) In tho Western Cpal Operators' Association:—namely 30c. por lb. '** ' 7. That * all ether prices underground bo tho samo as nro nt the mlnos of tho Alberta Railway and Irrigation Company. KDMONTON, Altn., Feb. 1.—Dr.' Slownrt (Con,, Lethbridge) nnd C. M. O'Brien presented petitions In favor of tho Fortnightly Wngos Bill. A petition signed by residents, men-hunts nnd mineworkers of noyal Vlow nnd dlHtrlct stntod that the clilef Industry of tho district Is conl mining, nnd that owing to tho present system of pny ndoptod by tho several mine companies, the inlnoworkers aro continually laboring under n dlsndvnntage In being compellod to ask for oxtonslvo credit from the merchants. This system, snys the' petitioners, frequently results In hardships nnd privations, and miners, wltb families, coming to tho district destlt'lto or short of money D. C. FEDERATION ENDS 8E88ION Labor Delegates at Victoria Discuss Workmen's Compensation Act—Convention Closes Early In Afternoon. —Executive Board to Wait on Government. VICTOIUA, .Inn. 27.—Tlw llrltli-.li Columbia Fcdr-rntlon of Lahor at Is*-- final HOHslon today dnhitlcd the viuloiih KDMONTON, Jan. 2G,--In a speech I of HllKlilly less thnn «... hours duration, «nw*ndn.Pnl» -l«lred '» »«■ Workmnu's ... , ., . . l . Compensation-Act, and iloi-ldcd tin,' Premier Sifton opened tho budget do- halo In the legislature this afternoon. During IiIh upsech tho premier stated that provision hnd boon mndo to mine tho Indemnity of jiicidIjoih from $1,000 to $l,ri00, nnd thnt. the Indemnity whothor tlwre wns contributory n<'i;ll- genc-e on tlio wnrkmnn'H pnrt or not the whole cosl of tlio Injury ithoiild hi' hnne by tlio Industry In which " linp- I'ciU'd. Tlu-y iipprovi'd the r*nl«,,*i«i of tlie (-."pltntlon fc« to two rents \vr > of I)i6 louder of the Opposition hnd'hend iior month, nnd nftor n final boon rnlsod to put him on tlm snnioispeerh hy tlio ehnlrman the convention payment ns the flpenkor of the house, I rlost»d nt 1,10 p.m. The Opposition, said he, with a 'itiiy votes of thnnks wero pns'ivd to the slcnl look, first nt Mltehener nnd th*n ;v|C{0r|n Trades Council, to the nt O'Brien, must docldo bctwoen them- premier nnd tho two Labor member* nftor. ,, ., 4l The greatest demonstration In be. (often have to work & contMo[Am-^° i,«ll vl -nOUlrtll the convention hall when all of tho <">™ difficulty In obtaining credit for delegates except one rose to Ibelr feet the ordinary necessaries ef llf«. Tb« prosperliy wHh solves who Is tholr lendor, ns tho flo- verninent can not ncrept tho tusk of making such a dellculo (IocImIoii. The premier concluded with n glowing per il kuurMK« tnat ever has «^«««- **<«/ *«« «•**«•» «"> «•«•»• **,ul *^\"ft»H"» »» wnirh ho congrntiilnted litm- *"" " generally upon the abnormal wave of as an Indication thnt they favor tho woman"suffrage movement. fixed at from three to alz members, tltiree of whom shall be tho president, financial secretary and recording secretary of the local. petitioners wore In full ncrord with the bill nnd believed It would operate ELECTIONS IN MARCH No RedlstHbutfnn ...j Ut.*'.i.,n <l*t« 4»W.v4»lliV V). miners and other residents. Similar petitions signed by miners and business men wero presented from Losthbrldge, Bankhad, Psssburg, I.lllc, HlllcrHty Carbondale, Maplo Uaf. HelleviJf*. Tstwr, nnd on hi'n.ilf of rhr» whl<*h the ceuntry was now hlcftscd. At the eoneluslon of th* r.T*>mler'» k,A^.i.j..w(.. HIH)6CU Milchener rose to reply for the Opposition. "As the lender of Ills Mnjesty's loyal Opposition," he wished to congratulate the Premier upon his eloquence and tho skill he had dftpla.wd Thirty-nine per cent W im^woik"****- tlaa* It women. ef France's co«ipo*wi ot We understand on good authority national officers, the convention gave]that the provincial elections will take the president $3,C^> a year. Tf**n a! place the latter part ef March, but motion was made to Increase the Ml-jtAat there will be no redittritrtt'Ue-a ary of the vice-president from $2,5<W Mil bronahl up owlnir te «h* mm. lo |i.W>0 a year. \plcui offltii! census returns for tt, Cjifon b> tbe Premier, thM the ixipmy "That motion In ont ef onler,** mid fnot having be**n received ns yef. Rpittt-cr leave the chair. , • ^thh,1dge,fI.nW.d,P.«.b«rg.Lme.|'«^;^^ time, bu, wim the «w-M"lnn,T ao aa to abow a anrplua. iistfriiirix mlB<.ut tl WftH ib«-ir du A Bill dealing with lho deutructicn of gopben and providing for tbe raiting of taxes for unoccupied land* for the purpose, fathered by A. Bramley JiUwur* (lib,, Altrt^Mk), was Wiled fi'» rpmmftfw nt th* wnrtM, hy •» mo- r& the flfivfrnmrnt tieranse four m>pn controlled no less than eight depart- ments. 'flifl Premier eentrolled four of I'arllument, nnd tho chairman, tn summing up the convention's work, Impressed It on thejn that ench member mrst. when h* went hseV t««v h'nn-/ f ont to oxplaln their prA^eedlni'H, ind the reasons for them, to ihelr loenl bodies—in this wny tho good the eon- -.cntlon had doini them would be uU- semlnated among tho whole membership, and they would reallw* \rttft the* powBlbllltleH and potentialities of the work of this body In the filiture. And on the question of flnntice—hrrp they hnd M ^solutions from their 81 mom- bora—passing pious resolutions was no good. TV.clr tiffi< »»rn \\n.A nl*en lr«i-)y ot election* im- ini»n*.-iii ii «n» im-ir uiity to f-nabW- |them to mak* their Influence felt; to !shn«- th«y rnr-unt to hsvo thing* snd could take them was tho ruiomI and of these department*, tne Aiiomey- j,hfl onJy wa>. of mmg them AgjJll General two. and th* oth^r t-re »»t»-- uf(,^ mh%ltm work on ||M, ^,t bers of the cabinet one earn. ^ tU ^U-^u* *>ft iWI. imwd u, O'llricn'* "full reply will be!their reapectlie locals. (I^ond ar te. M. published in our nest issue.) plause.) me-. y7wyy •.-Y<y~-*' 1W.: i -_ .--*•"*;.&;**.-*-.*f-i%-! yy-'-. yy - yj*'^'7- *-■" '/ PAOB TWO THB DHWBICT;IJ8D©1R, ,ipURB, B. C:, FEBRUARY 8,1012. Tremendous Growth ■./ : "- -' yyyyy ".*" -y*;^*W' f- - 77 cf Cafimidni Mergers Some1 Pertinent Data ■*--;* v, ■V-;C*«'.' .-*-V*!-.0, The number of industrial amalgama-' tions consummated in .Canada, from January, 1909, to December, 191i;rwas- 41.7 -"7 * . " ' '• *'7*:- The aggregate authorized capitalization, including bonds of ,33'of these mergers was,$334,938,266. "*,, ;• 7 . ,The'4l amalgamations absorbed" 196 individual companies. < '- The aggregate. capitalization of 190 of these individual companies was approximately $124,766,580, which .amount, in- various ways, was incerased upon' amalgamation. ( ' Tlie 28 securities'issues to the public resulting from tho amalgamation move ment, totalled ?44,071,G66, With thirteen of theso, amounting to ' $15,950,000. an aggregate bonus of ?6,567,500 was given. The largest consolidation was the Canada Cement • company,* which absorbed twelve companies. Its authorized capitalization, including bonds, amounted to §3S,000,000 WAGE INCREASES DURING 1911 'WASHINGTON. Jan.. 3rf— It is estimated that the railway employees of the United States and Canada secured the sunu total of $14,000,630 more for their'services in the year 1911 than they had in the yeifr 1910. The average increase in wages was about, 4.87 per cent The trackmen secured 2.18 per- cent.; the statlonmen 3.10 per ,cent.; telegraph operators and dispat-, chers 4.88 per cent.'; machinists, boil- ermakers -and other shop mechanics 5.58 per cent; engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen and yardmen, 6,46 per cent. It was solely due to the efficency of the trade unions* that these magnificent results were secured for the railroad employes of the United States and Canada. ■ . . t ■'-.—;,',:- ,4 ROCKEFELLER FINANCED TI-Y-S'O CHINESE REVOLUTIONISTS. ■*-»*^*ss*»**»M»»*»s-*,A*»»-» >r*_ ivs*Vf\ , *^p?" y,v y f 4 V ¥ ¥ *■¥ ¥¥¥■¥*¥-¥ ».¥¥ »' »jMMWr"; Standard .'Oil Was to Have Control of All Chinese Oil Land if Revolution '.' '- -Was Successful . , „ - * , SHANGHAI, Jan.,30.—Thaythe-direct result, if the Chinese revolution should be successful, and Dr. Sun.Yat Sen be elected' as President, will be the' possession by the Standard Oil Company of all Chinese oil lands, is asserted by high officials familiar with the situation today. John D. Rockefeller was interested, it is said, in financing the revolution through agents on the ground. .- . Whether President Sen has actually signed this confesslon,is unknown", but it is said that if not ho will. Agents of the Standard Oil Company are said to have been in toucb~with Dr. Sen before lie left America, and had agreed to finance the revolution for control of all the Chinese oil lands, which are the richest undeveloped land of. that character in the world., , . Tho mere publication of this,rumor is bound to have an important effect on tlie state of affairs in China, if it can be proven, as the Chinese arc very patriotic' and'-resent the sale of their resources to foreigners. It may have an important' bearing on the question' of .whether Sun Yat Sen or Yuan Shi Kai comes to the top at the end of the present troubles. -* '* '•a .r OIL FUED FOR C. P. R. LOCOMOTIVES • CALGARY, Jan. 30.—"Every train on -the entire mountain section of the C. P. R. system will be operated with . oil .fuel next spring, if our present plans can be worked, out," declared Grant Hall, assistant general manager . of western lines of the C. P. R." inter- - viewed here. Mr..Hall arrived in his private car from the west, where he has been on an official trip. " -"WeTi'lll-^getr"Our*fuel"from~tue_oil-r fields of California and the Southern -Pacific coast," he declared, "and will bring it in via Vancouver." U. S. GOVERNMENT REDUCE WAGES "WASHINGTON.—The wage hoard at the Washington naval gun factory has announced that the wage schedules, for 1913 will remain the same as those that vwere in effect during' 1911, with,the exception of the unorganized wood caulkers. The wages of these employes have been reduced from a minimum of $2.88 to $2.64 per day, and from a maximum of $3.60 to $3.36 per day. HEARI HEAR! Printer's Ink, the recognized authority on advertising' questions' after a thorough investigation on the subject says:— ." 1 ■'•■■".' "A' labor paptr is a far better advertising medium than an ordinary newspaper in comparison with circulation. ,, A , labor paper, for example; V\niriTlrr-_0 AAfk-C-llKctwiKj-ITO— 1 □ -TTlATA JVfll 11. SIU » iIl'j-iJ>VVV-UUWUVI iui-l wj-mr-i*iw» v— ■» ««— - able to the business man who advertises in it than an ordinary paper with 5,000 subscribers." s of Steel Workers WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Hardships of the twelve hour dny which tho'employees In tho iron aiid steel industry are compelled to undergo were described' ln a report mado public today by Chas. P. Nolll., Commissioner of .Labor. It gives the results of the investigation carried on under the direction of tho Secretary of Commerce and Labor Na- gel, In compliance with a senate resolution requesting a summary of hours of labor and wngos In that Industry. The report dcclnros that the long Echcdulo of hours also means a seven days a week, When tho transfer of a dtiy shift to a night ono Is effected every other week, tho system results In olghtten and otfon twenty-four hours of conuocutlvo work without relief, Tho period covered by the Investlga- tlon revealed that 50,000 or 25 por cent ot tho 173,000 employees of tho blast furnaces nnd stool works and rolling mills, customarily worked tho sovea. day schedule of 12 hours, Tho Inquiry also developed that the long schedule wiih not confined lo tho blast furnace dopartmont, whoro admittedly there Is metallurgical necessity for continuous operation. In that ■ dopnrtmont 88 per cent of tho employees worked tho mull week, It being found thnt productive work wns cnrrl- ' od on on Sundny In other dopartmontH an woll, Tho report culls attention to tho fnet thnt Bunilay lnbor l« no moro necessary In tho iron nnd stool business thnn other Industries nnd contrasts likewiso the general tendency of other trades toward a nine hour, and even as eight hour day. STRIKE CONTINUES Dispute Between 20,000 Textile Workers and Operators May Continue , for Long Time , \ LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan. 27.—Tho Btrlko of approximately 20,000 textile workers ln this city, which ♦has been In progross moro than two weekB, seems llkoly to resolvo ItBolf into a long struggle. RepreeontatlvoB of the .various mills Issued a Btatoment ln Boston today that they will havo no further negotiations with Joseph J. Etter of Now York, the strike lender, and that tho demands of tho strikers ennnot possibly bo granted. On tho other hand, tho strikers' commltteo today votod not to confer with tho mill ngonts again until the latter are roady i _____ LAWRENCE, Mnss., Jan. 30.—Cap- tnln Proctor, ot tho State pollco, today declnred thnt tho strikers have beon cleared of tho dynamite churls. "You mny Biiy officially," lio snld, "that wo hnvo entirely dlscounccrod the dynnmito Incident from the tnx- llio strlko. The strikers hnd nothing lo do wllh planting tlio explosive, it Ik not difficult to truce the (lyii'i- nlto, hi.t It Ih ilirilcul. lo get (ivldcnco tint will convict. 7 There", are over 5;0Q0 ^-unemployed in' Vancouver.* -. 777*-- "There fare six Turkish'Socialists in the' Ottoman legislature: -' * ',.*■'► , ., - •■'•*■ ■ *;■- c-) •>. -■•-. ■ Street'car conductors', in* Sequi; Japan) -make "35'cents "a day.. *.- y -.,,- ..'•'»*". .. ' Retail'clerks of Peek-skill, N.Y., have secured a "reduction in hours without strike. ■ ; . '' ' " - * . 7 ■..-,"-»»'»' They have a society for the preven-. tion of cruelty to animals./ But, then we are not animals.—H.J. - * * « The Chinese cooks in New York City threaten to strike if better wages and shorter hours are not granted. • ♦ v *" The board oE control at Montreal favors increasing tlie wages of civic day laborers and carters by 5 per cent., to $2.10 and' $3.18 respectlvelj;. ***** ♦, , . , Four thousand longshoremen are on strike in Sydney, Australia, for an increase iu.wages from 30 to 36 cents an hour. Steamers plying, between the colonies are seriously affected, and shippers',, refuse to accept cargoes bound for Sydney. ,- • - ■ y i y . * *, * ' .'■".'' Milwaukee Cigarmakers', Union has proposed an amendment to the international constitution providing that ,bn and after May i, 1912, there shall'be no more open shops under tlie jurisdic-' tion of the International Cigarmakers' Union. /-"'-■ 7 *' ." .' "' '-, * * * * ,' *' 1 The coal miners of Vancouver Island have not only' organized, but have decided to take their place in the Organized-labor movement of the province. Last week Secretary-Treasurer Midg- ley received the affiliation and per capita tax of the Island' members to the B: C. Federation of Labor. -" ',.*"♦"* The" Labor Co-Partnership Association now embraces 111 societies in Great Britain. The aggregate capital of these workmen's societies is approximately* $10,000,000, and their trade amount's to nearly $22,000,000 a year. The last'return shows that. $131,395 was divided, among the workers as their share .of the profits. **'*.* It is expected that some time during ,ti;e-present-month-ths-EmployersLLia-- bility Commission will present its final report to the" two Houses of Congress. The report will eftibod a bill providing a graduated,scale . bf ;'compensation through" Government instrumentalities for injuries to "employees of railroads engaged * in - inter-state , commerce, whether due to negligence or not. ■■•*«■.•*' Child labor, chronic pauperism of the masses, unemployment of able- bodied men against their will, and other great social evils will continue as long as that system of ownership known as capitalism lasts, that Is. just ns long as one class In society owns tho means of life;' tho machinery of production, .to' tho exclusion of the other class. * * * A temporary stop in work at tho Calgary Collieries, a fow miles from Dol- burne, has been caused by some dispute among the men working In the mines on account of tho. manager changing the wages of miners from dally wagos to tonnngo rates. Mr. Albortson In chargo of the mines, haB gone to Edmonton to obtain moro men and it ls thought that work will bo resumed very soon. fl ♦ * » William Nurd, a well known writer, makes the , statement that > 536,165 workingmen are killed or injured every year In Amorlcnn Industries, and Dr. Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential Life Insuranco Compnny, has estimated tho nnnunl numbor of' Industrial accidents ,nt approximately 2,000,000. Of thoso 35,000 woro killed and tho others wero Injured. In tho Pennsylvania coal mines nlono 1073 mon were killed Inst yoar and 2100 wero seriously Injured, yy«*r£*vy-4 yTne^s Original hy ' *' -- A,'l*"*- 1. Beware of^ Imitations* • y'y.'? ■ Sold,ori' the s1* - "*"« ' Merits of! Minard!s7* Liniment. RAILWAYMEN TO UNITE .City of Fernie Sale of trees Provincial grant" CWest^- \«y y - Fernie School groun'ds')''i^5y.j.600.00r ,City of Fernie (amount,*!,'':^." '..i'.- - over expended) '■Sy.ify'SS'iS.Wx £.-.*-,;-,-. 9^,H.,„,^&eac-ers..salaries *. ■-\c-■-■.. >■• - Secretary salary ., LONDON, Jan. 20.—There are about 180,000 members of the four railway- men's unions, and.' there is a move-' ment on foot to unite these organizations. - Hitherto the'Associated" Society ' of. Locomotive Engineers - and Firemen have refused to'follow the lead of the Amalgamated Society of Railway: Servants and come into line with the other railway.organizations. With this',end-'in "'view of, bringing about the amatepnation - of these four, .bodies, a conference is to be held at Salford on the 28th of this month when a plan'will,be,proposed that will pro; vide for.all members-at the, date of amalgamation ■ to receive the same benefits for the same contributions', the executive committee of* each union to remain In off ice1, for two years as a, joint governing body. LAST CHANCE FOR FREE LAND 1 A reservation of fertile valley land is now'.open in Mexico. Homesteads Free. 'Only requirement is to have 5 acres of bananas 'planted within .5 years. An_ authorized company, will plant the' bananas and market them on shares. - Your'share should bring" $2.00 per' acre annually. The Jantha .Plantation Co.,Block-2001, Pittsburg, Pa., U. S. A., distribute Mexican land iri the ,U. S.' and Canada. * Write' for particulars.' *,You need not go.ft'o Mexico. .' ''• '-. ' - '," f.t.-24 Janitors;salaries ..... v... "~Incidental* expenses ..;..- Rental buildings J .7. '.".-'V '"-* TeaciTing supplies ...... Draying .expenses ' ; _ Insurance "....7. ..:;.*." Cleahlug' Material ....... School Material ."*.....:,. Publication of statement Sidewalk 'expense -...... .- Water"and light*........ - West Fernie School gr'nds 13806:32 ', 150.00 -1742:45 - 221.42 v'430.'O0' 321 .'65 . '29.50, ,' 165.00 133.85 . 211.27 60.00 ' 75.31 165.66 7600iot) ♦ ++. + + + '♦-♦""^■•♦-k ♦'••«> I H" ,- ■ '■''*&'&• *k^*^'^.s"**'i*--''i**->..v-**i - p^eliveredy - tcr^alf 7^ t' • delivered^- to^all, .-.\*.'('"■: \t - y *f 7\y> if ts"- of itbe .xowrir yy '*■ - :7?yy .yy-^-7-. ! Sandera '&' .VeVhaeat- Brothers. * ••(:,*!.< ■ School equipment ' 1191.63 $21431.46 $21481.46 Fernie. Annex School . Central School-Grounds' $ 69.;] o • 482/40 $542.55 '-,,Proprietors .*..,..* /! <►<»♦•» 0 » »♦'♦♦♦♦<>♦ ♦♦♦ I 'fl ' . .(This expenditure was, paid by;debenture:funds,) ' ''Si- - '-Certified correct— -. '-.'7;7 * *.',.','*'' '' '.City Treasurer. ' R." W. January, 8 th", 1912. .McDONALD, , S. "W. BARCLAY, - ,' " ;A: C. LIPHARDT, Chairman SUFFERED KENNEDY' & MANGAN PRESERVING-LUMBER * ..■-I,;.•&- -,. k'v*7;y -■; ■i-.,; . .;. .* Is(now, occupying a!" great deal of attfeation.' .It'B'egood thing.- ; and Sale Stiles First-class Horsei.'for Sale. 1 **■■ » " -^ " ... y • y,7-i Buys Horses on, Commlslon '".- . . 7' *-*■ -':> George Barton y.'Phone 78 I . . ■" v •'-1 -•■-*-. v-..; .-• « icItli-ic-AX'klcklrJricklcir-inckfrkl&ifir'kIt t — I'N'G B;:R...... s -,'•)*;/• '!«"-.. MACHINE .'l*)i- .' Srt ^ *• -J FIRST-CLASS LUMBER yr7,:'7y;„.. <\y yyy y. ,..; /is getting so scarce that-,;some' dealers do not bave^any at all - ,. . . ^,, *. ■* ~j We have, plenty, however.'' We -.7 make a speciality/"of handling" only.," high-grade / stuff, -7which, wise ' dealers Twill; tell • you; is really the cheapest.; -Bli v\ OFFICE and YARD, MCPHEB80N AVE., OPP. GJN. DEPOT,; FEBMIlT ■*•' 'COf:*;:- ..... s1 J-.,, ''. - ',, * .' ■■" * ;>>-. ■■>• t-j. >> WM. BARTON Aerent Fernie", Branch '■' V " >-, sy PeUa.tt Ave. North 1: '- '7 '*<*$-' IF YOU ^WiTH~Bii:iO0SNESS~AND-8iCK^"^ J L, 1 -' ' • 1 HEADACHE S Calgary)-Aiberia,* July 8, 1911 I was a great'sufferer, for a long time" with' BiliouBnessV Sick">Headache and Liver,trouble. Nothing seemed to do me any good. I had almost given' up iii despair when I decided to try. , y'; FIG PILLS After taking about half a box the head-- aches stopped and my appetite improved.'. II have just, finished the fifth box and foel as well as ever, I can' heartily recommend Fig Pills for stomach and liver troubles.—"Mrs." Mary Bllson. * ." Sold ot all dealers In,25 and SO cent boxes,or mailed by* The Fig Pill Co., St. Thomas, Ont,, * Sold ln Fornlo nt McLean's Drug and Boole Storo. , And Nothing but the Best in Fresh and. Smoked Meats, Fresh v and .. -\ . Smoked Fish, Dairy Producer-Poultry'•• y . <;;. .Etc.*"Etc, go to THE 41 MARKET CO. SAM GRAHAM, Manager PHONE 41 For' the flrst'Ume in" the. history of New York City, complete school census figures were' given out recently. The census "reveals,that 20,000 children aro out of. school illegally," violating tho child'labor nnd compulsory education laws. . ,* <b€um .vnn« nnunur* hkai.s the longs STOPS COUGHS l-P.ICE. 25 CENTS Fernie-Fort Steele *' . ,- .... . *.<•;*■ • Brewing Co,, Lid. \Beer-\-..,y-y: ,\,'-i . --,'.** - - ' * '• "7 ' »v ^¥^ Porter Bottled GootJs a Specialty" .yS.f%Prn i. \, .., ".' v» l''* L.E. McDonald ■ :-7--y - . • !,.■-■ -,. "Ledger" Ads, are Winners HOR8E8HOEINQ -"• GENERAL / BLACK8MITHING . "' " - ".\ ' :•■•«■ V .■' - ., ,. CARRIAGE'BUILDING Express * andV Delivery Wagons a {tf-ieclallty';' ■ f HIGH EST QUALITY CSTTPI8gj&] 'TVJL The \asle for Ritlgways Ten, like a lAste for thn best music, mny have lo bo acquired hy Rome, but when once acquired it is rt Rourcc of lasting delifiht. »H HI f t i -1 „ t..~A, ..rifl llkC 'f»V..»**»* .» k*>t.%-«* ^W^fc, fc*...-^.^*. ..-.-.-», - -■ - to strong it rocs much farther than ordinary teas. Sealed in air-tight, dust- proof, quarter, half and pound packages. ■ Her Maje»t/» Blend" $1.00 per Ib. • 5 O'O*!-.' 60c " •Old Country11 50c " 'G|»ul Household* 40c " iV<jy Now h Had in Teum al Bui Stop AWAtlngD GOt-D MKQAL, UONOON ia 1.1^1 Chnrlos M. Sholdon, for twonty-throo yonrs pnsior of n ConRrogntlonnl church In Topekn, Knns, nnd nuthor of "In Ills Stops," "Ilohort Hardy's Scon Dnys," and other popular rollRiouti works, hns announcod his conversion to Sncliillsm. He hns roBlgiiod his pulpit, nnd will work ns nn ovntigollst and undor tho auspices of tho Christian flocinllst Fellowship. Tho general ronfldonro In tho sincerity nnd dwrncter of tho mnn, rouplod with oratorical nnd wiitlntr ublllly, will nmk<* him u v/ilunhlc 'irqu'Hlllon lo tho rnuse. * » • il' i.iiu'ur U ».Vii iaiutl Kfli'tJU-i*1 at iiu) i', S, Navy dopartm-nt, tlio private con- <M*rni» whlrh Mnd^rtakc tho ronstruc- tlon of the two new battleships, No- vniln and Ohlnhomn. will he ohllgoil to vriilililinii Mi« " i^in-i>U»( ilrt'.i UifDufiii- out tholr entire plants, In ordor to conform to tho Hughes Amendment In the last Novnl Appropriation Hill. Thero Is no doubt among nnvnl officers tht|t tbo practical effect of this, ruling, will h« tn forco nn Hffhf-hnnr f?nv throiiRh- out tbo wholo of nny private shipyard utidorfnhln«r. fh« rnntrnrt Th*» datfl of opening Ui« bids for tho construction of tho new battlflshlps has been chanced from January 4 Ho January 35, In order that tho constructors may revise their flgur-ci because of the official rf«clslofl to apply th# taw to tha full effiict 40th ANNUAL STATEMENT BANK ." ' , ' - ,','i' Am mmhwaMUhtikm BbrntahmUaw at lb* Annual U—U*i held .at th. H«a«OUlee alikahamk, at HamlllMs, j . Moaday, Smuumtf 18th, 1013 * (,-. BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 1911 HON. WM. GIBSON, Prciident C.A.B1RGE CCDALTON GEO. RUTHERFORD J. TURNBULL, Vice-President and General Manager COL. THE HON. J. S. HENDRIE, C.V.61, - W. A. WOOD v ! UABILITIES T. tha VmWa Noteietthi rUnlcln ctreuUtlon 1 l,M*,t4o.OO Dipoilti Ixiirln* Inttnit, IncludlnS Intiriil iccruid ta dlt' IHIHM'IHMUIIIIIMIM'MIMIIM.IM1.fl.tM.ll*9«l,WI,w4lll Dcpoilti not iMirlng lnt«r«it.. ...■•.»i. 1,704^0*7 ■ -- I S4,7SI.4S3iH tUI«neiiduitoAnnUotthin»nl<lnOrei\t Hrltiln... • IM.413,00 Ilulnncn dut to othiir nmki In Canada and thi UnlUdBUtti KW.JIO.W Dividend Ko,M, payabtf IttDtcimlMr, 1011., .I 75,458,44 Porm-r DlvUUndi unpaid <, M3.M 70,100,44 I t$,mtf7,1i ta tika Shartlioldcrs Capital Stock (avwata ol th* ytar 11,734,830) • 3.800,400.00 K-urve Puad • S.MO.OM.OO Amount rtnarvtd for Kebit* ol Inttrttt on Currtnl DllU l-lkcountod 100,000.00 llalanco of proOln currlad fonvord ..■ • IffO.WO.ol) I S,4l».7M.W ' AS8BTB Gold and BllvarCoin ,„,,,„„ I MffllM DominionOovtrrtmtntNotu..... . mti... ».OH,g04.00 Dapnalt with thb Dominion Ooyarnmint ai Btcurlty for Nota Circulation •f.iiiMM......iMiiiMiMi*i.t,t..*i No4eaofandChtqu*fonothtrllantc* > IlaUncai dua from othar Dank* In Canada and ths UnlUd Htat**.l|I..I.MI>MMIIMII*M,.,,*,*, M..I ..MIMMt Dominion and Provincial Oovarnmant Stcurltlt* > Canadian Municipal KtcurltlM, and Tlrlttfth, or VoftHn, or Colonial I'ubllo lecurlll**, othar than Canadian.. hallway and Other Donda.Dibantur** and Htock* ,,.... toan* at C»H, ot 8hort Call,*n n«s«tUbl« SocurltU*.... $I,UI,77I,N - UO.OM.W Ml 1,179,71 UI,«*3.M W.WM 8,111,632.11 437,178,87 3.137,207.11 *^r^-.»-'|', KottaDlacountad andAdvancaacurrent .,,,..,........... Not** Dlacountad, ate,, overdue (tttlmated tea* rrovldid for) n»nk Promlu* ....ii » < •< Office furniture, Baf»*,ttc. ............m. ....(...••,....■.. Rtainitnt*(other than HankPremlae*', Mortim8«a,«to,...,. Other AuaeU not Included under fdrcSolntf h*nd«>,,,, , , a-i,w,«ii.7f JT.tJS.JOlM llf.lkM.MI tW.KSM IMJHS0.07 mm** M.IM.W • 44,7M.«7.lt ■■ \ ■'■" PnOPIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT Tha ni|l*nce at Credit ol Protlt and Loan Account, Mth November, 1010, wa» ,„„„„>,„:..,.... ,..i.m.m...i Tlie inuliiti Tor the year cudc-I 30th Noreml-er, 1011, nl«AT^t1«i1np«m> clinrrtPB of mnnn4craent and mnkinil provision for bud and doubtful Uobtw* aro Premium received onn*w8tock r • • m Jll.l.llllMIMIII. J'wm which hare b*«n declinM lour quartari-/ dividend*, In all It*. ...9443,500^0 I300*».31r *7,, ). • Mill .1.11 .,.,!..I, I. KM. Illl. IHI. ..IIIMIMIH. Ml" ■•,",","",»]f?,HS'S2 • V* •r Carrled lofteMrva Fund from Premium on New Stock a* above .■■<>>•■<•.<> .,,,,.,,„,,.,,,,..........--., "nri*»nn(i Carried to R*a«*run4 from ProAta..i.». »•••• • •*••» Hi.*™*" Carried to ("etwion Purvi .,..••«.».•••••■•■••■"• •■•;- ............•.-.••••<••••» •••>• •> '••"• ••• """ AltowBcJt«lorm*rP«aM«l.*rtt»l«fl^ ' • »,,H SAB.OOO.oS 2i,»77»l 8.0M.0O Ilnlnnc* of Profit and Loan carried forward W,1ai,\» $100,300.00 Hamilton. Nov. 30IK 1911 HON. WM. GIBSON, Pi^«ld«nt tl, TURNBULL, Vlea-Pratldtint nnd OeiKBral M«NH|j«i* "-.-,„- ..-*:*? ^.y-y,*"-- ■-;-"■ •:-. -,*;,. ■.-'.".y .;..--;-■■ •*:'; >-,.-v:-, y ^:->;y-y v77 "* ».-';-'-;■« *:■-. a ,£. :-,> -■•. '■' * .--,-*"':■•■■* ..",-■" -"v 7 7-7-;-' , •-•>■*. -C* P-* VU :. li' r il 7 fi - =~*m-: r"^*^ -■■•J ■•77-4 n\ ■--■'. *<■-, Cndaaurkl ■1 <w. ■ ji , \:-s\ ?,. '■ ■v«\\-*" c" v Vr .-i These are the very finest oranges y grown. : They are the best crop of 5,000 prize groves of California. Besides being sweet, juicy navels, each "Sunkist" is tree-ripened. Each1 is picked with -gloves. Each is sound, seedless—perfect. '*-'-,' 7 * \ ■* • y',' ■*■*■■ Oranges Most Healthful Fruit l^.-AH oranges are healthful, but this tree-ripened, full-flavors fruit tones [.,digestipniandfsuppii^ the required y, acid like--no other. It is impossible yto , get7better oranges than those ■Vhichicpr^ J- They keep well, as each orange comes to; you perfect, sound " and solid; \ ■. -'..-."'/*'* "77 - - ' ■ > ■ , <■ * * y^uy-thefn by; the dozen, L}half:box or box during this V big weed's sale at greatly Y^ reduced prices.' BEGINS MONDAY ^ Huge sale of finest California Navel «c 1 • si^ng?St -Tiicae are. the famous : fcunkist■/ Oranges, the prize crop of California. Each "Sunkist" comes in a valuable wrapper. Save wrappers and obtain beautiful and genuine 'Rogers' Silverware. Read full instructions to the right. This special orange-week sale begins Monday and lasts the.entire week. Remember. * w- tree-ripehed, haritf,picked oranges; are the finest in the world and "most economical ^S^ial lew prices. Buy in Quaitiiies—by the box or half-box, at aU dealers. Insist on "Sunkist" Wrappers Y°cu -'^U? better fruit at lower prices, and you will get free, Rogers' Silverware by sending in:wrappers ■■along, with,a few stamps or money order to "elP pay charges, packings etc.' ^Sunkist" Choose From These "Sunkist" Silver Premiums Get This Orange Spoon ' At right is shown new. "Sunkist" Orange Spoon, actual size. Genuine Rogers and of the latest style. Sent you on receipt of 12 V'Sunkist" wrappers' and 12c to help pay cHarges, packing, etc. For each additional' spoon send 12 "Sunkist" wrappers and 12c. Read carefully directions at right. Send for full description, number of wrappers and amount of cash nee* essary to secure each article. This Fruit Knife Yours LSI "% . I ->v<* V ,. ^. v ,. ■*v^B -'-, <- 1-1 1' I .* . -y * - , •*- ^^^ 1 ' , '«» -fc*y. J ''- ~ -*'1 7 *■■ '->Sy-'^^^^P^^blcause most juicy: /Tliin-skinned, and each :^eS^valuable ^SunkistVwrapper. W^^*****. ,*^^ CaMorida y^'ISrow "Sunkist" Premiums Table Knife fable Fork, DessertSpoon" Child's Knife Bouillon Spoon Coffee Spoon Salad Fork Oyster Fork, ^Child's Fork Orange Spooo Fruit Knife Teaspoon * - Tablespoon """T Butter Spreader .Made of special tempered steel heavily silver-plated, same high quality as the other "Sunkist" Premiums. Sent on receipt of 24 "Sunkist" wrappers and 20c. For each additional fruit knife send 24 "Sunkist" wrappers and 20c. Read This Carefully On al) remittances up to 20 cents please' send cash; on amounts above 20 cents we prefer postal <, note, money order, «•*,, press order or bank draft. Make money order or draft payable to the ."' California Fruit Growers* Exchange, and address your letters to the Call, fornla Fruit Growers*, Exchange. 10S King St. East, corner Church St., Toronto, Ont. You can secure these premiums with "Sunkist" orange wrappers7,, "Sunkist" lemon wrap-, pers, "Red Ball" orange wrappers or "Red Ball" lemon wrappers. Or * merely send trademarks cutfrom wrappers. If you . will buy only "Sunkist"1 and "Red Ball" oranges .. and lemons, you will get fruit of the finest eating quality/economically priced; and you will sooa ,haye_enough.wrapperS-to7 secure a complete set oi; the beautiful table silver* - •ware. *),--• $?]-5>W".■■*:•% 'Vy'.<•;< '"'*•.'';-,',. 7 *"■ - ~ »S~ ''I The Union Bank -. *" • 7 ?< . The Bank of Vancouver andother large financial and business institutions HvhO bought centrally located property in the big City of 7 ' "M^ AVE felWlNESS'ai FREE Maps, information, etc. District Selling Agent M. A. KASTNER FERNIE, B.C. Central British Columbia on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway the Last Metropolis of Western Canada Lot uh show you how $10 a month invested in w contmllylocntod lot—bought ut prosont prtawH»75 to ,$ii(K), Will Make Money fop YOU. Bankers Selling Agents . IM™AL Standard Securities, Limited BANK of British Columbia Paolflo Building - Vamou.-er, B. C. ONLY A WORKING MAN "Only a working mnn" Is an oxpros- oiou wuniMuy ufjtHi,. AtaonK tho oris- iowvit--' It liaiflk* htturlMtUy, H unman a mnn born to toll and work and stove for othors. A mnn to 1m» kept out of BOO'l.socloty. To bo dosplsod and flhnnnori. To lio looked upon with dis- iiu»U Io Ui v\>imiv»«iv.d ft. inauinn<» \o . voto, but novor to run for offlco' la fnct, to linvo no nmbltlon, Always to work, work, work. To bo content to hnvo enough to ont nnd "a plnco lo sloop, To bo satisfied with his sur- roundlww, whnlewr Hioy mny Im>. tint to tm fault, kick or go on strike. Whnt n Tw*nti'lful plr-Miro! Tho "worWng mnn" Is tho son of nnothor "working mnn." His rnc« has been In icrvltudo and bondngo for RKOS, Ue Is compelled to ioarn to read and wrlto. hut this Is th© ex- tont of his cdurnUon. H« Iw-fflns bf* bard llfo of toll whon u boy and koeps It up until ho dlos. Ho ts always li ^W""~wweeiwi ft working njnn. Ho owns no car- rlagos, horsns oi* nutomohll^H Tllu Is ft llfo of dull caro, working dny nnd night to cronto woalth for othors to sixjiuI in bountoous rocroation and luxurious living, Ho works oarly and Ia(.o to support a family living In huts dud hovols, that othors may onlov. What wonder ho fools ho Is dosplsod by tho vory pooplo bin koops In luxury, onso and Idlonoso? What wondor thnt ho rosonts tholr overtures of friendliness nnd proralBos of "fnlr Play"? Somobody must work, and thtiro will always bo "working men.' A country without workluKmoti Ih llko a farm without stock, a woll without wator, a homo Hhout children. Thoy aro tho slnow and bono of n nation. Its main- «tny and support. »n nn ngo of pro- grfss, dvllJwtloti und education thoy will b« consfdorcd the highest tygM-u of physical and Intellectual manhood. Thoy will not bo pushed nsldo. Thoy nro God's noblomon, Glvo thorn tholr '. .1. * ...«.»,4<,i, iiiotulil, Ulll, JAPAN CURRENT IQ CHANGING COURSE Oteamihlp Captains Report Extrsor- Ocean i ' CORDOVA, Aloskn, Jnn. 20.-A phc non-tonal ohnngo In tho oourso of tho Japan curront,,which brlngi* It closrr to tho Alnsknn const, was reported horo today by Captain J. C. Hunter, of tho sto-imor Northwontorn, and Captain P. A. Obort, of tho steamer Rdlth, arriving from Soatl>. captain Hun- tor said tho Northwestern was set fifty miles eastward, ahead of tho fog running from Capo Flattery to Capo 8t. EHob. ' ^ Unusual weathor, conditions are ho- lluve-i t0 h* A»ft. to lho change In tho curront that has prevailed hero for weeks. Tho avorago tomporaluio has boon <M degrees nbovo xoro, and thoro fiuvo boon henvy rnlns. . .. lUimiib tiofii thu 'iu*irlor show that tomperaturos (hero aro 15 degroes wnrmor than «vm l>oforo recorded At this tlmo of tho yeur. Warnings by wireless havo born sont to steamships klWii rtlii'IUrtUllllK UmlOVH. There is a vast extent of coal land In AlaBka that., comparatively few people realize tho enormous valuo of, or what an , Inexhaustuble supply of fuel is stored in thoso northern regions and bo far the government has retained tho ownership, of this vast mineral wealth. ' ' ,' According to the report of tho U, 3. geological surveyors the estimated coal bearing land ls In round numbers 12,000 square miles, of which 1200 s'nr. miles have been surveyed. According to tho estimates given as tho posslblo tonnngo of this .1200 square miles, which hns boon partially surveyed, thorc Is underlying this t.orrltory something llko 15,000,000,000 tons of conl. This does not tnlio Into account the romnliuler of,tlio 12,000 squnro mllos that Is classed as conl bearing land, In nil Xlnnkn has elc- von distinct conl fields, and In thick- nosB It vni'Ics from five lo 30 foot- many l'lncon where It crops out thoro nppcarB a vorltablo mountain of coal. So far thero hns boon very llttlo conl mined In tho territory, nnd owing to tho severity of the cllmnto tho preparation for mining nnd transportation will vo very expensive nnd will havo to bo dono on a Inrge scnlo In order to roduco tlio coHt of production down to n ronsonnblo cosl. Uoth nnihmclto and bituminous conl Is found In vnst (liinntltloH, but llgnlto Is found In some of tlio fields In lnrgo doposlts. Thoro nro those Hint consldor that tho most fonsalnVplan to operato this production would bo by tho govornmont. DARROW INDICTED LOS ANOKLKS, Cat, Jan, 20.—Two Indictments, ench containing counts of bribery nnd attempted corruption, wfro rotnrn<>d todny by the county grnnd jury against Clarence 8, Dnr- rt w, ot Chlmno, formerly chief coilit- sel /or tho MeNamara brothers, -Tho bill alleges that ho furnishes tho money out of the MeNamara detenso fund ond bribed Robert Tlnln, n jury, man, rworn to try James n. McNa- mnn, Ihe confessed Aynnniltnr nnd murder, and deorg«/N. Lockwood, n •♦-'Mremnn. Dnrrow Is o'W. on t2,0<W Ij.-ill nnd proclalmes his tnnocep.re. CLERICAL8 NO LONGER CONTROL REICH8TAO Left Win 21 Out of 20 D^lvlslons Which They Contested—Marlnburg Ind- dent-' Rw-allH nURUN, .Jan, 30.—Ono of tho mom striking fenturos of tho elections Is the fact thnt tho clericals for tho first tlmo since 1881 aro no longor tlie stroiiKOBt party, and no Inntrr-r hold tho earning voto among tho parties. Tlm honors of tho cloning Reichstag cor.tests fairly belong to tho lefts, who won 21 of tho 20 districts In which thoy contested. In Marlnburg, Horr Von Oldenburg, Com-erviitlvo, was defeated. Ho Is the man who nbout a year ago said: "The uiiii'U'ur must Uv<j power at nny thnn to say to a lieutenant: 'Tako ton men nnd dissolve the Rekhstag.'." Tho bit- ternesB ennBod hy this expression, It l» snld, brought about his dofent. CHOICE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY EVER STONE has rend in tlie Vancouver papers of the great, development which will lake place this year, at Lulu Island ■across the Fraser River from EBURNE, B. C. „ ' EBURNE is a flourishing suburb of Vancouver. The Cnna- ' dian Northern Railway and the Vancouver Drydoeic und Harbor Extension Company will, it is reported, spend largo hums in railway terminals there. Wo have a subdivision adjoining EBURNE Townsite, anil within about 400 ynrds of the river, the B. 0. Electric intervening. Sidewalk and two rocked ronds past property. Prices range from $500 lo $1,200. TERMS ARE ONLY ONE-PIFTH CASH AND BALANOE OVER TWO YEARS. As thoro arc only 32 thirty-thrco foot Lots you will need to act quickly, as thoy aro suro to advanco rapidly in value. NATIONAL FINANCE COMPANY, Limited VANCOUVER, B.C. I The Cook | always feels J ^\\\\\\\mw»\N •\A7TIOtTl UGlIITIiA I Shilohs Gun stops co-joss iss'a.,isa!ra I confidetii of _____ I pure and wholesome ifnnrJ sDi»PRirF.s CREAM Baking Powder A Pttre,Grape Cream</Tartar Baking Powder Made from. Grapes ^mmmKuuc* iLimc'PhospKatcl^ Put an Ad. In the Dfitrlct Ledger and boo it your ovm hit%\nt\%7 TryTiT ■ _.i mm um ■ 7*.': -.y^r*- .■^ J--*-.-\ w/r"-J*- •*** jy$*$y 77S. *•/. s*-*.. ■7GEF0UB TH1 JJISTEIOT: LEDGER, ?BRNIE, B,0.;,,fEBR]Df^X3l 1913. . - -• 7, ; . *, , - ' f. 7 * v. ',*>- ■ - .*.: Published; every Saturday, morning at its officii. Pellat "Avenue^' Fernie, 37,C.*y'Sal)scriptio"ny$i.OO per; year,in advance. "AnafSbellent,advertising- medium. Largest circulation*in the.Distriqt. Ad- rertising rates on application.] Up-to-date facilities for * the execution of all, kinds * of- book,; job' and color work. Mail orders/receive special attention. Address all communications to The District Ledger, \ H.P/NERWICH,; Editor. Telephone No. 48: °' Post Office Box No. 380 FREE SPEECH ' It is time an. emphatic,protest ,*was:-made,ag'ainit the-herding and treatment of.'pris^ners7in. the Nelson Jail."" We understand;Uhat;tit?cbutaihs three times""the number it''wa's'bmlt:*f"or,^ri'd*,'thai the sanitary conditions are' riotVof jthe^b'est.'. *\Vhilst recognizing that prisoners•■aT^itoTt^^•entiil.fed'-tolus?; uvious comfort,' they are,' nevertheless,j6htitledvrto humane. comifortsy " The' tendency^nowadays *. is towards prison reform and instead of.making, tlio prisoner feel' that he;is an1 outcast,*,he is1 being taught, to improve himself so that when his purgatory is finished he"can go into the world once more and'seek an lioncst livelihood. The methods adopted at Nelson," howeveiv cannot have beneficial results.' What we 'evidently need in this countrv is a few delinquent' bank managers, ice' kings, etc. They add an air of importance to prison life, and, of course, see that THEY, at any rate', are treated well.1 •* ' ■ "C»ROM time to time the populace is roused by* „ the denial on the part of some autocratic authorities' to allow every man, or body of men, freedom of speech in .public thoroughfares'; thoroughfares that he, or they, help to keep up. Motor cars- and' juggernauts have free access to. these roads to the danger of life and limb of those who 7 happen to cross their^path. The worker, however, has no right to them, otherwise than to walk 'on, for which privilege in this day of freedom, enlightenment and civilization he-is no doubt truly grateful. Occasionally "he may go a step further ana, * finding a spot of vantage,' desires' to hold con- .. course ,with his fellow beings. He is soon disillusionized and forcibly told that, the-streets are not made for the poor,' and other unfortunates seek- " * ing honest work,, they' are made for the rich and joyriders. 7 This' assumption is false. Every man, poor or rich, is' entitled to? the use of the public streets. Business men have their homes, libraries, ° clubs, churches, golf, links, universities, etc.,"for „ their social, political, religious, educational and „ amusement purposes. It therefore follows that he has no need of the streets outside of his business .purposes. ; Not so the poor man,, he has none of ;*- these, and - consequently "out of necessity must make use of more open places. When,a conflict for free speech arises the business'man-is actuated from the most callous and sordid'considerations.*. On the other hand' we find sturdy men fighting'for a principle,,arid who have -nothing but principles to'lose; men devoted, tb a ■ cause-that-has claimed* the, brightest and best of the human-race. For .the. principle of free,speech "torturer -A'contemporary down the,line takes us to task for during to poach on his preserves. The editor, proprietor, publisher,'printer and finaneer of that paper is evidently laboring under an illusion. There is.no infringement of any rule of-journalistic etiquette in soliciting advertising or subscriptions in any place, the local paper it is always considered being'well able to withstand such onslaughters. But when the residents of that particular town believe in the efficacy of an outside paperi for their advertising purposes it does not-say much.fOr, the, value of their own paper. So far as job printing' is concerned we can assure our friend that no attempt ^as made to.take any orders away from hini. ', Tho checkweighmen residing fn Fernie have now to pay two bits each way,going to and from Coal Creek. This has' been decided upon this 'week and immediately came into effect. • It would be interesting "to'know why.?- -Up /till now no, quesrion was raised-on this point. By the by, a '-heckweighmau and the superintendent at Cqal Creek had a tiff.' The. latter, wanted to dock a tar of coal, button the former standing up for the miner's rights, and the gross injustice of ihe case in question; it was passed. " But we' are ..transgressing. We repeat, .it would be interesting tb know WHY;the checkweighmen^.have "to pay their two bits. " . / y" ' y h ' ■ irniD^have- cnuureu."; uuilgcuuo—auu—c^-AAv/t The' latest fight for this principle is now going on in Vancouver; and as usual harsh and repressive measures are being used for,its suppression."' Right must, however.Leventually triumph, "and-whether the,struggle is.lpng or short it,will never-end except in one way, and that is for the" right of freedom- of speech. • • ' ..... ( ' Our esteemed local' contemporary, draws our at"- tention.to'an article which'-appeared in the Western Catholic in, reply to one that appeared in the District Ledger of recent""dateV We, too, had noticed it, buyinasmuch asit'is,not'a reply to the points raised 'and[statements j'made by us,* we did not consider it sufficiently important to refer to. - - •-js \ We claim the indigence"* of our readers this week for the' meagre quantity -of reading matter contained in this issue.-^The rush of advertising came so sudden that we could not arrange .to enlarge the'Ledger \tiis wSekY.'m fact,"weT, are .holding over advertisement matter until next week,, when we hope to give our'readers' an enlarged paper. THE COAL MINER Tho Briceville .mine - disaster once more Illustrates tho courage, and magnanimity of the coal miner when the hazards of the business run against him.* '.'It Is a bit singular that ln an ago Which has raised a numerous crop of Wltors of stories of tho world of toll and of physical peril tho coal miner should havo been overlooked. "Wo havo Cy ' Wurman's englnemen and 'Owen' WlBt'or's cowboys, Mark Twain's iiver,pilots and Ralph Connor's lum- • berjacks.' P. Hopklnson Smith has l-mmortnllzed tho submarine diver, but tho subterranean minor who walks ln ' darkness waits his chronicler, apologist and champion. Tho real minor Ib a vory different person from tbo minor of popular thought, as different as the real lumberman is from tho pleasing creations of tho fancy of Ralph Connor. While ho works with pick, nhovol and drill, ho Is In reality a skilled laborer, He may llvo In a wretched dry goods box of a houso and bo as Improvident as a Hummer moth, but ho Is "a man for a' that." Tho coal miner must perforce bo a scientific man. ITo may not rocog- nli-o himself from the description, but It Is accurate. Ho knows moro about tho behavior of gases and tho laws of ventilation than tho uulvorslty graduate In physics. He has to know theso thlngn; tils life depends on It, Mvory minor Ih a practical geologist. .. Faults, "(-llckensldes," tho Intimate characteristics of coal, limestone, sand- Htono and shalo, tlio peculiarities of varloim kinds of "top" overlying veins of rniil—nil Hwho lio Is familiarly nc- nualntt-d with, When n man's work depends on the Houmluew- nf tho rock above his head lie Is likely to havo something moro , than a theoretical knowledgo of tbo rnnV Tlio minor works In a dark world. Wye nnd oar are trained to a sensitive- noBs tho worker In daylight knows no- *. thing of. Ho works beneath huiulrods 'of fept of earth and rock, tils busl- nfRs is Ui« removal of the supporting coal, whkh tins carried nil this burden. Forces ot magnltudo unimaginable to tho ordlnnry man aro at work nbout liliin all tbo tlmo.' * ITo must bring down tho overlying' formation In tho exhausted workings to relievo the pros- suro ubovo hlH head, Ho must know when and how tho ■'ground" will '■hrenk" nnd when tho wrath of the oarth gods Is awakened and fight U the sdlo resource. . Tho miner Is not Impressive, per haps, above ground' but ho Is a king In his own right ln his proper realm. No worker in the wholo fabric of modern society !s more faithful or does- greater service ln proportion to his reward.—St. Louis Labor. ' a PAY OF ENGLI8H JAILORS THE TELEPHONE TRANSFER ' LONDON, Jan. 22.—Whllo the British landsman has joined trades unions and has had his wnges raised somewhat In proportion to the raise ln tho cost of living, tho British bluejacket hns had no such benoflts, Ho belongs to tho "Silent Navy" and lives and moves and has his being under the shadow of tho articles of war, subservient to the King's regulations by day and night. From tho day whon he dons his uniform ho ceases to enjoy many of tho privileges^ of the civilian of his own class, because he has bocomo a King's mun. For sixty years he has accoptod his fato without a murmur. In 1852 tho British ablo seaman received forty-one conts a dny undor an admiralty circular. Ho rocelvos tho snmo pay today. Of course, his advance nnd privileges havo nugumontod In other directions—his food and accommodations nre bettor and ho has rodross from harsh treatment-—but the amount of money that ho can send to n mother or wlfo on shoro romaltiH the snmo, whllo Its purchasing powor has shrunken. It Is tho snmo up to tho hlghost ranking officer, for tlio potty officer receives nlxty-ulx cents n day, just what ho did sixty years ago, Now nil Is to Ik» changed, Ono of tho first things thnt Winston B, Churchill did when ho Hiicceodod Mr. MoKonna na first lo*rd of tho ndmlrnlty wns to enquire Into tho stato of the Rttllor, and n bill will presently bo Introduced In parliament to provide for an Increase of pay throughout tho British navy. In speaking of hlu scheme, Mr, Church said recontly: Is collectlvolBm possible? At midnight last Sunday the whole property of the National Telephone company, including Its 18J000 employes, passed ovor to the1 ownership and control of tlio state. -Thero are 1,578 exchanges and 649,976 tolophono stations, and last yoar moro than 727,000,000 calls were made." . For 1910 the gross v Income' of,, tho company was 3,422,423 pounds; the not profit, £1,105,573. "Wltb perfect smoothness, without the slightest Indication of bustle or 'disorganization," Bays tho Telegraph, "ono of tho biggest commercial undertakings of rocent years passes from the possession of tho.company which brought It into being to an Important department of tho stato." What has Just boon accomplished with tho telephones could just as easily be dono with ovory othor monopoly. Evory stop must be tnkon to Improve tho conditions of tho employes and to provide opportunities for advancement. Tho present year should boo many Improvements In tho system and a groat extension of Its advantages. — Labor Leader, England. A MILLIONAIRE'S CHARITY A Now South,Wales millionaire, Mr W. It, Hall, has loft an estate In thnt region valued at £2,311,000. His will directs thnt £50,000 shall tie devoted to charities lu Now South Wales, nnd Quoenslnnd. This works out nt n llllo moro thnn 2 per cent of tho whole sum. M. Hall's heirs will not, we tiust, bo linpovoiUhC'd by tho reckless generosity of tho totstntor. Mr. Hall should have also considered tho moral effect of his rnshnoHU, Ho has established n dnngorous precedent, The rights of tho widows nnd orphans left "Thoro Is a claim on tho nntlon for a | by millionaires anouid oo sateguarueu, rucunsiiieriiiion of,the pay of the men. —Boeialist, Melbourne, of tho fleet, and tbo hoard of admiralty which me«te this claim Justly will certainly not sink In the esteem of tho people whoso existence depends on ^nUsti -aipr-eniacy hltoai." Mr, W. Card will present moving pclturcu In tho following towns FRANK—Monday ' and Tuesday at Hon Amleo'a New Hall. HILLCREST - Wednesday and Thursday at tho Miners Hall. WLLBVUB—1'i'ldJ.y uud 3-iturdny, tVb, 6 and 10, in tho Socialists Hall. miAtRMORE-Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, Feb, 14, IB and 18. STORE POR RENT FlnoBt building between LothbiMdB<(, i-Uni HfcUlni, iwv.*'i*'ii V.*t iV.i.UttiH., «Wt.i tho property of Local 1058, Building 80 x 33, with concrete foundation; basement, -40 x 33. A cash store preferred, Thli is n splendid opportunity for sny one. • Tbe coal company h-i-re are now spending a bis; sum on development work. Full particular* from th«* p*cr*lary. JOHN TAYLOR, Recording Secy, Hlllereat, Alts. *v-n-* ,v, *=3 ^%^4ry"f--' ■ _ .,_ *fi.w Cost A Ledger Ad is Sure a Safe Investment ^M/'The price of "Sunkwt-^'pranges—-the finest -. *Qmifruit grown—is'5no1;£igher than that -.which;' ,^Cl3.,..youhave paid foroi'sin'g'espf much less qual-; • $$3 ^ f MadamJ-nferply ask for "Sunkist" and{, ^Of- insist' that ,eacH*'orange:y6u buy is wrappedy »™ • iii'.a. tissue.p'aperV■marked "Sunkist." Fot£r y Ujremy wrapper'is valuable.7 .They identify the-5- l|""best orangesih^hefworld.'-By saving.these), | wrappers you receive beautiful "Sunkist" silver.", 'premiums at but a trifling additional expense,'.. ' Many., wide-awake women-are furnisliing*,. their dining tables by this means. Read care-; „ fully particulars below. • ** 7 - - '.%*. Seedless. Tree-Ripened Navels , The choicest crop of 5,000 California groves. They'■' "are, oranges with no seeds.1 They are solid, ripened on the trees and picked hy gloved hands. Juicy and delightfully sweet. Toe most healthful of .all fruit. You will get genuine vSunltlst" Oranges with the valuable wrappers by insisting •> on them. Your family deserves this most health-. ' ful and economical fruit. . • ; Get This Splendid 7 Rogers^ Orange Spoon ' Save 12 "Sunkisf'orange or lemon wrappers, or trademarks cut from wrappers, and send them to us, with 12d in stamps to help pay charges, packing, etc.andwe willsendyou thisgeauine Rogers' silver oranjte spooo.! . „ _ . — ' '-.*,■' Fry-'. K-«£e for 24 Wrappers nnd 20o '*' Excellent ouality-^senuino Rogers' -'jiilver. .I.-'*eniutirc. Please send cash when'tho amount is loss than 80c: on amounts above 2flc we prefer postal note, money ordor, oxprosa order or bank draft. 14 "Sunkist" Premiums Send for fall description, number of-wrappers and amount of 7 . cash necessary to secure each article. . Table Knife "' Child'* Knife Oyittrl'ork , Fruit Hnife % Table Fork - Bostillon Spoon Child's Fork' -Teaspooa - letter! Spoon' Coffee Spoon -, Oranjo Spoon Tablespoon Salad Fork ., Bolter Spreader Thin-Skinned, Juicy "Snnkitt" IXMOHS-Of the same superb quality as the oranges. Economical because "so thin-skinned and extra juicy.'Wrappers tame value as "Sunkist" Orange wrappers; Recipe Booklet'/r« upon reauest. -.-.-- s- „ - * (133) CALIFORNIA FRUIT GROWERS'EXCHANGE 10S Sfintf Street, East. Conor Church Street, Toronto. Oat r> Family Theatre * V ■-;.'.-■ -"Ift ' *r* * ' - ; . y ■ y .- : w new you^caiirui ' '"'* house lighted during-the pictures, Program for Percy and His Squaw COMEDY Won by a Foot COMEDY Science \ DRAMA Inm.—Lassie, the trained Imp dog, appears lh tho principal role of thin picture, .together with Llttlo Mab, the tinoBt-child actor now appearing/ Tho moat wondortulul canine story, ever pictured In which colllo dogs seem to show almost human intelligence. ' ' ' ■ '' ■ /, A Daughter of Italy The White Medicine Man W: M.JEFFRIES Jewelery Repairing a Specialty Engraving High class selection of Watches, Clocks and Norelties PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES Dressmaking Uj>4o-date. Consult Me First Hofore having your Spring Sewing dono soo MRS. E. h. CARD, Pirot- cho nreiimaklng and Plain and Fancy Sowing. Suits a ap«claUty. 1'rlces reasonable. 16. Pellett Avenue. Here it is, Wailing for.U to rrn.vr Concrete brocfc Tfonftv-; tf rooms. Apply Wm. Mlnton.Und- say A.ve., Annex. SHACK.—Apply Wm. Mlnton, Und* uy Ave., Annex. %\--*\: "V^fe^7^7-7^ sWas^er "il Gel a Water Motor Washer ' *",-v,". ■-- , . , ■- *7,. ■, 7;-7v; . y y *r 'y t - ."and Be Haprjy; ; f j.D. -<, Hardware FERNIE Furniture 7 CyE. LWNSS " '* - ' "' -l7_*, '- v'* l t '■',*"' s y7-'7 ;l;yy Insurance, Real Estate an<d Loans -S7S7 Money to Loan on first class' Business and j'Residential: property y Waldorf Hotel Mrs. S.= Jennings, Proprietress Rates $l;50.ahd up 7 Hot and Cold Water " Electric Lighted ' ' \- y rr?Steam*"Heatea. '-,* ^^ . 'Phone In every room., ^ Sample Rooms on Main 7, Business Street'' Meal.Ticketsy$6.00 ; Special Rates by the;week and the month and to Theatrical parties. Try our *,..,' Special Sunday- Dinner 50c The finest, of Wines, Liquors and Cigars served by competent and obliging wine clerks. CigapStore W. A. INGRAM Wholesale ReUil ") Patronize Your Old Friend , O. ttadkn'u lio(i(8 to Inform his old anil now fi'londfi that ho h'tu* 'oponod-up Ills Harbor BiiHlnoHg again at tlio old uUind" (Queona Hotel) and liopos to got tholr continued putroniiRe, t. 6. Radland Fernie . j S«9-jj *■- - •siB'**-'*-»i**' y~^i;tfb&^^t$%«i£ ;.-( •■' «-, "."■•, •",•" *'-'-.:.,>4.'. Barber Shop ' ' •'"• Baths 7 v v • ... > •Shoe Shine Billiards and Pool Coffee and Sandwich . ,'. Counter ." -7. Hazelwood Buttermilk *.; y y mat' tsoa Victoria Avenue FERNIE, B.C. Phone 84 WANTED to PURCHASE—PcorlouB or Cyphers' Iiimilintora in good condition; also 0 Imllfin Runner Duoks nnd Drnko, nnd 200 Whlto Orplnuton Pul- lota. Albort Davies, Fornlo, 11,0. tf-24 HOU8B FOR SALE or TO LET.-. Plvo-roomed IIoiibo, altimto on cornor of Jaffrno nmi DaHon Avoiiuon. Ay ply. D. WIUIb, POU SALlWi-our-roomo^ Cottage, Lot 8, Dlock Cl, Fornlo Annex. Houso In good condition; cheap for canlt; $000, or termt can bo arranged,, Apply, District '.iCdgcr, •*•<■«•■«. *•>*'. FOR SALE-House on lx»t D. Block it, Anne*.'' Apply R. Corner, Box i,U Nannlrao, D, 0., or 488 Pernio. •FOR RENT— Wrthf-rw-nW mftd#r» Houso on Macphtrson Avenue, $20 per month. Apply, Creo and Moftatt. FOR KXUliANttKr-i-wo Vioafc-sn mu LoU in Weil Pernio for building lots In or near Now Westminster. Alio Piano for Bale, Apply, P. R. Lundle, 04, Uowland Avenue, Thia by a wirpenler, "Paw, la there any difference be- twe«n tlvihtt Mid lumberr "There la no necessary difference In Und, my son: Ibey dUfer merely In degreo of itaie In development, Por example a nm may be spoken of aa goM timber for somo high offlco, and yel repreacnt nothlne but lumber when ho getit thoro. A Policy Is a soldier to help you In the battle ot llfo, Whon your build* Ings are Insured You Feel Freei Yct-i Vmivi thnt vtfibH wA f-tor*'* may bo doatrbyod; but a policy In our company la lndcilrucl-* Ible. White tho houae Is burn* lng the pbllcy ehangOR Into M, A, KASTNER Sole Afftnt for Furnlo c i Shilohs Gun miieair *vo-»s couwit), euan cotet, HUiS) YttS TNMMV «NO UIKttS. M B04TS) Ledger Ads are Winners --.*,;-: 1 -j .;.\.. IHE DICTEICT7UEPQSR, PEEHPB, B. C, FEBEUARY 3,1912. 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LFOISY 7. y Manager By* V- V The New and Up-tp-:date Hotel - Every, person likes tobe com-, fortable. ...We have the latest . design of steam heating appa*-" ratus In every room. Our menu ' is the best'. We guarantee sat-- isfaction. Two blocks from C., P. R; Depot". Old and new faces welcomed. * ■• Newli/iichel.vB. C. P. Zorrattir- Prop. r Col email Hdtel W. H. Murr - Prop. L Passburg Hotel You're always welcome here ' * i •* Clean Rooms, Best of .• Food and every attention O ||||U '■! ■■■■■'—■- THOS. DUNCAN Passburg Mi | The Cash Grocery !..... I I Ill I III —IT Hosmer B.C. Groceries Fruits * *W*^VbMM'IV«# Always Choi co and Fresh i JtUUI ;•* ♦ ♦ ♦"♦"'•►.♦^♦♦■•^ ■♦"*'♦' *j.-.j .COAL tCREEK BY 174, The" examination- for'' coal "miners will take place on Monday,, afternoon, February 5th,- in the Email "office fa - tag the Coal Company's office. " * .The'ITr'C. S.1 competition candle is at present burning in the Trltes-Woods Store up here,, so watch It 'carefully, It Has a' long' time to, burn' to reach some of the guesses. , 7 . ,. ^ John Weir got a nasty blow on the leg wlth.7 a piece'of rock while' at work ln No. 1 North laBt Friday, morning.' '"',"- _ y . - *' , Another sad accident" occurred up here on Monday-afternoon In which William Eden, working in' No. 1 South, received^ terrible injuries. . He was employed on repair work when a cave- In occurred, and .caught "him on the head and back, causing ji bad scalp wound. It is feared that his spine is injured. " He was attended by. Dr. Workman and then conveyed to(1the Pernie Hospital on the afternoon train where he is at present lying in a cri- tical.'conditlon. 7 ! Mr.- C." Sanderson and -Mrs. Mitchell, pf Fernie, were renewing old-acquaintances ;iip.'here on Wednesday afternoon; ."• - - The Ladies' Aid of. the Methodist Church was reorganized last week.and the following officers were appointed: President, Mrs.-J. P. Mawsbn; secretary, Mrs. D. Oliver; .treasurer' Mrs. Hartley. It was also.decided to hold a pie supper on .Wednesday .Feb. 21, but of this further-, particulars will bo given later. * - 7 . * The mines were all idle up here laBt Saturday and, the afternoon shift was idle on Thursday and all off on Friday morning' ' 7 ',■'"■■ ■ Mr and Mrs. Green, the-parents of Mrs. Jas. English,,.left on Thursday to take up their residence in Fernie. . • The government men were here on Tuesday , clearing away ,* the . snow which- was • sliding^ down onto the roads. ' ■■ , • -' . 7 ■ ' 'kUt-IWliukA -♦ ♦'■♦ ♦ ♦ '♦''■♦ •♦:.♦.♦ ♦ ♦ '.7.- MICHEL NOTES ♦ drew their timeand left this week for the prarie country. "*"-" 7 *■/■/.' .-.* - There is quite a little [excitement im Melville Taylor's Pool Room-these days owing to a pool and.billiard handicap being on which is attracting quite a number of the"Old Michel boys doM'ri there. - 7 , - ..' " '. -.There's a* movement, on.;* foot tb change the.camp's name from-Michel to. "Nothing Doing." y ;" . "• A tare,is being taken7,of all the mine- cars, which Is reported to be In; the miners'. favor.-. -*. It - will have to go, some' to off-set. the dockage clause^,which has recently,• been enacted.-. , •„ - . \ ' ' The moving picture shows ln Lock- hart's Opera,House are exceptionally good, affording a fine night's entertainment, both from an entertaining ad-educational point. y ' Mike Halko, who has' been laid .up, for considerable time with typhoid fever Is-once more able^to be around. - Richard - Jones', of Corbln,-was a visitor here this week, looking up old friends. , ^Dlck, we are.gladNo note, h much improved In1 Kealth. • Gophers .weirs seen out on Michel Prairie Sunday owing to. the soft weather. *-. - ■ , 7 7 H.. P. Nerwich," editor of the District Ledger, - paid a visit to" Michel, Friday, the~26th ult, on.business,connected with the Ledger." ■Friday night last the* Castle Square Entertainers performed in Lockhart's Opera House, much tb the appreciation of those persent. .The attendance was^ not i one of .the largest, which.,1s tb.be regretted, as it does not give Mr Lockhart much encourage-' snient to secure.the services of, such frst-class companies: ' ,< Joe, Swindle,' who is working In the bush at Estabrbdk's camp east of here, had. the misfortune on Monday last (so he terms it) "to' part company with one of ^hls, thumbs."1 The unfortunate man was, making a wedge with'an axe which;happened to slip, and Joe is minus" a thumb. ^ * * 1 A meeting of the < Michel and District Anglers Association is called foi Sunday,*' February'-,4th; ..at .7.30 p.m. C. J. Lewis, Deputy- Game • Warden, will be present to address the meeting. All those * interested in '.sport' of, this lfl-nd chnnlrl ntfc-nfl •; , „ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦'♦':♦'♦. ♦.♦ ♦' '<£• •♦ . -^'.i*'' "-. 7 -- ; ♦ ♦ , TABER NEWS ; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ^j ♦'♦*♦♦ ♦""♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ 'J The mines, at Taber are practically. vclosed down. "The small mines have been running bn local orders for some time. As the weather for the last couple of weeks" has been exceptionally fine, there has riot been much demand for coal in local quarters. The Canada West Co. are short of orders, at present. ' The mine worked only three days last-week, and there doesn't seem to be any- prospects ot doing better this week. A.large number of the miners • are • leavHg town. Some aro going north to the Edmonton fields, others are going up the Pass. '; ' -. a . The Board of Trade ,afe sending a delegation' of twenty-five members to Edmonton to urge upon Premier. Sifton.the* needs, of Taber in regard to railroad facilities. „ The town Is sadly, in need of an additional road, as there' is a famine In' box -cars. :- The-farmers in-this vicinity have been unable to market, their wheat as the elevators are full'and-no cars are- available;, *'■£„'' """The; bi-monthly pay bill,' which is before,the house'at-present, will not become law, if,the operators^ can prevent It.--.'The operators of this "district are also making a trip to Edmonton. " While their, object is'not made public'""at* present no doubt .they, are looking "after their own Interests in this, matter.- v- . - <What might'have been a fatal shoot Ing'affair occurred'a few days ago. "TA man named Johnson-was-shot by one of the town'"police.' Johnson, who was doing scavenger work, was returning to' his home about, two o'clock ,in the morning. .On,the way he had to pass b'y-'a lumber yard. ■ -The officer, a new man on'the force, thought h'e was stealing- lumber, and ran up and callarl to lira* to stop. "Whether he heard him or not' Johnson drove off, and the cop opened fire. The second shot hit Johnson In the side. The Town Council,ordered a warrant to.be issued for.the arrest of the man;-who did the^ shooting.' He is at present released bn.three-hundred dollar bond;' butJS-SuspendedJronLdutv..- ; E. F. RAHAL HoWf Thll? W/i iiff^r flu* TfmntnM pn'tim TWiril tor nr.f mm M ■lunrb tttl «**** bt ««»«4 if IM)r« tituird Cut. f, J. CHF.NEY * CO., T«*M«. O. w«, »w i»«««s«««. i*rt *«*«•« r. i. i*»»tr tot tM> 1»X II. j-Mi/«, »»* Iwlkfw Mia pitlrtvr tua. ttrthm tn »U immrm tnnmtUani *n<t nniHeUUr mu taum <Muy oW**.tta*i» tuui* by hu tan. Kimmi nxrt. oy tjjw-imc*. • T»»«itot, «<*». ItittH CkUfTH Om h ttkM totrruary, ana*« itftwrrr <ntm »im» lifW mm mwmw mtrfii** fif in* mmi. -t«MMM*kM «•« rm*. rrv# ft «■» V* kolOr. IkM ST M HIWW ini» nan nmxr rm» m ttmwpitym. ♦ ;♦,♦ .♦ ♦ ♦. ♦:.♦-"♦ .♦ :♦ ♦ liir.;*John* Thomas, rlate pit boss at Corbin, arrived in camp Tuesday ac- com'panled.-by-hls daughter. • " ^ On Manday night a dance and- supper^ got'up by the Michel-Local. S. P. of C.,f was ;held,'ln .Mutz's^Hallivwhen abo,ut-40 couples danced to the excellent music supplied by Llttler's'Orchestra. ' Supper was served at 12 o'clock, afterwards dancing was.. kept up till 2 . a.m., when - all departed thoroughly satisfied with the.night's entertainment. ' j Sunday night Comrade Minton, of Fernie, addressed a large and attentive meeting In Mutz's Hall. The subject on which the comrade spoke was "A.struggle for existence-.1'," i : Anyone'suffering from loss bf appetite should consult Wm. Ridley, as ho has discovered a new remedy. William has already had ono patient who can vouch for its qualltleB.y - The doctors hero .are making an examination of all children attending school. JuBt what1- 1b the cause of this we aro unable to state, but typhoid fevor Ib very provalent at this tlmo. . * . - „ , A daring holdup was perpetrated ln Now Michel on Tuesday night about eight o'clock ln front of tho Now Michel Liquor Store. A young Italian, namo unknown to ub at present, pulled a gun on a Hindu hnd relieved him of-oho hundred dollars caBh, .Information was at onco given to the policeman ln Old.Town, who accom- pnnled by tho relieved mnn located tho .doBporado at his lodglngo, On ontorlng tho Hindu Immediately recognised his nssnllant, who mado nn attempt to pull his gun, but wrb quickly overpowered by tho policeman nnd locked up, nnd ho now awaits a preliminary honrlng, Sunday Inst MossrB Davidson, Jon- kltiBon and Winters who woro taking a drlvo up tlio 1311c Valley nt tho Invitation of Dob King, had tho misfortune to havo to walk bndc homo, It ap- ponru they drovo to Weavor's nnnch to look nt nomo stock, and whllo thoro left "Kelly," nob's noted sleed, standing In the road, Now, "Kelly" being Bpoody nnd nn ambitious sort of n ctiBH, took a notion to bent Dnn Pntcho's record and startod out for town. "Hob noticing tho1' getaway started In pursuit, but aftor having ,-«V«W fc l» *V »M*'lU M* ##W tfUMII ft/»4«.&,| JyMltr Imp the rbnw "Kelly" arrived Iii (town wllh rig nll'Bnfo and sound, as [also did tho party somo fow hours later, who. tho' tired, were all able to put In an appearance next/ morning. led (o enquire Into tbe cause of death of Jas. McCullum, fireman on tbo Westbound Flyer on tho 17th Jan., who met* his death by his engine striking it crano at Sparwood, which,was protruding over the main line, was to the effect of holding tho C. P. lly. responsible for not, having a competent foreman In charge of crane. Hurry Ryikn nnd Matt Halt left this •week for the Ye)]owh«ad Pass, where thoy have secured positions. We wish ihem. all kinds of success. Rill Smttllman nnd Wm. Canter no' liking fn* looks ot No. ft Inm^wall, decided to look for fresh pasture, *o The discriminated" members in Michel are beginning to wonder whefl the District Executive Board, ls going lo comply with the- resolutions which they passed concerning them—"That's all!" ■ - .* * - * ;' ' Mr. George Melkle, editor • of' the Michel, Reporter,"'finding his"present time they/Wilt- reside. - \ - -; —London.'is'the greatest city in the world though New York runs it close. There" has-been a lot of skyscrapers 'ouilt during the. strike; certainly it's on the map. Look -at Hosmer Mines rent- roll.^ '■' y . \ ' ' ■' "Tit-bits? has a green cover," but the "Answers" are golden. ., : Hosmer Local 2497,' U. M. W. of A. '"" Distirct 18 - The regular meeting will be held in the usual meeting place every Sunday at 2.30 p.m., commencing Sunday next, Feb. 4th, 1912, when all members are reqeusted to atend. Business: Important. Now, boys, get together; there's no excuse such as being on the afternoon shift; or "I was,tired.!' The Change has been made so that you can all meet, together and know what Is doing. ' , The meat trade is booming in Hosmer. "Just before going-to press we heard, of another partner joining the Hosmer, Meat Market Co. -' But why, keep it quiet, Prank? You have said it so many times. .„ This was heard in Hosmer Opera House on Burns' Night: "That's a good picture •' I have never seen such a good one of Napoleon Boneparte."^ ./*..-, "Why that's Bobbie. Burns,. mon." "Oh, I thought it was,Napoleon." (Don't tell his ma, she might find no "bone-part" .in, him. An'd yvv thought him so intellectual.) Scots wha hae tak it. in -your hands next, time." ■ ' - o ' Overheard at Burns' Night dance: "The Scotch ought to feel highly honored at being * allowed af such a' dance!"-7-Oh, indeed! ■/ ; It has just "leek"ed cut that Mr., — is going.to hold St. David's Day on his own','and have a right old time. (Gallant little Wales!) .We are sorry to' announce, that "Tlt- Bits'Ms leaving us, having secured a position on the" Pass Record. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦'♦> ♦ ♦ ♦'♦ .♦ ♦''"-, " "♦ ♦ HILLCREST NOTES ♦ ♦ - ...By "Concertina Joe." " .♦ promises too' small,' moves into the Samerton Block on April 1st, where he will Install ah" up-to-date plant. *A caso of wife beating occured In New Town Tuesday night, and the culprit, Ignace Hanger, was lodged ln gaol; Just how he beat her and what he beat her for beats us at the time of writing, y 7 A,business meeting of the Mlchol Local S.' P. ot C. will bo hold in Mutz's Hall, Sunday, the fourth of February at 10.30 when all comrades are requested to attend. . Mr. Joseph Mason and family have movod Into houso 137. *, On Tuesday afternoon tho men working in the longwall work In No. 3 Mine, had to run out leaving their coats, dinner buckets, etc. The reason for their sudden departure was that tho wholo roof of that section qt the mine started to work. (And then thoy grumble about "Nothing Doing!") r -A regular meeting of the Town Council .was, held on Tuesday night. A committee'from the miners' union- was ^present.to urge upon the Council, the necessity of a hospital in the community^ -Under present conditions, a person to get proper treatment has to' go 'to .Lethbridge, at a. big, expense. Mayor Douglas''explained to the committee that the town had already voted four thousand dollars for a hospital, but that they found was Insufficient for their plans. However, he promised that they would include in their estimates this year enough to complete the building- and that they would begin work as soon as tbe weather permitted. The committee also brought to the attention of tho council tho unsanitary condition that prevails in tho water system. -Tho board of trado had a representative at the mooting to ask for an appropriation to help out advertising purposes,' The Council has undor consideration a plan for an agricultural fair ground, The ostlmated cost Is Bomowhero around ten thousand dollars. COLEMAN HOSMER NOTES * By "Tlt-Blts," The Masonic Lodgo Is giving a grand ball on Feb. 2nd, and overyono Is looking forward to a good tlmo, Colomnn Ib losing ono of Its old and respected clttssonB In tho person of Dr, Wcstwood, Ho Ib moving to Princeton, D.C. Hla many frlonds will mlsn him as ho has boon tho medical mnn In this camp ho, long. Wo all wish him and IiIb family ovory success In their new homo. Coleman Local Union has Installed a moving picture machine. It la owned and controlled by tho union, and thero is no doubt that It wll. bo a good success na good pictures aro put on nnd with tholr good operator Illleum tt ahotild pay well. The mines havo boon Idle the past two days for want of cars. " Tlioro has boon Quito a numbor of wuuditiKB around hero this week, somo of our foreign brothers having tnkon to thcmoclvcs a helpmate, There's nothing llko it, boys; keep tho good work going. We wish you and your bnppy brides ninny yoara of happiness and success, Mrs. Fred Hopkins and her sister, Mrs, Scott, of Lothbridgo, woro vlilt- lng frlonds in town thia week. Mrs. Sparks und Mrs. Ocbo, of Blairmoro wero tho guests of Mrs J. Lonu- bury on Tuesday evening, There wns quite a bad accident at Mclean's Mill last night. One of their -imployoi getting his arm bndly broken. Your advertisement li your shop window? Well you can't carry that •round, bnt tho IMnar does get Ihcr*. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Jack Donachlo has quit HoBmor and gone to Corbln, Wo wlBh him the bOBt of luck. ' On Bums' Nicht, Jan. 25th, a concert was hold In the Opera Houro and a flno programme waa carried out. Tlio boIo "Angim Macdonaid" by Mm, Anderson In her native dialect was groat ly appreciated; also tho song "Coming thro* tho Rye/ sung by Miss L. Whlto, who wnR In splendid form. Tho Highland Fling by Mr. Mlllor waa "rool" Scotch. Jack Parkin haa quit lho mlno and has Bocured ti position aB wnnhor boBU at tho tlpplo. Jim Ritchie Is washer boss at tho mlno, J, Ungar got IiIb fingers crushed In tho mlno on Tuesday. On Wednosday ovenlng last the memboiB of thn ProBbytorlnn Church held a Racial In the Opera Houso, when a sodn] lnador-o n very enjoyable ovenlng was spent. Madamo Sylvia, tlio famous American P<*i!ml«t, who Is touring tho west, kindly co-jsentcd to spend, a tew hours in llui-u^i, at.-.! »'.i.v "Wi'l huhy *.'U'<,f,>'ut*. those who wanted to learn their futuro by having tholr palms road. (I»y the W, I" not pnlm-lntry a llttlo out of "date."--Ohn him at tho Queen's, Heard In ■ Store Cleik; "We have nomo very nice breakfast food." Customer; "You cat it with- msy fustomor: "How do you oat It?" Clerk: "You eat It with aurprlse. llkf von do hnsh, nnd Alr.t>nt tt with rwrret." (Published with apologies to his I Million!,) (For the benefit of Gaelic reader* ihfl "key" to above will be pablUhed nott week—perhaps.—Ed.) Mr. Fred Wliollcy and family, left yesterday for Calgary, whillro for n ANSWERS TO/;'CORRESPONDENTS (The labove> columns are open for queries of liitefeEJt to our readers, and not for, petty grievances, or impertinent questions as'to .what Mrs. Maryle- bone's new Jiat 'cost." * Don't send itenTB-you cannot, append your name .toTyjLyouJiaveianything-to-say-.iFsay- itand have, done with it; don't make any" insinuations ."or suggestions you are;not perpared to,back up; no washing* of dirty, llrien" here, at least'not until we IntroduceGhmese type—Savve?. -*Lucio, -I Scream "O.—I have, enquired at the'Queen's-Plcture Show. ...That may have- been your brother whom you saw in Ubo.'picture thrown, upon thfe screeri.y By the by, wero you there on-Saturday night? There was a scene, "Emanuel the Smuggler." You might, have 'recognized some ono In that picture. A voice was heard' (?) to say: "Hurry up with them lagging*", Tony!". '-"*'.,- , '■ ' •„ Poet Cards.--rlt ls very annoying getting your mall In tho wrong box and vice versa.' 'Make a kick. But—or — have you, paid for your box yet? Oh, of course, of course; beg pardon! Mount "Hosmer.--As you aro rather high up you might bo able to hustle a job $2,50 or $3.00 a day and nothing to do; Is that.what is wanted? Wall Flower writes that alio Is rather shy on tho near side ot thirty, ana would like to meet with a nice young man, as she Ib afraid sho will bo loft. Sho has met a young man of 19 years of ago, whom sho llkos very much; but she thinks tho difference In tholr ages a stumbling block. My dear Wall Flowor, yours Ib ii protty name .—(Don't tell the mlssoB)—don't bo too shy; now'n your chnndo, romembor the year, thero Ib certainly a dlfferenco In your ages;,you will bo able to'leach him a thing or two; In fnct you will bo like a mother to him. Old Maid—Did you try tho Leap Yoar Waltz; If you did not succeed then your ense Is hopeless, (Owing to proHHure No, no; tho typesetter quit!) ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦,♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ <•«> . The funeral of William Clough took, place'Friday, 26th, at, 3 pm., from Union Hall, Rev;' H., Pearson of Hur- mis, conducted the service in {he Hillcrest Cemetery. Mrs. George Crulckshank, arrived home from the East last week. Meeting of those Interested in starting a co-operative store was-held Friday night when the committee,to arrange .to canvas the town for the purpose of knownlng how much money could be raised was appointed. Tho committee received guarantees of $6,000, so a co-operative store in Hillcrest is. an assured fact. * , A. dancing . class was started this week in the union hall by Prof. Ferguson of Coleman. He has quite a number of pupils, most of them pretty tough ones, too. ' Mr.- Syd Thomas left this week for the north country. He intends to settle down for a short time at Jasper Park. The Ukaranians of Hillcrest have started a school to learn English. They have secured a teacher and are paying him seventy-five dollars a month. School hours are 9 till 11; and from 5 to 7 each day. The Ital-y ians also intend-starting a school to learn English as soon as they can get a teacher. Who. said Hillcrest was not the most progressive town in the Pass? even the women of this place are carrying on a vigorous campaign to send the men every, Sunday afternoon to the union'meetigs, as. a few of ( them have declared war on the stove, bed and the bottle during meeting hours. , '" ' * " - (Ed.—Good for "you, Hillcrest women. Hope the movement spreads.) Within the next few weeks Hillcrest will have another butcher store, as It i. srumored that Benny' Reeves, _P. Burns' manager here, is going to work for* the 41 Meat Market, it being the intention of-this company to'open a branch store. Reeves. is, well" liked and a hustler, and no doubt will make good. 7' 7 -„ y- ■ •* - : Mr. C. P. Hill announced his inten; tion of "paying special attention .to that- she has a coachman "already engaged.^, -That's the" way to win. ., We are sorry that Mr.,Bailey, Master Mechanic, intends to put' a stop to the ladies' pugilistic encounters,' as he is going to fix all the water tapB,"'"' •■ PUZZLE •To find a wooden god.: To find a good union man working through the strike and not paying a cent of dues to the union: To find a good union man that will- go to a new camp and ask for work before the agreement is signed. ■ To find a good union man, coming to a strange.camp ana starting to work when most of the men belonging to that camp had stayed there fighting for seven.months, and are trying to get reinstated at their work, and' have been defeated on account of you, and the likes of you, accepting their work.* To find a good union man', that, will break his obligation not to accept a6 brother's job, and see his brother's little children going around with no shoes and but scantily dressed. .,1 0 ' To find a good union man that will chase the operators during strike time , to try and get a job with them. To find a good union man that would get a-promise of work during a strike. . "' * s. ■ To find a good union man that will live on the miners' tducs and when working himself> expect to be a mem- ber.ln good standing without paying his dues. * .*.' Will answer it next week by producing a photo, maybe, of tbis person who thinks that he's belter than even a "wooden god.' . ' ^ •»*-•»♦«-•»♦ ♦ ♦ + + ^ + ♦ '..<■ . ♦ ♦ GENUINE; SNAP—One lot ♦ ♦ at EDSON,*; Alta. 7 Well in ♦ ♦ townsite; owner must sell at ♦ ♦ sacrifice; present price of lots ♦„ ♦ $150 to $175 -will take $100 ♦ some parts' of our cemetery this summer. Good for you; get busy, „as there's no telling when you will become a resident there yourself. • -.Miss Edith Taylor Is leading by a good majority-In "the Winnipeg Telegram competition for a horse and buggy. So confdentof winning Is Edith *> cash'; "The-G. T7P7~rb~und~ *> house was completed-at this •; ♦ - important point last year, and . ♦ „ it is now the junction for the , ♦ Grand Prairie and Peace - ♦ River. Prices bound to soar; ♦ this Jot can be sold-in a few ♦ weeks for $175 to $200. TAp- ♦ ply. Box 542,' Fertile, B. C. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ New Michel General Merchandise Co. importers of ITALIAN PRODUCTS and Dealers in Domestic Groceries Agents for Steamship Companies. New Michel, B.C. . It Is said that fooln nlwnyH nHk ndvlco, but novor act upon It—but wo prosumo thoy don't all consult lnwy«r«. HOSMER INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION Grocers Our Motto Satisfaction or Money back A Trial Order is Solicited PortAlberni Gity Lots, $400 and $450 Payments Easy i. i For full particulars apply to Union Land Company, Ltd. NATAL, B.C. ■ Ci.- '*/,-*"■ JX. -. ' ,'c ' •"* *.- v -i.^-i^r'-.si-iftr1.',"-'--' ...... ." , >■*--- T-" -' ,' *. ^ . - FAaiKS x Til DMTOOT XJBOIB, .. *. .<, ,^y.?y -.,,-,„. .- ,, B. 0., FM1TJABY 8,IMS. -.7 **'r-'V''-"'-* ' .*-■"*■ V. THE CANADIAN BANK OF G0MMER&E -=■-, 7v--" SIR EDMUND WALKER, aV.O., U-D^ D.GL, toriiMftV ' , ALEjCAN'DER LAIRD, QMMi MAMASJM CAPITAL, - $l6,bb0fl00 ^-^ito.'-.-'",$WKM»0 DRAFTS OH FOREIGN COUNTRIES Every branch of The CansdUn Bank ef Coauaero* la equipped tb issue drafts oa* the principal cities ia the following eoaatriM wiUKMCt delay i Cnl* ' Gram N«r £a!uf Africa . . . .. Arabia - '* Caba - HaOaat '• Nonray Argentina Republic Doamark Ipdui ' Paaeaa -Australia Krrpt . laifia Ptnia Austria.Huaffaiy FumMudB ** Irdadl >. Pen Belcium Finland Italy PiffippiM lalaadc Brazil . Formoaa ' > Japaa Portajai Bulgaria Francs Jara RoamaaU • Cevloa ,; Fi-chCodaaChioa Malta Rnada '■- <-" Chili-- --' ','Germany i Mandmrfa Scrria : China Great Britain Mexico - SUa The' amount of these drafts is stated ia tha maacf of ttie country -where they are payable ; that is the/ are drawn in sterling, francs, marks, lire, kronen, florins, yen, Uels, roubles, etc., as the case .may be. Thia ensures tbat the payee abroad will receive the actual amount intended. . <• A233 Siberia Soudaa ■ South Attea . Spain StniUSetticmaat* Sweden - i 'Svitxeriaad Turkey „ - * ' Waited States Uruguay ',- Wast Indies, etc. ■^S'.J^y ■^'■<^'y?Ss';';^~Q^ S.y ::'yy :'Jy/'"^" 7' r * .--*--»»-,.-S^.- --.-_!*->:*'' -"- v.' -,;■-.%... t'- .■' -. /.'-* --* .-.", -**''-. -..'".'5*t --.--r-*-- j .\A>- .*■>. ..'»•*:.-;.■.*-- '-.*■-•, t , . . "(-'., - -"t**?" V ■■... , ■-'-* .- ;.y\rn4.Ji.: ■---:.»-• ' .'vv '>■;•;.<■ j-r.-^-,- **-„>*.,-*• --">■**! -. „--' y-*V '--*;' ...-■'?*.' ":"-7v,'-*-: 7y*"- --«-"-'.y-V ■ '■***'* .^Vi-t^.^'VfcV-iw-SS** •■ -." * >v2*l*- "■•■; ; '■-^^--•-■^-'-7> i-7..^7>~..;J-;^:-LV-n^;-*';v; ^v'';;, '.^ --- ,~, : *.**'^.,;A-..>-'■ *. , S ■aSMIH|iMSSSBHJBBniaM^HBHMttnMHMnMM«MMiMa^h9Ba^BMnn«aMBaaBt^nMnke^^ainBaaiMMB^MMHnMMIM'>SBISBMr^ "■Mr . Peace of the World Assumed FERNIE BRANCH L. A. S. DACK, Manager. Capital Paid Up ....' $ 2,870,000, Res. and Undivid'd Profits 3,500,000' Total* Assets 44,000,000 Many a fortune can be traced back to the day its owner deposited the first dollar in a Saving Account. The one. dollar affords an Incentive to deposit more-—and, as Interest is added to principal, the small sum * grows more and „ more • rapidly until it" finally becomes a competence. - One Dollar will' start ah'account with the Bank of' Hamilton. J. R. SLOAN . - Agent, Fernie. m m i JE» lit? wm Head Office: HAMILTON If there is money owing Jo you by any person, or firm, in Canada, or tbe Untited States, make out a* draft against* them and entrust it to/ the Home Bank for Collection. The draft will.be promptly, presented for payT ment and, the amount collected will be paid, to you without delay. The "Home Bank has y Branches and Connections throughout Canada and correspondents everywhere in the United 7 —s- l.£\ 4-r^r.— -ffi' BERLltf, Jan.' 27—Tbe political'complexion of the new Reichstag as determined by the final result of the new 33 reballots taken today, is shown "by the general party groupings as follows, the subordinate and allied factions being included,'for convenience, with tne parties with which they generally vote* ■' , " Socialists, 111; ..Progressives non- Socialist groups, 95, including 46 National Liberals; 42 "Radicals, including people's party and seven Progressives and others; Clericals, with Polish, Alsatian and Hanoverian" Partlcularists; 122; Conservatives, with allied parties, 70 Independent, 1. *"" . The results' completely overthrow the working majority of the Conservative Centerists or "blue black block" in the last Reichstag, which is now. able to muster only 191, counting every possible vote, and places the control in the hands of the National-Liberals, wbo will be able to form a majority by throwing their * strength in with either the right or left':1 / -7 ' This makes the National -.'Liberal leader, Ernest Bassermann,' a commanding figure in the next Reichstag. They will be able to swing certain avowed National-Liberals, who, under proper inducements, would probably be prepared tb^co-operate with the govern ment on* most questions. The hostility of the other progressive groups to the so-called-"reactionary'" block, apparently Is too great, for any working understanding - except' on questions of national defense and the increase of the army and navy. Interviewed after his election at Pots dam, the seat.of the Kaiser's suburban palace, Herr Liebkhecht, leader of the Socialists,-sand:, "You'.ask me what wlll.nbwbe'.the attitude and influence of.the Socialist party iri the Reichstag? No party has ever been so powerful in the German'parliament since the foundation of the empire. Our influence, therefore, will be enormous,*'and-we will have ^o, be reckoned with, but vre must'act with, prudence and so avoid giving-patriots'any pretext for dissolution's.'" -/,'*.* * ' v a*%* '" "The peace'pf the world is;now as- (illrt/lrl JlW^Acar^ii nn w% <.4-nl1 4-"U a H*at\11 a _«.«. with confidence.'" • ' * • ' party, as urging the emperor' to end the fatherland's;enervating"* era" of peace and lead it'forward to hew deeds and' new goals. 7 '' ..*> -.■ *v "Only the diversion of a great war." says Die Poste, "can arouse the best powers of the nation and subjugate the inferior qualities which find expression in the Socialist election victores. Germans .have never "thrived while enjoying .even less peace. - "• , "The German nation never yet refused loyally to- follow the kings and emperors, and especially along the paths that- led, to heights. Even though four million misguided citizens voted for the party which; would dethrone the kaiser and destroy the monarchy, the kernel of the nation remains true to the sovereign. "Let them not be in doubt on that score. . Let them know that the shadows'wlll disappear the" moment he calls^upon his people for great political deeds. . That it may happen soon Is ever the wish on the,kalser's birthday." '>. .,' '- LAB'OR LUitlJXTIQ$^...y ' ' ■ ■ . .'i'-' •:' y*~\ * .'. ■•- ..'■-* '*•- " ■"■;** ■', ?•; * y Many AmendmenU Prepared to Free Union Men From Irksome -Xets-7'.-. GREAT ECCLESIASTICAL, ' : SCANDAL IN POLAND Story Includes Fratricide and Robbery of Jewels of Black Virgin * OTTAWA,, Jan7l8.---A: varied pro-' gramme of desired legislation has been prepared by offocere dtthe:.Trade'and Labor "Congress and.U'betng advanced' here by J. M. Odonahue, .counsel-for the congress. -',. t.. ■'."' ■ '■ 7 . - -. - -\ 7 -'Changes are asked in the Lemleux Act, Railway Act' and" Lord's'Day Act. The amendment to "the-Lemleux "Act is designed to"free members bf trades' unions from what* they declare to be the burdensome,petition'of "the existing law as interpreted by,the Nova Scotia'" courts. ' y ' ' ' • ' y ," The Lord's Day act is the subject bf two proposed amendments to permit union musicians to play on"Sundays and giving all cooks", waiters, etc., in hotels a legal right to one rest day in seven. The amendment asked for in respect to Railway acts are, more, nu- merous. They, will,- If enacted, * empower the railway, commission to exercise jurisdiction- ln the manner ,bf the length of railway sections, will provide for protection of carmen and' will require equipment of cars with inside ladders for use in,case of accident' -. ■ . -,'•',-. FRENCH SOCIALISTS IN ,,. NINTH ANNUAL MEET 7' -* '•-!-.-.'-,/-»>i.';" "ti -> v- Vi,-'K\' -:-f *w . [-y - ' "" ~ *" ?r. (* •*'"*'; . Vt f <» LTuwch 7<mmy Is Npw Opened Clean, Cosy, and very 7 , Inviting 7 Just the place after the show or from theTink. Fred. Armstrong .Proprietor JOHN SAReRR, KMV LB**, .jlf'.""iV'*-.' DKNTICT y$;:'y.y.\;y .1'.': y,.---.*.,-y *y- "T* 7-t' Off le**:i- Ksndf ntiiiBIsek, Fernlai B.^^ ;, 7--7'iHMre:;.M9:u;ij;S[-t*'i. ■ :- ;y,f7 Xrf, '■BMldenct: ^'i^victerlft Aywua.' ■-*- --.'.*"..= &'- ,'y.ys,", ;l" p.-ECK8tEiN •..;_ __ V" i. , BarVl*ter-at-Lawf 8bUciter,"', i77 ,'* *"''---.' ,*i .''N/'i'.- -v .-?-.■;.y;-y >'* ECKSTEIN BUILDINGS,. Fernie,<BiC; ;7 '-. '-I PivC. Lawe.> 7 ." AJex; j.'.Fisheiy ""'; .'■■ LAWE/&"FISHE^.-7-,.^>^y ". ■ •'"•"' ATTb"RNEYS'7"*:77y.;-7-"';",7'- 7 7-' . ■■■''.» -.-777 .", "'.';, ,*-.. , ^*~- Fernie, B. ,C. y." :',--, 7' ■ ,\t. H. PUTNAM 1 " " " ' r i" * ' i , - 7", -,-.. * -n, . . Barrister, Solicitor, Notary .Public, etc. ) - BLAIRMORE, ALTA. Head Office TORONTO J. F. MACDONALD, Manager. Branches and connections throughout'Canada Fernie Branch. Imperial Bank of Canada Capital Subscribed Reserve Fund .... HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO .6,000,000 Capital Paid Up 5,996,900 5,996,900 Total Assets . 72,000,000 D. R. WILKIE, President HON. ROBT JAFFRAY, Vlce-Pres. BRANCHES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Arrowhead, Cranbrook, Fernie, Golden, Kamloops, Michel, Moyle, Nelson, Revelstoke, Vancouver and Victoria. SAVINQ8 DEPARTMENT Interest allowed on deposits at current rate from date of deposit. FERNIE BRANCH GEO. I. B. BELL, Manager CANADIAN NORTHERN TO PAY HEAVILY FOR COAL VANCOUVER, Jan. 21.—According lo tho figures up to tho end of December tho Canadian Northern hns ex- ponded $5,000,000 on railway construe- toln In TirltlBh Columbia, 95 per cent going for labor nnd Buppllea, most of which woro purchased In Vancouver. Tn January It Is expected tho disburse- montH will be about $ 1,000,00, According to a San Francisco dispatch, tho negotiation* by Mackenzie nnd Mann looking to the purchase of the Western Fuol Company, whleh have boon' proceeding tho past week, only await tho signatures of tho papers to complete the transfor. ** It Is stated that Mackenzie & 'Mann may pay $4,500,000 for tho properties of this $1,000,000 compnny of which John L. Howard, of San Francisco ls chief, and which is said to control the con.1 buHlnosB of tiio Pacific coast. A. 13. Hepburn of Vancouver, A. 11. Dlckenstetn, of Toronto,-a partnor of tho oldoBt son of Sir William Mac- konzlo, nm conducting tlio negotiations, Speaks of Diversion of a Great War .' and of Enervating Peace' -. NEW YORK/Jan. 29—A"' special cable .Jrom , Berlin to tbe New York American--,this' morning quotes Die Poste, the. organ*of the German war CZENSTOCHAU, Russian'. Poland, Jan..29,—An ecclesiastical scandal, en- tailing fratricide, robbery of the jewels of the famous Black Virgin of this city, the elopement of a monk with a notorious woman and the origin of a dissolute circle.of monks in the Pauline Monastery of Czenstochau is expected to be revealed in court next • month, when Father'.Damazy Macoch is placed- on trial,- accused of theft and homicide, The case-Is attracting enormous in-" terest throughout" Poland. Its commencement dates back nearly three years when the discovery was made one morning that the magnificent jeweled offering's,itb'the Black* Virgin"in the 'Czenstqch*au;R6man Catholic cathedral were missing. Thetfigure of the virgin, formed but of ebony, is one of the„most-famous-ecclesiastical statues . PARIS, Jan. 22.—The ninth national congress of the French Socialists party will- be held on- February 18, 19,' 20 and 21. ' -'.. • ■ The principal questions contained In the order ofthe day will relate, to' the campaign against anti-Semitism, the agrarian' question, the formation of a municipal program, the revision of the statutes (the constitution) of the party, and the organization, of the Young Sociali'ss. , ' Various other questions have'been proposed for' discussion, but it is doubtful if they can be reached-at this ses-, sion.' Among these are the ,high cost of living, the campaign against alcoholism, the' conditions of labor .and wages in Algeria and the-Algerian na-"* tlve question in-its relation to the Socialist party. - - * , . , ' "' KING'S HOTEL Bar supplied with' the best Wines,* y. Liquors and Cigars DINING ROOM IN CONNECTION W. MILLS, Prop DISESTABLISHMENT OF WELSH CHURCH NEXT in- tne^woriarTit" isTaldToTfave^beeK" discovered by, St. Luke and ls credited with many-marvellous miracle workings. It is. visited; yearly by 200,000, pilgrims 'and-gifts valued atP?3,000,000 adorned the statue, having been sent by priests, etaperbrs) king sand private individuals throughout many centuries. '"",. LONDON,'Jan. 30.—At an enthusiastic meeting/at Queens Hall recently, Reginald McKenna said that early in the, coming-session of parliament.he would introduce a-bill for thedlsestab- lTshment ana^^isen73bwmenr_'of77The Church of Wales. All the reserves of' the government, he said, would be used to carry the measure into law. - The home secretary was Interrupted for -fully .20, minutes, by .suffragettes, many of whomwere expelled from the hall by ..the stewards amid Bcenes of extreme noise. ' .. ,'.-,. . , Large Airy Rooms & Good Board Ross &• Mackay ?» THE FERNIE ■ - <t **• -. *., * f LUMBER CO. * "* -v-. y_ * • "-..* y ■; „» A. McDougall, Mgr ': 1 ■■ -■' 7. ••:•::■.•>-,•.- ■■"•■ ■—■——^————WWWS—swi^^Ma—— 1 ' - ■* *" i <■«" , **r7 ^*- . Manufacturers of and Dealers in all kinds of Rough and Dressed Lumber' Send lis your orders 7!? ! *•■■ H 4 ft "1 4 \ Jl' .-4 Nowhere in the'Pass can be found in such a ^display of ASKS 8HORTER HOURS FOR ' LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS Quebec Brotherhood Waits Upon Gov- . ernment and Makes Important '. Request bf Minister Operation far Piln Fallid ttm-Dnk Was Then Tried and Worked • Cure. Writing front Poplar, B.C., Mrs. a Hanson, wife of tho proprietor of tho Commercial Hotel, cays: "I suffered for year* with blooding piles. The pain was wy bad at time* that I oould hardly walk, and ordinary remedies seomod utterly unable to give mo any ease, Finally I decided te undergo an operation, and went to tho Saorod Heart Hospital In Spokane. Thoro thoy performed an oporatlon and did all thoy could for mo, For a tlmo I was cor* l&lnly bolter, but within twelve months tbe troublo darted again and the piles became as painful as ever. I tried Unlmonts, bot poultices, various 'pllo ...... I n .. t f. 1 «,,,.l|l » .1 *-.** i*., ».«..» *mm\.>m ^ ti,. f ......ff A VWW.^ think would bn llUMy tn An atiy rood, but still 1 continued to suffer, and tho shooting, burning, ntlnsln^ pains, the dull, arhlntr and wretched, 'worn-out' feellmr that the dlseoao causes continued na bad as ever. "One day I rmA alKWt 7Am-Tlnk nnd tto-aujt'iit I would try ii. Tne firm one or two boxes gave me more eaae than anything; else I bad tried, «o I went on with tho treatment In a short time I began to fool altogether different and bettor, and I «w that Zam-Buk was going to cure me. Well, I went on oalng It, and by the time I bad used ■ia boxoa I waa delighted to find my- aelf entlNdy cured. That was tbrsa years aga, aud from tbuu ia Ui-4 prweat time tlutf* bam been do return of thi trouble.'- \ Zan4fak J« a wre ear* for pitasv •etema, ulcera, tbaceaaec, cold oorot, ebappod "bandsi, rarlooaa aor«si, burm, •e*Msi, brxfatm, f&flu&erd jmltbm, and all akin Injuria and! tiamam. Df«w ftasw and «tor«i eTerywbfre, «t>c. bot, «r JUtn^tttk Co.. Toreato, tor vtloa Bafua harmfu) itibtUtuUgv CHANGED Ily Irwin Tuelcor Three lnborors stood by tho Vatican gato, Peter, nnd Paul, nnd John— Whllo llio Pontiff wont forth In Imperial HtillO Ills cnnlliml'g liaU to put on. lie shono In tlio Bunllglit with Jowoled broendo, And hla prelntun In purple and ermine nnd red Held a wonderful canopy over his head; (Thoy wore raggod—Paul, Potor and* John). And they thought of one's head that wim circled with thorns To the cry of "Deltoid him, your KlBg!" WIioko robes, thouKht of scarlet, was sputtered and torn, J\m\ wbo tiled Iroin the ncourge's aharp sting, "Tlio people aro.starving 'mid all this display, And tbo cry Is not 'Love,' It Is 'Pay, children, pnyl' Cnn thin h<j tltn Vlrnr1~-velint a cliaage since our day!" SM Peter lo Paul and to John. QUEBEC, Jan. 27.—Some Important requests were made by the. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of Quebec tn a series of resolutions they submitted to Hon. Mr, Tnschereau, minister, of public works, Tho engineers want n regulation by which a man talcing charge of a locoraotlvo should not bo called upon to work more than' fourteen consecutive hours a day, nnd have an eight-hour' dny, Thoy also recommend that it be a misdemeanor on tho part of tho compnny to plnco mon in lho position ot locomotive engineers unless ho has passed by way of experience ns a fireman, Among other thing-* thoy recommend that nil railway employees bo paid at least twlco a month.' Hon. Mr. Tnsclioronu replied thnt most, of tho requests seemed reasonable, and they would bo given due consideration, tic staled, however, Hint n fourtoon-hour service rulo wns not In forco anywhero in Canada, and thut In tho United Stales, whore thoro was a limit fixed, it was sixteen hours. Big Interests Last Stand Behind Judges Everybody's Begins Expose of Bench* Methods; Court Opinions Written In Corporation Offices THE TRUTH BEING RECOGNIZED THE MONEY TRUST WASHINGTON, Jan. 27,—Inquiry Into the "Monoy Trust" hits bocomo ono of the most Imposing problems boforo the Democrats of tho houso, nnd thoro Ih difference of opinion among them ns to the wisdom of such an Investigation ns Is proposed in tho resolution Introduced by Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota, Representative Henry, of Texan, chairman of the rulou uommltton, todny took tho position thnt tbo Inquiry was Imperative. ..r<»,** *..*..*• ...1 tavv. ... vv,,*» Or. de Vanff Female Pllla AfilUbUFr*Mlin««Ut«rtMttf fetti. Tta« -puis ua WMdIatI* fwmtihi ta r«r»Utt*f IM •a of tht ttmtit tyvtca. Mttioa Or. *i»ru-| tn *nM ti geatratlit ponmu oT th* ttmt. «il cit*ai> Imluiloat, I) Tfc««««l»l! Uract** For Bale at Bltssdsll's Drug Mars. M»-.Ul i» any *M**t. Bt.CMbarU««,i>ai. May Commission of Conservation May Probe That the commission of conservation of whleh Hon. Clifford Sifton Ib chair- liiftli, »ft *t>iU|n>«v.i^ \u \u&hvs Mi teii^vtiO Into tho cost: of coal Is Indicated by a (otter which has been received by tho accretary of the Kolson Iloard of Trade. Tbe board Is asked to forward to tho commission st Ottawa all tho Atitn thnt It postosftca regarding tha cost and dislrlbtitlon nf fw»l In thla twlton nt British Columbia. This communication will bo brought before tho meeting of Iho board on Feb. 8. NEW YORK, Jan. 80—The most sensational and vitriolic attack upon the Judicial system of the Unllod States In its history will bo mado by C.P. Connolly, lawyer nnd magazine writer, In tho issue of Everybody's Mngazino j for February. Connolly says ho hns worked for several years gathering BtatlBtlcs to prove his contention that "tho big business Interests havo ro- treated Into the courts and nro going to make their last Btand behind tho judiciary." He characterizes tho result of his Investigations ns "an astounding tnle of judicial perversion nnd mnlprac- tlcc." "I shall prove," writes Connolly, "that when the lilghosL courts of cer- tain Btatos havo rendered lliolr doclB- Ioiib, sometlmos unanlmoualy, powor- ful political leudora—either In person or by nltornoy, linvo mado tholr entrance Into court;'and that thereupon tho Judges, llko puppota nt tho ond or a string, hnvo In matters of vital lm- portnnco turned comploto and undignified BoinorBimlts, rovorHlng their previous decisions. rl Henchmen as Judges . "Judicial opinions of our hlghost courts havo been written in tho offleoa of the legal depnrtmonts of railroads nnd othor big corporations, Mnny judges aro political henchmen who have pared and twlaled tbe law for tho protection of a favored fow. This -uirupuon of our courts prevails in O'ijJ' Uvilhii, uthi ii ia b«*c\-uW<i& UWiW and moro difficult for the poor man to g^t a dfdilon against a corporation, "Kvll deolBlons by tlio highest courla of nny stnto do not poison tho Btroam wJ kit. ilk torn, *-t«l« rtH)fiis, U*.*'.1? lion from commonwealth to common wonlth corrupting tho entire legal tystom of the country, Once out of Its environment there is no suspicion thut behind any decision waa a foul Influeneo." Connolly ihon rlttn many fnsti»nr-*» which he says prove* his case and saya Hint WfHiiw. of tfi/y •JrnO'wlrtdffo of thAnn evils many judge* bellev* that critic- l«m of the courts Is "heretical and ♦VII.", Tkthtt, do lawym 1*11 Ibe IfBtbr* "IV-v, uif hoy. hnwy+n wflf do nnr thine to *tn a case,"—Washington Star. SAffoAh Gup6 21?S"llI V0** fouoHa, euata eotoa, MCAia THt TMN04T «MO I UNO*. B* CtNTW \VASHINGTON, Jan. '27,—The Na- tlonal Association ot Manufacturers sont two of their-agents to Europo for the,purposo of making an oxtonslve Investigation relative to tho subject of "nccldent prevention and relief." These agents have filed n very comprehensive roport. In tho Introductory words of chapter 13, they make an astonishing admission and give this recognition to the. powor ot lnbor.In. Great Britain. "Tho British Compensation legislation sprang Into bolng at a time when the public attention was being cnlled to tlio legal and economic hardships of the Brltlabworkmon, Tho rise of tho Labor party gavo Btrongth to a protest and a domnnd, tho 'one complaining of tho legislation of tho pnst, nnd tho othor proposed mensures for tho future Tho trade unions had fought tholr way through a variety of dlHabllltlefl, nofmeroly to toleration but to exceptional lognl ptivilogcti for tholr mombora. Ab tho Labor pnrty grow In powor nnd pnrllnmontnry representation, It boenmo n considerable factor In British politics, 'Ub Influeneo wn» soon In tbo act of 18!*7 and In tho oxtciiBlon of tho torms ot that measure to all forms of employment, Many details, of amendment expressed IIs rolteratod demands, Indeed, political prosBuro Ib hlntorlcally' a much more reasonable explanation for many phases of existing legislation that lho patent fnct of Investigation disregarded and ox]>orlonco unrecorded," ftTAOT tAROrt PAPCn Party Definitely Decides to Establish Dally Journal LONDON, Jnn. 80,—Tho Labor pnrty bns dellnltejy docldod to attempt tho establishment ot a dally ribwspaper which hafl^ been entitled "Tho Dnlly ClUwn." It will bo a gonoral no;:**. paper dealing not only with Labor propaganda, but news of all kinds. Tho new venture wltf be ov;n«d by i\ company with ten director* and Ramaay McDonald a.i cluulmau, Tbu capital will bo £1*50,000 Issued in £1 share*. Why aro yon rushing around «o to- o*y? Tn Hying to -jet j,owetllog for my vrtffl. Had any offerf-Louufiik Courier Journal We have the best money, can buy of Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Fish, "Imperatbr Hams and Bacon" Lard, 8ausagos, Welners and Sauer Kraut. PHONE OR CALL Calgary Cattle Co. Phono 58 • *. A VALUABLE AID IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS A Sura Hams Treatment Tho beat way to fight tuberculosis is to prevent it. Tho whole boats of tho Sanatorium treatment for tho whlto plague is puro air—lots of It—good, wholcBomo food, and a rational amount of exercise, It is nothing more thnn. a process of building up tlio system by dlot, air and exorciso, combined with good - reconstructive tonioa to rebuild tho tissues. You can hnvo all this at home if you will. Hotter still, you can nrovont tuber- oulosls by keeping up tho bodily defences iittiunst-tho (I'iboubo. „ Tnko fresh air. frosh milk, fresh egg* nnd other good food with what exorciso you can stand without fatigue.- Keep your windows wldo open at night, tako Nyal's Cod Liver Compound, and you need not fear tuborculoals/ovcn if you are run down. „ Nyal's Cod Liver Compound is a delicious tonic. It builds un the woato tissues—puts on good, solid flosh and aids digestion, Every day thia splendid tonio is putting on their feet peoplo who would othorwlflo linvo drifted into a dangerous condition. It will not disappoint you. Don't wait till you am all nut down and unfit for work. If you are not feeling up to your best and aro losing ground, get a big dollar bottlo at onco. Nyal Remedies aro tbo boat valuo over offered to tlio public Tho Nyal peoplo had to convlneo us of this first before wo would offer thorn to our ciiatomer*, and Uiis remedy wo know to bo all tiiey claim for it. 13 PV>r Snln In T'«»rni« i-tirt nH«raiiff»*»d bv ;/, FERNIE * >*/ •', . ,'j.. - . , -,,,-■■■ ;, - Bar Unexcelled All White Help Everything Up-to-date Call in and see us once i -w *'-' *• - > " -yi i u JOHN P0DBIELAN0IK. Prop. P. Wholesale Liquor Dealer 1 ill.. . IL -UlLl-l-H .. JIJ \- Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes Gents' Furnishings wmmlammnmmmmmmmma*>mmmmmmmmmw BAKER AVENUE BRANCH,AT HOSMER, B.C. BUR-NINO MILLIONS OP MONEY Tho firm InHRPH In Cnnnda dnrlnir 1911, totalled. I&\,4M,?>1B, an avorago of $f.7S8,2*)8 per month. This is equal (o a dally Ions of |5R,7fll Tn other words, $2,4B0 worth of property has been .burned every hour tbat year, or ill <ivcry tuluutc." In tlicpaut three years $6^.000.000 worth of property haa been burned. FERNIE UNION DIRECTORY Llrnrd Looal General Toamaters No, 141, Moots ovory Friday night nt, 8 p. in, Miners' Union Hall, W.. A Worthlngton, Prosldont; IS. J. flood, Secretary.' (i . ' ■ Bartenders' Local No. 5141 Moots 2nd nnd 4th Sumlnys at 3,30 p.m. Secrp tnryJ. A, Oouplll, Waldorf Hotel Ciladstona Local No. 2314 U. M. W. A. Mwlu 11-ui Aud 4th llm/idAy ZUtM* Union ball. j). Hoes, 3o\ Typographical Union No. 065- Moota last Saturday in oaoh month at tho Lodger Office. A. J, Buckley, Soo- Tfrtary. Local Pernio No. 17 8. P, of 0, Meota in Minora Union Hall ovory Sunday at 7.4D p.m. Everybody wolcomo. D. Paton, Secrotary-Troasurer, Unltod Orotharhood of Carpenters and Jolnsrs.--Local 1220. D. J. Evans, Prosldont; V, II. Shaw. Secretary. ASSAYER H. W. WIDDOW80N, Aiuyir and Ch*w>t#t. it** c mt. >**!#*», n. c. Ch*rs«s;—Oold, Rtlvar, L«rrd nr Cftpper, I! £!*«•« fflbf-HHvor. or 3llvor-fi;tt<t, 11.80. rf'0*** f°r ol',cr melAlc Coal, cement, FlrncUy aiuHysci on applies- tlon. Tbnjaraast custom ft May ottlc* tn nrldih Caluml In, <\ • i ijt i ••■fi. . THE DIflTEIOT LEDGBE, PKRNIS, B.C., FEBRUABY 3,1913. PAGE SEVEN y.y|<;^^ ♦^"^.♦♦. ♦.♦♦/♦'♦ '♦.♦.♦ ♦ < "CONVENZIONE CHIAMA. .♦ fer- ,'UPeryil; Noveslmb Anniiale* -Convenzlone Del Distrett'o No. * 18, U. M. "W. di'America.''.- . V - .: 7--*; - Fernie,■ Gennalo,. 1912. y *-Saiutiyj y- 7 y '-"-•"*■ * ;. -"T-Vol stete avvtsatl che UNo- « . vesimo' Annuale Convenzlone .« ; del.Dlstretto No.-18. U. M. W. . '■* ,di America." Sara tenuta < ■nella sala del ..lavoratori, a '•*> Lethbridge, cominciandp alio ■-« "ore 10 a.m.,, Lunedi, Febbraio ■ < 19, 1912/ "'" .. '* ' ■ ■< •> II yostro Delegato ho pure '< 1 delegati Saranno pregatl dl ot- « tenere,. un certifIcato .ferrovla- « rlo.In modb.che si potrebbero ■ ♦ . arranglare le loro tlchette a '*♦ Reduzzlohe.' La vostra atten- ^ , alone .sara rlspettabilmente ln- ♦ . vltata.aU'-Articolo 7, Sezzlone '♦ 2 d.,3'alia Costltulziono-del, ,'♦' Dlstretto la- quale vl splegara ♦ tutti -l'affari-appartenentr alia ♦ " Convenzlone:-,'- /*' '7 ♦ . o7* . 7.. ' W.;B; POWELL,- . ♦ y ' Presldente. ■ ♦ '":" ' -7 -A." J. CARTER, - "♦ **': * ' * Sec.-Tres.' ,♦ ','-,'- '' '. ' - -7" ♦ :♦*«► *►'■•$*. ♦ *♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ,' Charl^H.''-jMbyer,*--'presidente''della Western .'"federation-of1 Miners;' ha di- chiarato'dl essere"corifidonte inyun biSon ris'ultatb -V qjie. presto,'avra fine If conflltto "tra ly'HoWestake''Mining Co.'.'ed i suoi'mlnatorl'' - •-. .'.',.7: »UN'A CRITICA'SITUAZIONE- " John White, presidente della Unitei Mine .Workers of .America,, dopo- aver visitatole mlniere dell'antraclte della Pensilvania,-ha-fatto rltorno ad Ih- w" \> y TIMORI Dl SCIOPERO ' SI feme che nel prosslmo Aprlle ab- ;*?.bla"a scopplare lo sciopero del mlnatorl della Pensilvania, dell'Ohlo e dell'- ,Indiana.7 Essl chledonoc un aumento - del 20 per. cento suite paghe, una rldu- * zione delle ore dl ^lavoro, il riconoscl- mento dell'unlone ed altre concesslonl dl mlnore Importanza. 7 • ' ' Se'y padroni delle minlere non ced- * eranho a queste "domande, lo sciopero , :«ara lnevltablle.,. ' y f ,. Prattanto e atata cblamatauna con- jferenza fra i rappresentantl, del padroni e.del,mlnatorl per 11 25 del cor- rente Gennato per vedere se,e possible venire*"ad, un aml'chevole accomoda-. mento.-;" - .'. . dlanapolis. 7," s. "'. . .7 ., "• ■ Egli trovb che nel campo delle minlere dell'antraclte le cose non proce- donb a termini d'unlone, e dichlaro che* nulla * tralaselera per costrlnger© le" compagnle a rendero glustlzia al mlnatorl. ... ,-•''-, 7 Come si vcde, I ferrl vanno riscaldan- dosi, e*'se* le compagnle intenderanno a sordo,.sara,inevitabile*una'generale sospehsione" dei lavorl In tutte lemlni- ere deH'antracitc. , ' ' ^ <%';♦•> ♦.'♦ ♦ V ♦ < '^s.yy^-7., ., 7 ;., &y..S: KONWENCYJA' •*: ♦ jf»; Atsym daje sla. dqwidom^' ♦ :<4r'y sty'wsim lokalam DlstriktuVlSy^ '♦fSLT.:;M. W. of A., szczo'-dnia'-'-'*^; ♦^"19ho, lutoho 1912. roku. stfy--'•!*♦. ♦^"kaje^sia-ricznu konwencyjut 7%"^. Konwencyja wldbude-.sla.wy^' Lethbridge, Alta., ,w „Labory.^. '♦".' Temple" w ponegilok o hod-•;•-♦ ♦yynl.lO-tij r'ano. Delegat>bo.■',♦' ♦".delegaty ma jut pogtaratyi sia:7--«> ♦' b" tak'zwani ..Standard. Clerti-7-^ ♦ "ficate" aby mozna distatytan-'. ;♦ ♦ >- szyj tykyt na-zeliznycy.'yi /;<,-,♦ ♦ , ZwerLaje sia uwahuna para-...♦ ♦ ,'graf/<■->• j toczky,2-3 -w'dystrik "♦ ♦ towii konstytucyi, a tam waih . '♦ ,♦ wyjasnyt czezo do konwen-. ♦ .♦ c'yl. , <;..♦ ♦ W. B. POWELL,, -.'7'♦ ♦ % * \ President. ♦ ♦ y a.. jv carter, ;. ,♦ ♦, . Secretary .♦ '♦" ■-.;;■■-> + + + +> + <* + «. #- ♦.-?♦ +> ♦ French FORTUNES COLOSSALES A, ■rf SCIOPERO..E DISORDINI ^ Iiuquestl.glornl a Lawrence, Mass., dove da qualche t&npo e In progresso lo.scioporo del 30mlla;operal imple:, gati''in quelle fllande, sono avvenutl dei .^rll4!l|o-;dL^„tan^-jdioJ^.neee^ earlo. Inylare in'quella'cltta otto com- pagne di soldatl per rlstabllirvle man- tenervf 1'ordine; "', . - La:, clttai e pratlcamonte in", istato d'assedlo.. . ., • -;, 7 • I padroni afferraano che lo sciopero e orraal termlnmo e torminato con una sconfltta degli oiioral, hi nj-a^glor part* del quail — obsi. afforniano — sareb- bero gia toi;nati a lavoro alio comllzlo- nl dl prima,*' ., UNO SCIOPERO IMMIfiJENTE L'ottanta per cento del minatorl d' Inghlltorra sono In favoi-b dl,** uno*sciopero generale so I pndronl non conce- dono,loro unaumenlo dl salarlo. I mlnatorl del varll Dl-atrottl hanno Infnttl votnto aetto contro uno in fa- voro dl questo sciopero, nel quale saranno colnvoltl oltro 300 mlla uoralnl, . " II Governo o sorlamonto imponslerlto per questa minaccla, che slgnlflca una crlsl InduBtrlalo .dlBnstroBlsslma per la nnzlono e fanno tutti gli sforzt posslblli por indurro t proprlotarl di minloro a venlro ad un amlchovols accordo col loro oporat, • * ■ ■ CRONACHETTA operaia ■ E' ce'ssato nel' cantlere di Norfolk, Va;, lo sclopero'dei meccanici.-' | .;* - ".' . '*,-#'»'" " -., , *> . . . , ^ - . ** ., ; A Boston,. Mass., e scoppiato lo sciopero degli scaricatorl ferrovlaril, lri numero dl* 1600. - , 7.'- ,- • - In Prancla' e avveniita una serrata generale dlcotoniflci e 150 mila opera! si trovano-ora.senza lavoro. •"'•,, " * • * v ' \ .. ■ "Gil Ufficlalldella United Mine Workers , of America stanno organlzzando uri-nuovo Dlstretto mlnerarlq nel British Columbia. > * * II Dlstretto No. 22 della United Mine Workers of Amorica, che comprende lo Stato del Wyoming,' ha presentemente un foiido di cassa di $100,225„86. . II Governo degli Stati Uniti ha de- llberato di fare in modo che nelle minlere deH'AIaska* nulla sia piu trascu- rato" per. salvaguafdare al vita del mlnatorl. . - ., . . -;7 " ..'■ ** * * Nelle vlcitfanze dl.Hlbblng,' Mln., e scoppjata/ la polveriera * di t proprleta della "Dupont Powder'Go:," e*due op- eral sono rimastl uccisi. ~ I dannl sono assal rllevantl. - -" .. . -.y,. ,.7 v *:, *■ * • ■ . - 7 ■—rTninatorrtonb-sconsigllatl"r"diye- cVrsl. nolle minlere . da carbone Ml Stonlngton, Ills,,' i*erche 11 lavoro c scarso e la mano d'opera superlbre'"'al .blsogno..' i > - *' * ■ » * v * ,- Nella mlniera. dl1f'iy'enona,?;ills.r si Jayorn prosentemente tutti' 'I' glornl. Iljavoro e abbondant.e e parecchl mlnatorl vl potrebbero trovare occupa- zlone. ',, ,, e ■ *■ . •-' •*' * 7 , I mlnatorl Arthur Llndslen o John Pearson la scorsa settimana vennero Bepoltl nelloro tugurlo da una.valan- ga1 dl, I povorottl furono rlnvehutl' cadaverl. ■' » -• * Tromlla trnmvlerl . dl Toldo, Giap- pone;non avendo "potuto ottenere un numonto di salarlo, si sono moss! ln sciopero. II traffclo della capitate o ora complotamento parallzzato. \ * ♦ * "E" scoppiato a Winona, Minn,, lo flclopero dei tranvieri, per dlvergenzo sorte colla compagnin, cho non volova riconoscoro la loro unlono o concedero un anmento di salarlo. ' ♦ * * UN ACCORDO IN VISTA ,81 annuncla da fonto autorovole cho o Imminonto una rlunlone fra i rap- presontantl del proprlotarl delle mini- ore situate nol DUtrotto di Lead Olty, So, Dak., o quelll,dol mlnatorl Imple- gutl In talo Dlstretto, por vodoro so e posslbllo venlro nd un accomodnmonto o porro un tormina alio sciopero cho ' dura In quollo part I da circa duo nnnl, Nolla mlniera dt Port Limon, sltua- ta nell'lsola dl Costa Rica, o avvenuto un gravo conflltto tra 1 mlnatorl o 30 dt oasl restarono ucclai od una cln- quantlna ferlti. Per tlmoro dl nuovl dlsordlnl, furono invtatl sul luogo al- cunl drappolll dl.BOldatl. il conflltto fu provocato dall'odlo di rn»a, * ,* * Pra breve b1 dnra prlnclplo alia coo- truzibno dl un nuovo tronco forrovl- arlo fra Steamboat Springs, Colo,, o Salt Lake City, Utah. II costo al quoa- ta nuovn lmpresa o stato calcolato ln 1(1 millonl dl dollarl. 1 lavorl prln- clploranno col prlmo del Magglo pros- slmo. List of Locals District 18 .••J.. NAME 8EC, and P. O. ADDRE83 20 finnkhood ,, F, Wlioatloy, Ulnnldiond, Alln. 481, Ilonvor Crook P. Oaughton, Iloavor Crook, via Plncher 431 Ilcllovuc J. Ilurlto, TJollovuo, Frank, Altn, S303 Dlnlrmoie II. J, Chaso, Dlalrmoro, Attn, ,019 Ilurmls Jos. Derbyehlro, lUtrmlB, Alln, 227 Carbondalo J. Lonsuorry, Carbondalo, Colomnn, Alta. 2387 Cardiff J. Poolo, Cardiff, Altn. 1387 Canmoro :!.. VS. <Yt. Thnebulr, Pnnninro Altn " 203.1 Colomnn W, Graham, Colomnn, Altn, 2bi* Corbin.. H, Jones, Corbln, B. O, IUG Chinook Minos .... Wm. Foisylh, Diamond City, Altn. 2173 Diamond City Albert Zak,,Diamond City, Lothbridgo. 2314 Kei-nlo .,' Tbo>, Uphill, Pernio, ll, C, „ 1203 Frank Cl. Nlcol, Frank, Altn. 24ii7.,Hosmer, W, Daldorstono, Hosmer, II. C. 1058 Hillcrest J. O. Jones, HlllcrcRt, Altn. 274 Lothbridgo h, Mooro, 004, Sixteenth 8t„ North \cthbrldge, ;i. 1189 Lothbridgo Collieries Frank Barlnglinm, sec, vln„ Klpp, Alta. 12.13 Llllo W. L. I3vnn«, Llllo, Frank, Alia £820 Mnplo Lent M, Ollday, Maplo Leaf, DoIIotuo, Alta. *331 Michel W. Durrelt, Michel, D. C. 14 Mdnarch Mine.,.. Horace Woodlold, Tabor, Alta, ' Z3S2 Taasburg , Robt. Evau>t, raualuig, Alia, 2580 Royal V\m , Thoa. O, Fisher, Royal Colllorlos, Lethbridge, Alta 1969 "taber A. Patterson, Taber, Alta. 103 Taber J. Coopar, Tabor, Altn. 11118 Ladyimlth ,,., J. J. Taylor, Udysmlth, B. 0, 3JW Sumerland Peter McW Inn, Sumerland, 0. C. ' 572 Wellington Thoa. iraxrot, Wellington, B. C. tlSI Hanlamo......... Jack Plaoo, Nanaimo, Q. O, Les statisliques financleres .sont venues apprendre au monde entler que le pays soumis a la domination de Gulllaume, H.contient butt mllle trols cents milllonnalres. La plus grando fortune allemande* s'eleve a 45 millions.de dollars, et ap- pa'rftient a Bertha Krupp la. fille dii grand Industrlel decede 11 y a quelques annees.v * *'* ' 7 * '* " Aussi le Kaiser, trouvant que cette femme eta'it tropriclie "pour etre une simple" roturiere l'a anoblle alnsi que son marl quln'etait qu'un pauvre me- declh de.la Prusse,Rhenane. Et ce- pendantequ'est-cequo la fortune de la petite baronne*,prussienne aupres de cellesde Rockefeller, Morgan, Ryatiet autres multfmlllionnalres americains. L'echo de Ne*v Bedford en mal de democratic pour le moment (cela est grave) trouve a ce propos que l'AUemagne salt obtenlr de ses milllonnalres un profit plus remunerateur que les1 Etats-TJnls, et que l'AUemagne grace a un-excellent systeme admlnlstratif.ne peuvent carotter les repartiteurs des impots; que le riche allemand porte a- un sou preB "le fardeau" de sa fortune. - Jo veux blen le croire mais ce n'est pas ce qu'en dlsent les petits contri- biiables allemands! - ,y ,- - L'echo ensulte s'indigne sur ler systeme defectueux d'imposltion en usage aux Etats-Unis qui permet aux.richls- sisslraes barons de la" finance de reje- ter sur les malheureux les "deux tier's iles_Jmpots_quIils^devraient-Bupp6rter- ces gros capltallstes en sont quittes pour quelques fausses.declarations, pa- ralt-il.' L'Echo, cltecet exemple: "A Schenectady la'General Electric Company qui possede un capital de qu'atre-vlngts millions do dollars n'est Imposee que pour qiiatre millions cinq cent mille dollars pendant que le petit proprletalre fonder, l'ouvrler qui pale sa^blcoquo a la sueur de son front .est oblige pour combler le vide cause par la capaclte des multl-mllllonnalres de payer des Impots supplementaires. Et l'echo qui decldement est en f lev- re de'reyolte dlt que e'est sans doute cotrlsto otat de choses qui a nmene los" electdd>s do Schenectady , a ellre dernlerement un mniro soclallste co qui* pour ce journal cnpltullsto, Indl- quo quo' los esprlts surexcltes se por- tont a des extremltes malheurouses! . L'Echo connalb'sl blen l'ogolsmo do- goutnnt dototiB cos dotentours do ln fortuno/do tous ces fnux dlBcIspIes qui se reclamont d'ubA religion dont lis so gardent blen do sulvro Iob pre'copte8, qu'll prevolt que si lo mniro'socialists do Schonoctady youlait falro rectifier 10 repartition dos llstos d'imposltion «n ce qui concorno la General Electric Co. cetto corporation monacoralt la vlllo d'allor planter sa tento dans un ondrott ou los nutorltcs aeralent molns dlfflcileB, Et nlors de mllllers do clto- yons bo trouvoralent sanB travalll Et l'Echo,, met on domouro les legls- lateurs des Etats-Unis, do changer lour aystemo d'imposltion qui dovlent de plus en'plus mnnuvals pour lo pouplol SI l'Echo s'oceupalt a falro parnltre dans son journal, dos articles pnrolla, 11 devlondrnlt plus IntereHRant et sur- tout pliiB propro a lira*. Los journnux qui no s'occiipent quo do modlro ot cnlomnlor nioclmmmoni coux qui parlont commo "lo Maltro" ot mleux quo lours dctracleurs Rulvont les maximcB du"Christ, ros journnx la sont dea pnrjuroB mix prlnclpos chretlons otlon frolons du journnllsme, Parolls mix mouchos a vorn qui no H'nllmontont que do chair en doeompo- Hltlon , ot y depoBont l'ocnf qui dolt prod n I ro la lnrvo qui on vlvrn, I'Kcho trouve Hn HOiirco do• vlo nn iilimontunt I'mno do hob •lontonrs IgnomiitH on fori'OB do lo llro pnr oaprlt do pnrtl, nvoc une lltleraturo qui prnnd na Bourco diirm co qu'll y n do pIiib vll ot do plim repugnant: T/i mon-iongij ut la cnlomnlo, y*La limite d'age prevue par' la loi est de €0 ana pour, toucher, une pension an-* nueile de 3iS0 francs;-cette limite d'age peul-etre, abaissee!.' aj ""^"..aris. -pour, .ouvt rler ou ancieh „Suvrier* qui-aura ete- occupe jusqu'a • cet7ageJ"et''pendaht {rente .ans au moins,*dana les travaux' ebutertains ■ d'une,, exploitation beige' s'il cesse. tout% trav'ail ou, si restant occupe au'eharbonnage 11. touche un salaire inferleur aui^trols^ctnquiemes du salaire'moyen„'calculeisur les cinq dernleres annees des oavrlers de la categorle a laquelle l'interesse a' ap- partenu pendant la majeure "partie de cette perlode. i 7 ' ■".• - ;-Tous ceux qui sont aujourd'hui pen- sionnes par lescaisses de prevoyance ou bien encore qui le seraient avant le 31 Decernbre 1911,'auront-la pension de 360 francs par au ou 30 francs par mols a1 partir du ler Janvier 1912. ° Ces queluqes articles extratts de la lol sur la pension des mlneurs suffira pour demontrer aux lecteurs de quelle lol'de facade notre gouvernement ca- thollquo nous- a gratifiee.' Je dis une lol de facade, car coinbien de mineurs qui ont commence a descendre dans le fond des mines a' 1'age de ] 2 ans «t meme moins arrlvent a 1'age de 60 ans. Et si meme ils avalent encore le bon- heu'r de toucher cette pension, pendant combien d'anhees toucheront'-lls?. Des milllers d'ouvriers devront verser pendant de longues annees sans rlen toucher. -. ' ■ -.'..'"* Un autre defaut de cette loi que je tiens a faire remarquer e'est la retenue de' 2f. 50 par mols, Imposee aux" ouv- riers notamment a ceux ages de 30 ans. En Belglque le pays-des bas salaires ou les ouvriers 'patvlennent, comme on dlt vulgairement a.mettre p'onible- ment les "deux bouts ensemble,, vonf* encore etre obliges de se priver de bieiv des choses- hecessalres, a cause deces retenues."' c Deja'des protestations se font entendre contre cetto retenue trop elevee. Dans la Belglque. catholique; a l'in- staf d'autres' pays soi-disant civilises existe toujours- un budget des "cultes qui coute defalcation faite des subsides que le gouvernement et certaines communes versent aux eglises environ 8 millions par annee, avec lequel on, po'urrait creer, d'autres pensions pour les mlneurs. '■ Et le' budget de Ia guerre pour uu,petit paysocomme la Belglque coute environ 100 millions. En ce qui concerne les patrons, le taux des cotlsatlons'-patronales sera etabli - pour la periode transitolre, d'apres le montant des charges incom- bant aux calsses .pendant cette periode il ne pourra en: regime normale tere inferleur a l.%,p.'.,c.'des salaires des ouvriers. '■ 7 .,'•. ., "'a ■ SI",les"cotlsations des exploitants depassalent"2^ p. c.':des dits salaires Texcedent seralt"sup~porte pour moltle pour" l'Etat et pour moltle par. les pro:, vlnces sur- le territolre.. desquelles les charbonnages sont sltues. Id je dots donner quelques explications en ce' qui concerne la periode transitolre. _„- * I. Dans cette lol de pension, 11'y a deux calsses; *,*,Caisse de retraite, et caisse de prevoyance. .Tous les ouvriers ages de 30 anB au mols de Janvier verser- ont 6 francs a la caisse do pervoyance; e'est dans cette caisse quo les verso- racnte des < patrons' et des provinces rentreront; c'ost a l'aldo do cette caisse que i'on pourra donner une pension de 3G0 francs e'est ce qu'on nommo la periode tranBltoIre. L'ouvrler ago do molns do 30 ans so creo lulmeme par ,ees cotlsatl'ons sa pension 11 pourra-, s'll vout en versant une cotlsatlon supplementalro avancer l'ngo de sa pension, -y ' ., Volla on resume, los basos prJnclpa- les do cette pension qui no sera pas uno amelioration au sort do l'ouvrler. —JobopIi Lasslmo, dans L'Union dos TravallleurB, Belglquo. LAST; SPIKE DRIVEN IN, vs7 rr.y^H-^'tVNE'tb ATHABA8CA. 7 ,/.'.''-S* LANDING THIS MORNING ,;, Steel .has been -laid- into- Athabasca Landing -on" the Canadian Northern line,-and the opening up" 'of the°last great; west Vas seen, to be an accomplished'fact at last. "Tliere was great "jubilation"pn" -every hand when the last boit,was"drtven and the last inch of the ninty-six mile's from Edmonton covered with"!, rails: Only aVfew years ago was it discovered that in.this,region far to the north there .was-a climate milder and a country,Tas fertile as any in this great continent. For long years there have been* pioneer settlers there toiling for small* returns and working far from the madding'crowd and the hubbub of modern civilization. " ' Never was it- dreamed that here to the north was another great west which would one day be populated in much the same way as have been the southern parts of the prairie provinces. Only'one-thing was needed for the^ development of the new country, and that was the railroad. The building of the first ninety miles to Athabasca only leads to the gateway of the new country, and other lines will have to,be built, and are now fbeing started with a .view to opening up the new'nortly The first train is expected to reach the Landing about' the end of the present week, and will probably bring Premier Sifton and several of the members of his cabinet and-the legislature as passengers. The day was proclaimed a holiday, and the ■ board of trade and citizens generally,' are' preparing ' a monster celebration. , The actual coming of the steel to-the Landing has caused a remarkable boom,In real estate In the'inside districts, and several deals have been reported in the past .few- days. ■ -"The building of the'line to' Athabasca' Landing marks a new era for' the ■ north country,* as big tracts of land and vast game areas will now be more accessible than ' they have been in; the past, and the country along-the'line "of railroad and in the Athabasca Landing - district will fill up very quickly.'. . Rush of < Settlers Expected There is sure to-' be a great" inrush of settlers right away, as even now many homesteads have been tak-' en up. The greatest"" satisfaction prevails among those' "who.bave been for many "years in the country, and who up to a few months ago.never for a moment dreamed'thliOt^FwourdnienaTd'into" their" district and,settlers, brought, in from '.outside. ' - 7' $iEtr$ FOR MAKING SOAP, .SOFTENING WATER, REMOVING PAINT, DISINFECTING SINKS. CLOSETS,DRAlNS,ETC. SOLD EVERYWHERE REFUSE SUBSTITUTES Workers Responsible For Own Enslavement Polish Czy mloszknBZ w tym kraju trzy lat? Czy poslndasz paplory obywatelflklo? Jezell nlo, Dla Bzogo? New Tourist Route Not only jvlll the-traln service when started• change'.the i-whole territory, hi't'it will Open;up a great-and wist country .wlthi rlchj resources, • a veritable hinterlarid^up .to now. There will also be a new" route for tourists seeking to pass into the extreme north of the continent.-" Up to the present tlio only, way of covering the trail except, where'. * the ■ steamboats run down the "river has been by tho old- fashioned and /slow .movement of tlio cart or wagon. . Now that the railway has got through further enterprise Is bolng shown oh every hand, and new boats are being built to give a bettor service on the lakes and rivers of the "groat north: , From Athabasca It will bo posRlblo to get through via the Athabasca river to tho Lesser Slavo lnke, from which there Is n short portage right to the heart, of the Peaco llivor country, All tlio long expectations of the old- timers have been brought to pass, nnd the completion not the road makes clearer than over before tho groat futuro which is boforo tho country, Othor ImprovomontB aro being mndo on tho river with a vlow to aocurlng better monnB of transportation.---Ex. ZWOLANIE KONWENCYI LA FENtilON OF.S VIEUX MINEURS, Kncore un<? charge do plus pour, ♦ 1'ouvrlor, J'OHporo fnlro plnlalr mix • ♦ loctouru du Journal on roprodiiluaiil; ♦ ii'iHi-iK-i* iiriicU-H f.\u*a)tn do la loi dos ,♦ ponolons dos mln<>urf* qui est cntroo en ■♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ vlguour au ler Janvier 1912, lo, Tous los ouvriers mlnours nont afflllon obtlgatolrbmont a la calsso do retraltos du moment qu'lls out molns dr* flO nns. Aprr"-* M an*, l'ouvrler n'citt pn» obllgo do verser, memo nl par ox- rnpMon II travalllalt encore a la mine. 2o. Tous les mlnours nges do plus do 21 ans quel quo solt lo tnus d« leur nnlnfro devront voreer 24 francs par an, aolt deux franca pnr mols; ceux ages do molns do 21 ans veraeront 18 francs ct ceux de 20 &u» vurw-ront **»"> francs dana lea memos conditions. Nn dzlowlata Roczna Kon- woncyo Dyatryktu 18, ZJodno- cronych Gornlkow w A. Do mlojBcowych unlj w DIb- trykclo IS' ZJodnocwnych gornlkow w Amoryco, NlnloJBzym znwladamla bIo zo dclowlntn roczna Konwon- cyn Dyatryktu 18, 'A. G. W, A. odbcdzlo " bIo w ,,Labor Tomplo," Lothbridgo, rozpoc*!- nlo bIo o 10 toj nino w Pon- lodzlnlok, 10 go Lutogo, 1912 v, WnflJ! dologat lub delogn ul poxtnrnc hIo mnjn o kolojno cortyflkaty, nzoby mozna uzy- Bkao isnlzono cony nn Icolo- Jucli, Zwf'iica sie uwiiRO na nrty- Uol 7,1'arngraf 2 I ll, UyBtryk- lu Konstytucyi, ktora wyjasnl w Bprawnch odnoRwioyoh nlo ixoinv-jiiyj. W. II. POWKLL, , Prejydenl, A. J. CARTI-m, H(*ki'el.fii-z. MINER8 MUST PUT UP BOND Loeatoro of Mining Claims In Manitoba Must Indemnify Ownir Prom Loss The purchase of labor-power for a fixed period is the prelude to the process of production, and' this prelude is constantly^ repeated when the stipulat-, ed term comes to an end; when a definite period of production, such as a week or month has elapsed. - The laborer is'not paid until after lio has extended his labor'power, and realized In commodities not only this value but surplus value. He has, therefore, not only produced surplus value, which we are for the present regarding as a fund to meet the private, consumption of the capitalist,,but he has,also produced," before it, flows back to him in the shape of wages, the fund out of whidi he himself- is paid, the variable capital; and his-employment lasts only so long as he continues to reproduce this,fund. What flows back to-the laborer In the shape of wages is a portion of the' product that is tcon: tinually reproduced by him. ' Tlie capitalist it is true pay him in money, but this money is merely the transmuted form of the product of his labor. * While he is.converting a portion of the means of production into products a portion of his former product is being turned into money. It is his labor of last week or of last year that pays for his labor this week or this year. The illusion begotten by the intervention of money . vanishes immediately if instead' of taking .a "single capitalist and a single laborer we take the'class-of capitalists and the^class of laborer as a whole.' The capitalist class is constantly giving to the laboring class order notes in the form' of jnoj*exAnji.-PO.ntlon_oLthe.commodities. produced by the latter and appropriated by the former., The laborers give these order notes back just as constantly to the capitalist class; In this I way they get their share of .their own product. The transmission is veiled by the commodity form of the product, and the money-form of tho commodity. Variable capital,'therefore, Is only n particular historical form of ,tho appearance of the fund for providing tho necessaries of life, or the labor fund'which the laborer requires" for tho maintenance of himself and family, and which, whatever bo tho form of social production, he must himself produce nnd reproduce. If tho labor fund constantly- flows to hlin In tho form of monoy that pays for his labor It Is becauso tho'product lie has created moves constantly away from him in tho form of capital, But all this does not' niter tho fact that It Is lho laborers own labor, realized ln a product, which Is advanced to him by tho capitalist. • - Lot us take a peasant liable to do compulsory services for hla lord. Ho works on his own land, with his ow*n moans of production, for flay throo days a week. Tho throo other days ho doos forced work on the lord's domain, Tlo constantly reproduces his own labor fund, which novor In his caso taken tho form of a money payment for tho labor advanced by anothor person, But in return IiIb unpaid forcod labor for tho lord, on Ub sldo, never ncqulros the character of voluntary paid labor, If one fine ♦ morfling the lord appropriates to himself the land, tho cattle, the seed—in* a word,'the means of-production'of this peasant, the latter will henceforth be obliged to sell his labor-power to the lord. He will then labor six days - a week as before, three for himself and three for ids lord, who, thenceforth, becomes,a wage-paying capitalist. As before ho will use up the means-of* , production, his means of production, and transfer their value to the product. As before a definite portion of the pro-' , duct will be devoted to reproduction. - But from the moment that the forced labor is changed into wage - labor, from that moment , the labor fund, which the peasant himself continues as, before to produce and. reproduce, takes the form, of capital advanced in - the form of wages by the lord. ' , The" bourgeois economists, whose narrow' mind is unable to separate form arid appearance from .the thing that .appears,'-shuts his eyes to the fact that it is but 'here and there on the face of the earth that even nowadays the la- * bor fund crops up in.the form of capital On the one hand the process of pro- * duction incessantly converts material wealth into capital, into- means of creating more wealth, and-means of enjoyment for the capitalist. On the other hand the laborer on quitting the process is- what he was on entering it, a source of wealth but devoid of all means of making that wealth his own. Since,- before entering" on' the process, his own labor has been alienated from -, himself'by the sale of his, labor power, " Jias.heen.appropriatedtby-the-capitali8t— and incorporated with the capital, it must, during the process, be realized ln a product,that does-not belong'to him. , Since' theprocess of production Is also the process'by which the-cap!-, tallst consumes labor-power, ^the pro-* duct of the laborer ls incessantly converted not only into commodities but Into capital, Into value that sucks up the value creating power, into means of subsistence that by the person of the laborer, Into "moans'of production' that command the-producer. Tlie laborer, therefore, constantly produces material, objective wealth, but In tho form of capital of an alien powor that dominates and exploits him, nnd tho cnpilnllst ns constantly produces labor powor, but ln the form of a subjective sourco of wealth separate from tho objects ln and by which It, can alone be realized; in short ho produces tho laborer, but as a wago laborer. This Incessant reproduction, this perpetuation of the laborer Is a sine qua non of capitalist production.- Tho Roman slavo was bound by fetters, tho wuijo slaves Is bound to h'ls owner by Invisible threads. ■ Tho appearance of .independence Is kept up by monna of a constant chnngo of employers, and by tho flctlo juris of a contract. Tho laborer belongs to capital boforo ho has sold himself to capital. His economical bondago Ib both brought about and con conlod by tho periodic sale of him Bel f. by his change of mnuterB, and by the* oscillation in tlio market prlco of labor down..,—Karl Marx in "Capital." •He <♦♦♦♦♦ CRU8HEDIN A MINE NELSON, B, C„ Jan. 29.—Bwopt to dc-nth by a huge slide of copper ore tho two-fool luvdl nt tho C-rnnby mlno which carried him down the ehulo at at I'hocnlx Hnturdny, Timothy Ilalft. win was crushed almost beyond recognition. Ho was standing In the chute unaware that the shot which lot looso tho ore was nbout to bo flrod. Ho lea\cs a widow and ono child. Ho wus tudy-cno yi*ar« old and cam* from Michigan nlno ycara ago. WINNIPEG Jnn, 30.—Ovor 200 pro- spoctlvo gold minors hnvo mndo por- Bonnl application at thn locnl Dominion land offlco this week Booking Information regarding tho staking nnd locating, of mining clalmn in the MinltomiH district, Tlio domnnd for It'iformiitlort lui» boon bo groat that all nvalliiblo poploa of the mining nel havo boon Irnudod out but n froHh' supply Ih ox* pot;tod to roach tlio city on Monday from Ottawa. Tbo procedure followed In Btaklng a clnlin Ih vory slmplo but In tho prr-Hont f onuo mnny prnHpoi-mra will bo surprlK- ei[ to lourn thnt nftor n claim hnH been locnted tho locator will hnvo to put up a bond of "fl'00 with the Dominion roglHlrnr nl Dauphin for the purpose of Indemnifying tlio mnn on wIioho /I11III IW lUCUK'K ilKlllllHt (lUIIIIll'OH. TIC '.'..',.' II. '•'»; ."iiii.i.ulli*,*-, iJinlllU 'r.,|iliU- tlntlly /ill oH-iir-d by private IndlvldiiulH nnd whllo il*r> proKjwtor ban tbo rltjht lo locate n clnlni on the land ho nuitst. jmt up n bond. IMPROVEMENT NEEDED "Whnt you wnnt, I ntippoHO. Ih to vole. Just llko tlio men do," "Corlnlnly not," ropllod Mr«. Daring- Hftnnoni. "If wo cnubjn'f do nny h*'- ler tlinn thnt there would bo no uso of our votlniir.,,--Wi*iRhln/rton filnr, !■( v <« v-s>'«l'',-i*,,-/.K..»v»(Jw.-^i/.(.»/<i'«i.*»..;** vv Nervous Demlxty OVW.NRW METHOD TREATMENT will euro you, and mnko a mnn cf you, UmWItHlnlluonco tlia lir.lt! Iwco,ich native, tlia 1.U-.I pnrli.ii I ci llu.t r-.ll iliuplot, Matches nnd i.Scith Iic-I upi Urn nerve* Ikm; no i.u-onif ih He I. hi Dint iiervoumia-J.I>i-.lirt.lin«ij» nndduhpniWonoy <llsi»:'"w.r; tli'jovu iwmm liMit. llio fiii'o fu'l nn-J eloir, oMiijyrjturailotUs iwly, nvl tin nor I, pliylcnl «"<t nn'nuil fVMi'i-iini-n hvlTorn'o 1| rll «l-!as miuM-no r:n»n vi'M rc*m fnvi (!>■< (fttmn, Yon fi'<*l j-rmr.Plf a pi"n nn I Mow niir.-h"'* cwiuot, l/o a fiiilinu V. n't l"t ijniwks end fakir* rub you of your hard curuoU duiiaro, VT NO NAMM USED WITHOUT V/niTTCN CONSENT THREATENED WITH PARALY8t8 I\'f or U fiummorH rnlntos bin cirpirliwoi "I Wl troiiMwl w. !i I.m'Vi'Im 1 oMIIly for many yearn, 1 l,.yK t.i lii'"l.t*n*u, n n.i'I oswat-eil In yni"!i. I lw:i:ii v,- y lie pr.nrjfrjt flnii i.l'-n rnm vh Orr I vorkcil or «'."* I liwlird ovcryw y wim UkiU<h\ nl mu gujA^il tny nvn f. Iimvl'imivuc'rcn'Mii nl tilj;)it wc*.U'i">l nip-iMy luich /u-liM, Jui'l imlni In tin thn niorulnr, lU'orfl-iifUli' |l-*::i-rn »ito iln.\ y, cmW! rrv.-l. * Iwi-lt <it my liwul, linrulo ii>»l f'-f.t w m mM,Hi-film ' |l-*::i-rn \»ito „. -.., ..... .. . , In-'irt, inMii'ry p.i.r, f <>.. h r:t'r.ctil.i f) n llonr tin ,i.m| ('■- <'"•' 1> f *•' -- Jiof ■.•m-ilp.vn'yUii, I ux»K u.1 kl-'iln oi ^V ... Electric Restorer for Men Phosnhono! i**tm% «r<ry nerve In th* body : " *v " ' to ttt urop«i ttMlon | re-jtoui «lio nmi viuluy, rrtmiluri J»«*«y an<l ill ««iui) itr-Aftr* »TMt»l tt ewitf, rhniptie'tel will mike yo*j * m»m«, i'rlcslls tv>*.«, t«i lm it M.tl'.'-t I i a-iV a !jl«i% TUliiUxiWU lUut '■n„U'.f*t*'int"*.Out. for Sala at Olaaidell's Druff Otort jtt'tjr Aim** V >yi(■''••i-m ««ror.n rtw-tiI < Wi'tfurtnivi* A\ \K *^S syi< ocronc TntuMrnr ^^^Vul^TiVl^l JW-T in »"" '""T-rNT tToctorN, T.'l'ftnilmwiln'ji'ir.i\ <vir.i"iHi'"><l t;n> Ni:w Mrrrion TnriTtirrr ninl'tt »;iMil tiiy lif.i, TliOlni'miVi't'i'iitv. 'ili'.'Mii-wlij— lennl IfpoltliiiVlRori'oinisilirnviBlt llii>iiorvi-M, J wa* rurol mcntnlly nnd p:-yHlumly. I Inva sent tlu'in mnny frfittoiitn ami cuatiimo it do i-o. CURilS GUARANTEBO OR tiO PAY W. tr««> nmi rur* VAIICfWR VEINS, NERVAUS nCTIUTY, PLOOD AND URINAKr COMi'UWTS, KiDNE/ AND OLAOOUl DISEASES and •IIDIuwm ptculltr to t,itn, M CONSUI.TATION mrn. nOOW rRCn If unnLl* to Ckll wrli« for * QutiUon rlunUforllom* Ircttmeiil, D®s.KENNEDY&B(E»INEDY Cor. Michl^«n Ave, and Grfswold St.» Detroit, Mich. B3BBMP»»MI1TII*P All letters from Cntmdo must be nddreiscil bMHP fl-V ' ■*'■• to our Canadian Corrtiponde-ncc Depart- vu '™V ■sssBMSSBsaaMMaai went In WimLsor, Ont, If you deiire lo see us personally call at our Medical Institute in Detroit as vre see and treat na patitnti In onr Windsor offices which arc for Correspondence and Uborttory for Canadian lmtints* only, Addrcw alt letters aa foUowsj DIM. KPNHIDY A KENNEDY, Wlmlwf, OnU JWrtU for oor pitnUtMm*. ?A3E mma TM» PttBUOf IMBtMt, VWOfSaX. ^O^fOOTAlT.I/liliry'l^y ly ^""l'''""IM*'i*'i*lll,',*^,Mlw*^w,',l^^^WMMM«««wwwssBwsBaawM^a^ '<• 4 Children's D^esSns LESS THAN FACTORY j»RI0ES The entire balance of our Child*^ Dresses ^ >on the Bargain Counter,.and the*,-,'-j^ Bargains AYrapperette Dresses in Navy ^nd While polkfl Dots, for ages 2 to 4 years..:...,.. 45c ^ Wrapprette Dresses in light an-*} dark blues ^ browns; a good appearing little Dress and AyeU riad?- Now : *...'. ,75c. each" • AVrapperette Dresses; fancy Patterns in shades of Blue "and Cardinals, also in Shep]ierd>s cheeks For ages 2 to 6 years. Price , ..,.. 65(J ^ At 95c. each. This lot include*. All-wool Cash- mere Dresses that are sold regu\ar]y at 4275 Shephard's Check Dresses nicely* '.i)raided and'« number made from plaids and f}gured materials Sizes from 2 to 14 years, and,only0 gg' . At $1.90 each..,. All-wool Navy Serge g^ ■ guits Made with double collars andniceW i)rajded 'y*i vet Dresses and Shephard and ^ob Roy Checli/ All good fitters; for ages up'to 1% yc and ;; $1.90. At $2.25.' All-wool Serge Sailor jj^. ^ m Navy"and Cardinals; nicely braided , Regulpv $3.90."value; sizes -to 14 years. Sa}e prjce" ^ 25 -, At $2.90., Navy Serge Sailor guits. regular value to $5.50; for ages-to 10 yc\ars Middy Suits; regular $4.75 quality; colors, NaVy, Cardinal and Brown"; for ages to g years , Navy Serge Sailor Suits, tyat c>an a]sQ,be ^opQ middy style; a very effective servjceal)le su-t_ One-piece Serge Dresses in solid Navy, 01, de Ah combinations of Navy and She^ard>s Checks Shcphard.'s Check Dresses,4rimblecrwilh narrow folds of Cardinal with buttons to mateh rpj •' ' ■, . includes valuer up, to $5.00 and ^ snvc ' t. $2.90 a Garment. v »• *■ . This week's Specials will excel all prWious-::6f- forts. Shop earlyand get your choice fcefore all the best bargains are picked up. This will be your last opportunity to "buy Clothing- Furnishings, Hats and Gaps at these prices. SATURDAY SPECIALS French Peas, 2 lb tins ...-....'. I;-./..'.. ,-.y7;15 , French' Macedoine Vegetables, 2 lb. -tins, 2 for;* $25 Fresh Ground Coffee, Best Blend, 2 lbs. for '.75 ,. Fresh Ground Coffee'; Ideal Blend, 2' lbs! for ' .65' . • ''",'",_' * -■' «- - Cowan's Cocoa, 1 lb. tin -...':.'.S .35 1 ',"*■, ' -.*• - Apples Mcintosh Reds, per box ,..*.. .C$1, 75 "Sterling Brand Extract, 4 oz ........ ,y.... 7 .25 "Wagstaff's Bottled Fruits,-assorted" each-. .-y"25 Noels' Bottled Fruits, assorted each ......"...'" -^35 ^Peaches, 3 lb., tins, each ;; . .25 Fresh Killed Chickens, per lb \'S "' 25 , Cranberries, 2 lb. for ■ ......-'. -.;." 7.25 Finnan Haddie, 2 lb. for ......7.7. .'-.'., A. r25 Fish Fillets, per lb. ., Purity Flour, 98's .. v ..*..... 7 Purity Flour, 49's'.. S. . Royal Crown Lye, 3.for Sheriff's .Maramalade, 4. lb.' tins- TVVithey's Mincemeat, 1 lb. pkgs, 3 for Black Jack" Stove Polish, per tin ...... Baby's Own Soap, per box • 1 **- * > Pears' Unscentei Soap, 2 for .' Durham Cornstarch" 2 for 15c, 4 for'.. -Blue Ribbon Tea, per lb. .' .-..:... ToiQ'atoes, 2 lb:, tin, 2 for .: r ' ,......., .15 • ,..:....$3 25 ;.;.'.... $1.65 ■ '.: ,.25 ,.-. .50 ... .25 ... .10- .i. .30, ;.'.■« .25 .... .25. ..." .35 ... * .25 Corn,,2 lb. tins,"5 for*. Cherries, 2 lb. tin's, 2 for.;. ■CW .25, MEN'S NEGLIGEE SHIRTS :> '■ This.bargain !will"consist,.of a iarge";,assqrtment''; -('of patterns,- ak'fast colors and assorted, sizes; regu-- Mar * value, $1.25 ;Special ....-'..-.. S .v....:,_.*-- 5067,; '" . .. "MEN'S FLANNELETTE SHIRTS ^ ; ;.., - < Heavy flannelette, assorted!colors and sizes, col-.. ,7 lars attached, regular .value $1.25; Special.;... 75c. y ENGLISH FLANNEL SHIRTS, . All-wool Flannel Shirts, with collar attached,; light colors, assorted patterns and sizes;,regular '; - value" $2.25; Special, while they last .;..'.. $1.50. Just to make the men happy we will sell for the" , one day only, Tooke'si-ply linen Collars, all sizes* and styles, regular 20c. collar-^Spectel, 6 collars for 35 cents. •* . ; .\,;, . •-,- l. * 7 overalls^ ...„_ '-r '."y--"y\* i Men's medium weight Black Pant Overalls; re- * 1 - j-gular value 90c.; Special" up -to" Monday" night at ; 750c.pair. ■ -„ "': ;- i *■'■"; ■„ '."" y ';'-' •'., "' overalls" "■ ' -'•"*> \ '-f - . \ - \ - Heavy Blue "King of the Road'rbib';Overalls;'' regular $1.25; 'Special 90c.-'' ''7 s - 7(.y"7:y , OVERALLS, Men's heavy Brown Pant Overalls, double fronts; - ' regular $1.75 pr. Special $1.00. -. " ',;-- See our window for Suit Specials. .The greatest . clothing value ever offered.. " -•* ' , •'-, LAST, BUT NOT; LEAST—SWEATERS are" be-s ing slaughtered at ridiculous prices. -Come aiid- get your pick of our.entire stock at cost.y ,r' :." .... ^ - . ^- - - - *. ----- ^ -,» 'A ■ . V. IRITBSaa&aQTD ;"*l ■1. -V (! - '**-" "V * - Here and There Mr. Lukas, of Hosmer, was a Forhle visitor this woek. Geo Pedlar, editor of tho Froo Press, > Is expected to return on Saturday; • ' Dr. Wrlgleswortli, of Vancouver, formerly of thia city, had $200 worth 01 dental Instruments stolon recently. "Mr. J. Mclntyre, of the Homo "Bank staff, Is now recovering from his recent Illness and left tho Hospital this weolc. " - The monthly tea given hy tho Lndios Aid of Methodist 'Church, will be hold nt the homo of Mrs, W. W, "Drown on Tuesday, Feb. 0th, from 3 to 0 o'clock. A thunder storm In January is rather unusual ln this locality hut lho ltonvy roll of thunder'lind sharp'flash- oh *of lightning roused mnny people out'Ot tholr beauty sloop on Tuosday morning between tho liourb of four and flvo o'clock. Mr. Sam Phillips, Jr., who ban been In tho hospital for two or throo weeks suffering from the effects of a frozen fool, wns nhle to take his discharge Inst Wednesday, and la now moving around, (Had to boo you, Sam—and In our gladnoBH wo nro ,nol alone, Our renders will bonr with us for any typographical errors that may bo found In (his Issue, Ono of tho lady nioinberu of our ntnff wah fortunate enough to win a five dollar gold ploro nt tho Grand on Tuesday Inst, and tho staff has been keeping It up over since. Bhould you notico a young lady going down the ntreot with n smllo that wont como off-—woll that's her. new ,iunor: im 0. a OTTAWA. Jan. 30,—At Saturday's cabinet council nn order-ln-councll was poHsed appointing flco. H. Thompson, cranbrook plays pern»e to a draw ' ——_ Homo *<»m Doscrlbo Circles Around ' Crambpook But Fail*-to-Find the " Extra Aco °m **«>nday night the Blairmoro of? I*nt down t0 d<3foat'to tho tune Pernio tlB t0' 3; Th0 "0Xt nlSM tho tlm!! th» W1V8 dofofttod for tho first goals to MnS°n "at Cranbroo,c b*y 5 -»?i,«J!IUPBda5r ni^ht a lftl'E« crowd f Tn nt tho rink hero to witness old rlva!DP,0nBh^ 8ftm°' botwoon' ' thO ,. ls~Cranbrook and Fornlo. The Fernie nB'to,l0WB! - **• Cranbrook 7 Goal ■ McManus Point ■ Ellis Cover' Slmms Itovor' ' Williams Contro . < MoWha 1. wing Conloy r. wlnj; pyo ■ „ Wns tho fastest and cleanest "„°> ln v*™^ nnd the penal-. «un« ovon,y (llvlll0(1 ">' th0 two nni i,i,\ TIlfl "nl,lR80(1 obBorvor could I U(1mU tllftl ">o I'omlo nggroga. '," J'PnfiRod tholr opponnnls in fhr thn ny "1"1 c°m'»lnii»on, nnd hut ' ' , , brilliant work, of the visitors' Z, .1 por (ll° r08n,t wo"*" "nvo mJ° wlpl,1(- oft of tl10 '^font In- !' ' nt Ornnbrook. Tho visiting rflil?01,0'1 tl,r00 K0,,lH ,n *"HPln RUC ZZt two of wl,|f!h "PPonrod to the 'Tin* nR OXft»Po™tlnBly onny. «t„n,i ? ml»»,«8 hofore tlmo tho score l,Ze t0 '• ln fftVor of P°"»l«. »>"t hrnl ."io »nmo was callod off Cran- Z» k^"0'1 ,,p' nm- ftn Intensely In) Wc « mmi tmwi ,n n drftw' font »n ,,l,*rHlnn<l nrrnngomonts are on nnd lhVlm ln U,° ^thbrldge team, «1 of t,10y como wo ,nfty 1)0 ttB-iur- n r Lh cr<,(ll,ftl),° Performance from to wi»l I,l,c,t,c,m,,ors' ^ Is pleasing 1,,,? t,mt now we have a really Home 1 "up th0 c,t,zonfl nro taking onf tn l'1*-'*"''**- i" tl»la game anil turn mn t0 boost for their homo team. Forguson Wallace • Dunlop Oardnoi*. ,( Thrnsh**),, Thompfion Burl an (\ This 1 'i*/?! 1. ,111.«,. "C'V" ? wyT FIVE MILLION MEN Taken Out of Useful Occupations by '* ..Militarism Tho total cost of militarism for one year is $1,773,000,000 nearly four times the valuo of the world's annual .production" of gold and silver, and this does not include South and Central Amorica. But thoso figures, astounding as they are, do not tell tho whole •story. . Over flv.o million mon are taken out of usefulsoccupations and productive work and maintained In wasteful and dangerous idlonoss becauso of fear of war. Trained Boclal observers, llko Graham Taylor, of Chicago, toll ■ us that throughout Europe mor-cand moro of the hardest labor is being put irpon womon. , How can it be,otherwise when millions of able-bodied mon are idling in armlos and navlos?' - Tf wo should add to tho present cost of maintaining the world's armed forco' thn 11 mount theso unproductive soldier1* and sailors mlght'oarn, on a conservR,- tivo ostlmnto wo should-have $2,700,- 000,000 that might be- saved every yea". ThlR'vnst amount would provide nlno hundred thousand families with homos worth $3,000 each. Tho wholo wo'ld wight ho decently housed, Instead'of living In wretched hovels, if tho money wnslod on militarism was applied to tlio purphnso of homes, Woro the computation worked out, an oaunlly-lm- prosslve showing could bo mado, giving tho quantity of food thnt might bo purchnBod for ovory family In tho world. In our own country, If wo Include tho pension list, about ono half of our rovonuo goes to military pur. poses. Hollovod of this for ono year, ovory hungry fnmlly could bo fod and ovory Idlo person omployod In productive labor, There Is no more absurd spectacl* thnn the nations spending $2,700,000.- 000 for armlon and navies, whon no ono wnntB.to fight, ■*~;J> V ■*»*AM***A*AA*AAAA»A-V****^ county court judgo for tho Kootcnay district. CASTLE 8QUARE ENTERTAINERS 7 On Monday evening ln*t undor tht* 4 »ii|pl<«%;of tho"Methodist Church, tlio .-rssUo Sfni«rv* 0»n'''',ll*» pr<*M»n'#v1 n . hlgb-tlnRfl r-ntcrKtlmm-iil, consisting of «iu>lo*, vAiidervlllo, mimicry, wblutllnnv (»nd music, In solo work tho mem- bt?r*s or the cOmpttriy Hhowcd'np best, t botlbw "pre-Brsmnii* wt* zoo$ throufb- " o6t*''sri'd Wffily tppn>f|ftled JJ Allowing nppoal of a Wostorn °{mor Ih still golnr- the rnunrts nl. tliTIri11 lfi t0 b0 llopo,, by t,l,s t,mo ih« 1 °r'B Pn,y ,roub,° ,B ,n havln* >'\Vn mm,° ,ftrB0 OMUK"' „ftrnp* n«>. by an ostoemod contem- !■. «I -hftt ft 70m* 1m,y ,n Chicago £.??3rtlcu!nr that sho kneads bread S »«? »r K,ov?H on- ™m I*tnnt* Th0 Ws ronW thf" Vmr n<*!(l8 hrmA v,th • rrt... 7 0,,; ho nct5,,B brca'- with-his irouwi*, on, |n.fftct(ih0 nofld| bfend «f hi. h,a c,oM,OB on' nnd If W>« nuvv 1 ,lobtor.B (,on,t nay UB v**to thin« 7 Wn,''ne«,l tiron'^wltbout; ftHy. ,. „« Jf nU on' nn,, u,lB w«storn cllm« '" m ^ardb-u ot VAi-n. worn n vntt nw thic mucic? It Is Offered Free I A flno composition for tho pianoforte by the famous composer, J. MIc- haol Watson, has boon publlshol by I fhfi <7f|«n P11V Or> it T-«-,..»^ r-.i .... aro ablo to make our readers tho very useful offer of n copy of this March for Blmply paying postngo on same. Tho composition Is not very, difficult. Is qulto within tho reach of younir. pianoforte players, and a wonderfully offoctlyo piece ot work.. To obtain a copjrforwarrt 2 cents (cost of.pOBt- ftfje) to Tho •Zam-Iiuk Co.,*Toronto, asking for a copy, nnd mentioning' this P«P«r. - WANTRD-rllousekeopor tot. work- Ingman; widow with two children,. Apply, ;>. O. llox 102,.City, « ^3»f • c -t • t ■ f ■ t .:*. •t -t. •t t • < •c ■ t • 1 • ■< •< • t. ■t ■t ■t ■t • t , •t •t ■< •< ■t • < •< ■< ■ ( ■< -( ■< ■< •t •t •t ,-< • < •t • t •< • t -( •< -< -( • < ■i •t • ( -( -( ■t • ( • « • ( ( •( ■t • t ■ t • i -( ■ ( ■t -t •t • t t • t • t ■ t •t •( ■t ■ < •t' t ■< ■( •i •t • ( ■,. •t •k ■•* •t •t •t ■1 •t •t Big Rush is Now on to The Coming iMetrp<polis of the Great Northwest- The Fort land of Canada ; (See Page 7 Of this Issue) ,'.' Your opportunity is now and why you(,should Invest ln tho,land of'promise: - BECAUSE tho fertility of tho soil ln this district Is unquestioned and has ruA'or failed to Wwnrd tho abundant . returns. BECAU8E wc hr.vo" natural gas. .'t Is'costing Calgnry $3,C00,000 to brlnj natural gas from. Bow Island whllo hero wo' havo It 450 foot below tho 'Surface, which will bo used excluslvo- ' ly as powor In tho near futuro*. BECAUSE through Atlmbnuca Lnnd lng go all tho northern Bottlers, including thoso for tho Poaco Illvor dis- "trlct. Tho only foaijlblo routo to tho Grand Prairie Ib through Athabasca Landing, while settlors aro passing through by tho hundreds, ovon greater numbers nro content to remain In Athabasca Landing, BECAUSE AthabaRcn Lnndlng ' In tho assured distributing contro for tho ImmonBo and wealthy Northland; also will be tho fur market for Western Canada. Tlio old Indian trails from tho north convorgo at tho Athabasca Landing, so will tho stool rails of tho railway compnny convorgo from Athabnsca Landing, '' BECAUSE,AthabOBca-Landing has graded streets, good sidewalks, street ifchUu*-- aud Wtttor ft) Atoms. BECAU8E It Is tho wholoaalo contro for the Grand Prairie and Poaco Itlver district. ■" Tho C. N. R, haB 70 square miles of timber limits up"the Athabasca River and Its branches, , Thoro are three largo saw mills now in operation, It has its-own coal ln great quantities. It Is tho centre of the greatest mineral district In the Wost. 1 It Is surrounded by tho greatest fields of tar sand and asphalt ln the world. Owing to choap gas and wator power sites on tho rlvor It will bocomo a pro-* mlnont manufacturing contro. NOTHING CAN STOP IT I It Is already tho distributing point of tho Hudson Bay.Co., Hovlllon.Bros., and othor. largo firms, ■ It Is nn ideal location for a beautiful nnd prosperous olty. It Ib a distributing centre for tho groat fur trado of tho North, It will bo an important railway center for It has boon provon tlmo and time again that Inrgo cities aro always built whoro rail and wator moot. Tbo Northern. Transportation Company hnvo a largo float of boats and six largo steamers carrying freight and' TinaooT-p/irn tn tt\n ftrnnt TMiiph T-Mvur District and are -unnblo to accomodate tho great rush of settlers. In tho year 1010 116 flat, bottomed boats wero built at the Athabasca Landing, and.last year tho numbor was increased, , y Bolng tho terminus of tho C. N. R. from Edmonton and from Battleford, ' and from Poaco Rlvor Landing, and from Grand Prairie District • also tho C. P. It, from Wllkle nnd LloydmliiBtor nnd tho N. T. R. from Edmonton and « Fort Chlpowyan, ATHABASCA LANDING ., Invent-, ments of business, and as a proof ot this Btntomont we offer you for consideration the following extracts from the official Govoinmout Cciihub. TIicbo figures aro sufficient to convlnco the most posslmlstlo and skeptical of Investors, There Ib no uho In arguing against theso flguroa, for tboy nro "facts,* nnd to show this progress Is still going on wo only need montloi ti'.c fact that tho prosont population of Saskatoon Ih 10,000 nnd Mooso Jaw is said to S-f.vo a population of 20,033. Edmontons population Is estimated at 37,000, whllo, Calgary claims a population of 00,000. History repents Itself and tho city of Athabasca Landing Is now In tbo race of proralnonco and bids fair to rival any. of tho above- named cities in growth and progress in tho near futuro, pni» prmTMPr* n*nn,Ttr"l (»r»*» AVhs.biti-p.fi Land In r< Heard of TrrnVii Literature soo McCutcheon Bros,, Llphnrdt Block, Fornlo, B.O. * - %■ j- >•• - . >-! )■ ' >■ , >• ' >■ ', >• >■ 1 >• >■_■ >■ ■ >• 57-' >■. >■ >> ■ >- >■ >• >> >■ >■ »• >■ }■ >• >■ , >■ )■ >• >• )■ >■ )• >• >• )• )■ * >■♦ >■ >• . >• >• >' )■"-* * , >■> >■ >• )■ )■ >■ )• >■ >' )* >- 1' s- >• >• > >■ * )• >• j- >■ >• )- >■ >■ . >• ., i:- >'. )■ >• >• >■ j- )f ■*■ i- >■ >• )> )• >• McCUTCHEOH BROS. a- I J' J- , " . I- )•• "■*^V¥VVVV»¥yVV¥¥VVVmvy»¥W*i^ 1 A Itamsay McDonald, Labor M.P., spealilng at Aberdeen; Scotland said ,that-lh* Labor.Party would bring all the prcssure'Tft could "np^ the lars a year for 'tbo purpose or free modl^al stUiitlon to .school chlMner»v, 'Coinrade ^vitfrl*! Cribble-has; be*o government lp grant flvp million, .ftol* placed 1n tho field as n psrmnn*nt ■■■» -i *• * . -.-.■ '■%. ■■ :% - ,,. or«ajilK.r of tbe new local of tbo 80 elaljst .Party of Canada In Vancouvor. *"'"** • -■«■,- . SMOtMAKEfift-CAU-4E RIOT , RO0HK8TKR, Jan. HI.—Tho pollco & and reserves woro called this n-orn- ins; to^, quell a riot of tha striking •boemaktrr*.' Sivem*vwV tiuiheS ■* - • .-^v -,* "wiu,,^ ... v.. ^. . . ar^taL-tvHMiE^ ■
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Title | The District Ledger |
Publisher | Fernie, B.C. : H.P. Nerwich |
Date Issued | 1912-02-03 |
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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Fernie (B.C.) |
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FileFormat | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Notes | Preceding Title: The Fernie Ledger Frequency: Weekly |
Identifier | District_Ledger_1912_02_03 |
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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 | 9573e7a3-27c9-4c36-b4c5-bf82f24e0c11 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0308867 |
Latitude | 49.504167 |
Longitude | -115.062778 |
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