ti •j'JJB SILVERTONIAN. SLOGAN'S REST KNOWN WEEKLY. THE THE SILVERTONIAN. LOCAL MINING* NEWS. .SUBSCRIPTIONS, |_>_0 VOLUME FOUR. SILVERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, D.QQ. NUMBER 10 .AKEYIEW HOTEL Sttlv©:rto_i_jL jJTTHIS HOTEL IS NEW AND NEATLY FURNISHED, THE BAR IS SUPPLIED WITH BEST BRANDS OF WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. :&/£„ Kxicwles- E^xop. . J3XJRIVS <& co WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF FRESH AND SALT MEATS RETAIL WORKS AT MINES AROUND THE DISTRICT. A PROMISING PROPERTY. Jos. Connors lias just returned to town from Twelve Mile where he has been doiug somo work on the St. Lawrence group, in which he ia interested. Considerable work has already heen done on this property and a first-class showing o( mineral has been made. The lnte.it work consisted of a tunnel driven directly on the ledge, which has now reached a depth upon it of over 50 feet. The ledge, which lies in the granite formation, varies from seven to eight feet in width and carries about three feet ol a good quality of concentrating ore and from two to three feet of iron and lead carbonates. Tbe property is situated about fix miles up the creek. Silverton, Nelson, Trail, Ymir, Kaslo, Sandon, New Denver, Cascade City, Grand Forks, Sirdar Midway and Greenwood. .MAILORDERS PROMPTLY AND CAREFULLY ATTENDED TO. HEAD OFFICE NELSON, B. C. 9 5 Are You Looking For Stylish goods? THAT IS UP-TO-DATE CLOTHING WITH THE PRICE SOMEWHERE NOT ALTOGKTII- \ ER OUT OF SIGHT. IF SO DROP IN AND MAKE YOUR SELECTION FROM MY SHELVES. ITT AND FINISH GURANTEEI). OVERCOATINGS .Il'ST IN. IJEBSMHi, The Tailor: Silverton, I. C. 5 i WILL WORK. THIS WINTER. During the week provisions and mining supplies have been packed up to the South VV ales Group, a Granite creek property, and mining in earnest is nbout to commence there. This group of claims ii staked on a strike lately mnde about three miles up Granite creek, consisting of a six loot ledge lying in the granite formation, having a strike north ar.d south and a dip east. This ledge has been traced a long distance and numerous open cuts made upon it. Tlm vein Harriet a paystreak varying in width from one to ts., feet of a mixed iron carbonate, nine and galena ore. Buildings haye lieen put up on the property and a tunnel ia being driven that will tap the vein at a depth of over 80 feet. 6 ***** « THE VICTORIA | HOTEL. {:•: l!ai)(|iiiirt«s For Hiitins; M :•: i — EVERYTHING NEW, NEAT AND UP-TO-DATE TABLE UNSURPASSED IN THE NQETHWEST. 1 JAS. BOWES, Prop. •* SILVERTON, B. C.; J- m. m. raraamrnTfri, ASSAYE Silverton B.C PREPARING A SHIPMENT. Another property that the Red Mountain Wi'gon road will lie of grent benefit to, is the Ethel Fraction a properly that has but lately sprung into immune nee. Th.j claim is situated in the Silver Baud Basin at the head of Eight Mile creek and adjoins the Silver Band liroup. It is lhe property of Robert Ewin who is rapidly developing it into a shipping p-opoaition. The ledge which varies from three to four feet in width lies in the granite formation and has a Mrike running nearly north and south and stands up nearly straight having no perceptible dip. A tunnel ia being driven directly on the vein and has now reached a depth of over 50 feet. The ore encountered so far has been dry, but aa depth is gained upon it more galena is encountered and it is to be presumed thnt wilh depth it will develope into a wet ore proposition. The ore taken out is being sacked and a trial shipment will soon be made to the Binelter. The ore is very rich carrying quantities of brittle and native silver besides grey copper giving assay values running as high as 81)0 ounces in silver. An average sample taken across the whole ledge al the face of the lunnel gave an average value of 370 ounces in silver to tlie ton. A fifty foot tunnel is being driven on Ihe SLvcr Eagle claim on Alpha Mountain. Tina ia a silver-lead property belonging to C. Copp and C. McNichol and adjoina the Standard claim one of the Suprise Croup. YES! i^If you do not get your CLOTHING From BOURIV^ BROS.,<l : REMEMBER —■■»■ WE ARE AGENTS FOR ONE OF THE BEST TAILORING ESTABLISHMENTS IN MONTREAL. WE TAKE YOUR MEASUREMENT RIGHT HERE AND IN THREE WEEKS WILL TURN YOU OUT WITH AN ELEGANT SUIT. 7 5 0 SAMPLES OP SUITINGS, l-SflMitoril PANTINGSA OVERCOATINGS TO SwFiSS® I&OR1MNAUY.) CH00SE ™*- lilVF, IS A TRIAL ORDER. BOURNE BROS,, gooooooooooooooooec The Emily Edith force is being gradually increased. SeveiW important deals are about to be closed in the Slocan City district. There mining ia going ahead systematically and rapidly. New ofllcers have been elected lo.- the local Miners' Union. Those chosen are.I. R. Roberts, President, and J. C. Tyree, Financial Secretary. Forty five minera rolled their blankets and asked for their time at the Queen Bess inioe this week as a protest against the milliner of preparation of the board supplied them bv the company. As a consequence a new crew and a new cook i r! now at the mine. WHAT IS A WILDCAT MINE? Will some croaker or cent percent money loaner who thrives on the ready circulating money of a mining cnmp, aud who is everlastingly cniiiionir.g people j to beware of "wildcat" mines,, have the good grace to define the term, i et him do so and every condition he applies will bo met by producing a great mine which, at one time, possessed the alleged attributes, la amine a "wildcat" because Ihe stock in the company owning it is selling at a nominal figure? If so, then the Granite Mountain waa a "wildcat," for its stock was sold ior less than ten cents a sh.ire. yet it paid over $13,000,000 in dividends, and is still feting profitably operated. Iron Mountain was sold as low as eight cents snd has paid over half a million in dividends These mines were once only prospects with ten-foot holes, and so was everv other great mine. The fact is a"wild- at" is only audi when time and development whow it cannot be made a mine aud yet it may, as a prospect, have had great promise and worthy the expenditures made in an effort to make it a mine—Western Mining World. SLOCAN LAKE ORE SHIPMENTS. Shipments of ore fr.ini Silverton for tye year 1890. totaled 1603 Tone. All other Uke pointa 1385 " The shipment ot ore from Slocan Lake points, up to and including the present week, from Jan. 1, 1W0. From Bosun Landing. Tons. Bosun 740 From New Denver Hartney 20 Capella 7 From Silverton Tons. Emilv Kdith 20 Hewett 70 Vancouver 80 Wakefield, (concentrates) 080 Galena Mines 20 From Enterprise Lauding Enterprise 88J Neepawa 7 From Slocan City Arlington .100 Black Prince 60 Kilo 20 Total 2904 New I>^riV©r, B, C» DON'T KNOCK. A good natured traveling man who makes this territory for a prominent wholesale house, says the Revelstoke Herald, carries a card on the back of which appeara this wholesome advice: "If there ia a chance to boom business, boom it. Don't be a knocker. Don't pull a long face and look as though you had a sour stomach. Hold up your head, smile nnd hope tor better tilings. Hide your little hummer, and try to speak well of others, no matter how small you may really know yourself lo be. When a stranger drops in, jolly him. Tell him this ia the greatest town on eaitli—and it is. Don't iiisciiiirage him by speaking ill of your neighbora or opposition firms. Lend him to believe he has at last struck n place where whiie people live. Don't knock. Help yourself along by becoming popular, ar.d push your friends with you. It's dead easy. Be a good fellow and aoon you'll have a procession of followers. No man ever helped himself by knocking other other people down in character or buainess. No man ever got rich by trying to make others believe he waa the only good man in town, or the only man in town who knew entitling. You can't climb the ladder of success by treading on other people's corns. Keep off lhe corns. "You're not the only one. Tbere are others and Ihey have brains as well aa v.iu. There ia no end ol (un ln minding your own business. It makes other people like you. Nobody gela stuck on a knocker. Pou't be one, or two." Mrs. Barclay returned on Wednesday from Moyie. Frank Ryan and Phil Wallers returned from tlu, Smuggler on Monday. (io to R. G. Daigle'e for fresh fruits and con leet ionery. Near Postoffice.* On Tuesday next the Second Annual Ball of the Slocan City Miners' Union will be given. J. McMurray will spend the winter in Ontario. He left for hia old home in Douro, ou Thursday. Divine Service will be held to-morrow evening, at 7:30 o'clock, iu the Union Church. All welcome. J. Donaldson, Sandon's aide-awake druggist, spent Labor Day in town, and conspicuously held down third base in the ball game. The Secretary of the Rossland Miners' Union »anta information of the whereabouts of "Kid Allen," formerly ol Victor, Colorada. Those who intend joining tbe Club Swinging club, now being iormed in the town, are requested to stnd iu their names by Monday, the 10th inst. The Slocan City Miuers' Union is seekiog incorporation under the provisions of the Benevolent Society Act, a notice to that effect having appeared io the Provincial Gazette. B. Calbick is having hia house considerably enlarged. Others are busily fixing up for the winter, a suspicion o; which is already beginning to creep into thn early morning air. A Vancouver paper comes out with Ihe probable new Cabinet at Victoria after the promised shaking up has taken place, Iu the forecast Robert E. Green ia down as Minister of Mines. Khaki medallion portraits of the Britiah generals now serving iu South Africa are for sale at The Silverton Drug Siore> price 25c, as well aa a few copies of "Our Commauders" at the aame low price. All work in the Jewelry Repairing line, left at the Silverton Drug Store, will be promptly forwarded to Jacob Dovei the well-known Nelson jeweler. All re pairs are onauantbei. roit oisa YK-Ut. * The "Birthday Social*' given here laat Saturday waa a gratifying success all round. The ptograin, although much of it was extemporary, was excellent and was enjoyed fully by the large audience present. The Toronto World has increased its circulation by thousands during the past few years. One reason for this advance is found In the fact that it publishes the most accurate and fullest market reports of any Canadian paper. Geo. A. Jackson and Geo. Fairbairn are spending a few days on lhe prairie, having left here on Monday laat fir Calgary. Mr. Fairbairn is contemplating acquiring a ranch In that neighborhood and going into stoclcraising. A. P. McDonald was the unlucky recipient of a telegram on Wednesday from his home in Ontario, announcing tho serious illness of his mother and sister. Miss McDonald, who has heen here with ber brother, left for the East on Thursday, During the week Pete Sennott disposed of his freighting outfit, here to C. Cameron of Slocan City. Mr. Cameron has the freighting contract to deliver at tbe Chapleaii mine on Lemon creek 350,000 feet of lumber and over 300. tons of machinery. Ralph Gillette, C. Snyder and C. L Copp returned Irom the Lardeau on Monday where tbey have been doing considerable work upon their mining claims. Copp is still suffering fron- his late accident, rcaultiiig in a split foot, although he is able to get around with the help of a cane. Baseball matches were played here on Sunday and Labor Day, the players showing a great improvement over their showings in former games. To-morrow a game of more than usual interest will be played, a Canadian nine having been arranged to play all comers. Two teams will be chosen from ihe following players: Canadians; Jackson, Bowes, McNichol, Thompson, McLaughlin. Watson, Thorburn, Collison, Muthoson, McFarlane, McKinnon and Brandon: All Corners, Tinling. McNaught, Mel).maid, Culver. Smith, Byron, Patrlcan, Brand, Davis, Finlay and Fletcher, MATTERS FOUTICAi, THE LIBERAL NOMINEE-CONSERVATIVES CONVENE. HV. .1 Oul liber After Hoatoetfn .»«b. At Uie Liberal Convention held at Revelstoke on Wednesday W. A. Gal- liber received the unanimous nomination as the standard bearer of the party in the Riding. Hewiti Rostock, the present member, will retire from active politics. Mr. Galliher is a prominent lawyer, senior member of the firm of Galliher & Wilson, of Nelson, and is a man well- known and popular throughout the Riding. In him the Liberals believe they have a strong candidate. rrnrliirJmt Comtstrvatlyet Preparing. The Liberal Conservatives ol the Prov. ince met in Convention on Thursday and Friday of laat week at New Westminster ami drew up a provincial platform of sixteen planks for the guidance of the party in the approaching campaign. Tiie following officers were elected for the Provincial Association : Honorary President, Sir Char'es Iiibbert Tnpperj President, Hon. H. McBride; Treasurer, F.S.Barnard: Secretary, C. J. South. Charles Wilson Q. C. was chosen Leader of the party in the Province. In this Riding the three most talked of Conservatives as probable candidates for the party nomination are Hon. C. Mo Intosb, T. Msyne Daly and ex-Mayor Gocdeve, all of Rossland. Ro date has yet been set for a local Conservative convention, but such a meeting will probably be called in the near future. Tha Ttem Liner* Will Amu Me In It. From Toronto comes word of the launching-of a uew party, the "Peoples* Party," which comes out with a straight, socialistic platform. Thia partv will put up candidates wherever possible. As an agitation haa already been begun among the labor papers for ench a candidate in this Riding it is within the realms of probability that a third candidate will be endorsed hy the various labor .unions of the district. THE METAL MARKET. New York. Sept. fl.—Rar Silver, 61,^ Lake copper, 116.50, Lead—The firm that fixes the selling price (or miners and smelters quotes lead »t $4.00 at the close. PICKUPS. The highest point reached hy any railway in the world is at the Galera tunnel—15,678 feet—on the .line from l.inia,to Oroya, Peru, South America The A'aska Treadwell mill at Douglas Island, Alaska, is a splendid evidence of Ihe improvement of machinery and the advance of science ic quarli mining. Its mill tailinge assay but 12 to 15 cents to the ton. A curious instance of liie irony of late may lie witnessed just now at the Calcutta Jocks, whero hundreds of Chinese carpeuters, etc., are busily engaged preparing the transports to carrv the enemies of their own country to their destination at Hong Koug. - In a humble home in Lancashire au old man Hiy dying. His wife was tend- inn something cooking over the fire, and the old man, after amiling ostentatiously, remarked: "That's a gradely smell, lass" '"Ay," she replied, "but it's noan for thee, lad ; it's t'hain for thy Imrying." NOT OX EAR1H AS IN HEAVEN. TWO babies were born in the selfsame town On the very same birthday ; Tbey laughed and cried in Iheir mothers' arms In the very self-same way; Ami both seemed pure and innocent Ae falling flal.es of snow, But one of them lived in a terraced house And one in the street below. Two children plaied in the selfsame ion u And the children bo»h were fair, But one had curls brushed smooth and round, The other had tangled hair. The children two grew up apace As other children grow. But one of them lived in a terraced house And one in the street below. Two maiden wrought in the selfsame town And one was wadded and loved; The other saw through tlie curtain's part The world where her sister moved ; The one waa smiling, a happy bride, The other knew care and woe, For one of them lived in a terraced house And one iu the street below. Two women lay dead in the selfsame town And one had tender care; Tlm other waa left to die alone On her pa Hot aothin and bare; One had many to mourn her loss, For the other no tears wonld flow, For one had lived in a terraced Uquso And one in the street below. If Jesus, who died for rich and poor, In wondrous holy love, Took both the sisters in His arms And carried tham above, Then all the difference vanished qiite. For in Heaven none would know Which ol them lived in the terraoad hoixaa. And 'vlil__.li iu the atretit twlu\»:, 1 :» SHIPPING AGAIN Centre Star Sends Twelve Cars of Ore to Trail. The Centre Star is making its initial shipment of twelve carloads oi ore this afternoon to the smelter at Trail. The cars will average about 30 tons, giving a total of 360 tons for the shipment. To a reporter for the Record, Superintendent Davis stated this afternoon that this would be followed by regular shipments. Death by Suiclile. Chicago, Sept. 5.—The body of Archibald C. Haynes, supposed to have been connected with a New York Life Insurance company was found lying in a bed in a room at Stafford's hotel last night. He is supposed to have suicided. THK BlllSIIHV QIKKTIO.1l. QiickiIou Between Venezuela an* Columbia la Kettle.]. New Vork, Sept. 5.—Francis S. Loomis, U. S. Minister to Venezuela, said:' "I learn that the joint commission of Colombians and Venezuelans appointed by Ihe queen of Spain to decide the boundary line between Colombia and Venezuela, has advanced the boundary line to the Negro river. This gives to Colombia a slice of Venezuela which reduces the size of the latter about one eighth. The land in question is barren country. Hon. Arthur Ncwall Dead. Bath, Maine, Sept. 5.—Honorable Arthur Sewall, democratic nominee for vice-president in 1896, died at 8 a.m. today as a result of a stroke ofappopiexy suffered several days ago. Pell From a Window. Windsor, Ont., Sept. 5.—R. M. Fitzgerald, an old British pensioner, while leaning out of his bedroom window, overbalanced himself and fell to the ground thirty-five feet below, dying shortly afterwards. Haa Dleappeared. Toronto, Sept. 5.—George S. Clutton manager of the city and county loan association of this city, has disappeared. He is alleged to have been short in his accounts. MUTINY ON BOARD Muleteers Did Not Like Their Food- and Rebelled. CROSSED IN A BALLOON Aeronaut Had Nothing Under Him But the Water. A Notable wed (Una Hamilton, Sept. 5.—Harry Led- yard, son of president Led yard of the Michigan Central railroad, Detroit, and brother of Baroness Von Kettlt-r, whose husband was murdered by the Chinese in Pekin, was married today to Miss Maud Hendrye, daughter of W. Hendrye, the well known railway cartage agent aad horse fancier, this city. Paris, Sept. 5, — M. Jacques Faure, has successfully crossed the channel in a balloon, He left the Crystal Palace, London, at 8 o'clock Saturday night and arrived at Alette, Pas Oe Calais, at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. The crossing of the channel occupied four hours. During this time the aeronaut kept his balloon at a height of 700 metres. PRINCE AS A DEMOCRAT. New Orleans, Sept. 5. — The British transport Montcalm with 1400 mules for South Africa, has been anchored in midstream a few m'!es below this port for 48 hours with a mutiny on board. English stokers refused to work alongside Danish stokers and Chicago muleteers rebelled against thc quality of food furnished. Last night scores of the ringleaders of the mutiny were placed in prison. tfeuaea *t the Trouble Sunday, however, the British stokers refused to go to work. They had learned that four Danish stokers had been given places on the ship's crew and they refused tc handle a shovel of coal until they had been displaced. Then a complication developed in another quarter. Seventy old muleteers had been shipped, 30 of whom hailed from Chicago. The Chicagoans had had one meal from the ship's fare and went on a strike. Forty ofthe ringleaders#were placed in jail, but the muleteers made their escape. Archdeacon mile Kingston, Ont., Sept. 5.—After several ballots had been taken in this morning's session of the Ontario synod, Archdeacon Mills of Montreal, was elected Co-adjutor Bishop of Ontario. DRINK DID IT. A latwyer'* i'lerk Hhoote Two IWeu. New York, Sept. 5. — Martin Wellman, a lawyer's clerk, in a drunken frenzy, to-day shot James Allen and John Kane, tha former will die. Wellman had to be clubbed into unconsciousness before he would surrender to the police who effected his arrest. Are Holding Oil*. Toronto, Ont., Sept. 5.—The evening Independent, conservative, publishes an interview with George Taylor, sonservative, to the effect that the liberals are'in bad condition in Eastern Ontario and Quebec and are holding off the announcement of a dissolution on that account. A UNIQUE LAWSUIT Damages for the Violation of Religious Doctrines. BRAVE DEED OF A 6IRL Stopped a Runaway and Saved Five Persons From Death. New Vork, Sept. 5.—Five persons were saved from injury or death last night by Miss Ada Mayo Railey, daughter of Col. Charles L. Railey, a well known horseman of Lexington, Ky. A party of five, including Miss Railey has driven in an open bus from Sea Bright to Pleasure bay, and were returning when, after having gone some distance, they discovered that the coachman was not on the box and that the horses, a pair of powerful animals, were running away. Miss Railey, who is known throughout Kentucky as a horsewoman of remarkable skill, climbed through a window scarcely large enough to admit her slender body sidewise, managed to get hold one line, and threw one oi the horses, bringing the vehicle to a sudden stop on the edge of a ditch near the approach to the bridge across the bay. The frightened occupants climbed out and wilh the assistance of passersby untangled the animals from the broken harness. Thoroughbred Stoek Toronto, Ont., Sept. 5.—Hon, Sydney Fisher, minister of agriculture, speaking at the exhibition yesterday, expressed the opinion that just so long as interest in stock breeding was maintained, prosperity would attend the breeders. He favored English as against American thoroughbred stock. HiinlUf-*. Trotiblea Wilwaukee, Wis., Sept. 4.^—Ja- cob Gross, treasurer of Gross Bros, company, shot himself Monday afternoon and died last night. Business troubles caused death. A very remarkable scene occurred in the recent national Democratic convention at Kansas City. The first man of royal blood to sit in all the rights and privileges of a delegate in any convention ever held in the United States was there—and it was a Democratic convention. He was Prince David of Hawaii. Strager still it was his vo.e at the meeting of the committee on resolutions that put the free silver plank into the platform: Apparently no one knew his views as he sat silent in the meeting—a meeting which lasted all night, because of opposition to the free silver. When the time • came for him to vote, the ballot stood 25 to 24 for free silver. If he voted with the majority, the resolution was lost. But he did not. And today the newspapers are commenting on the singular balance of power held by a delegate from the youngest of the territories, especially in view of the attitude ot the Democratic party toward the admission of Hawaii. President Cleveland for a time prevented annexation, and leading Democrats opposed it. Yet the first representative from the "Dara- dise of the Pacific" is placed in a position to cast the deciding vote on the most important plank in the party platform—a platform upon which the entire election may easily hinge. Hutu id Pbralclana Watertown, N. V. Sep. 5—Mrs. Wm. F. Rose, of Copenhagen, whose case had baffled the medical fraternity of the state died yesterday. During the past few years she had had fifty operations performed and nearly three thousand pounds of fluid taken from her body. 1 BROKE HER PROPELLER Transport California, ten Days Overdue, at Manilla. Washington, Sept. 5.—The war department today received a cablegram saying that the California had reached Manilla, having been delayed by a broken propeller. The California was about ten days overdue. It is reported that 700 tons of sommissary stores which she carried have been damaged or destroyed. How this occurred was not stated in the brief cable received by the war department. The Death Roll. Toronto, Sept. 4.—John Rankin, collector of customs at Bowmanville from 1871 to 1899, is dead here, aged eighty-five. Chatham, Ont, Sept. 4.—Robert O'Hara, local master in chancery died here yesterday morning, aged seventy-seven years. Sarnia, Ont., Sept. 4.—Cha.les McKenzie, ex-M. P. and brother of the late Hon. Alexander McKenzie, is dead. Liberals are Hopeful. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Sept. 5.— At a political picnic held here on labor day. under the auspices of the liberal association, Hon. Mr. Tarte predicted that the liberals would carry 51 out of 65 seats in the province of Quebec. Hon. Mr. Mulock also expressed the opinion that the public would support the Laurier administration for what it had done during the last four years. King moat Die Ottawa, Sept. 5. — Alexander King who shot and killed one Davenport at White Horse Rapids must die at Dawson City on October 2nd, a commutation of sentence having been refused. A Conservative Nomination. Meretville, Ont., Sept. 5.—North Leeds and Grenville conservatives have chosen J. E. Lavell, of Smith's Falls to oppose F. T. Frost. la Renomlnatea Durham, Ont., Sept. 4.—Liberals of South Grey have again nominated Dr. Landerkin. An Even Hcore Toronto, Sept. 4.—The result of the lacrosse games between Toronto ond New Westminster clubs, four to four, was naturally a surprise, taking into consideration the man* ner in which the westerners defeated the Montreal, Quebec and Ottawa teams. Accidentally Drowned Perth, Ont., Sept. 4.—Willie, son of G. G. Publow, of this town was drowned while playing on saw- logs at Allan's sawmill yesterday New Yoik, Sept. 5.—One ofthe laws of Judaism society, regarded by the more pious of the faith, is that no one of the faith shall handle fire on the Sabbath. The pious Jew does not light his fire nor gas. Above all things he does not smoke tobacco. Samuel Froomkin avers that he is one of those |who lives strictly to the tenets of the faith. Because, as he alleges, Harris flyman has circulated a report that Froomkin smoked a cigar on the Sabbath, Froomkin has brought an action in the city court, contend- tending than Hyman has injured him in his business and good standing in the community to the amount of $2000. The care is anique in the history of jurisprudence. USEFUL PUBLICATIONS. Through the courtesy of President W. H. Burman of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, The Record has received copies of recent publications issued by that body, We must congratulate the society on the useful work it is doing, The annual report for the past year, while showing that the society is far from the ideal at which it aims, demonstrates that good work has been done. But it is of the two pamphlets accompanying the report that we wish to speak particularly. One of these is a clear and succinct statement of the progress and condition of natural science in Manitoba and the Northwest. It is from the pen of President Burman, and contains a deal of valuable information relative to explorations, agriculture, meteorology, geology, botany, entomology, and zoology. The second of the two pamphlets will prove far more interesting to the average reader and at the same time hardly less valuable in promoting the aim of the society. It is entitled "On the St. Paul Trail in the Sixties," its author being W. G. Fonseca, a pioneer of the old Red River days. A native of St Croix, he found his way to the Red River settlement in 1859, engaged in business, married one of the Logan family and settled on Point Douglas, now a part of the city of Winnipeg. His paper is a well written series of reminiscences of the old cart trail from Fort Garry to St. Paul in the days when Winnipeg had not yet come into existence. The value ot such papers, apart from their interest as reading matter is beyond estimation. Too often the people of a city or province allow early historical matter to perish, and then lament vainly after it is irrecoverable. The pamphlet is illustrated with a number of rough but valuable wood cuts, perhaps the most valuable being a picture of the first newspaper office of Winnipeg in i860. Another shows a group of early settlers in camp by the roadside. The national democratic convention cost Kansas City $66,253. SIEGE IS RAISED Town Of Ladybrand Is At Last Relieved Capetown, Sept. 5.—The seige of Ladybrand has been raised after several desperate attempts to capture the town and its little garrison of 150 British troops. The Boers who attacked Ladybrand are estimated to have numbered over 2,000. The British were summoned September 2, but refused and from that time on were subject to continual rifle and cannon fire. The burgers twice tried to rush the British position. Probably the approach of a relief force saved the little garrison. War Practically Over New York, Sept. 5—The London correspondent of the Tribune says Lord Roberts' annexation of the Transvaal is generally regarded at home and in South Africa as an indication that the war is practically over. The stock exchange take this view. The effect of the proclamation will be to cause the Transvaal burghers now in arms to be treated as rebels and forfeit belligerent rights. It is hoped that by this means the hoplessness of further resistance will be speedily brought to the Boers. But the experience of the Orange river colony is not altogether encouraging. Loal In tbe Calai-ombe Rome, Sept. 5. — Two young Americans, students at the university of Eichstadt, visited,the tain- combs yesterday with their Iriends and up to a late hour last night no trace of them had been discovered. Later.—The lost students Harry Fengel and George Laughey were found at 3 o'clock this morning by- German student friends, who carrying torches and guided by the -irch- aelogist Signor Marucchi, had searched for them all night long. HIS THRONE IS NOW SAFE Shah of Persia has Captured Ali Mahomet Bey. Chicago, Sept i;.~A dispatch from Moscow says: "After a desperate fight Ali Mahomet Bey, the rebel who has been trying to get possession of the Persian throne, has been defeated by the Cossacks hastily summoned to oppose his march on the capital and has been thrown into an underground dungeon." TODAYm NTtMH aAltWM. II Ml Following is a summary of the sales on the local exchange today together with the quotations: ... . «8KID Athnbasoa B C. Oold Fields ' su Him* Tail '. ...."-' j/j Brandon A Oolden Crown _ In Calilurnla jo Canadian Oold Fields. hi/ Cariboo [CampMcKinney] m * Centre 8tar $ I 01 Crow's Neat Paw Coai" " i.'W m Deer Trail No. 2... "7 ' L Dundee "" .»** Kveniim Htar .'.' ' "* L oiant ;;;;;; !;p Homestake {Attest, paid) 2 Iron Mask ass Iron Colt ,.,,, „,_,; 3 I. X, L 141/ Jnmbo £,) KIiik (Oro Iii-iiui-ii) ..','.'.'" 7 KnobHUI w Linn- l'i ne CoiiMiil .' 11 Muinebalia ....,! Miinli' Cliri-ilii ' »•/ Montreal Oold Fields.,... 48 Morrison !~ Monntain Mon '" n'i Noble Five 'V,. NoTeUylar<KMt Ko<i,«'"»y»l 00 okanoKMi ikmet, 'paid},' \ '£'* Old Ironsides J, Vevne 2? 1'eorla Mines ". I'lineesa Maud ' »,. «uiiP ::;:;• „•« Kainliler-Curiboo .. ' T,.., Republic jjn Bt. Klmo Consolidated."" k Sll Hi vim '• .? Tanmrar, [Kennethj;"' J,. Tom rhumb. ... ' JH VanAnda * Virxntlu * White Hear...... '£% Winnipeg '.'._'.'.'."..'.' ,f* \ ) 11 1(1 V* Vi m W 00 »X I 1 28 18 18 4 60 «X 3 I2* 3% HI 1 1 (IX til 1 -% 2:1 72 m 4 IH 60 1 *% 8fi *•»•*.*APmnttt Ottawa, Sept. s<_An council passed this morning "V John V. Ellis, M pS!lpN. Johns, N. B., ,0 ,he ; olK place of Senator Burne* ""U,e *\ P ' resi8»H Kertou.l, Woun^ Ottawa, Sept. s §• Milne cables from CaPL> nouncingthe serious Wo ""* private C. C. M. YV.itts, „fv'V Man., (Strathcona's HonelJS fontein on September ist. ' Richard Harding^- the Boers have just as much^ of winning as they ever had t no doubt. Ir% The new king of |,a,y ^ th^n five feet in height. THE WAR The Dowager Empress is Still iotJ for Trouble London, Sep. 5.-There is |j4 indication that the dowager tm*t*, is ready to treat for peace, even* the allied powers reach an ap» ment in regard to the best n* of opening negotiations. On | contrary many rumors gathered 1 Shanghai suggest that she is cam] log on her anti-foreign policy n increased zeal. The latest rei impel ial decree from Tsi ! is said to be defiant and unrepem and to contain the statement the court fled lest the em might be killed during the figl between the Boxers and Christia and thus leave no one to contw the "celestial worship." The deem is also said to exhort a union of tin viceroy's to "avenge the injuries* flicted on China" by the powea Rebellion Npreatflaf. New Vork, Sep. 5. —The flaw of rebellion has been fanned in lie southern provinces and a tremendous conflagration is predicted lid- in a month, says a dispatch to (it Herald from Hongkong. Placards and pamphlets are being circulate! in Canton and the province inlio* ting that the allies are thoroughly routed. The feeling against foreip- ers is bursting the bounds of offlal control. The majority of missioi stations in Kiang Tung have eitte been destroyed or looted. Natin Christians are terribly abused. A systematic looting of houses a English speaking Chinamen h* taken place, Several reform parties who ha« their headquarters in Hongkoef have signed an appeal tc the Bririsfc minister imploring the assistance a reform government in establish* Making as the capital and the* election of enlightened Chine* ofllciials to administer the government with foreign advisers. The* people are disheartened at the i* ported intention of the powers» vi iifidraw from China. Intensified Peeling The practical cessation of tra* | with the north has thrown thousw* of Chinese in each port out of «•* ployment. They are ready to j«p the rebels. The French wgfftm at Swatow and Japanese 8gg«** at Amoy, intensify the hatred 0 the foreigners. The Imperial Edlel. Washington, Sept. S.-The L*""'1'. ed States government have not p been informed about any further responses being made by the P°w'rf to the Russian note respecting «N withdrawal of troops from l'e",a' Therefore the negotiations on ll"' point cannot be said to have W I marked by any formal advancement. though it is known that uno^ exchanges are in progress W* doubtless are preparing the way ' a formal agreement between "* powers in the near future. The United States governm* have not yet recieveda copy °' imperial edict referred to W ' Shanghai despatches naming ' Li with several other Chinese n°"' bles as plenipotentiaries to negotlS for a settlement with the po"** but the state department is »dvlS of the existence of such an edict. 01 IELD THE PASS low Bight Volunteers Routed the London, Sept. i—A Queenstown dispatch describes the capture of ken. Olivier, during the Boer at- nck on Winburg. Eight Queens- nwn volunteers sortied from the own and took up a position in the longa through which the road lassed and behind the Boer position. Is the Boers retired in single file hey were taken one by one, and Lt out of sight, until the colonials lad captured 38, including Gen. blivier and his three sons. Two hundred Boers were following in lose order. The colonials then egan a hard volley firing with the Jesuit that they killed six Boers and lightened off the others, who had idea of the actual number in th onga- CHINA'S OWN TROUBLE. While China is having trouble lith the'powers, her greatest treu- |e arises from her own internal pndition. We speak from person- observation when we say that ie state of affairs in China is de- |orable so far as it relates to gov^ nmental and administrative mat- rs, and unfortunately the country ems incapable of correcting its tn evils or prescribing an efficient riedy for its own diseases. The chief aod radical difficulty in kina appears to be the lack of a Jong central government. In some pects China is a mere collection Independent provinces, each of lich habits own tautai or gover- Ir. This officer closely resem- |s, in his functions and powers, ruler of a principality who elds feudal homage to his over- Jrd only so far as suits his advance or pleasure. To illustrate this point. When lie writer was in China several ears ago, part of his mission counted in investigating the subject ' cotton supply and manufacture. Trough the courtesy of Messrs, trdine, Matheson & Co., one of largest firms in the Orient, we ^re afforded every facility for iking this investigation, one of eir superintendents, Mr. Ainee, odly giving us his time und ser- be as chaperone and guide. The ^sult convinced us of several im- brtant facts, and it is in the bear of these on the present serious Hsis in Chinese affairs that we pish to speak. In the first place we were amazed ) find the lack of coherence among ie states or provinces of China. 'I course we were prepared to nd them speaking various dia- «ts, the speech of one province eing utterly unintelligible to the eople of another, and the written r classical language being a sealed lystery to the vast mass of the opulation. But we had not been repared to find the general organ- mi of the ^Empire so invertebrate nd impotent. Finding that there a large territory in the interior of Nna, admirably adapted to the reduction of cotton, we inquired fhy the mills at Shanghai, which )' the way are of the most lodern type and magnificently juippei) with the latest improved achinery, could not get their sup- y from these interior provinces. 'e found that an insuperable ob- acle was presented in the fact that eh province had the power to levy separate tax upon any commodity ssing through its borders, and ;" this tax or likin, as it is called, pended solely upon the whim of J governor of that particular Jvlnce, ' In other words he could y tribute as freely as any Arab ef who ever exacted booty from mssing caravan, and in most in- nces he was fully as much in- ied to do so. This o.ie fact ;aks more than volumes as to the ernal relationship in Chinese af- s- It is as if every state from une to California, or each prov- e in the Dominion had power to V a separate tax upon any com- dny passing through it, and this tax were regulated solely by the despotic whim of an absolute and arbitrary ruler. Another startling fact in connection with the administration ot affairs in China is the ignorance and isolation of the vast and unnumbered multitudes by which the country is populated. Japan is justly proud of her victory in the war with China, but the fact remains that Japan, thoroughly aroused and imbued with a spirit of martial pride and national unity, fought only an inconsiderable part of China. When we were in China we were reliably informed that mil- lions of her people in the interior were still in ignorance of the fact that a war had been fought with Japan. China is still living in the darkness of the middle ages, while the rest of the world has made centuries of swift and marvelous progress since those days of feudal ignorance, barbarity and superstition. STEAMER IS SINKING StrCutch Has Foundered in Northern Waters- Refused Help. Port Townsend, Wash, Aug. 30. —The sreamer Topeka has arrived from the north with 150 passengers and $100,000 in gold dust. The British steamer Cutch is ashore on Horse Shoe reef in Stephens passage, 25 miles from Juneau, and badly damaged. The sea was smooth when she struck on August 24, and passengers and crew succeeded in reaching the beach, where they were camped when the Topeka passed. The Topeka offered assistance, It was refused, but the cargo was being thrown overboard. The steamer Treadwell was despatched to assist the wrecked vessel, but it was thought she would become a total loss, as she was full of water aft, and settling. ARE HOME AGAIN Wounded Volunteers Have Reached Quebec. Quebec, Sept. 1.—The steamship Tunisian, from Liverpool, arrived here last evening with a number of invalided Canadians from South Africa, among whom are the following British Columbians: A company, Royal Canadians, Private W. H. Brooking, New Westminster, Fifth regiment. Private C. W. Gamble, Victoria, Fifth regiment Canadian Artillery; Private W. S. Mackie, Vancouver, Fifth regiment. C. A. Brooking was wounded in the knee while engaged in the battle at Paardeberg and was shortly afterwards stricken with fever. He is still lame from the effects of the wound. He and all other invalids who arrived on the Tunisian speak in high terms of the treatment accorded them in tht hospit-ils in South Africa and England and also of their treatment while on the trip homeward, FACTS ABOUT OURSELVES. YEARBOOK OF CANADA. The statistical year-book of Canada for 1899 has just been issued, and the Rkcorp takes pleasure in acknowledging the reception of a cop). In this era of periodica! literature all kinds of "annuals" are issued, from the yellow-covered pages devoted to setting forth the claims of a quack medicine, up to the recondite investigations and proceedings of scientific and philosophic societies. In all the long list none perhaps will be found more practically useful to a resident of Canada than the year-book, now in its fifteenth year, issued by Alfred Hewitt of Toronto. It has come to be a recognized authority, and finds a place in every good reference library. Among its principal features are the following: A succinct historical sketch, well worth publication as a separate pamphlet and a place in the schools as a text-book. It is supplemented by a statement of physical features, condition and government, treaties, lands and land regulations. The statistical matter, which is almost overwhelming in its comprehensiveness, and which is methodically arranged, embraces agriculture, mines, fisheries, trade and commerce, currency and banking, railways and canals, marine, postoffice, finance, insurance, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, militia, social, churches, population, education, libraries, the insane, chanties, lepers, temperance work, divorce, patents, vital statistics, penitentiary and criminal, immigration and governmental. The extent of the book may be judged from the fact that it contains 606 closely printed pages, supplemented by an analytical index of 18 pages. The year book of Canada just issued gives the following facts about British Columbia: British Columbia was admitted by imperial order in council, May 16, 1871, on address of the legislature and address of the Federal parliament. It contains a land area of 382,300 square miles. Its average mean summer temperature is 61 degrees; winter, ^2.4. Following is the density of population of the several provinces, the figures givan showing the average number of persons to the square mile: Prince Edward Island 51.5 Nova Scotia 22 New Brunswick It.4 Ontario 10 Quebec 6.5 Manitoba 2.4 British Columbia 3 Tot-il average, Canada,.. 1.5 An interesting batch of statistics in the year book is that concerning the educational returns for British Columbia. In 1877 the total number of pupils in common .schools was 1938, the average attendance being 1210. In 1899 the total attendance was 7430, the average being 4280. In 1878 there were only 50 common schools in the province; in 1899 there were 244. The graded school system was inaugurated in 1884 with 7 schools, 22 teachers and 1745 pupils. Last year there were 32 graded schools, 169 teachers and 11,165 pupils. In 1877 there was but one high school, with three teachers and 60 pupils; in 1898 there were four with 12 teachers and 490 pupils. In 1877 the total expenditure by government for schools in British Columbia was $45,350; last year it was $336,016. The growth ofthe maritime commerce of British Columbia is shown by the following table of registered sea-going tonnage carrying cargoes into and out of the province, by periods of five years: 1874-78, total tonnage 1,439,817; 1879-83. 2,358,- 885; 1884-88, 4,089,788; 1889.93, 8.927.979:r,894-98. 11,052,109. in 1880 there wasbui one Board of Trade in tha province; now there are 14. ________„, Onr Marksmen Ottawa, Aug. 29.—Shooting this morning was for Kirkpatrick's cup. Three British Columbians were in this competition and won money prizes. Sergt. Major Richardson, Victoria, won $5, with a score of 60, Sergt. Major McDotigall and Sergt. Bodley each $5, with scores of 59 each. s«»t Til NORFOLK NOMINATION T H. Atkinson will Oppose Tlsdale ■t Cowing Uleetlon Simcoe, Ont. Aug. 29.—South Norfolk liberals have nominated T. R. Atkinson to oppose Hon. David Tisdale at the next general elections. A THAI TOWS' SENTENCE. Deserted Americans and Fought Against Them Chicago, Sept. 1.—Henry Vance, late of the United States Volunteers, was brought from the Philippines on the transport Thomas under sentence of 99 years imprisonment at Alcatraz. This man, it was proven, not only deserted the rank of the American army, but took arms against his comrades and while serving as a major with the Filhpino's, attacked wagon trains and escort parties. Vance was captured, court martialed and sentenced to be shot, but owing to the clemency of President McKinley his punishment was commuted to 99 years imprisonment. Cannot Be Found. By Associated Press. London, Sept. 1.—The gunboat which has been searching lor the m'ssing boats with part of the crew ot the wrecked British steamer India has returned to Aden without meeting with any success. FHIZB FIOHTINM. Uale Receipts Which Big Contests Yielded. New Vork, Sept. 1.—It is estimated that since the passage of the Horton Law in 1896, 3350 fights have taken place in this state the majority in Greater New Vork. The total receipts are placed at about $8,805,000. The Erne-Mc- Govern fight drew the biggest crowd and Corbett-MeCoy fight had the largest receipts, about $60,000. BIG STEAMER IS OVERDUE Fears Entertained Safety of the California. for San Francisco, Sept. 1.—The big steamer California, bound from this port to Manila, with nearly 6000 tons of supplies for the army in the Philippines, is now out 45 days and 20 per cent reinsurance has been offered on the vessel. The steamer is overdue from Honolulu to Manila easily fourteen days and the general impression among shipping men here is that she has broken her shaft or met with some other accident. The California was launched May is and this i.s her maiden voyage, She is 488 feet long and her measured capacity is 15,000 tons. Her captain is Geo. D. Morrison, uho wis sent here from New York to take command. The Globe urges that the British government oppose to the uttermost the idea of the evacuation of Pekin, in which course, the paper adds, it will be supported by Km- peror William of Germany. Russia Has Been Misunderstood New Vork, Aug. 29.—"Russia's attitude has been greatly misrepresented. Her operations in northern China are conducted solely for the purpose of restoring peace and order, are absolutely unselfish." This statement, says the Washington correspondent of the Herald, was made by De Woolant, the Russia charge d' affaires. Russian oiliciais have felt keenly the aspersions lately cast upon their country. The It. C. Lacrosse .Hen Montreal, Aug. 30.—The New Westminster lacrosse club yesterday afternoon defeated the Shamrocks of this city by a scoi 2 of six goals to two. The Gizette this morning, commenting on the result says: "The more we,see of the western men the better we like them." The British Columbian's play the Capitals of Ottawa on Saturday and the Torontos, at Toronto, on Monday, labor day. The Gazette says the probabilities of the results are one less, one win. RUSSIA'S PLANS The Emperor Defines the Chinese Situation. St. Petersburg, Sep. 1.—The emperor has directed the acting foreign minister to address to his representatives abroad, the circular which follows. "The immediate cbjects which the imperial government had in view at the very outset of the Chinese trouble were as follows: "First—To protect the Russian legations at Pekin. "Second—To assure the safety of Russian subjects against the criminal intention of the Chinese rebels. Third—To render help to the Chinese government in its struggle with these troubles in the interests of a speedy establishment of the legal order of things in the empire. "As a result all the powers interested, with the same object in view, sent troops to China. The imperial government, therefore, propose the following fundamental principles to guide the powers in China: "First.—The maintenance of a common agreement among the powers. "Second—The maintenance of the former state of organism in China. "Third.—The removal of everything that could lend to the partition of the Celestial empire. "Fourth. — The establishment with the united powers of a legal central government at Pekin, able alone to preserve order and tranquility in the country. On these points agreements prevail with almost all the powers. While pursuing no other objects the imperial government will continue steadfastly to adhere to its former program of action." Ureal Britain's Position. Londop, Sept. 1.—The foreign office here is not ready to make public Great Britain's position in the recent Chinese situation, but all indications tend to confirm the belief that Lord Salisbury favors the principle contained in the American- Russian proposals, although he may have some modification to submit. TIIK SHOOT < I.I.M-S. Award of Frizes Its Doiulnlou Rifle Association Ottawa, Sept. 1.—The Dominion Rifle Association meet was finished yesterday. In the governor generals match, Sergt. Major Richardson, fifth regiment, Victoria, won $10 and Sergt. Bodley, of same regiment $6 with score of each of 182. Sergt. Major Letlice and Driver J. L. Beckwith,also of same regiment, with score of 178 and 177 respectively, won $5. Sergt. Major Mc- Dougall, with score of 173 won $4. Lieut. Col. Anderson of 43rd. Ottawa, as stated yesterday, won the cup and Dominion Rifle Association medal and S200, with a score ot 189. In the extra series (B-800 yards,) the following Hritish Columbians won prizes: Gunner Bodley and Sergt. Major Richardson, fifth regiment Victoria each $4, score 24 each. In extra series 900 yards: Sergt. Bodley $11.82 score 2;; gunner J. L. Beckwith, same regiment $5, score 23. Gibson Match, 500 yards, five shots in one minute Sergt. Bodley $3.64, score 24. Kiii>»iii'* Notification London, Aug. 20.—A special dispatch from St. Peterburg contains the somewhat remarkable assertion that Russia will notify the powers that she considers the relief of the Pekin legations as the final accomplishment of the military task ofthe alliei1 forces. Tbe afternoon papers, however, regard the activity of the allies at Pekin and the difficulty of discovering a responsible Chinaman, with whom to treat, unless Li Hung Chang is able to secure crerdntials satisfactory to all powers, as indicative that the solution of the problem will be more prolonged and more difficult than previously hoped. KHERSON REGIONS. Mar Contest Constituent-) for House of Commons. (By Associated Press.) ' **) Fredericton, N. B,, S;pt. 1.—• Hon. H. R. Emerson, premier of New Brunswick, handed in his resignation to Lieutenant Governor McLennan last night, intending, it is stated, to either go to the supreme court of the province or contest the constituency for the house of commons. Emerson is succeeded by Hon. L. J. Tweedie as premier and provincial secretary. Will Oppose Hols Goderich, o»t., Sept. 1.—West Huron Conservatives have chosen Robert McLean to oppose Robert Holmes, the sitting liberal member. Accidental Death Belleville, Ont., Aug, 30 —Miss Tillie McCrudden, was crushed to death by a train this morning. She attempted to alight after the train started. SHE BREAKS THE RECORD The Deutschland Makes Remakarble Speed Aross Atlantic, New York Sept. 1.—The fame- ous express steamer Deutschland of Hamberg American line has again eclipsed all previous records for fast trans-Atlantic travelling. She has broken the eastern and western records. Her time on the voyage just ended is 5 days 12 hours 2c; minutes between the Mole at the entrance of Cherbourg harbor and Sandy hook lightship. At noon on the 31 she passed the record for the fastest days run, making 584 knots. Her average speed was 23.02 knots per hour. Imperial Mummer Palace Balls St. Petersburg, Aug. 31.—(ieneral Linevitch, commanding the Russian troops at the Chinese capital, reports that the Russian detachment on August 19 captured without loss, the Imperal summer palace. The Russian artillerymen have also unearthed at Pekin thirty cannons and many rifles, A large quantity of silver was found at Tsung Li Yamen. Tbe Pleet at Taku "Inquiry of Admiral Remey, concerning our fleet at Taku, was answered that no such resolution had been adopted. He now cables that the admirals have agreed to write to the Dean of the Legations at Pekin, instructions in case Li Hung Chang snould arrive at Taku, and meantime not allow him to communicate with Chinese shore authorities. Remey dissented from the last proposition. We take the same view expressed in the Russian note. It seems important that the Chinese plenipotentiary should be able to communicate both with his own government and the United States military commandant. The Chinese minister here is without power or advices. Li Hung Chang is prima facie, authorized by imperial decrte to negotiate, and i.s the tiiIv representative of responsible authority now in China so far as we are advised. What with bloody race riots in New Vork and Louisiana, followed by incendiarism and general slaughter in Ohio aid Illinojs, the question as to where the center of Boxerdom in America i.s located seems still an open one. The Amalgimated Waiters' Society of London has started a movement to do away with the tip ' custom. The members of the so- ciaty say that tips are a less reliable scource of income than the salaries paid other workers in the same establishments, and that they* detract from their personal dignity. w 1 s I i *4 §1 J:r**-*-*T*7mr?5Z 1_*HJE& '." -'A. THE SII,VERTO.\I.U. {SELKIRK JL%*Q\97^I*^m war TIIE LARGE AND COMFORTABLE RQOMS TABLE UN8JTR- J'AgSEI) IS THR NORTHWEST. JtRAM&IIAIUtETT- - -PROPS SILVER1W. B. p. S-attrday, Si.i-tkvhi-H 8. 1900. fought out Now let the voted estimate* lie applied at once and all will he well. rl'lll.lKHKIi KVERY HATUBDAV AT SILVEKTON, B. 0. MAIIIKSIIN mtos.. lUIitorn t Prop*. 'I ' ' I 8UBS0RIFTION RATES: TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. __ ua,- *..i^v— - -L'l'S-iULr. m siiny MVl-Uf.-'Vi:'..'.'P l^^-'l'lJi!!'.'!. yj* ^r *-Mfr-pe*j* 'S-V-T f»«r^ntt. Advertising rates will be made known upon application at this ollii-e. OS5»««0 f 9 Watches, Clocks and Jewelery. IF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS DUE OR IN ARREARS A BLUE CROSS WILL 5*9*»«S BE FOUND iN THIS SQUARE. SUBSCRIPTION ARE PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. PRICE TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. UUi UU8UUUUSUUUI i editorial oumomm f'toe Itit* Repairing a Sperialt y. All Work Lelt at The Vafttyjew Hotel, Silveiton, will by forward, ed ami promptlv attended to. jGSt. H. Knowles, 8ANpO$, 11. C. THE ARLINGTON _♦ Conveniently Situated neur Railway Station and Wharf. jGOOp SERVICE—comfortable ROOMS. i.ii,..t*.,.sti»i..i'.i.i, TfJE LATE SESSION. On Friday August .'list the first session of tbe Ninth Legislature was brought to a close and the House was prorogued by Lieut-Governor Jjly. During its session of twenty-six days tbe members delilierated upon and passed some sixty odd measures, many of them of much importance. In addition to these the Estimates were put through and arrangements made for the appointment of a commission to enquire into the workings of the Mineral Act Regarding this com - ! mission it may be said tbat as we now have the jyord of the Minister of I Mines that no tampering will be allowed with the 8-Hour law, much A LONG RANGE CRITIC. An article appear; in the last number of the British Columbia Mining Record, that treats ofthe closing down of the Wakefield Mines, ita management, manager and the mine itself. &ow the writer of this article evidently acquire-! his information at second hand, hating his opinions on the value of tlie mine from hearsay or is drawing on his imagination for his information. |>i- that as it may, and leaving out his critisism of the manager and management, which we venture to sny was neither better nor worse than that of several other companies operating in the Kootenay's, his expressed opinions in regard to the mine am at variance with the truth, misleading to the public and harmful to the *hol« mining interests of the country. If is statement that tbe mine never was or never would justify the erection of a mill for the concentration of its ores is utter poppycock. He evidently taj.es credit to himself for being able to look a mile into the ground and as a mining expert, if he were employed at bis own estimation of his abilities in that line, he would be cheap at about $)000 a minute. The writer in all probability never saw the Wakefield mine and has but a hsxy idea as to where it is situated. The tramway too come-i in for lii3 sweeping condemnation although it is as necessary for the economic handling of the ore as is the steamship line vhich carries the cres from our dock. Even in the tramway was of mceeaity for PUBLIC SCHOOL RETORT. The Btanilirijr of tlip pupils of the Sil- verton Public *ooool for Die month of August is an follow* : V Reader. Ine» Calbick. Alice Cal'm-k. Adelaide Horton. IV Remler. Fay Elliott. Mamie McDonald. Janet Barclay, HI Reader. Maguie Bandar. surah Lawaon. May Lawson. II Primer. lii'.irni- Horton. Annie Kelly. Jeanle Barclay. I Primer. Evelyn Horton. William While. Emlora Tyree. The following pijpils obtained the highei-t mark 111 ilie various subjects v\- aniinetl iiltrit)g the month. A1 IrlHi.ii' Horton, in Anatomy, 100. Alice Culbiek, Canadian History, 101). ifaggle Barclay, (ieinira|iliy, 100. Evelyn Horton, Rending, 100. Fay Elliott, Composition, il"). Inez Calbick, Map Drawing, 97. BATH HOUSE AND Mr LAUNDRY ___ ■» -L. , 1 , Prop, UP-TO-DATE IN EVKRV BRANC„ tHPfiysruialHua SILVERTON, r - r - - fi. C. (Laundry Work Called For and Delivered Weekly.) Solomon no longer holds Ihe record (or church building "without (he pound of Ibe hammer." lt has been done again in Chicago, where, BfCOtdlog to "Invention," a vitrilieil clay chinch hns been built without au inch of timber in the whole structure. good may be accomplished, the! ___ _,__, Minister's word having removed tin- Maudlin" the clean ore suspicion excited by the proposal. jhe fact ia that the Wakefield Of the measures approved of by the \ Mines has large bodies of ore exposed j Lieut-Governor there are five or six I in it that will pay well to rpn through I of direct importance to the Kootenays. j» concentrator and these without a The first of these, No 14, is an Act to| n,jH w00|d ^ 0f ,)Q va]UP( g0 that A pretty story is told among narratives of farewells to l.a,lv Robertson Imr departure for the Cape. One ol the friends iroing to see her oil' is the mother of a youth who recently Hiiccewled to n dukedom snd fo-tliwitli went out to the war. "I am so glad." she said, "that, j Lord Roberts bas put tbn duke on hi- ; absence of the mill, the; g,air." "Yes"' suid Lady Robert.!, "they are a mixed lot." b matsAAA mm m ___, *t 'iVyy^i^, Advertisers "Will fiaaoL tliat til© Txra37- to reaclh. tli.© anciinexs o± tlie SI©. can is tiixo-uLgrla, tliq col\a_.m.n.s of THE SILVERTONIAN Tli© snciiriers' trad.© is tlie trad.©. Ett©x3t tt7"©©1s: one tli©-ULsa:nd, Slocaxi nnciiners read, THE SILVERTONIAN Dining Room under the charge of MiM Ida Carlisle. Tables supplied with all the delicacies of the seaaon. HEWDBB80N A GETHING, - Props. SLOGAN CIT.Y, .... R C. A* Pine Line Of Incorporate the Western Telephone and Telegraph Oonipany, by which telegraphic competition will be had for ■ he Slocan us well aa telephonic connection with the south. The Immigration Act, No AG, will do much to check Japanese iu)ii)i- ' [^ 0ne gration and as such will he welcome. | payers. to successfully operate this mine a mill was necessary. After a mill was arreted on this property, it was a paying institution, and there is no doubt but that the Wakefield Mines under a practical management will vet of Slocan's steady dividend It is manifestly unfair for a Sandon Miners' HOSPITAL. Union Tlxeir Tirade'? , CiiOJCE PORTED AND J^OAJESTlp CJlgars. ... I 1—.-■— -• ■■ ...oiiiumi, uinair tor a Aa well as arranging for telegraph : p.,*, ,ike th(J R 0 j^. R tl f_jl__._-.h_A.. n ...._„ __....:.: r .____.., and telephone competition for Southern Kootenay tbe legislature has in condemn in one sweeping charge the Wakefield mine, mill and management Confectionery. FRESH AND DELICIOUS fresh Fruits COMING IV DAILY, THE BE8-J. ON THE MARKET. I will be glad to quote prices on crate lota of Fruit for preserving. £§ttatip*ie_rsr« fULL LIKE CARRIED IN STOCK. Hr H. Reeve?, Silverton. B. C. PACIFIC AND S00 LINE 1" » fA\yiO\JS "IMPERIAL LIMITED" JVitli In proved Connecting Service Via Rcvklhtork or Caowa Nest Ronte to or trotp. - ■ KOOTENAI COUNTRY Eirat-claM Sleepers nn all trains from ^RRqWHJUD A KQpTEl^Y LVG. Tourist Cars pass Medicine Hat daily (or St. Paul, Saturdays (or Montreal and jiosiQii, Mondays Mid Thnrsdaya (or Toronto. Hame earn pasa Revelstoke ono •lay earlier. passing the Kettle River Railroad j without a careful investigation pf that Bill, No 50, gone a long ways towards j property. providing railroad competition for the fhis country is too full of men wbo Boundary. This measure had against vhen any mine gets into trouble are CONNECTIONS. Ea Snn. To& From the North. Ex Sun. 11:00 lv. SavKBTfiK Arr. 15:40 Ex Sun. To k From the So\ith. Ex Sun. 16:40 lv Silverton Arr 11:00 For rated, tickets, and (ull infonnution apply to Q. B, Cuakdlbr, AKent, Silver- fyi, B. C, or W. F. ANDERSON, Tray. Pass. Agent, Nelson {_. 3. COYLE. ^_ A. G. P. Agent, Vancouver it tbe Premier with three others of his cabinet, as well as a vigorous C. P. R. lobby, and it was only on the morning of tbe last sitting that it was finally carried by a close vote of 18 to 15. Tbe roost important measure from a prospector's point of view is an amendment to the Mineral Act, Biil No (50, whicli provides for the advertising out of a delinquent co-owner. As this measure has been before dealt with in these columns we Mill not agajn quota the Bil', The remaining two measures, particularly affecting this section of tho Province, are Bills No's (i) and 63, dealing with the taxation on metalliferous and coal mines. In the former measure small producing properties, or properties the or, from whicli pays only development expenses, escape the two per pent tax, aa five hundred tons a year from a mine (mineral) and $2000. per year from a placer mine is excepted from the increase, paying one per cent only as formerly. A" Other producing minea will pay hereafter two per cent of the value of tbeir output. The latter law imposes a tax of five cents a ton nn all coal mined, except that aold for coking purposes. Upon coke a tax of nine cents a ton is levied. Taken a|l together the past sitting ofthe Legislature has done a great deal towards helping on tho mining interests of the Province. Tbe increased taxation an the mines is perhaps thn only act about which the mine owners have to complain, but as the Government is apparently prepared to aid the minea by road builJing, and has excepted the smaller properties from the increase there is not so much room for complaint upon that score. The expressed determination of the Legislature not to re-open the vexed question of the 8-Hour law should (have 11 reviving effect upon mining ip those sections where the question w^i al\vays ready to shout "I told you so,'1 but who are always found discreetly silent before any such events occur. ~T""» uui ii' 1 GETTINO THE WORST OF IT. In the Province there are only two constituencies in which was cast a larger vote in the last election than in the Slocan. Theae are Rossland and .Nelson. The Slocan cast 1221 votes, being thrice that of Cariboo, of Cassiar, of North Etst Kootenay, and of combined Lillooet vote, twice the vote in Ohilliwhack, pewney, and Richmond, five titpea ipore than fs'ortli Victoria, six times the vot'i of .-\lbeiiii, and so on. In thn Dominion election how do we fare! Iu the Y,l'e- Cariboo riding, according lo (he latest figures, there were 11,29-J voters who voted on July 9th. laat. In the Province there were 27,068 voters, who return six members to the Dominion House. The figures then are; Yale-Cariboo, one lni'iiher for 11,2'J_J votes; the remainder of the Province, live members for 15,776 votes. Tbose redistribution bills cannot come too soon for the Hlocan, which seems to be receiving^the worst of it from all iidea at present,. OPEN TO THE I'lTULIC Subscribers, fl. per month. Private I',.tieniH, f3. per day exclusive of expense of physician or surgeon and drills. Dk. \V. E. (ioiinii. Attendant Physician Mm , S. M. Ciimiioi.v. Matron. J. I). MiLaii.mlin, President. W. L. If.>.t-i.i:K, Secretary. Wm. Donahik. J. V. Martin, R. J McLean, A. J. MrI)<iNAn>, Mike llu. »»v. Directors AH TUE MAIN TRAIL BPH8 PAST THK DOOR OV Wilson F* rs E \. e. mm, tm, Fresh Bread Ties aod Cakes Nad* to Order, MM*?.]. ■ Silverton, 15. C. MLiERTov mm ml NO. 95. \V. F. Of If. Meets every Satnrdny in the Union Hull in Silverton, ntJr.lOi-. m. J. It. l'.olll.lll », Prealdent. J. C. Tyree, Einnncial-Sfrtelnn "Five PATRONS AKE WELL TAKEN CAKE OF. A KIRST-CI.AfrS BILLIARD RO«>M ON THE PRKMISI S. MAR KURMSHKD WITH THE REST KSAXDH Of \VINI S. 1 HjinU AND CIGARS. HEADQUARTERS FOB MINING MIX. MAIN STRKET, - - - M.OCAN, 11. C. Drops. *> !'___.; \ ui i.-'iik p in Niih.n "IH.si. It is nothing I * but fair To Irt my Klocun RhtMMI know Uint I have just retareed fmiii a pnr-" rlnisiiiir trip in thc \'M. I aii I |ilc;iscd In lit yon know Itial I toic s titled (he viiy lutes! up-to-date goods n iewdeiigiu,iieh a* sever k* 'iK-ebwn sk.uiin thin wimilry, All goods bought here ire gnaniM Al i|Uility an I prices are snrh ns will compete with Eastern Bidet. f*^*^^ WIIKNIJINEL80N $ PINE WATCH 5 REPAIRlNi- SPECIALTY 1 INVITE YOU TO CALL AM) INSPECT MY STOCK. MAILORDERS PKOMITLY ATTENDED TO. Fine Laundry Work OfThjT Best DONE BY r'Silvertqn, p. C, FOR A RHEUMATIC CURE THAT CUREH WE ARE THE AGENTS J HIS ALTO FOR Lilac Cream, Aislley's Hair Renewcr, Canadian Corn Cnre and Nyrap of lloicliDiiiiil and Tolii. Prescription Department Coiuidete and Up .To Date *> Jaool> Dover, • TIIE JEWELKR, # HEIJIOl 11 SILVERTON DRUG STORE, SILVEKTON. B. C. f I O. GORDON. MIXKS, REAL ESTATE, <C0ft VKYilIV(;KR NOTARY PUBLIC. SILVERTON, - - - B. o. General Mining Supplies. Full Line Lumber, Dry sc Mixed,' Sash and Paints. Doors. MpCaUnmACo., SIoow B.O* J.M. McUREGOR PROVINCIAL LAND" SUBVEYOR AND MINING ENaiNEEK BLOCAN CITY, 3 0 StaTole BA^ iSSffiSg.»0^ FOirHIRE AT BEASON^'^ A u^UtUj.ii,:lfi|IT AN1) THAK8KKK BBSINEH8 DONE. Onlaide Partial,. i.-iriiK n'rK,.H in J. ', - »■*- Cau H«v« ti,o», i> TZr™ ln ''"VMton i-en^iuve Bum Reserved By Writlnn To-, a. v. Mcdonald, 8ILVERTO.N, - • b-c- 1 i
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Title | The Silvertonian |
Publisher | Silverton, B.C. : Matheson Bros. |
Date Issued | 1900-09-08 |
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Language | English |
Notes | Titled Silverton Silvertonian from 1898-01-01 to 1898-01-29; titled The Silvertonian from 1898-02-12 onward. Published by James Cameron from 1898-01-01 to 1898-02-19; published by R.O. Matheson from 1898-02-26 to 1898-06-04; published by R.O. and Harry Matheson from 1898-06-01 to 1899-02-11; published by an unidentified party from 1899-02-25 to 1900-02-10; published by Matheson Bros. from 1900-02-17 and thereafter. |
Identifier | Silverton_Silvertonian_1900_09_08 |
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Date Available | 2016-05-30 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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AIPUUID | 49b67618-12c1-4718-a6c6-cf08cfddd9d3 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0312877 |
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