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 :^T:  .TiT^.K��^T��CI^-<;L  Mineral Production of British Columbia in 1900  . $16,407,645  Mineral Production of Kootenay Iq 1900  $10,562,032  NINTH YEAE.  NELSON, B. C, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 3,  1901  PRICE FIVE CENTS  SAME OLD MINE-OWNERS  NOT CONTENT WITH PROFITS OF  27 PER CENT.  England's Chancellor of the Exchequer  Loses Patience With Their Blue  Ruin Cries.  London, May 2.���There was a  large attendance in the house of  commons today, in anticipation ot  the discussion of new export tax on  coal. The government is standing  firm, and is taking strong precautions to secure a majority.  The full house and galleries had  to wait until nearly 6 o'clock for  tlie beginning of tlie coal tax debate. Sir William Vernon Harcourt,  Liberal, led with a severe, almost  violent, arraignment of the government. He said the tax would throw  the coal trade into chaos and confusion. It recklessly disregarded  existing contracts, and was a most  unbusinesslike way of dealing with  a great trade. It was an extraordinary and vexatious piece of  bungling. It was nonsense to say  tlie foreigner would pay tlie tax because he would not; do without coal.  The government of Italy had  answered by taking coal from  America instead of this country.  Thejtrade of France was equally  divided by tliis country, Germany  and Belgium.  The chancellor of tlie exehpquer,  sir Michael Hicks-Beach, interrupting said :   "AVe are beating others."  ���'Then go on beating them," said  sir William Harcourt, "why throw  a shilling into "tlie scale against  this country. Sir William cou-  . tended that it was class legislation,  and that the tax would ultimately  come out of tho miners' wages.  The chancellor of the exchequer  admitted that tho -tax, like every  tax, was an obstruction to the  trade. The real question was,  could the export trade in coal bear  the tax? ,It_,epuld. .En'glish coal  was of a high quality, there was  much of it, and it could not be got  in any other country. Thus, to a  large extent it was free from competition. The chancellor submitted  masses, of statistics which he has  summarized as showing that  225,000,000 tons were mined in 1900,  on which, after deducting ��18,000,-  000 iii: wages'.more than in 1897, left  the coal owners a net profit of  ��29,000,000 ou a capital of  ��110,000,000. He had some difficulty  in keeping his patience when  deputations talked to him about  the unprofitable condition of trade.  He had proposed the tax for merely  one year and it would be on those  who were able to bear it.  There was considerable excitement  on the Cardiff coal exchange today.  - Tire^pauci t jTof=f FeeTJoaMffd isjJbselr  to selling at any price. Some firms  are suspending their charging operations, pending developments.  Lord Cranborne, the '" foreign  under secretaryj said rumors have  reached the government from various sources of the intention of  Germany to increase the duties on  steel and 'other goods. The government was alive to the importance  of such information; but, in tlie  absence of definite knowledge of  Germany's intentions, the ministry  was unable to make any statement  in reply to the members suggestion  of withdrawing free trade from  Germany.  The chancellor of the exchequer,  Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, replying  to Mr. Chauning, (Liberal) said of  the war loan ��30,000,000 had been  allotted as follows: To the Roth-  tihild'8 ��11,000,000, J. P. Morgan &  Co., ��10,000,000, and the bank of  England ��9,000,000.  Will Earn Spending Money.  New Youk, May 2.���Cornell men  in large numbers will be seen at  the Pan-American exposition this  summer, says a Tribune special  from Ithaca. They will push  wheeled chairs for tired sightseers,  act as exposition policemen, become  Waiters for the summer, run soda  water fouuteuns, act as clerks in  stands of various sorts, or assist  exhibitors. A representative of  the exposition authorities has  signed contracts with more than  two hundred students.  The Tobacco Trusts Deal.  New York, May 2.���It is announced, says a special to the Times  from Tampa, Florida, that negotiations, which have been pending for  three months between the American Cigar Company, a branch of  the American Tobacco Company,  and the Havana-American Cigar  Company, owning the largest clear  Havana factories in the United  States, have been completed in  Tampa. All the factories of the  latter company will pass into the  possession of the tobacco combine.  The Havana-American Company is  a recently formed consolidation. It  owns clear Havana cigar factories  at Tampa, Key West, Chicago, New  Orleans, New York and Bingham-  ton. It is capitalized at ten million  dollars.  .  EMPEROR WILLIAM IS MAD  -, Over Canal Bill's Failure.  Berlin, May 2.���The chancellor,  count von Buellow, reported per-'  sonally to emperor William yesterday, and complained of the intentional delaying of the canal bill by  the majority of the government,  and thereupon gave up further negotiations regarding the bill for the  time being. The resignation of Dr.  Von.Miquel, the finance minister, is  now considered likely to be presented in the immediate future.  Emperor William and the Prussian  cabinet adhere to their intention to  build tlie canal.  The correspondent of the Associated Press understands that the  purpose of tomorrow's joint session  of the diet and house of lords is to  close the session as expressing emperor William's displeasure at the  failure of the canal bill in committee. The Lokal Anzeiger learns  that the prorogation will be accompanied by a strongly worded declaration of the ministry.  oeneral Von Hahuke, until recently chief of the emperor's military cabinet, has been appointed  governor of Berlin.  McCormick Clue a Trick.  Washington, May 2.���The Washington clue in,the Willie McCor-  .miek kidnaping case is about exploded. The detectives have practically concluded that the slip of  paper, and the mysterious coincidence by which it came into their  possession, are the result of connivance between parties in. New  York, who had access to the McCormick home, and others. The  gypsies who figured so largely in  the matter have been driven from  Alexandria county and are on their  way to Pittsburg.  Patrick Proceedings Adjourned.  New York, May 2.���Albert T.  Patrick, David L. Short and Morris  Meyers, under indictment for the  forgery of the will of the late  millionaire, William M. Rice, were  arraigned today before recorder  Goff. Patrick was arraigned on the  charge of murder in the first de-  gree for causingjihejteath^j^Ricj^  "ItoberOITMoore, forthe defendants,  said he desired to enter a demurrer  to the indictment for the murder,  and asked time to prepare it. Recorder Goff adjourned the proceedings until tomorrow. No plea was  entered.   Negro Murderers Convicted.  Philadelphia, May 2.���Amos  Sterling, colored, was today convicted of murder in the first degree  for the killing of Roy Wilson, the  young University of Pennsylvania  professor. Professor Wilson was  beaten to death with an iron bar  on a street in West Philadelphia on  May 19th last, and afterwards  robbed. Two other negroes, Henry  Ivory and Charles Perry, have also  been convicted, and are under sentence to be hanged for complicity  in the murder.  Chinese Indemnity Cut Down.  Berlin, M ty 2.���The statement  that the totfil indemnity to be demanded of China amounts to ��05,-  000,000 has been officially confirmed  here. Tliis amount includes all private claims. It is believed here  that if China will now undertake to  pay this sum in indemnity the  evacuation of Pechili province can  begin immediately.  The Constitution's Measurements.  New York, May 2.-���The Com-  mei'cial Advertiser says the following measurements and description  of the new Herresehoffcup defender  Constitution, which is to be launched  next Monday night, are from  authoritative sources. The Constitution, it is learned, is of the samo  over-all length as the Columbia, 132  feet, and also of the same length ou  the   water line, 87 ieet 7 inches.  DUNSMUIR'S CABINET WOBBUNO  It Now  Looks  as  if Jim Hill Will Be Permitted to Do Business  on  His  Own  Terms.  The Legislature Mig'ht Endorse the Railway Bill and then Defeat  the  Government.  Victoria, May 2��� [Special to the  Tribune].���The only business of  importance during the afternoon  session was on the report of. Martin's champerty bill. Martin moved  to strike out certain words in section 2, which, if they remain, practically kill the bill. The house refused to strike them out by a vote  of 10 to 17.  At the night session the minister  of finance moved thti second reading of the railvvay subsidy bill.  He said the bill would be amended  iu committee, but failed to state in  what way.   This caused dissent.  The opposition, led by Martin,  favor  the  bill  as  introduced; but  Smith Curtis wants it amended.  The Helfacken bolters also want it  amended, and Oliver, Tatlow and  Hay ward pressed the finance minister for particulars. He was between the devil and the deep sea,  and for a time refused to state iu  what way the bill would be  amended, and the l premier, was  equally opposed to" making any  such committal. For a time it  looked as if the minister of finance  would chuck up the bill,rather than  make definite statements as to  amendments, but he finally made  them, and the debate was adjourned till Monday on motion of  Martin.  The bill would, undoubtedly pass  as introduced, but the V., V. & E.  crowd, of whicli Helmcken is the  leader in the house, are determined  to amend it to suit the V., V. & E.  subsidy hunters, and the government is afraid that if they leave  the party, the party will have to  rely on Martin for support in the  future.' Such a contingency is not  relished by some of the goyernment  supporters, and the result will be  that Helmcken and his bolterfollow-  ing will get what they want, no  matter what the people may lose on  the deal.  V., V. & E. wire pullers and  lobbyists are as numerous as flies  oil a molasses barrel, and it looks as  if they would carry the works.  of the nine-year-old Rosenfield boy  was taken from the river near Port  Snelling. Rosenfield is alleged to  have abducted the children when  they were with -their mother at  Minneapolis, secured a rig and  driven with them to the river,  where all are supposed to havo  been drowned.  There is little difference in the  draught, the Columbia drawing  19 feet 7 inches, and- the Constitu-,  tion a little less. The Constitution,  however, is wider in the midships  section by a fodt and a half over  the' Columbia. This is greatly to  the advantage of the new boat  when she is heeled over.  1 Gomez Out of the Race.  New York, May 2.���The Tribune  says: From a statement made last  night by general Domingo Mendez  Capote, chairman of the Cuban  commission, which is.now in the  city, it appears evident that Maximo Gomez will not be a candidate  for the presidency of the new Cuban  republic. Instead T. Estrada Palma,  who was the head of the Cuban  junta in this city during,the war,  is.the .favorite.-candidate .for. this,  oflice. The three men who have  been mentioned for the presidency,  according to Senor Capote, are  generals Gomez, Palma and Maso.  With Gomez out of the race the  contest now lies between Palma  aud Maso, and according to those  who are familiar with the Cuban  situation the nomination and election of general Palma is practically  assured. Both senor Palma and  senor Maso were leaders in the war  against Spain for Cuban independence and thus have the support of  the common people. But general  Palma is also said to have the support of the moneyed and industrial  classes and would prove a more  acceptable man.  Chili's Conscientious President.  Valparaiso, May 2.���President  Errazuriz has issued a decree in  which he declares that important  personal motives prevent him from  fulfilling his constitutional functions  until after next June. He explains  in a letter directed to the governor  of the presidency that in, view bf  the fact that senor Jerman Riesco, a  relative of his, is a candidate for jthe  presidency, and of the disability  imposed upon the president by republican principles when a relative  is a candidate, he would send a  message to congress soliciting leave  of absence until June 25th. It has  been previously announced that  owing to ill health president Erra-  zuriz would turn over the presidency of Chili to prime minister  Zanartu.    _^  Another Bank Man Suicides,  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May  2.���Despondency over the murder  of his friend, cashier Charles W.  Ryan of the Halifax National Bank,  of Halifax, recently in an attempt  to prevent Henry Rowe and Watson Keiper from robbing the bank,  today caused John Kohler, cashier  of the Millersburg National Bank,  of Millersburg, to take his own life  by shooting himself iu the head  with a revolver.   Railway Men on Strike.  New York, May 2.���Three  hundred men employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western  railway in their shops at Dover; New  Jersey, struck this afternoon.  Latest Thing in Comets.  Santiago de Chili, May 2.���A  brilliant comet was seen after sunset this afternoon in the western  sky.  METHODISTS'  CONFERENCE  Arranging for the Meeting.  The district Methodist conference  has been in session in Rossland for  the past couple of- days, and much  of the business to- be brought before the ' general' conference of  British Columbia, to open in Nelson  next week, was outlined. The district includes all that territory  from the Crow's Nest' Pass to  Greenwood, including Slocan and  .Sandon, and is considered of such  importance that the annual conference of the whole province is to  be held here this year. The date  originally fixed for.the big gather-  jng.of JVIethodists-jvas MayJJth, but  this has been extended one day, by  which arrangement j clerical and  lay delegates from the Coast  cities can attend without  being absent for two consecutive  Sunday's from their -pulpits and  pews. On Tuesday next the prominent members of the church will  be billeted as far as possible among  the members of the congregation  here, and should this source prove  inadequate, then the hotels will be  called into requisition. From 75 to  100 representatives ! of the Methodist church throughout the province are expected to be in attendance.  Rev. J. A. Wood, Kaslo, presided  over the district conference which  yesterday closed at Rossland, and  reportsJsubmitted showed progress^  Henry Dawson, in whose house Edwards was killed, was found dead  in the public road. The other two  were shot in the cabin. They are  supposed to have been implicated  in the murder of Edwards. The  negroes are terrorized and are fleeing to the city.  Nelson Gun Club.  There was a very small attendance at yesterday's turnout of the  gun club, and it is probable that it  will be the lasc shoot of the season  unless members show a more lively  interest. There were but four to  score, and with 25 birds each the  points made were as follows : C. D.  Blackwood 20, C. D. Goepel 10, P.  Nelson 15, and S. Nelson 14. It  was expected that the half holiday  would have brought out a large  number, of competitors, but the  reverse proved to be the case as  the attendance was the smallest bf  the season.   The Purest Guess Work.  Editor Tribune: Your issue of  this morning contains a special  from Vancouver concerning certain  action which the approaching B. C.  Methodist conference is "determined  to take." For the information of  any who may take an interest in  the matter permit to say that the  conference is made up of delegates  from all parts of British Columbia,  half of whom were only elected this  afternoon. It will be seen that all  prediction as to what will be done  is the purest guess work.  J. H. White.  Nf��lsonT B  C Mav 2. 1901.  in almost every branch of operation. Thomas Howell, formerly  brigadier in the Salvation Army  was recommended as a candidate  for the ministry, and the following  lay delegates were elected to the  general conference.  Nelson���George Gurd aud A. D.  Emory.  Rossland���B. T. Casselman, Geo.  Agnew and M. Holland.  Slocan City���W. J. Andrews.  Greenwood���B. F. Petch.  Grand Forks���G. M. Tripp.  Kaslo���W. J. Green.  Sandon���G. W. Grimmett.  Fernie���H. A. Wilks.  Cranbrook���M. Prest.  The meeting passed a resolution  requesting the general conference  to take into consideration the question of recommending the government control of the liquor traffic as  a means of minimizing existing  evils.   Russia Making Loans.  Berlin, May 2.���The Vossiche  Zeitung prints a special message  from St. Petersburg announcing  that Russia has virtually arranged  with France for loans amounting to  500,000,000 francs and that another  Russian loan is being negotiated  with English and American bankers in London. The dispatch further says that the czar is planning  for a trip abroad during next  August and that he will visit Copenhagen and Vienna.  Complete Casualty List.  Selma, Alabama, May 2.���Three  negroes were found dead this morning near the cabin in whicli deputy  sheriff Edwards was killed Sunday  night, ten miles south of Selma.  Edward   Dawson,   a    nephew    of \  Accident to a Footballer.  F. A. Eden, while practicing football at the recreation grounds yesterday afternoon, had his shoulder  blade dislocated in a scrimmage and  was knocked out. The team was  practicing for the contest with  Cranbrook, which is fixed for Saturday, and the play was severe.  The accident occurred while trying  to force the ball from the group,  but is not of  a very serious nature.  Arrested on Suspicion.  The local police yesterday received a telegram from Sandon  describing a woman wanted for  theft. The name given was Mertle  but a person registering at one of  the city hotels as Marksham, and  hailing from Rossland, answered  the description and was placed  under arrest. She is held in custody pending the arrival of an  oflicer from the city under the  hills, who is expected to identify  her today.   Boat Club Regatta.  The committee of the Nelson Boat  Club held a meeting last evening,  when it was decided to proceed  with the purchase of two lap-  streaks without delay. It was also  decided to hold the regular club  regatta on Saturday, June 1st: Tlie  membership of the club is growing  .steadily, and a good season may be  confidently predicted.  One of the Bodies Found.  St. Paul, May 2.���A partial confirmation of the police suspicion  that William Rosenfield drowned  his four children and himself one  week ago iu the Mississippi river  ;was obtained today when the body  Starvation and Typhus.  St. Petersburg, May 2.���Starvation and typhus are increasing  among the village population of  Bessarabia. Seventy per cent of  the farmers of that. district have  lost all their horses and have no  seed.  ROYAL ACADEMY PICTURES  Painting of Queen Victoria.  London, May 2.���The first press  view.of the Royal Academy today  revealed two striking features which  were absent from former exhibitions, viz: paintings dealing with  queen Victoria's death and funeral,  and incidents of the Boer war. Benjamin Constant's picture of the  queen has ' a whole wall to itself,  with a background of black" and  purple. It will undoubtedly be the  picture of the year.  Lord Dundbnald's dash on Ladysmith, and pictures of other engagements iu South Africa, make  bright contrasts to the rows and  rows of landscapes and portraits.  Of the latter Sargent sends nine,  tlie.most striking of which is the  daughters of Mr. Wortheiraer. One  of the most charming pictures hung  is "The Flower Girl," by an American, J. J. Shannon.  The queen's , funeral in London  was done by John Charlton, and  the naval cortege at Portsmouth  by W. L. Wyllie. Both are remarkable pictures. Sidney Cooper,'  the father of the academy, and  other old-time academicians, including sir Edward Poynter, with a  marble group, and sir Alma Tadema,  with a classic Helena and Hermia.  will all be found in their accustomed^ places'. The Pall Mall Gazette says: "If it is not by any  means a great academy, it has at  least enough good pictures to keep  it up to the average."  Spokane Strike Settled.  Yesterday the men who went out  from the work on the Spokane Club  building all went back, with the  exception of the plasterers' laborers and plasterers. The laborers  could not get ��� back, because their  officials had called them out, and  they were unable to return until a  meeting of the union was held, at  which time they should be allowed  to return to their work.  Target Practice.  There was great interest taken in  the target work at the butts yesterday, when the scores made were  as follows: A. Carrie 84, Dr. Hall  84, J. Wadds 78, S. P. Shaw 75, H.  J^MaedoiinelUi5,-E.,Lamonti>:i,JV.,  Weir 59, T. Lillie 53, A. Blaney 43,  John Rae 42, and T. Brown 31. Renewed interest is taken in the club,  and with regular practice the scores  will be raised.   Nelson Quoit Club.  Only one game was played in the  button series yesterday when  Smyth was defeated by Wallace,  the score being 31 to 21,' after a  closely contested game. Wallace  now plays the winner of McMorris  vs. Purdy for the gold button and  Smyth plays the loser for the  bronze button.   Another Kidnaping Case.  Rochester, May 2.���IreueBohler,  aged four, mysteriously disappeared  from her home at 0 o'clock tonight,  aud up to midnight nothing has  been seen or heard of the little one.  Her parents say an effort was made  last summer to kidnap Irene, and  they are almost afraid that the  child has been stolen.  Greenwood's Smelting Record.  Greenwood, May 2.���[Special to  Tlio Tribune.]���During April the  smelter treated 11,322 tons, an  average of 377 tons daily, with one  furnace of a nominal capacity of  222 tons daily. The custom ore receipts amounted to 1250 tons, the  balance of the ore treated being  from the company's Mother Lode  mine.  W. Leslie Clay. Moderator.  Vancouver, May 2.���[Special to  Tho Tribune.]���Rev. W. Leslie Clay,  of St. Andrew's church, Victoria,  was elected moderator of the Presbyterian synod today.  J. W. Weart has been appointed  judge of small debts court at Vancouver.  ALL SCRAMBLING FOR COAL  PRINCETON FIELDS RECEIVE ATTENTION.  Nelson and Coast Men Have Secured  Large Tracts of Supposed Coal  Bearing Lands.  ^'Ah  The coal measures of the Prince-,  ton section of the Similkameen dis-,_  trict; which were practically ignor-  ���  ed for several years owing to, the  lack of transportation facilities, are  now receiving their share of attention from the mohied men of the  province and their agents.    Speaking   of these coal measures a recent visitor'describes them, us foi;  lows:  The most important of the coal'  measures   are   those    immediately-'  surrounding the town of Princeton.-  Here is  a  well  defined  coal basin,  probably comprising an ar����a of 50  square miles, every acre of. which  has been located  during" tlie past  month.    No less than six other representatives of capital Avere in camp .  at the same time that I was  locating     and   acquiring    coal ,  lands.  Among   those    represented   were: *  Messrs.   P.    Burns,   T.. G.     Holt,  Rv    Marpole,     E.     V."    Bodwell,  It. G. Tatlow, captain Tron p, George  McL.   Brown,   J.   E.   Saucier   and \  other residents of British Columbia.  This   coal   deposit has  long   been  known to experts, but no attention*"  was  paid  to it on account of the .  lack   of   transportation    facilities, ,  and the news that the railway was  to be built caused the stampede to ���?  take it up.   Alex. Sharp, the coal  expert,   having   been    for    many  years   identified   witli   the-Diins-~  muirs,   is   most .enthusiastic  over  '  the showing; and he acquired  8000  acres  of   land- for   his  principals, ^  Messrs. Burns, Marpole,, eft.  al.    So  strong was Mr. Sharp's faith in the  district that  after taking up the  coal lands he immediately departed  for the  coast for the"purpose of  securing a diamond drill for  prospecting.     The    measures    contain  three seams of coal, one of seven  feet, another of fourteen  feet, and  a third of thirty-five feet. The first,  seam is a lignite, the second- bitum- -  inous and the third and thicker, a  seam as far as can be determined at  present appears tobe an anthracite.  Shareholders Amalgamation.  Rossland, May2.���Fifteen shareholders of the Knob Hill Gold Mining company attended the special'  meeting held in this city today,  when a resolution was adopted? approving of and consenting to the  proposed amalgamation with the  other mining properties of the  Miner-Graves syndicate. H. N.  Galer of Grand Forks, acted ap sec-  retaryr=the=chairman-=being-J7-AT���  MacDonald of Rossland. G. W.  Wbrster treasurer of the Granby  smelter is the liquidator. No less  than 1,179,000.out of a total of  1,500,000 shares were represented  at the meeting.  Greenwood Man Drowned.  Greenwood, May 2.���[Special to  The Tribune.] ��� The turbulent  waters of Boundary creek claimed  another victim yesterday, when  Hugh Sweeny, aged forty, a well-  known character around the hotels  here, fell from a pontoon bridge  above the railway station and was  carried by the swift current below  Anaconda before beiug taken from  the water. "Old Hiighie," as he  was familiarly called, was janitor  at the Auditorium. Nothing ig  known regarding his relatives.  Canadians' Win More Prizes.  Buffalo, May 2.���The show of  carnations opened in the horticulture building today, and will continue until the Sth. There are 2000  plants shown by 200 exhibitors.  Among the awards made today in  tho different classes were: First  award, J. Gammage & Sons, London, class of extra fine; second  award, J. Gammange & Sons, Loudon, class 2; John H. Duulap, Toronto class 3, third award; J. Gammage & Sons, Loudon, class 4; John  II Duulap, Toronto, class 7.  Russian Agents in Persia.  London, May 2.���A dispatch to  the Daily Mail, from Simla,  announces that a high official of  the Russian ministry of finance has  arrived at Therau, and is discussing  with the Persian authorities a very  important new and special tariff  between the two countries.  w  ,rv 0 I  *S ''1  'PP I  ,   -'B-fX  . '-i.i-  '" '���''('i  "AC-"** I  7 um  .' .All  *1i.Tf-' ..  '_3<_\  ^'7i4  A?. THE TRIBUNE:  NELSON, B. C, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1901  rW  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  ____..^..^.^.^..>��..3i>-^-^-^��/<^^ xk\  >���>���>&;lg_-��_'��,'&''g_'l��'&&$'���.  WE   HAVE   OPENED A  SPECIAL   DEPARTMENT  to  to  OF  SMALL WARES  Containing only the thousand and one little necessaries  required by ladies for their toilet. Have a look through  them You will be sure to see something you will  wish to get. Here there is a complete range of Bering's Wash Art Silks, representing every imaginable  shade. Mrs. Dawson, who is an artist with the needle,  has on exhibition and for sale in our store some choice  pieces of fancy wcrk in which these silks only are used.  THE mSOMY C01MI  Baiter  Street, Nelson.  %$&&e^&&&&&* M ^^����a;$��^��^  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  INSURRECTIONSTAMPEDOUT  ��he ffirtbmte*  i  : /.  The ease with which Great Britain's chancellor of the exchequer  refuted the hard-luck story of the  colliery owners,who were protesting  against   the   government's  export  duty upon coal, illustrates theimpor-  tance of the government having in  its possession statistical   information concerning all  the great labor  employing industries of the country.   Had it not been possible for  sir Michael Hicks-Beach - to lay before the people of Britain an exact  statement of the profits accruing to  the colliery owners' from their operations, it is  difficult to estimate  the  suffering aud  hardship which  they might have  forced  upon the  people      in      their      efforts      to  evade payment of the tax which,  in   the    opinion   of    the   government, the necessities of  the country   demanded    their    properties  "���   { should pay.   When the export tax  ;'/'' �� of a shilling a ton was first announced, a  shout of protest went  t   i up from every coal mining district  '\   , in England and  Wales.     The col-  1   ' liery owners announced that 'any  ' -.   '" such imposition would drive them,  ,i>Tout of the foreign  markets;   and  ' the working miners seeing nothing  \-    [but   reduced   wages   in   store for  '    . themselves immediately made pre-  ' .      parations for a gigantic strike, as  , their protest against a government  '/' ; measure   which   threatened   their  ��� earnings and their employment as  ,     well.    But it is not likely there  will be any strike."," The British  people are very fair-minded in determining domestic issues, and they  will    doubtless   agree   with    the  chancellor of the exchequer, that.  rnlliwry owners whose _oper^  ations yield them a return  of over twenty-seven per cent  upon their capital invested can  more readily pay the tax of one  shilling a ton upon their coal exports than can their wage-earners  pay their half penny a pound upon  sugar. The prospects now are that  the colliery owners will accept  present conditions without further  protest, and without attempting to  take the tax out of the hides of  their employees; because miners  who have no reverence for their  country's necessity will probably  show less in the matter of preserving any twenty-seven per cent  profit margins.  Goldwin Smith, who has the  faculty for disagreeing with almost  everybody else, is now endeavoring  to put the people of Canada right  ��� upon   their   lesson   in   connection  1 with the war in South  Africa and  ��� the bearing it will likely have upon  ' the future relations of the Dominion  with the rest of the empire.    Put  ��� into a few words the deduction of  i  Canada's eminent scholar is that if  the Dominion is  to participate in  the wars and adventures of the empire, it must learn to walk and not  be carried by the mother country.  He points out that so far Canada  has shared in the excitement,  the  glory and  the  honors of the war,  but ihe people   of   Great Britain  have been called upon to pay the  foilL   This condition cannot be ex-  WALL  PAPER  We can interest you in AVall  Paper. First ��� Because we  have choice patterns, well  selected, with bordor and  ceiling in perfect harmony  of c-ilor, and in all the colorings to suit any room. Second  ���Because we sell thein cheaper^ than anywhere  else, owing to our system of making one price to  everyone, and that price a cash price, saving in  every possible way, that we can get the selling  price closest to the cost. J Select and buy your  own papers. Your money will go farther and  you will get greater satisfaction in your room  decorations. * '    .-,*'..'  THOMSON  STATIONERY Co.  Baker Street.  Limited.  NELSON. B. C.  pected to last; and it is not improbable that what the  people of  Canada so freely volunteered upon the  outbreak of  hostilities will be  expected by the people bf Great Britain as a duty.    The Empire League  and the Navy League are already  urging this claim   of   the  empire  upon the Dominion, and it is but a  step until their exhortations will be  seconded by the people of Great  Britain.      Then, if conscription  is  adopted in Britain, which is.nearer  than   most   people' think,  Canada  will be called upon to defend her  frontier of 4000 miles, and, in case  of war with Russia, defend British  Columbia from attack in that quarter.   Nor can any compensation be  expected in the way of preference  clauses   in   Great  Britain's   tariff.  Preferential duties, in the opinion  of Goldwin Smith, are an illusion;  'arid in the recent war tariff of the  English chancellor of the exchequer  there are neither the-, signs....of protection nor preference.   It imposes  indirect taxation, but indirect taxation is not necessarily protection,  =while-the=advoeates=of=preference=  are rebuffed by the operation of  the same .sugar tariff against the  West Indies as against the rest of  the world.    Goldwin Smith's views  are interesting in view of the recent  squabble in the house of commons  over   Laurier's   failure   to   secure  preference for preference in trade  matters,  and  coming  from  a man  not   in   active   politics    may   be  accepted with less reserve than the  colored utterances from Parliament  Hill.   The Evening World is the name  of a new daily paper that has made  its appearance in Rossland. The  World will be issued in the interests of organized labor, and apart  from labor interests promises to be  independent in politics and municipal matters.  American Version of the Hitch.  Washington, May 2.���-It is believed here that the hitch which is  said to have arisen at Pekin, over  the proposition to increase the  Chinese customs duties to meet the  indemnities demanded by the  foreign powers, is caused by the  broaching by Mr. Rockhill of his  plan for the abolition of the likin  duties as a condition for his ac-  quiesence in the customs increase.  The United States government, has  in the past admitted a readiness to  permit the Chinese tb increase the  custom rates, providing there was  no discrimination between the powers. Minister Wu says that the  present five per cent rate is totally  inadequate toprovide a sinkingfund  for a new loan.  Governments Being Established.  Batangas, Island of Luzon, May  2.���A score of insurrectionists fired  into the town last night. No casualties were reported. The few outlaws remaining in the province  have been nearly pacified. Tho  commission has established a government at Sorsorgon, at the  southern end of the island of Luzon,  and has appointed captain J. N.  Livingston, of New York, to bo  governor. The conditions at Sorsorgon are regarded as admirable.  The commission touched at Marin-  ique yesterday, and fulfilled the  pledge made that if the insurgents  surrendered municipalities would  be organized and a separate provisional government would be  established at Marinique. Captain  Brandholdt was a candidate for  governor, but a native was appointed. The commission will go  to Naddla tomorrow, after an eight  weeks' successful tour.  Eastman Threatened Grogan's Life.  Cambridge, May 2.���The tenth  dayof the Eastman murder trial  opened this uorning with witnesses  who testified concerning experiments with pistols, to ascertain the  carrying power of certain cartridges  in their discharge upon pieces of  shirting. The most interesting witness of the morning was Mrs. Mary  Anna Grogan, mother of the dead  man. Mrs. Grogan said that on  June 20th, Eastman came to the  Grogan house, Richard was present,  but went out soon after Eastman  came in. Witness did not notice  that they spoke. Ashe passed out  Eastman said "His days are short."  One of the two girls asked Eastman  what he meant by it, and Lizzie,  tbe wife of the dead man, told Eastman he must have been drinking.  Lizzie and Mrs. Eastman became  quite excited, and witness heard  Eastman say again "His days are  numbered."  Rumor has it that J. A. McDonald's ice cream parlors on Baker  street are the finest in the city.  KOOTENAY....  COFFEE CO.  ���a********-******.***.**.*.*.**.  a Coffee Roasters  Deaiers in Tea and Coffee  *** ���*���** ���*���*���*���**& *.*.*. *.**.***. *.**.  . We are offering at lowest prices tho best  grades of Ceylon, India, China and Japan  Teas.  Our Bosr, Mocha and Java Coffee, per  ���                   pound  $  10  Mocha and Java Blend, 3 pounds  1 00  Choice Blend Coffee, 4 pounds  1 00  Special Blend Coffee, (> pounds  1 00  Uio Blend Coffeo, fi pounds  1 00  Special Blend Ceylon Tea, per pound 30 -  A TRIAL ORDER SOLICITED.  KOOTENAY COFFEE CO.  Telephone 177.  ,       P. 0. Box 182.  WEST BAKER STREET, NELSON.  GARDEilSEEDS  We.have opened up tlio largest shipment of  bent quality, fresh garden seeds ever brought to  tho Kootenay country. Wo arc Helling largo  quantities already and you will note our way is  different from that of other dealers in this district, in that -  WE SELL BY WEIGHT  Ah well as hy package, and though tho quality  is tlio best the price is the same as in Toronto.  Make out. a list and send to us and wo will guarantee satisfaction.  IN FLOWER SEEDS  We also have a largo assortment.���10 different  variotios and colors of Sweet 1'eas lo select  from and an endless variety of other kinds.  CANADA DRUG & BOOK CO.  K.-W.-C. Block.       Corr.or Ward and Baker Sts  Mrs. CARR  LATE OF VANCOUVER  LADIES' TAILOR  Parlors formerly occupied by Miss MacMillan,  Victoria Block.  Tlio patronage of Nelson ladies solicited.  THOMPSON & DOUGLAS  Victoria Street.  PAINTERS  Decorators and  Paper Hangers.  J  NOTIOE.  Notice U hereby given that I intend to apply at  the next* sittings of tlie Hoard of Licence Cous-  mis-'ioners for the Oily of Nelson.to he held after  the expiration of thirty days from the date hereof,  for a transfer of the retail liquor licence now held  by mo for lhe Grand Central hotel situate on lots  23 and 21, block (ill, mib-di vision of lot U5 iu the  City of Nelson, to CI ust Ericson of tho said City of  Nel'i0n��� F. SIMPSON.  Witness, W. C. McDonaj/d. .,   ,  Dated this twenty-second day of April, Jaoi.  ^���^���^���,"��^'^"5k��^�� ^ 00.00 .00.00 .00 .00 ./*0 .00 .r  _________     .���^ _______   ___.____. ________   _____m__ ���           ���          ���     ���.-.   ~~&r ISStwi  V* ^^a * ^m..  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  TRUNK STRAPS  SHOULDER STRAPS  SHAWL STRAPS  liixxxixixxxiiiKKxnrMiiMixKxxxrJxxxxii  Fred Irvine  36 Bakep Street, Nelson.  00 .00 .00 .,B* .0? .00 .00 .00 .0*0  ^ '^. -^-Ve*.-^ ���>>*.��� W. ���^K*'V^^,  �� VALISES AND  B SATCHELS  \ IN ALL SIZES  M  [txixisrxixnxxiixixixrrxixixisixixxxrxxx  BARGAINS  IN TRUNKS AND VALISES  Don't for a moment imagine that we sell cheap trunks only.    We carry all sorts of trunks���from the low price  but reliable sorts, up to the very best grades made and we can save you money on them all.     Here are two special ex  amples.     Canvas covered trunks, oil painted with  hardwood slats,  protected by 7 inch steel clamps, brassed excelsio:  locks,   stitched  leather  handles,   extra heavy  leather  1 yi   inch  straps around  body, also deep set-up trays,  and prices as follows :  34 inch 36 inch 38 inch 40 inch 42 inch  sior  Sizes  $6.50  $7.25  $8.50  $9.75  $12.25  Women's skirt or dress trunk, same  style as above only better quality :  34 in.    36 in.     38 in.     40 in.    42 in.  $9.50    $10 75    $12.25    $i4.65    $15.50  Valises  arid  dress  suit  cases  from  $3.00 to $25  Telescope   valises   from  75c. to $4.00  A special  reduction  on   all  purses.  Also hand bags at prices below :  12 indh     14 inch     16 inch      20 inch  $2.00  $2.50  $3.0O  $4.50  xinxxzxzxxxxxxxxxrixxxzrxxn:  a ���  LADIES' SHOPPING  BAGS FROM  35c to 75c.  SxnxaxxxxxxxxurTTTTTTx:  Fred Irvine & Co.  36  Baker  Street  ;;xxxxx:xi:xx;xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2xxxxixxxxxx��  I '���'     SPECIAL PRICES  B ON ALL  j .*'���    PURSES.'  Qxxirxrxixixxxxxiiixxixxrxixxxixxxxixxxxxxt  Spring  Suitings  All the fashionable creations  in Spring and Summer wear  are included in my last consignment of Scotch and Irish  Serges, Tweeds and Worsteds, and Fancy Trouserings  E. Skinner  Neelands' Building. Baker Street.  FRED J. SQUIRE, Manager.  Kelson Saw and Planing Wjills  Limited.  CHARLES  HILLYER, HhARRY  HOUSTON,  President and General Manager. Secretary-Treasurer  All Communications to be addressed to either of the above  ARTHUR   GEE  MERCHANT  TAILOR.  TREMONT HOTKL BLOCK.  Large stock of high-class imported goods. A  specialty of the square shoulder���the latent!  fashion in coats.  Ward Bros*  REAL ESTATE AND  INSURANCE AGENTS  Agents for J. & J. TAYLOR SAFES  Desirable Business and Residence Lots  in (Bogustown) Fairview Addition.  Ofllce on Baker Street, wost of Stanley Streot  NKLSON. ���    Drink  the Best  Beer  ANHEUSER-BUSCH  ST. LOUIS LAGER  We ape prepared to Furnish  by Rail, Barge or Teams  DIMENSION LUMBER  ROUGH and DRESSED LUMBER  LOCAL and��C0AST CEILING  LOCAL and COAST FLOORING  DOUBLE DRESSED COAST CEDAR  RUSTIC, SHIPLAP, STEPPING  PINE and CEDAR CASINGS  DOOR JAMBS, WINDOW STILES  TURNED WORK, BAND-SAWING  BRACKETS, NEWEL POSTS  TURNED VERANDA POSTS  STORE FRONTS  DOORS, WINDOWS, and GLASS.  Get Our. Prlees before -  purchasing elsewhere.  OFFICE: CORNER HALL AND FRONT STREETS. ���   .������  FACTORY: HALL STREET C. P. R. CROSSING.   MILLS: HALL STREET WHARF  H.  TO BE HAD WHOLESALE   AT  NELSON.  A. B. GRAY, Kootenay Agent  BAKER STRKKT. NELSON.  Fj. P. RITHET & CO., Ltd.  R. REISTERER & CO.  BREWERH AND BOTTLKRS OV  FINE LAGER BEER, ALE  AND PORTER  TREMONT HOUSE  321 TO 331 BAKER STREET, NELSON  Prompt and regular , BrouMini at Unison  delivery tio iihn irrada       Brewary BI weiuan  FREE   HOTn^JNGH  FROM 12 to 2 O'CLOCK  AT  THE  ATHABASCA   TODAY.  HEALSiSB GENTS  Rooms Lighted by Electricity and Heated by sSfpam 25 Cents to $1  AMEfyCAfi AND EUROPEAN  PLANS  QUEEN'S HOTEL  *        BAKER STREET. NELBON.  Everybody    Welcome  A. R. BARROW, A.M.I.C.E.  PROVINCIAL  LAND SURVEYOR  Corner Vlotoria and Kootenay Streets.  P. O. Box MS. THLBIFHONH MO. 86  Lighted by Electricity and Heated with Hot Air.  Largo comfortable bedrooms and flrsJ-oIaBB  dining-room. Sample roods for oomraerolal men,  RATES $2 PER DAY  Mrs. E. G. Clarke, Prop.  tATE OW TBUC BOTAL HOTEL, OAUUBX  Wladden ([oiisa ^Cffif  Tbe mil; hotel ln Nolson thhti has remained  under one management sinou ISXi.  The bed-rooms aro well furnished and lighted  i eleotriolty.  The bar Is always stacked by tho best dom s-  liia and Imported liquors and olgars.  THOMAS MADDEN. Proprietor. ,  SLOGAN JUNCTION HOTEL  J. H. MnMANUS. Manager  WHOLESALE TRADE  DERATED AND MINERAL WATERS.  rpHORPK & CO.,'.LIMITED.���Corner Vernon  ���*��� and Cedar streets, Nolson, manufacturers  of and wholesalo dealers In reraUsd wators and  fruit syrups. Sole agents for Halcyon Springs  mineral water.   Telephone (it).  ASSAYERS'   SUPPLIES.  TXT F. TEETZEL & CO.-Corner Baker and  ** ���   Josophino streets, Nolson, wholesale deal  ors In   assayers  supplios.   Agent* ior Denve.  Fire Clay* Co. ofDenver. Colorado. ���  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS.  J. EVANS" & CO.���Baker stroet, Nelson  wholesalo dealers in liquors, cigars  conieut, fire brick and flro olay, water plpo;and  steel rails, and general commission merchants.  ELECTRICAL   SUPPLIES.  KOOTENAY ELECTRIC SUPPLY & CONST RUCTION COMPANY-Wholosalodeal-  ci's in tolophpnes, annunciators, bells, batteries.  Axbnros, ot.c, Houston block, NoIhou,  FLOUR AND FEED. "  BRACKMAN - KER MILLING COMPANY  ���Cereals, Flour, Grain, Hay. Straight or  mixed cars shipped to all Kootenay Points.  Grain elevators at all principal points on Calgary-  lOdmonton R. R. Mills at; Victoria, New West  minster, and Edmonton. Alberta.   FRESH AND SALT MEATS.  P    BURNS &   CO.-Baker   streot,   Nelson.  ���   wholosale doalers in fresh and oured moats.  Cold BtoniKe.  GROCERIES.  A MACDONALD & CO.-Corner Front and  ��� Hall streets, wholesale grocers and  jobbers In blaiikets, gloves, mitts, boots, rubbers,  mackinaws and miuers' simdrioH.  KOOTENAY  SUPPLY   COMPANY,   LIMI-  TED���Vernon   street, Nolson,   wholesale  RTOoars.  JOHN CHOLDITCH & CO.-Front street, Nel  *���   son. wholesale grocers.  T   Y. GRIFFIN & CO.-Front street, Nelson  ��*���   wholosale   dealers   In   provisions,   oured  moats, butter and eggs.  .���iLARDWARE AND MINING SUPPLIEsT  =er=B��ERS & CO.���Goruor-Bakorand Josephine^  i-i..   atreeti), Nolson. wholosalo doalers lu.liard-  wnre and mining'supplies.    Agonts for Giant  Powder Co. .  LAWRENCE   HARDWARE    COMPANY  Baker St.,  Nolson,  wholesale   dealers ln  hai-dwivre and mining supplies, and water and  plumbers' supplios.  LIQUORS AND DRY GOODS.  TURNER, UEETON & CO.-Cornor Vernon  aud Josephine streets, Nolson, wholesale  dealors in liquors, olgars and dry goods. Agoutis  for Pabst llrowlug Co. of Milwaukee and Cal  gury Brewing Co. of Calgary.  SASH AND DOORS.  NELSON SAW AND PLANING MILLS.  LIMITED-Cornor Front and Hall streots,  Nelson, manufacturers of and wholesale doalers  in Biirfb and doors) all kinds ot factory work made  to order.  WINES AND CIGARS.  CALIFORNIA    WINE   COMPANY,    LIMI  TED-Cornor Front and Hall streeta, Nel  son, wholesale doalers In wines (case and bnlk.  *nH ,lntT��ffa*>tn and Imnorftflrt fifgara.  ARCHITECT..  AC. EWART��� A rchitcct.   Room 3 Aberdeen  ���    block. Raker street, Nelson.  Bar stookod with besb brands of winos, liquors,  and Cigars. Boer on draught. Largo joomfort-  able room!.  UlratHdaaa table boa d.  Provincial Secretary's Office,  HIS HONOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF  TH 10 UOVEKNMKNT-1N-COUNCIL has  heen pleased to make tho following appointments :��� ,   ,      *    _,  .lohn A. Turner. Government Agent, Thomas  M. Ward and Knid Sun-key. ofthoCity of Nelson,  K> quires, to be Members of tho Board of Directors  of the "Kootonay Lake General Hospital."  April 20th. 1OTL   NOTICE TO DELINQUENT CO-OWNERS  To T. A. S'I'evknson, or to any person or persons to whom ho may have transferred his  interest in the Lila mineral claim, at Morn  ing Mountain. Nolson Mining Division:  You are heroby notified that 1 havo expended  the sum of One Hundred and Fifty-Seven Dollars  in  labor nnd  improvements   upon   the  above  mentioned mineral claim, in order to hold said  mineral claim   undor  the   provisions   of   the  Minoral Act, and if within ninety days from the  (late of this notice you fail or refuse tocontribut,  your proportion of suoh expenditure, togothe.  with all costs of advertising, your interest in said  claim will becomo (lie property of tho subscriber  under section four of an Act entitled "An Aot to  Amend the Minoral Act. 1^^   ^^  Dated this 12th day of February, 1001. THE  TRIBUNE:  NELSON, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1901  I'.-t*  BANK OF MONTREAL  '        CAPITAL, all paid up....$12,000,000.00  BEST ��� ������������   7.000.000.00  UNDIVIDED PROFITS       427,180.80  Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal ...President  . ��� Hon. George A. Drummond Vice-President  E.S.ClousUm General Manager  ���NELSON BRANCH  Corner Bakor and Kootenay Streets.  A. H. BUCHANAN, Manager.  ���>  o  Branches ln London (England) New York,  Cuioago, aud all the principal cities ln Canada.  Buy and sell Sterling Exchango and Cablo  Tl**l.f irtf tll'H  Grant  Commercial   and   Travelers'   Credits,  available In any part of tho world.  Drafts Issued. Collections Made, Eto.  Savings Bank Branch  CUHItKNT KATK OK INTKRKHT I'AID.  UNITED STATES HAPPENINGS  ���    NEW YORK, 2.���The establishment'of E. S. Percival <fc Co., 53  New street, doing business as brokers, was closed by the police this  afternoon on the charge that it was  a bucket shop.  BOSTON, 2.^-A mail vote, secured by the Herald among the alutni  of Harvard university, on the question of conferring the degree of  doctor of laws upon president McKinley, shows 78 per cent in favor  of the step. <   '  SPiRJNGFIELD, 2.���All the union  freight handlers employed by the  Hartford division of New York,  New Haven & Hartford railroad,  and all but t\vo% or three of those  employed by the Boston <fc Maine  railroad in this city, went on strike  today for higher wages.  SEATTLE, 2.���Dawson advices,  dated 'April 19th, give particulars,  ��� of the finding'of. the body of Mr.  Bellinger by a prospector named  Black,, about ten miles from the  mouth of White river. The body  had been partially devoured by  wolves.���������"'����� Identification is clearly  established by letters found in the  pockets of the clothing.  WASHINGTON, 2. ��� The state  department has received a report  from the vice consul at Dawson,  dated April Oth, saying that consul  McCook, who was reported to have  died at Dawson, was then rapidly  recovering from an attack of acute  pneumonia, with every prospect of  being out in a few days.  .UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania, 2.  ���One of the fiercest forest fires  that ever swept over the mountains has been raging for two days  and nights between Somerfield and  Addison, in Somerset county. Large  stretches of timber, orchards and  fields have been' destroyed. By  strong efforts the citizens Succeeded  in saving their homes and buildings.  SEATTLE, 2.���Nome papers, as  late as February 2nd, received in  this city, state that Benjamin T.  Miller, formerly of this city, and  Charles E. Gay, brother of the  United States district attorney of  this city, were frozen in the recent  blizzard in tha Nome region. Miller  was recorder for the Agiapuk district, and Gay Avas United States  commissioner for the Arctic district.  OMAHA, 2.���James Callahan in  judge Baker's court this morning  was permitted to withdraw his plea,  of not guilty to the charge of grand  larceny, robbery and false imprisonment in the Cudahy kidnaping case,  ���and"to"enter'a=plea'at=barthatrhav-  ing been acquitted last week on  trial for highway robbery of  Cudahy, he could not be put iu  jeopardy again for that affair.  THE CANADIAN  *  BANK OF COMMERCE  wrm wmcn is amalgamated  THE  BANK  OF  BRITISH COLUMBIA.  HEAD OFFICE:  TORONTO.  Paid-up Capital,  Reserve Fund,  -      -      $8,000,000  -      -      -   $2,000,000  ACCRECATE RESOURCES OVER $65,000,000.  Robt. Kilgour,  Vice-President.  Hon. Ceo. A. Cox,  President.  London Office, 60 Lombard Street. H. O.  New York   Office, 16   Exchange   Place.  and (Si Brunches in Canada and the  United SUites.  SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT:  Interest allowed on deposits.   Present rate  throe per cent.  GRANGE V.  HOLT,  Managor Nelson Branch.  DETROIT, 2.���The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Michigan Central railway was held here  today. The entire board of directors was elected as follows: William K. and Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Chauneey M. Depew, Edwin  Worcester, Samuel F. Barger and  Hamilton McK. Twombley of New  York; Henry B. Ledyard and Ashley Pond, of Detroit; and Frederick  S. Winston of Chicago.  > Glasgow's Show Opened.  Glasgow, May 2.���The duke and  the duchess of Fife opened the  Glasgow exhibition this afternoon.  Tlie weather was fine and the town  was beautifully decorated for the  occasion. The duke of Fife declared the exhibition open in the name  of the king, and expressed his  majesty's best wishes for its success. The.duchess of Fife unlocked  the doors of the art gallery with a  golden key. A luncheon followed  the opening ceremonies.  Newmarket Winners.  London, May 2.���At the second  day's racing of the Newmarket first  spring meeting today, the Thursday welter handicap plate of 200  sovereigns was Avon by Sir Hugo,  ridden by Johnny Reiff. The Fly  plate of 200 sovereigns was won by  Cream. The match stakes of 25  sovereigns each, and 500 sovereigns  added, was won by Binus Sibloa,  on Garber III. Five horses ran.  The Peel handicap of 108 sovereigns  was won by Balon, with J. Reilf up.  THE DAY'S EUROPEAN CABLES  COPENHAGEN, 2.���The United  Steamship Company, of Copenhagen, has ordered six new steamers  of 12,000 tons each for the United  States trade.  /BRISBANE, 2.���The steamship  Moana, which is to take the place  of the steamer Warrimoo, sailed  from here for Vancouver on the  2Gth ultimo,  CONSTANTINOPLE, 2.-A case  of illness has occurred at Galata,  the largest suburb of Constantinople, whicli is officially pronounced  bubonic plague. Precautions are  being taken to jirevent a spread.  LONDON, 2���A special ���' dispatch  from Berlin says, that seeing the  German canal bill is certain of rejection, and that the Prussian diet  will be closed tomorrow, the imperial chancellor count Von Buelow  will form a new ministry.  LONDON, 2.���Miss Phyllis Rankin, daughter of McKee Rankin,  the American actor, and Harry  Davenport, of Edna May's company, a brother of the late Fanny  Davenport, were married before  the registrar here this morning.  MURCIA, Spain, 2.���A thousand  men are out on strike at the Agui-  las mines. The company has refused the men's proposals aud there  has been serious disturbance. The  miners fired ou the police guarding  tlie property and the gendames  charged the crowd, killing one man  aud wounding several others.  LONDON, 2.���The chamber of  commerce has selected a large committee, iucludiug lords Rothschild,  Avebury, 'Revelstoke and Hilling  the lord mayor, Frank Green and  sir Thomas Lipton to receive the  visiting delegates of the New York  chamber of commerce. Besides a  banquet, a garden party will be  given in honor of the American  visitors.  CONSTANTINOPLE, 2.���Advices  received from Beyroot, Syria, dated  April 24th, say there is much interest there over the succession to the  vacant Episcopal see of Beyroot,  the richest and most important in  the patriarchate of Damascus. The  strongest candidates are Gerasimos  Massaira, archimandrite of Alexandria, and Rafael Hawaoni, of the  orthodox church of New York.  Steamers Carried Off by Ice.  Detroit, May 2.���A special to  the Tribune, from Marine City,  says: The steamers John Planking-  ton and James Pickands, and the  _barge Uranus, which were lying at  the Stave company's docks, were  carried' away yesterday by the ice.  The dock, 000 feet long, was totally  destroyed. The piles were pulled  from the ground and the chains  and heavy lines were broken like  cord. The Pickands and the Plankf  ington drifted down the river and  high upon the bank, and are now  lying in a rather precarious condition. The steamer M. Sicken was  also carried away from the docks  and brought up against the barge  Mowatt, smashing her bulwarks  and doing other damage. It will  take $2000 to repair the Stave company's dock. The St. Clair rivor is  again blocked with ice.  A Mystery at Sea.  New York, May 2.���The transport Sedgewiek, which has just  arrived, had a . rather curious experience. On the third night out  from San Juan, about 0 o'clock iu  tlie evening, every one on deck saw  a distress rocket suddenly shoot up  into the darkness. The Sedgewiek  answered the rocket and started to  give assistance. Captain Burns saw  a faint light where the rocket had  gone up, about a inile away. He  steamed in that direction about two  miles, but the light seemed to keep  its distance. After going about  five miles out of his way he did not  seem to approach any nearer to the  light. Another rocket was sent up  but there was no answer. Suddenly  the light in the distance went out.  Then some one reported the outline  of a ship about half a mile away.  The captain saw it too. The Sedgewiek steamed over an hour but did  not get any nearer the vessel. She  then, lay to till morning, but when  daylight came nothing was in sight.  IMPERIAL BANK  OF    Cj*i71X___\JD_A__.  HKAD  OFFICE. TORONTO.  Capital        -       -       $2,600,000  Rest       -      -       -    $1,725,000  H. S. HOWLAND Prosidont.  V. 11. WILKIE General Manager.  E. HAY Inspector,  SAVINCS   BANK   DEPARTMENT..  THK   CURRKNT   HATK   OK    INTKKK8T   AIXOWKI).  9\  9\  ��*9  '4g_a_f  All watch repairing guaranteed,  as we employ none but the bes  workmen.  Nelson Branch���Burns Block, 221 Baker  Street.  J. M. LAY, Manager.  EASTERN CANADIAN NEWS  ST. JOHN, 2.���While cooking at  her residence at Riverside, Albert  county, -yesterday. MrSv William  Bell's clothes caught fire, arid before  the flames were extinguished she  was probably fatally burned.  HAMILTON, 2.���Lieutenant Duncan F. Mclnnes, son of the late senator Mclnnes, has been granted tlie  D. S. O. medal- for' his work in  charge of a fortification at the siege  of Kimberley.- He was a member  of the Royal Engineers. /  ST. JOHN, 2.^George Wilson, 25  years old, who * had been married  only a year, committed suicide by  shooting himself yesterday. He  had been suffering from consumption and became despondent because of being unable to work.  . HALIFAX, 2.���A woman giving  the name of Mrs. Mary D. Eastman,  of Quebec, about* thirty-five years  bld; and well dressed, committed  suicide by shooting herself in the  temple yesterday afternoon in the  Halifax htotel. The victim ..left a  note saying: "Do not let the papers  or police make any effort to find  out who I am, and" be sure I. am  dead before you bury me." No one  by the name of Mrs. Mary D. Eastman is known in Quebec. If the  lady is from ' Quebec, which is  doubtful, the name must be fictitious.      '       Roberts Out on Bail.  London, May 2.���Jack Roberts,  the pugilist, and the other men accused of manslaughter as a result  of the death of Billy Smith, the  American pugilist, were committed  for trial at Bow street police court  today, and released on their own  recognizances.- The magistrate, sir.  Franklin Lusington, said he saw  nothing to distinguish the contest  from any ordinary prize fight.  A FULL LINE OF  t  Front Doors  Inside Doors  Screen Doors  Windows  Inside Finish  looal and ooast).  Flooring  - local and coast. ���*  Newel Posts  Stair Kail  Mouldings  :'���..-<     Shingles  Rough and  ^JDressed^mber    ^  Established in Nelson 1890.  Be up with the Times  It pays to have the new things���to have what our  cusotmers are most liable to call for; to have the  quick selling articles���the kind that go quickly. Our,  spring novelties are to hand and they are beautier.  BELTS  HAT PINS  CHATELAINE BAGS  BLOUSE SETS  PURSES  BUCKLES  And a thousand other lines too numerous to  mention. Call and satisfy yourself by an inspection of this line of novelties.  All watch repairing guaranteed,  as we employ none but the best  workmen. ,  ���  Mail orders receive our prompt  and careful attention. Our prices  are always right.  Jacob Dover, Jeweler  C. P. R. WATCH INSPECTOR.  NELSON, B. C.  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  %    ��� ... - ._,  ^^*��?'0? ' <0? '0^'*______*'0^'<Sf' 0^'lj��'0^' 0&'0^ ' f�� ''*��f''4Sf''0''����� '^'^'^'-Si** *-3&*-^B' *-3&*-tSl *-3S'*Mrk *-^>*-^>*^��*-^S**4*^S^ ��S���� ^[^ ��� us*** ^S^f  *^!,^P^?*^(*^8r*'9o^^^ '-**'?��� *-*^K**9T* ST*'-'^^���^k.'Q?*^'^ >%^ ":0'0*^'^0,^0'00'00.'00'00* ^ *,00'00'00'00'00 ��� 00^^0 ��� 00 ,?0'  to  to  to  to  to  Mail orders receive our prompt     /|\  and careful attention. Our prices     .*![���  are always right. I   *"l  to  to  to  to  to  THE  Mansfield Manufacturing Go.  NELSON,  B. C.  Builders and  Contractors  Of all kinds. :  TT WHAT TOU WANT IS NOT IN* STOCK  WE WILL MARK IT FOB TOU  CALL AND GET PRICKS.  J, A. Sayward  HALL AND LAKE STREETS. NELSON  Porto Rico Lumber Co.  (LIMITED)  CORNER OF  HENDRYX AND VERNON BTREETS  Rough and  Dressed  Lumber,  Shing!s&  Mouldings  Having taken over the business of the West Kootenay Brick & ,  Lime Company, Limited, of Nelson, I beg to ask fop a continuance  of the patronage which you have heretofore extended them. My  aim will be at all.times to supply you with our products at lowest  possible prices. Being in a position to manufacture goods in larger  quantities than before, we shall be able to supply the trade at a  lower figure. <  . It is our intention to install machinery to manufacture our  marble products, and next season we shall be in a position to supply  these products' at reasonable rates.  . We shall, also Keep on hand a stock. of Fire Brick, Fire Clay,  Tiles and Cement.  Our Bricks and Lime Roek have taken the First Prizes at the  Spokane Industrial Exposition, in 1899 and also this year. We also  secured prizes last year and this year for Ornamental and Building  Stone.  .   We are prepared to offer special rates to Contractors  and  Builders.  ERNEST MANSFIELD,  tor The Mansfield Manufacturing Company.  Successors to  The West Kootenay Brick <�� Lime Co., Ltd  BOARD   OF   HEALTH  REGULATIONS  For the Prevention of the Spread of  Smallpox in the City of Nelson.  P. Bums & Co.  Wholesale and Retail  HBANELloN,iTB. o. Dealers in Meats  All passengers arriving at tho City of Nelson  from all points cast of the Kootenay River will  be required to furnish the inspector or ofllcer in  charge of the carrying out ot these regulations  .with a certificate from the health ofllcor of the  city or town from which he or she has left, containing tho following particulars:  . 1. (ai That he or she has not been in any place  or building infected with smallpox.  (b) That he or she has not lived in any place  or building which lies dangerously near any infected building or district.       ~c  (c) That he or she has been successfully vaccinated since January, 1901.   :**"'"  2. If the inspector believes that any person is  infected,��������� or that his or her clothing or other  effects contain infection the inspector shall: detain such person and his or her clothing and effects  asaforesaid, until the period of incubation is over,  -and such person and his or her clothing and other  effect's shall be at once disinfected.  3. Jf he only suspects that any person on board,  or the effects of any such person have been exposed lo infection, he shall notify tho medical  health officer of the localityto which the person  is going to meet the train or boat, and to keep the  person thereafter under observation.  4. In the event of any passenger* bringing any  baggage (hand or otherwise) or whether the same  shall be forwarded- by express, the following;  certificate may also be required from the health  ofllcer o' the town or city aforesaid:  -.: ���,: :  *��� (a) That tho said ;baggago (here give a= full  description of said baggago so that'there can be;  no question as to identification) has not been in  any place or building infected witli smallpox, t*-:  , (b) That the said baggage has not been stored  or used in any place orbuilding which lies d��n-.  gorously near to any infected building or dis-:  trlct.     :"*:��� ���.,X:���::���:   *���:,���:'. *'-.*.' V.-:������;.  5. All railway and steamboat companies must  strictly adhere to the following regulations: . .���  - (a) All mail and baggage from point b: above  mentioned destined for the City of Nelson, on or  before leaving the last point of call'oii Kootenay  River must Furnish the inspector or ofllcer in  charge of the carrying out of these regulations,  with a certificate from the health olllcer of such  fjoints where fumigation takes place^that same  las been done."   '  "*"."       - **"" -: \   --    - - ���*.-.  ���  (b) All cars or steamboats on Which have  been discovered infected, persons, baggage or  mail, will not be permitted to again' convey passengers, baggage, etc., into tho City of Nelson  until disinfected and fumigated to the satisfaction of the medical health ofllcor of this city.  (c) No Indians shall be allowed to land in the  City of Nelson under any conditions.  This proclamation goes into effect immediately,  FRANK FLETCHER.  Mayor of tho City of Nelson,  D.LABAU,  Medical Health Ofllcer.  Nelson. B. C, March 2nd, 1901. ^    .    .  NOTICE TO DELINQUENT CO-OWNER  TRADJBB   UNIONS.  T^KLSON SOCIALISTIC EDUCATIONAL  ���**L' CLUB meets every Sunday ar. 3 o'clock p.m.  in the Miners'Union Hall. A cordial invitation  is extended to every one to como. mid lake part:  in discussions.   John Roberts, secretJiiy.  LAUNDRY WORKERS'UNION OK* NKLSON  No. 85!H, A- F.of L.���Moots in Miners'.Union  Hall, C. IVK, ''lock, corner, of Baker aud Stan*;  ley streets, oa fourth Friday in, everv month at  ���*7:30 p.m. sharp. :;visiting members of American  Federation cordially invited to attend. C. Fredrick, president; A. AV. McFee, secret;iry: <:;������;:.'.  TCTKLSON MINERS' UNION NO.' w; "\V; F. of  ���*���' M.���Meets Id miners' union* rooms, northwest corner of Baker and Stanley stivets. every ,  Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Visilingvmem  bars welcome. M. R.Mowatt, Pres-idunt. Jame  Wilkes, Secretary. 'Union Scai.k ok*Waqm  for'Nelson District���Pert shift,���_:machine  men, $3.50: hammersmen minors, $.'1.21; muckers,  carmen, shovelers and other underground laborers, $3.00.  rpRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL.- The rem-  ���*��� ������ lar meetings of tho Nelson Trades and Labor  Council will beheld in the miners' union:hall,  corner Baker and Stanley streets.on the first and "  third Thursday of each month, at 8 p. m.' C. J,  Clayton, President; A. T. Curio, Secretary.;  ;  rpHB regular meetings of tho Carpenters' Union  '.���*���.��� ��� are held on Wednesday; evening, of each  week, at 7 o'clock, in the Miners': Union-room*  corner of Baker and Stanley streets.;: Chaiiles  Clayton, President.: George Bro.ulley. Secretary. -  B  ARBKRS' UNION.--NolsonSuiilon?No.4liW, ot  'the International Journeymen: Barber s Un  Ion of America, meots overy first,and third Monday of each month in Miner's Union Hall, at 8.30  sharp. Visiting brothers cordially invited' to  attend. R. McMahon, president; J. H. Mathe  son. secretary-treasurer; J. C. Gardner, recording  secretary.  T ABORERS' UNION.-Nelson Laliorors' Pro  x-1 tective Union, No. 8121, A. F. of L., meets ln  Miners' Union hall, C. P. R. block, corner of  Uaker and Stanley streets, every Monday evonlng  at 7:30 p.m. sharp. Visiting members of the American iederation cordially invited to attend.  A. .T. Curie, President. John Roberts, recording secrotary.    ,:  ���MVELSON PAINTERS' UNION-Tho regular  *' meeting of the Pain tors' Union Is held  the flrst and third Fridays in each month nfc Miners' Union hall at 7:30 sharp. George ICacritt,  Presidont; Henry Bennett, Secretary.  Markets at   Nelson,   Rossland,   Trail,  Kaslo, Ymir,  Sandon,  Silverton, Nev  ==Denver,=Revelstoke,^If'ergu8on=Grand==Fork8,=GreeiiwoodfGi*scade=Gityj=Mic3==  way, and Vancouver.  Mail Orders Promptly Forwarded  ������������ll-J        I      ���      ��������� ���! ������������ ���     1.       mm    .I���,    I      .- I I!   ��� ��� ��� I ������I    M      ���������!       ������        ���     ��������� ������     " "   ���  West Kootenay Butcher Co.  AIL KINDS OF  FRESH AND SALTED MEATS  WHOLKSALH AND RETAIL  FISH AND POULTRY IN SEASON  K. W. 0 BLOCK  WARD STREET  E. C. TRAVES, Manager  OKDWKil BY MAIL RBOBIVB OARWrUI. AKD PROMPT ATTJ0XI1ON  ������: ���'.'-*) -~  A-1 White Pine Lumber Always in  StocK-  We carry a complete stock of  Ccast Flooring, Ceiling, Inside Finish, Turned Work, Sash and Doors.  Special order work will receive  prompt attention.  Porto Rico LumberCo. Ltd.  NELSON BUSINESS COLLEGE  SPRING  TERM  BECINS  APRIL  1st.  Bookkeeping, shorthand and typewriting  thoroughly taught. Do not miss this opportunity  of acquiring a business education. Note address.  CORNER WARD AND BAKER STREETS  ^ixxixiixxixxrxxxiji*s��niiirniizxxxx��xxixxixiixri����iiixxiixitiiiixi��ii��i"��"��xiixxixxx��iuicrxix:  THE   PROSPECTORS   EXCHANGE  No. 4, K. IV. C. Block, NELSON, B. O.  Gold, Silver-Lead and Copper Mines wanted at tbe Exchange.  Free-Milling Oold Properties wanted at once for Eastern Investors.  Parties having mining property for salo aro requested to send samples of their oro to tho  Exchango for exhibition. We desire to hear from all prospectors who have promising mineral *  claims in British Columbia,  Prospectors a3id mining men are requested to mako the Kxchange their hoadquartors when  In Nelson.  All samples should bo sent by express; Prepaid.   Correspondence solicited. ,  Address all communications to      ,'  Telephone  104 ANDREW  F.  ROSENBERGER,  P. O. Box 700 Nelson, B.C.  bxxxxnxxixixrxxxixxxxxxxxxrxxxnnpKxxxixixrxxxxxxxxiraxriTxxxtxtxTxrxixixxnxrxixxixxrxTxrxirixrTTTirrxxi:  W. P. TIERNEY  Telephone 2G5; .  AGENT FOR GALT COAL  Office: Two Doors West C. P. R. Offices  FURNISHED   HOUSES  We havo several good furnished houses to let  for tho summer months.  H. &   M.   BIRD  BHOKKN HILL BLOCK.  WEST TRANSFER GO.  N. T. MACLEOD, Manager.  All  Kinds of Teaming and Transfer  Work.  Agents for Hard nnd Soft; Coal. Imperial Oil  Company. Washington Brick, Lime & Manufacturing Company. General commercial agents  und brokers.  All coal and wood strictly cash on delivery.  telephone H7.   Office 184 Balder St.  To Jon.v I. JIcA.vdkkws or to any porson or persons to whom he may have transferred his  interest in thcBlack Diamond Jlin.eral Claim,  situate  on   the  north side  of Bear Creek,  about three miles from  Lhe town of Ymir,  Iving  south of and adjoining the  Kvening  Mar Mineral Claim. Nelson Alining Division  of  West Kootenay Distiict, and recorded in  thi! recorder's olllco for the Nelson Mining,  Division.  Von and each of you are hereby notified that. I  have expended Two Hundred nnd Twelve dollars  jind^IweiityJi.v.e^Cfintji^lSK^.apyn^labor^niKLijn^  proveinenta upon the above mentioned-mineral  claim in order to hold said  mineral claim under  the provisions of the Mineral Act. and if wiihin  ninety days from the date of this noiice you fail  or refuse to contribute your proportion of such  expenditures together with all costs of advertising your iiiterObUi in eaid claims will become the  property of the subscriber under section 4 of an  Act  entitled  "An Act lo Amend tho Mineral  Act, ltHXJ."  JOHN DKAN.  Dated at Nelson this 27th day of April, 1!W1.  rjOOKS' AND -WAITERS' UNION ���Regular  v-' meetings .every Tuesday evening at 8:30  oclock, in Miners' Union Hall, corner: of Baker  and Stanley streets. Visting br��'hren cordially  invited. Chris. Lnft, president; II. Sm'elser, financial and recording secretary.  . v ,  pLASTERKRS' UNION���The O. P. I. A. No.  x 172. moets evory Monday ovoning in the  Elliot block, cornor Baker and Stanley streets, at  8 o'olock. J. D. Mover, president; William  Vico, secretary, P. O.'Box OIC.  *  FRATERNAL   SOCIETIES  NKLSON LODGE. NO. 83, A. K. tc A. Td  Meets second-Wednesday ln each month  Sojourning brethren invibed.  NOTICE.  Town Lots, New Denver.  Nolico Is hereby given lliat, in pursuance of  tho notification published by this Department,  and datod 22nd .lime, 18!*!*, under section .'W of Iho  "Land Acl." agreements for the sale of Lots ln  tho Town of New Denver, which were purchased  from Iho Government, at public auction on 2Ulh  July, 18!)2, and upon which lhe balance of purchase money and intorest is not fully paid up by  tho :tuth of April noxt, will bo cancelled and all  moneys paid therein will be forfeited.  W. C. WELLS,  Chief CommiHsion of Lands and Works.  Lands und Works Department,  Victorin, B. C, 21st March, 1901.  DISSOLUTION   OF   PARTNERSHIP.  !  .-  Notice is hereby given that the partnership  heretofore existing between Lewis Noll and  Wesloy K. Cox, carrying on business as holel-  kcepora in the premises known as the Porto Uico  hotel at i'ort.o Uico Siding, B. C, under tho Arm  name of Noll & Cox, has this day heen diasolvcd  bymiiLual consent. -For tho future the I'orto  Rico hotel will he conducted by Lewis Noll, who  will assume all liabilities of the late firm nnd to  whom all accounts owing said firm are herewith  payablo. LOUIS NOLL,  WESLEY E. COX.  Witness: Robt. Rknwick.  Nelson. March 2��t,h. lflOI.  Hotel For Rent  First-class hotel property, in  Nelsou, for rent. Business gives  big returns. For particulars  address P. O. Box 719, Nelson.  TVTELSON ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER No. 123  ���L" G. R. C.���Meets third Wednesday. Sojourning companions invited. George Johuslonc.Z.; E.  W. Matthews, S. E.  '^EEi^XEHfOf^^^T^l^M^^^raa"  -*���'    and fourth  Wednesday of each month, at)  Fraternity  Hall.    George  Bartlott,  president  John V. Morrison, secretary.  KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS- Nelson Lodge, No  25, Knights of Pythiaa, meets ln 1. O. O. F.  Hall, cornor Bakor and Kootonay streets, ever ���  Tuosday evening at 8 o'clook. visiting Knight's  cordially invited to attend. H. M. Vincent C. C.  A. T. Park, K. of R. & S.  XrOOTKNAY TENT NO. 7, K. O. T. M.���  ���*^ Hold their regular meetings on the flrst and  third Thursdays of each month. Visiting Sir  Knightx aro cordially Invited to attend. G. A.  Brown. R. K.; A. W. Purdy, Com.; R. J. Steel.  Eb. REILEY  (SUCCESSOR TO H. D. ASHCROFT)  BLACKSMITHS   AND   WOOD   WORKtlo  EXPERT HORSESHOEING.  Special attention given to -*11 kinds of repairing  and custom work from o'.-^side points. Heavy  bolfcfi made to order on shoit notice.  REMOVED.        ~~  The ofilee of the Arlington Mine of  Erie. B. C, and Hastings (British  Columbia) Exploration Syndicate,  Limited, are now ln room 9,  K.-W.-C. Block.  H. E. T. HAULTAIN. Manager.  NOTIOE.  Courts of Assize. Nisi Prius, Oyerand Terminer  and General Gaol Delivery will be holden in tho  Court House at 11 o'clock m the forenoon, at the  places and on the dates following, namely :  City of Nnnaiino, on tho 23rd day of April, 1901.  City of Now Westminster, on the 23rd day of  April, 1<K)1.  City of Nelson, on the 7th day of May. 1901.  City of RcvclHloke, on the 7th day of May, 1901.  Town of Clinton, on tho 28th day of Alay, 1901  By Command.  J. D. PRENTICE,  ��� . .  *      Provincial Secretary,  Provincial Secretary a Office,  00th Much, 1901,  ���* /"  . %;  ' ��� -4  ' '' V  '\ ''V  Af-hy  &:A'��  *. �����     -*'  - >  ;:y|  VV*-':' THE TRIBUNE: NELSON, B 'CL, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1901  UA  If* ���;������  I****  ���t--  ���T\  I?",'  Remember Ferland's Sale  When you set out on your shopping tour today, and your money  will go much farther than in any other store in town. There are very  few articles in the Dry Goods, Clothings Gents' Furnishing, or Boot  and Shoe lines that I am not offering at Eastern Wholesale Cost to  clear. Attention is directed to to following special bargains in Silks  Dress Skirts,  White Muslin Wear and Shirt Waists:  Shirtwaists.  Print Shirt Waists, tlie regular $1.00 line. $ 05  Print Shirt Waists at..     ......     . .* 50  White  Muslin  Shirt  Waists,  tlie  regular  $1.25 line now offcreil for 00  Black Sateen Sliirt Waists        75  Dress Skirts  Regular $10 Black Creponne Skirts, to clear $7 00  Regular $7.50 Black Creponne Skirts at ��� ��� 5 00  Regular $1.50 Blua and Black Serge Skirts 3 00  Regular $4.50 Black Lustre Skirts, to clear    2 50  White Muslin Wear  Corset Covers at ISc, 25c, 40c, and 50c.  White Skirts at 75c, $1.00,and $1.50.  White Drawers at 25c, 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50 and $2.  White Night Gowns at 50c, 75c, $1.00 and $1.50.  Silks  China Silks at 25c per yard.  Black Satin, tlie $1.50 line, to clear at $1.00.  Large range of Fancy Colored Silks for Blouses at  all prices. "  SPECIAL  SALE  OF  BALANCE  OF  CARPETS  AT   LESS  THAN  COST,  REMEMBER THIS IS A GENUINE  CLOSING OUT SALE.  FERLAND  Xi'\'_  :->_  p.  W    '"t  If  *^S??&'7>'mi'?9'\m)7zs,^i,^,.f*.l*.*0 iw ^Sr��r>��r-��^'��--,*��-��"-��">'<����.'^'V^:  I THE PRIGES WE QUOTE I  ll/>  ~$f-  ���^  W  *.  &ti  ��t  ...  &<  n>  %--  'i  '#  ���f-i'V'  '���tj. (   *  :x.'_ k.  ������.'*���*  . j. i -  I iw  i*r '-  y.- -  it.-*.;*  ���l' i ��� ���  li,.. -.   i,  I.:;,.*.- .  li*-.'.  It*     ."-.       *  b'\ -  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  TELL A QUICK AND POWERFUL STORY  Men's Shoes  28 pair men's box calf laced shoes, black or tan,  mediym width and good wearers, \vorth$4.5o, clearing  out sale for $3.50.     Mining shoes from $1.75 up.  Men's Serge Suits  Not the cheap kind, but goods any firm would be  proud to handle. Like selling gold dollars at 50 cents  each, move out from $8 to $12.50 each.  Men's  Hose  30 doz. men's all wool black and natural cashmere  hose at 25 and 30 cents. Heavy all wool grey  hose 6 pair for $1.  Men's Shirts  Negligee, Iaundried, soft front, Percales, and French  Madras. A wonderful range, and they'll move out  quick, too.    From 65 cents up.  Blankets  We will clear out our stock of Canadian all wool  blankets at cost.  Those who invest here   draw   large   interest  on  on their savings.  THEO MADSON  Bakep Street, Nelson.  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  m  ^^.0.0.0'0.0'0'i0.te>'iS'0.0>.>.- viv ���v>->-a*--a,a,sv^,-^'-^,-^'ja:s'J'^  ''^jr.^f.Sf.t^.frBr.^.ar^CH 11/ /';?:^,.3>.3-i5 tz-0-0^9* 0*0-0  Assayers Supplies  We carry in stock a full line of Assayers' and Chemists'  Supplies. The quality of our goods cannot be excelled  and  our  prices  are   reasonable.^^^sr^^"-^^^ =====  We are British Columbia Agents for_  THE DENVER FIRE CLAY CO.'S GOODS  WM. AINSWORTH <Sc SON'S BALANCES  SMITH & THOMPSON'S BALANCES  BRUNSTON'S POCKET TRANSITS  W. F. TEETZEL & CO.  VICTORIA  BLOOK  NELSON,   B. C.  ROSSLAND   ErNQIIVEERING  WORKS  CUNL.IFFE  &  McMILLAN  Founders and Machinists, Speolalty of Ore Cars, Ore-Bin  Doors and Coneral Mining Maohlnery.  LlHt of Becond-hand machinery on hand, which has been thoroughly overhauled and Is an good  ftB "fX-W P Locomotive-type holler, with cnjrin'o attached and all fittings, ready to turn on Hteam.  ](ii"x8" Double-Cylinder Friction Drain-Hoist, built by Ingersoll Co.  1 Sinking Pump, No. 5 Cameron, New York.  1 Sinking Pump, 10"x5"xl3", outside packed plunger pattern.  mtch this advertisement for further lists, or write us before you buy for complete list.   We  may have just what you want.  Agents for Northoy Pumps.   Stock carriod,  P.  O.  Box 198.  THIRD  AVENUE,  ROSSLAND.  STRAGHAN  BROTHERS  FI.TJMBHRS.  GOOD GOODS.  BBASONABL PRICES  Will call at your residence or place  of business with catalogues and  prices any time if dropped a postcard.  OPPOSITE! POSTOFFIOH.  NMLSON. fi. O  CITY LOCAL NEWS  Cottonwood creek rose some four  inches yesterday.  Excavation work at the new cus-  tora-hpuse-postoffice buildings continues to make satisfactory progress.  Goff and Burns, who are to meet  here on the 10th inst., had then-  usual practices yesterday, and men  who profess to be judges say they  never showed up in better form.  The Nelson Educational Club will  be addressed this evening by Rev.  J. B. Morgan on "Socialism and Individualism." The meeting takes  place in the Union hall, Baker  street, and is open to free discussion. '    ��  New Denver will have a ball  team this summer composed entirely  of home-talent. It proposes to try'  conclusions with similarly built  teams throughout Kootenay, but  will not play with ringers anywhere.  The steamer from, the Kootenay  landing did not arrive yesterday on  schedule time. A telegram was received that she would be ten hours  late, which would indicate that she  would not be up until after 2 o'clok  this morning.  - The figures given in the statement made by Fred Starkey at the  banquet to sergeant Kelly, as appearing, in yesterday's Tribune,  should have shown a total distribution of the order of three-quarters  of a million. Of this $410,000 was  to widows aud orphans and sick  benefits.  There was a children's entertainment at the Salvation Army barracks last evening, which proved a  very enjoyable, affair. Readings,  recitations, songs, etc. made an  excellent juvenile program. The  little ones constitute "The Band of  Love," and were present to the  number of forty. \  It was announced in yesterday's  Tribune that the two-year-old son  =of=='W.=Hatch==had=been=-stiueken=  with paralysis. The little fellow,  George Harold, died yesterday  evening. Much sympathy is felt  for his sorrowing parents. The  funeral takes places at '3 o'clock today after service at the residence  on Water street at 2:30.  Nelson's commercial importance  as a distributing center is being  demonstrated more and more by  the enterprising men who make up  its merchants aud forwarders. It  will doubtless surprise many to  learn that Nelson supplies no small  portion of the cigar trade of the  Canadian Yukon, but it is a fact  nevertheless, and the business is  growing each month. This trade  is handled by A. B. Gray, local  agent for the Express Cigar Company, who has made extensive  shipments from Nelson via Bennet  City and has received gratifying  assurances of considerable increase  in the prospective business.  Delay  of Justice.  Acting county court judge Forin,  has notified the registrar tliat he  will not be in Nelson today as  arranged, to hear a speedy trial  case fixed, for the date. The result  is that the''prisoner charged with  forgery, alleged to have been committed at New Denver' will wait  until Wednesday next.  Saturday's Rugby Team.  The Nelson Rugby team for Saturday's game against Cranbrook  has been picked as follows: Lynes,  full back, Seatle, Nase. Jeffs and  Macrae, three-quarters; Hodge and  Pullen, half; Winter, Houston,  Forbes, Tuck, Stillwell, Mason,  Sargeaut and Thomson, forwards,  NEW INSURANCE MEASURES  Made Law by Governor Odell,  Albany, May 2.���Governor Odell  today signed two important insurance law amendments introduced  by senator Slater. One authorizes  the formation of insurance companies to insure against disablement resulting from sickness. The  other provides that the state superintendent of insurance shall make  annual valuations of the policies of  any company organized under the  former law, according to the  British Friendly Society tables of  mortality, with interest at three  and one half per cent., or he may in  his discretion vary the standard in  particular cases and may also require additional reserve because of  hazardous occupations, impairment  of the lives of the insured, or insufficient net premiums. This provision is not to apply, however, to  policies insuring against specific  diseases only, and for not longer  than one year without powers of  renewal.     -  Governor. Odell also signed a bill  amending the penal code by removing the minimum penalty for convictions for pool-selling, bookmak-  ing, and making bets and wagers.  Heretofore the penalty has been  imprisonment for not less than one  year, nor more than two years, together with a fine not to exceed  $2000. Under the new law the  minimum period of imprisonment is  unlimited, and the courts are prohibited from imposing both a tine  and imprisonment for the same  offence. ���������:- *���*,' ������.���������      .���_.������  Mining Records.    .  The following are the mining  transactions   recorded   yesterday:  Certificates of work were granted  to W. W. Carslile on the Tourmaline, to William Hamilton on the  Black Hawk, and to E. J. Miller on  the Good Hope, and Buffalo.  New . locations were: The Pembroke on .Toad mountain by H. T.  Steeper ; the. Grape Shot on Toad  mountain by, Benjamin Miller and  Thomas Livingston; the Duke  of York on Toad mountain by  Richard James . and . Benjamin  Miller ; the Sunbeam, between Ger-  riety and Falls creek, by P. O'Brien;  the Jennie, in the same district, by  P. Cunningham.  There was but. one transfer or  sale made and that was an important, one. . The Wild Cat on  Toad mountain was transferred to  Charles F. Steeper by Isador Jenner,  Frank Jenner, John T.* Kalushe,  Charles Bernard, Paul Bolagia and  Charles Bolagia, the consideration  being $100,000, $25,000 to be paid  down by March 1st, 1902, the purchasers during the term to do work  amountiug to $2000, and to pay  over to the vendors ' one-half the  profits on ores shipped and sold.  This is one of the biggest deals  made for some months.  -D   X   JLliJZ!;  TELEPHONE 27  <fc   CO.  Store, Corner Baker and Josophlno Stiee  PAINTS, OILS 4ND CLASS.  GARDEN   TOOLS.  REFRIGERATORS  POULTRY  NETTING  RUBBER AND COTTON HOSE.  Sole   Agents   for   Giant   Powder   Company    and   Truax   Automatic   Ore   Cars.  JSTEXiSOHSr  STORES   AT  S-A-nsriDoisr  RUSSIA'S CZAR TO YIELD  Reorganizing Military Academy.  . St. ' Petersburg, ' May 2.���It is  reported in the press here that the  minister for war is contemplating  reorganizing the military medical  academy, where the students are  submitted to military discipline  and are required to serve three  years as military 1surgeons after  graduating. This academy0 is the  principal Bussian medical college.  : The correspondent of the Associated Press is. informed that general Vanovski, the minister of public instruction, made a report to tlie  czar last week recommending the  pardoning of the soldier-students  and other absentees from the universities,- and permitting them, to  return in August for tlie. examinations, their military service to continue until then. The czar consented. : The> students are1 fairly  generous in disregarding the resolution against participating in the  examinations.  * The temporary stoppage of the  Rosseya's sales on,, the streets is  attributed to the publication of a  report of the annual meeting of the  International bank, in which M.  Rothstein', the -manager, was  attacked. All the banks are suffering from industrial and financial  stagnation, but the International  bank is not suffering any more than,  the rest.  FISHING TACKLE  IS NOT A NEW VENTURE WITH US.  We know your wants and have what you need. Our line is  too large to enumerate, but a call will convince you that it is  the most complete in the city.  c- : . ���  LAWRENCE    HARDWARE   CO.  Importers and Dealers ln Shelf and Heavy Hardware  E. FERGUSON & CO.  WHOLESALE LIQUORS AND CIGARS.  NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA.  DOMESTIC CIGARS  Amongst a large assortment we carry the following brands: El Cielo, Flor  de Melba, La 'Marea, La  Veda, Rosebery, Buena  Galana.  THE GRANDA HAVANA CICARS  A Full line ranging from  $50 to $120. A declaration  accompanies each box, certifying that the finest  Havana tobacco only is  used by this factory. We  recommend them.  Our  Special  Canadian Eye is the Most Palatable Whiskey in the  Market.   Wc have it in bulk and in cases 5's and 6's.  PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO MAIL ORDERS  BUSINESS   MENTION.  Gold in Old Leith.  Alderman Patterson yesterday  received a copy of the Scotsman in  which it is announced that a discovery of gold of considerable importance has been made in Leith in  connection with new buildings to  be erected for the Leith hospital.  The workmen had reached a depth  "ofTierTfeet~when, cutting~througliar  saudy layer, they struck a seam of  quartz, rich in gold, running as  high as 30 ounces to the ton, the  vein is said to have been followed  for about three feet, when digging  operations had to cease, the plans  not permitting of further exploration. If such a discovery were  made in any city in British Columbia the foundation site would  probably be located as a mineral  claim.  HIM IGAMKBOS  INSURANCE.  REAL ESTATE  and MINING BROKER  Agent for the best fire and life  companies doing business in the  city.' Money to loan on improved  property. All straight loans. Borrowers can get their money from  me wheu they want it.  UP-STAIR OFFICE TO RENT.  App]y���H. R. Cameron  SMOKE ROYAL SEAL  FIRST UNION MADE  CICAR MANUFACTURED  IN NELSON.  Kootenay  Cigar Go.  Baker Street. Nolson.  For Sale, or Rent.���Piano at the  Old Curiosity Shop.,        '<*-.  Wanted���To rent at once a five  or six-room house,' furnished..  Box C50, Nelson.  For-sale "or <- rent���A .first-class  boarding house.   Central locality.    Reasonable  terms.   Apply to Box 78, City.  To . Rent���Two rooms furnished  or unfurnished. Enquire Silica street, two doors  west of Josephine.  �� Furnished rooms to let, with or  without board. Prices moderate. Mrs, Kcilly,  Ward street,- next to Post Office.  To rent���Office'in the   Turner-.  Boficke block, corner Ward and Baker. Apply  to John A. Turner. .;'.' ���.���''..  Western Canadian Employment  Office, P. o: -Box 711, 'Phone 270. Male and  female help of all kinds furnished free of charge.  Two large, well-Iurnished rooms  to let. 1 and 5 Macdonald block, corner Josophino and Vernon.  .,For sale.���A gooid paying grocery  and bakery business. Only bakery in town. For  particulars apply to Stein-Uroa.; Sandon, B. C.  To   let���Furnished   front  rooms  over Vanstone's dr'uji store; $2.50 per week. Also  six-room house to let.       V-  \ye   have  buyers   for  gold and  copper tninos,_ The Prospectoru'lOxchanite, room  "47 &W-U BlbcST T61ephone"10��r~NelHori, ~R~cr  Japan Tea of all kinds to suit  your taste. Sun Cured, Spider Lee, Pan Fired  In hulk or packages.   Kootenay Cotfee Co.  For comfort and. .convenience go  to the Ice Cream Pa-lors of J. A. McDonald.  Baker street. *where every attention and requisite is supplied.  For sale���Tug boat Red Star, at  reasonable flkures to cash purchasers,on lime  with good t-ecurity. Apply to Ontario Powder  Workn, Ncl-on, B. C.        .  Furnished house toleton corner of  Mill and Hall streets; Feren rooms. Possession  can be secured on or about May 15th. Apply on  the premises.       ,       .  That fine blend of Ceylon Tea we  are Relllnpr at thirty cents per pound is giving  the best of satisfaction to our many customers.  Kootonay Coffee Co.  If you have a mine or prosppet for  sale, penrt samples of ore acid report Ut The 1'i-oh-  pectnrs' Kxchange, room I, K-W-C Bluek. Telephone 104.   Nelson, B. C.  We   have   Indian,   Ceylon    and  China Teas ih great variety, choicest q"nllty.  We make a specialty of blending teas and sell  them in any quantity at lowet>t rates. Kootenay  Coffee Co  New Bakery  The Star Bakery has opened  a branch store on Josephine  street, next to F. Irvine & Co. 's  millinery establishment.  BREAD  REDUCED IN  PRICE BUT  NOT IN  WEIGHT  Sold at 5 cents per loaf.  Come and see the display of  cakes, etc.  H. G. JOY, Proprietor j  NELSON CLOTHING HOUSE  NO,   219   BAKER   STREET,   NELSON.  BOOTS!       BOOTS!       BOOTS!  For a few days only we will hold a slaughtering  discount sale of boots and shoes.  J. A. Gilker, Proprietor  ,-l&^&^S^^*^'(^.t^'&'CS'(^.&'G3'<S''.<S'<S.C=}.(ZJ.(S.C=''&.0_' (=*'&'(,  W  ������viJ  Hi  m  MORRISON & CALDWELL  PROVISIONS   AND   PRODUCE.  OUR LEADERS���  The well-known Newdale Creamery Butter  In all sized packaRes unci 1-pound bricks  September Selected Ontario Cheese  Choice Matured Canadian Stilton Cheese  Fresh Bogustown Ranch Eggs  Sole Agents for Regal Brand Tea, Coffee and Sprees  W  ���Raker Streot,  Nelson. JB. C.  Morrison & Caldwell  ^  sise-  Fishing Tackle  We carry in stock Hardy Bros'.  steel-center and gnsenheart fly  rods, reels, flies, casts, traces,,  and baits. Our line is very  large and complete. Mail orders receive prompt attention.  TISDALL'S  GUN STORE  VANCOUVER.  SE  ALL KINDS OF FLOWER, VEGETABLE AND' GARDEN SEEDS  Houston Block,  Telephone 161.  P. O.   Bo* 176.  JOHN A. IRVING & CO.