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 ESABLISHED   1892  FBIDA.Y MORJTOTG, JANUAEY 31*  1902  TAPS TBE WEST  NEW YORK CENTRAL BUYS  CANADA ATLANTIC  THIS GIVES THE AMERICAN ROAD  ACCESS  TO THE GREAT    '  LAKES VIA OTTAWA  OTTAWA,   January    30.���Despite   all  denials to the contrary, the sale of the  Canada   Atlantic   railway   to   the   New  York   Central   and   St.   Lawrence   and  Adirondack companies is all but completed.   Dr. Seward Webb, who arrived  here   today   confirmed   this   statement.  He said  that the sale had  been completed except for a few minor details.  The sale was made by Dr. Webb after he  had  interviewed  Mr.  Chamberlain,  the  general manager of the Canada Atlantic  and had been closeted for an hour and a  half with Mr. Booth, the principal owner  of the road.   To your correspondent Dr.  Webb was brief, but to the point.   "You  may state," said he, "that negotiations  for the sale of the road have been progressing satisfactorily and with the exception of a few minor details the deal  is about consumated.    I may say that  I have been down at Mr. Booth's offices  for the past hour and a half.    My interview with him was very satisfactory.'  It is pretty generally known that Dr.  Webb, who controls the New York Central and Rutland systems, is acting also  for vice president  .Meyer,   of   the   St.  Lawrence   and    Adirondack    company,  ��.vhieh is an adjunct to the New York  Central.    Dr. Webb has met Mr. Booth  on each occasion.    Although  denied at  first, the deal, it has been learned, has  been in progress since December when  the" officials of the company's store departments were ordered to  take  stock.  ���j   The   capital   stock   of   the   company  : consists of $2,000,000 of preferred stock  $5,200,000 of common stock and ?L200,-  000 of first mortgage at 5 per cent bonds,  making a  total   capitalization   of   $11,-.  400,000.    The  road  is  one of the. best  equipped in the country- and last year  the total earnings amounted to $403,000.  The price which is   said  Mr.   Booth   is  asking .-for,, the , system   is   $10,000,000.  This  amount will  give good  value to  tlie stock-holders.  Dr. Webb says that he will have an  interview today with Mr. Booth, in regard to the Canada Atlantic, so that  there is evidently some truth about the  story of parties being negotiating tc  purchasing the road.  Mr. Booth, who was seen late tonight,  now admits that negotiations have beer  going on for the sale of the Canada Atlantic for three months. This statement  was drawn from him after being told  what Dr. Webb said.  itive that his wife's beauty attracted a designing young man from New York, nnd  that she was abducted Dy him, aided by  other persons. The only facts that appear  to be clearly established aro that Mrs.  Francilla is gone, and that Francilla is  willing to pay $250 to get her back.  Mrs.  Francilla Is 22 years old. She lived  with her husband at COS Brown street. Two  days after Christmas she met him and they  went shopping together. Francilla returned  lo  his  work.  His  wife boarded  a car for  home.   That  was  the  last    seen    of    Mrs.  Francilla  by  her  husband..  When  he returned, at night  their rooms were  in disorder,  bureaus and    trunks    having   been  rifled of Mrs. Francllla's personal effects.  The husband  said  last night  that with a  detective he traced his wife from this city  to New York, where she was concealed for  a time In a house on East Fourth street,  and also in a. house on Eighty-fourth street.  "I have succeeded In learlng who took my  wife away and   the  persons  who assisted  her    in  Philadelphia,"'   said   Francilla.    "1  don't believe my wife had a chance to resist. If I get her back I will treat her as  before. Unfortunately I have not sufficient  evidence to warrant tlio arrest of persons  who wore present and helped her pack her  clothing. Once I get my wife  I can begin  suit.   Her  sister.   Mrs.   Theodore  Goitz,   of  Rockaway Beach, i.s assisting me, and she  will begin suit in a few days to compel the  young man who abducted her to produce  her in court.  DAILY EDITION  hour this evening. The tug Dickinson was  sent out today to get news from the crews,  but it was also Imprisoned in the ice floe.  There are provisions enough for ten days  or two weeks on each vessel. Nothing but a  westerly wind will relieve tho situation.  The wind is predicted to shift tomorrow.  IRELAND'S REIGN OF TERROR  FESTIVAL WAS A SUCCESS  Almon's Sensational Story  WASHINGTON, January 30.���James Almon, who died here yesterday insisted thai  $100,000 was offered him to poison president  Lincoln. Almon kept the dairy that supplied tho White House with milk and  cream during the civil war. This is the  way Almon .told the story:"  "One morning. In the early part of April.  186G, shortly before tho president was assassinated, I was driving in my wagon  when two men stopped and one of them  asked mc if I didn't want to make $100,00'  quickly. Lscarcely knew_whati_to_say. buL  -T~loia~Hlnn guessed"! did if it could be  made on the level. He then asked me il  I could keep a secret, and I told him 1  thought I could. Then he got right close to  me, leaning over the wagon and said:  'Well, my man, here's $100,000 In good money.  Every cent of it is vours if you will takr  this little box of powder and put In into  the cream you servo to president Lincoln  this morning. Pour out the cream in the  measure and put this powder into It. Nobody will over suspect anything and thr  $100,000 is yours.' Ho showed mc a tremendous big roll of money and It looked mighty  nice, but I don't want any of that kind  If it had been as large as the treasury  building it would not have tempted me.  I told the man r wanted and needed the  money, but I could have nothing to de  with any such business if they really  meant what they said. They tried to urgur  the mutter with me. but T wouldn't listen  and drove away, while they cursed me. 1  kept that experience to myself for a long  time."  New Sttamship Company  CHICAGO, January 30.���A steamship line  from tho groat lakes lo Quebec to connect  with the ocean steamers there from Europe-  is assured for tho coming season. Negotiations have just been closed for the construction of a sufficient fleet to carry the traflic.  The American Shipbuilding Company wili  complete the first ship and have it ready  for service by midsummer. Pending tin  building of its own fleet, a sufficient number of steamers have been chartered and  will be placed in service on the opening of  navigation in the spring. The now line will  be operated by the St. Lawrence and Great  Lakes Transportation Company, Incorporated In West Virginia, of which A. B. Wolvin of Duluth is president. Its capital stock  is $500,000.  Frightful Coasting Accident  PLATTSBTJRG, New York, January 30.-  A frightful coasting accident occurred al  Kceseville this morning, in which one  young man was killed and two young  ladies were fatally injured. A large party  was coasting on Academy hill, using .���:.  large bobsled holding from 12 to 20 people.  The.sleigh became unmanageable and ran  into a telegraph pole while going at great  speed. Wilfrid Craves, aged 23 years, wa>  almost instantly killed and his sister, Mis;--  Rachael Craves and . Miss Edith Bulley  were crushed, so that it is feared Ihat thoy  cannot recover. Among the others hurl  wero Harry Miles, leg broken; John King,  arm broken; Georgo Ladue, arm dislocated  Edward Increases the Reward  PHILADELPHIA, January 30.���Edwin  Francilla. being unable to find his wife  after consulting clarivoyants and employing detectives to search this city and New  York, last night raised tho reward of $100  for her safe return to $250. Francilla is pos  it Drew a Good Honse  The production of the musical'festival,  which was given in the opera house last  evening under the direction of Hen*  Steiner, was fully up to the high standard which anticipation had set for it.  Considering also the fact that it was the  first attempt in Nelson at a production  of the kind, the audience, both in point  of numbers and appreciation was most  encouraging.  Those who are at all familiar with  the work will recognize that in deciding  to produce the Stabat Mater, Mr. Kydd  undortoqlc no small*task, and for this  reason the success of last evening's production is more than gratifying. It  presents difficulties which well grounded  musical organizations do not care to  face without even more opportunities  for rehearsal than were accorded to the  members of the local chorus, and it was  therefore evident that the members of  the company must have given their  work careful study.  The opening chorus and quartette,  "Lord 'Most Holy" prepared the audience  for a most enjoyable musical evening.  The quartette was composed of Mesdames Parry and Hannington and  Messrs. Kydd and Grizzelle, to whom  also fell the whole of the solos, duets  and quartettes. Following this Mr. Kydd  sang, the air, "Cujus Animan," whicli  .is conceded to he one of the .finest tp.nnv  solos written. It was well rendered and  was easily Mr. Kydd's best effort in  Nelson.  Then came the soprano and mezzo  soprano duet, "Power Eternal," which  was remarkably well sung by Mrs. Parry  and Mrs. Hannington, their cadences at  the finish being very prettily rendered.  The bass solo, "Through the Darkness"  gave Mr. Grizzelle another opportunity  to add to his popularity. It is a very  difficult number but the soloist acquitted  himself well.   .  This was followed by the chorus  "Thou Hast Tried Our Hearts" which  was at the same time the prettiest and  best rendered, the soft passages being  remarkably well sung.  The cavatina, "I Will Sing of Thy  Great Mercy" Which was sung by Mrs.  Hannington, was one of the gems of the  evening and drew from the audience a  well deserved encore. In the air and  chorus, "lnfiammotus," Mrs. Parry was  heard to advantage. In this the soprano  has to take the high C, and although  suffering from a severe hoarseness Nel-  son's^favdrite^soloist^acquitted^herself  well. The chorus in this was also very  effective in its accompaniment, the tenors and basses producing excellent tones  in their chromatic ascensions. The  '"Amen" chorus was not as well rendered as the other numbers. It is even  more difficult than the others and could  doubtless have been improved upon with  practice.  Following an intermission of ten minutes the Cavaleria Rusticana, by Mas-  ccgni, furnished a very happy diversion, the participants being Mr. Harris,  violin; Herr Steiner, cello; and Mr.  ���Tcwett, piano. They received an encore  and responded.  Perhaps tlie most enjoyable number  of tho evening, however, wns Mrs. Parry's redition of "Ave Maria" in which  she was accompanied by Herr Steiner on  the cello and Mr. Jowett on the piano.  The prelude to this was by Bach and the  air by Gounod. Mrs. Parry's performance in this was artistic and received  a well merited encore.  The Hallelujah chorus from the Messiah, by Plandel, rounded out the evening's programme, and it was splendidly  sung.  The chorus was made up of the following:  Sopranos���Mesdames McLeod, R. M.  Macdonald, Dr. Armstrong, Rutherford,  Walley, R. M. Bird, J. J. Campbell, Otis,  Brown, George Bell, and Misses Lawr,  Temple ton, Manhart, Crickmay, Lennox, Hopkins, White, Skead and Lillie.  Altos���Mesdames Go'opel, Heathcote,  Thurman, Renwick, Flint, Annable,  Brockman, Day, Beer, Wallace, and  Misses Johnstone, Stubbs, Hannington.  Tenors���--Messrs. Chadbourne, Day, R.  M. Macdonald, Carrie, Irwin, Lennox,  Newling, Davidson, Hawthorne, Crickmay and Emory.  Bassos���Messrs. Clarke,.Brown, Smith,  Parry, Thomson, Scanlan, Ludwig, Robertson, Ross, Hawthorne, Sullivan, Bell  and Wadds.  Trouble in Roscommon County  LONDON, January 30.���Dispatches  received her from London contain  alarming reports of the reign of terror  prevailing in Roscommon county. Tenants who are suspected of paying rent  are visited at night by armed men, notices are posted threatening death to  traitors, and midnight meetings are of  nightly occurrence, the people being assembled by beacon fires. James O'Don-  nell, member of parliament for South  Mayo, is reported to have addressed a  midnight meeting at Fairmount, at.  which he challenged the chief secretary  for Ireland, Mr. Wyndham, to come into  the open at the head of 5000 or 10,000  soldiers or police. If he (Mr. Wyndham) would give the men of Connaught  a month, Mr. O.'Donnell said he did not  hesitate to declare that they would meet  them, even at greater numerical odds,  and settle the land question for good.  ROSSLAND MINER IS KILLED  BBITMBEPLIES  TO PEACE OVERTURES OF  HOLLAND  EULL TEXT OF THE CORRESPONDENCE WILL BE MADE  PUBLIC AT ONOE  Body Discovered by Mine Foreman  ROSSLAND, January bu.���Peter B. Hol-  combe was killed this afternoon ln the  main shaft of tho War _,aglo mine, where  he was employed as ropeman. The body  was discovered by the mine foreman, and it  is believed Holcombe lost his footing while  working about the guide rollers. He was  badly crushed about the head and shoulders. Deceased was 35 years of age, unmarried, a native of Lambertville, New Jersey, and a member of the Lone Pine, Nebraska, Masonic lodse.  LONDON, January. 30.���In the house of  commons today the-government leader, A.  J. Balfour, said -that as the reply of the  British government to the communication  of the government of the Netherlands on:  the subject of the South .arrican war would  not reach The Hague until January 31st,  it was impossible for his majesty's government to give the house the papers tnis  week. In the meantime, the Associated  Press is able to confirm the statement that  -   government  of the  Netherlands  sug-  The warden asserts that his wife  is responsible for the furnishing of the re-  vp vers and saws to the Biddies which enabled them to escape in her infatuation foil-award Biddle. lt is alleged that she has  left her husband and her four children and  it is supposed.that she is to meet the escaped convicts at a place agred upon. A  reward of $5000 has been offered for the recapture of the murderers. No trace has  been found of Mrs. Soffel It is reported the  Biddies took a train at the Fourth Avenue station of the Pan Handle railway,  which is within a block of the jail and left  for the west.  HARRISBURG, January 30.���A mysterious woman recently called upon governor  Stone and asked him to pardon the Biddle  brothers. Ho declined to do so, but granted  a respite, that their case might be heard  by the board of pardons on Wednesday  next, in an application for a commutation  .of sentence to life imprisonment. The governor declined to disclose the name, but  denied emphatically that it was Mrs. Soffel.  CONDOR CARRIED 140 MEN  event of Constitution and Shamrock being  put in commission ihe Larchmont, New  York and Atlantic clubs will all offer special prizes for them to race for. The Newport Association nmuld also like to arrange races, and there is the $7500 Lawson  cup. which the Hull-Massachusetts Club  might otter if :ho yachts go to Boston. It  is not known if the Columbia will be placed  in commission or not.  TALKS  the  Dickering for Pyritic Smelter  VICTORIA, January 30.���Duncan  Ross, of Greenwood, who is now here,  reports that the Messrs. Munro, of Montreal, who control the Montreal and  Boston Copper Company, are in Greenwood with Mr. Bellinger, the smelter  expert They, are negotiating for the  purchase of the pyritic smelter, which  was built about a year ago, but never  blown in..  Paderewski Arrives  NEW YORK, January 30.���Ignace  Paderwski arrived here today with his  wife on the Oceanic. He comes to see  and oversee the production.of his opera  "Mahru" at the--Metropolitan 'Opcra:  House which takes place early next  month, and he will, incidentally, make  a short concert tour.  Rutherford is Dominion Veternary  OTTAWA, January 30.���Dr. J. G.  Rutherford, ex-M. P. for MacDonald,  Manitoba, has been appointed chief vet-:  inary surgeon of the Dominion in place  of Dr.. McBachran, resigned. Dr. Mc-  Eachran, however, will be retained in  the department in an advisory capacity.-  gested granting a safe conduct to a Dutch  cc mmission, ��� to be appointed for the purpose of conferring with the fighting burghers, and enlightening them as to the real  condition of affairs.   ���'        o  l-AKIB, January 30.���The Temps today  prints a dispatch from The Hague, in  which the correspondent says, "he learns,  from a trustworthy source, that the recent  journey of the Dutch premier, Dr. Kuyper,  to England, prepared the ground for peace  negotiations in regard", to South Africa,  v-liich were begun with the consent of the  British government.- He adds that the most  recent step taken' by. Holland was supported by some of the, other governments.  The correspondent of .the. Associated Press  was informed in official quarters today  that, so far as is known here, Holland's  action was quite spontaneous. Prance was  not consulted and is not aware of the terms  of the Dutch note.  LONDON. January 30.���The government  leader, A. J. Balfour, in the house of commons today, unfolded : the government  scheme for the reform, of the house proceedure proposals, Including a leduction of  the numbers in divisions and empowering  the chair to count standing members, instead of forcing them to march through  thedobbles. Discussion of bills is also curtailed, the powers of closure are'extended  and the authority of :tho. chair, in dealing  with disorder, is increased. For a first offense a member may be suspended for the  day's session, for a second offense he mrtv  be suspended for forty days and for a third  offense a member may be suspended for  eighty days and refused admittance until  they hays apologized to the ��� house. The  speaker: is also empowered to suspend a sitting in the interests of order. The government further proposes two sittings  daily, beginning respectively at 2 p. m. and  9 p. m. Another proposal gives all the afternoon, "besides some evenings to government business. ,~ ,.''       ���  The war office casualty list, Issued tonight, shows that, in a hitherto unreported  engagement: at" ^Abraham's "Kraal," .near  ICoffyfontein In Orange River Colony, January 28th, colonel L. E. Dumoulin of the'  Sussex regiment and eight men were killed  and seven were wounded.  Feared That All Have Perished  VICTORIA,    January    30.���There    is  still no news of the Condor, and Esquimau is  divided  with  hopes and fears.  News is   being   eagerly   awaited   from  the four cruisers   now   searching,   two  looking for wreckage and two scouring  the sea hoping to find the vessel adrift.  Some who hold hopes that the Condor  is adrift and helpless recall conversations with  lieutenants  of the Condor,  in which the officers of the missing warship told of her scant canvas.    If this  is the case, or. her canvas has been ribboned, she   will   be  adrift  helpless y if  still above the   water,   for   her   small  complement of coal will have long since  run out.   Others who have formed i��es-  simistic   opinions   regarding   the   warship's safety recall conversations with,  officers who  decried  the build  of  the^  craft, and spoke ominously from their  lashings in the sea, or of the disability  of the vessel to free herself by reason  of her well decks when she took in a  sea.  On board the Condor are about 140  men, and some of these are survivors  of the earlier fights of the war against  the Boers in South Africa. Sergeant of  marines Edgerson, who was the drill-  master on board the Condor, and who  has a wife and family in Scotland, was  the only one of his section who survived  in the battle of Grashean, in which the  naval brigade took such ah active pari.  He was wounded in a number of places,  all more or less seriously, but recovering  commissioned for service at Esquimau  in November, 1901..  ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC  In Three Days  ST. PAUL, January 30.���From ocean to  ocean Is a dream tlio Canadian Pacific will  endeavor to make a reality early in the  spring. The equipment will cost the system nearly $1,000,000 and will be supplied  by builders in the United States. The new  train will bo tri-weekly and will make an  average time of 40.3 miles an hour.  Wins a Suit Against a Dead, Man  ONAWA,' Iowa, January 30.^-Mary Christian secured a verdict for $6000' in her  broach of promise suit against a dead man.  hhe sued the estate of --rank Crum, who  ���died last summer, for $7000, claiming ho had  postponed the date of their marriage and  had finally died before the new date fell  without wedding her, and the suit was begun as the best legal Way of recovering a"  portion of the property left by him.  Rumor of Duel Denied  CETTINJE, Monte Negro,' January 30.���  There is absoutely no truth in the Vicnna-  Budapesth report that a duel was recently  fought between the hereditary prince of  Monte Negro, Danilo. Alexander, and his  brother, prince Mirko, on account of the  princess Jutt, a daughter of the grand duke  Mecklenburg-Strelitz and that the prince  Danilo was  sllghty" wounded.  SOUTH AFRICA'S MINERAL  RESOURCES  SAYS   THE   BAND   MINES   WILL  BE   WOBKBD   OUT   INSIDE  OF   EIGHT   YEARS  BOSTON, January 30.���John Hays Hammond, the eminent mining engineer, in discussing the South African situation yester-  daj^said: .'���*���' :'"  "The South African unpleasantness Is an  interlude in the Transvaal's mining history, a result of Its mineral wealth and  probably a necessary evolution in, its mining progress for the 'abolition1-of' tlie old  abuses.  "The prize of the struggle, the Wlwaters-  rand, or White Waters range���is unique in  the world's mining records, and t do not  wonder at the growing enthusiasm in London at the prospect that it .will soon be  Harty Succeeded by Pense  KINGSTON, January 30.���E. J. B.  Pense, of the "British Whig," was  elected by acclamation to the Ontario  legislature for Kingston in place of  honorable W. Harty, who resigned to  contest for a seat in the Dominion  house.  American Census Bureau  WASHINGTON, January 30.���The house  today passed the bill for the creation of a  permanent census bureau. The friends of  the civil service law who were opposed to  making the employees of the bureau eligible for transfer or retention, were overwhelmingly defeated. By the terms of the  bill, the permanent organization, will succeed the temporary organization on July  1st, 1902, and all employees on the rolls on  the date of the passage of the act, will become ^eligible for transfer to other departments or retention In the permanent organization. The bill al_o provides for a census  ln 1905 and for the collection of certain  statistics annually.  Early In the session a bill was passed for  the protection of the lives of the miners  in the territories.  Mattress Factory Burned  WATERVILLE, Quebec, January 30.  ���ThaJronJiedstead^and^spring^factory  of George Gale & Sons was totally destroyed by fire this morning and over  one hundred employees are thrown out  of employment. The loss of ?100,000 is  partly covered by insurance.  Preferential Trade  WELLINGTON, New Zealand, January 30.���The premier, R. J. Seddon, announced today that the government of  New Zealand was prepared to give preferential treatment, in the shape of a  rebate duty, to British goods carried on  British ships.  Ice Bound Steamers  CHICAGO, January 30.���Held prisoners  by acres of crushed ice plied high above  the water, the big passenger steamers  Iowa and Atlanta, of the Goderich Transportation Company, with nearly 200 persons on board, have been helpless off the  Lakcview crib within view of Chicago  since Wednesday, and the prospects for an  A Quarter of Million Promissory Note  OTTAWA, January 30.���Alex Fraser,  a millionaire lumberman, has issued a  writ in the high court of justice to recover $232,237.31, the amount of a promissory note endorsed by Charles Magee  and now the property of Mr. Fraser.  Archbishop Bond's Successor  MONTREAL; January 30.���At today's  session of the synod of Montreal, archbishop Bondj-tatecl^ that, on account of_hi_s  =age^_h1a~ln=crea~stn^-pliysicai~'^infirmity, he  felt compelled to ask for the appointment  of a coadjutor bishop. Some of the delegates expressed a desire to proceed with the  appointment at once, but others objected,  and after a debate which was rather  heated at times the matter went over until tomorrow. It is expected that dean Car-  michael, rector of St. George's church, will  bo appointed. He has long been recognized  as the probable successor of archbishop  Bond, who, like the dean, was elevated  from deanshlp, and also held the rectorship of St. George's,  Six Months for Ballot Stuffing  LONDON, Ontario, January 30.���Ransom Norton was yesterday sentenced to  six months in the Central prison for  stuffing a ballot box at the recent muni-  pal elections.   Norton was poll clerk.  $40,000 Fire in Toronto  TORONTO, January 30.���Fire last  night did damage to the extent of $30,-  000 or $40,000 to the building and  stock of J. M. Hamilton & Sons, wholesale milliners, Wellington street, west.  Spencer's Loss Adjusted  VICTORIA, January 30.���The insurance companies have effected a settle-  of the fire lossess on Spencer's Arcade  which was paid this morning, $100,000  on the stock, and $10,000 on the building.  Promotion of a Cranbrook Man  OTTAWA, January 30.���George H.  Richardson, resident engineer of the C.  P. R. at Cranbrook, has been appointed  assistant engineer at Ottawa.  early release are not promising at an early J years.  Ben Fletcher Dead  DETROIT, January 30.���Ben Fletcher  traveling passenger agent for the Grand  Trunk railway, died here today from the  effects  of  a  stroke  of  paralysis,  aged  W)  As Far Off as Ever  WASHINGTON, January 30.���Unless Miss  Stone's captors havo abandoned her, despairing of being able to surrender her  safely to the agents who have been trying  to ransom her, she Is not yet at liberty. It  is quite certain that the ransom money has  not yet been paid and that the agents referred to,have completely lost touch with  the brigands who have neen frightened off  by the appearance of Turkish soldiers in  their neighborhood. The efforts lo secure  tho women's release will not be abandoned,  but it is feared that thoy must be renewed  in another direction. The present line has  been broken.   Leander Won the Race  PHILADELPHIA, January 30���George  Leander, of Chicago, won an unsatisfactory 15-mile motor paced race with Howard  Freeman of Portland, and Rutz of New  Haven, at the second regiment armory tonight. The three men got away well together, and remained bunched for two  miles, when Freeman and Leander lost  their pace. Before they could follow on  again Rutz had gained two laps, but Leander stuck to the track in an endeavor to  catch Rutz. On the sixth mile Rutz's  wheel went wrong. Leander soon caught  him, passed him and won by a mile and a  third. His time was 24.53 3-5.  Greenwood Grist  GREENWOOD, January 30���[Special  to*' The T_ibune.JAr"'Munroe, J. W;  Greenshields; of Montreal, prominent  shareholders in the Montreal and Boston Copper Company, owning the Sunset and Crown Silver mines, near Greenwood, are now here.  W. J. Wilson, manager of the Standard pyritic smelter, of Boundary Falls,  _T. C. Bellinger, formerly one of the  owners of the Northport smelter, came  in at the same time. It is reported that  the Sunset people contemplate purchasing the pyritic smelter which was built  last year by Andrew Laidlaw, then  manager for a. Quebec company, which  Dever operated the smelter.  W. K. Esling, of Trail, has been endeavoring to induce the district mine  smelter managers to get up an agitationi  through the local board of trade, thence  through the associated boards, thence  to the government, looking to pressure  being brought to obtain a reduction in  the price of coke; also favoring granting facilities for railway competition in  _theJ_ast_Kootenay_coal-districts.___-__--  H. F. Davidson, who during the last  few month has been acting manager  in the Canadian Bank of Commerce  here, leaves tomorrow on a vacation  trip to the east, and is going as far as  New York. He expects to go to Vancouver on his return.  Mrs. McGraw, who came here yesterday from Camp McKinney, died today at  the sisters hospital.  Schwab's Reported Resignation  NEW YORK, January 30.���Rumor' that  Charles M. Schwab has resigned the presidency of the United States Steel Corporation, went through Wall Street today, but  It was unqualifiedly denied by J. Plerpont  Morgan/Another member of the J. P. Morgan Company said that Mr. Morgan had no  faith in the reports of Mr. Schwab's gambling at Monte Carlo.  Another Carnegie Library  SMITH FALLS, Ontario, January 30.���  Andrew Carnegie has offered Smith Falls:  $10,000 for the erection of a library. The  acceptance of the offer was made possible  by C. B. Frost' offering another $10,000 In-  ,twenty annual payments of $500 each, to-'  wards the thousand dollars annually as re-.  quired by Carnegie for maintenance  Commemorating a Beheaded Monarch  LONDON, January 30.���The statue of king^  Charles I at Charing Cross was decorated:  with wreaths in the customary manner today, this being the anniversary of the be-'  heading of that monarch. The notice which  was sent from Edinburg, was inscribed:  "Sacred to the memory ���, King Charles 1,'  beheaded by his rebellious subjects at  Whitehall, January 30th,: 16-19."  Three Car Accidents a Day  PITTSBURG, January 30.���Wllmordin_  Hill was today the scone of the third traction car accident within 12 hours, the re-;  suit of icy rails. A car ran away on the  steep incline and jumped over a thirty foot  embankment. Tho motorman ,the conductor  and the one passenger on the car escaped:  death by jumping.- Al were painfully but  not seriously injured.  Chicago Conflagration  CHICAGO, January 30.���Fire that broke  out early today destroyed the llvc-story"  brick block at 190-192 Illinois street, with  its contents, causing a loss of about $150,-  000. The first and second floors were occupied by the Duchy Iron Works and file upper floors by the L. B. Smith Shoe Dressing Company.   Big Mine Owners' Convention  INDIANAPOLIS, January 30.���Nearly 100  of the big mine owners of tho country are  here to attend the joint conference of miners and operators whicli began today. More  operators are expected to arrive during the  day and it is probable the number may  (reach 300.  Schwab's HolidayiDg Over  PARIS, January 30.���Charles M. Schwab,  president of the United States Steer Corporation, who has arrived here from Berlin, denies the report that he conferred  while in Vienna with the heads of the Aus-  tro-Hungarian companies with a view of  making a working arrangement between  them and the United States Steel Corporation. He added that ho had not occupied  himself with business during his European  trip. Mr. Schwab will sail for the United  States on February 8th from Southampton, after a visit to London.  Elopes With Jail Breaker  PITTSBURG, January 30.���John and Edward Biddle. under sentence of death for  the murder of grocer Knhney. escaped from  jiiil this morning aftor shooting two of the  guards. Tho escape of the Biddies was subsequently     explained     by   warden   Soffel.  Canners' Memorial  VANCOUVER, January 30��� [Rpecinl  to The Tribune.]���The canners presented a memorial to the fisheries commis-  siion at Westminster today. It recommends that the revenue from fishing licenses be devoted to tbe maintenance of  hatcheries, etc., that the local fishery  board should he non-political, and experienced men in business be appointed  and empowered to make regulations  governing tho industry; that the present  license fees be reduced and the board  levy an assessment on all fish packed;  that traps for a limited number of years  be allowed under the regulations; that  all British subjects, as at present, he  allowed to fish, "for to confine licenses  to the provincial voters' list would exclude the majority of fishermen," and  that the government properly protect  fishermen during strikes.  Americans Inferior to English  NEAV YORK, January 30.���The archbishop  of Canterbury speaking ln support of a  resolution protesting against marriage with  deceased wife's sister, drew a'Comparison  between English and American morals,  cables the .London correspondent of the  Tribune. Ho denied that the moral law Is  as much observed In America as It Is In  England, divorce Is far easier there than  here, and ho regarded the prevalence of divorce as a certain sign that the moral lino  in lifo had boon lowered. Americans, he argued, were distinctly beneath Englishmen  in that respi-cit.  8hamroc:* \: i- Enter for Special Cup  NEW YORK, January 30.���Gossip among  yachtsmen I.s to the effect that sir Thomas  Upton's Shamrock II will participate In  the special cup races during the coming  season In American waters. Sir Thomas'  wishes in the direction of sailing his boat  against either the Constitution or the Columbia received little encouragement after  his defeat in tho attempt to file the America's cup. but. it is now said that some of  Ihe members of the Constitution committee  have to   consider   their   decision.   In   the  Denial Not Necessary  BERLIN, January 30.���The story originating In Vienna, that Germany would buy  the Philippines from the United States,  and that the visit of prince Henry preceded  the announcement of this sale, Is pronounced by German officials to bo absurd.  Life Imprisonment  FRANKFORT, Kentucky, January 30.���  The jury in tho case of Jim Howard, on  trial Tor the assassination of William Goebel, returned a verdict of guilty today  against the prisoner and fixed his punishment at life Imprisonment.  recovered. London Is renewing its old Interest in. Kaffirs and is planning great things  in that line. ''-... ���       ���   - . ���   , ���  "The Rand" Is the world's ��� richest storehouse of gold, all in what the west would,  call a little patch of ground 25 miles either  sido of Johannesburg. It resembles anything but a mining district, having the appearance of a grazing country. The reefs  are accessible and rather easily worked.  The deposits are unique In their unparalleled persistance of ore, which Is interspersed in the quartz and sandstone. It is  not of very high quality, yielding about $10  per ton. There are about 10,000 stamps in  thg district, which can crush about 7,000,-  000 tons a year. The war has blown over  Johannesburg without doing any vital damage to the Dlants.  "Since its discovery, in 1S85, the Rand has  yielded $400,000,000 in gold, and just before  the war was yielding $iuu,000,000 a year, or  one-third of the world's production���a rate  which some years before, when the yield  was but $35,000,000 a year, I had predicted  would come before the end of the century.  "Yet, with all this richness there may bo  some disillusionment .in the next generation. The reefs, it is true, aro over a milo  deep and conditions favor deep mining. Tho  increment in temperature is only 1 .degree  in 200 feet, so that we can mlne^down _0,000  feet. Tho deposits are not, however, as asserted, practically unlimited. I believe tho  "future life of the Transvaal will not exceed  *30 years, whicli means a yield of not much  more than $3,000,000,000. In eight or ten years  after peace tho Rand will have reached its  zenith.  "The diamond mine sat Klmberley will  go on longer. At Klmberley they have in  30 years mined 15 tons of diamonds, worth  $500,000,000. The DeBeers company, which  controls the output and restricts it according to the market, produces yearly 2,000,000  to 3,000,000 karats, worth ->a),000.000. A syndicate purchases the whoie at from $5 to $S  n,.karat. The life of the mines Is Indeterminate, the company estimating it at 14  yars. Mining has been carried down 1600  feet, mostly In extinct volcano craters.  "In South Africa we compress centuries  of mining history into decades and we hold  tho world's record In mining for rapidity  in exploitation, drilling and hoisting. At  Klmberley 2000 tons have been lifted up a  1000 foot shaft ln ono day. while at. tho  'Simmer & Jack,' we sent down a 22 by" 20  foot shaft 2200 feet In one month. We have  at any expense got men from the Calumet  H. T-Tecla and other companies to do this,  but the work was really done, not by them,  but by young fellows just out of college,  whom we told to go ahead and use their  brains. South Africa rivals America in disrespect for tradition. In fact, its brightest  pioneers are Americans, and the leading?  figure among Johannesburg mining engineers Is T-Tennan Jennings, a Harvard graduate. There arc many problems ahead of  the Rand, the chief being that of power.  There nro no navigable rivers and practically no water falls. The Kaffir, of whom  there are 100.000 In the Rand. Is lazy and  dissolute, nnd the war has made him worso  and scarcer: while the climate makes  white menial labor impossible. The Kaffir  will w0I"k only long enough  to_ b.iiyi_a few   Sugar Factory for Whitby  AVII1TBY, Ontario, January 30.���Action  wns taken hero last night toward forming  a company with a capital of S'M.W) for the  creel Ion of a beet sugar factory. American  capitalists are prepared to furnish most of  the money required.  A Million Dollar Capital ,  N'BW YORK, January 30.���A certificate*  of an increase of capital for the Carter  Company of New York from $100,000 to $1,-  OCW.OUO w.is filed with the secretary'of slate  today. Tho certificate Is signed for the  company by  If.   Lee Carter and John Hall  Chief Vaughn Resigns  ROSSLAND, January 30-Krank Vaughan,  chief of police, has tenedercd his resignation to the police commissioners. Vaughan  came here from Montreal last winter. Lt  is understood that the move heralds a reorganization of the yoliec force.  $15,700 for a Horse  NEW YORK, January 30.���Jacob.Rupert.  Jr., bought Oakland Barono, the ten-year-  old trotter, bv liaron Wilkes, dam Ladv  MacKay, for $15,700 at the Kasig Tipton  sale today. Oakland Uarono has a record of  2Mli.    Grand Forks Fxpresses Regret  GRAND GORKS, January 30.���At a special meeting of tho board ot trade, held this  afternoon, resolutions of regret at the  death of the late J. Roderick Robertson of  Nelson, were adopted.  Car Shed Destroyed  NEW YORK, January' 30.���The ear shad  and 50 cars of the Paterson 1-lectric Railway at PasKia:, New Jersey, were destroyed by lire today. The loss was $50,000.  Premier Ross Accepts  TORONTO, January 30.���Hon. George W  Ross   has   accepted   the   Invitation   of  the  colonial oflice to  tion In June.  attend the king's coronu-  ^vlves~t6_support him the rest of his days.  Tf It can be done ho mnst bo regenerated"  nnd his tribal organization disrupted. Then  there are riucstlons of imnroved mining  processes and of further exploitation, a.s of  the Randfontein, which I recommended In  ISM.  "After the Rand Is worked out there will  bo llftle outside Klmberley worth fighting  about. The only other rold denoslts aro  thnap which wore worked In Rhodesia In.'  nrohlslorle times nnd are supposed to bo  those of king Solomon and fho queen of  Shelm. which yield about Ssn.ooQ.non a year.  The conn fry cn-n never sunnort a Inrgo population. Its resources above ground being  mwer, Coal nnd Iron nro senntv and Inferior nnd  pnnner d-��r>��stl.��i  Insignificant.  "HlfImntely there most be a confederation of the Ponfli Afrli-ni] estates, as de-  nmndr-d bv tho oommntiltv of their Interests. South Africa will l"��M on autonomy  and only nn lmnllod rtrlllsh suzerainty,  which will be toler;it��<1 olmnlv becauso  helnfiil In affording nolltloril orotecllon and  belter credit In the world's money mar-  kefs."  Strathcona Fesigns Rectorship  NEW YORK, January 30.���Lord Strathcona, lord rector of Aberdeen University,  has intimated, according to tho London  correspondent of the Tribune that tho condition of his health and his ability to devote attention to the duties of the position  compel him to decline to offer himself for  re-election. The radical students havo  agreed to invite lord Rosebery to stand as  lc rd rector In succession to lord Strath-  conn. '  To Visit America  NEW YORK. January 30.���Gilbert Parker, the English author and member of  parliament, said before sailing for home on  the St. Paul: "One of the objects of my.  visit here was to look into the labor question for parliament. In my opinion tho  American workmen are more enterprising  than the English. The American working-  man welcomes machinery, while the English worklngman has not come up to that  yet."  Bad Brandon Blaze  BRANDON, January 30.���The fire brlgado  was called out last evening and had a  hard time In saving the block occupied by  I'Yaser & Ross and tho Liberal Club. Tho  lire originated in the top flat, which is occupied by the club, and it Is alleged that  a lighted cigar was the cause. Tho interior  of the room, colling and furniture are almost destroyed. Fraser & Ross sustained  heavy damage from water.  Winnipeg Clearings  AVINNIPEG, January 30���Winnipeg clearing house returns for the week ending January 20th, 1S02. were clearings $2,3SI,332, balance $300,310. for the corresponding week of  IftOl, clearings $1,702,S9S, balance $270.32S; for  the same period in 1900, clearings $1,727,509,  balance $367,521. If '  !���:    i!  >'-  * ii  r.  55-  !���'  111  Us il  11  s"**:  II  m  M  1  If!  \m  iif��  ft  i!  In  II  jj-t.  If  If  Ii!  :;  il  i  I  I  j -i  fir  If  ii  >������"���'���  THE NELSON  TRIBUNE: FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1902.  ���^aasjHisMaSa*^^ to ����CC*fefe*feC^��s*%>  (!)  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  Incorporated 1070  ooim: jep-A. isi^sr  DAINTIES IN FINE  GROCERIES  DAINTIES IN  IMPORTED SWEETS  DAINTIES IN FINEST BISCUITS  DAINTIES IN WINES AND LIQUORS  DAINTIES  IN  CIGARS  DAINTIES IN. EVERYTHING TO EAT AND DRINK  to  to  to  mmmmmm  BAKER;.$EBBE?;- NELSON, B. 0.  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  WINTER  SPOf_TI\G  GOODS  ��to ^&byxm  ������;���...$  ��  .:���-.. 125  ,....-.- 2 50  600  50  1 00  200  ai&avuaBmKm -tatraBW.  Dally by mart, one month .....  Dally by mallMjirea morifliB ���;  Dally by, mall, "Six months ....  Dally by mail," one year;.,';...' ...  Semi-weekly by mail,' threa montfia  Som 1-weekly by mall, six months-:..  Soml-weekly by mail, one-year '.....  Postage to Great Britain added.  ADVERTISING  RATES.  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"   ������*.-' .. -   ��� ������    +_  ���I-HrW-H-W^l-W'  A new scheme.for, concjtliation.in la-,  bor disputes has been introduced in the;  Ontario legislature.   It is called a con.-;  ciliaton and arbitration act,  and pro-:  A*ides that upon   the   reauest   of   the,  mayor, or other head of a municipality,,  in which a lockout or strike is threat-]  ened, the secretary   of, the. provincial;  labor  bureau   shall   forthwith  proceed]  to such point and use his best endeavors.:  with   both  parties  concerned to averts  the threatened strike or, lockout.   Whatever else may be said of this.suggestion  it must be conceded that it has one y,ery  important   advantage   over   somewhat-  similar enactments which, vest the ini-  tiative in provincial government executives.   If the bill before the Ontario leg-,  islature is given force of law it may. be,  -^accepted^as-assured^that-m^the-event-ol-  threatened trouble its merit will at least  he put to the test.   This is more than,  can  be  said   for   any   enactments   in.  which provincial authorities alone were  vested with authority to set the legislature machinery in motion.    The first  thought that comes to most provincial  ministers, in event of industrial troubles,  is the ordering out of the militia.   Brit--  ish Columbia as well as the other pro:  vinces has found out by experience, that  difficult as it may be to secure the nas:  sage of conciliation and arbitration acts,  it is easy compared with  the difficulty  of  forcing   administrations up   to  the  point of putting them into effect when  conditions are such as to require them.  Much depends upon general Kitchener  now   whether   Canada's   premier   shall  have a chance to shine as a peace maker  between the Briton   and   the   Boer   in  South   Africa.     If   Holland's   offer   ol  mediation is accepted sir Wilfred Laur  rier's chance to win fresh laurels will  be wiped out, and, as   the   press   dispatches indicate, it is now up to Kitchener to say whether it shall or shall  not be accepted.   The suggestion of sir  Wilfred in this capacity is not new.   II  originated months ago in eastern Canada, and has been more or less favorably commented  upon  hy  the  British  press.   For some time, however, nothing  was heard concerning the matter, and it  might  have become entirely  forgotten  hut for its revival by Lawson D. Smith  of  the  South  African  Chartered   Company.    That Canada's first minister is  eminently fitted for such  a mission  is  generally admitted, but it may he that  the Boers would prefer   to   deal   with  people of their own race, when they are  ready to discuss peace, than with Canada's eminent son.    It is just possible  that the achievements of Canada's representatives on the field have not increased the love of the Boers for Canadians,   And If those who have returned  from South Africa are to be believed  they certainly have not. This also is  a consideration, and, in the event of  sir Wilfred being passed over, it will be  no slight to him since it may be taken  for granted that his rejection was due  to the fact that he was too pronounced  a Briton for tlie job.  It is not improbable that executive  clemency will be exercised in the case  of Dr. Harbottle, of Burford, Ontario,  who a few days ago was sentenced to;  one year's confinement in Central prison  for shooting at a man named Stuart.  The concensus of opinion appears to be  that the unfortunate- doctor has already,  been sufficiently punished. He was a  pro-Boer and was foolish enough to say.  so. This was the cause of all his trouble, as the petty spirit of the villagers,  made it as unbearable for himself and the,  other members of his family as their  ingenuity could suggest. It is now intimated that the doctor's tormentors^  were as much to blame as himself and,  that the clemency of the crown miglit,  very properly be exercised.  We have afull  line of  SNOW SHOES  In the popular  shapes  BEAR PAW  MOUNTAIN  AND  MILITAEY  That will not break  HOCKEY  STICKS  n  &  00-00.00  ���*��� _l����- Vm* fSfe" Gfm*- 4*m0 ^m*- ��&< ��k &mw 3^- 3a_- im^.' _^  ��� ���*_*������*_. ��� >���*. ���**!* ���****.-^-^-y^ ��� **��_k.-iSr* **������*.���'ST? j*^*  SLEIGHS and SLEDS that will travel  faster than any others  MORLEY & LAING  BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS  BAKEK STIIKKT. NELSON, B. C.  Showrooms Mason & Itifch Pianos.  carefulness. Similar action looking to  the relief of the family of William  Tubbs was taken at a meeting today of  the executive committee of the Rapid  Transit Subway Construction Company.  At the suggestion of August Belmont  the company determined to place upon  the payrolls of the company the name  of William Tubbs, at a salary he was  receiving from Major Shaller, as master  mechanic, in. recognition and appreciation of his "heroic devotion to duty."  LEAD WORKS FOR MONTREAL  9\   | WE WILL  to  to  9\  CONTINUE OUR CLEARANCE SALE 4  DURING   THIS   WEEK  to  to  Special Low Prices on all  Dress Goods, Silks, Underwear, Ready-to-Wear Suits,  f|\   Skirts, etc.  fi\       A few Silk Blouses at cut  jn    Prices.  �� - =  Some Special Bargains in  Remnants from every Department.  Carpets, Curtains, Portieres, Table Covers at cost.  Your choice of our leading Jackets, regular $12,  $15 and $20, at $5.  White and Grey Blankets  at reduced prices.  to  9\  9\  to  to  STORY OF HOWARD'S DEATH  Was Murdered in Cold Blood  MONTREAL, January 30.���Lieutenant;  Jeff Davis has just returned from South1  Africa, where he. spent two- years at  the front���flrst as. oflicer in the second,  contingent, then as sergeant-major in  the Canadian scouts, and subsequently  as lieutenant, which promotion was accorded him for the daring ride of seventy-two miles between the Boer lines,  carrying dispatches from general-  French to general- Smith-Dorrien���a  ride fraught with great danger in the,'  Eastern Transvaal, and which had tp  be accomplished at night���a ride which  successfully performed, received hearty  commendation from his superiors.  Lieutenant Davis is on his way to,  his home" in Calgary, but he thinks he  will go once more to South Africa, and  accept a position on the constabulary  under colonel Steele.  Mr. Davis gives an authentic account  _of _the_death^of^Gatl ipg^Gn n^Howard ,���  as he arrived on the spot ten minutes  after the murder���for. it was a murder  ���took place, and learned the details  from a Kaffir servant, who had escen-  ed, as well as from" captain Beattie,  who, though wounded in the affair, was  able to join the column of which Mr.  Davis was a member.  Colonel Howard, accompanied by captain Beattie, an orderly named Northerly, and a Kaffir servant, rode in advance of the column of. scouters, whose  business it was to find the Boers, to  a place called Nooriplatts, on the border  of Swaziland. In a natural declivity a  number of Boer wagons had been collected, althought the Boers themselves,  having seen the column approaching  from the distance, removed behind  some hills. Colonel Howard and his  staff moved forward, and entered the  depression or hollow in which the wagons were huddled together. Seeing that,  he was almost'alone, the Boers from the  hills began firing. Captain Beattie was  hit, so was the orderly, but colonel  Howard remained unhurt. A Boer field  cornet descended the bill, and ordered  the colonel to throw up his hands. This  he did. His arms were taken from him,  and he was brought behind a cart,  where he was deliberately shot by the  field cornet���once in the mouth, and  once, in the shoulder. The.orderly was  riddled with bullets. Captain Beattie  mia'de his escape and rushed for the  advancing column. The Kaffir servant,  though struck, managed to crawl away.  When the column came up the scouts  began to fire, and got their guns in  position. The Boers retreated. Howard  and the orderly were then quite dead.  They were buried side by side.  Practical Sympathy for Victims  NEW YORK, January 30.���The contractors who are building the Rapid  Transit tunnel met today and subscribed  "J3000 to be used for the benefit of the  wife and family of William Tubbs,  master mechanic, who lost his life in  the dynamite explosion of Monday while  (endeavoring to put out the flames in  the dynamite house. Resolutions wore  also adopted expressing their sympathy  for the family of the unfortunate man,  and for sub-contractor Shaller, with respect to whom the resolution declared  absolute confidence   in   Mr,   Shallcr's  UBin�� Trail Eeffnery Product  MONTREAL, January 30.���What promises to become a very important industry for Canada is likely to be established shortly in Montreal. This is a  factory for the manufacture of white  and red lead and litharge���substances  used largely for the making of paint  and glass, and for the glazing of earthenware���from pig lead.  The decision of the Canadian Pacific  railway to establish a lead refinery in  connection with their smelter at Trail  has brought matters to a head. The  refinery, which forms an adjunct to the  Trail smelter, is now being built, and  will be ready for the treatment of the  smelted ore early in May. The commercial importance of the industry will  be realized when it is stated that many  thousands of tons of white and red  lead are imported annually from Germany, while the crude lead ore from  which these leads" are manufactured  has heen exported from the Rossland  and British Columbia mines to Europe.  The new refinery at Trail will take  the silver and lead ore from the smelter, and convert it into pig lead, separating the silver from it. The pig lead  where it will be manufactured into the  leads required by the painting trade,,  will afterwards be distributed for con-'  sumption all over the Dominion.  ,  Van Home's Cuban Schemes  MONTREAL, January 30.���"Sir Wil-:  liam Van Home, in Cuba, has one of  the greatest proposition in the world.:  The money that will be made out of  that island by his syndicate will, I be-1,  lieve, be fabulous."  Mr. W. H. Townsend, traveling passenger agent of the Great Rock island  Toute, who recently spent a year in  Cuba, was.at the Windsor hotel today,'  and spoke in enthusiastic terms of what  he had seen during his sojourn on that  island.  "It does not require very much in-:  sight to notice the vast scope of sir  William Van Home's scheme for the  development of the island of Cuba.:  There is a vast tract of country there  today with absolutely no railway facilities. Sir William will run a road right  through this rich country, and will thus  be in a position to tap marvelously rich  natural resorces. For instance, there  is��� the=H;iinber���the���most���expensive  woods in the world are here in profusion, only waiting to be cut and marketed. The mahogany and rosewood  growths are splendid.  "Then the road will probably lead to  the development of the famous copper  mine at Santiago, which was abandoned  owing to the expense under former condition for shipping tho ore to Havana.  Sir William's line will also run through  the' turquoise region."  9\  91  to  9\  (jjl 36   BAKER   STREET  Ifi^-fi''. 00. 00 .00 . 00 '00 . 00 -00 . 00 '00 . 00 .00. 00 .00.00. 00.  1    lf~    M\   T-i    WM    Till    Mil    Ml    ��W     WI" &��^&'4k-&SLS<  to  to  >0B��f  NELSON,   B.C.  .���^- -*^->__.. ������������n.'^. -b*.*^* -*��^.'^. **^.**��_L'_^  ��� 00 ' 00' 00 ' 0**" ia0 ' 0S0' 00 ��� 00' 00 ��� am* . 0r..  to  to  m  NEW  ARMY  REGOLATIQNS  All In Fluttering Anticipation  WASHINGTON, January 30. ���The  committee on arrangements for tlie re-  iccption of prince Henry held another  meeting today and completed the itinerary of the western and southern 'trip  which will be taken by the prince. The  committee has found itself embarrassed  by its desire to meet the wishes of  prince Henry to sec as much of the  United States as possible in the time al-  (loted to his visit and the wishes of the  various cities and communities has resulted in a programme which allots a  very short period of time to many of the  localities that had hoped to have the  prince with them at least, one or two  days. In Cincinnati his stay will be  less than half a day and in other cases  it has been necessary to cut out important cities or' break up the long projected night runs. Atlanta has been  omitted from the programme and Chat-  tenoga probably will be the extreme  southern point.  No More Luxurious Campaigning  At last we are going" to war, in war fashion.. A headquarters order is coming out,  it is said, for the peremptory cutting down  of all baggage and transport. Buck wagons,  that wero bedrooms and salons combined,  upon wheels, wherein certain column leaders leisurely and luxuriously campaigned,  are to become things ot* the past upon  trek. The chiefs will probably stay or go  behind with the cooking stoves, which have  also to be discarded. So, too, with the Capo  carts, which carried the oilicers' excellent  .mid-day lunches, with the napury, crystalware, wines, tables and-chairs. _ea, even  the extrns ot*���comiort, the changes of raiment, the bed steads, mattresses, pillows,  portable conveniences, and what not; besides musical instruments, light literature,  sporting guns and gear���all, all must be  left behind, for each ollicer shall carry SO  pounds oi" baggage and no more. So may it  bo. It will be' hard, bitterly hard lo do real  soldier fashion���no tents, no countless  changoa of. l$o��;��lu and c-lollioo, roduoo,.l tn,  iit most, a waterproof and two blankets,  and "dossing" on the exposed veldt just  as Tommy Atkins has done so often and  long, with naught more than army rations  for meals. I suppose the hosts of personal  servants and orderlies, and soldier drivers'  of the mess and regimental Cape carts will-  now be sent back to the ranks to carry  rifles. ���  I,ong have I held that the enlisted British soldier should be a lighter, not a menial, and if tho latter"must be kept in barracks or tho field, he should be engaged a.s  a servant from the physically unlit classes,  not lads having the war spirit. From December 1st next the new orders, of thirty  pounds of rations goes into effect. It is a  stern, but, I am sure, a very necessary  measure, tho more so as the system of  hunting the Boors with columns moving  far from any depot base still prevails.  Whirling men by tens ot thournnds from  one end of this, vast country to another  incurs great waste, and has not ben over-  successful in producing required results���  Ihe suppression of the comn andoes. The  districting of the country and operating  from centers but thirty-five to forty miles  off, would not only enable mobile columns  to dispense with other than transport, but  would lessen by frequently relieving in the  returns to depot, the hardships of trekking  with naught but what ono stands up in. It  is but taking another leaf out of-the nomadic Boors' book, for the commandoes  ^ciLch,^.oxeopt^upoiwvery=.special_'3Ccasion.<_  hang about chosen districts. * Thore they  hide, construct rude shelters, conceal their  surplus provisions and ammunition in  caches. "Where the troops don't come too  oflen they herd their stock and cultivate,  inislng forage and mealies.���Bennett Burleigh in the London Daily Telegraph.  Boodling in "War Supplies  LONDON, January 30.���The report of  the parliamentary committee to investigate the charges of bribery and corruption made by sir John B. Lundell Maple,  Conservative, against the British officers who purchased army horses in  Austria-Hungary, censured sir John for  unjustifiable attacks on the integrity of  tlie oilicers. At the same time, however, the committee finds that an excessive price was paid whereby horse  dealers wore enabled to divide a profit  of about $75 in the case of each horse,  or animal, which cost the dealers only  ifUO to $85. The committee also expresses surprise at the fact that the  government remounts department took  no steps to ascertain the best source of  supply in Hungary until the South African war had been in progress for six  months, thereby involving the country  in a loss of $60,000 on a single contract.  Yukon to Lliamana lake and establishing a trail, which, it is claimed, will  mark a new era commercially so far as  Nome and the contiguous region is concerned. In addition to establishing a  horse trail, with road houses thirty  miles apart, making a safe route in the  depth of winter for travelers, mail and  freight, the party secured a good deal  of topographical information -n regard  to the country traversed, which will  render necessary material alterations  in the maps.  Marconi's Experiments  FALMOUTH, January 20.���Marconi began his wireless communication with the  Lizard, when the steamer Philadelphia was  120 miles distant, and continued his messages for several hours. The llrst message  to be transmitted to him was a welcoming  and congratulatory communication from  the Daily .Express of London. To this Marconi replied with his thanks, and made, a  request to send some American news. A  series of news items of interest to Richard  Croker and other passengers on hoard tlio  Philadelphia were then sent.  Death of an M. P. P.  COATICOOK, Quebec, January 30.���  Moody Lovell, M. P. P., son of H. Lovell,  M. P., died. at Portland, Maine, last  night aged 49 years. He had been in  ill health for the past few weeks and  had gone to Portland for treatment.  Saloon Man Despondent  NEW YORK, January 30.���John Mc-  Keever, who, with his brother Alexander, owned the Colonial hotel, as well  ���us several saloons and cafes in this  city, was found dead in a fashionable  uptown hotel today, having committed  suicide, using a revolver. He left, his  home Tuesday morning, and had not  been seen by any of the family since,  lt was only through the finding of a  farewell note, which he had written,  and which gave his house address, that  his identify was discovered. Mr. Mc-  Keever was prominent in political and  sporting circles. The note which ho left  said: "I am sick and despondent, and  hope all my friends will forgive this  rash act."  Stormy Scene in Dutch Chamber  BRUSSELS, January 30.���The chamber of deputies here was the scene of a  free fight today between the Socialist  and Catholic factions. The trouble grew  out of a proposal to prosecute M. Smeets,  a Socialist, for a recent revolutionary  speech. The disorder began in the galleries, which were eventually cleared by  force. Thereafter the uproar was continued on the floor. The Socialists advanced in a body against the benches  of the Catholics, shouting taunts and  epithets. The deputies finally engaged  in a fight, and the sitting was suspended, but when the session was resumed,  the disturbances recommenced and prevented the transaction of business.  FROV1NCIAL :BOAKD OP HEALTH.  Regulations for dealing with the outbreak  of smallpox at the town of Fernie, Bast  Kootenay.  Approved by his honor the lieu tenant-go v-  ornor in council the 17th day of January, 1902.  HEALTH ACT.  On account of the outbreak of smallpox  in tlie town of Pernio it is hereby proclaimed:  1. That the town is in a state of quarantine until further notice.  2.. That no person shall be allowed to  leave tho town on any circumstances what-  socver    ���         _-.   3. That all meetings in churches, lodges,.  . and schools and other public gatherings arc  hereby prohibited.  4. That no person shall under any circumstances hold any conversation whatsoever with any person quarantined, and no  person under quarantine shall attempt to  break same or eomnuinw,-ato with any outsider.  5. Any hotel-keeper, lodging-house kcep-  eror householder 'suspecting, knowing, or  having good reason to believe that any  person residing upon or frequenting his  premises is ill or suffering from a rash of  any description, shall at once notify the  medical health ollicer, giving the name and  occupation of, and other particulars necessary to properly Identify, such person.  G. Any person having a rash on ills body  shall notify tho medical health ollicer on  tho llrst appearance of same.  7. Under authority of tho "Health Act,"  It Is hereby declared that all and every person not having a certillcale ot recent successful vaccination dated within ono year,  and further not being able to give proof  of same to the satisfaction of the medical  health oflicer, shall at once be vaccinated.  . S. After a period of seven days from this  date any person refusing to present lo any  public ollicer, who may demand it, proof of  vaccination, shall be liable to tho prescribed penalties under the "Health Act."  Penalties under the "Health Act:"  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this proclamation is liable to a  fine of $100 and to six (6) months' Imprisonment.  Dated at Victoria this 10th day of January, A. D. 1002.  CHARLES   J.   FAGAN,  Secretary of Provincial Board of Health.  By command J. D. PRENTICE,  Acting Provincial Secretary.  c o _Mi_p^_.jsr"y  0FFICE:_BAKEB STiJEET WEST, NELSOpi, B. C.  TELEPHONE fJO. 219,   P. 0. BOX 688.  IPRBLE, BUILDING STONE,  BRS8H AND LIIV|E'-. . . .  The Mansfield Manufacturing Company  havo the above mentioned building materials  for sale at reasonable prices. Special quotations to builders and contractors for large  orders.  ORDERS m  MAIL ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY  oo_yc_?.__.2sr"3T  OFFICE:    BAKER STREET WEST, fJEISO/J, B. C.  TELEPHONE NO. S19.   P. 0. BOX 688.  WHOLESALE DIRECTORY   ASSAYBR��^U^PLIBS.  W. b\ TKETZEL & CO.���CORNER OF  linker and Josephine Streets, Nelson,  wholesale dealers In assayers' supplies.  Agents for Denver Fire Clay Company.  ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES.  New Road to Nome  SEATTLE, January 30.���After undergoing several hardships and overcoming  many obstacles, the members of the  Trans-Alaska Company exploration and  trail building party, have succeeded in  cutting their way   through   from   the  TAX NOTIOE.  Notice   Is   hereby given,   in   accordance  with the statutes, that provincial revenue  tax,   and   all   assessed   taxes   and   Income  tax, assessed and levied under the Assessment Act and amendments,  are  now due  and  payable  for  tho  year  1002.   All   taxes  duo and collectable for the Nelson Assessment District are now due and payable at  my ollice, situate at the court house, "Ward  street,   Nelson.    This  notico,   in   terms  of  law, Is equivalent to a personal demand by  mo upon all persons liable for taxes.  HARRY WRIGHT,  Assessor and Collector,  Nelson Postoffice.  Dated at Nelson, 13th January, 1302.  PROVINCIAIi SECIIKTATIY'S OFFICE.  His Honour tho Lieutenant-Governor in  Council has been pleased to make the following appointment:  KOOTENAY ELECTRIC SUPPLY Xs  Construction Company���Wholesale dealers  in telephones, annunciators, bells, batteries, electric lixtures and appliances. Houston Block, Nelson.  P. BURNS & CO., BAKER STRISI-T.  Nelson, wholesale dealers in fresh and  cured meats. Cold storage.  GROCRrES^^   KOOTENAY SUPPLY COMPANY, LIM-  ited, Vernon Street, Nelson, wholesale  grocers.  JOHN CHOLDITCH & CO. ��� FRONT  Street, Nelson, wholesale grocers.  A. MACDONALD & CO.-CORNER OF  Front and Hall Streets, Nelson, wholesale  grocers and jobbers in blankets, gloves,  mitts, boots, rubbers, mackinaws, and miners' sundries.  J. Y. GRIFFIN & C���FRONT STRKET.  Nelson, wholesale dealers in provisions,  cured meats, butter and eggs.  __J��QTJORS^A^DJDRY GOODS.  TURNER, BEETON & CO.���CORNER  Vernon and Josephine Streets, Nelson,  wholesale dealers in liquors, cigars, and  dry goods. Agents for Pabst Brewing Company of Milwaukee and Calgary Brewing  Company of Calgary.  BUSINESS DIRECTORY.   ARCmTECTS;   A. C. EWART, ARCHITECT���ROOM 3,  Aberdeen Block, Baker Street, Nelson.  DRAYAGE.  FURNITURE, PIANOS, SAFES, ETC..  moved carefully at reasonable rates. Apply J. T. Wilson, Phone 270, Prosser's Second Hand Store, Ward Street.  NOTICES OF MEETINGS.  __^JFKATERNAL SOCIETIES.  KOOTENAY TENT NO. 7, K. O. tTm!-1  Regular meetings first and third Thursdays of each month. Visiting Sir Knights  are cordially Invited to attend. Dr. "VV.  Rose, R. K.; A. W. Purdy, Com.: G. A.  Brown, P. C.   . .  t  NF.LSON LODGE, NO. 23, A. F. &  A. M., meets second Wednesday In  each   month.   Sojourning  brethren^  Invited.  NELSON   AERIE,   NO.   22,   F.   O.   E.���1  Meets   second   and   fourth   Wednesday   of  each   month   at   Fraternity   Hall.   George  Bartlett, president; J. V. Morrison, seere-l  tary. '  NELSON ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER NO. I  123, G. R. C���Meets third Wednesdav. Sojourning companion- invited. George Johnstone, 'A.; Thomas J; Sims, S. E. <  FURNHTTRE^  D. J. ROBERTSON & CO., FURNITURE  dealers, undertakers, and embalmers. Day  'phone No. 2U2, night 'phone No. 207. Next  rtew postoffice bulldinic Vernon Street,  Nelson.  TRADES AND LABOR UNIONS.  ~MLNl_RlFTj-UO-iri*^ of 'Si.-*]  Meets   in   Miners'   Union  Hall,   northwest  corner of Baker and Stanley Streets, ever*'!  Saturday   evening   at   8   o'clock.   Vlsitlnpl  members welcome. J. R. McPherson, presl'.  dent; James Wilks, secretary. Union scalfj  of wages for Nelson district per shift: Ma-f  chine  men S3.50, hammersmen ?3.25, muckers,   carmen,   shovelers,   and  other  under-'  ground laborers ?3.  JOURNEYMEN BARBERS' INTERNA-!  tional Union of America,. Local No. 196 j  Nelson, B. C. Meets every second anel  fourth Monday in each month, at Si o'clocll  sharp. Visiting members invited. Eli Sutcliffe, president; E. DeMers, secretary.  LAUNDRY WORKERS' UNION ���  Meets at Miners' Union Hall on fourth]  Monday In every month at 7:30 o'clock p .  m. B. Pape, president; A. W. McFee, secretary.   ���  CARPENTERS'   UNION   "MEETS   WED-'  nesday evening of each week at 7 o'clock,]  In   Miners'   Union  Hall.   John   Burns,   sr.^  president, William Raynard, secretary.  PAINTERS' UNION MEETS THE FIRST5,  and third Fridays in each month at Miners'  Union Hall at 7:30 sharp. Walter R. Kee,1  president; Henry Bennett,. secretary.  COOKS' AND WAITERS' UNION, NO.  141, AV. L. U., meets at Miners' Union Hall  second and last Tuesdays in each month at i  8:30 p. m. sharp. A. B. Sloan, president; J.  P. Forrestell, secretary; H. M. Fortier, financial secretary.  PLASTERERS' UNION MEETS EVERY',  Monday evening In the Elliot Block,  at 8.1  o'clock.   J.   D.   Moyer,   president;   William i  Vice, secretary,   P. O. Box 16L THE NELSON" TRIBUNE: "PKTDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1902  BANK OF MONTREAL  CAPITAL, all paid up- ..$12,000,000.00  REST    7.000,000.00  UNDIVIDED PROFITS       870 581.64  Lord Strathoona ond Mount Royal ...Prosldont  Hou. Gocrsro A. Drummond Vico-Promdont  B, S. Clou-ton Qeneral ManaKer  NELSON BKANCH  Corner Bnlcur and Kootonay StxeoOs,  A. H. BUCHANAN. Manager.  Branches ln London (Kngland) Nbw York,  Chicago, and all tho prlucipal oltlos lo Canada.  Buy and sell Sterling Bxohange and Cable  _Pp_l n sffi rs  Grant Commorolal and Travolors' Credits,  availablo in any parb ot tho world.  Drafts Issued. CoUootiona Mode, Etc.  Savings Bank Branch  OCRK-NT RAT- OF INTEREST PAID.  FAMOUS AUTHORS FORTUNES  Geraldine Bonner is the Argonaut  A short time ago sir Walter Besant,  the novelist, died in England, leaving an  estate valued at forty thousand dollars.  For years sir "Walter has been one of  the foremost figures in the English lit-  terey world; a grateful sovereign  knighted him; an admiring people read  ' his books. He was as well known on  this side of the water, where not only  his novels had a good circulation, but  where articles of his appeared from time  to time in the best-known periodicals.  His working life had extended over a  long period. 'No writer could have been  more industrious, and few modern ones  have produced so large a number of  books. The epoch of his collaboration  with Rice, to which such charmng tales  as "The Golden Butterfly," Ready Money  Mortiboy," and "So They Were Married," belong, is quite a long way behind  us. After Rice's death, when people  were wondering what Besant would do  now, he quite electrified the public by  the launching of that most delightful  "novel with a purpose," "All Sorts and  Conditions of Men." This book made  such an impression that the "People's  ���Palace" he had dreamed of became a  reality. Many other aooks followed it,  romances mire and simple, like "Arm-  orel of Lyonesse," other novels with a  purpose, tales with a historical background," like "The Chaplain of the  Fleet," and purely historical and antiquarian works on London, on which  subject he was an authority. The period of his active literary life must have  extended over from twenty-five to thirty-  five years, and-during this time his work  was ceaseless. " Yet when he dies he  leaves a fortune that would be considered poor for a prosperous grocer in a  small way of business.  There can be no question that the rewards of literary labor are pitifully  small. Besant is only one of many.  The writing man has advanced from the  position where he lived in Grub street,  . and put food into his stomach, and a  coat on his back by being a flattered  sycophant of some rich man of quality,  to whom he dedicated his books and  wrote poems. AVhen he was too proud  to do. this he starved, like Farquhar,  in a garret, or underwent the bitter  pangs of Johnson, who is said to have  written Rasselas in two days to make  money to pay for his mother's funeral.  A few debonair spirits became the protegees of fashion and beauty, and made  a scrambling passage of success between tbe uncertain favor of princes,  and even more uncertain smiles of  great ladies.  But, for the most part, the writer was  a member of the same family of mountebank entertainers of the public, to  which the player belonged. He lived  by the caprice of the rich, tolerated for  his capacity to amuse, or his power to  turn and sting holding a position little  more dignified than, that of the black  servants who wore silver collars, and  "were'at^once'the'pets^and'the^slaves-ol^  the ladies of fashion.  The writer has risen from these  dark places with much more success  than the actor. The world is still inclined to look askance at the sta-*;e and  its people. But the profession of, letters has come to stand for all that is  brave, dignified, and honorable. The  one clinging remnant of its despised  days is in the inadequate payment that  rewards its efforts. Here and there a  large sum is made; the public hears of  this, and infers that it Is in the ordinary course of things. But astonishingly  few fortunes have been realized from  the literature of fiction, Ouida, it is  said, made one in this century, whicli  she has now lost. Dickens did not leave  a fortune, neither did Thackeray, and  in the Brookfleld letters, then at the  summit of his fame, he several times  alludes to the irksomeness of writing  his weekly article for Punch, but says  he can not afford to give it up, as it  brings him five guineas a week. This  is twenty-five dollars, and one of the  ' most prominent novelists in England  could not afford to lose it.  Money has been made in large sums  by odd books, which strike the public  n.t the right moment, or which, for  some occult reason seize them like an  epidemic. Mrs. Stowe made a fair fortune by "Uncle Tom's Cabin;" Miss  Beatrice Harvadan would have made a  small fortune by "Ships That Pass in  the Night" if she had held her royalties  in it, and had had it copyrighted in the  United States. But these are odd  chances, queer divagation of public  taste, that no one can count on, or account for. And in nine cases out of ten  they are never repeated by tho same  people. The established novelists with  the great reputations leave no large  sums behind them. Some of them have  worked for years eight hours a day, and  produced books that have been read by  the hundreds of thousands, yet they  died comparatively poor. How much  money did Wilkie Collins and Charles  Reade leave when they passed to the  undiscovered country?  In his curious and interesting autobiography Anthony Trollope gives us  a picture of the conscientious, and what  might have been called unspirited novelist, and his manner of work. By the  effort, of years of production he amassed  What would be called, if made in a dry-  THE CANADIAN  BANK OF COMMERCE  " with wnicn is amaixjamatkd  THE  BANK OF  BRITISH COLUMBIA.  HKAD OFFICE: TORONTO.  Paid-up capital,       -     ���     -     Hggg-ggg  Reserve Fund.      ...     -  g_,oou,uuu  ACCRECATE RESOURCES OYER $65,000,000;  Hon, Goo. A. Cox,  President.  B. E. Walker,  General Manager  London Offlce, 60 Lombard Street, B. O.  New York  Offlce, 18   Exchange   Place.  aud 68 Branches in Canada and the  United States.  SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT:  Interoeb allowed, on doposite.   Present rate  three pur cout.  GRANGE V. HOLT,  Manager Nelson Branch  IMPERIAL BANK  OIEP    0-__.3Sr-__._3_A.  goods business or dairy farming, a small  competency. He did not live entirely  by literature, as he had a good position  in the postal department, which gave  him a fair income. Yet, his reputation  once established, he worked day in and  day out, when traveling, when visiting,  in the intervals of business. He wrote  at sea on the wash-stand of a rolling  ship, in the train on a blotting-book.  He became recognized as one of the leading realistic novelists of his country and  era; yet, after this untiring lire ot labor, he died as sir Walter Besant did,  leaving a modest fortune that would  have been doubled and tripled had he  been .the proprietor of a fashionable  soda-water and candy store.  Some years ago one of the American  reviews published an article called  ���'The Confession of a Literary Hack,"  which created much talk as being a  plain, unvarnished revelation of the  wretched situation of the writers as regards pay. The "Literary Hack" did  not profess to be a person of star-  spangled talents, or international reputation. He was the hack journalist, reviewer, occasional story-writer, and  producer of special articles. But he undoubtedly knew whereof he spoke. He  contended that journalism and literature  were amongst the worst paid professions in the world, and he appended a  list of his yearly makings in proof of  his statement. In later years, when  distinguished, if illiterate citizens were  writing memories and biographies,  which the literary hack had to write  over, he made as much as five thousand  per annum. In less prosperous seasons  his income ran down toward three. This  amount was earned by the most ardous  labor, many articles needing much study  beforehand. Had he been an ordinary  cleric in a bank, or an insurance  house, he would have received as  much, and in a business where he would  have expended an equal amount of energy, initiative, and brain power, three  or four times the amount.  But it is not the pecuniary returns of  ��� tiie profession of letters which is its  fatal, alluring charm. Those who know  Besant's forty thousand is not a princely  Besant's forty thousand, is a princely  renumeration for forty .years of hard  work. Neither is tit the prestige which,  in the common mind, apears to attach  to those who woo- the muse either in  garrets under the leads, like Zola, or on  a hearth-rug of Russian sables, like  Ouida. It is none of these things. It is  the charm of hopeful uncertainty. The;  passion of the gambler, wliose chances  lie on the turn of a card, is not more'  engrossing than the passion of the  writer who does not know at what moment he may not produce the masterpiece of.the age.,This is the true, delirious, unescapable spell that writing casts  upon its victims. No man or woman,  who drives the pen for a living, or for  a pastime, but knows its siren whispers.  Everybody cherishes exemples of suddenly won successes; every one cherishes  belief in himself as the being selected  by fate to make those successes. A  hundred failures do not dampen one's  belief in one's star, for have not countless geniuses been misunderstood for  years? Age does not dim this hope, for  often in age the conquest of a vast  publichas suddenly and blindinly come,  as it did to Du Maurier.    Youth is no  Capital (paid up)   -   S2.500.000  Rest       -     _���_ ���__ S 1,860,000  HEAD  OFFICE. TORONTO, ONTARIO.  Branches in Northwest Territories, Provinces of  British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario aud Queboo.  H. S. HOWLAND President).  D. R. WILK1K General Manager.  K. HAY Inspector.  NELSON   BRANCH,  BURNS BLOCK.  A general banking business transacted.  Savings Department,���Deposits roceivod and  Interest allowed.  Drafts sold, available in all part ot Canada,  United States and Europe.  Special attention given to coll       ns.  J. M. LAY, Manager.  ATLIN  IS  A BUSY GAMP  m  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  7*  to  to  drawback, for at the tenderest years  the greatest work has been produced,  as it was with Olive Schemer, who, at  seventeen, ignorant of her own capacity,  gave forth a masterpiece. To seem well  suited for that solemn honor is not necessary, for rough, unliterary beings,  like the Bttrick Shepherd, have had the  laurel wreath pressed down on their  brows almost before they knew. Every  writer, rich or poor, cultured or crude,  old or young, who deserves to be one ol  the sacred craft, carries within his  heart the strong sustaining hope that  some morning he, like lord Byron, will  wake and find himself famous.  Revolutionists Driven Back  PANAMA, January 29.���The Colombian  ���j*ovcrnin_!it fleet, consistiiii? ol' the Boyaca  and Chucito, and the armed launch General Campo, which left here yesterday to  break the blockade at Agua Dulce, where  the revolutionary fleet was last seen, and  to communicate with general Castro, the  Colombian commander, met the insurgent  steamer Padilla at Yoguala, thirty miles  from Panama at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon and opened lire on her. The revolutionary steamers Daricn and Gaitana appeared on the scene soon after the engagement commenced. The lire of the Chucito  was so well directed that it caused the revolutionary fleet to draw in towards the  shore, where tho enemy's ships were protected by tho batteries. The Chucito and  Boyaca 'then retired unmolested and arrived here at 5 o'clock yesterday evening.  The General Campo was not engaged. The  forces of general Herrera, the revolutionary commander are at San Carlos, ���!() miles  from Panama.  Contractor Lost His Case  NEW YORK, January 29.���A verdict was  rendered in the United States circuit court  today in favor ot tho Baron do Hirsch  fund, which had been sued by James Arthur, a contractor of Philadelphia, for $70,-  WO. Arthur built houses for the fund at  New Orange, New Jersey, under contract  agreement, and claimed that this agreement had been broken. He asked for judgment for a loss of $53,000 and $17,000 interest. Arthur's attorneys gave notice of a  new trial.  More Trolley Car Victims  PITTSBURG, January 29.���A report  has reached the city that four people  were killed and fifteen or twenty injured  in a trolley car wreck at Wilmerding tonight. ;  Big Clean-up in the Spring  James Stables, M. P, P., representing  the Cassiar district in the local house,  is down from the north to attend the  Liberal convention. Mr. Stables says  a great deal of work lias been done on  the creeks of Atlin this winter by the  placer miners. On Pine creek and the  upper banks there were at least 250 men,  who were engaged in drifting, and all  were getting out large lumps. Several  tunnels have been driven for a distance  of 200 feet or more, and all the miners  are well satisfied with their prospects,  although none can tell how much gold  they have taken out until they wash  their dumps in the spring. On Spruce  creek there are as many men as on Pine  creek���perhaps more���and Mr. Stables  when he went over this creek about  three weeks ago, found the miners well  pleased with the result of their work.  On Boulder, McKee, Otter and other  creeks there are many placer miners at  work with pan and rocker, and, all told,  there is considerable work going on  at Atlin this winter.  None of the hydraulicing companies  are working during the winter, but before work ceased they were all pleased  with the results, and the managers talk  of increased plants and larger outfits  during the coming season. It is likely,  too, that some new outfits will go into  the district C. Capplice, of Butte, Montana, who has had a staff at work in  the district, will increase his staff, and  he is having a dredger built at the present time at San Francisco, which will  be shipped in section to Pine creek in  the spring. This dredger will bejised  on the lower banks of Pine creek, near  the mouth .of that water.  The quartz miners are busy, and all  have good prospects. The copper claims  being developed at the south end of the  lake are especially promising. The Engineer group has made a fine showing,  and Mr. Stables has some good specimens of free milling quartz from his  mine, which carried free gold in large  quantities. The White Moose group, a  free milling proposition, in which some  Victorians are interested, was also turning out well, and the silver galena property on Fourth of July and Munro  mountains were also showing up well.  Much work was also being done with  the Mother Lode, a free milling quartz  proposition on Pine creek, and the  Munro mountain quartz claims were  soon to be extensively developed, arrangements having been made to that  effect with an English syndicate.  to  to  *  *  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  ft  &************************************************���************���****���**%  1890-BBTABHBHBD IN NBL8ON-10O2  Before stock taking this month a  REDUCTION   OF  10   PER  CENT  will be given on every dollar.  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  9}  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  .*>  : ������ ��� ��������� m  ^^.00./��.0m*.0m*.^.00.^.^��0m*.��.^.0*.^.^0l:_. .W.*^��^'^��^��^'^'^��^'^-^��^��^.^-.*^.^.^.*^>^--_ltt  But come early* and you shall have our prompt attention. Engraving free of Hi  *> charge this month. As I employ the best watchmakers and jewelers, all our work $  j|j is guaranteed.   Both mail and express orders shall have our prompt attention. *  H)  Hi  Hi  Hi  ft  ft  ft  ft  Jacob Dover9   "The Jeweler."  *%,  ******.*********************.************************************.***  *  PRINCE OF WALES INCOME  And That of the King  During his life as prince of "Wales, It  was popularly supposed that the present  monarch of England, whose coming coronation is'exciting widespread interest, "had  enough to make both ends meet." Arthur  Mee, in a life history of king Edward VII.,  -whieh.-has=recently_been-publlshed^in=Lon_  don with the title ot* "King and Emperor,"  combats this general opinion. He says:  "It is not diilicult to understand how the  rumors of his poverty were set abroad.  Tho special grant of diSCOUO a year in 1��>��  had probably something to do with It, but  we owe it chielly, no doubt, to the prince's  well known sympathy with the race, of  Israel. The king has always been on excellent terms with the Jews, and it is an  open secret that his sympathy has been  misinterpreted. When he attended a Rothschild's wedding in 1SS1, there were not  wanting those who deliberately misunderstood his presence in the synagogue, where  no other prince had ever been since the  llrst decade of tho century. It was maliciously imagined and openly suggested,  that the prince had particular reasons for  being friendly with the race ot* money-lenders, and tho talk ot* his being greatly  in debt that tho prince thought worth while  to contradict it. Sir Francis Knollys" the  king's private secretary, declared that his  master had no debts worth speaking of;  that he could pay every farthing that he  owed Immediately; that there was not a  word of truth ln tlie tales of a mortgage on  Sandrlngham; and that the whole thing  was a ."fabrication, on a par with similar  tales representing the prince as being assisted by llnanciers ot more or less doubtful honesty.  "The truth is that from tho moment of  his birth king Edward has been splendidly  rich. He was born, as an Irishman would  say, with ��00,000 in his pocket, and from  that day until he ceased to be prince of  Wales the duchy of Cornwall yielded that  magnificent revenue. The king married at  22 and parliament gave him Marlborough  House and -��40,000 a year as a wedding present. That, too, has come to him regularly  since 1S03. In 1SS3, when the prince's family  ran away with his money, parliament once  more came to his aid, and nearly doubled  the grant he had received since 1S03. For  eleven years the king has been relieved of  the anxieties of a father for the linancial  welfare of his children by a special grant  of ��3(1,003 a year, bringing his annual public income up to ��130,000 ($G80,000). That is  what it is worth to be prince of Wales.  But even that huge income is much within the mark of the real income of king Edward before he came to the throne, lt has  been stated that the king has a private estate of ��100,000 a year, which would have  made his annual income before his accession something like a quarter of a million;  but not having authority for that statement, wo may leave it out of our reckoning. AU the world knows that the king has  at least two private sources of revenue���  his estates and the turf. As prince of Wales  ho won ��120 a week on the race course. Six  thousand pounds a year represents the  winning of his horses during ,the last ten  years. And Sandrlngham, which was purchased out of his winnings, has a rental of  ��7000 a year, bringing his Income as we  know it to within ��1000 of ��150,000 a year.  "That is the minimum, whatever may be  the maximum, of the revenue king Edward  enjoyed as heir to the throne. The man who  would be poor on ��150,000 a year would be  poor on a million. The house of commons,  when  the  prince  was  receiving  ��100,000 a  year, Increased his allowance by ��30,000,  but the grant was by no means unanimous,  a fact which shows that a considerable  section In parliament considered the prince  as rich enough.  Mr. Mee also recounts the grants to the  prince for his' Indian trip:  "The prince was seventeen weeks in India, and the bill came to over ��1000 a day.  The admiralty spent ��52,000 ln taking him  out and bringing him home. The Indian  government voted ��30,000 to his reception,  and the house gave the prince ��C0,000 as  pocket money. A few years before the  prince's visit to Canada had cost nearly  ��70,000�����16,000 of which had been granted  by parliament, and ��53,000 from the Canadian treasury; but as there was nothing  in this grant of a purely personal nature,  and as the greater part of it was made by  Canada Itself, we may dismiss it from our  reckoning.  We are now able to form some Idea of  the amount of money tne prince of Wales  has had at his disposal during his lifetime.  He was born with ��60,000 a year, set up  housekeeping with ��100,000 a year, and from  18S9 to 1901, had ��150,000 a year. Parliament  gave the princess of Wales ��10,000 a year  on her marriage in 1S63, which totals up for  thirty-seven years to ��370,000. So that we  can now risk, and say with some approach  to accuracy, how much money the prince  of Wales has had at his disposal. Totaling  up all his grants from parliament, his revenues from the Duchy of Cornwall, his  rental from Sandrlngham, and incomes  from other sources, we And that he has  had enough money to make him a millionaire many times over in money. The account  stands  in  rough  figures  something  From Duchy of Cornwall ..��3,480.000  From   parliament    1,936.000  From Sandrlngham estate       260.000  Ten years' winning on the turf.....       60,000  Total ��� ��5,736,000  Payments to princess of Wales ....   . 370,000  Grand total ��6,106,000  "Six millions of money! Roughly, it is  an income of ��100,000 a year through the  whole of his life. Every day the king before  his accession had an income of ��274 5s.;  'every hour ��11 8s. 3d.; every minute 3s.  O'M. Every time the clock has ticked since  the light of Albert Edward dawned upon  the world, his wealth has grown by three  farthings. It loks undignified enough  brought down to farthings, but ��6,000,000���  fortv-five tons of English gold, more than  the mint makes in a year���Is an income not  to be desnised, even in these money-worshipping days.'"  "Since his accession to the throne, even  these princely wages have been increased.  As Edward VII. he roc-elves ��385.000 f-1.-  925.000) a year, or a trifle more than ��1000,  a day.   A STEAIGHTFORWAED PLATP0EM.  We believe ln giving every person one  dollar's worth for every one hundred cents.  We believe the price should be marked on  each article In-plain figures.  We believe In charging for each article  the price marked.  We believe in selling goods to children  at the same price we sell their parents.  We believe in exchanging unsuitable or  unsatisfactory purchases for other goods.  We believe In representing goods to be  just what they are.  We believe we can give you just as good  satisfaction and just as good value as any  other jeweler.  If you will favor us with a share of your  patronage we will use our best endeavors  to deserve your confidence.  In our repairing department we guaran-  .tee.allour^work.and agree^to^repair^free^ot  charge any work which proves unsatisfactory.  If Brown said so It's right.  January 14th, 1902.  VICTOR  ROCK  ELM  Hockey Sticks  Boys Sticks    .  Hockey Pucks  Ping Pong   .  40c  , 25c  . 35c  $3.20  Canada Drug & Book Co.  Porto Rico Lumber Go.  (LIMITED)  Rough and  Dressed  Lumber  Shingles  Mouldings  A-1 White Pine Lurrjbar Always in  StocK.  We carry a complete stock of  Ocaat Flooring, Ceiling, Inside Finish, Turned Work, Sash and Doors.  Special order work will receive  prompt attention.  Porto Rico Lumber Go.Ltd.  CORNER OF  HENDRYX AMD VERNON BTRKHTH  4  J  CLASSIFIED ADS.   _,__ ARTICLES FOR SALE.   ~^E*^XNO~l_ACHIN"I_S"._ ____TkiN_)S  for sale or rent at the Old Curiosity Shop.  TO 1__T.��� FOUR KOOM COTTAGE ON  Park street, opposite hospital. Rent, including water, ?1_ per month. Apply E. Kilby,  next door to Rossland Hotel, Vernon street.   _J-^DG^RS.   FOR RO-__ AND TABLE BOARD. Apply third house west of Ward on "Victoria  street.     ���     '      ���.���  . COMFORTABLY FURNISHED ROOMS  to rent on Silica street, between Ward and  Kootenay streets. Apply L. Peters.  EMPLOYMENT AGENCY.  CANADIAN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY-  WANTED help of all kinds; men for railroad construction. Large warehouse for  storage. Prosser's Second - Hand Store,  Ward street, Nelson.  __SEWING MACHINES FOR SALE. ^  SEWING MACHINES FOR SALE OR  rent. Sold on installments. Old machines  taken in exchange. Repairs kept for all  makes of machines. Singer Manufacturing  Company, Baker Street, Nelson.  PUPILS WANTED.  WANTED PUPILS ON PIANO OR OR-  gan by Mrs. Starmer Smith. Apply residence, or P. O. Box 137.   GIRL WANTED,   WANTED���A WOMAN OR GIRL TO  help with housework and baby. Good  wages. Apply to John Hutcheson, Cranbrook, B. C.  HENRY G. JOLY DE LOTBINIERE.  CANADA.     '  PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.  Edward VII., by the grace of God, of the  United Kingdom  of Great Britain and  Ireland  and  of  the  British, Dominions  beyond the seas, King, defender of the  faith, etc., etc., etc.  To Our Faithful  the Members elected  to  serve in the Legislative Assemly of our  Province  of British  Columbia,   at Our  City of Victoria,��� Greeting.  A PROCLAMATION.  D. M. Eberts, Attorney General.  ="-Whereas=we-are-desirous-and=resolved-as-  soon as may be, to meet Our people of Our  Province of British Columbia, and to have  their advice in Our Legislature:  Now, Know Ye, that for divers causes  and considerations, and taking Into consideration the ease and convenience of our  loving subjects, Wa havo thought lit, by  and with the advico of Our Executive  Council, to hereby convoke, and by those  presents ^njeln you, and each of you, that  on Thursday tho twentieth day of February, one thousand nlno hundred and two,  you moot Us in Our said Legislature or  Parliament of Our said Provinco, at Our  City of Victoria, FOR THE DISPATCH OF  BUSINESS, to treat, do, act and concludo  upon thoso things which ln Our Legislsi.-  ture of the Province of British Columbia,  by tho Common Council of Our said Province may, by tho favor of- God, bo ordained. ��� , i  ln testimony whereof, wo havo caused  thoso Our Letters to bo mado Patent and  tho Groat Seal of Our said Province to be  hereunto affixed:  Witness, the Honourablo Sir Henri Gustavo Joly do Lotbiniere, K.C.M.G.. Lieutenant Governor of Our said Province of  British Columbia, at Our Government  House, in Our City of Victoria, in Our  said Province, this 9th clay of January, in  tho year of Our Lord one thousand nine  hundred and two, and in tho flrst year of  Our Reign.  By Command.  J. D. PRENTICE,  Acting Provincial Secretary.  PROVINCIAL    SECRETARY'S    OFFICE.  His Honour the Lieutenant-governor in  Council has been pleased to mako the following appointments:  Sth January, 1902.  William Edwin Newcombe, of Trout  Lako, Esquire, M.D., CM., to bo resident  physician at the said place.  John M.  Holland,  of the City of Grand  Forks,   Esquire,   to  be  a  notary  public  In  and for tlio province of British Columbia,  9th January, 1902.  Frederick Fraser, of tho City of Revelstoko, Esquiro, to be���  Stipendiary magistrate,  Government Agent,  Assistant Commissioner of Lands and  Works,  Collector >>r "  venue Tax,  District j:t>;i.iirar of Births, Deaths and  Marriages, and Registrar under tho "Marriage Act," for tho Revelstoke Division of  West Kootenay,  Gold Commissioner for tho Rovelstoke,  Illeclllcwaet, Lardeau and Trout Lake  Mining Divisions,  Clerk of tho Peaco for the County of  Kootenay,  District Registrar of the Revelstoko registry of tho Supreme Court, and  Collector of Votes for the Revelstoke riding of the West Kootenay District, vlco  Mr. W. J. Goepel.  P. Burns & Co.  Hkad Office at  NELSON, B. 0.  Wholesale and Retail  Dealers in Meats  Markets at   Nelson,   Rossland,   Trail,   Kaslo, Ymlr,  Sandon,  Silverton, New  Denver, Revelstoke, Ferguson  Grand Forks, Greenwood, Cascade City, Mid  way, and Vancouver.  West Kootenay Butcher Co.  ALL KINDS OF '    .      . ���  FRESH AND SALTED MEATS  WHOLESALE AND RETAIL  FISH AND POULTRY IN SEASON  K. W. 0 BLOCK  WARD STEEET  E; G. TRAVES, Manager  TREMONT HOUSE  321 TO 33i|BA___R STREET, NELSON  AMEtyCAfi AND EUROPEAN  PLANS  MEALS 25 GENTS  Rooms Lighted by Electricity and Heated oy Steam 26 Cents to $1  IMPEBIAL BBEWIM COMPANY  EMERSON & REISTERER.  BREWERS OF THE BEST  LAGER BEER  STEAM BEER  AND PORTER  When you want the Best, ask for  IMPERIAL BEER.  SLOGAN JUNCTION HOTEL  J. H. MoMANUB, _U-_ger.  Bar stocked with best brand* of wines,  liquors, and cigars. Beer on draught, targe  oomfortabla no_i First olaas tabla board.  CHEAP FUEL.  Reduction ln prtco of coko: Per Ton.  Coko at gas work-   $6.50  Coko delivered    7.50  Cash must-accompany all orders, or .$1  extra will be charged.  NELSON COKE & GAS COMPANY, Ltd.'  DBUG STOfiB EABLY CLOSING  '   ON AND APTEE JANTJAEY 1st.  The public Is notified that on and after  January 1st our places of business will  close at 9 o'clock every night except Saturday and the day preceding a public holiday.  Sunday hours 10 to 12 a. m., 2:30 to 4:30  p. m., G:30 to 8:30 p. m.  CANADA BOOK & DRUG CO.. Ltd.,  W. F. TEETZEL. & CO.,  J. H. VANSTONE.  -rife.  OF    COURSE   VOU   WANT    THE     11KST-  THEN  GO  TO  ARTHUR    GEE  In Tremont Block.   Ho will suit you.  Largo stock of Imported season_ goods.  NEWLING & CO.  AUCTIONEER, VALUERS, ETC.  Kootenay Street, noxt door to Oddfellows'Hall  P. O. Box G33 NELSON, B.C.  QUEEN'S HOTEL  BAKER   BTRJDHT.   N___SON<  Lighted by Electricity and Heated with Hot Air.  ��*rge comfortable bedrooms aad first*  class dining room. Sample rooms for com*  merdal maa. ' -t  RATES S2 PER DAY  RI|rSi-Er CrCIarKerProp.^  .    Lata of the Royal Hotel, Calgary ;.  fadden House  Baker and. Ward  Streets, Nelson.  The only hotel ln Nelson that baa re*  malned under one management since 1SW.  The bed-rooms are well furnished and  lighted by electrlou>.  The bar la always stocaea by the best  domestlo and Imported liquors aad cigars,  THOMAS MADDEN, Proprietor.  HOTEL   ROSSLAND.  Third door from Grand Central Hotel  on Vernon street. Best dollar a day,  house ln town. House and furniture new  and first class ln every respect. Lighted  by gas. Room and board |5 ta M per  week. No Chinese employed hers, j  J. V. O'LAUGHLIN, Proprietor.  Bartlett    House  Formerly Clarko Hotel.  The Best $1 per Day House ia Nelson.  None but white help employed.  The bar the  boat.    G. W. BARTLETT, Proprietor  ��� - "���! ��� _~���a  R. REISTERER & CO.  BBXW-BS AND _OTT_-B_ OV  FINE LAGER BEER, ALE  AND PORTER  Prompt and regular delivery to the tmrnt,  BRBW-BI  AT  N___BON  OYSTER COCKTAILS  AT  THB  __AJra__TTAN.  OYSTER COCKTAILS  AT  THH  MANHATTAN.  The   Manhattan  JOSEPHINE STREET  ALL THE BE8T BRAND8  LIQUOR8  AND  CIQAR8. '*'���������*  THE NELSON TRIBUNE,  FRIDAY  MORNING   JANUARY 31, 1902  |S   A:  Wt i if  f H  !;���:  S'l  it  f  III  . I  l1^ i  fi,  m  I  M  vw  i  I  Jji  1  I  i**!  ii'!  If  I  .?(!(  lit'  I  I  -r!  I  ��$*** ��* ���*���*���**** ************************************%  |   THERE ARE A FEW LINES SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS WHICH  WE ARE OFFERING AT VERY LOW PRICES.  *  HI  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi  ft  ft  Hi  Hi  _!  Hi  Hi  m  S  Hi  Hi  Hi  Hi   ���  *  English, French and  American  Perfumes.  Hand Mirrors  Ladies' Traveling Oases  Ladies' Dressing Oases  Gents' Traveling Oases  Ladies' Purses and Oa,rd  Oases.  Gents' Purses and Wallets  Chatelaine Bags  Perfume Atomizers  Hair Brushes of all kinds  W. F. TEETZEL & CO.  r** ******  *  Lawrence Hardware Co.  ..;.-. -.   r.-> :   -IMPQETEES AUDDEALEESI-T  3helf -and Heavy Hardware  AGENTS PORr-Orescent,  Canton, and  Jessop's Steel, Bennett's Gutta Peicha  .......'.'.      '   Fuse, Jenckes'Ore Oars  '     Hamilton Powder Company's Blasting Powder       __   - ���f"l   n  L^nd Dynamite ..       _      . MSO!!,    J3. U  RAILWAY TIME TABLE  CANADIAN PACIFIC SYSTEM  LEAVE  7:15 a. in  Daily.  CROW'S NKST RAILWAY  Kuskonook, Creston, Movie,  Cranbrook, "Marysville, l'ort  Steele, Klko. Kcrnio, Michel,  lllairinorc, Frank, Macleod.  Lctlibridgc, Winnipeg, and  ull Eastern points.   LKAVK  6:10 p. m  Daily  6:10 p. in.  Daily  8 a. in.  8 a. in.  LEAVE  10 a. in.  (i:ir>p.m.  Daily.  COLUMBIA & KOOTKNAY  RAILWAY  Robson, Nukusn, Arrowhead,  Revelstoko, ana all points cast  and west on C.F.R. main lino.  Robson, Trail and Rossland.  Robson, Cascade, Grand  Forks, l'hnjnix. Greenwood  and Midway.  (Daily except Sunday)  Robson, Trail and Rossland.  (Daily oxcept Sunday)  10:10 p.m.  Daily  10:10 p.m.  Daily  10:10 p.in.  11:35 a.m.  SLOCAN RIVER RAILW'Y  Slocan City, Silverton, Now  Denver. Three Forks, Sandon  (Daily excopt Sunday)   AIUUVE  3:10 p.m.  i p.m.  i p. m.  Railroad, Mill, Mining and Builders' Supplies  ��� ������i.iml  iim��� "        '      ���   ..n��irr���!.������������ , ���   iliwmi.  TELEPHONE 30,  F% O. BOX B8H_  Nelson Saw & Planing Mills  KOOTKNAY  LAKK  STKAMROATS  Balfour, Pilot Hay, Ainsworth  Kaslo and all Way Landings.  (Daily oxcept Sunday)  Lardo and nil points on the  Lardo & Trout Lako Branch.  (Tuesdays, Thursdays and   Saturdays.)    .  AKK1VK  10:10  a.m.  11 a.m  GREAT NORTHERN SYSTEM.  LEAVE  Depot  ��:40 a.m  _Co_n-l_  lfefOajn. fc_a_hig through conneo*_t>_-  Dafly.  j_.i_va:iT-_irj.  CHARLES HILLYER, President.'  HARRY HOUSTON, Secretary.  ���   Hare just received 3,000,0   feet of k  of Umber of any dimensions or lengths.  doors, and mouldings In Kootenay.  era from Idaho, and we are prepared to cut the largest bill  Estimates given at any time.  The largest stock of sash;  COAST LUMBER OF ALL KINDS ON HAND  ii' OFFICR AND YARDS!   CORNKR HALL AND FRONT STRKKT8.  LEAVE  Kaslo  7 a.m.  Nelson  6:00 p. m.  Daily  NKLSON & FORT  SHKP-  PARD RAILWAY  Ymir, Salmo, Kric, Waneta,  Northport, Rossland, Colvillo  and Spokane.  at Spokane to the south,  cast and west.  KOOTENAY LAKE  STEAMBOATS  Balfour, PilotBay, Ainsworth  Kaslo and all Way Landings.  ARRIVE  Depot.  6:1- p.m.  Mount'in  6U p. m.  Daily  M  a s:i  ARRIVE  Kaslo  9:?0 u. in.  Nelson  10:30 a.m.  Daily  Auction Sale!  H0USEHOLD FUENIT.EE  Acting under instructions from Mrs.  B. Sims the undersigned will offer for  sale by public auction the whole of her  very desirable household furniture and  effects, on the premises on Stanley  street, between Silica and Carbonate  streets, commencing on the afternoon  of  THURSDAY,  JANUARY  30TH.     .  at 2 o'clock sharp.  Among tiie articles to be offered for  sale are  DRAWING ROOM FURNISHINGS  BED ROOM SUITES  DINING ROOM FURNISHINGS  KITCHEN  RANGE  AND UTENSILS  CARPETS, BOOKS, PICTURES  *    CHINA, GLASS,  SILVERWARE  HOUSE PLANTS  It is expected that it will take two  days to complete the sale of the goods  to be offered, but during the sale the  premises will be comfortably heated by  hot air.  ���TERMS CASH. Goods may be inspected on the mornings before tho sale  commences.  Charles A. Waterman & Co.  AUCTIONEERS.  r^f ^ -t^^s -my ���0^-0^-0^-0'0��'00-^'00'00'07vS^^^.^.09999999*  SALE  FURNITURE  AT LOW PRICES  THE STOCK OF  JLQ. BUNYAN & CO.  ��� >   WILL BE SOLD AT REDUCED PRICES  FOR CASH ONLY  a tour of the Kootenay district, and left  for Rossland yesterday. Before returning  to the Coast lie will visit the Lardeau district witn a view to establishing Methodist  missions in the new mining districts where  there are openings.  Maxwell and John E. Stevenson, who are  interested in the Highlander property at  Ainsworth, are in the city.  John It. Retallack, who is interested in  the Washington mine, arrived in the city  last evening. from S;iokane.  Judge Forin has been elected by the members of the curling club to attend the AVinnipeg bonspiel in the place of A. Carrie,  who is unable to attend.  A. B. Buckworth of Ymir, accompanied  by his wife and family, left yesterday  morning for home, after being in the east  for the last two months.  Robert Wood, a well known mining man  from Greenwood, arrived in. the city last  evening from London, where he has been  disposing of some mining property in which  he is Interested.  J. A KIRKPATRICK  MORTGAGEE  Furniture, Carpets, Linoleums, Fine Pictures, Blankets, Etc.  In addition to ourialready high-grade and low-marked goods,  we will offer for ��o days only io per cent off for cash. Our  terms are on the installment plan, one-third cash, balance in  three payments. Our customers are warned to take advantage of this great reduction sale. Come any time of the  day.    Can always duplicate any article.  A meeting.of thoso interested in promoting the race meet on tho ice was held in  tho office of H. R. Cameron yesterday. A  committee was appointed to canvass the  city for subscriptions, and it is expected  that the mattor will be finally decided today.  The. funeral services over the remains of  the late J. Roderick Robertson wore hold  in New York yesterday by Rev. Dr. Ludlow, of tho Presbyterian church of Bast  Orange, New Jersey, who was Mr. Robertson's pastor during his residence in the  east.  Rev. "W. Munroe, who returned from  Phoenix a few days ago brings the report  of a great lind at the Winnipeg mine on  Sunday last. In an interview with one of  the managers of the mine he was informed  that durig the work of development they  eamo across a rich pocket of gold ore.  which assays higher than anything else  fcund in the district.  The funeral arrangements of the late A.  B. Gray have not yet been determined and  the body will remain at the undertaking  parlors of J. G. Bunyan & Company pend-;  ing the arrival of the friends of the dor  ceased. It is expected that the remains  will be removed to Victoria cither today or  tomorrow. Miss Gray, the daughter of the  deceased arrived in the city last evening  from Ymir.  D.  Co.  FURNITURE DEALERS  CITY AND DISTRICT.  '��� The Torp-ichorcan club will hold a dance  tonight in Fraternity hall in place of their  regular dance, postponed last night.'  The C. P. R. has made a, change in its  service to the Lardo, and until further no-  lice but one "trip a week will be made,  namely'on Thusrdays..  An  additional  certificate   of   work   was  granted on the Iron Age mineral claim to  ��� L.  A.  Campbell.yesterday, which *,*-as the  only mining record made.  The remaining horse of Nelson's celebrated lire team Is now on the sick list and  is now laid off. The newly purchased scavenger horse has been substituted.  Application was made yesterday before  his honor judge Forin in chambers by P.  13. Wilson In the case of Hutton vs. Williams, on behalf of the plaintiff for sum-  ���"' roary judgment. Tho application was  Granted.  A couple of-accidents occurred at the Hall  jVTInes smelter on Wednesday. In the case  of a man named Little a quantity of hot  slag flew Into his face, owing to a jar of  the metal being upset. The Injuries are not  fin-nosed to ,be of a very serious nature,  ond the patient Is now under tbe care of  the hospital nurses. The other case was  that of a fban named B. Hcddle, who had  the misfortune to have a lump of frozen  ore ffdl on his foot. He was taken to his  residence where he is being attended by Dr.  Hall.  Owing to the ice blockade the K. R. &  N. Company has decided to discontinue its  steamer service between Nelson and Kaslo.  Notice will be given of resumption of the  service.  Alvo Zelazney, the e'ght year old daughter of E. Zelasiney, died at tho general hospital yesterday at 1 o'clock from abcess of  the brain. The little sufferer has been at  the hospital  for about two  weeks.  The sale of the furniture of T. J. Sims  was continued yesterday. There wa.s a better attendance,than at the former sale. As  there are many articles yet unsold the sale  will bo continued today at the -same hour.  The negotiations of uie Nelson hockov  team with the Grand Forks team have fallen through, as the latter are unable to got  thoir team together. An effort is now being made to arrange a match with tho  Cranbrook boys.  Tho Arlington mine, which is being  worked by the Hastings (B. C.) Exploration  Syndicate, has now a force of 100 mon at  work, and for tho past ten days has been  shipping at the rate of two cars per day.  Of this two-thirds is made up of crude ore  and the balance ' of concentrates. As . the  Arlington ore is known to be very rich tho  property's monthly shipments should aggregate a very'tidy sum.  The case of assault for which the man  Gough was arre.-t.'d on Wednesday last,  came up for hearing yesterday morning at  tho police court bofore magistrate Crease.  It appears that the assault wa.s the result  of a quarrel between Oough and a man  named Boyle on account of the purchase of  a house by the former from the latter.  There was als_ a boat in connection with  the deal which the defendant claimed as  part of the triinsact.lnn, but which was  denied by the plaintiff. As a result of the  difference of opinion a fight ensued, in  which the defendant appears to have boon  the aggressor. The court, while sympathizing with the accused, upheld the dig-illy of  the law by Imposing a line of $5 and costs  as a warning that he was not entitled to  take the law Into his own hands. Tho fine  was paid and the prisoner was discharged.  WON A~BID  COMMISSION1  KOOTENAY  COFFEE OO.  ���*****���****���*************.**.  Coffee Roasters  D9al8r8 ln Tea and Coffee  ���******���*********.*********  Wo are offering at lowest prices the best  (Trades o Ceylon. India, China and Japan  Teas,  Our Boar, Mocha and Java Coffoe, per  pound  $ 13  Mocha and Java Blend, 3 pounds  1 00  Choico Blend Coffee, i pounds  1 00  Special li'.eud Coffee, 6 pounds  1 00  Rio Blend Coffee, 6 pounds...  1 00  Special Blend Coylon Toa, per pound 30  A TBIAL ORDER SOLICITED.  KOOTENAY7 COFFEE CO.  ; Telephone 177.:  P.O. Box 182.  WEST BA KER STREET, NELSON.  AC0MPLETELINE0F  Front Doors  Inside Doora  Screen Doors  Windows  Inside Finish  local aud ooaefe.  Flooring  looal and coast).  Newel Posts  Stair Rail  Mouldings  Shingles  Rough and  Dressed Lumber  of all kinds.  ' _T WHAT TOU WANT IS NOT IN STOCK  WK WILL *_.___ IT FOB *rOU  OALIi AMD o_rr PRICES  m  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  UL  BYE  ESTABLISHED 1892  *���*�����-  -��������  4  Portland Cement  Fire Brick  Fire Clay-  Sheet Iron  T Rails  Ore Cars  ___ Blowers   ^_^  Exhausters  Pumps  Graniteware  *Tinware  HARDWARE AND IRON MERCHANTS  HEATING STOVES  COOKING STOVES  AND  RANGES^  -* NELSON, B. C.  STORES AT  KASLO, B.C.  SANDON, B. C.  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  .e-.^sre.^-.-e.sf.^e.sr.tr.^s^  I.  to  '^^r.^.t  To Save Money  to  to  fix  to Buy shoes now. Enormous reductions made this month to clear out the odds to  J{J and ends. All felt goods below cost. See our special bargains on Side Tables 2}  to   Manitobas, Arctics, Cardigans and Leggings at Cost.   One  Hundred pairs of  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  JJJ   Mens'j Fine Shoes regular $4, $5, and $6. all. Genuine Goodyear Welts. Your  to   choice for $3.  to  to  to  to  ore  THOS. LILLIE, Manager  L. A. GODBOLT, Prop.  Carman, Vancouver; AV..A. Allen, Vancouver; Rev. Dr. WhlLUngton, Vancouver; I-I.  Cordell, Vancouver; Amos Godfrey and A.  J. ��� Thomas, Nanaimo; George A. Nelson,  Lindsay; J. M. Allen and wife, Kaslo; A.  Ij. Davenport, Spokane; D. AV. Moore,  Trail; W. H. S. Peard, Medicine Hat.    ���  auf��hteriiif*    Sale  THE   BIG  Schooner  BEER OR HALF-AND-HALF  For the next thirty days I will gi"*e  a great slaughtering sale on all lines in  stock consisting of boy's and men's  clothing, furnishings, hats and caps, and  boots and shoes. In order to make room  for spring stock I must slaughter some  of my present stock and also to give my  many customers the benefit thereof.  THE ONLY GOOD BEER  IN  NELSON  Now is the chance to partake of some  of the best bargains ever offered in the  Kootenays.  The sale is genuine, the stock new and  the prices away down.  Call, get prices, examine goods and  be convinced that I am offering tho  greatest bargains ever offered in Nelson.  217 and 219  . Baker Street  J. A. GILKER  \  Rev. J. K. "White of tho Methodist church  will leave for Slocan tomorrow morning,  where he will conduct the anniversary services of the Methodist, church in that piano.  There will be a public rnectinfr and enlcr-  tdinmont on the following evenlnpr. which  will also be addressed by Mr. White. The  services at the Methodist cluirrli in this  city will bo tak^n by Rev. Dr. WhiUinRton  <.f Vancouver. The doctor, who Is superintendent of mission- In the west, Js making  For Sale of Continental  SPOKANE, January 30.���Attorney E.  C. Macdonald, as arbitrator, has just  handed down a decision in the matter  of the controversy between Reddy &  Jamison against Albert Klockman. He  awards to Reddy & Jamison, as brokers,  in the sale of the Continental group of  mines $2500 and 49,000 shares of capital stock in the Idaho Continental Mining Company, the corporation organized  to develop the property sold.  This controversy grew out of the sale  of. the Continental group, which was  owned by Albert Klockman, and is located near Port Hill, Idaho. The property was sold to Duluth parties last fall  through J. F. Reddy and A. C. Jamison,  brokers. For his property Mr. Klockman received $250,000 cash and 499,000  shares of stock in the new company  organized to develop the property.  In the matter of settling commission,  Reddy & Jamison asked $500 cash and  49,900 shares of stock. Mr. Klockman  denied their right to that amount. He  agreed that they were entitled to some  commission, but  wanted   to give   only  HAH AND LAKE flTBK*-T8, *T_LSOW  $2500: The parties entered into an  agreement to settle their difficulty before Mr. Macdonald, as arbitrator,  rather than to go into the courts. The  agreement signed by both parties is to  the effect that Mr. Macdonald shallde-  ���cidc all matters in the controversy between tho parties after hearing the law  and evidence, and that his ruling shall  bo final, and neither party is to take  any further proceedings.  The opinion handed down by Mr.  Macdonald this morning is quite lengthy  and all the case is thoroughly reviewed.  The arbitrator come to the conclusion  that Roddy & Jamison are entitled to  $2500 in cash and to 49,900 shares of  the capital stock of the Idaho Continental Mining Company. Reddy & Jamison, by this decision, get all the stock  they asked for, but get $2500 instead of  $5000.   By an Still Holds the Belt  KANSAS CITY", January 30.���Tommy  Ryan, of this city, who claims the middle weight championship of the world,  tonight knocked out. George Green, of  San Francisco in the seventh round of  what was to be a 10-round contest, be-  for a crowded house in the armory hall.  From the flrst round, in which Green  was forced to take the count, until the  decisive blow was landed, the result was  never in doubt. Ryan was the aggressor throughout and Green was at no  time able to Withstand the furious  rushes of his opponent.  Club Hotel  BISCUITS  CHRISTIE'S CREAM SODAS. CHRISTIE'S WATER'ICE   WAFERS  Also all kinds of Sweet Biscuits fresh from the factory.  BLUE   RIBBON   TEA.  Houston Bloclc  Nelson, B C.  J. A. IRVING & CO.  Corner Silica and   Stanley  Sts.  E. J. CURRAN, Proprietor.  NOTICE.  Notice Is hereby Riven that I Intend to  apply at tho next sitting of the board of  license commissioners for tho City o�� Nelson, to bo held after tlio expiration of  thirty days from tho date hereof, for a  transfer of tho retail liquor license now  held by mo for tho "Grand Hotel," situate  on Vernon street in the City of Nelson, on  the cast half of lot 4, bloclc 2, sub-division  of lot A3, group 1, West Kootenay district,  to John Biomberg of the City of Nelson.  GUS  NELSON.  Witness: A. BENSON.  Dated this second day of January, 1902.  HEAL ESTATE,  AND  Bad Storms in England  LONDON, January 30.���Sharp frosts and  heavi* snows aro greatly impeding trafllc  and work In tlie United Kingdom and are  causing many casualties. Cross channel  trairic is Interrupted on account of a blinding snow storm and thousands of workmen  employed at tho ship building yards are  idle.  Big Hotel on Fire  NORFOLK, Virginia, January 30.���The  Columbia building, tho largest offlce building with one exception in the city, i.s on  fire. It adjoins the Atlantic hotel and at  this hour (2 a. m.) it looks as if there will  be difliculty in preventing the llanies from  renchins: the hotel, <  NOTIOE.  IN THE SUPREME COURT Oii" BRITISH  COLUMBIA.  In tho matter of tho "Winding Up Act,  Chapter 129 of tho revised statutes of  Canada and amending acts,' and in the  matter of tho Athabasca Gold Mine, Limited.  Notico is hereby given that tho honorable  the chief justice has fixed Friday the 17th  day of January, 1902, at the hour of H  o'clock ln the forenoon at the Law Courts,  New Westminster, British Columbia, as  the time and place for the appointment of  an official liquidator of tho above named  company. J.   J.   CAMBRIDGE,  District Registrar.  0EETIPI0ATE   OP  IMPROVEMENTS  Notice: Ray of Hope mineral claim, situate In tho Nelson mining division of  West Kootenay district, located on Duhamel (Si3C-mile) creek. Take notice that I,  Charles \V. Busk, freo miners' certificate  No. 50,825, as agent for W. J. Goepel, free  miners' certificate No." 50,500 John Paterson, freo miners' certificate No. 50,727, and  self, intend sixty days from the date hereof to apply to tho mining recorder for a  certificate of improvements for tho purpose of obtaining a crown grant of the  above claim. And further take notico that  action under Section 37 must be commenced  beforo the issuance of such certificate of  improvements. _  CHARLES W. BUSK.  Dated this second day of January, A. D,  1902.  INSUBANCE BROKERS  Agents   for    Trout   Lake   Addition  (Bogustown) Fairview Addition.  Acreage property adjoining the park;  And J. & J. Taylor safes.  These safes can be bought from us oi  two year's time without intei est  Ward Bros.  833 West Baker Street, Nelson.  NOTICE  To the Public and Union Men:  The Trades and Labor Council of tho City  of Nelson have declared all hotels, restaurants and saloons employing Chinese in or  around the premises unfair lo organi-cd  labor. Tho following do not employ Chincso  in such capacity:  VICTORIA HOTEL  CLARKE HOTKL  TREMONT HOTEL  MADDEN HOTEL  SHERBROOKE HOTEL  GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL  LAKK VIEW HOTEL  ROSSLAND HOTEL  GRAND HOTEL  KLONDIKE HOTEL  JOHN SPEAR  MANHATTAN SALOON  BODEGA SALOON  GLUE POT SALOON  IMPERIAL RESTAURANT  KOOTENAY HOTEL  IMPERIAL SALOON  WAVERLEY HOTEL  ATHABASCA SALOON  ROYAL HOTEL  GOAL  FOR  DOMESTIC  OR  STEAM  USE  Qeneral Agency, Telephone 265.  W. P. TIERNEY  BAKER  STREET,  NELSON.  Tklki-iionk 145  ORDER YOUR  Thlkmionk 35  COAL  FROM  NELSON FREIGHTING AND TRANSFER CO.  LOST  LOST���AT ERIE, B. C, ON SATURDAY,-  January ISth, two checks on the Canadian  Bank of Commerce, Nelson, one No. 1S0S,  for $ns payable to William Harper; and one  No. 1330, for $05.50, payable to H. Mcintosh.  Suitable reward will be given for the recovery of the same. Address David Murphy,  Erie, B. C.  2J0TI0E OF MEETING  The annual meeting of the Cooks' and  "Waiters' Union, No. MI, Western Labor  Union, will be held Sunday, January 26th,  at S o'clock sharp, for the purpose of electing ofllcors for the ensuing term. All members are rentiested to attend.  H.  AI.  FORTTER, Finance Secretary.  A. B. SLOAN, Prosident.  NOTIOE.  Your patronage ond influence respectfully solicited for Brown Brothers as the leading jewelers of Nelson.  STENOGRAPHER. ��� A YOUNG LADY  stenographer, three years' experience,  wishes position. Good references. Apply,  staling salary, to 700 Seventh Avenue, Vancouver, B. C.  ANTHRACITE AND ROSLYN  ALWAYS ON HAND  Offlce: Baker Street,  WEST TRANSFER GO.  N. T. MACLEOD, Manager.  Teaming and Transfer Work of  all kinds.  Agents for Hard and Soft Coal. Imperial  Oil Company. Washington Brick, Limo ft  Manufacturing Company. General commercial agent's and brokers.  All coal and wood strictly cash on delivery.    OFFICE 184. BAKER STREET  TELEPHONE   147.  Private Tuition  Students prepared for departmental and  other examinations.  Commercial work a specialty.  I. 0. SLATER,  Fourth door above City Hall,