Jjlelsotr tribune Saturday Morning, October 18, 1902 PROMINENT MINING MAN PREDICTS THAT KOOTENAY WILL TEEM WITH PROSPERITY BUTTE POWDER PRIGES COMPARED WITH PRIGES PREVAILING AT NELSON Tho arguments used by pessimistic mine managers, like Edmund B. Kirby and Bernard McDonald of Rossland, in their endeavor to show that mining in British Columbia is carried on under great difficulties, difficulties that are not natural but artificial, are not always based on facts.;, One of these artificial difficulties is taxation. They claim that the mining industry pays more than its proportion of direct taxation, and that in addition it is unduly taxed through the tariff. Bernard McDonald and Edmund B. Kirby have stated that mining companies at Butte, Montana, get 40 per cent dynamite for 8 1-2 cents a pound, and this statement has heen taken up and reiterated by.men who do most of their mining in hotel lobbies. Butte, Montana, is the largest mining camp in America. It is situated in what is called "neutral territory," that is, territory in which both the Eastern and the Western powder companies meet on . an equality as far as freight rates enter into the cost of powder. One conmany that operates at Butte buys more powder in one month than all the companies operating in southeastern British Columbia put together. The Amalgamated Copper Company at Butte uses 250.000 pounds of dynamite a month, as against 25,000 pounds used by the Le Roi mino at Rossland. Dynamite (40 per cent) is selling at Butte today in carload lols at $13.10 per 100 pounds; in 10,000-pound lots at $13.00: in 5,000- pound lots at $13.S5; in 2,000-pounrt lots at $14.10; and in 1,000-pound lots at. $14.35. The same grade of powder is selling in Nelson, a point that has no advantages' in freight rates, at $13.72 in carload lots, or 02 cents a hundred pounds, higher than in Butte, where-a carload is used as against a 10-box lot; in Nelson. It is just possible that there is a difference in the prices of some kinds of mining machinery and some kinds of timber used in mining at Rossland as compared with Butte, but accurate comparative prices of these supplies nave not yet been obtained by The Tribune, but as soon as they are obtained The Tribune will print them. FOUR FEET OF SOLID ORE. Word conies from Sandon that "Phil" Hickcy has struck four feet of galena in one of tbe lower levels of the Ivanhoe mine. The Ivanhoe is owned by the Minnesota Silver Company, whose shareholders are residents of the United States, none of whom are writing letters to the press expressing dissatisfaction with the laws of British Columbia. With new strikes in mines like the Ivanhoe and a $10 freight rate on zinc ore to Kansas, the Slocan will teem with prosperity within a year. PREDICTS PROSPERITY. Byron N. White, one of the largest owners in the Slocan Star mine at Sandon, was in Nelson this week. Few men are better posted as to the conditions in this country, and few are more sanguine regarding its .future. As is well known, the Slocan ore and the Ainsworth ore carry zinc. Some of the ore of these. two districts carries so large a percentage of zinc that it will not pay to ship to local smelters, and some of it, when shipped, has such large deductions for penalties on its zinc percentage that the profits are materially reduced. An effort is being made to overcome these difficulties, and it is in a fair way to turn out successful. If a $10-a-ton rate for freight can be obtained between Kootenay points and Iola, Kansas, where a zinc smelter is in successful operation, one of the difficulties will be overcome. There are hundreds of claims scattered throughout West Kootenay in which the showings are such as would interest capital if only it could be shown that the values in tlie ore could be saved. The values are there, and they can be saved in Kansas, if only the railways will make a freight rate that will leave the mine- owner a profit. Mr. White predicts that Kootenay will within a very short time have a greater measure of prosperity than it has ever had, and the prosperity will be largely due to working mines that produce zinc ere. Preparations are being made for testing the practicability of the Edison electric, process on the ores of the Slocan to extract the zinc. If this is found practicable it.means a great deal for the Kootenays generally. In most of the Slocan ores the percentage of zinc is very high, and instead of this being the detriment it has proved heretofore, may be found to add materially to the.yalue of the'ore. Tlie nesv system involves the roasting of the ore by the Edison system, to extract the zinc, which will then be available for shipping to the zinc works of the states, or it may be that eventually such works will be \ no t? ... ELEVATION . on _VE{_.NCN_LiSJ). PUBLIC BUILDING���New Postoffice and Custom House at Nelson, Nearing Completion. established here. One of the great advantages of the system is that the ore can be treated at the mine or at some central point, and would not have to be taken to the smelters until after the heretofore refractory zinc had been extracted. The zinc experts who visited the properties on which the experiments are to be made shortly, expressed the opinion that such treatment is entirely practicable and should be very profitable. It will be remembered that the project of shipping the ore direct without treatment to the zinc works was found to be impossible owing to the high freight rates that would have to be paid to the railways, but the system proposed will do away with this besides building up another industry here. The results of tbe experiments will be awaited with the greatest interest. The process is said to be a comparatively inexpensive one, which more than pays for itself in the lessening of bulk alone of the ore. WELL-KNOWN MINING MAN. William Springer, who is known in more mining camps in North America than any other' man who ever played a game of "sluff," was in Nelson this -week as a witness in the famous Cube Lode mining case. "Bill" came direct from Nome to Nelson, having left the far-northern town on the 2nd instant. He went north last summer along with Albert Allen, a Spokane lawyer who has quit the law to make a fortune at mining. "Bill" and Allen did not make a fortune at Nome, all because the machine they took along to do the work would not work. The experience cost just. $10,000, but the money was not "Bill's," and it wasnt' Allen's, lt was "Pete" Larson's and John Finch's, who made it operating mines in the Coeur d' Aleries, where lead brings three and a-half a hundred. The machine is still at Nome, where it will remain. "Bill" says Nome is a good town and the country is also good, although the weather is not as good as it is in Kootenay. Mr. Springer was roreman at the Freddie Lee mine, in the Slocan, when it was the only .mine in that famous district shipping..'���".ore; He also had charge of the Second Relief mine, near Erie. when, it was, beingt.de,yelp.T)ed.,/He. had a fortune in sight'-at Rossland in the spring of '95, but was beat out of it. He owned the No. 1, a claim adjoining the War Eagle group. In the fall of '94, he told a supposed friend he could have it for $1,500, and the option was claimed the next year, when tho boom was on at Rossland. The case went to court, and "Bill" lost, the ? 1,500 he got just about squaring his lawyer for his time and trouble. "Bill," although he has not acquired riches, is as young looking as he was ten years ago, and is just as liberal and twice as good-natured. Springer creek at Slocan City is named after him, and may he live as long as its waters run. FINE SPECIMENS OF ORE. Slocan Drill, 17th: "T. J. Raty is exhibiting some remarkably fine specimens of ore, which he brought down from the Port Hope. The claim ad- , joins the Phoenix group, on Erin mountain, and is owned by himself, Harry Fife, and J. G. McCallum. They have two men working on the claim and a new exposure of ore has been made, and it is a dandy. A*shaft was sunk 12 feet through the wash and caught the vein, opening at once on to -. a*paystreak ot ten inches of solid ore. It carries much iron pyrites and smJall bunches ot antimonial silver, making the ore very- high grade. In the No. 1 shaft a depth of 25 feet has been gained, carrying ore all the way down, and having 14 inches exposed at the foot. A small sample shipment lo Nelson gave 114 ounces silver and $lG.gold per ton. A number of open cuts have shown the lead in several places, all combining to make, ' the Port Hope a very promising claim. WILL BE _ MILLING NEXT MONTH. It is' expected that the Iraniway:l,coii*j*- necting the Venue niihe with the Atha.- ; basca mill will be completed-7 by the* ' middle of next month. . When this is -��� done manager Gracey, of the recon- "-��. structed Athabasca-Venus company,-; "- says he will be in shapeTtb keep the teh.*,^ stamps of the Athabasca crushing Venus ore for many months: to come. The foreman of the Venus has expressed himself as highly pleased with the appearance of the property, and everything indicates .that the. stockholders will get a good return on the money, they, have embarked in their venture. 7 SLOCAN ORE SHIPMENTS. ��� Last-week the Payne mine at Sandon shipped 100 tons of ore, the Ivanhoe 20, Sunset 21, American Boy 21, Bosun 20, Wonderful 15, Silver Glance 43, Ruth! 124, Antoine 44, and R. E. Lee 44. City Solicitor's Opinion on Forfeiture of Tramway Franchise The Mayor Was Told That He Had Neglected One of His Duties The meeting of Nelson's eity council on Monday night was an important one in several respects. One of the respects in which it was important'was the fact that mayor Fletcher had no backing on any of tlie several contentious questions considered^ One of the .contentious riuesUqns was the opinion delivered on behalf of tlie city solicitor declaring that the Nelson Electric Tramways, Limited, had forfeited its franchise to operate ears on tlie streets of Nelson. The opinion was a surprise to (lie mayor. Another matter dealt with was the receipt from tlie provincial government of deeds for the foreshore land lying along the water front from the west side line of Ward street east to tlie city limits, nnd for a piece of land known as the clt> park.- This land was llrst applied for during the Turner regime; afterwards tlio Semlin government was nskod for it, and II was only secured at the Inst session of the legislature. Tlio llrst business taken up whs the report of the finance committee, it recommended that the following ACCOUNTS III. ORD13RED PAID: Kootenay Electric Supply and Construction Company ? "'fil 21 Ashdown Hardware Company 25 71 Georgo F. Motion 50 F. J. Bradley & Company 100 ���P. Burns & Company ��� :! '10 Charles Jeffs -I 00 T. S. McPherson ISO W. F. Toots-el & Co 2 25 Spokane Northern Telegraph Co IIS Klcctric Dispatch Messenger Co.... 1 35 Canada Drug & Book Co '1 90 Brnckmnn-Ker Milling Co 75 70 William Hunter & Co 50 Nelson Saw & Planing Mills, Ltd.. 17123 Nelson Postofllce 13 00 Kinrade & Munroe 1120 Grant & McLean C 95 Jolin Richardson 4 00 Kootenay Lake Telephone Co IS 45 E. K.' Strachan 4 00 Ludlow_ VAbLe_.��_-._l'fa_;_liri._g__(..0* ��� __ ____��� West Kootenay Power & Light Co.. KM 79 W. R. Jarvis 190 C. P. R. Telegraphs 9 57 The Daily News 1100 II. D. Ashcroft 27 OS C. P.- R 3 00 II. Byers <*. Co 10 74, Nelson Hardware Co IB 50 Nolson Freighting & Transfer Co... 41 75 I".. T. Fnrrington 0 10 II. T. Steelier 11 20 M.' Murphy 12 00 I. Holland 0 90 Jacob (.'I'een 5 00 Total $ 1,1.18 59 Tlie committee also made the following RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. That the secretary of the Kootenay Lake General Hospital Society be requested to furnish the council with a list of tlie names of city patients treated in the hospital during this year, stating the number of days treatment and the cost thereof. 2. That the collector be instructed to take proceeding for the immediate colectlon of nil license fees in arrears. 3. That owing to the Illness of the city clerk, and seeing that tlie collector's rolls have not been completed, your committee rocommond that the city procure the services of an extra clerk to do the work. At the same time, this committee is of the opinion that if this work had been pro perly handled earlier in the year that there would have been no necessity for an additional clerk. When Clause 1 was read alderman Hamilton wanted to know why it was the city had so largo a number of patients In the Kootenay Lake general hospital, but the mayor could not an The second clause was allowed to stand without debate, but the fact is significant that two prominent and well-paid city officials and the long-hand "journalist are all three carrying on business contrary to tlie License By-Law. Tlie third clause was not at all to the liking of tlie mayor, for It was a direct censure on his management of tlie city's business affairs, and he rather heatedly resented alderman Scanlan's remarks that there was always some excuse for failures to keep the city's work up to date. Lust year the excuse was that tho city ollice was overcrowded; this year the excuse is that the time or the cily clerk is devoted to entertaining callers. The mayor intimated that alderman Scanlan did not know what he was talking about, as he wns not a member of the council last year. Alderman Scanlan replied that he followed the proceedings of the council, even when he was not a member of it. The mayor tried to mako it appear that the real cause of the delay in preparing the tax notices and the colector's roll was because of the council's delay la passing the tax rate by-laws. This was resented by alderman Hamilton, who said the passage of the by-laws was a mere matter of form; that the tax rate was settled a month before the by-laws wero finally passed. The report was adopted on motion of alderman Selous, seconded by alderman Scanlan. TRAMWAY COMPANY'S FRANCHISE. The city solicitor's opinion regarding the franchise of the Nelson Electric Tramways, Limited, was read, as follows: The Mayor and City Council���Gentlemen: ^liav~e^l?e^ii^'cqtr^ in a written opinion with regard to whether the Nelson Tramway Company have or have not forfeited their franchise, and in regard to this there are two very important points to consider: First���As to whether the words "in any one year" contained in section p, of the by-law and contract, mean a calendar year or a contract year, And secondly, as to whether " a period of two months" mentioned in said section is two consecutive months. Taking them in their order, the first question that confronts one is: from what time does the thirty-live years' franchise granted date, and in my opinion it dates from the 29th day of July, ISiffl, and would expire thirty-live years from that time, and the thirty-live years there, mean contract years, and not calendar years. The next question then Is, does the time limit during which they need not run cars in any one year, refer to any one contract year or any one calendar year. At first blush it would seem reasonable to construe it to mean in any one year of their contract years, but I find a lino of cases of which I will cite one, namely Gibson vs. Barton, reported in 4-1 Law Journal, magistrates cases, at p SI, In which the term "once at least in every year" was unanimously held by the court of appeal in England, to moan "once in every calendar year." In this action the effect of thoso words as laid down in See. 2C of the Companies' Act, 1S62 (English) was held as I said, to mean calendar year. It was urged by Matthews on behalf of the appellants, that as tho company was registered on the 31st day of July, 1S72, that the_words__"ln every_year" meant in every year dating from the birth of the company, and not every calendar year, but the court held otherwise and Bluek- burne J., in his judgment disposes of the point in these words, "We do not think that the fact that the company had been constituted on one particular day In a former year makes the year relate to that date, but It means In the year of Our Lord, a calendar year, the year between the llrst of January and tho thlrly-llrst day of December, both days Inclusive." and with this view the other judges agreed. Now can this ease be distinguished from the present, and at first It struck me thai this case, being one where the interpretation of words in a legislative enactment was In question, might be in a different position lo a case of contract, but on more mature deliberation, I fall to distinguish between them. Jn the case of Gibson vs. Barton the company received certain privileges by complying with the enactments of the Companies' Act. In the present ease the Tramway Company receive certain privileges by reason of a by-law or enactment of the City of Nelson, and a contract entered into in pursuance of that by-law, and after giving tho matter my best consldera- iton, I have come to the conclusion that it Is a calendar year that is meant, though I admit it is a point which Is open to argument. Willi regard to the second point for consideration, namely, the meaning of the term "a period of two months in any one year" I have satisfied myself from a perusal of the section before referred to, both in the by-law and in the contract and of the by-law and contract as a whole, and taking into account the fact that the words are embodied in a sectionwhich ONTARIO'S JOURNALISM. Sandon Paystreak: Ontario newspaper., are setting up a nowl because magazines and newspapers from the United Slates aro cutting in on their trade. This howl is emitted as a roast on tlie Canadian people for reading sensational Yankee literature, but it works the other way. It is a boomerang on Canadian journalism. Canada has a bum lot of newspapers, and Ontario has the rockiest galaxy in the Dominion. Journalism in the agricultural regions of Ontario is simply vile. Party politics has reduced Ontario editors to the level of sycophants and nuul-slingers, adoring their own party and detesting the other frantically. Willi very few exceptions, we have yet lo discover ono spark of originality or a trace of genius, thought, or ability In the whole siring nf country papers that disgrace Ontario. Their new:; service, as well as their editorial depart-, mont, is something awful. Quacks, boiler plate, and patent insides take the place of news, and ninety-nine out of a hundred Ontario newspapers are botched and pan- noodled in a manner that should lead to the arrest of the editor. Pay for subscription is taken in anything moveable from tombstones to turnip seed. Ads are convertible Into orders on Ihe country store, nnd the printers get their pay in tickets to the church social nnd orders on the harness shop or the brickyard. The editor is generally regarded as a parasite on the community, who has to be kept at the public expense. He usually lacks ability to make his presence valuable to the town he lives in, or his paper worth reading. Ontario printers, as a rule, get rat wages nnd they do rat work. Not a paper out of twenty curries the label or pays tho scale. Typographically they are a regular abortion. The ads in most of them would give a sign fence painter the nightmare. These are the papers which oo the most kicking about sensational Yankee journalism. Many of them want a duty placed on American papers and some of them oven advocate restricting their sale. Instead, the great bulk of Ontario editors should be fined for Indecent exposure." REDMOND IS SANGUINE. Boston, Mass., Oct. 17.���On the steamship New England, which arrived from Queens- town and Liverpool today, were John E. Redmond, M. P., chairman of tho Irish parliamentary party, and president of tho United Irish league; John Dillon. M. P. for East Mayo, and Michael Davitt. Their arrival has been long looked forward to by all Irishmen as they are to address tho members of the United Irish league which holds its national convention in this city, beginning Sunday night. Mr. Redmond, in speaking of the present condition in Ireland and of matters relating to United Irish league, said: "Th. United Irish league i.s the ruling power 'in Ireland today, as truly as ever the land league was. The government played into our hands by tlie coercion policy nnd now the country is aroused. AVe are on tho eve of a settlement of tlie Irish land question and after that nation self government will speedily come to Ireland. "Tho Irish parly now in the house of commons i.s the only real opposition in tlie English parliament, and I believe the day is near at hand when it will have the controlling influence in Great Britain." The only comment he made on the fitrelblc expulsion of John O'Donnell, M. P., from the house of commons and the ro-iinprison- ment ot Patrick A. Mclftigli, was that, it showed that the opposition lo the English government in the commons, is as usual, led by the Irish yarly. In the course of an interview tonight. Mr. Davitt said that he was pleased at what had happened in the house of commons on Wednesday. lie said he hnd never seen the spirit of the Irish people as it exists today surpassed at any stage in the struggle of the past 3(1 years. "Landlordism," he said, "is doomed and with that destroyed national self-government Is certain." THE CATTLE EMBARGO. Toronto, Oct. 17.���Tho Telegram's London cable says: Right, honorable R. W. Han bury, president of (he board of agriculture, will next Thursday receive a deputation of .Manchester moat retailers, and discuss with them tho starts out by imposing on tlio Tramway Company the duty of operating their trains daily and that the lay off, of two months, is a privilege granted to them by the city, that the city are fully protected in tlie wording of the by-law and contract, and that the court would construe the words to mean two months made up of different periods of time extending over one year. I have, therefore, to advise In my opinion, the Tramway Company have forfeited their franchise. W. A. OALL11IICR. For P. E. Wilson, Cily Solicitor. There was considerable discussion nn the question at Issue, .and several points were raised. Mr. Gallllier, who was present nn behalf of city solicitor Wilson, said he would not euro to be quoted as giving an opinion offhand on the,jsevorul points, and on motion of alderman Morrison further consideration of the opinion was deterred for two weeks. "MISCELLANEOUS. Joseph Sturgeon, Mrs. P. Carey, J. Q. Choate and J. N. Gallagher asked for a crossing at Baker and Railway streets, and the matter wa.s referred to tlie city engineer. Wheallcr & AVragge, barristers and solicitors, wrote saying they were Instructed by John Jelsrud to claim the sum of .('<> by way of compensation for personal injuries sustained by him on the night of removal of restrictions on the importation of cattle from tho Argentine1, and incidentally the embargo upon Canadian cattle. TURKS MASSACRE CHRISTIAN'S. Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 15.���A report has been received here from the frontier that in the vicinity of Dubnltza. six hundred women and children have fled into Bulgaria to escape Turkish troops. Thoy report tlie destruction of the Christian villages of Stamer, Drenovo. Serbinovo and Pirlne. and that the village of Oranovo has been burned and its inhabitants massacred. EYE DISEASE IN NEW YORK. New York, Oct. 15.���Commissioner Ledorle of the health department, today reported that he had examined, with tho 1st instant, owing to the defective condition of the foot bridge on Latimer street, between Kootenay and Falls streets. Tho leiter was referred to the city solicitor. The city engineer made a verbal report as to the cost of gravelling Latimer street, between Hall and Cedar streets. The cost was estimated at $150, and the work was) "ord'ored^one. The crown grants for the foreshore and the park were produced and read. The ono for ihe foreshore was found to be satisfactory In every respect; but the one for the park was not so satisfactory, as Iho land only belongs to the city as long as it is used for park purposes. Alderman Selous gave notice that ho would at the next meeting of tho council Introduce a by-law dealing with the land on the foreshore, so that the squatters could be got rid of. The question of employing necessary, clerical help to get out the tax notices and make the necessary entries In the collector's rolls was disposed of by a motion that Messrs. Jowetl and AVilson bo employed at $3 a day each. Mr. Burgess, who lives on Lot IS*., wn�� present and addressed the council on tho question of extending the city limits so as to take In nil that portion of Lot 1S2 lying; to the west of Park street. Tlio residents on thai particular portion ot "Josh" Daviess townsite want sidewalks, and water, and sewers, and street improvements, and they can only get these modern conveniences by an extension of the city limits. The residents on the east side of Park street do not want to come iu as they have no taxes to pay now aud do not want to pay any in the future. Tlie question was laid over, and the council adjourned till tlie 20th. the aid of two eye experts, thousands! of school children in the city, and found that IS per cent of them were afflicted, with a contagious disease known as trachoma, a granulation of the eyelids. "We think this disease was introduced by immigrants." said the commissioner, lt is estimated that there aro 000,000 children of school age in the city, and that 100,000 are afflicted with: the eye disease. The commission asked for an extra appropriation to stamp out the disease. ANOTI1 ER TARTE NEWSPAPER. Quebec. Oct. 17.���The Daily Mercury: has been purchased by the sons of Hon. J. I. Tarte, publishers of La Pat.ris, oC Montreal. THOMAS f'OXNFLLY DEAD. St. John. X. I.*.. Oct. 15.���Rev. Thomaq Connelly died today, aged SI, 2 TKe Nelson Tribune Bank of Montreal Established 1817. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. CAPITAL (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 REST 8,000,000 00 UNDIVIDED PROFITS 165,856.00 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL Rt. Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G. C. M. G , President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President. E. S. Clouston, General Manager. NELSON BRANCH, ffiggffSSa? ' A. H. BUCHANAN, Manager. I ImperialBank of Canada \ ��� CAPITAL, (Authorized) ...S*ri.OOOsOOO ��� ��� CAPITAL Paid Up) $2:,ROO OOO * 1 REST rfn...-?..' S2',12 5'0O0 ��� ��� - # J HEAD OFFCE, TORONTO, ONTARIO.���Branches In the Northwest Territor- ��� ��� ies, Provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. * Z T. B. MERRITT, President. D. R. WILKIE, Vice-Pros, and Gen. Man. ��� ��� E. HAY. Assistant G<.n. Manager. "W. MOFFAT, Chief Inspector. # ��� . ��� ��� NELSON BRANCH���A general banking business tranasted. . * 2 Savings Department���Deposits received and interest allowed. ��� ��� Drafts sold, available in all parts of Canada, United States and Europe. Special �� J attention given to collections. U. M. LAY, Manager. * TRAINS AND STEAMERS Leave and Arrive at Nelson as Below. CANADIAN PACIFIC SYSTEM LKAVK 5*00 a.'m, Daily. CROW'S NEST RAILWAY Kuskonook, Creston, Moyio, Cranbrook, Marysville, tort Steele, Elko, Fernie, Michel, Blairmore, Frank, Macleod, Lethbridgo, Winnipeg, and all Eastern points. LEAVB 8 a. m. 8 a.*m�� ii 6:40 6:10 p. m. Dally COLUMBIA & KOOTKNAY RAILWAY Robson, Trail and Rossland. ti.0-35 a.m. (Daily except Sunday) 5:00 p. m_ Daily. Robson, Rossland, Cascade, Grand Forks, Phoenix, Greenwood and Midway. (Daily except Sunday) 10 p. m. Robson, Nakusp, Arrowhead, Daily Revelstoko, and all points easfc and weston O.P.R. main line. Robson, Trail and RosBland. 0:115 p.m. 9:35 p;m. Daily 9:35 p.m. Daily LEAVE 9:15 ajn. SLOCAN RIVER RAILWAY arrive Slocan City, Silverton. New 3:40 p. m. Denver. Three Forks, Sandon (Daily except Sunday) LKAVK KOOTENAY LAKE STEAMBOATS _ p. m. Balfour, Pilot Bay, Ainsworth fKaslo iwid all Way Landings. (Daily except Sunday) _ p. m. Lardo and all points on tho Lardo & Trout Lake Branch. (On Mon. Wed. and Fri.) From Lardo and Trout Lako (On Tue. Thur. and Sat) ARRIVK 11:00 a. m. 11 a.m. GEEAT NOBTHEBN SYSTEM. LKAVK Depot .:15 a.m. Moont*iu 8*06 a. mi DaUy. NELSON & FORT SHEP- PAltD RAILWAY Ymir, Salmo, Erio, "Wanetw., Mounfbi Northport, Itossland, ColvilIei7:13 pu m. LKAVK Nelson 6*00 a. m. Kaslo 3:35 p. m. .Daily Company, and that company has bad the active aid of the tramway company and its officials and employees. The acquiring of a site for a new power station means much for the city, as it means that an investment of $75,000 will be rendered worthless if the power company succeeds in its design. Many of our people believe that the street cars are not being operated by the tramway company, but, instad, are b�� ing" operated by the power company, and with an ulterior object in view. That object is to gain a foothold in the eity, so as to be in a better position to secure the lighting business now carried on by the city. However, there is probably enough public spirit remaining in Nelson to thwart this, the latest, attempt0 of an alien company to depreciate one of the city's utilities, a utility in which the property owners of Nelson have thousands of dollars invested. It is the duty of the city council to put the city solicitors' opinion into effect, and at once. tions. A son of one of the Philadelphia directors was temporairly in charge as manager at the company's headquarters, and after the road had been tied up for a week or ten days telegraphed the governor of the state for troops to protect the company's property. The reply from the governor came by telegraph and raised the strike within twenty- four hours. It was as short as it was laoonic. The reply was: "Pay your men, and you won't need troops." But it is needless to say "Dick" Hubbard was not governor after the next election. History may repeat itself in New York state. Governor Odell's plain talk to president Baer of the Reading railway, a Pennsylvania coal road, shows that there are still men occupying high offlce who are as manly as they are blunt of speech. He told the representative of the Pennsylvania coal road that his position was absolutely untenable; that the men who were on strike in the anthracite coal districts had as much right to organize as had the coal operators and the railway managers, and, more, that he believed the miners' organization, of which John Mitchell was head, desired to be fair with the general public. Such an expression of opinion coming from the governor of the most populous state in the Union will hasten the end of the coal strike, just as did the laconic reply of -governor Hubbard of Texas end a railway strike in that largest state of the Union in 1874. Will the reply send Odell into political retirement in 1902 as did Hubbard'3 in 1874? and Spokane. Making: through connection. at Spokane to the south, east and west. KOOTENAY LAKE STEAMBOATS Balfour, PilotBay, Ainsworth Kaslo and all Way Landings. LEAVE Dally 9:00 a. m 1:00 p. m. Depot. 8 p. ni. Daily KASLO & SLOCAN RAILWAY . Kaslo... . Sandon.. ARRIVE Kaslo 8:10 a. in. Nelson 7:15 p. iu. Daily ARRIVE Daily 3:15 p.m. 11:25 a m. THE NELSON TRIBUNE Founded ln 1S92. JOHN HOUSTON, Proprietor Editorial and Business Offlce Room 9, Madden Block. The Nelson Tribune is served by carrier to subscribers ln Nelson or sent by mall to any address ln Canada or the United States, for one dollar a year; price to Great Britain, postage paid, $1.50. No subscription taken for less than a year. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1902. The opinion of the city solicitor that the Nelson Electric Tramways, Limited, have no longer a legal right to operate cars on the streets of Nelson is no doubt as sound law as it is sound common sense. The promoters of the company secured certain privileges from the city, and, in return, agreed to perform certain things. One of the things agreed to was tho operation of street cars daily. It was not understood that they were to be allowed to operate Street cars one day a week or one day a month; but, on the contrary, it was understood that the cars were to be operated so as to be a public convenience. The people of Nelson have no desire to work any unnecessary hardship on the owners of the tramway, but they will not' for an instant allow the tramway company, or, probably more properly speaking, the West Kootenay Power & Light Company, to play fast and loose with them on a question that so vitally affects the city's interests. For two years the city has been making efforts to secure sufficient land on Kootenay river on which to build a power station, as the city's requirements had outgrown its present plant. So far these efforts have heen blocked hy the West Kootenay Power & Light The Tribune has assurances from a source that is entirely trustworthy that if Nelson was in a position to supply cheap power that the location of the lead refinery here would be quickly followed by the building of lead smelting works. The Tribune has also assurances from a source that is reliable, that if Nelson wants a 3ite for a power station on Kootenay river, that the people of Nelson must show that they mean business. Last fall they showed by their votes that they did not want a site, and afterwards indicated clearly, by electing Prank Fletcher mayor, that they were in doubt as to whether they believed in the ownership of any public utility by the municipality. People nowadays are taken at their word, and the people of Nelson have been so taken, and if they want to be understood as being in favor of municipal ownership o_=publie=utilities^they^must^say^so=in^ the only way by which expressions of public opinion can be correctly registered; they must say so at the polls. Power stations cannot be built without money, and if tho ratepayers will not vote the money, their action can only be construed as meaning that they do not want a power station. Then when they emphasize such an action by electing men to office notoriously hostile to the public ownership of utilities, outsiders surely cannot bo blamed for turning down the city's applications to purchase land, even when it is known that the turning down is in the interest of a private corporation, a corporation that is even seeking, as is tho West Kootenay Power & Light Company, to secure a monopoly of all the sites suitable for power stations on the one river in this section that has an abundant flow of water at all seasons of the year. The people of Nelson are up against it, and they havo only themselves to blame. If they would regain the reputation they once had, of being the most public-spirited of any people in the province, they must send to the rear the gang of corporation grafters they have been coddling for two years. The Philadelphia North American is the oldest daily newspaper in America, lt is edited by Arthur McEwen, a Canadian, and is owned by John Wanamaker, one of Philadelphia's great merchants. On Friday of last week it said: "The coal barons base their objections to John Mitchell's participation in the affairs of tho miners mainly upon the fact that he is a citizen of Illinois. The idea of a 'foreigner' meddling with the mining busness of Pennsylvania is particularly offensive to the presidents of New" York and New Jersey corporations' acting as directors of a Pennsylvania company in violation of the law of the state. These men have imported thousands of laborers from Europe to take the places of native Penn- sylvanians^ in the mines, and now they want the state to kill off a lot of them because they have asked a citizen of Illinois to help them in fitting themselves "to become Americans." ��he coal barons dislike John Mitchell because he has shown them that he can lead men successfully, and do it without bluster. During the anthracite coal strike, which has lasted over five months, John Mit- chell has handled 145,000 miners and mine laborers like a general would handle so many soldiers. He has issued his orders and they have been obeyed. He has written letters, and no one of them contained either blustering threats or poppycock platitudes. He has not done anything that the coal barons expected that he would do. He has not made mistakes and he has not blundered. He has won public opinion to his side, and tlie coal barons know it; that is why they and their newspaper organs abuse him. They cannot bribe him and they cannot bluff him. He has won the respect of the American people, -somcthing-the-coal-barons=cannot=win.. much for these articles as does the consumer in the United States, and often buys the American-made product because of its supposed better quality. Increasing the duty on pig lead to 25 per cent and the duty on corroded lead to the same percentage would not increase the cost of either lead pipe or shot or paints to the consumer, as long as the duties on these articles remain unchanged. But the increase of the duties on pig "lead and corroded lead would result in compelling Canadian manufacturers to use Canadian mined lead, and would compel them to establish lead corroding works in Canada, The more lead mined in Canada and the more lead.manufactured in Canada can only mean more people employed in Canada, and the more people employed iu Canada can only mean increase in the consumption of Canadian produce and Canadian manufactures. A country that persists in purchasing from another country that which it can produce itself will never be either populous or prosperous THE BEST SOCIETY DECLARED BARBARIC IT LIVES ON THE LABOR OF OTHERS The Rossland. World says it is not ashamed of championing the cause of Edmund B. Kirby. The chances are, however, that Mr. Kirby will not place himself on record as being willing'to give the Rossland World a friendly boost, even when it is the under dog in a fight. The World and Edmund B. Kirby and Smith Curtis are all under one blanket in the same political bunk, and the people are only too willing that they shall r.emain under it. Twenty-eight years ago there was more or less friction between railway managers and their employees caused by reductions in and non-payment of wages. There were riots at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and much destruction of railway property. In other states, railways were tied up before adjustments could be effected. One of the railways tied up in Texas was the Texas & Pacific. Its directors, who lived in Philadelphia, had cut the wages of tlie men, and what was worse, wore behind with the reduced rato of wages for months. The men struck and tied the road up. They were law-abiding, however, and guarded the company's property at all important sta- Clifford Sifton is minister of the interior in the Laurier government, and his personal newspaper organ and mouthpiece is the Winnipeg Free Press. . The Free Press is opposed to any increase of duties on lead and lead products, and gives as a reason for its opposition, that the increase of duties would increase the cost of lead pipe and shot and paint to tho Canadian consumer. The reasons given by the Free Press arc copied by the Nelson Daily News, the newspaper organ of the Liberal party in Kootenay, and if tlie Daily News is not in accord with the views of the Free Press, it "has, so far, been careful to refrain from saying so. But The Tribune will not deal with that phase of the question, and will only attempt to show that the contentions of the Free Press are not based on facts. The manufacturer of lead pipe and shot and paints in the United States pays from four to four and a quarter cents a pound for the pig lead from which he manufactures his lead pipe and shot and paints, and after his articles are manufactured he is protected by a duty that averages 25 per cent. Foreign lead is not used in any of his manufactures; he uses only lead produced in the United States. The Canadian manufacturer of lead pipe and shot and paints uses foreign-produced lead in all his manufactures, and pays the London price for it, plus a duty of 5 per cent on corroded lead that he uses for making paints and 15 per cent on pig lead that he uses for making lead pipe and shot, and after he manufactures this foreign-produced lead into lead pipe and shot and paints he is protected by duties that average 25 per cent, just the same rate of protection that is given tho American manufacturer. The consumer of lead pipe and shot and paint in Canada pays just as SILLY ROT. "It would be wise for the merchants of Vancouver to give heed to this quickening of industrial life in the upper country, and take advantage of it. It is a regrettable fact that the trade* of the Kootenays is very largely controlled by the Americans, and most of the articles consumed by the people are imported from south of the boundary line. It is true that this is owing to some extent to the time which is necessary in sending goods from the coast; but not a little of the fault lies with our own merchants in not pushing their trade into that district. If, as seems more than likely, the new process for obtaining the values from the ores proves the success which is expected, the up-country" trade will in a very short time assume immense proportions, and unless the business men <:t the coast make sure of getting their share of it from the first they will find it difficult to wrest it from the Americans when they have come to realize its value. All that country is naturally tributary, from a commercial point of view, to Vancouver, anil our merchants should secure 'full advantage of this ,'cumstance." ) ����� . - The words quoted above is a sample V_f the silly rot that appears from time ���;o time in the Vancouver papers. The .trade of the "upper country" does not go to the United States, and it will not go to Vancouver. The trade of the "upper country". goes to the cheapest markets. What does Vancouver manufacture that is used in the "upper country:" Absolutely nothing. Vancouver, it is true, handles merchandise manufactured in other countries and in different sections of Canada. Her merchants buy where they Can buy to the best advantage, and they buy nothing from Canadian manufacturers through mere sentiment. So with the merchants in the "upper country." They buy in the cheapest and best markets, and they are just as able to buy cheap as Vancouver merchants are, for they "havelthe same b^S~^ffin^tlTenjrfi*onr which to borrow money. Had Nelson as good freight rates as Vancouver has, it is safe to say that Vancouver merchants would not sell a dollar's worth of goods in Kootenay in a hundred years, and the merchants of the Kootenay country would not buy any more merchandise in the United States than is now being purchased by Vancouver merchants in that country. The trade of the "upper country" is handicapped, not by American competition, but by tho unfair discrimination of tho Canadian Pacific railway, in hauling merchandise from Eastern Canadian points to Vancouver and back to points in Kootenay for a less rate than it hauls goods from Eastern Canadian points direct to points in Kootenay. In other words, the Canadian Pacific railway hauls merchandise 900 miles for less than nothing in order to help Vancouver , merchants get the trade of the. "upper country," a trade that can be handled to much better advantage from Nelson or Rossland or Kaslo or Revelstoke or West Robson. Herbert Spencer, at eighty-three years of age, has recently sent some small shivers down the spines of the Leisure Clnss in England by saying, "The society represented by our so-called best families is essentially barbaric." This remark coming from a commonplace man, would excite no comment, but when Herbert Spencer stands behind a sentence, it is apt to mean much. The "Pall Mall Gazette" quoted the comment and added: "Poor old man! ho is certainly in his dotage." The worst about Spencer's remark is that it Is true. Society moves in a circle���things are in a swirl, and civilization could never exist at all were It not for tho fact that country boys, born in families of no social standing and no wealth, are constantly going up to the cities to take the places where only mon of power can exist. The society represented by our best families Is essentially barbaric���in America and elsewhere. And the reason is that it has ceased to produce and now only consumes. It lives on the labor of others. The thing that does not serve��� that has no use, is a burden to somebody if continued. The self-appointed superior class Is an awful handicap to civilization. Our best society destroys, consumes and lays waste. The child of slavery of the south, the sweat shops of the cities, and the unending toil of most farming folk is a direct result of our best society���this so- called superior class. . There is a certain amount of work to do in the world, and the reason some people have to work from daylight clear into the night is because others do not work at all. I�� you consume more than you produce some one must labor to make good the deficiency. Our best society is intent on honoring the man who wastes and consumes. In fact, if you are. a mere producer, and nothing else, the best society does not deign to notico you, much less admit you into its charmed circle. In order to belong *o the best society you must dress so you cannot bo useful��� you cannot shoulder a trunk, carry out the ashes, cook, hitch up a horse, nor dig in the ground. The raiment that society demands you shall wear, forbids your using your muscles in any useful effort. At the Waldorf-Astoria seventeen hundred servants are employed, and this is just tlie capacity of the hotel���there is one servant for every guest. And in meat and drink each guest wastes five times as much as he consumes. This fact is also true of all so-called flrst-clas hotels in our large cities. Some one has got to make good this wastage���and and it is the social outcast who does it. Only a few years ago all useful work was done by slaves. These slaves were bought, sold, worn out, beheaded and tossed to hell at will by the best society. Things have gradually bettered, but the distinguishing feature of tlie best society yet is that It attaches a disgrace to useful effort���it dissociates Itself from toil. In every town and city in America there is this little smart set that .patterns its life after Unit of tho Turk. It is waited upon, and spends its days in having "a good time." Usually the true type centers itself around a small ivy-covered church upon which is a dinky cross. A genuine naked cross, raised aloft, bold and strong, would suggest "popery," so the cross that our best society affects has curves, curls, fig-leaves and whiskers, and is disguised as if it were ashamed of itself. The religion of our last society is symboled in this cross��� it is artistic, painted, powdered, carved, curled and curious in its disguised form. It is so unobjectionable. In Virginia, for instance, the best society swings about this church with its skimped, iced and rudimentary cross. Education is to fit one for this best society.���to avoid work and do it gracefully. And if one become a priest to this society and preside at the modest, ivy-clad chapel with its pec-wee cross, what greater honor! Oh, yes there is one honor just as great, the army! The church or the army, which shall it be? is the tantalizing question that confronts the ambitious mother���to save souls or damn them���it really matters little. with hooks and eyes! Whicli? And any way, thank God! Reginald shall be a gentleman. Ho shall dance and hunt anil shoot���ho shall be an ornament to the best society. The best society gets its recreation through waste and destruction. In Virginia especially it demands blood. The horses they use are first deprived of their tails. Birds mate, nest ahd rear their young, only to be shot and mutilated by members of the best society; foxes are bred but to be chased by packs of hounds that are kept for no other purpose.than to destroy these foxes that are bred to be destroyed for the amusement of the best society. In New York state there is a colony known as Wadsworth!' that lives to consume, to waste, to destroy. It is a very exclusive chapter of tho best society. This colony is modeled on the Virginia type, which is patterned after the English idea. The distinguishing features of the best society everywhere is that it does no useful work, ostracises those who do, and gets- its recreation in cruelty and extravagance. It thinks all things were created just for it ���the lives ot" men, beasts and birds must minister to its pleasure. The foxes have holes and the birds of tho air have nests, but what's the use when we who belong to the best society know, where they are! The following is a clipping taken from the society column of the Richmond, Virginia, Dispatch for May 21st, 1902. I print the extract without comment: The Waynesboro Hunt Club had quite a novel shooting match on Monday evening of this week. The club has been holding shooting matches for several weeks, using the ordinary pigeons for targets. On Sunday evening the observant captain of the Waynesboro club, captain William Mc- ���Cray, who belongs to our best society, and who is ever on the alert to tako advantage of any new scheme in the sporting line, noticed .that about two bushels of chimney swallows wer. taking refuge in a neighbor's chimney, whereupon he summoned James Craig, and together thoy ���concocted a plan by which to take captive- the unsuspecting denizens of the air. By means of a large sack spread over the top- ���of the chimney, and the application of a dense smoke at the bottom" about 400- swallows were incarcerated. The originators of the plan were so jubilant over their ���catch that they communicated the news to several members-of tho Staunton Gun Club, whom they invited, and Mr. William McDaniel, S. P. Davis and John Foxhall joined them Monday afternoon in a shooting match. The birds were liberated from Annapolis with brass buttons or the church n tra]) one at a Ume illu1 tll0 sportsmen declared they havo never before undergone- such a test of marksmanship ns they wen. put to by the frightened swallows. Quite a number of spectators wore present, including a number of ladles, and neither tho attraction of the polo game, going on at the time, nor the impending- storm, could drive them from the scene of excitement. The match lasted for several hours, and' William McDaniel of Staunton took tho^ lead, killing thirteen out of twenty-four birds, followed by Dr. T. S. Richardson,., who .'tilled .twelve out of twenty-four. A notable feature in the case is that the swallows that were so fortunate as to- escape made direct for the shelter of the- chimney from which they had been cap- turod���Albert Hubbard in The Pliillistlno* for August. *******+***********���******* + ***** ***********+*****>**���******** ******<1+*+++***********r j Nelson Saw and Planing Mills, Limited, j | Lumber,J Lath, Sash, Doors, Mouldings, and all kinds of t ; Factory Work. | f KILN-DRIED LUMBER FOR THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY TRADE M SPECIALTY. t* COAST FLOORING AND CEILING KEPT IN STOCK | Office and Mills at Foot of Hall Street, NELSON, B.C. i **t**-*M>4*��*-H^-*''**^*��*^^ +���+++����������������+���+�� SENSATIONAL PARAGRAPH. TORONTO, October 9.���The News tonight publishes the following rather sensational interview: "If the government tries to make the farmers of Manitoba and the Northwest buy their agricultural implements from eastern Canada, under a higher tariff, the cabinet ministers will have a tremendous political difficulty on their hands. They will And a secession movement begin in that part of Canada," The above sensational paragraph appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press of the 10th instant. Supposing that the tariff on agricultural Implements were raised, what would be the result to the purchaser? Simply this: that the United States implement makers who, under the present comparatively low rate of duty, manufacture their implements in the United States and ship them into Canada, would at once begin and continue to manufacture them in Canada. From this two things would result���the larger employment of Canadian'labor; and, as the result of greater competition, the lowering-of the prices charged therefor. It is "for the precise purpose "of preventing~tiieir~"feeiing the lieed^of manufacturing in Canada that the present comparatively low tariff on agricultural implements coming into Canada was decided upon at the instance��� so at least it has been frequently alleged���of the implement makers in Canada. The result of the raising of the tariff materially on agricultural implements coming into Canada would be exactly the opposite of tbat which is stated in the above extract. REISTERER & OO. BREWERS OF LAGER BEER AND PORTER Put up In Packages to suit the Trade P. BURNS tf CO. w-__*.s_/. a_dnetau j\/[eai Merchants _HeadJQf_ice_and_ColdiStorage-E]ant=at,Nelson. Branch Markets at Kaslo, Ymir, S__ndon, Silverton, Revelstoke, New- Denver, Cascade, Trail, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Midway*. Phoenix,. Rossland, Slocan City, Moyie, Cranbrooke, Feraie and Macleod. Nelson Branch Market, Barns Block, Baker Street. Orders hy mail to any Branch will receive prompt'and careful attention. Brewery and Offlce on Latimer Nelson, B. C. Drink Thorpe's Lithia Water Street, West Kootenay Butcher Co. Fresh and Salted Meats Fish and Ponllrj in Season Ordors by Mail receive Careful and Prompt Attontiuii K. C TltAVXS, "Mana��erF I..-W--C. Blk., Nelson. GELIGNITE ^e Strongest and Best Explosive iq the Market Manufactured by the HAMILTON POWDER COMPANY Manufacturers of High Grade Explosives, -Sporting, Mining arnd Blasting Powder GEO. C. TUNSTALL, JR., District Mgr., Nelson, B.C. SPECIALTIES FOR HINE TRADE VEGETABLES and FRUITS TARTAN BRAND Morrison & Caldwell, Grocers Open till 10 o'clock, p. m., Saturdays. Tremont Block, Baker Street, Kelson. STARKEY & CO., WHOLESALE PROVISIONS, PRODUCE AND FRUITS. EjEPRESETiNG R. A. Rogers & Go* - ltd , Winnipeg. J<. K. Fair-bank Co., - Montreal. Simcoe Canning Co., - - Simcoe. Every small bottle contains Ave grains of ,' Oftiee and Warehouse, lithia carbonate. TO RENT. A "WELL, Furnished house of six room, for six months; piano; electric lights; all conveniences. Apply to Mrs. W. P. Robinson, Carbonate street, west. FURNISHED Rooms; from ?5 to $7.50 per month. Apply to Mrs. Elizabeth Morica, Lake street, east of Cedar street. Josephine Street, NELSON, B. C. Bridges, Blakemore & Cameron, L'd REAL ESTATE AND QENERAL AGENTS JOSEPHINE ST. NELSON, B. C. SEWING MACHINES AND PIANOS FOR RENT AND FOR SALE Old .Curiosity Shop, Josephine St, Nets o The Nelson Tribune "JIM" HILL UTTERS WORDS OF WISDOM ON QUESTIONS OF CONCERN TO CANADA President James J. Hill of the Great Northern railway lias so broad and comprehensive knowledge of commercial relations and possibilities of the Orient, and of the agricultural resources of the country west of the Mississippi river, as well as of Western Canada, that the following will be read with studious interest by all who care to inform themselves upon these great subjects, ln a recent address he started out with the declaration that the trade of the Orient is the oldest commercial trade in the world, and that all the commercial "nations from the earliest dawn of history to the present time have sought it. It has built up more cities in the world than any other trade. The trade of the Orient is comparatively new, Mr. Hill says, although the navy of the United States opened up trade and commerce with the empire of. Japan. In 25 years the foreign trade of Japan has increased about tenfold. Ten years ago the United States imported fnm Japan about -$30,000,000 and expended or sold to them about $5,000,000. Ai this time the United States is selling them over $30,000,000, and its import** arc about $9,000,000. Japan has a popu lation of something over 40,000,000. The people of the Orient with whom the people of the United States and Canada might trade constitute practically half the population of the earth. The great nation that is now about to be opened up to the commerce of the world is China. There-is no reason why China should not make as great or greater progress in its foreign and domestic commerce than Japan. The Chinese as a commercial people are the abler of the two. The interior of China ���and the country is a very, very large one���is largely agricultural. Manchuria is not unlike the province of Ontario and some of the middle states; raises the same crops, and some of the agricultural districts of China would compare favorably with those anywhere else in the world. J3ut the great population of the nation is along the sea- coast. We have in this country but few of the better class of Chinamen. No yeople in the world are able to drive an intelligent Chinaman out of a commercial proposition. ' Our traflic to the Orient is largely a matter of feeding. A people working for ten or fifteen cents a day are compelled to study the most rigid economy. They produce the articles that they use for much less money tnan we could furnish them, provided they have the material. But transportation on the rivers and on the backs of coolies, and in Northern -China on the backs of camels, must be high���it is high, so high as to make a practical barrier between the interior and the seacoast. The traffic of this country with the Orient is susceptible of enormous development. Other nations will contend for it, but the European nations are compelled to cross two oceans to get it, while we have to cross but one. There are some heavy articles of iron and steel, such as machinery and other manufactures, which we can furnish them. Again, tho United States can furnish them with raw cotton; we can furnish them with flour. We do. A few years ago it was entirely new to them to use Canadian flour. Last year, notwithstanding the fact, that the war had restricted the use of flour in China, they used enough flour to consume from 15,- 000,000 to 18,000,000 bushels of wheat. It is only a few years ago that the first American cotton went to the Orient. It came about in this way: Some ^Japaheseron-'their-way^to-Europe.-were. in Mr. Hill's oflice. They wanted to buy- rails for their railroad. He asked them where they proposed to buy. They said they would buy ei.ther English or Belgian rails, delivered at Antwerp or < "Middlesboro, England. He asked them -why they did not buy American rails, lt never occurred to them that we could deliver rails in Japan. At that time Mr. Hill had a contract with the Japanese steamship company to run to the Great Northern's western terminus���Seattle��� nnd by making a low rato and getting the Illinois Steel Company to bid on the rails at about $C or $7 a ton less than they sold them to us they outbid the European rail makers���and tho flrst 15,- 000 tons of American rails went to Japan. Mr. Hill asked them, also, why they did not use American cotton. The same difficulty existed as to that. It was one of the transportation���the cost. They were using short staple India cotton, which mado an inferior yarn, and they were selling their yarn at prices below the English yarns from the Manchester districts. He asked them to take a hundred bales of American cotton, and if they were not satisfied that he would pay for the cotton; if it did not sufficiently improve the quality of their yarns t.'i make it worth their while. The result has been that every year they are increasing the amount of their purchases of cotton from the United States. And there is no reason why that should not increase indefinitely. The Great Northern and its connecting lines have been compelled to refuse ,in a single month 20,000 or 30,000 bales ���of .cotton, because there were no ships, -no ocean transportation, to carry it. In au intevriew Mr. Hill said: "This 'Oriental trade to us is an incident to our other business. If it were not that ���we have other traffic from tbe western -and middle states of this country, we -should feel much less interest in the growth of the Oriental trade. But we have today calls for more cars than we can possibly furnish to load lumber for ~the East from the Pacific coast. We cannot bring an empty car 2,400 or 2,500 miles to haul lumber back unless we increase the rate on lumber 60 or G5 per ���cent higher than it is today. "That lumber is the foundation of the ���movement to the West of the Oriental traflic. It enables us to make a rate on that traffic. I might say it enables us to lay violent hands on it, and take it from any competitor, simply because we cau afford to, rather than haul empty cars to the coast. "Within a few months we will have in that trade two of the largest carrying ships in the world, which, with five others, will make a respectable fleet. We will then be able to compote in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or any Atlantic seaport with ships going by the Suez canal to the Orient. Not a town or village in the United States producing anything that they use, but can get a rate to the Orient by way of the Pacific ocean as low as it can be carried from the Atlantic by sea. That will help the old portions of the country, the middle and eastern states, more than it will help the country beyond the Mississippi. "The trans-Mississippi country has great resources. Its wonderful agricultural possibilities and its great mineral resources are only partially developed. Some of the states have an abundance of coal and iron. A few years ago a man would have been called wild who said that Minnesota would lead all the states of the Union and all the "districts of the world as a producer of iron ore. But it is here. In 1896���six years ago���eight or ten million tons of iron ore left lake Superior for lake Erie ports. Last year there were over 21,000,000 tons. This year, if it were possible to handle the cargoes out of the ships at the lake Erie ports, it would reach 25,000,000. And you cannot today buy a large bill of iron or steel and contract to have it delivered, with a penalty for non-delivery, anywhere in the United States. They cannot fill their orders, the demand has grown so fast and so great. "But the time will come when your- iron supply will overtake your home local demand. What will become of iron in Utah? However rich, it has, in any direction, to be hauled a long distance to market. How can it compete in the east with iron that travels 1,000 or 1,200 miles less? How can it go to the west when there are ueposits of iron ore and coal within 50, 20 and 10 miles of the ocean? "These questions can be partially solved by transportation. And the transportation of the United States today is a system that is the wonder of the world. The average rate paid in Great Britain for moving a ton of freight a hundred miles is $2.35; in France it is a little more than $2; in Germany, with government railroads, I think it is $1.00; in Russia, with government railroads, where labor is very cheap, it is $1.75. The average rate in the United States is 72 cents. In Russia locomotive engineers get about GO cents a day; in the United States they get an average of $4 a day. But the locomotive in the United States will pull the load of five or six Russian locomotives. "But transportation, if you should wipe it out, if it was furnished for nothing, cannot solve all your problems. If transportation were absolutely free, you would have other questions entering into tho cost of production that would have to be solved. "In the trans-Mississippi our flrst and great interest is in agriculture. I am glad that irrigation is being so generally advocated. It is only the commencement. In the west we can, with proper effort on the part of the general government, make room for homes for 50,000,000 of people, where today the land is cow-pasture and few cows at that. Some of the men who are interested in having plenty of room and the privilege of fencing in the government domain to feed their cows do not like it. They don't want people to come and settle on these lands. But when we think of the.growth of the whole country, when we remember that the United States doubles its population every 30 "yearsrand^that^within^the^litetime^oL the majority of us there will probably be 150,000,000 people in the United States we naturally ask, where will they go? What will they do? The most important thing this country has to do is to find homes for its population, and it must And them in the trans-Mississippi states. There is no other place for thom. "The country west of the Mississippi has grown up, I may say, since the civil war. It is an imperial empire, but the portion of it susceptible of cultivation without supply of water, which must be furnished by irrigation, is small. The best chances arc taken, the best opportunities have passed, and you now must depend upon the general government, and if the general government will spend a small portion of the money that has been spent in lathing and plastering the bottoms of rivers that neyer wero and never will be navigable, it will create a fund to irrigate all the land. I know many areas where it will cost from $5 to $6 an acre to put water on it. I will be glad to take the land off their hands at $12, and will put settlers on it from $15 to $20, and the man who buys it at $15 to $20 will make more money than a man on any farm east o�� the river. "If the government will spend this $6, or $10, if you like, and can get $15 or $20, a million acres will bring them fifteen or twenty million dollars; they will very soon have a fund that will go on and require no further appropriation. The people will do it themselves, for the land is well worth it. A man on 160 or 320 acres of irrigated land is a prince. He is independent of everybody. There is no question as to that, none whatever. Everything that is built up on the foundation of agriculture, is successful. "But where else is success? In isolated cases you will find a gold mine or a silver mine or a copper mine. In Minnesota we have rich iron mines, and as long as they last they will bring a good deal of wealth into the state and furnish a market for a great deal of our local product. But west of the Mississippi���depend upon it���the great growth will come out of agricultural development. Follow it up. We will take care of it. If you have flour to ship to the Orient this fall, we will take it for $10 a ton from anywhere north of here where we reach it, to Hong Kong, at 50 cents a hundred. It is a long distance but we will be glad to take it. Better that than to haul an empty car out to the Pacific coast to bring a load of lumber back. "The whole commercial fabric depends on balances and compensation. One thing must support another. What have we got west of the Mississippi to support your commerce? I say that it must come out of the ground. You can take it out of the mine or you can take it out of the farm, but the farm will be the big end of it. If you do hope for other development, do not forget that your hope may be disappointed. You must be prepared to expect disappointment and delay. It will be a matter of slow growth,.while your agriculture can be and is susceptible of very great growth. Your towns, your cities, will depend on the cultivation of the soil more than upon all that of other things together." MEN OF GREAT MEMORIES THEY WERE THE FRUIT OF VERY CAREFUL TRAINING. GERMAN KAISER FAKES MUCH OF HIS REPUTATION. To possess an excellent memory proves sometimes as goodly an heritage as a fortune. The one may be lost in spite of care, while the other, if properly regarded, will continue to aid and abet a man throughout his existence. The feasibleness of cultivating a good memory, if merely as an aet of policy, is well exemplified by several notable men who have lived in the public gaze. King Edward VII. would, if approached on the subject, doubtless lay a good portion of his popularity with ..the masses at the door of his wonderful memory. Hardly is it believed that another could be found to match it In the present day. The king never forgets a face, nor a name, and both he associates in his mind with some connecting pla_e or incident Whoever is presented to him, no matter how great, or how humble a personage; or under what crowded, changing surroundings, he has it in his power to recall years afterwards and to relate the circumstances attending the presentation. Many of his subjects have amusing stories to tell of their surprise, amounting almost to terror, at times when, as prince uf Wales, he would suddenly turn amid some tumultous throng and call one of a number by name. Not to feel flattered at such a mark of favor would be more tuan human, and as surely as the deed was done the king added to his following. Once when passing incognita through Rome under the name of Mr. Smith, r.nd sitting in a restaurant on the Cor-jo the king was heartily slapped on the back by a waiter, who at the same" time gave vent to the remark: "Bless me, man; you're the only soul that's put foot in this place who remembers mc bein' at Ostend." But this is not altogether an incoherent trait with the king. The implanting of memory was a hobby, if one may so speak, of the late queen Victoria. In his boyhood the king was made to repeat to his tutor every night before going to bed the names of the people he had met during the day, the circumstances under which he had mot them, and made also to repeat, as nearly verbatim as possible, the con- _versations._in.which he had taken a every incident of the day. So alive to impressions was his intelligence, and so careful his description of them, that the task would customarily take him from a half to three-quarters of an hour. Another man who scorned above most things a notebook or memorandum was Roscoe Conkling. To carry such a thing he regarded as an indignity, and loud wero his anathemas against his countrymen that they allowed the custom to increase among them. "Teach children to remember," was with him a favorite maxim. Of chief officials of the United States, president Tyler had undoubtedly the most exact and best trained memory. Besides being of inestimable service to his country through a trying time, it gave him much pleasure. As he lay in his bed at night, and before sleep visited his eyes, he would calm his mind by repeating to himself such loved poems as "The Lady of the Lake," or again, chapter after chapter of the sacred writings. After once hearing a long poem read he could repeat it perfectly. Nor was this only transient ability. One New^York woman of note there was who deserves mention among this group of unusual memories. The reference is to Mrs. Livingston, one of the founders and for a long time a director of the old orphan asylum.. Without the ���slightest effort she could call the 300 children there sheltered by name, and remembered as well the individual history of each one. Also she had president Tyler's gift of being able to repeat after once reading any list of names or J a long poem. '������*''~fr<fr,M'**H','-M'*M*'*fr'''^ 7i#i DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A DOLLAR? IF SO "Cart. With his nephew, the emperor of Germany, the same training in this respect was pursued throughout childhood and youth. The kaiser's memory in Germany is held in reverential awe. To a few, however, it is known that be sometimes pulls through trying ordeals by leaning strongly on his reputation. Recently at a large official dinner given in Berlin by the medical staff, it was favorably remarked that the kaiser spoke with all those present on the particular branches of medicine in whi.li they were respectively interested. With each man he discussed his writings and pet theories, dwelling always on the point that marked him from his brothers. To do such a thing it was thought not only an immense amount of serious reading on the subject or medicine, but a most extraordinary memory was required. It was rather a denouement, therefore, when a young physician, not willing to have his thunder stolen, gave the fact out rather broadly that twenty minutes before the dinner he had been summoned to the kaiser's presence, and had then given in synopsis form every bit of the information that had been used during the evening. Probably the kaiser had thought little before of any of the men present, and most assuredly had read none of their writings. Even so, it is an achievement of merit to absorb enough in twenty minutes to make one au coin- rant of the labor and thought of years. Lord Kitchener, another Englishman of trained and unerring memory, is unhappily more feared than loved by his men, and partly on this account. Delinquents especially, when awaiting his justice, are painfully aware that the details of every other trip-up in their career are as fresh in his memory as the clay they occurred. It is said of him that he knows not how t oforget. James G. Blaine had, perhaps, as remarkable a memory as anyone born under the Stars and Stripes, and it was one which he was fond of saying "came with him." By this he meant that it had had no such rigorous training as that of king Edward VII. But he, too, was always glad to acknowledge his many debts of gratitude to this source. Thurlow Weed made it a practice to repeat to his wife at night in sequence HER FIRST TASTE. "I tasted champagne for the first time in my life last night," said a young thing to her companion in a street car a few days ago. They had been talking about matters personal during the entire trip in tones intended to be heard by each other above the clatter of the car, with the result that everyone aboard was instinctively listening to hear what would come next. "You sec, mamma is awfully opposed to the use of wines or liquors,-' so I did not even know champagne when I saw it, until��� "Well, you see it was this way, but you must not tell mamma." And the heads leaned closer together as the friend eagerly listened, and promised not to tell a soul. "Jack asked me out to dinner, and we went���well, never mind about that; but we went where Jack said we could get the best dinner in town. The waiter gave me an awfully big menu card���it was a foot 'square, I should think���from which I was to help order the dinner. "I always have to stop and think how a thing tastes before I order it, and there were so many things I could not do that. Besides, so many of tho dishes bad such funny names that I did not know what they were, and consequently could not taste them in my mind. "Then the prices were so away] up-that1' I was afraid to order, lest Jack might.not have money enough along to~pay for the dinner. So I told him to go ahead; I positively refused to help him, I like to be surprised, anyway. "He asked me if I liked AVelsh rarebit, and.I had to confess that I did not know. I really did not know whether it was a bird or a beast, but I did not tell him so. Then he went ahead after that and order-, ed the dinner himself without asking mo any more questions. "Next lie called for a wine card and asked mo if I drank champagne. I told him I never tasted it in my life, and I was afraid it would go to my head. "I must have looked as if I wanted to sample the stuff; for Jack said I should just taste it If I wanted to, and if it Wont to my head lie would see that I got home all right. So I let him order the champagne. "Well, when that Welsh rarebit came, what do you supose it was? Toasted melter Is a Safe In= vestment at The first 200,000 of these shares have already been subscribed, and shares are now selling at 15 cents on calls X of 2 1-2 cents per month, according to the terms of the prospectus, and the fourth 100,000 are to be sold at 20 cents, X and the fifth 100,000 at 25 cents, on the same terms. o , . .4. Capitalization Two flillion Dollars 2,000,000 Shares Par Value $1.00 Each ���Quarters of the Capital Stock in the Treasury, $10,000 J in Cash and all Demands Paid to Date. I Resources: Coal, Gold, Copper, Silver and The Townsite of Gartrell HOTEL PHAIR gQ ROOMS Ail Njoderr] Conveniences Special Hates to Tourists E. F. PHAIR I'ltOPIUETOI. 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J - c- ��� - !���' bread with cheese and something: else poured over it, but it makes me hungry yet to think of that rarebit; it wa.s so good. "And then there wero other things���a lot of them. Such a dinner It wa.s! "And that champagne got better and better. Funny stuff It Is; kept bubbling all the time as if it was made of soda water. "Jack said the bubbles were called the 'bead,' so If you bear" people talking about the bead on charnpagne you cau look wise and make them believe you know all about it. "All good things must have an end, so did our dinner��� likewise the champagne. Positively,,! never felt so good in my life as _when_we sauntered home. It was a nasty, chilly evening, but after "TTIn'n.r 1' was warm as pie, and I was so thoroughly happy and comfortable. Really, 1 felt as If I might be In heaven. "Jack said���oh, here's my street! Goodbye, Don't tell mother. And she Hew off the car, while everybody smiled. MADDEN HQU BAKER AND WARD STREETS, NELSON, B. C. 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I THE DAILY NEWS | J Nelson, B. C. ^^(���Mf>^^^VfM*M��Mf>(t^t> to totototototototototototoft- SI.00 A YEAR 4 The Nelson Tribune The J. H. Ashdown Hardware Co. LIMITED IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWAR Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Portland Cement, T-Rails, Ore Cars, Sheet Steel, Crescent, Canton and Jessop's Drill Steel. Tinware and Graniteware. Stoves and Ranges. BAKER ST. NELSON B.C. .J.* .J.* .J. .J.* A A A A A A A A + * * * 4- * * * -b-b-b -Z- -b 'b 'b-b-Z--b -b -b -b -b * * * * * A * DEALERS IN ���b DRUGS AND TOILET ARTICLI S. PATENT MEDICINES, SPONGES, PERFUMERY, ETC. w. F. Teetzel & 60. '..-.���:;,.������_���ii<i���.<^~, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS IN ^-������^"'^-���^^S'^*. ASSAYERS" "FURNACES. "*��� BATTERSEA AND DENVER CRUCIBLES, SCARIFIERS AND MUFFLES, CHEMICALS, CHEMICAL APPARATUS. * * 4* * 4* * 4* 4* 4- + .$. .j.^. .t.^.4.4.4.4.4.4. 4. 4. 4*4*4-4*4* 4.4. 4.4.4-4-4*4* 4*4*4*4- 4- 4- 4*4*4*4*4- 4* The largest Drug House Between Winnipeg ar-d the Coast. Corner BaK^r aqd 18CS CflM Josephino Streets Jl �� LO U jl ���b-b -b 'b 4- 4* 4* 4- 4- 4* * 4* * 4- 4* * 4- 4* 4- ���b * A 'b ���b 4* * 4- MORLEY ft CO. Wholesale and Retail u Booksellers Stationers Artists' Materials Engineering and Mining Books Typewriters Mimeographs Photographic Supplies Musical Instruments Morley & Co., Kelson, B.C. THE TOWN AND DISTRICT Dr. G. A. B. Hall is at "Moose Jaw on a hunting trip. Those who took in the Spokane lair say they were took in. Born at New Denver on the 14th instant, to the wife of Angus McGillivray, a son. Local banks report collections good, a sign that no one is going hungry in Kootenay. Captain D. C. McMorris of the steamer Moyie is spending a short vacation at =Cranbroofc =^-==- =^=^=. ���GALT COAL! ��� AND WOOD OF ALL KINDS ��� ��� Terms Spot Cash ��� W. TIS RNEY, # ... . ��� , ���,- # ��� Telephone 285 . Baker Street. ��� Thomas Henderson has been gazetted a deputy mining recorder for the Nelson mining division. Fred Elliot, a lawyer from Grand Forks, is in Nelson visiting his brother John, who is also a lawyer. This week Fred Irvine & Co. filled .several good-sized orders for parties in Grand Forks and Greenwood. The people of Creston are going to grade tho main street of their town, with the assistance of the provincial government. Dr. Alexander Forin of Slocan City was In Nelson on Thursday evening to meet Mrs. Forin, who had been visiting friends in the Boundary country. Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, who wns West Kootenay's lirst government agent and gold commissioner, is paying Revelstoke a visit. Mr. Sproat now makes his home in Victoria. John A. Turner, government agent at Nelson, has resigned. W. J. Goepel, inspector of provincial offices, will act as government agent until the office is filled by appointment. The Arlington mine at Slocan City shipped 100 tons of ore this week, part ot it going to Trail and part to Nelson for treatment. The Enterprise mine on Slocan lake shipped 20 tons. James Ross, who was chief of construction on the Canadian Pacific railway when that road was being built through the Rockies, is registered at the Phair. He is now a real capitalist. "Tom" Lidster, one of the best known miners in Kootenay, is taking a short rest at Nelson. His latest mining venture was the north fork of Salmon river placers. "Tom" is at the Madden. Those interested in organizing an agricultural and industrial association met In the board of trade room last night and elected a provisional committee, whose duty it will be to lick the association into shape and report at a meeting to be held on the 31st instant. The committee is mado lip of Messrs. Newling, Traves,' Annable, Johnstone, Schonfeld, Sherwood, Gordon, and McLachlan. James A. Gilker and G. A. Hunter are back from a hunting trip to Bossburg, Washington. The ground roundabout that town has been shot over so much that there is little game to hunt. At Creston a party was out the other day looking up the most feasible route for an irrigation ditch. It is reported the cost of getting in sufficient water to irrigate the entire area requiring irrigation would not be large. The Tribune's long-hand journalist is under obligations to William John Dow of Creston for a brace of mallard duck and a bunch of blue grouse, "rliey wero as toothsome as one of William John's political speeches is meaty.. John Linebaugh is the most handsome man in Nelson driving two horses to a carriage. John and the two horses and the carriage can always���when not otherwise engaged���be found at the corner of Baker and Josephine streets. It is current rumor in Rossland that Bernard McDonald, Edmund B. Kirby, and William Thompson, three mine managers "Of^Ibclar'rtipfftatioiiT-will-soon~be looking for new fields to conquer, fields in which there are not so many artificial difficulties to overcome as In British Columbia. W. G. Gillett, the contractor who built tho foundations for Ihe Friel flour mill, has entered suit against Xi. Friel to recover the sum of fr'SO, the amount due under his contract. The IVrlel mill is the industry to secure which the ratepayers of Nolson voted a site and other concessions. C. J. Clayton arrived from Frank. Alberta, yesterday. He reports tho conl mines at that place shipping SOO tons a day when there are cars, but the C. I'. It. i.s short on cars, owing to the big wheat crop In Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. Mr. Clayton leaves for Victoria today, whore his family Is now residing. He expects to make his home in Nelson ngiiin by March. It is reported that men holding positions in Victoria are applicants for the position of government agent at Nelson, made vacant by the resignation of John A. Turner. In times past, all vacancies here were filled by men from Victoria; but times have changed. In the next legislative assembly Kootenay and the Boundary sections of Yale will have 12 members as against 12 members from Vancouver island. The tail no longer wags the dog in British Columbia, and vacancies in offices in Kootenay will not be filled now or hereafter by men from Victoria. Robert Roisterer, one of Nelson's most public-spirited men, was laid to rest in the city cemetery yesterday. Ho had lived 53 years 7 months and 29 days. Born in Germany, ho came to British Columbia many years ago, and before coming to Nelson was located at Now Westminster and Vancouver, where he was engaged in tho same business as he was at Nelson���browing. He leaves a widow and throe children. Although Mr. Roisterer was a Catholic and a. liberal contributor to the church, ho was buried by the Knights of Pythias, u10 j,n. press!ve burial services of Iho order lining read at the grave by William Irvine, who acted as chaplain. COACH THE NIOW MEN. It may be considered late in the season to talk of rowing, but it might be suggested to the management of the Nelson Boat club that it is letting the opportunity slip by for tho training of the men who are to make up the Nelson crew in the next regatta of the N. P. A. A. O., which is to be held at Vancouver. It is generally understood that next season Nelson will be obliged to pin its faith to an entirely new crow, but since the last club regatta it is said not a boat has been launched from the club house. The club lias now comfortable quarters, but if it has not men who can win in the association regattas the local organization will not amount to much. No small effort was made last summer to arouso interest in rowing, and it must be conceded that it met with considerable success. The best way to hold this interest is for the club management to get together a crew which will stand some show of capturing the junior event in tlie next regatta, and if this is to be done the green men must be coached. There are a number of men who would like to be coached, and who with proper training would probably give a good account of themselves. It is said coach Playford Is willing to give instruction to all who are anxious to learn, but there are n*> facilities. This is a difficulty which could easily be overcome, and at a very trifling expense. The club has a couple of old lapstreaks that are no longer in commission. The center of one of these boats could be cut out, and the boat converted into a coaching tub. This would enable the coach to lick the new men into shape, so that they could go into the lap- streak, and from it into the shell. A winning crew would do more to stimulate interest in rowing than anything else, and interest in rowing means a large memberr ship for the club, and a consequent casement of its financial burdens. AT THE LAKE VIEW���A. Boumbouer and son, Marysville, Montana. AT THE GRAND CENTRAL���D. M. Rodger, Ymir; D. Mathew, Virden, Manitoba; A. C. Cartier, Spokane; E. D. Car- tier, Spokane; George Shiell, J. M. McKinney, Spokane; H. C. Kelnney, Spokane; R. E. Shandin, Ymlr; J. Connors, Kokanee; L. Elliott, J. I-I. Sloan, Tampa, Florida; J. Mullan. AT THE HUME���H. Eden, W. R. Wilson and wife, Rossland; W. N. Bray ton, Kaslo; A. A. Whealer, Athabasca mine; W. J. Blundell, Fernie; W. I-I. Adams, Kaslo; F. S. Attwood, Kaslo; J. J. McMullan, Ymir; A. A. Vernon, Ymir; J. B. McCoy, Vancouver, AV. Manhart, Spokane; James Bever- idge, Vancouver; P. E. McMillan, Toronto; J. M. Moulton, James Neilson, Lind, Washing ton. AT THE PHAIR���Thoburn Allen, Calgary; W.J-I. Leishman, Toronto; J L. Parker, Klmberley; C. I-I. Williams, Spokane; Hon. L. J. Forget, James Ross, R. B. Angus, D. W. C. Hogg, Montreal; J. D. Giegerich, Sandon; AV. R. Angus, Toronto; Robert Irving, Kaslo; Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Genelle, Vancouver. AT THE BARTLETT���Philip Dome, O. J. Adams, J. Demyse, B. Bowerman, J. WUliamburSt. AT THE MADD-fi-N���P. Cunningham, Stephen Young, Cranbfook; Sam Kennedy, Alexandria, Ontario; W. Feeney, Salmo; I-I. Morrison, Spokane. EMPLOYERS FORM: UNION. Toronto, Oct. 15.���About 30 large employers of labor met last night and organized the Toronto Employers' Protective Association, the first organization of its kind to be formed in Canada. The movement is an attempt on the part of employers to protect themselves against arbitrary demands of organized labor in cases of disputes or strikes. THAT TOBACCO COMMMISS.ON. Quebec, Oct. 15.���The royal tobacco commission concluded' sittings here today. It will meet at Joliett on Monday next, and in St. John, N. B., on the Tuesday after. 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Special bargains ln ladies' Rendy-to-Wear Hats and Pattern Hats at reduced prices. VINE & CO ���*-*������%-** *���****���***%-* **���***���*-***'*���*-* JMMfr ***JMt*****iM*? -% ���* <*-������% ***** ���V- _<<��. *te -te- ���V- ~te >��- ���V- >'-_ _5" OF Imperial Laundry Soap FOR $2.00 Just Received a Fine Line of Healthy Bulbs for Fall Planting, including* This soap is packed in a neat box and is without doubt the choicest, most durable and most economical soap over offered to tho people of Nelson. T. S. McPKERS LEADING GROCER K. W. C. BLOCK _____________-_=Pl_One=No=40== NELSON They Have Arrived! You Must See Them! They are goods of the most beautiful design and texture that ever left the looms of old England or Bonnie Scotland. They are perfect in coloring, elegant in weave, end fashioned especially for the fall of 1902. The fashions for this season aro so radically changed that you will be entirely out of fashion without them. You may with r-erfect confidence leave your orders with ARTHUR GEE Merchant Tailor TREMONT BLOCK. BAKER ST., I.AS''*. He will give you the stylish cut and finish for which he has gained a deservedly high reputation. SUITS FROM $25.00 UP. CABINET CIGAR STORE CALLAS OXALIS CROCUS " HYACINTHS MAMMOTH FRESIAS NARCISSUS SNOWDROPS TULIPS LILIUM HARRISH Get Them While the Stock Fresh. is 6ffinada-Drug"&"Book" Company, Ltd. gSTAgLISHEP INJgELSOP-T 1891 Jacob Dover, The Jeweller, Nelson, B. C. "���Ji#>fir I am the leader wherever diamonds and watches are sold in this country. My name is a synonym of prompt service, fair treatment and honest goods. My stock for the fall and holiday trade Is such as suits all the patronage of this character. All my lines have been selected with the utmost care. The wants of all customers, large and small, have been carefully considered. Customers always receive the maximum value for their money. My diamond and watch stock never was larger or so attractive as this season. All mall orders, receive "prompt and special attention. JACOB DOVER Baker Street Nelson, B. C. e e Imported and Domestic Cigars, Tobaccos, Pipes and Smokers Articles. Q. B. MATHEWS, - Proprietor CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS. NOTICE. Kathleen mineral claim, situate in the Nelson Mining Division of AVest Kootenay District. Where located���Between Forty-nine and Eagle creeks. Take notice that William N. Rolfe and Arthur E. Hodgins, Free Miners' Certificate . No. 50024, A. E. Hodgins, exempt. Intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Mining Recorder for a Certificate of Improvements, for the purpose of obtaining a Crown Grant of the above claim. And further take notice that action, under section 37, must be commenced before the issuance of such Certificate of Improvements. H��>l-?:'ISf''ii Dated this 5th day of September, A. D. 19��2. ' . ,.'��-<$)_ |ffl_. We Have a Few lines of Crockery left, and are offering tliem at prices that no one can afford to overlook. If you need anything in this line, don't fail to see us next week. Our Grocery stock is new, and our assortment has no equal. See us before buying, and you will buy from us^ J. A. Kirkpatriek & Co., Ud. (Successors to Wm. Hunter & Co.) 25 CASES Ha-f-Gall��" Fruit Jars j^f COST We Gaq Save You Money By. Purchasing Now PARLOR SUITES BRASS BEDSTEADS IRON BEDSTEADS HALL RACKS MUSIC CABINETS WOMEN'S DESKS rlOCKERS AND CHAIRS SIDEBOARDS CHINA CLOSETS BUFFETS BOOK CASES PARLOR CABINETS CARPETS LINOLEUMS. PHONE 161 J. A. IRVING & CO. Houston Block, -.eun Grocers and Provisions Dealers D. McARTHUR & \ Baker and Ward Streets, Nelson, B. C. \a ^AAA>^vvv��*^^^l^v^^^^A^���^v^^^^^^v^^^���*v^v,^^^A^A(^^^�� ivuvA<��vrvv^-v>yvs4��vViV<i Importer of Own Make Pipes Peterson's Patent Pipes B. B. B. Celebrated Pipes Loewe Pipes Wills Tobacco Hi J_ pHA|B Player's Tobacco Turkish Cigarettes Monopol Cigarettes Egyptian Cigarettes J. R. C. and G. B. D. Pipes Lambert and Butler Tobaccos All brands of Imported and domestic cigars The Que rgar Tobacconist Telephone 194 , Propr. Wholesale and FJetaiJ Baker Street, NELSON, B.C.
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Title | The Nelson Tribune |
Publisher | Nelson, B.C. : Tribune Publishing Company |
Date Issued | 1902-10-18 |
Description | The Tribune was published in Nelson, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, and ran from November 1892 to November 1905. The Tribune was published and edited by John Houston, an outspoken journalist who would later embark on a successful political career, which included four terms as the mayor of Nelson and two terms in the provincial legislature. Houston had established the Miner in Nelson in 1890, and, after leaving the Miner in the summer of 1892, he established the Tribune to compete with his former paper. In August 1901, the title of the paper was changed to the Nelson Tribune. |
Geographic Location |
Nelson (B.C.) |
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Newspapers |
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FileFormat | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Notes | No paper 1895-1896, 1897-1905 Frequency: Weekly Titled The Tribune from 1892-12-01 to 1901-08-14. Titled The Nelson Tribune from 1901-08-15 to 1903-12-19. Published by John Houston & Co. from 1892-12-01 to 1894-12-29; The Tribune Publishing Company from 1897-01-02 to 1898-12-31; an unidentified party from 1899-01-07 to 1901-08-31 and from 1902-08-30 to 1903-02-07; The Tribune Association from 1901-09-02 to 1902-02-25; and The Tribune Company from 1903-02-14 to 1903-12-19. |
Identifier | The_Tribune_1902_10_18 |
Collection |
BC Historical Newspapers Collection |
Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2012-12-21 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
Rights | Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/ |
AIPUUID | 1f02f6c3-7544-4883-8bc9-2b02713b0417 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0189255 |
Latitude | 49.5000000 |
Longitude | -117.2832999 |
AggregatedSourceRepository | CONTENTdm |
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